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I'm a developer (mostly) and I'm brand new to serverless technology, cloud infrastructure, etc. I've never set anything up in AWS before, except for a few EC2 instances here and there. I've never used Cloudformation, Fargate, or anything like it.

I was recently asked to set up a recurring Fargate task with a container of an app I developed. Despite knowing nothing about the ecosystem, I was able to get it up and running with Terraform in a few days, with pretty much no headaches, friction, or confusing issues. I didn't touch the AWS console even once, other than to verify that it appeared to be set up correctly after running "terraform apply".

I considered using Cloudformation, but it just seemed kind of messy and confusing to me. It also felt very visually noisy. (And YAML wasn't the issue; I read and write YAML very often, and actually really like YAML and use it in all of my personal projects.)

Despite going into it totally blind, by contrast, I found Terraform very intuitive and sensible within the first few minutes of using it. It felt much more structured and organized, and just generally simpler to read and write. I also liked that it was provider-agnostic. And the "terraform plan" feature was super helpful.

I "cheated" a little bit by using these Terraform templates as a base: https://github.com/turnerlabs/terraform-ecs-fargate-schedule.... I didn't have to change too much to get things working. I'm sure it would've taken longer if I wrote the whole thing from scratch.

I guess I'm asking: am I wasting my time investing in learning things like Terraform? Every reply in this thread is either recommending AWS-native alternatives to Terraform, criticizing Terraform, or both. For some reason I thought it was generally recommended over Cloudformation due to the lack of lock-in.
> Please tell that to the many millions of C/C++ programmers writing new code every day, who are only vaguely familiar with Rust if at all.

Just call it "C20", and they will learn it in a week.
If Prisons Don’t Work, What Will?
For a period of time, we had a handful of brilliant engineers. I can't really say that I was one of them back then, but I can tell brilliance when I see it. All three of them ended up leaving within two months of each other, and one of them whom I knew personally told me they left because of that sort of micromanagement. That person works for Apple now, so it's for the best anyway. But once the people with experience and talent left the oppressive environment, that left the more junior engineers who couldn't realistically pick up the slack. I think you're right not only in that it will eventually become counterproductive, but it will also cause a company to simply lose its best employees.
Hi revskill, seems very cool! I would glad to know more about the stack.
At what rate?
Running an IRC Network in 2019: Challenges and Opportunities
I agree the courts have issues. Courts have given me (Pro se) faslse information and refused to answer procedural questions. In what sense are you referring to outsourcing? Could you explain you outsourcing view
Devilish reverse proxy? It's easily detectable in JS, no? I doubt the attackers would be able to remove simple domain check from some obfuscated JS code inside AirBnB fast enough, not to be detected and IP banned.
Sorry for the bad face value of my sentence.

I meant to say, that the Deutsche Bundesbahn was legally non-independent. It's successor is a stock company, even if wholly owned by the state. It was touted, using the structure and mindset of a public company, that costs could be reduced by increasing efficiency. With disappointing results.
This is a mindset I cannot understand - it's quite within most developers reach that they could scrape and reproduce airbnb. It's quite within most people's ethics to realise you could then take money off people who did not spot it.

But to set up a criminal SaaS, that other criminals pay to use, and to somehow think you cannot be found or caught?

It just seems that this sub world has been allowed to develop and evolve for soooo long they have stumbled upon whole eco systems.

It's going to be hard to uproot.
"- its not risky"

It is super risky and we had this discussion before on HN. SBIR grants are often given for "blue sky" projects. You could say that is the definition of "risk".
> brute force password fields

rate limit

> stop bots from submitting fake data to sign up forms

I don't think there's an universal solution here. it depends on the application itself and why you consider fake signups an issue in the first place.
For passwords: offer 2FA (ideally WebAuthn, but it sadly hasn’t landed in enough browsers yet), use a reasonable password strength policy, and possibly consider OAuth login. Or, and I know this is crazy talk, allow users to opt out of the bloody captcha if they say they use a password manager, and then use some basic heuristic requirements on the password.

But stop making me click the friggin’ stop lights every time I log in to my own account.
Circuit-break after 5-10 failed attempts and require 30s or 1m before each attempt after the first 3 failed ones.

To stop fake signups, require confirming the email address and only allow some number of signups per IP per day. It's not perfect but neither are CAPTCHAs and either way you can probably stop most spam, if it's even a problem for you.
For sure, I think in the 2008 Google Talk by Carsten Dominik (org mode creator) his host makes a comment from the back of the room that he has a use case(among others) of creating html tables in org mode because its so easy. Org mode has so much functionality hooked in to plaintext structures it is ridiculous. Tab and S-Tab alone do so much work in an org mode workflow, it is things like this that make it hard for for me to understand what good an external parser for org mode would do. Org mode is incredibly feature rich for authoring.
You do need to define “disappear” very carefully. It’s quite rare for jobs to truly disappear, but they can effectively disappear. Example: there are still horse drawn carriage drivers, but as a percentage of the labor force it has disappeared.

Now to answer your question: farmers.
Lisp, Smalltalk, Self, and more. Huge body of research that appears nobody pointed out to authors back when this was written (it's a BSc work if I understand correctly, and supervisor should have pointed literature out...)

Good work otherwise :-)
I concur with the sibling comment. I am not suggesting filtering based on political ideology. I am suggesting filtering based on journalistsic quality and honesty (e.g. WaPo on the left, and some parts of Fox on the right can be somewhat biased, but they are worthwhile) versus naked editorial decisions that do not care about facts (e.g. Infowars or some "antifa" outlets).

And yes, the OP can certainly be happy if they do not consume any news or if they consume only media taylored to their emotional pleasure[1]. However, it is in my interest for my fellow humans to be well informed, with a diversity of legitimate sources, so that when we make collective decisions we decided not-horribly.

1: Although specifically singling out NYT is very strange in that context, as they are by far a more moderate and truthful albeit imperfect source.
UB exploitation is not about <safe_language_of_the_day>, C compilers used to be a lot saner than they are now. We shot people to the moon long, long before that change happened.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19659555
In-memory, yes, but not when it comes to serialization. As data, both are semantically just sequences of values for which order matters. Indeed, you generally don't see this distinction in most serialization formats.
There’s a lot of price discrimination going on, as I always see different prices in the apps from my friends, and due to me using lyft more historically (probably?) I get lower lyft-line rates about 70% of the time.
When the business matures, the margins in the TNC business will be razor thin.

There will be local competitors in every city. There will be pure software companies that build TNC apps and sell operating services. Maybe Vuitton, Apple, Waymo, Herz, Hilton, Star Alliance, Oneworld etc. also have their own mobility service provider networks.

Say 4 billion people, 1% of them do ride-hailing of some kind, every one of them has five ride sharing apps and they pay $0.20 per day for each. That's $15B in revenue total for all those involved.
Crediting my account isn't a refund. I never requested a credit. So I stand by my assertion that it is fraud.
The same goes for having to meticulously scour my trip logs for where the driver didn't end the ride when I exited the vehicle, or other such shenanigans.
https://mathigon.org
IIRC to qualify for SIBR a startup must have annual revenue < $10M (?) which excludes larger vendors.

Anyway, a better wording may be "vendors in specific geographies with specialized skills".

The process is not as open as it appears. There is a strong bias for specialization.
I'm actually surprised they use GIT internally. I would have thought they have their own custom VCS. It says a lot about the success of GIT.
Do they still have invulnerable couriers or was that restriction removed?
Pete Buttigieg debuts a radical new approach to campaign branding
The level of orchestration required to achieve this on GKE is pretty minimal.
I'm sure it takes that into account, plus whether you are logged into any google account with associated meta information about you at the time.

It also learns about typical usage on that page, it trains about usage patterns, mouse movements etc.

We find it very effective in eliminating bot spam.
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Like some other posters have said, it is very trivially true what you say. In ways we can’t even really even think of.

All of these articles, it’s like, news flash, the world changes. And goes on. And on. Has for millions of years.
Of course, just as with any piece of regulation, some might affect you without you ever knowing it.

Furthermore, you seem to be mixing things up with outright falsehoods. If you are a user, and you want to use a service that provides publishing, let's say tumblr/medium, you don't have to worry anything. If you are a - let's say - power user, and you want to set up a website, then you set up - again, let's say - WordPress, then you don't have to worry about it, because it's a purely personal activity and the providers of the trackers have the burden of compliance here.

I'm not saying "yaay, it's the best thing ever", and it'll surely change as courts and data protection authorities of member states interpret and apply the regulation (and then cases against those go through the courts), but it's certainly a serious attempt at some sort of ideology about personal data. And the tracking and cookies is completely irrelevant most of the time. (After all almost all sites really don't know and gather more than your IP address and your user-agent.) However. Malicious users can inject all kinds of CSS-based history-leaking nasty stuff, and big players like FB and G can naturally feel that building a universal profile based on your activity and data and visits of others sites (where G or FB is embedded), and that's what this is about. That now there's a decision that you have a right to know what G/FB/etc does with your data. How that profile looks like and what happens to it, who has access to it, and who does what with it.

> What's the chance that every single website owner everywhere never gives out personal data to the wrong person? I would say that that chance is effectively zero.

Great point. It leads to a very important discussion about security. Sites are very lousy when it comes to social engineering. (And this is somewhat covered already: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-64/ )
Actual semver based version resolution.

And yes, this _can_ be added with some ad hoc scheme that requires you to use a certain kind of git tag, but that's not what people are asking for.
That's for autovectorisation, but my experience has been that icc's regular scalar code generation is what makes it perform so well. Instruction selection, register allocation, etc.
> Anthem financials: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/antm/financials/ - $20B profit on $92B revenue. Assuming this is roughly the same as other insurance providers in the $967B industry, there's ~$200B in savings.

Anthem is an HMO, not "just" an insurance company. They tend to make higher margins specifically because they're more cost efficient and correspondingly have more profit, so extrapolating from that is somewhat misleading.

But even using your numbers, $200B is not "the problem" here -- that's around 5% of the money being spent, and because of the nature of insurance tends to scale down with other costs and remain at the same percentage of the then lower absolute costs when other costs are reduced.

> Pfizer financials: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PFE/financials/ - $42B profit on $53B revenue. The pharmaceutical industry in the US is $935B so there's another ~$750B in savings. We're at $950B now.

People still want Lipitor and Zoloft, so that's all still there unless you regulate drug prices, which you can do or not independent of single payer (but that has its own problems).

And you can't just write off all profits as "we don't need that let's get rid of it" -- it's just measuring risk adjusted reward on capital. To have a hospital you have to put down millions of dollars to buy MRI machines and everything else, which then gets paid back with interest over a period of years. If it's private that comes from the investors and then the "profit" is their interest on the investment. Making the hospital "public" doesn't deprive you of the need to raise money to pay for equipment and then pay interest on it, unless you're going to pay 100% of the costs up front out of taxes in year zero -- and deprive the taxpayers of the interest they would have collected on the same money in the meantime.

TANSTAAFL.
It depends on what you're trying to launch. It's kind of looking like the next big thing in the launch market is going to be a lot of small satellites in low orbit. This is a market that Stratolaunch might perform well in. It's not the right approach for manned space exploration and probably not for unmanned deep-space either, however.

I'd personally like to see Stratolaunch succeed, but without a dedicated rocket designed to exploit its scale, that's going to be hard. I think Rocket Lab's Electron rocket (a small rocket and a relatively small payload fraction on top of that) would likely benefit greatly from air-launch. On the other hand launching one from the Stratolaunch would be complete overkill, unless you stuck 5 or 6 of them on a rotary launcher or something. An aircraft like Virgin Galactic's White Knight Two would be a much better match for Electron.
> if you suffer from unusual levels of physical response to certain stimuli while intellectually remaining calm or indifferent

Like what kind of response?
Well, you still have to pay a bit out of pocket here. I've been unable to get asthma medication in the past due to cost. I've also had no insurance at all, because it's not actually universal. In fact, right now I've been without an inhaler for a while and won't have one for a long time to come. But I guess this would be no different in the American healthcare system.

I agree though that the American system makes people feel insecure, but on the other hand, you guys can get treated for things like ADHD much more easily if you can afford it.

All I'm trying to say is that it's not sunshine and rainbows in every other OECD country. It might be in others, but not mine.
> asking for bug bounties

Yeah that's just not done. Dutch: kinderen die vragen worden overgeslagen (it rhymes nicely) - kids that ask will be skipped/passed. I.e., if you ask for a reward (or sweets, in a kids' case), you certainly won't get any.

If you reward people that report silly stuff and then ask for money, that would be bizarro land indeed.
How do startups get their content marketing to work?
The Train That Saved Denver: The car-choked city built a major transit system
A lot of affordable machines a few years old even had 4M. I remember my dad upgraded from 4 to 8 and from Win3.11 to Win95. The computer had maybe 1 or 2 years, hardly more. It was around 1500€ (well, it was 10000 FRF at the time) when bought, with a 14" screen.

32M was insane, probably out of reach of all but rich homes.

Only a few years later (1 or 2) a classmate told us he had a computer with 128M. That sounded so ridiculous that we thought he was a mythomaniac or something. Turns out his dad was able to get a powerful workstation from work, and the first time we visited him we saw that mythical beast, and our mind were blown.

And right now the private working set of my start menu process is 27M...
CNN claims "Foreign Minister José Valencia and Interior Minister María Paula Romo accused Assange of riding scooters around the cramped embassy hallways, insulting staff and smearing feces on the walls."
Which is a funny claim at least.

The Atlantic in the worst journalism says he was mean to his kitten, but that's what you get for reading The Atlantic.

I'm going for none of the above.
Well, another recession will come in next 10 years (as always, it's a pattern), and 14% of people will be laid off. These are hardly an insight.
This blog post is excellent. Thanks for re-sharing! I plan to send this to companies considering SBIR grants in the future.
To me it felt like being drunk without the nauseous parts. I was prescribed it for stage fright.
I think I disagree with the premise: there are many things that happen in the world that could easily make me angry, but instead of pitchforks I just try to act on only when I can change things (for which I need to be at least somewhat informed). There is this "prayer" that I like as an atheist: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference."
I don't know why NSF is wasting money on this when. I work in academia and right now if your grant doesn't get 3x excellent on its review they don't even fund it (I had 2x excellent 1x very good last year that didn't get funded).
Can confirm. The whole group working on that effort has been laid off.
Security vulture, nice. I'll steal that one! Am a security dude myself but I hadn't heard that one before; it sounds quite apt.
I suggest downloading MyFitnessPal and just learning what different amounts of food look like calorie wise, then you can eat whatever you want as long as it's within your caloric goals.
The unfortunate part about this is when a child isn’t allowed to follow their inclinations, in effort to keep up with today’s preferences. Happens so often and it’s super sad. But yeah, fortnite, it’s pretty much team activities in the 21st century. People who’ve never had to perform complex tasks over the internet just won’t get it.
As soon as you've reached your weight goal, you can switch to time restricted eating (aka intermittent fasting while circadian clock says "day") and just avoid sugary drinks/food and you'll (probably) be good.
One of the related articles[1] hedges more but seems designed to persuade the reader. It was published in 2010.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/business/yourtaxes/14disc...
I think it depends. I worked at a credit card factory for awhile. We printed, encoded, and mailed the cards so we had access to finished cards. There were cameras everywhere. But the company only used them for security (i.e. when cards went missing). Management never used them against us or tried to micromanage us. Maybe because of that none of us ever cared about the cameras.
Specimen #5 V8

JavaScript compiler in Chrome, Node.

Multi-target (7), multi-tier JIT. Optimizations mix of classical stuff and dynamic language stuff from Smalltalk.

Multiple generations of optimization and IRs. Always adjusting for sweet spot of runtime perf vs. compile time, memory, maintenance cost, etc

Recently added slower (non-JIT) interpreter tier, removed others.
I think I was just venting this morning more than anything, I have to assume my interview went worse than theirs or I’ll just end up incredibly bitter.
Microsoft created VFS for Git, specifically because the windows kernel code was too large for git to handle without being intolerably slow (git status taking hours to complete for example).

https://github.com/Microsoft/VFSForGit
>reCAPTCHA v3 is advertised as never interrupting users at all

That's got to be a joke, since I have to pass the challenge like 99% of the time, not exaggerating. Of course, I have my browser configured in a privacy conscious way, so...
Maybe check out JHipster: https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster (it has admin and user roles only https://www.jhipster.tech/security/ )
I never saw XML schema as a bad idea, just overdesigned and verbose, same as all things XML.
Could this be AirBnB owned already as a security study?
Some doctors are paid that little in Germany. Here’s an comparative analysis on 2008 data: average net outflows to physicians are higher, but it seems like US physicians may be receiving a substantially larger slice of the budgetary pie https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2010....
CF regularly lacks features that TF has, but the list of features is constantly changing as Amazon release new features and CF eventually catches up.

The one that got me this week was that CF cannot define global Dynamo tables, you have to find an alternative way to turn them on.
The book "Hungry Brain" highlights your exact dilemma. When you have access to a massive variety of highly palatable caloric-dense food, you will be more inclined to eat it. When we have variety, we tend to eat more aka the "Buffet Effect". When you actively limit your variety each day i.e. eat similar foods each day, you will tend to eat less, and therefore, lose weight/feel healthier.
If they were the self landing type and it landed in the local wall-mart parking lot.... would be kinda cool.

The uncontrolled versions, less entertaining.
The best two things you can do long term are to learn how to cook and to make friends who like playing sports regularly. Note neither of those two things require being in shape to start making progress.
because they commented on this thread impersonating Matrix.org, before some kind of HN moderation mechanism kicked in and removed the comment entirely.
Looks like it's dead.
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And still most accountants will have no trouble whatsoever finding a job.
Strategies to Avoid Car Congestion
Why you should keep your email address as secure as your password
Typically the fight or flight response. Racing heart, constricted blood vessels, shaking hands, shaky voice. Beta blockers will prevent adrenaline from taking effect. It's commonly prescribed off label for people who suffer from acute anxiety attacks with a known stimulus, like public speaking.
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Seems convincing. Likely the same reasoning behind removing Real-Time results.