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It's not closed, but to purchase re-distribution rights is very expensive.
Just update packages to the latest, patched version. What so difficult about it?
Thanks very much! It's always great to hear that PagerDuty is working well for people.
Where are these bootcamps?
The main reason we haven't offered a perpetually free account is because we're a bit different than other SaaS companies: hosting isn't our only cost, we also have to pay for each phone and SMS alert we send.

The other reason is that we see PagerDuty as solving a real "hair on fire" problem, and we think if you're one of the businesses that needs this, it's reasonable to pay a certain amount for the service. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
I have a theory that everybody has about the same amount of problems. For people who don't have problems that life throws in their ways, they simply fill that void with other stuff. This antenna issue is one of those non-problems. Some people just need some drama and when everything else is fine you just create some.
"I'd assume my conclusion any day over considering that maybe my hero isn't also the best hero of all."
In my opinion, Chrometa isn't at a point where it can claim it has traction. It sounds like they have 100 or so customers after 2 years. There are ~1.2M lawyers in the US and ~1.8M in the world.
If this is based on a popular distro, maybe; but if you wanted to loosen up a Linux box, you can build a freak from pieces that no one would find lineage for, much less a repo.
This is fascinating, but for a lot of us building web apps we have to scale beyond a single box, which means shared state needs to be in something like memcached.

I love Clojure, but it's concurrency constructs aren't that relevant to most web programming. Which is fine, but let's keep in mind that developing a web app with Clojure is painful now due to a lack of libraries / a large enough community. I'm eagerly awaiting the day that changes.
Congrats Alex and Andrew!! That makes two UW SE2006 startups covered on TC :)

Though I think you may already have us beat by being YC funded, the jury is still out on that!

And I agree with the free trial model over freemium. Your service is worth paying for. Period. The trial is used for determining if your service actually works as expected. And you don't get network effects the more people that use your system. So there's really no point for freemium.

Keep up the good work guys! Very exciting!
I was in one of the cell network provider's testing lab a few times. They also do things like RF testing before putting the device on sale, but their lab doesn't look any similar to that. They have a bunch of Faraday cages (think of labs with sheet metal walls) and lots of RF emulation equipment - phone's getting connected through the RF port on the back; RF emulators take care of simulating any bad RF conditions that you could possibly imagine. So, their labs don't look that fancy at all. Still they manage to have devices that could be held any way you want.
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In what way is pushing 20K requests/second "concurrency fail"?

Node.js doesn't make it easy to share state between processes, but once you're scaling to multiple processes, the jump to multiple machines probably isn't far behind. You'll need to design a distributed algorithm, or just centralize your shared state in something like Redis anyway.
I do admit, having high unread counts ticks me off. I wouldn't mind seeing that go. but I try to keep my feeds small so I only get a small stream of content that is all important to me, instead of a firehose of worthless stuff.
There are other ways to update software..
Thanks Omar. With Baskar, I think we might also have the distinction of being the first Comp Eng 2006 startup on TC, too :)
What! And I was kinda angry with Google that after all my degrees they still consider me for "software engineering" position. This prof gets the same title. Hmm.
It is a bad idea to send hashed passwords over a network. If you need a level of security beyond "passwords on the wire", use TLS.
Be more specific about the attack you're thinking of?
Note to self: use fake names for whois data.
iirc, almost every technical person there who does coding is a 'software engineer' ... even ken thompson, rob pike, guido, etc.

EDIT: k nevermind about ken thompson and rob pike ... but there must be other big-shot hackers whose title is still 'software engineer'
You're welcome, and I'm happy to hear you've been satisfied with Twilio's service - we're really passionate about doing it right and we'll always be here to help

Btw, I've left you a "gift" in your Twilio account... whenever you happen to check your account balance :)
Smarter people than me have commented on this before: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/resource/Fallacies.html
Ok, that's understandable. My default thinking would be: offer e-mail only notifications for free users, but you made a good point.

Your target audience/market is obviously not the casual user/blogger type so it makes perfect sense.
We've taken steps to minimize outages as much as possible. The system is distributed across 3 data centers, with fast automatic rollover in case of a data center outage. We've architected the system to ensure we never drop alerts. PagerDuty integrates with monitoring via email or API; if we receive the message on our end, we guarantee you will be alerted. We've had a few incidents where we have delayed sending out the phone call or SMS alert for a few minutes, but we've never dropped an alert.

In terms of setting a formal SLA, we haven't done so mainly because we're not sure how to go about implementing this. I've checked the SLAs of a few hosting and cloud providers including AWS, Rackspace, Linode and Slicehost, and I haven't found a compelling example to work from. Some of these guys don't have an SLA (they try their best) and the others give you only a portion of your money back.

The whole point of an SLA is to incentivize us to never go down. In our case, we know that if we ever go down, we will lose our customers; that's incentive enough :). Having said that, we may still add an SLA guarantee as part of a larger "enterprise" pricing plan.

We definitely plan on adding plugins for all the popular monitoring systems. We've also released an integration API to allow PagerDuty to integrate with any system that can make an HTTP API call (or call a command-line script that can do this).

I'm pretty sure Zabbix will work with PagerDuty right now, via the integration API. We'd love to work with you to set this up. Please send me an email at alex@pagerduty.com.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm guessing that the main thing that people will remember from this will be: "Wow, I bet Apple's competitors don't have a cool lab like that and that probably means their products aren't as advanced."
Fantastic presentation. I'll probably end up reading it a few times, and I got one benefit already: I just took page 12 of the presentation, and actually applied it to a web-site I'm building. Not live yet, just a landing site.

http://viewpst.com/

Of course, one of DropBox' biggest advantage is the name! It's clear, concise and accurate.
umm no.

He specifically mentions that all the softwares are vulnerable:

"Its developers have spent hours stuffing it with broken, ill-configured, outdated, and exploitable software that makes it vulnerable to attacks."

Just replace them with the latest, patched, default configured version.
I'd love to hear what some of you think about SLAs. Is it worth implementing one?
I was actually a zumodrive user before I was a dropbox user.

I had taken a look at dropbox but the fact that zumodrive installed as a separate drive on my computer felt better/cleaner than it being a magic folder (with a space in it's name)

But eventually, when I had problems, Zumodrive's support completely failed me and it seemed like a sinking ship, so I gave up and turned to dropbox and haven't regretted a single moment.
It gets the point across. Looking good is a secondary concern.
Yep. It's like calling Michelangelo a painter. It's true, but...

AFAIK, their SW engineer positions have five levels, so not everybody's equal really.
I have a similar belief. People need struggle and if it isn't provided by life then they'll make it for themselves.
This is absolutely wrong. My father has DH, my aunt is celiac and my wife has a gluten allergy. My next door neighbor died earlier this year from problems relating to his inability to handle his celiac diet properly. I say this only to note that I have a lot of exposure to gluten related problems in my life.

In many people, my father for instance, gluten problems don't manifest themselves until much later in life, sometimes out of the blue, seemingly unprovoked.

While what you suggest may yield some cluees, only a fool would follow your advice about this being definitive (your words).
most of his results are "people in your social circle" -- that doesnt count as getting on the frontpage. he only saw that because, well, he's friends with himself.
Apple has 'Verizon cell sites on campus'
Incorporating some community type features (votes, comments etc) may also help differentiate from Google and keep foodies coming back.
well there goes the whole freedom argument. ouch.
Riiight, downloading individual packages, libraries and kernels and building them from source. Which is why I thought it would be a good exercise, however very boring.

Running a Bastille script on the box would give you a quick TODO list. Pushing it to "production" and getting a few servers up and running, across version incompatibilities, would prove a bit more interesting. Running it under an older 2.4.x or 2.2.x kernel, doubly so.
I think it's a no-brainer for b2b SaaS.

PagerDuty starts at $12/month. For a personal account that's a huge chasm for me to cross, but for business it feels like nothing. It's probably not even my money.

In business you're just not use to getting much for free, especially service - my bank charges me to write a check, my ISP charges me more to get business DSL to the office than home DSL, etc.

Maybe we're just resigned to that, but having a no free account policy just rides that waves and presumably increases profits (forces conversions to paid, ensures no loss-making free accounts)
OK, got most of them added. I'll let you know if anything comes of it...
There are many different ideas about this, choose it so that it can be a verb, choose certain consonants of power, etc. etc. Eye catching, real but rarely used English words can be tried (e.g. http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/163).

Although this is a decision that people agonize over (your company's like your baby after all), in the end I don't think it matters that much. You can read PG's thoughts on this: in his first startup they wanted a name so much that they offered a handsome sum to the holder of that domain. Then they relaxed and saw that it didn't matter that much for success.
When I Google search a colleague or prospective client, I have an expectation that I'll find them on the first page. If they don't have a presence on Page 1, the unconscious begins to think that they may not be as popular/powerful/influential than I had previously assumed.

I think I might cry the day someone says I'm not good enough because of my Google rating.

While he has a good plan on achieving the ratings, it seems disingenuous on the whole. He makes it to page one through social site manipulation and people may think he's better than he actually is.

Of course, walking into a bar and saying 'Just Google me' to some hot chick sounds interesting.
I think you do need a universal ontology if you want to make the kind of progress the semantic web people talk about. If you just have a bunch of small, separately created ontologies, the situation can indeed seem great until each expands. Then the intersections and ambiguities become huge.

Sure, if you weren't concerned exactness and lack of ambiguity, you could expand the world of triples into a giant, poorly organized collection of information. It would be kind of like the web. The approach "works" but we, uh, already have the web.

Also, the Doctorow document excellent. Anyone expected naive metadata to be extensible should have a reply to it.
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Thanks Danielle!
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How much memory were each using?
If you just have a bunch of small, separately created ontologies, the situation can indeed seem great until each expands. Then the intersections and ambiguities become huge.

Inferencing solves this problem.
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Wow...that is so impressive (not)
I have seen tons of these anechoic chambers used by antenna manufacturers...Apple and their amazing marketing gimmics...
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AFAIK you need to process that data - put it into a graph db or a RDF store. SQL/MQL/RDF/OWL are all just query languages that can query the data.
BTW there is no open source MQL implementation.
Fake whois data will probably just speed up the process for anyone who wishes to take you down. What you want to do is register your domain to an "anonymized" offshore company.
This is an important point, but I think Afghanistan as an example is a bit misguided. Home-grown (as much as possible) and home-governing communists are usually going to do a much better job than a colonial government of any political orientation, which is what I fear Afghanistan would have ended up as.
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We just picked up a couple of real, physical pagers because we're unwilling to trust SMS delivery.
At a former employer, it took weeks to negotiate the terms of an SLA with a solution provider and it ultimately fell through. We glossed over several vendors because of the lack of one (it's usually negotiated, not pre-written like a privacy policy or T&Cs.)

However, what ultimately made the deal was not an SLA, but a new vendor that showed substantially deeper pockets than we expected. A meeting was organized with their sales guy and FOUR suits showed up in a black sedan. Most gangsta display of power, and our glass cubicles were gassed down with the musk of cigar, Brut and Drakkar Noirs.
This is actually one of the big reasons we built PagerDuty. SMS is not as reliable as people think -- messages get dropped or delayed by hours all the time.

We've found the automated phone calls to be a much more reliable way of getting the alert out. We can tell right away that the message has been received by asking the listener to press a button on their phone, and repeat or escalate as needed if we don't hear the tone.
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It's confusing to have the search check boxes below the registration section like it is now; it makes it seem that the check boxes are part of the profile one is filling out.

I spent time going through the entire list checking boxes off, only to get to the bottom and see a Search button when I expected a Submit or Register button.

Now I've spent all that time checking off boxes, I really don't feel like doing it again :(
Well, if Michelangelo had a business card, I think he'd write "painter" or "artist" on it. There isn't much else to say.

What should they be using besides "software engineer"?
It's a regimen that you need to apply yourself. It's good to keep in mind that, so long as you don't do anything totally outrageous, there is really no possibility of physical harm by going out and trying to socialize. You might get a bit of a bruised ego, but it's all part of learning.
> What's a bigger issue to me is why so many hackers fall for easy market-speak like this. Are they English-challenged? Verbal-intelligence-challenged?

No. They understand and speak plain, unambiguous English, C, Python and Lisp. They don't speak corporate weasel propaganda. This kind of speak, throws all kinds of exceptions, causes segfaults, or returns a non-0 and sets errno in their heads.
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Not update, but upgrade to another more secure distribution.
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Sorry but Apple's approach of no-options and very high starting price have only hurt consumers. The near dominance of MS is due to the fact that it allowed really cheap machines, which lead to its adoptions in Industry and then in the whole world. I remeber Bill Gates even claiming that he does not cares about pirated version of Windows in India/China.
I remember correctly, my first computer 9 years back had pirated version of windows.

Also you can see Apple following similar strategy again:
While Andorid is open source and allows product at multiple price points, iphone gives no options.

Also finally Woz is pretty powerless guy now!
"Dot" links:

Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/8919323

Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8152149518083440011
Polygynous, Polyandrous hacker
Please check DHS's website. You can always work UNPAID.
You can not accept any sort of compensation on F1 visa if you dont have approval from DHS.

I was myself on F1 and I know many students working unpaid for experience.
Have you partnered with thieves and robbers?
If you don't want this to turn into a marketplace for squatters, you should really set some ground rules. For example, you may say that people can't post domain names that they're selling for more than $100. That's just one thing, there are probably others that could help this website not turn into a trash collector.
Added apidoc.info, boof.me, methodize.me, projectify.me, and tweetsoncrack.com (yeah I went on a little bit of a .me domain buying spree when they came out). Just waiting for DNS to update now.
Or, it may not. Were they even big enough to have a bust around y2k? Isn't it a factor that so much of the talent is very highly paid in the financial industry?
You are plainly biased in favor of Apple inc!

MS sold an O.S. while Apple tried to sell the whole bundle.
Whatever B.S. reasons you have for user x, I can tell you that people can live with a 1 bsod per day if they are getting the machine at nearly half the price.

Apple tried to become vertical monopoly, and made only enemies in the process.It is repeating same mistakes in mobile space as well.

Jobs actions arent exactly better than Bill Gates, and as far as Woz is concerned he is a pariah and steve jobs doesnt gives a shit about him
But optimizing for entrepreneurship and building companies results in a lot more opportunity for those who just want a job, right?
Please, try to use some external database/key-value storage lookup instead of printing "hello world" and show us memory and CPU usage. ^_^ Especially for Clojure.
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Well, if it were the prairie between Havre and Browning on US2, I would be all over that. Kansas seems to have no mountains.
Organ donation, eh? How very selfless of him. Reminds me of an article I read once: http://exiledonline.com/memphis-where-the-oligarchs-eat-thei...
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[academia : toy boats in bathtubs :: industry : aircraft carriers] is the most memorable distinction between academia and industry I've heard. In the end, your slice of the pie will be as big as you can handle, but the overall size of the pie (and thus your percentage of control) determines whether you choose academia or startups or established companies.
Another try to compete with wikipedia? This time it might be successful. Wikipedia lacks structure and API to fetch different content types.
In the old xml-based version, there was no way to add comments to your model. That's right, no comments. You could add them to the xml by hand, but they were then not exposed to any of the normal tooling. I wonder, did they ever bother to try using their library in an actual system before shipping it? </vitriol>

So it may be worth looking at now. Once they add migrations support it could be useful.
I would like to know of a polygynous or polyandrous hacker http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1523224
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congrats guys - awesome work!
Ken Thompson and Rob Pike are designated as Distinguished Engineers -
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There are a few usable libraries for building web apps in Clojure (Compojure is an example). These libraries are not as comprehensive as libraries in other languages and the communities are small as you noted. That said, I wouldn't describe the experience as painful. Some of the libraries are pleasant to use.

I agree with your comment regarding Clojure's concurrency constructs. I am building my web app to run on more than one machine. I have not yet had a need to use any of the concurrency constructs.
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yes. Whether it's desktop apps, local os, iphone apps, android apps, any interest in this stuff in the future will be just some kind of steampunk sentimentality. The only desktop app that should be developed and upgraded is the browser. Web dev is a superior expression of division of labor, and regression management. Software dev is so increasingly worthless, the only viable platform for it is web, embedded specialties withstanding.
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It's more than five levels. And there're titles for the levels above Senior Software Engineer, but many of the best programmers keep on using plain old "software engineer" because they'd rather be known by their code than by their titles. (Or they make jokes about them, eg. one that I know is officially titled a Principal Engineer, but goes by the title Engineer in Principle.)
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Not only it comes with no strings attached (as being Free Software requires), the GPL ensures nobody will ever be able to attach any strings to it.

The only thing you can't do with code derived from GPL'ed code is attaching strings to it. Your clients should celebrate it.
But gmail's storage grew at the same rate for everyone, early adopters and new sign-ups alike.
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I know they have this page
http://foursquare.com/add_venue, but I'm trying to figure out if that is the only method that venues get added to FourSquare.

The reason I'm asking is I'm trying to figure out for a new site I'm working on (not location based) how much you can rely on users to generate reliable content similar to locations?
I want to squeeze both fists around my phone when I make a 911 emergency phonecall. Steve Jobs has put my LIFE IN JEOPARDY!

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