skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The context where SANs make sense, IMO, is when you've got a few servers which need to share stuff (VMs, or whatever). So, essentially everything can fit on one $10k 10GE switch. I've personally never screwed with anything >800TB, too.

Rather than "strictly local storage", I'd say "keep storage as local as possible", but there are absolutely times where keeping it in-chassis isn't optimal.
http://www.amazon.ca/ is OK.

I get Http/1.1 Service Unavailable on first two requests.

I got 500 with the message "We're very sorry, but we're having trouble doing what you just asked us to do. Please give us another chance--click the Back button on your browser and try your request again. Or start from the beginning on our homepage.
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So 98% of ISP users do not have an Xbox or PS3 or wii or skype
AMD did some interesting things. Another I'd point I'd add is taking RISC vs CISC off the table with the x86-outside, RISC-inside K5. This opened up the field for a lot of innovation in the core.

What Intel did best was learn well from both AMD's success and their own stumbles. I'm sure Netburst & Itanium yielded great learnings about branch prediction.

I'm not sure if it was luck, but Intel also benefited from a shift to mobile. iirc, the original Intel Core line was for mobile, but ended up dominating the Intel roadmap. At the same time, AMD was trying to make inroads into the server market, mostly because it was lucrative.

Perhaps that stifled their innovation in some key ways. Anecdotally all the "big iron" architectures are dying off. Certainly if you wound back to 2000 and said ARM is the upstart in the server industry, you'd get laughed at.
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Just like everybody else said, Google is not moving against the open web. Rather the opposite. The only thing I agree with is the part where Google tries to get everybody to use Google only, which makes sense considering Google can be compared to a small empire. I mean, has anyone seen the office buildings that Google has?

As for Chrome, I think Webkit (or now Blink) is where web happens fastest. All new web experiments are done with -webkit, not -moz-, and you gotta go where the majority goes. In this case anyway. I haven't used gmail for a long time tho', because I didn't like that the content of my emails get used for ads - so I set up my own email server for personal usage. Other then that, maps, search .. it does what I need it to do so whether it tracks me or whatever is just the cost of the service.
Comes up for me http://www.amazon.com/gp/cart/view.html
I like the idea of separating the content from the presentation and the behaviour. But I'd really like to automate this.

Is there a way in SVG to concatenate strings? (I never really used SVG and can't find something on this in Google) .

Using JS I generally use the data attribute in html to set the image name and add _small, _big, _huge depending on the window size. The JS script will automatically set the right image. It's great but doen't work if there's no JS support.
First of all, the quote, from you, specifically says "open Web" not "open Internet"

Secondly, Reader was not killed because of G+. If FriendFeed is finally killed off, will you say it was because Facebook needed the resources and engineers on a competing product? Consumers have moved on to desire the kinds of features that are inherent in services like Facebook, and RSS simply isn't suited to solving the problem of federated social networking. There is no open standard for this, remember, Google tried it with PubHubSubHub/WebFinger/OpenID/OAuth/ActivityStreams but it didn't work.

I favor federated feeds as well (see my essay http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2008/05/decentralizing-web.htm...), but honestly, for me personally, RSS was a HUGE step back from what I had on USENET in the 80s with RN/TRN. Someone must create a new, open federated social networking platform, but honestly, you can't put the cart before the horse. Google tried that several times and failed.

First, you've got to built a super successful platform consumers love, then you can standardize it. The history of doing it the other way is littered with failure. Remember OpenSocial?

I don't think Google has lost sight of the Open Web, I think it just realized that you must focus on the end user design issues first if you want to be successful. Ignore this at your peril, look at the way consumers flock to native apps on mobile. They care about experiences, not implementation. If the "open web" specs don't do the job, then you need to create a product first that consumers show they want, and then work backwards to figure out how to fix the specs.
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Between NT and EOM why does being shorter make it more obvious, you'd need to look after whichever one you hadn't heard before. If anything I'd say EOM is easier to guess, due to its similarity with other acronyms: EOL (coding) EOP (business) where EO always stands for End Of.
things that have always been in Intel's favor have been their truly massive and always cutting edge fab capability (which no other cpu manufacturer has been able to even come close to)

On a flight a while back I struck up a conversation with a PhD that specialized in chip design. He suggested that if AMD was able to manufacture their chip designs in Intel's fabs, that they would be out Intel chips in terms of performance and power.

The idea was that because AMD uses fabs that are, basically, two generations behind Intel, that their designs have to be more innovative to be able to work within the constraints of the older process.

I'm no electrical engineer, so I took him at his word, but it certain points out that Intel's fabs are a distinct advantage.
Just successfully launched an instance, but I can't get my Prime video!
So instead of an update to everything that handles addresses we have an update to everything that handles addresses and no change other than that 4 octet is now 5 octets.
I'm not a shill paid for by Samsung, but I still think this story is bullshit. (Disclaimer, I own and enjoy a macbook and an iphone and do not own any samsung products)

First off, journalistic integrity is dead. This post was nothing but hearsay; there were no sources inside.

All it is is complaining that there's a strong anti-apple sentiment on the internet. That's... about the least surprising thing in the world. All anti-apple posts being upvoted and others downvoted is "just another day on the internet".

Some investigative article with actual resources into the corporate background of Samsung before all this fingerpointing would be a better idea.
Yes.

> We can work with the browser vendors to get this CSP lifted.

No, let's work with the browser vendors to implement something more sensible than stuffing background image media queries into a god damn svg.
aws != amazon.

It's perfectly possible for AWS to keep running just fine, while Amazon the website bursts into flames.
At an estimated loss of $31,000 per minute http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9962010-7.html?tag=nefd.to... I'm blown away that I see Amazon goes down so often. That certainly, in my mind, doesn't bode well for the brand of AWS.
Umm. If AWS is working fine, why should the status page show anything of note?
If that's the only argument then I hope it passes. Why should some minuscule number of small businesses hold everything up?
And we should be glad that they did or history may have turned out very different. I doubt that an Intel without any real competition would have innovated as quickly as they have.
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We've had a print designer and typography expert in with us these last few weeks and top of the list of things to fix was our web typography.

Source Sans Pro is the font we've gone with after a fairly extensive search. And we've set the base size at 16px with a line-height of 24px. Which is to say, fairly large, very readable.
This is a completely different situation; there are 2 people we have pictures of that we know are terrorists; we have a database of suspected terrorists; had we found 100 matches in that database, with one of them being the right one, it would have narrowed the investigation considerably. It was the perfect situation for AFR, had AFR either been more advanced, or the pictures been more amenable to current AFR technology.
...and here's part of why I created Uptano.

https://uptano.com

The flexibility of usage-based billing and instant provisioning is awesome, but it's really not worth giving up dedicated performance IMHO.
Does Amazon not run their website on AWS? I assumed (incorrectly, apparently) that AWS was originally built to allow Amazon to scale their own services. Is it really a separate product that they don't use themselves?
Calculating 23rd roots is a different story, but finding the day of the week for any date isn't actually that hard. John Conway came up with a manageable method, which was improved a few years back. I think I've simplified it a bit further: http://gcanyon.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/a-better-way-to-calc...
Even after reading this, I'm still not sure what an "Apple 2.0 story" is.
Use the MacBook Air SuperDrive with (almost) any Mac
I actually have none of these; how does it dispute my argument? I bet all of these will work over CG-NAT.
> Maybe I'm just being a curmudgeon, but I think Google is playing the same 'embrace and extend' card as Microsoft did back in the day, just for slightly different reasons.

I see this meme a lot, but I don't get it how the analogy is supposed to work.

There is actual evidence that Microsoft in the 90's was trying to sabotage standard protocols and open source software, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents.

The key part of "embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy was extending the standard in proprietary ways, thus making it incompatible and no longer implementable via open source software, thus killing it.

I don't get how any of this applies to any web company, where nearly the entire business is based on the web and the standards that back it. It's no wonder that many of these companies contribute back to the web standards and open source software. Sure, these contributions are in the company's interests--but that's the whole point. We reached a time when it's in interests of many big (and small) corporations to contribute to open source and standards (including Microsoft!).

Some people see efforts to improve standards or contribute new ones as somehow bad, "embrace and extend". When actually it's the opposite: investing in the commons to promote its welfare.

Obligatory disclaimer: speaking for myself here, not any employer past or present.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. You are clearly well-spoken and patient, two excellent traits in any profession. Godspeed!
iDeditor is great! Leagues ahead of other OSM interfaces I've seen :) Did MapBox have anything to do with it? Polished! Love the walkthrough!

I've just recently discovered (and love) TileMill.
> natural and conversational reply that indicates to the other person that you're reciprocating the amount of thought and effort they invested in their message?

"If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read."

"If it took long to write, it should take long to reply to."
Just because a site is on AWS does not mean it cannot go down for its own reasons. There are more failures possible than infrastructure.
Just because the servers themselves are up doesn't mean that the software running on the servers is up (or that it's capable of handling the load).

I just got my shopping cart to load, but it took quite a long time. Maybe they're getting DOSed.
and that was for 2008, probably $100,000+/minute now
His blog's crowning achievement may have been when Steve Jobs replied to a controversy by just telling the journalist to read the article on Daring Fireball.
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Originally, that's true, Amazon didn't run on AWS afaik. But i believe they do now.

Nevertheless, they still have application architecture which sits above the aws substrate. It's perfectly feasible for them to have seriously fucked up a deployment that runs on top of AWS, which may be functioning just fine (and at least all of my services running out of us-east seem to be up and running).
Ask HN: Why can't we comment on YC job listings?
Simply curious as to the reasoning behind it, is it because they don't want any criticism falling on the funded companies?
Heroku is up: http://cl.ly/image/0B0U1K3Z342R.

Conversely, when AWS had issues, Amazon.com was not impacted.

Amazon.com != AWS. I'm curious to know when AWS or Amazon.com innovations impact each other, or which one leads. I'd rather it be Amazon.com.
Apple 2.0 is a blog about Apple: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/category/apple-2-0/

Without that knowledge, the headline is very confusing.

Here's the story this headline is referring to: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/20/apple-samsung-dirty-t...
> Any ideas?

Chrome uses GDI for font rendering while Firefox and IE use DirectWrite.
Guess what has no IPv6 support? Xbox, PS3, and Skype.

I will point out, though, that Dual Stack Lite may end up being cheaper for ISPs than NAT444 because CGNs are relatively expensive and native IPv6 traffic (including Google and Netflix) doesn't have to go through a CGN.
You're right; I've corrected that.

You're also correct that RSS doesn't solve the problem of federated social networking. It was never intended to.

W.r.t. developing protocols for federated social networking: Google isn't interested; it would harm their bottom line if users on their systems could easily share content outside those systems. Hence why Google+ doesn't even offer an RSS feed.

Do you really, hand-on-heart, think that Google would support a federated social media protocol on Google+ should such a thing come into being? Do you think they're planning to build such a protocol?
Just because Amazon is down, doesn't mean the infrastructure is the reason. They did build AWS out of the technology they used to build Amazon, but its unclear if they are using it directly or use an isolated set of services.
I understand why people are reluctant to trust a single corporation with so much control over their personal information, particularly when, as they say, the user is as much the product as the customer. I'm generally a big defender of Google but even I am disquieted by their maneuvering around Google+.

However, I also doubt it's possible to build services as sophisticated as GMail on direct payments from users. I strongly suspect that very few people would be willing to pay what it would cost to build and run a service like GMail without ads.
CG NAT breaks console multi player for most games (those without dedicated hosting) it will break voip systems such as skype and sip. it will break in game voice comms.
I doubt that works when the site is up either. Many servers these days reject pings.
Ask HN: Source of income generating stuff you can suggest to integrate to App?
I am new into mobile development and would like to ask for experts here what are best source of generating income for a mobile app. For one, we can make it a paid app - but i don't want to make it a paid app (for now at least). Just want to ask you guys if you can suggest something. Thank you.
Since you are well-versed with this issue -- I know that Amazon offers tenancy options while creating virtual machines. Is this option not utilized because the price of single-tenancy is higher than the headache of "bad neighbor test"?
I'll still happily use Chromium for web development, as and where necessary. Just not signed in to Google for sync, etc. etc.

I do wonder though ... would you have described the formation of the FSF as a childish temper tantrum? I remember the days when to use Linux as a development OS was painful ... it worked out well in the end though :)
Wow, almost 40 minutes of total outage now.

They're going to be having one helluva '5-whys' tomorrow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys).
Sounds like someone that is oncall is going to have a bad night. Amazon.de and .co.uk are up.
Because we're going to cure those things at the same time.

We're already seeing many advancements in earlier detection as well as reduction in symptoms for the issues you mention, if not improved prevention.
This happens on Yahoo!'s messages boards as well. Any article that has Apple in it, you will see it get bombarded with hundreds of comments in favor of Samsung or dissing Apple.
here=where?
From my perspective, AMD really screwed up the AMD/ATI merger in the worst way possible. When AMD bought ATI they were well positioned to beat everyone to market to release their APU chip. However, the problems started almost immediately when neither AMD nor ATI did anything to combine resources. They should have put in the time and money to merge teams at all levels of the company. Instead they built a few small groups that included senior personnel from both units, then they left most of the lower level teams to work on whatever they were working on previously. Never mind the fact that there were a lot of really clever people all over the place ready to contribute really great ideas.

In other words, there was zero global direction down the ranks. It was just business as usual; keep doing what you've always been doing, and maybe we'll show you some nice slides a few times a year about how great APUs will be. This lack of organization meant that no one had any idea what anyone else was doing. Worse-- even if you wanted to find out there was absolutely no company-wide documentation or organization on anything. Your only hope for getting information was hoping one of your co-workers had bookmarked some magical page with the info you required.
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This just got worse when you accounted for the problem of elitism. The hardware teams were just so much better than the software teams. After all, software is easy, so what sort of useful input could those code monkeys offer. And far be it from the software teams to actually talk to someone from the QA teams; those QA people were beneath notice. Finally, add in a very wide distribution of personnel seniority, insane levels of paranoia about job security, grade-school level office politics, and completely disparate management styles, then hit blend.

So really, the results are not at all surprising. You can't have two companies pretend to be one while playing tug-of-war, and still be competitive.
You should look up the tragic case of the Indian mathematician V.N. Singh to get some perspective :( http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-04-19/patna... Shakuntala Devi had amazing calculation prowess, but to me it was always seemed more in the savant zone.
It's a lesson in overengineering. At this point my $5 Pentium 3 server has a greater uptime than Amazon.
Does Amazon really go down that often? Is there any data how often/ for how long Amazon does go down? I wonder how it compares to other sites that get the same amount of traffic.
AFAIK the "Amazon runs on AWS" meme was originally a line of pure marketing tripe.
Seems like Only US market got goosebumps. UK looks fine and up.
Disconnect Extension is pay what you want software now
Somewhat off-topic: my (limited) experience with Amazon Prime video suggests it's significantly less reliable than Netflix or iTunes (neither of which are stupendously reliable, but I'd say Netflix is by far the most reliable of the three). Hulu might actually be worse than Amazon Prime.
Even if Amazon.com != AWS, it is still bad for the Amazon Brand which encompasses AWS.

If they can't keep their own server up, how can you trust them with yours?

An unfair argument, perhaps, but one that impacts them all the same.
I think the gp was saying that the brand— as in, the perception of AWS— will suffer, not the actual services.

Anyone with an ounce of server knowledge would know it's impossible to keep a website up for 100% of the time, so downtime at Amazon is understandable, but maybe the average Joe Manager is deciding between Rackspace and AWS and happens to visit amazon.com during this downtime. "If Amazon can't even keep their bread-and-butter running, how can I trust them with something like AWS?" he might say.
Except your Pentium 3 server doesn't have to handle over 100 million unique visitors per quarter. :P
I can't get to the management console or status.aws.amazon.com
I thought the same. Werner Vogels, their CTO, said at the NYC cloud event that they moved amazon.com to it in 2010, and amazon.com international in 2011.
So very, very good.

I would also recommend The Light of Other Days.
What's stopping them is their own greed; NAT costs more than not having it.
$31K in '08. What is it today?
... except where it isn't in their interests, which is why Google is trying to kill off RSS with a multi-pronged strategy (ignore RSS in Chromium, kill off RSS reader, don't offer an RSS feed in G+).

If your platform is free-as-in-beer, you have to monetise your users to advertisers. You do this by learning more about them by keeping them within your ecosystem, not by allowing them access to your platform through open protocols.

I see it as a fundamental conflict between users of a system (you and me) and the customers (advertisers). Google has made it clear which side of that equation they care about. See e.g. their support of DRM in HTML.
Unless your server needs to handle comparable amounts of traffic, it's not the same thing.
Amazon is down for everyone
> If you can point me to a university curricula (and, especially, a syllabus) that has hugely better coverage of practical attacks on cryptographic implementations, I'd be interested in seeing it.

Me, too. The courses I took were much more theoretical--lots and lots of number theory. I enjoyed them, and I enjoy your challenges, too.

The theory is fun, and I learned enough to understand some interesting attacks, but at the level of courses I studied the material at, we did not come up with any new attacks.

The distinction is a bit like theoretical computer science versus actually writing a programme.

P.S. I'll looking through material from my old university and see if I can find anything interesting.
I think it's the second time this year - http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/31/technology/amazon-down/index...
A while ago, someone claiming to have worked at Amazon said that downtime doesn't really affect things as much as you'd think. He said most people simply just come back later.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5147461

[Edit: That being said, there's also the statistic that every 100ms of latency costs Amazon 1%. Imagine what 20+ minutes of "latency" would do. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=273900]
Are you a refer.ly investor?
Your $5 Pentium 3 server isn't the largest retail website on the internet making $61 billion a year.

Having seen a lot of the code that Amazon runs on, and having seen first-hand the scale that it runs on, I'll say this: it's not perfect, but it's remarkably well-engineered, and a hell of a lot better than most snarky HNers could do.
It probably doesn't, but you notice every time it does.

It went down once in the last couple weeks as well, if I remember right.