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Whenever I get auto-generated invitations based on systems like these I delete and ignore them or alternatively tag them as SPAM if I receive them from more than one person.

It leaves me with a very negative impression of the site or service before I have even seen it.
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It also makes me slightly angry towards the person who gave away my email address. Although most must be forgiven because they are not aware of what they did.
Somewhat unrelated: why is anyone using physical servers instead of AWS, aside from legacy considerations?
Indeed. I live in a fantasy world where people who "report the news" do so in a manner where only facts are presented and any opinions or analyses are backed up by trustworthy, informed, unbiased sources. I realize that world doesn't exist, but that doesn't mean I won't stop berating those who create "news" for this one.

Sadly, your point is an oft-relevant one so my only recourse is to read TC even less than I do now, which is to say stop reading the articles that show up here.
The fallacy is that you don't know, can't know, what our economy would have been after that period, absent WWII. What if we were on the cusp of recovery anyway and we had spent 5 years building railroad and machinery rather than tanks and bombs? The end result would have been a more efficient application of industry over time, resulting in a more abundant society, right?

But I can't say that was the case, would have been the case, any more than you can say the opposite, because we don't know what would have happened if we had tweaked x or y, and can't test it. That's why economics is a social science, not a science. That's why economists are still arguing over what caused the great depression, as well as what ended it.
I think Stan is just pointing out that a startup which is not making money should not be called a business. And when we consider a startup to be a "young" business, the author has a good point.

90% of the "startups" we see passing by here on HN, should be considered projects. And some of those projects might turn into a business (startup) some day...
Your bottleneck in a web app is almost always the database. In some cases, it's not. So, it depends.

If, like furiouslol, you're trying to access a 2-3 million row table and Active Record is topping out at 2GB of RAM and taking close to 1 second on a production machine just to render a page, then yes, you might need to worry about memory usage.

But, if you're prototyping a site, and just getting it off the ground, I would worry about memory usage later.

If you're really freaked out about performance, you can always try PHP or Django. They tend to be a bit more sparing on system resources.
One good reason is that Wikipedia was around before Amazon offered web services. Since then, while I'm sure they've added more broadband and servers, I would guess that they are not mass-replacing old servers, instead simply adding new ones when they are needed. Being a non-CPU-intensive website, 7-year-old servers are surely adequate in the backend.

I would guess that the newer, more powerful servers have a lot of memory and sit up front caching requests, while the older ones act as the database and process infrequent requests like edits.

That they are migrating to Ubuntu does not indicate that they are replacing their hardware. Surely they are just installing it on all their servers to make administration easier.

If Wikia did not already have a ton of existing machines and if Amazon gave them a bargain rate since they are non-profit, using AWS might make sense. As things exist though, using AWS would surely be less cost-effective.
Don't worry yourself with the semantics; this is extremely sound advice. VCs are starting to say roughly the same thing nowadays too, albeit in a way with somewhat less finality. It's a shame it took a huge economic hoo-ha for people to start using common sense again, though.
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Here's the message I take from this: get serious or go home.

After reading the first couple of lines I didn't want to like this article (I'm getting a little tired of everyone whining about how hard it will be -- it was always going to be hard), but a little later in I grooved on it.

Starting a startup isn't just about putting up a website; you've got to kick ass 8 days a week building a business, and yeah, it's going to be harder now so it's a good time to start taking what you're doing seriously or realize that you're just playing around.
I got really excited when I saw this. Then I noticed it was in private beta. Then I noticed it was Rails-only. Then I closed the window and cried :'(
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I am not sure that intruders in a state like the one the author is living in would care. Seems like the police is not very much on top of things there, so provided with the footage of your rape and murder, they might just not care.
Economy crisis, Not again
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It's not a fallacy because I specifically pointed that out. You can, however, point to all of the various technologies and cultural shifts that impacted our economy, and the 50+ year period of unrivaled prosperity that occurred afterward and say it most likely was for the best.

Very few nations ever achieve a period like America did from that point to probably about 9/11/01. If we had to make the decision again from a purely economic standpoint, given the benefit of hindsight, we'd make it the same way.
True, I've updated my question to ask what I really want to know. Sorry to make your comment into an odd non-sequitor :)
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This article is about Wikipedia which is ran by the not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation - not Wikia which is a commercial wiki company founded by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.

It's probably because it's not economical for the huge amount of traffic that Wikipedia shifts each month and there's no real advantage to moving AWS. I'm not totally convinced that AWS could deal with the traffic of the 8th biggest site on the web moving to use them overnight either.

Edit: The question has been changed making my answer a rather redundant non-sequitur.
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This is the post I wanted to write, but every time I sat down to start everything just came out as a stream of profanity, motivated by article after fear-mongering article about how we're all screwed and you are probably better off just killing yourself right now.

Everyone needs to reach between their legs, find their balls (real or figurative) and move on. This downturn/recession/doomsday isn't the end of the world; it's the start of an opportunity, if you ask me.
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This is something I have found very true. I try to avoid talking about certain problems with certain people because they will just focus on small seemingly unsolvable problems that don't matter much in the end.

My attitude has always been worry about that problem when we get there, and find a solution that is acceptable - not necessarily the one you had in mind first.

One line that I always try repeat to myself (especially in circuit design) is "If the solution seems difficult, try to restate or reconfigure the problem.

Its like the old getting lost in the trees cliche
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Er, again, sorry for the edit.

You're probably right about Amazon handling the traffic, but here's the data I found trying to figure that out in case everyone's interested:

-Web services already used more bandwidth than amazon.com at the end of 07 (http://bit.ly/T0hX1)

-Wikipedia.org gets about the same amount of traffic as amazon.com (http://bit.ly/1I4o7L)
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You say that after the 1970s recession it took until 1992 for the market to make a full recovery to its inflation-adjusted peak. However, the average quality of life in 1987 was far ahead of that in 1971!

Stock index levels are not indicative of quality of life, job levels, or even the financial health of a nation. Just because the Dow has fallen 40% does not mean that as a nation we are 40% worse off, unless we happened to have all of our money in the stock market.
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Assuming both scenarios are equally likely:

Option 1 Average ROI = 50%
Option 1 Average ROI = 12.5%

High risk premium. A good time to take risks?.. if you can afford it.
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I beg to differ.

Estates are currently taxed. I believe to the tune of 45% of the amount over $2 million.

As far as capital gains goes, they are due when you sell your capital. In the case of PG this most likely occurred when he sold ViaWeb. Everytime Larry and Sergey sell their GOOG stock they incur captial gains.

Obama is generally proposing raising the capital gains tax from 15% to 20% for anyone that earns over $250,000. Any startup founder that has a successful exit should make a heck of a lot more then $250k. By def an angel investor must earn $200k per year or have a net work of more than $1 million.

And that is why I want to see the details.
When he says Obama's plan is "putting the cart before the horse" I think he means that it's silly to tax us on the money we earn that we'll eventually invest with and not on the money we invest ONCE we're rich.

I'm not rich, but let's assume I'm on track to become so by way of my ever increasing income. Obama would take more of the income I'm using to build my fortune, leaving me less to invest later on. Lower income taxes would give me more to play with later on, and since I'll already be quite well off by then, paying tax on my capital gains doesn't really bother me.

Personally I don't think this is a great argument and I am in support of Obama's plan, but I do see its point. It's a very long-term argument, and I think that if far smaller investors can use the capital gains 0% tax (such as entrepreneurs who self-fund) then it's an amazing idea. But if small self-funding entrepreneurs cannot take advantage of the 0% tax on capital gains in their own businesses, I'd probably agree with the author as it serves only to unfairly placate the rich.
Oh yes, didn't scroll down much to see that.

Just highlight each image (all 91) and let it generate. Looks cool... :)
The story at the start of the article doesn't hold water with me.

If you went into a store and picked up a paid of $49.99 trainers (let's assume no sales tax), and you had this trick pulled at the register, but were then signing a receipt with $50.98 written on it, you're going to notice! Unless you're the sort of person who never looks at price tags or understands what the total should be, how would you fall for this?
I'll be sure to get socially involved when I'm a wealthy middle-aged white guy looking back on my life and feeling hollow.
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It depends where are you from.
Your question is not specific: Which school are you about to graduate from? Which school do you plan to attend in Sweden or USA? What have you done this far and what do you plan to do next? What do you strive for in your life?

At least, you should read http://paulgraham.com/cities.html
Tagged as propaganda and FUD.
I'm working on a jQuery-based one right now (with a matching Drupal module, which would make it light-weight, as Drupal bundles jQuery). Once you understand the nuances of designMode/contentEditable, things get easier, but I know what you mean about how much you need to consider. It might feel like wasted time when CKEditor 3 (smart name change, in my opinion), which looks like the real deal, is released on December 1st.
> Estates are currently taxed.

The key word there is "estates"; "legal estates" would be more accurate.

Gates et al move their accumulated wealth out of their legal estates into tax-free foundations and the like. So, while their legal estates may be taxed, there is almost nothing there to tax.

No, they didn't sell their stock to fund these foundations - they donated stock, which is either tax free or provides a tax benefit. Yes, those foundations serve many of the purposes of "estates". (The Gates kids and their kids and so on will always have an income.)

There are other things that they can do to shift money to their kids and grand-kids without significant tax consequences. (Yes, there's a $10k limit on some transactions, but ....)

There are things that these folk can do while they're alive to generate tax benefits that they can then use to make other sales tax free, giving them something to live on. (I don't know the legal status of the Google planes, but the planes that are available to NASA could easily generate tax benefits.)
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War has never been a good idea in times of prosperity.

Mix fear, unemployment, desperation and nationalism in a fake depression, there you have a recipe for war.

Can you smell what the pentagon is cooking?
I think it must be you :) I have a MacMini with a projector and I stream XVID movies from another Mac upstairs. Works fine for me
Scenario 3: The bond issuer defaults because of the sub-prime crisis, and MS is nationalised.

Woopsie daisies.
As others have said, normal users don't mind this. However this works best in applications which have an inherent benefit in connecting to a lot of people. So while this may work very well for linkedin and facebook, it may not work too well for say a youtube
That has as much to do with how bad Confluence Wiki Markup is as anything else. It doesn't allow any nesting of elements because an open tag is the same as a close tag:

{panel}
Content
{panel} <- Close tag!

WTF? The same goes for tables:

||Header||Header||
|Cel1|Cell|
|Cell|Cell|

Terrible design for any markup language. Of course, we're talking about the same software that doesn't have templating (unless you count dumping form values into a fully editable page), doesn't support customization (yes, I've repeatedly been told this by customer service), doesn't support a custom homepage, or damn near anything else.

I can work with Confluence pretty well now, but I'm still bitter we chose it ata my job over something more flexible like MediaWiki.
AR usage is one of my main concerns. I myself am a Python guy with good proficiency and understanding of Rails, but we employ mostly Rails people. Our biggest project right now uses Rails for the API and website and several background daemons (work queues) in Python.

I'm already rewriting the API code in a minimal Merb app, which uses a lot fewer memory and can-haz C-based ORM code with DataMapper. My plan in the future is to try and push possible migration of the Rails-based site code to Merb as well.
Wikipedia needs better uptime than AWS. Don't get me wrong, AWS is probably a good idea but not just yet.
For real-time streaming API a low cost option is IQFeed.net which charges about $67/month for Nasdaq, AMEX, and NYSE + $50 setup. The data feed source is ComStock and the only API available is through Windows COM (yeah, I know)

To offer real-time to the public you will need to set up agreements with each of the exchanges individually. Expect to pay about $1/user/month plus some fixed monthly fees.

If real-time isn't essential, you could also use the fantastic python library ystockquote to get delayed data from yahoo.
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Only consider that quote if you've been through all or most of Knuth's TAOCP.

Good design lets your site stay lean and mean.
I should have written that the risk increase will make engineering more expensive than it would have been otherwise.

The demand decrease during the current slowdown will probably have a greater effect now, hiding the effect of the increased risk.

However, when demand rebounds, the effects of increased risk will persist.

Note that "jumping" when a project is close to done to a project further from done may be an even better idea during decreased demand.
Had a similar situation in a Python project. Got it working by adding a few Python callbacks to the SQL as functions. The code stayed in the same language and memory consumption flatlined. Don't know if that is easy to do from RnR, though.
What is true is already so.

Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.

Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.

And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.

Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.

People can stand what is true,

for they are already enduring it.

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As a TextMate user switching back to Vim shortly, I think this will come in handy! I am a huge fan of TM too, but recently I've become obsessed with not using the mouse for anything I can avoid and most of the key bindings in TM aren't too conducive to home-row-only style work. The RSI in my mouse hand is a pretty big motivator for that, too.

P.S. The comments are chock full of useful tips, tricks, and extensions so read through 'em too!

P.P.S. Speaking of RSI, I recently switched to a trackball from a mouse and noticed a reduction in pain nearly over night. Highly recommended.
I'd frame it that Experts deal with increasingly abstracted-out ideas. Expert physicists differ from pre-schooolers in "not having to sweat out arithmetic, algebra, etc."

There's a natural abstraction hierarchy in every field I know. I claim that those fields that don't have good abstractions are precisely those that don't fare very well.
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Magically make all browsers support the existing specs and equally magically upgrade all browsers over night to something not created by Microsoft. We can go from there.
Senator Obama has it on the money here I think. Going back to the depression, what was it that really got things moving and finally led to the prosperity of the 1950's? Well, WWII, which stimulated production. The best, perhaps the only, "way out" of a depression is new enterprise. We don't need a war for that of course. We just need new products, new idea, new technologies, which create new jobs and importantly "moves money" again. The problem is money is "frozen", being "hoarded" by scared banks and investors. So giving a tax incentive to entrepreneurs can stimulate the economy by getting start-ups a hand-up, which gets investment money moving, which creates jobs, etc. Socializing banks will not lead to prosperity in the long-run. Free-enterprise will.
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Actually, everyone in the US is covered, there are just different plans. The gap is wrt insurance. The uninsured have "free" (read taxpayer supported) options. (Yes, there are treatments that aren't covered in those options, just as there are in every system, including those in "universal healthcare" systems.)

Note that about half of the insured are insured through US govt programs. Interestingly enough, the cost of those govt programs is about the same as the cost of the private programs that cover the other half of the insured. And, the results of those govt programs is not better.

If you're going to argue that the US govt can do better than the private sector, you should explain why it doesn't. Same cost, same results. Why will making it universal change any of that?

Better yet - work on the US govt programs and then open them up at cost. When they're better and cheaper, folks will flee the private system. Until then, why should we believe that they will be any better than they are?
Chances are that you're not going to get enough heat from an oven to cause the Maillard reactions to happen before the steak dries out - the conductivity of the air just isn't high enough.

If you're worried about a blowtorch, though, you can sear the steak just as effectively in a very hot frying pan.
With so many trading companies going bust I bet the price will go down soon.
TD Ameritrade (http://www.tdameritrade.com/tradingtools/partnertools/api_de...) has an API, though I can't say I've used it myself.

Also, do you mind giving us a general idea of what you want to do? Hinting at a project without sketching out an outline is cruel.
Another one? Iraq is not working and the other one will end up as catastrophic loss if nothing changes. Use of nuclear option would make everyone in the world stop trading with US forever, that's suicide.
AWS run on physical servers too.
You think that Bill got that money to build that big ol house of his tax free?
1. Swap Ctrl and CapsLock (using whatever method)

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Now your hands can stay in perfect home-row position nearly all of the time.