skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What would you want to see in a DevOps monitoring handbook?
Some background: I'm an Ops engineer in a Small UK ISP. I joined when most the team was new, and the previous Ops engineers had moved up to higher positions. Because of this most our systems were dated, and I've had to learn a lot to bring us up to modern monitoring standards.

I've been wanting a side project I'll enjoy for a while, and I get asked to train new hires at work on our stack, so I was thinking of writing something anyway. I'm not looking to make a lot of money, but maybe printing or selling it as an eBook could help pay my DigitalOcean bills.

The stacks I'd be writing about would be: Icinga2, Grafana + Graphite, rsyslog/logstash, Graylog, Collectd, etc. As well as tech I'd cover the general methodology behind running a complete DevOps monitoring setup, not just a configuration guide.

What kind of things do you think would be worth including? Whether I write it for profit or just for new hires, I'm going to write it anyway, so suggestions welcome.
Do you have problems solving algorithm challenges when you're not in an interview?

If it's just doing interviews I would recommend going to a doctor and maybe getting prescribed some beta-blockers. It should calm your nerves enough you can focus on the problems at hand.

1) Many people live great fulfilling lives not working at AmaGooBookSoft. But 1.5 months 1-3 hours of time isn't a huge commitment. Also consider that you might not be studying well. What types of questions are you being asked and how are you studying?

2) What are the types of things you decided to improve on?

3) Yes
And why Dis exists.
Sin #4: no date on most papers.
Where I am at in my life is a good point - My life situation is that right now I could do with the extra money that contracting brings as I have my first child on the way.

From your experience what point in life do you think it's right to join a startup? It's something I often associate with people in their 20s but I don't know if this is more the impression I get from the media.
Yeah, I agree and briefly hinted at that with entrepreneurial connections. It's the same thing as going to a prestigious school. I'm not going to discredit the benefits; it just means you gotta hustle harder if you didn't get in.

Also the Big 4 are changing every few years. Is Twitter still considered part of that group?
Whatever you do, if you are a typical HN reader, do NOT invest like Buffet.

Hint: he never sells.
It also makes non-stupid investments cheaper, so all else being equal cheap money shouldn't increase the proportion of stupid investments.
With 1k you should hold it in cash unless you have some ability to get shares through a special program (employer, trade organization, club, etc).

With 2500 you should go FSTMX.

(Don't take investment advice, including this, from strangers on the internet)
If you are self-employed and incorporated, and are really crushing it, you can open both a 401k and a Roth 401k to maximize the amount you can stuff away.
i mean the solution itself is like an art
"Things like the state of Alabama implementing voter ID laws and then shutting down DMV offices in poor black counties"

"But what I was talking about was functional racism in terms of daily life"

I think you're the one missing the point here. If disenfranchising a large part of the population based on their race, by politicians who more or less campaign on this sort of platform (though in coded language) and win elections repeatedly is not "functional racism", I don't know what is.
And of course you know very well that voting rights is not an isolated case of the racism exhibited by southern states.

That is not to say that only the southern states have racist people but what this sort of blatant, racist policy-making at the highest level is signalling to people of minority races is to stay away from those states altogether if you can. There's a reason immigrant communities are strongest in states like California and NewYork and not Alabama or Mississippi.
Adding to this, there's an informal course review site that gives you pretty good reviews from other students. It should give you some more context:
https://omscentral.com/reviews
You're seriously claiming that no doctor has ever modified a treatment plan due to research provided by a patient?
Shocking: World record 199-mile-long lightning bolt reported
It means 'tending to clear of charges'. Google (or a dictionary) is your friend.
Let me just publish articles full of libel and lies claiming you distribute child porn in a country without libel laws.

Let’s see what you do when the first result in Google for your name is such lies.

Or when things you did in your childhood are all Google results about you, and might make you fail to get a job.

The whole point of the Right to be Forgotten is to solve such issues which can’t be solved otherwise.
I am genuinely surprised to hear this. I largely thought barcodes were nonsense because in the US there isn't really any sort of standard that I've seen (I work for a POS company in the US that has to support a lot of barcodes)
One of the most important open-source projects in my view. Great work!
Freakonomics covered Uber in one of their recent episodes and a study claimed that there was a consumer surplus, with people willing to pay 50-60% more for Uber than they were otherwise paying. Curious if it would actually play out that way if they had a monopoly AND raised prices that much.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/uber-economists-dream/
I've no clue what horseshoe crab harvest stats are like for asia (Tachypleus), but for the U.S. it's somewhere like several hundred thousand crabs (Limulus) bled each year!
I guess a hedge in that case would be to try to arrange things so they come out OK if you miss the goal. Like if you want to be president aim for the fail case being a successful lesser politician. Not sure what Taleb says.
It's called google.com. But seriously, Google has a pretty passive-aggressive approach to complying with laws they don't like, such as publishing all DMCA takedown requests.
Does Shark Tank not follow the example of the UK show Dragon's Den that inspired it in discussing costs of manufacture and wholesale prices? Can't see how anyone can reasonably consider it a "bait and switch" if, after watching a programme in which someone has discussed making a product for $5, selling it wholesale for $15 and expecting it to retail at $30, they then find a different price again for the current version. Getting more revenue out of consumers is literally the point of a show about entrepreneurship.
Thank you for being so open. You articulate and argue your uneasiness and even fear very convincingly. You have presented me with some very good reminders of how wicked our current situation really is. And just to make a few things clear: Of course I am all for an open society. I think it has become clear that I see a very urgent need to create more tolerance and openness in our very own lives. So we are both 'on the same side'. Moreover, if you were asking yourself whether I was religious myself: I would say I am not, at least not in the traditional sense.

I am facing a conundrum though. I have really thought long and hard about how we can actually move forward from this current state of affairs and I simply could not come up with a better perspective than the one I am proposing. I think it is hard to refute on a logical level if you are willing to distance yourself from emotion and really allow yourself to view the situation from both sides. As a recent article on hacker news shows a main theme of it, seems also to be validated empirically [1]. Still, I actually do understand your point and reasoning. It is perfectly reasonable and logical. So in a sense I think we are both right. But before we stop without reaching a conclusion - I have one more question: What would you need me to say or do for you to believe that my approach is actually worth trying out?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12483952
Undersea cables go to other nations, and thus aren't domestic.

The idea that NSA has 'dozens, if not hundreds' of devices 'in every major US city,' regardless of utility for foreign intelligence, is just rampant paranoia, not much behind claiming that the lizard people are eating our brains while we sleep.
From an article in 2006:

"His friends and family paid the first $1,000 dollars, which he spent on a press release. That small publicity gave his site more traffic, which in turn persuaded more advertisers to have faith."

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4585026.stm

I remember from the TV news coverage he talked about how he'd sent that press release out to hundreds of news outlets. So I feel he (in part at least) made his own luck on this one.
To the best of my knowledge: you cannot. (I'm an EU-based SEO. I don't know everything, but i might be a good source.) Most of the search queries that contain human names will be marked as "Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe." no matter wether a removal really happened or not.

Afais this is the "best" data you get from Google for this topic:
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/europepri...

When you look at the other transparency reports you'll notice that you're able to search through other types of removed results (e.g. copyright violations), but that this is not possible in the right to be forgotten area.

[Edit]
But you could ask any big newspaper Website for help. They receive a notice in their Search Console when a result is taken down.
Surely you're closing your eyes and listening to the voice as you meditate. At which point, it'd be nice to do it wherever you please.
Very true, and radically underdiscussed as an issue.

Part of me really wants to know if it is Actually Cheaper for BigPharmaCo to offset research costs to university/government/startups and then do a Merger/Acquisition to get the promising drug past a certain phase (what have you) vs costs to do research in house.

Is lawyering and banking the process to get a drug to market BEFORE final approval really that much cheaper, or is this an accounting slight of hand issue? What is the actual cost minus marketing to develop a drug and bring it to market that created this situation.

Furthermore, what is the cost of marketing on the books for drug companies that also would drive R&D into third parties. Marketing costs are really not cheap - and they have been rising, especially as more prescription drugs are advertised to consumers. How much of this cost is also driving cost cutting/offset of risk?

(especially wondering since these issues appear appears the recall + no more manufacturing of Avui-Q. The auto-injector issues that caused the recall were untraceable/not replicatable at the Sanofi factory - and seem to be based on descriptions user error driven - and lower than the user error/failure rate of EpiPen. Meanwhile, Sanofi isn't the inventor - Kaléo/pair of brother founders is/are, and they brought nearly the exact same injector technology to market by themselves for heroin overdose. Sanofi just licensed the technology - and in the wake of the recall, decided to forfeit the license. I'm wondering how much of that deal's provisions killed the Auvi-Q, since it appears the issues behind the injector are long term fixable and profitable)
I've done both the nanodegree and am nearly done with OMSCS. the nanodegree is pretty value less in general.

It's not that rigid or difficult and carries no real weight.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
What are your thoughts on bokeh? I seem to always revert to R for visualizations
A few comments as someone who works on the periphery of this field:

1. I started my PhD doing quantum information. People in quantum information spend a lot of time thinking about properties of entanglement. Someone below mentioned "a lack of new ideas". There have been quite a few important ideas in AdS/CFT (as a subset of string theory) over the past decade. One of the most exciting is called the Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture and it relates the amount of entanglement in a subsystem to the area of a minimal surface bounding said subregion.

2. Again, as someone who started purely as a QI person, it's shocking how much of the MATH of string theory has entered my research.

3. In my opinion, it's true that string theory hasn't made much progress over the past 20 years or so towards elucidating its potential role as a theory of quantum gravity; but in parallel there are amazing connections being made between string theory and quantum information. Look at the work being done by the "It from Qubit" collaboration for a sampling. This latter point is ~equally related to the recent decoherence of string theory as a subdiscipline. It's more like it tunneled to a state closer to QI.

4. The Firewall paradox is fascinating and it was originated by a bunch of string theorists (Almheiri, Marolf, Polchinski and Sully.)

5. Supersymmetry is in a corner; which is bad for string theory. But string theory is proving to be a powerful lens through which to study quantum entanglement. One step back, one step forward?

Anyways, saying that "string theory is our savior" or anything like that is bad etiquette. But the community is doing interesting things today.
(This comment pertains to Vanguard funds cause I don't know Fidelity). For long term growth you'd likely want either all-stock or a balanced fund, with the lowest costs possible. Unfortunately, funds like Vanguard 500 Index Admiral Shares (cost ratio of 0.05%) have a min of $10k, and 500 Index Investor Shares (cost ratio of 0.16%) has a min of $3k.

So below $10k you're not going to get the best expense ratio, and many of Vanguard's funds have a min of $3k so you can't buy the Vanguard LifeStrategy class or 500 Index fund either. You CAN however buy a Vanguard Target Retirement fund ($1k min and ~0.12-0.16 expense ratio). You don't have to use it for retirement -- you can invest in it just like any other fund, and if you choose a longer horizon the fund will be 90/10 stock/bond or 80/20 stock/bond biased.
"What people believe isn't always what people DO."

I wish I could 1984 myself this throughly. My life will get so much easier.
> Collision and global state related AI planning not with standing.

You're excluding about 50-80% of the actual game logic here you realize?

Don't forget optimizations like memory locality [1] for time sensitive components like particle systems, direct messaging between various game elements, physics processing (which often needs to iterate on world state), and any other kinds of interaction where something (like a door) needs to know whether the player that's trying to unlock it has a certain item in their inventory (like a particular key). Or maybe the door only unlocks after a switch in another room has been thrown. Both are trivial in an OO design; a bit ugly in the functional approaches that come to mind. Possible; of course. But why put yourself to the extra effort?

Functional is great for UIs; you could probably code the HUD and game menu in Elm. I still think functional languages aren't ideal for predominantly imperative problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
I feel like boto3 (Python) is a good place to start. I've used Boto 2.x quite a bit and it's fine as well.

https://boto3.readthedocs.io/

Boto is actually quite a weird library in that the services are generated — defined as json files and the service classes are instantiated dynamically at runtime from these json files (as opposed to being defined in Python classes). For example, this is the definition of the S3 service [1]. You might have noticed that the official AWS clients break normal Python naming conventions and this is the reason why, that said, it's a unique approach that leads to a lot less code to maintain.

[1]: https://github.com/boto/boto3/blob/develop/boto3/data/s3/200...
It's really not: https://www.nsa.gov/about/faqs/sigint-faqs.shtml
I came here just to say the exactly same thing.

Back in 2008 (or so), I was under impression that Twitter will be become "informational highway": all messages will go thru their pipe. Something like world wide message queue. Twitter website and Twitter mobile app would be just one of many views to that pipe.

And people had crazy ideas how to make something like Slack on top of Twitter, payment systems, voting, encrypted channels, integration with games, apps for customer support, etc.

But, now, Twitter is just a social web app very similar to other social networks but without no clear advantage over others.
It's not irrelevant nor is it much of a corner case. I too buy Epipens.

The nice thing about corner cases is that sometimes they are the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Maybe a market solution only fails in a couple of corner cases or maybe there's a fundamental problem with trying to apply market solutions to something like healthcare.
I actually completely agree with all your points. I didn't mean to say these are insurmountable barriers, just to provide some counterweight to the argument there are no barriers to entry. One particular weakness you and others called out is that the network is mainly split into separate cities. So a competitor doesn't need to compete with Uber globally, but could just target a single city.

Additionally once Uber reached monopoly status and started raising prices, it would become more attractive to new entrants to enter the market. So even if Uber managed to beat all their competitors they still would have a price ceiling. All in all I think Uber provides a valuable service and can probably turn itself into a (very) profitable business, but I'm not convinced it will ever be the undisputed leader of all things transport that its current valuation seems to imply.
Why does workalike matter?
"Always be invested in the market" - what does it mean? Always have at least something long in your portfolio? Always be 100% long in your portfolio?

If I have 99% cash and 1% in VTI for 10 years, am I "always invested in the market" during this time?
The post you are responding to literally explains how EE bonds are better than those you can buy on the open market.

Also, you cannot reliably time the market.
Using gunicorn (even with Nginx).
With being on RT?

Even allowing yourself to be interviewed on RT is discrediting. As I said, they are a Breitbart-esque state controlled propaganda arm of the Kremlin.

Steven Segal did this before, when he needed some spotlight:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/30/rt-russia-toda...
Okay, expanding... revenue currently based on broadcast value alone. No value is being extracted from communications loops, redirected communications, related content, drill downs, prioritized versions of the aforementioned items, filters (including location-based filters) or monetized karma (eg. Reddit gold). All of these can be accomplished without polluting the UI or purity of the tweet. Additionally, the highest value network members have got to be cultivated, incentivized for tweets, interaction with other network members and tolerating the occasional flame. A mesh networked solution should be in the works with a moderation-bridged pipeline to the conventional twitterverse.
Of everything you've said, nothing suggests you actually like programming. I think that's most accurately reflected in your description of how much a chore you find algorithms. That's a pretty serious issue.

I don't think I'm alone when I say problem-solving —even if it's not novel— in an efficient way is something most software developers live for.

Part of this is learned and honed with experience. Part comes from a drive to solve [any] problems, even simple puzzles. I truly believe you can learn everything there is to know about programming, but if that's not your passion, you're never going to thrive.

To answer your questions:

1. Your aim to become a top-tier company programmer will never happen at the moment. They only hire passionate programmers who love their work. You can't expect to be hired and then get passionate.

2+3. Stop focusing on study and GPAs. That's done. BUILD SOMETHING for yourself to get some experience doing something you have a vested interest in, not under test conditions. Improve it. Ask other people how you can improve it.

Once you have something that's yours, you might be able to display some passion in an interview (as well as having gained some "real" experience).

If you can't muster even that much enthusiasm for the subject, perhaps it's time to look elsewhere. It's not for everybody.
There's no rational argument to continue with this madness, and yet we do.

I wonder what, if any, the tipping point will be to change it?
>Tons of games have been build declaratively.

[citation needed]

I'm assuming they mean instead of imperatively. And I'm also assuming they mean something more complicated than a solitaire/card game.
I take that as bleeding edge sarcasm :^)

There are many startup endeavours that aim to use tech for the better of our ecosystem e.g. all the startups affiliated with the New Harvest Community (http://new-harvest.org).
I've been wondering when this would happen, such an obvious thing to target. Cool! Good on the founders, though I see competition in their future.
>I'll offer a pint if I'm wrong.

Don't you mean 569 mL? Oh, wait, that is more subtle than at first glance...
The only reason Trump "accepts" this today is because someone at Trump HQ with an IQ over 100 sat down, looked at some figures, and realized that it's mathematically impossible to win a US presidential election with a proportion of the black vote in the single digits.

So this person thinks long and hard about how to push that number up a little bit, comes up with this awesome idea which they think somehow "redeems" Trump, and this is what you get.

The problem with this entire farce of a "news story" is that it's obvious pandering and only works if you believe the premise that black people are stupid.
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When Snapchat (a pretty good comparable for Twitter) raised in 2014, they said they had 100 million monthly active users [1]. According to leaked financials [2] they were doing it on about 10 million a month, or just 30 million per quarter.

Twitter supposedly has 300 million MAUs, so your estimate of 100 million/quarter may be right on the money.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/26/snapchat-said-to-have...

[2] http://gawker.com/snapchat-lost-a-ton-of-money-last-year-170...
The Scottish devolution referendum, 1979, had to have a minimum threshold of 40% of the population voting yes. Furthermore, the Clarity Act of Canada implying some sort of 'quorum' by stating "Giving the House of Commons the power to determine whether or not a clear majority had expressed itself following any referendum vote, implying that some sort of supermajority is required for success" for the independance of a province of Canada, but generally thought of as Quebec.

There is the legal principle of maintaining the 'status quo' and the preponderance of maintaining the status quo to maintaining a stable and governable society. My contention is that if 26% of the populace can decide the destiny of the wider society, and by a very slim margin, then democracy has not been served. If it was 26% to 10% that would be a different story, but it was not, it was 26% to 25% and that is a very slim margin indeed.
Speaking as someone who was on a reality TV show with my sister ("Sugar Showdown") I can tell you this is absolutely not true. We are everyday folks, not aspiring actors, as were the other contestants.
Agreed. Those are "games," certainly. They don't need a full game engine to write.

And that's also clearly not the target of React Game Kit, or why would there be a physics engine and a real time game loop?
You can search for phrases such as "Unfortunately, the page we linked to was removed because of EU law". This will not give you the page itself though.