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VPC is free (and actually, new AWS accounts launch instances by default into a default VPC Amazon sets up for you).

The $0.05 per VPN Connection-hour is only if you want to connect your own network to your VPC. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_VP...

> Does the VPC have any external visibility aside from the VPN connections? And if it does, what is stopping you just setting up your own VPN server and bypassing the $0.05/hour rate?

Some do that, but the ~$30/month you're saving is likely eaten up by the cost of setting up and managing it and the software VPN instance you have to run.
People have the right to choose where their Church tax goes right? In which case you have no argument.
Holy hell - I thought this was the same company I applied to a while ago for a position because the location is the same. It turns out it's not and I am glad. $1.21 is just inhumane.
VPC instance pricing is the same as EC2 pricing. The VPN pricing is if you want to setup a VPN between your office (or some other location) and your VPC.
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That is not what I meant. I meant: “that code path only executes one time out of fifty (thousand), but you have to test it exactly like the core code that runs thousands of times more, so maybe you can drop the feauture since it's used by a handful of users”.

(I have my doubts one in fifty people disable Javascript)
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Not an artist or album specifically, but Soma.FM is my go-to for work noise. Instrumental electronica, ambient, or you get it it with lyrics if you like. One of my faves is ambient with SF public safety radio (police, fire) dubbed on top. Sounds weird, but works well for technical work.
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“The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy."

..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.”

The Savage's conversation with Mustapha Mond in chapter 17 has a lot of heady stuff. It feels like a modern Book of Ecclesiastes.

The whole book is thought-provoking, but chapter 17 in particular says something to modern society and our desire to constantly entertain ourselves. This is why to me Brave New World is more relevant today than 1984. We've all seen 1984 in real-life, through totalitarian states. Society as a whole rejects categorically the world of 1984. But engineered utopia of Brave New World is a lot closer than we realize, and in mass advertising and relentless consumerism, as a society we show a desire to accept it as devastating as it is to individualism and broader and nobler concerns.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3204877-brave-new-worl...
Fortunately Kickstarter is not a store, so the Council of Trent [1] and Pius V should have no problem with offering indulgences as perks.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence#Council_of_Trent
All great points, but you are also missing the context.

I don't think he's missing the context, he's explicitly rejecting the assumptions behind this position.

They are specifically and narrowly focused on trying to build $1BN+ dollar companies that have insane growth rates in competitive markets.

Altman and PG and Andreesen are not building anything, they're focussed on investing in companies which have insane growth rates. That is not a fatuous cavil - that's a very different thing and sometimes puts their motivations at odds with those of company founders. An investor does not have the same incentives as someone building a company, and it's little wonder they want as many people as possible to grow fast or burn out trying.

You can't "miss things" in that context - especially strategic investments - because they will be picked up by competitors who will "out hustle" you.

Is hard work always rewarded? Is giving your life over to your company going to make it succeed? I'd argue there is a far more complex interplay of forces in the success or failure of companies - often it'll come down far more to who they know, or who their investors know, and whether they can come to the attention of the right people in order to have an exit (which just happens to be a great outcome for investors).

Founding a company is extremely hard work, often underestimated, and often all-consuming, but it doesn't have to take over your life completely, and I'm not sure it's healthy if it does. Success has many different definitions, and there are many routes to it.
It used to be the case (I haven't checked lately) that certain documentation pages on Apple's site were javascript-only - they were actually blank unless you had javascript on. These were literally just standard text-heavy pages with no discernible client-side behaviour that I ever saw. Whatever side of the argument anyone reading this is on, surely you have to agree that such behaviour is strange in the very least.
I'll assume you don't know any adults who smoke. I know a number of startup founders who do (myself not included) and work their asses off. They are not being passive.
Even then, you're aware of the contacts or the implant, unless you're living in the Matrix and were genetically engineered with a AV jack in your spinal column.
This is interesting:

> ... researchers writing in the journal Social Psychological & Personality Science[1] have found a correlation between the “seemingly unrelated behaviors” of voluntary tipping and bribery. Namely, “countries that had higher rates of tipping behavior tended to have higher rates of corruption”—even after they control for GDP and income inequality. The context surrounding those two acts may be different, but the expectation of a quid-pro-quo for good service rendered seems to be the same.

[1] http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/9491448
then I can re-motivate you with a few short keystrokes!
I'm 31! You're not over the hill yet :-).

In fact, our whole founding team was 30 and married. There are many different configurations for starting a company. My advice is to take whatever your situation is...and use it to your advantage.
Isn't this Instagram/Vine?
>My big problem with forcing homeless into these safe areas by making things outside them illegal, is that you end up with "out of sight, out of mind". These programs already don't receive enough attention and support.

This is the intended consequence, not a side-effect.

Cities want to reduce their homeless population, because it's distasteful and discourages consumers in those areas. The place I grew up in gentrified rapidly over the course of the 90's and 00's and homeless people made the rich whites that wanted to go to the starbucks feel uncomfortable. On a large scale this would hurt the economy.

A city in this situation has two options. They can treat the underlying causes of homelessness, build more affordable housing, spend more on mental health, etc. But this is expensive and takes money out of the economy at both ends, because you can always make affordable housing unaffordable and collect more property tax and income tax from the new residents.

So, the city went with the cosmetic option: Make it extremely difficult to be homeless within the areas the city wanted homeless people gone from. This entails a number of very cheap, but very effective changes to the environment to just make it difficult for homeless people to be around:

* They installed bars on benches, so that nobody could sleep on them, and encouraged property owners to install spike strips in doorways so that homeless people couldn't sleep there.

* They installed "help the homeless" parking meters so that people could "give their change to the homeless" (really, give their money to a charity, that would have overhead, administrators to pay, etc., resulting in much less going to homeless people), and made it illegal to panhandle and to give money to pandhandlers.

* They made it illegal to serve food without a license, criminalizing Food Not Bombs (a group that collects and distributes food for free, for everyone, not just homeless people) and also giving food directly to homeless people.

* The few homeless people that remained in the area after they left were harassed by police and driven out directly.

At the same time this was going on, the city was closing shelters and selling the land to developers.

Writ large, no city has any incentive to actually address homelessness when it could just try to drive homeless people out of its borders and make it Not Their Problem. And that's what's happening here.

As an aside, it's disgustingly dehumanizing to refer to homeless people as "the homeless" or as "homeless" in the noun form. These are people. They are exactly like you. As we technologists destroy more and more jobs while simultaneously increasing the degree of inequality in society, we will be causing more and more people to become homeless, so we should be more conscious than normal about this problem and how we can fight it.
Yeah? Not even with Facebook's massive userbase? Features alone never guarantee success. If only .1% of Facebook's users used it, that would be a million users.
>So the user is supposed to refresh the webpage constantly to see if they got a new chat/email?

I remember web chatrooms working that way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, or maybe they had meta-tags that refreshed the page periodically.
There isn't really except somebody has to do it, TJ had mentioned that as an idea for something post 1.0.0
Imagine if the Chinese were able to patent the process...

One of the big holes in our current system of patents is that they have inconsistent enforcement internationally. This is simultaneously a good and a bad thing.
We can probably go back and forth for hours on whether I'm being "defeatist" or "realistic". :)

I would love to see positive change in this area, but we need to be aware of what's really important to our intended audience if we're going to try. I could storm off of Facebook and leave a post behind to follow me to my self-hosted Diaspora pod, but I know no one's going to do it, so why bother? My friendships are worth more than my irritation at Facebook-the-company, and I can promise you that the vast majority of users will come to that exact same conclusion. Let's be honest with ourselves about that, before we try to fix this problem. Otherwise we'll only get as far as Diaspora did.
I do this a lot in the ipython REPL. You can type "method_name?" and see the docstring and some other basic info about the method (like args), its extremely helpful.
>> "It'd be more fun if you couldn't delete your content (so that messages posted a while ago don't lose their context), but instead you could be absolutely anonymous (not even having to provide valid email address, which per above will quite likely be matched with your Facebook account at some point)."

If they did that people would be complaining that Facebook won't let them delete their data.
Brave New World is satire. It's _supposed_ to be over the top.
Ok, if Gmail was an app in the Google Chrome store only then that might be a problem but this is "Offline" Gmail which I'm sure is using Chrome-specific API's to do it's magic. Google used to have thing called Google Gears (or something like that) that was a framework that would allow for things like Offline Gmail in FF but if I had to guess they either didn't have great adoption or where too limited in what they could so they dropped it and rolled it's features into Chrome.

What I'm not a fan of is "Lowest-denominator web is the best web" arguement. It's not and I'm sorry but unlimited backwords-compatibility is a pipedream, at some point you have to move forward.
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Nashorn is a JavaScript interpreter which would make it a competitor to V8 or SpiderMonkey. Node is a framework that is tightly tied to the V8 implementation. Untying node from V8 would let it run on Nashorn or any other JavaScript interpreter.
>it describes how the system must allow some non hereditary class movement. If the class system is too rigid, pressure builds up as talented individual press against the ceiling. If some are allowed to progress and there are prominent examples the class system becomes less explicit and more stable.

Just like Whitman, Price, and Haddad[1]!

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLlVa6HjV8k
Well now you're talking about an analogy that's 3 orders of magnitude away from what we're actually dealing with, so it doesn't really hold up. BTW, we're not really talking about 'testing' here, either - you don't actually need to test plain HTML beyond the most cursory of glances.
This, go over to Vimeo and watch the videos and read the original announcement. It is pretty cool.
China totally blew it on this. They had a near monopoly on the production of rare earths, and if they had just moved the prices up slowly, I believe they would have captured far more value before it triggered a ramp up of external suppliers.

I think this is a valuable observation with respect to how well the Chinese government works with regards to long term decisions.
Upvoted for Century of Self. Everyone in the industrialized world should watch it.

Although I will add that Freud's theories are only one part of it. The documentary really exposes a vast plethora of social control techniques.
What If We Could Weaponize Empathy?
You can be totally anonymous - don't need to provide email to use the app
Hehe...well, I'd tell your "friend" to build up some savings.

My wife and I both had very nice jobs at Intuit for 7.5 years (she's now at a new company). That allowed us to build a nice nest egg. Instead of spending that on a down payment for a house, it's now the cushion that allows us to do it.

So, not having a mortgage to pay helps :-)

Living within your means to build up some savings also helps.

I wouldn't have been able to do this if we hadn't done those things. Which is why I'm a 31-year-old doing a startup instead of fresh out of college.
I knew musicforprogramming, but the first two links are awesome, too. Thank you very much!
I get this message as well.
Dokterdok/Continuity-Activation-Tool for unsupported Macs
The web IS for everyone - even for those who want to make proprietary apps and pages. I don't see a problem with any of these examples unless I missed the one that tax dollars paid for.
I think it would be much better to make it illegal to have idiots being in power.
First talk to your first two customers .. Are they using your game daily ?
I don't maintain a regular account. I mostly lurk, but comment occasionally. When I do, I can't remember my previous username.
> Cocaine is very pleasurable, but it's hardly as addictive as heroine or (the legal drug) alcohol.

Not really true;

http://i.imgur.com/sBQn1Hr.gif
Excited that things like this are starting to surface in the SD area, can't wait to get out of SF. Been here 10 years and ready to leave.

Yes, I'll be giving up a rent-controlled apartment 50% under market value. But SD is that awesome.
What do you mean clear distinction?
Siphoning bitcoin transactions is not trivial.

Transactions need to be signed by the holder of the private key to the inputs. A MITM attacker still does not have access to any keys.

If it was that easy, bitcoin would be worthless.
Virtual Brokers comes to mind.
It's a marginal overhead and it also has the benefit of encouraging clear naming. Autocomplete is convenient but also removes some of the cost of poor naming. This is fine when you're writing code (the autocomplete just kicks in and you search for a method that seems about right) but it does nothing for the readability of your code.
I think the true genius of the modern age is that both approaches are used in the modern world.
Forcing people to regularly change their password means passwords get written down on a Post-it Note on the bottom of the keyboard.

Because people are just people, not superhuman remembering machines.
LOL. You are definitively right :)
You can be sued for anything, it's unlikely you would have any greater risk for attempting to help compared to doing nothing.
Ok, makes perfect sense !
Interactive Brokers offers a FIX interface to their system.
If you still have an invite, I would appreciate it. bkrishnan at gmail dot com
Node is a bridge from v8 to libuv with some additional boilerplate. npm runs on top of node for package management.

Even if this were less coupled, there are binary modules within npm that are also coupled with node and v8 in order to build against.

There were some spidermonkey experiments with node, that could run against it, but the modules in npm, specifically platform specific modules (ranging from bson to sqlite and beyond) that are tethered beyond javascript (v8 specific) that wouldn't work.

I don't know that it would bring that much to the table... one could do a bridge similar to what EdgeJS does with node and .Net that could work. It wouldn't be Rhino/Nashorn specifically, but might be worthwhile.
Very few thieves would go that far, and they would almost certainly give you an opportunity to unlock the phone for them instead. Most people would take that opportunity.
Yes, AJAX does require javascript, but the features provided by AJAX can also be provided by a plain form. You click the "submit" button, the javascript intercepts it, it launches the AJAX server request, and it writes the result onto the page. Without javascript, you click submit, it goes back to the server, and the server returns a page with the result.
A better map
I wonder how much Hipchat got bought for, I believe Hipchat is more popular then Slack?
There are non-Chrome-specific "offline" APIs. Some already found in the wild, and some still exist as specs. Google is free to roll their own and keep it to themselves, but I think it's perfectly okay to shame them when they do. It's the same reason I was against ActiveX components in IE. Theres nothing fundamentally wrong with a company pushing things that align with their interests, but there's also nothing wrong with complaining about it like this Tumblr blog does.
It's about time! It's been such a hassle always needing the device id, creating the provisioning profiles, having to recreate the profiles and rebuild the project for every user you add. And also being limited to only 100 devices.
This makes sense. There are plenty of people who do not run or work for start-ups that deal with these very same issues, every day. And many of them don't have the choice to leave the office at 5:00 so they can spend that three hours with their kids. I think your rubber/glass ball story is spot-on: assuming we've invested our lives in more than a single thing, we are constantly involved in balancing acts. Part of life is figuring out how many balls you can have in the air at one time. I know personally I would never be able to do what you're trying, and I'm okay with that. Heck, without kids and wife, I don't think I'd be cut out to be a founder. And I'm okay with that.
He must be having a lot of fun.
Meh. It's getting plenty of attention. If someone was wounded by that, they should realize that maybe their feelings aren't actually that important.

You can't expect good communication to occur when you restrict it as you suggest. His comment wasn't anywhere near as disparaging as it can get.
Verizon Wireless injecting tracking UIDs into HTTP requests
See @KennWhite: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/525110471733817344

Verizon Wireless is injecting a UID into all HTTP requests made on the VZW network, regardless of whether or not you've opted out of their Customer Proprietary Network Information (CNPI) options.

It's injected at the network level- So it tracks across browsers and ignores 'private browsing', do-not-track headers, overriding the UIDH in the client/curl, everything. My confirmation showing the headers only appearing in unprotected HTTP requests (disappearing when VPNed):

https://twitter.com/rammic/status/525360201361530880

If you're on the VZW cell network and not using wifi, you can check your own ID here (via @j4cob):

http://uidh.crud.net/
Anyone know how I can run this? I was into FOREX few months back and this tool looks very interestnig. I need to exchange large sum and want the most of the volatile FOREX market.
You're right. Let me clarify:

I'm not worried about the transactions themselves, as
they appear on the blockchain. What worries me is the
"meta transactions", if you will. The Bitcoin ecosystem
is full of off-blockchain transactions. For example,
mining pools use their own communication mechanisms, which
the BGP attack this summer exploited. Also, dozens of
exchanges, marketplaces, and services rely on HTTP API's
for transacting. Even if the blockchain is not vulnerable,
the external transactions that reference it certainly could be.

Imagine how many "send X bitcoin from wallet Y to wallet Z"
requests route over HTTP. Quite a few.

So yeah, not "trivial" as I said. But certainly not impossible.

(Welcome to HN! I'm glad my mistake brought you out of the woodwork.)
I see your point, but the reality is different. Data stored is not data in transit. Both must be protected, but the attacker models are different.

Unfortunately real-world (meaning, not theoretical) encryption is not perfect, thus the sole fact to encrypt is not sufficient to let you store any data wherever you want. At least not in Germany, and at least not from my pov.

To remain in topic with this specific law, data in transit can exit Germany soil, provided that the recipient gives guarantees on its usage (including not store it). This kind of laws should be seen to regulate sensitive (user) data as managed by (big, multinational) organizations, that are thus required to enforce security for both stored and in transit data.

I understand that this may seem silly, but without such laws the landscape would be way worse (consider, e.g., how many personal data are actually traded across the world for ads reasons).
Amazing! This will greatly advance the research in some biomedical fields, like neural and glia development, etc. I wish I had the microscopes when i was doing researches in biomedicine.
Apology accepted. I wouldn't go into a lobby war because of that.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tadmilbourn

Yet another business graduate in "Computer Software"... sigh...

This is why YComb is a damn joke.
I think it works like this on the iPhone. Probably because the msg can't be delivered unless you start the app.