vegasje

This is a really cool idea. Nice job!

Nope. No S3 logic behind the scenes. A few of the ELBs are fine, and a few are not. Seems random.

The EC2 instances themselves are fine, but the affected ELBs are spitting out 500s.

We're in US-West-2 and our ELBs are dropping 5XXs like there's no tomorrow. This is definitely cascading.

Seems like my next laptop won't be a MacBook Pro.

Can anyone recommend a good Linux laptop that will offer up to 32gb of RAM and have decent battery life?

Any areas specifically come to mind?

What's the recommended way for US users to get Xiaomi devices?

Do you happen to have any articles or data to back up that claim?

I don't disagree, but I'd love to see the rate changes over time.

The catch is capabilities: http://tutorial.ponylang.org/capabilities/

Once you get your head around them it's not so bad, but to a newcomer it's quite daunting. In my opinion the code becomes less immediately readable when compared to a language like Go, for instance.

Still love it though.

I was seeing this a while back until I disabled a plugin I had installed. I can't remember which one it was. Try disabling your Chrome plugins and try again.

Have you played with this number at all? 10 phrases per day seems awfully low in my mind. If I was to download this extension, I would want to use it for a day or two before paying for an upgrade. I imagine you hit 10 phrases quite quickly, and this might turn some people off of the product before they fall in love.

I'll be more interested once Lambda can access resources inside a VPC. There are only so many things you can process off of S3...

"People have been losing jobs to tech since the dawn of civilization."

I hear this all the time, but we really need to think about the _length_of_time_ these technology transitions of the past took before the human labor became irrelevant and displaced.

Go and look up how many hundreds of years it took for the printing press to become widely used across the globe--seriously. It's more than a human's lifetime, let alone more time than would be required to learn a new trade.

The job displacement that we're going to be faced with in the future will be cross-industry, and take the least amount of time of any technology transition we've recorded to date. It will happen too quickly for most people to retrain themselves, and we'll see a lot of folks without work opportunities.

The article discusses guaranteed income as a solution. I also hear this a lot, and I'm a huge fan of the idea, but it isn't possible for the United States to implement. I haven't seen an example where it is. If we take the _total_ fed gov revenue of 2015 and distribute it across the population, each person would be left with less than 10k/yr. I want it to work, but I just don't see how it can.

I ate cheese every day for most of my childhood all through my early adult years. It was quite literally my favoriye food. Snack, meals, I had it all day long.

During a 2-year period, I started getting sicker and sicker to the point where I was missing work on a regular basis. Cut dairy out of my diet, and now I have no issues.

Lactose intolerance crept up on me like an assassin.

Yet another business that took the approach of "customer adoption first, actual business model second." It's so frustrating to see this play out time and time again.

This is quite amusing, as it was one of the biggest complaints I had when coming to an RoR shop from a Java shop (please don't immediately take this to mean that I advocate Java over anything else).

In my Java shop, we used the service pattern. We had our views, our controllers, our models (which were simply meant to hold data), our services, and our data access objects. Services performed the business logic, and data access objects interacted with the database.

This pattern worked extremely well for every application we developed. Entering the RoR world, I quickly found that most developers forget about all the lessons we learned back when we used other languages, and are repeating the quick-and-dirty mistakes we already corrected.

That makes a lot of sense. Were the majority of your systems using this "durability chain" so to speak -- memcached -> Cassandra -> Postgres? Additionally, in retrospect do you find this type of chain to work well, and would you use it again (perhaps you already are over at Netflix)?

Does anyone know how the different storage systems are utilized, and why each system is utilized for that purpose? The presenter mentions using memcached, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL, and mentions the same type of data when discussing each (votes, for instance). I would definitely benefit from a more in-depth understanding of how each system is utilized, and why.

As stated in the Wikipedia link, there is a very clear difference between basic income and guaranteed minimum income. Basic income is a supplement that is not reduced by any work income earned. A guaranteed minimum income promises a supplemental grant for only the difference between other income and the guarantee level.

This is insanely impressive. The quality of the gameplay alone deserves praise, but the sounds and effects are also top-notch.

As mentioned in the article, you are correct in saying that users don't know what they want. However, they darn sure know what they _don't_ want, which is why many of the complaints are completely valid.

Here's the Markdown template if anyone is interested: https://gist.github.com/vegasje/5454527

I'm really glad to see that Watsi got some more attention after their original HN debut (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4424081). These guys are making it so easy to help people in need.

It would be even better if you integrated some way to fund sustainable projects related to the health and wellbeing of these people.

Saving someone's life is an amazing thing. Helping a community develop programs to saves lives into the future is on another level.