skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To seek fulfilment is to invite frustration. There is no fulfilment of the self, but only the strengthening of the self through possessing what it craves for. Possession, at whatever level, makes the self feel potent, rich, active, and this sensation is called fulfilment; but as with all sensations, it soon fades, to be replaced by yet another gratification. We are all familiar with this process of replacement or substitution, and it is a game with which most of us are content. There are some, however, who desire a more enduring gratification, one that will last for the whole of one's life; and having found it, they hope never to be disturbed again. But there is a constant, unconscious fear of disturbance, and subtle forms of resistance are cultivated behind which the mind takes shelter; and so the fear of death is inevitable. Fulfilment and the fear of death are the two sides of one process: the strengthening of the self. After all, fulfilment is complete identification with something - with children, with property, with ideas. Children and property are rather risky, but ideas offer greater safety and security. Words, which are ideas and memories, with their sensations, become important; and fulfilment or completeness then becomes the word.

http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-tex...

So.. I guess start identifying yourself strongly with something. What that something is not very relevant, cast a dice and see what sticks.
Well, saying this is as huge as the discovery of the neutron for the atomic model is stretching it, IMO. Atoms make up everything, understanding how atomic nuclei are made up has paved the road for huge breakthroughs in not just nuclear physics but also in medicine, energy production, materials physics, etc. Lichen, on the other hand, are, well lichen. If we'd been throwing money on lichen research like we have on nuclear physics, we would have known this a century ago.
Applescript is worth looking at for the same reasons.
He can also do a wheelie on his racing bike which I definitely can't do either.
Ko is a lot of fun. Highly recommended.
Totally lost it at "e knew we'd ultimately need dozens (even hundreds) of microservices to be successful" and did not read any further. I am having a very hard time seeing that as a criteria for success, not to even mention imagining how that mess is managed. Is this really common to have so many microservices?
Agree with this.

If you have money and no time: DataDog

If you don't mind putting in a little time: Sensu

Sensu is straightforward to deploy if you use Chef/Ansible/Puppet. It also supports running Nagios plugins which is pretty useful.
I just had a waking nightmare of AppleScript.
Also a silly reason: for me the text rendering in Rodeo on a Mac without a retina display is a lot worse than the text rendering in RStudio.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but as someone else who's also feeling the sting of having a small built-in HD on my mbp, I can point out that 256G thumb drives are like $60 right now. "Insanely cheap" is of course relative, but I'm not going to call that prohibitive.
I'm a big fan of Zabbix for general server monitoring and alerting. Sensible defaults, built in graphing, multi-step web scenarios. Good times.
There's now an 'undown' link you can click to undo accidental downs.
> Practically speaking, for a MacBook this means going to the 512 GB storage model instead of the 256 GB storage model, which is an extra $300.

I store my library lossless (where available) on a NAS, and then transcode to <lossy codec of the day> for portable use.

I use Beets to manage it: http://beets.io
relevant: http://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-supe...

Skype ditched peer-to-peer supernodes for scalability, not surveillance
in the early 2000s and every single vendor there was saying that developing mobile apps using UML was the future. No code, just map out everything in a diagram.

UML in later versions got so bad that even the original creators disowned it. Turned out that putting everything into a diagram was just as hard (and less convenient) than writing it as code.
good.is claims to do this, but it's actually a junk viral news site. :-(
If we want to replace AWS Lambda with self hosted service for Java, what are the recommendations? Apache Mesos ?
Yeah - to me this made sense. Until my colleague was referring how he had the opposited where he was more balanced on his racing bike.
Ah, the good old "no one forced him" gig. Yes, no one literally went up to an Uber driver and told them to become one. Same way that no one literally goes up to a homeless immigrant and tells them to steal food [0]. But it's folly to pretend that the "invisible hand" of economics doesn't have a strong part to play in such decisions.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/world/europe/food-theft-in...
If MSFT charges 1000$ for Windows it wouldn't matter much (other than negative press) most windows licenses are sold through the non-retail programs such as:

Enterprise/Volume Licensing, SMB Licenses, Educational Licences (Students and Teachers), Developer Licensing (MSDN), Microsoft @ Home (buying considerably discounted licenses through your employers) and OEM licenses for retailers and system builders...

Since Windows 7 the vast majority of the windows licenses that are not VL are cooked into the machine (stored in the BIOS) and are effectively non-transferable (OEM lic's were never transferable, but now there is no sticker with a key anymore).

If microsoft decided to charge 1000% for the retail the majority of the licensing programs would be immune, OEM's/System Builders would love it (can rack up the prices since Windows is so expensive now), and pretty much none of the normal users would care/be affected by it directly.
What "lease"? WeWork is month-to-month.
> A CLI is a requirement and has been for a while now.

It's really not, you can get by fine with a text editor and a web browser only. You can use regular web components (works unmodified in Chrome, there's a polyfill for other browsers) and get modularity and all of the things you need. You can add Polymer which, again, doesn't require anything but an editor and a browser.
> "how much do you make"

what culture is this?!
Best at what? What is driving you to want to switch?

I like Icinga a lot. I won't bother reviewing it; is is very well known. Professionally, my last two gigs have used Zabbix.

Zabbix, architecturally, is a nightmare. Uses an RDBMS for storing time-series data, so it wastes a ton of space on historic data while managing to be far slower than it needs to be when querying larger ranges. Uses an agent. Has a proxy-agent that, while handy, encourages all sorts of sketchy, error-prone monitoring topologies. With 3.0, the UI has crawled out of the awful range, and is now merely annoying. Takes the all-singing, all-dancing monolithic approach for the main app, including features for drawing maps on big-screens.

For all that, it works well. Give it the hardware it wants, be sane in setting it up[1], ignore the goofy features (maps, inventory, screens - I guess someone must of requested those), and it is very solid and very powerful.

[1] The template system, pseudo-language for triggers, naming convention for variables and method of creating custom monitors take some getting used to. Expect to take the time to actually read the docs, and most likely to throw out your templates the first time you model your systems.
How Did OurMine Hack Sundar Pichai's Quora Account?
I am in your shoes OP, I feel it too.
There has to be more to this thing. The thought of sitting in my office job for the next 30yrs makes me shake. Seriously. I don't know that I can do it, or that I want to do it.

Bottom line, you need money. How you earn the money is up to you...How much money you need to 'feel' comfortable is up to you.

If you can get a Masters degree (for free through employer or very cheap), do it. Bachelors degrees are like high school diplomas, everybody has 'em these days, and in 10-15yrs you'll want the Masters.

Buy a lottery ticket!
So, anyone knows which tech stack wikileaks is using to run that search?
Or learning one javscript framework after the other where you do the same thing with different syntax.
What is fun is how little the Quora account was used.
Programming is the new carpentry. Probably jobs for a long time , but training the children now like it's going to be the most amazing career path is short sighted I think.

Train your children to think. Give them the freedom to change career paths if necessary.
Signing a voluntary contract is the antithesis of slavery. It may be boring and soul-sucking labour that you do not enjoy, but it is no more slavery than signing a contract with a customer is. Your time and effort are your own, and the reward is rightfully yours.
When you share a voice message on Android to another app, it results in a .opus file :)
This feels very similar to the war on drugs. Take down one site, two more appear the next day. Take down a domain name, it moves to another hours later. This will never stop.

Eventually, I predict there will be a decentralized torrent site. Using magnet links and just file names. Nothing hosted anywhere. More and more questionable VPNs will appear for people to use and hide with.

I'm not advocating for piracy, I'm just saying there will be no stopping it.
What Is a Customer Centric Supply Chain?
Prometheus is absolutely the way you should be going. All of the other systems I'm seeing mentioned here — Nagios, Icinga, check_mk, Zabbix, Sensu — are host-centric and are very awkward when you try to bend them to fit modern (containerized, etc.) workloads.
programming is becoming harder, not easier.

So true. I'm not sure why, it shouldn't be that way.
Let's Fix Startup Board Meetings
Kentik (www.kentik.com) is a great choice for monitoring network traffic details. Terabit-scale aggregates down to individual conversations. (Disclaimer: I work at Kentik)
DIY Pokemon Go: Our Experience Building an Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt
Operating a site gives more than just IPs. 1) To add a torrent to a torrent site, a user has to set up an account - they get access to account information and 2) even if the site is serving things via https, they control it, and can send a malicious ad or inject some JS in the page to a targeted user.
The claim is that the tenant violated the WeWork terms of service (very much akin to a lease, albeit a short-term one) by scraping member data through the WeWork API.
I'm puzzled by this. I'll do my homework, but for the moment, are you saying JACK transcodes its input into Opus to move it around from app to app, then transcodes it again on the way out?
It depends on your architecture and scale. There is no "best", just "best we've found for this" and "best given other constraints".

This is yet another point where DevOps is not "devs doing ops" but "operations building and deploying with all the tools of modern software development". You need a subject matter expert.

What are you monitoring? Do you care about availability or performance or both? Scale? Do you have services or servers? Do you manage the underlying hardware? Do you need to track which hardware boxes have which VMs or containers?

There are a million questions to answer. One big set of them: what do you dislike about Nagios? Make sure that you don't get those problems with the next one, but also make sure you get something that does what you need as well as what you want.
> illegal Mexican immigrants [...] a group of by-definition criminals, since last time I checked illegally entering the US is, well, not legal

Improper entry is a crime, but lots of illegal immigrants aren't guilty of it, but only unlawful presence, which is a civil wrong, not a crime (it is illegal but not criminal -- these things aren't the same.)

http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2014/07/is-illegal-immigrat...
Instalocate – AI powered personal travel assistant on Facebook
I have been doing coding for twenty years now and I am kind of surprised that plain text is still the best representation of code.
Physicists discover a new approach for building quantum computers
What worries me most about a Trump presidency is not local (US) policy, as you rightly point out that he needs legislative support that he doesn't have to make changes (although he can retard progress through veto power, depending on your definition of progress and his inclination), but the absolute murder he will do to the US reputation and standing in the international community (already a complex topic, and I imagine fairly mixed in most circles).
I've already stopped playing... I was at level 23 and with well over 50% caught, and I still had no chance of winning local gyms. It's not engaging unless I can compete, and I wasn't willing to heavily grind on a casual game just to fight random people.

I realized Pokemon Go was just a "background activity" for hanging out with friends... and I'd rather focus on the people.

I'll jump back in as soon as they added trading and player vs player.
The website that users can log into, get JS to run on their computers and get targets ads. Thats the benefit of a honeypot, not torrents.
Active polling scales _better_ than the alternative. You directly manage the ingest rate at the server side, rather than DDOSing your monitoring infrastructure when you scale out your services to deal with load.
They already admitted to using an undocumented WeWork API without asking permission, but simultaneously maintain that they somehow collected all the stats without spidering, scraping, or doing anything else that violated the ToS.

(from the reuters article - "Zhen said he does not believe he violated the terms of his WeWork membership when he used an application programming interface, or API, that he and his Thinknum colleagues found on the WeWork network to locate and analyze WeWork membership data."
3. Don't touch DuckDuckGo either. Thanks.
I meant physically plugging it in.
Yes, check_mk is great. I rolled out a 30000+ checks installation on a single server today. I've looked at most monitoring products on the market and check_mk easily wins. It's really popular in Germany, many huge companies are using it.

The English documentation isn't that great, the German one is better. That being said, it's mostly self-explanatory and all checks are very well documented in man pages.

My favorite features:

- Auto discovery for literally everything, including SNMP interfaces.

- Fine grained rule system for customizing check threshold and parameters

- All configuration is automatically versioned and you can integrate it with Git - this includes the changes you make in the web interface.

- It's very easy to set up a distributed monitoring system (multisite) with a central node which aggregates all states and replicated configuration changes, yet each site is fully autonomous.

- The agent takes zero network input, so no attack surface.

- Even though it's extremely featureful, it's architecture is very simple and it's easy to contribute code and write custom checks.

Their Git is public: http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git;a=shortlog...

It works well with Naemon and Nagios 4. Been using it for a number of projects, ask me anything!

Monitoring systems not to use:

- Shinken (zero security awareness and dishonest PR, when I tried it, it has so many bugs that I wouldn't ever trust it to keep my data safe)

- Zabbix (it has some brilliant features, but the architecture is a mess, configuration and time series stored in a MySQL database which is hard to manage and automate, I found it cumbersome to debug, written in PHP)
You say that like it's desirable. I think Java's experience of checked exceptions shows that it's of very dubious benefit.
And in this thread you can see programmers getting defensive and flustered over the notion that they too might be vulnerable to automation.
If you're using create-react-app then you're encouraged to use ES6 classes - that's how the default App.js is set up.
It's in quotes continuing the analogy. If they violated the TOS, that's akin to violating the lease on your apartment.
Speaking of which, where'd the Jews move to? The SF jewish community feels a little sparse today. Maybe that's because SF Jews are strongly secular?
The future is an IPFS mirror where the entire magnet list and web frontend are peer to peer. When everyone can host the site individually on their own computer there won't be a way for authorities to seize servers or domains.
Very very awesome. This is very much needed. I work with a lot of older Java people and showing them the ins/outs of webpack/eslint/React is killing productivity. Thanks FB.
Regarding R and its soundness (in the general colloquial sense), here's something that bothers me about it (scope leakage):

> if ("blah" == "blah") {
y = 2
x = y + 2
} else {
x = 1
}

> x
4
> y
2

I really wish what I introduce in my blocks would stay in my blocks...
This is moderately useful, but not new.

He may be underestimating the effect of attention. Attention is a scarce resource, because there's only so much time. Part of tribe creation is absorbing a considerable amount of attention. This is seen most strongly in the religions designed to consume attention multiple times per day. Islam and Haredi Judaism are the most obvious examples. We also see this with the types of video games that demand regular attention, from World of Warcraft to Pokémon Go. This is different from popularity; Angry Birds, although popular, did not require constant attention and did not develop a cult-like following.
What do you mean by computers handling ambiguity? At the end of the day for a idea to become cristalized it needs to be free from ambiguity. That is the case even in human interactions. When using ambiguous language, we iterate over ideas together to make sure everybody is on the same page. If by handling ambiguity, you mean that computers can go back and forth with us to help us remove ambiguity from our thoughts then they are basically helping us think or in some sense do programming for us. That is a great future indeed! A future where actually AIs are doing the programming in long run! But with this line of thought we might as well not teach anything to our kids because one day computers will do it better. Specially if we already stablished that they can think better than us :)
Yang was the fourth one down after Levinsohn, Thompson, Bartz... and he lasted all of 18 months... Arguably the sandwich was prepared by Semel.
> gallops into town riding a white exponential

I love that. I'm stealing it! :-)

Your overall observation is spot on too.
At Stack Overflow we use a homebuilt Go solution called bosun: http://bosun.org/ -- it runs on pretty much anything and lets us incorporate data from windows machines / linux machines in one place.
Re: HK, not sure if this is cause or effect but the taxis there are much more plentiful and much cheaper than the US. The current conversion looks to be 10HKD = $1.29 USD. A 3-mile cab ride in HK is 60HKD, or about $7.74 ( http://www.numbeo.com/taxi-fare/city_result.jsp?country=Hong... )

In SF it's almost $12: http://yellowcabsf.com/service/cab-fares/

If we scale that to a 10-mile trip, assuming no waiting or traffic, which with SF is $33/hr extra, and in HK it's no charge (just by mileage) IIRC (having them wait is ~$12.38/hr):

SF: ~$31.05
HK: 150HKD=$19.35

This combined with their seriously great subway system ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR ) make it very practical to not own a car. You take the subway for short and medium trips, and hop in a cab at the end to get out to a relative's house in the middle of nowhere.
Marissa is pretty good (she was the exec sponsor for several of my first projects at Google). Very large ego, but she really is very smart and exceptionally hard-working. She was responsible for some of Google's more innovative org-structure decisions (eg. the APM program), and IMHO Search and Maps really benefitted from her UI restraint while she was there.

I know a few people at Yahoo, and the good employees (i.e. the ones who didn't just do 15 minutes of work a day while "telecommuting") tended to speak highly of her too.

I think what you're really seeing is Warren Buffett's aphorism, "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." People tend to overestimate the effect of a CEO on the business's returns. Usually the prime drivers of a business's success are external to the business itself (eg. customer preferences, technological shifts, competitive landscape).

You can draw your own conclusions about what that should mean about CEO pay, but unfortunately human beings are hard-wired with a cognitive bias to ascribe effects to people, rather than to systemic factors.

(As a side note: I wonder if this is what'll happen to Musk regarding Tesla. As amazingly innovative as Tesla has been, the auto industry has a reputation for terrible economics.)
I've been playing since day one and I've already lost interest. Most everyone I've spoken to is of the same thinking. It was fun at the beginning but there is simply not enough substance in the game to keep anyone interested for more than 2-3 weeks. There are only so many Doduos and Pidgeys you can catch before you are bored out of your mind.
Do whatever you want (that doesnt harm others). Want to do nothing for a year or two or five, then do it. Want to hang out and drink at 5am and party, then do it. Want to start a company, then do it. Taste what life has to offer and grow from it and evolve. Imo you are at the age where you are coming into yourself and finding out what you want to do. It can be confusing, scarey, challenging and everything else. I found by doing what I wanted against even social norms and sometimes at great loss, I learned what it was I really wanted out of life. Best wishes, there is no wrong answer. Be you!
LabVIEW gets really weird once you get to things like loops or, even worse, threading. You will start craving some good old fashioned code very quickly.

I haven't seen any kind of visual coding environment that didn't fall apart quickly once you got to more complex scenarios.
Something that often goes unmentioned is that there's a huge difference between having a pint over lunch and getting trashed.

A well rested person with a little beer in them is going to probably be less incompetent than someone who was up all night with insomnia.

I'm intolerant to caffeine and if I drank the same amount of coffee some folks drink it would leave me a juddering wreck
Funny retrospective on the last 25 years of AR:

http://unanimous.ai/augmented-reality-then-and-now/
Really cool story - it's been awesome to see how Box has contributed back to the community as well!

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
> What worries me most about a Trump presidency is not local (US) policy, as you rightly point out that he needs legislative support that he doesn't have

If a sufficient electoral base exists to elect Trump, a sufficient electoral base exists to get him sufficient legislative support (sooner than new people are elected, perhaps, simply by raising the prospect of electoral danger to present incumbents) to implement his policies.
I see these two interpretations:

1. Pokemon Go has more downloads during its first week than any other app has had during its own first week.

2. Pokemon Go has more downloads during its first week than any other app has had in its entire existence.

The first seems much more probable. Honestly the second isn't even reasonable when you consider apps like Facebook. Facebook has more users and more possible downloads because their app also works on tablets.

Update: I don't disagree with you. It seems all articles have used the same (possibly intentionally) ambiguous quote.
I have to think of AppleScript "Tell xxx to yyy". That was a real winner :-)
Many sub-cultures in America (and I assume elsewhere) involving highly competitive industries.
that is a fantastic gauge and one i live by. for example film critics: if you do not appreciate most films that you watch, then you are in the wrong field.