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I keep hearing that theory around Segways, but I keep seeing people riding them on tours and whatnot. I heard a few people claim ridiculous when they first came out, but I don't hear it from anyone, anywhere, in person, any more. Only on the internet.

Honestly, I think it has more to do with them costing $5k and being less mobile than a bike, which you can pick up. That alone makes them absolutely worthless beyond their battery range, and to anyone who encounters stairs in their day to day life. And out of the price range of an enormous percent of USA's population, and it only gets worse for families.

But opinion battles have no end. We disagree at a rather fundamental level, I'm happy to leave it at that.
Are you suggesting that AWS should operate out of more than one location?

It's a wonderful idea!

I even have a list of possible locations they should look into. Beyond the Virginia site, they should be looking at DCs in Oregon, California, Ireland, Singapore, Tokyo and even Sao Paulo. What do you think?
Or that there is absolutely no way to deep link to an ongoing outage, and users must reload, then expand the link every single time, or subscribe to an RSS feed.

AWS needs to blantantly copy Heroku's status system, which is worlds better for people needing fast updates on their infrastructure.

https://status.heroku.com/ vs http://status.aws.amazon.com/
I'm not trying to find fault in theoir business model; it was a genuine question...
I commented along the same lines during the last AWS/Heroku outage, but Rackspace still is giving me amazing value and uptime, and every time I try to move away (as I did this week with my lastest project, on Heroku) I get hit with a massive service disruption that pushes me back to Rackspace.
You're absolutely right. The next tablet will look like this: http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/12/triangle_tablet.png
us-west-2 is the same price as us-east-1. Price is no excuse anymore.
Google Compute Engine anyone?
The Heroku Pricing Gap + Add-on Fever
Latency to Europe kind of is, if you want to be in a single site with acceptable ping times to Europe, US East, and US West. But I'd rather just solve replication and be in each.
They've reporting a power issue with a single US East availability zone. There are four EC2 availability zones in US East. Strange that they would cite orange as "performance issues", but it's certainly more appropriate than suggesting a complete service disruption.
So, basically what Launchy, Spotlight, Android's 'search' toolbar, even Google's homepage, have been doing for a decade now. Nice.
This makes me wish I could use "PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC" with mmap() on iOS.
Nice though Dropbox is, I don't have an account on it. You're saying that in order to share data between two apps on the same device, I should have to sign up to a third-party system to do so?

Then, if I have different kinds of documents, I should sign up to a bunch of different third-party cloud systems? Each sign up being another username and password, another point-of-failure for security, more management overhead? All for a system that won't work if I lose network coverage (rural, underground, airplane mode, choked tower, foreign travel etc)?

The cloud does have its good points, but I do not buy this snake oil.
It looks like this is affecting iTunes Match, possibly. I have two tracks just sitting there, waiting to upload and running lsof -i shows iTunes with a connection to an AWS machine.
Hi, I work at Rackspace. If you don't mind me asking, what makes you initially want to move away?
Where would Google be without the PageRank patent to give them a monopoly on search? Don't think many people have an issue with that.
I wonder how much of Google's reliability comes from service failover and redundancy and how much from very reliable datacenters etc. I'd find it hard to believe that their platform and DCs aren't better than what we have seen from AWS, which could make compute engine a very attractive product.
Wow, that is so beautiful! I am in awe.
Acts of God can happen anywhere.
Yes, but do they use semicolons?
There's different versions of jQuery. If you require a version that supports older browsers, you might not be able to use the bleeding-edge version. The current libraries will continue to work as they always have. There's no reason for newer versions to be limited by outdated browsers. Developers are free to choose the version they want to use.
This is one of the more ignorant comments I've seen in a while.

1) Your first point is exactly why Lytro is exciting—it could disrupt photography by making it easier than ever for beginners to take good photos.

Everything you said about Lytro could be said about auto light metering, auto focus, digital cameras, lcd viewfinders, Photoshop, etc... you have a bizarre, unproductive pretentiousness. Have you had the joy of carefully metering and focusing a film camera for the pride of seeing a print days later? Does that mean we shouldn't use digital cameras?

2) Why the hell would you create an easy-to-use camera for amateurs and give it interchangeable lens? The target audience of a Lytro isn't going to shop for a 28mm f/1.4 prime. More importantly, the focal length and aperture are fixed to a specific configuration for the microlens array, and that's a constraint of these plenoptic cameras that isn't going to change for a while.

I think you've posted the perfect cover letter for why you should never be CEO of Lytro.
It is absolutely affecting more than one availability zone. Just because people didn't lose boxes outside of one AZ doesn't mean there weren't service disruptions outside of it. I know multiple people, myself included, who STILL cannot launch new instances anywhere in US-East. The EC2 web console and API have also been down intermittently and throwing errors for hours.
That sounds like you feel something about both of those things.
What about when a booster goes off by mistake and sends your data flying into the sun?
I play keyboards (piano/B3 organ) and bass guitar. I originally wanted to compose and arrange more than perform, but recently have been doing more playing than writing.

Here's one of my compositions, with myself on electric piano and other folks on everything else: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1204208/amh.mp3
Suffixing an old idea with "on smart phones" is not innovation, even if you do it first.
Thanks for making this clear to me! :)
> it's sometimes impossible to restore their previous hypothetical future, no matter how much money you throw at them.

And my point is, why should it be necessary under the law to restore their hypothetical future?

The law doesn't presume to restitute the full losses of people whose property is destroyed by others' acts. I don't have the impression the law generally aims to completely undo big violations of others' rights or contractual terms, only to punish or provide partial restitution after the fact; otherwise we'd be seeing big reversals and small startup Davids suddenly overpowering Goliaths who had unfairly crushed them out of existence.

Not that this even applies in this case; Apple is no small scrappy David, and it's relying on imo broken patents.

> Apple doesn't want to license these patents to Samsung, because Apple clearly thinks the temporary government-granted monopoly is worth far more than any reasonable licensing fee.

I meant that the court should compel Apple to offer the licensing option, not that it would benefit Apple to do this. Ideally, though, the court should simply overturn the patents (which I hope is done in the subsequent hearings). Patents on metasearch, linkification and slide-to-unlock simply threaten the rest of the industry.
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A quotable thinker.
Until people start making more money in the other app stores Apple can be as abusive as they like.

The unpublicized truth is that Apple barely breaks even on the app store as it is.
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A question... what's the difference between free aws support for standard accounts and the highest paid level of support for aws?

Free aws support is evasive and opaque on http://status.aws.amazon.com/

When you pay for support you get evasion and opacity on the phone and in person.
Note the use of the word "major"
Since everyone is suing everyone else I don't know why people want to single out Apple. They got hit pretty hard by Nokia a couple years ago. I think they learned a hard lesson about how the game really works. I don't know how to draw the distinction between Apple offensively suing Samsung and Motorola offensively suing Apple -- or for that matter Samsung counter-suing Apple. It's all the same game and everyone is playing by the same rules. It seems the biggest difference is Apple (and Microsoft via licensing) are having success while companies who were best known for selling microwaves 5 years ago are losing. I don't mean to mock Samsung because they do make pretty good devices but the time-line is simply on Apple's side here.
Would people mind not downvoting a cogent devil's argument into oblivion just because they disagree with software patents?

I think this stuff is largely obvious too, but my devil's argument is predicated around the notion that it might still come out to consumer's benefit anyway.

It's not as if the mobile market was particularly on fire before Apple got involved and completely changed the game, if you can remember back 3-4 years.
The takeaway lesson for me is that user-generated content is incompatible with advertising.

Now, as a caveat, I'm the sort of person who thinks that modern advertising is 99% toxic sludge in the mental environment: I am firmly in the Kalle Lasn camp. However, here's how I see it working: users come to the site because of the UGC, but advertising, by nature, has to grab attention at some level. You can't design for both "make the UGC, stuff users actually care about, primary" and "make sure that you get ad clickthroughs." Since the latter pays the bills, it tends to win - and users tend to leave because on one level or another, it's obvious that the site isn't about them (and if your site depends on UGC, your users ain't wrong to think that the site should be about them!)

The secondary takeaway is that advertising is not a long-term sustainable business model.

Advertising has a strong tendency to push startups into this insular turtles-all-the-way-down bullshit: social media with ads for analytics, analytics for ad-based startups, startups about how to reach demographics, and so on. They're as familiar an archetype around here as Punch & Judy. But it's all the tertiary economy, it's all flash: the fundamentals of advertising as a business model only get weaker over time. The effectiveness of advertising at all, in any context is debateable, and participating it is participating in an endless arms race. I argue that this should tell us that advertising is not the way to go if you want to build a lasting company: you need to take money in exchange for goods and services (real goods and services: advertising doesn't count, as I'm in the process of arguing).

That's hard! That's really difficult. PayPal, Square, and WePay should show us how ridiculously, gratuitously difficult the "take money for" part is, and taking people's money once you've convinced them that you've got something worth their money, is the easy part! Before you even get there, you have to build something good, and none of us should have any illusions that that's easy. Then between those two parts, there's "persuade users that your cool thing actually is cool and worth paying money for," and sweet leaping Buddhas that's a lifetime of work in itself (the lifetime of work, in fact, that advertising is doing in such a toxic and commons-destroying way right now).

But: you are a hacker. You are a hustler. You are an engineer.

Solving hard problems is your job.

Advertising is not a business model: advertising is a problem to be solved. Advertising is a bullshit legacy of past business models, here to be disrupted. The reason that I hang out on Hacker News is that I believe that its hackers, hustlers, and engineers are the people who can look at the way we do something now, think "that suck! I can do better than that!" and then do the difficult, frustrating, painful work to actually make something better, show people why it's better, and accept the monetary rewards that come from having made something better and proved it.

We can do this.
Back in the day of Copernicus if you want to go far enough (lol, I wonder how many people would actually get that reference... it was an old program that'd search for your terms in a bunch of search engines and display the results in a unified interface)
Haha I can't stop cracking up! Although it reminds me of when I wrote a ray-tracer in high school. Every reflection distribution function took some kind of void* structure and did something unique with it.
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It's a terrible choice, but seems inspired by the triangle shape used for warning signs.
Awesome to see this release. Great stuff for timeseries data analysis among other things. Thanks Pandas!
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Windows Azure anyone?
> So apple should be off the hook for innovation once it's released a product and gained a "market position"?

I don't see evidence that Apple is resting on their laurels, but I do remember what happened with Mac OS and Windows back in the 80s/early 90s.

> "A means of searching multiple databases and sources for data." Last I checked federated search has had a wikipedia article since 2005. Hardly seems like innovation pioneered by Apple and stolen by evil Google.

It's a one-line description of a patent. I have no idea what it actually covers, do you? It might be as obvious as slide-to-unlock, but I have no idea.

> Slide to unlock... have you used an airplane bathroom?

An airplane bathroom isn't solving the problem of how to prevent accidental unlock in your pocket without making unlocking unduly difficult.

I think slide-to-unlock is pretty obvious once you go down the road of touch interfaces, but it's worth remembering why we're down that road at all now.
For these cameras to be taken seriously, I think megapixel count needs to be a factor higher.

Currently, in video, we're chasing higher and higher output resolutions, and a 10x drop in pixel count isn't feasible. Once the sensors reach 10x the pixel count we need for output, then we can take the resolution hit for the focal effects.

1080p-capable light field capture seems possible now, but 4k light field capture might need a 300 MP sensor.
Stormpulse.
Do we know this is due to an electrical storm? Today had a leap second as well (The minute of midnight, June 30th lasted a second longer than normal).
Complete curiosity. I love Rackspace, but am always looking to try new things - new languages, new databases, new methods of hosting, new DNS, new foods, new music - I'm just a curious person. It's not problem with Rackspace; all of my mission-critical stuff is still hosted with you. But I use random projects of mine to to explore in multiple ways (including Black Sands by Bonobo, which I discovered last week - possibly my favorite coding album now).
He wants to play downtime roulette and Rackspace just won't let him.
Selling all your apple stuff just because of their lawsuits? Isn't that silly?

Why should I, as a customer, even care about it?
All I need is a good product (and affordable price, which is arguably).
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While this is awesome, I think declaring the "death of client-server" is kind of naive. For anything that handles sensitive information (e.g. the auth() service here), it'd be mayhem to have all clients also be servers.
I would strongly suggest looking outside the photography industry for your CEO -- this is a transformative consumer device, not yet another camera.

(Apple would be a great place to look)
I see your point. My counter-argument would be that it solved a unique touch-screen problem of a lack of keyboard/mouse and a lack of an easy way to highlight text.

I think the thing I'm hung up on is that Apple stormed into the phone market and did a whole bunch of smart things that nobody had thought of, but are obvious in retrospect.

I don't agree with software patents, but I can't help but hesitate before agreeing that it's beneficial to the industry to let Apple's competitors wholesale copy their work (even the small things).
If you're willing to go outside AWS...Denver. We occasionally see tornadoes out here, but Denver is outside "Tornado Alley" [1], so they're pretty rare. On the WikiPedia tornado page they set the odds of a tornado hitting the downtown area of a big city at around one in a thousand per year.

If you want to be extra paranoid, you could always pick a secondary data center location where it would be safer in the summer, since Denver would be safe from tornadoes in the winter. [2] Or you could just put one on the West Coast and hope that there's not a 1-in-a-thousand tornado within a week of a big earthquake.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tornado_Alley_Diagram.svg

[2] http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/severe-weather/a...
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I have a feeling the electromagnetic conditions are much more stable on earth than in space. The magnetosphere and the atmosphere deflect a great deal of energy.
Sigh, if the program is relying on undefined behavior [like this one], it's not C. Plus, gcc has __builtin_apply as extension.
Disclaimer: I've been a long time apple hater so take what I say with a grain of salt.

I get particularly annoyed when people describe Apple as an innovator. They're really just a mainstream cross over hit, while the real innovators never get the spotlight.

Apple is:
incredible at business;
excellent at marketing;
great at product design;
mediocre at innovation;

How much of a MacBook Pro is Apple innovation? and how much of it is doing a great job of pulling together supplier's innovations with some great design and system integration? Even OSX and iOS are derivatives of BSD.
The leap second has not happened yet[1]:

UTC TIME STEP
on the 1st of July 2012

A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2012.
The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:

2012 June 30, 23h 59m 59s
2012 June 30, 23h 59m 60s
2012 July 1, 0h 0m 0s

[1] http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.43
"Twitter’s applications programming interface (API), the source code that allows the developers to have access to user account information and Tweets."

"Until Favstar came along in 2009, the Twitter star was a little-used and largely ignored feature."

Am I the only one that feels the author has some research to do?
Heroku Status - 2h+ outage
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If you have a load balancer you may have balanced across availability zones (Not regions) you'd still be up. So US-EAST didn't all go down, just one AZ.
Your exact claim has been taken into account, just the opposite direction: "Apple was ordered to post a bond of $95 million to enact the injunction, which would be used to pay Samsung damages if the decision is later reversed."
> do not help generate revenue

That isn't true. API apps drive engagement which helps retention to grow their platform.
I think when they talk about Apple as an innovator they mean innovative design. I agree that they haven't so much introduced products that changed the world because they were scratching an itch that hadn't previously been scratched- they just provide a much more stylish and cooler way to scratch the itch.
I'd be interested in seeing someone polish this turd. How would you spin amazon being down into good press when people are looking for reliability. Only thing I can think of is people will be writing about you and that should increase your page rank but I doubt amazon is concerned about higher page rank.

Anyone else care to speculate how this could be good press?
I started piano lessons in elementary school just before I started copying QBasic out of library books. I also took lessons on guitar, trumpet, and turntables (scratching), and ended up getting a Bachelor of Music in jazz trumpet performance.

Then I decided I really wanted to make video games, so I got a master's degree in CS and now I'm moving to Seattle to make video games. I'm pretty much only playing guitar now, which is a much easier to play casually than the trumpet.

Programming and music (especially jazz improvisation) seem to involve very similar kinds of problem solving. Both of them require thinking about a problem at many different layers of abstraction simultaneously, and both are fundamentally about recognizing and manipulating abstract patterns. Also, both require a pretty focusued mindset--I learned that hours and hours in the practice room can pay off musically, and now I'm spending hours and hours at the computer in order to make games. Both are passions that, from the outside, might seem like they require a lot more work than they give back in payoff. But if you enjoy the process, it doesn't feel like work at all.
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I think I trust ex-PHP developers' opinions about as much as ex-girlfriends' opinions.
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From the article - "The outage underscores the vulnerabilities of depending on the public cloud versus using your own data centers."

No it doesn't. It underscores the vulnerabilities of not understanding your hosting and accepting the "no outages" slogans of ANY cloud. A single data centre is always susceptible to outages like this, it doesn't matter who owns it. If any of those sites had owned a single data centre that was hit by storm damage, the impact would be the same. I know this is supposed to be the year of the cloud backlash but even so...