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We just had a discussion about this a couple of hours ago. If your deployment depends on an external service, your deployment is broken.

You're using git. Have a fabric script that pulls down the remote repositories that you need, and rsync's them to your servers. This works locally or on a remote box. If github is down, pass in local directory to sync instead. This way you can always push.

He built his infrastructure wrong, and is trying to blame someone else. Sorry, but you are just as much at fault, if not more, than github.
Do you have evidence that Google is cracking down on those?
Because I frequently get both Wikipedia clones and various Usenet "archives" ranking very high in my search results.

Since they are always the same sites, they should be be easy to remove from the index.
Ask HN: Which advertising networks would you like to see benchmarked?
After some talk in another thread about making money using small sites I've decided I'm going to spend the next couple of months comparing the various advertising networks and write up my experience.

Which advertising networks would you like to see benchmarked?

I have enough inventory that I think that I can run a bunch of them in parallel.
All I seem to get is the gif of the hanged kid. Thanks.
with DCA (dollar cost averaging) let's say right now you started buying at the market bottom. And so you're just averaging up in price each month you buy. In this instance it would've been better to have bought everything all at once in the beginning.

Everyone seems to always hail DCA as the best investment advice ever but fail to realize it's flaws as well.
And, unfortunately, MFA sites will bring in more money if they solve fewer problems. e.g., you want your content to be good enough that it brings in traffic, but not so good that it solves problems (leaving visitors not needing to click your ads).

The concept of "ideas" and inspiration has proved effective for me on a couple of sites. The ideas and inspiration help people get a vision of what they could do, but they'll still need to click ads to execute that (e.g., give them ideas for bathroom tiling, but leave them to click on to tiler's website to get quotes).
Being in the US has its advantages, but there are definitely downsides too.

When you're going to look at Max' suggestions you actually stand a better chance at doing that from a country where the cost of living is lower than in the US.

Things like rent-a-coder and the mechanical Turk thrive on that difference in cost of living, it's a cynical form of outsourcing, but it definitely does seem to fill a need.

Russia - and most of the former eastblock - are in between two worlds, the cost of living is fairly high, and the opportunities are less prevalent. That makes for a challenging situation, but I've seen quite a few people overcome those challenges and do very well for themselves.
You miss my point entirely. When calculating the cost to manufacture a book, you don't do it as a percentage of the list price. In fact, for a $40 best seller, I'm betting it's the inverse, as the volume for those go up, the printing price drops down to the order of $1.50 - $2.

What I was trying to emphasize, is that unlike most goods and products, that have their final cost as a markup to the physical cost, Books are more like software - the actual manufacturing cost doesn't play much of a role in the list price.

So, to say that "Average cost of manufacturing a book is 10% of list" is to imply that there is a relationship between list price and manufacturing cost of a book.

Whether, in the end, it turns out be 10% or 15% or 5% as an "average" is mostly irrelevant to the core of our discussion, which is "eBook Pricing versus Physical Book Pricing".

This is _particularly_ important with regards to the conversation at hand, as the Publishers are mostly focused on the final retail price being charged to the customer, and probably aren't that excited about whether it comes from an eBook or Hardcover. This is counter-intuitive to most people who thing _OF COURSE_ a publisher would rather get $10 for an eBook (With DRM, non copyable, non-lendable, close to zero manufacturing /shipping costs, fewer returns) versus a HardCover book, and all the costs associated with it.

What I'm trying to highlight is that, at the end of the day, the List Price <-> Manufacturing Cost relationship is not as straightforward as "Printing Cost is 10% of list price"
I'm not making a generalization. I'm making a probabilistic statement.

P(me vanishing into academia) >> P(you vanishing into academia). That's why they ask me but not you.

P(woman vanishing into mommyland) >> P(man vanishing into daddyland). That's why they ask women but not men.

As for legality of employers, who cares? A) Legality != legitimacy. B) We are talking about VCs doing their due diligence with their client's money (e.g., my pension fund), so the legality of employers asking such questions is irrelevant.
My biggest issue with it, and other constraints like this though is that it just feels rather contrived.

That and it took far too long to some up with a password passing the description...
It's the Internet. Everyone has downtime, even Amazon.

My only complaint about Github is how my profile is turned into a giant ad for github when a non-logged-in user visits it. I think it's really underhanded to use a paying customer's profile page to convince random people to sign up for github. If they want to, they will figure it out, just like the other million users.
I pay github for a private repo I rarely use, however I really depend on them for my development as all the open source libraries and documentation I use are stationed there. I don't see switching to something else as an alternative.

So what can we do to help them keep their servers up for the community's benefit?
Couldn't you just salt the user database with 100 fake accounts for every one real account, so that way as soon as someone tries to log into a fake account the bank knows its system has been compromised?
I think this article is being a bit harsh and overly dramatic. However, he does have a point in that the github folks should probably try to architect things such that their paid service is isolated from any mishaps that come from the free service.
That's not a problem for this argument. Rather, this argument is one explanation - women accept the "male" model of having more sex as men gain more leverage in the relationship "market" through scarcity.

Of course, another explanation is the men and women have sex for "their own pleasure" and "their own reasons". That somewhat begs the question of what those reasons are. But that could OK.

Sorting out social, biological and "personal" motivations is complicated and interesting problem.
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How Facebook uses Erlang for real-time chat
This is ridiculous. The waiter pretended not to know English just because a tourist said 'hello' instead of 'Bonjour'? WTF?

An example of a waiter being an ass. And I think a very good example continuing the theme of the original post.

I see absolutely no reason to say 'hello' in language X if I'm going to proceed speaking English. I'm trying to communicate, not to impress with my language knowledge. This just doesn't make sense. Hello is a greeting like any other, and it is accepted all over the world, except France that is.
This actually sounds like China before the privatization of the service industry in the 90s, and I suspect it's similar in other communist countries.

Back then store clerks were paid government wages with benefits, and most of time they would ignore customers even after you called them out. As a kid, I once went alone to buy an imported Gundam action figure with my savings and they made snide comments about my family being ostentatious.

Now-a-days in private establishments they go to ridiculous lengths to provide good services, it's almost surreal. Once in a restaurant my cousin found a tiny caterpillar on a vegetable dish (hey, no pesticide!) and the manager came out to apologize and offered the meal for three free of charge.
In my continuing review of the dental primary literature

I would love a post about your most interesting findings. Looking into the Vipeholm Study now.
Nice list. As long as we're sharing, I'll add that I really like Google's Quick Scroll extension.
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It's "Parisian Love" as guessed by John Battelle
Ignoring the fulminating a bit and concentrating on the substantive issue, there is a real leap in expected level of service once you start taking money from people, and again when you start hosting Mission Critical apps. (What an overused buzzword -- but a true overused buzzword!)

Saying "He shouldn't have had anything Mission Critical on Github, he should have designed his infrastructure competently" is besides the point. Properly designing a fault-tolerant workflow involving git isn't something which is in the easy reach of everyone, and some people would prefer to pay money than to deal with the hassle of doing it themselves. (And trust me, it is a hassle. I have my own gitosis server because I had a business necessity to host my OSS on my own domain. Holy bleeping heck I lost a day of my life to getting that working. That's close to $1,000 of engineer time replicating something very close to what every git hosting company offers for $9 a month.)

People who don't have the skills and don't have the desire to set up a fault-tolerant git infrastructure pay other people to do it for them. Other people being... well... Github. That means that Github has acutely more sensitive uptime demands than somebody's blog on OSS topics or even paid services in less critical contexts. One reason my business is in a less critical context was because I knew that the constraints I was working under made it unreasonable for me to offer customers the assurance that they could build their businesses on me.
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychol...
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychol...

I don't think you can make this observation from these two faces. There appear to be differences in terms of hair and eye color as well. Plus, the facial hair isn't as visible in the smoothed-out face. I may be being pedantic in pointing the second point out, but I still think it says that there's more involved here than just the skin.

Not to mention that the skin color appears to me to "dull" some of the sharper features of the face by making them less noticeable. I think a case can be made that skin can have an enhancing effect on an average face, but I don't think this is enough to write facial structure out altogether.
I'm just referring to points and badges as an incentive mechanism for directing user interaction of a site in ways which provide business value.
I couldn't agree more. Having just gotten back from Paris recently I can say that by and large, we received very good and pleasant service from most of the locals we dealt with. I don't speak any French, but at least I tried to be polite in the language as best as I could (using copious Merci's interspersed with nearly every thing they did), and I think people responded well. In fact some of the better, more courteous, service I received was from younger people waiting tables (Tribeca on Rue Cler for example).

Of course not everybody spoke great English, but so long as I was appreciative of their efforts to work with me, things usually turned out pretty good.

I've found this is definitely true no matter where I've gone, from NYC to Seoul. If you act like a self-absorbed, entitled brat, people respond negatively to that.
The U.S. is in an unusual position, though, in that more than half its government bonds are held domestically, so screwing the bondholders is politically much harder. I agree that inflating out of a debt is probably still relatively likely, though, since as long as it isn't done in a precipitous fashion (i.e. Italy-style overnight devaluation), the small domestic bondholders aren't likely to revolt. An actual default seems unlikely though, given how many Americans own treasury bonds.
I was a pretty poor student in college, and my professors didn't seem to like me much. They loved the kids who went to class everyday though.
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I've seen a whole pile of them simply drop off the radar, I'm sure there are still plenty left but there seems to be a concerted effort by google to control this.

The first real crackdown was somewhere in 2007, since then the situation definitely has improved.
I think i need to clear it up a little bit. (Yeah, it's my post).

I agree that the post came off a bit too harsh maybe, but as far as reliability for a payed service goes, github was yet to provide a decent level.
Ever since Github outages started (a while ago, even on EY's age) i decided to push into 2 separate locations and therefore giving Github a further chance (2nd location is another paid account on Unfuddle.com) but the delay on deployments was due to simple need on our side that resulted in the need to push another change to github (updating a vendored private gem) while this process may probably not be perfect it does not remove any responsibility from github as a payed service to provide a better way of supporting payed accounts.

i will review my internal processes further more to see if there's a better way of doing them, but as far as continuing a payment to an unreliable service.. that part is over.
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Your feelings are exactly why the waiter behaved as he did. Day after day of dealing with people with attitudes like this would sour anybody who couldn't even be bothered to put forth the effort to say "hello" in the local language, which requires about as much effort as drinking a cup of coffee.
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Gitosis is great, however I like Gitolite much better (ironically enough, hosted by GitHub - http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite). Per branch permissions, and a much more intuitive project management.
To borrow Jeff Bezos' analogy from Startup School, should all small businesses who pay a utility company for electricity also have enough generators to run their business should the utility company fail temporarily?

The raison d'etre for companies like Github is that small software companies can't afford to waste a lot of time building infrastructure. If they want to survive, they need to focus on their core competencies, their customers, and their products. If outsourcing infrastructure functions to Github doesn't allow you to do that, then there's not much reason to pay Github.
Would you mind clarifying that for me? We definitely do not intend to do that in any way possible. For example, here is my profile page, logged out: http://share.kyleneath.com/captures/kneath_s_Profile_-_GitHu...

There shouldn't be any excess GitHub branding apart from the obvious bits (header, footer, terminology).
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Do most start-up founders really end up making a choice between the start-up and their relationship/family? Are there examples of people who haven successfully been able to maintain the energy in both? If not, that's pretty depressing.
Yes, but would you start a new project in COBOL today?
Wikileaks, dude...
There is a problem with the special characters for international users.

For example there are tree keyboards for Spanish: "Spanish", "Spanish Variation" and "Latin American". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Spanish_.28Spai...

And usually, the computers are not correctly configurated, so to type the special characters you have to guess or try to remember where they are.
And the problem is worse when you type a password because can not see the characters.

(At work I have an "US" keyboard, but they are difficult to find here, and more expensive. At home I have a "Spanish" keyboad, but the key for typing "<" and ">" is missing, so I have to use an special keyboard driver from http://keyboards.jargon-file.org/ )
"Let me first say, that I'm from Russia and I'm a self-educated programmer, I want to live in US (or Australia, or Canada). Good enough? So I guess I'm the target audience ..."

You're only the target audience if you roughly fit the demographic, and you've given up on the shiny path (either before or after trying).

You don't give the impression that you've given up, so ... he wasn't talking to you. :)
I don't think that's an entirely fair argument to make.

For example, I don't think it's unreasonable to write a unit test that expects an SMTP server to be available. Maybe doing so would break the deploy if the SMTP server ever went down, but at that point you have two options: rearchitect your deploy, or find a more reliable SMTP server to test against.

If the author would rather spend his time and money looking for a more reliable git host than rearchitecting his deploy to account for service failures, why is that so bad?
dammit, I knew it. Nobody talks to me!
But seriously - I don't think there's such thing as "giving up", because "there are no final decisions". One day I'm giving up, the next day I have a plan. It's dangerous to convince one that he indeed gave up. Or so I believe now.
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Google's Parisian Love Superbowl Ad
Too late for me to edit my reply to you but:

> Saying that you shouldn't hire a professional to create a suitable strategy for you and maintain your wealth doesn't sound right.

Is a strawman, I didn't say that you shouldn't hire someone to create a suitable strategy, I said 'Definitely don't put it in the hands of third parties', in other words, maintain control of your funds at all times.

Advise is fine, but a third party managing your funds for you in a 'hands off' mode is most likely not. It's your money, when it gets moved you should be the one to make the call, not some broker. Their interests are not aligned with yours.
The large amount of grammar and spelling errors make me question if the author is at all interested in a "real serious business". And WTF is up with the horrendous comma usage? It's similar on his Nautilus6 and LinkedIn websites, too.

Also, how precisely did temporary downtimes prevent deploys? At best, it appears they would've been delayed by a couple hours, and the great part about Git is that you can work around something like that pretty easily. Granted, downtime is annoying, but his extended difficulties seem to largely stem from his own mistakes, and for $7/month he's not exactly paying top dollar to guarantee uptime.

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The use of social media (as in local and national radio with social participation) and radio as triggers and facilitators for deep cultural and social changes does gratify my intellectual curiosity, that's why I posted it.

It's not just a political thing, this genocide was shaped by the use of current technology, and it is a hint of what could be coming in the future in my opinion.
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Remind me to clear my search history more often.

Doesn't Google store search data even after the user has cleared it from their history?
Great ad with no bullshit that shows off the core of Google. It was funny, memorable, and different than the rest of the Super Bowl commercials.
per request of DXL in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1107314 .

This is basically how it went!
I've recently become much more aware of these 'trend' articles. When you realise that journalists love writing about new trends that they think they've identified, and that people love reading them... you learn to be a bit more skeptical as to the things they claim.
Yes - this guy is heavy on drama and short on logic.

Here's a thought: If you don't want Google to know what questions you ask - don't ask Google any questions.
You'd have a hard time actually reconstructing a life from a search history, because there would be so much noise. For every search that reflects an important life decision, there will be dozens (hundreds? thousands? I can't estimate very well) that you entered out of idle curiosity, random whims, etc. The significance of the ad is that those important searches will take place. Google will have no way of knowing which ones they are.
They could block whatever location the fake account was accessed from, but the attacker could try one account each from lots of different locations (perhaps through a botnet). For this to be useful the bank would have to lock all account access from everywhere when a fake one was accessed.
yeah, well does "attractiveness" of a 2d picture of a face that looks like it was computer generated (the second male picture) as compared to an actual person's face actually correlate to physical attraction in the real world? I don't think you're being overly pedantic.
It's true that one can do worse with DCA. But if stocks go up one makes money, just less. And if they go down one loses money, but less. In other words, one is more likely to get a return closer to the long term average, which is the objective.
The electric company analogy is a good one, but I don't think you're looking at it correctly.

No service, not even electricity, has 100% uptime. If thinks are that mission critical, you need a backup plan. Should you disconnect from the grid and generate your own electricity? Probably not. But should you expect that it might go out at any time? Yes. If you are not running a UPS than no one is to blame except yourself. If things are so critical that a UPS won't last long enough, then you should have a generator backup.

In contrary, what would the poster have done if his power or internet had gone down when he needed to deploy? Would he be cancelling those services? For some reason I don't believe he would.

The real key to all of this is not a question of avoiding downtime, it's learning from it and avoiding a repeat of the same incident. I think GitHub has done a great job of this, and they're very clear about what happened and what they've done to avoid it in the future. The poster, however, fails at this point. Not only does he admit he doesn't have a backup plan for deploying when GitHub is down... he flat out states that he knows what he could have done, and REFUSES to do it. Instead he's just going to cut and run, thinking he'll find another service that somehow is somehow immune to unexpected downtime. I wish I could live in that world.
On your screenshot I see two links for login and pricing on the header and right down to it.
The problem with working in Gold or other commodities is that you can only prove a correlation based on past performance. Stocks and bonds on the other hand are inherently negatively correlated because of what they are. Gold is a highly volatile commodity and there is no guarantee that it will continue to be a useful inflation hedge.
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How would they do that though? If you look at the details of what cause the outage, it was not a matter of free vs. paid users. Even if they added extra redundancy for paid users that they didn't give free users, that wouldn't do any good in the case of a site-wide failure, which is what they had.

For that matter, I don't think they've ever had an issue that could be isolated to affect only free users, have they?
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I just went through my last two months of Google Web History, and I can tell you, it doesn’t reveals anything that anyone that know me doesn’t know. The fact is that every day web searches are not as interesting as the ones in the ad.

Most of them in my case are software development-related stuff. Before being so afraid of “the power that google has” just check you history: it’s less frightening than what commercial made you believe.
It'd be nice to be one of the sites at the top of those SERP's during the super bowl.
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