DigitalBison

Unfortunately it seems to be broken now, but reAnimator was an awesome regex visualization tool (http://osteele.com/tools/reanimator/). It let you enter a regex and would display the state machine similar to this, but then it would also let you enter a string and it would animate the progress of the string matching (or not) against the state machine as you enter each character.

I have no experience with DUNS so I can't say whether or not I agree it's a scam, but I can say that this article didn't make the case for me that it is. The article mentioned the process for requesting a DUNS number being annoying, and taking a while, but made no compelling argument that there's anything scammy about it.

It seems to be broken, at least in FF. I can't get anything to happen when I click on the locations. This is on FF 10.0.9 on OS X, and FF 11.0 on RHEL5.

I think you're probably right, and it's crazy that this is the way things are in NYC. I live in Seattle now (originally from the NYC area) and use Uber extensively. I would be incredibly angry if Seattle tried to pull the same kind of crap that NYC and SF do in regards to black car services like Uber.

As far as I can tell, that post you're quoting was written by a user totally unaffiliated with Apple. It's a pretty enormous stretch to call this "their stance on requirement of antivirus".

What? Unless I'm misinterpreting http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/12/25/sports/25ivy-GF..., it seems that a 4.0 GPA and a 2400 on the SAT doesn't even get you a 240. How is a 240 AI "laughable"?

Not sure where Wolfram Alpha gets it from, but that sort of data is available from, for example: https://www.flightstats.com/developers/bin/view/Main/

They'll probably never learn, but Jeff doesn't care: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazons-bezos-innovation

What data do you have to back up your claim -- after 3 days have passed since release -- that the iPhone 4S is a bust?

Read that part again. He's not claiming that $6k/month is an amazing salary (although, as I pointed out below, it is more than 70% of Americans make). When he says "a prestigious item on the resume" I'm reading that as something like taking a job at Google, which would look impressive to many potential employers.

I realize that HN doesn't represent the general population, but $6k/month puts you ahead of 70% of Americans. Relatively speaking, that's a very high income, not just for a college student.

Whoops, I misinterpreted what you meant by "single random sample". I will definitely check out that paper though.

>Then the result for (x:xs) is (r, n) where n = n' + 1 and r = x with probability 1/n or else r'.

Do you mean r = x:r' instead of r = x?

Just to clarify, the "deployment every 11.6 seconds" refers to all prod deployments, including internal applications and services. This doesn't mean that a deployment to the retail website (and dependent services) is done every 11.6 seconds, just that some production deployment is done at Amazon every 11.6 seconds.

disclaimer: I work for Amazon, and used to work in the presenter's org.

Minor correction: the slides had the max number of hosts receiving a deployment at 30,000, not 3,000.