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I guess it depends on whether Dropbox think they could implement the same storage service cheaper themselves. S3 actually offers a lot. They have at least four nines availability (and I think you can pay for more), a ridiculously high durability figure, plus geographic distribution and replication.

Developing that for yourself would be very expensive, I imagine. I'd actually be quite surprised if Dropbox went through the hassle of setting this all up. It would have to be a significant difference in cost to justify the effort.
The perverse thing about terms forbidding deep linking into a website is that it is so easy to prevent deep linking by technical means. (In fact, it's so easy that even mentioning it seems like a cliche.) On each HTTP request, examine the Referer: header and, if you don't like it, redirect to your homepage. Is there any reason why companies like Ryanair don't just do this?
I think Amazon is giving us another way do to it, not the best or only way to do it. I would probably put 5GB of my favorite music to listen to when I don't happen to have my iPod around...and continue to sync files on Dropbox.
Some say that playing ball with the oligarchs can provide substantial access to capital. Interesting that they have enjoyed unprecedented private investment and valuations.
Man, if there were some way to get Marks and Spencer cereals affordably in the US, I'd be a weekly subscriber.
facebook also knows as much as your 'friends' choose to tell it about you unless you're vigilant and remove their posts to your wall or untag yourself and so forth.
Is there a followup talk on how to take it back down to one user? :)
Ask HN: Do you think Amazon Cloud Drive is in competition with Dropbox?
Do you see these as competing services and if so, in what ways?
I think this article by Stu might explain his motivation behind the site a bit better: http://stugreen.com/blog/2011/01/running-a-startup-outside-t...

Being outside a major tech community myself, I can see the value of the site (if it's like Forrst).
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You have anything to substantiate this claim?

Just curious and intrigued.
Is Gaddafi on Facebook?
Many angels do not require a business plan and other sources (such as customers) are even easier to get money from. Few angel investors will invest in a business that has a plan and nothing else to show.

JFDI Britain is about taking the first steps. It's not focused on technology businesses. It's not about "build it and they will come". It's about getting on with creating something of value, making sure it is of value and making money from it. Once you have done that and can repeat it you have a business and you can chose to grow it however you like.

There are very few businesses that need a significant amount of cash to start but many that need it to grow.

JFDI is the proof.
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Everyone always asks this, but compression is most cleanly handled by your web server with Content-encoding: gzip, no? Why do we need to compress and minify markup and script files one at a time by hand?
A national internet ID is ahead of our time. Until our grandparents are ready to commit to such a thing, (maybe even the 40+ generation) something like it wont happen.
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Currently limited to a web interface and requiring the use of flash. No option for a basic uploader like Dropbox?
I assume desktop clients will eventually arrive along with smartphone apps.

No doubt Amazon has the resources to compete with Dropbox. Can Dropbox fight back against such a Behemoth? Customer loyalty aside, what can Dropbox do to stay ahead of Amazon?

Can't wait to see how far this evolves.
Those tips are obviously worthwhile, but doesn't address massive scale for heavily dynamic sites. These should definitely be at the beginning of any optimization checklist for sure.

One thing I found interesting was his remark this:

Google Analytics failed to detect the surge: page load time was so high that visitors were closing the page before analytics could load.

He then remarks that it took Analytics 15 hours to detect the spike, but isn't that true of all Analytics instances? I'm not sure if the author is mistaking Google Analytics' delayed reporting as a fault or if I'm missing something.
Nice post. It would be nice to read a comparative between apache and nginx on these cases.
I feel like I'm watching what would be R&D for the movie Batteries Not Included if it were being made now.

All joking aside, I love these things. Logistically, is there any hope of a solar panel attachment to keep them alive longer?
It's a blacklist, which inherently have their issues. Remember, this is Ryanair, that would mean their steward(esse)s have yet another task to do on their cell phones while supervising the boarding of 3 simultaneous flights.
Is that true though? If you have XSS vulnerabilities on your website, someone can lift the CC info right from the form before posting of any data happens. I am not sure whether PCI talks about this but I sure would be worried about this.
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So you're saying that you think better when you're hungry?

Makes sense. Right? Your body wants to survive so it allows the brain to function a little better so you can find some food.

Kinda reminds me of something I used to hear BASE jumpers saying back in the 90's: "life gets real simple three seconds to impact".
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I like this... But I would like ti more if there is a webdav address to access the storage from my iPad. I know that there are other solutions, but 5GB free...

Does anybody knows how to access Amazon Cloud Drive using Webdab?
What if we covered our houses with them? Instantly I'm dreaming of lush, green cities, covered with the stuff :)
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Gardai seek to block websites without legislation or oversight
Isn't that kind of like winning a race to give money to a panhandler? Especially if the two people you think you're racing aren't even trying? We've had dozens (I assume - I've only tried 2 or 3 myself) of startups in this space.
The comments for this post might prove problematic for the HN database.
yeah! and i've heard this as like a survival thing... which makes sense right? .. you're needing to be razored up for your next kill ( running on all 8 cylinders so to speak )

base jumping = win.
According to Wikipedia, the WSJ and USA Today beat the NYT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unite...

Though if that excludes online views, the NYT may indeed be #1 (quite possibly their paywall will nuke this, however).
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Part of the reason this works so well is that it's inside. Outside, where you have good sunlight, you have wind that you have to compensate for.
Re: solar panels - nope, they are not powerful enough... only maybe if these things will hibernate in the sun for long stretches of time between short bursts of activity.

I'm not sure those things are even electic-powered. From what I have heard from modelling, if you want your flying thing to carry any useful load (like, camera and radio) and last over 10 minutes, it is bound to have combustion engine.
Note that these information agencies that you refer to are in competition. That makes manipulating Zuckerburg a lot more difficult, doesn't it?

Also, his '26 year old mind' is not alone. He's not the only guy that wants to support his ideals.

I'm not saying that he can resist manipulation, but I don't think it's as easy as the parent of my comment makes it seem at all. If anything, it's a war for Zuck; it's not a war on Zuck.

For example, the US and say, North Korea are not going to be working together for control of Zuckerburg; they're going to be competing for it.
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Great article, but the does the layout and concept of that blog seem similar to another recent startup blog?
Make it a requirement for social security payments. Game over.
Companies used to have nightmares of Google releasing a competitive product. But with regard to GOOG's track record of unsuccessful attempts in the Social and Location markets, it looks like startups don't need to worry that much. I wonder how Square and the newly announced Stripe will stand up to this.
Tripoli sure was.
No matter how stupid or ludicrous your idea is, there will always be someone that will want to buy it. (Now a market to support it... that's a whole 'nother thing.)
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Although I agree that public education is a disaster, your conclusion doesn't seem justified here. That home schooled children do better could also be affected by other factors such as that the teachers of home schooled children are smarter/value education more/have better disciplined kids/have smaller class size/etc.
I don't like the sniffy tone in the conclusion:

> But it’s important to note what these napkin projects/test are not. They are not a company, nor are they are a startup. Running them doesn’t make you a founder. And while they are entrepreneurial experiments, until you actually commit to them by choosing one idea, quitting your day job and committing yourself 24/7 it’s not clear that the word “founder or entrepreneur” even applies.

I think he's right, but it comes across as a bit uncharitable somehow; pointing out the obvious, I guess. I suppose it'd be like a professional cyclist writing about how someone like myself is "merely an amateur". True, but we both know it, and it's not really necessary to point it out unless you feel like demeaning someone.

You could phrase the thing in a different way to convey the same message:

"I think it's great that we live in a time when so many people can experiment so easily, and look forward to some of these experiments blossoming into full-on startups, which I believe happens at the point when the founders quit their day jobs to work on them full-time".

Or something to that effect.
They do. Its just like signing a lease which indicates "no pets allowed" when everyone and their mother in the building has one, and the landlord knows. Its because if the clause is not in there and your dog is howling all night long they can do nothing. They may want content farms not linking, or perhaps other unknown super secret spy stuff?
Javascript compressors can intelligently remove blocks that general purpose stream compressors can't, like dead code or comments. Also because they understand the AST they can move code around to a limited extent to make the final output shorter.
Dropbox will transparently sync a folder on your computer which makes it as integrated with the OS as your local file system. How much more integration do you need? Are there some system calls that the Darwin kernel could implement to make the integration tighter?
These tips are for people getting slashdotted, not people building the next Google. Your average blog simply isn't "heavily dynamic", and if you're building Google/Facebook/... there are better resources.

Google Analytics is Javascript-based and thus vulnerable to people closing the page before it loads. It's actually near-realtime, but just doesn't work if you're having this problem. I'd imagine watching free Apache instances/threads, outgoing bandwidth or probably even the Apache logs would be more useful.
While we're at it, Dustin Curtis should suggest a site re-design for Ryanair and blog about it to feel the full effect. ;)

A bit off-topic, but I just visited American Airlines site and realized that they have updated it. In reference to http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/30/home-schooli...

"Five areas of academic pursuit were measured. In reading, the average home-schooler scored at the 89th percentile; language, 84th percentile; math, 84th percentile; science, 86th percentile; and social studies, 84th percentile. In the core studies (reading, language and math), the average home-schooler scored at the 88th percentile.

The average public school student taking these standardized tests scored at the 50th percentile in each subject area."

If you look at results from alternative schools like Montessori schools, you usually find similar results. It's not magic -- I enjoyed school but recognize in retrospect that it was an awful experience in many ways that instilled bad habits.
>It is a fallacy to say that we cannot improve living conditions for the entire human populace without increasing power consumption. They are not conflicting goals.

Huh? How do you propose increasing standard of living for 70% of worlds population that currently uses way less than you or me or our US cousins? ( Total Energy consumption per capita: US 87KWh, EU 40KWh, China 18KWh, India 6KWh, The World Average=6.6KWh). Unless you try to argue that standard of living has nothing to do with energy consumption or even that 3rd world people have higher standard of living than we do?

>It is a fallacy to say that the standard of living must devolve for all those in the western world to the 1950s era levels, to support improvement for the other 80% of the human populace.

It is? If we freeze the quota of produced energy - then we have turned energy market into a zero sum market. Thus any increase of consumption by one party is counterbalanced by decrease of another. The 50's and 80% is indeed wrong - since I just used them as arbitrary placeholders. Please don't expect me to go on a 10year research, just due to an internet argument.

>You are drawing conclusions based on that fallacy to claim that I am dishonest and lacking in perspective. It is a fallacy to claim any percentage forfeit is necessary to improve living conditions.

You haven't provided a single proof of your claims. You just keep spinning your make-believe story. Also I didn't say you're dishonest AND lacking in perspective. I said that you are either - but you might as well be both.

>You may believe that it is painless to find additional power sources, but the power sources you advocate have already been found and demonstrated as not painless.

Its your delusion that there are painless or negative side effect free power sources. Those used currently are used since in fact they (due to various reasons) ARE the LEAST painful of known options. Also for nuclear power we by now know very well what the negative side effects are (under what circumstances).

What you're lobbying for has only plans - like some very smart people predicted we would be on Mars in 40 years. I certainly believe that all solar, wind, water and trees society is possible. But we need to get by until we get there.

Regarding my belief regarding energy consumption of living beings... The whole universe is trying to equalize its energy potentials (the entropy) and life is just one of mechanisms that helps to dissipate them. So any life at all, now matter how green and how much it tries to not eat animals (instead eating imported papayas?) it will contribute to the untimely thermic death of the universe.
Ryanair probably hates airline deal sites.
I'd hope so.

50 years ago a gallon of gas cost $0.27, the average yearly salary was just over $5,000 and Ringo hadn't yet joined the Beatles.

50 years is a long time. And so is 40 :)
Do we know the bitrate of the stream?
The name "fowndr" makes you look cheap. Why? Because the domain name was no doubt unregistered. Basically it looks like you went looking for a domain name that you could get for $10 for a year;

This reminds me of the old argument that you need to wear a suit when demo-ing your app. If you show up in khakis and a polo shirt, people might think you're too cheap to buy a suit. Sure, we know that the suit has nothing to do with your app or your business, but still we care about it. It's a little like being a peacock. No, these feathers don't help me catch more food, but carrying them around must prove that I'm the Alpha cock.

Interesting in a way: It's easier and cheaper than ever to launch new businesses, so now that simply getting the code running no longer costs $1,000,000, we ask founders to spend their money on something else just to prove that they're spending money!
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Interesting. Do you use only creative-commons-licensed material or do the terms of Flickr's "copyright" license actually allow this use?

It seems to me that embedding an image on another site, even with a copyright notice, would be reproducing the image and not allowed under the normal terms of a copyright license.

Sorry to be a party pooper, but just ignoring legal issues around reproducing other people's content (some of whom make a living from selling it) isn't going to make it go away.

Edit: to answer my own question, the images are only Creative Commons attribution-licensed photos. From the 'about' page:

> The photos are pulled from flickr using its search api, searching only creative commons material, and watermarking them with the name of the author, to be in accordance with the creative commons licences, which all require attribution
Is there another group doing this with LLVM?
It's becoming clear that the main competitor for iPad will come from Amazon. Apple will not be beat by a competitor on look and feel. Anyone who wants to compete with them will need to find their own area of strength. Amazon's strength is its years of experience with Amazon Web Services.
As a BrE speaker, I do use "ise", but "ize" is not unknown, especially in science (I believe that the British published journal Nature has it as their house style). Recently I think it has been declining as it has been identified as "the american version".
It should be by 2020.
Is it possible to use this with haml-js or jade to render client side templates? As in I want folder of .haml files and then be able to do var newView = require("templates/new");
Because these companies don't really want to forbid deep-linking, but establish some kind of recourse (regardless of whether it is legally enforceable, or just scary and threatening) against anyone who might offend them in some way.
Right to me personally I think maintaining a version of an external project is the less ideal of the two. I personally think Monkey Patching is a very elegant solution to modifying 3rd party code that should be treated like a black box. It keeps third party code and internal code cleanly separated and if the maintainers then patch their code it becomes very easy to go in and pull your monkey patches out when the problem has been addressed. Managing the versioning dependencies for an entire project just to keep a patch set seems like overkill to me when generally you only need to modify a few lines of code in an entire project.

For example, my company is working on a huge web project for IBM right now, it is a Javascript based front end, in which we use Dojo as the toolkit. It would be safe to say that there are more lines of Javascript code than Gmail has in this project and yet our Monkey Patch files probably consist of less than 20 lines of code. It would be overkill to maintain a branch of Dojo for those 20 lines of code, especially given the fact that most of the patches are to customize Dojo to do things the way we want it too and not true bugs. So they have no hope of making it back into Dojo proper. With Monkey Patching we just maintain our own Monkey Patch files along with our code base. We just upgraded the project from 1.5 to 1.6 which if we would have been maintaining our own version, it would not have been a 30 minute process.

That being said, if a developer is Monkey Patching his own or internal code, it should serve as a red flag that they may be doing something wrong.
Perhaps it's true that such projects aren't companies, but so what? It doesn't make them of any less value. In my opinion, producing something that people love and use is valuable whether it's done as a company or a side-project.
HN is growing, and with growth comes a dilution of focus. Inevitably there will be subsets of the community who feel their needs aren't being met on HN.

For example, if HN has 99 employees for every one founder, what do you think will happen if you try to discuss how to set up options and vesting such that in a liquidity event, the employees are still bound to the company and won't quit when they discover they have new bosses?

You aren't going to get the same conversation as if you just discuss the question with other founders. I'm not saying the HN discussion will be less valuable, but can we agree that some conversations will be different?
While the reason Google Analytics failed at this has already been explained, GA Ecommerce tracking is near real-time, but not error corrected. Data in other parts can take several hours to show up, Google says to wait 24 hours for data to be complete and error corrected.

Omniture SiteCatalyst is near-real time. I don't know if they do some error correction later like GA does for Ecommerce data.
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I think this is a tired argument. It's a startup if it has "limited operations history". You are a founder if you started it.

What if somebody jots down an idea on a napkin, spends the next few months of nights and weekends creating a first version, gets ramen profitable, quits their day job, hires a dozen workers, and sells to Google for $20 million.

Looking back, was it not a startup until they quit their day job? Of course not, it was a startup the day they put pen to napkin and started coding.

Not saying there aren't a ton of poorly run startups led by founders who aren't truly committed to them. But let them call themselves and their "projects" whatever they want.
I've done this on a project I worked on recently, so I'll take a moment to explain why I think this is a valid, and safer strategy than the alternative.

In said project we had a number of modifications to libraries to support some additional desired functionality. The developers at the time simply forked the library and wrote patches on top of the mainline branch. We found this significantly impeded our ability to upgrade, or take advantage of changes, down the line, as well as to track upstream's HEAD. When one forks, branches, and then patches on the branch, these problems are easily skirted. In addition, it's easy to submit your patches for integration into upstream.

In the end the gain is flexibility. One cannot discount the value of flexibility.
"This reminds me of the old argument that you need to wear a suit when demo-ing your app. If you show up in khakis and a polo shirt, people might think you're too cheap to buy a suit."

Weird analogy - I don't see it. I don't know anyone who would think that way in 2011, particularly if we're talking about founders, and double-particularly if we're talking about founders making a pitch.

I agree that "fowndr" is goofy but, to me, it's goofy in a way that might appeal to 15 and 16yos. Not my thing but I don't think it's meant to be so no problem.
What's my recipe for schooling, you ask?

1. Teach kid to read
2. Show him internet
3. Kick him out of house