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> and the NeXT menu bar works better on bigger monitors than the Apple bar.

Still, it would be annoying to find it when you have three 30 inch screens... The menu bar right on the window containing the data it's supposed to operate on is still a better solution.
I understand Heroku's decision, but I must say, when the opposite happened to me with SendGrid a couple of days ago (I didn't even asked for the refund, they did it on their own initiative), I was extremely positively surprised.
just soory it is not working in Slovakia
One of Heroku's employees has a fork of delayed_job that handles autoscaling workers in the background. I use it in conjunction with several hourly cron jobs and it works like a charm. http://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling
I think it'd be a useful feature for a good number of their users. It should be able to extrapolate based on previous usage, and notify me if I'm extremely outside my average historical utilization rate. They ought to allow you to set a sensitivity or threshold, and they also ought to let you opt out altogether.
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Some hypotheticals and criticisms I've heard from people outside of YC:

1) There are so many YC startups that the brand has become diluted and it doesn't get you as much PR/street cred as it used to.

2) The YC team is working with so many other startups that they don't have much time to work with your startup.

3) If you're already in a position to raise more money from angels at a better valuation, is the YC rolodex worth the equity you're trading?

Generally everything comes with pros and cons, I don't think you can say that it could never be bad or that there are no downsides. At some extreme point the above must apply, e.g. it probably wouldn't be a good idea for google to apply to YC.
Your business idea is somewhat "before internet". Unless you add some real value to the supply chain, your buyers will go to your wholesale suppliers directly.
Not only that, but I will almost never be annoyed by someone who says "wait, are you sure you really want to pay us that much?"
At this point, I'd probably just be thanking my lucky stars it was only $1.3k. You'll make it back.
By the way, I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but there is now a study group on OpenStudy for SICP at http://openstudy.com/channels/MIT+6.001+Structure+and+Interp... . Moreover, joining OpenStudy no longer requires an invite (it used to, though incoming links from MIT were automatically assigned invites).
How late stage can a company be and still be accepted to YC?
A lot has changed since 2004. Yahoo for example has 3 pane viewing, tabbed email and chat, you can scroll through and see every email in your Inbox ever received without having to click any links.

It feels pretty much like a desktop application, actually...
Google doing a YC is a pretty weird proposition, that's Goliath going to have breakfast on Davids dime, and asking him to help lifting a bunch of stuff to boot.

Of course YC is orders of magnitude larger than the companies they invest in, that's why it makes sense in the first place.

As to your other points:

1) I've seen little to no evidence of that, rather the opposite, even YC start-ups that would be non-starters or that already have an established competitor, sometimes with a better product that has gotten no coverage whatsoever are covered by anything from TC to CNN just because YC is on board

2) this may be true, but that also means the size of the pool of alumni with valuable knowledge is larger. I used to think that YC had a 'scaling issue' in the person of Paul Graham, but in fact the alumni seem to offset that in whole or in part

3) the marketing value is already worth it, anything you get out of it on top of that is pure cream.
My biggest peeve about Google is how subpar their search is outside of Web & GMail. YouTube is the one that burns me the most. I often have to go to web search and append youtube at the end of my query to find the relevant result. The same exact search on YouTube gets me nothing relevant. The same is true of Android Market. A simple misplaced space, typo or misspelling breaks your search. It's like time warping back to web search circa 1996. I've never understood why Google doesn't apply all their knowledge about search to these other services.
Depends which consistency you mean. It wasn't consistent prior to 10 when you went to press the green button to get the mini-player and the orientation of the buttons changed from horizontal to vertical. If I'm remembering correctly.

I like your other points though.
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the minute I've read it I went and set the noswapfile option. I don't care if vim crashes, I save all the time. if it crashes I will just repeat the last edit. The stale swapfiles etc has caused me more time wasted over the years then lost edits.

But, I soon realized that noswapfile has another problem which caused me to disable it after all: it will allow you to open same file in more then one vim editor instance. And this is really asking for troubles.

It is less of a problem with graphical vim as you can use "autoread" to sync changes between instances, but it is a disaster on console.
London is so well integrated that there's little reason to use a taxi. That's why you have to call to book one, because most people use them for unusual trips, such as going to the airport with a lot of luggage, attending an event with formal wear etc. Much cheaper and quicker to use the tube.
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If clients implemented that spec then burnbit wouldn't work because it requires specific server support. Here's a different spec using standard HTTP range requests, which makes a lot more sense: http://www.getright.com/seedtorrent.html
Yes you are right, I will try that
I gave your site a plug on Twitter. Not the sort of thing I would return to (I don't really like video on the web), but I like the idea and effort. Would definitely keep an eye on it if there were transcripts but, to be honest, it's not a service I'd pay for. (Same goes for Mixergy though I barely remember to skim those transcripts and usually just read some bullets/highlights if available.)

You could look at paid spots though, especially if you had more than one interview a week. A tech company might pay your hosting bill for the month if allowed to feature one of their developers?

Another thing might be trying to complement a HR service and make yourself valuable there. Can't think of anything off the top of my head, but a bit of brainstorming might uncover something.
Agreed, I'm not too worried about people signing up for trails multiple times. The service becomes more useful with more usage, so multiple signups is probably not an issue.
I agree Rails work pretty well when you've an "average" app that doesn't spread across a lot of tables.

The problems only when things go past averageness in one way or another. I actually have had more problems with Rails in personal apps I wanted to develop than in apps for clients.

Rails is a paradox - the bleeding edge framework that works for only non-bleeding-edge sites...
As an empirical question, I think you are likely right that charging off some money owed might buy Heroku disproportionate amounts of goodwill. (I do it all the time.) That is, properly, their call.

As a normative question, though, for-profit businesses do not have a generalized right to make their mistakes into others' obligations.

More broadly, one of my periodic crusades is trying to get HN people to understand that norms in the business world are very unlike the norms of cash-strapped twenty-somethings regarding things like a) the appropriateness of charging money (charge more) b) how much money $1,000 really is (a lot to you, a lot to me, rat spit to businesses with an HR department) and c) expectations for professional behavior (you're doing taxes like a boss, reading contracts like a boss, capacity planning like a boss, paying your invoices like a boss, etc).
great points. i was also startled by the sheer consumption/destruction that is Burning Man, especially in terms of fuel.
Meh, I was hoping for blog headlines like:

"Cuban Cigars- worth the hype?"

"Western Society - I mean, seriously"

"Now THIS is a hand-made boat you could emigrate in!"

etc...
Just now, in a regional language newspaper of India, I saw that a misguided reporter used LED(Light Emitting Diode) as if it was Led, the element. :). So clearly, abbreviations should not be read out.
Probably the bosses will hire some moron instead 'cause your insight makes them uncomfortable...
well heroku runs on ec2 and amazon charges them for it because amazon does actually have a finite number of resources ( large but finite ) which means eventually, when you provision to someone, it means you cant to someone else without over provisioning.

just because it is the cloud doesn't make it the IT version of big rock candy mountain.
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I have been looking for a way to do this for a really long time -- Amazon supports this by adding ?torrent at the end of S3 files, however it has always been really flaky. I am really, really excited about this!
How horribly condescending and wrong. Any company that lets their customers go from huge fan to hater in a week has a major bug. The important question is why did their product turn a fan into a hater, and how can they prevent it?

Heroku should almost certainly have user defined cut off points. They should require every new user to set a maximum monthly bill to something they can afford (or "unlimited").

I did exactly that for a similar type of service I worked on. One of the biggest anxieties customers had was that they'd get a massive unexpected bill, just like this guy did.

Heroku's best move would be to cut his bill in half and institute a cut-off feature. Every service like it should follow suit.
Yes, the very fact the the OP is now considering (however causally) the idea of finding a smaller host with more personal care is something I'd be concerned about if I were his current host. Who knows, maybe he'll go out and find an awesome small host he never knew existed. Customer gone, and he'll probably start recommending the new host to all his friends and associates too.

If it were me, and a good customer made a mistake, I'd eat the cost to keep the goodwill.
I want to start by saying this was 35 years ago. I chose a part of the country where land was relatively cheap (Oregon), and bought 5 acres for about $3000.

I built a small cabin at first -- 12x24 feet -- and this is where I wrote Apple Writer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer), while relying on a very long extension cord for power.

Later on I bought more land and built a larger house, but still with the idea of living cheaply firmly guiding my actions. Then my income went over a million dollars a year and I decided to do something completely different -- so I bought a sailboat and sailed solo around the world (http://arachnoid.com/sailbook).

> if you want water, electricity and sewage utilities ...

I chose Oregon because it rains a bit, and I had previously built a cabin in Colorado where it is very dry -- I decided that was a mistake. In Oregon, for water I walked up the hill behind my cabin and dropped a hose in a creek. If you choose the right altitude difference, you can duplicate normal household water pressure. For sewage, I built an outhouse.

It really was quite primitive. But it freed me from having to pay rent or needing much money, which meant I could think about anything I wanted. Then I acquired an Apple II, which ironically enough I probably wouldn't have done while working for NASA a few years before. I had this fantasy that I would write some cool programs and people would buy them, and I could just live in the country and people would mail me money.

The weird thing is that this is exactly what happened.
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Tought question?

Actually, my main interest is to know what you
guys do while not coding or hacking the world.

For instance, I'm a volunteer firefighter and enjoy doing any kind of sports.
of of the stupidest things is that they repackage some gems as debian packages. so you can't have several close versions installed etc.
You deserve a bonus just for the Sid Vicious in DOA quote - or did you know that?
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I can't recall ever being seriously annoyed at google search until instant search. There have been times when I've been disappointed with the results. I've shared many of the experiences he mentions in the article.

Instant search has not saved me any time and a couple times it has gotten in my way.
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Businesses that work on 'metered' entities (phone companies, banks and so on) as a rule have velocity checks in place.

This limits the amount of damage a customer can do to himself and to the company between billing periods.

I think Heroku is the party here that stands to benefit the most from the encounter, and by simply charging the customer they've lost an opportunity for good PR and have made half of HN more wary of dealing with them.

I understand what you're getting at, but just like there is a maturity to being 'in business' there is a maturity in dealing with your customers, and in this case both parties carry part of the blame, so the reasonable thing to do is to find a solution that lies in the middle.

Even the pros mess up occasionally, and in this case it was pretty clear that it was a mistake.

The real lesson here is that Heroku should implement a notification system when a customer has excess unused capacity or a min/max setting for their dynos with automatic increase and decrease depending on the amount of traffic a customer is currently receiving.

As you say, you 'do this all the time', so that means that you know exactly what is in your interest as a business person, and if that means that you occasionally eat a charge that must mean that you know exactly what the value of goodwill is.

Heroku, apparently has not yet learned that lesson, and 'heroku' and 'unexpected large bill due to mistake' are now two concepts that have become strongly linked. It did not need to be that way.
Borderline negligent, though, on the part of the instructor. Lab assistant or supervisor should have been double-checking safe handling of something that dangerous.
Thanks for your explanation. I think his first renormalization process is wrong. Because once we know there is a boy, the problem space is reduced do "What's the probability of a boy?" which is 1/2. It has nothing to do with probabilities involving the known child.
Did u called him a "leader"?
his real title is "tyrant"
awesome contribution to the discussion, thank you! and i think you're right about the problem with folks getting MVP confused.
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The question isn't what is the probability of any one of the paths, the question is about the probability of the final result.

A fork in the road that joins up again gives each fork equal probability of reaching the destination.
He's talking about the heat wave in Russia and the flooding in Pakistan. It's current.
since we are talking about probability-theory, thought folks here might find gnedenko pretty interesting: [ http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gnedenko... ]
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But I didn't mean "It could be worse", I meant google search is actually amazing and I find what I'm looking for 99% of the time.
>Rent control and Private property restrictions.

San Francisco isn't expensive because of rent control. San Francisco is expensive because the entire SF Bay Area is expensive. Rent control doesn't help, but there are plenty of places in the Bay Area that have never had rent control, and yet are expensive (and indeed were expensive long before San Francisco was).
Alex3917, do you remember the sites (or the query) you did?
I'd love to respond to the below (dead) post and the thoughtful dorks who downvoted me, so might as well reply to myself.

I don't care why he wrote this application. My point is that you can't just say "LOOK HE SAYS WHY RIGHT THERE, THAT'S WHY!" and have any sort of intellectual credibility, unless the intellectual credibility of a third grader is what you're aiming for.
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I've downloaded and will seed for a couple days or so, at the least - in the interest of testing. :)

Also, I've uploaded my album for a little larger test:

http://burnbit.com/torrent/153663/Daychilde_Journey_Beginnin...
Ruby is great, but I don't expect to find myself falling in love with Rails say... hmm, 'ever' sounds good. It's about as likely as getting a Windows 7 tattoo on my forehead.
Something like this wont happen to Google App Engine, thankfully.
This is the Ruby versus Java debate: should we treat professional programmers like they know what they're doing, or should we straightjacket them?

To which I answer: Yes. It is reasonable to run a Enterprise-oriented cloud scaling company which second-guesses your customers' decisions at every point. It is also reasonable to run an Enterprise-oriented cloud scaling company where a professional engineer engaged in capacity planning clicking OK to an estimate presented in 60 pt Arial is assumed to know what they're doing.
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Not horribly efficient, but you could enable screen's session log (C-a H), base64 encode the remote file to stdout, tidy up the local capture file, then decode it.
I will pay bank to see PG and Fidel Castro in a fireside chat. Just saying.
Putting double quotes around a phrase does an exact phrase search. But as studer mentions, we also do exact phrase searches in anchortext pointing to the page, so you can get a match that way.
great great great.

That's all I can say. You could probably make a fortune for a year or so off of the engine that drives this.

Any plans to make it work better on mobile devices?
Why? It could be fun for everybody, just set a baseline and a peak level and use as much as required with a nice little graph of how close you came to your maximum allowance so you can plan your future hosting expenses.
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I support the idea of labeling the 'sophistication level' of blog posts in their titles, but a bit of punctuation would be nice.
I thought feedburner's connotation was making a feed burn more brightly. I think burnbit is playing more off 'burning a CD/DVD'. I hadn't heard 'burn' used as a synonym for 'torrentize' before.
People often respect the worst because it makes them feel good.
Yes, I was aware of this, though I haven't had the need to use it yet.

But my question stands: why isn't this stuff very visible - i.e., on Heroku's DJ doc page: http://docs.heroku.com/delayed-job , or at least linked from there? Or published as an official piece of code on the Heroku github page?
His analysis of the Iranian issues is a bit frightening.
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It's tricky. Google gets well over 1B searches a day. And each week, 1B users search on Google. Most of those searchers aren't as savvy as HN folks. They do things like misspell ~10% of queries, not to mention searching in weird ways. Only one double-quote in the query? How should we interpret that?

So Google has power search operators and we introduce new tools like the left-hand side searching tools, but we also have to try to be accessible for the folks that aren't that tech-savvy.
I was really expecting to see a link to his git repo in the end.
Any company that lets their customers go from huge fan to hater in a week has a major bug.

"I was the one who screwed up" doesn't like hating to me.

It's nice when you can cushion the user from the bad consequences of their own decisions, but you can't always do that. They may have been able to do that in this instance, but it's hard to know from the outside.
Most of those services give you a link that only resolves to a direct download once you've looked at ads and filled out a captcha and even then only if you haven't hit some download limit (or, alternatively, if you're signed in as a paying customer). I don't see how it could work with those.
Right... But I've heard nothing about your experience. Likewise, there is a nonzero likelihood that Heroku could give this HNer a $1000 break and get no publicity...
> not the biggest fan of the transparent movement

Completely agreed: the fact that OSX UI (and iTunes) change in arbitrarily small ways with each release seems like evidence that they are orbiting a local maximum rather than making absolute progress. But Linux distros and Windows are just as bad. And much more interesting advances are happening with multitouch on iOS, so I give Apple a pass.

At least there's a pref for the menu:
System Preferences > Desktop > Translucent Menu Bar.
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Sounds interesting, do you happen to know if any Kahl is in translation? A quick google picks up nothing.

I'm curious how he would explain the success of schools in places such as Eastern Europe and China. More testing, regimented learning, little focus on individual needs...these seems like the opposite of what he's recommending, but it still works somehow.

PS: I think everyone on HN is a bit of a dreamer, no? :)
thaumaturgy, if it makes you feel better, search is much better than in was in 1999-2000.

When I joined Google in 2000, one thing I did was run a bunch of searches and save the results. When I went back and looked at the data, Google2000 can't compare to Google2010. Google2000 still had lots of spam--it was much, much better than Altavista or other competitors at the time, but the results weren't nearly as good as they are now. I keep meaning to do a blog post and show some examples.
Thanks for the plug on twitter.
I definitely don't mean viewers to pay me for watching interviews, that's absurd. Also, my current hosting bill is $20 a month and I see no reason for me to ask anyone to pay it. What I'm interested in is growing the project to the level when I will be able to make something even more interesting out of it. That requires some established audience.
For $1,000 and no publicity that would still be a valuable lesson learned.

What's more interesting is if this happened before and how they dealt with that. What's the cut-off point at which you want to stop your customers from doing serious monetary damage? $1000? Apparently not. $10,000 ? $100,000?

There comes a point where the continued existence of Heroku would be at stake, so it is in their own interest to guard against this, especially when you take in to account the number of users they've got.

They need some guardrails for this, and sooner probably better than later. Terms of service will not protect you if your customer can't pay your insanely large bill.

In that case you'll end up eating the charges anyway, so guardrails are to mutual benefit.
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They weren't costing Amazon any money if they had excess capacity, but if those machines being in use prevented them from being sold to someone else then they did cost it.
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