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I was thinking Kickstarter had closed down or something, the link title is poor. Just an announcement that one of their investors is acknowledging their participation. I would have preferred that in the title "Union Square Ventures announces they have invested in Kickstarter" a bit longer perhaps but you can put all the content on one line so its more efficient.
Are you certain the data left the filesystem buffer and actually got acknowledged by EBS?
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Japan tsunami was at least 23-metres high
Never noticed this before: the auto-complete appears under the slider handles (Chrome 10). Shall test for other browsers in a bit...

edit:

Chrome 12 Canary: same as Chrome 10
IE9 beta: Handles on top, buttons look fine, though no text shadow. "<>" are poorly anti-aliased.
IE9 beta in compatibility mode: auto-complete on top (?), but buttons (aside from href) are full-width. "<>" are poorly anti-aliased.
FF4 rc: Handles on top. "<>" are poorly anti-aliased.
FF3.6.15: Handles on top. "<>" are poorly anti-aliased.
Yes, except for the fact that it can't interact with regular users.
I think most people are doing RAID-0 to get more perf out of EBS volumes
Don't forget Wii games and PS3 games ;-)
It is indeed... You just need to keep close tabs on what is supported on which platform.
You were responding to a statement that GPL requires derivative works to be available on the same terms. Since GPL is a distribution license, I assumed you were talking about distribution.

If you copy GPL code into your BSD library, and then distribute the resulting library, you MUST distribute that version of the library under GPL. You can continue to make the version that does not contain any GPL code available under BSD if you wish.

If you copy GPL code into your BSD library and do not distribute it, then GPL is irrelevant.
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That example may be contrived, but I've had a few projects in the past where I had to schedule tweets and this strategy is pretty slick and testable.
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You have to snapshot at the system level anyway if you want a consistent snapshot: otherwise the filesystem (or your database) could have been reordering and delaying writes that end up not being part of the "consistent snapshot". This is simply not a RAID-specific issue, nor is it a problem with EBS (as it is generally easy to use LVM, xfs, and/or PostgreSQL to handle that part of the job).
Well, for one the copy needs some work. The list isn't even organized and there's about 3 or 4 different font-sizes/types going on all over the place. I feel like i'm on a 4chan clone than an app. Also I have no idea how to get really started on doing whatever your app does, no immediate call to action button. Keep working
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To summarize a post above, his math indeed wasn't very good (or at least very advanced) for a research-level mathematician because he was a physicist, not a mathematician.
OT, but is the PayPal bashing necessary? I know everyone loves beating up on PayPal, but for a big company they do still bring some innovation to the space - take their micropayments service (https://micropayments.paypal-labs.com/). How else can I process a $1 payment and only pay 10¢?
Seems like a lot of effort to avoid using cron.
Orion Henry at Heroku wrote about this and described different software RAID configurations and the performance characteristics of each a while back:

http://orion.heroku.com/past/2009/7/29/io_performance_on_ebs...
I'm sure we all have ideas that we consider "decent" on a daily basis but just don't have time to explore further. This is a really cool way to offload some of those ideas.
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Zoho is most probably the best known tech startup from India that isn't in the typical call-center or medical transcription business. As key Zoho employees go on to build in their own companies, this could bring SV/YC culture in India where success does not mean finding a big check-writer from US but rather building products that users from around the world can use and buy. Keep up the good work FreshDesk.
I'd change it :)
There has been a notable amount of hate on IE9's lack of XP support, so I thought I'd ask. Has anyone happened to read ~why~ IE 9 isn't supported in Windows XP? People continue to be angry that it's not, but has anyone actually checked why it's not supported?
I quite agree. It was revelatory for me in the same way.
I really appreciate that this example shows a useful testing strategy and handles the big scheduling gotcha (rescheduling jobs.) Neither are hard solutions once the answer is known, but having them spelled out will save someone a lot of time.
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Congratulations and nice write-up!

Can I ask how the startup is doing financially?
Just because there are far more Windows users than Linux users (not that that has ANYTHING to do with this, lots of Windows users use Firefox for example) doesn't mean the minority group won't be able to massively upvote something out of control. It's not like everyone votes, only a small minority vote - and guess who are more likely to vote? People who feel strongly (for or against). So if there are more haters than there are people who care to fight the haters, guess who "wins" the vote?
The ad-hominem is implied, since the conflict of interest you claim to have pointed out was made up, hence the only reason to point it out was to imply the argument was invalid.
Read code on the browser with ease.
Firefox uses NSS for SSL on all platforms, including Windows -- are you referring to something else?

edit: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Server_Name_I... seems to indicate that Firefox supports it on all platforms.
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I disagree. Cron is meant to run at specific intervals, not at specific, arbitrary times.

In apps where we're using this technique, we may have hundreds or thousands of jobs scheduled at various times in the future (appointment reminders are a great example). Cron would have to check every minute or two, whereas we have Delayed Job already running a queue. They just get pulled in when their time is right.
Thanks, I'm working on it. I'm still trying to figure it out for myself. It was something I know I wanted...and I use it constantly, but I'm still trying to figure out how to explain what 'it' is.
I would imagine the average hacker on HN would be more anti-Microsoft than your average man on the street.
If the grid supports it, they might be able to switch over some generators near the crossover point from 60hz to 50hz. California's San Francisquito hydro plant has been running 50hz turbines from the 1920s at 60hz for decades with no problems. I'm sure you can go the other way as well.
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Did you do any performance tweaking to PostgreSQL with respect to EBS? You have an insanely deep write buffer and quite good random read performance with EBS, which is nothing like the disks people normally deploy PostgreSQL to.
Dumb question. It is a short sighted question. This same question exists in most fields. Why aren't there more women fill_in_the_blank?

Why aren't there more women engineers? Why aren't there more women politicians? Why aren't there more women programmers? Why aren't there more women executives?

Women's interests and their own culture, from childhood to college, drive them to the occupations they want.
We are in private beta so the money is yet to flow in:)
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Perhaps, but as the parent post had stated: the changes to JQuery were to get rid of workarounds for past versions of IE. If Microsoft kept bug-for-bug compatible with older versions of IE, they'd be lambasted for that. Now you're lambasting them for actually fixing things. Rock, meet hard place.
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It's like "Freakonomics" for the masses.
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This is the first time I've seen solid numbers with rates in a while. NYtimes is doing a horrible job covering this.

These levels are very high, but still very low when compared to Chernobyl.
They are releasing an Android App store...I'm guessing that's a more likely use for the developers.
"Fast Paced Environment" means:

1) The specs are not in place
2) They are a software company, mostly
3) The managers are not really managers, but engineers who were given a battle field promotion
4) They have a set of key customers who control 51% of revenue, who dictate everything and change their mind frequently
Is that real data? You've got reservations at The French Laundry four days from now?!?
People aren't always rational, especially with money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool
Don't quote me on this, but I thought it was because IE9 made heavy use of Direct2D from DirectX10 or 11 or some such which XP doesn't have access to.

Firefox 4 uses the same Direct2D stuff but has a software fallback. It could be argued that IE9 should also have a software fallback, but they don't.
i think this is a smart move by mozilla. i hope they see a significant uptick in browser share on those platforms.

i'm sure it wasn't easy to dedicate all the extra work up front and over the life of the project...
I especially like the post on your "Coding Blog" that's linked at the bottom, which explains exactly how you make the correlations -- and even gives the SQL you use. We stats nerds eat that stuff up.

I can't give you any points for the rigors of your methods, but I'm assuming you're not planning to present any of these statistics as reliable.
I wish I had more than one upvote for this: swimming against a trend like that never works out well.
The post I'm referring to is here:

http://coding.pressbin.com/88/How-my-new-site-Correlated-wor...
It appears as though the data stolen might include RSA seeds. I thought I'd explain what this means for some of the people here not familiar with SecurID.

The seed is used a random key for the token and is used to generate a string of random numbers periodically to use. This is called a one-time pad as you use the numbers in combination with a pass code (PIN) in order to log in. In theory you won't use the same code twice although in practice you can as long as the token number is valid (normally a few seconds).

So this provides you with two 'factors' for authentication - something you have (the token number) and something you know (the PIN).

If you know the seed for a token you can simulate a token [1](or put it on a real one) and use it. Where the token is being used in conjunction with a PIN (probably the majority of use cases) you'd need to know the PIN.

The PIN is between 4 and 8 alphanumeric characters in length, but most people use a 4 digit number (possibly as it's called a PIN and people associated it with bank numbers, I don't know).

Now imagine the scenario, you want to break into PG's VPN and he uses SecurID but you have his seed and you've synced up with his token, but you don't know his PIN. You can take a guess that it's a 4 digit PIN (as is common) and that means a maximum of 10,000 authentication attempts. Using a tool like IKECrack[2] you can brute force about 18,000 guesses with a P3-700, so it becomes quite easy to target an organisation that way.

Likewise you can start brute forcing two factor auth on Citrix servers as well to great extent.

The great thing about all this (from an attacker's perspective) is that people don't change their PINs. Why change one factor when the other is so infallible?

But what if you have a more complex PIN? Well, that 62^8 possible combinations for an 8 character alphanumeric PIN. Let's break this down:

62^8 == 2.18340106 × 10^14 combinations

62^8 / 18 000 = 1.21300059 × 10^10 seconds

62^8 / 18 000 / 60 = 202,166,764 minutes

62^8 / 18 000 / 60 / 60 = 3 369 446.07 hours

62^8 / 18 000 / 60 / 60 / 24 = 140,393 machine days

That's for a P3-700, modern computers will be considerably more powerful, although at some point the limitations of the machine at the other end kicks in.

Bottom line - 4 digit PIN and you're screwed. 8 character alphanumeric PIN and you're probably alright.

[1] - http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2000/Dec/459
[2] - http://ikecrack.sourceforge.net/
Nice. I like the concept of "best" though it's obviously (purposefully?) vague. What does best mean here?

An idea I like, is allowing eateries to accept reservations for specific tables. After the visit the diner could review the actual table and rate its appropriateness for specific occasions (first date, business meal, group of guys, etc.)as well as a short writeup. There are many places that have different vibes depending on where the table is, of course this can change on a nightly basis depending on crowd, day of the week, and other variables.

Adding this extra level of reservation personalization by allowing the user to choose their own table might encourage repeat visits. Imagine if a couple had "a table" that they always liked to eat at. It would also allow individuals to sort not by "Best" but by "Best for Intimate Conversation" or "Best for Great Bay Views".
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Yeah, avoiding the viaduct has always struck me as a sensible precaution.
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You are 100% correct. I honestly think the problem is the speed at which we are throwing this together right now. This is an exercise for us in rapid implementation. The team that put this together is the same team that launched chicago2011.org, an app that took 72 hours from conception to development to implementation. I consider this a massive accomplishment, especially considering we were working with government. Coming off of that success, we were pumped to push out potentially a real startup under similar time pressure. You are now seeing some of the sloppiness that exists at the edges of a project like that, and I too shared your sentiment when usehipster went back into stealth/hype mode. Using launchrock certainly doesn't help that since it is works really well as a vague hype machine.

I promise you that I will put more detail up to the public within 48 hours, and I would love to personally speak with you to explain exactly what we're doing. You can email me at scottv@gmail.com if want, I would love to hear more of your feedback.
In the US power transmission is three phase at high voltage (which is where voltage drop is really a big concern). Voltage drop within a building is rarely a concern in the vast majority of buildings.

Typical electrical service for small buildings is 240v using two of the three legs. At the service panel each of the legs is available separately as 120v or in combination as 240v. Larger buildings and industrial applications will often use 208v three phase services for power efficiency. Higher 3 phase voltages are also used on a more limited bases
The guy consulting on the side is also taking a risk, he's just being smart about it.
Anybody care to comment on using EC2 with local (what Amazon calls ephemeral) storage and backup to S3? Seems to me the advantages are: it's cheaper and you avoid the performance and reliability problems with EBS. The disadvantages?
Another thought. If availability is your goal, with the trend toward 'operations as code', I think a small development team can build a system on top of AWS that can automatically respond to arbitrary node/resource/data-center failure. Netflix seems to do this to an extent, with their Chaos Monkey.

That being said, there are situations where you may truly need single-node performance that isn't available on AWS.
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Beautiful story. The way you listed to the market, built the right product in the right moment - just perfect.

One think caught my eye: $160 for your office space?? From what I've seen on http://blog.freshdesk.com/freshdesk-gets-a-fresh-office it looks very decent. Your burn rate is also quite good.

How easy is it for a non indian to start a company in India?
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Safari 5 has the same issue as chrome
Actually, FF does not support SNI on Windows XP. The OP is correct, at least, last time I checked this out (I made an edit to the SNI page on Wikipedia years ago regarding this).

FF however does NOT use the built-in Windows Certificate store, which makes it very painful to use in environments where trust relationships need to exist, but built automatically.
This comment does not seem legitimate. There's nothing in it that would imply special knowledge of AWS or EBS.
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Solid, goes to show the power of the jQuery UI theming framework. This uses even less images and more CSS3 than the last CSS3 implementation of Aristo, which wasn't built for jQuery UI:

http://dtrejo.github.com/aristo/

Specifically, this one uses inner shadows to generate things like the slider bars without background-image, and most everything else is CSS3 gradients.

The blog post calls jQuery UI's default themes goofy--I won't contest they look dated, but you can get from there to near-Aristo quality by 1) decreasing the border-radius in ThemeRoller to 3px or 2px 2) only using handsome gradient backgrounds and 3) adding some more CSS rules to just add some inner glow, box-shadow and text-shadow on the better browsers. In fact, ThemeRoller could be fairly easily updated to support such things from within the graphical designer.

For example, this app editor interface is pretty much all vanilla jQuery UI, with only the slightest of enhancements in a separate file so themes could potentially be swapped out underneath:

http://quickfuseapps.com/app/edit
I'd love to get some feedback about how I have addressed the "first-time bounce rate."

In an earlier draft of the site, users had to create an account before they could even cast a vote on the daily survey question.

Now, they can cast their vote -- and then they're asked to create an account, and I give them a concise explanation of why it's important that they create an account (correlations can only be made by tracking their responses to various survey questions over time).

Any suggestions on how I can address the "bounce" problem even more effectively?
I hadn't really noticed before, but USV has put together a really strong portfolio of companies. I'm usually somewhat skeptical of bringing on investors, but USV seems to be doing something right. http://www.usv.com/investments/
Ask HN: Interface Engineer Deciding Which System Language To Learn
I have focused the majority of my web development career on developing web interfaces with Javascript/CSS/HTML. I'm pretty comfortable on the command line in a Linux environment. Last night I started playing the AWS EC2 and I'm itching to start building a dynamic application. The last piece is picking a language, the problem, there are so many I don't know which one to invest my time in.

Right now I'm considering:

PHP
Python
Ruby on Rails
Node.js

Any insight is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
The increased durability based on snapshots is actually quite simple, and they explain it in various places: if one of the drives in Amazon's RAID fails, they need to bring up a new disk to replace it in the array. When they being up new disks they typically can do this instantaneously, because they really just dynamically page fault the drive from your latest snapshot. However, all dirty data since the last snapshot will have to be copied from the other drive(s). This is a window of time during which your array is exposed to unrecoverable read errors losing data. The less dirty data you have, the smaller this window of time.
My experience with the AWS RDS database product has been excellent.
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Large areas south of market.

liquefaction hazards for SF:
http://gmw.consrv.ca.gov/SHMP/download/pdf/ozn_sf.pdf
other PDFs:
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Does a Firefox equivalent exist?
How does delayed_job work? Does it just run as a daemon in the background?
Ask HN: Need a lawyer for my startup (and no, we don't want VC money) 
I'm currently working on a side project with a partner and we've reached a point where we feel we need to incorporate. Any recommendations for lawyers? I've searched all the threads and spoken with 4 different supposedly "startup" lawyers, but so far, every one of them is really only setup to incorporate us as a Delaware corp so that we can raise VC investment. We have no intentions of seeing outside funding and since we are in CA figured it would be easier and cheaper to setup as a CA corp.

Also, in my conversations with lawyers so far, they'll all charge a flat fee to incorporate. This fee ranges from $1800 to $5000, which will be our largest expense by a very wide margin. I'm sure many of the folks on this site have been in the same situation, so looking for any advice or recommendations.

Sorry for the "anon" user account, but since I'm in active discussions with lawyers that I've found through this site, didn't want to create an awkward situation.

Thanks!
..and still didn't end up with Chrome.
About the boring resumé: This one is tricky, please get feedback from people with experience in your field before sending out anything that has a flashy or idiosyncratic format.

What you want is a resumé that says YOU are interesting, not a resumé that is interesting. In that respect, a resumé with a boring format is a little like wearing khakis with a turtleneck to a job interview. Yes, your clothes look like everyone else, but the interviewers should remember you, not your vintage Sex Pistols tee shirt.

Ideally, the format is plain and easy to read, but you choose your words carefully to get the screener or interviewer excited about you. Active voice, listing accomplishments, and so on. So someone reading it thinks YOU are interesting and exciting. Like all writing, "A good resumé is like a windowpane." I am not an expert, so alternative perspectives are welcome!

p.s. My own development-oriented resumé isn't very exciting, but then again, neither am I:

http://reginald.braythwayt.com/RegBraithwaiteDev0311_en_US.p...
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Clickables:

http://www.mindwallet.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpAH7AGhIk
Reminds me of an old pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html
I've actually been learning more C# and F# for this very reason.
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That would probably be Damn Vulnerable Linux (http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=dvl).
I wouldn't bundle C and C++ in the same group in memory handling aspects. C++'s destructors and RAII make memory management rather easy (I actually think that it's easier than garbage collection, as I know with some certainty when some memory is allocated and freed. No need to trust some magical black box that GC is.
You can do a lot of the things you describe here with VPS (Virtual Private Servers). You get root access, you don't manage hardware, you often receive some virtualization benefits (images, snapshots). Does that count as "Cloud Computing"?
I like that the example page is using the Aristo jQuery UI theme, also on the front page right now.
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One word of caution--do not, I repeat do NOT, focus on price ("we are cheaper") as the main reason for people to use you. People who are "priced out" of other solutions still need to buy in to whatever you are doing, beyond price, or else you risk losing those customers to your competitors should your competitors offer a cheaper/simple plan.

You're off to a great start (I just signed up for the beta), but make sure you do the hard work of selecting your target customer ("who will we NOT serve?") and don't preach price--preach superior experiences.
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