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> minimize server roundtrips (<100ms)

Not possible, because the speed of light is too low.

I live in Australia. Servers tend to be in America. That hundred milliseconds has just been blown in latency, along with another hundred or two, depending on where in the US the servers happen to be.

Take something like FastMail. Our servers are in the US, our team is mostly in AU. FastMail couldn’t be fast for us and many of our customers without being crafted in the SPA style—and even customers in the US benefit from its latency-compensation techniques, which reduce at least 50ms of delay (plus further page load, so call it 100ms at a minimum, but probably more like 250ms) to zero.

Please don’t blame navigation-breaking on the SPA style of app; blame it on developer ignorance and occasionally laziness, with perhaps a side of unfortunate browser APIs (onclick is a poor event for this sort of thing for various reasons). And I assure you, simple JavaScript-enhanced pages manage to have at least as much problem with such links as SPAs do.
Line cooks make a lot less than wait staff. So what you're saying is that it's actually men who are discriminated against!?
Cloudflare Access Provides BeyondCorp-Like Security to Any Company
At my San Francisco employer, my org has several people without degrees, and one of the best managers in my team has a degree in one of the hard sciences, not CS.
I'm pretty sure no one who was making minimum wage got a $1000 bonus (including at Walmart, who would be making min wage after being there for 20 years? Sounds like a store manager or district sup to me). So I'm not happy for them because they don't exist.
Gold Digging Hoes anyone?
for instance, the person who cuts your hair (assuming you're in the US) is almost certainly licensed by the state

From what I understand there's been a fair bit of pushback on this one. Mostly related to it being a ridiculous and supposedly racist imposition.
Isn't GOG already starting to compete with Steam? (Of course, from the DRM-free angle).

They're an ever growing market, backed by a publisher with a strong lineup, just like Steam was in its early days.
My apologies dang. I try to at least be on topic, and this is what has been intensely interesting to me in the past year. Thanks for moderating.
This isn't a conflict of interest. It's developer marketing. A Cloud Guru, the publisher, is a company that sells developer education / training - should they have disclaimers explaining that they make money by selling education before every blog post or comic they put out? Amiram is providing important contextual advice for developers, PMs and executives, and has the added benefit of having a real product in market that will solve these problems for you.

Most of HN is thinly veiled marketing supporting special interests. I think a huge part of the value of HN is lowering the barrier to entry to build great companies by providing a platform to announce and promote your product / team / etc. as well as educate people with quality content. We celebrate "Launch HN" and funding events, and are going to criticize a founder for building something awesome and talking about it? That seems a bit silly to me.
Absolutely agree. Even just this first segment, from Fresno to the Bay Area, is going to be transformative.
And either way you have to do all the work for both countries' tax systems. Compliance costs are not negligible.
It looks nice, but the whole paradigm of installing software by copying and pasting commands into a root shell is terrible.

And I say that realizing it's only a step removed from downloading an installer and running it, but still.
It's probably not as easy as that. Lambda functions run in a container. If you have a spike in traffic, you may have 10 different containers handling requests. So should they keep 1 container always up, or 3, or 10. I suppose you could have some ELB-type rules to "auto-scale" new containers...
Yes, HTTP and all of the layers below are quite fundamental to the success of the WWW. Interoperability breeds competition and real innovation because nobody can lean on a network effect the way modern walled gardens do.
GOG also has no DRM'd games, at all. It's truly amazing, and if possible, I always buy from them.
I think they have to divide by 2 pi to properly normalize it for a distributed filesystem, analogous to quantum's h-bar.

[Edit: this is a joke. I think the person to whom I'm replying has a valid point.]
I disagree. Go's binaries are a 'radical new concept' in making them both the default and easy to use. Sure you can do it in C, sometimes, with the right libraries. But many won't even work statically.
I grew up in Detroit, and my whole family worked in the industry. My parents met working at GM, but now they refuse to buy GM after how former employees were screwed during the Old/New GM transition. Add in the ignition switch debacle and they are untrustworthy.

Now add in the fact that many don't want to buy SUVs (my grandmother can't get into a SUV) and this is yet another silly short term play that will hurt them in the long run when fuel prices increase. My 2016 gasoline VW Golf wagon gets almost 40mpg highway - show me a SUV that can do that.

But hey, I can always continue to buy European cars, and I will. As much as I would love Detroit to succeed, they just can't see more than 2 years in the future.
Apple has $238 billion in cash in it's bank accounts. It was able to do this even if the tax code didn't change.
you're an economist and you don't understand that macroscopically phenomena can be much different than in aggregate microscopically?
GOG only started selling newer games in 2012, and even then it started only selling a few. Before that, it was a place to buy old games (hence the original name, Good Old Games). I think GOG's success was because for its first few years, it was selling games that simply weren't available on Steam or anywhere else at the time. When it did finally go up against Steam, it already had a decently large customer base, and was able to set itself up well a a DRM-free Steam alternative.
The real killer is that the $64B total project cost was the initial estimate. And costs are now up 77%! So we are likely north of $100B total cost. And bond repayments triple that to $300B over 30 years. Funds which are currently being diverted from the State's Highway Improvement fund. All so Brown can build a monument to 1800's rail technology that poorly competes with the 1900's airline industry.
An 11 year history is hardly worth betting what could be the future of your company on. Especially for something just slightly more convenient than what can be built in-house.
Not my reason initially, but it pays off.
1. Instantaneous startup.
2. Simple, familiar GUI.
3. Automatically saves file locally, files can by loaded by url.

I wish more webapps were like this.
Beginning on January 1, 2018, Tether Tokens will no longer be issued to U.S. Persons.
Have you read (3)? Contracts would stipulate to only distribute through your platform.
I haven't used Windows as a primary OS for years. I miss having MSPaint around for small edits, and have yet to find a suitable replacement. Other apps either have too few features (e.g. Preview) or too many (GIMP), or the interface doesn't feel right. It might just be because I'm used to it after using it for years when I was younger, but MSPaint's interface just makes sense, and it hits the sweet spot of features for quick, simple edits.

This feels very similar to the original, and after a quick playthrough seems feature-complete. Well done! I'm not sure how I feel about it being web-based but I guess in this day and age it just makes it more accessible.

I see there's a Chrome app, but the link is broken (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dgfedgcofbjmeohonb...)
Common Lisp. Until just now, Go. I hear great things about Java 9. TCL. Rebol. Smalltalk.

That's half a dozen (-ish); I'll let someone else complete it.
I agree. "Cloud Functions" or "FaaS" (Functions as a Service) or something along those lines would be a better and more descriptive name.
If we consider the smallest droplet size, Digital Ocean now offers 1 GB RAM/25 GB SSD for $5/mo as opposed to 512 GB RAM/20 GB SSD that it used to offer earlier at the same price.

Linode, however, has been providing a 1 GB RAM/20 GB SSD plan for $5/mo for about a year now.

The new Digital Ocean plans puts its pricing at par with that of Linode. In fact, Digital Ocean is a little bit cheaper than Linode now if you care about the additional 5 GB SSD storage.
Microsoft released a book, the Future Computed: AI and its role in society
Breaks the back button in Firefox.
The boyfriend and I found that the bulk section in our local Winco is a godsend. They sell herbs and spices by the bulk! We buy as much or as little as we want for a specific recipe. Really has cut down on bottles of this-and-that sitting unused in the spice cupboard long past expiry date.

Next up slow cooked black beans for tortilla wraps!
Speak for yourself. I'm not at the high end of the income curve - not in the 1%, not even in the 10%, and I'm getting almost a $4k tax cut next year. I ran the numbers for my friends who are probably in the bottom half of the income curve (they make just over 40k between the two of them), and they're getting about a $1200 reduction. They were pretty shocked, since they'd been told over and over that it's not really a cut for lower income people. I think the truth is that the cut is smaller in high tax states, and much larger across the board in lower tax states.

Also, it's not double taxation. The SALT money is taxed in the states and spent in the states. Why should those states that choose to have large internal governments get a discount on their federal contribution percentages? They receive the same services and benefits...
I don't think you even need to do that? I had a wells fargo cc open for over a decade with only 1 charge in the previous 8 years. I closed it last year because, fuck wells fargo.
> if say Tibetan prayer gongs, or trees swaying in the wind, are your Pavlovian triggers for relaxed centering

They may be, but only after you have trained them. You can get a quick dopamine hit from say browsing reddit and feel relaxed but it’s not deep. The point of meditation is to train the mind to do that thing - sit still, focus on the mantra, whatever it is you’re doing. The byproduct is that over many repetitions this state becomes more natural and after many more repetitions even accessible at will. The AR monastery will be nothing more than another shallow fix without training it to be so. The goal state is fairly independent of external stimuli. I see AR/VR as being nothing more than another potential distraction.
I also don't see any reason why a provider couldn't offer a customer-controlled firewall option that disables access to everything but specific endpoints for IoT devices, especially if the "customer" is the IoT device service provider.
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing this
My trackball has a wheel around the hall for scrolling. It saves a lot of effort. You can always click on a scroll bar and hold it. Any up or down movement scrolls the late.
Use a local credit union. None of the big national banks have demonstrated that they can be trusted.
This isn't just any News, it's Hacker News.
Chocolatey has some slightly-awkward-feeling freemium thing going on; there was a good discussion of Windows installer stuff recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15791781

https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Compari... (scoop) is an option focused on dev tools, http://boxstarter.org for repaving dev/vm machines.

Proprietary https://ninite.com for normally-installed stuff, not sure if the free edition updates things.
I agree with all of this!
It's available on android now...
I love how the filesystem stuff is handled! Very smooth, with Open/Save acting like a native application.
qmail won't even compile on modern glibc without the errno patches - you must have at least some patching done.
I often enjoy the silence in the car alone, Especially on a rainy day.
No more cell phone, no more TV, and no more noise, It's comfortable.I can hear some true voice from my heart and ponder some problems from work, personal development or anything else.
Enjoy the silence at the proper time is necessary, it can create the unexpected value. Moreover, it can free up the heart, and make me better and better.
The usual example of switching Uber for Lyft when the rates on one app are lower than in another
Good taste in books.

I'm just surprised they allowed you to read at all. Is it common?

Also, how old were you then?
> An 11 year history is hardly worth betting what could be the future of your company on. Especially for something just slightly more convenient than what can be built in-house.

So you can build a globally distributed, redundant, eventually consistent object store with high availability easily and conveniently and without allocating developer time that could be better used building..oh I don't know, the actual business logic? Not to mention ongoing maintenance and its expense.

It's ridiculous to suggest that the entirety of the AWS offering is something that is just slightly more convenient than what could be built in house.
> "anybody found a productive use for this"

If you have to do work on your computer which is actually productive but doesn't look like you are being productive because not a lot happens on your monitor, then run Genact in another computer monitor, so your co-workers and boss actually think you are actually being productive.
They timing seems awfully strange for that explanation to work. Remember, corporations do what makes the best sense financially. Even though they could do this before, they didn't, because it didn't make sense.
Ask HN: Best way to learn copywriting and sales?
I'm in the same boat. I often use http://kolourpaint.org/ in linux, and https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/ in OSX.
The balance of power remains at the management level of a corporation, despite the fact that management hardly "does the work" that workers hired would be doing.

The same arguments applied to the peasantry of the feudal age. There are many more peasants than lords, but through an imbalance of power (military in the feudal age, and monetary in the modern age), the higher ups gets to claim the profits of the workers.
Humble has already pivoted, towards a subscription service. They're doing pretty well for themselves, but they're moving away from trying to compete head-on with Steam. IMHO, this is an excellent move for them. That said, they are extremely reliant on Steam keys for their business so anything they do that might directly antagonize Valve would put their business in mortal jeopardy.
Or how about a fuser filesystem on Linux to do the same? That sounds like an interesting idea. Just don't make the mistake of accidentally typing some obscenely large binary like firefox, chrome, or clang...

I think it would need to be integrated into the package management system pretty tightly (or have one of its own) to get all of the shared library dependencies.
Men who take their wife's surname
Also unique because a simple repatriation holiday is a far cry from restructuring our corporate tax code to make us competitive with the rest of the world from a tax perspective.
Have you tried mtpaint?

http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
I can give a few more examples where marginal improvements are not enough, which really boils down to "anything with network effects".

- Messaging (WhatsApp, SMS)

- Social Media (Facebook)
except its not outsourcing, not really, you still need a strong understanding of what you are doing at all levels, hardware and software for any kind of serious setup.
Why does it cost $32,093 just to give birth in America?
These are highlights but there's a ton more material on their website, just curated by category. There aren't enough hours in the day to read it all.
Yes you can. You are supposed to instantiate those connections outside the function call as per the docs.

Example: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/vpc-rds-deploym...
It certainly woudn't affect you as much as your rich neighbour. And if the additional tax on land brought in more community services, you would be all for it, whilst your neighbour would be against (since he'd be paying a majority of that cost to fund said community service).
Be careful if you're browsing fullscreen.

Here I am casually clicking HN posts when suddenly my brain thinks it's the 90s.
Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling
AT&T claimed that it paid the bonus to 200k employees https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/tax-reform-reaction-att-is-g...

They have a total of about 250k employees worldwide: https://www.att.com/Common/about_us/pdf/att_btn.pdf.

Pretty sure there 80% of their workforce are not district supervisors and store managers.

Comcast said it paid the bonus to 100k employees "that are eligible and not in executive roles".

> So I'm not happy for them because they don't exist.

Good news, I think I found them!
I find it odd that you start from a position that assumes that the federal government has a right to Apple's money. It was basically an attitude like that on the part of the British that led to the American revolution in the first place. If you want a health economy with strong labor demand and robust wage growth, we need to start from the opposite position - the federal government must avoid taxation for all but the most essential services and cut out everything else. If individual states wish to have more services, let them tax and spend for their local populations. At least that way if businesses and people don't like it, they can leave without leaving the country.
Thanks! This is helpful
S3 is not globally distributed. Each region is fully independent of each other. If Virgina is nuked, you lose anything in us-east-1. I’ve confirmed this with AWS staff because of a prior HN discussion :)

The ease through which Amazon provides the ability to architect incredibly globally redundant applications is unmatched. But your business probably can’t afford to implement at that scale, Amazon or otherwise (geographically load balanced DNS, multiple primary databases across regions and their associated followers, replicating S3 objects from all primary region buckets to secondary regions, instances for each application running multi-AZ in multiple regions, etc).
Probably because the word is "hoops", without the "e"; the plural of "hoop".

^ Not meant as sarcasm, just noting the possible reason the spellchecker gets confused.
As another Twin Cities resident, I insist you spill the beans on the best place to experience this delight.

Go Vikings!

Edit: I see you've answered the question already, never mind. If you have suggestions for other places around town though I'm up for it.
mtPaint has pretty poor usability compared to MS Paint.

ReactOS has its own Paint, I wonder... it may be simple to compile it through winelib, or just run it directly via Wine. That'd be a pretty quick and legal way to get a functionally-identical clone.
Sales: The very best books/resources on the subject are:

1. The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes
2. Zig Ziglar's The Secrets of Closing the Sale
3. Brian Tracy's The Psychology of Selling

Copywriting: The 3 Best Books (All out of print):

1.	Tested Advertising Methods by John Caples
2.	Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
3.	Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene Schwartz

If I could add a fourth it would be:
4. The Ultimate Sales Letter by Dan Kennedy

If you want to get even deeper, here is a longer list:

https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/627/what-are-some-goo...
So not knowing something makes us feel jealous of people who possess certainty on something?
(Author here)

GOG is a great service; their main limitations is that many AAA publishers absolutely refuse to release without DRM, though this is sloooooowly eroding, somewhat. GOG can't go back on their DRM-free promise without a revolt from their audience, but it also limits what big-ticket games they can sign.

I like GOG a lot, they've carved out a nice niche for themselves, but from every developer I've talked to, they're still a fraction of Steam's market share. I don't expect them to take over anytime soon, but I'll always support them and hope they continue to grow.
> This isn't a conflict of interest. It's developer marketing.

> The article is basically marketing copy devoid of technical details.

So since you agree with OP that it's marketing, _perhaps_ it's not a stretch to suggest that it's a bit shady for the CEO of Super Cheap Cloud Product to author a marketing piece decrying the hidden costs of OMG So Expensive Cloud Products as though it's just helpful advice?

> I think a huge part of the value of HN is lowering the barrier to entry to build great companies by providing a platform to announce and promote your product / team / etc. as well as educate people with quality content. We celebrate "Launch HN" and funding events, and are going to criticize a founder for building something awesome and talking about it?

Apples and oranges. There's a big difference between "check out this thing I made" and "these products all have somewhat opaque problems _by the way I'm CEO of a competitor_".
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My father, who is quite wise and right about many things, is very fond of stating that corporation's don't pay taxes - they just pass them on to other people. He owned a local redi-mix company until he retired, and they routinely adjusted wages and prices in response to local, state, and federal tax changes. It's a fact of life that the money corporations pay comes from somewhere, whether it's on the 'in' side or the 'out' side of the balance sheet.
I think it's time for Wells Fargo to get out of retail banking. Between the several well-documented instances of account fraud and now this it's apparent their priorities are not about providing good customer service to individuals.
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Request for Startups – January 2018
> I see there's a Chrome app, but the link is broken (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dgfedgcofbjmeohonb...)

I think Chrome apps were deprecated a few weeks/months ago.
Stop using anecdotes and start using data:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/17/upshot/tax-ca...
I believe that... but the only reason why is they bent over backwards to come up with something that works today, and likely won't work in another 3 months, given the rate of turnover of build systems.
I find it almost callous that not only do they make it super hard for "small timers" to monetize their channel using their own product, but then proceed to block any efforts to let fans contribute via others.
Administrative segregation is a legislated tool used for various problems within institutions, such as violence within the penitentiary. It's a flawed and now thankfully unconstitutional tool, but it is the established tool nonetheless. Simply removing that tool without giving Parliament time to legislate an alternative would leave them in a somewhat chaotic position.

That's not to say that in the meantime, it's the status quo. Corrections Canada has essentially been put on notice, so any use of solitary going forward is going to be under more scrutiny, and hopefully some aspects of the decision (like not having the right to counsel during segregation hearings) will be corrected sooner than that.