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=== Shameful Plug ===

If you're interested in running MySQL inside Kubernetes, check out Vitess:

http://vitess.io/resources/presentations.html

We still have work to do, but we're not stopping at the easy part. We show you how to do replication, sharding, and even live re-sharding of MySQL inside Kubernetes. We're working on integrating with Outbrain's Orchestrator for automated failover, and our VTGate query routing service means those failovers will be transparent to your app.

We are admittedly running into the same limits in Kubernetes around using replication controllers for datastores. But Kubernetes is improving very quickly, and there's a reason for that. They have a cheatsheet of one way all of this can come together successfully in the form of Borg:

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html

At YouTube, we run our main MySQL databases (the ones with tables for users, videos, views, etc) inside containers with local storage. Of course, Borg has a much more mature scheduler, which gives stronger safety guarantees for replicas. My point is that we've proven this approach can work at scale for datastores in a container cluster, and through Vitess we're trying to bring the same capabilities to Kubernetes.
Not sure about 2GB limit though. It doesn't work well at low RAM. Probably better to just use your own suffix tree or some trie for all the stuff you want to search for and use that. I bet you can get it down to something like 100MB.
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How can someone possibly give you a meaningful answer to this question if you don't provide basic information about yourself?

- What country do you currently live in?

- What did you study in college?

- What kind of jobs are you interested in?

- What kind of experience do you currently have?

- Do you prefer big or small companies?

For example, if your interest is in programming embedded systems, people aren't going to recommend that you go work for Facebook, and if you like building web sites, you probably wouldn't be interested in working at Qualcomm.
You can get the money out, at a %age.
He didn't really define what he was going to "search" for, so yeah, when meaning full text search, Elastic is probably the way to go. When going for exact lookups, Aerospike will actually make use of his SSDs, when going for slice & dice on wide rows, BigQuery or Redshift will fit his bill - unfortunately he didn't say much about his exact use case. But inventing your own data store is probably one of the worst ideas ever except for gaining knowledge / as a rite of passage.
For a while it was considered creepy to have a camera on your phone at all times. There was no way to know if you were filming/photographing at any time.

People in certain secure facilities or attorneys in many courtrooms weren't allowed to bring in phones with cameras because of respect for the privacy/security of the information and people within.

Now there are no phones without cameras and the insistence on privacy in many of these facilities has been relaxed to saying "please don't take pictures". Not because it's not important, but because of consumer decisions on the whole demanding cameras, to the point where they are in every viable option and it's not feasible to ban them. And privacy/security are eroded.

So when you make a consumer choice like this you're giving our society a tiny little push in that direction. You're pushing always-on always-recording voice monitoring software in the most intimate places of our lives to become the new norm.
I just watched a talk where Kernighan brought up this exact anecdote.
It reads as an extended advertisement for you company's services, and your comment doesn't really respond to the statement of the person you replied to. He said CloudFoundry's installation instructions were bad, then you replied as if he said he was unsure if CF "fit his needs" and was looking for more ways to try it out, which is a pretty salesy response. I think mostly it's a question of tone and length. If you had a couple sentences acknowledging that the installation instructions sucked, and saying he should go with BOSH, you probably wouldn't have gotten downvoted.
Yeah, I know, there are exceptions and special cases, I'm talking about your ANSI standard corporation, and I think that skepticism is prudent until something like the PBC becomes the dominant corporate structure (or until you can buy iced tea in Hell, whichever comes first).
Charles Babbage, perfectionist engineer
From what I've heard (realtor friend), the Russians prefer LA to SF. Sure, there's a "little Russia" in the Richmond district, but there aren't too many Russians interested in the Bay Area (unless they're working for Tech in the area, of course).
Hillary Bush.
If we have the technology to both:

(1) Resuscitate cryo-preserved (vitrified) brain tissue.

(2) Re-create a body and somehow transfer this brain or mind into it (or upload consciousness)?

... then it is likely that we would have such a deep understanding of consciousness and mind that we could repair or scan-around the damage. I think we're talking about "singularity" levels of both technology and philosophical comprehension here. It's all total sci-fi for the time being.
Is this not treasonous?
> If you're a cash-strapped startup/small business with only a few thousand dollars profit per month, $1500/mo is a huge deal

If it takes 30+ hours of engineering time per month (less than one work week), then you've hit your break-even point. This is assuming the engineer is $50/hour, including overheads.
> Your refrigerator does not need networking capability. Nor does you wash machine or your toaster or your tig welder.

Although you are correct, there's a lot of advantages that can be had with these devices being on a network.

I know this answer isn't for everyone, but I personally have a home-network dedicated to devices, and it's air-gapped from the internet. I don't really see any other solution to this (other than FOSS-everything), but I would love one.
> The problem is with a big trend in society that we want to be listened to and watched, because it makes life more convenient on a personal level.

I would argue that it isn't convenience that attracts people, its narcissism. Society has been surrendering their privacy for years with Facebook. We are comfortable with it. We have seen a direct connection between sharing more (location, pictures, videos, etc) and getting more (food, taxi rides, sex)

So of course the next frontier is not having to share anything at all. The next frontier is listening and deciding. Its concierge services that bring you an array of options, specifically tailored to you. You are the center of their world, so as long as you keep making purchases and supplying them with information to better serve you.
If you're serious, I'll take you up on that! Hit me up at luma at svideo dot org
It doesn't have to be FOSS, all you need is software designed to run offline, which can be network isolated, e.g. in a virtual machine. Dragon Naturally Speaking (from Nuance) in a Windows VM could perform the speech recognition and relay commands to a Linux VM.

See also the http://www.voxforge.org effort to aggregate OSS acoustic models.
In the same sense that running out of stack space compiling a human generated program is a bug in the programmer.
Not totally sure what your meaning here is. All frameworks of government could be put in your statement in place of Federalism and it would still be true.
To Paul Graham
"The DMCA's anti-circumvention language constitutes a delegation of congressional power to private manufacturers, who can create schemes at will to criminalize uses of their products which they consider to be harmful to their business.
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?????

No it literally does not.
You make it sound like they choose what is circumvention and not, and they don't. Congress did.
You are really stretching here to try to differentiate it.
You'd be much better off saying "it's not different, but it still sucks", because right now, your argument strongly stretches credulity IMHO.
It's not surprising that your males friends weren't into it, if I correctly assume that they are in tech.

But obviously the overwhelming majority of football fans are guys.
Having a huge number of users doesn't mean the product is what it could be. Windows 3.1 had a lot of numbers -- does that mean it was "good?"

I don't know why programmers have to deal with such shit tools. Everything is more/less the same since the 80s, with the exception of github, git, and lib centers like maven or pip. Otherwise the fundamental experience of text editors is the same, and even IDEs are more/less the same.

Meanwhile our interfaces have vastly improved otherwise. That's what I'm talking about. The bar should be higher than VS. The bar should be as high or higher than the iPhone itself.
That test was on Windows 7 Professional, with a GTX 660 and latest nVidia drivers.
The guardian writing about privacy. Hahahaha.. Oh the irony
Because if you do not move data to off the household, you could not steal it, repackage it and sell it.

You also could not have control over the device and its user post purchase if the essential part of of the product is not under your direct control.

These are in my opinion two major forces that motivate the appearance of "cloud".
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Elimination, not Optimization. Either you can rely on it as part of the spec (Elimination) or you can't (Optmization)
When I read the title, I feel the writer of the sentence is a Turkish.
> While I agree with you, I think I am starting to suffer from a kind of "privacy violation revelations fatigue". I have read the article and thought "so here is another gimmick that steals away a bit of my privacy, so what? no big deal". And that's scary.

Is it though? To be honest, this article is pretty light on substance. I read through it all because the guy is a good writer, but the only revelation here is him realizing the microphone device he put in his kitchen is... gasp, listening to him.

If it turned out Amazon was actually recording and storing everything, that would be quite the revelation. If it turned out your data wasn't being deleted when Amazon said it was, that would be quite the revelation. Otherwise, there's just not a lot here other than a semi-humorous story about accidentally insulting a robot.
It is clear that you have done a good amount of research, which is great! If you look further, you will find that in fact there are plenty of people who are interested in precisely this aspect of brain preservation/cryonics. See, for example, [1], [2], [3], [4].

[1] http://chronopause.com/chronopause.com/index.php/2012/05/20/...

[2] http://www.brainpreservation.org/preservation-rights/

[3] http://www.oregoncryo.com/aboutCryonics.html

[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zoltan-istvan/should-cryonics-...
Responding to various conditions and sensors (in my case a legacy Kinect), sequenced timers, coordinated scenes across multiple lights, etc. My devices don't connect to the Internet to do it, but the local network is required. I use Hue and DMX-512 myself, but any Wifi-enabled light could benefit.

Nest-like machine learning (the thinking on which predates Nest) can later be added in a cloudless way that starts to anticipate what lights to turn on together, what actions should trigger what scenes, etc.

Presumably Plum has similar ideas.
> What verifiably private options are there for speech-to-text?

Unfortunately not a lot. That's why I said it was "sort of" and answer.

I've tried http://julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php and https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx in the past, with very limited results. Though it's been a while and they may have gotten better.
Odd. Check about:gpu?
Pre-automation surveillance states were people and paper-intensive. They didn't scale. The most powerful analytics were out of their reach. They couldn't sweep up everything and discover what was important. And, in the end, they were overthrown by a combination of discontent, internal sabotage, and a variety of external influences.

Be that as it may, the FBI isn't above reaching back to the old ways. They run 15,000 paid informants nationwide, backed by the information dredged up by pervasive surveillance. Parallel construction is just the beginning of what that cyberspace/meatspace combination is capable of.

With the NSA and pervasive surveillance, it is possible to build an eternal, indestructible static system, governed by an elite, and with the appearance of representation.
No, I didn't skip that. It's just that there is an awful lot of trust involved here and I personally would not like a 'live mike' on with a connection to a DC in a room where I'm talking to someone in private simply because I'd have to trust that software not to contain any bugs, backdoors, overrides or other tricks. And that's a guarantee you can't really make without a ton of reverse assembly.

I'm surprised at how trusting people are when it comes to tech like this.

Regular, definitely-not-tinfoil-hat types that I know have little pieces of tape over the cameras in their laptops.
I have an Echo in the kitchen, which I love. And other devices in the house that respond to "Ok, Google" or "Hey Siri!".

The conscious trade-off in my family is that voice control is useful, natural, and fun versus a somewhat low probability that amazon/google/apple are recording everything we say. The latter would be as catastrophic for those companies as the VW emissions scandal. Which of course happened, so it's just a low probability, not zero. Companies do dumb things and break the law all the time. The answer is to make sure that sensible laws, vigorously enforced, are in place.

I don't see a huge difference between an Echo and the camera/microphone in my laptop - they both could be listening all the time, and there's a certain level of trust that smarter people than me have checked and found nothing. Can anyone wearing a tin-foil hat in this thread point to credible evidence otherwise? That would be enough to make me change my mind, but I doubt there's anything I could say that would change yours.
> automatic kernel module compilation (I forget what it's called at the moment;

It's called DKMS, a Dell project originally: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Suppor...
If you'd like to do this in the terminal, clone the repo and:

git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD | xargs git show
Those are certainly interesting observations, however the skeptic (Scientist? Rationalist?) in me immediately wants to ask "What percentage of the welfare recieving population is made up by those abusers?" and "Would people take notice or be able to notice those times when these benefits are used as intended?" Without some kind of answer to those questions, and probably others, the observations of you and those you know can't (well, shouldn't IMO) be used on their own as an argument against these welfare programs.
Depending on the index size (and type of queries, and schema, and expected performance...), 2GB might be more than enough. Solr does a very good work in caching results, query filters and so on in memory. Apart from that, it's disk based.

Of course, performance won't be stellar if it has to go to disk to find every result, but even with that you should be able to get sub-second results with some tweaking.
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I didn't mean to disagree argue that; just didn't have enough time to think this question over before typing.

Yes, death is not a binary state physically, but it is legally. This is what cryonics counts for.

Also, conscience is not binary; there is plenty of evidence that it is uneven and noncontinuous. People lose conscience and then regain it and live on all the time. Many people live in reduced states of consciousness most or all of the time. Our mind tries to maintain illusion of continuity of consciousness for our convenience. Sometimes people survive ridiculous amount of brain damage (men living with a hole in their head). All this is evidence that whatever forms our conscience is very redundant and just might survive the damage of what today is considered death and future restoration. Especially with the help of whatever medical technology will be available in the future (nanotech, hi-res brain scanning, etc.); especially if it would be needed anyway to counter the damage sustained during cryopreservation.
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> It doesn't have to be FOSS, all you need is software designed to run offline, which can be network isolated, e.g. in a virtual machine.

It depends on who you ask, some people may only be willing to run FOSS stuff |;)

But yeah, I've looked for a "offline: FOSS or not" solution, and haven't found much.

EDIT: I can't reply to you because thread is too deep I'm assuming, but: yeah, it looks like it does. Unfortunately I probably won't try this because it requires windows, and I'm not really wanting to set up a VM/Wine to accomplish this. But you are correct.
oh goodness… back the nineties I was in charge of an office network where some of the folks would smoke after hours.

The CPU fan in one of the 386 computers started to make this horrible sound, so I disassembled it and found the entire interior of thick with soot, I’m talking several inches of accumulated soot on every surface. It was like the computer was lined the the fur of a black rabbit.

anyway, as indicated elsewhere in this thread, I have had great success with running keyboards and mice through dishwashers.
Cameras and accelerometers can be a rough stand-in for a mic if one is not available.
I think jacquesm's question makes more sense combined with this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611179) plus a possible distrust of closed software with automatic updates.

Edit: corrected link (was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10605775)
> Folks are a lot more willing to work with someone who respects them and appears interested in them as a human being.

I suspect you mean "someone who pretends to respect them". You have the "appears" qualifier correct.

At the end of the day, the Dale Carnegie routine is simply mimicry of the mores of friendship as a means to an end. Salespeople are charlatan middlemen social engineers, and do not add value except to organizations whose products cannot stand on their own merits, in which case they are not actually adding societal value at all.
So in order to avoid a totalitarian state, no more personal decisions based on my own analysis of the risk/reward. Right, got it!
Because we are not going to call a universal basic income "welfare." Rather, we are going to call it "The America Permanent Fund" and loudly brag about how it's just a copy of the wildly-popular Alaska Permanent fund, that literally nobody has opposed ever.
wrong people at the wrong place; it seems they were unlucky and ignorant in choosing this deal
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When I write a program I aspire to impose no arbitrary limits apart from those imposed by the architecture. So I'd like my compiler to be able to handle programs as complex as the user wants, with the only limit being the available virtual memory and disk space. If you use recursion for 'outer loop' stuff, you impose the extra limitation of the size of the stack, which is much smaller than available virtual memory.

I work with partial evaluation, where intermediate representations during compilation can get quite large, and have seen stack overflows in the compiler for real.

It would be nice if stacks were arbitrarily large anyway.
I make such a device. There are also expensive systems from AMX, Crestron, Control4 and others that presumably don't require an Internet connection. And you can run apps on a PC like LinuxMCE or Homeseer.
All of those scheduling policies are also available in native Kubernetes. The Kubernetes version of that documentation is here: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/de...
AFAI am concerned, libertarians are free to replace most of government with charity and other voluntary associations as soon as they find a way around the free rider problem and assorted other coordination problems that isn't 1) government (we already have that!), or 2) obviously worse than government.

Good effing luck!
Right, but the concerns of those citizens quite frankly aren't a primary concern of the United States.
This announcement is a little early. They should wait till they actually start working on it.

Or maybe this is really actually a call for volunteers to work with them.
Indeed!

Problem is that there exists people who try to convince us that we need a middleman between our networked devices and us - that we need to connect our devices not into our home network but with their servers.

The reality is that we do not need middlemen, the middlemen needs us such that they could steal the data, repackage it and sell it.

I will give one example that I have already given before.

Suppose you have an IoT device in your bedroom that uploads CO2 values (of course it may also do something useful too such us showing this data to you or regulating the ventilation).

Now the rate of CO2 production depends on bodily activities. More activity means more CO2 production. I suppose that you agree that having this information you more or less are capable to deduce when a couple has sex.

This means that we could calculate a metric how much sex is going on and relate it to specific user.

Suppose that we detect that rate of sex has gone down by 20 (a made up number dependant of our model). We can now sell this information.

This information is for example useful perhaps for psychologist who want to sell you counselling.

But it is even more interesting for divorce lawyers who now could prey on couples having period of difficulty in their sex lives.

Even more, this information could be made more valuable by some additional influence. For example feeding the user with articles related to marital happiness and sex life.

I leave the rest for you imagination.

I think that such devices are very usable, but the data should not leave our home.
Many of you might have faced this issue, but it was pretty weird facing it the first time.

Problem was with the realtek soundchip on my card. Headphones stops working on windows (even though it detects it), but still works on ubuntu. Try all usual stuff (remove, update, reinstall drivers, etc), nothing works. One fine day, I find it starts working again. Then another day it stops working. Realise that sound stops working after i switch from Ubuntu to Windows. Weird. How does ubuntu have an effect on sound in windows? Google issue and find that its some strange ubuntu driver issue that puts audio driver in a weird state. Workaround is to shutdown laptop , remove battery, and hold down power button for 5 seconds to discharge capacitors and then boot into windows.
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That sounds more reasonable, do you know the rate?