skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from a former employer who wants to stay anonymous, ec2 bill per month: $97k peak, softlayer: $26k. 1/3 the cost, 2x the performance.

And let's not mention emr; a $15k/mo cluster in softlayer did something like 5x the performance of an emr cluster that was costing (and running!) $2k/day.
During the 2011 protests in Russia, some people suggested that the government benefits from bad relations between the public and the police, because the government is afraid that the police will side with the public during mass protests. Though I guess that problem is much less severe in the US.
This is pretty much why I haven't bought a new laptop in 4ish years.
Or Gliph. Which is far slicker than all of those combined.

Although, not OS I believe, sadly.

https://gli.ph/
This is highly questionable. In the US at least "fair use" tends to cover non-commercial endeavours that only reproduce a small portion of the work - and the text of a film is a very small portion indeed. If the text is also contained only within specially formatted subtitle files then the work is "transformative", allowing a significantly different use from the original (especially when there is no commercial alternative). If a work enhances accessibility then this is generally well looked-upon when deciding if it is transformative and thus fair-use.

It's important to note that a subtitle file and a screen play are two very different things, as the former is almost certainly transformative.

I'm not sure how any of this works out under Sweedish law.
Really? You must be a speed reader. The first couple of images seemed to stick around forever, but there wasn't nearly enough time to read the denser ones. It also makes a difference that it was the entire content of the page, so there were no distractions. That will never be the case on a real page.
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>so getting computer-illiterate people onto a "web-only" device is great.

I recently replaced my wife's aging MacBook Air with the Samsung/ARM Chromebook - she much prefers it. It doesn't overheat, nor require frequent restarts. But she has a Masters in CS, and works from the command line, so let's add to, "computer-illiterate people" , "..and people who dont want to spend time nursing their computer".
Could be, but then instead of writing "Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300, according to NPD Group Inc." they would have used the word netbook, or "electronic device" or something like that.

There is a marketing problem in that I have a nexus 7 tablet and a bluetooth keyboard. What's the marketing message differentiating my nexus 7 from a chromebook, other than the screen is a wee bit bigger on the chromebook and the apps on the nexus 7 almost perfectly match the apps on my phone? There doesn't appear to be a marketing message differentiating them.
my gf is an optometrist at Lenscrafters (owned by Luxottica), they have times during the year when they can get any galsses/sunglasses at 50% off for first pair, and 60% off for next 10. the markup, especially on their own brands is through the roof.
NeoCities can now handle two million web sites
IBM closed on Softlayer a few days ago. Not many people expect Softlayer to continue thriving the way it did over the years. But at the rate Softlayer grew it was apparent they were eyeing a quick exit (not too common in the dedi business).

Now it's IBM running the show at SL...
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Just because you are told that something is the "base of science", doesn't make it the base of science.

Also, read Newton's Rules of reasoning for a better example of a philosophy that's successfully been at the base of science.
in case you are unaware, first, see the perf difference in my previous post, and second, the public pricing on softlayer is a price ceiling. If you are buying multiple machines, even perhaps as few as 4 or 5 a month, you can probably negotiate a nice discount and certainly if you are renting 10-20/mo. Of course they will happily sell for the price on the site.
If the numbers were really good, Google would announce it themselves, after all they know the real numbers. They instead touted nebulous metrics like top on Amazon lists at I/O.
Yes, yes, I know all that.

The problem was my mind yesterday. It looked like a jellyfish inside a cup of lemon jelly with some caramel...
Which is why I didn't read this the first day I saw it (the expletive), while at work. Only looking the second day it was up on the first page, when I was at home and curious why it was still popular.
I've been in meetings where we schedule meetings to talk about the time it will take to come up with the plan to allocate developer time to coming up with a plan of how to tackle a problem.

I found it hilarious because (thankfully) that part of the meeting was nothing to do with me.

I'm now a contractor. I do the tech stuff and I do it well, and nobody involves me in meetings because I'm not part of the company and I don't have to care!
they might still have local storage, but depending on the cloud's a no brainer IMO
The main issue here is can people do without native apps and only a browser. I think a lot will change when we have programming IDEs and Photoshop inside a browser.
Just because you wouldn't personally enjoy that life doesn't make it inherently wrong. Perhaps he enjoys his work and the people he works with, and finds his start up work at night very fulfilling who are you or I to decide that he is wrong or missing out?
yeah, cloud is one of those terms used,overused and abused to a point that it can mean anything.
In this context, the "Personal Cloud" means "Public Cloud" like functionality(basically data residing somewhere and your method of accessing it is using various client applications) with ownership of that data in your control (The "Personal" aspect).
I totally agree with this. I recently had a job interview at a great company (I have a friend who works there so I know all the details) and was interviewed by three engineers who loved me. I got an email from someone in HR saying the engineers thought I would be a great fit and they wanted to hire me as long as I had at least a 3.0 GPA. Turns out I was about 0.1 point short and that killed my chance to work there. GPA plays too big of a role in most HR departments.
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Here's another: "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." ~ Thomas A. Edison
I agree about the impressions point. High CTR or not, the Ad is indeed shown to the user, and to look it form a totally different PoV, the low CTR ads mean relatively low CPMs (i.e. eCPM, assuming CPC to be low). If looked from a pure branding or impression perspective, this might be desirable (although I'm not saying low CTR is good for the publisher OR the advertiser).
I think the Chromebook paradigm is going to take some time to catch on, but once it does it's going to be terrific for everyone. I can't wait til it spreads to other platforms (namely smartphones and gaming consoles) as well.

"Hey, my phone's out of battery. Can I check my texts on yours real quick?"
I would say speculation is meaningful and exciting.
Compare that to Tom Skelly, lead programmer at Cinematronics (80s vector games) who had to reverse engineer an abandoned custom CPU design while writing games for said CPU in machine code on legal pads.

http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/SKELLY.HTM

It's amazing what you can do when you're focused.
Google the story about 7 cops in VA that went after a 17yr old girl because she was carrying non alcoholic fruit soda the cops thought were wine coolers. They handled this by breaking through her car windows guns drawn like they were seals going after bin laden lol.
Yikes, if that's true, that's terrible.

That said, I doubt if it's most accidents. Here in Boston, where the roads are all pretty terrible, there are bicycle accidents all the time. The roads are bad enough with just cars on them, but throw bicyclists into the mix and it's downright scary. I drive, and dealing with bicyclists is a nightmare. For every rule-following bicyclist, there are 10 who change lanes side-to-side, who pass on the right through an intersection (this one drives me crazy), blow through stop lights thinking that a quick glance for traffic is enough.

Unfortunately every year someone gets hit around here, usually by a bus. I haven't read much about any intentional accidents--usually it's a bicyclist that tried to pass a bus on the wrong side and the bus turned (wide turning radius). Or blowing through an intersection against a red when they didn't realize that it wasn't clear. It's terrible, but not "intentional". Maybe it's different elsewhere, but saying that most accidents are intentional seems...bold?
There's a big misunderstanding here, which is that fixed price implies a waterfall methodology. This is not true. All a fixed price does is cap the financial scope of the project.

But the tradeoff is that you need to vary the technical scope. For this reason, agile methodology is actually the best way to do a fixed-price contract. Every sprint is an opportunity to reconsider the technical scope to stay within schedule and budget.

This does reduce risk for the client. Most companies have much more serious limitations on budget and schedule, than they do on their imagination for what an ideal site should do.

And even if the client does decide they want to spend more money to get more functionality, they can just execute a change request or amendment--a process that is much more controlled and transparent (from the client perspective) than just working a few more hours.
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15 years after movie has been released and no more US DVD copies available, only DVD available in Spanish markets with no English (and of course no Russian) soundtrek. Of course cool and patient me would learn Spanish... (not that i have anything against learning and even plan it eventually as well as Chinese. Ni-hao-ma? do-shao-t'en? ni-dzao-sha-ma-minz?)

And speaking about really under-served - there are deaf people among us.
As written in the article, one of the advantages is avoiding things like the man-in-the-middle SSL exploit.
Oh, no no no, you misunderstand--spend an afternoon to implement a reliable communication layer over UDP yourself. I don't suggest another standard (or a defunct one): roll your own.
You can't deny the effectiveness of putting everyone in jail.
We aren't going to just find another Jobs in Apple. It's statistically so highly unlikely.
Hurtling multiton hunks of steel are incompatible with humans and other living things. We shouldn't mix them, but we do.
We got here because of the War on Drugs. Look at what they use the SWAT teams primarily for.
> Does it mean that Google did too little, too late? Does it mean that the major social networks are all syphoning off their own unique customers that will never overlap? Is Google inflating the numbers artificially and it is, in fact, dying a slow death? Or, most disturbingly, does it mean that having a superior product doesn’t matter as much as strong network effects?

I've never given Google Plus a serious try, but I would totally do it if it had no barrier to entry (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html). If I could try it for a while, use it to create content, then know that if I don't like it, I can go back to Twitter and others won't even know that I left, then I would give Google Plus a try.

If Google Plus already does this.. well. Then it's marketing's fault.
Like this: http://allthingsd.com/20130515/heres-that-steve-jobs-e-book-...

TL;DR: Lose money when Amazon starts taking a bigger cut, or lose money due to piracy.
Not quite skype level, but cosylab is pretty big success. It's Slovenian and seems the article considers that Balkan.
I feel like the Chromebook is actually a better experience than a laptop.

As a programmer, I honestly only use 2 windows: browser and shell. Running crouton to create chroot Ubuntu "images" I can have my normal full (text-based) dev environment, and alt-tab back and forth with the browser. Honestly it feels easier to use than Ubuntu - I don't use any of the builtin Google services (e.g. Drive), but they manage to stay out of the way.

It's pretty cheap, looks pretty reasonable, and comes in at a pretty low weight. The screen's not the greatest, but I'm not doing anything where that matters. So all in all a great dev machine.

Only caveat for me is that Dropbox doesn't have an installable app for ARM. I need to find something else that does a good job of seamlessly syncing my workspaces and NFS, rsync, etc don't fit as nicely as Dropbox.
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This one is my personal favourite. My wife got a print made around a year ago for our anniversary. It's around 3m long so we don't actually have anywhere in the house we can hang it!
> If you live in the UK, write to your MP

I tried that, but, perhaps unsurprisingly, got no reply. I suspect that is because the main parties share one policy here.

> Support PPUK

Potentially, also, the green party:

http://greenparty.org.uk/news/2013/07/05/eu-has-an-obligatio...
So much time wasted putting essential content into a carousel…and making it work.
Good questions. The Facebook/Goldman style investment vehicles have been blessed by the SEC in the form of a No Action letter back in March. For readers unfamiliar: an LLC fund is created that investors invest in, and that fund makes a single investment in the target company. The company only has one investor listed on their cap table and it makes several things (e.g. collecting signatures) significantly simpler. Investors maintain financial rights, but don't have voting rights in the company.

We can offer that vehicle to companies as a fundraising option. We also have a standard convertible note specifically for a large number of small investors that we've been using ourselves which addresses "large number of investor" concerns in a different way.

The JOBS act has already increased the accredited investor limit to 2000, and once the unaccredited investor legislation takes effect, those unaccredited investors won't count against that total.
Sure it is, so what? But there is a HUGE difference between

Riding a bike with speed and on terrain that outrun your riding skills

and

Being hit by a car driven by someone not paying enough attention

Period.
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The Tejon pass (grapevine) is over 4000 feet. Minimum vertical curve radius on Britain's High Speed Two, with a top design speed of 250mph, is 56 kilometers. This thing will need to operate at an average speed several times that.

As you make the train faster and faster, the route must asymptotically approach a straight line. A straight-ish line that goes over the mountains between LA and the central valley would either require viaducts hundreds, if not thousands of feet tall, or it will require tunneling, or it will require a mixture of both.
Source: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/07/09/price-r...

Not to detract from the conversation, but I've pointed out numerous times about techcrunch / this author -- FREDERIC LARDINOIS -- nearly plagiarizing the the entirety of his sources in the many articles, of his, posted here. Maybe it's not strictly plagiarism, but there is almost NEVER value added by his regurgitation. It has got to be etiquette to link to the best source, and Techcrunch has really gone south with the AOL/HuffPo relations -- cheap content rewrites and not a source.
There's always MyTracks on Android.
We collect lots of information about the element that we need to highlight (text, depth, siblings etc). When we fail to identify element accurately, we try to find best one with highest score and highlight. We mark flow as a failure and exit, when we hit score below minimum. This algorithm is most crucial one & i guess it will be evolving ever. By this mechanism, we are trying to overcome page changes to good extent.

Very few guides are in house and mostly are contributed by early adopters. we are expecting users to contribute.

We are based out of bangalore, india.
It was more like "Let us sell your books at higher prices, or lose money to Amazon and piracy."
It's possible to be just as transparent and flexible under a fixed price contract. And if changes need to be made, they can still be made on a change request or contract amendment.
Since I can't flag the story, I'd like someone to explain to me how in the hell they consider this "Hacker News".

Seriously, this article, and all 22 comments of this discussion belong on reddit.
To Facebook's credit, they do allow you to set a threshold for filtering 'important' communications from daily spam. It's fully popularity-based, which makes it imperfect, but I've found it works great for ignoring all the drivel but not missing the big announcements.
Gazelle isn't actually a tracker though - it's a web front-end / torrent website, but doesn't actually do the tracking part itself.
Theories are concerned with truth. That true theories are also effective is a side-effect.

I.e., you are a very confused person.
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An unsubsidized smartphone is often more expensive than a budget to midrange laptop.
> Separate usernames, interests, tones of voice, etc in this private space.

I'm a big fan of this approach, as it allows people to explore different facets of their personality. Unfortunately, for the past year the big players, led by google, have been waging a war on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars
I traded in my Thinkpad for a Pixel. The Pixel is the only laptop I use. (I would say it's the only laptop I own, but my apartment is a veritable computer museum and several of the specimens are laptops.)

For me, the biggest problem with laptops is keeping them sync'd with my desktop. I could use a laptop as a primary computer, and with better expansion options than previously exited (USB3, dual Display Ports, etc.), but I still find laptops limiting, meaning I only use them when I can't have my desktop. My desktop has 6 cores, 4 drives, a high-quality sound card, a real serial port, etc. These things are all important for what I use a computer for, most of the time, and a laptop just isn't good enough to be my only machine.

Chrome OS solves the synchronization problem for me. The configurability is restricted more than my average Linux box, so there is less to concern myself about setting up. My browser settings and extension sync, the desktop background syncs, etc. I can take a brand new Chromebook and be up in running in 5 minutes.

That's the value proposition of Chrome OS for me. Once it is up and running, I can ssh to a real computer and browse the web, which is what I'd do with a ultra-excellent billion-core superlaptop 99% of the time anyway.

The other 1% of the time, I'd like to use a laptop for portable software-defined radio applications, and as it stands, Chrome OS is terrible for that. But since Chrome has APIs for talking to USB, serial ports, and audio, I'm actually working on supporting controlling my radio and analyzing the I/Q inputs as a Chrome packaged app. The advantage for me is that I'll have SDR functionality on any computer I encounter: you can install packaged apps from the webstore on Chrome OS, Mac, Windows, and Linux, and everything will Just Work.

Finally, the Pixel has the best screen I've ever seen on a computer.

Anyway, Chrome OS is nowhere near its full potential just with the APIs available today. I think as more developers write awesome web apps or Chrome apps, more people will use Chrome OS, further incentivizing developers to create even better non-desktop apps. But as it stands, I am 100% satisfied with the Pixel as my primary laptop, and I imagine many other people are too.
It's not an age thing, the code we were writing was considered terrible back then too, and there were frameworks available. Wheel re-invention is fun though!
Damnit, you're overcompensating for my refusal to join. I'm going to have to refuse to join 6 more times now...
No ECC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory) in that configuration. That's a serious no no for running anything but personal/low importance stuff. Random bit flips do happen and will ruin your day.
>>"What’s more: they are infinitely scalable. You could rank, ten, twenty, fifty of these kind of keywords just as easily."

Making a page rank for a keyword involves having some local domain inbound links and some inbound links from external domains, inaddition to the usual in-page optimisation. It seems like getting those links to 50 pages is not easy and is not scalable. What am I missing?
Wow, your situation sounds amazingly similar to mine.

I do database integration for a large corporation -- moving data from other files and databases into one central database. Not the least bit challenging -- like you, I feel I can do the work in a fraction of the time, yet I'm required to be at my desk 40 hours a week.

Instead of getting depressed, though, I decided to make the necessary changes -- I'd start a freelancing business, and once it's successful I plan to quit this job.

I can't understand how people are like that you said -- "do decently in highschool -> pick a degree that you hope will pay out but don't really care about -> office life." I would be immensely depressed if I had to do this for 40 years with no way out. I have family members, friends, and an ex-girlfriend who think I'm being stupid or lazy. I just want more out of life than the drudgery of an office job.

But congratulations on what sounds like great success, and here's to me doing the same.
I think the Chromebook looks interesting, but in Canada the major selling point (price) is moot. Right now on Amazon.ca the cheapest Chromebook is $399, while in the $349-379 range I can choose from several makes and models of fully-functional 15" laptops.
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You must have a different definition of "effective" than I do. Prison is like graduate school for criminal behavior.
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