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Important Things to think about When Getting Your Apartment Wiped clean
> So you're choosing potentially ignoring tiny issues instead of letting them crash the system in a visible way and fixing them properly forever.

This makes the assumption that I am able to fix them. Few people realize it, but you have very little control over the system. You can easily fix configuration errors, but if the error is due to a fundamental defect in the source code of a critical package, there's nothing you can do. I do not have the time to write patches for every defect in the system, nor do I have the luxury to tolerate them. Quite a conundrum, isn't it?

> The second is that there shouldn't be any "cruft".

There's always cruft. If you plot the uptime for servers, you will find that it looks like a very steep bell curve. Very few servers run for a few days, but also, very few servers run for years at a time. Most run for a month or two, or three.

In practical terms, this means that the bugs that get fixed first are the ones that crop up immediately on boot (everyone experiences them). The bugs that get fixed next are the ones that crop up for the average user or the middle of the bell curve (server running for a month or two). The bugs that get fixed last, if at all, are the ones that crop up for the fewest users (server running for years). This article is an example of that.

So by running your server for years at a time, you are exposing yourself to a greater amount of unfixed bugs. Also, memory leaks get worse over time and even a really minor one can mean serious issues over the span of years.

> The third one is that if you cannot say anything more specific than "cruft", then your system is badly managed.

I am not restarting because there is anything wrong with the system. It is not a solution to anything. It is a preventative measure. Preventative maintenance.

First, if there is a power failure or some other problem that forces the server to reboot unexpectedly, I know it will come back up. I know that because I have designed the system to reboot regularly and I test that capability on every server, after every update.

Second, I am avoiding problems that crop up for systems that are operating outside of the average uptime.

Third, my servers boot within 1 minute at most. What's my cost for doing this? 1 minute of uptime in the middle of the night once per month? So be it.
Ask HN: How should we implement innovation accounting reporting?
I'm halfway through Lean Startups and already fascinated by how much we aren't doing now in our startup. We use Xero for financial accounting. Are there similar tools to track innovation accounting on a daily basis, help us prepare monthly reports, maybe even let our investors log in and track in real time? I imagine it would track actuals and budgets for things like conversion rate, customer acquisition costs, DAU etc.
The Opportunist and the Entrepreneur
Are you sure your demo isn't too complicated or can't be cut down? Two guys working for half a year can surely execute some MVP.
He's also the author of a book with the subtitle: "Why conservatives work harder, feel happier, have closer families, take fewer drugs, give more generously, value honesty more, are less materialistic and envious, whine less … and even hug their children more than liberals." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makers_and_Takers).
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Another interesting point is that Congress can actually influence outcomes. For example, if you (the congressperson) have a lot of cash invested in the defense department, you'd likely push for as much defense spending as possible, even if it it's against the best interests of the nation.

I think it's time to end that. Public officials should not be able to influence their financial portfolio. At the very least, every trade, investment, position by an elected official should be made public so that we are aware of what we're voting for: Not a representative of ourselves, but of industry and their pockets.
I'm keen! I'm the founder of Goodfilms: http://goodfil.ms

We're based in Melbourne and building a site to help you figure out what films you're going to enjoy. We're about to step out from behind a private beta into a public one, and it's great to see such support for Australian startups.

You should check out our blog post about what we do and why we're different (http://blog.goodfil.ms/blog/2011/10/07/a-better-way-to-rate-...), and if you think we'd be good to feature on your blog, get in touch.

All the best,
-Glen Maddern
@glenmaddern
Perhaps part of the problem is that you cannot select who represents you.

You can pick your lawyer and he has to do what you say. Same with your plumber.

But you have only two choices for your representative, selected by others and both will ignore you and their promises once they get in. There's something very wrong with that.

Of course, the real problem is the break down of the federal arrangement. Power is way more concentrated than the founders intended.
Direct link to video:

http://vimeo.com/32001208
> I assume disk brakes are used, but that's left to the imagination.

it looks like a fixie to me. So skid stops or low speed cruising might be your only options.
We're always up for a chat. Sydney based, been in the marketplace since Q1 2011.

http://pinion.gg
Awesome project! I got Guzzle set up on Travis within about an hour. They even had node.js pre-installed, so I could use node.js as a test web server. http://travis-ci.org/#!/guzzle/guzzle
I don't really understand why insider trading is illegal in the first place (it makes the market more efficient, and no one is defrauded) but it does seem weird to make it legal only for a certain class of favored people. The right answer, though, is to just legalize it.
Insurance agency takes your profile photo, puts it on TV
You can make as much on a financial crisis as you can a bull market if you know in advance or can influence it -- this is a key component in the "Great American Bubble Machine" (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...).
It just dawned on me that I didn't mention the TEDx part of this. This kid building apps is pretty cool, but the fact that he put together a talk and presented at a TEDx is what might be even more impressive.

There are many different sizes of TEDx conferences but coming up November 18-21 there are a cluster of TEDx Youth Day conferences. I think there are about 40 just in the U.S. They're a great event to take youth to or for youth to come present at. At our local one, our presenters ranged from I think 4th grade to an artist in his 60s. If you don't have a local one or can't make it, many are webcast live and almost all the talks are recorded and posted to YouTube at some point. If you have time, a lot of TEDx conferences always seem to need techies to help. And if you really have some time, organizing a TEDx of your own isn't that difficult.

http://tedxyouthday.ted.com
Its only illegal for people that don't know how to wink.
I upvoted you because I do agree it is a bit confusing. That being said, whenever it is something official from Google it tends to be on one of their blogs (Blogspot) (e.g. googlecode.blogspot.com, googleblog.blogspot.com, etc.). For blogs, HN captures the subdomain since the blog's name is captured within it. In the case of Google Plus, knowing that it is Google Plus (plus.google.com), we would still be hard pressed to know which user/person is posting.

God forbid, Google starts posting their product news/updates on Google Plus. Then, I would heartily agree with your solution.
What You See in an excellent Conference
This power is reserved for those secure enough against legal backlash to perjure themselves. Just like DMCA takedown notices.

Copyright holders with lots of resources can issue as many bogus DMCA notices as they like, safe in the knowledge that they can fight out or settle the (unlikely) lawsuit if it comes. Most people issuing fake takedown requests would expose themselves to a lot more risk.
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Hey I'm Andrew, co-founder of Noosbox (http://noosbox.com). We were one of the first batch of Startmate companies. Happy to share some insight and war stories. Reach me at ajessup _AT_ noosbox.com. We're based in Sydney @ Fishburners.
>And I would also say that we have one of the least scientific generation- not only because enrollment is scientific studies is low, but also because there is now a pride in being ignorant.

Jersey Shore aside, I have to disagree with this. We have a media culture that celebrates ignorance, but I don't think you can really trust media to represent actual culture anymore. We have an over-achieving culture that misses the point in a lot of ways, and I'm certainly not saying that this generation values scientific endeavor more than e.g. the WWII generation, but it certainly does not value ignorance.
Ok, that's an even longer, harder and more arrogant-er subtitle than Kanye West's upcoming autobiography.
Task Dispatch and Nonblocking IO in Scala
Introducing the ColorHug open source colorimeter
Tip number 1: Check for spelling mistakes in your submission before posting to HN :)
I guess people dont weigh in the utilitarian point of view. Why not give the joy of your app to more people. After all you are getting the same. And as some people have mentioned it might eventually be helpful.
Nginx is nice, I also use it on production, I heard lots of good things about Lighttpd too and spent some days tweaking both. With Lighttpd I was getting near similar results in much less time than it took me to optimize Nginx. I didn't forget to tune sysctl.conf, which helped to get 28k req/s with Nginx and about 24 req/s with Lighttp on a XEN VPS with 512MB RAM and 4xIntel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz.

I am curious what his results would be when he used higher concurrency. I used this 100byte benchmark (ab is single threaded, that's why weighttp is better):

ab -n 1000000 -c 1000 -k "http://example.org/100.html

weighttp -n 1000000 -c 1000 -t 4 -k "http://example.org/100.html

Anyway I think this benchmark isn're representative. He benchmarked a random sized static file only. Instead of using 100byte, a 1kb file and a simple hello world php.
Why a simple hello world php example? Because that's the lightest examples that you do and it can show you the upper limit easier than a full-blown example. Of course having a benchmark of a full-blown example like a CMS, or eCommerce system woudn't harm either.

Here you find a much better and more trustworthy benchmark that actually compares different web servers and doesn't just blame apache. http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/serving-small-static...

I tried G-WAN myself on the same machine and I got about 65723 req/s, enough power.
AdWords could work if you can cheaply own the exact niche. The blog will take quite a while to draw any significant amount of traffic.

The best bang for the buck might be to get noticed by some high-profile blogger. Make a funny demo video like Dropbox and in-jokes for the Reddit crowd. Can your app do something like make Guy Kawasaki's or Scoble's face morph into a LOLCAT? Find a funny / interesting use and target some tech celebs like that. Or tell the story of how reading The Four Hour Work Week made you a success and Tim might pick up your blog post and link to it. Those are all somewhat long shots but I've seen them work and draw a burst of attention.
Here are some blogs:

http://www.startup-australia.org/blogs

Not sure how current it is. There's also:

http://www.startupsmart.com.au

who have posted a few stories here and anthill which does a lot for the AU startup scene.
As long as it is an auction process, there is intense pressure on all involved to extract as much value as possible from every customer.
Watching this and trying to figure out where "I" am in each clip feels like I'm trying to take a Sporcle quiz. That said, when I can figure it out, it's often quite amazing some of the emergent patterns, like "the lights are in a grid---must be the US Midwest", or "the lights just... stop" as at the border between Egypt and Sudan (among others).
I doubt it. The example of getting preferential access to stock market IPOs wouldn't be able to be acted upon by the general public. Also several of the examples cite timing between a trade and the price moving event as a few days. Usually financial discloser reports are only made on a yearly basis and if you go to the congressional website http://clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-search.aspx there is a disclaimer saying that the use of the information for commercial purposes is illegal.
I've been fighting spam bots of one form or another since 1994. I think it's actually easier now to use a plain email address on a web site as a contact method than it was ten years ago…almost everyone gets that you can click on an address (assuming it’s linked) and kick off an email.

Certainly it’s worth learning various techniques since there’s going to be many forms that you need to have on your site(s) which can get hit by bots. But if the entire purpose is to allow inbound contacts, and you don’t need to drag along any transactional or demographic information with the contact, an plain email address should suffice. Whatever email address you use will get added to every spammer’s contact list so make sure it’s a generic address that goes into a separate mailbox.
What's With The Farewell Party? Flash Isn't Going Anywhere
Actually, lots of people and companies can legally trade on non-public information. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading For example, it's not clear that Google can't trade stock based on what it observes its customers doing, even though that information is not public.

That said, Congress-critters are in a very different position. They're writing the rules. And, they keep claiming to be "public servants", so their use of non-public information should be at least as restricted as employees.
Offer HN: Web based presentation editor
Hello HN,
Myself and a few of my friends have built a web based presentation editor/presenter (much like 280 slides; we built ours in cappuccino as well) with the hope of disrupting the presentation space. We're planning on launching our service within the next 1-2 months, but in the meantime we have decided to license our software (full source) to other companies in order to continue development.

We decided against putting up a public demo because we want to keep it under wraps for the general public until we launch. If you're interested in seeing a demo/connecting with us, drop us an email at throwaway3001@gmail.com!
That is f*ing remarkable. In Australia there are strict rules governing conflict of interest. If there is even a hint of someone gaining financial benefit through their position they are hounded by the press and their political opposition. Of course parliamentarians find other ways to make money such as fake tenders. But it isn't as flagrant as this.

I really feel for you guys over in the US. These are your representatives...they sound like mafioso.
Excellent idea for a startup hub.
I'm the founder of Axle Technologies : http://www.axletech.com.au - GPS Vehicle tracking and fleet management for the masses (Web based, that's where the fun is right).

Based out of Brisbane we've spent the last 12 months in software development, hardware development, penning legal paperwork and sourcing customer feedback for features. Bootstrapped through self funding, personal savings and some rusty dreams. We've just finished all our new advertising material designs and are going straight into launch next week.

If you want a chat you can get in touch with me through our contact form on the site.

-Leon
Of these, I would say that the only one the Millennials have any hand in is the OWS protests, largely because many of them are unemployed now with nothing else to do. Western society has apparently forgotten the grave danger that comes from leaving vast swaths of your young population without work and riddled with debt. The reteaching of that lesson is going to define the coming decade, I think.

But the wars? Neo-liberal baby boomers cooked that up. Deregulation? GenX loves that shit.
An Open Letter to Peldi Guilizzoni of Balsamiq
Sarah Mei, currently a member of the core dev team, posted this:

> I've lost a friend, and it's been techcrunched.

https://diasp0ra.ca/posts/3415
In 1993 the IOCCC also sponsored the International Obsfucated Postscript Contest.

http://web.mit.edu/PostScript/obfuscated-1993/

http://web.mit.edu/PostScript/obfuscated-1993/WINNERS

In PostScript you can redefine all of your operators (even operator for redefining!), and indeed this was often done to make the programs more compact for sending to printers in a shorter amount of time. This made PostScript an optimal language for disturbing levels of obsfucation.

The winner of "Most Obsfucated Artwork" was Takashi Hayakawa's astonishing entry:

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I've enjoyed working with https://stillalive.com/
Moving Channel 9 to Azure: good design principles
Why MANY smart people are not social?
I sometimes wonder how much of the contemporary non-fiction publishing industry is based on 1980s/90s trolling. Is adequacy.org used as a case-study? They've even perfected the art of the paired troll, where you publish two un-nuanced books taking opposite inflammatory positions, which feed on each other, driving sales of both.
That's not really surprising, considering that essentially every power of government is something that would be illegal for anyone else to do. Just a few examples: withholding money from your paycheck, trapping you in a metal cage, annexing your property for a "better cause," and printing cash.
I could be wrong but I believe Dwolla is a totally new payment system that actually bypasses the credit card system by directly depositing/debiting bank accounts. It designed to replace credit cards and requires the customer to signup for a Dwolla account to pay[1]. Stripe on the other hand is just an API for processing credit cards.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/this-28-year-old-is-making-su...
Lateral grip could be created by coating the outer surface of the wheel with some sort of rubber. Rather than replacing rubber tires, you could just re-spray the wheels. Just a rough idea.
The author of this article doesn't appear to know anything about bikes.
Xbox 360 games to be compatible with Windows 8
I knew Ilya from NoiseBridge. He was always a cool guy to hang with, and get advice from.

He will be missed.
Review my startup - The New Social Times
http://www.thenstimes.com

Just launched a few days ago. Our site is a way to use social media (facebook, twitter, youtube) to follow a news story. Sort of like Tweet Deck, but for news.

No programming experience. My partner and I just pushed through over the summer until we were able to build a MVP. Just brought on some technical help however. We intend to implement search in the near future. Any advice from the HN community? Anything would be greatly appreciated.
It's insider trading because the information that motivates it isn't public. It's like selling someone a work animal that you (but not they) know has a fatal disease. It's not literally fraud, but it smells the same.

I think of the market as a medium for transmitting and storing information about how much people value things. It has incredible bandwidth and storage capacity, but its latency is not always the best. Anyone proposing a replacement for a market (in anything!) needs to have respect for the incredible volume of information they're seeking to replace, but the market is not the best tool for everything.

I think this is one of those degenerate cases where the latency kills you. Specifically, the time it takes to go from "some people know this company is in trouble" to "everyone knows it" is way too long when the market is the medium of transmission. Lots of people can be ruined in the mean time.
Iran Detects and Fights Back Duqu Virus in System
It doesn't. People are assuming that the lack of explanation + his young age = suicide.

It may end up being the case, but at the moment, people are just speculating.
SOPA is bad news. Worse than Unisys claiming GIF. Worse than UMinn claiming gopher. Yes, we can replace the DNS system. But we can't escape the financial world:

Quick review in case you missed where BitCoins went: dollars will always have intrinsic value because the US Government demands payment in dollars. Tax payments are only accepted as an electronic transfer - from the institutions SOPA controls.

So SOPA is bad news because:

1. You can't escape the bank-controlled economy, so you will always need US dollars or whichever currency is accepted in your country.

2. You can't prevent large organizations (those with hefty legal departments) from issuing at-will takedowns on competitors.

3. Takedowns won't be just for The Pirate Bay. Good luck winning your court case.
Not disagreeing/agreeing, but do you have any evidence to back up the claim "for every "understand the mind of god" faith-driven scientist there are at least one thousand screaming, irrational, dangerously unbalanced regressives"?
I'll double check, but I'm pretty sure http://99designs.com would be interested.
It advises using Strunk and White. I think it would be helpful to point out that S&W need not be considered all that authoritative:
http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...
The people behind Language Log often have something to say about writing advice.
The problem is, according to 60 minutes, government officials only have to disclose their trades once/year. A couple in congress have tried to change the law to quarterly but of course that goes nowhere.

Even if we change disclosure laws to zero day (haha, good chance) it still doesn't fix the obvious bribing with IPOs. The fact that it isn't legally a bribe is laughable.
That bothered me too. It seems inconsistent to say that "programming is generally more difficult", but "good people skills" are relatively scarce compared to programming skills.
No worries!

It's my view that religion often isn't the thing that impairs scientific learning. Rather it's men's interpretation of those events.

Just needed to make that subtle correction :)
Peldi is a great guy and Balsamiq is turning into a reference example on how to run a successful software business with integrity.
This isn't quite the feedback loop that the AI singularity folks talk about, but the Internet is one heck of a positive feedback loop, much much tighter than technological progress feedback loop before it. Makes me excited for where we'll be 5, 10, 20 years from now as the rate of acceleration speeds up.