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I don't know what Web 3.0 will look like but Web 4.0 will look like sticks and stones.
Freerunner here. Most of my diet consists of peanut butter and blueberry jam on toasted bread, yogurt, chicken, eggs, rice, protein powder, cottage cheese, and hummus.

Oh yeah, and sometimes I buy a giant can of mixed fruit and eat the whole thing. It's like dessert.
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[edit: A few minutes of Googling, and I can't find any dedicated servers with 2 TB of SSD.]

I am the founder of SSD Nodes, Inc. (http://www.ssdnodes.com) and we offer lower-sized SSD-backed storage in addition to custom cloud and dedicated plans that range from 1-12TB of local SSD storage, at comparable performance. [/plug]
TL;DR

What follows is a more detailed explanation of the benchmark configuration and results. TL;DR is short for "too long; don't read". If you get all the way to the end and understand it, you get a prize...

I believe it's "Too Long; Didn't Read"
Admittedly, it would be fun to pull in the Common Crawl and process it.

Note that there's a code contest for Common Crawl that recently was announced: http://commoncrawl.org/first-ever-code-contest/
Recently 125,000 Dell Laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed were distributed for free among Pakistani students by the Government.
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Check out this long thread on WHT, started 2 months ago:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1151090

From my limited testing, a 1 Node instance from GridVirt at $30/month can compile gcc-4.6.3 within 15 minutes (not exactly an IO-intensive example...)
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Coconut oil contains healthy fats, as well as MCTs (medium chain triglycerides)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-chain_triglycerides

Oh and testosterone is synthesized from cholesterol so low intake of cholesterol may affect testosterone levels (and testosterone -> fat loss)
On-demand high I/O servers...

Say I have a batch process that has huge I/O requirements that has to run once per month and be finished within X hours of starting or SLAs are broken. (Plenty of these types of custom workloads exist in the enterprise)

I can either buy a server with specialist enterprise-grade SSD / Fusion-IO / whatever (> $20,000 most likely) for this once a month process or I can spin up one of these high I/O servers for 1 day per month for a grand total of $50.

In this scenario, this new server type is a godsend.
I do genome mapping where our indexes won't entirely fit in memory. It would be very handy to be able to spin up a few of these instances, load the indexes from an EBS volume onto the local SSDs, then run for a couple of hours or so. This is a very I/O intensive job that we need to run about once a week, but then the rest of the time could be idle.

SSDs would make our jobs run significantly faster. So much so that we've toyed with the idea of adding SSDs to our in-house cluster, but couldn't quite justify the costs. This might actually shift the cost savings to get our lab to migrate to EC2 as opposed to our in-house or university cluster.
Ask HN: What are some popular hacker hangouts around the Bay Area?
Hello HN,

I recently moved to the SF area and keep hearing about how awesome it is to go to work on your ideas among other hackers in coffee shops and shared workspaces.

I'm not familiar with any such places and would love to know where I can find them so I can see what it's all about. I hear Redrock in MV gets a good crowd, and there's a 24/7 Starbucks on California in SF that's also pretty popular.

Thanks!
Clearly this hinges largely on the definition of "rich." I suspect that as yearly income increases the percentage of entrepreneurs increases. The richest people on the planet generally started or invested in successful businesses, but if you call making 200,000 USD a year "rich" I suspect the vast majority will work for somebody else.
I agree so much. Not-for-profit asking 30% ? Really? Really-really? Yes sure you need money to go on making stuff, but as much as Apple and Google? Give me a break.

That's for-profit, nothing more, nothing less.

Want devs? Well, just take whatever is needed to drive the infrastructure, not a penny more.
Seems like great benefits;
The hi1.4xlarge configuration is about half the system cost for the same throughput.
The mean read request latency was reduced from 10ms to 2.2ms.
The 99th percentile request latency was reduced from 65ms to 10ms.
And traditional media - their Bhopal apology hoax was done via a TV interview.
If you're willing to reserve the instance for 3 years, the average monthly cost becomes only $656. That's quite a good deal.

The only problem with reserving that instance for 3 years is that better hardware always comes along, especially with the cost of SSDs coming down significantly every year. Usually if you're in the big-data space, your hardware is likely retired after 24 months (12 months if you're well funded) so locking yourself in for 36 months might be a bad investment.
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Bhangmeters are one kind of specialised photo detector used to detect nuclear explosions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhangmeter

I'm pretty sure these were used in bunkers (at least in the UK) as well as satellites.
Why doesn't anybody EVEN TRY to make a comparison with Debian Stable or Ubuntu Server LTS in any of the discussions around this topic I've seen so far?! Maybe my company wants to switch from CentOS and will go with Ubuntu or Debian. Shouldn't Oracle guys try and convince me to go their way instead? (This "over-targeted" approach from the Oracle marketing guys seems more like an anti-CentOS campaign than a pro OL one in this context... and they seem to compare with RHEL only on price - 0 vs something - because they know they are otherwise out of their league).

It's not like these alternatives are not in the same league now, with the latest 2 Ubuntu Server LTS seen as rock solid by most and good commercial support available...
This doesn't seem to be about women in technology at all, just yet more fluff about startups, founders, exits and angel investors. Maybe Hacker News is the wrong site for me.
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I don't think I'd advocate the E plan diet as a healthy weightloss program!

Coconut is another food that's been demonised. Supposedly it actually encourages weight loss - and is a super food. I only wish it were cheaper here in the UK.
While I love the space... the people can be a little... odd:

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge

I have not been to the MV hacker dojo, but noisebridge is pretty damn cool and welcoming.
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Please refrain from playing "know-it-all" every time someone writes an anecdote

Also what is mentioned has been observed multiple times in several countries.

"Anecdote is not data waa waa waa" or in your example, " No. They don’t die. Mick Jagger. Keith Richard" it certainly does not condone drug usage, but it certainly shows there are exception to "drugs are bad and you will die early" (especially given the amount consumed)

But please let us know if eggs are good or bad for people this week.
I just wonder why they targeted Shell with this new tactic, and not Exxon, the biggest oil company - is Exxon's environmental protection record better thank Shell's?
You can make a protein shake with just one banana, couple of egg whites and milk.

The problem is if you're doing serious weight training it's difficult to get enough protein from just eating natural foods.
Xen offers easy ways of doing fair I/O sharing between guests. These servers they're using are most likely multi-tenant systems with 256-512GB of RAM and 6-12TB of SSD storage. Providers don't like keeping expensive systems around that aren't making money, especially when demand changes every hour, so I expect that they have at least 4 instances sharing the I/O of each host (especially when they mention broad ranges of expected I/O).

The most likely reason for not slicing these systems up to smaller instances is they want to maintain consistent, high performance I/O.
What about a basic shift from a company-as-machine model to a company-as-ecosystem model? It seems to me that a standard company is a bit like a standard vegetable garden, highly ordered to the detriment of long- and even short-term productivity. A better approach might be to create companies where family life and work life don't have to be separate, where you can still put in that 130 hour work week from home, taking your 15 min coffee breaks to play with the kids? Maybe ensure that new parents back from maternity or paternity leave can bring their kids to work for the first year or two?

Those things you mention strike me as band-aids. Sure they'd help but wouldn't it be better to rethink the way we emphasize the separation of work and family and the separation of work and home?
Well, they are backing out of the middle east now that the popularity of the wars has plummeted. (Albeit withdrawing the army and leaving private contractors in place, but they are still slowly withdrawing)
Chartbeat is down and I realize how addicted I am to Chartbeat
Writing this after I entered chartbeat.com 20 times in the URL bar.
Heroku enforces the timeout.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/request-timeout

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/s3#file_uploads

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7854239/heroku-timeout-wh...
Will never happen to a great degree, though there are exceptions.

There are two sides to the .gov coin; public interest and national defense.

On the public interest side, there already is opensource for some major initiatives, like where HL7 came from - on the defense side... youll be SOL.

The government pay trillions to contractors to make really complex stuff. Lockheed will not be releasing guidance code anytime in the next millennium.
Given your "1-12tb" range doesn't list prices online, can you tell us whether your prices are comparable? At $1249/month for 2x 200GB SSD, it seems unlikely, but maybe I'm wrong?
That's awesome! I have searched for an offline tool like that and it looks very good. Thank you!
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Remember, Apple doesn't make any money off the App Store, analysis has shown it's a pretty much break even business.
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First thing i noticed as well, i wonder if that's a new idea. Once you get it it's the perfect little icon for the action.
"What's shocking to me is the blatant manipulation of the mob."

Wait. What? You're "shocked"?

Um.

This is 2012, you know. Mobs are made to be manipulated. That's pretty much the whole point of a mob. Mobs do not win Nobel Prizes in physics. They do not negotiate peace treaties.

And, by the way, journalism is essentially the precursor to 4chan (trolls trolling trolls trolling...)

Case it point: a well-known quote about journalistic trolling turns out to be a troll. http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=2429

tl;dr get over yourself
Would these be suitable to run a single big SQL Server on? I mean specwise they seem perfect for our size/use. They say data will survive a reboot, but what are the chances I would some day have to wake up in the middle of the night and having to restore the database to a new server? Would some of the recent amazon downtimes be one of those cases where that could happen?
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The reviews say that the Prime has a pretty good keyboard.

I'm so tempted to buy this one, but I decided to skip this and wait for Haswell instead. I'm reasonably sure I can pull my Core 2 Duo/Penryn for another year.
...healthiest potato chips on the shelf... ...bread, there is soybean oil mayonnaise...

All of these are fairly high calorie foods, even if you buy them in a health food shop. You'd need to have a fast metabolism and be pretty active to get through all these.

If you eat more calories than you burn you will put on fat.
You're being a slave to patterns. By my reading it seems at least as likely that a mistake was made when the attachments were added to the text.

The existence of the paragraph break makes it fairly clear (to my reading) that the "it's random enough" paragraph was commentary associated with what had just come.
Because it's interesting and satisfies (at least my) curiosity.
One example, which stems from "on-demand ness" (which you added: I was only responding to "elasticity"), is that you can do "test runs" of migrations and deployments without even thinking about it: you can rent, for just an hour, a setup identical to your existing one, often based on a consistent and atomic snapshot of your production machine, so you can try something "likely correct but possibly horribly wrong"; then, if it works, rather than replicating the change on your "real" machine, you can just cut over to the new one and shut down the old.

Way too many people seem to believe that the only benefit of "on-demand" is "elasticity", and then make bogus arguments here that "if you can plan your traffic you shouldn't be using EC2": EC2 is cheaper than people like to claim (and is in fact quite price competitive) and your ability to turn on/off machines on a whim changes the way you look at hardware so drastically that, in all honesty, it makes traditional ways of dealing with hardware seem draconian and only worth putting up with if you are dealing with some weird corner case or have horribly special requirements.
Firefox OS = Chrome OS for phones

ie a way to encourage webapps rather then attempt to capture os marketshare.
RoR vs. What else?
We are building an app that would eventually use machine learning techniques to give recommendations to users. We did our MVP on PHP and then ditched it to build a new version on RoR. Now people say that, RoR does not scale well (mySQL slows down the experience) and not certainly a great tech for machine learning. I am not quiet technical. Should I just go with RoR (investments already made) or change tech. What's the pragmatic call?
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That's interesting. The company that I work for (which is known for a poor reputation in some tech circles) just hired developer to work on CentOS fulltime as an effort to contribute back to the project and the ecosystem.

We use CentOS on basically all of our Linux servers, so it seems appropriate to support the project financially.
I am not sure, what makes you think that people that didn't upgrade to windows 7 and ie9 will upgrade to windows 8 and ie10?
Between 2009 - 2010 (from wikipedia)

- Nokia sued Apple

- Apple counter-sued Nokia

- Apple sued HTC

- HTC counter-sued Apple

- HTC agreed to pay Microsoft royalties

- Oracle sued Google

- Microsoft sued Motorola (alleges Motorola breaking FRAND obligations)

- Motorola counter-sued Microsoft

- Motorola sued Apple

- Apple counter-sued Motorola

... getting ever more complicated in 2011, 2012, ...

I suppose depending on your tribal biases you can find good and bad guys in that mess, and cheer on your team. Good luck with that.
If you're not working to actively put on weight or keep it on and you live in the west, you probably don't really need to worry about protein. Even those on plant based diets can get enough.

http://www.pcrm.org/search/?cid=251
You have to admit it's counter-intuitive. Cholesterol in, low bad cholesterol levels; sugar in, high bad cholesterol levels.
"75 percent of applications are already designed in HTML5, with an overlay to fit smartphones from Apple or Google."

I'd really like a source for this. He seems to be saying that 75% of apps on the App Store and Google Play are HTML with a thin wrapper – the PhoneGap model. This doesn't match the top apps on either store, they're overwhelmingly native code.

Is there some kind of a long tail of HTML5 apps out there? Does Mozilla count every app that uses some kind of a web view? Or did they just make the number up?
I'm surprised Google hasn't bought Chartbeat yet. Maybe they don't think it aligns with their analytics goals too much? Google just launched a new real-time analytics version, too.
I did. What you quoted is what's known as a reply to the person above me.
Apple ordered to run ads stating Samsung did not copy iPad
I didn't mean to imply there actually has been such flooding by Shell, just that it's not about the truth of advertising. I'm a citizen of the internet with AdBlockPlus, but I remind myself that a huge number of people still watch television and read magazines and newspapers. Greenpeace had about $22m in total expenses in 2009 and 2010 each, Shell made $31bn in 2011 profits alone. Is there anything stopping Shell from dropping a few billion on advertising if they wanted to (and convinced the share holders it was a good idea)? They have the money to flood the most popular media outlets, but a top google result highlighting an "aggressive ad campaign" (http://adage.com/article/news/shell-oil-breaks-industry-sile...) suggests they only spend about $15m per year in advertising. When it comes down to it, they probably don't even need to bother. Consumers will get their gas from the lowest-priced gas station they know of. I actually think this action by Greenpeace works in Shell's favor purely due to association when people see the Shell logo as they're driving down a street for gas. I imagine for the common folk Greenpeace hopes to manipulate it produces more of an "oh you" reaction than "I hate you and will never buy from a Shell station!" one, if the image macros are even believed to be official. "Everyone knows" the oil companies are evil (or at least corrupted and in bed with the government).

For the record, this was also a top google result about a 2011 advertised claim being thrown out as misleading. http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2011/10/19/shell-ads-banned-ov... Not that it says much, I'm sure I can find instances of every multibillion dollar company lying (as well as Greenpeace and PETA).
Typically clients requiring that much SSD-backed storage have performance targets and a very specific workload, so this affects options along with pricing. With that said, ballpark for what Amazon is advertising is comparable to our pricing, except with us you are _guaranteed_ the resources whereas they are using a multi-tenant environment (you're not using the only instance on their host and your I/O is influenced by everyone else using that host).

EDIT: Downvoted? Please offer your point of view.

EDIT2: Sample pricing offered in comment below.
The fact that you care so much proves you're a troll.
Can't you use RoR with a different storage backend like MongoDB ? It's hard to say without additional precisions on the algorithms and persistent datastructures.
An informed observer would supplant his anecdote with a smidgen of studied data.
My-grandfather-lived-to-be-99-and-hes-from-swine-country is spectacularly useless.
Make an effort. Add detail.
We are not demanding khi-square tests just some detail.
Race, Geography, Family history, Rigor of vocation, Illnesses, Special abilities etc.
No amount of detail will approach the rigor of a proper study.
But make an effort.
AFAIK, the largest tier in any AWS instance type has always been the full box. i.e an m1.xlarge is the whole box, an m2.4xlarge is a whole box, etc.
Good point, with all the focus on random I/O in the announcement I was forgetting about the sequential I/O performance benefit.

Hmm, that reminds me, I have an interesting toy problem which is sequential I/O limited...
don't like their version of chartbeat. Less info and the realtime stats are calculated differently (Chartbeat seems to be more accurate)
They are overstated. After Chernobyl people were relocated that would receive 200 mSievert in their whole life due to radiation.

If you smoke a pack a day for 13 years you get the same dose, but no one tells you ..
Great tool, just tried buildin mockup for client.

Few issues:
* There is a problem moving labels in buttons/tables using the keyboard. Everything jumps
* The labels in editing and preview don't look the same
* Please add "Undo/Redo"
* Can't find a way to delete new window
I haven't downvoted (and in fact couldn't if I wanted to since you replied to me), but personally my issue with your comment is that you're being as vague as your website's prices. Would be more interesting and relevant if you actually gave a price for a box comparable to the AWS specs.
That I agree. I have no idea what "swine country" is for a start

But "lived until 99" was not useless until very recently (in history terms)
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> Using sixty threads to write 2GB files at once using 64KB writes, results in 1099MBytes/s at 0.06ms service time.

It's not a good idea to scale disk writes using threads when you can use aio. You've introduced unneeded scheduling and locking penalty from threads. Additionally, such threads will be accessing and modifying kernel structures frequently and that's going to cause additional locking inside the kernel. They'll all be modifying same resources and structures while writing.
Firefox can use gstreamer as a backend for HTML5 video:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422540

I guess a handset manufacturer could ship with e.g. H.264 support if they paid licensing fees. There are open source H.264 codecs by the way, but licensing is a separate issue.
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We are also facing the same kind of problems in my company, regarding genome assembly and mapping.

That's definitely something we will look into :)
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Making an app is still basically free, and if your app is free publishing to most App stores is also free.

Marketing and distributing professional apps on a commercial scale has never been free. That's what App stores do.