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Thanks seldo, interesting. Just been looking at a client's Amazon dashboard where they have a small set-up running, not something I normally deal with but I see their RDS is billing over 2e9 I/Os/month and ends up being a significant part of the non-fixed bit of their bill. I suspect their MySQL queries are doing table scans and building temporary tables for some of the queries; these would both up the I/O count as all RDS storage is EBS, even temporaries?

So if your MySQL storage is ephemeral how do you cope with outage? Replicate it off AWS?
The benefits would be worth discussing, if only things weren't so far gone. Just in the last 15 years we've had two bubbles, rampant commodity speculation, tax-payer bailouts, more reckless investing by too-big-to-fail banks (Chase), and then there's LIBOR. All of this has had global consequences.

It's not a matter of discussing the merits of regulation anymore, it's a matter of dealing with the notion that these institutions just don't care. They've successfully infiltrated our government, and that's pretty much where we're at. We're going to sit here and discuss what?
Hi, Josh Bryant, co-founder of Droplr.

First, apologies that we didn't meet your expectations in regards to security on our service. Just to be clear, any password-related data or personal information you've sent in Droplr has been over HTTPS. But, we didn't go as far as we should have. We misjudged where usage was falling on the public-private spectrum, and we're ensuring we meet privacy expectations now.

We can see that it's a priority for people, and it's a priority for us. We've already deployed the fix, so ALL drop content should now be served over HTTPS.

We'll work on getting the pages themselves on the d.pr domain served over HTTPS as well and also look into a solution or better documentation for customers using their own custom domain.

Thanks for your patience with us and I hope you can forgive us and give us another shot.

Cheers
The problem we constantly run into with it in work environments is that any one person is screwed if they don't have enough space for the "shared" stuff, it still all counts towards their usage.
On the bright side, because this is basically phone hardware, they can probably manufacture at a price point that makes this viable.

...or maybe not. People aren't really great as making estimates, and that's a lot of $99 devices (10k odd units so far?), but you'd like to think they've thought that through.

Good luck to them. They've obviously tapped into something that resonates with a lot of people~

(...and if it doesn't work out, watching the rage face of people who think they've bought something and then realize kickstarter isnt a shop when they get nothing is going to be fun to watch...)
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Monad as a design pattern
Why do you require my email address and a place where I was referred to search a flight?
i prefered the physical wall with paper and string. just the way my brain works i guess
It sort of defeats the point of the console if it has to be hacked to add more RAM to make it usable. Might as well buy a PC. I want the console base system to be powerful enough to make developers happy to develop on it and enable a variety of apps that can be developed.
I think it's related to post-purchase rationalisation. People are emotionally wedded to the tools they use and the paradigms they operate in because changing (or, God forbid, "catching up") implies they've somehow miscalculated or invested their time incorrectly.

Especially in the tech scene, a lot of people see themselves as unappreciated geniuses. The idea that there's a good, simple alternative that will get mass adoption that they haven't thought of doesn't fit that narrative. There must have been a reason they already dismissed the idea, so they approach it skepticism. (The money thing is related to this - unappreciated geniuses deserve a good get-rich-quick scheme, after all.)
It's amazing how many products you've built this year. I love these retrospectives on your year (with lessons learned). I think I'll do one soon too.
Wow, really, six figures? 250 results for "gridspot.com" on google, and yet you have 100000+ computers running this software?
I want to hire you! I'll pay you 10 figures/month!
People who need a flight can create a contest and then flight hackers compete against each other to find them the best deals/flights. This RTW contest was an experiment to see how far our hackers could go, and considering a RTW itinerary usually costs $4k+, their results are pretty impressive.
I think good developers do it also. I'll give a somewhat related example from my own life.

My second wife spoke Italian. I learned Italian, so when I visited I could go to shops, order coffee and food, etc - however she spoke English very well. As a result, I learned to understand Italian, but never to speak it.

My third wife speaks Russian. I learned Russian, so we could talk to each other. She speaks no English. As a result, I learned not only to understand Russian, but also to speak it.

I feel that it's the same with new technology / design patterns. You have to use it to really understand it. Sure, you should choose the best fit for it, but really you don't know until you try it and fail.

P.S. Yes, I know I've been married too many times.
I would wholeheartedly agree.

Most Phase I work is exploratory and things like statistical rigor and blinding participants are ignored (and for good reason, those things don't come cheap). Phase I data is useful for toxicity data, but I wouldn't trust Phase I efficacy data in the least.
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I never said you had to add more RAM to make it usable. This will run Android games so 1G of RAM is more than enough as you'll only run one game at a time. But if you want more RAM, it's possible. And as already mentioned, it comes with twice more RAM than the xbox and ps3.
This looks like a really awesome idea, but I can't help but wonder if they are walking into a patent minefield?
When everybody tries to crowd onto the highway, everybody slows down. Beyond a certain point, throttling usage actually makes everybody get to their destination faster. Imagine a roadway with some kind of nasty merge which gets severely jammed up if there are too many cars. If ten cars all try to go through at once, everybody could be stuck for quite a while. If you throttle them so they go through one by one, everyone gets to their destination faster. The same thing can apply to real roads on a larger scale.
There has to be enough RAM to future-proof it for the next 5 years. That's the lifetime of a console before a new version comes out. I don't want them to be releasing newer consoles each year with more RAM and capabilities, resulting in a fragmented software market.
Except it didn't. It used up to three bytes per character. It had the drawbacks of variable width but not the easy-to-add benefits.

Or do you mean in-memory being different from the file format AND different from the I/O format? That doesn't sound terribly efficient.
Thanks, I've been in contact with them about it, but they have been slow to respond. We run multiple virus scans against uploaded content, don't allow hotlinking of non-image content and actively remove any malware found.

Edit: Just received a response to a PM, we're no longer on their shitlist :)
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The whole page lags like a bitch on ipad3. Irony, for sure.
OTW fares were legitimate entries in this contest, but they don't start very near $2000 for hitting all six continents. I briefly checked, and would've entered one in this contest if it were that cheap. :)

Even at low season, if you price out an itinerary starting/ending in North America and hitting all six, using OneWorld's online calculator, it always comes out $3500+. You can get lower if you don't have the six-continent requirement, though.
Well, it's a misinterpretation of the semantics of traditional Unix filesystems. Other filesystems used by other operating systems (such as Windows' NTFS and OS X's HFS+) genuinely do store filenames as Unicode strings, so on those platforms (or on Unix, if you've mounted one of those filesystems) Python 3.x's approach is exactly correct.

That said, recent versions of Python 3 include a workaround for exactly the problem you describe: when the interpreter gets a byte-sequence value from the OS, filenames that decode to Unicode cleanly will be represented as proper Unicode strings, while filenames that can't be decoded will have the raw bytes represented as code-points in Unicode's Private Use Area. That way, even if Python can't decode the contents of a string, you can still, say, get a parameter from the command-line, pass it to open(), and be confident that you'll actually get the file the user intended.
Honestly, those I know who read PA don't find it annoying. Those who do, have an AdBlocker.

(While I am anti-AdBlocking software, that is a conversation for another time.)
A $2000 RTW ticket wouldn't include taxes and it wouldn't go to all 6 continents. All the prices in this contest include taxes and stop on every continent (except Antarctica).
> is largely due to the ballooning of this community and a bunch of half-baked, unoriginal, crowded-market ideas with uninspired product designs being posted. It seems everyone thinks that just because they use NodeJS, mustache, coffeescript and want to take a bottom-up approach to X for Y and apply to YC that makes them an entrepreneur.

But what's wrong with that? If this doesn't make them an entrepreneur what does? There is no magic to becoming an entrepreneur. It's not an elite group of people who have to pass a trial by fire. Everyone who wants to change things can be an entrepreneur. Anyone with a project and who big dreams for the project.It doesn't require a college degree, any connections or any credentials.

If anyone comes to me and tells me he is an entrepreneur I expect myself to be supportive. It's hard to do this and if we don't support each other who will?
Do you have a link to a page that loads slow? I'm not familiar with too many of the KS projects but, by memory, I don't recall any having slow videos.

Also, why ask us instead of asking them?
Thanks for the reply! I'm going to check them out.
Ah right. Makes sense. You can re-use the readers list that you also use in case of ownership transfer.

Any hints you want to give on how to handle node failures ? For me that's the potential weak point.
You could check out Lift (http://takethelift.com)
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Hey, you're on the 'message board' of a professional investment firm. What did you expect, a bunch of altruists totally not hoping all their comment karma will magically cause them to be called up by PG and swept into the next YC round on a golden carpet of SV-Angel convertible notes?
It's not a false analogy - predicting the precise temperature tomorrow is analagous with predicting the exact numbers tomorrow, not the probabilities of the numbers tomorrow. Climate predictions are predictions of long-run means and weather predictions are predictions of short-run outcomes.

Consider that the ball being drawn out of the lottery machine is not truly random and probabilistic, either - it is a direct result of the laws of physics, the starting condition of the ball-drawing machine and the inputs to it.

Just like the ball-drawing machine, the short-run weather in the next minute, hour, day or week is a highly noisy process that can be accurately modelled as a random, probabilistic process. This is how weather forecasts work - they'll give the probability of rain in the next 24 hours.
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I'm not strongly arguing for or against any particular solution. I'm an amateur on monetary policy and alternative currencies and the Federal Reserve system. I merely know what fraud looks like, and I'm confident it's happened in the past, and continues to happen to this day because no one has been held accountable for past fraud, on a massive scale. So, I don't know what the optimal solution looks like, exactly, but I know it's not what we have today. It may just be that upholding the law, rigorously and blind to wealth (i.e. billionaires can go to jail), would be sufficient to keep fraud in check.

But, I'm highly suspicious of any system that allows the people who loan money to governments to also be the people determining the rates at which they borrow money (usually indirectly, as there is a very high bandwidth revolving door between the Fed and the big banks in the US, but some of the biggest banks actually had people working directly for the Fed while working for the bank, which is an SEC violation; likewise, the banks themselves are determining LIBOR, which determines the rates at which they get and loan money to governments). This is obviously inviting the fox into the hen house and expecting them to help keep the hens warm at night. Turns out that foxes, when invited into hen houses, tend to eat the hens. There's also been bid-rigging on a massive scale in the US, including JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America in their bids for municipal accounts, which studies indicate has cost taxpayers billions.

At one point I might have argued, on principle, that regulation was the cause of all of life's problems, and that market solutions should be sought. I still lean very far libertarian (or market anarchist), but I'm not convinced our society is quite enlightened enough to get there yet--and when politicians do use libertarian rhetoric it's usually a corporatist agenda masquerading as freedom. In the meantime, the bleeding has to be stopped. We can't keep pumping trillions of dollars out of the middle class all over the world and into the hands of a select few billionaire bankers and expect anything good to happen. Freedom for a few to rob the masses is not libertarian.
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This scanner seems really Gee Whiz to me. It will measure the size of your genitals in just picoseconds! And the DHS will know, and laugh at you while you're in line waiting for the Nude-a-tron.

Such a device would mean the end of the Drug War once and for all. Just about no method of smuggling would work. Any number of other crimes would also be next to impossible. I just don't buy a miracle machine like that, especially one with so few indicators on the front panel.
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Okay, maybe an irrelevant question - do they move all those sofas when it rains?
Do you realize that only 9% of drugs pass from Phase I of clinical trials to the FDA approval?

Do you know why? Because the "cure" is worse than what they are supposed to treat.
Sorry, I should have clarified. I wasn't able to click to actually see the itineraries created even though there are "View Details" links. The other links I tried to click on the page also just hung. I guess all the hn traffic took them down.

Edit: I see your other post above now with the cities! Thanks!!
I don't like it. People should be required to use Emacs to be privileged to program with me.
So KS wouldn't applicable to Dwarf Fortress?
It's inexcusable. Blogs, traditional journalism's favorite whipping boy, will at least cite their sources.
It will be interesting to see how it plays out. There are some unanswered questions, things like "Hmm that seems awfully inexpensive given where you are starting from." So let's assume nVidia gives them a great deal and they pay $10/CPU, plus memory, plus flash, plus assembly. We're looking at $65 or so to build it. Consider something like the Beaglebone which uses a cheaper CPU and its costs.

Now historically game console manufacturers sold consoles near (or below!) cost and then made up the difference selling licensees as part of the games, made famous by Nintendo early on, the 'custom game cart' that they had to make for you. But these guys want to keep games low cost (even free) so that's a challenge.

Then there is the OS, sure its a port of Android but it isn't Android. It has their own stuff in it, and like all complex software packages Android is full of bugs of varying complexity, and being a bit 'off axis' as they are they will probably wander into less tested code. So they no doubt have at least one and probably two or three full time Android kernel/system engineers. So that's like a .5M$/yr burdened cost, more so if they do point optimizations to improve their user experience.

We've got the Founder(s) (presumably the designer is on contract and they can jettison those ongoing costs once they are done) so say they run a really tight ship, maybe 10 people? So maybe they have a $6M/yr burn rate. How much do they have to sell to cover those costs? What numbers did they promise their suppliers? Lets be generous and say they can sell 100K units the first year. That would require clearing $60/unit to break even. They currently have about 13K backers, so for everyone one they sell on Kickstarter they will need another 10 to sell somewhere else.

Or, perhaps the Kickstarter project is all there is. Once they make the 13 - 15k units (or what ever it ends up to be) for the developers they are done. They walk away. What sort of future does any console have when rounded to the nearest million units there are zero out there ?

So its an interesting thing indeed. Having played with Android on the Pandaboard I can say its not a 'fun' place to be (well if you're trying to get something done, if you just want to hack Android its great fun) Obviously you can't know if it will be a runaway success or a well meaning implosion but either way its enlightening to see this crowd funded business model tried for this class of goods.
HN has been dominated by negative comments in general

No the problem is the comment voting system on HN is completely pointless, and doesn't allow good comments to rise to the surface. So you end up reading all good/positive and all bad/negative comments as if they are the same.
Sounds like they're link spamming. Those links are very very low quality, you can easily beat them.

Don't chase low quality links, get higher quality links. It won't be considered "black hat".

If you are writing good content I'd suggest using this quality content to increase your rank.

Here's a solid way to do that:
1. Buy high Page Rank domains / Websites related to your niche.
2. Begin posting press release style content about your content, with links, on these high PageRank domains.

This will mean every post you write will have 50 - 100 high quality links to it straight away.

Fight fire with fire.
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My concern is how future-proof will the device be. Will the base platform be powerful enough to support apps that developers will want to develop for it? You can't tell people to hack their console just to run your protein-folding program. I want this console to disrupt the market. People are itching to develop for a popular console. Developers, developers, developers!
Feature request: be able to see the fare some days after it's "expired", or pay the same bounty and see the fare, too.
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Technically this is hacker news, a site for links/news about hacking and things hackers would find interesting. While startups have always been something the site has featured, over the years it seems to have shifted significantly more toward a startup/money focus which is why I've personally reduced my reading here by a fair amount.

Recently I've been finding that my twitter feed is a much better way to get my dose of hacking related stuff -- if you follow the right people it's wonderful! (It's kind of sad that I have resorted to that though, since HN did open my eyes to a lot of things back in high school.)
It may be useful to distinguish between:

* The purpose of a business, i.e. what organisations like Google want to do; and

* The purpose of businesses, i.e. why organisations like Google are permitted/encouraged to exist.
To add to the RAM/storage thing, the fact that it's always on the internet is a big deal. Media can be streamed from central servers on-demand, so cut-scenes and things like area-specific textures are less of a big deal.

My biggest worry is the focus on the television. Do you remember the head-mounted display John Carmack was showing around E3? The guy who made it gave an update [1] on the project a few days ago, saying

1) I am talking to Valve.
2) I am talking to id/Zenimax/Bethesda
3) I am talking to Epic
4) I am talking to Crytek
5) I am talking to Unity
6) I am talking to several other development companies

The extent of their relationships with Oculus varies, but
I can promise at least a few partnerships... I am working
with hardware engineers...

Imagine an HMD with a massive field of view and more
pixels than 1080p per eye, wireless PC link, built in
absolute head and hand/weapon/wand positioning, and native
integration with some (if not all) of the major game
engines, all for less than $1,000 USD. That can happen in
2013!

I think next-gen "serious" gaming will move in that direction (by all accounts the immersion is stunning), and I think casual gaming will never move away from mixed-use devices like tablets.

1: http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=138&t=14777&...
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There's a new project called Ansible that may be of interest to you:

http://ansible.github.com/

While that page has a long list of things they do, the important bits relevant to your comment are

1. a tighter focus on idempotence than Fabric
2. an easy-ish way to integrate package management so you could potentially use the same script to kick off either yum or apt depending on the box
Quick review:

The CS3 animations and the Chosen form input plugin look pretty slick. I don't see the new icons being that big an upgrade over Glyphicons. The performance stuff seems like stuff I'd rather set up on its own rather than as part of my design framework.

These guys should provide instructions for "Kickstrap-izing" existing bootstrap sites rather than just how to create a Kickstrap site from scratch. Having already invested a bunch of time into getting a bootstrap site set up, I'm more likely to cherry pick from this than use the whole thing.
We'll be up again in a minute - just upgrading the box :)
> ... when would you ever need your "cache lines" moved from node to node?

The node could be experiencing a soft failure—excessive ECC errors, power supply failure, kernel security update needed, etc.
Aldi PC becomes first retail PC with UEFI Secure Boot
True, but I'd wager the majority of readers/commenters are not investors but entrepreneurs. It'd be nice to see more support and can-do-ness rather than dumping on ideas. More constructive criticism than that's stupid and will never work.
It's funny - all these "real time code collaboration" editors that have been popping up lately remind me of a job at a research institute I had some 15 years ago. There we would sometimes do a `xhost -`, set the DISPLAY variable and just open a second Emacs frame on the remote machine. Of course that gives the other person pretty much full access to all your local files, but come on, we were all buddies there...