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I use Deis on a single server. It works great.

There are a few things you need to be aware of, but the tl;dr is that it works great for us. We'd be using it more, except that our org hasn't adopted containers in any meaningful way yet, and Deis is large and complicated, and a little too much for them to bite off and swallow all at once. They want to do a pilot on ECS so that we can say we're using more AWS services (yay lock-in, we love vendor lock-in.)

So, those things you need to be aware of:

#1 - In the default mode, Minio is used instead of a real Object Storage backend like S3 or Swift, and Minio is configured to keep all objects in RAM by default. Use S3 instead. This is an option to configure in values.yaml.

#2 - builder really needs to be on an SSD, but if you're not backing your Kube node with SSD, you can at least prevent a lot of builder crashes by making sure there isn't much swap to fill and bog down the disk with swapped pages. This may be counter-intuitive (don't things crash when they run out of RAM? Isn't that why you have swap...) until you realize that Builder has to respond to health checks by default once per second. So if the node that builder runs on is getting even remotely bogged down by swappiness and lots of swappy pages, it will be killed and restarted, which takes some time and is noticeable and annoying.

#3 - The remaining cloud services that Deis can optionally depend on IMHO are take-or-leave, depending on your cloud provider. Deis can do everything in-cluster. I actually use this configuration with Minikube and Deis, and it works great. I let Deis spin up its Postgres database on-cluster and restore from S3 WAL backups each day, it just works.

I'd be using Deis more heavily, except that my app development has a production database attached. (Our infosec department is leary about letting me put backups of sensitive data into S3. So we really have to use RDS for our app, even though Deis is creating a Postgres database that nothing else is stopping you from using with your app. It's for Deis controller operation though.)

#4 - This one may be a dealbreaker if your company is very serious, Deis is now "End-of-Life." This means that Microsoft has committed to provide break fixes for Deis until March only, and by middle of next year, any break fixes will have to come from the community. There is AFAIK nowhere to buy Deis support, although there is a new group that has formed to commit to support Deis into the future, it's not clear what form that support will take, or whether you'll be able to pay money for an SLA, or anything like that. It is open-source.

This may be exactly what you'd prefer, or it may be a deal breaker. I like Open Source, but my group likes support.

I do not work for Deis or any other cloud PaaS provider, although I have evaluated a lot of them including OpenShift (and I consider Deis to be technologically superior in some ways to OpenShift.) Because of my ECS requirement, I'm looking at Convox now. If you have to use ECS, so far I would definitely recommend Convox. If you're like the rest of the world and using K8S, I can't think of any really good reason not to recommend Deis.
Whenever one needs to quantify using unquantifiable words like "important but past a certain point" it is helpful to solve that point at the limit.

Pacifists, for example, will refuse to kill someone who is pointing a gun at their family because of their, in my not humble opinion, stupid beliefs. I may think their beliefs are stupid but I cannot say that they themselves are full of crap because, after all, they live their beliefs.

The people who are making claims that money is not the only mandatory thing and everything else is optional nice to have thing(s) tend to weasel out of the lets solve for money being zero ( or minimum wage ).

Unfortunately, while pacifists do not disrupt my life (when their world collides with reality, they die and their ideas die with them ) the people who are claiming that conferences are more important than $$ disrupt my market. This means that my goal is to illustrate as much as possible how silly their positions are.
Remember, we're talking about MacBookPro class here: ~2kg, 45W TDP Quadcore, dedicated graphics.

Lenovo T-Series: DDR4.
HP Zbook: DDR4.
Dell XPS/Precision: DDR4.
Asus Zenbook Pro: DDR4.

Or did you really want to compare with an x1 carbon? Apples and oranges.
You recalled that line about when the taxi driver starts giving stock tips? Wow, you're so original. No one involved in bitcoin over the last 8 years has heard that one before. What other insights do you have?
1.1B Taxi Rides with BrytlytDB 2.1 and a 5-node IBM Minsky Cluster
Or 20, or 30, or just maybe never. I'll see it when I believe it...
Sure you can gamble that after spending a year working for that money you can make up for what you missed. It's possible, or you realize that as you get older, things get more difficult to do. Say you find out that you have arthritis and what you could do 2 years ago, you can't really do now. Maybe you find out that during that year of extra hours was when your daughter got cancer, and she's going to die within the next 6 months. You never get more time, you're just hoping the free time you have later makes up for what you're not doing now. The problem is that a lot of people never make it to later.
everyone moved to whatsapp

Maybe the distinction is worthwhile to make if you try, but in general “I don’t use Facebook, I use [thing that is also Facebook]” is not really a convincing argument.
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When the Shoeshine Boys Talk Stocks It Was a Great Sell Signal in 1929 (1996)
That description doesn’t sound nefarious. But I’m keen to learn more.
The innovation is not in the technique itself. Showing the technique is practical in current hardware for current problems is what the paper is about.
This article seems relevant today, in regards to cryptocurrencies.
I use taiga.io self hosted.

Works really really well.
Could someone highlight a few applications of this?
PoW is the cheapest way to have secure transactions compared to alternatives. It's not energy wasted - this energy ensures the safety of the global financial system, which is a net positive.

http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest
I discovered AOC this year, I clearly recommend it over ProjectEuler if you want programming challenges that requires less math knowledge to go through.

It is also a great platform to learn a new programming language. I'm using it as an opportunity to improve my (small) knowledge of rust.

[1] https://github.com/StreakyCobra/advent-of-code-2017
> I have trouble understanding the usefulness of this. Haskell is barely used in the first place, and even less for highly safety critical software.

Every new approach is initially barely used in the wild, and the initial
method of such a new approach is usually quite different in details from how
things end up eventually.

In this case the value lies in working out how proving software could look
like, and proving program after writing it is a different direction than
writing it to a proof. We can't tell which of these methods is more useful or
convenient before somebody checks them out.
NAND Flash Oversupply Could Lead to Q1 2018 Price Drops – HotHardware
Crafting Interpreters – Inheritance
Does the injected code count towards the data cap? If so there may be a legal case there.
> This worker is teaching people to use the iPads that will one day replace her. It’s an awkward phenomenon that now pervades a growing cross-section of industries, a type of techno-solutionism that’s unbearable because it insistently capitalizes on quick fixes for problems that didn’t exist to begin with.

These devices are awesome. When I go to lunch with my co-workers, it's easy to split the check. I don't have to give my credit card to anyone. And if we're in a time crunch I don't have to flag down the wait staff. Nor do they have to wait for their shot at the payment terminal.
Thanks for doing the benchmarking Mark. We are excited to once again smash the benchmark by a factor of 4 over other GPU Database vendors.
This paper summarizes the results of 'years of engineering work'.
This is basically the intent of the existing means-tested systems. While they've got us this far, we can also see all the people who fall between the cracks; recently this was covered by people getting on disability benefits of one sort or another, but the constant pressure of " is this person deserving" erodes that.
If labor becomes scarce as a result of UBI, and producers can no longer recoup production costs at current prices, they will cease operations, reducing supply and raising prices.

I think it's incorrect to think that a good has an intrinsically elastic or inelastic supply.
Excellent. It isn't so hard to understand whats going on there. But I guess people often fall for popular narrative.
Some do understand, but don't want to admit ;)
If I'm not mistaken, the condensers are cooled by water, hence the plumes of steam you see rising above nuclear power plants. So if you are using a similar technique with geothermal plants and are in an area where you cannot quickly radiate excess heat away, you'll still need a secondary, renewable, source of water... right?
> The disbanding of the military was part of the DeBa'athification doctrine.

Which was inspired by the denazification effort in post-WWII Germany. The problem is that the U.S. actually tried to follow through this time (the denazification effort rather notoriously slowed down first as the Allies realised that they needed competent administrators if they didn't want the Germans to starve to death, and then later as the Cold War heated up).

In retrospect the U.S. probably should have deliberately chosen to prosecute only the bigger fish, with a ban from public employment one punishment for the smaller of those. But hindsight is 20/20.
Red flag = "not a gullible looser". It's a flag of honour.
It's always a common complaint of appealing to the "mainstream" that people neglect to mention has become the mainstream because it appeals to the desires of a lot of people.

There's the feedback loop of creating something people will like based on what they liked previously, which can be self-limiting, but also appeals to the demands of those consumers.

We should broaden our experiences regularly, but for me with all the other things I could challenge myself with, music isn't something I care deeply enough about to, well... care.
good luck:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bitfinex/

Nothing but complaints about withdrawals. You can't even withdraw anything from bitfinex less than 250BTC.
I'd agree with some of yours but not others. I definitely won't take 1 or 2 for $100K extra for the long term - maybe a year at most.

For 3, I'd have to be paid a lot more. There is always a serious concern that while I have all the skills to do my current job, I don't have the skills to do most developer jobs out there (stuck with old paradigms and technology). So me getting paid a little extra now may mean I'll be out of a job soon with little to show on my resume.

4 is definitely an option for me if it significantly reduces the time to retirement.

>You know why? Money buys more than just "roof" and "comfort". It buys everything. Planes. Parachutes. Yachts. Horses. Jet skis. Vacation homes. College and private school for kids.

Of all these, only the last one interests me.

To be totally frank, an average paying job which lets me retire at, say, 60 and gives me a lot of free time and is very low stress is ideal, and none of the above would interest me. The only reason I don't stick to such a job is because I know job situations are fickle. Management changes, etc. But if I knew the job situation (decent pay, lots of free time and no stress) would stay forever, I'd just stick to it.

Which is what the parent was saying: Past a certain point, money isn't a great motivator.
Honestly, for this specific use case what I want is for btree to be _much_ better than learned index structures in some cases and _much_ worse in other cases. That way I can run both in parallel and whichever queries back first is the one I go with. My overall performance skyrockets.
Atari Announces Ataribox Pre-Orders Going Live 12/14, Discounts for Early Birds
It's been said already, but the idea that Heroku is expensive is provably incorrect.

They're not providing hosting, they're providing a service.

If I want self-hosted platforms, I'll manage my own docker containers on a GKE cluster or something similar. As it turns out, I want to write code and scale it to millions of people. Heroku lets me do that, and I don't need to hire an SRE team.
Here to second that notion. So far in my career every move I've done has been for a salary bump and quality of life improvement.
Seems like the FTC could go after them for false advertising. I'd go as far as saying that this product is a scam.

It seems like it doesn't actually do any of what it claims to do. It's like putting your guns in a normal safe, setting it to 0-0-0-0-0 and writing the code on the outside.
Either your post is dupe content (stolen) or someone stole the post from you because this exact same thing was on HN earlier today under a different domain and title
Six Books That Have Offered Me Significant Insights in 2017
You are right, this is junk science. In the US calories from meat are down, calories from plants are up. Red meat consumption is also down.

For some graphs showing that people ate more meat in the 1800s: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/927306530600431616

Tax or ban corn, not meat.
Hey, what would "something else" be in this scenario?
I used "if she was wrong" as a way to say "even if everything you're saying is true, your conclusion does not follow from your premises". It's a counterfactual which I hoped would emphasize my rejection of the GP's argument specifically. I do think that she might be wrong, relative to a perspective where you want to increase sales, and while increasing sales at all costs is immoral, I don't think that any real moral achievements are made by "objectifying" men if it's not what readers want, because the whole point of objectification is giving readers what they want. What is immoral is the case where the perspectives of female readers are valued less than the perspectives of male readers in a publication which is supposedly for both men and women, but if, on average, men and women prefer pictures of women (which is my guess), taking advantage of that would not be immoral. However, it's also possible that the key assumption is false -- it mostly comes from a course in aesthetic psychology I took back in college, and my memory is a bit fuzzy.
"Here's how it's completely different from UBI"

"It doesn't matter what you call it. Gotcha!"
> The 'sane' people have missed out on some of the best returns in history.

Are these actual returns (ie, BTC sold for fiat) or paper returns on an assumption of market depth at current spot?

Serious question. Most bitcoin enthusiasts I know are either still holding their bitcoin, or traded them for other cryptocurrencies. Few have crystallised their gains in fiat.
NYC explosion: Suspect in custody after 'terror-related incident' in subway
The model that I've liked the most...

- Monorepo for all the services code in the enterprise. (Java )

- UI code is kept in their own repositories.

- Enterprise Services are exposed using well defined stable rest-like APIs. (json, http, swagger, etc). We only exposed what is needed.

- Within the services monorepo, services can call other services directly using regular java calls.

- Services in the monorepo are refactored all the time. This is the advantage of using a strongly typed language like Java.

- Several instances of the services run are a time, they scale horizontally. Releases are done one instance at a time.

- We had good unit and integration test suites on the services.

Now I am working for a different company. We have hundreds of services deployed. No one knows what is running where. Or what the dependencies are. Once something is released, everybody is afraid to make a change as no one knows how that is affects other systems.
> Money is important, but past a certain point (when you are able to live comfortably and are no longer feeling stressed about your personal/family finances)

My problem is with that statement. I know this is a very common belief, but has anyone actually hit that point?

I have gone through several cycles over the past 10 years, where I thought 20% more money would get me there. At each point, what was required to be comfortable would change.

At first it was having enough money for me, then having enough that I could get married and buy a house and help my wife, then it was having enough money for my kids to go to a decent day care. Now I'm worried we don't have enough to send our kids to private school.

Once I hit that, I will probably want to have enough money that my wife doesn't need to work. I wonder if that's when I can relax and the stress of finance will go away?
Espionage: Germany unmasks fake Chinese LinkedIn profiles
I guess they wanted to make robots less scary by rooting the story in the idea of babies. But it doesn't really achieve its purpose since there's still the obvious narrative of "oh, so what happends when the baby robots grows up into scary adult robots with all the greed and hate that that can be associated to". I think Googles Waymo took a better approach to framing the narrative PR around AI, namely making the robot feel like a toy or animation character instead.
This isn't really true in my experience.
He/she is probably referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Which is and isn't relevant.
Probably better to link to the main page: http://www.craftinginterpreters.com
That is worth a try! Thanks. There is an XFinity Store less than 2 miles away from me. Never thought to set foot there.
There's no job that's so fun that I'd take it over working on things I want to work on (e.g. that same job), but only when I feel like it. Which is what you get when you are financially independent. Which you won't be if you work for peanuts.
Waste from the Hanford Site? Why would it be necessary to transport it through the most populous area of WA state? (I'm asking as somebody who has lived near Hanford as well as in the Seattle metro area)
Apple's Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones with Degraded Batteries
You're right, it's actually quite a bit higher.

Sticking with Glassdoor (so it's apples to apples) cash comp for a senior developer averages $101k (4% above the national average). So I'd say SpaceX is doing pretty good at $155k.
Stop Loss for Bitcoin in Volatile Times
Is there any chance that you can add this to your internal "customer want this feature"?

I like to be able to add multiply hard/software second factor devices to on IAM Account.
To give a specific example from recent history: Are the unemployment numbers (and related statistics) accurate or not? And were they accurate or not 18 months ago?

The reason many people get scared when you answer these questions with "no" is that it would mean the complete decoupling of politics from reality. Debates about policy have a long history, and they're not harmful. But when one side starts also making up their own facts, it becomes impossible to reason, and a Venezuela-style decline might follow.

Logical reasoning with transitive trust networks could obviously be useful to re-establish a common reality. But while it might convince those that answered the two questions above with 'no' that the statistics are really compiled in good faith, no amount of reasoning will help with those answering "yes" to the first, and "no" to the second.
I'm not trying to blame anyone specifically. This is just a major rhetorical exploit that works on Republican-leaning voters. I know because I and many of my associates are Republican-leaning and very conservative, at least by HN standards. We need to call out these divisive rhetorical exploits because they're used by nefarious groups to subvert actual dialogue and keep people at the extremes.

By no means do I believe that Democrats or liberals have clean hands on this. All sides deliberately ignore and subvert intellectual property matters because it is so dang profitable, and this affects "liberal" industries much more deeply than "conservative" ones. Copyright is fundamentally "big government", which more conservatives would recognize if the narrative around this issue wasn't so tightly controlled. And that's not to say that copyright doesn't serve a useful purpose at all, just that we should be cautious and wary about it.

Since bad political actors and profiteers actively and successfully cultivate tribal dynamics for their benefit, the tribal context and instinct can't be ignored. It must be worked within. Approaching a tribe as an outsider just causes them to raise their shields and ignore anything you say.

Good principles and values drive most actors on both sides of the aisle. Political alignment basically seems to just come down to which principles we prefer to favor/bias. Under that context, the need for balanced, inclusive dialogue is clear, and we should all be grateful for the diversity of opinion that keeps everything in balance.

Maintaining that diversity means working within the structures of human association to create authentic, grateful alliances built on that recognized need, instead of allowing others to abuse those same structures to provoke destructive animosities.
How do you suggest we get there? Ban unregulated mining farms, only allow them to exist if they have a deal with their local energy producer? It would also require most countries to adopt some sort of treaty.

No one is mining only when demand for energy is low. They're mining 24/7, even probably during peak hours. Even with variable energy pricing, it's still more profitable to keep mining than to let equipment lose value idle. Bitcoin users/miners are externalizing their environmental impact.

Otherwise, perhaps things such as Lighting can help reduce mining requirements, but it's definitely up to cryptocurrencies to find better solutions, not wait for countries to adopt legislation.
This doesn't make sense to me. Cities are the most expensive place to live, no? I would have thought that living in some small town and making 500k would give you even more buying power than it does in the city.

Where does your friend live that $500k does not pay for rent or a mortgage on a nice house, dinner at restaurants on a regular basis, and still money in the savings account?
Does anyone have an idea of the ROI on this? I'm thinking you'd need a massive number of 10 second to mine any meaningful number of BTC on consumer laptops.
Could it be interpreted two ways?*

If the purpose of design is to solve a truly valuable problem or introduce pleasure to a process, and if these possibilities—if we're honest with ourselves—do not exist to be solved, one cannot innovate, therefore one cannot design.

A honeypot to the those who see design as surface, a challenge and call to arms to those who see it as more?

(*I'm curious if anyone knows what this type of phrase is, one that can be interpreted in two different, opposing ways. Best I can tell is _polysemy_)
When syncing, you can choose to either build and save the state for every block ("archive" mode), or save only the latest state ("fast" mode). The former requires quite a bit more data than the latter (currently 500 GB vs 32 GB for the Geth client) [0]. The default for most contemporary clients is "fast" mode.

Note that with the "fast" mode you still have all the blocks, and with that all the information needed to recreate the state at a certain block somewhere in the past. And you can still help the network by syncing those blocks to newly spawned archive or fast nodes. It's just that requesting the state (e.g. balance) at a certain block in the past takes some computational work. Most people are not interested in that however, which is why it's the default synchronization mode.

[0] https://etherscan.io/chart/chaindatasizefull vs https://etherscan.io/chart2/chaindatasizefast