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At least AWS doesn't start spamming you weeks after servers go down!

I canceled a dedicated server with IBM SoftLayer (nee ThePlanet), and a few weeks later I started receiving hourly IPAlerts about it being offline!

The server was canceled so there was nowhere in the interface for me to turn them off!

I opened a ticket, and they said other users were experiencing it too, and they though they had it fixed, and asked it I was still getting them. I was.

Their only suggestion was for me to make an email filter to ignore the IPAlerts, but what about the IPAlerts for servers I hadn't canceled that I actually want to see?

We went several rounds of this, each time they thought they had it fixed, and asked if I was still receiving them, and of course I was, like clockwork.

It's been more than a week and a half, and I'm STILL getting them!

I kept posting the raw email bodies so they could tell by the headers where it was coming from.

I even begged them to deploy one of their most powerful firewalls around the offending legacy nagios server to protect me from it, but they wouldn't do that.

I'm afraid if I cancel my other two servers and move to AWS, they's start spamming me with TWO MORE never-ending sets of IPAlerts about canceled servers!

What a passive-aggressive way of punishing long time customers for canceling their servers!

Has anybody experienced anything like this with AWS?

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In fiscal year 2015, US military spending was projected to account for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending, a total of $598.5 billion.

Translation: they need even more money.
I've been using Tutanota for almost a year now and it's pretty good. I'm no expert on encryption but that part also seems pretty solid [0,1]. NordVPN "leans towards" TN over PM, but only for convenience and not security (that's more or less equal between the two)[2]. However, PM is based in Switzerland (not bound by GDPR), while TN is in Germany (bound by GDPR and other privacy laws that the EU is really progressive in pushing, compared to the rest of the world)[2]. That said, PM is what Cambridge Analytica was using to overthrow governments so I suppose that has to be pretty secure[3].

PM pricing is €48-288/y while TN is €12-60/y[4,5]. Both have freemium options too; I'm paying €12/y for TN just to receive support (more to be able to message them with feedback, really).

My only complaints w/TN is that it's a bit slow; notifications will remain even seconds after I'd read the mail, and sometimes (especially in the beginning) I would hit "Del" twice or more for the same email because it would remain in my inbox, ultimately accidentally deleting the emails after it in my inbox (something I noticed only after refreshing the tab, which -- annoyingly but also securely -- would cause me to have to log in again).

I ultimately went with TN because of one thing, however: I can export emails. Yes, it's a hassle, and yes, I have to generally do it by hand, bundle by bundle, but I love being able to have all my emails archived offline. Plus, with their new (beta) desktop client, this should be even easier[6]. I'm staying with them for now because they're the only ones (that I know of) who encrypt both your emails and your contacts, as well as the subjects, contents, and attachments of all the emails you send[7]. This is HUGE for me. However, the moment a better service comes along who does all this and who is smoother, faster, I won't mind switching ship. Especially because the name is so annoying to tell people, especially over the phone ("Puta? Duda? T like Dom or like Tom?"). Yes, I get it means "secure message" in Latin, but come on now. Just use a simple word already. Or do what PM did and enable a neat shorthand domain (pm.me, how neat is that?[8]). Though they also do offer custom domain names so I suppose this isn't too much of an issue, I just haven't had time to properly look into this yet.

After reading this thread though I'm curious to find out more about FastMail. But Australia, uhhh... Five Eyes, no thank you.

[0]: https://tutanota.com/security

[1]: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/innovative-encryption

[2]: https://nordvpn.com/blog/tutanota

[3]: https://reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/85vgca/cambridge_an...

[4]: https://protonmail.com/pricing

[5]: https://tutanota.com/pricing

[6]: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/desktop-clients

[7]: https://tutanota.com/faq/#what-encrypted

[8]: https://pm.me
So, what we know from industrial psychology isn't that experience doesn't add value. It's that high IQ people learn faster. This makes sense when you remember that intelligence is broadly defined as the ability to learn.

While Alice may have fewer years of experience than Bob, she might have effectively more experience if she absorbed understanding at a faster rate. An unexperienced, high-intelligence person usually starts at an initial disadvantage, but manages to "get up to speed" quickly.

This also underscores the particular importance of intelligence in software. The field is constantly awash in new technologies, where nobody has had time to accumulate extensive chronological experience. So, it's really important to find people that can absorb new concepts quickly.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019130851...
So is the custom handwriter an AxiDraw Pen Plotter?
I wrote a couple of bash scripts to easily configure WireGuard server and hosts. Automatically generates keys and puts them in correct configs. Adds client info to the server config as an option. As a bonus it can configure some iptables to enable NAT, vpn tracking, etc.

https://github.com/SirToffski/WireGuard-Ligase
No one is going to hire you because you have a degree, whether from a university or from Udacity. They'll hire you because:

A) your overall resume is impressive

B) you either have a portfolio of things you've built, or else you agree to do a take home assignment and successfully complete it

C) you can pass both technical and non-technical interviews

To get hired you need A && B && C. Doing Udacity will probably help with each of those things, but no one is ever going to hire you because of an academic credential alone.
Suppose you are then forbidden from growing this onion yourself, because in breeding it, you accidentally infringed on some of the many, many patents and protections on plant breeds?
Tesla over estimated the benefits of automation. Maybe they thought that labour costs wouldn't be that much of a factor anyway.
Please link to some reports from reputable sources.
I guess we have someone here that enjoys using PHP, JavaScript and Perl.
DO NOTE that the in the United States, the use of IQ tests for hiring is potentially legally fraught.

A SCOTUS ruling[1] has found that IQ tests are assumed to disfavor minority employees, and therefore using them as a major factor in hiring decisions may run afoul of the Civil Rights Act. There are ways around this, but generally speaking you have to prove the specific test you are administering either does not disfavor minorities, or else show that it is directly related to the specific position you're hiring for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

I am not a lawyer, do not take legal advice from randos on the interwebs. You should consult with a Real Actual Professional on how to deal with this risk. There have been both laws and court cases since the above that impact the ruling, which I am not qualified to analyze.
How mouse can fool cat. Once.
GitLab has really come a long way in the past few years. The days of being a github-alike are long gone. Very happy to see them continue to find success.
That isn't true, corporations can be charged with crimes and they can have their corporate charter revoked. Human individuals working for a criminal corporation do not have to directly break the law to face criminal prosecution.

> The responsible corporate officer (RCO) doctrine holds that a corporate officer is indirectly liable for a subordinate's criminal conduct when the officer is in a position of responsibility. The officer can be prosecuted if he has the authority and the ability to stop the offense and yet fails to act.

The RCO doctrine does not require proof that the officer either participated in or authorized the crime.
That's why ReactNative is my preference. There are forks of it that target Windows and MacOS using their native controls. Microsoft maintains the Windows ReactNative fork (https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows) and they wrap React, ReactNative, and the desktop forks in their ReactXP project.

I don't trust Google to emulate a perfect UI among all platforms. I feel like they're generating too big of a workload for no reason, it's a big red flag. I think eventually they'll give up on emulating native controls and choose a unified appearance for all platforms (forcing Material design for everyone) as well as giving the option to customize. I think their endgame is to push Flutter as much as possible so they have Fuchsia developers, then let the other target platforms go unmaintained. Their language, their OS, their devices.
The infamous Dropbox comment.

I have tried the very same concept but embedded in a WiFi router many years ago ( https://wijvrij.nl, Dutch ).

Apparently, this was not the right product-market fit. The PiHole is.
Windows 10 May 2019 Update stumbles over USB storage
How would one go about finding these collections? (asking for a friend...)
I don't see nets? https://news.developer.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04...

It's really different from rugby.
> "Assuming a steady rate, that would mean Amazon was firing more than 10 percent of its staff annually, solely for productivity reasons."

This is very common at a lot of white-collar places that do stack-ranking.

From a different perspective, places like Google reject 99% of candidates because they "only hire the best." Whereas Amazon warehouses seem to do the opposite - they are liberal in giving people a shot, and then rigorously weed out anyone with lagging job performance. I suspect a lot of people who get rejected at the interview stage for bullshit reasons would actually prefer the latter approach.
Are you sure this wasn't created by Homer Simpson?
I'll just report that we had an issue with an Elastic Beanstalk deployment that seems to have resolved itself now. Not sure if its related, but simply retrying the deployment resolved it without making any changes, so it sure seems related.
That may be true for small failures, but the AWS Status Page has routinely failed to report large scale outages.
The Tillis-Coons patent bill will be a disaster for innovation
How do you compare it to someone completely self taught with similar experience? At least with someone that completed a course you know the minimum extent of their knowledge and understanding.
You can't copyright clothing designs and fashion designers are still in business.

> Is it ok if someone were to take your onions and begin growing them without discourse?

Yes. If you want to get paid to improve onions, get paid for work you will do not work you have done (research grants, onion growers associations, etc). Rent-seeking by owning living things' genetics is, I think, immoral. Rent-seeking, in general, that is patterns that allow you to do one-time work to get perpetual rights to future income is immoral when it passes a certain threshold.
Does anyone use gmail + PGP ? if the two parties understand how to send encrypted messages over web clients, isn't that still secure ? I haven't heard much about PGP for the past 5+ years. I realize PGP itself isn't a protocol, but there used to be a system where you'd publish your public key (irrespective of what protocol (RSA, ECDSA, etc) you use) somewhere and anyone could send you encrypted messages and paste the base64 text into insecure clients.
No the OP, but:

They're likely viewing them as similar to certifications. Different industries treat certifications differently.

Enterprise technologies like Java and .NET and IBM products are helpful if you are aiming for that sort of job.

But, if you are looking at more open-source oriented shop, they give the impression that you are focusing on trying to look accomplished. It can look like you are trying to appeal to the wrong crowd, which means your priorities don't align with what they are looking for.
I am a product/engineering hiring manager at a tech company. I would love to know about nano-degrees that candidates have completed. It takes just as much grit as brick and mortar college if not more.

Disclosure: Maybe bias as I quit college to be a FT software engineer. And traditional schooling never really worked for me I learned more at home.
>> Colour vision is not much help under low light conditions which is the reason our distant shrew-like ancestors lost their colour vision in the first place.

You seem to have authority, clearly, but doesn't your statement very precisely support my claim that we are now living in a society that dis-favor the color-blind? Our ancestors lost their ability to distinguish colors but now (all of a sudden) color seems very important. So we have in fact started, very recently, to select for non-color blindness. No?
> > It is long overdue. China has 1.3B people and the second largest economy in the world. It is righteous for them to be Asia's military titan.

> I wonder if you meant 'right' like 'appropriate'? Clearly you could not have meant 'righteous' since it does mean something else in English.

I think "righteous" is still appropriate. The word means "characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice". I would argue that aiming for countries to have equality (same GPD per capita, same military spending and power per capita, etc) is not only morally acceptable, but also just.
>Why can't I write a desktop application that just asks the OS for the users preferred browser and provides it with HTML/CSS and UI interaction callbacks / events? Render it in a native looking window.

You can:

- webview (I mentioned it elsewhere) https://github.com/zserge/webview
- sciter https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=sciter
- ultralight https://ultralig.ht/

Granted it's not "user's preferred browser" but it fits the bill. They all have issues, largely solved by Electron packaging the browser engine with the binary, and even that isn't perfect.
but it distills nicely to a dichotomy of two terms that can easily be discussed on forums by "investors" who do not understand the first thing about the underlying tech they are buying into. So you will hear about it for a while, as being the ultimate game changer no less.
I feel like we in society can solve this without going to the lengths of patenting life forms - we could just instead make sure the people who did the inventing are properly rewarded using a softer good than currency and invest into general research - both of these things tend to benefit society quite a bit in the long run.
What part of this article talks about these companies “hiding” user attrition? It’s not like they are failing to disclose these numbers at all.
I think the issue with that response is that [curiosity, desire, necessity] are all just specific versions of "observed value" which you are then applying to oneself. Sure, you'll have a lot of innovation if everyone is trying to satisfy their own curiosity, desire, or necessity. But you'll drive far more innovation if you have individuals who are also concerned with satisfying those needs for other people. And the easiest proxy for "someone else desires or needs this" is pricing mechanisms. Luckily, the internet / better communication methods are making it much easier to determine what is valuable to others without pricing mechanisms, but I would argue that profit motive is still the most effective method.
I'm fairly certain most jobs at Netflix aren't low-skill warehousing.
Agreed about the choice to spend money for extra years bed ridden.

But I believe we are quickly approaching a time where we will be able to purchase extra years of higher quality of life.

Look at cancer drug Herceptin as an example. It doesn’t cure cancer of stop it. It just slows t down allowing the cancer victim more time at a better quality of life.

I think we will see a two fold improvement with new longevity developments that mix better quality of life combined with slowly incrementally longer life.

But I completely agree that the solution is not a pill.

You have to invest in both work and time otherwise pharmacological inputs alone will likely be marginally effective, if at all.
Computers can become non-deterministic in practice as soon as you botch your random number handling, or hook your input up to environmental noise. Is there anything suggesting the brain is non-deterministic in a theoretical way, not just the way computers are?
Who Killed Lard? (2012)
That’s a bit shallow isn’t it? Did Elon fly rockets before creating space-x?
More to the point, you won't have access to the actual surveillance network's AI, so you won't be able to train your patch adversarially in a reasonable amount of time.
> Is the outrage over calling it "autopilot" based on the public's misunderstanding of how an airplane's autopilot works?

Not if the name was chosen to deliberately be misleading.
Not yet, but we plan to release the code & pre-trained model!
I feel like if the facial recognition systems are that good, it means if I can recognize a face, then so can it
I think https://brain.fm also came out of HN.

I've used it once or twice, but for whatever reason, nothing sounds better to me than the music I used to listen to when I was a teenager.
I heard that qml/qt quick had worse performance.
A full-stack solution for fast PWA development
This bears the question- are classes based around studying a particular technology track the most effective way to teach somebody how to learn?
If it were as obvious as a snake attached to a leg, more people would believe it. The video linked above is not obviously of extraterrestrial origin; there are several plausible terrestrial explanations for it.
Is it not late spring right now?
This seems pretty horrible. Shades of monsanto suing farmers who had farms near monsanto seeded farms where the seeds escaped on their own.
Iyokus - Decide your own price
>For example: is a user with the app installed, logged in and running in the background considered "active" that day, even if they don't actually launch or really use the app? If you send them a notification, even if they don't click on it, are they 'active'?

I’m not aware of any company that defines active user in this way. Typically for an app it would have to be an explicit user interaction such as opening the app to count as an active user for that day.
Definitely... And much more useful, too.
But if we paid them more...
So controllers and views?
Iyokus is a marketplace where buyers and sellers come together to trade at prices that are mutually beneficial, a place where buyers can express their willingness to pay and be heard. Iyokus deploys the first viable system that allow buyers to bid for the price they are willing to pay and receive feedback or counter-offer instantaneously. Our mission is to build a platform where buyers pay only what they are willing to pay while helping sellers to optimise their prices so that their products can reach the maximum number of willing buyers
It might be a way off that for "production", but for editing, when a score isn't finished yet, as filler to help the editing process, this could be an amazing tool.
> trained a recurrent neural network and a deep convolutional generative adversarial network on over 400 sports with the aim of creating a new and original sport.

Did they share anywhere what their training data looked like?
Documenting how things are done, establishing simple processes, and creating good training have been the most productive activities for me and my team.

When you have an order of magnitude more people wanting something from your team, these are by far the most helpful.
Ohh yeh, I think the equality table is just something you have to learn, like a chemist learn the periodic table. I make use of null==undefined a lot and prefer it over thruthy/falsy. I try to avoid NaN but sometimes use isNaN(nr)
I agree with what you are saying, but an auto-pilot in an airplane requires a pilot to be there to supervise it.
"He" - like many words - has multiple meanings and usages. Context matters. In some contexts, it is an unambiguously male pronoun. In others, it's not.

It doesn't work to pick just one specific definition, and then interpret the word according to that definition in every context. Human language is rarely that rigid.
The implicit argument is that it takes 10 years to do this. Is that how it works in reality? If it was a month, no one would care.
Maybe more interesting for video games, where you can have a realtime input of gameplay variables.
I'm sorry, I misworded myself:

There is general distrust in NIST, not any known issues with those curves. However, it is general consensus to prefer Ed25519 over NIST curves, specifically preferring it over P-256. The benefits of its implementation are a cherry on top. I have yet to see any suggestion or reason to pick P-256 when Ed25519 is available.

And yes, Ed25519 is the defacto standard. Hell, I don't even recall the last time I heard P-256 mentioned. It surprises me every time I stumble upon it. Picking anything other than Ed25519 means deviating from the norm, which would normally cause worry. Granted, P-256 is fine, but there is absolutely no argument for claiming Ed25519 was the wrong choice of algorithm.

And yes, I specifically refer to Ed25519 because it is the one relevant here. We're talking about signing, not key exchanges.
His (public) behavior is not that of someone I'd look up to.

As others have said, his accusing of someone to be pedophile is very low. I strongly disagree with the marketing and, in my humble opinion, reckless release of Autopilot.

I also really don't like how he handled the issue with the SEC. Whether he intended to or not, he did misled investors with his tweets about having funding secured and instead of just admitting he made a mistake acted like he could do no wrong. He's actually surprisingly similar to Trump in his inability to take criticism with grace.

Again, I don't think he's an evil person but my impression is that he's let his wealth and fame get to his head. I can't say I blame him, people idolize him like he's the second coming of Jesus. I'm sure that kind of admiration isn't healthy for anyone and I am sure it'd mess me up too.

He's very much like a real life Tony Stark, and I suppose a part of me resents that he has so much admiration. It has nothing to do with him but I hate the idea that people seem to place success above everything else, when that's really not what should be important and I'd argue that emphasis on success probably leads to a lot of unhappiness in modern society. But I digress.