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What's wrong with Amazon Web Services?
My first post.. I cannot seem to get an answer from the AWS forum, so let me ask here to see any other hackers have the answer.

I am a new Amazon Web Services user, so maybe I'm missing something, but the quality of AWS seems really bad. I'm only able to start one machine instance and one persistent volume (i.e., Amazon EBS). According to the documentation, I should be able to start 20 instances and create 20 EBS volumes. Is this because amazon.com is overloaded with Michael Jackson traffic (amazon.com gets priority over AWS infrastructure)?

According to http://status.aws.amazon.com, all AWS services are healthy, yet I'm seeing these problems.

I can only create one EBS volume:
[root@domU-12-31-39-03-74-C6 ~]# ec2-describe-volumes
VOLUME vol-d29d73bb 10 snap-f4f8319d us-east-1b available 2009-06-26T05:57:26+0000
[root@domU-12-31-39-03-74-C6 ~]# ec2-create-volume -s 1 -z us-east-1b
Client.VolumeLimitExceeded: Maximum number of volumes, 1, already exist.

I can only create one AMI instance:
Launching 1 instance(s) of ami-0459bc6d
Zone us-east-1a
Instance type m1.small
AWS.rb:226:in `do_query': HTTP Error: 400 - Bad Request, AWS Error: InstanceLimitExceeded - 1 instance(s) are already running. (AWS::ServiceError)

But I have only one instance running, it won't even let me create a second one:
$ ec2-describe-instances
RESERVATION r-09b2cd60 832169661172 default
INSTANCE i-7bf0d312 ami-0459bc6d ...

What gives? Is this a temporary problem? AWS is the first IaaS I tried to use, so I'm wondering to all of these IaaS (AWS, slicehost, etc.) all have these kind of problems on a regular basis?
It is a great application. Do you know if it provides an API?
What about a feature for HTML that would allow a configurable amount of plain-text "follow" when typing into a password field... for example:

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Then, when I type in my password, it will show your password as stars, but with the last 'follow' number of characters in plain-text... like:

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Follow of 3: * * * * * tra
Simple, useful (life saving) skills.
As an employer, I reserve the right to use any public data obtained from web/Usenet searches to understand where a candidate is coming from in his/her professional life. It's basic due diligence, whether legal or ethical or not, and I expect prospective co-workers to do the same to me. Moral: don't be a dick or a moron online, at least not in connection with your real name.

That said, the real peril is that of mistaken identity. I almost missed out on a (mostly) enjoyable 2+ year relationship because my Google search revealed that the woman I was chatting with was an activist for various evangelical Christian causes. Fortunately, before breaking contact with her, I asked her about it, and soon realized that Google was leading me astray.
I often wish I had a toggle password visible option when it's late at night and I'm tired... As long as it's masked per default and I can unmask it when I'm sure it's not an important password and/or no one could see it I think it really makes sense.

Apple already does that for the wifi password and I really like it.
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> "It pays to share everything you know."

The article states something about a "boss" not being too happy with you if you don't share everything...but my question is, do you guys think it's best to share everything you know even if you're self-employed or own a small business? Or does this statement/suggestion only hold when being employed by someone?
Right, but that doesn't mean that 300 (or 3000) samples total is enough. You can't make the detailed map about burning the national flag with 3000 samples. More data is helpful until you have 300 samples per pixel.
Elevated insulin levels are the body's natural way of trying to deal with elevated blood sugar levels. They go hand in hand, so your question "is chronically elevated sugar the problem or chronically elevated insulin?" makes no sense.

Low GI carbs are good because they release energy slowly, which means the blood sugar rises less but for a longer period, which doesn't strain your body's insulin production capabilities. Which means none of the complications normally associated with carbs, like weight gain, the need for even more high GI after a crash, diabetes, etc.
In other news, now we know what 50K followers on Twitter are worth (or more accurately, we have a lower bound for it's worth).
Current reality. I'm not sure why, but really unhealthy food seems to be very very cheap (think chips, crackers, snacks, chocolate, etc). And healthy food tends to be expensive, usually takes some time to cook, and it might not taste very good.
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I might be willing to admit healthy and tasty sometimes work together. But healthy and cheap/fast? I don't think so.
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Is it true that US will be more hard to deal with now that it is a declining, instead of a stable, empire. Quite so. Nobody goes quietly into the good night. Usually they rage and have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the darkness. ?
The odds are much better but I think the far more significant difference is that a man asking a woman is socially accepted whereas a man asking a man is not (in most places).
Perhaps not, but ratios of males and females might explain most of the differences between east and west.
I didn't publish it. I merely shared it with friends. The publishing was simply a side effect (the information society equivalent of pollution, as Bruce Schneier puts it).
Well sure, to normal people yes. But to understand the mentality, just consider for a second that the OA is foaming at the mouth of a language that is merely inspired by LISP.

wrt the PHP thing, well, I cut my teeth on PHP, and frankly I didn't learn much by reading code I found early on. After doing it for a couple years (and completing an MIT-based CS degree) I started to discover the flaws for myself and I was eventually well-trained enough to be able to find the good code. If you know what to look for it's easy. However what's popular in PHP world (ie. what you find on Google) is not necessarily good. Compared to Ruby or Python, or hell, even Perl, it's just way harder to find good PHP code to learn from for a beginner.
The Alto version never took off, exactly because there were no "wasted" instructions for the purpose of vendor lock in or irreplicable platform insurance.
Once you add some layers of instructions, frameworks, toolkits and outright cruft (notably DRM) it sells like hotcakes, only because of Market dynamics (which have very little to do with the product itself).

It is in no vendor's genuine interest to let people know how a computer truly works: just to indoctrinate on partial, select areas.
Netflix gets a non-exclusive license from the winner, so they can sell it to other parties, and it seems like something that various parties would be willing to pay for.

An open source version would be a significant act of charity. It would be nice to see older versions or versions that were crippled enough to be education without watering down the reward that the winnners receive.
If a graph has a spike, that implies "high rate of change". How high the peak is is all that really counts, as the body produces insulin in accordance to how high your blood sugar currently is - it has no way of knowing what the area under the curve will be in the end. And inevitably it overproduces if the peak is too high, since we are not evolved to deal with modern high GI carbs.
What does battery life have to do with tablet inputs?

Oh, nothing. There are two distinct questions of usability that I'm interested in. Except, that X60t tablet is different model form X60 laptop and may use different CPU and battery model, which of course impacts battery life.
"About time... I can't be the only one who thinks Experts-Exchange is lame..." - I don't mean to impugn the author of that comment, but I think the amount of approval for it indicates that some people are voting on agreement more than quality.
You have a spare battery that you swap, right?
Please don't use URL shortening services here.

Apart from that, interesting links, thanks.
"One simple approach would be a certificate server which allowed any site to request a certificate and verify it owned the domain in question but putting a response to a challenge in a URL on that domain on a web server on a random port below 1024."

So in your threat universe an attacker can MITM the connection between your browser and PayPal, but they can't MITM the connection between PayPal and the certificate authority?

"RSA uses large keys and large certificates, however, and people with bandwidth concerns (mostly for their users) have reason to object to it. To take a tiny transaction, such as the fetching of the lightweight Google home page (3kb in size) and make it involve tens of kilobytes is something one can still express some concern about, even today. There is an answer to that, in elliptic curve cryptography, which is able to use much smaller keys and certificates."

Most bizarre argument for ECC ever ^^^^

There are so many brad ideas here that I should leave some for other people to bash. Also because I'm worried about being a victim of some elaborate joke.
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Why cheap airlines are so cheap
Keep in mind that sweet potatoes have a much lower glycemic index than normal potatoes, and in fact many other carbs, which probably explains the centenarians.

Having normal potatoes as a staple will reduce your lifespan.
From the FAQ "all ingredients are on TSCA". I'm not in the US but when I look and see this means "toxic substances control act [inventory]" then I think: "toxic!!".

Perhaps this is a common claim for US products but I think I'd just say all ingredients are safe and mention a safety certificate they bought^w were awarded.

The whole "Are Zubbles safe" reads like "well not really but they're as safe as other things that are legal".

As the stories are all about how his eyes were stained and he had to evacuate his house, etc., then the marketing needs to have a strong assurance of safety IMO. I don't think they achieve that.
There is a ton of theories about nutrition out there, as the radically opposed comments show here.

I haven't really studied the subject, but I know from experience that the food I used to have at home (basically, the mediterranean diet) keeps me healthy and with no overweight. So I still follow my mother's wisdom: eat a bit of everything, with ingredients around olive oil, vegetables, fruit, bread, fish and some meat.
Title seems unrelated to Hacker News but this is a wonderful break down of the differences between standard airlines and low fare.
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What problem/difficulty is this solving? (Over and above the twitter search itself?)
There is no way this is hacker news or 10+ karma points.
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Putting 'Ask HN' in front of an outbound link is deception.
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"taking a stand" is not the same thing as causing a scene. i personally stopped reading this rant after a paragraph or so, because of the author's poor attitude. i doubt i'm the only one.
Another way to be "even happier" is to learn these and other cues so that you can notice them when other people do them. Most of this stuff is involuntary, especially things like head tilting.

Also, if this stuff interests you, learn about split-second involuntary physical responses. Everybody does them and nobody controls them. Noticing these has gotten me out of trouble more than a few times.
Ask HN: Why should we upvote or downvote a comment?
With submission I suppose you up vote them because you like them? I do not understand how can you not up vote a comment you agree with though, or down vote one you disagree with.

Say someone comments about the liberal arts education being a good thing and old people are just deluding themselves in thinking that their education was much better and that our education is obsolete.

This comment I would up vote because I agree with it. If someone said Education is a complete failure I would down vote it because I disagree with it.

Apparently this is infuriating to some? Does that mean that we should not up vote comments we agree with?

In short, why do you think a comment should be up voted or down voted?
Glycemic index is not the only determining factor of a food's worth, nor has it been shown to necessarily carry much weight at all.

Glycemic load has been considered by some to be more important.

Chocolate cake has been measured to have a glycemic index of 38, while a baked potato is 85. Heck, fructose, pure sugar, has a glycemic index of 19, while brown rice is at 87.

( Numbers from "International table of glycemic index and glycemic load values: 2002" Am J Clin Nutr. 2002 Jul;76(1):5-56.)

I don't think anyone is going to say chocolate cake or pure fructose is healthier than a baked potato or brown rice.

So there is certainly more to a food's nutritional value than the glycemic index, which has been shown to be on shaky ground.

http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2006nl/july/glycemic.htm
( Glycemic Index - Not Ready for Prime Time )

> Having normal potatoes as a staple will reduce your lifespan.

Reference please? The assertion that potatoes will reduce one's lifespan is utter nonsense. Reduce it compared to what? An Atkins diet? How well did that work out for Dr. Atkins?

Peruvians have traditionally used potatoes as a staple, and even in modern times they have 1/4 the heart disease death rate of the USA. As heart disease is the leading cause of death, this is significant. In fact, this "potato capital of the world" has obesity and diabetes rates which pale in comparison to the USA.

As we have such an abundant variety available to us today, it is possible to pick our own staples, and I personally prefer fruits or sweet potatoes to regular potatoes. However, the fact remains that even regular potatoes are a healthy choice, provided they are consumed unrefined. French fries are a disaster of a food, but nobody is advocating these highly processed potatoes as a staple food.

The below articles clearly demonstrate that potatoes are healthy and will not "reduce your lifespan". Many references are provided within.

http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2008nl/may/potato.htm ( International Year of the Potato, 2008 )

http://www.nealhendrickson.com/mcdougall020400pupotatoesarep...
( Potatoes Are Pillars of Worldwide Nutrition )
Thanks. I read it in the original format, and although it was a great read, it was painful to have to page that many times.
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With 12 phalanges on each hand that can be marked by the thumb of the same hand, there are 12 possibilities on each hand, or 12 * 12 = 144 possible combinations of marked phalanges with two hands.

The article made it clear, both through the text and the picture, that only one hand used the phalanx counting method, while the other hand simply used digits as we do today. Thus, with 12 phalanges to choose from on one hand and 5 digits to choose from on the other, we have 12 * 5 = 60 combinations.
Not even close. This is what programmers (and Microsoft) don't get. Vista didn't work because the experience and interface were terrible. It didn't matter how good the underlying OS was. Windows 7 fixes the user experience of the OS, even if it is the same technically.
Speaking personally (and I know a few people have said the same in the past) I upvote comments that are constructive or that make a good argument and downvote trollish, rude or "lol" style comments.

Irrespective of if I agree with their message or not.

Examples. Take these to comments I made the other day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=675136

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=675230

The first was rightfully downvoted because it all but amounted to a rant. In the second I made a much more reasoned point (but with basically the same conclusion as the first) and it got an upvote.

In my eyes that is the HN effect working :)

Although all of that said I have noticed a tendency for upvotes to snowball sometimes - and for some comments to obviously be voted on based on agreement/disagreement *(not that there is a specific rule against that of course!).
Yeah fair enough. I don't like them either :-) It seems both are trying to fit in with a movement they don't understand. I find the kinds of reports we are talking about lack actual content/value.
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In my opinion Ryanair and Easyjet "hacked" the aviation industry creating a whole new class of low-fare product by cutting costs significantly.
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Anyone know which algorithm is used in the digits?
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I generally upvote comments that make an interesting point in an intelligent way. I tend to favor concision, since I don't upmod (or downmod) something if I'm not compelled to read the whole thing.

I generally upvote anything I respond to, even in disagreement, unless it's obnoxious (in which case, I downvote).
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Don't ask BAD teachers "why?". I've found that many/most of the people who have gone into science had a teacher at some point in their past who inspired them. These teachers addressed these questions, or helped people find answers.
Yes, hard disks offer more capacity than solid state drives, but I don't think that this continuing to be so will necessarily mean that people will always prefer hard disks. Almost everything is now on the net, and hard disks are becoming more like a cache. I play games from Steam, stream music and videos and hardly ever keep local copies. It only takes about 15 minutes to download one full CD-ROM of content.

Therefore I would currently prefer 80G of space on a solid-state drive if it was a lot faster, more quiet and reliable if it cost the same as a 1TB hard disk. For a laptop it would be a no-brainer if it also used the battery less. Right now we are not quite there yet, as 80G on a good SSD costs the same as a 4T traditional disk, but I think it won't be long until the sweet spot is reached.

Of course there are people with legitimate needs for a lot of space, for example editing video. But for most casual users, SSDs will likely start making more sense quite soon. Oh yeah, I would like to also clarify about my previous comment which commented about Joel's SSD purchase. I wrote that maybe he can next get his employees SSDs based on RAM modules. Some people seemed to think that I was being disrespectful and making fun of Joel, but I hope from this comment you can see that I just really like the idea of SSDs.
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I'm 6'2" and I don't fit in Ryan Air or Easy Jet planes :( I took and Easy Jet from London to Berlin (~1 hour) and I had to sit at an angle much to to consternation of the poor bloke sitting next to me.

I'm happy to pay for the more expensive carrier to get a better user experience. You can tell I'm a mac user can't you ;)

It's interesting to see how they save money. As well as hacking the system I think the LCC hacked the public in to thinking travelling like cattle is good. When they travel like cattle on the London Underground they all complain!
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Great article. One of the things to remember is that most of the times 70% of the communication actually happens through body language. Perhaps not so much when you are sitting at a desk and talking face to face but definitely in the case where other perceive your capabilities/ mentality. For example general behavior while in office.

Sometimes when I look at the managers/ leaders in my organization and am thinking how they rose up to that level, one of the things I observe is the behavioral part like described in the article.

"Emotional Intelligence" is a good book on the subject.
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Same here.

I think it's a great language. As much as I value purity from an academic standpoint, I also need to eat. I'd rather see a 90%-pure Lisp that I can get a job in than a 100%-pure Lisp that I can't.

Moreover, I think Clojure will get more Lispy, rather than less, over time. In 2015, I think far fewer people will be programming in Java full-time, and the JVM will be optimized as a VM to support higher-level languages rather than to support Java as a primary language.
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Ah, glad its not just me! I usually try to rush on at the front to get the seats near the emergency doors, extra leg room there. If you don't get them though the entire trip is hell..
How about rickety old planes that make all sorts of dodgy noises on take off? That's my experience of one of the cheap airlines in particular. Is there any information out there to show the average age of their planes? if they are different then that's a major factor that should be in the comparison.
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Average fares are hard to compare. For one, LCCs and regular airlines are using different airports and at least the LCCs in europe are only covering certain high traffic routes. I would love to know where they got their numbers from and whether they include any additional fees (airport, luggage etc.).
I'm not exactly in the same boat, but interesting read nonetheless. I'd suggest for the author to try online dating, seriously, even if only to meet interesting people and hone your social skills. I've gone on a handful of dates that started on online dating sites. It's a great way to get to know the person in a calm setting and you actually have a lot to talk about by the time you end up having a date. just my .02
I upvote comments that make me think, tell me something I didn't know, or have an interesting perspective. There is, of course, a personal bias towards comments that I agree with. I try hard to vote objectively regardless of my own views. But I'm only human.