skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article, and really it is quite blatant most of the time. You can search google news for phrases from PR wire and get all kinds of hits.

Also, another interesting trend is Edelman moving into 'flogs' , i.e. paid pr shill blogs. Recently got caught pulling that for Walmart and Disney, I believe.

Articles on the consumerist:

http://consumerist.com/consumer/edelman/
Where in California exactly?
I figure San Francisco. That's where the action is, right? And a day job would be easy to come by in a city that large.
C-n opens a new browser window...

Awesome idea though!
I'd look for the girl out there, with love in her eyes and flowers...
"What would you do if you were me?"

I'd start learning to be more self-reliant and stop seeking advice on what I should do with my life from random people on the internet.
Why would Google launch it before the deal is closed? They would rather acquire StumbleUpon than release their own competitor.
'... it's certainly not an easy thing to do ...'

I'm in the process of refining my toolset to allow you to create, capture a post. I've been doing this kind of stuff for a long time, for example my /. uid=2774. [0] So I've had plenty of practice. The current problem I'm working on is creating my toolset [1] to move up the data chain, from data-information-knowledge-wisdom. [2]

Capturing my data, adding extra information then being able to push it elsewhere ~ just being another live node on the network :) A more important thing trying to improve my quality of life.

Reference

[0] Slashdot was the news.yc of it's time

http://slashdot.org/~goon

[1] ng or Nextgen

http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/tags/nextgen

[2] ITConversations, Gigavox media, 'Attention: The Real Aphrodisiac, 24:23, 11.2 mb'

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail739.html
done in dreamweaver 8
Yeah, that'd be your problem.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fjuwo.com
Good luck for the interview! Have fun in the Napa Valley!, don't forget to bring back a bottle of wine to celebrate(hopefully) on Sunday night.
Why can't you launch it now?
Hey! This is cool! But Crap Box is better.
Apply for google.

Edit: No, but seriously, downmodding aside, apply for google. Working for a big company in a new place is a decent way of building up connections and local knowledge. Google is about the least egregious option, so go with them.
Imagine your reaction when your employee does that to you when you start your startup!
Thoughts on attention & specifically, continuous partial attention
There is a blog entry on their site which compares Apollo with Dekoh. Its totally misleading and is a lie.

http://www.dekoh.com/blog/news/entry/desktop_ria_comparison_dekoh_verses1
They own rights to what I create.
Juwo, this is the most confusing thing I've ever looked at. I have a feeling the product is not very focused itself, and thus is hard to convey. If you can't convey it in a single page with a few terse sentences (ala skype.com), you might need to redesign and make it simpler.

I'm glad you're a Christian, but a company-about page is probably not the best place for pro/con links. It's distracting.
I would keep pretty hush about it unless there's some real chance your employer is going to say "Wow that's cool -- why don't you partner with me and I'll invest $5M."

People can get petty and weird when they're jealous or angry.
I agree with most people on this thread. There's an information overload. Plus I suggest you hire a web designer. The design is not doing your service justice.
"Hey! This is cool! But Crap Box is better"

Did you actually use juwo before stating that your toilet is better?
Wouldn't it make more sense to basically just have a web browser on the phone to access all your data?
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If you don't understand the phenomena, how can you create things that people want?
Get hired somewhere. Check out the job boards on techcrunch, siliconbeat, linkedin. Go to every local conference. You don't have to be registered. Twitter. Blog. It will work out. :-)
The Goal?  To Crash your shared web hosting?
What exactly would you do in CA that you are not able to do in your location? I'd come to CA only if I have some idea of what to do: College? First find out which one and apply. Tech Job? First send your resume. Find co-founders? You won't find them in the coffee shops, trust me! (at least not the busy ones...)

Talking in front of crowds? That'd be a good reason. Lots of events going on over here. But first you need an app to show off :)

I love CA, don't take me wrong! I'm just saying that a bit of planning would make your 10k last longer.
What do you guys think? Is this a good of way of putting what we're trying to do here? Then hope it crashes again very soon after you upgrade to a dedicated server? That you can barely keep it running?

In other words, instead of worrying about the kind of hosting you have right now, shouldn't the focus be on figuring out ways to overload it? Isn't it kind of ironic or contrary to this belief, that people want the best host with the most web space and bandwidth? Shouldn't they want to slow as many machines to a crawl as possible?

I've heard stories of how businesses (startups or otherwise) love to switch to $5/mo web hosting with 5000GB of bandwidth which of course they will never reach before being kicked out. Or startups wondering what the best hosting company is. But, isn't that self-defeating to put those thoughts into your mind? Or that you're feeling inferior if you can't outgrow $5/mo web hosting?

I say, pay $10 a month for something sane, like 100gb transfer. Something that is $100 realistic. Then, when you outgrow the server, you know you're doing something right. And you don't have to feel guilty or inferior or that you're not using the space or bandwidth, which in reality you don't even have access to (they would shut you off.) So why do businesses try to disillusion themselves?

Wouldn't it be much better to find any web host with a bandwidth cap (so they simply shut you off and you're not stuck with a huge overages bill) and focus instead on building traffic of visitors to your site every day?
In the demo, he says your keybindings are dependent on your OS. I use Linux, which is probably part of it. If you're on a Windows box, it's supposed to make it more like Windows keybindings. Presumably at some point he'll make it a preference option thing.

edit: oh duh, you mean firefox. yeah, you'd have to change your firefox bindings.
'... up to 11,000 requests per second'. Jesus Christ, thats a lot. Where does that come from? ...'

One of the bottle necks is the continuous polling on the public timeline and its RSS file. It makes me wonder why they don't charge for the privilege.

'... polling for updates every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, thats still only about 1,000 hits/sec ...'

try every 0-10 seconds per client per person using such clients. [0] If this was happening in other sites it would be throttled.

Reference

[0] google search, 'twitter updates timeline every seconds'

http://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+updates+timeline+every+seconds
No! We're laboring to put our db on a separate server from http so our site doesn't randomly die for few minutes(10mins downtime today). Believe me it's not pleasant to get a 4:05am sms from hyperspin saying "SITE IS DOWN!".

But all in all it's a nice problem to have. I tend to agree with Delicious guys...worry about scaling when it becomes a problem. That shouldn't be an excuse to code bloated SQL queries.
Are you trying to influence PG's decision by submitting this and hoping he'll read it? If you are doing that, I think it's really pushing the limits of what's acceptable -- so you must be founder material. Either way: Good luck.
I think you have to thinking whatever gets your juices flowing, if it's crashing the server, be it, if it's something else go with that.
I recommend Bouchon in St. Helena. Same owner as the French Laundry, but you don't have to dress up or make a reservation months in advance.
Years ago I faced the same issue. I decided to tell my boss and he actually supported me with advice and mentorship (he ended up convincing me not to quit, but that's another story...)

The first question that comes to my mind is: Do you really need to quit? Having an income while you moonlight is a huge advantage, as you can survive until your start-up is sustainable (and then quit your day job)

Second: Do you have enough savings to survive a year on your own? If not, keep your current job, build your savings and then quit.

Third: Are you in good terms with your immediate manager? If yes, then do tell him/her -- You might be able to even negotiate an alternative deal, like part-time, contracting or something else. If not, then tell him/her only if asked. In any case, it's certainly better to learn the news through you than through someone else.

Obviously, what I wrote in this post does not apply if you and your employer have a conflict of interests. If that's the case, I'd talk to a lawyer.
I'd say you're on your way to bigger and better things. By making the decision to leave a comfortable job you're already ahead of 90% of the population. Most people seek stability not opportunity. Move there, talk to people, attend events, network, and you'll find something that you can do well and enjoy doing. And if it doesn't work out, so what! You'll probably remember the time as the best adventure in your life. Go for it.
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It seems like the hardball thing for Google to do would have been to release the product before the deal, to lower eBay's interest and drive the price down.
Ask them to sign a form (user dhouston had done this) where they say that projects you work on in your free time are your own copyright. It depends on what you signed when you were hired. They may not own anything if you didn't sign anything.
one would be appreciated! nicholas.s.barnes atttt gmail.commmm
Languages? Generally Python as of late. I find it easy and fast to work in. I'm trying to learn Haskell, so my next project will be using that.

My workflow tends to go like this... I open an ssh session to my colocated dev box to run servers, reboot services, etc. I use WinSCP to connect to the server and edit code directly on there so I can see the changes.

I do my best to keep SVN up and running so I have a repository. I used to just use vi over ssh, but I've found programmers notepad much nicer for dealing with large amounts of files.

Since I do webapps I have on one screen my editor, my ssh connection (or three), and WinSCP to manage files on the server. The other monitor holds Firefox and all it's glorious debugging tools.
I've eaten at Bouchon in Vegas and wasn't too impressed, but I hear the one in Napa is leagues better. I had the good fortune of meeting Allison Steltzner a while back and she told me that. There's a good chance I'll try it on this trip.

And no staunch, that was not my intent, and I hope it does not appear as such. That had not occurred to me but probably should have. I really just hoped to share my experience and get any tips/comments from people here, especially on dining.
Amazon sues Alexaholic, everyone loses
You know, there's something about Amazon. I keep noticing things that are just a little off, morally. First it was the one-click patent. Then I learned that their employment agreement forbids you from starting a startup with anyone else who has worked at Amazon, even if you didn't know them. (Don't worry, they'd never dare enforce it.) And now they sue someone simply for making a better UI to their lame site. There's starting to be a pattern.

If Alexa had a decent UI, Statsaholic wouldn't be a threat. Instead of suing this guy for doing their own job properly, they should just fix Alexa.
I have reorganized the page.
thanks, shall fix by hand
37signals wants to charge their customers for the chance to give them customer feedback
Please click on the demos. The software downloads and installs. It is desktop-web.

I have reorganized the page.
juwo is...

A "Swiss Army knife" piece of software that gives more power to consumers to structure snippets of audio, video and text as a bullet list, to more easily index and annotate them, and to share the lists with others. Its benefits extend to multimedia as related to more enriching broadcasts, collaboration and organizing.
The new design is a huge improvement, but (and I know this is harsh) only because the old one was so poor. There are still a lot of problems with the page. Right now your homepage looks like (well, it IS) a manual. It needs to look like a brochure. Put your manual somewhere else.

Paul Graham's suggestion to take a look at wufoo.com is a great one. That's one of the best homepages you can find on the net. Simplify simplify simplify and reduce reduce reduce.
There's always been something fishy about 37signals that I can't put my finger on. I respect what they've done but know that I definitely don't want to run a company like they do. Firstly, they charge for everything they possible can. This is not necessarily bad in and of itself but at some point they stop feeling like a product company. First and foremost they're a brand company. I can't help but think they'll sacrifice quality in any other area if it helps their brand out. That's probably not entirely fair, but it's the picture they've painted.

I just want to build cool stuff. I know brand is important but it seems silly to me to try and make a career out of blathering about how awesomely I build cool stuff and how much I just get it where so many others don't.
.com vs .net domain name?
SQL Databases are so astonishingly slow that I just switched my most intensive app to only use the database for backing up the data to disk and reloading from on startup.

This arrangement is so much faster and easy to understand/measure/optimize for me that I can't see myself going back.
Here's a scenario: my co-founder and I are trying to finalize our company/website name. We have two names right now, one we like slightly better than the other.

The problem is, the .com for the 'better' name is held by a squatter who wants $25k! I hold the .net and .org.

The 'worse' domain is slightly longer (an extra syllable), and from my tests so far people find it a bit harder to pronounce. The positive is I own the .com/.net/.org

So my question to the bright minds here: how hard do you think it is to brand a company with a .net domain (and potentially purchase the .com when we can afford it)? I know some companies have done it.

Would you go with a slightly-better-name.net, or a slightly-worse-name.com?
What you really need to do is make a screencast demo explaining from the VERY beginning a) what is the problem b) how juwo solves it. In very plain language with in screen demo.

For a sample look at Mosoto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpuU4l_4Nr0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmosoto%2Ecom%2F

You don't have to be anywhere near as crisp as these guys. If you can answer what's the problem and how juwo solves it in 2minutes you'll have fewer confused minds.
It seems pretty clear that you're right. What makes it hard to stomach though is that they're seriously on to something with S3 and EC2. Moral issues aside, should developers be wary of the poison spreading to the web services division that they've built their startups around?

It would make me feel better if the other shoe dropped and some other huge company released some competition for S3 and EC2 (I'm looking at you Google). That would provide some competitive protection from them screwing people over and another viable option. I would hope for a startup to fill the void, but this seems like as good a candidate as any for the type of problem where the big guys have some advantage.
Email the squatter and be very firm and offer a reasonable amount for the .com you want. Couple hundred bucks at the most. Don't go higher, and don't give him twenty five grand or the pisant will just go buy more domains he won't use.

If you can't get it up front, go with the .com you own now. I may be bitter and jaded, but I'm sure anyone who has ever tried to register a domain name feels the same way. Domain squatters and ad spammers are lifeforms barely above spammers and slightly below the bacteria that grows in sewer sludge. If you get enough success to let you be exploited into paying his ransom, he'll just raise it.

After all, it's now more valuable. Get it now, get it cheap, or get another name.
I recommend doing a Technorati search on that. Lots of people have received less than reliable service on the Grid. They do great marketing, but their tech is overrated from I've been reading.
http://radar.net seems to be working fine and radar.com is something entirely different and dumb. They went with the .net because the .com was taken.
Yoda: Ended these browser wars have?
Voyeurism still rules the Web 2
If you want a dedicated server, aplus.net has "value servers" that are basically unmanaged dedicated servers using last-gen hardware. I pay $50/mo for a 2.5 GHz P4 with 512 MB RAM.
It's funny that so many big companies let their ego get in the way of good business.

I imagine that this lawsuit and loss of community good-will will cost them millions of dollars. Uh, millions of dollars that they could have used to just acquire Alexaholic. They would have gained good-will, great press, and a great developer already passionate about their product.

What a huge blunder - sad to see, especially since they're so innovative in other areas.
Seems like they should have just hired the guy.
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Fortunately I was working for a startup that had a great exit when it was acquired. Since they were entrepreneurs themselves they were amazingly supportive and I still go to the founders for guidance from time to time.

For more on this topic - I wrote a post on how to break up with a girlfriend (or employer) that addresses how to not burn your bridges at:

http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/04/05/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do/
That looks seriously cool.
Nope, sorry but that's just wrong and totally unhelpful.

Asking for advice from peers who are actively involved in what you want to do is a great idea.

Since you are early in your dev career, I would highly recommend finding an existing startup to join with more experienced developers and learning from them - both what they do wrong and what they do right. Hopefully more of the latter ;)

When I left my first bay area job I almost did my own startup at that point. However, when I was honest with myself, I realized I wasn't ready to do it alone and needed a team. So I looked around and applied at several startups. I felt great about one particular startup where the founder was super-smart in business, but also very mature and kind. I don't think I ever saw him get upset or show the least unkindness during the whole startup phase. And he had plenty to be frustrated with, believe me. Anyway, I learned a ton of good and bad through that experience and the company was acquired by Intuit for $60 million. I was really lucky in that regard. Most startups will not have an exit so quick or so profitable.

So that's my recommendation based on my limited experience. Good luck!
I'm ok with running my own machine, so I have a dedicated box from Layered Tech that's not too expensive, and has a gig of memory and hardware raid. One thing you can do with a box like this is, while you're ramping up and don't use the full capacity, share it with a friend.
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The highest density of competent geeks I've found in this area was at http://shdh.org . I had a lot of fun drinking beer (Old Rasputin Imperial Russian Stout and Stone IPA 4tw) and geeking out with fellow programmers. I met a Google millionaire who was developing his own Lisp dialect with Pythonic features, and had a long discussion with another guy about cache performance problems caused by smart pointers that use atomic refcounting.

May have been skewed by the fact the only one I've been to was on the evening following Startup School, but I was told that all of the SHDH events have about the same turnout.
It would make me feel better if the other shoe dropped and some other huge company released some competition for S3 and EC2 (I'm looking at you Google).

Sun has something similar to EC2 called "Sun Grid Compute Utility": http://sun.com/sungrid/
I haven't been to Shiva's, but Amber India on El Camino Real is excellent. It's also pretty pricey, but the lunch buffet is a great deal. Godavari (formerly Sue's Indian Cuisine) on Castro St is also very good, and more reasonably priced. I've only been there for their lunch buffet ($10).

I'm pretty picky when it comes to Indian food because I'm ethnically Indian and I benchmark the restaurants against mom-cooked meals. :)

Castro St has a bunch of other good restaurants, and a number of crappy ones too.
He's asking "What should I do with my life now?" and you answered him as if the the question was "How can I be like you?".

I think he has some serious soul searching to do and that's what I was trying to communicate. I could have said it more gently I suppose.
Harj, this is inspirational. Thanks for sharing. I'll be keeping an eye on your company :)
Harj, this is inspirational. Thanks for sharing. I'll be keeping an eye on your company. All the best!
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I had a really good time meeting up with people I met at Startup School last month. Is anyone interested in meeting to have a beer and talk shop maybe Friday evening? I'm flying in to SFO early tomorrow for some other business so Thursday is good too.
"no binary drivers allowed, period"

That's the only part in bold. Why is that such a big deal? I thought forbidding binary drivers was a hurdle for Linux.
Can you be more detailed about what you're doing and the application? Has your solution opened your app to corruption or data loss in the event of app or server crashes?
I would say that under almost no circumstances should you use a .net domain. What happens when you're successful and the .com owner puts up a bunch of porn banners? Buy it for millions? Not to mention you will go totally insane dealing with people's confusion.
As I posted over there:

Look at Prevayler and HAppS, two systems that don't use a database at all. In-memory persistence with write-ahead logging, and they handle give-or-take 1000 hits/s on a stock Xeon server.
Surely they will patent S3/EC2, if they haven't already, and sue Google when they release something similar.

Just like with their one click patent Amazon should be raked over the coals for this. It's just too pathetic for words.
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The problem with VPSes at least is if anyone on the physical box manages to crash the machine, it goes out for everyone. Xen has historically been buggy -- just starting SBCL would crash it(!). Count on Murphy's law -- I had just finished some work and was waiting for a client to take a look at it, and of course my webhost decided to reboot the VPS right before the client checked. Since I hadn't put a restart in rc.local yet, it was just down.

Even with all your other ducks in a row, you don't want a third party rebooting your machine while someone is in the middle of using your site, especially if there's anything important going on, like customers purchasing with a CC or investors taking a look.

Jey's suggestion of cheap dedicated servers for $50 sounds better than EC2 if you're CPU-bound (2.5 GHz vs. 1.7) and is cheaper ($72 per node for 24-7 EC2 usage) and won't wipe everything on restart like EC2 does.

Note that mileage varies widely with webhosts. The majority of them do not understand even the basics of computer security, e.g. the importance of publishing their SSH key fingerprints (via https).