skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess as to why is here:

http://swombat.com/2010/12/8/salesforce-buys-heroku

(in short, Salesforce is looking to make a credible entry into the "public IT cloud provider" sector - much like they signalled with database.com yesterday)
I like your layout, it stands out.

I think you are perhaps dimming the texts to make the highlights more skimmable? It's a good idea, but when I read it I spent about 1 or 2 seconds on the highlights and started skimming the rest on my own.

Perhaps you can make the main text colour static, but highlight with a bigger, bolder font, or a different colour. Maybe a significantly different-looking font face, or highlight the text background instead.

I really like your barber's web site btw. Very straight-forward, and the aesthetic choice seems to be sending the right message. I had a chuckle at the first-aid photo. :)

http://ivzhao.com/belmont/imgs/11.jpg

Maybe I'll check out the place, a bit pricey for me though.
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Is that really how much VC dilutes you?

From 94 > 37% series A is incredible, and ending up with 12.5%.

I wouldn't exactly be crying into my beer today if I was them, but I have to wonder if VC was worth it vs building organically for a few more years.

Especially when they are all Amazon based etc. Where did the money go?
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I bet the Heroku guys now know what NASA scientists must feel like; Cloud 2 is their Dasani.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cokesponsored-rover-finds-e...
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Same as in Python, except apply() is called __call__()
Why have you failed? Have you ever been part of a successful business in action? Have you ever had to sell stuff? Have you ever had to deliver something on time for someone else?

Have you ever dealt with "ordinary people" and their requirements on a web site? Did you do extensive A/B testing?

Why did you shut down the other sites - were they a time sink? Why not keep them ticking over? Did you get any money at all? Did you have any customers at all?

These are questions you need to ask yourself. You've not given us enough information to even advise you.
I've tested the link on Chrome, Safari and Firefox under OS X while logged out of google and in none of these cases was I asked for a password. Other people have been able to successfully complete the form too. I'm not sure why this has happened to you, and I'm sorry for wasting your time. :(
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I would recommend you do whatever you have to do to deal with your financial difficulties -- get a job or freelance or whatever pays the bills, and take a little time to think about the start-up thing and maybe plan it/set it up a little better the third time around. It seems to me just putting your house in order would likely be a valuable learning experience that may well make you a better entrepreneur the next time around.

Good luck with this.
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its a guess. they received Series A in a very early stage, just out of the oven of YC's (may '08)
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This sounds like stellar news for Heroku employees and investors.

I'm not sure how it's going to be good for Heroku customers (like me) in the long-term. There will be the inevitable brain drain over the course of 1-2years when key staff move away as their contract clauses run out and then we'll be left with Heroku being run by SalesForce :(
I have to agree. If I were writing, I'd want something that had formatting, but wasn't too heavy. Maybe markdown or something. Ideally, it would create nice changelogs in Git even when dealing with markup changes.

I would think it wouldn't be too hard to write a little program that lets you edit visually, then stores the proper text file on disc and commits it whenever you save. Or maybe commits when you tell it to, giving you a chance to enter a commit message that means something.
It comes out to about $2000 per ap hosted on Heroku. Pretty good considering most of those aps are probably free. Of course they are hoping for growth, and Heroku has been adding almost a hundred apps per day.
I've got a few tips that might make your experience a little better. Option 3 below will be particularly helpful for accessing the documentation more easily.

Option 1: Re-map your Expose´ keys.
I mouse (tablet, actually) right handed, so I use the following shortcuts that I can access them quickly with non-mouse hand:

F1 - All Applications

F2 - All Windows

F3 - Desktop

F4 - Spaces

This allows me to use Expose´/Spaces via keyboard in tandem with the mouse. While technically two steps, it feels more like a single, coordinated step to me.

I use XCode in the Condensed (not All-in-One) layout, which results in lots of small windows. I hit F2 (or F1 if I've secluded XCode to a single Space), then either:

- mouse over the various windows and press the space bar to see a zoomed-in view of that window. Then, click the one you want to bring into focus.

- press an arrow key to highlight a window, press space to see a zoomed-in view, press arrow keys as necessary, and then either press F2 again (or click the left mouse button) to exit Expose´.

Option 2: Press Cmd + Shift + D.
This will bring up the "Open Quickly" dialog box. Start typing the name of the file you need to open or bring into focus.

Option 3: Use shortcuts to go immediately to the definition of a class/method/protocol/etc., toggle between .h/.m files, or open the documentation to whatever's under the mouse.

- Press Cmd key then double click a class name (or method name or whatever). This immediately opens a window to the definition.

- Press Cmd + Option + Up Arrow to toggle between .h and .m files for a class

- Press Option then double click a class/method/etc. name to open the documentation in a floating window.

- Press Cmd + Option then double click a class/method/etc. name to open the documentation in the XCode documentation window.

Mac OS X is littered with these kinds of accelerated interface shortcuts. I wish I could point you to a good, consolidated guide; but I have yet to find one on the web. Several of them can be found in the opening chapters of Aaron Hillegass' Cocoa programming books.
This clearly derives from Forth's (much lower level) manipulation of the return stack as transient storage (with the same operators).
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As per usual, all the world's American. This Brit says boo and hiss.
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Even so, giving up percentage is like giving blood. I don't know of any founder who would ever willingly part with 60% of the company - particularly if it's doing well! The only people who give up 60% of a company are the poor guys on dragon's den...
I wonder how much its just Mark poking Larry with a stick.

"So you bought Java, eh? Who cares? I don't need to rely on Java, I've got all the cool kids and their RoR apps!"

(212M is an expensive stick though...)
The quote came from a press release. He's not talking to developers, he's talking to journalists and shareholders.

What would you call it?
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One can make a pretty good case that Heroku and the like is where all web development is headed pretty soon.

One thing that can be gleaned from the history of languages and computing platforms is that once computing performance started skyrocketing, it has been the easiest languages and platforms that have been winning. And RoR is very easy and Heroku is a very easy way to deploy and host RoR.

If Heroku becomes the place to be for commercial web apps, if it becomes the visual studio for web apps, those 200 mill will look like a steal.
I think I'll be there. See you.
This might sound insane but my first startup was actually the first time i ever built something for people to use.
I made mistakes like overloading the site with tons of features, thinking they will attract users, adopted a build-it-and-they-will-come mentality and holed up in my room coding day in day out, doing nothing to reach out to users at all.
And i knew nothing about a/b testing at that point.

At that point, i shut it down due to gut feel, that i wasn't going to make it with this.

The only money that i made was through advertisers for the site.
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That is a good idea. That way you could use flashbacke as main engine and add a frontend to make it work from openoofice or word.
I tried again, and this time I went straight to the form. Clearly something odd about my setup.

And having said that, I wasn't going to complete it because I'm not "normal", but I figure you can deal with the occasional outlier, so now I've completed it. I've not put my email on it - an oversight - but I've used my HN name.

For reference, my immediately accessible browser when working and reading HN "on the side" is Firefox 1.5.0.6. Ancient.

And I didn't waste my time. I spent very little time, and provided you feedback. I don't resent the time I've spent. It's yours.
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I've been using Wuala for last 2 years, and I am very happy.. I sotre there all my important data.. private documents, projects and stuff I want to share.. all my data is encypted and reduntantly stored in the web and peers, atomatic sync, sharing, p2p.. its even better than dropbox because I can trade space so I have about 10 GB for free and my data si truly encrypted so even the provider cant acces them.

http://www.wuala.com/en/learn/features
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The developer-friendly workflow of Heroku meshes very nicely with Salesforce's platform building strategy.
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IT firm Datacell said it was ready to seek "billions of euros" in damages.

How did they work that out? :s
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What else is there to do while driving?

How about just drive? I hardly turn on the radio when I am driving by myself and find it a great time to think about things I am working on.
Failing a startup is part of the process of becoming a better entrepreneur. Failing a startup actually brings something to the community.

Dying in a mountain may be part of the process of living your life and it's not less stupid than dying in a car accident, however climbing a mountain and have 10% chance of dying in the process is just plain reckless and selfish.

Your life is your own, but don't expect to get approval and admiration from everybody else.
I appreciate a short and concise explanation as I have heard enough 'stories' in my day job.
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As a result all deals local will have a chance to be featured, and people (like you and me) will decide which deals are worth to be Promoted.

We'd be happy to keep you posted about the beta program and launch.
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Ai, that rules that out. Ok. Great to see you're healing like that, you should write a book about what you're going through, or at a minimum a very well documented website, I've never heard of someone with CF to recover that much by banging their head against the problem, collecting the data in one spot might be a godsend for others.
"19% - My work hours are too long"

... What exactly are they suggesting is the fix for that? I see a couple:

1) Work more days per week, but fewer hours per day. - More people will hate that than what currently exists.

2) Work fewer hours per day, and fewer hours per week. - Will mean a pay cut, which most people can't afford.

I really can't see any of those working.
Activia Live and Jigsaw relate to Salesforce's core CRM business, Sitemasher and Heroku are both cloud hosting platforms.

Salesforce has been pushing heavily into the cloud to compete with AWS and Azure (see their recent Database.com announcement), these acquisitions give them a strong position in the market.

Heroku in the past has said they plan to offer multiple cloud backends, so it wouldn't surprise me if that's how they got talking to Salesforce.
Gotta agree with this assessment.

I've found deployment to Heroku whilst tinkering with side projects fantastic, whilst Salesforce is the bane of my life in the day job. And whilst they have the in-house infrastructure to actually reduce Heroku prices, the Salesforce focus on the enterprise market hints that they're more likely to raise them.

Congratulations to the Heroku team though. Is it DropBox's turn next?
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I have written and self published two books: Zero to Superhero http://3.ly/9tBV and EconomTricks http://3.ly/KN4y.

I went with Lulu, a POD (Print on Demand) service for both books because there is no initial investment required (none, only your time) which allows you to make changes and improvements to your book on the fly. I can't tell you how important that is!

Once you've got your book written, edited, formatted and released to the public via Lulu, Lulu (for a fee) will get you into the big online retailers like Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and a bunch of small ones. I've seen Zero to Superhero in online stores based in Norway (or was in Finland?) and niche online vendors elsewhere in the world.

And you can have it both ways. You can have a conventional run done as well from Lulu (pricier though). It's a win/win.

I probably sound like a pitchman for Lulu, but it's a great service. I can't understand why someone would take a big upfront risk and do a traditional launch without testing the market first (and a POD soft launch is perfect for that). You'd have to be pretty darn sure that you've got pre-built demand for the book, and that your marketing plan is a solid multi-channel one (you'll need that anyway).

Good luck to you.
The big difference, I see, between Red Hat and Sun and Novell is Red Hat is younger as a company and has less emotional baggage. They have to compete which makes them less complacent than Sun or Novell.

I see the future of open source as a service and support industry. It's working for Red Hat also companies like Wordpress.
Great explanation for noobs.
RoR for dynamic HTML apps used to be the coolest thing but now the really new/cool stuff is written as a JSON server talking to AJAX and mobile clients. In this world node.js, clojure and erlang (maybe) are cooler than RoR.
<nitpick>

They put the rods in a container of water, then shined ...

What's wrong with the word "shone" ??

> Wings ... soar because air moves faster over their top
> sides, reducing the pressure above. The relatively high
> pressure below pushes upwards, providing lift.

<fx: sigh> That effect alone is not enough to create flight. Equally, often more, important is the net deflection of the air downwards. This is in part because the Coanda effect makes the air follow the surface, and then the trailing edge is pointing more downwards than the original flow.

It's complicated, but I just hate to see the standard, wrong "explanation" trotted out unthinkingly. The effect reported here is interesting enough without such bad analogies being propagated.

</nitpick>
I always like to think of a scientist 'discovering' something like a coal miner finding a vein. They didn't just stick a pick in the ground and start digging anywhere. First they saw an odd concentration of coal fragments on top of the soil, they routed through the top soil and found even more. When they dug deeper they found bigger fragments so they staked a claim. They got some buddies together and dug a test shaft and found a vein of coal.

It wasn't a lottery, someone was actually out looking for coal, found coal on the dirt and started to dig a little deeper until they found a vein.
better launch soon since groupon can simply add "user powered" deals itself.
I'd hardly count Novell and Sun as 'every US open source company'...
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Wow. What does it mean for Engine Yard & its investors...
groupon's (and 100s of others) problem is that they post deals they think are cool (like spas and hair). people want to see something they want to buy. have signed up for your beta. good luck.
The list needs recursion and concurrency. These are both recognised as conceptual barriers in the progress of programmers. The order of difficulty I usually see them listed is:

* Assignment

* Testing (ifs / branching)

* Loops

* Functions

* Recursion

* Concurrency
Nature typically does not go for spectacle

Bwahaha, what led you to believe that?

Check out "Genetic evidence for complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees" some time.
I think the root of the problem is very much the attitude that people need Photoshop and Illustrator for any startup that isn't a professional photography studio or a professional design agency. That calibre of software is completely overkill for anything but those purposes and it's sad that people use it instead of Pixlr and Inkscape out of laziness. Instead of finding the right solution for their purpose they steal the right tool for a million uses. Adobe doesn't charge $1000 because they want to screw people or push them to pirate, they charge that because it's Ferrari software for professional studios that charge $1000 an hour that use it as their primary tool. It sucks that all software isn't that good but not all cars are Ferraris, and for good reason.

As far as YC is concerned, I think they can do a lot better than blowing money on Photoshop for web developers.
I run Windows 7 Ultimate on a $219 Aspire One that I added a decent 60GB SSD to ($100) and an extra 9 cell battery $59. Between both batteries, I have enough charge to last my from Barcelona to San Francisco with a 4 hour layover at JFK. And, I have a full web experience, any files I need are perfectly synced without any hassle via Dropbox. And, I can use most any desktop software I like.

3G service from most any carrier that I've tried is barely adequate for surfing the web on my Android cell phone. I would hate to have to rely on 3G service for all external storage for my computer.

I don't see how eliminating local storage on my computer and putting all my data on Google's servers is better than having access to that data locally. Random access to an SSD is 10^(3-4) ns, a random seek on disks with spindles is 10^(6-7)ns and a packet sent round trip across the country is 10^(8-9)ns.

I can buy a 16GB flash drive at Frys for $15. When local storage is so ubiquitous and cheap, I don't understand why would you want to develop an OS that relied on packet transfer for permanent storage rather than local storage with delayed synchronization.

It's not like having local permanent storage is much of a hindrance. I've never said, "Damn, if I could only get rid of 60GB of local storage on my computer, every thing would be great". I do find myself cursing my lack of network coverage on a regular basis, however.

I suppose that it makes sense if you are Google and you want as much of people's data on your servers so you can money by mining that data. Aside from that, I just don't get it.
If anything, 4chan is giving defenders of wikileaks a bad name. It's like when peaceful protests are invaded by hooligans intent only on starting fights and setting fire to cars.
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The big issue for the IPhone at least is the app store approval process. That alone imposes enough risk that HTML/CSS/JS may be better. And it's easier to maintain than an Objective C port.
That's something that's definitely in the pipeline.
This should put a hop in the step of all those Heroku-for-Django startups.
> And why would someone become a scientist, essentially playing a lottery that they will discover something huge even though such discoveries are extremely rare?

And why would someone found a startup, essentially playing a lottery that they will discover a huge market even though such discoveries are extremely rare?

Doesn't that sound a little silly?
That's the kind of balls one earns by skipping too many science classes - one derived from a marginal understanding of the world around them.
So each Heroku app is valued at about $2000?
I enjoy seeing little start ups like these, most of them fail, but every now and then one makes it's mark, good luck to them, they have certainly got some interesting ideas, lets hope they don't end up on the ever growing pile of failed Internet ideas, although muscling in on the social networking world might be a bit over ambitious...time will tell!
TL;DR summary in the spirit of times: when doing floating-point math, expect your results to float. There be dragons. Big ones.
I think you're reading a bit too much into two words.
Man, everyone keeps dumping on the name of Orkut, but nobody seems to know it's the surname of the guy who originally wrote it before Google scooped him up. So everyone who dumps on Orkut as a product name also accidentally dumps on his family name. Even if they don't mean it, that must totally suck. :(
Wait... what about Ubuntu? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)
I don't know anyone who would ever write a manuscript as collection of text files.

I know of two professional writers who use Emacs.

Neal Stephenson: If you are a professional writer--i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed--emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars.

http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.sht...

Vernor Vinge also uses Emacs, and RCS for version control:

http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview...

I'm under the impression that many fiction writers work with straight, unformatted text.
"Salesforce has been pushing heavily into the cloud to compete with AWS and Azure"

Just five years too late. They should have built AWS way before anybody else (esp Amazon) did. They were sitting on the opportunity for so long, had a customer base that was already sold on the cloud.

They are now playing catch-up, with acquisitions and the release of Database.com etc.

Huge opportunity missed, the company could have been 4-5x the size it is today.
Completely agree. The only explanation I can think of for that being posted is that the writer is sufficiently senior that no-one wants to lose their job by telling him it isn't funny, or worse, it just didn't occur to him to bounce it around the office beforehand for a humour benchmarking.
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