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Yes, that's exactly so. Remember when there was a whole day of downtime for everyone in the colo in downtown SF?

Running things yourself is no guarantee of uptime.

The only real fix is to maintain fully redundant systems, which is extremely expensive. Otherwise, put up with downtime sometimes, because no other system will fully protect you.
Not true at all; wealth is not zero sum.

Additionally, there should never be caps on interest rate as long as the lenders are _forward_ about their effective rates. High risk people should always have to pay higher rates, otherwise no one would lend to them in the long-term.
I think this merely shows a difference of opinion about what "design" means in this context. I'm absolutely certain that pg does not mean merely "appearance" when he says "design".
One major problem with East Africa is the lack of a fibre pipe linking it to the rest of the world, although that is due in 2010.

It's possible to make a good living offering training services, cybercafes etc - but not call centres or offshore development yet.

And they don't call it Nairobbery for nothing...
PC-BSD does.
They were too busy covering female bloggers featured in Playboy.
I'm not here to debate history or politics.

My point is that Mein Kampf did not kill 50 million people; Hitler and his regime did. To argue causality between words and actions is to argue against free will of people, and therefore against personal responsibility.
Hmmmm have our paths crossed before, I do enjoy traveling and networking? Your passion and energy about my work is surprising!

I am no different then anyone in this forum. Just a regular guy with ideas who decided to startup from his room in Baltimore, MD.

As for our work ...There is a huge value in taking a 221 year old wake up device and injecting the Internet into it. Whether we wake up to social sounds(Happy Bday, get up meet me at gym) or intelligent sounds(wake up tornado, your plane is delayed (broadcast X is catching flight to X on network=social), it's Jane's Bday tomorrow (social)) our lives will be richer and safer! Maybe it seems that your friends can control the time you wake up... that is not the case! We are innovating the sound and waking you up during life threatening emergencies only!

If you are not interested personal wake up communication, that's cool!

Though since we responded we are curious as to who you are and have we spoken or met before offline?

Cheers,
Ryan
I think this image really says a lot about the challenges an entrepreneur there with an idea there faces:
http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/medium/wor...
There should be laws on the maximal interest rate!

There are; here's a google result that may be helpful:

http://www.lectlaw.com/files/ban02.htm
Y Combinator Pushes The Envelope
A small startup responds to Amazon's S3 outage
New Google Search Interface Looks More Useful
According to their debt calculator widget beside the article, if you have no debt, that's the same as 24% of families. So while "the average American" may have a lot of debt, a quarter of us have none at all. (However, I'm not sure if that number includes all debt, or just credit-card debt.)
It depends what you mean by 'desktop replacement' and 'everyman'... I'm a programmer, I use FreeBSD at home, and it's great for development. It's also pretty good for multimedia, for example I now much prefer Amarok to iTunes.

The only downside is that a few things are ridiculously difficult when (in my opinion) they shouldn't be, for example setting up printers.

I don't think the average 'man in the street' could install FreeBSD as a Windows replacement, but then they couldn't administer Windows properly either.
Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle
Hey guys, I've just launched my new site (mixturtle.com). It's a music search engine and player. It uses Ajax for the interface so you can search and play music simulataneously. Playlists are created automatically and you can access it by right click mouse. (thank you jQuery!) Any comments appreciated.

Thanks
Louis
S3 and SQS seemed to first go down around 9:00 am PDT, and its now 4:45 pm PDT, so about 7-8 hours... not too good. At least it happened to be a Sunday.
"My point is that Mein Kampf did not kill 50 million people; Hitler and his regime did."

Yes it did. And not totally correct.

Mein Kampf represented the essence of the Nazis just as America's Bill of Rights relates to the USA. So too this board has its rules and the influence of its founder.

Banning a text that left unchecked will lead to mass murder and untold suffering throughout generations shows a huge expression of free will, and a pretty good use of it, if you may. Writing it shows next to none but rather a purging of one's hate and malice, with this internal line of thought then ready to be spread to the minds of others.
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Well clearly the bonuses should be tied to the uptime of the particular system the employees/managers are responsible for.
"Banning a text that left unchecked will lead to mass murder and untold suffering throughout generations..."

This is where you're not listening to me: The text did not cause mass murder and untold suffering. People did that; books are just inanimate objects.
One of the better developers I've worked with was in Tunisia. He went to University in France, but was born, raised, and lived in Tunisia. He went on to start a company based around a web server he developed. It's seemingly still in business seven years later, so I guess he's doing OK. I think there's probably a lot of talent on the African continent going to waste due to the general mess many of the African nations are in--corruption, organized crime, and periodic revolution and genocide as core parts of a culture aren't particularly good for industry or education. International companies are slow to move into areas that are unstable. It seems like Kenya experienced a boom over the past few years, but then mostly lost it due to one crazy administration (GW has nothing on some of the African "presidents" of the past 30 years, when it comes to corruption and evil).
I agree, this article is terrible.

I do think quantum cryptography has a place, though, especially if they manage to demonstrate it in satellite-to-earth communications (which is what I assume this article is about, although I couldn't bring myself to do more than skim it). It's good for those folks who are (a) paranoid enough not to want their messages read even a hundred years after they are sent, and (b) are rich enough to buy a satellite. Which pretty much limits it to governments, I guess.
I might be able to help you when you do. I'm starting a startup to help startups to help startups to help startups.

That is, as soon as someone helps me by starting a startup to help startups to help startups to help startups to help startups.
The Joel Spolsky documentary http://www.projectaardvark.com/movie/ was pretty good. Not terribly exciting, but interesting.
Netflix-style Start-up Scans, Digitizes, and, if Needed, Shreds Your Files
because i have personal and financial responsibilities that prevent me from doing it.
http://rockstartup.com/ and it's just as embarrassing as it sounds.

Update: forgot to mention http://www.mojohd.com/mojoseries/startupjunkies/ which you can watch online if you're not one of the 53 people who get Mojo (I'm number 24, but I still have no idea when the show is on).
We're with you on this - the startup itself is tremendously important.

All the startups on Startuply have company profiles, where they can talk about their mission, team, work environment, etc., upload pictures of their office, import company and team blog feeds, and more.

Think we're headed in the right direction?
I would do that in exchange for some additional funding ;-)
Interview: IT consumerization and the future of higher ed
1) Yes!! We think so too.
2) Post your jobs on Startuply! We're happy to help - you can reach out at support AT startuply DOT com.
that's what I said. "Writing the memory leaks" is, after all, a lot harder in Java (or Python, or Ruby, or Lisp) than in C
Boingboing.net went down for me, though I had no problems with Amazon!
Great design and UI. The logo is awesome. The auto complete works very well(except just for artists, eh, not for song titles?).

It's a lot like Songza, except I like yours better. The white background is much superior to red, also your fonts are easier to read.

It also works very fast and have had good luck with finding good songs.

I like the ability to create playlists.

Occasionally the search would slow down on me.

Great job.

EDIT: Oh wow, just figured out you can save playlists. Very cool.
I hear you loud and clear. Look from a systemic viewpoint.

Texts in the hands of people can have a great power at influencing the behaviour of their readers. When the author and readers are strongly prone to certain thoughts and actions as a result of a particular book, then short of education, banning a text may be an effective thing to do to avert a particular reality from occurring that a text may propose.

The fact that books are inanimate objects makes censorship possible in this way, rather than putting someone in prison. Sometimes people lose their freewill and are drawn to books... and meglomaniacs.
so the analogy still works. AWS=electricity for startups. For restaurants the power does sometimes go out too. If it's life critical, like a hospital, I'm sure you'll be fully redundant.
Localization support to go into Rails 2.2
Suggestion: Create a favicon.ico
That turtle scares me. Otherwise, awesome.
Need a visual for pausing and playing. Looks and works well.
Damn that turtle is bad ass.
Looks good. I'm confused about how playlists work though - I can add songs to it, but how do I play it or view it? A killer feature that songza is missing is the ability to create and share a playlist without logging in.

edit: Another problem: since you are getting the music from remote sources, they can stick in HTTP authentication headers. I got hit with a few of those. Not sure if there is a practical technical solution to this though.

The auto source-finding works way better than songza's trial-and-error approach.
You can get rid of a lot of those buttons too. Have it be instant-on so you don't need a power button. Just snap the photo. Get rid of the zoom. You can move yourself in / out physically if you need to be closer. Forget the delete button too. Flash memory is expansive enough that you shouldn't have to worry about it on the hardware.

Make the camera have a shutter button, some simple way to view the pictures you have taken so far, and do all the rest in software in some sort of picasa/itunes-quality app.
I'm confused as to what I'm doing. I search for music, I add songs to my playlist, and then... what?
search works well.
Found 3 tracks for Sounds Like Chicken - my reference Obscure band.

but major FAIL in usage terms..
* I start saving out a playlist - then realise there's nowhere to play it.
* Normally I'd leave, but I figured I'd sign up.
* Signup worked fine - and then I clicked on My Playlists
* And I'd lost my playlist!

Love the design though.
Exactly. In .NET heap allocations are practically as fast as stack allocations, although of course there are other things you need to be aware of when using a compacting generational GC, such as avoiding medium-lived objects at all costs. .NET does also provide value-types that can be allocated on the stack, and you use them for reasons that are better than "heap allocations are slow".

I think the moral of the story is: to get the maximum performance out of your memory management system, you need to know how it works. This applies equally well to C++.
LinuxHater's just trying to point out some of the mad stuff we need to fix so that folks who don't want to learn to love the command line can learn to love linux too. Printers have been diabolical to set up in unix & linux forever! (PS: man-in-the-street can't administer any OS that's why they need all the help they can get)
I like the idea.

When you click [+] it would make sense for it to change to a [-] in case I want to remove it (right-clicking is not obvious).
The ability to pause a song and change the volume would also be nice.

You should add some kind of visual tutorial (but keep it simple) at the top of the page so new visitors know what to do.
Doesn't work for me (ff3, ubuntu). The next page and page numbers don't do anything. I have to hit reload, and then it moves to the next page. Very strange.
I have a vague idea what you mean by the 'inefficiencies'. I am wondering whether these would have manifested in the first place if IT had been given a more central role. It's a lot about motivation too, the 'central' people in a business are usually motivated by being shareholders as well as employees at the same time. If you treat IT as just another accountant they will find endless means and ways to drag their feet and just generally pursue their own interests which are generally opposed to that of the business. Being linked into the flow of information, i.e. high level senior management decisions, is important too for efficiency.
Needs a volume slider. Hate the turtle but thats just me.
I use FreeBSD on my desktop, and years of hardware problems has taught me to be very selective in the hardware that I buy.

For example, I only buy networked printers that support Postscript, such as many HP or Kyocera models. Then one line in /etc/printcap is all that is needed to be away and printing.

Similar story for networking devices, RAID cards, etc... you buy the ones you that are reputed to work well and avoid the others..
The generally accepted wisdom is that more OSS is developed, and thus available, on Linux than other platforms. Since you're challenging that, the burden of proof is on you.

I'm not the OP, but why not try listing the total amount of packages in macports, then listing the total amount in Ubuntu universe, and then deciding for yourself?
Melodramatic post. "Technology is cool."
looks awesome. two questions:
1) which technologies was used?
2) how do you handle high loads?
Great visual design. Throw together a "getting started" or a "features" page with screen shots of the functionality that the website offers.

In my opinion this is something that Wordpress does especially well: http://wordpress.com/features/
are you using the songza api? i tried a few searches, and its clear, while your search is good, theirs is much better.

great execution, but where's the differentiation with Songza, Seeqpod, Streamzy, et. al?
Second that. My email address is public and forwards to GMail, where the Google spam filter gives one false negative a week and I can't remember a false positive. Google has spam beat.
It's pretty good - one of the better music index services I've used. Others here have commented on a few small issues but overall it seems well executed.

However, is this really a viable business? I assume you intend it to be, based upon your description of it being a startup, but please correct me if I'm mistaken. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'm going to have to piss on your parade a little bit.

I have considered developing something similar to this in the past, but I've always stopped myself - simply because if it becomes any sort of success and is seen to be either (i) taking in revenues or (ii) encouraging others to develop similar services then the RIAA will give the slightest of gestures.. a wince of the lip perhaps.. to direct a battalion of lawyers to march upon your place of business and annihilate it with a bombardment of 4,000lb bombs stuffed with subpoenas and the internal organs from children and puppies.

Although many (including myself) argue that what you're doing is probably legal, it is not really open and shut - the RIAA would argue that you're encouraging and cooperating in the acts of copyright infringement. It's going to cost you a fortune to defend yourself.. and even if you manage to generate enough revenue to successfully defend yourself once, they will keep coming after you time and time again, from many different angles.

If the CoS can sue the IRS into submitting to its demands for tax exemption then the RIAA can shut down your little operation. The law can be cruel if you can't afford it.

If anybody else (with legal training) can enlighten me then I'd love to have my doubts assuaged.
2. Simplified browsing. There are a lot of cases where you'd trade some of the power of a web browser for greater simplicity. Grandparents and small children don't want the full web; they want to communicate and share pictures and look things up. What viable ideas lie undiscovered in the space between a digital photo frame and a computer running Firefox? If you built one now, who else would use it besides grandparents and small children?

We have built one! our website, samfind - http://samfind.com just launched and we fill the gap for those who are less technically savvy. we concentrate on making your homepage easy to navigate and create and give you access to the websites that you use. The web can just be too darn big sometimes - and you don't need it all - all the time.

We think those who are more technically savvy can get into samfind as well. We have built widgets and gadgets for the firefox set who would like to place their samfind homepage onto the start page of their choice.

sam
http://samfind.com
Africa has one class A IP address block.. the same is allocated just to MIT.
Search is a bit slow ATM, but selection seems good already. I didn't think I had to click 'Save Playlist' after clicking the pluses, maybe it would be better to auto-save the first one or create a default 'Untitled' and ask you to name it.

That was also totally not self-explanatory to a non-registered user, but it did keep the playlist selection after signing up which is good.

For the results, it would be cool to see the album and year, or if it's live a 'Live @ Foo Stadium' in the album spot and the year still shown.

Also wasn't 100% clear on how to play the track, and the 'Try next source' should look like a link, not like any other text.

Otherwise, pretty cool. Got it playin' in the background as I type :)
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It plays music for me.
One more thing (minor bug report): I selected a song in a 2nd search but it added one from my first search instead when I saved the playlist (I clicked songs from 2 searches for my first playlist).
How does this suit you:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=251821
Why hide the search request with Javascript? Since the URL is always http://mixturtle.com/, I can't easily send a link to a search to a friend.

It's great instant gratification to play songs on the search results page, but I can't then access the source. You don't give anything back to the music sources, so if you they find about you (like when you get big), they'll fight you.

Is this legal? Great application, but I can't help but feel that the RIAA will crush you if they find you.
While I'm at it, a few feature suggestions:

* Export playlist in standard format for external players.

* Need a way to share playlists with friends (sharethis.com or addthis.com?).

* Post playlist onto other sites (Facebook app for example).

* A way for artists to add themselves to the search.

* Continue playing current song in iframe while I'm searching for others (see thesixtyone.com for example).

Good luck!
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Exactly. Linux hater shows the things Linux apps need to fix so that Linux can become a desktop OS for mainstream people (beyond the limited eeePC-type environments), and that everyone else can get the hardware and app support they want as a result.

I love the site, and I suspect the people who react badly to it are those that don't actually know as much about the platform as the author does.
I am so sick of people mixing up C and C++ when making this argument.

I can think of thousands of reasons to use C. C is much like learning to drive a stickshift.

C++ is an utterly broken language. It's just an exercise in bad compiler errors, strange and inconsistent language constructs, and strange conventions and boilerplate you need to follow to produce correct code.
Could you provide details on what the project requirements were? I'm interested in doing a similar exercise.
You have funded one company that is helping to "fix the inbox", Xobni.
Bollocks. C++ is a way to achieve everything C does with a fraction of the code and greater safety.
Did anyone else slap their forehead and go why didn't I think of that? I've got an office full of paper...
Im pretty sure he drinks the kool-aid, he makes.
Hey Ben,

I wrote the post in question and I actually registered with Hacker News for the first time just to reply to you.

As far as your comment goes, I apologize in advance for being harsh, but get over yourself.

Being aloof might be cool in high school but if your over the age of 18 you’re old enough to realize that the world is too harsh to turn down any opportunity to be in awe of it. The reason I chose to share my observation is because it made me feel good about the world we live in and I thought it might make others feel the same way. Quite frankly, I wish more people would do the same and I wish you wouldn’t discourage them from doing so.

So yes, "Technology is cool" and we could all use as many reminders of that as we can get our hands on.
_Tons_ of computer systems courses are taught out of the same book from CMU: _Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective_.

You can search for "malloc lab" and find tons of copies of the assignment (with only the instructor names and course numbers changed), but here's one:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-f02/L6/mal...
Well the fact they're easily refuted shows how much i use windows in daily bases (almost 0%)

my guess (based on rumors) is that even though ms implements those security measures, she leaves some weaknesses open intentionally (sony rootkit came to mind)

actually i was thinking more about OpenBSD instead of OSX and clump them together as unix

but you haven't refuted my main point: if popularity plays a role THAT much, then why unix servers (more popular, more secure, more powerful, more damaging) are less compromised?
http://www.earthclassmail.com/ does a similar thing, but a bit more hardcore (your mail goes to them first). They are featured in a TV show called Startup Junkies on MoJo HD. http://www.mojohd.com/mojoseries/startupjunkies/

I like this method though, at least as a choice, since I can keep my address. I wouldn't be interested in joining until I can just return back the documents I want (most likely very few). Perhaps eschewing returns could get me another envelope to send stuff in?
Inessential, yes. But I'm pretty sure that there are cases where knowing Assembly makes you a better C programmer.

It lets you understand, for instance, why accessing the elements of an array in one order is faster than in another order. Or something. I don't know, because I don't know Assembly. :( But I'm pretty sure that if I did I might be a slightly better C/C++/Fortran programmer than I am.
Jobberbase are belong to us?

(What? It's not like any real discussion was happening in here.)
Not very good indeed, but interesting cameo by Jason Calacanis.
The playlist can be viewed with right-click mouse button. Just added that to the site text :)
My Gmail inbox would disagree with you.
I'm guessing you have javascript turned off? Otherwise the songs should just play instantly.
I tried it from explorer first it didn't work (search for avril lavigne), and it just showed the picture for loading. the same with firefox and then returned can't open file

am I doing something wrong?
This is great but with the RIAA suing 12 year olds and all, I'm pretty sure they'll shut you down for allowing me to listen to the beatles and metallica for free.

Awesome app though. It looks like a great starting point.
Why, oh why does such a site require Javascript?!

edit: I'm not against requiring Javascript for those parts of your website that absolutely, positively require it, but everything that can work without JS should gracefully degrade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y