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2.1 million events per year. The average cost is something like $20K according to five seconds' googling (sounds high for an average, but let's go with it). That's a $42 billion a year industry. There's a lot of people already making a lot of money by servicing this industry.

Oh, and there's a whole publishing industry devoted to bridal magazines and websites, so it's reasonably easy to reach your target market if you have an advertising budget. Difficult to bootstrap though.
I'm always interested in potentially surprising stats, so I'd be interested in seeing the answer to this. That said, this link contains the phrase "forgot how many 0's"... draw your own conclusions about its reliability. :)

[edit: tried to clarify what I meant]
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What's the purpose of matching "www.", "www1.", "www2." … "www999."? For purposes of this regex, wouldn't the domain matching that follows be sufficient?
The rules listed sound like good rules, but I don't think they're meta-rules. They don't really relate to the creation of other rules.
It was during the mid-80's and I was 12. I loved playing computer games. Activision had 2 that I loved - Little Computer People and AlterEgo. I remember wanting so much to have these games combined that I wrote the company to suggest that they do this. I never sent the letter. 15 years later, Sims comes out.
I can't read blogspot from here in China, and I'm not generally interested in bloggers when it comes to highly controversial issues such as nutrition.

but I do realize wheat has changed in some ways, primarily in that it sprouts every season now. Try subjecting popular "paleo" foods to the same scrutiny you just subjected wheat to-- most currently popular fruits weren't eaten at all until the past few hundred years, walnut trees had to be grafted in order to be cultivated and most almonds killed people who ate them! Similarly, big game on each continent was hunted to extinction, especially in Australia and the Americas. Domesticated animals have been bred to be far different than anything our ancestors encountered.

Wheat has changed little by comparison.
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Of course, there are several custom options: Tiers, Rev %, Flat commissions. Recurring (forever, for a time), and also a one time sum (plus recurring rev share).

Basically, if you can dream it, you can create it. Use the invite code "hackernews" to gain immediate access upon signup.
I fail to see the point of this post.
In the US, there are laws against this kind of thing, although they typically exempt nearly half of the population. Worse than the laws, though, are the social sanctions.
You also don't want the irony of having to plug in your "wireless" keyboard via USB to charge it, not unlike the PS3 controller.

Maybe I'm an idiot but I didn't realize the PS3 controller was wireless in the first place. It felt too light to have a battery in it.
I am really struggling with some of the comments on TC. Maybe I am naive, but $50 is a drop in the bucket for the amount of time padpressed could save you plus the increase of your brand affinity.

Given I am going to be launching a start-up soon that is a lot more expensive than $50, wondering what the communities thoughts are.

Does the HN community feel $50 is too high, too low, or just right for padpressed?
I think that you have to learn from the past? I will never again not follow through on an idea i think has legs. In the end you have to trust yourself.
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A native speaker of english from the west would never use this phrasing — software is abstract rather than individual. Your usage stands out as south asian as much as "do the needful" would.

"I need software that…" or "I need a program that…" would both be correct.
If I remember correctly, weapons inspectors were sent to Iraq, they found nothing, and then the U.S. invaded a sovereign nation based on lies. Fox News had reporters embedded with the U.S. military during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and I remember them reporting that "WMD sites had been secured"! It's all a circus. You can have all the journalists you want embedded with ground units in Afghanistan, but if the editors back in NYC or Washington D.C. are constrained, then you won't get the real story. In other words, your argument is a joke.

And if you want to cite a credible source of info on these issues, cite STRATFOR's article:

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100726_wikileaks_and_afghan...
Yeah, and George Smith made the "unrealistic assumption" that the moon was made of cheese, and John Doe made the "unrealistic assumption" that dogs communicate telepathically...

While there are certainly a handful of "unrealistic assumptions" that have lead to scientific breakthroughs, giving credence to an idea simply because it is unrealistic is... well... unrealistic.
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Considering most of the people who bother to comment on a TechCrunch article are just trolling for backlinks I wouldn't let what they say bother you too much.

Also, I think TC readers are notoriously poor performers when it comes to actionable signups/registrations/purchases of the things they're so quick to comment on. I'm not sure their thoughts on pricing are worth much.
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It was a woman who'd been married and, like anyone who has done so, marvelled at some of the costs involved, and especially at costs that were suddenly 2-3x as much as normal if you say "wedding" rather than "family get-together". So she bought into a business that provided chairs, chair covers, table centrepieces, etc.

But with weddings come huge expectations and issues of timing. You're usually working weekends and nights. You have to work in and around other providers, setting up at certain times and often dismantling well after midnight (because the venue has something else on the day after). Yet everyone grumbles about paying for crucial things like delivery and setup (sounds easy, but who in your wedding party needs to be setting things up amidst the dramas of the actual wedding?) and, as you suspected, tensions are high and customers are demanding (bridezilla-style).

Invitations are a tough space. Horrendously competitive and though everyone wants lovely invites, no one really wants to pay what they cost. It's rarely the design process that kills you. I bet there are loads of people who fall in love with letter press invites and then get a quote that knocks them over. Some invites might be $10 ea and for that price you can usually add another course to your reception dinner!

I married for the second time earlier this year (second time ever, not second time this year! ;)), designed the invites myself (though I'm a web designer rather than a graphic designer) and handled RSVPs and everything that goes with it through a custom designed and built site (now in post-wedding mode at http://www.march20.com.au/).

I am actually in the process of expanding my setup into a side-project (http://www.guestlist.com.au/) that actually touches on invitations. @limedaring, I would be more than happy to trade ideas and tips and even see if there's room to collaborate on a link between ventures if you wanted (email in profile).
OK, but I don't think the traditional hosting setups use that. Anyway, the point was that with a limited amount of threads, you can run into trouble.
Why the obsession with using one or the other?
Why not see that both have their appropriate uses, strengths and weaknesses?

My focus as a Sysadmin is Linux, purely by nature of the type of work I'm in, so I tend to keep up only with the benchmarks relevant to me.

If you're only seeing ext2 & 3 as mature and stable you've missed great file systems like XFS.

ext2 & 3 are great all-rounders, but XFS will knock them into a top hat when it comes to larger files, with lower CPU usage and disk ops. It'll also beat ext2 and ext3 if you're creating and deleting lots of small files (like on an e-mail server) as the delete will take place in the background without impacting the front end systems. It's nice and mature too (16 years old). ext2 & 3 have slightly better error recovery though. XFS is journalled so very little should go wrong that would impact it.

JFS has strengths when large files are moved around on it, extremely low sector overhead (less than 1%) and very low CPU usage, amongst the lowest of any of the main Linux ones.

NTFS has no knowledge of checksumming, something ZFS, ext4 and btrfs handle (the latter two I wouldn't trust yet in production environments), but it does have integrated snapshots, something you generally have to use LVM for under Linux, and native encryption, and from Vista/2003 onwards supports shrinking and expansion directly on the fly (again LVM is necessary to do this under linux, and is best done with filesystem offline).

You chose your operating system and file system to suit the task (for example I'd use OpenBSD on a gateway machine instead of Linux as it's more suited to the role).

It's such a simple concept, like how you wouldn't use a hammer to crack an egg. You could, but you might find the edge of a knife or a spoon a lot easier and neater.
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Your site looks pretty old-school. You could definitely improve your conversion rate by even paying someone on elance a few hundred bucks to customize some template.

That being said, your product sounds pretty useful. I have never heard of this type of DVD (although I have never looked for one) but I assume you could do better with an updated look.

You could also consider a shopify storefront.

Good luck!
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As a technical person who spent too much on wedding invitations at the last minute, I do think that integration with a printing company would be the killer feature.

Moreover, I worry that launching without a printing service would be a business-killing misfeature. It sets the wrong tone (nobody wants to have their own invites printed) from which it may be hard to recover.

I recognise the founder's desire to handle this in small chunks, but printing... I dunno, I wouldn't look twice without it.
With something like node, a request to Twitter would not block.

Not sure how haproxy would help?
You could also partner with stationary accessory makers (ribbon bows, glitter, small dried flowers, etc.) for further personalization of mass produced DIY kits.
A sad day indeed, at least for me. I inevitably end up running some flavor of linux on almost all my computers sooner or later. ATI's support for linux, compared to nVidia, has been piss-poor to say the least (certainly in my experience).
I have always recommended and bought nVidia cards for this one reason. In fact, we recently went with nVidia's QuadroFX 4800 cards for 5 new workstations (requiring stereo vision on linux/macOS). Want to guess the biggest factor why no one on the team even dared think ATI ? ... The (almost always) nightmarish experiences with ATI's low-end 'consumer cards' on their personal linux machines led to a lack of faith in any ATI product.

Please note, as far as linux support goes, I am talking about the "official ATI closed source drivers".
As a variant, this is amusing:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22I+wish+my+computer%22
Yeah, the overly one sided (good or bad) comments on TC or the net in general don't hold much weight.

Our thought on initial pricing was this: People pay for Wordpress themes AND plugins. This is somewhere in the middle. Woothemes charges $70 no problem, wptouch pro is $30, and other advanced plugins can cost $100. Let's start with $50. It's less than WooThemes, but more than wptouch pro.
I'm a little puzzled by this fascination with shared memory concurrency myself. If you have to scale beyond one physical instance, and you generally do if you have to scale at all, your scaling mechanism is your distribution mechanism. Of course, there are apps that need maximum throughput in a single address space but they seem to be very much in the minority.
Did you read the part of my comment where I said Buffett probably gets better-than-market gains because the market isn't perfectly efficient, or that Berkshire Hathaway acquisition can be a legitimate value-add to the invested-in company qualitatively different from just picking the right stock? I don't think you're arguing in good faith if you ignore everything after the words "seriously though" in all of my comments.
This sounds a LOT like me -- exactly the way I used to think (and still sometimes do). What's really helped me turn around was a realization I got from a book, "The Mindful Way through Depression." Tell me if the below description sounds familiar.

I treated my frustrations with my life just like I treated any other problem. I put my life under the microscope and considered carefully which areas I found inadequate. I'd look at each area and consider what was going wrong and what it would take to fix it. Once I had a plan on how to fix it, I'd follow the plan. I'd keep evaluating my progress, and try and improve where I was lacking.

This is a great way to solve problems, but somehow it never worked when I looked at my life this way. Somehow it just seemed overwhelming and depressing. And instead of taking some little step to better myself, I'd just waste the day away browsing the internet or watching Hulu. I'd have a completely clear idea of what I needed to do to reach my goals, but I just couldn't bring myself to do them.

The realization the book gave me was that the impulse to scrutinize my life had, for me, become destructive. Intellectually, setting goals and breaking them down into manageable steps is useful. But the continuous evaluation I did on myself just drained me emotionally.

The way I think about it is that I do not have the same ability to emote abstractly as I have to think abstractly. When I put a problem or deficiency in my life under the microscope, it allows me to focus on the problem intellectually. But my emotions don't understand microscopes -- instead, they treat the problem as overwhelmingly huge. Evaluating my progress over and over again didn't lead to improving my methods -- it just made me feel emotionally besieged.

The solution for me has been to break the cycle of scrutinizing my life. It's an old habit, and it's been hard. But when I get to thinking "I'm wasting my talent" or "I regret wasting so much time" I do my best to keep myself from obsessing over it. And with that off my back I find it much easier to work towards my goals.
From the article:

The rising incidence of Type 1 diabetes may be due, in part, to the current practice of protecting the young from sun exposure. When newborn infants in Finland were given 2,000 international units a day, Type 1 diabetes fell by 88 percent, Dr. Holick said.

So I suspect that your statement, "vitamin D deficiency is ... of those problems [including type-1 diabetes mellitus] ... almost certainly not cause," is undermined by the evidence. Do you know of some problem with the study cited in the article?
I went for the experience and I was pretty dissapointed that I didn't learn any magical new way of doing things in 'the real world'.
To me the question is about not going for it and then later realizing that it could have been huge. Basically regret. The good news is that you can learn from the past and follow through on as many things as possible, at least until that gaping void inside you is filled is dollar bills.
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oh, i have so domain stories. after the dot com bust i wanted to buy up domains like crazy but alas i was using all my money for food and beer.
If your intention is to totally remove the space that's occupied by the log file, you'll probably want to pipe /dev/null into the file:

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This is a good point. I was trying to talk about unit economics: a customer from organic SEO is free at the margin, and if you're not able to monetize them profitably with a marginal cost of 0 then it is strikingly unlikely you will be able to buy them on AdWords and make up the loss on volume.
Really I don't know you before this thread. I did what you asked and googled "thomas ptacek" and here are some of the result on the first page.

I'd Like Thomas Ptacek To Apologize Please http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2010-01-12.html

Welcome to Thomas J Ptacek Furniture http://www.thomasjptacek.com/

Security Idiot: Thomas Ptacek: Too Quick By Far! http://www.securityidiot.com/2008/07/thomas-ptacek-too-quick...

Are those yours?
I Concur, I am from india and even i feel the page is like it was designed in 2000's
Thanks. The cheap way is a fine route, and I saw some Ikea hacks. I think I would like to have a combination of sorts eventually. Appreciate everyone's comments.
I know. Look at nginx.

It is actually not just a hobby, it was sponsored and actively used by it's author's employer - Rambler.
Yeah, I would kill that "black on black" shadow text ASAP, it's almost unreadable without highlighting it.
I've never really tried to "diet", but I have experimented for sports. 15 years ago, when I was a competitive runner. At my healthiest point, I was eating about 70% of my calories from carbohydrates, had a resting pulse of 48 and could run a 10k in under 35 minutes. I did try experimenting with more meat and fewer complex carbohydrates. The result was, my performance suffered greatly and my sweat started to stink. I've also tried being entirely vegan, which also lead to worse results. Once I went back to eating mostly grains, vegetables and fruit with a modest amount of animal products, I started feeling and doing better. Every single good runner, swimmer or cyclist I've known has eaten a relatively similar diet. The only exception I can think of is some of the most extreme ultra guys, who seem to need the absolute most calorie dense junk food they can find.

Since then I've become more sedentary, but have still maintained lower cholesterol and blood pressure than the majority of people in their 20's. I started eating richer foods several years ago in Taiwan and put on some weight, but found it disappears quickly after returning to a more normal (Chinese) rice and vegetable based diet.
The site looks super spammy.

To improve your conversion rate you should have more information on your site. use a different payment provider (paypal is the choice of spammers. non-spammers too but mostly spammers) try shopify.
add some analytics from mixpanel to see where people are dropping off. You should also increase the price of your product, i mean you are offering to fix my screwed up plasma tv, i've never seen that i would pay $30 for something like that. If you feel bad about charging that then throw in a wicked movie for people to watch after they fix there tv.
This is the best "looking for technical co-founder" post I have seen here. It explains your idea, the value you're bringing to the partnership, what you're looking for, and your past work as evidence of your value. Also, the picture helps me put a face to your name. Good luck!
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> you can take big multiples of the "RDA" in D3 (I think 10,000 IU/day for months for vitamin D deficiency has been mentioned) for quite a while without overdosing.

That's actually a problem, as people can become accustomed to taking large doses and then not understand why problems are occurring when they start way down the road.
I am getting married in November and wasted about an hour looking through a "book" of over-priced invitations a few days ago.

I was disappointed this site was not live because I would have bought on the spot!

The biggest issue for me is convenience, as soon as this in-person process became a chore, my fiancee and I thought to look online (again).

Even though you will not get repeat customers, you will get repeat families, party-planners and friends. Our entire vendor list came from family and/or friends referrals..

Good luck!
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It was on my list and then I got caught up with the TechCrunch interview. I basically recreated techcrunch in 30 minutes, installed padpressed,etc. for the article. It actually has the shadow applied to all the text on the site, so if I remove it there, it makes the rest work. Hence, my lazy ass needs to create another style, apply that to the featured div, and voila, no more shadow.
While you're here :) I wanted to say that your book/tutorial is really well done. I was working through the 2.0 version and simply figuring out what needed to happen for 3.0. Thanks for the link to the 3.0 version. I'll let you know if I any problems or confusing parts.
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Wow, I wonder what Microsoft did to get this sort of promotion. I never would've thought that Amazon would promote a particular browser, especially IE8.
The people getting kidnapped and killed are not "embedded" with military units and they're not simply parroting some PR guy's talking points. They're using fixers to get guided tours of Baluchistan to meet Taliban leaders.

The people reporting from Peshawar --- literally putting 'Peshawar' in their dateline, like the WaPo has been doing for years --- are not embedded with military units; the US military doesn't have units with embeddings in western Pakistan. But there those reporters are, inconveniently damaging your argument.