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The issues I have with Git Flow isn't feature branches, it's the develop branch, and the whole crazy merge dance between develop, release, and master branches. It doesn't provide much benefit and more often than not causes confusion and and problems.

What I'm in favor is is GitHub Flow or anything very similar to it, which just has master and feature branches, nothing else.
> but that's typically more cumbersome as you have to trade keys with everybody that needs an email.

What would be needed is a public key infrastructure. If organizations like the state board of medicine could serve as a certificate authority for physicians licensed in that state (or maybe the DEA since they issue id numbers to physicians that are needed for controlled substance prescriptions), then the key management would not be as much of an issue. In other words, it shouldn't be handled by individual organizations; it should be handled by the authorities who are responsible for licensing doctors, nurses, pharmacists, hospitals, etc.

> On top of all that, each client will have to be taught how to decrypt (and encrypt) emails

This is certainly something that can be automated and shouldn't have to be a manual process. A plug-in for a program like Outlook should work in the vast majority of cases. That is, if the email is sent to the wrong address, then the recipient would only see encrypted text, but it would automatically be decrypted for the correct recipient.
Do you have recommendations for any books or other resources that cover topics on healthcare quality measures? This is the first time I’ve heard of surrogate markers. I’ve been searching around for more info on the concept you’ve described but didn’t have a term for it.
Ah yes, the knowledge transfer! Two wires running from one person's brain to another, "Battlefield Earth" style.

To be fair though, it is straightforward to understand what it means. On the other hand, it took me a while to adjust to "throw under the bus", "rounding error" (a small amount of money), and "up to one's eyeballs".

"Putting socks on an octopus" helped me find a buzzword dictionary online: http://www.theofficelife.com/business-jargon-dictionary-P.ht...
This is the process Tri-Alpha Energy [1] is working on.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri_Alpha_Energy,_Inc.
> How many new airports?

maybe berlin, if they decide to rebuilt the failed project.
@therealmarv, @gingersnap and @vortico:

I suggest you take a look at EffectiveDiscussions: it's open source + hosted for €2. Demo: https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments

It has improvements over Disqus ... and HackerNews: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can....

GitHub: https://github.com/debiki/ed-server. It's more lightweight: the script bundle is just 140kb in comparison to Disqus 750kb. (I'm developing it.)
But that's kind of a feature, rather than a bug. Speaking for the USA: We're a pretty racist country, that's not news to anyone. What was news, especially for the coasts, was just how racist much of the US still is.

By giving these people a voice, we now know that they exist, and what they really believe. You never would have gotten that out of them by just talking to them on the street.

Do certain parts of internet culture encourage that behavior? Absolutely, and it's terrible, and we need to find ways to fix it. But to fix that problem, we need to understand it first.
I've worked with Belarusian developers and they were top notch. Belarus is very close with Russia and is considered the last dictatorship in Europe, so weigh that with a decision.

Having said that, the old Soviet / Eastern Bloc countries are very sharp. They were of course on the other side of the Cold War, which is what birthed most of our modern technology.
That's exactly the point... there's less for you to manage (at least at reasonable scale) - you leave management of those people and processes up to Amazon (or whoever your cloud provider is), so you can focus on your core business and not get distracted by managing getting new servers, backups, recovery plans, etc... it "just works".
I was 8 months in mandatory Austrian service, doing lots of sports and arts and driving around in the country.

I liked it, but identification: 0
One thing I've noticed with my personal note taking is that most features note applications offer are more distraction than anything.

I've settled on having a permanently open vim buffer in a hidden window. When I press a hotkey it's pulled ontop of any windows I have. I type in a plain ascii pseudo-markdown-org-mode-ish style I've made up over the years but no one else needs to read. Then I hit the same hotkey to hide the window until I need it again.

The biggest thing for me is that it pops up, I brain barf all over the buffer, and then it's gone with no thought on how it's supposed to be formatted or anything. It should be more like playing an instrument than creating good documentation. It can be changed into something presentable later iff I need to. Options and features, while necessary to push your new app, are the antithesis of seamless note taking for me.
I work in municipal IT in the US and I was wondering the same thing.
Google and Microsoft and even trading firms like DE Shaw for example have hundreds of engineers in India. Hiring talent is difficult at smaller outsourcing shops, the economics demands that you hire at low wages. Your perspective is severely limited.
Agreed, nothing really of substance here, which is impressive, given that there's plenty to say on the topic... and it's a much wider topic than management.
Perhaps Pravin Goyal, currently at Cavirin, has had a large part in organizing and authoring the "CIS 1.xx.xx Security Benchmarks", at least per https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/docker-1110-security-benchmar.... The OP git repo claims to be based on these CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks a.k.a. "best pratices", so Pravin might be someone you want to ping.

If you choose to engage Cavirin or use its solution, be sure to do a full POC and make sure your use case and scale are fully covered and the product is reliable, I know there were many quality issues in the past (full disclosure, I worked there for a while). I'm sure there are other vendors or open source projects that can do a much better job in a Docker-specific environment. The CIS content itself probably is golden, the implementation I'd be skeptical about.

The CIS website (look under the "Docker" category) at https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-benchmarks seems to list a few vendor solutions.
Esperanto is also the official second language of the Space Corps in Red Dwarf.
Plus, massive turnover.
The way I comment here is not really how I relay this information to people IRL, especially because I'm very aware and sensitive to their health situation at the time. Here I know I'm going to get downvoted instantly, so I don't bother as much. Mostly threads like this frustrate me, because I know so many people can be helped but online communities shut down these types of discussions and people barely scroll all the way to the bottom to read the truth.

So anyway, I hear your feedback and agree with it. Offline I'm much more patient and I do make it a point to take my time and only slowly break the news to them that traditional medicine has been lying to them for so many years, coupled with real evidence and pointers as to the direction they should be looking at in evaluating what I just shared with them.
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Perusing online Esperanto sites have yielded this gem:

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Discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16014047
Posted 6 hours earlier, 100+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16013136
Managers at the level that makes that decision get bonuses for cost cutting. The cheaper the firm, the bigger the bonus. By the time the house of cards crashed, it either wasn't their crash (sales problem) or they've jumped ship to cost-cut at another company.
> The author is talking about Nazis. Not just people who disagree with you. You are wrong, and I hope, as Alexis Ohanian did, that you admit the error of your ways.

No you are wrong. Nasty people exist, you are blaming X technology for making it worse, what about mobile phones, cars, microwave ovens, shoes... where does it end, nasty people exist, stop fucking blaming technology and try to understand why they are nasty if you care.
There's also EffectiveDiscussions (https://www.effectivediscussions.org), which doesn't have any of those drawbacks. It has email+password login, Gmail, FB, GitHub. Open source, and hosted too, if you don't want to provision your own server.

Demo: https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments

It has improvements over Disqus and HackerNews: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can.... GitHub: https://github.com/debiki/ed-server. (I'm developing it.)
Thanks for that ! I'm looking to implement AMT (or something like it) at our office. I'm a developer but as the defacto sysadmin I was looking into how stable the AMT platform is. I occaisionally have to re-image machines, and I figured I could just ask people to plug it into a network jack and let me remotely take care of it.
Are demos supposed to always be 'safe'? That seems like pre-emptively neutralizing mass political expression that might actually be motivated by a desire for a change of government. You're basically saying that demonstrations should be gestural, not actually change anything. With that attitude no wonder Blair and Bush pressed ahead with the Iraq war, as there was no danger of having to face any political consequences.
I'd be extremely surprised if that were true. Cities like to do this sort of thing because it expands headcount but I doubt it makes sense financially if you account for all costs.
Considering Chrome's market share, it's enough for Chrome to break something to force server-side action. Distrusting Symantec certificates is a prime example, I think.
The breakage rate for distrusting all Symantec certificates is significantly higher than 0.1%, but there is just one vendor that needs to fix things.

Middleboxes are considerably more problematic, since you've got a lot of manufacturers out there, some of them might actually be out of business. Pushing firmware upgrades to all of those middleboxes would also be a nightmare. And the icing on the cake is actually finding the malfunctioning middleboxes, since they can be anywhere between the end user and the web server.
Finish the duolingo tree, then go to a multi-day congress asap, ideally the week-long UK or IJK, for immersion. Facile!
I don't think Ukraine is catching up to India, it's just different work. In my experience, the typical job going to Ukraine is a different breed. If you can deal with the time zone and language barrier, they have a weirdly large supply of very competent developers.

In fact, C++ devs from that region are the secret sauce to a lot of large codebases I've seen.
For the same reason you won't call Uber to take you to the hospital if you cut off your arm.
The difference is that when you’re in the middle cage you’re near the other people acting on you.

The Internet has made it trivial for people to cause damage, possibly serious damage (SWATting and other such things) to people large distances away where it’s nearly impossible to figure out who was actually behind it.

All existing message we had to deal with people seem to fail to deal with these issues, but no one ever took that into account. They just pushed ahead assuming that either it wouldn’t be a problem or eventually the laws would “fix” the issues. But in the time between serious damage is being done to people/companies/governments.

I think these are all very good questions for people to ask themselves. I don’t think he’s arguing that technology is bad or that we should’ve all run away from it. But I think the happy unicorn “everything is better with technology“ view that many people seem to blindly apply to large social change may not be a good idea.

To take one example, harassment is not a new thing on Twitter. Harassment on social forums has existed as long as social forums have existed on computers. Same with many of the issues Reddit faces.

But no one seems to of looked into the lessons of how people trying to deal with it on BBSs, USENET, and other places. “We can just think about that later“ where later is defined as some number billion users.

But people got hurt in the meantime.
You hit the nail on the head.

Building anything on top of EPIC is unbelievably painful. You either pay EPIC engineers to access their "Dark API's" or pay $$ for their certifications.

Very few of these big medical device start-ups are actually integrating with patient records at a significant scale. Every instance of EPIC or Cerner is different and there is a lot of manual work needed to get up and running with live data in the patient record.
> The market did not grow

I think part of the parent's point is that, even in a stagnant market, Airbus basically took half of it from what was previously a monopolist. Those 43 orders per year used to be all for Boeing, and now they only get half. That's a victory of sort, regardless of where the market is going for both companies.
Especially useful if, for example, you'll be doing additional js templating that also use the mustache tag eg with Vuejs (can also be changed)
Your dad, Big Food, Big Pharma, MSM, his parents. The blame is in that order.
Presumably it would be in the same fashion that file dialogs are generated; you defer the actual selection to some OS-provided library function, and just accept a standardized output (some FileObject construct). So the terminal would provide this file selector, based on context: a script would take it as the filename itself, the interactive shell would provide the file dialog, etc.

Terminal Programs are already outputting differently based on context (ie ls to a pipe vs screen), so supporting interactive and scripting is hardly a novel idea in the space; its just that the interactive support hasn't fundamentally improved in decades
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And written language isn't a form of communication? (In your example, from yourself to a future form of yourself, or from yourself to the computer).
Or maybe even comes from ultra-rich people voluntarily deciding to fund one or more states' basic income, purely because they have nothing else to do with their money.
A prominent wallet is called monerujo (ujo makes the word mean container of monero), and the plural form of monero is moneroj. Monero itself of course is mono + -ero, so something like particle of money, like breadcrumbs are to bread or a grain of sand is to the sand as a whole. I'm ashamed that I only recently discovered that was an intentional thing, though the name has caught a sliver of my interest for at least a year now.
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> "The way I comment here is not really how I relay this information to people IRL"

> "Offline I'm much more patient"

I encourage you to behave more like you do in real life here on HN. Much of what has unfortunately become accepted as discourse on many forums does serious damage to actual meaningful discussion. If that's not what you're interested in, please just refrain from commenting. Many on HN, for all it's faults, are trying for something better than average, even if we don't always succeed. People are still people, regardless of where you're encountering them.
Good explanation. I guess the problem is that when posts are flagged, they seem to drop precipitously in the ranking, and there’s apparently nothing that can be done to vouch until the post is marked dead. But if flagging is tantamount to killing in terms of visibility, then the cure comes too late.
I dont understand. Why is reinstalling an OS a solution to a rooted OS but re-flashing ME/AMT isn't? You patch the OS bug that lead to it being exploited, and you patch the ME bug that lead to it being expoloited. I'm assuming a scenario where Intel (and/or BIOS/UEFI/MB vendors) behaves like a sane OS vendor and releases regular updates/fixes. Anyway, we're really geting far off topic. I guess I'm replying too :)
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Or we could apply our domestic regulations to the entire supply chain. If you sell it here you have to follow the rules, all the way down.

Of course then things would be expensive...
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Why is a lot of software written in Silicon Valley? There are lots of good reasons why it shouldn't be (labor costs, etc), and nothing is as location-independent as software, yet networking effects mean that Silicon Valley remains the hub for software.

China is similarly dominant for manufacturing. It's no longer about cost, it's about the concentration of expertise and cross-fertilization that results. Because of automation nobody will ever have the cost advantage that gave China its current dominance so China will remain the hub for the foreseeable future.
yeah, okay. as if it's possible for tech to be "kicked out" and "forced to get its shit together". reading this was awkward, I think it encourages looking at products or corporations as a single entity that should have a moral compass or sense of responsibility. if people want to ditch tech, fine, but I wish in these comparisons it'd at least be acknowledged that corporations mainly exist to make money. I suppose it would require a large amount of humility to do that though as it would also be admitting to succumbing to advertising, and being "tricked" into expecting "real life change and support" from a product, or something like that.

Thanks for posting this.
Every time I find myself scrolling through Facebook, I ask myself "am I here for me, because I really want to be, or am I here for Facebook because they've reward-hacked my motivation subsystem?" That thought in itself is usually enough for me to shrug and close the window.
No, the phenomenon is rather that HN readers with strong ideological feelings tend to see the site as dominated by, and the mods in cahoots with, their ideological enemies. This has to be some kind of cognitive bias since the claims people make about HN, and us, are so comically contradictory. If you don't believe me, here are a few typical examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307915

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15032682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15585780

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15752730

Plenty more here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=.... It is perennial.

By the way, that thread you linked to shows exactly the opposite of what you say, if you read it to the end. This too is typical, except for the part where the original commenter admirably accepts the correction. That bit is surprisingly rare!
Certainly not India, and it's not a lot for an industry sector (IT) in India, but it's a possible sign of a reversing trend.
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Well, IRL people would give some verbal feedback before they dismiss my suggestion. In HN, they just downvote and walk away.

And I have, so far I answered every comment, including the physician who wanted links to "proof", whatever that may be. After all, who really benefits from finding proof that water fast cures illnesses that otherwise require a lifelong regimen of medication and doctor visits?
Whole country? No. In the crash of 2008, there was one week in October with 20k jobs lost ( https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/24/19683-tech-layoffs-and-cou... also mentioned on that page is 24k jobs eliminated when HP and EDS merged ( https://www.computerworld.com/article/2532995/it-management/... )).

56K jobs in India? Not that significant overall. 56k jobs from seven of the big names of Indian IT jobs? That's another story - http://www.livemint.com/Industry/4CXsLIIZXf8uVQLs6uFQvK/Top-... (which is referenced in the first paragraph but doesn't dive into).

> Information technology (IT) companies in India are in the midst of the industry’s largest retrenchment drive, with seven of the biggest IT firms planning to ask at least 56,000 engineers to leave this year.

> The number is at least twice the employees laid off by the companies last year, reflecting their under-preparedness in adapting to newer technologies and dealing with the fallout from US President Donald Trump’s protectionist policies.

> The companies include both Indian and multinational firms with a large footprint in India.

> The seven companies—Infosys Ltd, Wipro Ltd, Tech Mahindra Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd, US-based Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. and DXC Technology Co., and France-based Cap Gemini SA—and which together employ 1.24 million people, plan to let go of 4.5% of their workforce in 2017.

Though note that last bit... together, they employe 1.24 million and this reflects under a 5% layoff overall.

That article goes into a bit more of the numbers and corporate structures that are getting disrupted with this layoff.
I've seen agile work and not work. It doesn't transmit well from a book or blog post.

I think it's fairer to say that excitement generated by a new concept attracts dilution by bullshit artists and folks learning via the telephone game. By the time the hubbub dies down, the original sparks of insight have long since drowned in a sea of mediocrity, ranging from the shallows of well-meaning ignorance through to the dangerous deeps of machiavellianism.
> It's more about, "how much real-world badness (specifically, many violent, racist, hate-based movements around the world) has been enabled by what we thought were benevolent principles of radically open information and free speech?"

And once you've made the jump from "speech should be free" to "speech (that I condone) should be free", you've made a big step towards fascism.
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Thanks and please forgive my assumption that you were in the US. Apparently I still have some work to do on my own inappropriate presumptions :/

I'm doubtful my kids would have noticed anything awry at age 5, and definitely not at age 2!
Reminds me of Bussard's Polywell, their website doesn't seem to have been updated since 2014 though [1]. Bussard also wanted to do proton-boron fusion due to the same advantages mentioned.

Edit: Apparently there has been progress, with a slideshow called "ready for commercialisation" presented this August by Jaeyoung Park [2][3].

[1] http://www.emc2fusion.org/

[2] http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6072&st...

[3] https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/5_PARK.pdf
Might be the case with many IT services firms but assuming that so called home countries brains only can do serious engineering is quite short sighted.

I head an engineering team from India and our team is local talent for a firm which is outside India. We believe we do some serious engineering.

There is this west fixation that serious engineering can't be done outside. I am not saying it isn't true on most cases but assuming they only can do is so demeaning. I get asked a lot - so who does the heavy lifting?. Nothing gives more satisfaction than to say - we do the engineering and it gets maintained by westerners in our organization.