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Former Loggly employee here. Loggly is at CTO #3 or 4 in about 3 years. The CEO, marketing guy with black turtle neck, "runs" engineering. It is NOT an engineering company and they are on their way to outsourcing all development to India.

Formally they had all of their EC2 instances configured to run without swap and didn't use EBS such that instances would crash 1-3 times a day and lose all data which would require 1-2 day customer restores of data.

Additionally, this Java shop oversubscribed threads on every Solr box which made them restart each Solr instance every hour. To think any revolutionary engineering ideas come from an former Apple marketing wannabee who puts outsourced Indian engineering in place as yes men is a huge stretch.

Let's be honest, Loggly is in huge trouble and can't hire quality engineering talent and as a result is trying to remarket themselves as an engineering driven company as they outsource to India.

Key question isn't..do you use DNS or Elastic Load Balance...it is...what is your VOLUNTARY RATE OF ATTRITION? Hint, really bad!
Do you allow any room at all for a compromise? Or must you assume that I mean, "completely and totally abandon fossil fuels even where it doesn't make sense to do so"?

> Fossil fuels give us such good control over our climates that climate-related deaths ... have dropped precipitously over the past century...

What? Are you sure this isn't due to better construction materials and practices? I haven't heard this before.

> ...and fossil fuels come out ahead of everything else out there, short of nuclear.

This probably isn't true, although it depends a lot on how you measure "ahead" and which numbers you choose to run with. If we're looking at EROI (or EROEI -- I guess it's lost a letter recently), then oil is somewhere between 10:1 and 5:1, and falling, and that puts it behind wind and hydro, but ahead of nuclear and solar. (I was surprised by the numbers on nuclear years ago when I first looked at this.) e.g. http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/argument-over-the-...

There are also some strong arguments for the adverse health effects of burning coal and oil (e.g. http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/our-energy-choices/coal-a..., or just go live in Beijing for a year and try not to get a respiratory infection).

I am all in favor of continuing to produce and consume oil where it makes sense to do so. I am also all in favor of continuing to develop replacements for oil as expediently as practical.

Do you think that's an unreasonable position?
I don't see much reason for ever needing to do this. Should build packages to install software, and use config management for anything needed outside the package.
It was over a year ago, so my memory is a little fuzzy. I do remember that near the end of the process I looked at the source code to answer a question or two. I'll skim over the docs again and see if I can remember what I was confused about.
Over 300 in chrome. I have a problem.
Didn't the FBI actually fake the person's death and send DPR photo of the "body"? That would suggest this was an actual murder for hire.
What do you mean by "brand name tests"?
3-operand LEA has a different performance profile than 2-operand LEA on Sandy Bridge and later chips. The former has 3 cycle latency and only one execution port, whereas the latter has single-cycle latency and can be dispatched to two execution ports. So while gcc (and every other compiler) may rightly generate an LEA instruction to replace regular addition, it's not optimal when a third argument is added.

Curiously, if you need to move the result to another register (say, to respect calling conventions) the optimal solution is a 2-operand LEA plus a DEC:

lea rax, [rdi + rsi]
dec rax

I was wrong about ADD + DEC being smaller, though. I forgot that amd64 took away the 1-byte INC/DEC instructions to serve as REX prefix, so the DEC takes 3 bytes, not 1.
No, it will be an even faster internet.
Hoefler and Frere-Jones settle out of court
I have to say, this one made me laugh and fit quite well with the rest of the article ...
Have you held one? I carry a Nexus 5 around, and the 6+ didn't seem any less rigid to me. Could I bend it if I put on skinny jeans and got into a fight? I suppose.

In hand, the thing feels solid, and that's the important part to me. I think a very small percentage of people who destroy their iPhones will do it by bending, rather than dropping or dunking.
Interestingly, the sound intensity will decay as a 1/r law, where r is the distance from the source. (I'm assuming conservation of sound energy as it travels horizontally, i.e., no loss to interactions with atmosphere and terrain).
Compare with the 1/r² laws like the strength of an electric field at a distance r from charge Q: E(r)=kQ/r².

In both cases there is a total of something (sound energy or electric field lines) and that total must be split over all possible directions. The total electric field must be split over the surface area of increasingly larger and larger spheres hence the 1/r² behaviour (1/4πr² to be precise). The sound energy is spread uniformly over a circle with circumference C=2πr, hence giving a 1/r decay, over short distances.

For longer distances, the curvature of the earth will play a role. Come to think of it, it must have been really loud somewhere diametrically opposite to Krakatoa, 17 hours after the eruption...
Is that a problem? My wifi works great on the limited garbage spectrum that it has been allowed to operate on. I think spectrum licensing served an important purpose in the days when everything was analog, but now it's just a way to get a great return on investments in lobbyists.
> I have bent extremely thick metal keys in my back pocket I assume just by squatting, and I am under 200 pounds in weight.

But doesn't that just prove it's stupid to put a phablet in your back pocket? There's no hope of making a phone stronger than a thick metal key.
It's suffering pretty nasty usability issues, actually.
These are very brave words for and by an industry that is still using primary and secondary methods for extraction. Primary means the pressure is high enough that it literally shoots out of the ground. That's pretty easy oil. Secondary means employing a mechanism -- like a pump -- to get it out of the ground. We're just now beginning to toy with new tertiary methods of extraction, and they are expensive. Yes, innovation marches on. However, we probably won't innovate planet-scale hydrocarbon supplies out of thin air in the next twenty five years. The price will keep getting higher, the methods more and more creative, but at some point, capitalism as a mechanism for oil extraction becomes ineffective (and eventually impossible), and the flow of oil stops. Whether or not we have another equally "free" source of energy standing by to take over is another issue altogether.
The short answer is that you're right to ask the question because it could hurt you badly.

A lot depends on your specific situation. How accomplished and in demand are you right now? Do you have a network of people who would hire you in a heartbeat or at least enthusiastically recommend you and actively help you find a job? If you are in demand (i.e., frequently turning down overtures from recruiters) and/or you're very confident that if you lost your job tomorrow that you could find another equally good job in a matter of a couple weeks or less, then going out on your own for awhile probably won't have any negative impact.

On the other hand, if the above does not describe your current career situation, then I'd think hard about it. There are many recruiters and hiring managers who look at self-employment as barely better than unemployment. That's outrageously stupid, but it's reality. I personally know half a dozen people who experienced significant setbacks to their careers after leaving their jobs to try self-employment or work on their own startups. (But, again, a lot depends on how hireable you are currently, where you live, etc.)
Doesn't it? Whether or not a product is open source, if no one thinks there's a problem in a code base, no one is going to find the bug. It's when you either:
a) Are prompted to do an evaluation of the component for pay, education, or self-gratification or
b) Come across a problem behavior and are trying to understand what causes it
... does one discover such things.

But without the source code, you can do neither of these things easily. The likelihood of the a) case occurring is lower by virtue of accessibility.

With the source code and the development history of the product in the open, we can at least see whether a misbehavior was intentional, or exploited logic questionable, and that there might have been a mistake in the original thinking. How easily would one have come to those conclusions if the source was not private? The response to the issue would have been very different, and I fail to see how if the source code wasn't open would it have somehow made it less likely a bug from the 80s wouldn't still be there.

I think it's even more important now than ever to keep source open to make sure bugs can be easily found; even if the benefits are marginal to discover, they are certainly better handled in the aftermath.
Where does the money come form, if it is not from ads or selling the data? hosting is not free.
Highly likely. I don't see why Apple would "patch" something that's not out yet.

Since we didn't see another DP this week, I'm assuming the Bash update will appear in the RC... hopefully that's out soon.
Earlier last week, Ello was blowing up all over my Facebook feed. Mostly seemed to be a crowd that were tech-savvy enough to see the evil of Facebook's ways, but not knowledgeable enough to know that Ello is the exact same thing.
The key fact you have to believe is only that people are short-sighted and selfish actors. Which is easy for me to believe.
Could this be circumvented somehow... through web scraping?
I think this points out that the problem is we keep treating our children like adults. We've pushed to make them learn skills earlier to the point that kindergarden is now essentially first grade [0]. Additionally schools are cutting back on PE to be able to cram more education in [1].

The result I believe is that normal childhood development of self-regulation begins to look pathological and becomes diagnosed as ADHD. At the same time we've been demanding more at younger ages, ADHD diagnosis have greatly increased [2]. Additionally, roughly two-thirds of these kids won't have ADHD by the time they become an adult [3]. I think this points to the fact that we're simply expecting too much academically too early and we're compounding this by taking away the physical play that would help them develop.

We need to reset kindergarden back to where it was so that most kids have a chance to properly develop. We also need to restore the idea that children are suppose to play, that it's good for them and not a waste of time.

P.S: For that other 30%, ADHD is real and drugs may be entirely appropriate. I'd also suspect that more play and pushing learning later will help them as well.

P.P.S: We also need to find a way for the kids that do have the self-regulation to learn more advanced material. Right now schools do a terrible job of dealing with the kids on either end of the bell curve of learning skills.

P.P.P.S: Boys appear to lag girls by almost year in terms of their self-regulation [4]. I suspect that is why boys are far more diagnosed with ADHD. In any case, I believe this is hurting both boys and girls, it's just more apparent in boys.

[0]: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/what-happened-kin...
[1]: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/education/many-schools-cut...
[2]: http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/11/25/adhd-diagnosis-treat...
[3]: http://www.healthline.com/health-news/mental-adhd-causes-pro...
[4]: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/why-gir...
Yep, that's the whole point. Judging from the profiles shown seems like a microblog. App.net was another twitter like tool that aimed in not selling your data and not showing ads.
There is a common refrain about trading strategies or algorithms, if it worked people wouldn't be talking about it. They'd be too busy exploiting the opportunity to blog about how they're making money. And least of all would want to tell others how to do it so they'll make less. So as a financial opportunity, I'd consider this highly suspect.

But that all said, it is cool to deploy in one click.
For thousands it nearly is free.
Higher Education's Aristocrats
They updated Xcode and iOS today, no DP. Makes me think we'll see the RC, maybe, hopefully.
What is so "beautiful" about this? Honest question.

1) So much dead real estate.

2) The buttons the same as input fields. Only difference is color but there's no distinguishing otherwise.

3) Strange choice of font. Seems like they're going for a typewriter feel, but I'm not sure how that's useful for a website. My opinion of course, but I don't really see the aesthetic appeal of a typewriter look here.
This is total nonsense. By this argument, additional reservoirs would only stop being worthwhile if we never withdrew water at all. That's no better, and in fact much worse, than never building reservoirs in the first place.

That's really not what I'm saying. Additional reservoirs would only stop being worthwhile if we never withdrew more than 100% of water. I.e., if reservoirs are down to 0% capacity, we should have had more reservoirs.
In other words: how am I affected by the fact that many of my Facebook friends like drug-related pages?
It's hard to see how as long as we're talking about mosquitoes. We're not talking about putting the Earth through anything like these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event
>Disclosure was on the 24th, today is the 29th. The patch had to be developed in-between

Apple didn't make the patch they just repackaged it. That's five days to write a dozen lines of script to update the shell. Every single GNU/Linux distro was patched the day of, get real.

>I felt it was 50/50 that they'd update it vs. remove/disable it.

Remove it for what ash/sh? Tim Cook doesn't know a megabit from a megabyte, let alone a shell. That pencil pusher doesn't care about his users, only the money. This was only patched for PR. Still no sight of it on the automatic updates list.
It's worth noting that G+ also chased a significant chunk of early adopters away when they added that "legal names only" policy. It's been rescinded but the damage has been done.
Architectural tour of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan's sci-fi capital
Show HN: GreenCoin: How We Are Reducing Carbon Emissions
Just thought I'd let HN know about this new effort to reduce carbon emissions.

GreenCoin is a crypto-currency like Bitcoin used to incentivize individuals to reduce carbon emissions by lowering their costs of using renewable energy.

You may think of it as free "Rewards Points" that are eventually redeemable for Bitcoin or cash. Each day over 1.4 million are given away to all currently registered solar producers.

Just like BitCoin, there are active miners mining GreenCoin. Half of the mined coins go to the miners, while the other half go to the non-profit foundation, which then gives them to solar producers. Importantly, there are no pre-mined coins.

If you are a solar producer all you have to do is register at the link below then send a picture of your meter reading to start receiving the free coins.

http://grcoin.com/pages/welcome

You never know, getting into GreenCoin now could by like getting into Bitcoin in 2009!

If you are a miner, there is an incentive to also become a solar producer so you get paid twice.

Any thoughts/comments on the idea?

Here are some links with more information:
http://bitcoinist.net/greencoin-carbon-emissions-coin/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6sQP5WJ5I
Quietly retract their German employee's accusations. The open letter is a PR disaster for Apple
Felicia, the Pipe-Cleaning Ferret of Fermilab (1971)
curl http://www.perfectly-safe.com/script.sh?whoops&rm""-rf""/""
Who cares what the rich see?

Krugman is just a ridiculous hack.
They haven't come true because they aren't relevant predictions.

Oil extraction costs have risen. Cars have shrunk and alternate energy sources have thrived as a result. If oil supplies continue to be challenged, prices will rise again, and you'll start to see truck fleets switch to natural gas (which is ridiculously abundant).

Society isn't going back to the 19th century.
'Crouching Tiger' sequel to hit Netflix and theaters simultaneously
The police can blame the protesters for all the troubles - block traffic, stopping commerce, blocking cell/wifi/BT service. From what I read, not much different than the police strategy used the 99% protest in Wall Street.
It does account for that fact.
No, I don't see why people who run open source code from a variety of sources think that there's something magically insecure about downloading it and executing it using curl and bash.
Cool, this will makes it easier to script IOT device to use Twitter as messaging service.
Since you're partnered with Adafruit, you may want to list the two that they stock.

It looks like Octopart has these two:

http://octopart.com/tec1-12706-conrad-24165703
http://octopart.com/peltier1-velleman-12638546

The first is pretty standard, the second is overpriced and not sealed (which will cause it to break easier - not recommended. Don't list the second.)

I'd put in the "description" field the type (Thermoelectric Generator or Peltier Element) and then add a second field for the universal ID. You could also add a third field for voltage range or a fourth for the casing material type (commonly ceramic/silicone). Thermoelectric generators are more rare, so you may not find so many of those. (I can't find any of the partners selling them.) Using the universal ID allows you to easily find more of the same part, allows you to quickly identify a specific element, and allows you to quickly find the number of stages, number of thermocouples, amperage, size, and type. The vast majority of the time the universal ID will be printed on the Peltier element itself and will be the title of the product. For some weird reason one of the Adafruit Peltier elements has a strange, proprietary labeling system. (The two Octopart links and the other Adafruit one use the standard system.)

So, the table would look like

Description | Universal ID | Voltage Range | Casing | Link

Peltier Element | TEC1-12701 | 5V-7V | Ceramic+Silicone | http://www.adafruit.com/products/1331

Peltier Element | TEC1-12706 | 12V-15.5V | Ceramic+Silicone | http://www.adafruit.com/products/1330

Peltier Element | TEC1-12706 | 14V-16V | Ceramic+Silicone | http://octopart.com/tec1-12706-conrad-24165703

(I'm not listing the overpriced, unsealed one.)

Could you add a table like the one above? I'd love it. Peltier elements are very common, used in beverage coolers, lasers, computer coolers, watches - you name it, they're there. There are also just a few types of Peltier element that make up the market (three very common ones are listed above) so they are a perfect candidate for the library.

Universal ID diagram: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Peltier_...
Interesting points. Here is a few things you'll miss choosing Route 53 over ELB:

* HTTPS termination.

* Autoscaling group management. By connecting an ELB to an autoscaling group, the logic of registration and deregistration is fully managed behind the scenes. With route53, you have to implement it yourself.

* Minimum autoscaling group size. If you enable ELB health checks, you can rely on the ELB to maintain a group of instances of constant size.
i dont know if i like the idea of depending on a zillion diff companies for everything i do or own on the computer to be honest.
They should escrow a few million in a bank somewhere, and if the data has been deemed to be sold to anyone (judged by a third-party neutral arbitrator), the money is donated to the EFF. Then we'll see who is really serious about their promises.
The design is absolutely awful. I would be very surprised to learn that any of these designers are actually familiar with UX design, let alone web design. I'm not an evangelist of typical web design these days - I think there's often too much emphasis on graphics. It looks nice, but it's exactly useful - BUT, it's still much better than this. This seems to be.. hmm.. a boring concoction of void space and meaningless alternatives to well known design patterns. But maybe that's what it's got going for it. Medium is a good example of Ello's design done right; you can focus on content and make text look beautiful - but it's not easy and you probably won't accomplish it with a generic monospace font (not hating the typewriter look, but it's poorly executed).

The real problem I see with Ello from a business perspective is that they don't have one. Where's the business? You're not selling ads, you're not selling your users information, they aren't buying anything (and won't) - where will the money come from?
A while back, a mentor of mine gently suggested i get a copy of "the elements of style" after reading a one of my poorly written tech docs explaining some code i had written. i got one, read a few pages, and then started using it as a coaster.

thing is, its a constant reminder and seems to have helped me more than any other book i haven't read. im still not a very good writer ...but better :)

going a little deeper into philosophy, the book "On Bullshit" should be another coaster on ones desk.
I was thinking the exact same thing while reading this - it reads like a company that doesn't understand the unique challenges involved with distributed computing.

I'm actually in the middle of deciding between Loggly, Papertrail, and Logentries for centralized log management. I guess that cuts it down to two.
Best reply I've seen on HN in a long time.

Truth is I'd rather read someone else's shell script than someone else's C, python, ruby, javascript or other code. Not to say it still isn't painful reading; most scripts I see are nonsensically verbose. But it is a much less time-consuming read.

Unless, of course, it is written in a shell like Bash, i.e., one with too many extra features to keep track of. Like, say, exporting of functions, for example.
> Obsolescence happens, companies shut down, products go off the market and cease to be supported every day. This isn't new.

Yet I can (and do) still run TextMate 1, OmniFocus 1, LineForm, NewsFire, Office:mac 2011 and Photoshop CS3 on my Mac. Even when it comes to the "cloud", I can still use Skype 4.x on my iPhone which doesn't force a shitty Windows Mobile interface down my throat. It's not that I mind paying for subscriptions, I just don't want my tools to be taken away while I am trying to get work done with them.
Any plans to support login without Google Drive? I'd rather not store (or authenticate) with Google.

Support for something like Amazon S3 or even SCP would be amazing.
They plan to eventually sell features a la carte: https://ello.co/wtf/post/about-ello
Peak oil will never happen.

If we have to we can convert coal to oil, which we wont since other oils aka all the other fossil fuels are pretty plentiful given current tech.

I can't see energy costs going up by a factor of 10 changing my lifestyle much for $ reasons, so harvesting natural gas, oil, coal will be always viable. Even if that 10 times increase is only for a while my net worth's will be so high through technological innovations another 10 fold increase won't matter to me either by that time.

Part of those technological innovations will be cheap energy though so it won't really mater, oil aka fossil fuels won't run out, they will just become redundant.