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Basically, use the very generous limit of 25 free project on Google App Engine (GAE) and offset the hard limits on per project usage (instance hours, datastore read/writes).

It is a very rough usage of the term "load balance" but it works

Issues like this against Google are crazy and just wrong. What is wrong with a company pushing its own (or invested in) products (similarly: the EU requiring Google to not favor its own services when conducting a search)? If you do not like it, than use a different service; the benefit of the free market.

Sorry if that was a bit of a rant: illegal no.

The valuation of Snapchat is absolutely crazy. There is no revenue and barely a hint of a revenue model (possible location based ads and news). I don't really understand the $10B let alone the $3B offer.

For those who want to non-mobile link (I hate subdomains for mobile sites instead of using a responsive design): http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6071911/snapchat-finds-inv...

With the current state of politics in the US, I'm not surprised by this. A successful privately owned company being the target of "red-taping" since I doubt SpaceX provides the political donations that a company like Boeing does.

This is unfortunate and hopefully it goes no where. Sounds like Elon needs to get the Tesla lawyers who have reversed states' legislation against selling cars directly to start working on this too.

Pretty cool. Would like to see it working (video/timelapse/gif)?

Also, any reason for not making the big red button randomly select a "datacenter" to take offline?

Idea: transition this into a 3 or 4 datacenter cluster.

I would say a likely reason is because of budgets: They were given the money if they didn't spend it, they would lose it. Might as well buy guns that can be traded for something else in the law enforcement system than let the money "go to waste".

Another idea could be that they have Rt.80 and have lots of transportation related crime?

Sure, telling people how your security works is great. And in a tech world we accept and want this.

But this is F1, everything is a secret. F1 teams go to crazy lengths to keep anything that could be an advantage to themselves (ex: Mercedes mass-damper, Red Bull double-diffuser). I would suspect that there is a very strict NDA as part of supplying the communications to each team.

It was supposed to run Steam Machine but Steam has delayed SteamOS until 2015. Still a very heathly piece of hardware though for its size.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements...

Naked domain (reddit.com) is down.

www.reddit.com is up.

To say this is a rival is a bit overstated. It costs $299 versus the Pi's $35. Sure, it has more features (1GB RAM, QC CPU, etc.) but the price tag immediately puts it in another class.

Full legalization has a single major hurdle for me: testing for a person's level of "high". Think of this as a blood alcohol content breathalyzer test. There is a definite method for determining the amount of alcohol inside a person's body and laws use these limits for punishment.

This is highly important. No body wants someone "high as a kite" operating a vehicle. It is not in the public's best interest to have very high people driving just like having severely drunk people driving. Its all about safety.

You could frame the argument that marijuana is similar to other medicines (OTC or prescription, labeled with "do not drive or operate machinery") but the attempts to legalize marijuana for all uses - recreational - negates this point. If people can use marijuana at all times, any time, than a method of ensuring a using person is not endangering others is needed.

To sum, legalization requires a definitive method to measure "highness" to ensure safety for the public. Once this occurs and people know the rules and levels at which they can be high, then legalizing makes sense.

Suggestion: a more descriptive title.

I've always been a fan of "walk the walk, then talk". Basically, do FizzBuzz first then follow up with questions. Reason being, if you can't do some basic coding than its not even worth the time of having a discussion. You are, after all, hiring for a coding based position.

So in short: Apple has back doors that they claim aren't really back doors since only Apple apps can use them. If the NSA hasn't been using them already, it is only a matter of time.

Go, while definitely more complicated to learn initially, has the benefit of a very powerful and inclusive std lib. To me, this is one of it's largest benefits: minimal need for external libs and extra things to install.

For those of you getting a DB error: http://web.archive.org/web/20140718143333/http://www.jasonsw...

Why do people hate bankers: simple, banking isn't easy and the literature is too complex.

While not about normal everyday banking, there has been much research into financial statements of public companies and the readability of these reports [1]. Basically, how can most people understand banking/financials when the general readability of the documents has gotten to a point where even an MBA does not understand parts of them? Now, go into any local bank branch and the documents they have for consumers is just as vague, difficult to understand, and "transparently" informative.

As for simple. Banks have gotten better at this with mobile apps. But branches still neglect simple customer demands: stay open beyond normal working hours (9am-5pm), allow easy payments via ACH/Wire, and reduce the complexity of the loan process to name a few.

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1868591

For those wondering about "using designer microbes to convert CO2 emissions into fuel", take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel.

Basically the algae takes in CO2 and then the algae itself is turned into fuel. Another method is where algae takes in CO2 and "exhales" fuel which removes the need to "kill" the algae. Very cool stuff. On a large enough, and efficient enough, scale this kind of technology could become highly important. These methods are somewhat carbon neutral since the CO2 emitted from using the fuel is recaptured by algae again.

I surely hope Tesla will get this car to market on time. The timeline of 2016-2017 seems very aggressive given the Gigafactory has not even found a location let allow begun producing batteries. Elon has noted that a big issue with the "cheaper" Tesla was getting battery cost down aka building the factory to produce them at huge scale. Combine this with producing a more easily purchased vehicle due to lower price and I could see a battery shortage issue.

My second hope: that the Model III won't have a 3 month lead time like the Model S currently does.

This took McGuivering to a whole new level.

Great to see some more public development around the iBeacon. Yesterday, Panic, showed us their project for a "punch clock" system: http://www.panic.com/blog/punchclock-fun-with-ibeacons/

I am very excited to see where this development proceeds. The usefulness is somewhat like geofencing but for smaller areas and much more accurate since the range of the iBeacon is so small (vs GPS).

Some quick digging around: not much to be found on the wallet addresses on the extortion letters. One wallet was tied to a 0.001 transaction on 6/27.

wallet: 17gt1BancvtnnJwy4BA41VBUH3pfbUvzE block: 308079

I would always spring for the 15". The larger screen is hugely important to productivity. For example, split screen Sublime Text editing or having a browser and editor side by side. That, for me, is one of the most important aspects.

Other hardware consideration: faster is always better as is more RAM and a larger SSD. But, obviously, stay within your means. I personally use an i7 2.3 with 16GB of RAM.

Edit: If you intend on multi-monitor usage via the thunderbolt/display ports: the nVidia GPU is pretty necessary to push multiple big screens.

Last note: the refurbished MBPs are a great deal. You get the full 1-year warranty and a fully tested and clean laptop for a few $100 off the original sticker.

Not really too surprised seeing that Google Drive/Docs/etc. now allows MS Office file editing. Glad to see that I will gain a free spot in my app drawer now that the Drive apps for editing are all separate.

Looks/ed pretty cool. Took it for a spin. Setup is, indeed, pretty simple. Only problem I ran into is that Ajenti runs on port 8000; same as my node server. Easy enough fix.

First impressions: Its quick, responsive, and has a nice interface. Have to see how it integrates its firewall with UFW.

I feel this article is a little weak in one major sense: comparing the US to European countries based on non-working time is okay, but you also need to compare a metric like GDP. Using this, the US is #6 world-wide only behind two European countries. So yes, Euros may get more time off, but the US is a way more economically powerful and productive country economically.

Hurting the economy, sure people get burned out, but it is hard to come to that conclusion based on the data given and the authors points.

I thought the same, with the 21% above closing price.

> Fusion-io's shares were trading at $11.61 before the bell on Monday, suggesting that some investors were expecting a higher offer for the company.

Seems like investors were looking for a higher price as well. My thought on why people think it is a low offer: the general tech world has had (shockingly) high valuations lately for companies. So when people see a "low" valuation, but still reasonable by long term trends, it is a shock. But Fusion is also hardware versus the AirBnB, WhatsApp, etc. valuations for software. Margins could be a big factor.

Great read. Numbers are great, and there is so much hidden between/under them.

Also, very nice graphics.

I was wondering when OpenTable would be bought up. They were kind of under the radar versus other big name companies (Uber, Snapchat, etc...) yet they supply a widely used and profitable service.

I believe Priceline's global reach will help OpenTable extend past the US market. The service is great!

This is a great article. It really shows the negative effects of going into a horizontally scaled db system for the performance gains. One part I will note is that, if you dont care about nanosecond consistency, is that mongo does allow you to scale reads by reading from a secondary versus the primary. Frees up the primary to perform all writes. Writing is still a bottle neck.

But as the article states, if you keep the entire db in memory, why not. Way faster. Just make sure it rights to disk fast so no data is lost in a hardware or power failure.