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... the cheapest job that will finish in a specified amount of time.

And how exactly would you determine that? We're talking about a spot market here -- and a large part of the supply comes from Reserved Instances which were purchased for disaster recovery purposes and aren't being used.

If a disaster strikes, the spot price will go up in a hurry.
As a Windows and Linux administrator, I'll say there's nothing intuitive about a GUI or the random ways they change from version to version; I'll take a Linux box and text files any day, it is vastly superior and easier to manage than a bunch of windows boxes. Frankly, the best way to manage a Windows machine is to install Cygwin, ssh, and cron and pretend it's a Linux box.
And pre-cooking the meat. Using water that is too hot can tend to start cooking the meat, leading to a tougher, drier end product.
I use https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1 instead so that it's network hosted.

edit: extension to redirect new tab page, if you want: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bokbgdhblfolpfan...
My counter points:
1. No hard link shown between Guede and Knox/Sollecito
2. Lack of DNA evidence for Knox/Sollecito while plenty was present for Guede.
3. No evidence was shown that proved the houses were bleached after the murder

Regarding these points:
- Eye witness putting all 3 suspects together outside the cottage that night, and the night previous.

- Knox and Sollecito standing outside the crime scene when the police arrived with mop and bucket.

From what I read these were given by unreliable sources (drunk homeless man)

The police comes out pretty tainted in my opinion and it seems they were eager to find scapegoats early in the investigation.

Also, I don't find a clear motive for Knox/Sollecito. Not participating in a sex orgy?? It seems more probable that Guede raped and then murdered the victim. Also, in the initial testimony guede doesn't mention Knox or Sollecito being involved
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Very little content. Just a dozen or so pictures. Can we keep this crap to reddit?
That stat does not convince me that users actually know what they're doing. Maybe you're privy to more research about this, but I suspect the majority of users who select something besides the default change everything to 'old setting' because they don't know what the hell this stuff is and just want to get back to Farmville.

I seriously doubt most people know what 'Everyone' means. Or what can happen to data that's syndicated to search engines and is no longer in Facebook's control.

I'm currently in the process of reaching out to my friends who don't follow tech news to make sure they know what they've signed up for with the new settings. After explaining the 'Everyone' setting, responses are usually along the lines of "Facebook is turning evil."
I wouldn't be surprised if this site didn't have copyright to a single one of those photos.
Some good points, the key one being there's no evidence yet suggesting this is actually a major play from Google.

I've been wondering about the "SIM-free only" strategy. In the UK, SIM-free is an established but niche sector. You only buy SIM-free if the phone model is the differentiator, and that's only true for power users. (The iPhone has started to push hardware-as-differentiator toward the mainstream, but I don't think it's there yet.)

There are different kinds of power users, but one identifiable segment is the messaging-centric user, who wants a physical keyboard, which this phone doesn't have. From that perspective SIM-free is an odd choice. Maybe the multimedia / entertainment / "cloud services" power user segments are big enough to justify it, though.

If the article's wrong and this is a big move by Google, it could be an attempt by them to promote SIM-free as an option. It would make it a lot easier for their Android partners and themselves to compete on handset hardware if consumers actually have a choice of handsets (and aren't restricted by which carrier has coverage in their area).

I disagree with the article's conclusion on pricing though:

> The iPhone actually costs $599, but what most people see is the $199 price after its carrier subsidy. Google could release a truly $199 phone, but they'd lose a huge amount of money on every sale.

Not all phones cost that much SIM-free. High-end Nokia phones have comparable hardware and build quality to the iPhone, but some of them (e.g. E series) sell for £200 unlocked.

For one thing, the iPhone might well cost significantly more to manufacture than the Nexus One. Apple had no prior experience of manufacturing phone hardware, whereas HTC have lots; HTC also probably have lots of efficient supply lines Apple don't yet have. Also, it's 2.5 years since the iPhone release; even assuming the hardware and build quality are comparable, costs should be lower by now.

Also, offering subsidised products to drive advertising traffic is sort of Google's thing.
I don't know if unethical is the right word. Maybe "shady" would be better?

If Facebook wanted to stay on the safe side of things, they'd have kept the default as the more private setting and then show some kind of prompt saying "Hey, this is a new Everyone setting. This is what it does. Would you like to try it?"
My point was that back then it was probably easier to be more generally educated to a useful degree relative to the general population. So the elite would have occupied the political positions while still being able to maintain a useful degree of general knowledgeness (forgive the made up word), whereas now it doesn't matter who goes into politics because he/she will have a hard time because it's so much harder to be knowledgeable about everything to the same useful degree as they did back then.

My original point was that this doesn't need evidence because it can be reasoned out. But I guess that depends if my reasoning is faulty or not.
I had my hands on one for about a minute from a friend who's a Google employee. The screen was gorgeous and looked to be a little larger than the iPhone's. There's a row of 4 touch buttons at the base of the screen and the phone vibrates briefly when you push them.

I was completely baffled as to the purpose of the trackball. It could click, point, and roll-to-scroll, but you can do all those things via gestures on the screen.

It has a cute white icon on the back; a little android waving a semacode flag.
Nice summary, but I think the call to action is needed:

"It's clear that American consumers want some sort of messiah to save them from the structure of our wireless industry...write to your Congressional representative - that's the only way things will change any time soon. "
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Ok. I agree with you that the post was confused and kind of incoherent at times. It was somewhere deep in it I ended up seeing what the author was talking about (taking his statements about physical evidence on faith for the sake of discussion). I'm definitely not saying that Ms Knox is innocent -- I don't know anything about the facts of that case, so we're only talking about the mathematical methodology here.

I do think your definition of a prior is a bit off though... like, the choices around priors wouldn't be whether to use "did she do it" vs the imbalances of evidence or such. We're trying to estimate the likelihood of "did she do it," so the question is what do we use to do that? The prior probability of "she did it" has to be the probability that some random member of the 20/female/american/student general public will commit the murder, because we don't have anything more than that (as you said). Then, we update our estimate by looking at the available evidence (such as, "was found standing by door holding bleach mop," which would the viewed in terms of the likelihood that that would be observed and the statement 'she did not do it' being true) to come to our posterior probability, which is the estimate informed by all of the available evidence.

As a side note, it's great when you can have a civil discussion on the internet. Maybe there's hope for HN after all.
It never ceases to amaze me how an online bookstore can be so ahead of all the self-professed hosting providers.

I'm excited to see what innovations come out of this. Of course, this will only become really interesting when there are other providers doing the same.
Have you read the Judge's summary? It was very enlightening to me having read many mis-reports from media sources.

I will reply to your points in turn, but to be clear, I'm not specifically arguing for or against the conviction; I'm saying that this article grossly ignores many of the facts of the case.

It appears that large parts of the American media have painted this case as some loon prosecutor bent on convicting an American girl with flimsy flawed evidence and a fanciful idea of some Satanic sexy orgy gone wrong. There's been a lot of column inches devoted to discussing some of the things this article breaks down (the strange behaviour, the telephone calls). I can understand the media focusing on this (it's what the public find interesting, not the detailed crime scene details). But as this article is about digging for information and applying reasonable thought, it's disappointing they chose to ignore the large body of evidence presented at the trial that lead to their conviction.

To your counterpoints:

1. If I recall, there is good (not the drunk homeless man) eyewitness testimony of the 3 meeting prior to the night in question.

- There is fair amount of DNA evidence (see my parent post, and the links). Yes, some may appear potentially flawed (e.g. bra clasp). However the judge considered and admitted the evidence. Consider that a panel of legal experts considered and unanimously convicted based on this evidence.

- From truejustice.org regarding evidence of a cleanup: "The ONLY fingerprints of Amanda Knox in the entire house were found on a glass in the kitchen. Even in her own room there was not one print."

- Yes, the eyewitness isn't great. But again, the evidence was admitted by the judge for reasons given in the judge's summary.

- The police themselves were the eyewitnesses to them being at the crime scene with mop and bucket.

- Whether the police appear tainted is worth considering, but doesn't explain away a body of hard evidence that was admitted in court.

- Your theory that Guede was a lone-wolf rape and murderer was quickly dismissed by the judge, given the huge body of physical evidence suggesting other people involved (again, see my post and the report).

edit:

This is a great link that goes over some of your points (motive, DNA evidence etc:

http://truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/how_the_m...
Re: the touch buttons -- their design is a serious mistake that makes me question the vision behind the entire operation. Why? Look at the purpose of each of the buttons:

* The Back Button (leftmost) -- the operation of this button is context sensitive (Am I going back a web page, back to the previous app? It depends on how I got to where I am now.) and it is so unfortunately right beside the backspace button in the landscape keyboard. This wouldn't be a problem for a physical button, but since it's touch-sensitive it's very easy to brush by back and lose all the form data you just entered on the webpage.

* The Menu Button (center-left): Hidden functionality is a bad idea. One of the nice things about the iPhone is that it's very rare the application has a capability that you cannot discover by looking at the contents of the screen. Android, on the other hand, routinely hides functionality in a menu. Worse, the type of functionality hidden is different in every application. You will never be able to guess where the "Accounts" menu button is going to be without looking at it.

* The Home Button (center-right): I have no problem with this button aside from its touch sensitivity.

* The Search Button (rightmost): On iPhones, we know this button as "hit the home button twice."

Re: the trackball -- it's because they don't have long-click precise targeting for the cursor on Android phones like they do on the iPhone.
It never ceases to amaze me how an online bookstore can be so ahead of all the self-professed hosting providers.

Scale. It doesn't make sense to do things like this until you have thousands and thousands of nodes -- most hosting companies simply aren't anywhere near as big as Amazon.
They're pushing QT as the programming framework for future versions of Symbian. I haven't tried it, and I don't know to what extent you still need to engage with the eccentricities of the Symbian C++ environment (error handling, memory management, string classes, etc), but it can only be an improvement.

And it looks like they plan to retire the old emulator (which is actually more of a simulator - it's a reimplementation of parts of the OS to run natively on Windows rather than on the Symbian kernel). In its place will be a real CPU-level emulator based on qemu:

http://blog.symbian.org/2009/11/20/an-introduction-to-the-sy...
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I doubt Amazon wants to go quite that far. Setting up a spot market is one thing; setting up a futures trading floor is quite another.

That said, it will be interesting to see if Amazon allows people with Reserved Instances to sell them on the spot market (i.e., pay Amazon the reserved instance rate and keep the difference between that and the spot rate). That wouldn't be quite the same as a futures market, but it would at least allow people to make (very) long-term investments.
Almost all of those photos come straight from the Rotten Tomatoes tour:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wall_e/news/1741321/exclusiv...
Why would someone buy Reserved Instances for disaster recovery purposes? Why pay for them ahead of time if they aren't being used?
so you guys are all windows users? Can't install extensions on my Mac Chrome. :(
I agree with most of the points in this article. This phone is not going to stand up to an iPhone in the eyes of anyone lucky enough to be able to use both for a few days. I encourage anyone to take with skepticism the frantic praise from Googlers who just got the phone. Their questionable taste in user interface is well documented in the literature.
Linux chromium builds work well too ;)
Genius.

This maximizes their hardware investment and allows a whole new class of applications which need large amounts of cheap computing power but are not fussy about when the work gets done.

GENIUS. Revolutionary beyond my capacity to visualize. This is going to change the way the cloud computing space works.

The really interesting part is that physical location is one of the price parameters: picture the spinning globe, with real-time applications constantly migrating to instances where it's daytime for maximum performance, and asynchronous applications hugging the dark side where computing is cheap.

As a friend of mine said, this is to cloud computing as adsense was to online advertising: i.e. revolutionary, and an absolute cash fountain.
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From an architectural point of view, because EC2 will terminate instances whose bid price becomes lower than the Spot Price, you'll want to regularly checkpoint work in progress

Are they saying that they will kill your instances or kill the bids for instances??
What is causing the greenish tint on the JooJoo?
> That's crazy fantasy extrapolation, almost too absurd to address

There was an uptick in my respect level for your operation when I read that.
Kill the instance itself. It recommends you back up your results frequently to, say, Amazon SimpleDB :-)
Works fine in Linux
I know. I wanted to use it but it's just huge. Does the file size have an impact on Chrome's speed even if you are not using the extension?
Sorry, wasn't sure how to link to the image which I'm using as evidence as well as ask the question to the people on HN, so I submitted a link and posting a follow-up comment.

The question is about the JooJoo's screen greenish tint. What's causing it?

First time I see a commercial product not show a clear screen. Personally, the tint makes the display look spoilt as well as make me think that holding the tablet at certain angles make it unusable.

Do you have the same impression?
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The new tab page is not the home page.

In Chrome you have to explicitly turn on the "Home page" button, and it has a separate URL.

So, you basically never see your home page in Chrome, just the new tab page, which you can only customize via extension.
Often the victims lose control of their accounts after clicking on a link “sent” by a friend. In other cases, the bad guys apparently scan for accounts with easily guessable passwords. (Mr. Marquess gamely concedes that his password at the time was “abc123.”)

Hard to feel sympathy for the guy at that line
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The pricing has to be cyclical on a daily/weekly basis, right? Plus, the algorithm could be opportunistic and take advantage of temporary dips in price/utilization.
"World-class economist Paul Samuelson, a Nobel laureate, wrote in the tenth edition of his textbook Economics: “It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable.” This, mind you, in the aftermath of the 1953 East German uprising, the 1956 Hungarian uprising and the Poznan protests in Poland, the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia— all suppressed with bloodshed by Soviet tanks. In the eleventh edition, he took out the word “vulgar.” In the 1985 twelfth edition, that entire passage had disappeared. Instead, he and his coauthor, William Nordhaus, substituted a sentence asking whether Soviet political repression was “worth the economic gains.” This non-question was identified as “one of the most profound dilemmas of human society.” After 70 years of Leninism, Stalinism, and Maoism that took at least 100 million lives, this was still a dilemma?

It seemed to me utterly incredible that an otherwise great economist could parrot idiotic Marxist propaganda. At a time when the magnitude of the Soviet economic disaster was apparent even to the most willfully blind Marxists in Central Europe and the USSR, the 1985 Samuelson text offered this paragraph about the Soviet economy:

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http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/paul_sa...
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What's interesting about this to me is that when combined with the currently free inbound bandwidth, you could have a pretty damn cheap crawler.
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What's the scientific explanation of why exercise makes one healthy?

(Otherwise it might just be a correlation. A study can only support one explanation over another; it can't generate an explanation.)
Mainly so that there'll be no delay in capacity when allocating the instance.

You break even on the reservation fee if it's on half of the time.
Looks like it could be a rendering to me (the sharp edged highlight looks weird). However, if it were a real product photo: that viewing angle would probably be where the LCD start having color problems. To me it looks like a big Indiglo watch.
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The locations and names of things in those GUI interfaces tend to change (a lot) in the Windows World, whereas there tends to be less fundamental change (although some for some distros) in the Linux/BSD world between releases.

I'm not suggesting that a GUI is better than command line or vice versa (different strokes for different folks and all that) but that having less change for critical files has saved me a lot by way of time.
I think the evidence on the internet firmly establishes that there is a substantial probability that Knox and Solecito are guilty of lying about the events of the evening but that does not come to close to establishing that they committed murder.

There is a reasonable doubt.

What evidence is missing from the internet that makes them guilty? I guess we will find out in a few months when the judge and jury issue their written explanation.

Is anyone willing to state that they are certain Knox and Solecito are guilty of murder?
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They're customers of ours and simonw (amongst others) works there. The Guardian are, by US terms, unrepentantly left-wing, but they're the finest unrepentantly left-wing newspaper in the world, bar none.
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Facebook's address book importer is no better - This is not the first time Facebook has done something like this (as the original email points out. I have been personally duped by facebook's address book importer before and have blogged about my experience here -

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I’m sorry, what the frack just happened? I turned over my friend list,photos and status updates to everyone in the world? Why on earth would anyone do that with their Facebook page?

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