• X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0

  Forwarding X over ssh is normally fairly straightforward when you have the correct packages installed. I have another post about the errors that appear when you're missing the xorg-x11-xauth (CentOS, Fedora, RHEL) or xauth (Debian, Ubuntu) packages. Today's error was a bit different. Each…

• Engineering Culture at LinkedIn

  If you are a LinkedIn member, the people on our engineering team are the ones that build the products you use everyday on your computer, on your mobile phone, and on your tablet. We are a tight group that is so proud of the engineering culture we've created at LinkedIn. But we realize you may…

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• VMware Launches Second UK Data Center for Cloud Services

  Chessington data center is a step toward the plan to light up 10 vCloud Hybrid Service data centers by the year's end. Read More

• A more visual world data portal

  One of the most annoying parts of downloading data from large portals is that you never quite know what you're …

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• HP Buys $50M Stake in Enterprise Hadoop Heavyweight Hortonworks

  Giant takes a more active role in partner Hortonworks as battle for enterprise Hadoop market continues heating up. Read More

• Introducing MOE: Metric Optimization Engine; a new open source, machine learning service for optimal experiment design

  At Yelp we run a lot of A/B tests. By constantly trying new features and testing their impact, we are able to continue evolving our products and make them as useful as possible. However, running online A/B tests can be expensive (in opportunity cost, user experience, or revenue) and time consuming…