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The ability to follow rules, unless of course you're the one making the rules. Picking up what I'm putting down?
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Just for the record, I was uploading my own website back in '93 too, and I use Facebook and quite enjoy it, for the same reason the author does, because not all my friends were in the same boat.

Calling other people stupid for not building and maintaining their own website strikes as bit elitist, just as saying that people that don't design and build their own houses are lazy. We specialize.

To him it is easy / fun / rewarding to build his own blog, photo sharing, thingamabob. Sure, it has been for me too in the past. But it isn't anymore, especially because Facebook wins on the front of notifying my friends of things of mine they might find interesting.

In short, he is really missing the point, that Facebook has allowed millions upon millions of people to participate on the web in a way they couldn't before. Were they the first to try? No, but they are the first to do so so successfully across such a wide strata of users.

I also find it super ironic that he seems to think highly of Twitter (talk about lack of features!!) while gives Facebook a hard time for missing functionality. At least I can comment on 'status' messages on Facebook without changing my own status. :)
What the original devs need to do is put up their own Amazon listings, which they can legitimately label as "official." That way the "you get what you pay for" types can feel good about spending money, and the cash goes to the developers.
I just delete all my information (which wasn't lot!) last night! and I wrote my email on first page so if anyone really wants to contact me there is a way!
"Disappearing off into the wilderness" is something that babies born in 2011 will never know.
I know this is the pedantic (and correct) response, but the idea of pixel "doubling", in this sense, is a doubling of height/width, even though you get quadruple the area. The general public, being not super-duper mathcores, understand this concept as "pixel doubling", for better or for worse.
Whatever people say about the theoretically optimal nature of the virus, the fact is that it's practically the only example we have of governmental-level sabotage through black-hat arts.

This is direct action. It isn't script kiddies, it isn't Anonymous, it isn't a random 1337_h4xr pulling off some minor corporate sting. It's the real deal, it's programmers putting their lifeblood into an endeavor that changed the fate of nations.

So whatever flaws that happened to exist don't change the inherent absolute confidence of the maneuver, nor does it change the precision you praise in your post.

But it also means that it can't be perfect. Anything that's so grounded in reality will not be perfect. That's the rules of playing the big games--you can't please everyone, you can't perform to the theoretical maximum that the weak articles that call it "nothing special after all" espouse.

Because that theoretical maximum was out of the reach of stuxnet's writers from the beginning, and they fucking dealt with it. People writing articles now have had nothing to do with crippling Iran's nuclear capability, if even for a moment, and the hogwash in the blogosphere that exists is so much shallow posturing.
<product> accomplishes <generic goal> with the bonus of <unsubstantiated claim>. It uses <meaningless term #1>, <meaningless term #2> and <meaningless term #3>.

I'm not trying to be mean. It's just that blurbs like this tell the reader very little about the product. If you want to give a very short description, say very specifically what it does, not how it does it or how you think it might be used.
I'd not heard this term for it before, and it sums up the horror accurately. You have enriched my life.

The Scrollbar of Sisyphus breaks the back button (click "Back", browser remembers where you had scrolled to, can't go that far down, lands at the bottom, triggers second "page" of results) jumping to the bottom of the page, occasionally searching, and forces you to jump to the end of the page repeatedly to figure out where you were. It breaks nearly every UI expectation one has about scrolling (especially on a phone) and several that your browser has about caching.
Watches: Maybe as quaint jewelry, but the correct time is on your smartphone, which is pretty much always in your hand.

I don't know about anyone else, but, I like wearing a watch. When I need to know what time it is and look at my watch, I don't get distracted. When I need to know what time it is and look at my phone, I wind up playing Angry Birds for 10 minutes.

And it feels slightly less rude to glance at my watch during a meeting than it does to pull out my phone to look at the time. Still rude, but, slightly less so.

One picture to a frame ...

There's something comforting about having that one family photo on the shelf, where if you need a break, you can just look over for a minute and see everyone. You know whats there - you picked it!

Commercial music radio: Smartphones with music-streaming programs like Pandora are a better solution that doesn't include ads screaming between every song.

I pay for Sirius radio. Sure, I could listen to Pandora or Last.fm, but, sometimes its nice to have a DJ ramble about some band and how they used to be so much better or whatever. I like it when they'll interrupt a string of popular songs and play something different just because they felt like it. I can't be alone in that feeling.
It is pretty weird to read about this and hear about the general poor state of affairs for the American worker while there is so much capital chasing deal flow and senior rails devs can get 140+
Anyone found out anything about prices?
Would be great with something that competed with Google App engine.
Amazon Web Services Introduces ‘Elastic Beanstalk’ For Easier App Deployment
Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Beta)
apologies for the run on sentence.

You know, I don't think it was a run-on sentence until you added that last part :).
AWS blog entry (Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk):

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/01/introducing-elastic-beans...
Sure that's one extreme that makes it look silly.

But don't you think when there is a decision to pursue an extremely risky behavior (ie. drilling in the gulf, running private armies in foreign battles, selling derivatives) and when that risk literally blows up and kills people, SOMEONE should pay? Perhaps the people who pushed for that risk?

I mean there are other ways to make money that do not endanger lives, these people decided that there was zero risk to them personally so to heck with playing it safe and instead risked other people.
Especially to those people. I bought one, and the lack of memory is very annoying, particularly when browsing (constant reloads).
As pointed out by pg above, it seems not to. An educated guess (read: wild speculation on my part) indicates that, due to the ranking algorithm of HN (versus Twitter's simple sort, where new things show up first and order never changes) rendering and bandwith time are probably dwarfed by the time required to load and sort all of the comments on all pages to determine what comments show up on the first page.
Aye, that comment stuck for me as being absolutely absurd. I'm a coder, nerd, etc, but I use Facebook to organise people/events, and as a simple way of reaching lots of people at once (for events), peruse comical photos etc. I've never used Bcc in my life and just because I like going out and having fun with friends it doesn't make me "stupid".
Sure, if you don't mind stopping for three hours every hundred and fifty miles...
A first look at Microsoft OneNote on the iPhone
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118778
I have to agree with the others that it's very vague. However the usability logging to make better software got me interested because I am starting a software in a similar field. Can I reach you via OpenSHAPA?
Also the fact that Facebook have made accessing vast amounts of information, organising events, and communicating far more simple and intuitive than any system previously available. Much as there are things to improve - there is no place on the internet better suited as a portal to your life.
This is great news, and it is certainly going to put increased pressure on existing platform vendors running on top of AWS to differentiate themselves. Amazon continues to climb up the stack :)
Sorry, yes, I didn't mean to imply that. It became SCO Unix in the end.
I don't get this Facebook rage every year. Last year it was about the open social graph API and the third-party like buttons. Everyone was mad at Facebook. Calls for boycotts, mainstream press picking it up, Diaspora, etc.

Then it dies down and everybody seems happy about Facebook.

Until a year later, HN is full of hate-posts again. So, if history is to repeat itself, I'd say that the hate will have died down by June and I'll get my hate-blogpost ready for next year, having missed this years Facebook-hating-season
You don't pay anything extra for Elastic Beanstalk (you pay for whatever underlying services you use - EC2/S3/SDB/RDS/SQS/SNS etc.)

Edit: paredit :)
It's a huge step up from the WM6 version, which was just a notepad app. However, still not as great as their OneNote for Windows. Especially a Wacom enabled tablet. OneNote is the top app for people with Wacom tablets.
Netflix streams HD when possible, and most people I know prefer to download non-HD versions to reduce the wait time. I don't know how Netflix's compression is, though, so it might work out not to be that much more even when it's HD.
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I wonder if this (jQuery, not Twitter) is the cause of extreme memory usage in the latest stable Chrome. I get into work in the mornings and some tabs are using more than 500MB memory, other tabs are between 100MB and 200MB.
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Wow. The benefits of Google App Engine without the limitations? Sure, an app on GAE is probably cheaper in terms of monthly expense, but factor in the development costs for a Java team unfamiliar with App Engine and Beanstalk is probably a far better investment.
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That includes both lift and clojure. Not too bad.
"Wires" is flat-out wrong, unless there's a radical, radical breakthrough which makes Shannon's channel capacity irrelevant. Oh, and lets us transmit a lot of power wirelessly.
Very fair point - I found it difficult to condense the proposition while still providing all the details. Perhaps I could lengthen the proposition, i.e. have I tried to make it too short?
awful... this is a value proposition to who? Investors, Users, the world at large? I don't know how you make whos life easier and why should I pay for it..
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Yea I saw that bit on sites that have used drupal and really scaled well. What I did mean by scaling well though was the speed at which I could add features and make small changes and tweaks to existing ones. that's why I took that statement out of the comment but kept it in the edit just so anyone could clarify. Thanks.
Er, that doesn't seem like a good reason to downgrade the UI of something important. I don't know how much money it takes to keep HN running, but would just buying ten times as much computing power really be a significant expense for YCombinator, compared to the dealflow from HN?
Haha, the US government thinks speech is an export. They must have missed Bernstein v. US.
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I think you're giving Netflix the short shrift here. Netflix entered the DVD rental service and beat Blockbuster — they were extraordinarily competent in that arena, arguably more so than most movie studio heads are at their jobs. Now they've moved outside that area of competence by getting into streaming and cannibalizing their own business before any competitors sprung up to do it. They specifically overcame the dilemma you're talking about.
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One must be careful about admitting to possessing skills that could be used in the creation of digital "weapons..." But yes, it's not all that uncommon to meet career generalists that have gathered both the breadth and depth of knowledge necessary to write something like Stuxnet.
I'm not sure how useful this really is. It just handles the application layer, leaving you on your own for dealing with the database. Now, Amazon has some services to help you out (RDS, SimpleDB), but SimpleDB is kind of crap, and RDS is expensive.

More importantly, that loses some of the simplicity, meaning that you still have to think about infrastructure to a degree.

Heroku is git push to deploy, and if you have a standard Rails app, that's it.

Whereas to deploy a standard Rails app, after you package up your app as a .war with JRuby (and deal with possible gem incompatibilities), you have to spin up an RDS instance too. And change the config in your Rails app so that it knows how to talk to the RDS instance. And if your RDS instance crashes, they backed it up for you, but you still have to manually restore from the backup.

And once you're already thinking about infrastructure to that degree, you've lost a lot of the benefit of a PaaS.
Very interesting thought on a medical topic that's being neglected.
Is it only me to confuse this with beanstalkd (opensource queuing service) in the first place?
Just to be clear, this is only for Java apps right? This does not include PHP or Python?
AWS never fit into my definition of a "cloud" solution. It's a VPS with a rich API and a lot of addons (load balancer, EBS, S3...).

From what I'm reading, Beanstalk changes this and clearly puts AWS in the category they've long claimed to be in. Not that their service wasn't great/unique before. This just puts them that much further ahead.

It's along the lines of what Heroku does with their routing mesh layer (as far as I understand it).
I don't know about you, but my ipad is mostly collecting dust and acts as a repository of finger prints.

In other words, I'm not exactly going to upgrade to get more pixels! This all looks like a moo point.

Gruber should call it saliva, not cold water.
For GPL code, as long as they provide the modified and complete source code along with their own versions, everything should be fine.

Artwork and other works not govered by GPL is of course another issue, however I believe that in most cases those are often licensed similarly to GPL (GNU Free Documentation License?).

Of course, it might be that they didn't include the source code or forgot to attribute the original authors. At least that would constitute ripping.
:-) I am yet to reach chapter 4.
shhhhh! they might be listening. illegally.
Perhaps the hardest problem is addressing the issue of trust. As a culture, we're inherently wary of people we "meet" online. While the problem is indeed technologically feasible, it's overcoming the cultural differences that would make or break any solution.

Moreover, the idea of "start-up" itself is too abstract -- would you focus on tech start-ups mostly? How would your site handle funding? What about scammers? It's an idea I'll probably think about for a couple months, and hopefully write some more about soon.
Thanks for the frank feedback, here is some more content I have been working on for an 'about' section:

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Does this convey the target audience a little better?
Well, it is a problem with FB mail that once you mail a list of people, you can't add someone to the list unless you start a new thread. Normal people do want to do that.
I would love to know how much money Sony threw at securing the PS3, considering how they made a similar error.
Apache Tomcat in the cloud.
Amazon's execution with EC2 over the past few years has been excellent. If Amazon makes a Rails version of Beanstalk, Heroku should be worried as Beanstalk could take some market share from Heroku.
>A lot of effort has gone into this; it's a shame to see so many disparaging posts here. I think the developers should be applauded for their work.

bad work is bad. GNOME developers are again ditching code that works (and it sucks).

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>This is, I think, the most common way for my bug reports to open source software projects to ever become closed. I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch -- and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version.
And what prevent marketing and management type from advertising for "DHTML5"?
Don't want to be harsh or anything, but I still don't know what you do.
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Q/Q iPhone growth isn't that meaningful because they've been supply constrained. What you're actually seeing in that growth figure is how fast they've been able to grow iPhone production.
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About a year and a half ago, I was thinking the same thing - Facebook = AOL.

I did make a cute graphic out of it, if you want it: http://jaysonelliot.com/blog/2009/06/13/what-does-facebook-r...
To my knowledge, Arc, like Scheme, uses mutable conses as its main data structure; Clojure doesn't use conses in the sense that the cdr-equivalent element of a list cell can't be just anything. Clojure's data structures are also immutable. You'd have to do a lot to re-engineer the basic data structures just for that; I doubt Arc would be the same language at the end of it.

I'm sure Mz/Arc can be made to run workers in other threads or processes in some way, even if it's not trivial. I also get the impression the caching is implemented in Arc code rather than as a HTTP proxy. The latter could run across multiple cores or even servers. Finally, it may be possible to decouple the user-specific data from the generated pages themselves and cache that information on the HTTP level. I admittedly haven't given it a lot of thought, and I also haven't read through the public HN source yet.
From what I can gather the current beta version only supports Java (i.e., war packaged) apps, but the intention is to support other kinds of application containers in the future.

Conceivably one could use jython or quercos to deploy python or php applications.
The argument is very well made.

Apple will defer retina display until ram/cpu and battery issues will not cause any issues. I agree that the display is not as crisp as an iPhone 4, but given that one usually looks at an iPad from a greater distance, it is simply not needed at this point.

From a marketing point of view, given that there are no serious contenders to iPad after almost one year, I would think Apple would leave a few weapons like this unrevealed until seriously challenged.

The major differences in this version will be a ram/cpu upgrade, and addition of cameras.
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A 90 litre tank? Do american cars have such big fuel tanks? Odd, I've never driven a car with a tank over 60 litres (all Euro models).
Honest feedback is exactly what I am looking for, I have struggled to convey the concept with just words alone.

Here is a sample report that my application generates: http://usermetrix.com/projects/2 Hopefully this makes it a little clearer, and perhaps might give you a few thoughts on how I might do a better job conveying the concept?
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too vague but also too weak: "that pleases more users" (weak formulation, vague statement). Be bolder than that! Be specific, and focus more on benefits than features. Also, your target group is not well-defined enough ("companies"). Good luck!
What's your definition of a "cloud" solution?
Oh no, don't let David Mark hear about this one.

I've had issues with jQuery upgrades causing problems in the past. Changing jQuery versions has come to be something that I'm wary of, as everything must be carefully tested in each browser. It's more complex than just checking a layout or running your app through each part once, you have to really simulate several user sessions to see if anything feels off.
Its array of attacks is quite impressive; its attempts at hiding itself, much less so. As Nate Lawson points out (http://rdist.root.org/2011/01/17/stuxnet-is-embarrassing-not...), more advanced techniques for hiding the payload are known. (E.g. instead of storing PAYLOAD, store AES(key, checksum(PAYLOAD) || PAYLOAD), where key is dependent on the hardware - an analyst would then have to bruteforce the key, at least. Bonus points for making the calculation of key expensive, etc.)
I think this basically disincentivizes commenting when you know you're going to end up "below the fold".

And incentivises replying to comments above the fold.
That's the one, ta.
Questions: What does Elastic BeanStalk mean for me?

1. Can my database auto-scale?

2. Can my JVM heap auto-scale beyond 2 GB without GC pauses?
I think he is simply insightful and intelligent, with an excellent grasp of Apple philosophy. He understands, embraces and explains Apple better than anyone else.

I sometimes do not understand the anti-Gruber, anti-Apple sentiment here on HN, wondering to myself "Have we read the same article? Am I becoming an Apple fanboy?".
It's really funny how in these times software downloads are subject of sanction while using online software is not. Most Iranian activism and blogging was done through Google's applications (Blogspot, Youtube) and also US based Twitter, but letting them download a browser legally is announced as a huge step.
This still would prevent being able to CTRL/CMD-F for a particular term to see if anyone has mentioned it already, something I do a lot, and I imagine others do too.
You're right, probably better to say that it's a reason why corporates shouldn't be given the right to privacy except for trade secrets and the like.
How do you draw on an iPad? In ink... and carefully.
Users that mail you for support or hints, I generally ask them what device they use. There are a lot of iPod touches out there.
Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?
Often I read HN with Lynx. The plain HTML here works much better than the markup at most other sites, including Reddit.