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Using EC2 here for nearly 2 years and you mention I/O problems and instance outages 2-3 times a week. Which size instances were you running?

I ask because other than the VM security updates, none our instances have these sort of issues and some of them have a VERY long life (not ideal we know). I understand the cost savings and the rest of the reasoning but in my experience EC2 isn't THAT unreliable.

Major market NPR affiliate developer here. We need ads (digital) and underwriting (OTA) to operate. Member donations are great but don't make up the entire budget.

I don't think it has to do with ethnicity as it does with the experience of every regular cab I've ever gotten into.

It's like someone issued a command from on high to write story after story about how bad Uber is. They've made a lot of missteps but I'm starting to wonder if all these articles are justified.

You do realize that Javascript powers the majority of ads, you know, the things content creators need to continue creating. And don't forget all those great Show HN browser libraries and projects powered by Javascript. News organizations and interactives to do data journalism? Yea, Javascript.

I'm fully against people creating a frustrating user experience by people using tools, but I don't blame the tools, I blame the people.

You're generalizing an entire industry based on a few bad sites. All the interactive projects you see news organizations doing are REQUIRE Javascript. You're asking developers to handicap themselves just because a few people decided to abuse a tool.

I've never done any of those things you've mentioned above and my first aim is always user experience across all devices. Don't portray all developers who are creating good experiences on the web as bad guys. Show HN itself contains numerous examples of Javascript doing amazing things in the browser and your attitude craps all over the hard work of those people.

As a web developer, people like you always make me wonder why I try. Yes, some sites abuse javascript for terrible purposes, but as CSS becomes more powerful, are you going to start blocking that too?

Complaining that a site doesn't work because you purposely disabled part of the code is akin to complaining your car doesn't work because you pulled the alternator.

Get surfing people, the internet is free!

People are losing a lot of money right now, us included. Empty blank boxes all over our site.

Looked at Jawbone for 2 years, a lack of Window Phone support will continue to prevent me from buying.

I've looked at Jawbone for 2 years but their lack of Windows Phone support will prevent me from ever buying one.

Pretty good best of here: http://www.wbur.org/2014/11/03/car-talk-tom-best-of

Car Talk was my gateway into NPR growing up when I used to listen with my dad on long drives. I've had the fortune to meet the Car Talk brothers many times and they were just as funny and friendly in person as they were on the show. RIP Tom.

We use Slack and I always thought this was an odd behavior. We're a part of a major university so our domain is quite large and we can see dozens of other departments and projects using Slack just by putting in our email.

That was easily the most important part of the announcement for me as well. Hopefully it's open and other platforms can take part as well. We all knew that we needed a push from someone like Apple to make it happen and take it mainstream.

$350 and not out until "early 2015"

Dead in the water. That's insanely expensive and too late in the smartwatch market in my mind.

Oh Wegmans...they're a great family company and all and treat their employees well (from experience) but there is this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u99T_xb9NTs

It's a bit heavy handed but they weren't always leading fight against humane and responsible farming / livestock.

Love the "READ_THIS_IF_YOU_ARE_TRY_TO_HACK_ME" file. It's a pretty clever tool and I imagine it'd be great for future interviews. Something to keep in mind, although I can't imagine it being a huge subscriber base.

"Spy" on people at a public event where there are thousands of people taking pictures and posting it online. Also, it was IBM doing the test, the BPD just let them run the test and evaluated it for the future. BPD is not using this system yet as it not yet released by IBM.

Certain ads will allow you to interact with them via your microphone for hands free driving or whatever. It's new and you'll probably start seeing it more in other apps but this is the first time I've seen it in an app.

They are not government owned. They take grants but they are prohibited from taking money directly. A large part of their income comes from member stations who pay for access to shows, content, and support.

I agree it has it's cases in a Tor sort of way, but in terms of "replacing the internet" which I think was the original title of this HN post, I don't think it's feasible.

I'm not outright dismissing the technology or the thinking behind it but it certainly wouldn't fit a majority of use cases as we use the internet now.

So all of your users data is going to be stored in random places? I don't see how anyone thinks this could feasibly work unless everyone is suddenly cool with loss of trade secrets, the wholesale giveaway of intellectual work, and complete loss control over data/content.

Unless I'm missing something?

I consider myself pretty adept at UX and have no real issues with Trello and it's been quick to learn and use for our technical and non technical staff alike. It may have slight issues but nothing in the scale your comment suggests.

This was posted a few months back by the team and I'll say the same think I said last time:

Trello is Trello for dev teams. I just don't see the value in this.

Once I discovered this I immediately went to my library to sign up. It's fantastic and I can now rent books digitally. The people using Amazon's service could be easily using the libraries in their community.

I remember reading this when 2048 came out and it came out as a huge whine from the developers. It completely turned me off of Threes.

Someone succeeded using a similar idea, and in many people's opinions, they did it better and it was free. The next step shouldn't be to write a smug blog post about how the other product is crap and people should be paying you instead.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't ask for sources. Otherwise it's just blind fear mongering.

This is probably a decade old based on the source code.

I understand that point, I know you can't use the certificate on another domain by design. I'm just curious why you wouldn't issue a certificate to your CDN signed with your domain as well. It's something that bothers me about npr.org especially as it creates problems with their API for member stations wishing to go fully SSL.

I was confused why you'd use a popup in this case, then I looked at the source and realized this has to be at least a decade old.

Can you go into why that is? I've never fully understood it myself.