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zandoron LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)

This reminds of the many recipes that convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius (and vice versa for that matter) and don't round off the numbers properly.

I'm not setting my oven to 176 degrees Celsius even if I could.

zandoron Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse

Dutch.

zandoron Why did the atomic spy do it?

It gets even better.

The base of the research was deemed to be of no significant military or economic value by the USSR so it was published internationally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Ufimtsev#The_father_of_st...

zandoron Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway

Straumnes.

zandoron Thoughts on Restructuring the Ansible Project

Speaking of deprecating, this is a fun one: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56930

zandoron How Anne Wojcicki’s 23andMe Will Mine Its Giant DNA Database

You do realise that there are plenty of others working on this for research? A good example is the UK Biobank, http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/about-biobank-uk/

zandoron Formula 1: The secret aerodynamicist reveals design concepts

Chain Bear F1 on YouTube has great video from an incident last season which helps explain the floor setup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUC2gDPiHEc

zandoron Norway’s Island with a Population of 1

Lofoten also has quite a long history of fishing making it known in international trade.

zandoron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)

HUNT Cloud delivers digital infrastructure to academic institutions focusing on biomedical research, such as large scale genome studies. We believe it should be a simple thing for researchers to get flexible, elegant and secure computing environments to store, access and extract knowledge from sensitive data. You will work together with a small, competitive team. We do everything from core infrastructure and unboxing bare metal to guiding researchers towards workflow magic. We write and use open source tools and code. Stack: Python, R, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, Ansible, Juju, MAAS.

Note: For this call we only accept applicants that are located in Norway.

If you’re interested or want to talk, give us a shout at cloud@hunt.ntnu.no

zandoron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

HUNT Cloud delivers digital infrastructure to academic institutions focusing on biomedical research, such as large scale genome studies. We believe it should be a simple thing for researchers to get flexible, elegant and secure computing environments to store, access and extract knowledge from sensitive data. You will work together with a small, competitive team. We do everything from core infrastructure and unboxing bare metal to guiding researchers towards workflow magic. We write and use open source tools and code. Stack: Python, R, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, Ansible, Juju, MAAS.

Note: For this call we only accept applicants that are located in Norway.

If you’re interested or want to talk, give us a shout at cloud@hunt.ntnu.no

zandoron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)

HUNT Cloud delivers digital infrastructure to academic institutions focusing on biomedical research, such as large scale genome studies. We believe it should be a simple thing for researchers to get flexible, elegant and secure computing environments to store, access and extract knowledge from sensitive data. You will work together with a small, competitive team. We do everything from core infrastructure and unboxing bare metal to guiding researchers towards workflow magic. We write and use open source tools and code. Stack: Python, R, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, Ansible, Juju, MAAS.

Note: For this call we only accept applicants that are located in Norway.

If you’re interested or want to talk, give us a shout at cloud@hunt.ntnu.no

zandoron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)

HUNT Cloud, NTNU | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Trondheim, Norway | INTERNS | ONSITE only | https://www.ntnu.edu/huntgenes/hunt-cloud/about HUNT Cloud delivers digital infrastructure to academic institutions focusing on biomedical research, such as large scale genome studies. We believe it should be a simple thing for researchers to get flexible, elegant and secure computing environments to store, access and extract knowledge from sensitive data. You will work together with a small, competitive team. We do everything from core infrastructure and unboxing bare metal to guiding researchers towards workflow magic. We write and use open source tools and code.

Stack: Python, R, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, Ansible, Juju, MAAS.

Note: For this call we only accept applicants that are located in Norway.

If you’re interested or want to talk, give us a shout at cloud@hunt.ntnu.no

zandoron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)

HUNT Cloud, NTNU | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Trondheim, Norway | INTERNS | ONSITE only | https://www.ntnu.edu/huntgenes/hunt-cloud/about HUNT Cloud delivers digital infrastructure to academic institutions focusing on biomedical research, such as large scale genome studies. We believe it should be a simple thing for researchers to get flexible, elegant and secure computing environments to store, access and extract knowledge from sensitive data.

You will work together with a small, competitive team. We do everything from core infrastructure and unboxing bare metal to guiding researchers towards workflow magic. We write and use open source tools and code.

Stack: Python, R, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, Ansible, Juju, MAAS.

Note: For this call we only accept applicants that are located in Norway.

If you’re interested or want to talk, give us a shout at cloud@hunt.ntnu.no

zandoron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

HUNT Cloud, NTNU | Software Engineer (SWE), Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Trondheim, Norway | INTERNS | ONSITE only | https://www.ntnu.edu/huntgenes/hunt-cloud/about HUNT Cloud delivers digital infrastructure to academic institutions focusing on biomedical research, such as large scale genome studies.

We believe it should be a simple thing for researchers to get flexible, elegant and secure computing environments to store, access and extract knowledge from sensitive data.

You will work together with a small, competitive team. We do everything from core infrastructure and unboxing bare metal to guiding researchers towards workflow magic. We write and use open source tools and code.

Stack: Python, R, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, Ansible, Juju, MAAS.

If you’re interested or want to talk, give us a shout at cloud@hunt.ntnu.no

zandoron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

HUNT Cloud delivers digital infrastructure to academic institutions focusing on biomedical research, such as large scale genome studies.

We believe it should be a simple thing for researchers to get flexible, elegant and secure computing environments to store, access and extract knowledge from sensitive data.

You will work together with a small, competitive team. We do everything from core infrastructure and unboxing bare metal to guiding researchers towards workflow magic. We write and use open source tools and code.

Stack: Python, R, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, Ansible, Juju, MAAS.

If you’re interested or want to talk, give us a shout at cloud@hunt.ntnu.no

zandoron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

HUNT Cloud delivers digital infrastructure to academic institutions focusing on biomedical research, such as large scale genome studies.

We believe it should be a simple thing for researchers to get flexible, elegant and secure computing environments to store, access and extract knowledge from sensitive data.

You will work together with a small, competitive team. We do everything from core infrastructure and unboxing bare metal to guiding researchers towards pipeline magic. We write and use open source tools and code.

Stack: Python, R, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, Ansible, Juju, MAAS.

If you’re interested or want to talk, give us a shout at cloud@hunt.ntnu.no

zandoron Protecting GDPR Personal Data with Pseudonymization

> If you work for a small company and you don't have all these processes set up, you don't have legal counsel I really feel bad for you this isn't something that you can just wing it.

But that is exactly the point. If a smaller company does not have the resources (both costs and competence) for something like this, then they should not be handling personal data at all. How would the same excuse sound if they don't have the resource to even secure personal data? Being too small is simply not a valid excuse.

zandoron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

HUNT Cloud, NTNU | Trondheim, Norway | INTERN | ONSITE | https://www.ntnu.edu/huntgenes/hunt-cloud/about

HUNT Cloud delivers digital infrastructure to academic institutions focusing on biomedical research, such as large scale genome studies.

We believe it should be a simple thing for researchers to get flexible, elegant and secure computing environments to store, access and extract knowledge from sensitive data.

You will work together with a small, competitive team. We do everything from core infrastructure and unboxing bare metal to guiding researchers towards pipeline magic. We write and use open source tools and code.

Stack: Python, R, Docker, Kubernetes, Openstack, Ceph, Juju, MAAS.

If you’re interested or want to talk, give us a shout at cloud@hunt.ntnu.no

zandoron Don't publicly expose .git (2015)

It still is a pretty bad practice though.

zandoron Show HN: Welder – set up your Linux server with plain shell scripts

The same could be said for some NIH tool.

Bringing people up to speed on in-house tools can be a major hassle. Never mind the fact that popular tools like Ansible are battle-tested and most likely has more documentations and tutorials.

zandoron Stories and Tips: Interviews with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Others

I'd say that network knowledge is a key part of the Ops part of DevOps (especially when talking about cloud engineering).

But that is what you get with great buzzwords like DevOps.

zandoron DigitalOcean lost our server

As a couple of the other users have mentioned, Ansible is a nice starting point. Check out https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/43-19-minutes-with-ansibl... for a quick intro.

zandoron Actually Unlock Your Door with “OK Google, Open Sesame”

I think Tasker and AutoVoice would work [1].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joaomgcd.a...

zandoron Behind the stick of the SR-71

Note that Kelly had a 15th rule that he passed on by word of mouth. According to the book "Skunk Works" the 15th rule is: "Starve before doing business with the damned Navy. They don't know what the hell they want and will drive you up a wall before they break either your heart or a more exposed part of your anatomy.

zandoron Did an F-15 airplane successfully land with just one wing?

This is not related, but still an interesting event. The Cornfield Bomber: An F-106 that went into a spin, pilot ejected, plane then managed to recover from spin and land itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M2XZEYqIpQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber

zandoron The life and death of Buran, the USSR shuttle built on faulty assumptions

For those interested in some more background, the Tupolev Tu-4 was reverse-engineered from the Boeing B-29 at the end of the war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4

zandoron Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

Kelly Johnson's 14 Rules of Management are also great.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Johnson#Kelly_Johnson....

Note the unwritten 15th rule: "Starve before doing business with the damned Navy. They don't know what the hell they want and will drive you up a wall before they break either your heart or a more exposed part of your anatomy."

zandoron Elite video game reboot hits funding target

Make sure to check out this great post mortem of Elite from GDC 2011:

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014628/Classic-Game-Postmortem

zandoron Honour for overlooked Poles who were first to crack Enigma code

This book is really worth getting if you can find it somewhere for a fair price. It's almost worth it for the appendix alone where Marian Rejewski himself describes how they broke the original Enigma code.

http://www.amazon.com/Enigma-German-Machine-Foreign-intellig...

zandoron Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma due to gravitational challenge

For those that actually want to see how some canopies are tested then check out this video from the R&D department of Performance Designs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERRrUcyOiE4