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GAE sandboxes you with their proprietary libraries, whereas AWS lets you write for unix/windows platform with minimal sandboxing. If you want to write a LAMP stack, you can just write a regular old LAMP stack with AWS. With GAE, you have to learn their java/python server libraries, then their blobstore/google cloud storage/googleQL, and so on.
New startups will always be in a position to evaluate where to host their products. I think if Google can offer good service at a competitive price it might make sense for new startups to consider them.
It's frightening to see how the levels of suicide and Cancer went up comparing to 1990. Suicide can be related to the level of stress in our modern world, but what about cancer?
I don't know, EC2 isn't that great to begin with and it's pricing is really not impressive at all. The I/O absolutely awful. There probably is room for biggest companies to compete Amazon, especially Google if they take the business seriously.
Hah put ads on 404, 500 and other errors pages :D
It is a huge market, there is plenty of room for even mediocre competition.
Google for support and services ... Right, don't waste your time.
It's broken on Chrome 19.0.1084.56 on OS X if you open it in a new tab in the background with middle click. Plain black page, arrow keys/space changes the number indicator in the URL, but shows no content.

Edit: and on a related note, personally I really dislike the trend of posting slides for review outside of the context of a presentation. As something to click on from the front page here, or to bookmark/print for future reference, a plain page with a list that you'd just scroll up/down normally instead of separate slides would be much handier.
> It's the perpetuation of all muslims as evil savages that leads to the idea that they're somehow subhuman.

Well they do keep burying their teenage daughters alive for showing too much skin or refusing an arranged marriage or whatever.

Don't tell me it's not all of them. It's just that a considerable part of them are insane savages completely incompatible with 2012.

It's alright for them to be a different color, wear different clothes and speak a foreign language, but it's most certainly Not OK to murder people in broad daylight over "insulting" The Religion Of Peace (tm).
Cancer rates increase as life expectancy does.
Are people going to no longer releasing stuff on cloud platforms? I have some loyalty to AWS mainly because I've already figured out how to make stuff work nicely on it. However, for whatever I release next I'd certainly consider a competitor. Particularly if they can provide better i/o performance than EBS.
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I honestly don't understand comments like this (this is hardly the only one). You know absolutely nothing about their service. You know nothing about what they are offering, what their pricing will be, etc.

I have to guess that it's that people are comfortable with EC2 (I am -- great service) and almost want to hope-away anything that degrades the value of the thing that they do know.
I like the Lost reference - hugo@reyes.com
The longer you live, the longer you have to get cancer.
Engineer at Cue here.

This was a team decision. There was no mandate from on high - we're not abused. It was time to ship, so we made it happen.
It appears that non-freeway streets seem way off, with freeway travel closer to being accurate.

For example, Beaverton, OR, into Portland. Where I live it's at most, even at rush hour, 15 minutes to one of the two freeways near my house and this is estimating 30-35 minutes. The entire (house -> downtown) calculation is close (about 45 minutes downtown) but only for rush hour. Other than if there was an accident on I-5, there isn't a possibility of taking 50-55 minutes to get from my house to Tigard or Tualatin without spending 30 minutes lounging at Starbucks along the way.

Looking at the data a little more, surface streets seem to simply be an estimate outward radially, with what appears to be very little taken into account otherwise. The freeways seem to be good, educated guess estimates.
They are fine with it as long as you abide to their terms, they have a subreddit dedicated to reddit development and the reddit api which has discussion of scraping: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev
There are a few possible explanations for this, although three obvious ones jump to mind:

1) There is more cancer today or the cancers are more lethal.

2) We are better at diagnosing cancer today.

3) We've eliminated (or dramatically reduced) a lot of the things that aren't cancer that can kill you.

My money is that it's mostly 2+3, and that those have brought about a bit of 1.
There may be myriad other causes (on which I'm largely ignorant), but one reason cancer kills more people than it used to is that more people are living long enough to be killed by cancer instead of something else.

It frequently takes a fair amount of time for the various micro-level problems in cells to develop into cancer, and then it takes some additional time for that cancer to get bad enough to kill you - which is why young people rarely die of it, and one reason why "death by cancer" will be rare when everyone dies of something else while they're still too young to have had much cancer risk.
Actually, in most cases, former colonists immediately stuck the decolonized nation with massive debts conjured up for the "theft" of the national assets. That's why Haiti is still poor: they've been in debt to France for the "theft" of "French" assets in colonial Haiti ever since their revolution.
People live long enough to have cancer.
Hmm, maybe you're right. The xMac is traditionally assumed to be a gaming device, with prosumer CPU and beefy GPU. This is likely a battle Apple can't win, as I can build a nice gaming rig for a relatively low price, and I'm going to want to run Windows on there in any case.

Maybe what I really want from Apple is an iServer, which is a Mac Mini with lots of HD bays and legacy I/O. Or maybe I'm in too small of a market, and I should just consider a Mac Mini and a Thunderbolt breakout expansion box.

It seems to me like using iOS apps to access your iServer's resources is the direction we're headed.
According to one of the ring leaders of the whole enterprise, CCP is now actively going through their accounts and removing assets:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1519...

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1519...
What space grade GPS did you buy? All the ones I'm aware of exceed your Kickstarter budget or are US-export-restricted.
Everyone dies eventually. The deaths that would have been from whatever is no longer killing us are being taken over by something else that still does.

Or, another way to look at it: we are living long enough now that we have a much better chance of contracting cancer during our lives.
Most came /with/ a case - but almost all commercially available computers had to be hand assembled by the end user. Within a year or two, mass marketed computers were common place. But pre 1977 there were not that many to choose from, and even fewer to pick that were as completed made as the Apple.
Because God ran out of other ways to kill people... And everybody still has to die of something, sometime.
I just read yesterday that there is a similar process for churches. Churches are automatically exempt from paying taxes because of the first amendment. But if they sign up to be a 501(c)(3), then apparently they still don't have to pay taxes, but are now subject to a whole litany (no pun intended) of laws.

[EDIT] Personally this has resulted in a philosophical challenge because I was under the impression churches were being given a free ride by not paying taxes; this is not the case. They have a constitutional right to not pay taxes.
Cue has as of yet never worked for me. As in, it just says "Loading..." on the Today screen, and never loads anything. Could it be an iOS 6 thing? I'd really like to get it working; it looks so cool!
Vinge did coin the term singularity.

The term was coined by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, who argues that artificial intelligence, human biological enhancement or brain-computer interfaces could be possible causes of the singularity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
This really makes me wonder what took Google so long. Google practically defined large scale commodity cluster computing with mapreduce (2004). Amazon EC2 was launched in 2006. The closest thing Google has done was app engine, and my understanding is that was not a tremendous success.
Does anyone have any explanations why Google didn't move into this space earlier?
There will be a couple false positives, but, in any case, you can measure the upstream development quality, and use that as an input to guide your decisions.
That's part of it, but it's also just that there's little motivation for using it as a general-purpose VM. Building a precise clone of Python on the Erlang VM would be more difficult than on JVM, but more importantly, it would be pointless — Python does not have the kind of deep-rooted concurrency semantics that are Erlang's raison d'etre. If you try to stick an existing language that doesn't closely resemble Erlang on the Erlang VM, all you're doing is creating a really awkward implementation of that language and not really gaining anything. So you end up with languages that are similar to X but with a huge transfusion of Erlang's semantics so that they're useful.
Perhaps they viewed AWS to be closer to the classic hosting company as opposed to Cloud vendor and their selling point was "scale like us, Google" vs typical RoR+MySQL.
The hosting wars are just starting. There are so many features no one is offering right now. E.g. I want to host my app and data in my own data center, but have an automatic fail over to a cloud provider.
It never occurs to me that a company could be "powered" by Haskell.

In my old job, I used haskell for everything from satellital image analysis to the web frontend, but I didn't tell anyone. Specially I didn't tell my bosses.

When they discovered my functional tendencies, they were upset and worried. They feel betrayed, but it was too late. The company was an "haskell powered company".

I give them an edge over the other companies in the field, but when I leave, they were orphaned and unable to hire a new Haskell programmer (I live in Chile, a very imperative nation).

Too bad for them, but for me, it was "pure" functional fun.
iOS 6 beta isn't supported yet. Soon.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4133148
Do you have any suggestions on fonts to use for readability? I was looking through Google Web Fonts and came up short.
Been told at a Google meeting recently that there will be a new GDrive SDK introduced during the Google I/O

If they are expanding their offerings it might go more towards Box(.net) than vs Amazon

By that also the App Engine etc fit into the picture - we'll know next week
Scraping itself isn't always illegal. But scraping a site and then republishing the content elsewhere often is, unless you have permission.
The team at Cue is extremely talented and prideful of their product, and such teams are happy to crunch now and then in order to make things happen.
I think that, for a lot of uses, switching away from EC2 would not be terribly difficult if Google could provide superior service or even just a lower price. If you're just using the basic EC2 services, I don't think there is even any lock-in.
Is Haskell taught in college at any Chilean university? Without it being taught to undergrads, it will be hard to find devs locally.
Surprisingly compelling. The IAmA's are some of Reddit's best content, and this is so much easier to scan than a real IAmA thread. Thanks!
Can't reach it via that country tld in Canada. Try this: http://zoranpavlovic.blogspot.com/2012/06/javafx-2-full-scre...
Maybe Apple is designing a new chip for the Mac desktops? A6?
As someone who grew up on imperative and functional programming, I am loathe to add a class where a method will do. I hate having to open a dozen files to read logic that would be 30 lines if it were consolidated into one method.

I suspect the 'senior developer' has similar feelings about OOP to my own; he just sounds a lot more forceful about them. I don't think either position is necessarily 'right', but he's probably not a good person for you to work with.
One reason for creating retina 27" displays would be for content generation. Developing and designing applications and other digital content for retina iPads and new retina MacBooks means that the designers need even more real estate.
Hmm.... investing in wine sounds like a great idea. If it appreciates, you can sell it, and if it doesn't, you can drink it.
I figured displaying their content in full is illegal.
Azude does both.
From the Kickstarter page I understood you where going to give a mostly real-time video feed. If you do have a link budget it would be nice to see it.

I'm working myself on a similar project, but commercially. You can contact me on my e-mail in my HN-profile.
There is at least one: Scrive. Their codebase is almost completely Haskell. I think the only other language they use is Javascript for web stuff (but their web apps are built with Happstack).

https://scrive.com
"jQuery is now powering about one-half of all the major web sites on the Internet"

Anybody have any data on this?
Sure, but GAE has zero setup and administration and infinite scaling.

Myself, I prefer something like gondor.io, that looks very much like a dedicated server but also has zero setup/administration.

If price is an issue, you can't beat an actual dedicated server, though.
Coins are the primary thing you spend time earning in this game, yet the number and icon for them is tiny. They should be pumped up and thrown in my face to let me know just how rich I am. (In general the interface isn't as game-like as it could be, but that's hard to solve if you're not good at that sort've stuff). Other indicators of how my standing is improving would be nice too. Perhaps show a picture of the plane I'll be flying in before I fly away, and upgrade it over time?

And when I do finally get a bunch of coins, I just spend it all to go somewhere else and earn more coins. There's progression in the form of traveling, but locations are differentiated enough for me to even notice. Kingdom of Loathing is a good example of some things that might work: instead of having a list of tasks, have me click on the map. Make me know exactly where I am in the world.

I've suggested this before, but I still think adding clearly defined tiers of travel will make good goals to drive the player. Tier 1 would be local jobs in your town, tier 2 could be the county, tier 3 would be the state/province, tier 4 would be countries, and tier 5 would end with you buying a flight to the Moon. :D
Regarding water-powered vehicles, refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-fuelled_car
I have the same problem, fortunately there is fpm. I use it to create RPM binary packages from pip repos -- problem solved.
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Google doesn't use VMs internally and they probably don't have a scalable SAN (EBS competitor) either, so they don't have as much of an advantage as you might think. Google bet big on a "legacy-free" stack (GFS, MapReduce, BigTable, etc.) and that has worked out great for their internal services but external customers just aren't willing to adopt it (see App Engine).
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I came from a very civilized place where a bunch of girls sang a song wearing masks in the cathedral (there were very few other people), recorded a video [1] without the sound and then put it on the youtube. They have been imprisoned without justice for 3 months and recently their stay was extended for another 2.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SPTBIJg5nw
Would like to point out that one of the important information from egillie comment is this:

"their java/python..."

Yes, Google's version of Java. Not JDK/JEE.
As a newbie coming into the python world, from the nodejs world, it's somewhat hard for me to just start fixing a broken system. It took me a few hours to fully understand the npm system, yet I still cannot understand the combination of tools python has -- virtualenv, burrito, pip, easy_install, etc. Sometimes I can get things to install with easy_install, but not with pip, and sometimes it's easier the other way around, mostly I simply don't comprehend what's going on under the covers so it's hard for me to start fixing.

I'd like to fix it too, but honestly I don't think people would adopt my package manager if I were to create something new from scratch.
What he said.

Furthermore it's worth pointing out when trying to execute a coordinated media push (especially with traditional media), you have no choice but to give a lead time and put an embargo in place. This is standard practice when dealing with publications.

9 times out of 10 it goes off without a hitch. We were the 10%, so to speak.
Prisoner's Dilemma emerging with Employees and Employers being pit up against each other. Employers fear that training won't lead to added retention and employees don't trust the company to be around or take care of them if they stay.

Anyone know how to crack this trust game?
He's right, you know. I've failed to meet anyone more boring or glib than a set-for-life Harvard student.
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4 years later and they still haven't figured out how to offer ssl on custom domains.
There were some very shady deals around the hundreds of new TLDs.
Having reached out like this, it turns out that a number of people have hit bugs. I've received all tracebacks by email and will work on it this weekend.

Thanks for your patience!
a troll? no, have you ever tried to discuss a single topic that's here on hacker news in real life? i guess i am just ISOLATED. my question is not so much whether hacker news has a dating/social component option. rather, where in real life would one find members of the opposite sex in real life who actually read hacker news. regardless of what the content of a message is, i still find it enjoyable to have conversations in real life because of all the non-verbal communication that is also happening-intonation, body language, facial expression. and because i find the topics on hacker news extremely interesting, i am wondering where i can pursue discussion of these and similar topics in real life. the probability of finding such a person in a cafe/bar is negligible.
Really excited to see what comes out of this!
Dive into Python was pretty good. That was how I learned it.

I've heard Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way is good and I'm enjoying his book on C.

Just keep in mind that Python 2.X and Python 3.X are fairly different.

For that matter, Python 2.4 is way different compared to Python 2.7
Ah, I hadn't clicked any of the links. I thought you had just linked back to their site.

By the way, I like your site. It makes it easy to cut through the cruft that always appears in reddit threads. Do you just grab all responses by the poster and the parent comment?
Unfortunately they also have tons of bureaucracy and a serious lack of understanding and execution of great design, making it difficult for them to compete with startups and other, more flexible ventures.
I agree with the other observations here that the timings aren't even in the ballpark. For North Denver Metro area, it is displaying 50-60mins for places that are 25 mins away in rush hour.
>I don't agree with that approach. It sounds nice for a sysadmin, but as a programmer I don't want to have to wait for you or the distributor to approve and package the libs I need to work with.

Which is why development, QA, staging and production are all separate environments. Do what you want in your dev environment: when the code is ready for testing let the ops team know what the dependencies are. We'll take care of wrapping everything in packages and updating chef/puppet/whatever to deploy it.
They just don't want to be abused.

"We're happy to have API clients, crawlers, scrapers, and Greasemonkey scripts, but they have to obey some rules:"

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API
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No don't get me wrong, I would strangle for 200+ DPI across 27". And it does seem inevitable. I thin it's just asking too much of the supply right now, especially when there's an entire MacBook and MacBook Pro line to update, not forgetting the legacy Windows market too.
I'm completely smashed and bought this!
> such teams are happy to crunch now and then

No one should ever be happy about working for free. Being a good team player means sometimes doing it anyways, but the situation that caused it should be rectified first.
A lot of good changes in here. The modularity will improve usability -- particularly for sites who want the core jQuery features without all the extras. My hope is this will make it easier to use jQuery on mobile -- and more comparable to Zepto in terms of size.

I remember reading somewhere that 1.8 would drop support for quirks mode in IE. Anybody know if this ended up happening? I didn't see any mention in this post.
How did you get it to do that? Does it depend on something being in the calendar? Because it hasn't been able to pick up my trip in July yet.
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Amazon is quite a bit more than 'an internet shop'.
It sounds nicely ambiguous. What's a 'major' website?
Don't worry, use Happy. The new Ruby web framework.
Google and Microsoft have one advantage : they are already successfully selling to the enterprise(Google apps, Windows platform). Amazon is still in the process of figuring that one out. Google and Microsoft are also not afraid to compete in price, combined with the above it makes them the first credible competitors to Amazon dominance. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
They are using gevent so I imagine each call is actually concurrent.
I used it for a while early on but eventually got fed up with occasional false positives where they limited access to a legitimate site (which in each case, after switching to my ISP's DNS, were fine). I switched to Google's DNS and never had a problem after that.

I believe they've added customizable filtering, etc, in the interim, but the idea of a DNS provider restricting access to anything just didn't sit right with me in the end because of the risk of false positives (systems like SURBL have a similar problem).
Fantastic job.
The currency is time we all agree on that, but if it is repaid in happiness I don't think you are wasting your life... Money coming from success should just be a bonus, if someone think otherwise it's clearly a bad bet for him and he is not doing what he likes.

So I agree with you, just do what makes you happy and you'll live a good life.
Excellent summary, and very clear. I enjoyed reading your line of thinking. Thanks!
Forgive me if I've heard wrong or if this is just wishful thinking, but doesn't Google do this with Navigation?
I believe there's an option to view a traffic layer and from what I've seen in my commutes, it's fairly accurate for gauging traffic density. It should also be capable of calculate travel time based upon crowdsourced traffic information from Android users.
We had over 1000 downloads direct from our server of our first free issue, and hundreds more from the iBookstore. Our second issue sold around 40 so far at $5 through the iBookstore and Amazon (with direct sales coming soon).

We're gearing up to publish our next issue at the end of July and do a big marketing/PR push around Photoshop World in September. I'm confident our one little server will hold up just fine.

The bulk of the 1000 downloads came over a couple days after we were mentioned in Adobe's Photoshop.com blog. According to Google Analytics we had on the order of 20 simultaneous visitors at times without a hiccup. That's actually a pretty light load for a modern PC server -- I didn't even bother to ssh into our mini to check performance stats. We do have CloudFlare proxying the site, so undoubtedly that helps.
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