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But that is how it already works...

The diff is that AWS spot instance pull from capacity that is unused, irrespective of RIs that you don't own... But when i come to launch my RI and capacity is full, your spot instance gets whacked.

What netflix is doing is an internal meta-spot-market on THEIR idle RIs. This compute capacity will never be available to anyone but them unless they create a service to sublet the capacity via the same tools they do to their internal teams... From amazons persective that capacity is already paid for regardless of consumption...

Forgive me if I am articulating this poorly...

In the end, I just find the numbers disclosed in here to be awesome and I suspect they are just but a fraction of total capacity Netflix requires.

Given that they disclose 12k idle trough RIs is very telling in efficiencies - but since I don't have the whole picture of their footprint, or instance demographic, I can't tell how much of this completes the picture of their landscape.

I'll assume 12k represents perhaps 80% of the machines they use... They have control-plan, orchestration, DR, private peering nodes (can't recall the name) but like backblaze pods, and any number of varied stage test debut envs...

So from a pure "stream or encode my shit" maybe 80% works, hopefully it's better - but could be worse...

Netflix's original mandate to push all DC ops and what not out of the building is not only super awesome, but is one of the linchpins in AWS business model. There should be whole career paths in college designed around this model...
Fantastically resourceful. Great read.
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Yeah really, ease up there buddy. How about the steam engine, the cotton gin, the printing press, the computer, etc. I would argue more important than Evernote.
No big deal, but you run the risk of turning into a dinosaur.

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Should I go back to my old PC AT running PC-DOS 3.3? There is something about those old clicky 84-key keyboards that the scissor switches in today's laptops don't measure up to. Call me mad, but I'm seriously giving thought about getting an IBM 5170 (6 MHz 80286, 11.5" monochrome CRT).

I'm not really fond of OS X or Windows, so not having access to the latest apps is nothing, as I don't use anything but TextEdit and Safari anyway. I word process like mad and visit BBSes. That's about it. I cannot get used to laptops, no matter how big/clear/fast the screen is. It just doesn't work for me, so losing a bit of power or screen space is no big deal either.
Interesting, thanks for the insight. Would you consider any of these sprawl areas as desirable at all? I'm trying to form a comparison to the Peninsula here in the Bay Area.

How is safety in those other areas or Denver proper?
We just need input methods that can keep pace with negligible delay. It would make dragging/writing so much nicer.
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thank you for linking this!!!
Google does not make the click determination.
I've had far more problems with FedEx than with the contractors who deliver Prime Now.

FedEx (unlike UPS) routinely delivers packages a day late, and they often leave packages in front of my garage door (where they can get rained on) with no notification.
Huawei seems rather sketchy. Or basically, anything from China.

My phone recently died and i'm in market for a new phone. The 5X looks like a decent one.
>Luckily I committed no crimes, or I would have had a hat trick.

Your secrets don't have to be criminal to be secrets.
I've come around to an old critique I read thirty five years ago, which is women tend to do a lot of economically important yet uncompensated work; child rearing and house keeping. Something economists and policy makers tend to studiously ignore because you can't easily assign a dollar value to it or pin it to a particular quarters GDP.
That's also probably true, but your comment lacks some kind of explanation for people like me who actually know nothing about electrical engineering and can only make reasonable guesses.

I'd love to hear what the reason is for not offering a detachable cable ("I don't know why they wouldn't offer a detachable cable" being a completely fair answer).
It's in part a strategy to hide their plans from each other, but it's also to be able to announce their products to the public on their terms and control the timing and pace of the reveal.

You may be able to request trademark application records in those jurisdictions, but I imagine it's more of a process. You would also likely need to know the mark itself or the company filing the mark. In the case of Apple, if they file applications under a shell entity and without knowing the product name, it would be difficult to find the application. Also, given the high number of countries without electronic IP records, there are still plenty of opportunities to hide filings.

That being said, it's likely a loophole that will become increasingly narrow over time as more IP offices go online.
What would an int1 even look like? Just a sign bit and no magnitude at all?
So, just some doxing then?
It's cool that you made an experiment here, but I wanted to say that whenever I see people hosting blogs with expensive software (NodeJS with Express, or a PHP CMS, or other complete stack) I think it will be complicated to host those things forever, so probably the content will vanish some time in the near future. This could apply to experimental setups also, but perhaps experimental people are totally different from people that use the same tools for all kinds of jobs and will perhaps be able to migrate their data from the experimental tools if they prove to not be as good as first imagined.
To be honest, to me it looks a bit noisy, washed out colors, and it must not have been taken in bright lighting because you can see some camera shake. There's also a lot of smudging in the carpet and wall textures, which makes me think that either there originally was a lot of noise before post-processing, or the noise removal software on the phone isn't very good.
You're not understanding me. If I have a Reserved Instance already paid for and tell Amazon that I want a Spot Instance, I'll be charged the Spot Instance price for it. What I'm saying is that launching a spot instance should use my idle RI capacity and bill me as if I had launched those instances as on-demand.
TrueCrypt was audited awhile back. It was abandoned by the developer(s?). VeraCrypt is a fork off of TrueCrypt and a continuation of the software, so I would assume that the audit for TrueCrypt applies.
The Nexus 5X is built by LG. The 6P by Huawei.

It's only been a few years since CBS/60 Minutes went on a veritable crusade[0][1] against Huawei, alleging security and espionage concerns.

However, it's been confirmed since that the modus operandi of Western intelligence has been to simply to own everything in the telecommunications sector[2][3], so it's not a large leap of logic to imagine they probably have copies of every single IC schematic and piece of software that goes into a Huawei product anyways.

By that logic, a sound conclusion might be that the 6P renders you no more or less vulnerable to Western intelligence, but perhaps far more vulnerable to Chinese intelligence?

This might not be a concern for the average user, though it's something to consider for anyone high-profile or powerful. Of course, doing anything sensitive on your smartphone is generally not a good idea to begin with, but not everyone is tech savvy (or careful). Besides, if a phone is compromised, its owner can still be tracked and recorded against their will anyways.

[0] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/huawei-probed-for-security-espio...

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/update-on-huawei/

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/22/nsa-huawei-chin...

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/19/nsa-gchq-sim-...
Anytime. Thank you for a fascinating read :)

Any idea why the images aren't working?
Can we please get this site to be mobile friendly?
Hey look, a rare opportunity to complain about my home state on HN on two consecutive days! There is a similar school in Oklahoma called the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. The legislature founded the school in 1990 and has been systematically trying to defund it ever since[1].

IMSA and OSSM were founded around the same time, are of similar size, history, and philosophy. They are also both members of amazingly-named National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology. If you're looking for a school like this in your area, you should start there[2].

1: http://www.reddirtreport.com/red-dirt-news/ossm-only-adequat...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Consortium_for_Specia...
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> Surely you would have a claim on their assets in this case?

Sure, along with all their other creditors. If you don't trust them to remain solvent, you don't trust that claim to be worth much.

EDIT: But I don't think that this is actually the problem, just that the claim on assets wouldn't really negate it if it was.
It's useful if the startup has something it wants to hide in its trademark application (like a product description that it wants to protect) and can justify the added filing fees. But, there are over 1,000 new US trademark filings every day so in most cases, someone would have to be actively searching for it. Also, often the description that accompanies a trademark application is rather broad, so it may be difficult to determine what the application is for without knowing more. Tech companies like Google and Apple are under much more scrutiny.
You're underestimating the awesomeness of the human brain to tackle big problems. I want to be drunk, watching movies, pleasuring myself in the backseat of an autonomous Uber during my two-hour commute in and out of the city. Open your mind.
Back when I was a kid we called sleep() and we liked it.
You know how you're never supposed to screw with the scroll elements in a web page? Syrah.co missed the memo...

I guess everyone in the whole world has a scrollwheel and/or touchscreen. Screw anyone who doesn't, you can just read the top of the page...
Awesome; but what do you reckon the best way to implement a corkboard is when it's entirely possible that you're dealing with individual documents, not Scrivener's groups of them? (Sorry, that sounds snarky; it's a genuine question; one global corkboard, per folder, or what?)
I don't think I'm being overly cynical, but I'm seeing qualifiers[1] all over the place. The phrases seem carefully constructed to suggest more privacy than what is actually offered. For example:

"We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers" but we do build profiles (bonus points for insinuating competition sells your information)

"we don’t read your email or your messages to get information to market to you." - but we do read and index your emails and messages, only to make our services and devices 'better' - by our definition

The sentences are built to sound like the italicized parts are not there, yet they totally change (negate) the meaning.

If I were a murderer, I could say "I do not kill men to eat their livers" and it would be 100% true, but it sounds like I'm not into killing at all.

1. Is that the word? Not a native speaker
This approach seems to dovetail nicely with unikernel approaches. Have you experimented with combining the above constraints with a system like MirageOS?
Just started using Evernote after a coworker shared a note with me the other day.

After years of using notepad, notepad++, sublime text, and now atom, I feel like the plaintext experience is severely lacking.

Select all the text in a note, mark as plain text, copy something from any site, paste, formatting is ignored. Paste with source formatting should be the exception, not the norm.

The lack of headers and other basic formatting options is also frustrating. Wordpress does a better job with it's editor... and it's a web app!
If you look at the numbers of people that drive per day versus the number of people that fly in GA aircraft per day your perceptions of which option is riskiest might shift...

Either way, it's orders of magnitude more dangerous than commercial aviation (not something you can say for Uber vs buses) and one thing guaranteed to increase that risk is GA pilots trying to reach specific destinations at specific times to satisfy their paying customers.

Which reminds me, I've got a GA "flight experience" to pick a date for ;-)
Totally forgot about my own experiment: I created this GitHub-based (somewhat similar to GitBack) blogging platform: https://github.com/fiatjaf/coisas and started my blog and my girlfriend's on it.

The development of the tool proved to be complicated and I wouldn't be able to maintain it, but I have managed to migrate my blog to Jekyll and my girlfriend's to https://websitesfortrello.com/, keeping content and URLs.

Thanks to me, the internet is a better place.

You can stop clapping now.
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When their competitors can be 5x faster while still traveling to space that's not so hot.

(And it doesn't actually travel to space unless you're on a satellite connection.)
Illegal parking is a civil offense, and you're not likely to speed enough to get banned, whereas driving without insurance is a pretty serious criminal offense and will make it much more expensive to get insurance in the future.
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I mean fully autonomous, like let it drive to pick up the kids on its own. Not a really advanced cruise control / break if it sees an accident about to happen.

Uber's map system can't even correctly get me from my house to my work without leading the driver into an alley.

I think we'll get 95% of the way to autonomous, but I sort of doubt we'll have a car that you can, for example, sleep in while it's driving you around.

I hope I'm wrong. I'd love to buy one in 3-6 years.
missing a G from the title. (George, not Eorge).
A better title would have been "Twitter plans to take on Medium"
Got the split screen live preview already; tree view sounds a very useful addition, though.

Extensions are also a good plan; the interesting thing is that many of them end up being routed to pandoc, so they can be done with document metadata in any case. For others, one easy thing to do might be to rewrite some of the bits in C++ in PyQt, then have the possibility of importing classes that inherit from the originals and override functions. Does that make sense, do you think?
Which is a shame. In Belize I was able to get a kind of taxi service to an island for like $90, in a single engine plane, which was great fun. Obviously there is some danger but I'd much rather be able to make the choice than have the government ban such things.
There is always the black phone...
I know there's 2 ways to do HDR. Either way, there's been apps available for that for awhile.

Taking multiple exposures with a camera with an electronic shutter (pretty much all smartphones) is still just a 'trick'.

BTW, the Galaxy Note 3's stock camera app does HDR, I'm sure most phones already did a year ago...
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By "Hogwarts" they mean "a school"?
Brevity is the only thing most Tweets have going for them.
What a poor product page. And the official blog post is very light on information too. Only the press conference had some details.

https://youtu.be/Jc-LEG0T_4c?t=4382

I was hoping for OLED, which wasn't mentioned. What I did notice is that the screen is incredibly reflective.
In all seriousness, what are you going to do when you can't get another Blackberry Classic, or when the phones you've stockpiled no longer connect to upgraded cell towers?
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It would make me less likely to upvote more than one comment per thread. That seems like a downside - a good thread can have several comments worthy of upvotes.
> I wonder if they're experiencing feature creep because they've satisfied users of the core features.

Except for a native linux client :(
> The most Amazon can do is to not work with people they know break the law.

Actually, Amazon can do more than that -- e.g., require up-front proof of appropriate insurance.
I can absolutely say with a straight face anybody who drinks or smokes could instead find $24 for a bus ticket.

Have you ever been to a poor neighborhood? Every other shop is a liquor store. The owners of those stores aren't keeping them open as a charity.
Oh, "but journalists" is probably the obvious thing I was missing, thanks. :)
Many roads also have signs and states have laws along the lines of stay right except to pass. So if you're not actively passing in the left lane, you're breaking the law in many places even if you're going at the speed limit. I expect few tickets are given out for this even though it causes dangerous behavior.
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This stood out to me, too. On the one hand, hearing him say it is a little unnerving. On the other, it's oddly comforting to know that he truly believes we're in a race against the clock to save civilization, and that someone like him is doing everything they can to prevent the end of it (at least on the environmental front; he's probably nervous about other dangers, too, that he'd have less control over, e.g. geopolitics).

Seeing that reaction from him helps explain in my mind how he's been able to accomplish as much as he has. It really feels like he's a man on a mission and that he's going to run through walls to accomplish it.

Other comments have compared him to a politician. I think that's laughable. He has a consistent track record of 'doing.' Politicians have not earned that reputation.
Although "<name in other thread>, looks like you've been hellbanned by the evil mods!" comments are bad, I'm not sure I've seen them. I have seen comments like "<name in other thread, you appear to have been hellbanned", but I think they were sometimes warranted. The moderators do sometimes make mistakes, and IIUC the normal way to resolve them is: user realizes they are hellbanned, mails the mods asking about it, and the mods, if they feel the user should not be hellbanned, unbans them. Alerting commenters that one thinks may have been banned by mistake of their ban can either speeds this process along or wastes comment space and moderator attention, depending on whether one is correct.

I agree that hopefully vouching will kill the "<name>, you appear to have been hellbanned" comments, though.
The Lenovo X series Thinkpads have an optional LTE modem.
Then why are you under the table?
thank you for noticing! we are currently back on HN with the Startup L. Jackson post so this was weird timing
Tesla will use Google autonomous-driving technology? Does Google really want to be manufacturing cars, or does it want to provide the software?
I think Skia-GL might (and who knows what Direct2D does).

Note that one of the biggest benefits of WebRender is that it doesn't need to do any of that: if you render CSS directly, you can avoid all of these complex path rendering techniques.
I made a feature request quite a long time ago for LaTeX math support. Every few months another person +1s the suggestion. I don't get the sense that they really take the suggestions on the forum particularly seriously.
It's Bank of America, so it's about as feature-filled as a banking app gets. You can do all the normal stuff like check balances and deposit checks, but you can also open new accounts (including credit cards) and transfer money (between other accounts you own or to other people outside the bank). And yes, the app has the ability to add new transfer recipients, which only needs their email address or phone number. There is a protection to guard against unauthorized adding of new recipients, but you guessed it, the protection is in the form of a 2FA code sent via SMS. So if you're already in the phone and in the banking app you can add yourself as a transfer recipient with your email address and verify the recipient addition because you can read the incoming text messages too. And the warning email that comes when you add a new recipient and initiate a new transfer is likely going to come to the same phone you're currently holding. If you get into my banking app through my phone you can send yourself as much of my money as you want and cover your tracks so I wouldn't know until my next statement comes, and to top it all off, it looks like I was the one who sent the money to you, so how am I going to argue that I didn't?
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I really like the mechanism where a moderator can choose to add the [mod] tag to posts that they want to, but by default they just appear as a normal user.

For example, in the past dang has posted some really interesting content, but that should not be distinguished with a [mod] tag. Similarly interesting but non-moderator comments should not be distinguished.
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"Looking at who complains" isn't evidence of that, though. One could argue that the low quality users are so turned off by the mobile experience that they can't even complain about it.

That said, I wouldn't mind a better mobile site. If we want to be elitist about it, just make it available for users with > 10 karma. ;)
Was looking at 6P (and I was very close to press an order button), but it turns out both 5x and 6P won't cover T-mobile VoLTE / Band 12, at least at its launch, which is a bit disappointing. [1]

At least it seems to be supporting Wi-Fi calling, but makes me curious about their time frame, if ever, VoLTE / Band 12 will be supported on these devices.

[1]: http://www.tmonews.com/2015/09/nexus-5x-and-nexus-6p-dont-su...
yes our hosting provider is having problems with them, and when we get them mounted it kills the site. when traffic dies down a little they'll go back up. unfortunately #4 on HN is a little late to make a site arch change lol
Just because people do work 2nd shift does not mean it is ideal for them to do so. So I think parent is commenting to say that it is possible that delivery companies value work life balance for their employees and that is a good thing. Market forces change things sure (second shift becomes required to compete), but the first shift schedule is a benefit that I am sure a lot of delivery people appreciate.
That makes the bull side of the argument significantly stronger, especially given that N. American gross billings are up 12% year-over-year in the last quarter.

I have no financial position either way, and I'm not claiming everything is rosy for GRPN but it's very far from being a "dead unicorn" and at least by my analysis the stock is pretty undervalued at the moment.
This seems related to what corporations were doing when they were taking out life insurance on their employees.
Apparently it's just spammers - reddit discussion https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3mtkmw
I understand you, but that is an incorrect assumption.

Aws has resources. They are priced at X.

If you buy on demand, you pay X

If you buy an RI, you pay X-[Ri discount]

If you launch an instance, and you have an RI that applies, you get the discount.

Spot instances are a diff game. Spot and RI are mutually exclusive when costing.

Spot is only affected by capacity when it comes to RIs.

If you have RIs, you can't swap a running instance between spot or RI or OD pricing...

Aws calls this "lifecycle" - spot or normal. RI discount "coupons" only apply to an instance in the same zone on normal lifecycle that can receive the available RI pricing discount.

They do not overlap...