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That's a tough decision that all PaaS providers face: offer simple predictable pricing, and face the risk of unpredictable, possibly even negative margins? Or safely convey the infrastructure's variable costs, leaving Amazon in control of the relationship with your customer?

The AppHarbour guys are right to focus on pricing as early as they can: it's the hardest part. I advise the myriad of Heroku clones out there to do the same.
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I know 3.0 was supposed to be the first version truly tailored/prepared for tablets, but from this I can't really see many new features which would be useful on smaller devices like phones.

Hopefully there are some improvements down in the base-system which can bubble up and make the system and applications better as well.
This point cannot be emphasized enough. Furthermore, it is certainly possible to imagine a scenario where ordering armored men to shut off the internet would be politically unfeasible, but spinning a story which necessitates of shutting off from the greater world internet might be within grasp.
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It seems like "I HATE x" seems to give you some variation that includes facebook. Only seems to work english->japanese

Also seems like it needs to be all caps.
This seems more like a bug than an easter egg.
Thanks for the information about the tightening pectorals. Now I know what you mean. I sometimes see this postural problem at the gym with people who are in love with bench presses.

> The standing desk is probably a really good idea for preventing "turtle neck," because as far as I know there's no weight exercise where you push your head back and stretch the neck out (again, this is something that I do consciously now when walking).

Actually, that sounds like what I am doing at the end of a deadlift. Pull-ups and power cleans may also contribute.

But I'll watch out anyway.

I'll look up the muscles used on the squat. I am not that familiar with the anatomical names---in German we tended to use the vernacular.
I have some exposure to this industry and subsidies do happen. It's written off as a customer acquisition cost.

So when you see $20 of Amazon coupon being sold for $10 and wonder how on earth it makes sense for anyone (except the customer, of course) - the deal is most likely being subsidised. Hot deal, creates word of mouth, brings in new business, works better than any other form of advertising for immediately converting visitors into customers.
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There are so many things that can happen to us in life. Some of the problems that happen in our lives can come about because of the mistakes of other people and the things that they do to us. There are many ways that the actions of other people affect our own lives.
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Idiocracy is an entertaining movie, but it's not a very accurate critique of society: http://xkcd.com/603/

Also, don't be disheartened by the continual persistence of stupidity and triviality. There are amazing things happening all around us, never forget that. For two generations human civilization has had the unprecedented capability to cause the near extinction of mankind, and yet that hasn't occurred. Measure that in the context of history, it's fairly remarkable. Meanwhile, war is becoming less common (honestly, check the data), more and more people are getting lifted out of poverty every day, amazing innovations are occurring continually, and we continue to reach for the stars. There will always be setbacks from time to time, but you shouldn't let that dishearten you.

Within the next 30 years there is every reason to believe that there will be more developed nations, fewer people in abject poverty, yet more communication between peoples around the world, and perhaps even hundreds of people living and working in orbit and off-Earth.
All a minimum wage law does is allow a society to shift its chosen point on an unemployment/wage tradeoff curve.

That's not the only thing it does, depending on the elasticity of various prices and wages. Another thing it does in some situations is increase the total share of money going to laborers while decreasing profit margins of their employers. This may or may not lead to the employer laying them off, depending on what the profit margins were to begin with; if they were very high, such that the post-increase margins are still nice (just not as nice), it's still rational to continue to employ the newly more expensive labor.

Consensus among economists these days on minimum wages is a lot more nuanced than it might've been 50 years ago, anyway. A majority of economists still think that they're on the whole a bad idea, but most would want to know what kind of economy you're talking about before giving specific predictions about their effects. The fundamental shift driving the "well, generally X, but it depends" view is a realization that economies can be quite far from classical equilibria, for quite long periods of time, in which case policies don't necessarily have the effects classical economics would predict.
If you are subscribed to the kinect-hacks mailing list you would estimate a large number.
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In short, there's a free tier, and then it's $0.05/hour.

There isn't really a concept of what you get for that (process/memory/disk/io/bandwidth...).

At that hourly price, it's ~40% the cost of an small EC2 instance, ~170% the price of a micro instance and ~5% the cost of an extra large.

If you aim for approx 15 apps on 1 extra large, that gives 1gb per app and somewhere around 1/2 EC2 CU instance.

Redundancy can be added by replicating the apps to a fallback server but not routing any traffic to them when everything is ok. If you had 15 EL servers and distributed each app's fallback server randomly, having 1 EL server go down would mean your 14 remaining instances would be handling 16, instead of 15, apps - not unreasonable.

Drop the EC2 prices to reserved instances, and there's suddenly room to grow+profit.

Without knowing what you are actually getting (EBS? LB? S3?) it's impossible to tell if this is a good or bad value.

Personally, deployment through git/mercurial isn't worth an even minute price premium over straight up EC2. Heroku had autoscaling, varnish and reverse proxy, possibly on higher margins - which I think is a large part of what makes Heroku, well, Heroku.
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I have, on occasion, wanted to start a monastic order of really well dressed physicists. So many scientists are so poorly dressed, I just want to start an order where you must be impeccably dressed in an expensive suit and tie at all times.
Because the resources it'd take to kill the internet manually matter

They only need to turn off one big ISP or 2 before the others are going to shut down themselves. Look at what happened with Wikileaks.

If someone can always find a flaw in crypto implementations,
why bother with cryptography?

That's a pretty big IF, because it depends on finding flaws, and there is no recipe for that and you're also not certain if you're going to find any, regardless of the time/resources invested.

Also, crypto algorithms are public, peer reviewed and usually you're going to find out if a flaw exists sooner or later. And because there isn't any available method to make brute force attacks any easier or feasible if the key is large.

I am pretty sure the government can shut down the Internet, but I can bet they aren't able to decrypt my communications if I won't allow it ;-)
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>Even corporate finance loans are often based on social connections rather than creditworthiness

Here's the thing.
EVERYHING. I mean EVERYTHING in Japan is based on social connections. Not just business, but every social interaction you have with any person anywhere will in most probability be based on who you know, and what connections you have.

Which is one reason why I think it is very hard for foreigners and foreign companies to make head-way in Japan.

In my decade here, I have a small smattering of connections, but nothing as wide raging as what your average Japanese person would have. But even my small smattering has helped me secure a great deal on my house loan, get a great deal on 3 cars, get me more high-quality furniture for my house than I could ever imagine, and free food at my favorite high-class restaurant.

None of this is because I am a good, or even out-going person. It's only because I've become indebted to someone, or have someone indebted to me. (お世話になります has never been so true)
The OLPC XO laptop has built-in mesh networking and is ruggedized, so it would be a great asset to have after a disaster of some kind. Maybe keep one stored in a Faraday cage to try to protect it against EMP ;).
See the comment above by rshigeta and my reply as to why that will be a lot harder than you think.

I wish it wasn't, but a society based entirely on social connections that is resistant to change is a hard place for an outsider to start a company.
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Real estate prices in Australia have pretty much gotten to the point that if you own your own home, you are a millionaire.
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The paranoid conspiracy theorist in me also suspects that this is why the FCC fought against UWB approval.

http://stevencrowley.com/2010/09/02/ultra-wideband-how-regul...

There are many devices using UWB, but as far as I know, none of them allow long-range communication:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_USB

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It's interesting to see such a mature and well-defined process for inclusion as on open source committer. I know the Apache Foundation has some definitions of the contributor levels but, as far as I know, not as defined a process as this one. Are there other OS Projects with such defined processes?
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「私はあなたのFacebookを利用しています。」 is a grammatically correct but awkward way of saying "I am using your Facebook."

Edit: Seems they omitted the の and my brain added it for me. Whoops. That makes the sentence quite awkward indeed: the most natural reading is the one I gave, but you could read it as "I am using you, Facebook."]
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Isn't that because Edison was a much better business man than Tesla. In modern terms Edison was the 'entrepreneur' while Tesla was the 'hacker'.
It's not just Git deploy. If I ran my own EC2 instances, I'd have to maintain Windows. They have some other value adds too (free small MSSQL dbs and basic CI in the dashboard, etc).
A viable alternative is to check out professional designer services; themeforest, and 99designs spring to my mind. You can substitute potentially giving away a portion of equity with smart usage of available capital.
I'm not gonna lie, it's been incredibly motivational to see all the support we get from our users. I've long been a twitter skeptic, but what a difference it's made in these first 6months keeping track of the general sentiment around our site compared to the first 6months of reddit when I was largely in the dark.

We didn't even have comments then, so I was only seeing discussions on the rare occasions someone would blog about us.
If you want to provide direct feedback: http://blog.appharbor.com/2011/1/27/preliminary-pricing-page
It's been #1 top story on Reddit for some time. There's rorr.im mirror[1] and some old version without images in CoralCDN[2].

Perhaps most up-to-date and reliable alternative at the moment is actually their Twitter feed:

http://twitter.com/arabist

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[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2151054

[2] http://www.arabist.net.nyud.net/blog/2011/1/28/urgent-egypt-...
Now I know what to do if I ever find myself in that situation again. Thanks.
Perhaps you're thinking of "36 Hours", where German psychologist Rod Taylor tries to convince drugged and captured Army officer James Garner that the war is long over, the Nazis vanquished, but he's suffering from amnesia that occurred years later. As part of your therapy to recover your memory, if you could just confirm that you remember where and when the invasion occurred... Mincemeat is offstage, but I think it was part of the set up.

Saw it in a theater when I was a lad -- too young to properly appreciate Eva Marie Saint, alas.
Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about that page. I still don't see any such setting, though. I'm on Chrome 8.0.552.237. What version are you using?
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I just bought one a couple of weeks ago, and I think it's a revolution in computer human interaction.

After the first few times you play with the Kinect, you stop thinking "Holy crap, I'm waving my hands, and the computer responds", and you simply start playing the games. On Dance Central, the interface is quite seamless. I'm eagerly looking forward to thinks like fightings games, although I'm going to have to get in much better shape. That is, in fact, my only hesitation that I have with the device: I get tired a lot faster playing games on the device.

I've heard rumors that they are going to be releasing an SDK for Win7, and the Win8 is going to have drivers built in. I'll be first in line to buy an extra Kinect per PC if that happens.

There's still a ton of room for refinement, and the UI/UX designers are going to have a lot of room to learn, grow and play with a new interface, but as version 1.0 of a new way to interact with a computer, I think it kicks ass.
Generally, adding "undo" of some kind doesn't seem like a great idea. Too much complexity to solve a simple problem which virtually never arises in my experience.

I've always found the "«save» «discard changes» «cancel»" dialog to be effective. The outer (easy) "save/cancel" choices are non-destructive. The save dialog is a file selector which can be easily canceled and "cancel" brings you right back into the program which you are free to try quitting again. And face it, when we form habits like this (which, I agree, are natural and to be accepted) we tend not to form them around the longer options. I always scan the "discard..." button semi-consciously before clicking it because the information is long, and specific to the operation (i.e. throwing everything away) so if you do manage to form a habit around "discard changes" it will apply only when that is what you want to do. (You probably won't form a habit about generally clicking the largest button regardless of the situation.)

A solution I do not like is using "clever" dialog window placement or mixing up button orderings. These are just frustrating and do little to solve the problem.
Yes I'm sure it can.

What I'm curious about, is it so good an editor that people commonly use it for general text editing for non-code text? I know Vim and Emacs gets used like that a lot, maybe Notepad too.
Google translate relies on people to provide better translations if theirs is inaccurate. This is likely a result of gaming. Still funny, though.
I don't think Heroku has ever had autoscaling, but https://www.heroscale.com/ provides it as a service.
I bought an xbox for the Kinect (not the other way round). I'm sure I'm not alone.
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Luxury! I would have loved to have worked in a lake, I used to work in a shoebox by the side of the road!
I've updated the pricing page to reflect that IO, load balancing, traffic and repository hosting is included.

I think that part of being a PaaS is to continually improve the infrastructure for optimal performance for our users, so stuff like Varnish will be added to that list once it's implemented.
That also gets complicated -- if they have your app open in two tabs, they expect state to be consistent.
"The iris recognition application is available under the GPL licence for non-commercial research purposes on ..."

Methinks someone doesn't know what the GPL means. Though I suppose it could be interpreted as "only non-commercial researchers can download it, but they are free to redistribute it under the GPL."
"cancel" and "undo" is not the same thing.

You can cancel the launch. But you can't undo it. It is thermodynamically impossible.
You have conflated wealth and income.
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I know of quite a few designers in the valley. If anyone is looking for some my contact info is under my user name.

@Maxdemarzi, I'd be happy to connect you. In a bout of irony, I can't really vouch for them since I haven't used them, so it's up to you to screen.
I can't agree more! I can live with having to sign up, if it's a fast process, but I hate long forms that take a long time to fill in.

Like the article says, it's much better to gradually ask information when you need it. And only ask the information that you actually need to do your job.
The short version of the explanation is:

Haskell's forkIO uses green threads, which means you can have thousands (or even 100k+ if they are mostly blocking on IO). Haskell's runtime and green thread scheduler (at least those shipped with GHC) uses select (and in GHC7 kqueue/epoll) to avoid blocking your OS threads on IO. So basically the runtime gives you lightweight (green) thread multiplexing for free when using forkIO.
That's sound advice. Maybe you could do government counseling too.
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It's time to implement RFC 1149. :-)
Yes I was amazed - a few hundred million? That's most unimpressive.

The startling thing about LinkedIn is how little money it makes, yet it is at the centre of the recruitment industry which is swimming in cash. These guys don't understand the industry that their product operates in, and they certainly haven't worked out how to make any cash from their product/clients.
In order of relevance:

* Doing e-commerce, funnel analysis is the metric by which your startup will live, or die. Mixpanel might help, but if your app has non-trivial business logic, implementing it by yourself might be better

* A good extended scope over that is presented in Startup Metrics for Pirates ( http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pir... ), which takes the whole lifecycle of your customers into consideration

* A/B testing, and their related metrics are important to figure out, and validate learning about your customers. A/B is best implemented server-side, directly within your app's framework

Once you have these basics down, and even before you launch your MVP, you will need to come up with hypotheses about most columns in the business model canvas ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Model_Canvas ); for consumer B2C apps, the most important will be your Channel hypothesis -AKA customer acquisition. Depending on your hypothesis, you will need to measure, and validate/invalidate it, for which you can use:

* Adwords has an extremely cool UI by itself, doesn't need anything extra

* For SEO metrics, check out seomoz, or competitive SEO tools. You will need to keep track of best performing keywords, general trends, and competition. It's wise to complementer your SEO strategy with promotional material (see patio's writeups about the minisites tactics), at which point the number of potential customer acquisition keywords can grow geometrically.

* There are a couple of tools for keeping track of Social/viral growth, but facebook's built-in FB insights is pretty good by itself

Your attention is zero-sum, and should be treated as such. Therefore, the most important factor in each metrics you should ask, is whether you can take action upon it (as opposed to being a vanity metrics [ http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/05/19/vanity-metri... ]), and if so, what kind (split testing? more cash into adwords? building new niche-specific site? etc).

Godspeed!
While I get your point, isn't it today's hackers that become the best entrepreneurs? In fact, I think one could say that if one is a successful entrepreneur, then one is necessarily a good hacker (although obviously not necessarily the other way around, and hence your point which, again, is not missed).
> That's not a good comparison. iPhones don't belong to the consumer electronics category.

What are you high on? Of course cell phones and smartphones belong to the consumer electronics category.
It's probably more extreme in Japan, but you could say a similar thing is happening all over the western world right now, a decade later.
There seem to be more instances of bugs/gaming/easter eggs:
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Translates to "ANNIE" (but only if you include the final period).
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Even better, type "I HATE FACEBOOK" and watch it have a meltdown :D

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"But I have been using Facebook is to replace the benefits of using a register for use in favor, and you are there."
Don't fix what ain't broke. The more I grok Haskell the more I believe its not only a solid functional language but also my favorite imperative language...

Based on what usage/performance you expect you could maybe take a different approach, but for a simple and general TCP server example I don't see a reason to do anything different except maybe minor style details...
makes me wonder what an adhoc peer-to-peer sms system could do for the world.
I don't know what wsdl's you were dealing with, but I met a fair amount of them who were not consumable by neither php-soap, python and even a java client while trying to read a .net one.

The reason people are writing their own envelopes in cases (like I did also) is because the tooling is not delivering up to it's promises. (Let alone that the server might not even understand the two-line-code genertated nusoap reponse because he interpretes some ws-* rules about namespaces differently.

The conclusion is: nobody wants to write his/her own envelopes.
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It should be noted that these are preliminary prices. I've updated the page so this is clearer. That being said we're quite certain about the pricing structure from what we've gathered so far.

Thanks for your inputs :-)