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So you created your account about 2 hours ago and are already in the negative for every one of your comments. Why do you persist?
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I was a top student (always perfect score) up until I was 11

After that I was still a great student, but not the top and not straight As. I still liked math.

By the end of high school, I was extremely dis-interested in math and specially in calculus. It all seemed like arbitrary pointless rules. (I blame the teachers and the curriculum).
For some reason, I kept thinking of how this headline would read if it was an Onion article.

"Soulless executive loses job, discovers she's a human being."
> I find that having a single point of failure with a backup
> that can be manually brought in to place (such as an
> asynchronously replicated database) is quite often more
> reliable than fancy home-made SAN solutions.

As someone who has invested heavily in implementing HA systems and then seen them be the root of increased downtime, I have come to the same conclusion. A simple fail-over system that will result in short downtime & require limited manual intervention is in many cases the best route.
Some Qs:

Q1. I still don't get the use case for db storage on ephemeral storage.

Q2. If EBS is the problem why are you migrating to S3 backed EBS boot vols? The problem with this is still the time in between snapshots even though it will be shortened.

Some Comments:
It will only be a matter of time before S3 disks and hardware start dying like EBS...en masse

I talked with Ketralnis several year ago and know how many VMs you were running back then. Pretty sure your not too far off from that count even today (even if 2x).

You can still virtualize on a good set of dedicated hardware to emulate your current 'network environment' to get you up and running in the near term _asap_. Obviously you'd build out of that vm environment (with your load) as the days go by. Seriously look into a parallel switch over though.

If EBS is in fact a huge issue as has been shown, you really may need to start migrating off unless you want dedicated employees monitoring system health on AWS. Eventually if problems continue that is what will happen, with no time left to even develop automation... And why automate on a pile of instability?

Don't forget that the more VMs you add with this high failure rate increases soft management costs and will eventually eat into your development time...

I don't work for Rackspace (I think they're quite expensive), but you guys might benefit from this level of care to focus on the real issues.
> For any Seattle startup folks, just remember that all
of Pioneer Square (and then some...) is a
liquefaction zone

For that matter, so is a large chunk of the Bay Area.

Whether it's earthquakes, wildfires, bizzards, tornados, hurricanes, etc there is always gouing to be something pretty much wherever you settle.
I get your point, but syntax ceases to be superficial if it prevents you from expressing what you want to say cleanly. As a daytime Java programmer, discovering the freedom from syntax that Lisps allow you has been revelatory.
Sounds like the author is confusing professionalism with 'conventional wisdom'.
So, you scrape HN (except the comments, which is a good thing - I wrote them here)? What does this bring to the table?
I was aiming more for, "Hey, all we need to do is write some software which understands how to parameterize a query based on the location of a basic subset of English!"

The software I was speaking of, is purely meant to digest a few known signifiers. The one spot I do understand is trying to interpret "Louis Gray," into something meaningful. An example:"

On source today about query elements" returns "from:'source' date:'today' query"
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It seems like that there has to be a certain minimum level of manager competence for this to work. If the manager is too blind, he/she will never learn that your ideas are sound.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
I've heard many accounts of these phenomena from others. What I'm having difficulty with is the relative motion of the different pieces of earth. I live on pretty solid ground away from active fault lines. If one of our minor fault lines ever acted up, I could certainly imagine the kind of motion you mention. But if my property "cracked," I'd expect to feel the swaying motion and that each piece of my yard would move in the same direction preventing me seeing the motion. On further consideration that the park in the video is built on a former bay, I supposed the quake could be making the dirt float around on the mushy underside.

The first thing I noticed was an oddness about the crack in the sidewalk. It seems to have cracked perfectly along some crack line that's outside of the sidewalk (not likely - just because dirt cracks underneath doesn't mean the concrete will crack exactly where the dirt does) and there seems to be some rubbery surface where the crack ends in the sidewalk (it stretches as the parts of earth move in different directions.) Not like the pure concrete sidewalks I'm accustomed to, but Tokyo is worlds away and maybe it's not just concrete.

P.S. Why the downvoting on my original post? Is it not a valid question?
It's only sort of intuitive. A fair number of kids have latching issues and have to be taught a bit how to do it properly.
I vaguely remember pownce, wasn't it twitter with filesharing?
I guess my reading HN is a bit incongruous with this opinion, but I'm kind of sick of the fetishization of startups in general.
"First, "professional" and "amateur" should be defined to better make his point."

I think that the whole article is the definition, if not explicit than at least inferred from the examples. Not that I think that the only proper definition of 'professional' is: boring, limited, uninspiring (the author seems to suggest that).

On the contrary - there are some things that discern professional software development from unorganized mess and I'd rather have them in place: source control, automatic and repeatable build and deployment, regression tests etc.
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Enterprise hardware lies about fsync, because even if you loose power, there is a little battery on the RAID controller that's enough to flush the cache to disk or to keep it for hours until the machine is powered up again. When the battery goes bad, the write cache is disabled automatically.

On bigger hardware, like SAN storage arrays, the (redundant) batteries keep the whole thing running for a while after the loss of power.
> You don't get to use evidence against your hypothesis as evidence for your hypothesis!

But you do. That's the point. It's not an absolute law. I'm sure you can find a great application written in Visual Basic. This doesn't make Visual Basic a great choice over Python.

If you could list 50+ successful startups running on Windows, then you could say there's a strong evidence.

And even then, this only proves that Windows is as good as Linux. It doesn't counter the original point about Linux being great despite not having a business model centered around IP.
My bad, I probably didn't explain myself correctly.

I was talking about modifying TTL of the forwarded packets on the phone, to make the packets look like they were originated from the phone itself.
No scraping, just seeding to show how it would work. You can filter Hacker posts and follow only specific community combinations you care about.
Ask YC: How does YC application form re-submit work?
I am a little worried that my submitted application is missing something that might be worth noting(i bet i am not alone).

Is the fact that I edit and re-submit my appl lowers my chances? How does the process of re-reviewing work?
Zuck uses facebook every day (not only with his account but with Beast's also!)
I was big into digg for a long time, then I discovered Reddit, which happens to be the exact opposite of every point that you made.

Digg had some cool UI elements and a cool labs subdomain, and as a web dev, that kept me interested. The content and the system as a whole made me move away from it.
Some random thoughts:

- Don't sell to students, sell to parents (apart from the schools of course). They are more motivated to than children to pursue good grades and they have money.

- Charge more. If you lose users, so what? You've only lost the ones that you can't make money from in the first place. (although I see that you've raised the price already).

- Your wife doesn't sound committed. No selling the thing (migrate to a new domain now to get rid of the name association, what's the problem?), no charging more out of fear, fear of losing control. If it's a hobby for her, and you want it to be more, you have a problem. Solve this first.

- Find subject experts on a profit-sharing basis if you don't want to invest any money (although seriously at your age and your household makeup, 5000 euros should not be a major problem and it would get you sufficient content for 5 different subjects).

- If you will work 4 days after your baby is born, you'll have even less time than you have now to work on this! This one day will be full-time babysitting unless you take her to day care, which I presume you'll only do for 3 days a week!

- The way your website is structured, it doesn't seem to be easy to expand into different subjects.

- The 'original' website (with the free content) looks like a 1997 Geocities page. It also doesn't make many attempts at upselling, apart from some small links to the premium version.

- Have you tried calling schools, or the associations your wife is a member of? If she uses it, ask her colleagues why they don't. Then fix those issues.
Professional: doing the same work many times with the same result.

Amateur: comes from a French word meaning: "lover of".
I've only been in that datacenter once and I was signed in by someone with authority to help them with something. Like others have said here, it's more to help with "I didn't know I wasn't supposed to touch it" type cases. The RSA cabinet is the security, the rope is legalease.
I thought we had one.
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The hazard test application has been designed carefully to replicate the same experience you will have in the real test. When in test mode, tap on the screen when you identify the hazard. The sooner you identify the hazard the more marks you get. The maximum marks being five and minimum would be zero.
Bit harsh, but 'route around it' isn't too helpful. How?
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
or
Professionalism is the last refuge of the uninspired.
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First, congratulations on making something people want. If people are requesting more exercises it probably means you have a user base that: a)cares about your product and b)wants to see it continue. Yes, going after schools is hard, but going after teachers may be easier. There was a HN post a couple of months ago about a student grading application someone here had created and in trying to sell it, he ran into similar difficulties with targeting schools. But what he was finding was that teachers valued his application enough to purchase it themselves, then they would tell other teachers at the school, and pretty soon the whole school signed on. I think you should focus on keeping your product at a price point that would allow teachers to purchase it themselves. Maybe even try to build in some social features that would encourage teachers to spread the word. Then, with the revenue, outsource content creation. Finally, once traction and revenue reach a point where it makes sense for you to leave your full-time job or hire an additional developer, add functionality that would appeal to entire schools or school districts. Also, congratulations on the little hacker on the way!
Perhaps a better way to put it would be "a Hacker News for all interests"
> Not so Good: Build it and they will come.

I'm glad not everyone listen to this advice, otherwise we wouldn't have Twitter, Facebook, or even Google.
You could consider that the whole battery backup etc. means that it isn't lying about fsync. It says that it's been permanently written, and then it makes sure that is has. It might not have been burnt to spinning metal, but the system as a whole will ensure that it's permanent.
I think you're meant to associate to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curator.
Professionals do what they do for a living, amateurs don't.
Wait, looking further either you've obfuscated most of the info in the post, or I've been looking at the website of your competitor that offers exactly the same functionality. If it's that last one, you could look up his turnover at the KvK to estimate his market share. He seems to have had quite a bit of press coverage too, so if he can't turn it into something big, either he isn't trying very much (quite likely) or it's really a hard market (also likely :) )
correct. but if you don't know it even exists, how could you need it?
especially considering that all startups are just luxury products, since humans don't need anything other than water and food.
In my opinion, people should stop trying to guess what solves other peoples problems and just solve their own.

Best(er): Make something YOU need and are willing to pay for now.

If you solve your own problem, you're guaranteed to understand the problem, execute well, and be surprised how many other people have the same problem.
I never use the term "professional" in the context of computing - it pretty much means nothing as far as I am concerned as to various people it can mean:

- Wearing a suit, shirt and tie

- Writing lots of documents that nobody reads

- Having source control, automated build process and unit tests

- Always saying yes to a customer

I also know quite a few "real" professionals (doctors, lawyers, professionally qualified engineers) - using those standards I'm quite happy to state that I'm not a professional if anyone asks.

[Edit: Obviously I do think one of those points above is important!]
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I think Spolsky settled this dichotomy back in 2000:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html
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I'll do it for $60.
I did the same search shortly after making the above post and no birds showed up that time. I'm not sure what was going on, but I certainly saw half a page full of birds on that search term earlier today.
Does patio11 have a project page or resource out on the net somewhere? Education has always been of interest to me, specifically improving things and knocking down walls.
I absolutely agree. However, to be honest, I didn't realize it until I read your comment. Maybe it's because I am still working on my morning coffee, but I read the TC post, thought "bummer for Digg", and moved on.

This is what makes a site like HN so great. Crowd-sourcing news analysis provides for such a better experience. I'm still working on my coffee, but I think HN is pointing towards the future of news.
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Absolutely. So they can need it but not want it.

And as barefoot says above, you can want a product without needing it.

Need/Want may be correlated, but they certainly don't imply each other, in either direction.
I can't readily substantiate it because video and audio aren't Google-able but it has been referenced on the show in passing, Alex has mentioned it in an interview on how he schedules TRS, diggnation, etc and I believe Kevin himself mentioned it once when asked about his own schedule at one point. The best I can do is to point you toward Alex's once a month trips to SF:

http://twitter.com/alexalbrecht/status/32545131399741441
http://twitter.com/alexalbrecht/status/42823598360109056
I don't think we ever sterilized bottles other than picking out a fresh one that had been through a hot cycle on the dishwasher (i.e. the same as every other pot, pan, plate, fork, knife etc.).
What are you hoping to accomplish? Is this to showcase some new ideas, or do you hope to actually get some traction?

If it is the former, you ought to write some blog posts to explain how your conception is different than the current news.arc software, and what the benefits would be to this community.

If the latter, you've got the classic chicken-and-egg problem. There are known ways to deal with that, of course, but it's not an easy row to hoe.
In many cases we could get into the definition of 'need'.

But consider something like legal/regulatory requirements. Perhaps you don't know about some law at the moment, but you should be complying with it. I have a product that fixes this problem for you.
Until I call you, you don't want it but you still need it. When I tell you this, hopefully you'll understand and I have a good chance of a sale.
People don't need fart apps, but they seem to sell well. What gives?
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Professionalism makes the difference between bad quality and reasonable quality. For creating something amazing professionalism is not enough. Following the rules just leads you to a certain level, after that you have to break some of them.
conde would very easily do this for you, they built an entire datacenter in deleware just for their child-companies to use like this.
You misunderstand the wisdom of this advice.

The meaning is: build something good, and people will naturally come to it. As opposed to: build a monster no one needs then spend millions on marketing.

As far as I know, Facebook and Google are both examples of following this advice. They both didn't reply on marketing to grow. They grew organically; people started to use them because they were actually good products.

I always thought this mantra originally came from Google.
Actually, it looks like Apple's approach is WebKit2 <http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2>, which will handle the UI/web process separation itself, allowing any client application to benefit (as opposed to Chromium's current approach).

Perhaps you just meant the UI/web process separation itself, but it's interesting to note that Apple is going for a more general-purpose solution.
as is most of ycombinator these days.
Actually, as a former employee, he is in a pretty good position to criticise while keeping that criticism at arms-length from Reddit. Not a bad tactic.
This is from an article about the Google press release when they bought A.S.: " Google said that Applied Semantics' products and engineering team will strengthen Google's search and advertising programs, including its "fast-growing content-targeted advertising offering"" . At the time, Applied Semantics had a license deal with Overture, which was also doing content-targeted advertising and AS software was used to enable it." My guess is whatever Google had in place was significantly enhanced by the A.S. software.
Linode has great prices for 64bit instances. For all of my own projects I use mongoDB, which requires a 64bit os and amazon really doesn't compare price wise, at least for small 64bit instances. My servers have run there without issue and I've found their customer support to be great.
Another interesting fact is that the last bit of Pi is 1. It's not difficult to see why when you stop and think about it, but if you tell that fact without the usual mathematical disclaimers (e.g. - Pi doesn't have a last digit in any base), it tends to put people into a funny "how the hell did you figure that out" state.
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I was a top student up until they put me in the special classes for top students, which mostly just involved extra work which I was too lazy to do.
Actually, as I recall, that was pretty good for traffic.
How do we change this?
Also seems childish of al3x to forget that out of amy hoy and thomas fuchs' work came scriptaculous which has probably inspired startup founders wowed by Ajax only less than Ruby on Rails itself. al3x probably leveraged that work early on at Twitter itself.

If lifestyle businesses like 37signals and freckle are producing the kind of tools like RoR and scriptaculous, more power to them!
That can be classified as a "want". Wants and needs are prevalent notions through people's lives. Needs are minimum requirements to stay alive(I need air, water, food to live) and go throughout one's day(clothing and transportation to go to work), and wants are extra icing on top that makes a person feel good(fart apps), whatever that might be. The trouble is people that people sometimes get the two confused.. that's where fart app makers win.
Ditto. I've been using Founder/Co-Founder instead, which is a lot more accurate.
Build something you enjoy building.
I would say both. I would say it is substantially different, consider the following:

"This is a fundamental flaw in communities on the net in general, they don't gracefully combine different scopes." - Hacker News comment by jacquesm
But nobody wants a “fast-paced environment”
Is Angry Birds something I 'need?' Well, maybe for some people I guess.
There is an infinite amount of things that we need/want if we follow that definition which again simply removes the meaning of the distinction.

There is no insight to be gained from the distinction, it's semantic masturbation nothing else.
While I don't particularly agree with him on the compatibility mode, I don't see the contradiction. His argument is that getting rid of compatibility mode provides an incentive for innovation and eliminating old unsupported code from the web. The more people that use IE9 (without a compatibility mode) would put pressure on site owners to make sure their code met current standards. Supporting IE9 on XP would increase that number.
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Is it common in the Swiss school system for students to take classes in four different languages (German, English, French, Italian), or did Einstein attend a special/elite school?
I have to admit that when I first heard of airbnb I thought: "wow, great idea! A paid couchsurfing!"
And it makes sense to me as often I skipped on cs because I needed to be quiet in a room and work. You can't do that If you are a non paying host.
Ah yes, the telltale sign of a large bureaucracy: people spending $150 of one kind of money to avoid spending $100 of a different kind of money (in this case, payroll budget versus tech-infrastructure budget).
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I think that's why they just took in a ton of cash. They need to make more games and I'm sure resources are already stretched thin. Look at some of the best games in the store though - they all involve puzzles and cute characters. Cut the Rope is another example. Keep using the same formula, vary your puzzle types, and push more stuff out that is updated frequently.
Their CEO also said console games are dying

http://blogs.forbes.com/insertcoin/2011/03/15/angry-birds-ex...
There's a lot to like here, including this: "Like every bubble, this is a game of musical chairs. While you still need irrational focus on customers for your product, you and your company now need to be everywhere and look larger than life."

But is it realistic to plan on the bubble going on through 2014?
Idle speculation is a bit useless, but it really makes you wonder why so many of their team have left recently, doesn't it? I wonder if the stress of keeping up with the increased load (and subsequent downtime) became too much for some of them.
Anyone know a good IE 9 emulator?
Isn't reddit kind of hacker news for all interests?
"Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of performance and reliability"
Applying DHH to web video/fiction: "Charge money. I know, it’s revolutionary"
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