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Hi, I'm the author of this.

About a year ago I open sourced a tool for quick monitoring and troubleshooting Nginx, ngxtop [1], and received some very positive interests from HN community. However quite a few people are using it as a monitoring solution for their Nginx server, which is not ideal. Ngxtop was designed to be like the `top` command, you fire it up to check for at most 5-10 minutes and stop. It was not meant to be a long monitoring process that can be used to plug to your monitoring system such as Zabbix or Nagios or graphed by Graphite. Nginx has an official status module for this [2], but it requires Nginx Plus, a > $1k product. Other solutions would normally require a log processing process piping to an external system to calculate and store the metrics. While an ELK stack [3] could provide you a lot more useful data, its setup and maintenance efforts can be significant. And that's why I created Luameter.

It easier to setup, flexible to configure, and equally easy to be plugged into external system given its JSON api.

[1]: https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop
[2]: http://nginx.com/products/live-activity-monitoring/
[3]: http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/
Nice! I didn't mention that http://ip.nfriedly.com/text works too, but I like the ipconfig.me domain name.
One reason for this is the primacy of the workplace/school, to the total exclusion of any third place. If you don't have a job or are harassed out of your school, what does one do when not working? Japan does not have great ready-made answers to this question, for many people. (It seems like a silly question, but after six years here, I honestly struggled with it after leaving the day job. Where should one be at 3 PM on a Thursday? Is it allowed for me to just go to the gym? Shouldn't I just stay home a few more hours so that the lady behind the counter will assume I am coming in after getting home from work early at 8 or so?)

There exist people with similar levels of social isolation who nonetheless go to work every day. They are occasionally written about in reports of him hikikomori, which strikes at least some people as odd, since "I go to a place where nobody cares about me and spend my entire day there" is not exactly out of the mainstream of Japanese experience.
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Memory used to be precious. Last year I ported some text adventures games from the TRS-80 machines of the early 1980s to Android. While working on one of the games (Bedlam), I went through a process very similar to the article. Looked for strings that I knew had to be there in some form, ended up having to use a step debugger (the one in MESS) to trace through the code and discover the print routines and then the magic behind them.

It turned out Bedlam packed strings into contiguous bytes of ram, but using 5 bits per character. Byte 1 had all of character 1 in the lower 5 bits and the first 3 bits of character 2 in the upper 3 bits, and so on. Of course with only 32 values the character set was a bit odd. As I recall you had most letters but not Z or Q,the numbers 0,1, and 3, a period, comma, and space. Something like that. The routine to unpack the characters was quite small, just used shifts to build an offset into a table containing the ASCII values.

The games also ran in a somewhat ingenious "virtual machine", with all the game logic being expressed through sets of very tightly encoded high level rules rather than implemented directly in assembly. In the Android port, I literally load the original ROM into an array and then just process these same rules verbatim using a java implementation of the VM. Kind of amazing to me how portable yet efficient the design is.
I am aware of what is meant by externality in economics however economics have a lot of blind spots, the consequence of technology being one of them which makes it an externality for exactly that reason.
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How does Spider-Man Move So Fast?
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Garment workers: http://www.softwearautomation.com/our-products/

But such automation will likely cause disruption -- real disruption like civic unrest -- in several countries.

Bangladesh's economy is predominantly textiles, which accounted for 80% of exports in 2013.

I wonder whether the Bangladeshi government would assassinate people working the field. That plot would make an interesting indie dark comedy anyway.
Who remembers when Cheney removed his house from Google Earth? All the while the NSA et al were building insane domestic surveillance systems.

That's pretty much when I understood what "oligarchy" meant and how very much there we were.

Snowden didn't help my mental picture of the country.
I know that they were trying to find the average wavelengths of visible light, and I loathe pedantry, but shouldn't the answer be "black"?
There are also a lot of other non-HEMA historical european martial arts groups and less historical EuroMA. For instance you can find stick fighting most palces, Jogo Do Pau is Portuguese stick/staff fighting, Savate is French kickboxing usually with cane and maybe some sailor stuff, Zipota is similar, but from Basque Spain. Lots of herding cultures kept this stuff alive and whether it is MMA or something else they seem to be getting more attention.
> The correction is coming, and companies are starting to lay off people.

In the last 3 companies I have worked for over 10 years this seems to happen every 6 to 12 months. Restructuring or right-sizing as HR love to call it is a fairly standard thing these days as companies search for optimal profitability. Every company I have worked for preaches employee loyalty in their mantra but I've never really seen it.
What's the relationship between Baserock and OpenEmbedded? Glancing through OpenEmbedded's wiki page, it seems to a recipe/build system for embedded linux. Baserock seems to be in the same league.
Great change rarely comes with-out great violence. It is sad, but appears to be true. Considering Americans and other FVEY countries are for all purposes living very well compared to their cousins makes me doubt this will ever happen.
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Basically anything you couldn't do in 1700s is a priveledge. Driving -- privelage, flying -- priveledge, getting on Amtrak -- they have TSA there too now.

"Arms" are hunting shotguns, pistols. Can't own fully automatic ones, or rocket launchers or fighter planes.

Drones will be illegal soon as well probably.

Basically you can get on your horse and start traveling through the country roads and woods, besides that you need to have "papers".
But how do you manage scope and deliverables on a team that doesn't occasionally require overtime?
I just saw the first movie from Oculus, and it is the future
Look at podcasts. They are nearly all, in essence, using exactly Gruber’s model. It seems to me as though there is practically nothing else there …

(I’m not sure exactly where this podcast model is coming from. I think I first heard it – in an incarnation that is nearly totally similar to what DF does – on Dan Benjamin’s 5by5 network. That genesis would even sort of make sense, as Dan Benjamin are friends and used to be long-time co-hosts of a podcast. I obviously can’t recall exact dates, so I’m not even sure who came first there, actually. Now other podcasts and podcast networks are doing it, too.)

What that means is this: The actual hosts of the podcast read the ad in their voice, though they still say that it’s an ad read (that’s analogous to putting the ad directly on the website in the website layout together with the other content and in the RSS feed, though still marking it as sponsored content). Nearly all will also add in little personal touches. Those can be widely diverse, from a simple, slightly personalised thank you (as Gruber writes), to stories about how the hosts use the product or why they like it, all the way to specially produced editorial content for the sponsor (as Startup and Reply All from Gimlet Media are doing by, for example, interviewing their sponsors and talking to them about their business).

That’s practically identical to what Gruber does, just in another medium (and maybe the podcasts were even first and Gruber just cribbed from them and adopted it to his medium).

I honestly think this is at least somewhat workable on a wider scale. Not a billion dollar scale, sure, but a small operation making a small profit with a couple well paid staff? Sure, that’s very imaginable and partly already sort of happening.
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A direct attack on this surveillance technology might be a losing battle. But what about passing laws to mitigate its effect, and possibly in the long run help fight it? Two examples:

1. A law requiring the government to delete this data after a certain amount of time.

2. Legal penalties for abusing this data. Perhaps standards for how the data must be protected.
I find it oddly appropriate that the average color of the universe is later described as the most boring color possible.
Ah, I should've thought twice about that - I'm not even attempting reproducible builds in my own work, but I've often seen my Dockerfiles have apt-get-induced shenanigans due to the particular day or half-broken mirror I happen to be running the build from.

NixOS is definitely on my list, although for different reasons (whilst I love using and babysitting Debian systems, orchestrating it is eating up time that could be better spent on something like NixOS).
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It's simple, teach functional programming without any of the specifics accrued from modern CPU design. Teach it in maths: the first time I had to use my high-school CS knowledge in a job was when sorting something by zip-code. Space and Time are abstract enough foundations to not model in the void. While or for each aren't programming concepts in the first place.
edit: oops. My apologies, sodium is responsible for the dark band at ~5,890 I misread a graphic. Still looking into the spike...

If like me you just had to know what was responsible for the huge spike in the red (@ wavelength of about 6600 angstroms)....

Sodium.

Tangentially related (TIL) sodium also effects a star's end-of-life cycle: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/05/130529-how-s...
I wonder if the recent changes in exporting from Cuba will change things.
We can solve climate change, but it won’t be cheap or easy
I'm interested! I actually have had to work around the /etc/{passwd,group} shenanigans for other reasons, interested to see what you did there.
Wow, seems like a big privacy issue. Does this mean that VPNs soon won't be effective for masking your IP?
Video made on XVth century full plate armor sword fighting, made for an history thesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q

Swords pretty much work against plate armor, because they trained to precisely drive the point toward the joints.
Most people use usb-serial adapters whether on Mac, Windows or Linux. Source: I wrote it ;)
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ok so your point is that when technology creates long term downwards trends in the value of labor, anything that decreases the value of labor can be thought of as an externality?

Redistribution can counteract this effect. If productivity increases but it also increases inequality, then there is some level of redistribution that will correct the inequality while making everyone better off (in the sense that the number of people earning more than X increases for all X). Not exactly a theorem, but a rough consequence of general equilibrium theory. You might claim that this kind of redistribution is impossible, but there are countries (e.g Scandinavia and Aus/NZ/Canada/UK) that redistribute a lot more than the US.
Yup, embedded right into the rubber. There are a couple of reasons for this, one is to provide serial numbers which allows you to 'age' the tire. Older tires are less reliable than fresh tires and there are laws in states like California that disallow selling "old" tires as new. You can read the tag and see when the tire was made. The sensors are not used to indicate inflation as far as I know that is a completely separate system. When they were first proposed, some folks showed they could be read from side of the road although that was unreliable. Reading them from the roadbed itself however was quite reliable as you ended up, worst case, with the tag being one wheel diameter away from the reader, and they were spec'd to be readable like that as folks doing inventory on a stack of tires did not want to rotate the tires in the stack. The last set of tires I 'read' (to show this off to a disbelieving friend) had a 18 digit serial number and a 6 digit date code. I'm sure there is some IEEE standard now for what your tire should report.
Something I've learned from listening to police scanners is the majority of warrants are for unpaid traffic tickets and guys behind on alimony.
Transcript of a Conversation about Conversation with Steven Pinker and Ian McEwan
More on the same theme... interesting grug, though pond author states Dear God, please don't use Pond for anything real yet. I've hammered out nearly 20K lines of code that have never been reviewed. Unless you're looking to experiment you should go use something that actually works.
Nobody is comparing unboiling an egg to a candy bar melting. And nobody cares whether body heat or Arizona typically melt candy bars (they do) since it's totally irrelevant to the Percy Spencer story. Please tell me you read this thread from the beginning?

To repeat: "OP just means the headline is talking only about the somewhat mundane event, not the much bigger implications." And, yes, unboiling an egg is a mundane headline when compared to its much bigger implications.
It would be actually interesting to hear about this difference from someone who is working on autonomous cars for both highways and Autobahns. I still wouldn't call the difference 'massive' (at least not in terms of how much the technology would need to advance). Overtaking and avoiding slows down is an issue on highways in other countries too and once it is implemented it could possibly be easily adapted to traffic moving at a faster pace. Being trapped on the right lane happens quite often, but you generally have this problem when the current lane is crowded. It's not a special case for the Autobahn. I agree that the speed difference can be much higher which would possibly require a ToF sensor with higher range than what is currently built into the Google cars (only about 200 m).
In this context black is the absence of light, so it's disqualified right off the bat.

With a clear night and a good telescope there are a lot of stars out there. So I would say even the average color of the night sky looking out from earth wouldn't be black. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150101.html
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I've always enjoyed the work of John Young. [0] The eyeball series isn't nearly as interesting as most of the mirrored leaks, but it serves to frustrate such attempts at airbrushing the homes and workplaces of the anointed.

[0] http://cryptome.org/
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Worked for me, also Mac Chrome.
In an alternate universe, this genre would sound like: "We produced a great product which costs $60k a month to run but which only charges customers $8k. We hope you have enjoyed being subsidized by our investors and below-market salaries, but there is simply no more subsidy left. We received an offer of a soft landing, which means the team is taken care of and the founders get a consolation prize which doesn't quite make up for spurning the BigCo offers they turned down to get here. We took it. Please tell uninvolved third parties who have never even heard of us before to mock us on the Internet, as is customary in these sorts of situations."

We do not ask people to actually write that because to do so would be petty, cruel, and beneath a community organized around people who make things.
> Doesn't that average consumer change their tires more
> frequently than their license plate over the lifespan
> of their car?

Yes, of course. And the RFID tag is really not helpful outside of inventory as far as I can tell. When they started this project I expected something like the microwave tags they glue inside a DVD case to detect shoplifting that you could remove from the tire innards before you mounted it. But nope, its embedded in the tire material.
well, what might be considered "simple" is not entirely simple. sure, i could send out the packages to anyone, provisioned locally. sure.

but... doing a demo with license checks really, really, really well...? that takes time, care, and impact user-experience.

i decided that i didn't have time (yet) to implement a really kick-ass demo / trial version... but in the future i'd like to take a serious look at it.

context is important: as an indie developer i only have so much (so little) time to invest... i have to really carefully choose my battles of where i spend that time... and that's really the hardest part of it all.
It doesn't stop there. How about high-def video feeds of the entire planet via satellite? With heat tracking/infrared? Combine that with smart tracking software and NSA-level eavesdropping and there would be no escape.

Personally, I think we'll have the technological capability to do this within a couple decades.
i suppose, but there would be parts that would probably "break" and thus creating a false or "incomplete" experience.

you're right though, there are some other possibilities, i'm sure.
Dont you think that work on not spying on innocent people would be a good move into building trust between cultures?
Would anyone accept that increasing gas taxes to give Tesla owners a cash payment is an ethical proposition?

Yes, I would accept that. In fact if you consider that we are giving Tesla owners a cash payment when they buy the car, a lot of people accept that proposition.

I'm not sure why you think that the people most affected by the increase in electricity prices are the poor. Sure, poor people are more susceptible to all price increases, but is electricity worse than food? Or even gas? Note that your electricity bill is heavily dependent on the size of your house. My current electricity bill, all in, is $50 a month. I live in a 1 BR in NYC. Back when I had a 3BR condo in CT, it was $150-$350 a month. The size of the house factors in a lot. I imagine most poor people don't have bedrooms to spare that they spend a bunch of money air conditioning in the summer.

I do know that many low income areas are right next to highways, and that pollution from gasoline powered cars impacts the health in those areas greatly.

So if you want to talk about ethics, I think it is very ethically appealing to incentivize people to reduce emissions that are likely harming people near highways a lot more than a slight increase in electrical bills or gas taxes.
From the report, just before the graph -- "The net load is calculated by taking the forecasted load and subtracting the forecasted electricity production from variable generation resources, wind and solar"

In other words, after projected solar generation is accounted for, the peak remaining power need for the specific grid in question is at 6-9 pm. (Other parts of the paper describe the "belly of the duck" being caused by "supply from solar generation resources" -- reducing the need for the rest of the grid to supply daytime power.) The paper in question may also be describing a residential-only grid.

Residential peak usage is from 6-9 pm, but when commercial/industrial power usage is accounted for, the peak is more like 2-6 pm. See the chart at around the 2/3 point of http://www.mpoweruk.com/electricity_demand.htm . Also note that residential demand may peak earlier on super hot / high sun days, as shown at http://blog.opower.com/2012/09/hot-and-heavy-energy-usage-ho... , and tends to peak later in the winter due to electric heaters kicking on in the evenings (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... ).

Of course, I'm glossing over a lot of complexity here. Each region is going to be different depending on a lot of factors. But in general, having a decent amount of solar power generation can help meet demand at the peak of commercial/industrial demand.
You don't normally get new plates often, but you can if you want (report them lost or stolen and pay ~$20), and it is also rather easier to steal someone else's plates than their tires.
> to the total exclusion of any third place

There's always Starbucks. I'm only half-joking, there's always people there at all times of the day in Japan.
This isn't something developers can/will fix. It's an issue of incentive.

Lots of frivolous apps can be fun to make or have the potential for huge exits. Unless both of those things change, we're going to get lots of frivolous apps.
Great points. It's very important not to classify at such a young age. Kids in the club are encouraged to try new things, experiment, make mistakes and have fun without worrying about assessments or grades. There are no success rubrics and the computer, in this situation, is just a tool for creative expression--like LEGO or clay. Scratch works well since it's very approachable and is a fun introduction to computer programming as creative tool.

The drop-off effect is normal, just as some people choose to stop art and music classes after an initial introduction. For some, there is a "fundamental disconnect" when expressing themselves creatively with music or art and they will naturally gravitate away from those areas. However, a child should not be excluded from art class for not being able to draw a perfect portrait.

My hope is that being introduced to programming concepts in this club forms mental models that can be referenced later on when learning other subjects and, perhaps, motivate some students to further explore computer science. Either outcome is a success.
> we can't have cartels knowing the identities of the DEA's informers

You should learn about how CIs are blackmailed, used, and discarded, and, often enough die. If informants were outed and the use of CIs ended, it would be a benefit to everyone.

Wikileaks? Cables? We lost all our allies, right?

Don't fear radical transparency. It will be to your benefit.
That's a great point. You're 100% correct. Can you recommend any good reading on offensive security?
Im a digital nomad and live here in Costa Rica , did research on the place...
To make Costa Rica the on boarding phase it is exactly what I want to do.

I attempt to find good and interesting people to work with that can complement what I don't have, publicity to my startup if I make it awesome and market it as an innovative idea (work fom a villa for a month all paid, etc etc)
It's just an arbitrary wavelength. It's not that the universe is emitting a boring color, it's the fact that we interpret this color as beige and therefore boring.

The interesting thing we should be asking is why does our biology cause us to notice high wave lengths like red and find colors like beige to be really plain and boring.
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Interesting—I haven't seen that term used that way before. If I encrpyt my customers' private data using a well-publicized encryption method, is it still security through obscurity, simply because they are secrets?