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Bezos said recently that he thinks AWS could be Amazon's biggest business. http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/13/jeff-bezos-believes-aws-cou...

From the press conference reported in the link:
"Jeff is very excited about the AWS business and he believes - like the rest of the leadership team does – that in the fullness of time- it is very possible that AWS could be the biggest business at Amazon."
The Domino Day Sparrow
I have had zero problems with Virtual Box on Fedora running Office under Windows 7, plus SublimeText and SourceTreeApp (a .NET hog) when I've needed to ensure cross-platform operation for a few in-house tools.
Berkeley Entrepreneurship Week feat Kevin Hale
Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births
Google isn't making a copyright claim in preventing you from accessing the books via an automated way. They're limiting access to their servers.

If I have a book in my house and you want to cite text from it, you can't cite Fair Use to break into my house and look at it.
Definitely! Fault tolerance is one of the biggest goals people have with moving to "The Cloud", but one of the least well-understood AWS topics when it really comes down to the implementation details.
I <3 Gerry Weinberg. This book is one of my favorites.
There are simpler things.

Like not having mega-hospitals that are impossible to keep entirely clean.

Growing up near the UCLA Medical Center, a vast, vast complex, I heard tales that there were diseases that existed there and nowhere else in the world. Most patients derive little benefit from the scale of the hospital and the fact that in a huge hospital getting all rooms clean at once is logistically very difficult means that scale can be very dangerous.
"This app will be able to read and modify everything."

Why modify?
To people that hate Chicago School Economics and know a little bit about how the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" came in to being, it will always lack legitimacy. Just because you don't like, know or accept that doesn't mean you have to imagine it is any different.

Your analogy with the Oscars is spurious. If Nobel wanted a prize in economics, tiddlywinks, synchronised swimming, aromatherapy or anything else he probably would have mentioned it in his will. Economics existed in the days before he popped his clogs so he could have had a prize for it if he wanted, but he didn't. Sometimes you have got to respect a man's will, not twist it into something it isn't. That is dishonourable.

As for the Oscars, technology changes and the "Best Animated Feature" award is there to recognise those CGI extravaganzas - nobody can really argue with that. They haven't branched out and given an extra Oscar for "Best Economist in a Government Think Tank" or anything weird like that, have they?

Allegedly members of the Nobel family have called for the joke that is the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" to be stopped, I guess they have had a bit longer to think about it than you have.
It's more for handling all those js quirks with equality, though yeah if it's your var, you'll probably be fine with != null (though jshint probably won't like it)
I've heard (from Pilot friends) that Pilots & Flight Attendants are the worst for leaving devices switched on.

A while back, a JetStar pilot forgot to drop the landing gear coming into Singapore because he got a txt message

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286044/Jetstar-pilo...
That's surprising; chip and signature exists in part for accessibility reasons and everywhere is meant to accept them.
this article says "the average American family with a pre-tax income in the mid-$50k range".

Is that household income or individual income? 50K for a whole family seems too low.
Yeah the one I'm using is encrypt-then-MAC for AES-CBC, so I guess I'm good in that aspect.
Why Are We Building Jailbait Sexbots?
Why do you rate GitHub's support as "poor"?
"A new marketing model has developed. It’s not B2B or B2C — it’s B2D."

"D stands for different."

Ok...
This makes me curious, could you please expand?
When I submitted the link, the "[video]" wasn't in there; it was added by someone else later (when it hit the main HN page I presume).
What regulators should know about Bitcoin
So apparently people believe when you lie to them if you sound convincing. Frankly I feel I should be disgusted by this kind of behavior, but I am just numb. That numbness makes me sad, where did my innocence go?
It's absolutely ridiculous that the permissions required are no more granular than that. Is that the fault of the app or of the Dropbox API?
If you can meet a client's expectation, then you are good enough to freelance.
That’s associative memory. What is the simplest explanation for it? That consciousness extends to all these creatures, that it’s an imminent property of highly organized pieces of matter, such as brains.

Um, I'm pretty sure there are mathematical explanations for how associative memory works, that don't invoke the paranormal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopfield_network
What does ART have to do with Dart?
This post could help people that may write the highly technical posts and only submit their own content. If they were to get banned, you'd miss their great information.
There are three tricks involved with this.

One, you may not be able to download the card app from one card and upload it to another. My GlobalCard fu is not well honed enough to tell you what ADPU you'd need to invoke in order to try, but it goes against the goals of the product to allow this anyway.

Two, if a credit card company provides you with an EMV card, it's got a private key loaded into the card, and may have even originally been generated on the card. It is outright not allowed under any circumstance to download that private key and upload it to another chip; that would be a major hole in the scheme.

Three, not all banks use the same crypto. Even if they all agreed to a single kind of crypto operation, different EMV chips have different performance characteristics when carrying out crypto operations. If the bank can't control the actual EMV chip any more, then they cannot control elements of their payments processing (e.g. session closure within a certain time frame). This problem is the easiest to solve of these three problems.

So, unless the banks get on board with allowing their apps and their keys to be provisioned on an already existing card, or provide some kind of proxy mechanism whereby an EMV card can delegate another card to act on its behalf (and imagine the security concerns with that) then this isn't going to happen.

I don't see the benefit to the banks for doing this. You're far more likely to see paypal succeeding in turning your phone into your wallet (and they are doing it) then you are to see Visa or MC allowing you to link multiple EMV cards into one.
I thought about freelancing too a while ago, especially because I don't need the money I'm earning and I'd rather work, say, 6 hours a day instead of 8 even if I end up with less. That flexibility is not a given with "normal" jobs.

I think I'm good enough, but I'm pretty sure I'm far too slow. I do everything by hand and even though I use stuff like preprocessors and project templates it takes much much longer than what some people are able to hammer out with bootstrap, some modifications to it and a well designed workflow. I test everything and abstract as much as possible (e.g. only use raw SQL for performance rather than beeing lazy about writing models) and that only adds to the amount of time required to accomplish even the smaller stuff.
Unfortunately, there's currently no read-only access for Dropbox API users to access all of the user's files and folders (e.g. to make a treemap visualization). It's read/write or nothing.
I pre-ordered 2 about an hour ago (already got charged), haven't gotten a confirmation email yet...
Dart2JS will be the key thing that drives Dart adoption.

So, yeah, Google has a motivation to keep it up to date.
Are threshold bans permanent? I had like 1k karma and got banned out of the blue. Reasons were never given, so I am guessing it is automated.
I had a really tough time with credit cards in Denmark.

I had one chip & sig card that didn't work except in like one restaurant I went to. A couple of places I could use any regular credit card though. Ended up having to go to ATMs and carry cash, which is so uncommon that people think you're a drug dealer. :D
Dropbox has left it difficult to track down large files in their web interface; nice to see someone fill in the (purposely) missing piece.
Malware is holding Vietnam back
Reminds of a quote (falsely?) attributed to Henry Ford.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
This is so so sad. I value truth over money.
Why would a bank allow that? It creates all kinds of liability issues, hurts the issuing bank's branding, and there's no big source of fees to allow Coin to simply buy cooperation from them.

Heck, they're running a kickstarter for funding, while even dreaming about being a card issuer would require to start with posting multimillion security deposits.
This reminds me of an issue I had with a coworker. Personally, I'm reluctant to answer questions about the behaviors of a codebase I work on (e.g. "what kinds of input can you give in field X of dialog Y?") without reviewing the code first. There are far too many combinatorial logical possibilities, not to mention the fact that a mature codebase becomes so fractured and diverse that nobody really knows what's going on at any given code location.

Meanwhile, my coworker would confidently answer with whatever he thought was correct. He would often be close, but he would also, alarmingly often, be completely wrong, to the point of describing behavior that had nothing to do with the product in question.

As luck would have it, none of his lies/misrepresentations ever mattered. Whatever prompted the questions ended up being unimportant, or the support issue was resolved through other means. He ended up promoted to manager, at which point the department imploded on itself under his watch. To my knowledge, he never had any idea how incorrect he was, since he was simply wildly confident in himself.
Same here. Phone in left. Keys, money clip, change, pocket knife and everything else in right. I try very hard to never put anything in my pocket with my phone. mostly for ease of access but also to avoid scratches.
Ok from what I can tell from Dropbox [1], it's their fault.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/devguide
Whenever someone is ready to pay you for your services. I'm sure you can solve a lot of business problems with what you know already. You just have to put yourself out there and find some clients who are need of your services.
MIT Invention Allows You To Reach Through The Screen And Touch Things
That's the dropbox API. Apparently there's no read/write distinction, and access to metadata is considered a "read", so this app needs full read/write permission.
I'd say this is to Excel as MongoDB is to any real database.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/z9hkHT7.png

The colour and area of the blocks would seem to correspond to the file type and file size respectively.
PL/Python is NOT supported: http://www.databasesoup.com/2013/11/first-look-at-postgresql...
Well this is just my opinion; I don't think pictures are too important for tech news, which is why I like HN.

How are you sorting / arranging the articles? Are you pruning them at all?
I use Lemon Wallet and took photos of everything here that's NOT a credit card. I carry three cards. Drivers License, and two credit cards.

Soon to be one.
I was waiting for a slightly more meaningful enlightening or moral awakening at the end of this article, maybe some kind of realization that the world isn't full of "good people" and "bad people" but that everyone is capable of basic crimes against one another like stealing stuff.
Anybody else made sad by

Open positions:
Technical Account Manager

or just me?

Or it's like my company, and they don't bother to list positions for software engineers because they're hiring those all the time.
Smart Dust: The Sensors That Track Every Thing, Everywhere
Impressive. This shows how anything that can be written in Javascript will be written; and what cannot UX wise?
Did you try to email and ask? I bet you would get a response. The email address is listed in the blog post.
I would assume it would be like any other credit card transaction: up to the merchant to verify the account holder with an ID.

The fraud you're speaking of is not limited to this technology; anyone could find and use a credit card they found on the ground if the merchant did not verify it.
About the Xbox One's "low" RAM
Justin Bieber Just Launched A New Social Network Dedicated To Selfies
Yeah, Wikipedia didn't make sense, so I searched and thought WordPress, then finally figured it out.

Part of it is probably that I've only ever seen one person use one.
Look at it another way.

Would you have wanted to work with people who are so short-sighted anyway?

As anyone who conceptually can't understand that it doesn't matter that JS testing framework 1 is going to be similar to testing frameworks 2, 3 & 4 is probably going to be populated by a whole load of crap, probably mono-linguistic, developers.

A lot of development jobs & the developers that work in those jobs, suck. And they're going to be pretty painful if you care about code.

I was at a talk last night and the speaker was talking about how to help new developers when they first start in a company and he started going on about giving the new developers access to the live servers & FTPing the changes to the live server, etc., etc.

All I could think is 'right, that company is now a never work for, avoid people who have worked there'.

No automated deployment? Having to give new developers access to live servers? In 2013? Pathetic.
How about the next 10?
We're running 0.7 and most of our problems have been around partition rebalancing. I'm not the primary engineer on this, but here's my understanding:

If we add nodes to an existing Kafka cluster, those nodes own no partitions and therefore send/receive no traffic. A rebalancing event must occur for these servers to become active. Bouncing Kafka on one of the active nodes is one way to trigger such an event.

Fortunately, cluster resizing is infrequent. Unfortunately, network interruptions are not (at least on EC2).

When ZooKeeper detects a node failure (however brief), the node is removed from the active pool and the partitions are rebalanced. This is desirable. But when the node comes back online, no rebalancing takes place. The server remains inactive (as if it were a new node) until we trigger a rebalancing event.

As a result, we have to bounce Kafka on an active server every few weeks in response to network blips. 0.8 alleges to handle this better, but we'll see.

Handle-jiggling aside, I'm a fan of Kafka and the types of systems you can build around it. Happy to put you in touch with our Kafka guy, just email me (mike.babineau@rumblegames.com). Loggly's also running Kafka on AWS - would be interesting to hear their take on this.
Go has been great to learn. I was initially very annoyed that Go has no classes but I've found interfaces to be extremely powerful. I had two wow moments:

1. When I realized I could write a http response using anything that accepted an io.Writer (a struct with a compatible Write() method). I can use fmt.Fprint and pass http.ResponseWriter as the first parameter. Need a new line? Don't concat an \n, just use Fprintln.

2. Go has a number of interfaces such as sql.DB (database/sql). Even though Go doesn't provide SQL access directly, it standardizes SQL access and means if a library fizzles out or I write a new one from scratch, I can drop mine into an existing project with almost zero changes -- This meant choosing an SQL driver was very easy, I was reassured that if I picked the wrong one, fixing that would be easy as long as I picked one that built upon sql.DB.

Go seems to be very cleanly designed.

I have yet to have a wow moment with slices. Looking forward to it!
Should be sorted now - sorry about that. Thanks for sharing the cache link though :-)
But this doesn't answer the question of how the terminal/processing system knows it's your account being debited?

It doesn't. It debits an account that is signified by the randomly generated account number. The connection between that number and your actual account would be done by AMEX/in the backend somewhere. In fact, the whole point of such a system would be that the terminal would be blind to it.

There would always be a static identifier, but the key is taking that identifier away from the end user. That's where the card details get duplicated.
Google pays a decent salary- not the highest, but fair when considering the cost of buying a home and living in a city near a Google office. I have never heard of a Grad student getting a stipend in the amount someone who studied CS for 6-8 years should be able to get outside of academia.

I'm not saying doing a CS Phd program is not worthwhile- it still is. But, if you have an existing offer at Google or YCombinator its like going to the NBA straight out of high school. Certainly there are good reasons to go to college. But at the end of the day, if the NBA is where you're trying to get to- you take the chance when the opportunity presents itself. Grad school will always be there.
good idea - you are right it is a bit impersonal.
Still beta, so I'm hoping that's added soon. Won't be considering RDS until it is.
Likely Fed Chairwoman Agrees With Sen. Warren On Need For Banking Regulation
"We need to devote just as much time and attention ... to regulatory policy as we do to monetary," said the likely Fed Chair.
Hear, hear! Yes, I do that too and noticed the same when reading from microlancer.com.

I think it drives my coworkers crazy when they're looking over my shoulder reading from the same screen.
What's the opposition to it? I've had chip+PIN my whole life in fact I didn't know until today that the US was different - how do your cashpoints work?
I think you missed my point - I never mentioned code or servers - I never argued that the likes of AirBnB as a business were just a collection of CPU cycles.

I was illustrating that building a primarily online-based business (including code, servers, network, marketplace, branding, awareness, good people, etc) is faster and simpler than a classic business like a hotel chain (which requires all of the above, plus significant investments into geographically disperse physical structures.

I'm absolutely not saying it's "easy", I'm just reflecting on the market valuation of an organization that (in my opinion) is more at risk of competition than a classic business.
Once you've tried it and got your treemap, you can unauthorize the app from https://www.dropbox.com/account/security#applications
You still need to do your masters, "along the way". If I remember correctly, in England, first you do you masters, and then start a PhD. 2 masters + 4-5 phd = 6.

Most European countries require a masters degree before starting, but the PhD is officially supposed to take 3 years (but usually takes 3-4+)
I agree that we humans don't have to expect bacteria to always evolve methods to resist our medical interventions.
However, I think the most effective thing, maybe the only, we can do is actually look at the process of bacterial evolution.

That is, unless antibiotics are wildly over-used and human pathogens are concentrated in one place facing constant medical intervention, human medical intervention is going to be a very small, unimportant part of bacterial evolution.

Unfortunately, antibiotics are widely over used and pathogens are concentrated in poor administered hospitals.

If we stop these practices and we could stop these practices, then antibiotic-resistant bacteria would have little evolutionary incentive to exist.
Why would you want to carry just one credit card when you can carry zero with Square (or Google Wallet)?

If it is because of the "tradition problem", it's not much better than Square Wallet either: In more than one place I've been to the cashier was supposed to manually enter the last four digits of CC# manually for the transaction to get through. You'll have to carry a backup card with either Square or Coin.

I like the vision of completely ditching the credit card far better, and the marginal compatibility benefit does not seem good enough for this to get anywhere in its current shape.

Of course, things can change.

(BTW, wasn't Google doing the same thing with a physical card for Google Wallet and ended up abandoning it?)
Hamster-powered walker - Imgur
I was freelancing things a couple of years into my career. The trick isn't skill at the job (so long as you don't get in over your head), it's getting the gigs in the first place. Honestly, I really wish I'd stuck with it and pushed harder down that road, rather than settling into corporate work.

Among other things, I saved Christmas! (Way back in the dawn of the web, a little printing company in Iowa managed to get the christmas.com domain, and were printing letters to Santa for kids. They were getting creamed performance-wise. I helped get it runnable.)
Then you missed out on an intelligent and frankly important critique. He managed to put in words what I have been thinking for a while. I was skeptical after the first two sentences too...
First Jolla Sailfish smartphones will ship on November 27
That part happens atop a huge logical base, though, a creative supplement that distinguishes the fine shades of world-class expertise among those with huge amounts of knowledge and analytic ability. Carlsen, like everyone who is competitive on a high level in chess, has spent a large amount of time accumulating vast stores of factual knowledge and analytical skills. He knows the opening books, he knows the end-game solutions, he knows basically all the heuristics that have been developed. On top of that, he makes some brilliant creative plays, but not in place of it. Someone who did not have a high-level grounding in rigorous chess theory as their basis would never make it anywhere in modern chess, no matter how intuitively brilliant.
As an alternative, just working on/sponsoring/begging for an asm.js target might be enough to equalize performance.
Data.fressian
Coin: A step in the wrong direction
Good work! Great to see the first demo out, I'll be keeping a close eye on this.
(Disclaimer: Hubber.)

Here's the thing about "management work": it turns out you don't necessarily need management to do it.

Setting priorities? This can be done through consensus.

Making sure schedules are met? Don't have schedules. (1)

Hiring? Have everybody do it.

Giving out raises? Set up a deterministic system and forget about it.

Giving feedback? Everybody can do this.

Running meetings? Don't have meetings.

Communicating with the other parts of the company? We have technology for this.

1) EDIT: forgot my footnote. Of course, we're in sort of a fortunate situation here, and not every company can just not have a schedule.
Repeating the same thing is not productive. Nobody cares about personal taste or what you do or do not prefer. That has nothing to do with the topic.
I think you just listed a whole bunch of reasons why that legal system is broken.

It's IMHO quite questionable whether such a law suit must be insanely complex and involve hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. And then subsequently, why judges have to be overworked, etc.
I guess they wouldn't be able to do this for the Smartcards used by Chip+PIN as the PIN verification actually happens within the Chip. Unless perhaps the banks worked together on it, but I can't see them doing that!
> You're playing craps, only the dealer rolls the dice for you behind a screen and tells you if you won or not.

Huh? If I understand this correctly, you win if the price on mtgox goes above a certain strike range. That's public information, so surely you can check yourself if you won or not?