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What is the WORST thing about IaaS cloud costs?
Hey guys, I'm talking to a lot of people and wanted to get some HN brains views on it. What is the worst thing about IaaS clous costs (or the biggest challenge)? Is it understanding it? Forecasting it? Reducing it? Just seeing it and seeing how it has been built up? etc.

Cheers
| no such thing as bad publicity

If someone follows through with death/rape threats, I wouldn't peg that as 'good' or 'coming out on top.'
"Meh" is a pretty good way of summarizing humanity's energy relationship with the environment.
Ok, now you are ready for ruby
Yeah, I am actually planning to do something like this, but so far real life keeps getting in the way. :)
What the hell? Android has won? Have you ever looked at statistics for device usage?

Here's a neat little graph of about 200M unique users over the last year, mostly from the US and UK.

Either we have a very odd sample (unlikely, broad basket of eCommerce sites), or, well, Android sure as shit ain't dominant.

http://imgur.com/6eQpsOC

Oh, and people buy iOS for Christmas, not Android...

http://imgur.com/AbhnF08
'Many start-ups (and even growth firms) lack this discipline and they therefore serve customers off all sizes. This leads to suboptimal results for all.'
Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web
Similar to TextDrop, but free (as in beer) and without some of the handier NV-like features.
Yeah, I'm an idiot. I didn't get the update till after I wrote that comment. (and then noprocrast kicked in so i couldn't edit)

and I too sort of miss it, now the app looks lifeless
Serving static files in Django
Actually the syntax comes from Algol, but Wirth was also part of the design team.
But the story wasn't really about the actions of the company. They only took a small part in the story. Your title for it was completely mis-leading and not representative of the majority of the post's content.
What happened to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux ?
We would get along well.
Thats why i like him more and trust him to make the right calls. (i.e. privacy)
Mark does not have that, whenever i hear him you can sense
this aura surrounding him. Something is off.

And comparing both companies Google is driving inovation.
Google Car will transform our planet within years and the same goes for Glass. Think about where in your workplace you could apply a tool like this.
Better to remember that the individuals that make up the whole are still independent individuals and that the whole as an entity only exists in our minds.

We have a tendency to anthropomorphize things. Corporations, Congress, religions, anything that is a group of people can be thought of as a unique, distinct entity of its own. But really, they aren't. Congress isn't one thing, it's 535 people who each have their own brains, their own decision structures. It may be a convenient model to treat them as a single entity at times, but as with all models, it is only an approximation and fails in corner cases.

I pushed a lot of people to remember this when governing our hackerspace. The space was not a thing without the people in it. A lot of people were talking about "the needs of the space" and "where the space was going", talking like there was a creature called The Space who had her own wishes and desires and we needed to be considerate of them. Once we broke that lunacy down, we saw that nobody actually wanted the things people said The Space wanted, it was just assumed these were things everyone wanted, so they went along to not violate the sanctity of The Space.

The Constitution falls into anthropomorphizing Congress. It says, "Congress shall make no law", not "The people in Congress shall make no law." It's the old kid's joke of, "who broke the cookie jar? Nobody! Wow, this Nobody guy sure does break a lot of stuff." If Congress did it, than no individual did it. If Congress is held accountable for something, then no individual can be held accountable.
the larger the price per bitcoin the lower the volatility, over $100 and a $5 difference a day is 5%, if/when BTC reaches $1000 then even £10 variation a day is only 1% and is much easier to account for.
Hahaha, bomb-proof-safe? Not in Brazil, which thieves are using TNT to explode ATMs and get the money.
The mechanisms of state control remain unchanged - and none of them are online. The big fears of the (non-activist) population are that someone will physically take them or their children to a dark hole, and that someone they know will inform on them so that happens.

IP networks are not involved.

East Germany is probably the most obvious example in recent times - and the fear mostly came from knowing someone could inform on you. If you thought a person was going to inform on you, one would avoid them naturally.

So, if you think a computer will inform on you, you would naturally avoid it.

It seems to me that the chinese state is in a bind similar to that faced by Deng xiaoping - this thing the West does (Capitalism or Internet) is enabling them to charge so economically ahead it is an existential threat not to follow. But if we do follow the party risks losing control.

Deng did take the risk and the loss of control seemed to be offset - however this time the rifts in the party are deeper, the gulf between rich and poor wider.

I would not like to be making those choices.
"Retarded" means slowed, or delayed. The antonym is "advanced". You can retard progress, development, rotation, etc.

It has only become a pejorative term because it's a label with negative connotations when applied to people. "Handicapped" is identical in this way.

Even if you're not sensitive to peoples' feelings about words, one good reason not to use "retarded" is that it makes you sound like a playground bully.
BlackBerry OS - Yahoo Discontinues Its App - What's The Future?
that is easy when the price is low, when the price reaches $1000 then we are talking about 1-2% differneces in a day, which is easeir to deal with as a store or as a currency
I prefer the correlary, as motivation:

"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
The french title actually says that's it is an ATM ("billet" means bank note in french)
Cheating Hearts, Cheating Minds - infidelity with you clothes on
Can someone please tell me what this whole "mess" is? Apparently I've completely missed whatever happened.
I'm not sure why the register article is the one being most voted up, instead of the official Canonical announcement: http://www.canonical.com/content/canonical-and-chinese-stand...
After you've bagged enough deer to be able to feed the team of elephant hunters for 6--18 months (the typical enterprise sales cycle time).
> Groovy may have gotten better in the meantime, I don't really know

Last year Groovy 2 was released which provides a @CompileStatic annotation which directs the compiler to statically compile the tagged code which runs faster. Not many people seem to be using it though, e.g. Grails and Gradle only use dynamically compiled Groovy code (afaik). And it's still quite buggy, e.g. just yesterday this serious bug was reported: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/BUG-in-CompileStatic-mode...
Catering to people with special needs like the deaf & blind has to be one of the most untapped opportunities for a startup.

The angle in is to build something the blind can use that frees them from the difficulty of browsing company websites. Maybe a meta-browser. Maybe something else.
It would be analogous to saying that without knowing algebra you'd be hard-pressed to solve problems in calculus.
Could have a positive effect on consumer grade hardware support for linux in general?
I wouldn't say ATMs are secure, they're regularly stolen here in Uruguay, and in Argentina as well (just 3 days ago they stole 1 million from one (1), and one was stolen today here in Uruguay ).

They're regularly lifted and carried away here in Uruguay, one police officer said:

""ATMs are still being stuck to the ground with glue," said one visibly angry commissioner yesterday morning (March 22nd), investigating the unusual theft of yet another ATM, which was completely lifted by thieves, who took it "like a bag of brownies". This time, they "lifted" the cashier that was installed in 4896 between Ariel and February 28 streets, just two blocks from the Sayago mall , and took it away after opening the glass door with a magnetic card."

Plus, they're error-prone, I've been victim of such an error several times (the ATM failed to give me the money but withdrew from my account, which SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN), in one of the cases I never got my money back (from Bank Boston Uruguay, which is now Banco Itaú). I'm of a mind that, for small amounts of money, you're better off having it "under the mattress" that in a bank (see: Cyprus, unresponsive banks, etc...). We've had a Cyprus-like bank freeze here in Uruguay, and much worse than Cyprus in Argentina (they forcibly turned their dollars into worthless pesos a few years ago (3) ).

(1) http://www.ambito.com/noticia.asp?id=680399 (in Spanish)

(2) http://www.lr21.com.uy/justicia/25139-otro-cajero-automatico... (in Spanish)

(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito (in English)

Edit: by the way, the faulty ATM in my case was an (old) Diebold machine. So you can imagine I wouldn't trust one with my vote either :P , though I sadly do have to trust them with my money. (fortunately, voting is still manual in Uruguay).
Eddie Huang about his experience at TED
Definitely not. She's clearly in the abuser position and her reaction was disproportionate and inconsiderate, to the like of baseless sexual harassment lawsuits we've all heard about.

I'd even go an extra step and say IMHO what she did was misplaced sexism as she misinterpreted and misrepresented the situation and would probably not have done anything if women were making the same dongle joke.
Excellent - I am trying to do the same thing for Impact Investing www.impact4change.com
> Of course, we went on to build Stack Overflow in Microsoft .NET. That's a big reason it's still as fast as it is.

Wow, that claim could really do with some qualifying.
Yes it could. I suppose especially on ARM/MIPS SoCs (which many consumer devices are based on). Linux is a one of the few valid choices once you stray from x86, especially as China govt has already said they want to reduce dependence on Google/Android. Maybe that's where Ubuntu comes in.
The product differentiation did offer some major benefits, though.

It's what allowed IRIX to be used to perform graphics-related tasks that basically couldn't be done before, or on other systems.

It's what allowed SunOS and later Solaris to become extremely powerful workstation operating systems.

It's what allowed AIX and HP-UX to excel as server operating systems.

Only within the past few years (a couple of decades after the so-called "UNIX wars") have we seen Linux getting to the point of being a single system that can cover such vastly different areas sufficiently. Even then, the experience still isn't as smooth as it was on more focused systems back in the 1980s.
Leaving aside the normal concerns about collaboration with an authoritarian government, this looks like a really big deal: Ubuntu is now the "reference architecture for standard operating systems" in China.[1]

If I understand correctly, this means a flavor of Ubuntu (and Unity, according to the press release) will be used by hundreds of millions of people within the next decade, far surpassing the worldwide market share of Mac OS X, Chrome OS, etc.

In all likelihood, Microsoft now views Ubuntu with Unity as a main competitor on the desktop.

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[1] http://www.canonical.com/content/canonical-and-chinese-stand...

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Edits: changed "few years" to "decade," in response to hydrology's comment (thanks hydrology!); and added a reference to Chrome OS and Microsoft.
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The lessons of the last 24 hours have nothing to do with whether or not someone ought to be offended about something. If anything, we've learned that there is really no effective way to establish, objectively, what is an isn't offensive.

The lesson we learned was how to handle being offended: to challenge the offender directly, find a resolution, without involving an internet mob.

OP did this the correct way, and you reacted with hostility instead.

"Retarded" is a word that the bullied (and their loved ones) have heard all throughout their lives used in a pejorative manner. It is also rarely used IRL in a non-pejorative context, even though the definition exists. For someone to associate the word with its pejorative and insulting context is not at all unreasonable.
I'm not sure what that has to do with thinking. Is there an absence of thinking when solving algebra that only kicks in when solving calculus?
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>Like, Finbarr is a dude. If there's a girl involved, maybe that's less terrible.

That's pretty damn sexist.
I now know that there is: https://www.bitfinex.com/
Solving the responsive image problem (and more) with Capturing and Mobify.js
I don't think people understand what "sexist" means. There is no prejudice or discrimination based on gender here. Sexist joke would be someone making a joke implying women were inferior programers or belong in the kitchen not at the computer etc. Saying you would like to fuck the hot blonde sitting in front of you is not sexist (just obscene). What the guys at the PyCon said is so out of category of sexist that it's ridiculous.

Besides the larger issue here is should freedom of speech (in the public sphere) include the freedom to offend. One could make a compelling argument that it should.
QtWayland Shows Signs Of Progress, Plans Features
Try this in the US and you can count on a Secret Service raid.
> If anything, we've learned that there is really no effective way to establish, objectively, what is an isn't offensive.

"The only winning move is not to play"
There are real problems and whatever Adria just tripped on is not one of them.

How do you know they aren't related? What if women are being excluded from tech events due to the sexual objectification, and what if that's harming their carrer?
Where the Web has failed journalism
How does this affect us "normal" JavaScript developers who don't know anything about low-level stuff?
Does the article have to have a point for us to talk about some cool technology that we all love? What's the point of your post?

Besides that, I think the point was clearly made in the title. What's wrong with viewing tech competitors as sports teams? Do you have a problem with sports?
10 Signs We are Living in the Most Incredible Times
among other things, women chose other professions than men

But why do they choose other professions? Do people pressure them into not choosing better paid jobs? Isn't that a symptom.

Most feminists don't "blame men", but "blame gender roles". It's just most gender roles significantly benefit a lot of men (and harm a small amount of other men).
is foxconn running green as well?
Many people find the word retard (used that way) to be deeply offensive.

Many other people are not aware of that offence, and also would not like to cause that offence, and once they know that many people find the word so offensive are happy to consider their use of language and find another word.

There are lots of great words to use instead of retard and retarded.

And asking someone to consider their language isn't asking for an Internet pile-on nor asking for anyone to lose their jobs.
This part seems to have given peace of mind to so many ruby avoiding people. Now you can finally discover ruby. You'll finally find out it's cool :)
I object to your analogy with test-driven development.

"Test-driven" means we decide what it should do, then we write the corresponding code.

A "test-driven" nation would decide first what the government ought to do, then proceed by writing the corresponding laws.

The system you describe is the exact opposite: let's write some code / law and then see what happens. You have a Cowboy Congress.

You might amend your last sentence to read "Start Test Driven Government" instead.
Jeff is really comparing the wrong things here. Whether Ruby, Python, or even ASP.net, it's all asking for Discourse to be a niche product only used sparingly by enthusiasts and in the enterprise.

Which was maybe the goal, but I don't think so.

The obvious choice IMO was to suck it up and live with PHP. Nowhere near as nice as the other options, but exponentially less friction for people to set up on a LAMP stack. I'm not going to all-out defend PHP, but it's not as bad as it used to be; and you don't have to use it as much as you used to, given that Discourse is heavily a client-side JavaScript app anyway.
It is definitely accidental given that they had no computers back then. It makes sense as Classical Sanskrit was an effort to remove ambiguity in Vedic Sanskrit and improve precision while still being a natural language. A lot, not all, of modern NLP is about removing ambiguity.

The way we describe grammars can be attributed to one of the first Sanskrit grammarians, Pāṇini.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form

The idea of semantic roles can also be traced back to him.

http://elies.rediris.es/elies11/cap5111.htm
There is a legal way you can be a founder and sponsor your own H1b. Check out http://www.quora.com/Can-a-H1B-holder-work-for-a-startup-as-.... Get a very good lawyer though. I am on an h1b as well, and the only thing I can recommend is, take care of your legal status first before starting a company. US is not that kind to legal immigrants. Now if you are illegal, all the politicians will line up behind you.
Unless someone has a recording of exactly what was said and can convincingly argue that what was said was anything besides harmless immature humor; I think this whole situation is utterly retarded. 2 people fired? Because 1 person made a joke about forking and said something about "big dongles".

I think the immature people are the ones who think it is reasonable for people to lose their jobs over this.
Illegal as in "violating their own crypto policy".
The conference had a code of conduct ( https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/ ). Which they almost certainly broke. If you're at a conference as a rep of your company, and break that conference's code of conduct, the company might not like it.
Of course you can say "Don't be a dick". Just don't treat a conference like a (straight) male's locker room and have all the talk about sex,.
> Racism is all about the outcome AND intent.

Agreed, but individual's acts of racism don't exist in a vacuum. The aggregate effect those racist actions and attitudes creates systemic power imbalances. This wiki has starting material about the institutional and systemic effects of racism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism.

> why do all these mental gymnastics just so you can say X cannot be racist towards Y? Why even say something like that? I can't see if having any positive outcome.

You have to remember that for someone who is black, the institutional racism in the US effects them daily and that such institutional racism is orchestrated by the white patriarchy that is US society. For such a person, what does it mean when a white person tries to call them racist while ignoring the racism that said white person benefits from every day? Often I will see a white or white passing person call a person of color racist when the situation they are talking about is actually caused by the systemic racism that they benefit from.

> You can find areas of the world where almost any given race has the power/upper hand and are "racist" towards them.

That is true, but that doesn't really have anything to do with the context of this discussion. Racism in different societies are not interchangeable in most discussions of racism.

> My point is you cannot simply say X cannot be racist towards Y because it can, has and will happen and all levels

This is not true. Black people will never be able to exercise systemic racism against white people in US society. Black people will never be able to create an environment where white people are imprisoned more than any other group by proportion, denied access to jobs, denied access to self determination, target white people with racist law enforcement, have over-representation in government, etc.

> Either at an individual level, a social group level (X friends won't be friends with Ys) or a social/society level anyone race CAN be racist towards another.

Racism at a society level different compared to individual acts of racism. Net social aggregate effects are what racism at a society level look like. Black folks in the US are incarcerated and killed disproportionately in the US, they as a group simply cannot apply that same socially and institutionally backed violence to white people.
Cyberwar manual applies international law to the field of online attacks
She was most probably not shortsighted about the upcoming backlash as she said herself on HN a year and a half ago:

adriarichards 473 days ago

We all should realize it's Twitter, home of public flame wars.

It seems she had a pretty good understanding of what she did, and from this we can assume she acted with intent.
The news means Ubuntu-stewards Canonical will work with China's National University of Defense Technology...

....to ensure that the platform is relevant for the Chinese market...

Exactly which features does the University of Defense Technology consider relevant? Is Canonical enabling repression or military aggression?
>But i think the market has spoken - large size business is more valuable and thus make more profit than a small sized business.

The market has spoken? Do you actually know anything about "the markets"? The first thing a company does when it can is start investing in politics so they can erect barriers against competition. The market hasn't said shit because it wasn't asked.
Is there an easy way to buy bitcoins? I tried coinbase and it said it had hit the 24 hour rolling limit whatever that means.

I then signed up for mtgox but all of the funding options look really onerous. Why can't I use ACH or a credit card?
Umm... Interfaces? Abstract methods and classes? Finals?