skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also appears the JPM was nearly the entire market in the products they were trading. It will be extremely difficult to exit their position entirely. I suspect the real losses will be a good deal higher when it's all said and done.
Well that's unfortunate. And didn't we learn last year that Apple left WebView twice as slow as the browser? Or did they fix that?
No, what I'm saying is that punching people isn't a worthwhile endeavour.
Isn't that just another way of saying most people don't think through the long-term consequences of their choices?
Or when you're behind a corporate firewall that prohibits youtube.
As we've seen with Stack Exchange, OpenID is confusing for most users, but good news: you don't need a Google or Facebook account anymore! You can sign up for a Khan Academy account with any email address here:

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Amen! Although the blogger also misses the most important benefit Startup Chile offers teams that are serious about fund-raising. Any fundable business coming out of the program is going to raise capital on much better terms than it would have been able to get previously. Those savings can easily amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It's always a risk that a company might fail to demonstrate enough growth or traction to attract further investment before its cash runs out, but that happens with every kind of outside investment. And the issue is with the business as it then exists, not with Startup Chile for funding an earlier version of it.
>the answer is an emphatic "Of course, stupid."

Ignoring your patronizing, insulting tone for a bit, somehow I doubt it's that easy for most. If you're addicted to something (and I mean really, truly addicted), and it has negative consequences on your life, the answer is always "Well just stop it doing it, then". However, people do not work that way, and it's at the very least naive to assume it's that simple.

>You got along fine before it existed and you'll forget about it once you're not refreshing your feed every 10 minutes.

Applies to Twitter, email, SMS, basically any communication method ever. The fact that becoming addicted to a communication medium can have a negative impact on your life is not a valid argument against said communication medium, because it applies to all of them.

>Facebook is not communication.

What would you call it then!? It's a platform where you share and talk with friends. How is that not communication?

>replacement of emotion and social interaction with technology.

If you've never been emotionally impacted by a social interaction which did not occur with the person standing right next to you (i.e. via technology), I daresay you are either leading us on, or are not much of a communicator to begin with.
Apple's advertising style is showing how device works—at least in case of iPhone and iPad.
> The browser might create a SDK that makes web apps work more like native apps thus resulting in reducing Apple's control over apps.

This claim come up occasionally. It always seems silly because web apps were the ONLY apps in the original iOS. Native apps came later and only with pressure from the development community.
The Compute Engine is hitting a much different segment of the market to Amazon AWS. There are no 256MB RAM instances available. This product is aimed higher in the market: http://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine.html

Edit: added link
They "have to"? I was under the impression that you had a choice of UIWebView and your own custom implementation. Are they really going to block sales of an app if it has an alternative JS engine?
Not exactly. Hedges can blow up just like any other trade. There is a very gray line between hedging legitimate risks, i.e. moves in interest rates, and speculation that the interest rate will rise. In this case here they were trying to become more risk neutral to comply with coming regulations from Basel III.
A browser is way more than a rendering engine. Even if this app was just a skin for UIWebView that incorporated Chrome sync and the look and feel of desktop Chrome, why not call it Chrome for iOS?
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Is that a real need? Lucrative?
I tried Sublime Text 2, loaded up a 150mb log file. It took over one minute to load, then crashed a few seconds later. I uninstalled it and am keeping Notepad++ and donating money to it.
The use cases they're suggesting tend not to benefit from reserved pricing. I think they decided to launch focusing on a small segment of jobs (high-scale, intermittent) so they can get things working well, then slowly expand the use cases and pricing to make it work for other scenarios...

Even Google can't instantly replicate everything Amazon has done in 5-6 years with AWS!
It's possible to serve different content to touch devices. Also while I don't have the statistics, I'm willing to bet that touch devices are a very small minority when it comes to viewing this pricing page.
I tried to clarify in a followup comment realizing that I wasn't being clear enough. Google as a whole certainly is all 'cloud' and I can't think of any times I've seen their homepage down for instance. I was comparing their service platforms such as apps + pricing.
Cool - when did that happen?

Thanks for pointing out :)
I certainly appreciate the response, and hope for the best for you guys.

If anything should embolden you, it's that while Google does tend to do a great job unveiling new products (like "Now"), they often fall behind on iterating, at least as compared to smaller, nimbler teams are able to. Also, they aren't at all very likely to integrate with non-Google services, so there's that.

Of course, this is a new 'flagship' type of thing for JellyBean users, so they'll likely be focused on making it really good.

Again, good luck. I can relate to established giants announcing competitors before you've had a good while to get traction, so I know it can be disheartening, but it also validates the hell out of the market, and there's no saying that Apple will ever be able to approve their iphone client as it likely competes with Siri a good deal.
From the Mozilla blog post you linked:

>We are working to bring as much of your Firefox experience as possible to Firefox Home. People have asked about adding more browser-like features to Firefox Home, but there are technical and logistical restrictions that make it difficult, if not impossible, to build the full Firefox browser for the iPhone. We are focused on building Firefox Home as a rich, cloud-based application and making it a valuable product that people will continue to love and use.

Compare it to the tenor of this post:

http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/05/09/windows-on-arm-users...

See the difference? Mozilla didn't even make a call for browser choice officially on the iPad before resigning itself to making just Firefox Home and Sync. Also, if you notice, Mozilla hasn't mentioned Apple or the iPad/iPhone even once in their long blog post. My guess is that is because it undermines the point they're trying to make.

>I'm sure Mozilla is worried about Apple, but is using a different strategy since an argument that Apple is abusing monopoly is weak or underdeveloped.

Yet, we keep hearing things like "There is no tablet market, there is only an iPad market" and then Mozilla tries to go after the platform that has 0% share leaving the 800lb gorilla alone, maybe because that generates the most PR?
But at odd sizes, density becomes harder to achieve. Local disk I/O tends to be harder to deal with with small machines.

It's a lot easier to satisfy 4 8-VCPU guests than 32 1-VCPU guests if you've only got a handful of spinning disks...
>you are a brandophobe then, completely guided by a logo rather than the capabilities of the device.

I don't like Apple as a company, but I'd buy their products if their capabilities matched my requirements. A changeable battery is my gamechanger. My ONLY major one (price is often an issue, but I agree that the quality of Apple products reasonably matches the price - if only a bit inflated).

And just because people don't complain to you about the battery usage doesn't mean there aren't issues - nor that they just don't blindly accept the limitations. Why would they report it to you anyway? Are you working for Apple tech support?
I assume you mean workloads rather than downloads? Their Cloud Storage and [insert some CDN] should be sufficient for just downloads.
I mean the visual style - the cameras, use of background music, people reciting "beautiful", "astonishing", "marvelous" things staring at some point right/left of the camera, etc.
As I said, they missed the most important aspect here: showing what the product actually does...
it's cute how they pretend Android and WP don't exist.
7" tablet fits in a jacket/coat pocket. 10" tablet does not. I also find the 7" tablet is more comfortable to hold in one hand. I have both a rooted Nook Color and an iPad, and while the iPad is undeniably a better piece of hardware, I find Nooks size more convenient to hold and use.
PDF is pain to read anywhere, including wide screen desktop monitors.
"Currently we're in double stealth mode (the public doesn't know what we're building and neither do we)."

Fun read.
You're entitled to your opinion as is the author of this blog post... until accusations become libelous. The blog post was someones experience with PhoneGap. Don't you think people have differing experiences?

But... to each their own. The Internet's haz one big opinion.
The 'oh no, not another todo list' comments on this are hilarious - and I suspect Sam will get also get a kick out of them, as he deposits his checks.

Sam, congratulations on your launch.
If that's what they offer, then who's going to bother moving? AWS is there, it works, everything integrates with it and it's what everyone knows. If you're starting a site, and this is your choice, you're probably going to stick with what you know. Startups aren't generally price sensitive to 10% at that level, unrelated growth and failure will swamp any optimizations on that scale.

Minor price differentials only matter to big sites. But that's also where the cost of moving is the highest. Would you move reddit.com to Google for a paltry 10%? You'd have to think really hard about it, for sure. Maybe you have cheaper optimizations that could get you that 10% instead.
I think the bottom line is that all of these apps suck because of what the grand-grand-...-commenter said: it's much faster to pick up pen and paper, whereas apps take forever to launch and type things into by comparison. There's also the syncing problem and possibility of not having access to your to-dos on the desktop.
Here's what I'd like to see - A Todo app, calendar and goal tracker all rolled in one, with a clean UI and multi-platform sync. That's all the productivity I need!
Am I reading this right? $30,000 for the cheapest BMW? I can get a Ford for $12,000!

Sorry, it's just that the "$X for the cheapest Y" argument's always bothered me as a particularly false comparison. I remember the same in the Dell vs Apple arguments a few years ago.
Enjoy my $149 SanDisk we will never do business again
I bought a $149 SSD on newegg about 6 months ago. It was 128GB SanDisk drive that was on sale. After running for about 5 months the drive crashed, rendering my laptop useless for the better part of a week.

I know this happens from time to time with SSDs, but I didn't expect it to be this quickly. Even still that isn't my issue.

It's the way SanDisk treated me. When I called I was on hold for 20 minutes before even getting to a live person. Then I was re-routed several times, having to explain what happened and that I was needing to return my drive each time.

Finally I got to the supposedly correct person...they basically asked me question after question about my laptop, the configuration, the operating system, details about the drive even though I already gave her the model number.

They wanted me to run certain utilities on the laptop. It just went on and on. Finally I figured out that she thought she was going to diagnose the problem and the drive would magically restored to working order.

I told her that the drive was fubar and that I had already replaced it with the old magnetic drive. When she learned this she refused to take the drive back without being able to "troubleshoot" what the problem may be.

I guess I was supposed to re-install a broken SSD in my laptop and call her back so I could go through the entire process again.

That's not going to happen however, and I'm not going to try to call back and lie or cheat. I'm sure that this person is just a moron and that this cannot be the official policy of SanDisk.

On the bright side, enjoy my money, because you're not getting any more of it as long as I live. Have a nice day and thank you for choosing to screw me over! :)
I'm assuming since it's Asus made they did not want to interrupt sales of transformer primes (essentially the same specs with a larger screen/keyboard-plugin). I would love to see a 10" transformer as the next Nexus tablet device.
Bingo, that's the archaeology I was looking for. Thanks!
Why do some products fail?
Hmm, looks like they're competing directly on price:

1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.055/hr (Google)

1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.08/hr (Amazon)

Amazon is still much cheaper if you use reserved instances or spot pricing, though. And for these sorts of compute jobs, I'm not sure why you wouldn't use spot pricing.
Comparing pure visits or pageviews to sites with a counter is not capturing the whole story. App interactions are not necessarily hits for a stat counter. A better indicator is time actually spent on different devices (which is not the same as 'time on site' in analytics). How many hours are people in front of a desktop computer and how much time do they spent on mobiles and tablets?
Network bandwidth is also in this category. If they are trying to make a fixed amount of bandwidth available to each virtual instance, there is a maximum number of machines that can run behind a physical network adapter.
But in total, it would be beneficial. Probably not popular due to the irrational fear of hyperinflation that is prevalent in Germany for historical reasons, but beneficial.
When I said I'd already thought of it, I was referring to the general observation that n-sphere volumes support tau, not pi. You can find my original comments, dating from July 2010, at http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=61958.

The "epiphany" refers to the specific realization that there are three families of constants, and in particular that pi is not a member of the family of volume constants but rather is part of a useless family of its own.

In any case, you certainly deserve mention, so I've added you to the acknowledgments. Thanks!
On one hand, I'm a bit underwhelmed by this.

On the other hand, having two very strong nearly-direct competitors in this area is bound to have a very positive (for customers) longer term pricing impact. For that reason, I hope they succeed with this.
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Here are the ads Apple ran for the new iPhone. All of them show the device being used. https://www.apple.com/iphone/videos/
Right, and they conveniently forgot to mention Rackspace. I highly doubt Apple is going to release a direct competitor to EC2 or the like; unless they can turn a service into a consumer product, Apple is not going to waste their time with it.
Hopefully this will result in serious price competition with AWS over time.

I also hope the various APIs of all these cloud-computing services (along with build-it-yourself alternatives like OpenStack) somehow coalesce or get meta-abstracted into a single API that works across all services -- akin to what Canonical is trying to accomplish with Project AWSOME[1] but across all major cloud environments. One can dream.

[1] http://www.canonical.com/content/canonical%E2%80%99s-awsome-...

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UPDATE: Thank you commenters for all the suggestions!
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We should thus not teach anyone the formula for area of a triangle then
If you say "retro 90s UI" it sounds better.
Could you say more about what you specifically find to be better than vim? thank you.
360° in a full circle

That's one of the things tau can help solve. I suspect the main reason that people still use degrees so much is because using pi undermines the beauty and intuitiveness of radians.
Yes, and the OP is also using the term "Mobile First" differently than my own sense of it.

To me, Mobile First means developing websites targeted at smartphone screens first, that scale gracefully upward to desktop size. The 320andup boilerplate is a good example [1].

I see it also means a more general business strategy of focusing on your mobile app first, be it native or HTML5, and then your website. But could be some mixed messaging due to the multiple meanings of that term.

1. http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/
improved reiserfs supports? who uses it anymore??
There's a difference in productive typing and typing to set up your editor. I would compare this to the popularity in Ubuntu vs Arch, too.
Cell modem would easily add $100 to the price; not to mention having to pair it with a carrier (which Google doesn't seem willing to do just yet). They could do unlocked, but contract-free, tablet only SIMs aren't very common in the US yet. Plus, don't believe Asus has shipped many cell-equipped tablets yet.

Am a bit surprised they didn't do some sort of "instant tethering" feature: tap your phone and tablet, they pick up over NFC and negotiate the config automatically.
There certainly is, but it won't happen, as the banks effectively control the government.
I have personally never (thankfully) had to edit a log file larger then perhaps 10mb.. May I ask what you do if you open those kinds of files so often that you let that be the deciding factor in choosing editor?
I've got 3 of those errors in the last 2 days. The 500 error page seems poorly formatted when compared to their 404 page which suggests they'd be surprised about anyone getting 500 errors too!
The reason I didn't link to the exact section is because the math needs some time to render. If you go right to the section, on many browsers you won't end up where you wanted to be. If instead people hit the top of the page, the math renders in the background while they're looking for the new section link.
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> The fundamental problem with almost every Rails project (and I’m sure in other frameworks as well), is that there is no direct codifying of the business rules and use cases of the application.

This is a damn shame. Why do I say so? Because the exact same thing happened years ago in Smalltalk projects. It's easy to start and iterate quickly in a dynamic OO language and the technical debt sneaks up on you very quietly. The next thing you know, there's a quagmire of convoluted and deeply nested conditional logic.

If it was your business to curate lots of painted canvases, then you'd have an orderly and logical filing (or search) system for keeping track of those. If it's your business to curate lots of neat functionality embodied as pieces of code, then you need an orderly and logical system of keeping track of those. It's amazing how many large projects devolve into a big pile of stuff in a class for every screen.

"Enablement" or "security" or whatever you call the framework that lets particular users do particular things at particular times was one of the big wins for Smalltalk projects.

If someone asks you why user X can't do Y on screen Z, and the only way you can know this is for someone to just happen to remember or to painstakingly reverse engineer code, then you have a kind of technical debt.

Beware if your system just consists of putting in a breakpoint then reading code. There is no clear demarcation separating that from the quagmire. (The solution is to have some kind of consistent idiom/framework/something that people can learn to parse, and a way of reorganizing recurring ideas so they can be reused.)
Agree 100%. I use Evernote for longer notes, but a Moleskine for quickies.
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way to go.
>It always seems silly because web apps were the ONLY apps in the original iOS

I don't know why it seems silly to reckon that Apple's priorities on web apps has changed now that they have their own app store and control over it. You mean Apple's opinion on web apps has to be unchanged from the original iPhone?

When was this page last updated? http://www.apple.com/webapps/

Also, even after Jobs' Flash post more than two years blasting Flash and promising HTML5 improvements to replace it, we still haven't seen much improvement in HTML5 in iOS, with things like audio still suffering. If there were no App store, Apple would've easily devoted more resources to this.
log files like that are opened with cat and grep on the console.
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"What is 'spirituality'?"

The best definition I've been able to come up with is that spirituality is basically the relationships you have with yourself, with others, your work, the food you eat, your religious practices, etc. To me at least spirituality isn't especially vague, it's something that you could probe and measure (to some extent), not unlike the social graph on Facebook.

"You meant something like 'if I'm driving my car, and an animal runs in front of my, my body reacts before I am consciously aware of it'."

More like my legs started walking on their own without any conscious input from me.

"This is true, but I'm not sure what this has to do with spirituality."

The kinds of answers you give to the relationship questions I posed above are largely dependent on your worldview and how you think the universe works. After meditating you start to experience the world differently at the experiential level, and because of this how you view the universe naturally changes. And because of this your view on all those spirituality type questions I started to enumerate in my definition also changes.
> Perhaps I have a negative view of companies as well, but
> when he said he programmed it on company time, and wouldn't
> give up the password, I was surprised that the company
> didn't just sue him for not giving up company property.

When I read that part, I realized I'm quite lucky I took a course on the basics of Dutch IP laws, in particular those pertaining to software and digital rights.

If he wrote it on company time, it just means that the copyright of the program belongs to the company.

I'm not aware of any law stating he should give up a password though. Copyright just gives one the rights to reproduce and make public a work. It does not give a copyright-holder the right to demand a copy of the work from whoever has a copy.

I wonder how he passworded it. The exact way might make some difference. I assume it was a scripting language, so I guess he put the script in a passworded ZIP-file that he unpacked every time he needed it? Any other way would be easily circumvented by reading the code.

I agree it is a very strange story. Not very unlikely, just strange. Also strange that nobody else got the idea this data-entry might be automated.
"why not embrace the throwaway culture and just make everything easy and practical to throw away?"

Because enough people say the following:

"I, for one, love my shiny new iPhone each year. No amount of (my own) preaching is going to get me to keep my iPhone 4S when Apple announces the iPhone 5 this year."