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In this specific case I submitted a bug and was told the bug wasn't valid and it was closed. After I pointed out why this was in fact a valid bug, the bug wasn't reopened, but instead left closed while I was told "you're welcome to submit a PR". Basically I'm being told the bug isn't important enough for the upstream to fix and that they care so little about the bug that they won't even leave it open for someone other than me to fix.

It's generally considered a rude response in the open source world because it's telling users they aren't worth your time. It's a warning sign of an unfriendly upstream.
Yeah I don't think we've ever meant "pull requests are welcome" as a "screw you guys!". We actually mean it's welcome.

When we don't want something, it's more like "I don't think we are interested in that feature".

The big green web merge button on Github is a scary beast, and if we risk a few users for stability and taking our time, I'm cool with that. I think a lot about running a successful project is working with a contributor and helping them get the pull request into good shape.

Those that can deal with the process and power through it become better contributors for later.

We want to very much avoid being Wikipedia, while still being a canvas for massively widescale contributions.

anyway, stability to us is very important. Security and usability (and docs) are important. Those things come first before we take on new features.

Will and I disagree from time to time, but in the end, we're both way better for it, and he keeps me honest.

Anyway, for those reading the article - read all commentary, and try both. Try Puppet and Chef too. If you like Ruby, you might really dig Chef even, and we're ok with that. It's all good and there's plenty of users to go around :)
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Forgive my ignorance as I'm not very familiar with golang, but what you're describing above looks (to me) like a parameterized query. Nothing real fancy about that. I'd assume that Go has support for parameterized queries already.
I mentioned in another comment that when I think of IE6, I think of the hours spent fiddling with the HTML/CSS that works in FF/Chrome but not in IE6 because of browser bugs that were never fixed and standards not followed. It's why I think it's a bad comparison.
A little coloration and indentation would be great. Going through a chunk of 20 lines of unknown language in a couple seconds is already enough of a challenge especially for beginners, no need to add unreadability to it :P.
PhantomJS can be run through Selenium.
Upvoted because the suggestions are so bad that they merit discussion.

As someone who, growing up, decided to break out of the introvert pattern by applying such non sequiturs as suggested, I can tell you truly that the only thing such a tactic will do is get you labelled as weird ;)

Also: “What’s your story?”

Sounds only one step removed from: "What's your problem?"
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Your assuming that the buyer(Purchase of say electronics) is aware how the sellers get there goods, and your just assuming all items are carded.

What happens if you linked the website on Facebook and people were like "Oh crap this is cheap" and go buy buy buy. The whole 'if its to good to be true it is' isn't going to stand up in court. The prosecution will have to prove that you knew the good where fraudulently purchased. Who know some people may use this as a legit alternative to Amazon, thinking all the items are legit (which they may well be).
Except for those who would genuinely want to be honestly interested in learning more, but ... aren't. Because wanting to be interested isn't the same as being interested, and it often shows - creating a conversational awkwardness that's even worse than it otherwise would have been.
No they would have to prove that you did. Now they would have an IP address of the purchaser and that's not going to be you. They could also forensicly examine your computer and find out that you have no proxy tools, or tools that may be used to commit online fraud. Then what, where do they go from there?
The fact is that people with unconventional (by military standards) are going to look at joining the military with skepticism, so right there the military is limiting its pool of potential security service men.
I'll follow-up with a post about how we're working without a master. We need neither SSH, nor a master.

We're very heavily using autoscaling, which makes SSH a no-go. Ansible has Tower for this, but it's proprietary. We /could/ use a salt master for autoscaling, but we prefer masterless in this situation because it scales better.
Basically he's paying $2,200 per month per car for the ability for a car to pick up from the curb (and SFO apparently). He thinks he can not do that and instead rely on fares that were hailed through an app (or dispatcher I'd assume). He'll have lower revenue, but also significantly lower cost.
Ironically, google maps has pushed me full circle around the web and back to mapquest.

The only problem I have with the new google maps, and with mapquest, is that they aren't the recently departed google maps.
The legality of the contract is up in the air.

Just because I sign a contract saying I agree to pay $1 everytime someone I know says something unkind to anyone doesn't mean the contract is enforceable.

Besides I don't think the he meant extortion in the legal sense but more the moral sense.
Yes I agree - we need to discuss those things that allow you to influence your probability of success. We don’t seem to discuss this as frequently as we discuss gender.
Trans hackers and people who use illicit drugs most certainly do not, and until recently, LGB people.
Leak. Just say it. Send an anonymous email
We're soon going to be evaluating various configuration management frameworks. Could you outline a few points why Chef was considered a pain?
I typed in a few ARNIE quotes:

Terminator:
"nothing clean right" - no results
"fuck you, asshole" - one result for Terminator, but the phrase occurs twice in the film.
Predator:
"If it bleeds, we can kill it" - Predator came up, and a few others (interesting).
Total Recall:
"Sue me, dickhead" - it got that one.
Commando:
"You're a funny guy Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last." - no results.

I'm probably gonna spend all night on this.

EDIT: reformatted.
Yeah, my cousin thought if his pawn was on the 5th row he could capture any piece next to it by performing an "en passant". Of course, it wasn't a proper en passant, but the way he moved his pawn was the same, it's just he was capturing a bishop instead of another pawn.
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Between us, we have experience with a lot of different areas from database implementation, to distributed systems, networking protocols, and of course web development. Our main common ground is that we both feel at home with either C or JavaScript—weird, huh?

Lately, we've been focused on frontend web development and have a lot of experience with Angular in particular. We're quick learners and eager to experiment, but we're also pragmatic and will always choose the right tool for the job.

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Ex-journalist here...

The question you want to be asking is "Who should I submit this to?", not 'Where?'. Which writers, bloggers, journalists etc have shown relevant interest to your startup's sector or pain point in the past? Write to these people individually, thanking them for having shown such an interest (link to a great article they've written, especially if you read and enjoyed it at the time) and introducing yourself, your startup, and the newsworthy angle you have decided for in your release.

Keep the email punchy. And if you do get any kind of response, even if it's to decline to write you up, be ever so grateful and make it clear that you would be happy to provide expert opinion on this topic if they ever sought it in the future.
> Well, maybe. Nothing Kim is doing is going to directly lessen demand for medallions from the city.

Sure he is, if he stops leasing medallions there will be 204 less medallions demanded at the $2,200/month price level. It already mentioned that this rate is going down, it used to be $2,500. Perhaps other cab companies will want to expand at the current pricing, but more likely is that the price will go down further.

Whoever is left holding ridiculously inflated medallions at the end of the day is who will be hurt. Which from what you are saying is actually individuals. That's tough, but it's also a risk to lay down $250,000 for a certificate from the city for the purely artificial bureaucratic ability to drive a car.
Well, I think for some folks, gender is one of the things influencing probability of success. When I write about it, I try to write about how one might get around the problems it creates. There is a low-ish level of interest in that around here.
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I like xkcd as much as the next guy but we already had a perfectly serviceable metaphor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
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Hi Ryan,

I'm sorry you feel that way. In our case, we get a TON of bug report traffic - many are just user questions which we'll direct to the list, some are just nice to haves, we file most of the good ones, but not always.

Though I would consider performance tuning of the user module not a bug, and I do not think the newline behavior of copying the file on the filesystem was a bug either.

A discussion on ansible-project would have been welcome after you felt we had taken the wrong track, but when we feel some requests aren't worth our time, it's because we have a huge audience to serve and are triaging everything.

We feel it would have been unfair to you to let it sit infinitely when we were unlikely to spend time on it.
This won't work everywhere that has a medallion/license system. In Australia taxi licenses are regulated by each department of transport at the state level rather than city/municipal councils.
Respectfully, I did, and you're failing to acknowledge what I wrote in my initial posting.

> it is saying that speed differential is more dangerous than speed.

No it's not, the article is saying that a delta in speed is a factor in crash frequency. (And no, I didn't copy paste the whole abstract, because I was posting the part of the abstract germane to the quote I cited from the original article.)

> This is a horrible starting model. The severity of crashes is physics, but the frequency can't be looked at in isolation.

No, it's still a good starting model. If you read all the way to the end of that abstract, I think you'll see my point:

> Without exception, a vehicle that moved (much) faster than other traffic around it, had a higher crash rate. With regard to the rate of a (much) slower moving vehicle, the evidence is inconclusive.

So, much faster moving vehicles always had higher crash rates, while much slower vehicles... inconclusive.

There's a saying in statistics (George Box) that all models are wrong, but some models are useful. I think you'll find examples where speed isn't a problem, but those aren't the norm. If you're looking for a simple univariate model that goes a good long ways toward explaining vehicle safety, I'd challenge you to come up with a better one than what I've proposed here.
> The US cannot get in on this, too, without destroying the drug industry, which depends on revenue from the American customer base.

The mining sector often makes similar arguments whenever proposals are made to increase resource taxes and it's always a bunch of hot air. Introducing a government buyer to negotiate down the price of essential drugs (such as this Hep-C cure) will not put Big Pharma out business. It may impact profits but they'll still make billions upon billions of dollars.
ansible-pull is available for those that need to invert the architecture, though we're finding most users in companies who need autoscaling can afford Tower. Price points are definitely important in that regard, but ansible-pull does exist for those that would rather go the pure OSS route.

Tower is also free for up to 10 nodes. See my comments above about why we went that route - being able to build products versus having to become a consultancy or support outfit makes it easy to keep ansible to be easy to understand and rock solid, and most people are quite happy with that split.
Most startups I've been a part of have done a combination of both.

It really depends on which parts of the stack the lead devs are most comfortable with. If you've got a front-end ninja leading the charge you'll most likely end up with standard frameworks / generally-recognized-best-practices for the back end, while on the front-end they'll want to push the envelope. And visa versa if you have a backend person leading the team.

A little bleeding-edge is a good thing. I wouldn't shy away from it on premise, but it does require that you trust your CTO 100%; and that they do their homework. Embracing a non-standard framework is great, as long as you truly understand what you're passing up. If your solution is better (and you can talk coherently about why) then more power to you.

As far as onboarding new team members and/or supporting the system once it's built: in my opinion: thorough documentation and test-coverage are the crucial parts there. It'd be rare for a senior developer to be scared away just because you weren't using framework XYZ... but if your choice of framework is undocumented and untested that might make other devs say "screw it, either we're rebuilding this thing with best-practices or I'm walking away" ...not a situation you want.

All that being said: at the end of the day, this person is the CTO... at this phase in your startup the MOST important thing is that you two get to a point where you can talk this kind of stuff out. This is one of the easiest/least-stressful decisions you'll be trusting them with; if you cant get to a point where you feel good with their explanation/decisions, then there might be bigger problems at play here.
Improvements to what?
These will just show you are too much full of yourself and trying too hard to be funny.
Doesn't this drug actually cure Hepatitis C?

Even though there is a big upfront cost (in the US), isn't the treatment with this drug a lot less expensive than not treating someone with Hep C? So shouldn't the overall costs go down?
I agree with you that for the most part the suggested alternative conversation starters range from pretty bad to hilariously bad. But I was very glad to read this short article because the larger idea put forth in the article is very thought-provoking, and is really good advice. You'll have to use your own creativity to try to spark an interesting conversation, but I feel a little energized by the challenge.

Why do you suppose people are so interested by self-help and "life hacks," but in general we're not actually that motivated for self improvement?

(see what I did there?)
I'm not sure this will works with today's quiet keyboards, looks like they used the noisy IBM-style keyboards for the setup.
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I was wondering that too... With some sort of insight into the correct response, one might be able to learn rather than just be tested. A lot of fun regardless.
They have cost a fortune for a long time, Uber was born more out of the frustration of the ability to actually get a ride than whatever expenses were involved (though to be fair the reason it's hard to catch a cab in SF is because there are so few medallions which is why they're so pricey).
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That is a very nice website.

What distinguishes this software from puppet?

If someone isn't running SLES what would push them toward this solution?
In the pro audio world, this very scenario has unfolded over the past 10 years or so. The Behringer Corporation got their start by cloning the designs of manufacturers like Roland and QSC. One could read a great deal of contempt for their strategy on enthusiast message boards; indeed in the beginning Behringer's quality may not have been outstanding, but their prices were superb. Behringer managed to bootstrap themselves through this process of copying the designs of their competitors; eventually they became large enough that they bought up many of their competitors and are now making a great deal of money on new designs of their own, like the X32 Mixer.

Something smells funny about doing business this way, but although they are certainly not a beloved brand in the industry, I suspect that within 10 or 20 years their consumers will have mostly forgotten about their dubious start and will consider them like any other brand. I'm not sure what the takeaway is here but its an interesting case to study.
...however the few people that DO [pay attention to speed limits] cause accidents because it makes the differential speed much higher.

It's just an abstract that we're discussing here, I know, but the abstract absolutely, categorically does not say that. At all. You're guessing that's what it means.
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This is an excellent read, and if you haven't already seen it, the PBS documentary Silicon Valley is also really good: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/
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I always let the database do heavy lifting. I write 100 line SQL that if you turned into code, will turn into 1000 line of code. It scares most folks but whatever, it runs much faster and once it has been fined tuned, runs fine without needing much. I just comment the hell out of it.
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I'm not assuming they are all carded. I'm assuming most will be. The discounts asked for on the site make it stupid for people to buy bitcoin with it with legitimate cards.

Then they'd likely end up with a bunch of carded stuff too.

As I said before best case situation you have to return everything you were sent and you lose your bitcoins in the process. Worse case you get an overzealous prosecutor that goes after you and tries to make the case that the number of carded things showing up at your address and claimed by you proves you were the one doing the carding. Would they win? Who knows but it'd certainly cost you more than you'd ever save to win yourself and you'd still lose the products in the short term.
Humans tend to overestimate the danger of apparent low probability, high impact events (like pandemic ebola) and underestimate the risks involved in mundane events (like driving a car).

Given how infrequent pandemics occur, a better way to judge the risks involved would be to take a much long term view and try to measure the risk of a major pandemic occurring in your lifetime. When you look at the history of plagues over the last 2500 years they are infrequent, but common enough that we can get some handle on the risk. My very rough calculations based on past pandemic frequencies and death rates put the risk at around 1 in 1000 of being killed by a pandemic sometime during your lifetime. This is not huge, but at the same time it is not trivial.

Edit. I added the word apparent to the “…danger of…” as I realise that my wording is confusing without it.
How can I see the correct answers?
and now your comment is in the grey with no explanation. It's absurd how downvote-happy HN's been lately, really kills the conversation...
Worth noting that this was before Intel's hardware CRC32 acceleration became readily available in x86 processors, which makes iSCSI CRC faster than all the others (maybe not for short key lengths)
You can dev for free with android/ios tools, you don't have to use Xamarin. The point of Xamarin is that you can make more money faster by developing and releasing for multiple platforms from one code base.
There's definitely a cultural thing at play- based on how companies behave, I feel like it's more socially acceptable in China to copy. In the west, there's a huge stigma around it: for example copying in school is one of the worst offense you can commit- whereas I remember in grad school, all the chinese students would group up together before class and cross-check their answers with one another. This is anecdotal, but I feel like it lines up with what we see on the corporate side of things, and it makes sense that in a Confucian culture copying would be more acceptable than in the individualistic western cultures.

That being said, I think it's a losing strategy in the long run for consumer devices manufacturers. In the short term it's definitely a gain- your phones are way better than they would be otherwise, because you're mimicking the best. However, Apple puts a lot of thought in its designs, and you can bet some of it is long term thinking (e.g. designing components/molds/etc. a certain way even if it's a bit more expensive because you can reuse them for other devices). When you're simply copying, you don't have access to all of these hidden variables, and it makes it very hard for you to build a viable long term strategy.

It's definitely possible to copy competition in order to get the process etc. right, and then to spin off and start being original yourself - see a lot of Japanese electronics companies from the 70s/80s/90s, for instance. That being said, it's not easy to pull off, and it means you need internal designers who can come up with something better than what you've been copying all along. We'll see if that's the case for Xiaomi.

Side question: are there famous, internationally recognized Chinese industrial designers? (along the lines of Dieter Rams, Jony Ive, etc.) I feel like I've never heard of any, but I can't tell if it's because the talent isn't there, or because the western media never reports on them, or because it's more of a collective culture where there wouldn't be the potential for a single individual to rise, or something else altogether. In a general manner, I'd love to read more about what being a designer is like in the more group-minded Asian cultures.
Well, I look like an idiot.. I read the whole article and then came back to the comments and it popped into my mind. Which was apparently just me remembering it.

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In theory Puppet would be good for the Linux servers at least because it lets you declare things in an abstract way that can hinge on variables like distro, release, etc.

In practice the Puppet language is only tolerable to the extent that it provides (or helps you create) abstractions for everything, and now you have two problems as they say.