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Or maybe they were on a team with a normal manager? These kinds of incidents are probably _very_ team dependent.

No surprise here. Honestly, their team seem to be lower skill or less experienced than I'd have thought.

I would never approve a production system as expansive as Gitlab's to only have two databases in a cluster. That is asking for trouble, and any {sys,db}admin worth their salt will tell you the same. As soon as you need to do anything on one database, you've just lost your cluster policy.

The lack of automation, especially around validating db backups, failover (not having the failover process scripted and tested is _begging_ to have a nightmare at 2am where you're reading documentation on how to fail over a db), etc.

The simple thing of having your hostname / $PS1 say the machine's purpose could have stopped this. All prod machines have a bright red PS1 and a clear name of <type>-<service>-<prod/dev/etc>-<region>-<dc>.corpnet in my setups.

All of this is reflected in their discussion style, meeting style, etc. Ad-hoc, not very carefully designed, random off-hand comments. Obviously a young team with a lot to learn. Nothing wrong with that, but a lot of customers are relying on their skills! Learn quick!

It's a security feature, often malware will send encrypted traffic over 443 in an attempt to bypass firewalls. If BlueCoat can't understand the traffic, it drops it as it assumes it's malicious.

Nice native advert.

Your greatest risks of all cause mortality are foods you eat, your car, and medical mistakes. I wouldn't worry about gun users very much as being a recreational gun user doesn't typically involve driving a car while intoxicated.

The post was clearly unproductive race-baiting. Are white males the only perpetrators of harassment at Uber? I think not.

The OP's comment was a politically charged statement that sterotyped all white males. This is the same argument that Trump uses to de-facto ban Muslims.

Two wrongs do not make a right, and this kind of comment does not meet the hackernews guidelines for quality posts. I hope you reflect on your hypocrisy.

Isn't this the "fast and the furious scandal" guy? Yuck. Another strike against Uber for me...

Windows constantly bombards you with elevation prompts, dialog boxes, etc. A large number of people literally do not care at all what the box says they just want it to go away so they can do the thing they were trying to do with their spreadsheet bob from accounting sent over so they can go home to see their kids at 6pm.

Wow, that's great, so all the NYPD needs to do is grep through their text message database for "Can you come over?" sent to the same numbers over and over along with their other "code words".

There are secure methods of transmitting data that would not raise the suspicions of police or be trivially greppable.

Very surprised such "sophisticated" criminals let an obvious mistake through a published article. They should have bought a pentest from a reputable firm.

Stupid question but, isn't this a self-solving problem?

People that get vaccines won't get sick, only the anti-vaxxers will get sick. Anti-vaxxers will either die or be convinced to get vaccines.

What am I missing here?

Thank you, that helped quite a bit. It makes sense, as predicting when a single individual will die (a single area will have <x> weather), is different than, the observed trend is males live to avg. 75 years. Makes sense to the layman!

Genuine question here, if predicting the weather for a localized area such as a small region Cali is "tea leaves and Tarot cards", why are we so confident in the prediction of the climate for the entire planet?

My argument isn't that the USA performs no screening, which is a strawman argument. It's that the screening process is inadequate. That is a nice checklist, but it relies on unreliable data such as documents and iris scans.

Unless the government has every present and future terrorist's fingerprints in a database, how will scanning fingerprints be effective? It cannot be, it logically does not make sense. This logic is confirmed by FBI director Comey who told congress the same thing.

Perhaps that is where your disagreements with the "far-right" are stemming from?

Yes, well the phone company isn't listening in on what you're saying and deciding if it's "fake news" or not and disconnecting you if it is "fake news".

Facebook has no one to blame but themselves for going into the role of "internet police" and giving up their safe harbour provision. You can't have it both ways, you can't be an open platform under the protections of safe harbour and a curated feed with censorship.

Here's a summary for why smart people are "cursed":

If you are two or 3 standard deviations about the mean, you'll quickly realize society is optimized and caters to the average intelligence. You'll find it very boring and frustrating having to deal with rules and decisions that do not make sense. You must continually push yourself to stay entertained and meet like-minded people otherwise you'll get very depressed that everything is meaningless.

-t. "smart" person

It's a tradeoff, people have to get stuff done ya know. Proper authentication and authorization controls would have been a better choice.

What's the hardest decision you've ever made?

Agreed, I've pentested php apps and some are very hardened and difficult to breach and I've tested Python django apps where I completely compromised the server. Language has only a weak correlation to security for web applications.

Yes but this time it's different. Throughout history, until the past 50 years or so, the new technology has typically replaced a mechanical function humans were performing. The coming evolution of software and robotics will start performing the mental work humans, until very recently, were the ONLY thing on the planet capable of doing.

For the past 3000 years of "modern humans", we have had a monopoly on the human brain and creative intelligence. That monopoly is coming to an end. What will the average worker do when a robot that can out-wit them? You cannot just handwave this problem away saying "it always creates new jobs!!11".

This problem is well-summarized by this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

Between the censorship, the "banning people for reporting child porn" thing, and the lack of new products and features (what are they spending so much money on, they spend as much as Tesla for crying out loud!) I think it's well deserved scorn from Wall Street.

I hope this guy realizes that school was designed to churn out factory workers in 1900s Prussia. The education system is so broken because of this, and it will never change. There's way too many people's job-security and momentum riding on this system.

He's not broken, the school system is.

This just confirms that H-1B visa is yet another piece of corporate welfare pushed through by lobbyists for the benefit of large corporations at the expense of small businesses and the middle class.

My small software business can't compete with slave labor from India that large corporations with an army of lawyers can acquire.

Just one of the many reasons that self-employment and small businesses are struggling against a tide of complicated regulations and legislation and immigration meant to crush the workers and small businesses.

As you can see, self-employment has been on a steady downward trend since 1967: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/09/art2full.pdf

I think you took a negative tone to my post when it was not meant that way. A number of the things you pointed out are just facts of living in America vs Europe. I have to drive a car because everything is spread out. European cities were built over many centuries before cars were a thing.

I think it's safe to say tech workers are well compensated in both places, which was my point. The OP was acting very arrogant as if American tech workers didn't have healthcare, vacations, etc.

> You can play shooting sports. My uncle does it regularly. Part of my family are actually hunters.

I think you're deluding yourself. No offense, but I don't need to justify my gun ownership through the guise of "hunting" like you do in Germany or other European countries. I don't shoot animals, only paper and steel. I like guns so I own them. Also you would be outmatched in gun competitions such as 3 gun races simply because you are not allowed to purchase modern firearms like AR15s. You will just tire out faster than the guy carrying a 5LB AR15.

> You are privileged, I am privileged. However, I might not be who I am without free healthcare, cheap public nurseries, free quality schools, almost free universities, ... All paid by taxes of those who can, for those who can't. Remember you can be in one of those groups today and in the other tomorrow.

Agreed. Let's see how well your system copes with the refugee crisis. I'm eager to see if "those who can" can really feed the mouths of all the refugees. A number of important litmus tests for our modern society are taking place in Europe as we speak. A positive outcome might tip the scales here in America.

So what? It probably started off as a fun hobby project like "I bet I can write a fast server in javascript." That was probably all he was interested in at first. Now he deals with problems that are not fun and not anywhere near that original hobby. These problems are clearly not what he considers fun at all, therefore I don't see any reason why you had to be snarky with the OP.

Funny, I feel the exact same way about the windows world. The few times I've ever had to touch a windows machine, someone tells me - "Oh just reboot it to fix that microsoft problem." - "Oh the system update must have been corrupted, reinstall the OS." - "Oh just go download this rando .exe using your browser that isn't signed or open source, that tool will be able to fix your problem."

I just wonder how that could ever possibly be acceptable.

You don't even have to reboot a Linux machine to upgrade the kernel nowadays for crying out loud.

You act like everyone in the USA has to wear body armor, has to set broken bones themselves and lives in tent cities.

I have amazing dental, health, and eyecare. Free routine health checkups such as physicals, heck I even get a free gym membership. I drive a 350HP luxury sedan. Oh and I've never shot anyone, had to shoot anyone, or been the victim of a crime other than petty theft where my car was broken into one time. But I do have the freedom to participate in shooting sports (and I do) whenever the heck I want and I don't need to ask mommy for permission.

If that's not high quality living standards, you must make 500k a year and be rich because I don't know what is. I think your media has drastically altered your perception of what America is and is not. Tech workers are well compensated and I'd rather be making six figures in America. I'm sure your country is very nice as well, but there is not enough freedom.

That's the great thing about the internet, if you like France, stay in France! You can work anywhere. I prefer the USA compared to Europe because I can practice my favorite sport (competitive shooting) without any hassle.

Each place has their pros and cons.

Those shirts cost way more than $6. Walmart gets corporate welfare from the government and your tax dollars. They are allowed to pay such low wages that employees are basically required to get government handouts and welfare to survive, which you pay for.

Not to mention they destroy local and small businesses, which is/was the biggest driver of middle class wealth. They are anti-union and anti-workers rights. They are everything wrong with the USA. Sell out your neighbors and fellow citizens, give an already far overreaching government more reasons to tax you, and to boot, prop up a communist government thousands of miles away that is completely destroying the environment.

Seems worth it for a $2 shirt to me. Maybe your child can grow up to be a factory worker making $2 shirts for other people in a polluted city and then they can reflect on the choices of their parents, such as yourselves.

Sshhh dude you're going to ruin the facade. People need to keep believing money will make them happy so they will endlessly consume cheap junk. What if they start doing things like living with less and making their own stuff???