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Hello, there are a great many companies that rent mare metal servers, own their own gear in a colo, or even have DIA to their own infrastructure site.

I think you paint the whole world with the bleeding edge brush. Many fortune 500 companies are a decade behind the technology stacks described in the article and in this discussion.
What you’re paying for is reasonably intelligent advice or project execution without organizational bias.

Their objective is to get paid, so they bypass many of the mechanisms that middle management uses to undermine executive initiatives.
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Myself, I run a graphic design agency, but for inspiration I need some links to improve our self and my team work. So please suggest me, which logo design company you think is the best ?
I interviewed for a C# dev job at their new Dublin offices in the old Irish Nationwide building. I had to attend a recruitment open day watching presentations about why Amazon is so great and then come back a few days later for a surprisingly easy technical and HR interview.

Despite being refurbished their work space looked very basic and clinical, but at least there were good views on the higher floors. No free food, just tea and coffee.

The package they offered me was pretty poor. Salary was above average for my skill level, but zero perks. No share options, no flexi-time, and a PRSA pension scheme instead of a real one.

I asked about perks only to be told they weren't offering such generous packages at that time. I found this odd as I didn't contact them, they found my details on LinkedIn and approached me. In those circumstances I would have expected some perks to sweeten the deal.

I declined the offer.
> all of the moments that make me and everything I care about are still there, occupying their own spacetime regions, eternal, in a way.

Yes but not evolving anymore. What sucks isn't really not existing anymore, what do sucks is having no future. If a supervillain's evil plan was eternally freezing the universe right now, I would be as sad as if it was making it disappear.
In this story there is nothing supernatural about any of these things. They may be things that are as of yet unexplained, but just because we don't understand them yet doesn't make them paranormal. Just like there was nothing supernatural about flying before we understood how it works. It's just physics we haven't figured out yet.

Paranormal are things that are by definition outside the explainable universe. It's not that we don't have an explanation, it's that they are by their very nature unexplainable.
From the original article:

> EFAIL describes vulnerabilities in the end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME that leak the plaintext of encrypted emails.

I don't understand how this is being touted as vulnerabilities in OpenPGP and S/MIME.

Sure there is undefined behavior in the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards but if implementations choose an insecure behavior for the undefined behavior, then it is a flaw in the implementation, not the standard.
Does every attack now get some type of catchy name? It feels like when the weather channel randomly said they would start naming storms too.
Sweet! BTW, this was made by mattn of go-sqlite3 fame.

I had never heard of "peco" before, the self-describe "simplistic interactive filtering tool" that is called if you run $memo edit. Looks pretty handy!
Seems like a really strange article.

This person doesn't like that you need to spend time Dockerizing your app but then writes this:

> I would recommend that a company look for chances where it can consolidate the number of technologies that it uses, and perhaps use modern languages and eco-systems that can do this kind of uber binary natively.

So you want me to re-write my 50,000 line Rails app into Go so I can ship a binary instead of Docker?

That doesn't seem reasonable, especially not when it takes literally 10 minutes to Dockerize a Ruby / Python / Node / "just about any language" app once you understand how Docker works.

That and most web applications aren't just your programming run-time or big fat binary. There's nginx, Postres, Redis, Elasticsearch and whatever other service dependencies your application needs.

I've been developing and deploying web applications for 20 years and for me Docker solves a ton of real world problems and am very thankful that it exists. Nothing that I've tried prior to Docker has made it this easy to get an app up and running consistently across multiple environments.

It also makes it super easy for me to keep my development environment in order which is important because I'm always hacking away on new side projects and need to keep a bunch of freelance related projects in total isolation with their own set of dependencies. Docker is perfect for that.
Under a pure market approach, if a drug is not profitable it will not be produced ans sold. If you have a rare disease, you would probably prefer a mixed approach like a mix public and private medical research.
Not a problem! I'm glad that helped.

I do like the program. Thank you.
I wonder if there is any other complexity involved by Disney also owning the rights to "On Stranger Tides" by Tim Powers, which also inspired Monkey Island.
> free-market

On the Disney topic their dominance doesn’t come from free-market but IP holding though. It’s a worse of both world situation where they fought hard to carve a protected niche for themselves.
People use Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
It's also generally more cost effective for the company to buy food in bulk compared to passing the cash onto you in your salary for you to buy food on an individual basis.

Plus (and this is dependent on the company handles the providing free food business), food cooked or prepared on site is potentially healthier and tastier than whatever calorific sandwich and chocolate bar you picked up on the way to work. Healthier and happier employees are a win for both parties.
Also relevant https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/06032...
Avoided no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Monuments_and_Archaeol...
> It's not a good deal.

It is, though, for the employer. I think the GP was trying to say that free food/drinks are a bad place to start saving money.
Of course it's must deeper than that.

http://kurtgoedel.de/cms-83FO/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Goe...

It's a solution allowed by GTR, not a new trick definition. It belongs to the family of 'dust solutions'. You arrange particles (can be as big as galaxies) that move in certain way and you get time travel. Only other assumption is nonzero cosmological constant.

You can't get time travel in Newtonian universe just by arranging objects in it to move certain way.

In general, closed timelike curves are allowed in GTR. It's possible generate them several different ways. Gödel just made super elegant one. What GTR allows and what actually is allowed are different matters. Just like Newtons equations break at some extremes, same probably happens to GTR.
Exactly, that's why "OK Google" isn't a thing.
I'm a big fan of linear typing but I think of it as more like "consuming" the input than "changing" it.
Either your friends are emotionally unstable or should report abuse and leave the company. Seriously, why be so unhappy with your workplace? Do they work in North Korea?
Keep an eye on rkt: https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/using-rkt-with-kubernetes...
What can be a passion for business that is not even yours? You want the impossible.
Ask HN: How do you manage passwords in your organisation?
How do you share passwords of common accounts? Like let's say there is a common email like support@myorg.com, how do you share access to this account to multiple people (sharing plain text password via different mediums can be the worst)?

Do you use password managers like LastPass or 1Password or any other third party provider? Have you or your fellow devs written custom password managers suited to your use case?

This can also be about your personal management of passwords. Just curious to know the sane way of doing this, especially considering that mismanaging this can screw up later.
I've been in this role. It is pretty common at Fortune X00 companies to have its own people have "the answer" or "an answer" but either 1) not have the conviction to bet their careers on it, i.e. don't rock the boat, 2) don't care enough to push for it, or 3) don't have the credibility to get the attention of the senior executives.

Consultants get past all three of these challenges to surface a good solution and in the process get buy-in from everyone who needs to agree in order for a major change to be made.

Additional point is that usually there is involvement of industry specific specialists that advise project teams. They put in fewer hours, as they're not needed for the more mundane project work (slide making). Often times they're hyper-specific to the topic at hand, e.g. former CEO of competitor.
I brought up the history as a lot of people don't know it.

I think we've made our respective points.

And hey, for folks building tooling around Kubernetes, I'm pretty much obliged to mention PKS and Concourse :)
A colleague of mine moved to a senior position in Amazon Dublin about 3 years back. He quit in less than a year after being fed up with the ultra conservative attitudes of the people calling the shots there. He also mentioned they're pretty frugal when it comes to employee perks. Also you had to be on call two weekends a month. But it's a big company so maybe he just had a bad experience.
If you supported them, you’re still in love with the franchise and the characters, and now they have a giant marketing/pr push behind them which will grow the brand even more. The idea that you can just “opt out” like some emotionless automaton is beyond stupid. All the reasons you fell in love with the franchise will still be available to new fans, plus a massive cultural push to consume more of it. This idea that we are all rational consumers who can just turn on and off our love for things and therefore have any actual effect on the market is both extremely stupid and extremely toxic.
> No Christians that I know are angry about that.

They will only be angry if they found those depictions disrespectful/mocking. Perhaps a few will like to point out the inaccuracy.

But most Western art has depicted angels with only two wings: even art by the most devout Christians.

And, iirc, it is a specific type of angel that had six wings (covered with eyes, etc...)
The 'vegetable fasting days' seem a lot like the popular 5-2 diet. Only difference is these knight didn't need years of medical research to discover this, perhaps just years of poor health :)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2015/ja...

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-19112549
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So this group of people is morally obligated to risk prosecution and civil lawsuits to help strangers break laws just because we don't agree with them?
As a management consultant, I 100% agree.

I would say the main function of a modern management consultant is twofold: we bring in best practices from outside, and we help companies communicate. Best practices is an obvious function, but the communication is where most companies really fall down.

Often, it’s simple things like the product group never formalized the formats for their user stories / features, so we simply help them drive standards around things and make sure the dev teams intaking the stories understand the change as well.

90% of what we do is change management or in preparation for change management. Those are things that companies will probably never be good at.

And by the way, we still do the business strategy too; it’s just baked in to the implementation work these days.
In this case the view in question (the B-theory of time) is supposed to be backed up by science: e.g., the Gödelian models in the OP, but, much more than that, the relativity of simultaneity. The RoS is really non-negotiable, and still entails that the actual world does not have a Newtonian absolute present.
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The author wrote this in the comments, and it fits as a reply to your comment:

> the main issue is that you cannot suppose that everyone (all program authors and users) know exactly what to do and do it correctly. In practice, the approach you describe almost never works because some information is missing. To make it practical, we'd need easy-to-use tooling for all phases: producing a complete list of versioned dependencies (including C libraries), verifying the completeness of this list, and restoring the environment on a different machine.
It's been mentioned by other comments here[0] that the team / group / individual(s) behind this paper didn't even contact the underlying development teams prior to publishing. The whole thing looks like they want to be able to say "yeah we uncovered xyz vulnerability" which they kind of could of, if they had just explained it's relevant to implementation and didn't attack the wrong projects in the process. There seems to be some level of unprofessional conduct[1] coming from the people writing the paper as well where they attack the projects on Twitter to try and silence them when their claims are refuted.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17064360

[1]: https://twitter.com/seecurity/status/995936859980222464

(Note: I'm reiterating / summarizing the findings of AnaniasAnanas from here.)
It's a blessing when you want to start a new project while offline (e.g. on a plane or train). All your usual dependencies are already there, ready to use.

Not that it justifies any pain, just found it to be a pleasant side-effect.

Sometimes it's worthwhile to just give in and try something new, even if you don't like it. You might discover unexpected advantages. Then go back to what you prefer and apply those lessons there.

Everything would be much better if we all kept an open mind and learned from each-others experiences. It might not always be obvious, but things are usually a certain way for a good reason. Might not be the best or right reason in the long run, but there's always some lesson to be learned.
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You overestimate how many big companies are well run. In addition, smart people in large companies have their own agendas. It can help to get analytical advice from outsiders who lack these agendas and have seen similar problems elsewhere.

This isn’t to say that consultants are without agendas. It’s just different agendas.
> Having a darknet software that circumvents copyright restrictions won't prevent a squad of guys with guns appearing at your doorstep and taking you to a place

That is why I wrote "darknet software". If the software cannot ensure anonymity, you get this kind of problem.

> To prevent that, you need another solution and the answer is not technology or software.

Sure, but until a solution appears, better create technology and software that makes civil disobedience easy.
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Youtube doesn't have neighbouring senders using Cubic, and doesn't try to fill the path's narrowest hop. It tries to send the video at exact playback speed and if possible at high quality, and its notions of success will reflect that.

IIRC (I read the paper too) the Youtube numbers assumed that the bandwidth available and needed are both largely stable, and that their success was in using that better.

Ie. they assumed that if 4mbps appeared available most of the time, then it really was available all of the time. If the capacity of the narrowest point is 10Mbps and 4mbps youtube streaming briefly competes against a bulk download from a Cubic sender, then BPR would hold the Cubic-using download to 60%, which Youtube might count as success and you might or might not.
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The reason we haven't disabled signup is to try to provide a server which we can point people to over which we have some level of control and quality (even if that quality is pretty crap right now).

Once we have account migration sorted out (hopefully coming sooner than expected thanks to work being done for GDPR), then the situation should be much better as folks can flee off the overloaded server onto one of their choice... but first-time newbies don't need to make the complicated and confusing call on picking an alt server.
> It's like my dollars are almost 50% better than your dollars.

Only if you're living paycheck to paycheck.

It doesn't make sense to adjust your savings rate (or loan repayment rate) by cost of living.

To illustrate, assuming you're living off of your base (a single 20-something can probably do better though), you're comparing saving a $39k bonus or a $24k bonus. That's over a 50% difference in savings rate.

That's not to say you should take the higher paying job. There are other considerations besides money, obviously.
What did you say?

- Hello, I stalked your supervisor, he's in a business of prostitution, you should leave your work.
Yeah, basically, the standard is a little sneaky on this point. It doesn't actually require a specific syntax, but rather, simply that being able to write Unicode codepoints in hexadecimal representation is possible. Notice that it says, "... shall supply a mechanism ..." rather than "this mechanism."

Of course, it's probably a good idea to follow the sample syntax provided. :-)
> their new Dublin offices in the old Irish Nationwide building

Amazon also have a new build office block on Burlington Road which they are currently moving into.
The main guy working on bridges left during the funding crisis we had last year, unfortunately. Luckily we have new people joining in May to work as their day-job on it. The IRC bridge should never show users in a room who aren't currently joined online on IRC (other than when it's recovering from a crash).
The alternative seems to be something like “people operations”. I don’t find that any more encouraging, really...
Yes, it does. The UX is not great but the crypto has been solid since 2016: https://matrix.org/blog/2016/11/21/matrixs-olm-end-to-end-en...
You can set up a UK account and a US account. You could set your main account to the US, and create an additional iTunes UK account for your UK apps. Both apps will update separately.
Not surprising,why then compare Templar lifespan to the average rather to the lifespan of some other monastic group?
> If you supported them, you’re still in love with the franchise and the characters

At this point we probably differ: As soon as such a buyout happens, I lose my love.

> plus a massive cultural push to consume more of it.

I have a tendency to be rather immune with respect to such cultural pushes. I often tell people to become and how to become resistant in this respect, too.
? The date given is 2017-11-16. The blog started in 2015.
How do you manage your outgoing email to not be marked as spam? I recall that most mail providers out there block residential IP addresses…
The author disputes that logically there is no such thing as a Null value.

> I disagreed with the statement in the post that:

>> Logically-speaking, there is no such thing as Null

> [..]

> Boolean logic

> [..]

> It isn’t true [..] it isn’t false either. We need another value, that means “this cannot be decided given the current state of our knowledge”.

Null as used by many computer languages is not some logical choice. As in the example, sometimes a value has possibly more choices than just True | False. Logically-speaking that means the value has three choices: True | False | Undecided.

Some computer languages let you encode this more convenient that others. Even falling back to Null to represent the possibility isn't necessarily bad. However, that doesn't make Null a logical thing, but just the representation of this choice for a computer.
I don't know, I'd rather be an early Apple's employee or part of the first iPhone team, witnessing a major new chapter of computing, than a comfortable developer in a comfortable setting.
Large people on average more intelligent due to larger brain size
"There is no justice in following unjust laws."

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cri-o is a container runtime optimized for Kubernetes.

http://cri-o.io/
Thanks for this! I was just trying to figure out how my regular trains will change and this tool helped a lot.
Qt's native support on Windows is very very good these days, as apps like the Telegram desktop client show.
"The disappearance of Python 2 will leave much scientific software orphaned, and many published results irreproducible. Yes, the big well-known packages of the SciPy ecosystem all work with Python 3 by now, but the same cannot be said for many domain-specific libraries that have a much smaller user and developer base, and much more limited resources."

Why? If you store software and data together, that shouldn't be an issue? Anyway, this is the case with any software not just Python or SciPy.
How do you check that this real-time transaction log was not altered? I think that blockchain concept is a neat way to implement that check. Client need to store a single hash and move on to the latest transaction verifying each block. If something is altered in the past, client will notice that immediately.
Pretty easily solved with a $15 carbon monoxide detector. They are required by rental codes around here, and are just a plain good idea. Unlike smoke detectors they rarely fault out due to smoke from toasters/etc.
Disney is able to creat tasteless childlike story arcs that challenge nothing.

There’s a good guy, there’s a bad guy, there’s the struggle and sacrifice of the good guy, which eventually trumps the bad guy leading to a rich life.

They are selling you American mythology 101.

The fact that you enjoy these myths isn’t a problem, they are literally manufactured to have as broad an appeal as possible.

What is a problem is you excusing the dilution of nuance in our culture that is used to perpetuate western hegemony which directly leads to our politicians doing literally whatever they want for themselves.
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The block universe doesn't mean a specific moment in time is all that is, it means that they all coexist.

Dynamics in block universe is like reading a book: it seems things happen as you move your attention over the pages, but in truth the story was fixed before you even started.
So basically a container or VM image. To be honest the python version seems like the smallest issue for reproducibility. I would be more worried about different floating point operations with respect to GPUs for instance.
You can read some stuff over at the Corda blog:

http://medium.com/corda

I don't think we've written much on the topic of deployment with centralised nodes before though.