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snnnon Screwdriver: Yahoo's Continuous Delivery Build System for Dynamic Infrastructure

Chef cannot rollback. Chef is mainly for deployment but I think screwdriver focuses on CI. CD is not his business.

NO no no... Alibaba has a clone that they claim their OS, YunOS, is not Android and even it is not written in java, but can run most of Android apps.The OS is written in some java like programming language and close sourced.

snnnon Select(2) is fundamentally broken

> You should never, ever, create one thread per socket

Really? that's how MySQL works.

snnnon Select(2) is fundamentally broken

And also user defined events and timers(through the new thread pool API)

snnnon Twitter China head Kathy Chen leaves company

It is not a surprise. Google ads has a lot of sales in China.

snnnon Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China

It's your account, but not your data. You can stop using it, but you can't decide when to delete the data.

snnnon Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China

Not shutdown his internet, shutdown his connection to Google for a while. In that time, he can still use Yahoo,Bing,Baidu...

snnnon Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China

Yahoo closed their Beijing office but Google never did it. Google has 100+ engineers in Beijing and Shanghai. Google also has a lot of servers in Beijing, to serve dl.google.com etc.

snnnon Apache Spark: A Unified Engine for Big Data Processing

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-139

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1476

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6235

You'll hit this bug when your model size is larger than 2GB.

BTW, Recomputation of RDDs may result in duplicated accumulator updates. So please do not use accumulator in your trainer for gradient summation. They know that, but they said they will not fix that.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-732

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5490

snnnon Apache Spark: A Unified Engine for Big Data Processing

Hi, glad to see you here. We were using spark for logistic regression training but switch to MPI now, because of the 2GB problem. I think LR was spark's killer feature, would you make it better? Thanks.

snnnon Baidu File System – A distributed file system for real-time applications

what if path is empty？

snnnon Microsoft Shares Soar to Record on Earnings Boost From Cloud

What if you want to buy this company? His cash is your debt. The more he has, the more you need to borrow. The actual you get is the selling price minus the cash you get from this buying.

snnnon Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division

IE has a built-in ad blocker for years.

snnnon Google and Box Announce Partnership

I was. if you have a plenty of files, how could you search something in a specific folder? e.g. I want to search 'hadoop' in my personal work notes, not in public ebooks and slides.

snnnon Can NAT traversal be Tor's killer feature? (2014)

http://cc.rtmfp.net/ A flash for NAT Traversal Testing, made by Adobe.

snnnon Yahoo probes possible huge data breach

I worked for a listed game company. We often delete inactive account for making a better revenue report. Once an account is deleted，all the money he paid can be immediately confirmed as revenue.

snnnon Mlpack – a scalable C++ machine learning library

Does it have a distributed version?

snnnon China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

I haven't seen any policeman at there. They are poor because their only income is donation. They are students without families. Even they have a new place, it won't change.

snnnon China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

Sorry, I edited the reply and removed the description of shower. My remark was not meant as a slight on them. I just want to show you what I know about them. Most people do not have a chance to see how poor Chinese lives, because the information you can get is controlled by China propaganda machine. Beautiful Beijing, huge international airport, rich buyers. Even you already have a Chinese Visa, you can't travel to Tibet without special authorization. In most cases, the officer would reject your application and tell you Beijing already has a big Buddhism Lama temple in its heart so you can get everything you want to know at there.

And, as we are talking about human rights here, please take a look on another side: The Tibet itself. If there were no communists, would it get a better human right record? How do they treat women? Why male student can get a scholarship but females can’t? Could the U.S. government offer any help to this? The people in this news lives in another society, none of them has western education, so you can’t wish them conforming to western standards. How can you convince them in a peaceful way?

snnnon China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

Most male student there, can get a scholarship from the school, about 200-500 USD per month.

snnnon China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

And the solution was recruiting Tibetan from their homeland to U.S. and get them trained by CIA, send them back for fighting? It sounds so similar with what ISIS is doing.

snnnon China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

Avoid crowds.No crowds, No protests. Every year, more than 10k people are gathered at there on special days.

snnnon China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

I partially agree with you. I've been there at last year. It is far from cites, about 10 hours driving to the nearest airport. When I got there, there were more than 20k people lived in the small valley, without TV/clean water/electricity. Most houses are made from wood. If there is a fire, I can't imagine how many people would die.

However, the gov do not give them another place to live and study. It is not a city or town, it is a college. Most people are studying at there. The highest degree is Kanbo. People need 15-20 years to get this.

snnnon Microsoft sells patents to Xiaomi

MIUI has another popular name: ADUI

snnnon China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works

They didn't tell you the most dangerous part: The TV box in everyone's home. It is far more powerful than the Great Fire Wall.

1. It's a part of the internet. More than a half internet traffics are video streams. 2. It's a bug 3. It can do End2End monitoring and filtering.

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If Adobe could open source their RTMFP implementation, it would be rather easy to build a HTTP/SOCKS proxy on top of it. Then you can use this proxy to access your home server, with protocols like SSH/HTTP/FTP/...

snnnon Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China

If Stack Exchange were allowed to post Chinese, it will be blocked immediately. The Great FireWall filters contents by keywords.

snnnon Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China

Edit: AFAIK, some VPNs are whitelisted.

snnnon Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China

Almost all foreigners has a vpn to access their facebook and gmail.

And for the demand, let me show you an example: Several months ago, a malware, XcodeGhost, infects EVERY large internet company in China. The attack worked by tricking developers into using a fake version of Xcode, Apple's software development tool, to build apps. So their apps were published to Apple App Store with hidden malicious code. This virus also has a android version. You may wonder why these developers didn't download the xcode and android sdk from apple and google's website directly. They are the top class developers in China. But the fact is they rarely use these websites and services. You can live without google even you are an android developer.