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Compiling C code with puppet or whatever seems a little weird to me, to be honest :)

If you want to keep your data externally, there are some good options for this. I'd read the plugin docs about variable plugins, that can easily source variables for things like etcd or Consul.

A script for a given repo could be nothing more than "make go", and that actually is a pretty good practice, to keep that in source control.

Still, you need something to build your code, and to have a good place to see the status.

Ultimately, code still needs to be built, and orgs do want to avoid images they cannot easily recreate. That's the role of a build system and making sure the process to create those artifacts is in source control.

I should also mention that your build script CAN be sourced from source control.

In your .vespene file, just say "script: <path>.

However, the variables in that file can be evaluated by Jinja2 variables, so for instance your security team could set up a snippet everybody could use or your feature flags could be defined from there.

Another cool feature of Vespene is in each project build root all those variables appear as vespene.json files, so it can be a good tool to use to launch all kinds of automation from a web console where you want to record results.
Facebook aims to be more engaging to humans in latest AI research
I deleted the app because I was sick of getting notifications somewhere along the lines of “your friend just commented on a photo” or “your friend recently liked a post”. I tried turning off all notifications that weren’t directly related to my content and Facebook still sent me these types of notifications. So I said that I would just use the website instead of getting these notifications (at least 2 a day). I want an app that provides a means to connect with old friends rather than gossip about their comments/likes. I feel like they are doubling down on being a gossip machine.
I'd never claim it's not a masterpiece. Both it and the 3rd Liebestraume are in my repertoire. But since it's more in line with the Romantic idiom, Clair De Lune and Suite Bergamasque in general gets compared against the masterpieces of Chopin/Liszt/Brahms/Schumann, and against that bar I'm not sure it necessarily measures up. Debussy was obviously a/the pioneer of impressionism, and in that idiom, his work is unmatched. I haven't seen a serious argument that he could out-compose any of the composers that are the pillars of romanticism in that idiom though, and since Clair de Lune is in that style, that's what it gets measured against.
The only way to be informed of public events relevant to my interests is via Facebook, sadly.

So either I can be there and find out about them, or I can hope someone I know notices them and notifies me.

Both are terrible options.
That makes total sense, assuming dragonwriter is posting it from a diplomatic post. If not, then I'm not sure what your point is.
It’s easy to keep profits small when you pay a large “license fee” to your offshore parent company.
Yeah, we do that with Rust too.

Sure, if the perm is solely "traige issues", maybe that's fine, but what is the exact level of granularity for this kind of thing?

I don't mean it's impossible, just that it's not completely simple, and there's work to do to sort out the details. I also have never seen what dotcom looks like, so I have no idea how hard these things are to implement, either. Sometimes simple features can be rough to implement, especially in large, legacy Rails apps...
> One can create HTTP/1 server in just a few lines of code.

One can create a non-conforming server in a few lines of code. The actual protocol has a horrendous number of corner cases and weirdness. E.g., determining a message body's size depends on whether content-length is sent, is it chunked, was the request a HEAD request, etc. There's also header folding (whereby a header can be split over multiple lines) though one has the out that the standard allows that to be optional (you can respond w/ 400). Trailers (additional headers after the body) and continuations (allows the client to request a potentially large upload, and the server can reject it prior to the client transmitting the body). Actually parsing headers beyond just a KV mapping, that is, trying to work with any of the actual data in a header is fraught with error: many of them can be specified multiple times, and can thus be in multiple occurrences of the header, or all in a single header but separated by commas, or some mix of the two. (Except cookie headers, those are special.) Some also allow a comma to appear in the value itself, meaning a parser that first splits on comma and then parses the resulting parts is broken.

These text protocols, while "simple" in the sense that a human can generally look at the on-the-wire data and parse with their eyeballs, require complex FSMs to parse correctly. (Complex, relative to an equivalent binary protocol with binary-encoded length-prefixed data or even a text protocol that didn't accommodate every random slightly different way of doing it.) Now, HTTP/2 also adds a lot of functionality above and beyond what HTTP/1 has, so that certainly eats up some of the gains in parsing simplicity (and I think it would be fair to say that the outcome is overall more complex).

I'd much rather have a binary protocol and good tooling. (And that's much more feasible with today's browser's devtools. I would not want to attempt this with the lame excuse for tooling IE 6 had back in the 90s.)

MIME's header encoding of non-ASCII characters is another abomination that I'd toss in this bucket. E.g.,

Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SWYgeW91IGNhbiByZWFkIHRoaXMgeW8=?=
=?ISO-8859-2?B?dSB1bmRlcnN0YW5kIHRoZSBleGFtcGxlLg==?=

(Yes, that's a valid email Subject line.) HTTP supported this at one time, though nowadays the standard has mostly deprecated this:

Historically, HTTP has allowed field content with text in the
ISO-8859-1 charset [ISO-8859-1], supporting other charsets only
through use of [RFC2047] encoding. In practice, most HTTP header
field values use only a subset of the US-ASCII charset [USASCII].
Newly defined header fields SHOULD limit their field values to
US-ASCII octets. A recipient SHOULD treat other octets in field
content (obs-text) as opaque data.
> A less charitable way would be the CEO is shooting from the hip and doesn't have a clue what the company needs.

- He continued backing the redesign long after it was clear the public hated it

- He continued to push spectacles and insist they were a "camera" company, long after the market showed there was no demand from it.

- In the last 5 years he's gone from insisting that snap is a "social media company", to "a camera company", to "the fastest way for people to connect".

In my mind, he seems like he's pretty out of touch with what the public wants from Snapchat and is just bouncing from one idea to another hoping to get lucky again.

I feel like he was a college kid who built an app that he wanted, but as he's aged he no longer identifies with Snap's user base. He's trying to push his idea of what Snap should be (because that worked originally) as opposed to asking users what they want.
Your assumption is that a company with 300,000 employees would be able to only hire A players. The larger the company, the more it will naturally HAVE to trend towards average. Most successful large companies are successful because they know how to organize their company so that average employees are productive.
“Why weren’t you already charging more, if you could?” Would be my obvious first question at that point, if I was a shareholder.
As someone who took the E trains of the Green Line to high school every day, the fact that they were holding up the entire system at night is not surprising in the least.
"... the car is not a magic “immunity” force bubble ..."

No, but a diplomatic packet is.

Just saying.
> disconnectedness

quite the contrary sir/madame. One of the rarer comments that truly adds something of value besides what are usually just wordy up or down votes.
They definitely will not. Assagne is an important lesson for anyone considering becoming a voluntary pawn of statecraft operations: the CIA coined the term “terminate with extreme prejudice“ for a reason. These agencies are not known for their loyalty to assets. Once the mission (Trump’s election, in this case) has been completed, you are a liability to be disposed of. Assagne let this go to his head and apparently thought he was an invaluable partner, rather than a loose end.
What you meant is nonsensical.

If you want to return to the original question of why 76 out of the top 100 YC startups are in the Bay Area and zero of them are in the South, east of LA - it's because the only populations that matter for a tech startup are founders, early adopters, angel investors, venture capitalists, executives who have scaled a company by 100,000x, corporate lawyers, digital marketers, engineers, DevOps/SRE, UX researchers, UI designers, product managers, and (for a B2B startup) enterprise sales reps. All of these populations are abundant in the Bay Area. Many of them are missing entirely in the South, or if they're present, they're rare enough that there isn't a liquid market for them. If you're a founder, you can go wherever you want, but you're only one of the limiting regents for a startup. Without the other, less glamorous ones, your startup is not going to take off.
Amazon is on pace for its biggest two-day drop since 2011
There is a legal distinction that really matters on a daily basis. A renter who fails to pay rent isn't a squatter. A delinquent renter cannot be instantly arrested for trespass. Someone who enters without permission can be instantly arrested without much in the way of process (trespasser, robbers, drunk people etc). Someone who had previous permission can only be evicted after a lengthy process.

Where "adverse possession" aka squatter's rights exists, one much stay without the permission of the owner. A potential adverse possession can be avoided by the landowner giving permission. That stops any running clocks as the possession is no longer "adverse" to the rights of the owner.
I think you're more of a gamer than those who would call themselves one. I'm in a similar boat- bored to tears with most new games. I thought arcades and consoles were fantastic in the 80s, with PC gaming being just good, but the 90's brought on an era of creativity in the PC space and it took the lead at that point. Today it seems like we're rehashing those old 80's arcade/console and 90's PC game mechanics over and over. There's some exceptions to that rule, but if you're playing AAA games, you'd probably be playing a game with very little in terms of gameplay innovation from those two decades. I do still enjoy a good 2-4 player brawler.

There may be two tiers of gamers, those who haven't seen much and are impressed with old mechanics, but with the latest graphical developments. And those who have seem more and are more difficult to impress.

I would add that buying my Nintendo Switch, my first new console since my Sega Genesis (I did buy some consoles after that point but they were last-gen by that point and second-hand), has proven to me they are the premier AAA game developer in the world. The polish and mechanics of most 1st party Nintendo titles are unmatched in my experience. If you're a real gamer, which you sound like to me, I would definitely recommend at least considering adding a Switch to pair with desktop/laptop PC gaming.

I will be looking into Return of the Obra Dinn based off your comment, and I can tell you already those graphics don't dissuade me at all. We're always in a creative crisis and technical overload. Whether it's 4K screens, $1,200 GPUs or bad shows and games. I'm ready for artistry to take hold and we already have more than enough technology to convey most creative visions. Gameplay, character development and story first.
You are thinking like a software engineer, not a product manager or owner of capital.

If any of these companies is able to extract monopoly profits without fear of competition undercutting them or government/legal intervention, they will.

Right now all 3 are competing fiercely to win the hardware rental market, but this may not be the case in the future once the market matures, and they may raise prices to match leaving costs (as parent comment pointed out) if they can lock customers in.
The conversation about FTP always revolves around uploads because that's the thing browsers didn't actually do in the 1990s. (20 years later, browsers can pretty much do everything FTP does.)
I’ll remind every person here that you are taxed on your revenue, not your profit. It’s worth thinking about because it’s not always been the case in the past that companies had more rights than individuals.
I did say passing familiarity, which is not a very high bar to clear. It's been my experience, and I don't travel much in rarefied intellectual circles.
You are also a 'random person on the internet' to all of us, so your logic as an argument does not very well apply.

(Also - the EU is not Europe. It's a terrible habit that some Europeans have of conflating the two)

The legislators who design these laws are not elected, and you have absolutely no ability to influence the direction of these laws. As an EU citizen, you should be more informed as to how this process works legally, but also materially. Legally, there's no relationship between voters, and the Commission designed with writing laws. They are absolutely not elected, and they don't take populist needs into consideration - in fact, it's designed specifically to not be democratic.

The only hope you have might be to have MEP's amend legislation as it passes by, but almost nobody in Europe has an awareness of this process, they don't know who their MEP is, they don't know what they stand for. Can you tell me right now, without looking it up, the name of your MEP and what they represent?

But this is all moot. The legislation is objectively stupid. It makes no sense. It will cause essentially an internet meltdown the likes of which nobody has ever seen. EU legislators are worrying about 'Brexit'? How are you going to live if Google, Bing, Wikipedia, and every other search engine goes black? Or when your newspapers instantly go out of business because the legislation meant to protect them kills them?

The issue of 'democracy' and even 'good intent' are secondary to the fact that the legislation is very materially and very damagingly stupid. This legislation is the equivalent of making chemical weapons in your own home as a 'fun experiment' and then dying from it ...

Even beyond the damage the legislation could do - it makes the Commission look basically incompetent, and it erodes the goodwill that they need to stay alive, as Euroscepticism grows on the continent.

How will the plebes react if even just wikipedia goes black for whatever reason? It would be like the internet version of a 'bread revolt'.
But how would you outlaw it? A neural network is simply a set of coefficients, would certain coefficient combinations be illegal? It's an interesting question.

PS: I am obviously against child pornography, I'm just curious about the implications of being able to generate illegal content and how governments would deal with it.
It can work.

It doesn't help that simple imaginary solutions that probably blame some scape goat are easy to sell compared to complicated trade-offs that marginally reduce systemic issues our society has.

The US political system practically allowing only two parties doesn't help, since it makes it easy to disregard everyone not with your team instead of having to engage with a large set of different opinions.

But you quite often see people post something like "thanks for saving me from being an alt-righter" in the community of for example twitch-streamer Destiny. He did engage alt right youtubers in discussions, but recently scaled that back somewhat... apparently having a right wing mob hate you is a real thread to your livelihood as well. He says he has still no idea why he got his permanent twitter ban... so yeah, I'd love someone to look into that...

Anyway, we are talking about the marketplace of ideas. As with any marketplace, you need marketing to sell the good (idea). Guess what kind of ideas are worth paying for? Probably the kind that will benefit those with lots of capital. And for that reason do real lefties think capitalism will eventually always end in fascism once disillusioned people demand change and only a communist revolution can save us.

I always disregarded that as stupid, but the last few years make it more and more difficult...
just bouncing from one idea to another hoping to get lucky again.

Welcome to the world of social software!

I'm not convinced that anyone really knows what people want in this market.
I'm a little surprised that there isn't a single "top" YC company in Seattle. Why is that? It seems like the city has talent and capital.
Play Store security is a joke. A few weeks ago I shipped a new app to it, expecting a review process that would last hours or days. It was accepted and made live in less than an hour. Should I really believe that this thing was thoroughly scanned or so much as glanced at by a human being?
There Are Not “Too Many Games”: What the Indiepocalypse Panic Ignores
I generally refuse to sign edocuments, I'll print it and mail it. I might email scanned signed copies. But I have enough experience to know DocuSign sucks. I have zero faith in it.
Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7B Behind in Royalty Payments
Where to train deep learning models online for the lowest cost and least hassle
wow, thats incredibly scary. Would you only know that once its too late? How would it be corrected? Again...very scary..
The project name is GOLD
He publishes leaks of documents provided to him by the Russians.
Shark in Venice
> "When my boyfriend suddenly left me (as men in New York are occasionally known to do), I had to pay $1,450 a month for rent on my own"

The author doesn't disparage the ex-boyfriend, just makes a tongue-in-cheek comment about it. I don't find it biased or off-putting.
If I'm ever forced to use Facebook via a web browser, which is rare, I make sure to open it in a private window and immediately sign out.

That, and I don't allow the app to know my location, or have access to my photos.

That limits the damage to a significant degree.
IBM isn't sinking. It is quite large, nearly 400,000 employees. If they laid off 10% of their workforce it would be like a bit more than 1 and a half Facebooks ceased to exist but it would be a drop in the bucket at IBM.

What they are is slow moving and hidebound. I think that at some level they understand that, and at other levels they don't. They have an amazing asset in their labs where they can put 1,000 of some of the smartest people you might ever hope to meet on to a problem pretty much instantly.

In my short time with them post acquisition I found a company that was very slowly losing its calcified husk and becoming more agile. It had some blind spots but when you replace enough people that can be fixed. As Gerstner showed in the 90's, as Satella is showing at Microsoft, what Welch showed at GE. Put the right leadership team in place and you can do amazing things with that power.
How about this idea of "safe spaces"? And also the idea that it is generally okay to attempt to shut down, yell over, or ban speech or ideas that they don't agree with.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/safe-spaces-college-int...
You propose taxing a company on their revenue and also taxing individuals when they realize their capital gains?

Such a high level of double taxation would kill all investment in this country overnight
Nah. (Its no worse than the Assange one.)
I'm not sure exactly which point you're shooting for, my point is more about the provable altered metabolomics discovered over the past year and a half by Dr. Ian Lipkin, et al. Example paper from this summer:: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28477-9
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how come the US is so opaque about pricing? Any other country i have been to (national insurance or not) has been absolutely transparent about pricing of healthcare. Including a GP in a tiny village in france who didn't speak english who sew back the skin on a finger after a nasty cut. (i had to pay a fee because i am not a french person, and the EHC doesn't cover "mundane" injuries like a deep cut in your finger.)

the healthcare system in the US seems like total chaos to me.
If you really want to get into the details, Walmart has their own hybrid solution which has been open-source for quite a while, OneOps. It's a terrible product, but somehow they manage to use it.
If you can't concentrate because of these apps you can't do work. Yes, it happens to me and I've seen it happen to others. The fact is that the internet and other tech has likely made everyone, but particularly those who grew up with technology, more susceptible to ADD/ADHD like symptoms.

The key with things like Facebook, which makes them different, is not that it takes you away as much as they are designed to trigger dopamine levels in ways TV, books, etc that you mentioned never could. Constantly and at a very high rate. You can't be thanked 100x times by friends... unless you have a super popular post with comments and reactions and now you can. You can't read 10-20 sensational articles back to back on a newspaper like you can on an endlessly scrolling page or even watching videos on Facebook ( I have ended up losing hours on this before). There are fundamental differences which let them do what previous mediums or activities could do but in a way which our brains are simply not equipped to deal with without intervention. It's similar to refined sugar or highly refined anything works. By itself it isn't bad except it's addictive and often leads you astray from your self-set goals.

So, in fact, it makes total sense that people would realize this and increasingly control or remove it from their lives. And more importantly that they'd focus on using only a few of them not every single app there is. Which means two things: 1) people are wary of being sucked in like this and 2) they are likely not willing to leave an app/network where they already spend their time.
>> A lot of people ask why I have a surgical laceration kit
in my go-bag given that I am not qualified to actually use it.
My reasoning stems from what I have seen across many disasters that have occurred all over the world.
In the most likely scenario for the bay area, an earthquake (like the Loma Prieta quake or the Northridge quake),
all these people are moving around and then boom, everything stops moving.
At that instant in time you have a cross section of people evenly distributed across an area,
then some percentage of them will be health care workers (Nurses, Doctors, PAs etc).
And the hospitals will be far away.
>"Doesn't really matter how you consider Assange as a person. If you agree his claims for asylum are valid, he should be accommodated like anyone else, not just ignored as an exceptional case because he's showed jerk qualities,..."

Wait so he should be "accommodated like anyone else" but doesn't have to behave "like anyone else" would? I think the great majority of people who would qualify as "anyone else" would go to great lengths to show their appreciation and gratitude towards their host of the last six years. Instead he's suing them? What I find so surprising is that for someone who is so geo-politically engaged just how poor his grasp of everyday interpersonal politics is. This person is a guest.
Growth AMA with YC Partner Gustaf Alströmer
An EV cert requirement would make it far more difficult for the malware author to remain anonymous, wouldn't it? The hack may have still happened, but the author could be identified for law enforcement.