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For anyone wondering who he was or his contributions:

> Manning has been working in the Internet industry since 1979 when he started working at Texas Instruments and helped in building its IP network. After which he joined Rice University and made SESQUINET. He played a significant role in the migration of MIDNET and SESQUINET from NSFnet regional networks to commercial networks.

> He worked on the COREN and CALREN-2 technical committees. At ISI he worked in the Routing Arbiter Project.

> Bill has been working with the the IETF and IEPG as an individual participant, working group chair, and code developer. He specfied the method to add NSAP support to the DNS.

https://icannwiki.org/Bill_Manning
Could you put all your original content on your personal site, then use Twitter, Facebook, etc. to promote it?
Are you saying all of those users whose browsers are crashing on a large scale are going to say no?

Also, are you implying software should send telemetry to the mothership regardless of users' will?

There used to be a time software was tested and released finished.
Hi all, author here. I'm very humbled that this made it to the front page! A few things I want to say:

1) Most of this work is a simplified copy of the papers I linked to. Special thanks to James Bookbinder and his team at University of Waterloo.

2) I'm an OR novice, and this is my first optimization project. I feel now that I can roughly model the flight assignment domain, but what the solvers do is a mystery to me, and when I read about Lagrangian relaxation and column generation, I'm lost. Fortunately I haven't needed those techniques in this project.

3) The mathematical model, when written down, looks mystifying even to me, the author, and that's unfortunate. My goal in writing this post was to reduce the mystery and explain the model in plain English (plus math notation), but in the end I'm afraid it still looks eye-glazingly complicated. Data science can be all too happy to cloak itself in mystery by writing down what are actually pretty basic equations. I don't have a good solution to this.

Most of all, I got such joy out of building the model one constraint at a time and seeing the solver follow my directions and spit out optimal solutions. I couldn't believe it worked. It was like I discovered electricity. Lastly, much credit goes to Flexport leadership for allowing me, an OR novice, to embark on this optimization project.
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https://sequoia.makes.software Mostly technical posts. Roll-your-own SSG, naturally[0]. If you type "resume" you see my resume :) Comments use https://getsimpleform.com/ and just send me an email, then I manually add the comment. Works Pretty Good!

I would happily implement web-mentions or whatever (I added rss feed when someone requested it) but I don't know exactly how they're different from comments. I have comments that link back to the comment-authors website, is that a webmention?

0: https://github.com/Sequoia/sequoia.github.com/blob/rewrite/s...
I will count on it, when it isn't used to sell Google VMs and works on my machine as easy as Julia and ML.NET work today.

I wasn't even aware of http://fast.ai's existence.
That’s unfortunate. Which hardware version do you have? Apple has been supporting older devices fairly well from my perspective, often reaching back 5 years or more.
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Apologies, the original link was for Google Status Keyword search on twitter. It reverted after submission.

Now the outage is reported on the Google Status page:
https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
I generally find that the duration of standups scales O(n^2) with the number of participants.
Create a LVM thinpool, create a thin LV in that, format with XFS, put the database on top.

Each time you want to a backup, create a CoW snapshot of the thin LV, then mount it somewhere and run the backup.

The "main" thin LV should be happily chugging along independently when you are doing that.

And all this is stable proven technology available about anywhere (eq. RHEL 7+).
No, "distribution licenses" are very common in this type of commercial software for embedded systems market. If you talk to Wind River, QNX, OpenRTOS, Qt, Crank, or any of the numerous software tool vendors for commercially-supported embedded software, there will be a "development license" which you pay to license the tooling, source code and precompiled binaries, plus a per-unit "distribution license" to actually sell their product as a component of your product. The pricing is usually really reasonable compared to your per-unit BOM cost and expected production quantities.
> GMail, Maps, YouTube, Chrome, Android, and AdSense/Adword

These are primarily ads-based revenue channels. Sure, they have some enterprise Gmail subscriptions, Youtube 'premium', and take a cut of the play store, but those are all primarily platforms to serve you ads.

Products that Google tries to monetize that aren't supported by ads seem to fold.
I've been at Google in 2015-2016 and remember that this project was staffed mostly with contractors, so I am surprised they are shutting it down only now.
There isn't a state actor or company that overturn Bitcoin with computing power.
Sorry but being from Europe, and not interested in TV sports, I didn't even know who he was. At all. I understand why they were flagged for that reason.

Sometimes I see <xxx> has died and it's clearly technology related, and I will click the link, and discover that this person was great even if I never knew their names, and I feel enriched.

I certainly wouldn't feel enriched being led to a basketball website.
Toilet with a sink is called half bathroom in US. GP mentioned separate toilet. I've seen this setup in Europe a lot:

https://q-cf.bstatic.com/images/hotel/max1024x768/214/214010...
Since iPads support Bluetooth HID, it seems like it would be possible to create a Soli-type device that works with existing iPads.

Slide a wireless keyboard and mouse next to a tablet and it should become my desktop computer.

That's very close to what the iPad is now. I often sit in a coffee shop and read magazines on my iPad. Then when I'm ready to do some work, I just prop the iPad up on a table with its cover and turn on an old Bluetooth keyboard I keep in my bag.

E-mail on the left side of the screen. ssh on the right side with the Prompt app. Bang, it's 90% of what I use my desktop computer for.

I've heard that iPads support a Bluetooth mouse now, but I don't have any personal experience with it. I haven't heard anything about trackpads.
Link no longer valid after submission.

Google Status now shows service disruption reports.

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
The fact that you are being downvoted is very disturbing.
I think it's a little more subtle than that. Google in the late Noughties was awash in advertising money and inculcated a culture of 'internal startups', where they would offer services (Wave, Reader, Google+) without much of an eye toward profit.

Eventually, higher-ups would notice that these services were costing money, and shut them down. Today you'd be a fool to invest in the long-term stability of a Google service that doesn't have an obvious tie to the advertising firehose, because they've yet to figure out how to make money any other way.
It very much is a concern. ZFS has no knowledge about the internals of a database, which parts of a file are related to each other etc.
Ours stayed aloft for about 2-3 hours when I did a launch with my college ham radio club! I can't remember exactly. It got up to ~60,000ft and then the balloon burst, quickly falling back down. We didn't have much of a parachute, so a larger parachute could've slowed the descent greatly. I'm not sure what the laws are about size of parachute/any required descent rates though.
> they had a provision in their TOS that basically said they could terminate my account at any time if I did anything they felt was morally wrong.

Don't most modern service providers have a clause like that?
How can you verify that your standups are effective? After the standup, take 2 random members and ask them to describe each other updates.

You will be surprised with the results.
The only workable way to do stand ups is not to stand at all, but make everyone hold the plank position. The meeting ends when the scrummaster collapses.
If you're sick, and don't want to get others sick, that's one thing. Your productivity shouldn't slip in that case. If you're bed ridden with the flu, then you're not going to be working and likewise, you really shouldn't be working.

At many of the offices I've worked at, if you're a developer, you have one or two people you know who know what you're working on and are capable (and expected) to take your work and push it forward in the case you are too sick to work. It's like a partner system that assures that no lapses in productivity will happen.

If you break the work up for one person, between two other developers, it's worked well to make sure the work gets covered, without interruption. At my current gig, it's kind of an unwritten rule if you get sick and your partners cover for you, a free lunch or 12 pack of some quality micro-brew should be forthcoming.

I've been here for several years and it hasn't been an issue yet.
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Oh, I guess I misunderstood. Not sure about that but that is an interesting question.
Went to a conference a couple of years ago where there was an interesting talk on the subject. See here if you are interested:

https://vimeo.com/262522684
Without more argumentation, this sounds like hysterics so common in the social media. Always jumping to extreme conclusions.
Raidz1 isn't raid5, but if it mostly solves the same problem for users, without running into the write hole issue, isn't that suggesting we use raidz1 on zfs instead of raid5 on btrfs if we're concerned about unclean shutdowns?

What would we be missing in terms of capabilities by having raidz1 instead of raid5? (Just from the redundancy and performance point of view; let's assume everything else on btrfs and zfs is equal)
In Polish it's called "franca" which comes from "French disease". I never heard it referred as "Turkish" and there's 0 google results for "turecka choroba"
Any recommendations? Preferred within the EU.
I've seen a lot of the hacker community focusing on btrfs and zfs but very little focusing on ceph. I think ceph has a lot of the features that we want in a file system and some things that aren't even possible on traditional file systems (per-file redundancy settings) with very little downsides. The setup is a little more complex involving a few daemons to manage disks, balance, monitor, etc. I wish there was something similar to FreeNAS for ceph that only focused on making the experience seemless because I think if it became more popular in the home lab space we'd see lots of cool tools pop up for it.
If governments use Twitter as another real time source of public opinion data to ensure they only take actions that are popular with people, why is that a bad thing?
All the HN obituaries I've seen did something related to computing, science, business, startups, etc. like the rest of the news. Did Kobe do anything in those areas?
He was also at Tesla for something like 6 months, I think.
It's interesting -- they ID the actual cause of the problem up top, and then just zip right past it. The problem wasn't the hardware failure, or the lack of backups, it was that customers expected them to have backups.

Gandi goes into some detail on the recovery process and on ways to fix the issue in the future. But, apart from some hand-waving, they don't have any specifics about how they'll communicate expectations better with their customers in the future.

Imagine the counterfactual: Gandi's docs clearly communicate "this service has no backups, you can take a snapshot through this api, you're on your own." Of course customers with data loss would've complained, but, at the end of the day, the message from both Gandi and the community would've been "well, next time buy a service with backups?" Yet there's no explicit plan to improve documentation.
I find your hijacking of this thread offensive and rude. This thread is about Bill Manning, who has died.

You have not even mentioned him.
As always, experiences may vary. I actually prefer that Photos does not save state as I have never opened the app looking for the same photo twice in a row.
My one is https://markosaric.com.

Writing regularly on a variety of topics that I'm working on/interested in including online marketing, ethical web and such.
The huge benefit of the ensuite is not waking up the rest of the house if you have to get up in the middle of the night to use the restroom (which I often do). Also, don't get your comment about moisture from the bathroom. We have a fan and door on the bathroom which prevents any moisture from coming into the bedroom.
While the bathroom may not be "private", I've seen loads of houses where there is a 1-1 ratio between bedrooms and bathrooms. Often times a bathroom for the kids room is accessible both from the bedroom and a hallway.
Can we stop putting dumb memes in blog post in 2020?
Mods didn't touch any of those posts. Users flagged them.
What happens if the file has already found its way into a snapshot? Then presumably that command will not free any space.
My 1st gen ipad is still alive and ticking but completely worthless. Hardly a scratch in the case or screen and the battery is fine. I don't use it because no modern apps work on it.

I bought a 2018 model and what a piece of crap. Warped like a Pringle chip, screen shattered and cracked if you looked at it wrong.
The MSL specification is more specific on how the knowledge-containing text should be stored. It provides the 'schema' and the semantics, based on Lisp syntax. It looks like MSL is intended to be the foundation for an API that Mimix plans on building.
The battery is the fastest-degrading component. It is also one of the most easily replaceable components, speaking in general and not specifically to the way Apple designs it to be non-removable. The desire to replace the fastest degrading component to extend the life of the device makes perfect sense from the consumer's perspective.
A replacement battery installed by Apple is $49-$69. I don't know if I would trust a third party battery in my phone
my commit count is really low. i usually squash my commits before submitting a PR.

that was the workflow at my previous place of work, so it just became my workflow habitually.
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I'm in the same boat with my launch day iPad. It still works great for e-mail, but pretty much every other app is useless now. So I just keep it by the couch in case I want to look at e-mail.

That said, it's a 10-year-old machine. I don't have any desktop or laptop computers left that are good for anything other than e-mail, either.
HashiConf EU Amsterdam Call for Speakers
with such money stream it will take a long time to rot.
I had to suffer through it. At the academic place I worked at back in the early 2000s, the teachers used to love writing their intranet pages in Word and emitting them in HTML. Luckily we found some software that could clean up the monstrosity it emitted, and get pages down to a reasonable size (it was not unusual to shrink pages down from several megabytes of HTML and embedded CSS, down to 10s of kilobytes.)
HashiCorp is looking for speakers for the upcoming HashiConf EU in Amsterdam, June 8-10, 2020.

If you have a technical talk showcasing how you used a HashiCorp product to solve a problem, what challenges you faced, and the workarounds you found to solve them, we would love to hear from you. We value technical deep-dives, stories of how you use our technology, and retrospectives from your failures!

Topics we’d love to hear about:

Topics may range from the internals of our software to high-level use cases. Talks do not have to be exclusively about HashiCorp products, they can cover the broader industry and non-technical topics as well. Topics we love to hear more about include:

Scaling distributed and microservice environments, including service discovery, networking and container schedulers
Solving security and secret bottlenecks
Managing infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud, as well as cloud migrations
Introducing Infrastructure-as-Code to on-prem environments
Dynamic application configuration at runtime
Emerging architectural patterns, like service mesh and serverless
Organizational impacts of DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code

Session formats:

Talks will be 30 or 50 minutes. 30-minute talks are ideal for implementation and customer stories, while 50-minute talks are great for technical deep-dives. Please keep your session to-the-point, only including relevant context. More concise talks often bring more value to the audience.

If you have any questions now covered in the CFP, you may reach us at speakers@hashicorp.com.

Good luck!
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=has+died

Actors and Musicians dying doesn't get flagged.
You can learn a lot about the hardware used over at

http://qrp-labs.com/lightaprs.html

Of course he sells stuff to do it, but there are many balloon flights documented on that site too. Some of them have circumnavigated the Earth more than once!
Er, “firebase”, “firestore”, and “cloud datastore”, are all names of different, existing (somewhat overlapping) Google offerings.
Peer moderation is abused on this site and it’s getting steadily worse. I’m on the verge of giving up on HN entirely, just like many of my other professionals I personally know already have done. Ultimately it will be HNs loss because the quality of content posted will decline.
My old iPads become single purpose devices around the house. I have an iPad 3 with a powered speaker case. I think the case was originally $300, but I got it for $25 because of the obsolete tech. That's a dedicated GarageBand machine for when my nephews come over.

Another old iPad is the dedicated darts scoring tablet.
Automation is older than you give it credit for and has made many jobs obsolete already.
Interesting how an attack of his writing style invalidates his criticisms...
A sort of degrading, but non-lethal or permanent damaging punishment- something to please the inner monkey and then i would demand that every punishment be also taken by a innocent citizen in parallel. Without that- its just prison then reintegration into society..

After that i would remove the ability of the citizenry to influence the level of punishment, as this is a constant journey towards the death sentence with torture for all crimes no matter how petty.
The onset of symptoms can take upto 8 days.
Fundamentally I think the big difference between 2010 and now is not the continued rise of Apple's walled garden--which was the focus in 2010--but the steady decline of the state of the web.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. today dominate the web and exercise at least the same level of gatekeeping over your visibility to customers as Apple does with their app store. Back in 2010 you could build a Facebook page for your business, and post messages that your fans would see. Can't do that anymore; buy some FB ads please. Google's search results quality continues to decline, and their ads continue to be harder and harder to distinguish. And if you anger them, you might just disappear from their service.

2010 was also before Snowden, before general awareness of the data collected by social apps, before Cambridge Analytica, before a thousand data breaches. Privacy is more important to people now, and one thing about walled gardens is that they are more private... that's why the original physical walled gardens were built.

It's not that walled gardens are ideal; it's that everything has a trade-off, and those trade-offs look different in 2020 than they did in 2010.

A lot of this is not specifically about the iPad, and in retrospect maybe the most obvious reaction to this piece is to laugh at the idea that the iPad was some important place to draw a line. Tablets are still great--and used by a lot of poeple--but they ended up being kind of a side story. The iPhone was the real turning point. Not just for Apple, but for many industries.
Good luck! Just left my job after almost seven years this past Friday. Man is it hard.
Yeah, I've been following SiFive for a while now, especially since their announced tool for custom "ASICs" and I know they're a huge driver for RISC-V. I just haven't seen their MCUs used much and curious what advantage they have over other competitors.
Was it difficult to hire engineers proficient in Elixir, or was it difficult to hire engineers who could _learn_ Elixir?

When my employer decided to use Elixir for a new product, we had maybe 2-3 people experienced in Erlang/Elixir; for the rest of us, it was "'Programming Elixir' is on the bookshelf; start working through that." That and pairing with the more experienced devs got most of us up to speed enough that we were fairly productive in a couple weeks. Since we were basically a Rails shop at that point, the similarity to Ruby didn't hurt, and as I've mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, the docs for Elixir and major libraries are really good.
I've been running it on my desktop for a while and it's been wonderful. I have a cron job set to take a snapshot of the filesystem hourly so if I ever blow a file away or a package upgrade goes wonky I'm back up and running in minutes.
What dolt would think that more noise & distraction would make for a more productive workplace where the product requires sustained periods of focus? It's literally the dumbest thing you can do in that circumstance.
There is no Bitcoin Core! There is only one Bitcoin using Bitcoin Core as one of its clients used to connect to the Bitcoin blockchain. The rest are just irrelevant forks.
up for me now. Google SREs must be busy today!
The iPad 1, which I owned though I'm not the parent commenter, came with iOS 3, and the final compatible release was iOS 5 two years later. It worked poorly with iOS 5 after two years, and was fully obsolete after three years.

Even for those early days, it went from new to obsolete extremely fast.
>It is the current generation's Rosetta Stone

To be fair. Rosetta Stone got it's "reputation" because of it's insane price point comparative to what you learnt. Duolingo on the other hand is completely free.
The thing I wish the iPad had was a keyboard and trackpad it locked into securely. When traveling I use my laptop on my, well, lap all the time. I usually travel with a tablet but it’s for entertainment. If I could turn it into something closer to a laptop, I’d ditch the laptop more often.
A recent discussion of the launch, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21863515
Keep in mind that PCI requirements only apply to machines within the cardholder environment - everything else is out of scope.

What this means is that as long as you isolate your cardholder environment, you don't need to deploy AV across your whole company - only on those in scope.

I'm not a huge fan of AV, but I do advocate for a layered approach to security, and have to concede that AV may have some value as a "last chance" layer if malware somehow manages to get past your other defences.
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Why should a random tinkerer trying to learn or get a basic job done with a microcontroller/CPU care whether the architecture is open source? It's still overwhelmingly difficult to do anything interesting with the fact that the architecture is open source.
> Best to take some class and drill textbooks with fill-in exercises.

I disagree with your analysis. Most people aren't trying to be speaking super gramatically correct sentences. Most are learning to speak passable sentences.

Most important thing while learning a language is to have fun, so you can keep coming back to it. Duolingo makes it fun and interactive. Doing endless grammer textbook excerises /drills takes enormous will power that casual learners don't have.