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100 years?

We've been reading top-down for well over 2000 years, since the very beginnings of writing, in almost all languages. If you really believe twitter and touchscreen-gadgets will overthrow that in not even one generation then you should absolutely share some of the kraut that you are smoking over there.
1) some families like to watch stuff together

2) not all netflix subscribers have families
A pedantic note:
In the title "EVE" should capitalized as "Eve"
The tone around here is often negative, but I want to give you a huge compliment: you understand simplicity.

Reducing hairy things to simple abstractions can save weeks of work in a matter of minutes. It is the single most powerful programming technique I know of. And I'm going to seriously consider switching a bunch of stuff over to Riemann.
Mozilla people are very nice but I am not sure that a project like Firefox is the best way to get into open source development: it is quite a big and complex project; easy to feel lost.
us-east-1 is much, much larger than the other regions. Many more services use it, which is why when it has issues you actually notice the effects.
Based on some rough second hand estimation [1] it is an order of magnitude larger then all other AZs and is about as big as them all combined.

[1]: https://huanliu.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/amazon-data-center-...
> Evolution normally doesn't select for organisms that are able to survive aging, because, from the standpoint of natural selection, once your reproductive years are past, your survival doesn't matter.

The logic is actually a bit deeper than this. There's no reason you couldn't have an organism that "survived aging", and that could reproduce indefinitely. Obviously, given a potentially unlimited reproductive span, selection would come in on the side of longer lifetimes.

As I've seen it presented, the logic of organism deterioration with age is that accidents happen, which means that, if you happen to have a life strategy which makes you momentarily better off, but permanently worse off, you may die of unrelated causes before suffering a net loss. As long as that can happen, we should observe aging: young organisms boosting their performance at the expense of their own future selves.

(as an example: imagine you impress a girl by doing some death-defying stunt, and suffer more physical strain than your body is really designed for. If you were going to live forever, that might be a bad idea. If you're not, then maybe impressing the girl is worth the lower physical fitness you have afterwards.)
If I remember correctly, the N. Virginia site is the default for EC2 instances, and is much much larger than the other availability zones. I've even heard that it's bigger than all the other zones combined.

However, I'd love for someone to corroborate my statement.
Fair enough. I for one enjoy expressing anti-television sentiments, with and without company.
The Only Real Risk.
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> Gun owners will be targets for theft of guns. Non-gun owners will be targeted by other types of criminals.

And let's not forget the corollary of the first one: It's not just that gun owners have their property stolen. It's that criminals (who may be felons ineligible to purchase them from legal channels) come into possession of those firearms.
I know it's an idiomadic euphemism, I've used it myself.

I'm not being uptight about "every little thing on the internet", I'm saying that in this specific way our language ought to evolve.
Bit of a cruel trick on christmas eve. But I hope you all enjoy!
I don't want Javascript promises
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I have a better idea. How about charging users to get access to someone else's account?
We shouldn't look to WSJ for insight on startups. The trends are already passed by the time they're aware of them, which is why the article feels like it's talking about 2012 instead of 2013.
OK, before the conspiracy theorists on this board start coming out of the woodwork, let's try to keep this in perspective: they were drunks -- they deserved it!
2012's Biggest Winners and Losers
We're fresh out of chestnuts here, but thankfully Halo 4 matchmaking is online.
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>From a 'security' perspective, this seems like an objectively good thing to me. ... The status quo (prior to the publication of this map) was that the information is publicly available but only a few people were aware of it. I can't imagine any argument for that being the optimal situation.

You can have something which is worse than the status quo even when the status quo is not optimal. In particular, exacerbating a problem in the hope that it spurs people to address it is only a positive if it spurs people to address it. If not, you've only enlarged the scope of the problem.
I just got finished watching something on Netflix?
Cool stuff. Cool technology. All kinds of possibilities.
With that callous disregard for human life, I hope you are never in a position of power.
Why is processing a sorted array slower than an unsorted array?
You'd think Netflix would learn by now to move back to their own gear.

EDIT: Downvote away; its practically dogma on HN to use AWS. How much downtime are people willing to tolerate for a "superior" technology? Sure, Amazon AWS has some great ideas and tech, but you might as well give up if your business depends on EBS in us-east-1 at all
Perhaps, but deliberate illiteracy makes it harder to take seriously.
- I said "ignoring the fact that this is a map of permits" because you seemed to be under the impression that this was a map of guns. Or even a map of gun owners. It is neither. You can get a license and not own a gun.

- As you said, CCW is hard to get in NY, and many other states that are not shall-issue. In fact, to get a CCW permit in such a state, you often need political or business connections, which is why an accounting of who gets these favors is sometimes called for.

- I have no idea how likely it is that criminals would use this data, only that it's now much more convenient for them to do so.

Hello, you have just used the line of reasoning used by virtually every public information officer concerning virtually every type of public record: We don't know exactly how criminals will use it or have any empirical evidence showing that they systematically use such information, but just to be safe, we will not release this information

David Simon, a former cops reporter and creator of The Wire, wrote an excellent piece a few years ago about how the police hiding public records under the guise of safety helped cover-up a police officer's incompetence:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02...
You're making a lot of assumptions.. "Sure, but the criminal element isn't exactly known for its high IQ." ... considering the revenue size of most types of crime there are plenty of smart criminals, and crime organizations that use computation to calculate, and mitigate risk.

"I would worry about the neighbor who doesn't show up on the map. I can rob him without worrying about being shot." Considering gun ownership rate of 50% in the u.s. and per capita rate of near 90%.. Most houses have guns independent of registration, and lot have 2. So in general a criminal must assume there is a gun in the house.. Therefor most criminals have 2 main factors when picking a house to rob.. 1. Is anyone home 2. Is there a dog
What is the purpose of Xmas Eve if you spend it watching TV just like any other eve. Just saying.
Now that's a pretty fantastic endorsement! At the time I went through their stuff, none of it was remotely challenging for me and I was still getting crushed in technical interviews. If you learned enough from their site to get hired as a programmer, then they must have changed[1] a ton on the past few months.

I guess the question is if I go through all their material, will that plus my previous experience writing flash games and freelance webdesigning let me land a coding job at an edu and/or gaming place!

[1]That probably explains the down-vote brigade that hit my other comment. I don't think I've ever seen 3 downvotes for a lengthy, constructive comment aimed at helping someone before.
The article was written in 1998 when such slang was common, as was the design elements used (like animated gifs).

I don't think being disdainful of Microsoft is interesting either but it makes more sense in context.
i made a fishing bot for wow using sikuli a while back - it was rudimentary but since fishing in wow is mostly just clicking the bobber, it worked pretty well. i'd let it go overnight and would wake up to bags full of fish every morning.
> if you happen to have a life strategy which makes you momentarily better off, but permanently worse off, you may die of unrelated causes before suffering a net loss

This is true, but irrelevant to the present discussion. If you can live and reproduce forever -- or for a very long time -- then the -EV of "permanently worse off" exceeds the +EV of "temporarily better off."

My understanding of why we didn't evolve to have better gene repair and longer lives is that the ideal death and mutation rates in terms of species survival is some finite number greater than zero. Near-immortality, eternal youth and perfect genome repair would be great from an individual perspective, but from a species perspective, those things reduce the ability for genetic innovation. Too many mutations are bad, but not enough mutations are also bad.

I would guess that the bats get around this by getting so much extra EV from occupying the unique ecological niche of "flying mammal" that the ability to occupy that niche overwhelms the negative aspects of a smaller mutation rate.
Doing normal things, but with family.
A lot of people (including my family) watch christmas movies and gorge ourselves on food and drink.
I love these kind of limited interaction situations, and what behaviour you see coming out of it. I moved around for a minute in a slow deliberate path, and others started following me; then I stopped completely still, and others lined their flags up next to mine in a square. Amusing, and all with no communication.
After thinking about your comment today you defined why I dig HN|ASK. I was debating whether to ask this question for a while because I didn't think I'd get a solid answer but because of you, I did. Impressive. Thanks again.
isitdown.com ?
Two trips to Auschwitz this year, my friend. I was responding -- in a perverse and ironic fashion -- to this meme that I hear oft repeated that the US gov't wouldn't conspire to kill its own people ...
Users are only vulnerable if they are using an unsecured or untrusted public wireless network and an older version of the application.

s/an unsecured or untrusted public wireless network/the internet/
Just spent 2 minutes on that site with 6 other people. We're all idiots.
Sorry, but the onus is on you to prove, or at least argue, that burglars use this information to raid houses at a higher rate than they would otherwise do so. This is how the law and public records work. Keep in mind using the "it puts people at risk" argument is basically the stock argument for preventing the disclosure of many, many types of public records.

But since we're talking hypotheticals, my main point is this: you've imagined a savvy burglar who apparently has no easier means of getting firearms than to burglar a home. That being the case, this burglar has to weigh a number of specific factors, including the possibility that said home may not actually have a handgun (nevemrind whether it's easy to find).

At what point does the burglar make his/her burglary decisions based on other factors: such as, how obvious it is that someone is home, and how rich that person is (easily judged by looking at the home or consulting business/assessor records)?
Oh for god's sake, just STOP with this trite bit of idiocy. Every time a service that relies on users IP to do business does something users dislike, some brainless moron repeats this goddamn cliche as though it were an actual contribution to the conversation.

What you need to understand is this: IP has real value. Period. So when a company secures limited use of yours in return for a specific service under a specific set of terms, they have no business retroactively changing those terms, any more than they would in the case of a cash transaction. And stating that the terms can be changed simply means the company is free to evolve the service, and renegotiate accordingly. It doesn't mean that they can secure your agreement under one set of terms, change everything, and retain unbroken consent.

Every contract is based on an exchange of value. Both parties provide something, and both parties take something away. While it's fair to classify as "customers" those who pay cash, it's a mistake to think that other parties to the transaction are less than fully protected by the laws that govern exchange in general.
You can take an MBTI test twice, once 'honestly how you behave' and another time 'how you aspire to behave'. Which, if any, axes flip may be interesting.
I don't find this too hard to believe. Even today we see a push to either reformulate narcotic painkiller medications to make abuse difficult/impossible, or bundle them with acetaminophen/paracetamol. The problem is that when drugs like Oxycontin are reformulated to make abuse difficult ("Oxycontin OP") addicts are driven to attempt abuse of other narcotic painkillers which get them the desired affects... but with a potentially deadly dose of acetaminophen.

So instead of attempting to help these people while providing them with a safer alternative (methadone clinics exist, but for the most part they really are not targeted towards the middle-class/middle-aged prescription painkiller addict crowd), we are pushing to eliminate drugs that are safe to abuse. This move seems based in the plainly idiotic attitude of "well if an addict can't do something safely, he'll just give it up".
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Those two websites are case studies of the Peter Principle.
Are they insured against a contingency of this calibre? Does Amazon provide/offer such an insurance?
I believe that instead, the opportunity is to guide US investors to invest in African companies. An organization to vouch for the reputability and asses the risks of these companies to allow for greater, less risky foreign investment.

I personally would love to start such an organization.
Margins on CPUs for tablets and phones are not all that high. Intel enjoys pretty amazing margins on their desktop market, so they aren't missing too much there. They just need to keep ARM away from their bread and butter of profits, which probably can be explained by their current push to keep ARM out.
Similar work has been done by Armadillo, but it looks like SpaceX's Grasshopper is a bit bigger than anything Armadillo has done. Will be exciting to see the concept continue to scale up.
For many of us, watching a movie on TV is anything but just another evening.

Everyone is different, and no one needs to justify their time to anyone.
If Netflix can deactivate clients based on device size; that'd be pretty neat. People on tablets–Netflix on my Nexus 7 is out–would usually be watching stuff alone (kids may huddle around an iPad though) and for Christmas, a movie on a large screen is probably more important to keep going.

Makes me think that apps should consider using Push notifications to tell consumers about issues; e.g. instead of a cryptic error number; say something like "Netflix servers are overloaded at the moment, NetFlix may not work on your mobile device".

Not sure if that will piss off people more, but something like that instead of an error number would probably be better.
In the insanity that is the Match students must interview at 10+ places around the country in order to get a residency. Many spend upwards of $10,000 in addition to medical school for travel expenses.

Fourth year is relatively flexible because students must travel for interviews, and there is an insane amount of vacation and 'slack' rotations available to help this.

The whole damned fourth year is a ripoff, and become more so each year the 'match' become more competitive.
Where can one learn best practices to design application components?
There are so many learning resources for all three aspects of startups : technology, design and marketing but not many learning resources exist on best practices to design/develop application components like : User Authentication, Billing, etc.

These are software systems that are often required by many startups. If I am developing a SAAS web application that may require monthly/yearly recurring billing(with various discounts/offers) and I have no prior experience of this, where do I find information about the best practices to develop such system? Ofcourse one can try to design and develop it as any other piece of software but it will make life very easy if one can learn about design/architecture of such reusable systems.

In short, I am looking for something like : The Architecture of Open Source Applications(http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html) but for web application components like Authentication, Billing, Forums, E-commerce etc.

Or, may be like this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide-to-forms-based-website-authentication
DISCLAIMER My opinion is based only on my experiences.

I am a black female graduating with my degree in CS in the Spring. I have been fortunate enough to have completed a couple of internships during my time at school. From my experiences, color doesn't matter...knowledge does.

With that being said, I can understand other black student's need to find a mentor or role model of color. They're out there. I met a really cool developer from GaTech that thought me a lot at my last internship. Of that experience, I felt as though he wasn't guiding me because I was also black. He didn't care. It was all about performance.

I also agree with the post before mine that lack of exposure to technology in our youth is the main reason for less black developers.
Microsoft's cloud-based GPS gets your location with a tiny fraction of the power
Amazon EC2 has a Service Level Agreement (SLA)[1] that guarantees 99.95% uptime in a rolling 365 day period, and provides for service credits. Of course, a huge customer like Netflix can and probably did negotiate their own SLA terms.

[1]: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/
This reminds me of the result of the abstinence argument. Namely, even if you believe all premarital sex is immoral, it's still important to realize that safe immoral sex is better for the man and woman than unsafe immoral sex. When the government forces what society believes to be "right," as opposed to what is effective (in regards to health, purse or morality), it can have harsh consequences.

[Edit: grammar]
Having been in a similar position in the past, I actually feel bad for all the people at amazon and netflix that'll need to work late tonight...
And it's still done today. Denatured or methylated alcohol is a common product used around the world as a common solvent. Instead of using denatured alcohol to mix shellac I just get 190 proof grain alcohol since it's cheaper, but it's available in very few states.
I'm amenable to that argument, I can't find an alternate definition that disputes my use of the word and there are dozens of uses of the word "coding" to mean writing html/css, so I don't know what alternate definition I'm supposed to be using.
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I was wondering if they'd pay damages and how would that be calculated.

I don't think free service for a while would cut it with a contingency of this sort. Maybe someone has first-hand information of their contract (or any other big player) and can answer to this publicly.
That's certainly true for the public IP spaces. It's possible that the other regions have a higher proportion of instances in VPC which don't have public IP addresses, or a higher proportion of larger instance types, though.
My interpretation was that they would use cameras to measure frame rates and then look for the level at which lower frame rates reduced user happiness as measured through surveys. Pushing frame rates beyond that would be much less valuable.
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I think you mean immoral. An amoral action is neither moral ("good") nor immoral ("bad").
Tell you what's fragile: taking out college loans. Great read by the way.
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Other [denaturing formulas] used bitter-tasting compounds that were less lethal, designed to make the alcohol taste so awful that it became undrinkable.

This approach was also applied to non-industrial alcohol products, leading to another round of mass poisoning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_ginger
If you did everything on Codecademy right now, it would take you a long time (maybe 1-2 months to really understand it) but you'd be really well set up for any entry level coding job.

But I'm entry-level, keep that in mind. I'm paid in large part to learn. I deliver plenty of billable hours, but it's understood I have a long way to go.
>I would guess that the bats get around this by getting so much extra EV from occupying the unique ecological niche of "flying mammal" that the ability to occupy that niche overwhelms the negative aspects of a smaller mutation rate.

You're assuming a smaller mutation rate. The article points out that bats generally don't live to die of old age, something else usually gets them first.

A longer theoretical lifespan doesn't reduce the mutation rate if lifespans in practice are still modest. (If the first couple of hits on Google are any indication, bats typically live for a couple of decades.)
https://deebo.com/ - was a cool project that aimed to do just that. I'm not sure why they stopped, but perhaps they have some findings...
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Dangerous for humans, you mean. The fact that a species can survive while being so disease-ridden that they routinely kill the animals they infect seems to lend credence to the "super-immunity" claim.

I'm not sure this is actually the case for bats, but assuming your statement is true, it seems to be evidence for the presence of super-immunity, rather than against.
What kind of price are we talking about here? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands? I realize that there are plenty of people who will be able to afford nothing beyond what their insurance covers, but of those that can, I imagine the price people would pay to live a "normal" lifestyle is relatively high.
That is one of the most common young nerd mistakes. "If I don't see the value in something, the people doing it must be idiots!" Rather than, say, "... I must not understand something here."

I made it a ton as a youth. I had to have about a thousand, "Oh, now I see what they're talking about" moments before I learned to keep my mouth shut long enough to actually learn something.
Glad to see the mkv container format get some attention -- I quite like it that I can have one file all tidy and nice that contains multiple audio tracks, subtitles, etc.

I'd love to see it catch more attention and wider use.

But, for a new challenge for you:
construct a similar script that downloads Youtube videos to MKV with subtitles :)
Certificate validation for 802.1x networks relies on this, with the effect that you sometimes can't get an internet connection without fixing your clock.