skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for Ansible from me.

Of all the tools, I first heard of Puppet first and so I'm assuming it was first on scene? From my limited experience, it seems Puppet is most widely used tool because of that reason. Not necessarily the best of the bunch, but first on the scene. Considering the effort required to roll it out, I am assuming whatever is deployed first will stay as the tool of choice.

I've tried out Puppet, SaltStack, and Ansible, in that order.

What I didn't like about Puppet is that once you deploy a change, the actual change can happen on the "client servers" at any point within next 20 minutes. I may be off on the exact duration but I remember that changes were deployed at any point within that range of time. To me that sounds like not a great idea. What if you want to switch over your web servers at a specific moment? And Puppet requires a dedicated command/control server.

Next I tried SaltStack. I liked it enough. Now that I think about it and hear someone else mention it, yah SaltStack is similar to Ansible. What drove me away from SaltStack was that you essentially need a dedicated command/control server from where all SaltStack commands are sent out to SaltStack "client servers". I did not want to dedicate resource (and money) for a server that is rarely used. And the personal web/lab servers I manage can grow small/large from 2 servers to 10 servers.

Next I tried Ansible. I think Ansible is the perfect choice for me. I only needed to 'devop' just a handful servers and also learn a tool that many businesses seemed to want on resume. So I picked Ansible and it's been great. Some operations are not as flexible as doing it with a shell script (and I assume same issue exists for other tools). But I've had good luck combining Ansible with little bits of shell script to get the result I need.

The best part of Ansible is that any Mac or Linux machine can be used as the "command server", provided that you have the SSH key pair on your Mac or Linux machine.

Lastly, some may not like the ad-hoc way of doing things on Ansible, but I prefer it that way.
The people I know who have actually done it wrote a personalized response as to why they wanted to live in that particular area.

i.e. "my son lives on X street and I would like to live by him" or "the access to hiking/biking trails is one of the things I cherish the most." , etc.

Otherwise, you are right that I think most of those letters are from Realtors and go immediately in the trash.
It is a basically set of Merkle trees, each with a header.
We should do our best to get it back into port - part of the whole mess is that the name AI implies things about ML systems that simply aren't true - as a side note, we should also probably start using the word tensor more accurately, we've now enraged enough physics and math folks :-)
Awwwww, dragonwriter is butthurt b/c mean old giardini pointed to a set of URLs instead of repeating something that has been established and is better explained by others for decades.

Sorry, dragonwriter, but you're the only one "threadcrapping" here. To borrow your words:"why don't YOU actually [provide information on REST] with references to specific, useful sources". Especially aside from your misleading last sentence("REST is rather far from settled...").
The bar is pretty low right now. Who hasn't recently entertained that idea, even one moment to go that route (which seems to be leading to Nowhereland).
I suspect (based on stuff like https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08419) that you'd have had more luck with property tests instead of unit tests.
While visiting a Chinese division of an American company I worked for about 8 years ago they had Dell desktops, in a tower configuration and they had a metal (steel) super structure around them. A case within a case.

You could unlock it, plug in USB, monitors, ethernet, etc. route the cables out through a slot and then lock it. You couldn't reach the the different ports and sockets when it was locked. It was all relatively stout too.

Interestingly, they did have internet in the building but you had to have management permission and go to the security office to access it. If you wanted to download something, it was a fairly involved procedure. They were paranoid about people stealing their stuff and then also very paranoid about misappropriating something they shouldn't and creating legal problems in Europe or North America. They didn't seem to be all that concerned about stealing other people's IT but they wanted to control everything such that it didn't contaminate anything they wanted to sell where it mattered.

I nearly created a situation when I pulled out my phone to take a picture of an "engrish" sign they had on the wall.

It'll be interesting to see how the security culture in the US changes or doesn't, a lot of younger developers would be put off if you attempted to somehow restrict their access to the internet from work computers or restricted your ability to plug a phone or some arbitrary device in for charging of whatever. At every job I've had this century it has been fairly trivial to download nearly all of their source code and take it home if you wanted to. Trying to take the politics out of it, we're very much engaged in a cyber cold war with a number of nations that absolutely want to take our secrets; I won't speculate on the real impact but the Russians did meddle in our election.
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How to Install WordPress on Ubuntu 18.04 with Nginx, MariaDB, PHP 7.2
This one strips more tracking tags and you can use your own list in configuration: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/

"utm_source, utm_medium, utm_term, utm_content, utm_campaign, utm_reader, utm_place, utm_userid, utm_cid, utm_name, utm_pubreferrer, utm_swu, utm_viz_id, ga_source, ga_medium, ga_term, ga_content, ga_campaign, ga_place, yclid, _openstat, fb_action_ids, fb_action_types, fb_ref, fb_source, action_object_map, action_type_map, action_ref_map, gs_l, pd_rd_r@amazon., pd_rd_w@amazon., pd_rd_wg@amazon., _encoding@amazon., psc@amazon., ved@google., ei@google., sei@google., gws_rd@google., cvid@bing.com, form@bing.com, sk@bing.com, sp@bing.com, sc@bing.com, qs@bing.com, pq@bing.com, feature@youtube.com, gclid@youtube.com, kw@youtube.com, $/ref@amazon., _hsenc, mkt_tok, hmb_campaign, hmb_medium, hmb_source"

Regarding overshooting, try with this: https://adnauseam.io/

"As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating Ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile."
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I think advertising "work with X" is usually a problem if people don't care about your domain. Domain first, then the tech can be a nice to have.
It's an interesting example you've chosen, since one of the dimensions along which car safety improvement is being researched is ubiquitous GPS signalling to share data about road and traffic conditions (and since every self-driving car is basically a panopticon and recording device rolled into one).
Almost never upvote, but did here.

This book will be a quick read for most people, as the author is very good with her prose and knows how to weave a narrative. The impact that Ms. Lacks had on modern science cannot be understated, and it will be a good evening read that both gives you a basic run down of the impaction science that her cells had on modern medicine as well as a very sad story with some positive outlooks on the results of Ms. Lacks' contribution to modern medicine.
> (even though meaningful use case is yet to be shown, but there is chance it will be found)

A thought is a browser-based IDE, with a cloud filestore (OneDrive, Dropbox, Google One/Drive (my new preferred stylization of their product)) for repo and dev environment.

Think of it like a browser-ified version of what you might do with a server and SSH.

We've got a couple JS-based editors/IDEs. We've got many cloud storage options. Now you can put git directly in browser, too. Heck, you could make a SPA and save the whole source as a file on your cloud storage - just open that up in any browser and access other files in that account (or others). Don't even carry a USB around, and still have your custom dev environment on any PC.
20lbs of batteries leaves 80lbs for the rest of the structure and the motors - a structure that is supposed to enclose and support 800 lbs? That seems very, very optimistic. As does the 150MPH speed! 20lbs of current-tech batteries would only provide enough power to run for a few minutes at those speeds..
At this point the only thing I feel like I'm left missing from Python in semicolon-free ES2015+/Typescript are list/generator-comprehension syntax [0] and slice notation [1].

[0] The Pipeline Operator Stage 1 proposal is currently the closest proposal to making something like that happen: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator

[1] Stage 1 Proposal: https://github.com/gsathya/proposal-slice-notation/
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I’m not a lawyer either, I’m a software developer; but I’ve been doing this long enough to develop certain degree of paranoia regarding patents and IP rights legal BS.
Ill test this soon.
Soon, there will be a rewrite of the Linux kernel in Javascript.

Finally, a way to run Linux in your browser!
I have trouble imagining the incentives driving Ops in that conversation.
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You guys are right, I think I done goofed
Sure. It's fine sometimes, and not fine other times. That's why it's called a tradeoff.

I see strings larger than that all the time, and care about using low RSS. YMMV.
Do you have other examples? I haven't heard much about him.
The SEC holds ICO tokens to be securities; every ICO selling (wittingly or unwittingly, directly or indirectly) to un-accredited American investors is thus acting unlawfully. That describes every ICO I’ve heard of save like two (Filecoin and Telegram).
In related news a (typical) year is 10^2 + 11^2 + 12^2 == 365 days.

Also known as 13^2 + 14^2.
I don't get it. how does OpenAI knows how many resouces are thrown at AI calculations worldwide?
Figured I'd post this as it annoys me. I wonder when traditional-media money makers will realize the problem is not only the platform, it's also the exclusivity and lack of options. I don't have a FB account so I won't be watching.
This is ridiculous. Another day another Equifax.
Isn't that what GPL v3 is suppose to cover with what they call "tivoization"? They tried to get the Linux kernel to switch to the GPL v3 but that failed.
FWIW, according to WP, "the original motivation for choosing the degree as a unit of rotations and angles is unknown. One theory states that it is related to the fact that 360 is approximately the number of days in a year." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_(angle)

From many other sources, it's suggested that the length of the year is rounded to 360 for divisibility reasons, possibly because of the Babylonians' sexagesimal number system.
9c on the high end, under a 1c on the low end (with volume/long term commitment)
Talking to people is not computer code. In this admittedly contrived situation, they are looking for you to say it's good. You give an answer _to a different question_. Either people realize and you've violated the social expectation or they don't realize and you've misdirected them. Avoiding the question in a way that's misleading people has the same result as a lie even if not technically the same thing

If you refused to answer the question in this statement that's not lieing. If you said "no, it wasn't good" that wouldn't be lieing.

The entire camp of people in this thread with your viewpoint are acting like a stereotypical genie where as long as everything you say is technically accurate you have done nothing wrong even when you are will full disregarding the extra layers of meaning that are part of human to human conversation
Thanks for the paper I will check it out.
This shows how stupid the people over at the sec are.

Why would any ico claim being backed by the us government as a benefit?
> AndrewBissell was replying about them using taxes

Right, but he didn't just say that such an effort would raise interstate commerce issues (which would be sort of correct, although the Art. I, Sec. 8 Commerce Clause issue—what is usually referred to by interstate commerce issues—is dwarfed by the bright-line Art. I, Sec. 9 export tax/duty issue) but that it would raise “all the same interstate commerce issues that led the judge to block the export ban in this case” which is wrong (or at least meaningless) since this was a case decided on contract, not interstate commerce, grounds.
That's how a lot of people feel about the current state of advertising on the web.
> Is this a sustained campaign

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> at least where I live

That is completely cultural. Many culture have different expectations.

>People can find your (polite) honesty refreshing and warm.

In many cultures, including large parts of the US, politeness is often valued more than honesty--polite lies in such cases are a required a social convention. In any culture there will be consequences to ignoring social convention. Perhaps you are willing to accept those consequences. Some people have the social capital to flaunt convention, and some people choose to live with the stigma, but there is a stigma.

For example, if you were to answer "actually not that much" at my grandmother's house, you'd at a very minimum get a sideways glance from most people at the table.
Done, by Brendan Eich, in 2004: https://github.com/mozilla/narcissus/
I guess the point is, in the traditional money system we could create that $100k with practically zero energy.
Why not just use trains?
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This has to do with Preferred numbers and ISO 2848:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2848
I had a related issue where a previous registrar — who we had moved away from months before — managed to accidentally "claw back" and disable our domain due to a misconfigured billing script. The fragility of the whole ecosystem is pretty scary.

Wrote it up on Medium @ https://medium.com/thisiscala/the-duct-tape-holding-the-inte...
Personally, I'd rather have a corporate domain be renewed once per year and have a defined process for it (e.g. literally have a binder somewhere listing all the details, and put reviewing it on a checklist of other yearly legal and financial tasks) than have it be forgotten about for 10 years at a time.
Nice straw man argument. You don't need to be a special genius to be proficient with 2 languages.
They're going want to optimize those 8k res images down at the bottom of the page if they want to actually sell some of those coins.
> A good defense is to limit the renewals for important domains by registering them for as long as possible (10 years)

This is an interesting take. I prefer the opposite approach: choose the shortest possible registration window (1 year), and have a very clearly defined, properly-documented renewal process that multiple people at the company understand. It's unlikely that all of those people leave the company in a 1-year window, so the knowledge gets passed on reliably.

If a renewal happens only once every 10 years, then it seems very likely that the person responsible for it has moved on, knowledge around the process is lost, and at best the documentation is very out-of-date (but more likely it's missing).

My process is to have a shared calendar for these high-risk renewals. Top company officers should be on this calendar (CEO, CTO, and some engineering VPs). The calendar contains recurring events for domain and SSL cert renewals. These calendar events are set up for about 1-month before the actual renewal, and fire reminder emails at several intervals beforehand (in case people are away or on PTO).
Same problem as making sure your system doesn't lose data when a server dies. Make sure you have enough copies of the knowledge by propagating it between people. Try to have some kind of offline recording (books?) for recovery from a disaster where you lose everyone. Have an idea of how to recover at a business level if you do lose the data forever.

The trouble is making sure these plans actually work. This is why Netflix randomly execute some of their employees every month.
You're not wrong on their poor employee experience, but there's very little theater involved - there's good reason to protect their IP. Any firm that invests multi-millions in original design will want to protect their property from theft. Semiconductors were mentioned, but also think about someone like Pixar.
Just standard practice for ultra liberal west coast city councils and politicians who would rather virtue signal than deal with the rampant crime, shit/needle strewn sidewalks and lack of housing options in their cities.
Probably named after the Howey Test (https://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howe...) which is pretty clever.
Using keywords as DNA?
As a one-off, no, it's not terrible. But factor in the millions of little things, and all the time spent by all those people, and this ends up being a big waste.

I'll say it again - people are underestimating the unintended consequences. And I believe they are severely underestimating it as well.
Archived 2012 discussion invokes Oxford English Dictionary to trace the original use back several 100 years.
http://www.techwr-l.com/archives/1206/techwhirl-1206-00295.h...
I'm saying AT&T bribed Cohen, which is what we have evidence for so far. Perhaps there will be additional communiques exposed later which reveal specific requests.

They did not get the outcome they wanted with the acquisition, but there was also the matter of the administration wanting to punish CNN. Maybe AT&T should have paid more.

But AT&T has still done remarkably well vis a vis the FCC's selective deregulation of net neutrality, which makes it much easier for existing ISPs to leverage their quasi-monopolies and compete unfairly within other verticals.

The American system of legalized bribery needn't produce a bill of sale for regulatory capture.
If you take the course, begin with the Finish in mind.
In context of the original post though, it's unlikely IBM engineers are doing much work on ocean going vessels with 64-512kbps satellite links
Productionalizing ECS
I get so many emails from Google leading up to and after expiration it's a nuisance. As for parent's issue, I think if you let your domain expire that's 100% on you.
People routinely read text files larger than 1 KB into memory. HTTP responses are often larger than 1 KB. Serialized data (JSON, XML, etc.) is often larger than 1 KB.
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Wilsonnb hit the nail on the head, it’s just how some people feel. Though I don’t doubt that some people involved in the creation of this phenomenon use the argument to justify their work.

I had a hard time understanding why people wouldn’t be more conscientious of their privacy, until I had discussions about the issue with people close to me.

My folks had a very similar sentiment to the typical “if you have nothing to hide, then why do you worry about it”. My girlfriend had the same thought, but took it a step further and asked why I cared so much about people uninvolved in my life knowing personal details about it, then said I was “the most paranoid person [she’d] ever met”

Once the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, they all understood my point. I think the majority of people who don’t work in tech don’t understand the massive implications that our lack of privacy has. They don’t know how cookies or backends or tracking pixels work, and may not even know they exist. They imagine an NSA agent sitting in a room looking for keywords, not companies that they entrust their digital lives to selling off every little piece of info about them. It’s so much more than your Facebook or Twitter posts being public, it’s data that we might not even know about ourselves being kept in the hands of unknown entities.

To sum up this rant, some people have to see it to believe it because this is outside their scope of knowledge
Right. Likewise with India and Kenya and a hundred other examples. It is the slavery in the colonies that allows the center to industrialize. The colonies send resources to the center. The center exports its goods to the colonies. The center also exports the unemployment it might otherwise face from rapidly increasing productivity. India was one of the wealthiest civilizations on Earth for thousands of years, but it is still recovering from what happened in the 1700s, when England industrialized and forced products into India at gunpoint.
> "So, you are in favor of regulation forcing last-mile operators to allow competitors to use their infrastructure at a competetive price set by the regulator without any discrimination based on the data transmitted, right?"

Perhaps you're unaware, but there's a long history of government grants to fund telecommunications infrastructure, the growth is not solely due to private companies. Here's a recent example from my country (the UK), I'm fairly confident I could find equivalent stories from where you live:

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/07/uk-gov-start-4...

So no, I have no problem with local loop unbundling when it's partly tax payer money funding the network improvements.
They didn't claim to not be a business in the blog post. They are a non-profit business. They still need to earn money to pay bill, pay employees, etc.

"Being a non-profit means that the company has no shares. I don't own it. Hannah doesn't own it. Nobody owns it - it's an independent entity. The company makes money and pays expenses, salaries and taxes as normal - but there's no way for it to be bought or sold either in part (investment) or as a whole (aquisition). Any profit the company makes can only ever be reinvested, not distributed. We can't cash out. Ever. Also the entire product is open source and has no copyright. Anyone can do whatever they want with our code, for free."