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Ask HN: Is the private cloud the worst documented thing?
Over the past few weeks I've been sampling a lot of hypervisors for running private cloud instances with decent support for control via API.

The question comes to mind: could it be that hypervisors and private cloud software is actually the worst documented thing these days?

I did sample installations and multi-node setups at my office rack with these:

- VMware ESXi
- XenServer
- Debian + Proxmox
- Debian + OpenNebula
- Debian + OpenStack

Why these? Well, mainly due to the fact that a key requirement for private clouds is control via API and API tooling is kind of sparse apart from these contenders.

Are my contenders just not used that much in real world use cases, or is it just the fact that the missing documentation/non-public knowledge results in DevOps nice consulting invoices?
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How do they manage such abysmal numbers after essentially monopolizing the CAD software market?
Totally agree. It used to be that one could browse the internet, and the only ads you'd see were the ads that the webmasters had personally negotiated for. These days everywhere you go your data is sucked in, and your 'reward' is a 'targeted' ad. The degradation in quality of service is staggering and sad.

That said, I hope the legislation in this case will be sound. I hope that it at least leads to less invasive tracking. I hope it will be the combination of this legislation and the increasing amount of ad blockers that finally kill obtrusive ads and tracking.

When I use a computer without an adblocker(tracking blocking included) these days there's a major chilling effect. It's gotten so bad that I don't dare search for certain things on my mobile (andoid) because I know somewhere a model is being trained on what I do and type. It makes me uncomfortable and suspicious, and also angry at tech companies that are using my behavior to earn money. I already paid for your phone, you don't deserve anything more.

Cryptomining in a users browser, when not done through an exploit with hidden windows, is a perfect solution to website financing for larger websites. The smaller ones need to make up their mind about finding a balance between micro payments/subscriptions/patreon/free content.
Ben Thompson Is Wrong About the Deregulation of ISPs
You're completely de-railing the discussion and trying to respond to this nonsense in any constructive way would only de-rail it further. No amount of strawmen and US-centric "the government wants to enslave us all" propaganda will make me think that the now existing, well working digital ID systems available in the world (not the US) are the work of the illuminati, should be abolished, and/or will be surgically inserted into my brain in the near future.

I made a point that there are already ways for Facebook, in certain countries, to verify the identity of their users, if they so please; and that Facebook will never use these because they'd rather control the system of verification themselves (prioritizing profit, not privacy and integrity of users). They could use the systems already in place and say "you know what, the state of Estonia is telling us this guy is who he says he is, we'll accept that". What you're doing is arguing against government-backed digital identification in any broad definition of the term, and you can have that opinion but it's off topic.
A word of caution: ECS multi-container tasks do not have the same semantics as Kubernetes pods. In particular, there is no support for bidirectional network discovery.
Tailgating is a sign of gross incompetence. I never said you should break check, but if your going to have an accident it's better to be rear ended than hit something and then been rear ended with a much larger speed differential.

PS: Tail gaters are creating a highly dangerous situation so slowing down without jamming the breaks is the correct response.
There was an overlooked woman on that too:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
When did you learn that plain yoghurt is ok, but all the others are not ok? The packaging makes all the others look ok. Plain yoghurt vs strawberry yoghurt sounds like, and is presented like, a taste choice. Not a choice between 0 spoonfuls of sugar and 10 spoonfuls of sugar.

How did you learn it? And this is one example in a myriad of food choices! Almost every cereal, "whole grains and nuts", has sugar listed as the third ingredient. Including the healthy looking ones. In the UK, Special-K, advertised by thin women in red swimming costumes, presents itself as a diet cereal. Third ingredient? Sugar. "specifically tailored for women with a mix of ingredients to give you a positive, healthy start to the day and help you feel strong from the inside". Healthy start my ass, it's just carbs.

What about all these other little rules and gotchas and tricks that you've learnt manipulative companies are trying to play on you?

How many articles did you have to read?

And why do you think the rest of society has this same level of education about food? You, I assume, are well paid, have time to sit at your desk reading articles about yoghurt and added sugar. You have a vastly different level of education than most of your country, access to much higher levels of pay, have different exposure to revealing stories about the tactics of companies adding sugar came from.

We haven't even touched on how carb laden, added sugar food is vastly cheaper and easier to cook than nutrional food, making it extra seductive in two ways to poor, overworked people.

You've fallen into the classic trap of "I know this, I act like this, I have this level of money, I have time to act on this, therefore everyone else should be able to".
Yes it could be. You need a song database to detect changes, and that is hard and/or expensive to gather.

Commercial services are available in that field. ACRCloud was mentioned in another comment.
It's marketing.

Instead of explaining what Bitcoin actually is you compare it to something very simple that everybody knows and derive "digital gold" ...
Sounds like that's potentially solvable by breaking the podcast down into chunks by speaking voice, then flagging any sections of ~30s with a different speaking voice from the rest. Detecting guest speakers shouldn't get caught by this as there'd be more conversation rather than a mostly unbroken 30s chunk.
The difficult part is holding through the bear period. I'm pretty sure not so many investors can do that.
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That depends on your distro. Fedora 27 just shipped recently with colored emoji support thanks to the Google noto emoji font.
How is my reason sarcastic? I'm being completely serious. And yes, of course it needs to work world-wide but I think it's naive to think that's the primary reason FB would be doing it. They'd be doing it because they want complete control of the authentication ecosystem.
How to make Firebird work 20% faster at Windows Server 2016 in less than 1 min
I've got a Pixel, won't be getting Pixel 2. My partner just got a OnePlus 5T though, and it looks very good. Definitely considering OnePlus as my next step.
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We are still using it in our testing environment - 8+ servers. We do a lot of pre-OS tests so KVM is the optimal solution - faster and more reliable than IPMI/etc.
I'm the same way.

For a brief period in my teenage years I would put my entire pirated music collection on shuffle and listen to whatever came on, but at some point I just started listening to entire albums, start to finish.

I think it began when I started listening to Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson when I was 15. As artists they tended to release concept albums or at least albums that told a story from start to finish, with one track bleeding into the next effectively.

Since then listening to whole albums is all I do and when first listening to a new artist i listen to whole albums starting with their first release and working through them chronologically.

That gives me the full taste of what they are about as artists and also lets me experience their evolution as musicians over time.
Google told the BBC: "This is not new - we have defended similar cases before. We don't believe it has any merit and we will contest it."

Google agreed to pay a record $22.5m (£16.8m) in a case brought by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the same issue in 2012.

It will be interesting how this one ends, here's hoping for a pro consumer verdict.
Dude, you think this Amazon Cloud Service will still be active when the messages are received?

More important, will the device battery still be charged when it gets a response back?
Can a single damn news source stop using metaphors in their titles?… I infer there’s a huge lay off here…
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I retired with 18, lol. Still pursueing a worthwhile career.
One of our use-cases involves operating a time-series database for collecting app metrics, InfluxDB.
It's interesting, but this is probably one of the reasons google has become so terrible. It's treating searches as a game, not something it needs to improve. Resulting in a steady decline year after year.
The earliest smart contracts will likely involve things that are relatively easy to verify, e.g. a bet that the price of ETH will be above X at Y date and time.

Ensuring that accurate, real-world data gets entered into the blockchain to enable broadly useful smart contracts is going to be an interesting area to monitor over the next few years.

Augur attempts to align people's incentives to accurately report on real world events, like political events (aka Oracles). Axa pays out on delayed flights with a new flight insurance product[1], from data gathered from public flight information, which triggers an automated payout.

[1] https://fizzy.axa/
Isn't 40-45 extremely old for SF? Most FANG-engineers can probably retire by their late 20s in my experience.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15814712
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15814189
This is like saying that all flying birds have feathers therefore we must have something similar to feathers on a flying machine.

Simply emulating things just because it feels like they should be important is not a particularly promising approach when you're designing circuits.
The main thing that has pissed me off with technologies like DisplayPort and HDMI is that I cannot actually turn my monitors off when I'm not using my computer. With DVI I could turn the monitors off and the desktop and applications would stay where they were. With HDMI/Displayport it considers the monitor disconnected, hence re-adjusts the desktop and moves everything around.

I would love an option that I could switch on and it would "disable HDCP" on these monitors so they could function like they did before. Sure I couldn't play some videos but that's not a great loss for me.
regulation creates monopolies.
I made https://github.com/myfreeweb/interactor for Rust
True, but the number of weird mistakes due to floating point inaccuracies that happened in Excel spreadsheets is probably too large to be accurately representable in a 32bit float number.
Show HN: Finch.io – tweak design on any live website
Do you regret not buying every penny stock that went up in value, every roulette ball that landed on red you didn't bet on? From a get rich quick standpoint there is no difference.
Sorry, that is my fault. If a mod can add it please do.
I think the use cases are disappearing. Using a KVM means working near many noisy computers. I do not know the location of most of the machines I am using remotely from my dumb windows PC. Poor guys that must use a KVM.
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Unfortunately, this was neither surprising nor unexpected
I am not sure why you think the demand should increase year over year. Also, at some point people are not going to run full nodes and it just dies.
Not even physically, but just redirecting the raw signal to another device should work. Maybe artificially break it for a second or so to better simulate plugging out and back in. I can't see how the actual endpoints could tell a difference between that and manually un- and re-plugging into a different device.
The only other wiki project I know of that's the opposite of Wikipedia for <niche> is https://everipedia.org/ which tries to be a wiki for "everything" by not having Wikipedia's deletionist rules. It's an alright site but has nowhere near the traffic and name brand as Wikipedia, even though it has all the pages Wikipedia has.
Value of Father
He doesn't assert it works pretty well, he just says it is the best option.
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People are more likely to notice and remember self driving cars, so you can't assume they are accurately reporting frequency vs. just remember more frequently and or a biased sample.
Whatever the brainwash of lobbies, I am sure an herbicide can not be effective and healthy at the same time.
> Posteo could probably still be coerced to push out a fraudulent client update that still breaks their encrpytion, but that is a very hard problem to deal with.

They are based in Germany and would need to be coerced in accordance to german law. I don't think that there is something like National Security Letters in Germany, so doing such a thing without (eventual?) public disclosure seems unlikely.

Also posteo regularly releases as much information as they are allowed to regarding their interaction with law enforcement, e.g.:

https://posteo.de/en/site/transparency_report
That is totally not "normal", at least not where I live (UK).

Banks have asked me for a utility bill as a proof of address when I opened an account, but never after that and nobody else ever has.

Specifically, I have never been asked for proof of identity, or proof of address, when purchasing a service, online or otherwise. Even when I purchase flight, train or boat tickets online, where I have to enter my identity and address details, I've never been asked for proof of those, like a scan of my passport or a utility bill.

That is not normal, stating it is normal is not normal and accepting it as normal is not normal either.
In Germany, compensation is usually negotiated on a monthly basis (X Euros per month, before tax). Employees sign contracts that are far more binding than American job offers - for both sides.

For example, during the first six months, my employer or I could end it with a month's notice, without having to give a reason. Now that we're past that, I have to give three months' notice, and they have to be cutting headcount in Germany, unless I'm fired for cause, which absent actual criminal activity, requires proof that they tried to work with me over a long period of time to correct whatever they were unhappy about with my performance. That part is a very mixed blessing. On the one hand, I feel braver about trying things I think will be good for my company and pushing for what I think will work best. On the other, it's very hard to get rid of people who have lost interest in their work.

Back to the hours vs. salary: many of us, especially at big, traditional companies, have contracts for a certain number of hours per week, usually 40, sometimes 35. Anything you work over that goes into your comp time account, anything below that is a debit on your comp time account. At my company, if I work outside the standard hours it a) requires agreement from the works council and b) gets paid at 2x time, with the overage paid out in my next paycheck.

Depending on your contract, your comp time account might not be allowed to go above or below certain values. When it goes above, either your manager has to make you stay away, or the overage gets paid out at what your hourly rate would have been.

Only people who are truly making manager money are outside this hours system. I used to balk at being sent home by 8pm or 10 working hours, but now I treasure it.
trademark your brand first, otherwise you are the thief
Looking at where their problems are on profitability.

R&D costs climbed by nearly $200 million versus five years ago (when their sales were higher than they are today). That increase is equivalent to ten percent of their sales now. By itself, that expense gain is nearly enough to wipe out their old decent profit numbers.

"Other" SG&A expenses climbed by nearly $200 million as well.

They added around 1,700 to 2,000 employees since the beginning of 2013. Going from ~7,300 to 9,000+. That's probably more than a $200 million total annual cost addition. Then contract sales by $400 or $500 million from those days, and you get a big net financial crush.

Simply put, they bet on growth showing up, which has never materialized. To put it into context, their sales for fiscal 2007 were $1.84 billion (versus $1.95 billion the last four quarters; so realistically zero growth for a decade (!)).

To throw some more onto the fire, they spent over a billion dollars buying back stock over the last 10-12 years or so ($447 million in 2006 alone). As with companies like IBM, that money obviously should have gone to improving the actual business rather than financial maneuvers (trying to fake EPS growth).

Worse yet, as of recently they were still at the faking EPS game (from a year ago):

"Autodesk, Inc. today announced a program to repurchase up to 30 million shares of the company's common stock"

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160919005222/en/Auto...

So here's a company, bleeding red ink, whose balance sheet is badly eroding, sales are falling, and the people running the business are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy back massively over-inflated shares.
Thanks! I was wondering why none of the comments made sense.
Oh I hadn't, this is fantastic (and it integrates with an ESP32), thanks! I wonder if it includes software to do some live DSP to reduce noise... The fact that it can just connect to the Raspberry Pi's GPIOs and provide great sound is ideal, though. I'm very glad someone has made this, I wish I had known about it before so I could back it.
I don't understand what this has to do with graphics cards. One is about connecting multiple monitors to one computer, the other about connection one monitor to multiple computers.
Affinity Designer has been around for a few years, Photo was launched maybe a year ago.
Not to call big parma ethically challanged, but international documents are more likely to Hirt them than help.
I've found that doing anything distracting can help.

Commuting, listening to a podcast or audio book, playing a video game for 15-20 minutes, ...

Whatever takes your mind away from matters at work.
There are some other good reasons mentioned here, but this is the one that makes me glad they are: firmware updates.

Insecurely designed, networked embedded devices are a serious issue. Look at the botnet based on CCTV cameras for an example. A company that doesn't care about security is still going to produce crap devices and isn't going to update, but for a company that cares about security, ability to patch devices in the field is an absolute necessity to stay on top of vulnerabilities.

The ability to add features and keep your device 'fresh' is a nice bonus.
I use two machines as part of normal operation, my monitors have multiple inputs which can be switched with one button

and with synergy the mouse/keyboard can move across

no need for a KVM
Space That Never Was
I’m not sure what you’re unhappy about. You’re fulfilled at your current job, not looking for a new one where this kind of interviewing happens, so what’s the problem at hand?
Warn your existing accounts, give the usual cautions against social engineering phishing attacks to gain their credentials. If accounts are valuable, give each an account USB U2F security key, if capable of that kind of security. Adds $10 to your costs, but might be cheaper. Or you can use an Android or Apple security App, like gmail does. Might aggravate clients. It is a balance.

U2F sells here

https://www.amazon.com/HyperFido-K5-FIDO-U2F-Security/dp/B00...
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From the union's perspective, success. The goal of a union is to increase the number and quality of union jobs.
Wow I didn't know that 3D drawings with proper perspective were a thing in the 16th century. This historic outline says that by the late 15th century, "artists were in total command of perspective": http://www.op-art.co.uk/history/perspective/

Those drawings look so gorgeous, it's great that those colors could be preserved. Those pears also do look a bit different than ours, interesting.
Any herbicide whether natural or artificial that prevents other organisms from eating your crop cannot be effective and healthy at the same time. This applies also for vegetables that are naturally resistant to pests (e.g. Vegetable strains that are Much more bitter than the wild type ).

The solution is to not to have an expectation that vegetables should be free of any insect or animal contact. But not everybody likes caterpillar bite marks on their vegetables.
Sure, it's less immersive than if there wasn't a notch.

But unlike you, I have actually used the iPhone X extensively and I find the experience incredibly immersive. I have done the same with the Samsung Galaxy S8 and I find the iPhone X more immersive - yes, even with the notch.

Unfortunately I can't afford either, so I have a OnePlus, but if I could, I'd get the X.
This article reads like a political agenda providing few verifiable facts, and many broad, unsubstantiated claims. If one is going to make bold claims, they should be substantiated by fact, not by other bold claims.

I am no expert on glyphosates, but that article has left me less than convinced that they are "safe".
Sure. But the two mandatory questions of banning any pesticide are tough to answer:

- Can we have similar output (quality/quantity/cost) without any pesticide at all?

- If not, are the alternative molecules better or worse?
Depends on the dosage. Like any chemist will tell you.

Herbicide can certainly be effective and at the same time not be dangerous to the human body simply because our body mass is higher and thus the effective dosage per kg of body mass is lower.

Or alternatively, herbicides can be made less effective against mammals but more effective against other animals/insects by disrupting cell chemistry not present in mammals (or humans if you want to be more specific on the chemical).

Of course, herbicide is not healthy if consumed in any large amounts, it's after all a poison, small dosages can be made safe for humans while still being dangerous to not-humans.
Law applies to start-ups as well.

Internet has become the dominative media in the past decade, it is naive to think the powers in real world will give it a free pass.
Guess who is paid by Monsanto...
You're misunderstanding what I'm saying.

The internet has been open for over two decades yes, but the ubiquitous surveillance of users and tracking and advertising across various websites and services is something that only really became a reality as Facebook and Google began to dominate.

Again, that seemed to start happening after the mid 2000's.
I came here to write a very similar thing.

While activists exaggerate to persuade people it's not safe because it might be carcinogenic, the author is on the other extreme: it's safe until proven otherwise.

It also sports a fair share of whataboutism: "what about bacon, that's also considered carcinogenic!?".
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ZeroTier is the perfect solution, it's the most genious VPN solution i've seen.

http://packetpushers.net/podcast/podcasts/pq-134-meet-zeroti... <- Here's a Pod with the creator of ZT, once you've listened to it you'll realize how it fits everyone =)
I think the main reason for the hierarchy we have in IT is basically necessity, and I say this as someone who's more into devops & co.

You can't have a product without developers. You can have a product without QA, support, Ops, etc.

Managers are another story cause there we get into more social aspects...