skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still sitting on the sidelines waiting for the easy to install, better documented for AWS version. It's also a bit unclear as to why we are talking federation and master/slave in 2016; other systems are using raft and gossip protocols to build masterless management clusters..

Watching issues like https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/23478 , and https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/23174 .. I'm not super interested in "kicking the tires"; I'm evaluating replacing all our environment automation with a version built around Kubernetes. Easy-up scripts that hide a ton of nasty complexity won't do the trick.

Following the issues I'm getting the impression that too much effort is being put into CM style tools vs making the underlying components more friendly to setup and manage. Did anyone see how easy it is to get the new Docker orchestration running?

Then there is the AWS integration documentation.. I'm following the hidden aws_under_the_hood.md updates, but I'm still left with loads of questions; like how do I control the created ELB's configuration(cross zone load balancing, draining, timeouts,etc)?

I re-evaluate after every update and there are some really nice features being added in, but at the end of the day ECS is looking more and more the direction to go for us. Sure, it's lacking a ton of features compared to Kubernetes and it's nigh but impossible to get any sort of information about roadmaps out of Amazon... But it's very clear how it integrates with ELB and how to manage the configuration of every underlying service. It also doesn't require extra resources(service or human) to setup and manage the scheduler.
Maybe the title should be fixed (s/Protocol/Project/)?
And in the second half of his article, Scott forgets to do research again: "How to read a book" by Mortimer Adler is the classic on improving comprehension.
Hey, HackWM author here, this might be a better link https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM :) Unfortunately it has been largely unmaintained by myself since the initial release, I occasionally pick it up for a day or two but I'm not using it actively anymore. Just happy that some people find a use for it!
For one, Lucene[1] is quite amazing. With a slight stretch of imagination, you can think of it as a document oriented database, with all fields indexed by default. Imagine loading 100M rows with 100 columns into an RDBMS and then index each column[2]. You don't necessary do that. With Lucene - and SOLR and elasticsearch for that matter - it's not even a thought. Additionally, you get to tweak your indexing with dozens of field-tested analyzers.

[1] http://lucene.apache.org/core/

[2] we do this (over 300G of complex data) with a tool called solrbulk and on a single server in less than four hours, https://github.com/miku/solrbulk
> Just ignore all the idiotic connected home crap covered by the popular press.

Funny, that's what a black hat would say who compromises tens of thousands of homes because of a shitty consumer device. And a global disable, how's that going to work?

The "IoT" is a major crapshoot, because any idiot can hook up their garbage to the internet and (inadvertently) enable RCE (remote code execution) on it compromising the home network of the user even if it doesn't state that risk on the tin (as if you could prove that with current methods).

The world hasn't seen an incident big enough to care, but I bet one is coming (look for cutesy names like Heartbleed and Stagefright in the headlines) and it will be the usual game of hindsight that leads politicians to go public about it as it has been the case with any major invention (cigarettes, alcohol, cars) that found its way into the public's hands.

The golden age of black hats is before us still. I wish I could say I wouldn't be affected...
Interesting... I would have assumed a model release would be required to protect the publisher from civil liability. There's no mention of this, so I assume the photographer didn't obtain one.

Maybe that's not required because none of the uses imply the subject is endorsing whatever product/view-point the various articles are promoting?
> AWS started in 2006 with EC2

Actually SQS was the first service.
Just yesterday, I asked on lobste.rs [1] how I could take my small utility to compute the minimum, maximum, and expected value of a dice roll expressed in D&D notation and make it a better Unix citizen. The commenters were helpful, and with few changes I was able to make the program usable in a pipeline, even if I don't really expect that's going to be a use case for me.

As an aside, my utility is also written in Rust; nice to see more of these small programs written in Rust.

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/fdzyio/how_should_i_make_this_small_prog...
I'd also like to know the answer to this question! :)
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It was suppose to be WPS but it turned out to be a disaster.
My mac often (once in about two weeks) freezes after trying to unlock. It just shows the load indicator. Need a hard kill to 'fix'. Don't know how to fix it. Note: I never shut my iMac down.
What's the meaning of GP? Gilip?
My go to substitute is "Hello Kitty", sometimes with punctuation.
Some people say yes in some or all contexts, others say no.
I can vouch for Vipe, I have found it immensely useful at times when throwing awk at my input turns out to not be as straightforward as I had hoped.
I agree that Lucene is a mature solution with many excellent use-cases.

For this portion of the stack why would it be preferable to start with Lucene rather than Elasticsearch? (for all of the distributed scaling benefits)
Haha, no. But I browse HN on my phone.
I can't agree with this enough. We are all on AWS and the level of effort it would take to migrate to Kubernetes while maintaining our ability to spin up complete ad-hoc environments on the fly(which also serves as continual DR testing) seems too much to justify at this point. Also, I can't come out the other side with just one or two people understanding, or having any hope of understanding, how everything works :|

Likely if I had to choose today or this quarter we would go the empire route and build on top of ECS. Though, our model and requirements are a bit different so we'd have to heavily modify or roll our own.
As someone whose parents are both foresters, this actually confused me pretty hard. I'm disappointed this wasn't a forestry-oriented startup :P
This was my initial thought as well. We used siteleaf for around 6 months until we outgrew it.
Why should the name matter? The owners, the intent behind a thing, how it is run. That is what matters.
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From a 30s plan, or something more modern?
Yes. It is coming with the big windows update on 2nd August.
How so? It's a song about douchey guys in the club, being shitty to women.
It's funny how words can be played. The Kubernetes "master" is a set of 1 or more machines that run the API server and associated control logic. This is exactly what systems like Docker swarm do, but they wrap it in terms like RAFT and gossip that make people weak in the knees. Kubernetes has RAFT in the form of the storage API (etcd). This is a model that has PROVEN to work well, and to scale well beyond what almost anyone will need.

"Federation" in this context is across clusters, which is not something other systems really do much of, yet. You certainly don't want to gossip on this layer.

"evaluating replacing" really does imply "kicking the tires". Put another way - how much energy are you willing to invest in the early stages of your evaluation? If a "real" cluster took 3 person-days to set up, but a "quick" cluster took 10 person-minutes, would you use the quick one for the initial eval? Feedback we have gotten repeatedly was "it is too hard to set up a real cluster when I don't even know if I want it".

There are a bunch of facets of streamlining that we're working on right now, but they are all serving the purposes of reducing initial investment and increasing transparency.

> how easy it is to get the new Docker orchestration running

This is exactly my point above. You don't think that their demos give you a fully operational, secured, optimized cluster with best-perf networking, storage, load-balancing etc, do you? Of course not. It sets up the "kick the tires" cluster.

As for AWS - it is something we will keep working on. We know our docs here are not great. We sure could use help tidying them up and making them better. We just BURIED is things to do.

Thanks for the feedback, truly.
I think Wiesel has done much good and his writing and very public campaigns to insure that the horrors of the Holocaust are never forgotten are what he shall be remember for. Still, he is a man and a man is nothing, if fallible. In his memoirs, "All Rivers Run to the Sea", he exhibits a certain hostility when his writings are questioned; he quotes from his essay "A Plea for the Survivors":

"You who have not experienced their anguish, who do not speak their language and do not mourn their dead, think before you offend them, before you betray them.… Wait until the last survivor, the last witness, has joined the long procession of silent shadows whose judgment one day will resound and shake the earth and its Creator."
Sun's galactic journey linked to mass extinctions (2013)
Makes as much sense as a book-and-music seller named after a river in Brazil. We do just fine with weird things like this if they're ingrained enough.
Full paper, with some illustrations (free):

http://saj.matf.bg.ac.rs/187/pdf/043-052.pdf
Internet is the ultimate DRM. An interface to exchange arbitrary information with effectively secret infrastructure?

"Perfect, let's just stream monitor contents like OnLive, they'll never guess the game's code from this to run on their own computers."

It seems one of the major reasons that stopped OnLive were the latencies, let's hope it stays that way if you care about gaming culture.
Isn't that what `tee` does, minus the "also displaying on STDOUT" bit?
Nobody in the economy works ab initio.

Since the house builder is proceeding from the same point as commerical house builders this is a fair comparison.

If you're interested in ab initio home building I direct you to Primitive Technology on Youtube. That guy really does build from the beginning. No exposition too.
Dell m3800 for example...
How about this fella then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pM6hJG6Wo

See http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-can-some-blind... and https://rdouglasfields.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/extraordinar... for some quickly-googled refs

:)
I've heard of one case where a photographer took a photo of a married couple in a restaurant, got a release from them, and used it in some advertisement. Later the photo was sold, and sold again, and eventually ended up in an anti-prostitution advertisement. IIRC the couple sued and the ad was removed, and they may have got damages.

There's also a case where a woman sued Getty images (and won) after her photo showed up in an HIV advertisement. http://nypost.com/2013/09/19/woman-sues-getty-after-photo-ap...

In those cases, the photos were a major component of the advertisement, and it was strongly implied the people in the photos were associated with prostitution and HIV. The picture in this article is such a generic looking stock graduation photo it might be hard to prove it's implying anything in particular about the subjects.

And it was taken in a public place, so there's no expectation to privacy.

He could try suing, but it probably wouldn't be worth it. Probably best to laugh it off and be happy he got an article out of it.
This is baffling. How could something as important as font rendering not be fixed?
Journalism pieces do not require model release. The "questionable student loan repayment services" that used the image probably didn't pay Reuters and probably aren't using the photo legally.
If I were you, I would rethink your "beta invite" flow. Adding an email address and clicking on the "Request Invite" button doesn't send you an invite, it adds you to their MailChimp newsletter list and sends an email asking you to confirm your address (for opt-in). There is no invite code or protected page, anyone can just go to https://forestry.io/beta to sign up.
Don't trick me into opting in to your newsletter when what you promised was a beta trial. Give me access and let me test drive it; if I like the service I'll sign up for your newsletter, I'll follow you on Twitter and I'll pay money for a subscription. If you pull a bait and switch on me I'll move on.
The problem has to do with two things: income stagnation or drop, and growing inequality. According to conservative trickle-down economics, it is good if the rich get richer, because they can only do so in ways that make everyone else richer too. And that idea for a long time lead most people to support laws that make it possible for the rich to get richer.

But what has been happening for at least 30 years is the rich are getting considerably richer, but everyone else's income is either stagnant or dropping. To expect the general public to continue to be happy with this state of affairs is simply unreasonable.
Yeah. Yoga 900 ISK2, some BIOS problem that makes the hard drive not show up. No way to fix it except with a BIOS update that hasn't materialized.
I don't see why you don't have problem seeing uncomfortable pieces of cloth wrapped around your hips, torso and neck as culture, but the shoes is where you suddenly have a problem. What's so special in the shoes that they can't be culture while others can? When the last time did you see your banker barefoot? Would your opinion change if you came to talk about a million dollar business and you banker were barefoot and in his pajamas?

Maybe it is sensible to slightly alter the dress code, maybe not - it's not the point. The point is the interns failed to even realize what the issue at hand it - they just assumed everybody by them are being stupid and only wait for them, straight out of the hight school, to set them straight. Sometimes it's exactly the case, but overwhelmingly more often it is not. Even where it is the case, changing the established culture is very hard, it's much easier to grow your own to replace it.

Linux wasn't born as a division of Microsoft that convinced Bill Gates to change his ways. And if you ever want a bank where bankers are barefoot and wear pajamas, it may be a coolest idea ever that will upend all the banking world - but don't expect the president of Wells Fargo or Chase to be excited about it. That's just not how culture works.
I don't mind Internet-connected home devices, as long as they:

a) are actually secure

b) do not send any data to the vendor or any third-party services
Monero has got an I2P router in C++ as one of their projects: https://github.com/monero-project/kovri

If you want some general information on Monero then this is a good talk on Bitcoin privacy and on what Monero is and does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVlQE-ObEXk
Oh, so ethnic cleansing, genocide, widespread discrimination, and expulsion must involve the population going down!

See http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext-printer...
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Is the Great Attractor a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?
Sure, I used Maltego (commercial version + commercial domaintools access):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltego
(although Maltego also has a free version).

I love domaintools as it allows to find anything by anything.
Like domains (current and historical) by email, or even by fragment of registrant information, such as by phone number or by zip code.
> White posted an advertisement “offering $50 apiece for wild blueberry bushes bearing berries as large as a cent.”

Ah. Let that be known as the advertisement that ruined blueberries. Why do we always optimize for size over flavor?

Commercially cultivated blueberries are flavorless compared to some of their wild counterparts. My family owns a 50-acre pick-it-yourself blueberry farm, Blueberry Park, at the top of a wooded mountain in the Hudson River Valley of upstate NY.

Prior to 100 years ago our farm was worked as a vegetable farm, but the fields were left fallow and wild blueberry bushes popped up. My family has owned it for about 70 years, and most of the bushes are a bit older than that. These are high-bush blueberries, 8-12 feet tall, and you can pick the berries standing up with a two-quart bucket hanging from your neck. The flavor of the berries is very potent compared to store berries, and they are smaller--about half the diameter of commercial berries (compare the crown size of these[1] to store-bought berries). They're truly incomparable in flavor to mass-market berries. Much more potent, and slightly more tart (though the tartness and sweetness vary from bush to bush). One wild berry has the flavor of a mouthful of commercial berries.

Just as flavor was lost with cultivation, so too were nutrients. As an indicator, wild berries are so rich in anthocyanins that picking a quart of them will (temporarily) stain your finger tips a deep blue. Wild berries are also more delicate, and have a shelf life of only a few days in the fridge once picked (though they can be spread on cookie sheets and frozen for greater longevity).

Due to our career diaspora, we don't have our farm open to public any more, but the family still goes up to pick each summer. Property taxes are so high it's hard to hold on to the farm, but we can't bear to sell it since we all have such fond memories of the place. My childhood black lab would run around with us plucking berries with her mouth as the family picked into buckets. One of my favorite memories of summer in the Northeast.

From the berries we would make pies, jams, cakes, muffins, and our personal favorite: "blueberry pizza," made from unsweetened pizza dough onto which blueberries were spread with a bit of butter and a light dusting of cinnamon and sugar.

I'd love to sequence the genomes of some of our bushes so their characteristics could be preserved. Barring that, I'd love to propagate them to other places. My fear is that if we ever do sell the farm, a developer will bulldoze the bushes and a place that was once magical (to me) will be lost.

Happy to answer any blueberry questions folks may have!

Edit: I'd also love to chat if anyone is interested in helping crowdfund an effort to create a reference genome sequence for highbush blueberries. The genome is estimated to be about 600Mb in size, so an $8k HiSeq 2500 run (w/ prep) would give ~180x coverage.

1. wild, highbush (ours): http://i.imgur.com/3SgdoFn.jpg
You seem to be assuming that social tension has only one cause, so if racial division causes social tension, then income inequality doesn't.

You also seem to be assuming it is not possible that income inequality might be one important cause of racial division.
Genetic link between family SES and children's educational achievement
Colleges will have you agree that pictures may be taken of you on campus and you don't have rights to stop them (at least mine did). So if they allowed the photographer on campus, it's fair game.
Building homes on illegal lands, forced expulsion and demolition of Palestinian homes, carpet bombing of a prison city, discrimination against Palestinian Arabs at all levels of society - I think that's quite close to the definition of state-sponsored terrorism, and in some cases, genocide.
You mean the chart that shows "Current Revenues" fluctuating between 25% and 30% of GDP since 1969, after a low of roughly 20% in 1949?

I keep forgetting state and local taxes. I'm from Texas, which doesn't have a state income tax; I'm living in Alabama, which has an income tax rate of something like 4%. Both localities rely heavily on sales taxes to a typical tune of about 9% (and sales taxes are regressive, I'll remind you) and property taxes.

Anyway, check this:

http://taxfoundation.org/article/short-history-government-ta...

Chart 1 duplicates your graph's "Current Revenues" and "Current Spending" lines, while Table 1 shows total gov't receipts as a percent of GDP by (roughly) decade since 1930. In 1950, 22%; 1980, 28%; 2000, 31%; 2012, 26%.

So yes, taxes have gone up. But not spectacularly, certainly not as much as deficit spending, and probably not to the excessive detriment of the "moneyed elite".
My understanding is that AWS was built from the ground up and is not a fork of the actual code that runs Amazon. This is apparent in that Amazon has internal competitors to DynamoDB and SWF. I'm sure there are other examples.

To add to that, many of the older backend systems are still running Oracle, although they are now pushing to migrate to noSQL solutions. Dogfooding is generally encouraged but not required internally.
You wanted to validate your idea about idea validation system...if quirky is your competitor then they have validated your idea. Now challenge is not idea but implementation and momentum, to have those initial key users qualified enough for validating ideas , to join your site...
The level of incivility is more of a side effect of being a large company. Google is also full of professional victims who blow even the minor transgressions (e.g. telling someone they look good at an offsite) completely out of proportion. This makes it seem like there is a lot more incivility than there really is. VPs on memegen is virtue signaling, nothing more, pay no attention.

As to the quality of engineers, I've worked with some AMAZING people at Google, far and away the best I've ever seen in my long career. After a while Google skews your perception as to what it means to be "good", because even the very worst SWEs at Google are well above average in the industry. Google would not be able to function without this, given that it takes a full 3-4 months to just become productive with its internal infra and kinda-sorta figure _some_ things out.
It sounds like a workaround for the RCA character generator patent.¹

¹ http://www.google.com/patents/US3345458
It's great that jaytaylor provided helpful information, but please don't reply with a generic complaint. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989)

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