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In other news, Amazon's CTO says his worst decision was to buy servers as they could have just rolled EC2's API out on Dreamhost's Private Servers offering..

Less facetiously, this "regret" surprises me. I'd have though that of anyone, Facebook would want to have full control and security over their own servers. Agreeing to a contract where Amazon can pull the plug over "objectionable" content or even adverse effects on their network poses a significant risk for any large business to accept.
I would like to see a survey on how many people actually WANT to be founders based on race/sex compared to the percentage of the population that ARE. This article assumes that every profession needs to match the distribution of the overall population
Here are the results: http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/voc2010/resu...

I find the results quite impressive - especially for classification - 90%+ precision for detecting people in photos seems like a good result.
yeah true.. title is completely mis leading. When I read this thought facebook did mistake on purchasing it's own server and setting up it's datacenter.

But Bret (CTO of facebook, co-founder of Friendfeed) talks about Friendfeed here. Considering friendfeed growing and struggling stage to make it's presence. There is lot of other thing to worry than maintaining own data center.
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Wow, I'm sorry you had to do that, haha. Python and C is surely a more reasonable comparison in terms of actual ease of use; I was thinking in terms of "raw instructions" versus "high level abstraction".
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So in the end you are just arguing for argument's sake?
Sir Roger Penrose has written at length on the topic of consciousness, and his views are very far from yours or Eliezer Yudkowsky's, and you can't deny that he probably also knows a thing or two about Quantum Mechanics.

Which is not to say Penrose is right, but clearly, the matter can't be as clear cut as you make it sound. Personally I'd say it's not a good sign if you find yourself invoking Quantum Mechanics to support your opinions on subjects like the nature of consciousness, the existence of God, etc.
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A cure for aging terrifies me, my gut tells me that it would be the end of homo sapiens.

Think about it, do you really think all higher order life has this "defect" for no reason? Without aging, the youth would be at an eternal disadvantage in society. The rush to have children would all but disappear without a biological clock. Evolutionarily speaking, a cure for aging is a dead end.

That said, i could easily see it happening, so like I said, I'm terrified.
If you are, indeed, in mutual love, then you should be very thankful.

I personally can be more focused while I'm working when I am in a relationship, so I would see it as a benefit. When I'm not in a relationship, there often seems to be this extra "to-do" item that is never done :)

Some people, they fall in love, and that becomes the thing that guides their decisions in their life.

Other people don't - they love their work so much that they put it before anything else. Or, they just don't meet someone, and instead put their energy toward their work.

But it's still possible to use that support as fuel to motivate you. It's just a matter of prioritizing, and making sure you don't neglect either of these important elements in your life.
The release announcement says that Gtk3 has switched to Cairo to draw the toolkit behind the scenes:

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As for Clutter, the OpenGL based canvas, Gnome-Shell (aka the Gnome 3 desktop UI) uses cluttter throughout. The new window manager is called Mutter which is a fork of Metacity to use Clutter for hardware acceleration and all the panels and other desktop UI are also rendered this way.
I dig the collaborative workspace. Ever seen the office atmosphere of those companies that design consumer products? That is what Dropbox's space reminds me of.

The best part is that Drew isn't enclosed in some corner office. He sits in the open with his team. Big thumbs up.
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I really don't think people understand the implications of Dropbox's model. I think I stumbled upon it - http://marcgayle.com/how-dropbox-is-printing-money - so I am not surprised with this level of decadence.

At the rate at which they are going, I can almost guarantee you that their public filings - or the first public confirmation of their financials - will be bombshellish (if it is anything like I suspect, and I am seeing no evidence to suggest that it is not - in fact, this video further confirmed my impressions).

Btw, I don't mean it as a bash against Dropbox. I just feel like they have discovered a pot of gold, and are being shy about it - heck, that makes total sense. If I were them, I would probably do the same thing until it was too late for anybody to clue in and catch up. So that might be what they are doing. Can't say I blame them, just wish I got confirmation - for my own curiosity's sake.

If that is the case, it's a HUGE deal. No hyperbole can do it justice.
"More that they have certain problem domains where they might pick a given search engine, and that those problem domains are biased toward using Bing for easy searches and Google for hard ones."

That makes no sense. Why would you, or anyone, alternate with search engines if one of them too often fails to deliver? Why not just use Google all the time and avoid the cognitive overhead?

Does Google do a poor job, or a worse than Bing job, with airplane tickets?
In addition to the misleading title, you gotta love the "Yell" typo for "Yelp" in the article...
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You seem to regard having fallen head over heels as a bad thing.

Be grateful as hell. It doesn't happen to everybody.
But people are forgetting the hover text that Bing returns (see 1st result).For the search "circumference of the earth"
http://oi55.tinypic.com/2jfx8ur.jpg

Compare that with Google's results https://img.skitch.com/20110211-r3jmccgi1ejs24p1hbdnu69fwm.j... (courtesy of xentronium). For this query Bing's results are far better that Google's (they actually specify circumference at equator and poles, alerting you that it's not the same; Google doesn't).

Also if you add (in meters|in miles) to the query, you get similar results to Google's.
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He is not talking about servers for Facebook but his old startup, Friendfeed.
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Employees in the US work some of the world's longest hours. And yet there these folks are in their office, playing games. Is that typical? I don't get it. Why stay in the office playing games when you could go home? I guess this is the sort of question that, as a generally-self-employed 41-year-old father of a preschooler I'm in no position to figure out. That video weirded me out.
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It's funny the differences in headlines between one tailored for HN and BBC audiences respectively.
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Ask HN: RoR, Python/Django, or PHP/Something (not what you think)...
I don't want to know which one is the best. What I'd like to know is which of these three (1) will put me in the best position to get a job at a startup in the next 5 years, and (2) will also give me the fastest development (that is, shortest time from idea to MVP)?

Elaborate if you like.
Depends on your actual situation. In around 2004, Amazon was about to launch S3 until Bezos sent the team back to the drawing board because their current architecture would eventually hit a wall. Three years later, it finally launched. Big design up front paid off in their case as they've surpassed that "wall" many times over.

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there is the message is pretty simple everyone is building apps on top of facebooks data. Basically all these startups are just facebook with a twist, if you really want to make something good that has a chance to disrupt as much as facebook and twitter did you should start from scratch and invent a new category.
did anyone found the interesting part in the article?

or was that the sentence about html5?
A muse helps so much.

I know I am supposed to be naturally deeply passionate about every single thing in my life all the time -- that is apparently now standard for educated people, nobody ever feels blasé about anything; feeling blasé is for poor people and stupid people -- but (gasp, horror of horrors) passion is sometimes hard to come by for me. Loving someone gives everything a special glow. Loving someone makes my accomplishments meaningful. Loving someone gives me a reason to rewrite something that was good enough the first time. Loving someone gives me a reason to stay late doing something that will make an impact but won't translate into pay or advancement.

A muse brings everything into sharp relief and makes everything feel more vital and dramatic. It doesn't have anything to do with sex -- a muse can have this effect even if you can't have her, and sleeping with girls you aren't so excited about has the opposite effect, flattening everything out so that accomplishment and slacking off feel exactly the same.

It may even work better in the short run when your muse is inaccessible. In that case you have freedom to manage your side of the "relationship" without worrying about the consequences for her. A muse who loves you back has staying power, though.
Go build your own thing, showcase your work and they would come after you.
Working for github or any successful startup would be great but not the only thing in town.
It probably is not the case with github but most startups teach you what not to do more than what to do.
I do not like example 4 "Complex is better than complicated". Use of string concatenation is going to lead to SQL injection bugs and SQLAlchemy version actually looks better to me.

Can somebody please enlighten me on how using raw sql is preferable?
It would be interesting to see a study done on profitability per employee based against employee wage.

Now it's just a hunch, but my guess is that Goldman Sachs with it's approaching-six-figure average employee wage is going to be a lot more profitable per employee than mega-marts employing minimum-wagers by the thousand.
yes, hence the title "TC Cribs"
Right now it's 18k users, with 11k active. The signup fee has brought in just over $120k, most of that coming in December (thanks, Yahoo!).
Try using a Xen instance when a RAID drive has to be rebuilt. I did!
Lots of things on the Internet can move quickly but browsers are not Internet software the way that Google or Facebook are. Browsers are still desktop software and things don't move as quickly there thanks to slow PC upgrade cycles and the absolute dominance that software like Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer had a decade ago. Turning that massive ship took longer than many imagined but it is happening.

Jamie gave the open source Mozilla project about a year and a half, including the months of pre-source release preparation (and I think that's being generous.) Brendan Eich and Mitchell Baker didn't give up so easily and thirteen-plus years later they're still giving all they've got to make sure that Mozilla continues to be successful in promoting choice, opportunity, and participation on the Web.

Some things are worth fighting for and I believe that the Web is one of those things. I'm proud to work with some of the founding members of mozilla.org and think it's a phenomenal thing that such talented people are willing to commit their professional lives to the Mozilla mission when there were and still are far sexier opportunities available to all of them.
Support structure, focus and continued encouragement is all I get. In small, daily and consistent doses. I'm diving in full time in March, and can't see myself doing it without the other.
Are you aware that there are a great many places to purchase DRM-free ebooks at places other than Amazon? And that programs like Calibre can format-shift these to kindle-readable formats?

You're not vendor-locked with the Kindle with these tools. Your /brain/ might be vendor-locked though, if you think that a Kindle will only ever read stuff bought from Amazon. I bought a Kindle for a friend, and torrented hundreds of ebooks for her. She hasn't paid a cent to DRM formats. When she wants a new book, she can purchase an ebook from somewhere other than Amazon if she wants to avoid DRM, and use Calibre to convert to .mobi format, which the Kindle happily reads.
I have to think this will launch with Google onboard, unless there is some reason Google is specifically targeted (which the article says they weren't.)
And today that product is used by more than 400 million people around the world -- far more users than Netscape ever had.
I think by the point that we can banish aging technological self-improvement will have overtaken evolution by a long way. We already severely handicap evolution by using medicine to compensate for disadvantageous features such as short-sigtedness.
Sort of like Jihad? Except here only for otherwise clearly unsavory responses to perceived threats against freedom vs otherwise clearly unsavory responses to perceived threats against Islam?

The argument lies whether the acts are actually unsavory, otherwise unsavory, if the perception of being a threat is correct and whether that threat is valid enough to justify a response. So when if ever does Jihadism/Anonymous go to far?

So Anonymous is really just a mask that can be put on. There is nothing that can keep either group in check except for how aligned each one is with the core values that it seeks to defend, and how that tension resolves. Why doesn't Anonymous rail against Jihad? Where people that might otherwise be labelled racist, however accurately or not, could then proceed with their actions without having that inhibition.
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Yes, it's profitable. Recurring revenue comes from the archiving feature, which costs $25/year. The signup fee is mostly there to serve as a brake on growth.
This is typical Microsoft, they cannot admit a non-commercial entity to be their main competitor.
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Hey Matt, seeing your comments on this post reminded me I wanted to say thanks for making so many comments here on HN. It's awesome to hear from someone directly at Google in your role. Very cool. I'm sure a lot of us think very highly of the work you all do at Google. You and Apple, really, kick ass in this industry.
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How did this miss the point at the one hour 39 minute mark where they announce they're going to ship WebOS on PC's?

That seems like the MASSIVE announcement in all of this.

http://t.co/8vNRr4g

EDIT: Wasn't supposed to be a reply to parent sorry, thought I was replying to the whole post.
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After Hotfile, will the MPAA Target RapidShare, Megaupload or Dropbox?
It reduces complexity and uncertainty.

At the company I work for we have 2 internal APIs being worked on:

1) A freebase/metaweb style API backed onto a relational database

2) A traditional set of web services backed onto a document based database

The former gives us the ability to invent the questions we want to answer and validate whether those are valuable questions. But it carries the risk of complexity and the problems of scaling in return.

The latter gives incredible performance once you know what questions you want to answer. But it is much harder to prototype things on as that's a bullet-proof big industrial thing and things move slowly in there.

We basically recognise a difference in the balancing of pros and cons between the systems that help you prototype fast and the systems that help you scale dramatically and securely and that have to be maintained. And it sounds like this is the underlying point about using a framework for prototyping and then building your own simple, pared down specific thing.
When someone says "My biggest mistake is doing X and not Y. X turned out to be really hard." I wonder if they know how difficult Y would be as well.
I think the size of a test suite should be dependent on the size of the project and team, as you stated. Most TDD advocates are overboard with it imo; a test case should certainly be written when a regression occurs to make sure it doesn't happen again, and tests should be filled in in other cases as time and circumstances permit (recognizing that tests are an important part of the application that you can't just shove off until your favorite theorized utopian corporate culture is realized), but I've never been a big fan of making the development process all about tests. I think it's overzealous and ultimately just burns people out on testing, causing them to get lazy and go almost test-less when they have the option. There are times when it's better to discard form and just write some code straight up without descending into a mire of testing beforehand.
Rapidshare and many of it's clones are highly profitable.
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Considering that Facebook has like 500m users, yet doesn't charge any of them, and they're valued at $50B or whatever, and yet DropBox has 4m users and does bring in $10+/month from a good percentage of them, I'm going to guestimate that DropBox is profitable in at least the millions of dollars annually range. And that's a very conservative guestimate.
You can! just use this:

:args *.rb

Sadly, the above is easy to forget if you don't use it a lot but such is life for everything in a powerful text editor.

Now here's the fun part. The above will open each of the files in a new buffer. You might want each buffer to be put into it's own tab, so just add the following to your ~/.vimrc to map CTR-ALT-T to create a new tab for each of the existing buffers.

" open each buffer in it's own tab
map <C-M-T> :tab sball<CR>

If the vim default CTRL-t drives you nuts because you use a web browser far too often, you can remap it in vim to create a new tab. I've got mine set as follows so it not only makes CTRL-t create a new tab, but it also puts your focus in the vim command and fills in the ":e " so you can open a new file:

" Open New Tab
map <C-T> :tabnew<CR>:e

Yes, this last bit is due to the personal annoyance of hitting CTRL-t and mistakenly expecting a new tab to appear when vim doesn't work that way by default.
Congratulations on hitting Wired (and smart PR move on The Daily). What made you think to challenge Murdoch's The Daily and can you talk about how you got Wired's attention to run an article like this?
Choose love over money.

Always.
Don't think of it as reinforcement ... think of it as validation ;)

Seriously ... it goes a long way to hear somebody say to you

"you're not crazy, it is a bit tougher out there for you being a minority and based on that you've come a long way"

Thats when you follow it up with

"... but you can go even further"
somewhat agree, except: collaboration == distraction
Personally I think Google has plenty of engineering talent. It's not that they don't have enough people to design the bridge, they just don't know exactly where it is suppose to go.
I certainly never meant to imply that, once established, a startup should not have an exit strategy -- indeed it should. My point was that a startup should not be borne out of a desire merely to exit, but rather to do something new and exciting and cool. I.e., to create something simply to exit is to create for the wrong reasons.
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Hi,
Apple just approved Tête à Tête:
http://www.motivapps.com/tete/

It helps people to write affectionate e-mails to their special others :) It is unusual because it is practical. I imagine somebody having five spare minutes and using my app to send an interesting letter instead of the usual "I'm thinking of you".

You are my target audience so I'd appreciate feedback:

- What do HNers think about the language? I'm not a native english speaker

- What do you think of the concept? Does it appeal to you?

Thanks :)
Yes ... and Amazon is the new Sun Microsystems. They are profiting by selling the spades and shovels bought by the gold rush enthusiasts.
You have your whole life for startups. Indulgence in love is mostly limited to your 20s. I would suggest enjoy the chemistry till it lasts - startups can wait. The chemistry will bring you more happiness then any amount of big company building would.

Destinations are always pointless, its always the journey. Think of this as a detour from your startup life. In the longer run, detours will give you valuable perspective and make your journeys more meaningful.
no revenue startup: run lean. Ramen noodles.

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