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If the epaper display involves white and black pigments travelling physically through an oil droplet, then I doubt that the lifetime of a pixel is infinite.

Can't find lifetime specs on eink.com, though, only a claim that 90% of the displays will live 10y at typical usage, whatever that means (one page-flip per minute?).
looks like some people would want help in converting document X into a - "JSON or XML that conforms to our Search Document Format (SDF)"

This is still going to be a painfull task for legacy data - it has to be massaged into shape. Should be interesting to see how this gets applied though.
I don't think the try-except is 'more performant'. At least from the below benchmark test it doesn't seem to be so.

>>> from timeit import timeit
>>> timeit(setup='x=dict([(i,i*2) for i in range(10)])',stmt=
"""
if 20 in x:
pass""")

0.07420943164572691

>>> timeit(setup='x=dict([(i,i*2) for i in range(10)])',
stmt="""
try:
x[20]
except KeyError:
pass""")

1.1514457843105674
Feeling for the guys who started IndexTank replacements and other Search-aaS companies. Infrastructure is a poor place to be with AWS around. Just a matter of time until they offer every low level service.
Here is some criticism:

1. Your extension overpromises to users its abilities. You are responsible for that, not the users. You make no comment in your extension's description that it relies on undocumented, unsupported DOM manipulation.

2. The "fundamental question" has been answered many times over: website owners are (rightfully) ambivalent to such extensions. If you want one, great, but don't complain to us when it breaks. This is exactly what Mohamed is doing.

3. Even a million users is insignificant to G+, so it is fallacious to say that you or Mohamed "helped" G+. You optimized it for a certain subset of users.

It's decently obnoxious and entitled to think that Google should be beholden to people doing things without any contract, or even any offer, of support. This is pretty much the same rabble-rabble-rabble that appeared when Kevin Rose shut down Oink: "I used your service, you owe me." Except it's "I wrote an extension, you owe me." Google doesn't owe you anything, and it certainly doesn't owe unsupported extensions knowledge that would otherwise be under NDA.
What happens in the case of a network partition?
Why is this awesome?
it's not about "earning" or "rewarding".

your kid says "look dad, i built a clock out of paper". do you respond "that's great, let me buy you a real clock so you don't have to mess with that paper anymore." or do you respond "that's great, let me take you to the machine shop so you can machine some gears and take this thing to the next level/get you a breadboard and some electrical bits so you can work on digital clock/etc etc"
anyone know what it is underneath the covers? elasticsearch?
Is a modern game really more engrossing than Elite, that I still play 25 years later? No, modern computing power is squandered on bells and whistles. The industry has stagnated since the 80s.
It would be interesting to see how this performs, compared to running Lucene, Solr, Sphinx, or what-have-you on an EC2 instance with equal resources.
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Yeah, there's a side project I've been wanting to build for a long time, and it needs search. But the way these prices have been presented, it seems that CloudSearch is just not economically feasible for a SaaS / free multiuser offering.
Why in the world would transforming your structured data into XML or JSON be a painful task? Essentially every application built is massaging data from one format to another, this being one of more straight-forward transformations. Is building an RSS feed hard? Seems about the same level of difficulty.
Except all your comments amount to "They should have told us/me that they were doing this beforehand" which is akin to either "They should retard iteration in order to tell me to change my unsupported extension" or "They should release things that are under NDA to me so I can change my unsupported extension", neither of which seem valid to me.
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The author is absolutely dolally. You have no right to change Google's UI, and certainly no right to complain in such a way when they change it. Fine, you might not like it and feedback to Google, but complaining they changed without filling in Form A1 through Z12 is just backward.
Yes, but the billing is hourly based as usual:
You'll be billed based on the number of running search instances. There are three search instance sizes (Small, Large, and Extra Large) at prices ranging from $0.12 to $0.68 per hour (these are US East Region prices, since that's where we are launching CloudSearch).

PS It looks like it's initially available only in US East Region
It says it is based on the same search that powers Amazon.com, so presumably it is A9: http://a9.com/
I'm in the same situation, and I'm thinkin about using Solr in a vps or trying one of those hosted cloud solr solutions
This could replace SOLR for one of my sites - I'll need to do some benchmarks to compare them when deciding if it makes sense to move. If so, I can probably post CloudSearch:SOLR comparisons at least.
CloudSearch is just not economically feasible for a SaaS / free multiuser offering

Are you saying it is too much? WebSolr etc have options that are cheaper.
You are mistaken. There is no organization that maintains the Go project. The project and language are both named Go.

"golang" is just the name of the domain and a more searchable term than "go." There is nothing more to it than that.
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Here's something that has always bothered me about this topic:

> That, Ritter says, could extend the application of the network even further: once two atoms are entangled, the quantum state of one depends on the quantum state of the other.

And what exactly is the benefit from that? It sounds as if now you could manipulate one of the atoms, and the other would follow suite, allowing you to transmit information.

But my understanding of quantum physics is that manipulating one atom immediately breaks up the entanglement, so no information transmitted. And this is not just a technical limitation, but a conceptual one.

Am I wrong? And if no, how would a pair of entangled atoms help us in building a communication network?
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It's charity. Donating to a charity is, by definition, not supposed to give you (monetary) advantage.

The point is, it's easy to give that 1% when it has no real value yet. Also, it's only 1%, almost a negligible part of a whole. For most of the companies who would pledge it, this 1% would stay meaningless, but every once in a while a startup will grow into something Facebook-big, and suddenly, this 1% means a whole lot of money to charity.
Think of it as a lottery. If the company takes off, your lottery ticket pays off, until then it's worth nothing.
And the charity that gets the lottery ticket doesn't even have to pay for it in the first place.
"I can't upvote you enough. Too often programmers conflate "functional programming" with "availability of an O(1) array data type". The former does not imply lack of the latter, and (as you stated) lack of the latter does not imply the former."

Yes, even the pure Haskell has unboxed, mutable O(1) arrays. They're just
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I chuckled when I scrolled up and down this blog post, and paired it with the headline indicating a "simpler" Google.
I've been working on something along these lines for a while now with a good friend of mine. It takes any doc, docx & pdf and strips all the formatting and repopulates a new doc, docx or PDF in a predetermined format.

I can't imagine it would be immensely difficult to alter it to produce a plain HTML version. Watch this space...
Kernel makes the point that much of the vilification of fexprs was actually caused by dynamic scope. Combining them with lexical scope makes for a surprisingly reasonable language.
I think you havd it backwards. The Go compiler has few optimizations, while the V8 project is much more mature.
I don't think he was against the idea itself, but against the oh-so-cliche "idea guys". A wearable heads-up display is not a new idea such that whoever thought of it would become rich. Heck, I wrote a mock-proposal about developing a heads-up display monocle earlier this year for a school project.
Moreover they keep reducing their costs as they grow capacity. Before AWS all server hosts used to revise their price upwards.
I bet this second core is for speech recognition like the MS CPU just for Kinect.
What is the infrastructure used at News.YCombinator.com?
Does anyone know what technology they are using to power this? Solr?
why not math.sqrt() ?

just kidding, nice readable code and a fun coding exercise
Go's gc compiler is relatively young and makes few optimizations (the compiled code still performs well - this particular benchmark compares Go's unoptimized json package with a mature C library). The gccgo compiler can take advantage of all gcc's code generation optimizations, and it's performance reflects this.
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Actually I've noticed you rambling a little as well recently. I kinda like it because I'm a huge fan of the site and its sometimes funny or insightful (I couldn't believe how high spirited you were in Adeo's interview) but I can see how it would be off-putting to a first timer
Does Python let you optimize easily? Not in my experience, unless you define "easily," as pushing the critical path into C libraries. (Not an unreasonable approach, just not one I'd call "easy," and then you're not using Python anymore.)

Go does give you the tools you need to profile, understand, and then fix performance issues without switching languages.

More detail: http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html
The PyPy JSON parser is pure python and gets sped up by the JIT.
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Haha. If his biography is any indication, he'd shoot down the idea and then come out with glasses in 6 months and say how he thought of it.

To be serious, I think Steve Jobs would consider it. If you had the glasses and they worked as advertised, you wouldn't need an iPhone, and that threatens their core business. They'd have to either get in on it, and the iPhone5/6 would be eyewear, or find something to leap frog it.
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A heads-up display monocle? Now that's brilliant.
There's also:

Searchify, Running the full open sourced IndexTank Search as a Service API
HoundSleuth, IndexTank Compatible API
IndexTanktoGO, IndexTank Compatible API
Bimaple, IndexTank Compatible API
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interesting, I will check out for sure. Any plans for EU release?

I am very interested in the facet-search functionality, anybody know if there is sort options on the returned facet's ? Most search engines just sort facets by number of hits.
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"In an appropriately competitive market we'd expect prices to be more related to the supplier's costs (and the costs of alternatives like getting a book from a different publisher or getting the hardcover) than they would be to the customers ability-to-pay."

This might be true absent IP laws but people who want to read Harry Potter can only get that from one legal source and if the profit maximizing price for Harry Potter was $100 that's what it would cost.

A cotton shirt with a designer logo stiched in at a supply cost of 20 cents can still sell for 50 or 100 times what a near identical shirt without it can. Price does not follow supply cost for these items.
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It should be fixed in the web frameworks people are using. Some rolled out fixes after the bug disclosure (which came surprisingly late considering it was well known in theory and perl fixed it years ago (in 2003)). The fix is simple -- don't allow users to pass thousands of arguments/options or basically any user input which is later put into dictionary.
A fair number of recruiters have, or had, resume uptake systems that are/were based on VBA macros and required Word docs. I'm not sure if some remnant of these systems remain, but essentially, yes, they want an editable version of your resume.

Hrm. I may need to knock the "Word" format output option off my resume generator.
I noticed this today; it was very glaring. Hopefully its back now, but I won't know until I leave work (we have a GFW-free separate connection in the office).

It could have just been a glitch and nothing planned, but I agree with the poster that these things should be taken seriously (at least by those of us in Beijing).
Except that the nature of Meteor is that the source code is always being distributed out to the client. Meteor is quite a bit different from the usual web framework where all the code is run on the server.
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Looking for hosted Solr solutions I found also:

http://www.opensolr.com/

http://www.solrhq.com/

http://www.midwesternmac.com/services/hosted-solr-search

http://www.netaphorsearch.com/products/solr-hosting

http://www.acquia.com/products-services/acquia-network/cloud...

(they're mainly targeted to drupal)

anything else?
Being licensed as GPL2 ( https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/master/LICENSE.txt ) isn't this a risk when using it for any commercial purpose?
For me, the most famous example is DRAM chips in Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Sir Clive got them cheap because they were ones rejected at the production test. Spectrum issue 1 48 K model used 64 kbit chips where one half was broken, and the motherboard was then wired to only use the other half.

That was a time when hardware, particularly memory, was expensive. This was in 1982.
Maybe it's just me but when I first saw the name I thought it had something to do with Occupy Wall Street. I like the concept but maybe "1 percent" has been tainted?
Which is particularly ridiculous, as _money_ is not physical at all. Even physical money -- bills and coins -- is just information, just as when you write down your phone number on a piece of paper.
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It's not word, but it may be acceptably close.
Yes. He's looking for a server, PuTTY is a client.
This is my understanding as well. I hope someone who knows definitively comes along.
The issue with these postcode databases is that once they're released to a customer there's no real way of tracking if they get reused elsewhere. The contract I had with the Royal Mail in the UK mandated destruction of all media and backups of the database once the contract period expired. As we know, getting individual tables out of old DB backups isn't necessarily easy but that's what the terms state. It's easy to see why they do that because it's not really a complicated "product" and very easy to duplicate.

That said, Canada Post should have tried to talk before litigation as all this does is make a crown organisation look like a bully in front of Canadians and now the world.
Think of it terms of expected payoff across hundreds of companies donating 1% of equity before they're worth anything.

E(X) = Sum from 0 to n [ 0.01 * exit(n) ]

Where n is number of pledging companies, and exit(n) is their equity value at exit.

There will be a lot of exit(n)=0, but if even just a few hit Heroku, Instagram, or FB exits, 1percentof.com will strike it rich. It's the YC approach to philanthropy fundraising.
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he'd be against it like he pretended to have no intention to create a phone, tablet or indeed X other device, if apple hadn't made one yet he would always contend there was no use for it.
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A legal document is essentially a program; but:
- They don't use variables where they should.
- They don't factor out common code in libraries.
- They don't use any reasonable kind of diff and patch.

All this means they are doing extra work with bad tools not made for their needs. They might not see it, but that's lame.
Security releases are for old distros/users.
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Or he could take learn how it works by looking inside or keeping it working.

Or he uses it to start a business and learns new things there.

You seem pretty condescending and narrow-minded.
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There aren't 4 current versions, there are 2. The other 2 are old versions that still get security updates.
The one thing that he got completely right though, is that Word is for putting text to paper. Most people's writing never sees paper anymore, and I think that's why the tool isn't working for them.

As far as saving to plain text and copying plain text, those are two different things. Forcing someone to save a file and open it in another application just to paste the text is just plain terrible. I've never had that happen to me though, so maybe he's doing something wrong.

I find Word very frustrating to use. I don't feel like I'm using it, I feel like I'm tricking it and at any moment my text will simply change fonts or tab depth or something weird.
What gives a company the right to determine what non-profit seeking donations is going to be a positive impact on society? Isn't a the company just supposed to do its main thing (whatever that may be) and do it well?

Also I'd imagine the only reason any major company donates to charity is to strengthen its brand in some way. This 1% charity donation for a startup doesn't seem like it would do much that donating $1b later on wouldn't do.

Even if Facebook can't donate $1b for whatever reason, Mark Zuckerberg can still donate the equivalent of 1% of facebook through his own personal shares right now.

1% may not have real value for early stage companies but I doubt most successful founders go in undervaluing their companies or treating 1% like an external evaluator would.
He doesn't necessarily need to -- Calyx could operate as an MVNO of one of the major mobile networks.
It's not even just an issue of being noble and taking less. In a frenzied capital market, your competitors can essentially tape $100 bills to every offering in order to get 'traction' - and if you don't have the funds to compete with that, you are going to lose. Customers simply don't have the knowledge or wherewithall to pass up those loaded offers and pay up for your noble, self-funded but ultimately more expensive proposition.
Profiling in Python isn't hard either. But yeah, you really can't gain the performance of statically typed language in pure python (well, maybe with pypy). However, pushing the critical path into C library doesn't have to be as horrible as it sounds (for python developer at least). Cython[1] project can be very helpful. You just annotate critical variables/functions with types and compile the now cython code into C. This C code will be pure C as you wrote it in your typed parts, and bunch of ugly (but commented) calling of Python libraries in pure python parts. Then you just throw it at gcc and you are done. The best thing is that you can mix the typed/untyped code and pass variables around as it was pure python. Example from docs: http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/tutorial.html#primes

1. http://cython.org/
Just like they said AWS is the infrastructure that powers Amazon when AWS started out. I'd read this with a pinch of salt.
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No.

Because no one single alternative is vastly superior to it.

Microsoft won the Office wars in the mid 1990s by bundling all the major applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, later Outlook and possibly Visio, I don't recall) in a single package that cost less than buying the alternatives (WordPerfect, AmiWord, Lotus123, Quattro, etc.) individually. WordPerfect (the most popular word processing program at the time) got caught flat-footed with the shift from DOS to Windows 3.1, in part due to illegal monopoly actions as alleged in a still ongoing suit by Novell (http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/52577046-79/novell-micros...).

Effectively, Microsoft poisoned the well: individual competitors couldn't outflank it, were starved for cash, and couldn't collaborate on a single alternative. Sucks to play in a proprietary world when the racetrack owner's got a horse in the race.

My own history: I'd previously used a few word processing / text editing tools, including MacWrite, WordPerfect, WordStar, vi, DOS EDIT, EDT, EVE, and AmiPro. I always found Word to be fussy, and during this period started using Linux. I recognized the value in learning a single tool that couldn't be crushed by competition or abandoned by a single vendor, and so returned to vi (as vim) for virtually all my editing, with some fill-ins from Emacs, Lyx, and the odd usage of Abiword (quick letters for postal mail) or OpenOffice/LibreOffice (if I actually have to deal with Microsoft formats). Occasionally Google Docs. And a lot of web forms (most of which go to a spawned vi editor via Vimperator, such as this one). Office97 was the first and last time I really used Microsoft's suite (though I've certainly been exposed to it since), and the less I have to be exposed to it, the better.

What I've mostly found is that text editing suits my needs far better than word processing / DTP. And there are very few compatibility issues.
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