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> You're Max Klein the con man

I think that's a little strong.
I know, it depends on the syntax, but I'd say some parenthesis are missing (around the third lambda)... :)
could the reduction of this parameter lead to DOS attacks on machines that are not tuned/monitored continuously?
That's not how I think personally. I'm curious to see how this plays out myself.

That said, I remember how vicious Hacker News got back when Valleywag was allowed on this site. Hell, look at how they get about TechCrunch's style of journalism. People don't like being told they've been manipulated, and they hold grudges. When somebody goes out of their way to tell an entire community that they've been manipulated, that community isn't going to be happy with the person who pointed it out.

Hopefully, Max, you're not offended by my choice of language? I didn't mean to deride you with it. It was more a warning that to an angry group there's little difference between a would-be magician and a shyster.
http://industry.bnet.com/media/10003790/flat-world-knowledge... - Open source textbooks is another alternative - and a pretty exciting one at that.
Assuming he is being honest with the numbers, this is quite a disclosure in my opinion. It is certainly self-serving (as a company/product blog tends to be), but if you look beyond the back-patting there is some market insight here if you are following this space. (BTW I didn't downvote your post, you're entitled to feeling like there is nothing here, but I'm glad that I saw this article).
And that somehow makes it better? Can you say with a straight face there's a good reason that anybody in this country should be homeless or hungry when we've spent a trillion dollars fighting enemies who weren't really enemies in the past decade?
Easier said than done. In the ideal network, sure, you'd have extra network hardware to test the update on, to make sure it didn't break your configuration. You might also have failover network equipment so that the network would stay up while you upgraded it in pieces.

Of course even with few resources, you should still strive to make updates, maybe during the middle of the night (hope your customers don't need to access your network until morning), and be prepared to roll back if things don't go according to plan.

That is, if you even knew there was an update. Unlike Windows, your router isn't going to keep popping up little bubbles to tell you to update.

So yes, it is your responsibility as an IT admin to keep the network secure, but there are still a lot of obstacles that means that overloaded admins will forget or procrastinate. I don't know much about the vuln, but it appears to affect telnet. If that was the only thing patched in that update (or I didn't care about the other features that were being patched at the same time), I would just make sure telnet was closed and leave it be.

EDIT: Ok, looked more into the vuln, apparently any open ports make it vulnerable, as it is a problem with how they handled the tcp headers. Only reasonable solution here is to patch.
So I guess most investors are predicting growth.

If most investors were predicting a crash, then the ones predicting growth would be contrarians, and you could write an article about them.

Doom and gloom always gets a higher page count, though.
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Beautifully articulated!
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most 37signals posts are social engineering at work.
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We actually looked at Cassandra and found it to be slower than memcachedb. However, we readily admit that we probably configured it wrong.
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Many significant advancements came when someone who knew about one thing learned about a second and realized that the first applied to the second.

This is the premise to the book "The Medici Effect" by Frans Johansson, which states that innovation is found in the intersections between disciplines. It's a good read.
Actually, we did work with Amazon. The RAID was their suggestion.
Actually, I do have a plan. I was intending to phase it in, but it makes no difference if I say it now:

Step 1: Write interesting articles where I deconstruct the art of gaining name recognition, and in the process gain a lot of name recognition. At some point, I will have a following of about 1000

Step 2: I am going to challenge one of the established software players that I am going to make software that is better and more loved than theirs

Step 3: I will program and release something very promising. My followers will spread the news. It will grow

That's my overall plan. There is software I am developing where I am going to stake my reputation on. But what's a reputation to stake if you have none, ey?
I'm not offended - I welcome it. My aim in the blog is deconstruction, and if I ever wrote gossip or poor rumours, I'd stop. If I ever did manipulate for whatever reason, I would always tell it afterwards. It's not safe reading in that manner - I may decide to experiment with the people reading.
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That's not entirely true. Yes, it is true that getting servers was hard, and that was definitely a factor.

But the bigger factor for me was that I was tired of having to build, image and rack all those servers. I liked the flexibility of EC2, and also not having to waste resources ordering a full rack's worth of hardware every time.

Cost was also an issue. Datacenter space in SF is expensive, but it had to be in SF, because that is where I was. EC2 proved to be much cheaper than physical servers.

I also like the fact that I don't have to run to the datacenter anymore when there is an issue. I just file a ticket with Amazon.
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Agreed, which is why I stopped reading them.

Overexposure doesn't help either.

That is basically the problem I have with this whole approach. I make a good bit of money on a site that has on the order of 15,000 visitors per day. It's sticky as hell and we charge an arm and a leg. People stay for 6 months or longer. I spend 0 on marketing, it's all word of mouth.

If you get 60,000 people to visit your site with two articles (which is really a talent) then you should have a plan ready about what you're going to do with those people.

Just getting them is 1/100th of the job. The other 99% is keeping them, and getting them to really participate in something. Not to use them as guinea pigs.

Everybody can generate impulses, maybe not of this magnitude, but it's doable.

The trick in running a successful internet business is not to be able to generate impulses, even though that is a part of it, the trick is to have all your ducks in a row and to provide a pipeline of activities executed in parallel.

Each of those steps in the pipeline (I'm not going to enumerate them, but they're pretty obvious) lead to a single goal, which is to form a long term relationship with a customer or a user.

If that's not the end goal then you are executing before you are ready to do so, essentially you are using your powder before it's time.
That's quite interesting. I don't actually know how that works since I've obviously never had more than 200 followers. I see the point though - I have revised my opinion hereforth.
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Blaming poor EBS performance would be like blaming Intel for their 4GhZ processor not being able to do your protein folding in 5 seconds.

It is simply a known limitation that has to be worked around.

Even if we owned the servers, we would have the same limitation -- eventually you just can't get the performance out of a single disk.
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Cute. I've been building infrastructures for almost 20 years now. There's really nothing new under the sun. The last time I drank the koolaid was at Napster, since then I've never been really excited about a company. Fusion-IO is the closest tech that has even made me take pause. Web startups are the worst. I worked at idealab in 2000. We invented the me-too web site business model that is now Web 2.0. It's all kind of a joke.

But at least we have new ways to advertise!
Out of curiosity, what would I see when clicking on this link if I had a Facebook account?
Just memory. I have a desktop widget I whipped up in a few minutes to constantly poll load averages from all 6 servers.

There are so many more important things to track when you run an app/service.
This is a dupe of <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1038701>.
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That makes more sense. But you have to keep in mind that the method chosen puts the horse behind the cart.

That method only makes sense if the people whose name recognition you are now coveting will be in some way very closely related (or will even be) the consumers of your eventual product.

Only then it makes sense, or you'll have to go through the whole rigmarole again by the time you are ready to approach your customers, which will have cost you time and effort.

So I would bet that that is the case because otherwise it would not make much sense to cultivate this particular audience.

Again, I'm very impressed with your ability to do this, if you can transport it easily to fields outside of the one you are currently active in (software development) then there probably is a metric ton of money to be made exploiting that talent.

Another problem I foresee with your approach is the timing. If you are right now busy creating a target audience for a product that doesn't exist then you are effectively opening a window of opportunity without the ability to fill it.

If you had used your talent to attract 60,000 prospects to your product you'd be laughing all the way to the bank now, whereas right now all you have is an impulse whose momentum will be long gone by the time you're ready to go to market.

It seems to me that your timing is off, but time will tell.
I am highly saddened to call whoever down-modded this comment either a "peer" or a "colleague". I guess some people like to be able to single out groups in order to feel better than those other groups.
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The numbers are accurate, perhaps because we lack the imagination to come up with a reason to make them up.

More seriously, this retrospective and status update is really directed at our users (as is the everything else on the blog). If others find something of interest there, all the better but the goal is not Great Insights Into Entrepreneurship™ or anything high-minded like that.
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These sort of data-supported, direct insights into personal experiences in entrepreneuship are valid and excellent content.

I upvoted the article and downvoted you for your bad mood ;)
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First, the nitpick: Processing isn't quite a subset of Java, it actually both supports full Java syntax (if a tab is named .java, it's processed as a plain old Java file) and adds a few syntax preprocessings of its own apart from wrapping everything into a Java class (one example: numbers don't have to have f at the end to be interpreted as floats).

With that out of the way: it's worth noting that someone put together a Scala version of Processing, which addresses the lack of functional goodness in Java while still using the "normal" Processing library (maybe even the environment?): http://technically.us/spde/About

As an educational tool, you could do a lot worse than introducing people to Java, though, since if they ever plan to work, it's probably what they'll be stuck coding.

And for all its limitations power-wise, I've seen far better (and far more) data visualizations come out of Processing than anywhere else (data viz is probably the #1 use case, since graphic/animation work is made very painless), so they're clearly doing something right...
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> Now the rest of the world, they are still racist as hell. Try pulling the same stunt in Japan, or France.

And thats statement is not racists at all

> I know of no precedent of a leader being elected from any racial minority that makes up only 13% of a nation.

India. We currently have a Sikh PM(religious minority, 1.3%, from wikipedia), our last President was Muslim(13.43%). There have been 3 Presidents of India, from religious minority groups below 13%.

Thats not racial minority, of course, but afaik, US is yet to have a non Christian president?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_India
I have been using pinboard for 6+ months, excellent service, does exactly what you want a bookmarking service to do. And, Maceiej and PVG are very responsive.
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I wonder if the youtube audio fingerprinting algorithms would have picked this up, had these tracks been uploaded.
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"We procrastinate because we are afraid." This struck a chord.
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For maximum impact, when is the best time of day to post anything ? When is the site more active? Please specify time zones also (EST would be preferred =) ).
Lock-in is definitely a big concern, but the article vastly overstates the cross-platform benefits of OpenGL. Different platforms have different capabilities and limitations, and most of the work in creating high-performance 3D software involves optimizing for specific hardware.

For example, porting an OpenGL-based game from Windows to the PS3 would not be significantly easier than porting a D3D-based X-Box game.
>> Today, Pinboard has grown to about 1200 active users,
>> we store copies of all bookmarks in an account for $25 per year
>> the site has reached the point where I can work on it full-time

That's pretty impressive, low living costs?

Lets say 1% sign up to premium, that's 12 premium accounts, @ $25/yr for a total of $300/year or $25/month :/

Cool to see this sort of post though, and great to hear peoples progress etc.
Agreed, although you can go for the 37signals model:

* Build up a following of devoted disciples
* After a while start trying to sell them stuff
Aaron, you sound like a guy with not enough to do. If you can answer every email without prioritization, then I doubt you are getting all that much email.

I suppose I could go through every email, Seth Godin-style, and fire off a zinger one-liner the day it arrives. But though I might answer a lot of email, I wouldn't be doing the emailers any favors.

I often get emails from users that require some thought or research to answer properly. These people are better served to wait a couple days, than to have me try and be "productive." I agree with the general idea of "Just Do It." But it's just an aphorism, and any aphorism taken to extreme will end up being moronic.

What are you working on these days anyways? I'd prefer to see your software than your thoughts on answering emails or hiring programmers. Reddit and RSS are certainly helping me more than your essays brewed from boredom.
More likely he may be referring to 1200 premium accounts. or even if it is simply 1200 accounts, assuming 1% conversion rate is a bit on lower end. I will more optimistically estimate it to be around 10%.
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All pinboard users pay a small fee to sign up (deductible from the archiving sub, should they sign up for that). This allows us to feed Maciej more than one bowl of gruel every three days.
Additional income comes from signup - current fee is $5.69 to join. They increase the cost by $0.001 each time a user signs up. (not where they started the price, but assuming $0.01 that could be another $16190.90)

I like the idea of charging a nominal fee to signup (or perhaps just to have a "pro" account)
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"Why in this day and age would someone take a chance carrying honey in Gatorade bottles?"

I guess this is indicative of the quality of people the TSA has. Yes, honey is so terribly dangerous, people just shouldn't risk it.
Ah sorry, I missed that :) Interesting.

How do you get $16k :/

Avg price = ($5.69 + ($5.69 - $0.001 * 1200)) / 2

= $5.09

$5.09 * 1200 = $6,108
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heh, even though these are not completely analogous, I am reminded of old discussions when I would say 'I implemented this cool thing in C', and my roomie would say 'I just used this java library method'.
1200 is not the total number of users.
It was useful for me in an opposite way :)

It showed me why I hate Ruby syntax. The above just looks horribly ugly. A mishmash of special characters. Not to mention special characters in strings (eugh).

The probability of an undetectable typo in the code you paste is pretty high.

Sure, it's not quite up there with regexp syntax, but it's getting close.
I assume you are asking about HN.

1) The quality of the post and a good title is more important than the time you post.

2) Luck is a more important factor than the time of the day. Just remember that if there are more visitors in the site, there are more new posts too.
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"If you're just making a game"

…for Microsoft's platforms. This article[1] tend to prove that the extra time you spend with OpenGL can be a worthy investment, even if you are "just making a game". (I know you didn't say otherwise, but you sounded like you thought otherwise.)

[1]: http://blog.wolfire.com/2008/12/why-you-should-support-mac-o...
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I agree with you.

Personally speaking I reply to all my emails within the first 24 hours and my inbox has been empty for the last year or so - this is mostly because I do have a lot of free time and I don't receive a lot emails.

I think the author gave a bad example for "do it now" philosophy. I know quite a few people who receives a few dozen emails a day and most of them requires some level of thought to reply.
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ah. The important word being '1200 active users'?

I'll stop trying to over analyze now :)

Congrats on growth so far anyway
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I read exactly the same thing about GenX-ers, and the Hippie generation.
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You have a group invitation.

You have 6 Page suggestions.

You have a poker help request.

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> You must have Javascript enabled to view this site.

And who the fuck are you?
I wrote the articles to test my theories on what captures attention on the internet

I don't have any analytics installed on this site

That seems counter-intuitive?

To me this reads purely like deliberate controversy to get some notoriety. The posts you mention I actually read (both I think) and found one of the 2 to be of interest. To suggest they were some sort of trick just seems weird.
You mean the "Getting Things Done" chord that's been singing around the Web for almost a decade?
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As a "reader" on Twitter I usually dont follow anyone over a few hundred followers unless they are really interesting. Because mostly it is just noise.

I suspect the demographic of their followers isn't hugely useful for "sticky" readers.
From my experiments

- As niyazpk mentions, quality is more important than timing. A poor article will always sink, and most of the time a great article (properly promoted) will rise. However...

- To give your article the best chances, post in the european morning.

Why?

- The european crowds are generally more discerning, and there is less noise (à la TechCrunch) during the american night.

- If you can get a decent number of upvotes from the european crowd, chances are you'll still be high on the front page by the time the US HNers come in.

- Already having 50-100+ votes generally will translate in even more upvotes once the US crowds come in.

That's been my observation, in general. That said, the difference is not really worth worrying about too much. The main difference is that an evening submission requires a little bit more promotion.
Thanks! And you're right, it's active users and I think they were defined as 'used in last 30 days' in the draft Maciej showed me but it seems to have somehow dropped out of the final post.

As to over-analyzing, it's the meat and potatoes of HN. I'd be happy to clarify or answer any questions (best posted at top level as HN likes to assume deep-nesting is a sign of a dreadful flame-war and imposes its timed lockouts).