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It seems impossible for a single solution here. One business would rather see instances go down, another might need ledger logs no matter what and would rather turn down customers at the door, etc.,

The right way to do it (currently) is to model the costs yourself and tie it in with your operational automation, then determine what your best course of action would be during a shitstorm. Generally, I would wager the best option is to replace your front page with a static html "overwhelming response" page, maybe with some light vector graphics.

Seems like a good idea to me, lets do it. We can always change it back if it doesn't work out.

HN was using more subtle censorship before, I'm glad that they are more forthcoming with what is actually visible now instead of pretending that this is an open forum.

Nearly Paid Muppets?

Thanks for the news NYTimes

Excellent cover story. They really pulled out all the tops.

What if you could build a castle on top of a highway?

So what analogs can we draw between the universe and the commercial web? How is it that we don't know what we're doing when working with documented and supported tools? It's almost like some kind of separation of duties to keep us blind to the big picture. God must really hate us!

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Getting database consultation from a cloud service is probably not the best idea ever.

Almost as much as I love Java

Well, they're all playing in traffic together.

It's like their mothers never told them to look both ways before crossing the street, or to not play in traffic, for that matter. Or maybe their mothers hated them and told them to go play in traffic and that's why they hate the world. There are so many ways this allegory works. Ultimately, they're all going to get paved over by a road crew, if not hit by a very large bus. (cough, ahem, HD video, excuse me my digestion hasn't been right lately).

Ooops this universally installed and standardized language is universally installed and standardized, how did that happen?

Music is the empty space between notes.

In other words, it's about as secure as a mailbox.

I think it's pretty clear.

Wait, a gem, a yaml file? What exactly is this doing with my scripts? Can I really expect this to make my shell scripts work across clouds?

First step, don't use JavaScript or derivative technologies. Oh wait, you can't avoid using Javascript. I guess it's that, or we don't make any money, we use Javascript. I wonder how Amazon avoided using Javascript for so long. Oh yeah, 10,000 engineers and military cooperation. Good luck on making a "secure" site that conforms to any standard of the last 10 years!

The crux of the story should be XML-RPC and it's delirious security model, not some half-assed contemporary messaging service company.

Glad to see the technology HTML5 is capable of has come so far.

>They obviously made good product decisions to get to this point.

Which is the problem with this kind of "market". It's basically theft, yes, stolen merch does sell well. Join the game, this is how the rules are played, take a page from the CIA's book. Have fun!

Constructive Empiricism sounds like real science where "science" in general or scientific realism specifically is more like a religion. By applying the scientific principle, in principle, to science itself, you end up with a meta-science that is intuitively more correct.

TIL piping data together for big data purposes is called a protocol and not a dragnet.

Oh, just using words for maximum effectiveness. The title wouldn't have carried near the political weight if the title was "don't even think about competing against established carriers in Africa, we own this bitch" or "Africa has billions of dollars in opportunities for risk-averse inverters and burgeoning oligarchs." or "Trust us, we got this telecommunication and logistics in a politically unstable atmosphere all figured out, there's NOTHING competing forms of communication could ever offer the people of Africa."

See how ineffective these titles are? Isn't it much more effective to assume the identity of fiscal conservatives and deflate the funding out of a potential market before it's even born by appealing to those who make most of the economic decisions?

I think it helps to consider HN not as a public forum, but as a capitalist/democratic wind vane or a PR game sandbox. Remember, you can say whatever you want here but only up-voted and approved comments will be seen by others.

URL parsing is done by the page server after the domain is forwarded. You could put any kind of data you want in the url (assuming the server can handle it).

This is what happens when you summon an earthquake with HAARP.

Now you have two problems, unresponsive services and managing breakers.

Why does anyone still care about Cryptocat?

Self updating newspapers, who needs history with an economic engine like that!

Productive doing what exactly? Nevermind that, money!