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An API designed for overriding still suffers from the same compromise. Any particular use case will want to override a specific set of functionality and nothing more. More fine grained overridability means more overhead complexity. Simplicity means you have to override functionality in large units, likely reimplementing most of it.
I don't have much first-hand knowledge of that subject, but here is what I have read.

docx:

* Is horrifically complicated.
* Is not likely to ever be completely implemented by any third party.
* Does not accurately describe the behavior of MS Office.
* Was rammed through the standards process in a way that demonstrated partisanship more than technical merit.

Whereas this offering by Apple does not seem to exhibit any of those properties.
Digg's customers are its advertisers, not its users. The users are the product they sell to their customers.

So Digg might in fact be doing right by their customers in this case. They're certainly bringing in more money than Reddit.
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Well of course. I don't doubt that Oracle is aware of their developers' existence and gives them some form of support. But how much of Oracle's time and money goes to developer support compared to companies like Microsoft? Much as I dislike Microsoft, I have to give them credit for engaging their developer community.
"My 10-minute routine dropped to a minute ..."

Jesus, what the hell is wrong with this guy? Or maybe I'm the freak, but I don't spend ten minutes on the toilet. Usually it takes 30s-2m to do my business.

Maybe he should consider a change in diet?
Good idea, except almost no one would be able to play it.
The killer feature is having it on demand, if you weren't able to turn it of I would have uninstalled it long ago.
Oracle uses a decent amount of Java. It was probably worth it just to control the language's standards and runtime.
Yes, thank you. Although now I'm trying to figure out what click-adversity would be.
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That is seriously incredible and brought me up to speed. Do you know if that was illustrated over the weekend or is a lot of it mash-up/collage? Either way - awesome.
In the spirit of picking things apart (because it is fun and edifying), let's talk about Microsoft's attempt.

> Founded in 1975, Microsoft

Nobody cares when you were founded. Now I think your company is old and out of date.

> (Nasdaq “MSFT”)

Nobody cares. If they did, they'd use Google Finance to find out.

> is the worldwide leader

Brrraaap. Worldwide and leader are both banned words. Also, are you really a world-wide leader if your market cap is trailing your biggest competitor? I guess that depends how you define it . . .

> in software, services and solutions

Oh, God, not solutions. Services is almost as bad.

> that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

This is sufficiently abstract that it could not possibly offend nor inspire anyone. I've never bought something because it helped me "realize my potential." I've bought things to smash noobs, yes, or to hack on sweet projects, or to write the next great American novel. But never to realize my full potential. This phrase belongs on the back of a self-help book.
The people being phished don't care how big you are or how fast you can respond. What would they consider a reasonable time?
The daily show video works quite well. Can't watch that for free on any apple product, so I'll stick with flash
I would like it on my iPhone and iPad but I can live without it for the most part. I like the fact that a lot of video sites are doing the html5 video route and the iPhone and iPad popularity is pushing that adoption. funny or die works fine on my iPad. There are the ocasional restaurant websites and some other sites that don't work correctly without flash but they are a small minority of the sites that I visit.
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So you're comparing your startup to a disabled person?

Unlike the hypothetical disabled person, however, your startup, when used for phishing, is allowing real harm to happen to other people.

Your attitude suggests that a) you care less about your clients than about what's convenient for you as a startup founder, because b) you're small. But that's a very bad excuse, and a dumb one, at that. Clients don't care about your size. All they care about is the results your products give them. And that leads to another question: why should anyone buy into your services if you don't/can't act promptly and responsibly in response to problems?

And yet you seem to be getting angry about Rackspace for caring about the clients affected by such criminal activity further downstream from them.

I'd think twice before buying into your products, with an attitude like that. Rackspace appears to care. You do not.
That this is #1 is heartwarming evidence that HN has not even approached the general vicinity of the proverbial shark, let alone jumped it.
yeah, if something is closed from Google, just enter passwords and open it.

btw, Google should create a similar service - like enter all your passwords and we will add your personal search results in a some frame. ^_^

It is remarkable that such simple idea got funding and that YC provided so much support for a young guy.
Site looks good. I love the demo's. Its great to be able to use/experiment with a tool before buying it.

The purchase process is a bit sluggish. It's been a long time since I've been bumped to paypal to make a purchase. I think it would be worth your money to pay the $30 a month for paypal pro and use the API to keep them on your site. Or use one of the many existing tools/apps/apis out there to make a cleaner checkout process.

It is far easier to deal with a refund than it is to deal with a charge back. Cheaper too. Since you have a demo, most that buy it are going to keep it. But those that for what ever reason end up wanting to return it, will be able to get their money back by going threw PayPal or their credit card. Plus its been proven that having a 30 day money back guarantee will improve your conversion rates.
This would be great with a CMS like MovableType that outputs static files. Instead of writing to a local file system, I would want to write to an S3 bucket and invalidate the changed files.
Tell HN: The first rule of We Are Superior To The Meme-Spewing Zombies Club
Is, you do not talk about We Are Superior To The Meme-Spewing Zombies Club.

Seriously, when anybody utters an Internet meme can we refrain from the pontificating and sermonizing about how superior we are to Reddit? It's getting even more tiresome than the memes themselves. Just downvote and move on with your life. Thanks.
Yeah I know, just pointing out their may be more of a market gap in Australia.
This feature exists for a long time now.
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I got to develop for and use a Pre at a previous job and it's subpar. It feels kind of cheap, the screen is too small (physically, resolution is fine), the hardware keyboard is worse than some software keyboards, and it's a little bit geeky to be mainstream. A phone shouldn't have modifier keys, imo.

That said I think webOS itself is great. Put it on some good hardware and I'd seriously consider buying one.
I clicked over to the site thinking, this could be cool, I wonder what I'll search for. The default search option was "Detroit to domestic for under USD200". DTW is 20 minutes away, and $200 is little enough I could just book something for the hell of it (and I just may). I just wanted to say, that was a killer default search.
This is exactly the type of flight search that I was looking for! The competition is terrible in this regard.
I am the original author of the article here.

I want to add that it is because we care about our clients, so we can't accept a service like that.

You are assuming the form must be phishing, and is a criminal act. But we were given no details about the complaint from Rackspace, even after the site is back online and I have an opportunity to disable the site painfully, I still cannot figure out how the form is "phishing".

So besides the short notice, it is Rackspace as a servers provider, act on behalf of you as a service provider to identify what is criminal what is not. I keep asking for more details about the complaint but none were given besides a URL.
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Google has announced that it decided to take into account the speed of a site to determine search results ranking, in addition to 200 other factors
This might be a great opportunity to advertise regionally for travel. They can target google adwords on say "webjet.com" which will allow them to get some traffic off a mistaken url vs. address bar.

edit: or whatever the webjet website actually is seing how it is Australian.
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Unrelated to your question, but this is the second site I've seen recently here at HN where the images flip past to fast. Perhaps I'm getting to old, but when you have images and words describing the images, I need more time to read it. I know the controls are there, but still by default, if you have text that you want me to read, then give me a chance to read it.

I think that you are going to get very different %'s based on the type of app. I have a SaaS so it's different, but for what its worth, my conversion rate from trial users to paying users (which are my active users) is less than 5%.

I'm curious what your business model is. I'm in your target market since I use google reader.
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I run a social news site called Windy Citizen in Chicago. Right now and for some time, it has been majorly, and embarrassingly screwed up. It crashes every hour, like clockwork.

I first reached out to my network of developers I've hired in the past for contract work to fix the problem. Three of them either a) couldn't figure it out or b) got bored working on it and said they didn't want to spend any more time on it.

I then asked a few gracious dev friends for advice. This got me some theories and ideas that I've spent a great deal of time trying to prove out. I have not been successful though. We keep crashing hourly.

So I turn to you, HN to see if there's anyone on here who'd be interested in fixing this problem for our company. We're a two-man business, ad-supported and ramen-profitable, that gives people in Chicago a central place to share and talk about their favorite local stories.

This has been going on for close to two months though, and our users are getting sick of it. I'm doing a bad job taking care of them by not getting this fixed but am running out of options and people to ask about working on this.

I realize debugging the hosting set up on a complex Drupal site isn't the sexiest type of freelance gig to take on, but if there's interest in this, I will provide more detail in the comments and also explain why this is in fact a sexy job to take on.
Can someone please un-editorialize the title?

The CEO transition has been planned for months. It may be poorly timed, but the title of this link makes it sound like he's resigning due to the v4 launch issues.
I used this as my primary travel site in Australia and really liked it.
Office Open XML is a pretty contentious standard: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Ope...
A bit?

Capture anything => Find anything

Access anywhere => Get it anywhere

Find things fast => Search at lightning speed
So far I only know from one of my frd doing another startup, saying they experience something like this with Linode and were given 24 hrs to respond.

This align with the respond I got from Linode, so I am actually considering to migrate from rackspace cloud to linode shortly.
Did Tom move from Australia to the US to be accepted by YC?

Crunchbase has him as a cofounder, who is the other one? US based founder?

cheers.
I was talking to some friends at Berkeley and apparently they're learning Scheme. My first reaction was "meh, that's not very practical". However, I can guess as to why they chose it:

a) It levels the playing field for people who have and haven't programmed before (a much smaller percentage of new students have probably had previous experience with Scheme)

b) It forces students to take on a new way of thinking.

As some other people have said, it doesn't really matter what language you learn. It's important that you learn to think and solve problems.
Yeah, it sounds like this guy has some kind of specific problem, which maybe squatting can relieve.

I looked him up, assuming he might be an old guy, but he appears to be early-to-mid 20s, meaning that spending ten minutes just to take a crap on a regular basis is not normal.
I think the "natural language search" championed by Adioso is really cool, but the question I want to raise is whether the "natural" in our everyday speech is also "natural" in human-machine communication? i.e. could it be the case that people are so used to searching specific things online that a "natural language search" creates uncertainty about what to expect thus turning people away from the website?
I'm not a drupal person. Have very little experience with it, but I take a perverse joy in tackling problems like this. Go figure.

I assume from the description that apache is running mod_php and that is how drupal comes into the apache crashing part? how exactly is it crashing? can you give a few details about any errors in the logs, a more detailed description of what a 'crash' is etc?
I'd love to know more about knots. Some links, please?
I'd think you'd want something on each side of the toilet, not just in front.
Actually I found him http://twitter.com/fennb from Melbourne as well. Glad to see some ozzies kicking!!

Any word on their experience in the US?
Add to the point above - when I first checked out Adioso uncertainty was the first thing I felt. If I didn't read about Adioso in the first place I wouldn't know what to do with the website.

Perhaps get a few people who have never heard about Adioso to come in one day and observe how they interact with the website. There might be things you need to tweak to make it more intuitive
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I think that even for programmers, Y Combinator (the fixed point combinator not the company) is somewhat obscure.
More books = you writing one.

If you won't do it, why should anyone else?
The last time I looked under the hood, I observed this behavior.

1. After a restart of apache: Apache starts out running. He spins up a few threads, 10 or so and then kills a few as he goes on his merry way.

2. Eventually, the number of threads starts rising. 20 threads. 40 threads. 60 threads. 90 threads. 130 threads.

3. 45-55 minutes after the previous restart, apache is now frozen. SupervisorD, which has been checking every 5 seconds to make sure apache is ok, spots this, and restarts apache. The site shows a fail-whale image for 5-10 seconds as SupervisorD does its thing. Then apache comes back online and we repeat the cycle.

4. About every 3 days, the semaphores pile up, and SupervisorD is unable to restart apache. Apache goes into FATAL mode and I have to run a funky command line command a friend showed me to clear out the semaphores so Apache can be restarted and taken out of its tailspin.
The market is what lets programmers keep their jobs. There aren't enough of them, so they have to settle for what's out there.

Might as well make the best of it.
2 days late; not sure if you'll still get a chance to read this. But, I'll bite.

As someone who's hired (good and bad) engineers in both UI/UX and back-end disciplines, my first impression of it was "Yeah, it's not pretty, but he does not allege to be a designer." At that point, I checked out the source code. It was not spectacular, but he did communicate an working grasp of the technology he professed to understand.

If this resume was judged in a biased lean towards UI/UX, my opinion is that you'd be passing up a potentially hard-working and dedicated employee. With a little help from a designer, this guy could possibly do great things.
Well, I guess it's good to know Alexia Tsotsis has no idea what the travelling salesman problem is. Almost like she didn't read her own link.
I've been using http://matrix2.itasoftware.com for flexible flight searching. From the few minutes I have been playing with Adioso, it seems even better.
It's a shame I was the only one credited, merely for being the one that arranged the interview and received the call.

Fenn's role in conceiving and engineering Adioso has been far more substantial than mine, as has that of our more recent addition Andrew Tipton - http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kiwidrew), who is now an equal co-founder.
Is there a reason you are using apache in a threaded mode rather than pre-fork? Basically... is threaded a requirement or a choice? If a choice, have you tried running in pre-fork and if yes, do you get the same issues?
A big disadvantage of printf() in C (or similar non-memory-managed languages) is that printing values can disturb the "noise" on the stack that you were trying to find. That is, if you had a bug due to an uninitialized local variable or buffer overrun, the printf() call could "stabilize" things and cause a bug to stop manifesting.

Better to use a debugger, if you can. Not that I haven't ever sprinkled print's into the middle of a big mass of somebody else's code or framework just to get the initial lay of the land :-)
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I'm different -- by the time I graduated, I didn't want a job in that industry. I'm speaking about everyone else.

The arts degree glut is pretty simple. They train too many people for too few jobs.

In the case of communications and journalism, there are other issues. What they teach is largely irrelevant to the coming era of journalism. Furthermore, although technology skills are sine qua non, most of the time you spend is in classes, learning from people who can't get jobs in the industry. You have to beg and plead for even a little time with outdated equipment. (My degree was in the late 90s to early 2000s, so things may have changed now -- but can you imagine a worse preparation for the last decade then learning to cut tape on reel-to-reels? In a single week, on a home computer, you could get more experience using audio editing equipment than I did in an entire year.)

If you were truly fascinated by media studies then I'm not going to say it's a waste of time. But in all honesty we just don't need that many academics that study media.

Also, on the journalism side, the news industry is contracting and unionized, so it is highly unlikely you can get a career by traditional routes. Again, the better education would have been to throw up a website or blog in your spare time, or get a camera and start shooting something -- anything. Or offer to work for free at a local TV station right out of college. People who did this got jobs later. I happened to do that kind of thing too, and I could have leveraged it into a real job in that industry, but didn't because programming was more interesting.

Most of those kids enter the program with dreams of working on TV or film or making music videos and such. A smaller number actually want to be journalists.

Mostly, the closest they get to working in communications is doing PR or possibly advertising. Few of them are doing anything related to their degree after five years.
If you are clever enough to avoid situations where that is necessary than it might be said that you are skilled in the career choices of a programmer. However it does not say anything about your skill as a programmer per se.
At one point they have SEVENTY people! That's pretty insane for what Digg is if you ask me.
I did not set up our hosting environment, a developer friend of mine did, so I can't answer that first question. I don't know if Drupal requires threaded or not or how to try running it in pre-fork mode.
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In her defence, we did mention TSP, though in the context of a feature that is not mentioned in the article. She just got mixed up.
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> they should at least give 12 - 24 hours for
> a startup to react and investigate

By which time the phisher has already done the damage and moved on.
Most commercial software for Linux is standardized for RHEL or UBuntu LTS platforms.

I think stability is not the main reason - it may be perceived market or the graphics API problems that I was talking about (especially with third party drivers - nvidia and ati)
I was in the Navy well before NMCI, saw it come in, left for a while (med school), then came back just in time to see it go. I'm looking forward to it being gone. That said, I have found non-IT military folk at all ranks daily making wildly inaccurate statements about NMCI policy and then forming their own policies based on their own statements. The contracts are available online with about 5 minutes of searching, and they're remarkably readable.

I have also seen a small (frigate) shipboard IT organization before NMCI essentially go belly-up when an electrical accident (because, you know, it's a freaking warship underway, not a server farm in Sheboigan) cooked the server and there were no functional backups. Managing your own IT in a small organization can be a major crap shoot.
I highly recommend 'paredit' mode for any Lispers having trouble getting used to the parens.

It takes a few days for the shortcuts (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PareditCheatsheet) to become second nature, but then you never really thinkabout the parentheses again.
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I would assume that it isnt a requirement but rather an attempt to allow apache to handle more w/ less memory usage.
Apache is a memory pig especially when using mod_* modules and running with in pre-fork.

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Does anyone know of a down website where I can test this new feature?
Nothing at all. I was referring to it being posted on HN along with the ever expanding topics.
My hosting environment:

The site is hosted at Slicehost, on two slices.

Webserver: 4GB slice.
DB server: 2GB slice.

We do about 3-5k uniques/day.

I've tried scaling the DB server up to 4GB to see if that solved the problem, but we continued crashing every hour.

Part of the problem though with my own efforts is that I don't have much experience with sysadmin stuff to be able to say for sure that any of my own observations and attempts to solve were done properly. For instance, I scaled up the slice, but maybe I didn't restart Apache in the right way afterward to know if that made a difference or not.
Awesome site and fantastic to see another Aussie startup! Being in Perth, I'll definitely use it and I love that the founders have focussed on the low cost carriers first. Hope that they add a few of the high capacity international majors too though (the 2 UAE carriers come to mind) because reducing flight time and connections is usually at least as important to me than price.
Thanks for sharing, will look out for that message when I get that "Oops" page again.
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