skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I am not in any way an expert.

Your main options (besides moving to the paid app model) are in app purchases and advertisements:

In app purchases pros:

No advertisements clogging up your screen, meaning improved user experience and interface.

Infinitely scaleable to your imagination, just look at Zynga, whereas advertisements are limited within the context of an app.

If your app is addictive these can be very lucrative.

In app purchases cons:

Requires much extra content creation, or limiting or the initial app.

Most users don't use them, meaning the majority of your user base will be losing you money.

Can come across as cheap and that your paying users are just "buying" their success, especially if it takes off.

Advertisement pros:

Much more distributed income generation, you aren't relying on a select few purchasers.

A spike in traffic will generally directly correlate to a spike in income, not always true with in app purchases.

Much less difficult to manage once it has been set up, very much a fire and forget weapon.

Advertisement cons:

Most users become annoyed by pop up windows and adverts taking up half their screen. - This is a biggy.

The ad agency takes the lions share of the profits, so you could potentially by capping your income to a certain amount when in app purchases could be more lucrative.
I'm not sure what the official stance on this is, but I always thought "fewer" was used in the case of discrete subjects, and "less" in the case of continuous. So it's always amusing when someone talks about "less people".
I can't imagine that's a real loss, likely only deferred sales. What are you going to do if you can't buy your thing at Amazon? Drive somewhere? I think you'll try again later.

Dividing income for time doesn't necessarily give you loss, especially this seems to have no weighting for time of day and season. I doubt an outage right now has anywhere near the same effect it would have during lunch break two weeks before Christmas.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle%E2%80%93Hellman_knapsac...
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I got the same type of email from Path. A friend joined in and I got the message.
Is that the sound of the power supply going on your Pentium 3...

...or your internet connection

You never patch or reboot your magic box either?
Still dead as a dodo here in the Bay Area.

Edit: ... and it's back as of 23:00 PDT.
Incorrect, Amazon.com runs on AWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5588012
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A very quick calculation (using AMZN's $61b net sales in 2012) yields about $116k per minute.
Not sure I agree, although I understand your point. Most algos have performance profiles that are significantly different when run on best-case and worst-case data sets. An algo implementation that works correctly for the data set of a particular problem is not invalidated b/c it does poorly when implemented in another language. If it works well only in C++ in this competition, and the developer chose C++ then it seems to me he has successfully answered the call.
A central core feature of Google Wave was federation. Wave failed. Reason? Not because of federation, but because of consumer experience and confusion.

If you look at G+, Google has taken a very very careful approach this time (after OpenSocial, Buzz, Wave, et al failed), building on it very incrementally, always concentrating on user experience at each step. Even to the extent that they don't have even have an API to post content to G+ programmatically. Whether or not it will eventually turn into some idea federated open network, I have no idea.

But I would not take G+ as somehow Google dropping support for the open web. Google is a very large company with lots and lots of product, and company culture just doesn't change overnight.

I'd love it if Google had done a disapora-like federated system. But honestly, if they had gone that route, we'd have threads all over the blog-sphere laughing at Google for yet another social networking failure.

Those kinds of projects earn the love and adoration of the hacker community, but they don't get grandma, teens, and celebrities on your site.

Want better counter-evidence? Look at WebRTC and Google Hangouts. Hangouts are a defining competitive advantage G+ has over all over social networks, and Google sponsors a spec that essentially makes them a commodity that anyone can implement now.
thanks, your insights are appreciated.. hmm, I'm thinking now to moving it to a paid one.

I'm not sure if an approach like this is okay:
free version - no need to pay, but only can enjoy limited stuffs
paid version - enjoy everything
Interesting link.

I'm not a linguist but parsing these sentences as an American reader, I feel a bit like this page's examples are playing games with word order and omission. The cited "prestige" grammar sounds less intuitive to me not because of the pronoun used, but because of word order and words that are left out.

Example cited as correct prestige grammar:

> They didn't give anyone that worked less than she a raise.

That sounds a little weird to my American ears, but "worked less than she did" sounds totally correct.

"Worked less than her" (cited as correct non-prestige) sounds a bit casual and informal, not sounding too jarring but not what I'd expect in decent writing. Similar to the other example of "us commuters". If I'm talking to someone I wouldn't blink if they said this, but I wouldn't see it in the New York Times. (Though this also reminds me of phrases like "me too" or "it's me", which despite being inconsistent with distinctions between subject and object in other phrases, you'd hear a lot more than "I as well" or "it is I".)

> Mary and him are late.

Sounds very wrong to me.

Thinking back to my childhood it was pretty common for kids to be a bit "confused" about using pronouns this way before 10 years old or so, so maybe there is something to the author's statement that kids learn the non-prestige form and then the educated ones are "corrected" later.

> Mary and he are late.

This still sounds weird. I'd say "he and Mary are late".

> her and us

> she and we

These sound pretty clumsy regardless of which is supposed to be used.
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AWS is working at unprecedented scale and is definitely pushing the envelope. This sort of stuff is inevitable and I don't think it's inherently a bad thing.
+1 for #linux-support on Efnet.
Smart people don't only come from smart parents. While I'm sure there's a factor, I suspect the part of genetics is overstated in intelligence. Or, to put it another way, maybe we should earnestly focus on educating the kids we have as well as we can.
I don't know if you saw this posted on HN, but Netflix test their system really well. They use so-called chaos monkey [1] that shuts down random servers on a whim. This allows them to detect and get rid of dependencies, i.e. tolerate failures in other parts of the system.

[1] http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html
Amazon.com retail website does not run on AWS.
Thanks for heads up, I didn't know that.
When my child was born, one of the first things my mother told me was that there is a special link between the mother and child that men underestimate. She was warned me that as a father, whatever happens I will never be as close to my child as his mother would be.

That was her intuition as a mother. Again when you hear the discussions about which side a child should go during a divorce, 'children goes with the mother' is a baseline, and you have to bring up severe flaws in the personality or sociability of the mother to have the father considered as a viable alternative (at least that's how it went with my relatives)

Studies focusing on the parents skills and involvment in the child's life often bring seemingly obvious but still counter to the general population's concensus results.
Amazon.com is back up
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And if you were a shill, do you think you would come out and say it?

Because, if I was a shill, this is essentially the post I would write.
If you're a capable developer, and by this I mean not just coding but being able to push out an addictive, enjoyable application, why not release the full app for free, then ask for payments for an expansion, essentially an in app purchase adding 3 times the levels, or whatever.

If they are already hooked the gamble could pay off.
Actually, I know through guns a tech/developer guy who just moved into tool and die machining (as a job and as a hobby) in Arizona, and he's never been happier, loves his job, loves his coworkers, loves his working environment. Craftsmanship, quality, values, etc. Pretty much everything you'd consider ideal.

Maybe there's a losing part of the industry somewhere?
Isn't Netflix hosted on AWS?
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I guess VSRE is a very appropriate method to skip the social formalities and discomforting feeling it brings along with it. Some people (like me) like to keep it brief and to the point, rather than pulling strings of over-politeness. It doesn't mean we are rude or something, its just that we are comfortable with this way of interaction at work place.
#CISPABlackout
That's because most contests (but not all) are limited to C, C++ and Java and they've practiced hundreds if not thousands of hours on solving those kinds of problems.
Of course they will be more efficient in c++ than a person who is spending most of their time wondering how costly string operations are.

That doesn't mean that there aren't also people who have done the same and still prefer python (or some other language) not for execution, but development speed (and bignum, larger standard library...)
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http://imgur.com/o2bEx6g - how did 42 floors do this?
I can see both sides.

But watching someone spend 10 years with almost no quality of life while science slowly makes advances in those areas does not really help that particular family.
Amusingly, I think his dig at the programming language community actually underscores something that I really love about academia and that I think is virtually unique: you can focus on things that are not immediately practical just because they're elegant or beautiful. It's awesome. I couldn't imagine much room for it in industry (although it's not entirely impossible).

Unfortunately, it also seems surprisingly rare even in academic CS. Certainly nobody I know at Berkeley operates this way :(. Maybe it's better in the mathematics department. For me, that would be the main draw to academia: being able to not worry about short-term usefulness and not needing to worry about marketing my work to the average programmer.

Besides, those "esoteric abstractions"? They solve real problems. In surprisingly simple ways. Better than existing solutions. The only reason that "real software developers" don't benefit is that they aren't willing to learn them. And it is not--and should not be--the responsibility of the PL theory community to get the average programmer up to date. And, even so, some people are really trying. It brings to mind the usual saying about horses and water.

Also, if I may make an observation: it seems his thoughts on PL design broadly reflect the philosophy of Google in general. This is just reinforced by the designs of Golang and Dart, as well as the promotional material surrounding the languages (presentations and the like). I personally think that this almost borders on anti-intellectualism: they seem to imply that something created by ivory-tower academics with an understanding of math cannot possibly be useful in the real world; only real software engineers™ make practical tools.

And that is probably the main reason that I would choose a company like Jane Street over Google any day :P.

Yeah, I'm probably more annoyed by this than it's worth. It really helps to lay my thoughts down on paper, and I still haven't started that blog I keep on considering. So HN will have to be my confidant for now.
42 Floors is a Y Combinator funded company and as such is allowed to post job listings on here for the HN crowd to peruse.

Considering that we use this site for free (unless you count the fact that we ARE the content) it's a small price to pay, especially if the alternative could be paid advertisements.
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Why not just say "You should just do as you are told and not ask questions!"?
Click the "jobs" link at the top next to the "submit" link. You'll see the same posting. It is a YC-backed company.
What a wave of nostalgia. I took a job at AMD in 2005, right at the zenith of their success. I was totally enamored of the great technology that went into K7 and K8, and I was ready to help this underdog company stick it to Intel and turn the microprocessor world on its ear.

I worked there for six years, through fumble after disaster after boondoggle. I could go on and on about all the reasons I believe AMD went down the tubes -- and I'm really looking forward to reading the second installment -- but I think a lot of it reduces to the disfunctional corporate culture alluded to in this piece.

During my time at AMD -- and the old-timers confirmed that it was ever thus -- there was always the sense that every project was make-or-break for the company, that we were always on the brink of disaster. Long-term strategic planning is simply not in the company's DNA. We lurched around like a headless chicken, and when -- through a combination of good products and missteps by Intel -- AMD finally got a taste of sucess, we squandered it in the most ham-handed and disastrous (and predictable) way.

P.S. Bulldozer project was a total horror show, beginning to end.
If you use splits a lot, you might be interested in the Golden Ratio plugin. It resizes the active window to be about (user-definable) two-thirds of the screen. So you jump between windows and get max screen space for the one you're working on.

Sometimes you don't want it, so you can toggle it off.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3690
I don't entirely agree with the GP's phrasing, but it's worth pointing out that the FSF doesn't paint all a company's software with the same brush. They're happy to rail against non-free software while accepting contributions to GNU projects from the same developers.
But that's the point. Most people don't need anything that well-engineered. Compared to more traditional hosting solutions from quality providers, AWS has terrible uptime and at a much higher cost for the same amount of resources. Two VPS'es from two different providers in a simple failover configuration with an anycast DNS solution would be simpler, cheaper, and much more reliable.
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from ubuntu with infinality freetype patch.
I'd have to disagree on the innovation point. Google continues to make dramatic improvements (imo) to many of their apps and services. As a developer building on Docs/Drive, I've seen that service continuously grow and expand, though much of the work remains below the waterline. Similarly, Maps, Now, Voice Search, Chrome, App Engine continue to be improved at a rate that outstrips what I'm used to at most other companies Google's size.

It's true that the visible feature changes have slowed significantly, but I'd attribute that more to the size and completeness of the existing products than anything else. It's also true that they aren't entering many new product lines, though for one thing I'm not sure that's something you'd lament and for another, I hear they've declared they won't be entering any new business that they expect to be below $1bn.
Personally I don't post such comments, but having used iPhone and then switched to Galaxy II I see why some compare Apple to Samsung. For many people Android phone is Samsung Galaxy/Note/etc.
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Well, there is a large number of anti-Microsoft and pro-Google posts all over the internet as well, do you think that everyone defending Google is a shill too?

Or anyone who is saying that there isn't a Google funded smear campaign against Microsoft?
So as I mentioned we don't use EC2, we use another cloud service, but the economics and technical issues are the same.

But on EC2 Dedicate Instance (ie single tenancy) my guess is that if your application (or, business model) relies on each of your nodes being able to utilize more than your equal share on the host then in fact you would NOT want more than one of your instances to exist on the same physical host, in order to maximize the chances that each instance can grab all of the resources on it's given host.

If this is your model, having all your instances on the same physical host would be disastrous. In fact, there's (economic) argument for Amazon offering customers the complete opposite - pay to guarantee that no two instances are ever instantiated on the same physical host.
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I don't think you understand what you're even saying. Hearsay is information you've obtained from a third person i.e. not directly witnessed. The reporter directly witnessed a sudden spike in voting on the Disqus forum. He directly witnessed an articulate post being heavily downvoted.

He was not complaining that there was anti-Apple sentiment on the internet. He was complaining it was happening specifically on his site. And had the appearance of being coordinated.
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The difference is that the reporter witnessed what appeared to be a coordinated effort to downvote the anti-Samsung posts.
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And if I were a counter-shill, your accusations is exactly the sort I would be writing in a reply.

But more seriously, it's sad that this is becoming a bigger and bigger problem.
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Streeme is a good alternative to Google Music

https://code.google.com/p/streeme/
Great video OP! Really inspiring stuff. Rooting for you and your game! :D
Even assuming Google is not being malicious--and I think that's a broadly safe assumption--I'm still concerned. I'm am significantly over-reliant on Google's serviced: my email, my calendar, my OpenID, my web search, my videos, my phone, my maps, my web browser... (Well, I do use Firefox now.) It's a single point of failure. A rather scary one at that.

Some of these things do not have good alternatives. My phone? I could use an iPhone or Windows phone, but Apple and Microsoft are malicious. Also, they both hate Linux. But the other things? I probably could--and probably should--move some of them to a different service, if only in the interest of diversification.

Of course, I've been meaning to do this for a while. But I haven't. In many different, usually small ways, I'm hooked into Google. That by itself worries me; in some cases, even if I did want to move to a different service, it would not be easy. Very importantly, this is not Google's fault at all--in fact, they're very good about making my data portable. It's entirely poor planning on my part. Yet it's still an issue.

Perhaps the worst part--or the best part--is that I don't have any immediate problems with this situation. Everything works. Quite well. I just have a general sense of disquiet about it all.

Just something to think about.
Depends on how you go about it. I personally haven't encountered any cases where it would make sense to write a few functions in C and link them into a Python/Ruby program. But I have encountered a number of cases where what works well is to write the main program, the part that does the heavy crunching, in C++, and various ancillary scripts for preprocessing, postprocessing etc. in Python.
Oooh a good new excuse and/or future scapegoat.
I'm planning to do exactly this, myself. Not so much because of any perceived danger to the open web posed by Google, but because I've come to realise that I simply have too many eggs in their basket. Tellingly, my list of products that I will be replacing is almost completely different to this person's. Google has become the Walmart of computing and it's time to resist.
Hmm.... not working from Delhi, India - tried on multiple networks.
Can one t-shirt make a difference?
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In this case I don't think that these reasons apply. Introducing a VSRE on the initiator side, or a Short Response, Not An Asshole on the responding side would be a worthwhile change with a manageable side effect.

Don't fix it if it ain't broke seems to run counter to innovation. I'd try for improvement on a functional system if there's a positive expected outcome.
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Netflix is indeed running on AWS. Some details about their back-end here:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/12/aws-reinvent-was-awesome...
Sure, but that doesn't speak to my point that consensus is a component of communication, not its primary aim.
Not only would that be a pretty poor multi-pronged strategy, it still has absolutely nothing to do with "embrace, extend, and extinguish", as the parent pointed out.

And, seriously, "ignore RSS in Chromium" is now kowtowing to advertisers? How about the lack of gopher support[1]? And no built in bittorrent client[2]??

I'm starting to agree with others that you have a point somewhere in here but you're missing it over anger about Reader.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=11345

[2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=182399
Thanks for pointing that out, mkingston! I went with "less people" because it sounded funnier (to me) than "fewer people" (which did sound more grammatically correct).
Sorry, but that's incorrect. Rand Paul fought hard against CISPA, FISA, the Patriot Act, and drones.
Reader was a great RSS archiver and syncer though.
Very sweet long-term deals, yeah. Dell managed to meet Wall St's earnings expectations almost entirely through payments from Intel not to ship AMD systems; they even got in trouble because they fiddled the books to hide where the money was really coming from: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359770/intel-sweeteners-made-up-...
It always angers me that government and committees claim the final say to my own life. I only hope that when I do get to such an age, I have the clarity of mind to still be able to poison myself if it's a choice between a quick death or putting my family through a slow decomposition.
A bit busy for me. I stick to time@host:dir and then a symbol for security level (root, admin, role, personal, daemon, test). Thinking about doing different color schemes for different hosts, too.
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the latency vs cost curve will not be linear. After some latency, increase in latency wont affect cost much.
It's not really UX, it's just a fancy animation - looking cool is its only purpose. You don't have to scroll to see anything, so it's not actually obstructing your use of the site. I don't really see the problem with it.
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It's a shame that Bill Watterson just simply disappeared.
You must be new here... YC companies can post job listings. In fact, YC companies usually get on the front page, not because of any sort of shenanigans/favoritism with HN's ranking, but simply because whenever a YC company posts a story, people at other YC companies will upvote it to help each other out.
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