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What happens when Heroku bans requests coming in from your IP address?

I actually think it would be reasonable and justifiable for them to do it too, given that you are preventing a revenue aspect of their business model.

Heroku's pricing has always seemed VERY fair and generous to me - it costs them money to provide the service even at the free tier but rather than charging by cost lineally they charge based on value. If you need to start using Workers then you probably are deriving a larger degree of value and so it makes sense for them to charge for that.

Their model seems fair to me, and is what gives them the ability to offer the free tier.

I'm all for disrupting big businesses, and yes, Heroku is now part of SalesForce. But their pricing is what I call "nice guy" pricing and as a community we should be supporting that, not undermining it.
We're talking about the cache, right? The index, or more likely indices, are optimized data structures used to search the cache. I doubt Google could share those without revealing too much about their ranking algorithm.

Letting sites inject into the cache is an interesting idea, but Google will still have to spider periodically to ensure accuracy. Inevitably, a large number of sites will just screw it up, because the internet is mostly made of fail. This would leave Google with only bad options: If they delist all the sites to punish them, they leave a significant hole in their dataset. But if they don't punish them and just silently fix it by spidering, there is no longer any threat to keep the black hat SEOs in check. Either way, it would cause an explosion in support requirements and Google is apparently already terrible at that.
My apologies.

If I've assumed at least one thing correctly and by "it" you mean producers and studio heads artificially inflating budgets in order to ultimately line their own pockets and the pockets of their friends, I would find it hard to believe that there has been any point in the entertainment industry's history when that hasn't been prevalent.

As to the "why," what, you don't like money? Here, have some more money, now now do you like it? Rinse, repeat.

I'll venture that we're doing the debugging right now, as we discuss this matter. The debugging occurs every time a 14 year old reads about these issues and wonders how the hell it could be possible, let alone legal, for these entities to behave so miserably.

I'll indicate once more that I believe the root cause of this excess lies in these unsustainable institutions and the selfish people who lead them. Leave art to the artists, we'll/they'll figure out how to make money doing it, I'm sure. If you're a failed lawyer or a failed artist or just a plain-vanilla opportunist and you want to run a commodity business, sell canned peaches. Or literally anything else in the world where there's an economic incentive tied to an actual physical object, anywhere but your own mind.
I would build a ponzi scheme online...lol

Okay now for reality. Seriously you cannot find a brilliant idea? Just take someone elses and execute better. Seriously ideas are worthless and execution is king.
It probably depends, but I'll add my 2 cents. Never done 200 hours of either in a month (really? 200 hours? that's insane), but after I went on my Dexter marathon, at least I'd seen Dexter. I still reference it all the time. The hours I spent on WoW were... well, I don't remember. That's probably your point.
A VC that explicitly tried to maximize the the proportion of their investments that made positive returns could probably do a bit better on that percentage, though. They currently try to maximize the overall total return, which isn't the same goal, and probably leads to them making bets that they know are low-probability (but which have high potential return; the "home-runs" investing strategy).
Stay away from Comic Sans. Too colorful (to the point of being amateurish). I wouldn't say I'm impressed.
Dear geteme,

Your account is 25 days old. You may wish to read

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

for guidelines as to what is and is not considered on-topic. Hint: this ain't.
Nice, I knew it made too much sense not to have already been done in some form. I wonder if Google and Bing respect it.
Firefox was definitely my favorite browser until Chrome came out.
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I still use Mozilla. It's cool. If you're not a Mozilla fan how about Safari?
I ditched Firefox for Camino three years ago and then upgraded to Chrome when I got a new MBP two months ago. I'll never switch back from Chrome.

Firefox on the Mac is brutally slow at times for me and the interface doesn't look nearly as nice as Chrome. I like software that gets outta my way and lets me work effectively. The developer tools in Chrome are way better than Firebug IMO anyway so no hangup for me there.
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what makes you keep using it? What do you like and what do you hate?
Perfect distinction between "satisfaction" and "happiness".

I think both are important. Satisfaction is typically the result of accomplishment. Accomplishments give us confidence. Confidence (an amazing subject) gives us the strength to mold and shape our lives into things we want.

As an MMA'ist, you know better than probably anyone here the role that confidence has in a fight. If you are fighting someone new to the ring, you've probably had that sense where you can feel yourself dominating him before that first bell ever rings... and he probably feels it too.

I think Happiness plays an important role in exciting us out of bed in the morning; giving us a spring in our step and helping us chase things that eventually bring us satisfaction.

Happiness recharges our willpower (re: this article) and that helps us move forward towards things that bring us satisfaction and the circle feeds on itself.

My limited understanding of this, right now, is something like:

Happiness > Accomplishment > Satisfaction > Confidence (loop)

Without the little things in life that make you happy, you can still accomplish things, but you will eventually run out of gas or do it begrudgingly and the satisfaction won't come.

From what you describe, I wonder if that was what was going on. You continued to do things that you felt brought you satisfaction (fighting) and would time again get to the precipice of "Accomplishment" and stop, so the opponent would take the win and you would fall back a rung in the ladder and feel crappy and feed this cycle of self doubt.

Was the fighting making you happy or was that missing from the equation and you liked it for other reasons? (stress relief, toughness, etc)

This isn't at all as hard as MMA, but I do something identical to this with tennis. When I play regularly I'm pretty good; strong serve, good returns, fast balls, big topspin, etc.

The thing that frustrated me to the point of stopping playing tennis was that no matter HOW GOOD OR BAD the opponent I played was, I would always lose to them.

It was so obviously a mental handicap that it stunned me into a silent rage when I played.

I could play a 4.5 and hang in with them one day, getting to 3 sets and eventually losing. Then play a 3.0 the next day, go to 3 sets and lose to them.

I don't know if it was a lack of accomplishment on the court such that I could never push forward in the circle of confidence, but I realized it wasn't making me happy. So I stopped.

Much like you said, I always wonder if I just "gave up" -- but I really do subscribe to the "Guilt is bullshit" thought process, so I don't dwell on it. I just figure "Hey, if some day I decide to get back on the court, I'll do it. End of story."

If some day you decide Featherweight is all you want, you'll get back in that ring and do it and the whole will-he/won't-he back and forth in your head will be irrelevant because you will have made up your mind THIS is what you are doing and THIS is what is going to happen.

Sorry if that was preachy... the similarity between what you said an my own fumblings with sports was uncanny so I had a lot to say on the subject ;)
If PBS decided to ask for donations through some kickstarter like site (or through kickstarter) I'd be more than happy to donate some money. And, mind you, I don't even live in the US - I would probably have to download their programming.
My point was that in most cases, a company couldn't care less what someone they've never heard of emails then and proudly declares that that company has lost their business forever.

Now, this might be a difference. If you're a current or previous customer, it might warrant a reply e-mail. If you're in charge of large purchasing decisions, you might get a personal phone call. If you're Paul Graham, you might actually get a CEO to respond to you.

You should absolutely vote with your wallet, you are entirely within your rights to e-mail them and complain, but I think that it's like spitting into a swimming pool - unless a lot of people do it*, change will not happen.

Or unless you're, say, King Kong. I assume you are not.
Nice stories of 4 amazing homeless people saved by the internet
Amazon taped all of our talks, but I don't think they're for external distribution because Amazon engineers were asking questions involving internal information.
The re-compressing isn't quite accurate as it implies loss of information whereas the process we are discussing can add or remove information.
can you please elaborate on what made you switch?
Exchange can also enforce a shorter time limit before the phone auto-locks. One of the reasons I was glad to dump the Exchange account from my phone when a client project ended.
Designmoo(we own 365psd) is planning to eventually roll out a code based resource site but we probably won't get to it for a few more months. If you don't find anything by then, check back with us.
Almost 10 years ago I worked for a digital imaging company called ACD Systems and we had a major product launch of ACDSee. We were using Akamai as a CDN and we wanted to know the stats about who was downloading.

Think about this for a second.. Akamai is massive with 10,000+ global servers handling massive amounts of traffic. It might sound simple to fetch one users logs but how do you make this simple for the user. Akamai also had a proprietary log format. To their credit we had a couple conference calls and we worked with their engineers to find a solution. They were a great company.

You don't see logs being offered because it is a major pain in the ass to compile these logs from many servers and reduce them for a specific user.
If you upload it to my server I will help you seed it from two locations. Email me for details.
I am sure the next ones will not be as hard to get rid of.
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Weekend Hack: Dead Simple A/B Polling - kind of Facemash for anything
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I get link expired errors often too but that is an issue of scale and server reliability rather than usability don't you think?
I don't think people rate solely by how pleasant the experience was. The actual results do matter. Did this lead to the problem being solved or being better managed? Patients do care about such things.

There has been a great deal of focus on the delivery of procedures in health care and not so much on actual cures. Compensation is entirely based on procedures. A doctor may be rated on how a procedure was performed, but only a patient can decide if the result was good.

Perhaps a system that quantified a patient's health before and after an experience is a good way to go or over time is the way to go. If a doctor is able to keep his patients healthier, he's a good doctor. But that's pretty difficult to do with "random" ratings. Which is probably why word of mouth is probably more trusted. And doctors haven't figured out how to stop it.
Ask HN: What Motivates You?
Some of us here seem very motivated (or is it stubborn? :-). What keeps you going at working on that big project and not giving up?
Just added forth to my todo-list.. thx!
Maybe you need more friends? A decent amount of my acquaintances are just people that I follow what they listen to and vice versa.
I liked him for awhile, but once he crossed the line into claiming we are all actually figments of his imagination (and not just as a thought experiment) I had to stop reading. I couldn't help but wonder who he was writing for at that point.
As a contrary point, when I was 18 I thought nothing of going on Napster and downloading every song I wanted to hear. Five or so years later I found I was uncomfortable with doing something like that and stopped doing even casual pirating. Not really as a rule, but because the act made me feel morally uncomfortable. In the intervening years I had thought more about the issues of compensation and false feelings of entitlement.

Please don't confuse this with endorsing the draconian punishments heaped on people who infringe on copyrighted works.
Find a popular app on iPhone and develop it on Android. Or vice-versa.

Or develop a new, unique mobile app (that is more risky than implementing a proven concept on a new platform).

However, be wary of tools like phonegap. Mobile market is very competitive so the quality of the implementation is a big factor in success if there are multiple implementations of the same idea. Pick one platform (either Android or iOS) and go native.

Android, thanks to using Java, is easier to program natively than iOS.

As a bonus, the market for both Android and iOS devs is hot and will grow in near future so as a bonus, you'll be able to convert your experience into well paying job (or contract work).
When spiders use more bandwidth than customers, your website must not be very popular. It implies that each page is viewed only a handful of times / month on average.
Coming up with a project that earns billions of dollars is like shooting a particular flea off the back of a pig at one hundred yards. It's really difficult, and no matter how good a marksman you are you need a helluva lot of luck.

Coming up with a project that earns $2000-$4000 a month is like relaxing the constraints -- you no longer have to hit a particular flea, you can hit any flea on the hog's back. This is more probable, but it's still awfully difficult and involves a lot of luck.

The best solution is to just keep on firing at that hog, and hope that you hit a flea eventually. Who knows, it might be the billion-dollar one.
And if we get funded, it'll be done sooner than that :)
I am, thank you for that. Looked it up on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumination_(psychology) ) and it sounds spot on.

Originally I found the cow-cud-chewing article, and that sounded less spot on, but then I found the "mental rumination" link :)
Is your wife still looking for an IT position in the SF Bay Area? The IT guy next door (San Francisco) just came and told me that he's quitting on short notice to found a startup, and now his company needs an IT guy. It's not anything close to what your wife was used to doing -- just running the IT for a gaming studio -- but thought I would check with you.

Reply to this comment with an email address I can contact you at.
1). "I haven't heard anything good" is not exactly a high bar either.

2).
I don't care what people's agenda is if they do not advocate focribly making others conform to it. Thiel does not, ergo his views are not concerning. If you want to be a follower of his, you can be; if not, dont.

If you think people expressing a view without violating someone else's rights is somehow wrong and must be fought, your position is not keeping with the spirit of free speech.

3).
The article is advancing the traditional statist viewpoint that the people would be lost without wise overlords; otherwise they would not be advancing the argument that "OH his nonviolent views he isn't forcing on anyone are bad". Such ideas do not need to be fought by anyone, as the good ideas will win without coercion involved. If his ideas are bad, he will fail all by themseves. No need for a hatchet job, ever.
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One problem I have had with BI suites (specifically JasperSoft but it applies elsewhere) is the bolt-on nature of the solution. I found security integration, with a web app, to be a major pain. But the worst part was the UI and feature set. Honestly, I think modern web dev can be a real alternative to these packaged deals ... of course depending on the circumstances. What do others think?

Another issue I have is that the packaged solutions ~tend~ towards some kind of interface where they are eventually essentially presenting a join syntax to the user. This doesn't seem right to me. I think the value of the solution really needs to be at least a level higher than that. But when you think about it, what else is a generic tool going to do?

I'm really interested in other people's opinions on this. I recognize I am in the minority.
Always have other opportunities lined up. I could get canned tomorrow and be working a new job within a week. I try to maintain two or three positions ready and waiting for me at all times. We are programmers of fortune. My employer's crappy ERP project inspires many emotions; loyalty is not one of them.
How fast do Heroku workers come up and start crunching? I'd consider porting my worker code to Ruby (right now it's in Clojure) if it meant I could bring it up in seconds.

And they're billed per minute or per second?
The SD Meetups are, apparently, better at coordinating voting on HN than any other HN meetup.

(that's not a criticism, just an observation. I think it's totally fair, but I run LA HN http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Hacker-News/ , and we rarely hit front page, despite having 50+ attendees at most meetups, and 352 meetup members).
The full text without all that Scribd nonsense:

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/05/0526bill-gates-in...
I should add that I'm also looking into the "boot time" of dotcloud workers - if it's comparable, or better, I would love a similar tool :)
As an FYI, on May 25, 2011 I updated the linked document to a Second Edition that goes into more detail and corrects an AMT explanation and math.
I switched from Firefox 3.6 to Chrome and I never looked back. I loved the fact that Chrome was fast, sleek looking, simple and once got extension support easily customizable. The only thing I currently don't like about Chrome is it's spell-checker.

Firefox 4 has been out for a while and it seems to be just as good as Chrome in most aspects, so I would recommend you use whichever one you prefer.
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What should The Oatmeal do about FunnyJunk.com?
GP used quotation marks because it was a quote.
i wonder if, when this hits problems, they will try legal fixes? i could imagine, for example, irony being made illegal...
They're just the messengers. If the newspaper published an article saying "jrockway needs a ride from 123 Green St at 2PM", that's free speech. So why is it a problem if a website does it?

Anyway, I see a simple solution to San Francisco's laws: run the site out of Libya or something. Pretty sure there's nothing San Francisco can do about that, except start cracking down on the users (but oops, who aren't doing anything illegal).
"No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading."

Is that really true? The first Orwell book I read (Homage to Catalonia) was required for a history class -- a class that had previously assigned some truly awful literature. So I was pessimistic and I read it grudgingly at first. But halfway through the book, I realized I loved it.
Somewhat related, have you read "Stuck in the middle with Bruce?"

http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/2005_Stuck_In_The_Mi...

Some people have a need to lose.
For me it's the pressure of my peers that will flame and bash me in public on the social networks that keeps me plugging away.
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Sweet sweet cash. Green baby.
I'd post logcats but I've already flashed new nightlies without the patch. The manifest method of requesting permissions in Android is a guarantee. Applications don't test for the availability or presence of permissions for things that they declare in their manifests. Because they have no reason to have to test for them. When they're not granted and the system retunrs an error or exception... it's not caught because it should, according to the API, never ever happen.

How would that not make an application crash? Additionally, returning fake data has it's own problems including at the very least integrity.
You should definitely read "Stuck in the middle with Bruce," if you haven't. Fits perfectly with what you're describing.

http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/2005_Stuck_In_The_Mi...
The article estimates that 8% of dropbox users must convert to paid to cover the cost of the free users. I think this is an overestimate since I read somewhere that dropbox do not use disk space for duplicate files. Therefore the overall cost to store files are lower.
"and the selfish people who lead them. "
I believe "legacy MBA" are the key words. The old MBA courses taught a lot of horrible stuff, including self-interest and control which are probably big factors.
The switch from FF to Camino was because I wanted something based on FF but that behaved like a native OS X application. The switch from Camino to Chrome was mainly due to curiosity/hype/etc and it turned out to be true what people said about Chrome being pretty great. Another main consideration was the fact that I want to get into WebGL and Chrome supports it well.
Firefox was my core browser for years when I split my time working on a Windows laptop and a Mac desktop. When I switched over to a Mac for 99% of my work I started using Safari more and eventually stopped using Firefox (this was in the v2-v3 timeframe). I now mostly use Safari & Chrome but have been using Firefox more now since 4.0.1 came out.

I use almost no plugins/extensions on any of the browsers, found they just slowed down the browser too much.

So: less passion, yes. Lost interest previously but we've made up.
Interesting. FTA "And would users choose to go to Google for this service, rather than some of the other e-book publishers and providers out there?"

Personally I have had nothing but good experiences with Google, and depending on the prices and books available I would have no problem renting books from Google.
If it were about safety, they wouldn't be driving a hundred miles an hour down residential streets, and there wouldn't be a finite number of medallions.

Let's use another regulated field as an analogy: medicine. You have to receive extensive training and receive government certification in order to become a doctor. This is to protect your future patients against someone who knows nothing about medicine, which we can all agree is fair. Here's the difference between being a cab driver and a doctor: if you are qualified to be a doctor, you can be a doctor. But to be a cab driver, you have to buy an arbitrary license from the government of which there are only a finite number of. You could be the safest most wonderful driver in the world, but without that arbitrary piece of metal bolted to your car, it's illegal for you to drive anyone around.

Medallions are not about safety. They are a government subsidy for cab drivers.