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So question: in a rolling close with convertible notes, what happens if the startup neither gets a buy out offer nor raises another round of capital?
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We thought about that, and we made a point of making the YC application something that would be to the advantage of startups to complete even if they never submitted it.

And conveniently for founders, there is a certain practice that's common among YC-like organizations that makes the cost of multiple applications low (e.g. http://www.ventures.io/apply).
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If I'm verifying the fingerprint of the server's certificate, is that not doing the same thing that the chain of trust would be doing?
I develop the idea myself and then sit down with my designer to put it into a web form.
Overall: good idea.

Praxis: problems. Right now its hiccuping on my Apps for Domains accounts (specifically docs). Let's not declare victory yet.
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Worked for a well-funded high-profile company years ago. The HR people were constantly getting calls from recruiters who wanted to work for us.

HR person would say "Thanks for calling! We're having a really hard time finding Black Box developers. Can you get me some Black Box developers?"

The only way to be considered by the company was to answer along the lines of "Black Box? Never heard of that."

Many recruiters utterly failed to proceed any further than this point.
Now to begin the speculation on who the mystery author of the foreward is. Any guesses? I am putting my money on John McCarthy.
Have you guys seen Aardvark? Aardvark sends questions to friends and friends-of-friends via IM and/or email. If HN readers all linked together as friends or friends-of-friends, then your questions would be routed to the appropriate people based on interests. And if no HN people are available to answer your questions, they get routed off to the rest of the Aardvark network.

Even if people don't like this idea, it wouldn't hurt to look at how their UI and features are set up, since they're one of the pioneers in doing exactly the same kind of thing the "HN Office Hours" app is trying to do.

You can link to me here: http://vark.com/s/UR0C -- everyone who links to me will be a friend-of-a-friend and will be auto-networked by Aardvark, assuming they all use an IM program compatible with Google Chat or Yahoo IM. Or if someone else wants to volunteer to be the "hub" of HN users, feel free to post your link here.

Just a thought. :)
I read a lot of books. The biggest benefit I get from them is that my thoughts on current projects will get tweaked a bit, and a few gems come to me that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise if I was too focused on my specific project(s) and books that relate directly to them.

I read for enjoyment, relaxation, and learning, in that order. A lot of times, the benefit I get is similar to when you have an idea in your head then actually talk to someone about it. It's amazing the sort of ideas that pop into your head when you just start TALKING about what you're doing instead of just thinking about it. Books, however high-level or fluff-filled, often have the same effect for me.
Apple OpenDocs.
It may be that many of us have google voice accounts, and I believe there is an easy way to embed a "call me" widget. (Just letting you know since I didn't see it in the list on the front page)

http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
> You might want to consider asking people if there was a miscommunication before assuming they're unreasonable or ignorant.

Your entire argument is based on the assumption that Google is being unreasonable or ignorant. You're posing completely trivial scenarios of Verizon gaming the system, and assuming that Google is negotiating an agreement that is vulnerable to such trivial gaming.

Furthermore, your only evidence whatsoever about these non-public negotiations is an extremely vague and misleading NYT article, and a paragraph blurb from Eric Schmidt. You know next to nothing about these negotiations (as do I), but you're completely confident in asserting that it "completely falls apart upon examination."

> I sincerely doubt they're negotiating with Verizon over treatment of any traffic that does not come from Google.

Did you even read what Eric said? "What we mean is if you have one data type like video, you don’t discriminate against one person’s video in favor of another." If what they're negotiating only applied to Google, it would be the opposite of the principle Eric is describing.
Is it just me, or does the cube "o" in gearbox's logo look exactly like Linode's blocks? Same shade of green and everything.
Can't you just hack a website page to tell it that it is a video page? I mean you can hack a php file to tell it it is a css file.

So if this can be done, wouldn't any attempt to prioritize data by time be futile?

Why should video be prioritized anyway? I hardly watch youtube, much less than search on google, read a website, do online research, or whatever else. I'd rather video was less prioritised. I can pause it for a few minutes while doing something else, but if a website has to load slowly if video is to be prioritized that has the necessary effect of lowering my quality of surfing, thus less google searching.
"The company's costs could have been lower, but the New-York district court hearing the case took a dim view of the fact that Westinghouse's legal team failed to appear for the discovery phase. .... Westinghouse is currently in General Assignment, an alternative to bankruptcy under California state law, and declined to defend itself."
Nobody seems to like my opinion, but MongoDB kept eating my data regularly and silently. My writeups are here:

http://www.korokithakis.net/node/116
http://www.korokithakis.net/node/119

I would love to answer questions if I could figure out how to easily see my replies on HN :/
I was initially skeptical of ADstruc, probably because it was a market I know nothing about. I'm sold on it now...watch out - they are going to crush it this year.
For the Droid and Verizon, the answers are 1) You can run 2.2, 3) but the built-in tethering is disabled.
In any startup, if there's never an exit, the investors lose their money.
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As soon as they feature document level locking (maybe MVCC), I'll happily use it. But locking all databases when a write is occurring is a bit of a downer for large apps that require concurrency.
thanks. will add to our ticket list.
Thanks, great advice! I was focusing too much on CPM and rotating ads.

I am experiencing huge growth though (constant 30% a month for the last 7 months) so I should probably ask €600/month @ €1 CPM, or charge per week.
"Since Google Apps customers can already sign in to their accounts at the same time as their personal Google Accounts, we won’t be adding this new feature to Google Apps until the new infrastructure is in place."

I really really wish paying Apps customers got a little more priority than this. It's becoming a habit.
You guys didn't specify a time zone.

I'd be happy to contribute a bit of visual design (interaction design, too, if you're interested in listening to an expert)... but I assume you're either east or west coast USA, so I'll be very, very asleep by then.

Now, though, I'll add that the idea of a public office hours would only be enhanced by the back and forth being public. I'd be much more inclined to help Person A during my office hours, if my help would be available later to others.

EDIT: Check out this time zone visualizer I designed: http://everytimezone.com - feel free to borrow the mechanic, because not only will you have to deal with time zones for the hack-time, but you will have to deal with them for office hours.
Are you using the stable MongoDB?
Wrong 2100, I think. The European IMT band (2100 down 1900 up) is not compatible with the North American AWS band (2100 down, 1700 up). The Nexus One will be stuck on Edge in the UK as far as I know.
Nobody is really verifying the fingerprint of the server's certificate, but if you are, fine; you and I are talking about two different issues. You're talking about your own homebrew setup that uses the SSL protocol and manual certificate verification (incidentally, just set up your own CA and forget about the fingerprints; it's not hard). I'm talking about Internet-scale secure web connections to banks.
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There are successful companies built around all sorts of licensing schemes, but that doesn't mean that you are in a position to say what's best for 10gen's specific situation.

Also, all of the official client libraries for mongo are Apache licensed, it's only the core server that is AGPL (which means that you can use mongo in closed source applications - only if you make changes to the actual core database do you have to give those changes back to the community, and even then you still don't have to open source the rest of your application).
I'm glad you're open and reasonable. Now ask yourself some questions:

1) Did you see any other "civilian" vehicles or civilians on the street in the footage? No. Where do you think the "civilians" and their vehicles were? The answer is, they were at home, hunkered down, because they knew there was fighting going on. There had been fighting going on in this neighborhood for weeks.

That's a "reasonable" reaction to living in a fucking war zone. That's what I'd do. That's probably what you'd do. And if I had kids, it sure as fuck is what I would do. The last thing I would do is put my kids in a car and drive around in it as some kind of a mobile aid station. Even if my best friend was sitting their in the street, bleeding out, I wouldn't risk my kids lives to pick him up in a war zone.

Furthermore, if you watched the entire video, and I suspect you didn't, you'd find that the same Apache crew was tracking another black and unmarked "civilian" vehicle just a few minutes before they fired on the Reuters journalists and guess what? That other vehicile (which may have been the same one) dropped off armed insurgents into a firefight.

So yes, Apache crew belief may have been incorrect -- though there is ample evidence to support that it was correct -- but it wasn't "unreasonable."

Listen, I think you're angry about war. War sucks. It's terrible. And I'm glad most of the fighting seems to be over in Iraq and that we'll get the hell out of there soon. But Assange edited that video to make US forces look like murders, which isn't the truth. They are just normal guys doing a very, very difficult job, and who sometimes make mistakes.

You want to be angry, get angry at Bush and Obama.

Wikileaks got it wrong, intentionally.
Yeah, but that's all contextual as well. If I'm in Odegaard (non-UW people: the 24 hour library) then I will not leave it out. If I am in the CSE department labs, then I probably recognise a few people in the lab at any given time, so I feel a bit safer leaving out the laptop.
I definitely can't design but I do code my own CSS. I try to avoid div soup and keep my html as semantic as possible. This is made a lot easier if you don't care about targeting old versions of IE.
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perhaps. if you sell by the month, you've locked someone into paying for the full month. if you sell by the week, someone might pay for a week and then quit.

depends on how much effort you're willing to put into ad sales/maintenance.
You can definitely skip photoshop.

http://24ways.org/2009/make-your-mockup-in-markup

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Are you guys only looking for local help? I am in India and would love to chip in but this weekend isn't the best time. Can't this be an ongoing, online thing. We can all chip in and host it too - a community developed/run/managed app?
the github wiki is where we're storing a lot of ideas:
http://wiki.github.com/ezl/hnofficehours/

it is editable by anyone with a github account. if you have any ideas, please feel free to contribute (leave your HN username as well with your ideas so we can contact you if there are questions)
I wonder if they see it as using the free (non-gApps) accounts to vet out the new features first rather than risk breaking paying customers accounts with new features that have random bugs that they did not catch in internal testing.
Thanks. It could also happen that the startup doesn't require more capital and is self sustaining. But doesn't get a buy out offer until after the convertible notes expire. In which case, the investor doesn't get to enjoy in the returns - he just gets his money back with some interest.

YC companies get a lot of publicity. And so their chances of raising another round of capital or getting bought out are very good. This is not the case with most startups. So a rolling close with convertible notes may not be the best option from investor point of view - no?

(With an equity deal, the startup can get an exit until it goes out of business. With a convertible notes deal, you have a fixed timeframe and you (as an early stage investor) lose out if the exit happens beyond that time period...

...So I thought one never did a convertible notes deal unless they knew there was a very very good chance of an exit within the specified time frame... am I missing something?

My point is - I don't see rolling closes with convertible notes getting too popular with most angels.)
or use greenlets

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet

at least in this benchmark, greenlets seem to do a very good job:
http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers
Upgrading From Replica Pairs or Master/Slave:

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Upgrading+to+Replica+Set...
Yes. We want to make it as open and community-maintained as possible. We're just kicking it off. Any help is welcome, local and remote. You can fork the repo on github or ping us for anything else.
Thank you for the lecture on straw man. If you did not mean to imply that Assange's recent document dump was composed of nothing more than "outdated opsec" then please disregard my last comment. However on re-reading your comment I still think my assumption a reasonable one.
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Thanks that suits me fine as it's easier to go with the flow of the book and I would like to try making a mobile app or 2
My understanding is that you used v1.3.3 then switched to v1.4.0, is that right ?

Are you experiencing data loss with 1.4.0 ?
ah good point. We're chicago based, so Central ST. I suspect there will be some around the clock hacking going on so hopefully we'll cross paths.

Definitely interested in chatting with you about interaction design, its something that we generally feel we could use guidance on in all of our other startup projects.

I'll have to update the site later as I'm responding from my cell phone.
"Much of the stress comes from dealing with investors."

Disagree here. Dealing with investors is a source of stress, but there are many reasons why startups are stressful. A friend put it this way: "As a startup founder, every day you're eating glass and staring into the abyss."

There is the stress of product-market fit, dealing with the fact that no one knows who you are or cares, endless hours, etc.

But the best startup founders, I think, do it because they simply can't do anything else.

While I hope that fundraising becoming more efficient will help create more great startups - I think the battle against cushy jobs at established companies is at the very, very beginning.
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1.3.3 was a development version, as is every odd numbered: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Version+Numbers
Please see if you can combine something with http://hnhackers.com/ and/or http://www.hackernewsers.com/ It would be a shame if a third site comes along that does something related (even slightly) without working together!
They could probably give them all new cars and still make a profit :)
Again, you can be "not free to leave" for a whole hour on the side of the street and have a judge call that a "reasonable" period to detain you for questioning. You're not under arrest while that's occurring. A bunch of other processes get set in motion once you're arrested, all of them bad.

Probably don't overreact if you hear a cop say "stop, get back over here!" or "no, you may not leave until I get to the bottom of this!"; they're legally authorized to do that pretty much on a whim.

If you've been handcuffed or transported or confined in a police station, you're under arrest, and yes, demand a lawyer.
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Some good case studies.

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It is very apparent that I'm talking to someone who doesn't understand how the law works in the US. I don't hold that against you (why would I? I don't know how it works in Germany!), but I recommend that you develop fewer strong opinions about how things work here until you read a book or two about it.
Ignore hypotheticals, look at history. Say you have a network and you decide that voice calls are so important you should have (real) 5 nines reliability, backup generators, redundant capacity, the works. Now let's say that people start using this voice network to send data. Let's say that people start using other networks for voice traffic. Let's say that people start sending voice traffic as data. Let's say that people start using other forms entirely where they would have used voice (even for extremely important business and personal uses).

How do you decide what gets priority? How can you even know?

This is what has happened in real life. People started using modems on their land-lines. People got rid of their land-lines all together and used cell phones or voip as their sole voice line. People started communicating and doing business via email, text message, even facebook. Million dollar deals have been hashed out over blackberry messages. Relationships have been made and ended over IRC and SMS.

Meanwhile, the land-line voice network is orders of magnitude more expensive to operate even as it has become less relevant, because we thought we knew how to prioritize communications.
It might be a good idea to have some restriction on users so that the service is not overwhelmed (a yahoo answers-type situation might not work out well).
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I wish that was the case, but even things that have been fully announced (like Docs permission settings) aren't live on Apps to this day.
Does anyone know if the developer phone come with a warranty and customer support? The original Nexus One sold by Google had a 1 year warranty and phone support.
I have a couple issues with that kind of software, right now I have two calculators that I use on a regular basis as an engineering student an HP35s for most calculations (RPN is crazy fast, and I need buttons so I don't think I'd like phone software) and my TI89 which is basically pocket matlab and is probably something that isn't going to move to phone software anytime soon.

As for schooling calculators will always be the norm as they don't have wireless access (yet) and so on. I know no math classes really allow calculators but plenty of math intensive classes require calculators to do exams which is something a phone can't replace.
You restart it.
This is a question for pg and anyone else who can chip in:

I love the idea of a startup-controlled round and would definitely love to do my first round (coming soon hopefully) this way but... how exactly do I go about setting something like this up? Is there somewhere that explains how to do this or do I have no recourse but retaining a lawyer who has experience with this sort of deal (which I don't have the money for right now).

I'd love a nuts and bolts type answer if possible.

Or is this process even possible (yet) for a startup founder to lead?
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http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Atomic+Operations says:

"MongoDB supports atomic operations on single documents. MongoDB does not support traditional locking and complex transactions for a number of reasons. . ."

What made you think that it was "locking all databases when a write is occurring"?
Is there any technical reason for the 19fps framerate or is it just something you used to balance the speed?
> "Your entire argument is based on the assumption that Google is being unreasonable or ignorant."

Absolutely not. It's based solely on Verizon and Google operating in their own financial best interests. In fact, as far as my argument goes, Verizon and Google are placeholders for any ISP and any content company. The argument would be the same if we were talking about Verizon/NBC, Sprint/Microsoft or AT&T/Time Warner.

I'm not arguing against some hypothetical secret terms of a specific rumored agreement. I'm arguing against the line of logic I quoted in my original reply. Who it came from is irrelevant. It's a very common justification for QoS-by-type and it's a wholly misleading simplification.

I only referred to Google's interests because you brought it up. It's not in their best interests for them to argue for terms from Verizon that benefit more than Google itself, because that would necessarily weaken any concessions they could get for themselves. It would be unreasonable to expect Google to go toe-to-toe with Verizon behind closed doors and sign a binding agreement for the benefit of the entire internet.
Yeah, you're right. We want this to be HN centric, so I think we're going to start by limiting to HN users.
The wallpaper on that article is so useless and distracting I actually closed the window before I read 1 word.

Minimalism may not be the alpha and omega, but it's definitely something.

Edit: In all seriousness, minimalism is about defining the problem clearly, finding the least number of things needed to solve the problem, and discarding things that don't. Just like in computer science, it's about finding the most generic answer possible. Steve Jobs isn't afraid of making the "wrong" choice, he's afraid of making a choice that's too specific.

Properly generic design has GREAT mass appeal, whereas while super graphic focused design may have much more appeal to a subgroup. Sometimes super graphic focused design IS in fact minimalism: when you need to target a subgroup of culture specifically and with a high impact, an Apple-generic product simply will not work. In that case using embelishments solves a very clear problem: appeal. Apple simply appeals to the biggest audience they can.
I'm an engineer, but picked up enough design sense and CSS to be dangerous. After designing several sites I can confidently say I suck, but not more than 50% of the professional designers out there.

Good design is hard. The problem is it's hard for many who claim to be designers as well, so unless you're willing to pay for a good designer you'll end up with crap.

- Read the "non designer's design book" by Robin Williams. Pay particular attention to typography, spacing, and keeping it simple and minimal.

- Don't go for the gradients and other fancy techniques; just concentrate on getting the basics right.

- Get your color scheme and spacing right and apply it consistently.

- Use a grid.

To sum up: hire someone good to do it for you. If you can't afford that then read/learn and stick to a minimal design and you'll be ok.