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I firmly believe "the cloud" is a fad, unless for some reason you own and operate all the hardware yourself (ie. Google).

Like other technical fads, everyone will probably come back to servers they can reach out and touch when needed, sooner or later.
Well, depending on prevailing conditions, they might be more widely dispersed rather than contained within the special "echo chamber" that reddit has built for that purpose.
Please let us know if you find someone. If this post can't convince a technical cofounder to come on board, then no one else has a chance.
I commend the effort to teach statistics to python programmers, but I'd recommend interfacing with R for creating the figures. R will create beautiful figures by default; it can also handle sophisticated stats, should the need arise. The current figures are filled with unneeded inwards-facing ticks that often overlap with data, and have tick and axis labels of inconsistent font sizes. The negative numbers in the y-axis in Fig 2.3 and x-axis in Fig 4.6 and 7.1 don't display properly, and the presentation of the data in Fig 3.1 is too noisy to deliver a useful message.
No, it was that he had trouble getting a teaching post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Patent_office
Usability (in the sense of a product not frustrating the user's intentions) will always be key to getting good word-of-mouth advertising. Friends don't tell their friends to buy frustrating products or services. When I first started using Google for Web searching, way back before Google's IPO, I told all my friends about it, because it got me better results than the other search engines of the time.

After edit: And the reason I knew about Google way back then is that I checked my server logs for my personal website, and noticed a new search engine spider coming by to visit. As I began using Google, I discovered its usability, and soon began telling everyone I knew, tech-oriented or not, about it. That's viral marketing at its best.
OK, yeah. I don't know how MyWi works; if it forwards everything by hand, then it can definitely do that. If not, yeah, it's dependent on what the kernel can do.
No prior experience required. Just German Abitur [1].

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Interesting. When I think of fast paced environment, I think of a driven environment with lots of youthful energy that moves quickly.

Shameless self-promotion: My Chicago Startup Tap Me, (http://tap.me) is hiring. If this kind of work environment sounds appealing to you, my email address is in my HN profile.
Here's what I appreciated:

Both Fred and PG are willing to
a) admit mistakes and
b) be totally transparent about it and
c) publish that transaction for others to learn from put them BOTH in a class above and beyond traditional VCs.

Are you "other" guys listening out there? This is why YC is eating your lunch with new startups...
A great Pitch ! I know you state you are looking for a full time co-founder but if you ever need help with Social media fan generation, community management and digital PR please get in touch and i would love to contribute some hours (although probably only around 10-15 hours per month).

Best of luck !

Aman Kumra
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Sadly, my current client does have a strict IE6 policy in place. Big inertia in some industries (hospitals and pharmaceutical industry in this case).
Pete - Unspace did not make it onto my radar for whatever reason. So no I did not get turned down by you guys...yet, however I agree during my first call I was surprised by the "way things worked" the philosophy, the pricing, everything but after three shops started talking about the same principles and similar pricing structures you start to get the scope of the universe.

This is basically what I learned - pricing may vary by experience, expertise or balls.

Two person teams - 35 billable hours per week each. Project manager accounting for about 10% of billable time so 7 hours per week for PM.

Card sorting, user stories, prelim UX process typically takes about 3 full days and most development houses are happy to have you on site during that process.

For what I am talking about 12-16 weeks for an MVP with pricing that ranges from $7500 to $12,000 per week per developer.
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Mine is also non-medical. I'll email you as well, but I'll post a question here b/c maybe others may be interested: How did you go from sales/strategy to programming?
The fact that 'fast-paced' has negative connotations for older/wiser workers is irrelevant. They're targeting the same sort of 20-year-olds who all wanted to work for MS in the late 90s because they had free soda. The commenters criticizing this tactic seem oblivious to the fact that the companies using it don't want them.
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RAIDing together multiple EBS volumes feels like a massive hack to me. I can't help but wonder if this compounds the problem at Amazon's end. If EBS performance is a problem, Amazon need to fix it. For example, if some way of tying together multiple EBS volumes is a reasonable way of working around the problem, then why aren't Amazon providing "high performance" EBS volumes which do that under the hood?

If I were faced with EBS performance issues, I would see this as a big red flag, consider EBS unsuitable for the application and avoid it, rather than carrying on with such a workaround.
Especially when your employer watches your every move every second you're in their building. Cameras, remote desktops on every PC, services that track what files you open and when, keyloggers, et cetera. Not having enough work in such a paranoid environment where you get griped at for doing anything outside of your responsibilities or for not being in the building exactly eight hours a day can be a living hell.

But the opposite is true, too.
It's just marketing - on the converse, no one wants to sound slow...it associates with boredom. Fast-paced signals energy and excitement, but translates to over-worked and poor balance with the rest of your life.

When I hear this it reminds me of when engineers in interviews say "I work with the smartest people." Of course you do...who works with the 2nd smartest people? Who admits to working with average people? I'd like to know how you distinguish that in an ad/interview.
2011-2014.

Okay, looks like I've got three years.
I always assumed it was because women are lousy drivers and the stakes are much higher when you get behind the wheel of a plane... duck
Hmm, not yet. Good idea though, I'll see how I can track that better.
I'm using USB tethering (Proxoid), so I don't think the TTL issue applies to me.
This happens far too often. It's time to get a real merchant account...

A couple of useful links I found on here:

Use http://activemerchant.org for rails implementation of authorize gateway and http://feefighters.com to find and setup a merchant account (awesome service)
If they don't want the product, why would they care whether it gets opensourced?

Unless they're just removing a competitor, but if that's the case they could always violate the custom.
One other huge downside of raiding EBS volumes is you can't use EBS's snapshotting features as you cannot guarantee a perfect sync (you could use LVM yourself however).

Honestly, since EBS vols are supposedly not tied to a single disk, the raiding should be done on Amazon's end. That it isn't is telling.
Even if true, I don't think that comment is fair to the EBS team. It seems a likely reason for that behaviour is they don't have enough resource to work on and test (presumably) large changes to fix the underlying issue while also fixing the tickets which crop up. The tone of the comment seems to imply they're foolishly overlooking the obvious solution.
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I think start-ups needs to get physical in some ways. Way too much information, nowadays. While Facebook and RSS feeds me like food does, I get enough of it that I don't want to try the next app. There is too much apps and too much information.

By physical, I mean startups like Wake Mate. They make use of technology, the web, mobiles, your computer... but they give you something more than just virtual-information. Something physical is happening. There is an important added value here.
Getting right down to it
How it works:
http://blitzableiter.recurity.com/wiki/blitzableiter/Blitzab...
How heavily is this tied to Python?

Can a ruby/JS hacker with no python experience jump into this book?
I work in what I would call a fast-paced environment.

What I always took fast-paced to mean is that, as a startup who is trying to build a business we are constantly evolving our goals to develop the best product possible. This means making smart but quick decisions based on actionable data.

Whether that means adding new features, dropping ones that don't work, etc. thats what we are going to do.
Nod, I understand. At the risk of adding just a little more noise, a quick note: I initially ignored the comment, but then while reading other comments I started seeing the upvotes piling up, and frankly, it bothered me. I can't downvote, I can only comment, so that's what I did.
Or "drowsy?"
Why aren't more men florists?
Uh, yes, TTL would apply to USB tethering (if that is what they are looking for). TTL is part of IPv4 (it's called hop limit in IPv6) which is a couple levels up from the physical layer (in your case USB) in the OSI model. I mean, whether you use USB, or Ethernet, or WiFi, you're still just shuffling packets around.
I find that ticks aren't enough to aid in real problems, and I always turn on the the grid with 'grid(True)' in matplotlib. Also, the negative number problems must be some kind of anomaly; I've never seen that problem, and I've used several revisions of matplotlib every day for the past couple of years.
Google shows me that Twitter was founded nine months before Alex came on board. I've read plenty of his posts and presentations and I respect his technical abilities, but your "built Twitter" comment oversimplifies his involvement in the company's history.

His presentations do imply that he was the driving force behind the Scala adoption for their messaging queue, so that's arguably a must-have to reach Twitter's current scale.
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I’ve often wondered if there are any advantages/disadvantages to the differing electrical frequencies. Any electrical engineers able to enlighten me?
I think your comment has some (limited) merit - men are supposed to have better spatial reasoning which is pretty important when you're considering attitude and approach, etc., I imagine.
There was a serious, real need for Google. All other search engines before Google were pretty much porn/spam laden. It was too difficult to find anything.
> I firmly believe "the cloud" is a fad

You are wrong.

> everyone will probably come back to servers they can reach out and touch when needed, sooner or later.

No they won't, because most of us don't want to be managing hardware, ever.
I'm pretty sure you can make a fake Facebook profile, mark it as a test account, then use it to connect to things.

Test accounts can't interact with real Facebook users, but they can be used to log in to sites.
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but there are circumstances too sometimes... like meeting a deadline for a customer deliverable etc.
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+1

And they do provide a more or less generic fungible data product with the tethering plan. The price is $10/1GB data beyond the included data. It may be overpriced, a function of the scarcity of mobile bandwidth with current technologies and the lack of competition in this market in the US, but I find it much better than providers who only have an unlimited product combined with either insane overage charges or vague threats about cutting you off if you consume too much data.
I was :) I just hear the "a poor craftsman blames his tools" line often, but I'd bet you'd hear Michelangelo singing a different tune if his chisel hammer broke off at the handle and landed on his toe.
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Why shouldn't we? Serious question. Another example: business travelers howl and howl about the gauging we take from airlines. And yes, that pricing is genuinely annoying. But it also allows price-sensitive customers to travel for far less money.
Your numbers are way off base. "Among graduating 4-year undergraduate students who applied for federal student aid, 86.3% borrowed to pay for their education and the average cumulative debt was $24,651. (For just federal student loan debt, excluding PLUS Loans, the figures are 61.6% and $17,878."

Now, a small number of people get into huge amounts of debt but it's uncommon because normally it's irrational behavior. Going to a big name school is much like buying a Prada handbag there are upsides and a lot of social pressure to do so, but for most people it's simply a bad idea.

PS: The best case for Harvard is vary good, but so is buying a lottery ticket. Once you consider a wider range of outcomes and risk vs reward things shift. EX: Consider what happens if you don't like being a Doctor?
Love it. Although on the very last version, I would add some padding between the headers in the main content and the text, would make it a bit easier to read and look less bulky.

Great progression though, last one looks best by far.
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The cloud significantly lowers capital expenditure to get into an Internet-enabled business, which cultivates the very startup ecology that Y Combinator exists to leverage and support. Those teenagers who started the Facebook Pokemon game would have never had the resources to build a scalable solution with hardware that they own. (That is, unless Y Combinator paid a lot more money as part of participating. They might also be a bad example, because I remember that one of them had a successful sale...it's true for a lot of other ideas, so work with the example.) The cloud lowers the barrier of entry enough that good ideas can be explored and built, with very little financial risk to those getting into it.

This was the role of shared hosting in the past. Several years ago, everybody realized that having root is better. Now, instead of colocating two servers and negotiating transit and dealing with remote hands, you can spin up two Linodes for $40 and have enough power to build anything. Critical mass? Add three more. You're not waiting for a shipment of servers to the datacenter to handle a sudden load from a positive mention on HN.

Saying that the cloud is a fad and we should all own our gear does two things: (a) increases humanity's carbon footprint, since most organizations never utilize hardware to their full potential, and (b) guarantees that only those with significant capital to buy a fleet, a cage, and power will ever compete in the Internet space, which is where we were many years ago. It is very arguable that the cloud is progress, and everybody sitting on the sidelines calling it a "fad" is scared by it.

Jeremy Edberg of Reddit had a good comment later in that thread, to someone who paralleled the cloud to electricity generation:

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d...

What sucks is, my remarks really depend on what you define "cloud" as, which -- partially thanks to Microsoft television commercials -- is currently up in the air.
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My advice as a designer would be to increase the amount of whitespace. For example, I'd increase the padding on the white content area (#wrap) and footer from 10px to 20px.

The copy, calls-to-action and structure of the layout is all great otherwise.
Yes that's the one - I guess another remark is that your SEO needs work :)

For 2.50 you can get his yearly accounts from http://www.kvk.nl/handelsregister/zoekenframeset.asp?zk=0... - that should give you some insight into the amount of customers he has and how viable the market is.
I think the point is to learn statistics using an easier language than R, ugly figures be damned.
Out of curiosity, why do you need a grid? (I need very few ticks myself and almost never a grid. I've found that if the visual message isn't clear enough or needs a different quantitative analysis or display, I'll request the raw data.)
"The first is that power companies are regulated utility monopolies that have to respond to state governments."

This isn't entirely true/relevant.

The distribution network is regulated because (rightly) we don't want to have everyone running electric cables everywhere. In CT, you cannot choose your electricity distributor, but you can tell your electricity distributor who to buy your electricity from. (They call you up and tell you what their price per mwh is, and you can pick that company or a different one. You can also choose based on what source the energy is coming from solar/coal/nuclear etc.)

Similarly, radio bandwidth is regulated (auctioned to the highest bidder), because there are only so many frequencies available.

It would be very difficult to have a startup competing with ATT or Sprint, for example, because of the exorbitant cost of buying a chunk of spectrum to use (aside from hardware cost).

Maybe cell networks/bandwidth should be better regulated, based on a similar model to Connecticut's electricity, where the data is routed to a cell tower run by a local, government regulated monopoly, and then the actual internet connectivity is provided by different suppliers.

It seems that auctioning bandwidth has lead to monopolies that aren't really what we all want.
Cost-based pricing is symptomatic of commodity markets, like gypsum. Most everything that isn't a commodity is priced according to the market. Is the disagreement here that you think wireless Internet is gypsum, and I think it's canned tomatoes?

Competition and cost-based pricing are entirely orthogonal issues. There is intense competition in the market for (say) beer, but it takes the form of a marketing dogfight of changing product attributes and highlighting instead of race-to-the-bottom pricing.
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In Russia we do the same, but the important distinction is that generally SLAs differ too. Companies require (and expect) better level of service and tech support, so they pay more. Also, from what I've heard — comparing to natural persons — companies cause a bit more work for accounting departments.

Note: I don't know about telephony (they do charge more, but I don't know about their SLAs), but it is true for ISPs (I work for one as a programmer).
Its nice to call out to investors that they should try to stay in touch with their companies, but this can be a good bit to ask for when an investor has 10's to 100's of companies and has various responsibilities for each. I'd push the entrepreneurs that if you need some advice or input on something ask for it, versus hoping the investor responds with great insight just based on an update.
This is totally true, but at the same time, given the success and scale of AWS, it's insane that they would not have the resources they need.
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"Clustering For Reliability assumes failures are uncorrelated in time"
MySQL does not fare any better on a single EBS volume. The issues with EBS are systematic. Similarly you have to raid several volumes together to see decent performance, and this is the recommended AWS solution.
hehe, I didn't even notice you were the submitter on this!

Anyway, Visual Website Optimiser has always struck me as a really great product. I keep pushing to use A/B testing for our stuff work, it's where the future is!
It's hard for me to take too seriously the idea that the wireless market is locked up given that its key players didn't exist 10 years ago; what's deceptive about it is, they were rolled up into decades-old brands, and so it seems like "Ma Bell AT&T" set the market for wireless. That's not what happened.

It's also unclear to me how much this has to do with "monopoly power" and how much it is simply the case that mass Internet access is an extremely capital intensive business that will always be led by large companies.
I found the MySQL vs PostgreSQL page very helpful:

http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL
We just did a test transaction on our account with Payflow Pro and everything seemed to work fine. Wondering if it is fixed and we just missed some transactions earlier in the day.

Or maybe we are just lucky and did not get affected?
The cloud's real advantage is the ability to build out fast, but it is not cost. It is cheaper to build it yourself and run it yourself if you know exactly what you need, and have time to do so. If you don't, the cloud is cheaper.

So you're right that the cloud is great for startups. It is not so great for established stuff.
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"achieving 60% of the impossible is better than 100% of the ordinary"

A great quote!
Python examples are embedded in the text, explaining what is being done. If you're familiar with Ruby, you should be able to do an on-the-fly mapping. But, it's easy to see for yourself: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkstats/thinkstats.pdf
Take an industry which has a geeky enthusiast appeal very similar to that of IT. Then add in huge barriers to entry which make it very difficult for those not wholly committed to a long term career as a pilot to be considered.
Underdiscussed:

The amateur does the job when and how he sees fit.
The professional does the job when and how the client requires.

Passion may exist in either. What one does when there is not passion makes the difference.
Quick Revenue Idea:

Make a website (IE6 Compatible, of course) that explains in tedious detail all the reasons a corporation should upgrade. There are real security issues that they should care about. Put this in the form of a white paper, but you get to put a few ads for corporate IT stuff in the corner.

Have a prominent "mail this to my IT administrator" link, that people can click, which mails a link to the page to an email address provided by the user. Use a mailto: link, so the email comes from inside the network, as they're going to get a lot of these, and we don't want them blocking them.

In the footer, have a link to your "developer page" with the text, "Help us educate corporate IT to IE6 security risks". On that developer page, have some javascript that people can cut and paste into their websites that senses when a browser is IE6, and if so, puts up a warning box with a link to the white paper page.

Now you have a potentially viral spread. You have an easy way for developers to alert their users to their browsers vulnerabilities, and do it in a way that leads those users on a path that might actually actuate change, which is, alerting their IT people. When it gets to the IT people, you have made a strong technical case that they can use to go to their bosses and get things done.

Plus, you might get a few clicks from IT guys on your ads to pay for your server space.
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I don't think so, it looks like that might have to be done entirely via the programming API, and you need an application registered to do so (or the access token of another application) because it only works on one application: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/test_users/
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