Seriously "Moloch", was Lucifer or Satan taken already? Edit: And the logo is an owl lmao hard pass - what can they gain from this?
what is your problem with owls ?
HN ain't the place.
AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
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#42Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#43I’m sorry. AOL?
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#44This gets posted once in a while and I always, without fail, think of Ginsburg. Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
Yeah, I literally heard that line in my head immediately after reading the title of this post.
What else are we supposed to think of?
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not? That's a pretty metal name. Don't tell me anyone still has appetite for yet another saccharine cutesy-wutesy "yay software squee " name.
There’s always room for more cute in software.
Hard disagree.
Software should be cold, calculated and cannibalistic.
Leave cuteness to the experts: puppies and such.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorta like https://www.wireshark.org/ . But Moloch is a very active project, used by many, and used internally at Verizon Media. Aol is part of Verizon Media (which brought AOL and Yahoo together). Open source is very active here. ;-) Compare also to https://enterprise.verizon.com/products/security/advanced-th... (formerly known as Protectwise), which is not open source.
Ignorant question for you: What does AOL do these days (I can't view the website for the same reason I don't read TechCrunch articles)? Is it fully about online publications now?
You can see https://www.verizonmedia.com/our-brands to see the collection of online brands in the family. You might use lots of these brands today without really noticing. There's a lot of internet content you get via https://www.verizondigitalmedia.com/ which is also part of the same company. Aol is still a thing, people do use it. Many people use lots of these brands as part of their internet experience.
If you are here, you probably care about internet security. Verizon Media runs a pretty significant Bug Bounty program https://hackerone.com/verizonmedia which you can read about here https://www.protocol.com/hackerone-bug-bounty-virtual-verizo... and their blog here https://www.verizonmedia.com/technology/security#/bug-bounty
You might even be looking for a job as an information security professional. You can join "The Paranoids" team (now that's a good name, don't you think!) by checking out some of their jobs. https://www.verizonmedia.com/careers/search.html?q=paranoids
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#47This gets posted once in a while and I always, without fail, think of Ginsburg. Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
And whenever anything here reminds me of Ginsberg, I always, without fail, remember:
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” –Jeff Hammerbacher
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#48Not the greatest choice of name: Moloch[a] (also Molech, Mollok, Milcom, or Malcam) is the biblical name of a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice, through fire or war. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
Anyone who works on Linux probably knows that sometime you need to sacrifice a child...
Some problems just can't be fixed using goats...
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#49The amount of professional-grade hand-wringing virtue-signaling in this comment section makes me feel ill.
Why get bent out of shape over the name of a software project? It's virtually a meaningless factor in day-to-day life.
What about hearing phrases "Sacrificing a Chicken to Moloch," the "spirit cooking" culture and related symbolism rampant in elite political circles? Shouldn't we be more interested in that?
Lots of low-hanging fruit to pick, I guess. Someday I might unlock the "downvote" ability on this platform. Until then my opinions don't carry weight here. Also, uhh who decides the "threshold" for downvoting? Hint: nobody knows. [0]
This platform has become more of an echo chamber than a host of rational discussion based on merit. I suppose that's a problem with growth.
There's a lot of conversation around "Moloch" as a name and the subsequent emotional responses... but not a lot of discussion about the tech at-hand. And it's a repost.
Where's the value?
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Edit: while this is high-ranking comment, I'd point out that if I had the ability I would have just downvoted the comments I didn't like. Take that for whatever it's worth.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorta like https://www.wireshark.org/ . But Moloch is a very active project, used by many, and used internally at Verizon Media. Aol is part of Verizon Media (which brought AOL and Yahoo together). Open source is very active here. ;-) Compare also to https://enterprise.verizon.com/products/security/advanced-th... (formerly known as Protectwise), which is not open source.
Ignorant question for you: What does AOL do these days (I can't view the website for the same reason I don't read TechCrunch articles)? Is it fully about online publications now?
Digital Programmatic Ad Buying Platforms for Brands by Verizon, formerly Oath Ads Platforms formerly BrightRoll, ONE by AOL (formerly Millennial Media) and Yahoo Gemini, which themselves have other ad tech acquisitions burred in them (Gravity, Adap.tv, Convertro among others come to mind) is the fifth largest digital marketing provider behind Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Verizon Media (Engadget, Huffpost, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, News Sports etc) are the other big component of the company.