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And here are direct links to the images:

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A lot of it was EBS and also the replication system, which turned out to be breaking due to a bug in our own code when the whole thing slowed down due to EBS.

As a side note, things have been much better, from what I hear, since they moved to local storage. Things work much better here at Netflix for the same reason.

I haven't had much of a chance to play with the new Provisioned IOPS much, but from what I've seen that is a pretty solid storage solution.
The turning radius appears to lengthen as well
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May I ask why you left Salesforce?
Why can't they change the tax law to tax these companies?

They're working on it:

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/tax_avoidance_gaar.htm
I was thinking the same thing. From what I can tell though, animated gifs are more popular than ever. What they lack in image quality and compression, they make up in convenience... And having no sound is actually a feature. I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned here somewhere...
Given the fact that several of my enterprise clients provide iPads to quite a few employees, which definitely don't support legacy apps or Office (which SurfaceRT will come installed with), I don't see why legacy support would be an issue where the use case for an iPad already fits and a Surface tablet might fit better.
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Ebay is based in Luxemburg, if it were in an offshore fiscal paradise I would have understood, but hey this is Europe. If something is broken in Europe don't blame companies, they're not the ones sitting in parliament.
T-Mobile is the only major US carrier to do this. I use them and I think they're a great bargain, but it's not a good option for everyone. Their coverage map is much smaller than AT&T or Verizon and they are not a good choice of carrier if you want an iPhone.
I live in South Korea and can't get to San Francisco for a 12-week stretch. But you have a tremendous idea here and I'd love to be a student.

If you could compress the in-class time to 4 weeks and let me do the rest remotely, and offer a price-point at roughly one-month of my salary or less, I'd be all over this.
On the other hand big corporations as well as wealthy people usually have more leverage in terms of being able to move and operate or reside in more tax-friendly or hospitable regimes.

That's often claimed, but I'm not convinced. Some people/businesses might move away because of being forced to pay tax at the same rate as everyone else. Most people/businesses won't, because most people don't choose where to live only by tax rate and most businesses aren't going to give up a market of 60+ million people. And frankly, if they're only paying a million or so in taxes at that size, good riddance to those who think they can do better elsewhere anyway.
Ok,except GoDaddy.
DOSBox ftw.
Ask HN - How to make an android phone prototype?
It sounds like it'd be fun to get a phone made to my specifications. I'm talking about mainly physical design, I would be fine with taking a chip/board/camera combination as is and just getting the body customized around it. Is there any kind of guide for how to go about getting something like this made? Or are there companies out there that perform this kind of service?
Yes. Kind of sad, because I think these "contracts" are an awesome idea, and I don't like them being artificially limited like that.
No, there is a third option that is looking increasingly credible: the UK could leave the EU altogether. Whatever the arguments for being in or out more generally, in financial terms that is almost certainly a win as things stand today, and it looks like any realistic outcome of the Euro problems will only strengthen the case.
They've been running high FPS cameras for Australian cricket coverage for nearly 10 years now. It's amazing to see the difference it makes in hitting the ball with the sweet spot of the bat, and is generally really beautiful footage to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_bMgmd3O0
> A lot of it was EBS and also the replication system, which turned out to be breaking due to a bug in our own code when the whole thing slowed down due to EBS.

This bug was a pretty rare case, but to be specific, here it is:

1. Databases for a particular data type are specified in the config file like:

dbmaster, dbslave1, dbslave2, dbslave3

2. In Python this ends up just like that: a list where the 0th element is special. There's a "config list" (the list read out of the config file) and an "active list", which is those from the config file that have recently reported themselves as live.

3. Reads are sent to (sort of) random.choice(active_list) and writes are send to active_list[0]

4. But wait! If the master is "down" (the EBS backing him has slowed down so far as to mark him unresponsive) then active_list[0] may very well be a slave

5. Londiste now can't reconcile the slave database with the master database. There's a sequence conflict!

The symptom would be that a replica would refuse to replicate, we'd detect the replication lag on that slave, and remove it from the active list. Then its load would fall, we'd get an alert, and we'd say "well crap" and rereplicate to it.

In practise this didn't happen very often, I can only think of a few occasions off-hand, and generally the master's disk lag was so bad that a downed slave was the least of our problems.
(I'm not a cryptographer)

Imagine a web where all links were magnet links. Each site could also have a magnet link to another site containing a diff in case of updates which the browser would automatically check.

The content hash in the magnet link would have to be based on something other than content (because content is not known at the time of page creation). The magnet link could contain a cryptographic hash of a secret string that only the owner possessed.
Interesting. Have you used LiveConnected? Know why they can be so inexpensive? Also, where you can you find a grey importer?

(by the way the author does mention terminating the contract.)
> I hope you find someone who is as interested in smug one-upmanship as yourself.

Thanks for the kind words.

My girlfriend loves hiking, camping, walking to the library, knitting and hand crafts. We honestly don't have time for "dvd shit" in our lives.
> Then where did the growth pains that necessitated Cassandra come from?

Increased traffic? I don't think I understand the question
That is one of the more ideal distributions, as each number gets one (zero) bit for delta, and the number at the jump point gets a large but globally inconsequential number of bits. Bits per number is still less than 7.
Great images.

FYI Marco Scutaro of the Giants (last 2 images) is a fun hitter to watch. He has the highest contact rate (over 94%) in all of baseball—meaning no matter who is pitching, he can usually swing and put the ball in play.
I haven't seen one personally yet but from what I understand it does indicate that the post is sponsored.. Whether or not that image is from the POV of the poster or another user, I have no idea
As someone that has only sold self-published ebooks (where I keep 98% of the profit), I always forget how bad the split is on "real" platforms. The fact that (in the publishing world) 35% is VERY VERY GOOD, blows my mind even more! I can't imagine having a business model where I share >50% of my profit with a company.
> Did Reddit overcome its rather serious persistence-side issues?

Mostly by getting off of EBS

> It seemed like the object-blob Postgres store was a disaster

Goodness no

> then they brought in Cassandra which was initially used as a cache of sorts, but now is the primary point of contact for threads apparently?

I don't know what "primary contact for threads" means, Cassandra doesn't really do IPC.

Some datatypes are in Postgres (Links, Accounts) and some datatypes are in Cassandra (Votes, Saves/Hides).

> There was Reddit downtime today (read-only mode), which is common. What's the usual cause of that sort of thing these days?

I can't speak for today now that EBS is mostly out of the loop, but it used to be EBS issues on a DB master
Wow, this is really great. I never knew about Creo Elements/Express going to give it a try.

If you use SolidWorks then check out HSMXpress, it's a great free CAM package.

[1] http://www.hsmworks.com/hsmxpress/
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Here's some context on where the video is shown: http://imgur.com/X1Jlh
Apple explained this already. They have high resolution / high speed cameras analyzing each phone as it goes down the assembly line and automatically selecting the 'best' bezel out of something like 64 possible bins.
A lot of businesses are trying this right now, along with the Facebook exchange retargeting stuff. The big question is going to be though whether businesses see a big enough ROI to continue to reinvest. Facebook burned through a lot of businesses with the regular ads who gave up, new ad products give them another chance but unless some of it sticks it is only a matter of time before revenues start falling.
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What percentage of Buffer revenue is from the Carbon Ads on blog posts like this?
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At a higher fps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFlEIybC7rU&feature=relat...
I am aware of how this is done in large companies, and usually they set up their financial headquarters in countries with low corporate tax rates, such as Switzerland in Europe, or Singapore in Asia, then build up connections with their operations in surrounding countries using "commissionaries" (not sure if the english term is correct) status, meaning that most revenues are transferred to the financial headquarter and then the headquarters pays back for the costs of doing business (salaries, rents, material expenses) to each country operations. This saves litteraly billions of tax dollars and it is perfectly legal where it is practiced. Where do you think politicians put their money, by the way?

It's very natural for private companies to reduce costs where possible, and reducing taxes is certainly a clever way to do so. This is, I believe, very positive, as it shows to the countries with high tax rates that they are missing out on tax dollars simply because they are making it way to expensive for large corporations to operate that way. This means any tax increase (like the ones suggested recently in France) will more likely hit the small and mid-sized players who do not benefit for the same know-how and scale to manage their tax cuts efficiently -> therefore reducing the actual benefit of further raising taxes. The fact that these practices remain legal puts a stop on inflating taxes gaps between countries as well.

By the way, avoiding taxes LEGALLY does not mean it is "ethically" corrupt to do so. I, for one, consider that taxation has very little ground when you see how much of the money the State collects is wasted in so many ways, through poor management, bad investments, poor efficiency, making war (that only a minority approves of), and seen how much power you have to change anything about it. On the contrary, limiting the growth of the amount of cash controlled by the State should be considered a good thing, in absolute terms.
Maybe. I don't know. Although I think one thing people will realize is how much time they used to spend finding the mouse cursor and positioning it versus just directly going to touch the location, even on a desktop.

I think we're in the same state we were in a month before the iPad shipped. Will we really like a giant sized iPhone (as it was positioned at the time)? No one really knew. I think it's fair to say that it was mischaracterized, and people really do like it.

Interestingly, even the Verge (who typically skew anti-MS, but fairly even) seem to really like the experience thus far (with some reservations).

Ask me this question in a month or two after I get some actual touch screens. :-)
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> Everyone reading this knows you have never had one single conversation with a black/native american/latino woman of color in technology.

Hey, someone reading that here. I am mildly offended by your claim that I know Supreme never talked to a black/native american/latino woman of color in technology.

What I did read from his posts is that a program exclusively for black girls is racist and sexist. Given that the program takes people based on their race and sex, I do not see how that claim is controversial.

The solution to race/gender inequality may or may not be strategic racism/sexism. However, pointing out when something is racism/sexism, and suggesting that forbidding all forms of racism/sexism might be a better approach hardly sounds unreasonable.

What I would like to see happen is have legal protection against groups from engaging in discriminatory actions (on 'irrelevant' metrics, which would need to be determined but almost definitely includes race and sex). Yes, that would make this group (as I understand it) illegal. What we could have is a group that targets underprivileged areas, that may or may not be disproportional high in some group of people.

The problem with the group currently (as I understand them) is that if someone who is not a black girl, but does have a similar disadvantage in life wanted to join, they would not be permitted (or have a high barrier to entry).
The easy, but not so great answer is to check on Meetup.com for events that you're interested in. A similar answer would be to check lanyrd.

The real answer is that those aren't terribly likely to have specific events as those events generally arise from existing communities. Simply put, you should be using Meetup and Lanyrd to get involved in your local community, and by being active in those communities you'll almost certainly be in the know for future hackathons.

Where I'm at (Annapolis), I'm kind of in a middle ground between two big metropoli, DC and Baltimore, so I maintain membership in local groups and Facebook groups that I generally don't show up to much (sorry everybody) because they're slightly further away from where I want to be, but by being involved in those groups, I hear about pretty much everything.

Another option is of course to ask here, and specify your location, and you'll likely here about something.

Edit: I don't know where you're at, but a great way to get plugged in (if your area has one) is to attend a StartupWeekend or two, even if you have to travel a bit to attend one. In my experience, they're run by avid technologists that have substantial connections in the tech community. At worst, you'll find out about a Facebook group or mailing list to join, at best, you'll get introductions, face-to-face meetings, etc.
I find it in the middle in a good way. Detailed enough for tech people yet still explain some basic (but important) terminologies for curious people. It's a win-win situation really: tech people do not know all the things about Win32 (think about a mobile dev who wants to try out the new OS). I also like the way he mentioned COM and .NET as unsearchable, guess what is the next big framework/foundation from Microsoft?
> In practise this didn't happen very often, I can only think of a few occasions off-hand, and generally the master's disk lag was so bad that a downed slave was the least of our problems.

It got progressively worse as time went on the EBS performance got worse. It was happening every couple of weeks after you left, and I think it got even worse after that.

Luckily we had dug into the londiste internals and managed to figure out how to restore replication much faster, but that was still super painful. :)

But you're right, the disk lag usually caused the immediate problem -- the out of sync slave was usually pretty easy to deal with, depending on how many got out of sync at once. It was just annoying and time consuming.
Not exactly, unless the fulfilledHandler returns a promise. The examples didn't seem to have that requirement.

If fulfilledHandler is a regular function, then then() is just Functor's fmap.

If fulfilledHandler is allowed to be either variant, then you can imagine then() as applying an implicit return when needed, which makes the types a bit less clear
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Mostly porn and ragecomics, wasn't it?
Aren't these the exact same issues the cdns deal with?
I don't follow Facebook closely, but I've wondered when they would do this. So many businesses advertise their Facebook presence that it should be easy for FB to upsell things like promoted posts, opt-in email marketing, flash sales, coupon distribution and tracking etc.
Promises go back several years in Java. Any use of asynchronous functions with callbacks is basically a Promise.
As wycats says, this indeed supported by good JS promises. I talked a bit more about the situation in my promise-tests documentation:

https://github.com/domenic/promise-tests#returning-a-promise...

Unfortunately Promises/A omits this, so I didn't address it directly, although I did sneak it into the example code with the `return expandUrlUsingTwitterApi(mostRecentShortUrl);` line.
Could you elaborate on how the GP's post was bigoted. All I read from it was the claim that racism/sexism does not exist, and a request against affirmative action.

Granted, the entire comment was void of any argument, and meets my definition of worthless, but I do not see the bigotry in it.
Well in the case of Google's interviewing techniques they don't really care about the question per se, what they look for is how folks reason about things. You can start down one path, back up, head down another, and explore a variety of paths to possible solutions. The only bad answer is "That's a silly question, why would I ever need to do that?" or something similar. An unwillingness to engage in a discussion, even about 'impossible' problems, was the most common reason I saw on feedback where Google passed on the candidate.
Come on now, it took at least this long for web apps to obsolete most native desktop apps. As mobile devices get more powerful with every passing year, I see no reason why history won't repeat itself.
I was hoping for some more content when I clicked on this. I am curious about the sponsored posts viability and popularity; the article just sounded like one of the million other 'I told you not to buy FB stock' posts with a HN link bait title.
Great post by Alexey, but I must admit I'm disappointed he didn't incorporate any of the insights we use at AngelHack to sustain hackathons of 400+ attendees( walkie talkies, rated video submissions for cutting down demos, hackathon.io for team building and seamless communications, helicopters and nerf guns for fun, massage tables and endless candy as added amenities).

There's also a lot to be said for the handholding that goes into working with sponsors. Those sponsor dollars don't come as easy as you would think. Perhaps there'll be a follow-up post :)
For what it's worth: I made a living for years promoting personal and community projects primarily through social media. I didn't spam people, I focused on engaging people with meaningful content.

I would use the shit out of this feature, and plan to use next week to announce a buddy of mine's album release because I honestly think it's something the majority of my Facebook friends will love to at least check out. As people discover that kind of use case and the potential to reach 1,200 rather than 200 people, they'll start to use this, but only GOOD content will actually benefit. That will be the filter that keeps it sustainable.
Actually in the traditional publishing world, almost no one gets 35% of digital 25% is what you get unless you're a megastar. For in on dead trees 10% is the norm.
Such as increasing our level of technology so that the next generation will be better off, which is what every generation did until we got the idea that putting a bigger and bigger chuck of the GDP on healthcare each year was a bright idea. Over 10% it is not sustainable. It has to stop growing.

If it was used to develop life changing technologies for the whole human species such as whole brain emulation, space colonization etc- why not. At the moment is it just about making us more comfortable.

A temporary high quality of life indeed, at the expense of the future. Not a bright idea.
The human ear is not equally sensitive to different frequencies, and it's most sensitive at a fairly narrow band at a few kHz.

If you don't correct for that when synthesizing your tones, then one pitch may be much more prominent than the others.
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No, jQuery's `pipe` (or their `then` in >= 1.8) still does not do error handling. I updated the article a couple days ago to address this directly:

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This breaks down into four scenarios, depending on the state of the promise. Here we give their synchronous parallels so you can see why it's crucially important to have semantics for all four:

- Fulfilled, fulfillment handler returns a value: simple functional transformation

- Fulfilled, fulfillment handler throws an exception: getting data, and throwing an exception in response to it

- Rejected, rejection handler returns a value: a catch clause got the error and handled it

- Rejected, rejection handler throws an exception: a catch clause got the error and re-threw it (or a new one)

Without these transformations being applied, you lose all the power of the synchronous/asynchronous parallel, and your so-called "promises" become simple callback aggregators. This is the problem with jQuery's current "promises": they only support scenario 1 above, omitting entirely support for scenarios 2–4.

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So you get chaining, sure; you can flatten your callback trees into callback lists. That's cool, I guess. But they're still missing the point, which is to allow composability not only of always-successful functions, but of functions that sometimes fail as well.
Here's a tweet from the author of the article before it was published that might shed some light on that:

"I have possibly the nerdiest, longest article I've ever written going up at 1930 Central tonight."

https://twitter.com/DrPizza/status/260154952868057088

So, I'd say the audience is nerds in general. I agree the article doesn't seem to have a definite target audience, but I think — in some sense — that is the beauty of Ars Technica's content. It's accessible enough that non-technical nerds can get value from it, but technical enough that more hardcore nerds appreciate it.
And, at least for my Chrome, a lack of hardware acceleration. It nearly freezed trying to play the three gigantic (and resized to boot) GIFs. I don't want to try that site on my smartphone.
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This is my point exactly. Thanks for putting it better than I did.
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At 90 mph and 5000 fps, a ball needs about 9 frames to move its own diameter.
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>Increased traffic? I don't think I understand the question

:|

I was trying to determine what component broke first.