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Have you by chance open sourced your setup? I started going down this route with terraform, but ended up stopping and just using the kube-up script due to time constraints.

However, now that I have a cluster up and running, I can take the time to build a parallel cluster with more understanding, and migrate the services to it.

I found a terraform example, but it declares itself out of date, and looked more complicated than I thought it should be... that was just a gut feel though.

I have not used Salt, but I always like to learn new things, especially if they make my life easier.

I'd be very interested in checkout out your setup, and any lessons learned you have to share.

Thanks in advance
>There is a huge difference between the real world and a closed track.

Indeed. The unpredictable behavior of humans occupying the same environment is key. Remove this element and things get simpler (though not simple. And v2v comms might be required.)

I suspect highways are the road infrastructure most akin to a closed track. Which is why the Otto acquisition is so interesting.
Yeah, we humans are so good at making animals extinct. I can't believe we haven't done that with human-biting mosquitoes (or other nasties) a long time ago. It is time to do that; nature will find a way without the buggers.
This has been my experience with Spark too! On one hand, its exciting working on new things changing so fast that the "best way" isn't common knowledge yet. On the other hand, having to grep through source to find out what a config option really does is just painful.
I think that not having a good production setup for an open source project is a combination of a couple of things:

1. Documentation is not satisfying work, maybe because it is as absolute as code?

2. Contributing documentation doesn't get you as much recognition as code

3. If you set it up differently yourself there is no need to maintain a fork (unlike code changes)

4. For open source projects that are company backed there is a perverse incentive to keep the documentation vague if they only make money though support
Unintended consequences still manage to arise most of the time when people think they can play god and mess with nature in that way. Until relatively recently, people didn't even know that hummingbirds relied heavily on eating small insects like mosquitos rather than just drinking nectar. Undoubtedly there are many things like that which we simply aren't aware of.
There is no market for space stations. Market pricing only works when assets are fungible and their sale can be abstracted into a statistical model. A sample size of 1 is not enough to establish an efficient pricing model for an asset, and space stations are not fungible. The ISS is literally priceless.
Another Snapchat Stories clone. But!

"it mimics the way Facebook was originally launched — school by school"

"you select your high school, and will then see the video profiles from people at your school or ones nearby"

"While technically anyone can download Lifestage, anyone 22 or older will only be able to see their own profile. That's because it's built for high schoolers to learn more about their classmates. A quick swipe lets you block and report people too in case anyone sketchy tries to creep on the kids."

This gating is really interesting and mimics the feature of Snapchat that makes it so that all interaction is friends-only-by-default. This is crucial because other social networking and/or popularity apps are usually public-by-default or encourage it heavily by the nature of the content (Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Vine), which extends popularity contests globally, and separately, makes unsavory interactions with strangers more likely.

In other words, it's possible that this particular set of attributes, which keeps it grounded in the immediate, existing peer group of teens, will result in its long-term success.
> IoT (replacing Brillo)

Right now Brillo appears much more mature.

However Google being Google, who knows which variant ends up winning.
You certainly can change the Constitution without a convention. The federal legislature passes it with a 2/3rds vote and then the states ratify it.
The quest to make a crystal harder than diamonds
> The green buildings are existing structures captured in OpenStreetMap. The red buildings are the ones we detected as missing from the map.

And which color is existing structures not identified by the software? Because that would be a very quick and easy way to spot how well it's actually performing.
No, that works fine, and Bitcoin Core uses reproducible builds signed by many different people. The post seems to be attempting to address the chain of trust of the PGP keys instead, but whether it succeeds at doing so is questionable. Certainly if a "blockstack id" can only be owned by one person, it's worse.
Amen Brother/Sister Hacker is not some one who is doing cut'n paste webdev :-)

A lot of so called "hackers" are like david brent unfortunetly

And I say this as some one who was asked by a senior press officer to respond on behalf of my employer (bt) on alt.2600 - unfortunately SD (BT Security) nixed that
Oh yeah I agree, that's annoying. I considered using one of the few projects that attempt to solve this problem but decided to stick with `kube-up.sh` because, as a beginner, I'd have a hard time telling which pieces belong to Kubernetes vs the third party tool. I also don't have time to become a Kubernetes expert because I'm crazy busy developing. Hopefully, Kubernetes will eventually obsolete `kube-up.sh` for something better based on Salt/CloudFormation/Terraform/etc.
ansible/puppet/chef is the way to go. Single line of DSL is worth 1000 lines of text on a blog, imho.
Sure they would, given a significant percentage of cubans that might have internet access at home or on their phones in the future, US-based spanish language media/websites are good potential paying customers for cloudflare.
I am a bit annoyed with the article. It has some good info, but, unfortunately, it is kind of histrionic and that seems to be what is getting most of the attention in comments. I have done some reading on water issues and the history of the Colorado River. We have been overusing its waters for decades, which has turned the mouth of the river into a salt flat instead of a rich swampland and riparian environment, but America doesn't really care because that part of the river is in Mexico. They began experimenting with bringing it back to life recently: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/pulse-life-mouth-colorado

Anyway, we have raked this river over the coals wastefully for decades. There is lots of room for improvement in terms of better practices. Perhaps they feel they need to be histrionic in order to get lazy-assed, overprivileged Americans to take the problem seriously, but the problem is not remotely new and it not remotely unsolvable. As things get more desperate, I predict the powers that be will get more hard-assed and that will go a long way towards fixing things that, currently, there simply isn't the political will to fix.
Disney's many, many attempts at figuring out the game industry
Back then those wher the only schools /universities that mattered
You might also check out ImplicitCAD. Haskell-based. http://www.implicitcad.org/faq
Why not next year? It's only four turns after all.
Bus seriously, driving those four turns is several orders of magnitudes more difficult task than going to the moon.
Living in a desert is a great idea. Living in a desert and expecting that everyone can use water as if they live in the northeast or northwest U.S. isn't such a great idea.
Is this your app?
Not really, no. L4 is talking about the whole trip.
Please see my reply to eximius.
If the people who want a lush green desert are willing to pay for such a project then I'm all for it, but I don't think this should be subsidized by all tax payers a la the Interstate system.
The accusation was that Ferrara was not paid enough for the rights to something that wasn't even adapted. They took his title, nothing else. Ferrara, however, assumed they were remaking his film, which was not the case, so his public comments were out of line. (Also: If Ferrara did not want to sell the rights, he shouldn't have sold them. I don't know what he was paid for, in truth.)

What exactly is "wrong with" Herzog? That was your assertion. It's a pretty bold statement. Herzog made an original film which has nothing to do with Ferrara's. It's not up to him to make things right -- whatever those things are.

In short, what is your exact complaint here?
I just checked, and Windows 10 had turned on the "Send Microsoft info about how I write" option, which I had definitely disabled. This was with a forced, automatic update and I definitely did not approve the change, nor was I notified of it.

Internet sources didn't give a clear answer about what's being sent, but some sources seem to think it's full keylogging. If that's true, Microsoft is in for litigation and I'll be first in line to sue.
> My point is more like this chart <

As steveklabnik noted that is old data (which you would be normally be able to see from the date-stamp in the bottom-right corner, but that's been hidden).

This web page is updated several times a month, and presents the charts in context --

https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs...

(You might even think that you can tell which language implementations don't have programs written to use multi-core and which do.)
I think you've put your finger on the difference between hacker culture in the early 80s and now.
Robot edits are great when they add data. When modifying or removing work that humans did, I'm much more hesitant. This is probably why there's opposition from "rich, European nations": the developing world has little data that anything could go wrong with.

I'm not necessarily pro autonomous robots unless they either hit very high benchmarks, or it's purely for initial groundwork (or improving on previous bots' work). I totally see how it could be great for unmapped places where it could add grass/forest areas, houses, roads, rivers, etc. but tampering with existing data with no review queue (if not an approval queue, at least post-editing review)... I'm hesitant.
The article mentions using Electron or NW.js if you want to continue building apps on web technologies that need deeper platform access.

Is there a reason that those are worse options than Chrome apps?
All of Google's cloud database services are now out of beta
> The perceived waste would just happen in a different "industrial complex"

But with significantly less waste of human life.
Sure, but the company is filled with ex-Apple/Google/etc folks that have worked on successfully creating motor vehicles, physical products, and applied artificial intelligence devices.

Remember, a company is merely comprised of the people within it. If Uber has people that have joined from the kinds of companies that you mentioned, it becomes more and more indistinguishable from them.
That's true -- there's definitely a bit of knowledge needed to get started, but most of that can probably be taught in 2-3 classes. I think the first problem in learning data science is coming up with a "Foundations" curriculum:

- Learn a relevant programming language (R, Python) + tools (ipython, anaconda, etc)

- Basic linear algebra (nothing more complex than multiplying matrices) and calculus (what are derivatives and integrals)

- Intro to statistics (just to know the vocabulary -- covariance, correlation, standard error, etc.)

- Rough overview of Machine Learning / AI as a whole and where its used in the world today

After that comes the second problem: "What do I do next?"

- coming up with several interesting but manageably small projects

- getting data for these projects

- access to quality advanced resources that can be consumed as needed while working on the project. A 3-month long MOOC on Neural Networks is an impractical resource. A well-written blog post (with code) or youtube video is far better.

MOOCs + textbooks seem to do better for the first problem if you can sift through all the noise, but fail at the second.
This might be of interest to you. It never went anywhere because of costs and environmental concerns. But I have a feeling it may get more attention as water becomes more of a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power...
Fordlandia – The failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon
> As a customer, I don't see why you think you have the right to nit-pick about how they go about this or where global reach needs to be improved

This was a public discussion, and therefore I have every right to "chime in".

As a paying customer, I have even more of a right to "chime in", as Cloudflare decisions may impact my business.

Putting a PoP in Cuba because "bleeding hearts from decades of terrible government policy" isn't a sound business decision. Nobody has offered any better explanation of advantages other than the novelty, and frankly, if that's the core reason... that's a bad decision and a blatant waste of money.
but socialized medicine has been tried in dozens of countries, and the price and efficiency outcomes you predicted have not happened in any of them

This is factually wrong. In countries where such a socialization has happened, a vast increase in medical spending happened as a result (depending on how much it was socialized). And there seems to be no end to the increasing prices of insurances and doctors.
I haven't, but I would be happy to.

I just need to generalize it a little bit. Email me and I will send you a link once it's done, sometime next week (I'm on vacation).
Camp Dwyer built a massive barracks/billeting project that never got utilized due to the drawdown. It was an astronomical waste of money.
That is the only logical choice. Compare and contrast with autopilot.
Right, scalability is a good point to consider. Along the same vein, my last ml job we ended up using gradient boosting which worked really well, but definitely does not scale to big data (afik.) Robustness is another thing to consider, both svm's and neural networks need a reasonable amount of data-massaging before they behave themselves. Hence the success in image processing where every pixel can be treated equally.
I think you're misreading what was exchanged. That is unless you're arguing with him about the intent behind the design of a product you had no part in creating. He was replying to "The point of PowerShell..." not, "The point of shells...". He was simply correcting someone who misinterpreted the intent.

I think you're also reading tone into his message that's not there. He's been very chill and helpful in this thread even in reply to open hostility.

I'm not sure what "according to you" means, but you can verify it yourself. Feel free to read Wikipedia or you can probably find one of his talks about it on youtube.
Once again the benchmarks are using outdated versions of frameworks (at least the languages I checked, like 2 or more years old).
Right, no industry certification to follow here and pretty loose availability requirements. You just had me worried for a minute that everything would suddenly grind to an hal or that there were glaring security holes! But my "production" requirements are definitely not as strong as yours.
At least on Firefox there is a design decision in the works for that... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247628

And you can have a web extension that natively connects to a local program if you need more power. Not self contained but it's possible.
reminds me of an old parent trying to pretend that they understand their teenage kids. fb is going to be irrelevant to the next generation. i always tell people that their death is going to be by 1000 cuts the same way that yahoo did.

there are already several very successful social apps/products (snapchat, pinterest, twitter) that aren't owned by fb and there are going to be many many more in the coming years that will each divert a small bit of attention away from fb. eventually it will all add up. ironically many of these social apps/platforms are going to be inspired by wanting to follow zuckerberg's success and are going to turn down acquisition offers (see snapchat).

i genuinely think that they should follow google's lead and invest in areas outside of their core product. creating their own cell phone network (like how google is with internet service) would be a great investment for them. this will allow them to continue to mine people's data while also expanding their product line, and thus reducing the damage that the future social apps are going to do. keeping all their eggs in one basket is a terrible long term strategy.
It's the code names of the exploits which are being released by Shadow Brokers. Likely the names which the original authors utilized. Equation Group is known to utilize code names like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group#Codewords_and_t...
Thankyou that looks awesome.

Btw, "why" questions are always a bit ill-defined, it's like asking for some kind of narrative to satisfy the questioner. "well in the beginning there was the big-bang..." So anyway I'm quite impressed at these papers.
> Why not build

This is a fair question, and pops up in nearly every thread about this topic, usually replied to with a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power... and/or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recycling_and_Northern_D...

The idea has been raised before, and dismissed because of massive costs, unprecedented environmental impacts, and the like.
Did you place a bet on this technology? Tell us about it.
That is exactly what something like Owncloud/Nextcloud (for which I made those book/publication-related tools) enables you to do: create a 'private cloud' (what a silly word it is, really... cloud). It does some of the things you mention 'out of the box' (file storage, photo uploading) or after installing some 'apps' (note server, music streaming, video streaming, email user agent (not a mail server)). Since it runs on *nix you get the rest (mail server, dns server) more or less 'for free', just configure it the way you want.
Chrome apps are dead as per Chrome. This was a good move.
Kube-up actually uses Salt for some of the setup. But it's a big mess, since it needs to support a lot of platforms, Linuxes and cloud providers.

I don't know what the future of Kubernetes setup is, exactly, but right now it's quite safe to settle on Salt, Puppet, Ansible or Terraform. I haven't used Terraform, so I don't know how suitable it is to OS-level setup (things that the aforementioned tools are good at), as opposed to orchestration.
Why not use the money to fund a lawsuit to get the results he wants?
Part of the issue with this case, to me, is that the standing for bunnie does not adequately describe what is believed to be "paid for" content. As in, there is no differentiation between a streamed license or a purchased 'copy' in technical terms. To me this is a very important sticking point, legally, simply considering the nature of modern commerce.
It's not misleading because they were careful to point out that these 6 'layers' have nothing in common with how layers are defined in Neural networks. In Neural nets, layers are effectively subgraphs that are bipartite. They can also be computational stages in some networks like convolutional.

The brain's layers are both much more loose in their allowed interconnections but also more modular in their functionality. There are different visual areas (usually 5) at different locations of the neocortex that connect to each other (feedforward and back) in complex ways. As residents of the neocortex, each visual area will thus have 6 layers which are in turn dividable into sublayers (often 1 - 4). These layers are structural but are also partially organizational tools for the scientists.
Let's see you file your own lawsuit and collect anything, much less contribute toward a landmark case.
If I understand your process, you multiplied US GDP by average tax burden, which makes sense, but here's another source that added other sources up:
http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/total_revenue_2015USrn
and got ~6,500 billon USD for USA Revenue. Using the same military budget, that makes = 7.69% of tax on military budget.

I think I see why everyone uses GDP: tax revenue is difficult to calculate, especially when it involves 50 states and a few territories.
No it isn't. A market is just a collection of actors who perform transactions within the group. The only rules set are the ones by nature, and markets would exist with or without humans.
Thanks, this is good detail. Would you recommend any reading on the up-to-date understanding of brain architecture?
Using squaponics seems like an ideal solution. Food can be grown in a greenhouse to minimize evaporation. Water doesn't escape into the soil, and it can be done pretty much anywhere, this leading to less fuel consumption and transportation costs. Fish require much less water and feed than cattle per pound of edible flesh.
OpenStack has an attempt at Ansible playbooks for production deploys: https://github.com/openstack/openstack-ansible

I have no idea how effective they are, but it's something to consider when setting up a deployment from scratch.
> All of these things can be grown elsewhere, where massive, intensive irrigation isn't a necessity.

If they could without displacing some other more valuable crop, at lower total cost than what they have been with irrigation in the Central Valley, they already would be.

Losing production in the Central Valley reduces overall supply and increases prices, whether it moves some production elsewhere (displacing existing land uses) or not.
Where is the threshold that makes a person an intellectual? We can't use IQ, as that has been shown to be pseudoscience. So what is it? It's nothing. Intellectual is a useless, empty word, used by morons.
Each Electron/NW.js app will be packaged with a whole huge runtime.

It's not all bad - there's more freedom with these.
Same in principal, but Synology have built a lovely, multi-window web interface for a lot of linux and each of those apps, along with their own Android + iOS apps.

https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/live_demo

That consolidates a lot of different UIs, signins, permissions etc into a single coherent interface - even terminal commands like configuring firewall, network interfaces, user permissions, all that stuff.

To give you some examples it takes two clicks, a domain and any contrived email address to get a Let's Encrypt certificate. It takes three more clicks to assign it to a web app Synology is serving from that device. You can add SSL to your own reverse-proxied app, also effortless to add, just as easily and enable HSTS with a checkbox.

Their torrent software can watch RSS feeds and download straight into a folder where it's indexed for their video server. Their video client provides a nice interface for browsing but delegates the actual playback to VLC.
What he's saying is that some people derive happiness from being high status. Thus, their goal is not for everyone to be happy. Their goal is to be above others, even if they have to push others down.

I'm not sure I completely agree, but it does seem to be at least a part of human nature.
> With solar when you set up the panels you're basically done

Unfortunately, you're done only when the sun shines.
I completely agree that legislators are really at the fault of this, and I do see it as a tug-of-war between two gorillas - Content Lobbyists and Tech Lobbyists - with, well, honest customers and researchers caught in the crossfire.