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The current Big data ecosystem is a difficult place to be for companies that bet the house on hadoop (cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR) for sure.

There are new technologies coming at a breakneck pace. Check out apache Flink if you need streams and the microbatches in Spark don't do it for you. The ML lib there is not that far ahead yet though.
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So what? If you want to follow the `do one thing well' philosophy, grep (and similar) shouldn't even support matching more than one file. That's what find and xargs are for.
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Peter Thiel was greatly influenced by Girard at Stanford [1] and he worked to create the nonprofit that supports the proliferation and application of Girard's theories, Imitatio [2]. You can get an idea of some of Girard's thought and of related works that engage with it at the free collection of writings maintained by Paul Nuechterlein [3].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-on-rene-girards-i...

[2] http://www.imitatio.org/

[3] http://www.girardianlectionary.net/
Encrypted S3 is definitely an option. The difficulty there is how to manage secrets that may be shared across services and how to ensure that there's no race conditions between updates of secrets.

Confidant provides access to credentials by IAM role. The key here is that you can have credentials A, B, and C, and IAM roles example1-production, example2-production and example3-production, then map credentials A and B to example1-production, A and C to example2-production and A to example3-production. Confidant just stores mapping info for this. If you update A, you don't need to fan out an update to all three services. Race conditions can come in when A and B or C are updated at the same time. S3 is very eventually consistent and there's no locking. read-after-write consistency is only available in one region at this point.

Of course, this is all based on your assumptions and how you design your system. Based on our needs KMS + DynamoDB made more sense for us. Something like sneaker (https://github.com/codahale/sneaker) may fit your needs better.

Another interesting bit about Confidant is that it manages the KMS grants on the auth KMS key, which lets you use the key from any service to any service to pass secrets, or to do general service to service auth.

Also, there's a bit more coming down the road for automatic management of other common secrets that are annoying to manage in AWS, like SSH host keys for autoscale groups: https://github.com/lyft/confidant/issues/1
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IIRC the Tesla batteries are actually really pricey for what you get because of the brand. I think you can get something from a 'lesser' brand for about 2/3 the price, possibly even less.

In other news, name brand sneakers are also expensive and probably not really worth it.
Why is search so terrible on all Apple Products?
The Spotlight search on Mac is horrible and constantly needs to be reindexed. Search on iOS is equally as terrible and frequently doesn't find apps installed on my phone if I search for them by name. And the iOS App Store search consistently is underwhelming. Why??
I used ownersdirect, a subsidiary of homeaway to book a villa for a holiday - it was fantastic but the experience on their website was poor. It looks like the homeaway site itself is much closer to the airbnb experience though - messaging on site instead of by email, payments on site instead of through PayPal.

They seem to charge to make listings though, and to rank listings at least in the first case by how much you paid (subscription level) and to feature listings solely for paying more. I expect airbnb has much better sorting by not having that kind of pay to come up top/be featured mess.

https://www.homeaway.co.uk/info/tipsandtools/subscription-le...

"Your subscription level is the most important factor you can control to appear higher in search results and therefore improve your performance." https://www.homeaway.co.uk/info/tipsandtools/rank-higher
Ask HN: Do you still use/like Usenet/NNTP?
Hi!

As of subject: do you still hang on "newsgroups" ?

I see some "winning points" in newsgroups, namely:

- Text based
- cross-platform
- distribuited system
- possible to set-up custom systems

I was wondering what HNers think about NNTP.
Why? There will still be criminals tradficking drugs to the US... They just won't be ceiminals in Mexico any more!
GSV Capital (ticker: GSVC) is an investor in Lyft. As of June 30, its investment in Lyft represented 2.9% of its portfolio.

Alibaba (ticker: BABA), Rakuten (which is listed on the Tokyo exchange) and Tencent (which is listed on the Hong Kong exchange) are also investors in Lyft.

I believe GSV Capital participated in Lyft's Series D, while the others were Series E investors.
>Of course we'd need to get away from the huge mismatch between feed-in tariffs and consumption tariffs.

Maybe first we could nationalize the whole outfit and run it on a cost-plus basis. There is way too much profit being made from being a monopoly grid operator.

That probably has more to do with why solar is such a good deal than the green energy subsidies do.
Interesting enough, `lens' is a bit of an outlier in Haskell land---exactly because it is too Java-like in its intricate hierarchies for some people's taste.

I like the Haskell approach to operators as just a funky syntax for functions. No need to bake any operators as keywords into your language. +, =, etc are all just part of the standard library. (I also like the Lisp stance of mostly just not caring about line-noise symbols vs letters.)
This is great, thank you for making it!
I'd heard about this a few years back but there's been no progress since about any clinical trials. Since the articles mentions SynCardia as the only artificial heart company approved by the FDA, I'm guessing the BiVACOR is still not ready?
This argument neglects the fact that the railroads have no problem moving high-priority Z trains just fine.

If UPS can ship Amazon prime packages overnight via rail, I have a hard time buying the argument that I should be taking a flight from Portland to Vancouver because the system can't handle it.
It was good, great even, while it lasted.
When I give a review and it's an item with a lot of sellers I mention who I bought it from. It would be good if everyone did that.
1) Next summer is far away dude! Why would you have to decide which job to take in 6 months now?

2) Why do you worry about the reputation of working at banks; technical challenges, or how people regard folks that work at banks?

3) you're young and if you have programming skills you probably don't have to worry about landing A job. Do what you like. Work somewhere that inspires you. Follow your passions. Don't start your career at a place you don't really like just because the location/pay is convenient. There will be times in your career/life when you'll have to settle for an okay job. Make sure to have a great job until that point.
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Could you elaborate on that ?
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The whole point of let's encrypt is to be fully automated. Without that, it's just yet another crypto tool with poor usability.
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out in practice. One of the constraints on the Cabinet is that Trudeau promised that it would be gender-balanced; unfortunately, the pool of MPs from which he was selecting Cabinet members was not (134 men vs. 50 women; the imbalance is even worse if you look at experienced MPs).

There are six major portfolios -- Finance, Treasury Board, Justice, Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Intergovernmental relations -- and of those five of the ministers are men. Then there are 11 portfolios which I'd say are important but fairly self-contained -- things like International Trade, Health, and Fisheries -- and 6/11 of those are held by men. The other 14 posts are what would typically be considered "junior minister" positions, and that's where most of the women ended up. [1]

This gives me a strong impression that some people were brought in as "diversity representatives" and then portfolios were created in order to justify their presence, rather than the portfolios being created because they were deemed important and then the best qualified candidates sought to fill them; it would be nice to think otherwise, but I've learned to be cynical where politics is concerned. Unfortunately, while inviting people to the table has great optics, it doesn't necessarily result in anyone listening to them once they arrive.

[1] You can argue about which portfolios are major vs. minor vs. junior; there's no hard rules here. But I don't think you could find a plausible classification which didn't show a heavy skew towards males filling the most important roles.
Consider how the perspective of a director, in charge of a large team of engineers, can effect the entire engineering culture.

If this director has a more human and compassionate perspective, she might help push back on all feature requests to give her team ample time to fix the fail whale during the day because she sees how unfair and stressful it is that they are getting paged at night.

This is hyperbole, but another director with a more analytical bent he might push his staff to work more hours, work harder and smarter, to rewrite the problematic systems.

Perspective of leadership is extremely important.

But this applies to all teams that work collaboratively on solving problems.
You'd think that if anywhere on Earth stands to benefit from global warming it's Canada.
It seems to be occurring rather frequently according to Amazon reviews.
"Rather, we can take it as an opportunity to educate!"

That's what I had in mind, hence the post :)
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That's what happens to all my Anker cables one after another.

I've opened one failed cable's connectors and it looked like a design problem: The micro USB connector's metal jacket is really short and not properly anchored inside the connector (it is attached to 2 plastic hooks inside). Once it's bent too much, those hooks loosen and the two steel springs lose their tension and retract.
I ended up at tectonic's website[1] this morning. We spoke once at #ruby@Freenode. He is a really nice guy. He works at Mavelink[1] which from what I've seen is EXACTLY what you're looking for.

On a side-note, huge upgrade from Google docs could be tiddlywiki[3]. This little gem can me moulded into nearly everything. I wouldn't use it for billing and time-tracking of course. But as todo, wiki, docs, notebook, etc. is excellent. If you go with tiddlywiki server-side, make sure you backup and auto-save the data!

[1] http://andrewcantino.com/

[2] https://www.mavenlink.com/

[3] http://tiddlywiki.com/
Did you try pulling it out of the plug by pulling it by the wire at a 90 degree angle (up/down or left/right) from the way you would usually pull out a USB cable like a toddler might do?
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Dealing with twenty people doesn't sound like solitude.

Plenty of places in the world you can get in a car, drive out somewhere, and be completely alone.
How are they skirting around the narcotics treaty[1]? So far as I understand, that treaty is a significant hurdle for most countries considering or implementing legalization. Are they just ignoring it?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_...
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Canadian here. You just multiply by 1.6.
If Expedia keeps the company/team intact (which it sounds like it will in the news story), I don't think very much will change in Austin as a result. Homeaway is typically touted as one of the Austin unicorns, and now I guess they will go down in lore as one more success story.
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Oh hey Benson! waves

I worked a little with Benson. He's a fantastic guy with a penchant to veer into epic rants, which he seems to have kept in check on these reviews. Our loss!

Anyways he is a kernel software engineer and surely has some assistance (or at least double checking) from the resident EEs. This feels like a bottom-up initiative, showcasing how Google can empower its engineers. Great stuff.
Would it have been helpful to have a "you are not as smart as you think" or a "you are comparatively stupid" or a "you know nothing, Jon Snow" experience sooner?
I once did a day cooking class with Herve This (the Godfather of Molecular Gastronomy) and he talked of cooking eggs in a 'boiled style' in an oven on low heat.

His comment was that the oven style at low heat allowed a restaurant to cook a large quantity of eggs and have a consistent product which would be good over the course of a few hours.
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I thought at least part of the point was eliminating the cost factor with strong crypto controls on the backend on a widely accepted CA with a sane process for validating ownership (ACME).

There is a case to be made for ease of use, but I don't think they are broadening the horizons for TLS by making it as easy as "sudo letsencrypt -d www.example.org auth". Because 9 times out of 10 when you enter that command the first thing that will happen is 'port already in use'. Now what, shut down the production server? Or, trust this [1] to parse and edit my config files directly?

Now, tell me they created a Wordpress plugin which you install, activate, and magically you now are running TLS, and I am 100% with you. That's a package which makes 100% sense to me. But there's no 'git pull' or 'sudo' anywhere in there that an end-user would see or have any clue about.

If the person installing or renewing the cert is trying to decide, what should I type here...

user@www:~$

Then I think the answer is not what they are currently shipping. Give me a tool which lets me generate the ACME validation file, and then a second command to pull the cert once the file is in place. Two bash scripts which don't even need 'sudo' to run. Save the "full automation" for things like Wordpress plugins, not the shell.

[1] - https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/blob/master/letse...
You might have mixed per-quarter and per-year numbers there.

According to http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/average-household-electricity... the average (in MWh/a) is 11.7 for USA and 7.2 for Australia, both at the high end of first-world countries. It's 3.5 for Germany for instance.

I always wondered why we measure consumption in those units, instead of just using average power directly. 11.7 MWh/a = 1.33 kW.
Well, true, but still has less stuff than Sovereign [0] and that's why I like it better. But I agree that they should probably split it into two (or more!) containers.

[0] https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign
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Can't you use Google calendar/contacts with an Apple device? So use FastMail for mail (works great with any mail client, or they have an app for iOS/Android), and google for calendar and contacts. That's what I do for Windows Phone and Android, because I just have the lite FastMail account -- only web based calendar and contacts.
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I have the same FastMail plan, but I want to create mailboxes for different users. In this case, FastMail is definitely cost-prohibitive for me.
eBay really dug themselves into that hole when they introduced the star rating system. Basically they mapped everybody who wasn't actually known to be bad onto 5 stars. Which is why you get messages begging you to rate them 5 star.

Personally 5 stars would be when the box it came in had water soluble ink and it made a mess on your clothes, but the company offered to pay the dry cleaner costs. Even though there was no expectation for them to know that the shipping company would leave package in the rain / a puddle for so long.

Anything above "meh, it didn't crash and burn immediately, I guess it's okay" is 5 stars on eBay.
None of Lynx, vim, or emacs are "command-line tools."
It's the WSJ. Paste URL into google. Click link. Presto!
UK Midlands: Early mornings on Saturday or Sunday. My route over to a nice inner city area with coffee shops that do good eggs is through some small parks and a light industrial area. Canal towpaths for part of the route.

No people visible, but people in some of the factories and the very occasional jogger on the towpaths so not total isolation.
You might damage the other end of the connection if the 5X considers it alright to draw 3A (because the cable says so) but the other end isn't prepared to deal with that.

Generally speaking, USB cables won't make the receiving end request more than they can handle. It's always about the power source.
I'm going to over-simplify, but according to Girard, the greatest social attempt to avoid scapegoating and civilize human nature has been christianity. The figure of the Christ, and his sacrifice, was a smart operation to replace real scapegoats by a symbolic one, allowing the community to unite against an innocent without having to kill anyone. This has been successful for centuries, but it's interesting to note that in his latest books, Girard sounds pretty disillusioned about this. "Achever Clausewitz" (strangely translated in english by "Battling to the end") is quite a frightening apocalyptic book that I would recommend to anyone interested in Girard's work.
As mentioned in the readme, the name is really unfortunate given Tox exists.
If they think that being fully automated is the main reason why people are interested in them they are mistaken. Top two reasons seem to be that they are free and that there are no usage restrictions.

I personally don't want a fully automated process. Shutting down all my virtual hosts to let their tool pretend to be my server is a big NOPE.
Requiring the script to be run as root is a design decision, and I highly doubt it will be changed. They use the fact that the script is able to bind a privileged port (80) to prove it's being run as root so that chaos does not ensue in shared hosting environments.
There's also Lilypond (lots of Guile) and Gimp (a little bit of Guile), which are both pretty well-known projects. Guix itself is a large project. GDB has Guile scripting support as well.

The website could feature a few more projects.
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The Microbiology 101 version:

Bacterial infections are broadly categorized into two classifications based on their cell wall, Gram Positive and Gram Negative. Very generally, if you know what type of infection you're treating (Gram+ or Gram-), you can prescribe a class of antibiotics that works on that type of bacteria. In this broad classification, Staph and TB can be treated with similar drugs.

More specifically the drug in question, Rifampin, targets a specific RNA binding site that both Staph and TB use to replicate themselves. By inhibiting this binding site, the bacteria stop reproducing and your immune system can fight off the infection.
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There's also Stalin, an extremely optimization-heavy compiler for Scheme to C; https://engineering.purdue.edu/~qobi/software.html

The 'website' is really just Jeff Siskind's page with a listing of what he's done.

It seems mostly dead nowadays and there's very little info to find on it. The following page is pretty much the most amount of actual information I could find:

http://community.schemewiki.org/?Stalin
I've often wondered if, other than a cultural difference (see "management by perkele"), there wasn't also a linguistic aspect to it.

I mean, not being a native speaker can warp one's perception of how strong some expressions are.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a comprehensive, yet concise writeup on Girard's theories [1]. Interestingly, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has no article on him [2] - is it because he worked there?

[1] http://www.iep.utm.edu/girard

[2] http://plato.stanford.edu/search/search?query=girard+rene
What we have is a simple contradiction between the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Jesus was a strongly religious Jew, so it is not surprising that he considered the mosaic law God-given and eternal. Paul on the other hand wanted to convert non-Jews, and then the mosaic law was a hindrance. Obviously Paul won, which leaves some inconvenient quotes by Jesus, which theologians then have to work hard to explain away.

My point is this: Scripture is a really terrible "moral compass" because due to contradictions like these you have to use your own value judgement to decide what is really the correct interpretation. For example if Mosaic law is brought up you can claim that Paul overruled Jesus and did away with Mosaic law. And if Pauls denigration of women is brought up you can say that this was only Paul, Jesus never said such a thing.

In order to explain away the inconvenient quote you say maybe Jesus he was political and didn't want to alienate his audience. Problem is, you can explain away any quote that way. Maybe Jesus didn't really think we should love our neighbor, he just didn't want to alienate the audience.

And take this quote by Jesus: If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+14%3A26&ve...

Here Jesus is clearly preaching hate. So you can take away a message of love from the bible, but you can just as well take away a message of hate. That is not a good moral compass.
"A post asserting one of those positions"

I think if you read my post again, you will see it's just a short list of facts intrinsic to the New Testament documents, capped with an invitation for open-minded investigation.

For example, the point about thousands of manuscript copies is not me asserting a position. I don't think it's debatable that there are an overwhelming number of copies available for textual criticism compared to documents of the same period?

Similarly, the point about the testimony of women being relied on at key points in the gospels, is something intrinsic to the gospels?

I don't think the date ranges given were particularly subjective either. I am not aware of any evidence supporting a post 1st century dating of the documents, nor of this being seriously in dispute?
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Ask HN: What is the Winter internship recruiting cycle like?
I go to a school with a decent career fair. I went to my school's career fair this Fall looking for an internship and got rejected by a bunch of companies like Twitter and Hulu. Google and Microsoft have yet to respond but probably won't. Can I reapply to these companies in the Winter and get a second shot? If not, what kinds of companies will still hire through Winter and how will it be different from the Fall cycle?