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"$" is the same operator in a regular expression to denote that the match must be at the end of the string, and is obviously where some of the attribute selector syntax came from, but this has nothing to do with regular expressions and is likely not implemented using them: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/
Typical brass instruments are equal-tempered. They have ways of compensating for the out of tune harmonics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_instrument#Valve_tuning_c...
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They only let you launch 20 EC2 instances unless you request an increase[1]. I assume you need a damn good use case before they're up your limit to 10,000.

[1] - http://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ec2-request/
The $10/hour charge is to make up for the fractional machine you are wasting. That doesn't change as you add more instances. There is always just one fractional machine being wasted.
> UX specialists and UI architects/designers discuss things like thickness of lines

You wish.

I'm yet to see a company where (often clueless) executives don't override decisions of professionals.

I know a huge company where the CEO spent five weeks changing the curve of one of the letters in the logo, there were something like 25 iterations. Want to calculate how much that cost?
thank you for quoting a source (bloomberg). I'd like to see more journalism/rants that quote some source for reference.
why don't you let your IDE organize your selectors? As mentioned above, CSS Edit does a great job with this. With it, you get the readability of the latter formatting system and the scanability (not a word, I know) of the former system.
That's almost as much as Thomas Friedman's travel budget for the year. Seriously, though, the New York Times is on one end of the left <-> right media polarization spectrum (w/ Fox on the other end). You'd think the easier path to increased revenues would be adding content that appeals to the other half.
indeed... see:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2363697

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2367132
Not if your HUGE
My guess is unfortunately zero USD.

Iterations often end up costing the designers their margin. Especially if the company has a good name.
I believe Softlayer offers an API where you can script some aspects of ordering and managing machines. I haven't spent much time on it though, but I suspect it isn't scriptable in the sense that EC2 stuff is.
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No no no no no no no no.

NAT is not a solution. Internet is cool because it allows peer-to-peer communication. It's also cool because everyone can host servers and everyone else can connect to them. This allows exploration and experimentation.

Please don't force some people to become second-class citizens behind a NAT just because some artificial resource is running out. It's bad enough in the real world.

Also, "the addresses are just to long" is a nonsense argument, for many reasons. And HTTP is only one of the many protocols. But I think I've fed the troll enough.
I think you missed this part: "launching a set of instances with dedicated tenancy does not in any way guarantee that they'll share the same hardware (they might, but you have no control over it)".
In other words, when launching many small/medium instances they will make sure to stuff them onto only a few physical machines. So dedicated tenancy does not mean no virtualization - it just means that you don't share hardware with other users. So this is really just a way to accommodate whatever privacy policies that might require such thing.
Use tables for layout instead of CSS. Then your CSS will be more concise (essentially reduced to a theme) and less confusing (because CSS layout properties like float and position tend to cause the most confusion).

Edit: Rephrased to try and better express the idea.
Even if you started up 10,000 Dedicate Instances you would not tie up 10,000 physical machines. A Dedicated Instance won't share hardware with another customer's VM but it could share hardware with your other VMs. It would probably be beneficial to you if they did, as the post says:

"It is important to note that launching a set of instances with dedicated tenancy does not in any way guarantee that they'll share the same hardware (they might, but you have no control over it)."
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I know - haven't played in ages, either, but sometimes just for fun it seems OK. In that case it should be considered more of an entertainment than an investment.

As for numbers above 31 - of course it only works as long as not many people realize they should pick numbers above 31. In the long run I suppose random numbers are the best bet.
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I believe machines communicating over automated switched networks is inevitable. The democratic nature of that network will probably always be in question however.
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I write general styles like definitions for *, a, p, ul etc first and after that I put everything in DOM order if possible. Starting at the startpage of the website/project.

Within the selectordefinitions I write general definitions like width, heigt, display-type and position (top/left.. margin, padding) first. Then contentspecific definitions like font definitions. At the end I write border and background definitions.

That way it's an ease to see if an element hast a specific definitions, because I know if I'm looking for the width and the first definition is not the with then there is no width set for this element.
Are you sure it is not a misconfigured windows on your network? It happened all the time at my university (one windows with 6to4 starts broadcasting router advertisements).
Do you know enough about this project to say that 10 programmers is "wildly over-staffed"?
well, ok fine. it's a regex-like operator, which still has to do full suffix matching, which isn't cheap, performance-wise... that's the point.
The crucial point is that you can still have multiple VPS's on a single machine, but you're guaranteed they'll all be yours. That is, the only difference with the dedicated instances is that there won't be an instance of someone else running on a machine you're also using.

I think most people wouldn't want to enable this unless you're required to; chances are that when one instance needs all the resources, the others are busy too, and then suddenly you have all your instances competing for resources on the same machine.
Amazon must be assuming that anyone seriously interested in this service spends well over $88,000/year on servers, which is likely the case.
With expenses like these, it's no wonder the old print media can't survive on revenue from online advertising and such. They're just too used to the old way of spending money and having huge costs tied to the delivery of news.
Aren't they just naively translated idioms which don't sound quite so hackneyed in Farsi? Dunno, just guessing.
I understand a fractional machine being wasted, but I'm a little confused as to the pricing. $10/hour => $10 x 24 x 30 = $7200/month?

I understand its useful if your running thousands of instances but I don't see the value in it as a public service. Wouldn't it be much cheaper for small clients to simply take your business elsewhere where you can get high-end servers in the $2000 range?
Sometimes it's better to inline a style than to put it in a separate file.

I think when you find yourself writing nested selectors that are heavily dependent on the HTML structure, it's an indication that your code could be less fragile if you just used the HTML style attribute instead.
Lucky and unlucky streaks can and do last months to years for people who play thousands of hands per day.

This cannot possibly, possibly be true. The expected deviation goes as the square root of the sample size, which means that the percentage deviation goes as the inverse square root of the sample size, which means that if you play thousands of hands a day for a year, your deviation ought to be less than 1%.

Anything that persists over 100,000 samples is not luck.
Saving journalism and saving The New York Times Company are two very different things. I'm focused on the latter in the above comment. The fact that businesses exist and make money producing digital content after 1999 is effective proof that survival is possible.
that's an amazing resource. thanks
There's less of a win in ajax from applying functionality on a class level - there aren't typically multiple selector boxes on the same page that all hit the same ajax callback.
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I write general styles like definitions for *, a, p, ul etc first and after that I put everithing in DOM order when possible. Starting at the startpage of the website/project.

Within the selectordefinitions I write general definitions like width, heigt, displaytype and position (top/left.. margin, padding) first. Then contentspecific definitions like fontdefinitions. At the end I write border and background definitions.

That way it's an ease to see if an element hast a specific definitions, because I know if I'm looking for the width and the first definition is not the with then there is no width set for this element.
Benford's law applies to those cases where you can assume that the logarithms of the numbers are uniformly distributed.

While it's perfectly reasonable to assume that for, let's say, Microsoft's yearly revenue, Apple's stock price, or a number series with x% average growth (for example, inflation-affected prices), it has nothing to do with this experiment.
Could you expand on that? What is it about NAT that is an astonishingly horrific idea?
Most of the blackberry users I know are teen and twenty-something young women.

I may not hang out with very many big corp. folks I suppose, but in my professional sphere it's largely iPhone with a smattering of Android.
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I wonder how much his opinion will change once he starts working for Google...
I'm pretty sure the $10/hr ensures no-one _else's_ VMs run on the hardware your VM is running on. If you spin up 10 small instances, I think they'd happily put them all on the same hardware, just like that might have done anyway, and pocket the $10/hr for no cost to Amazon (except the minor administrative cost associated with getting that all right).
That's $86,700 per year, not cheap to say the least. Is that kind of setup good enough for some level of PCI compliance? I think they still require that your servers are physically secure.
really? You linked the cnet article.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2372134
> Is there really no interface anyone can come up with that appropriately signals "this page should be and is secured by SSL"?

The problem with first introduction is that while this is great for technical people, it will not pass the Bill Gates' mum test. I'm not saying that TOFU/POP is or isn't the right approach, I'm highlighting that there would be some resistance to change from people who don't understand and don't want to understand.

Introducing (from a tech luddite's perspective) a complex intermediary step to getting online to a bank or ecommerce site is going to be something that people work against. Some people don't actually care that the government may listen in (for various values of people, care and government).

I pretty much agree with 99% of what you're saying. I think this is a big problem and also political. I have no idea what the answer is though.

> Think to yourself, if you ran the great firewall of China, which system you'd rather have: the flawed one we have now, or the one that explicitly allows your connection on the first and subsequent connections to a new service to be hijacked?

This would be fairly straightforward to implement for the Chinese government. Another way to do this is to get your CA accepted (as has happened with CINIC) by default in various web browsers and abuse that.
To the tech sector's credit, when we blow up, the damage is at least generally limited to ourselves.
I can't believe that all these 'BIG names' are getting hacked by group of 2. What is next? Google.com goes down?
I have 6 IP-connected devices on my desk alone. This isn’t a potentiality.
I had a favourite number, and I picked it. It was 4.
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If inevitable is understood as a natural next step of the telephone system (before that railways) and the innovation of computers and if internet is understood as some sort of protocol for communication between machines, then yes I would say it's inevitable.

The specific form (HTTP, TCP/IP etc.) isn't and can only be defined in retrospect.
The problem is that as a site grows, it's common for things that were once unique to become multiple.

Also, if you just resolve to always use classes instead of ids, then you can eliminate the cognitive overhead that comes with every new selector of, "Should this be a class or an id?".
The point here is customers concerned about security, like the government. It's a good call to make the public aware of the feature for when these big customers are evaluating AWS.

Yes, nobody with less than 50 servers will want to even think about this, but that's not who it's targeted at. Plus, anyone who cares about security to the extent of isolating VMs physically won't care too much about the cost.
The addresses aren't particularly human-memorable though. But yes, I agree on everything else. Another source for the pain of NAT is that it screws you if the server is limiting per-IP transactions. There's a supercheap ISP where I am that has a (cough) transparent proxy that isn't quite transparent - people on this ISP bitch constantly at being told by site X that "your IP address has reached it's allocation" when they've never visited that site before.

And what about whitehat countermeasures? Finding the source IP address is so much more useful than "it came from this giant ISP... somewhere". ISP-level NATting has nothing but disaster stamped all over it.
Sorry, that's a misuse of countless, which means immeasurable in the sense of being too many to count.
There is 6-to-4 translation available. So we need to move clients to 6 in order that servers can move to 6.
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Not a joke, though I realize it's an unpopular view.

I also had trouble phrasing the idea in a way that didn't sound stupid.
I think the author can make the loops faster by adding (the ...) forms where he adds and multiplies numbers. Also, he should declare the types of his loop control variables. Just a theory, though: I haven't run the code or looked at its disassembly output.
> of COURSE if you approximate the tones with very small ratios, they will likely form a convex lattice, since very small ratios are all near the center of the lattice!

I don't think that's what that part is saying. Small ratios i.e. ratios close to 1 like 16/15, 24/25, 27/25 don't appear near the center. Simple ratios such as 3/2 etc are the ones that appear near the center. If I understand it correctly this section is simply describing a transformation that collapses several points into one, equivalent to collapsing several similar notes into one.
Does America need to 'out-innovate' China and India?
> 4 points by clvv 2 hours ago | link | parent | flag

That's 2 hours ago.
Disclaimer: I use Metasploit on a more or less daily basis, as well as Burp Suite Pro and more recently have been evaluating NetSparker Community Edition as our Canvas D2 subscription is up for renewal, and we've been considering switching to NetSparker. I've met Ferruh once at DC4420[1] and he seemed like a sound guy to have a beer with.

Ferruh was simply responding to a direct question about how it was different. Sure, he's the author but a) he was asked. b) he's probably best suited.

Ferruh isn't running a matasano scale operation, he's doing it on his own, peldi style.

It's not inappropriate for him to discuss his product, nor to answer questions on it - this is a startup community after all. At what point did you become the HN comment police?

[1] http://www.dc4420.org
Ah, thanks, didn't know that. I will update my post later with a clarification :)
Just make her pick a number between 1 and 10, you'll have at least 10 times more success probability.
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And this is piece of journalista shit.
All much much simpler - you just need not to smile in soviet country. But now we come to shiny capitalistic future, and people learn to smile to their clients :)
I guess we're in the middle here in Europe. We have both stereotypes: Americans with their fake artificial smiles, and the Russians with their unnecessarily gloomy attitude.
Pen and paper. In my experience these make it much easier to quickly show your mockups to people.
Hey dave -

Didn't mean to take it out of context, definitely a mis-reading on my end. To be fair, "servers you control" is a little tangential to the real issue, which is an open ecosystem, and "cutting corners" doesn't really work with that metaphor.
If they want complete control of their apps they shouldn't be making virtual machines to run other people's apps.

As stated above - the vm route only makes sense if it immediately taps into the large pool of apps existing for other devices. It's a compromise to provide convenience to users.

As soon as developers have to expend effort to get a worse version of their app running on these devices the plan falls apart.

Good developers will shun the device until they can be sure than they can create a great user experience and that the effort of doing so will be worth the effort.
As someone who uses Metasploit, Canvas, Burp Suite Pro and am currently evaluating Netsparker I might be able to offer an unbiased view.

Metasploit is an exploitation framework. There's different versions available (community, pro etc.). The community version has a web app scanner and is reasonably ok, but it tends to be caught by intrusion detection systems fairly easily and it's payloads often don't clean up properly. It's better suited to infrastructure exploitation, but can be used in a web app context.

Canvas[1] has some limited web app scanning capability but has more of a core focus on infrastructure exploitation.

Burp Suite Pro[2] is a framework for testing web applications. It's probably the best tool out there for testing web apps (if you know what you're doing). It's also ludicrously cheap and there is a free version for non-commercial use. It comes with a fairly comprehensive web app scanner.

NetSparker is a web application scanner. From what I can tell it's mainly competing with things like Accunetix. It has some features that are similar to Metasploit Pro but focuses primarily on the application layer. It sits more between Burp Suite Pro and Canvas for my purposes. You can download an eval from http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/ or the community edition.

[1] http://www.immunityinc.com

[2] http://www.portswigger.net
> "4) Dev tools that people are familiar with."

This is a nice-to-have, and has IMO no bearing on the success of a platform. How many devs knew Obj-C well before the iPhone SDK came out? How many do now?

It's a bitter pill for developers to swallow, but the truth is that consumers drive platform adoption, and developers will learn whatever it takes to have a crack at the goldmine. Nokia went well out of its way to be dev-friendly, but couldn't produce a platform consumers wanted. Having a solid dev platform that's easy to use is good, but makes little difference when nobody's wielding your phone in the first place.

> "2) Existing tie-in to blackberry servers."

Doesn't last forever. The consumer preference for iOS and Android device is so strong that enterprises are starting to decouple themselves from BB enterprise servers. There's a difference between the bitchings of rank and file engineers and the CEO being unable to use the new fancy sexy device because IT doesn't support it. One gets more change than the other, sadly.

The tie-in to RIM's proprietary servers is a stopgap at best. Without it RIM would be sinking far more rapidly than they already are. It is an advantage that is shrinking and won't last for much longer.
We're in a transition phase. Doubtless, buggy whip manufacturers survived a few years past the introduction of the Ford Model T as well. Whether that's an apt comparison for producers of information goods is too early to say - I don't think it's likely to be accurate, but I don't know what the future holds either, and I think things are still changing.
I am one of those feminists (not psuedo) and I posted on the original article, but where are the rest?
This might sound harsh but I hope it's useful.

The landing page is terrible. Before I can make head or tail of what this site is, you are telling me I've been logged in as a temporary user, I might lose my data yada yada. What data? What are you talking about? Do you mind introducing your site first?

You need a simple one-liner describing what or who your site is for.

Next, please don't use plain text links for films. Movie posters exist for a reason. You need images asap. Engagement will shoot up. The same goes for users.

Why are you hiding your rate buttons? You know hover doesn't work on touch devices, right? Even when they are visible, they are too faint. And too complicated. Don't make people think if a film is 1 to 5. Everyone's now used to Like or Dislike. Just keep it simple.

Lastly, on a meta level, when you are looking for advice on your app or startup, you should always first search HN for advice given to other people with similar ideas. For example, a quick search for your case brought these up:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2253574 for http://www.subzin.com/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=519649 for http://www.greatmovieexperiment.com/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767309 for http://watchth.is/

Good luck!
I use followup.cc.

But realistically, to assume any website will be around in 10 years is probably a bit risky. I'd set up a reminder in a couple of years reminding you to reevaluate whatever service your using in regard to it's longevity (and set up another two-year reminder).
And totally believable... not.
Yet there are other ways to build active distribution channels without needing to engage people at yourcompany.com/blog. Particularly if you have a 'company blog' that nobody reads...

Think laterally. You can leverage blogging, social media, and email marketing in other ways. It doesn't have to be your 'company blog'.

Agreed.

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/03/naked_answers.ht...