skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of a bunch of other use cases. E.g. Student spinning up an instance to work on an essay or powerpoint presentation. But yes, it looks like the pricing is not by the hour :(
This one seems to be about WorkSpaces:
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/11/amazon-workspaces-desktop...

The one you linked is about AppStream
This is perhaps one of the more succinct ways of summarizing our core reasons for the switch. There's a lot more to it than that, of course, but in a nutshell we saw the upcoming scaling of our data footprint and complexity and wanted to use (what we evaluated to be) the better tool for the job.
http://www.amazon.com/Rocketfish-High-Definition-Headphones-...

Try these out. These are extremely practical Bluetooth headset. Good battery life, 7-10 hours continuos hearing. If battery is a problem, buy two of them, that's what I did.
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i dont see any mentions of options in the article. Can you imagine what the implied vol would have to be?
This resonates with me- particularly the 'it obviously follows', (huge jump in complexity and then --->) 'so we already know that x, so obviously- y'.

I think a lot of teachers aren't cognizant of the fact that what is obvious to then isn't automatically obvious to students. I had what I would say is at best a mediocre HS math teacher and completely tuned out. It was my fault in the end, but the teacher didn't help.

I'm now trying to learn a bunch of things that require math and mathematic theory when you get to higher levels. So - learning math is what I have to do. It's kind of fun, and yes it is hard work. Like, brain-hurting hard work.
Sigh, grumpy german privacy data protection consultant here.

Can't be used in G. for the same reasons MS Office 365 is off limits, sensitive personal and business data don't belong in non german-hosted clouds.

One part of me wants that easy carefree cloud life, the other part doesn't want to feed the US-overlord anymore with our precious informations.
An entertaining read, but as an enthusiast of NKS-style science (and ohmygod bias! someone at Wolfram Research) I don't think the review is all that intellectually substantive: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3974503
net/http/pprof/pprof.go is just some boilerplate around the built in profiling functions. Copy it into your application and use your own init function.
Note that the iPhone 5s also has 1GB of RAM and has a similar CPU speed (1.3GHz). I feel you on the LTE portion, but much of the targeted market has no opportunity to use LTE. Maybe they could have a Moto G+ that costs $50-75 more and includes LTE.
People say Mono is slow as if it wasn't evolving all the time.
If you’re working in any startup hub, you almost certainly have friends that are working on their own startups. Ask them to help you. The first question should be, “Am I ready to fundraise?”

I would actually phrase this another way, "Be honest with me: If I asked you to refer me to one of your investors, would you recommend me to him/her or is my startup not there yet?"
>this is what modern imperialism looks like

Well that is a pretty tepid imperialism. If a country isn't willing to put their money where their mouth is then maybe they should be quiet.
I'd love to have an all-grain option
X11 over ssh is really slow. Windows RDP, VNC or Teamviewer are generally pretty fast to the point where it makes almost no difference to the normal Desktop user.
Another +1 for Montreal.

While it is not necessary to find tech work, speaking some French can be very helpful. Also be prepared for cold ;)

Here are a number of vibrant communities in the city:

- Montreal Tech Watch: http://montrealtechwatch.com/

- MTL New Tech: http://mtlnewtech.tumblr.com/

- Notman House: http://notman.org/en/

- Montreal.rb: http://www.montrealrb.com/

- Montreal Ruby Hacknight: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/montreal-ruby-hackni...

- Montreal Python: http://montrealpython.org/

- js-montreal: http://js-montreal.org/

- Google Montreal Tech Series: http://www.meetup.com/googleMTL/

- Foulab: http://foulab.org/en/wiki/Index_Page

- Devops MTL: http://www.devopsmtl.com/
As a microsoft employee: Windows 7? Windows Server 2008? INTERNET EXPLORER _9_?

What is this? A virtual desktop service for time travellers?
>[US propose; AU/NZ/VN/BN/CL/PE/MY/SG/CA/MX oppose: shall make patents available for inventions for the following] [NZ/CL/PE/MY/AU/VN/BN/SG/CA/MX propose: may also exclude from patentability]:

Made me laugh. You're on your own there, USA.
"All WorkSpaces Bundles provide the Windows 7 Experience to users (provided by Windows Server 2008 R2)"
The NSA is gonna love this.

I think their timing is quite bad. I doubt many non-us companies will start to move a big part of their infrastructure to the cloud of a US company right now.

On the other hand for smaller businesses that don't have to fear espionage this could be a really cheap way to lower costs.
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Then open a profitable Linux app store. If you are making something good people will make a road to your house.
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My understanding is that the TPP is not public (yet?), and parties involved are not allowed to discuss it for 4 years.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/11/house-pushing-back-on...
Fixed, not all parts of my brain are thread-safe.
Motorola Mobility is now a Google (R) subsidiary...
I'm surprised that most of the comments here ("I want less cliff, not more"... "why don't we just get rid of the cliff"...) are really employee-centric -- and not the kind of employee I want to hire as a founder/CEO.

Hey guys, we are on Hacker News, we're supposed to be entrepreneur-minded.
Yep, I don't get why Wolfram language would replace APIs we already have in place.

Because it's in natural language? WolframAlpha demonstrates (unsurprisingly) that it's still finicky. You still have to do just as much work to ensure connected services are working together properly.

Because--according to universal computation--it covers the entire computable world? So does any Turing-complete language.

I do see this as another cool thing along the lines of IPython Notebooks or JS Fiddle where you can quickly hook up to services and share the results. Uniquely, WolframAlpha's datasets and some of Mathematica's features. So it'd be nice for homework sets or Bret Victor-esque reactive documents (see http://worrydream.com/Tangle/).
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I agree but don't see what this has to do with the discussion at all.
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"Write Once Run Anywhere" is Anti-Customer. [1]

Because of continued platform fragmentation WORA has been, is, and always will be a pipe-dream. People have been attempting to create WORA technologies since the beginning of time and they have all failed.

The nice thing about Xamarin's model is your UI code uses native constructs, allowing for the best possible, most natural (to the user) experience. But you get to stick with one language (if you want) and your core code is very portable.

[1] http://ceklog.kindel.com/2013/02/21/james-gosling-screwed-us...
A bit of searching: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_o...
I don't think the objective is to save on licensing costs. I think it's to save on hardware and possibly deployment costs. Also, the primary use case seems to be using a thin client.
I doubt it. We had plans about how to invade Canada prior to WWII.

People freaked out when they first heard about that, but it had nothing to do with Canada in particular, and everything to do with the Department of War having plans for effectively everybody that had any major military capability that could theoretically harm the U.S., just like Batman has plans to defeat every other superhero in the Justice League (just in case...).

Until the days of unilateral world government (when nations won't have to act in their own best interest), allies should evaluate each other, at least at a high level. That doesn't have to mean sinister things though. Just ask Batman.
Many corporations lag the bleeding edge significantly. It really hurts when CUSTOM_SOFTWARE_X doesn't work on the newest and greatest.

Then, after that happens, they have to retrain everyone on the changes.
Great post!

When you're first starting out, positioning matters. At http://yesgraph.com we've found copy AB tests to produce incredible lift.

For example, people don't want to "invite" contacts. They do want to "email" contacts though. It's the same flow, but a few words triggered massive lift. The reason it is massive is because it is so unoptimized. So it is specifically at the start where such small tests can matter.
> For other companies that are interested in playing the long game, I think it makes more sense to explore alternative compensation structures like profit sharing, etc.

IMO, for non-growth oriented companies, I believe this is the best way to align employee and company interests. I can imagine that there are more effective means of doing so, but I can't imagine what they would look like. The devil's in the details, of course, but a properly-implemented profit-sharing plan seems to be well-received by the employees whom I've witnessed partake.
The licence fee is payable by people in the UK who use a device to watch broadcast tv.

You don't need a licence for radios. Some people don't use a tv to watch broadcast TV, and so they don't need to pay a licence, and so to those people it is free.

Obviously, pretty much nothing is free, but at some point it becomes tedious to say "free at the point of delivery, but paid for by X".
Some jump points for the interested on historical implementations other M:N projects (I remember this specifically for the case of NetBSDs work in this area):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduler_activations

http://web.mit.edu/nathanw/www/usenix/freenix-sa/freenix-sa....
You can already do that with normal EC2 and for a lot cheaper too because you could use a spot instance.
I'm still waiting for the WikiLeaks major leaks about Moscow that we were all promised. At least, promised until Assange got his TV show on Russia Today.
It's important to remember that when someone is justifying the existence of a new project, claims like "<that technology> can't evolve to meet the needs of <this technology>" are highly suspect.
I got a surplus stack of them that was scrapped at a bookstore to press flowers...

As for his post, it should have been titled: "A New Kind of Programming Language".
> What do you think is in that "microcode"?

Can someone say what this is used for:

$ grep GOOGLE /usr/src/linux/.config

# CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE is not set

?

This is not like net interface blob, this is like google firmware and we all know what that means >:-)
Which a lot of people do. They give a trusted entity (a neighbor) their access token (keys) to check on and maintain their property while on vacation.
Those people get both great equity and great salary. They can't lose. You can.
If this is high-end what is the HTC One I bought 6 months ago?
That's an accurate quote and all. Of course no treaty has been signed yet so I'm not sure what your point is.
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I see Caustic soda and sodium hydroxide quite often.

I don't see borax. I'm in the UK, and I think there's some cancer concern about it.
It's so sad how many things are taught so terribly in formal education and end up turning away many people from things like literature, math, and science. One of the things I'm looking forward to with the proliferation of mobile computing devices is the opportunity for interactive self-directed learning through educational applications. Not only will it allow for people to learn at their own pace and to take the time to focus on aspects that they are having a hard time getting (rather than being driven over like a speed bump the way conventional learning works) but it will allow for a diversity of teaching/learning styles.

I have a feeling that in a century people will look back at formal education today and view as barbaric and ineffective.
=alert("XSS")
A pretty poor review without specs. What version of bluetooth is supported? Does it include a blu-ray drive? (I know its Sony and probably does, but if they are competing on price, it would make sense to drop it and go with online downloads instead). They show it accepting discs, so I am assuming it does indeed have a blu-ray drive, however is it a mini? does it support BDXL or IH-BD? Will Linux be installable? These omissions from the review makes is seem haphazard at best.
Life lesson #1: Nothing is really free.
Additionally, you need some hardware to run the client on. Unlike cloud service hosting, the ability to explode performance is not frequent need. So what does it give you?

Imagine you alone are administrating 50-100 non-technical users computers. You need to fix every IT problem, test software upgrades then roll them out, support special software for specific users such as accounts, and re-teach the FD how to use network shares twice a week.

Being able to hand each new employee a dumb client device, which just boots to an Amazon Desktop client, saves you a lot of time. Now hardware faliure = replace, no worrying about lost data.

Everything else happens in the cloud, in a very standard 'shape' of instance. You just roll stuff out accross your cloud instances like any cloud admin.

I think that's supposed to be the sell anyway.
You can do this now. Just fire up an instance and blow it away.

I once used it to download a Steam game and tunnel it through a non-quota-counting path back to my computer.
And what about his lawyers, or his parents, or anyone else that gives him any sort of support?
Legally or due to your privacy concerns? Just looking for clarification on your statement of "Can't" if that is a personal preference or legal obligation for government/corporations doing business locally.
NoScript is giving me XSS errors on sign up over HTTPS, FYI.
That it is systematic implies you can use it to generate insights into things that are causally linked.

Only if the model is accurate. If (as in the case of tarot reading and failed gambling) you have a system that doesn't correspond to the world you will draw conclusions that are detailed and reproducible but not insightful of the world. Inaccurate models are only misleading, not vaguely insightful.
Another example: Wikileaks.
No, but I'd be willing to try.
Ask HN: How can I target 2nd and last row of every tbody in pure CSS?
Here is my puzzle: http://jsfiddle.net/gMqJL/

The rows that say "(Red)" should have the "red" class. I can do it in jQuery but not sure how to do it in pure CSS (without dirtying the markup).
Completely off topic, but regarding SSH over a high latency connection - it's actually remarkably good as long you don't have loss on your link.

I'm currently working with a client in Singapore that requires that I connect to their data center through a B2B L2L IPSec tunnel that is sourced in California. So, From Singapore, I connect to the VPN concentrator in California, and then from there, connect to the clients site in Singapore.

So, every keystroke that goes to a server approximately 100 meters from me, Starts off in Singapore, crosses the ocean to California, comes back to Singapore, returns back to California, Comes back to Singapore again.

I do this for about 8-10 hours a day - completely workable.

Oh, and the Connection to the internet that my VPN connection rides on is a 3G modem, no less.
Growth and long term vision or lack of interest in an exit are not mutually exclusive. At any rate, I'd be curious to hear how companies like Mailchimp are doing these types of compensation.
Pjc50 is correct. Practically every browser exploit over the last decade has had javascript as an essential component. Forcing users to enable javascript to use a site is a bad idea because it makes them more vulnerable. Javascript should be a last resort to provide necessary functionality that is impossible to do in any other way. If you want to use javascript for frills, that's fine as long as the frills don't become obstacles if javascript is disabled.

To put it into perspective, NoScript is the 4th most popular add-on to firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?sort=us...

Software like what you are developing needs to be designed with a strong security mindset from the beginning. It is a truism in the industry that security tacked on after the fact never works very well. I was extrapolating from the security naivete of your website design to the likely naivete of your software design.
High-end Android is way past those specs.

For instance, my HTC One has a 1080p screen vs 720p, twice the RAM, four times the storage, and a 1.7Ghz quad with twice as much on-die cache as the 1.2GHz Quad in this thing.
Did I say that? No.
As it is in Sweden.
Is anyone keeping count of how many times this story has appeared here? It's somewhat interesting (this isn't a jab at the content), I'm just surprised to see it appear again. Is this more compelling because of the series A?
> [NZ/BN/MY/VN/CA/JP propose; US/AU/SG/MX oppose: The term of protection of a work, performance or phonogram shall be determined according to each Party's domestic law and the international agreements to which each Party is a party.]

On a sidenote, wouldn't it be great if we could at least get unified copyright law? From the draft it seems like the US is pushing more towards that
That's true, and this set is probably not going to be used by idiots.

I have a strong reaction to sodium hydroxide because I've seen the results of burns with it.
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This looks awesome. I don't think latency will be much of an issue either. Years ago I worked on a training system that allowed users to launch the NXClient directly from a training website and run labs on EC2 instances and even from the west coast I could write code on a US East instance very comfortably, without any noticeable lag.
Or "A New Implementation of LISP"...
> and I'd sit there wanting to shout "NO, NO it's not obvious!"

Toward the end of my degree program, I became the annoying guy in class who would do exactly that. I remember one time in particular (I think the topic was something on wavelets, which I barely remember now anyway) when I stopped the professor and said "Can you explain all of that over again, from the beginning?"

Worked great for me, but I'm not sure what the rest of the class thought of it. At the time I just assumed they were as lost as me and would appreciate it, but that may well have not been the case.
What if a datacenter which hosts these cloud services was in Germany?
Be nice to though, and it seems like it should be an easy thing...
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Mine runs two days on a charge. Ofcourse the downside of the 920 is that it's one of the heaviest phones out there. Still, i'm really happy with it.
check out the median income vs the price of housing.. the median singaporean couple can barely afford a flat with a 30 year loan.. the average couple might afford to have a baby.. or a car.. there's no room for risk for most singaporeans' lives. other than the state run lottery..check out the queues...
I agree they aren't productive. However, the fact that we keep hearing about it, especially from those not from the US, is informative. There is a German IT manager posting about how he's like to use this but can't due to the NSA spying. The NSA is taking money and markets out of our hands and may cause products like this to fail.
1) delete an 'information' doesnt work.
2) i really like the real time experience of etherpad and miss this feature in your application.
3) how would you merge or split an 'information'-block?
4) it would be nice if someone can edit the text just by clicking in its block.
5) if i only could write properly on handheld devices i'd love to see a touchable interface ;)
No, their mission is to protect U.S. communications and break everyone else's. They don't have to "lie for a living" typically since typically no one knows to ask them questions :P
What's delicious and costs $300,000? All the food you'll eat in your life.
I just gave indent as a possible example, there are other tools.
This could be an awesome option for Chromebooks too. Shame they're only targeting large IT departments.
Most entrepreneurs start as employees somewhere and they don't want to feel locked in to staying for who knows how many more years than they would have otherwise, waiting (hoping) for a liquidity event so they can realize their equity and finally start their own company.

Thus for would be entrepreneurs, this structure would be a pretty big negative.
It felt like the article was just starting and then it ended; makes me less likely to follow future content. Although I seem to prefer longer-form writing than a lot of the internet, so maybe others will be satisfied.
In my honest opinion, if you choose to change to PostgreSQL because it's "less broken" but still use PHP as your front end, I feel completely justified in asking WTF. Sure, you're securing the barn doors nicely, but the rest of the barn might as well be made of tissue paper.

It is your job, and it's not my place to comment about how to do your job; but when making such a public announcement, 'less broken' when wrapped with PHP and custom frameworks isn't a very compelling message.
Just recently felt the need to profile a tiny little Go program that I converted from Perl. Found out just how damn fast Perl's (C-based) regular expressions are. Go's Regexp library is absolutely awesome, but in this specific case significantly slower. Profiling was a piece of cake.
Yeah, sorry; this description of my intent is accurate.
More on Jeff Barr's blog post: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/11/amazon-appstream-deliver-...
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> Estimates of the prevalence of dyscalculia range between 3 and 6% of the population.

I think this article is targeting a much larger audience than the small percentage of the population that has genuine problems with math.
>Windows XP & IE 6 – although the number of people using ancient Microsoft software is rapidly decreasing there are still a fair number of people using these dinosaurs, especially in corporate environments. Enough said.

Wow, this is like saying their clothes look different from ours because their sowing machines are too old. Their hair styles are different because their scissors have longer blades, their food is different because they use chopsticks - ETC.

Their web design is different because they are different culturally. Their tastes and preferences are stylistically different. just because their gardens are liked in the west, does not mean we like all of their stylistic preferences. This blog post is completely wrong IMO. "Enough said".
What the hell is going on? Secret negotiations about trading policies? What is the legitimation for doing this in secrecy? When did the people lose their right to know what their government is doing?
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You'll be surprised, but most of enterprises use XP and Windows 7. They don't use Windows 8.x for variety of reasons: cost of education, existing OS is good enough, their intranet web sites designed against IE8/9.
Of course that incentive is not unique to this equity structure — see "Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares", Wall Street Journal, 10 November 2011.
In a lot of cases, I would say it's ridiculously cheap -- you can make some very small changes and get a huge response. But in the context of a site that isn't getting many visitors yet, this make sense.
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It'll be neat when Wolfram uses their (his?) almighty genius to utterly change the world of computing. It'll also be neat when they implement basic undo/redo functionality in Mathematica.
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