sabraham
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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
We use Riemann at Two Sigma to monitor/alert/heal our Mesos cluster [1], precisely because of above reasons to reject.
>- You must pick up Clojure to understand and configure Riemann (we're not a Clojure shop, so this is a non-trivial requirement) >- Config file isn't a config file, it's an executed bit of Clojure code
This is actually great -- static files quickly become their own franken-languages, with code generating config files.
>- Riemann is not a replacement for an alerting mechanism, it's another signal for alerting mechanisms (though since it's Clojure and the configuration file is a Clojure script, you can absolutely hack it into becoming an alerting system) >- Riemann is not a replacement for a trend graphing mechanism.
You probably don't want another alerting mechanism; you probably already have pagerduty or something else -- what you want is a rich way to create the alert.
Comment · 11 years ago
Mesos uses dominant resource fairness:
Comment · 11 years ago
To load the framework (application) with the logic with the concern of deciding what resources it wants. The scheduler shouldn't care about what you get, just fairness. Two-tiered scheduling achieves this:
Mesos decides how many resources to offer each framework, while frameworks decide which resources to accept and which computations to run on them.
Comment · 12 years ago
Great story, but total myth!
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2013/oct/02/david-c...
Comment · 13 years ago
This sounds like the story Jessica Livingston mentioned at Startup School 2012 <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4699862 >, if I remember correctly -- business in Texas got a term sheet, moved to California, investors pulled out when their user acquisition metric changed. Anyone have more color on this?
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
Poor example-- the Famine should be known as the Starvation. There was plenty of food to ration to the Irish, even on Irish land; the British instead shipped it home, or fed it to cattle and then shipped that home, and let the Irish starve instead.
Comment · 14 years ago
Typically newspapers omit the comma; my guess is to save ink/space, but if anyone knows for sure, I'm all ears.
Comment · 14 years ago
Sorry to be late to the party-- xaa, could you explain a little more what you mean by
"Ultimately I believe the breakthroughs will come fastest if we can "close the feedback loop" by automating a lot of bench biology, and then have computers both generate and test hypotheses."
I don't know anything about bioinformatics, so I'm trying to see how this differs from vanilla automated model selection. I'm really interested, so please feel free to send me an email if you feel that's more appropriate.
Comment · 14 years ago
Definitely jokes.
I wasn't totally sure until I saw this: http://www.groupon.com/pages/kidz-club-games
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