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I've never used Path, but recently I've clicked a few links on Twitter to path.com URLs from my phone. The salient features were:

- A photo of the user confusingly filled up the top third of the screen and was momentarily distracting until I realized what I was supposed to be looking at.

- Scrolling the page felt weirdly jerky.

Not auspicious for the app itself.
From your link "not performing in subway cars" is given explicitly as one of the Government regulations that accords with the First Amendment.

This appears to contradict the spirit of your comment if not the letter. The GP stating that singing wasn't allowed "on the subway" and you replying that it explicitly was allowed "in the subway". I can see how you can both be right and individually agree with your link too though so the above is really just for clarity.
I'm suggesting that's what he's talking about when he says "cloud computing". I have no idea what they actually had working.
Listen to Andrew Warner's interview. Peldi talked about approaching people on twitter due early days to try to do sales. He wasn't very successful with the approach, and then went on to try something else.

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a company I don't want to ever do business with.

That's the respectable side of you talking. If you have a house on the line in your own start up, you'll be crazy not to do everything to give your startup every chance of success.

On a personal level, I loath getting spam as much as everybody else, so please don't spam me!
What's your process for consuming a textbook in 3-4 days?
I'm sorry, but the Internet was not "produced by the government." ARPANET was.

Besides, ARPANET was for military purposes, which many liberatrians (rightly) consider to be a proper government function.
It took me 5 days to stabilize my workflow in vim, and well worth it. Of course, those were 5 days without too much stress or deadlines, a few weeks ago. I still have a cheat-sheet print out, but am finding myself needing it less and less every day.

Although I've been working on fairly small web projects. For larger, corporate-style software development, the transition might be more difficult.
I must admit I find this quite funny - how Wire nitpickingly picked the 2 photos of his that looked a bit creepish.

Maybe they wanted to associate the security hacker meme wit creepines?

Definitely looks like they have a penchant for shock/media value.
OK. If you look at the growth amongst Internet users in India between, say 2009 and estimates for 2011, it resembles the growth amongst Internet users in US in the late 90s. US had 120M Internet users around the time of the Web 1.0 boom.

Mobile usage is even higher as you know so it seems like mobile app startups could do really well. If the growth is happening in small towns/rural areas even better, no SV company is going to want to spend time in Gummmidipoondi to understand their target customer. I don't know if cultural variation is really an issue: look at iPad for instance, even a non-English speaker has a finger with which they can tap on the screen.

I've heard horror stories about red-tape, corrupt officials and so on from friends. But every time I've dealt with GOI officials they've been extremely helpful. Maybe I just got lucky.
Collectivist vs. individualist is one of the most extensively researched concepts in the social sciences with respect to cultural differences. Everyone knows it's real. You might as well argue the Earth is flat.

http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&q=individualism-c...

Asia is simply way more collectivist than the West, and this cultural difference holds for Asians immigrants throughout the world.

You're trying to bully me with the race card into shutting up. Decades of high quality research on individualism-collectivism is not racism. It's just a genuine cultural difference that can be measured in a million ways.

By the way, black people also score lower on intelligence tests than other races, women are more enraptured by cute babies than men are, and republicans score higher on measures of magical thinking than democrats.

Hope these statements of fact help you with your witch hunt.
I think he means iPhone "apps".

Though WakeMate is an iPhone app and a physical product.
I agree. That amount of sleep can't be healthy. I read a story about a startup founder who was pushing himself that hard for a long time. Even though he exercised regularly and had a great diet, he died young of cardiac arrest. I don't remember any mention of a prior condition, but remember that his sleep schedule was strongly suspected of causing his heart to weaken.
I am so glad there are people like this who are effective at holding companies and government agencies accountable. I certainly don't have the courage.
Actually, I bet you can't name a single country whose economic system wasn't possible.

- Soviet Union: Possible

- Cuba: Possible

- North Korea: Possible

- United States, 19th century: Possible

- United States, now: Possible

- European mercantilism: Possible

So, please don't lecture me on who's foolish.
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Your guess is as interesting as mine, but from direct experience, the people with framed posters of Hugo Chavez in their living rooms are well represented in OWS.
It's also interesting that the Greek portion of the exam was handwritten. Perhaps Harvard University Press didn't have movable types for Greek letters at that time? Also, I'm curious how they distributed the handwritten pages to all the applicants (hundreds?) without a Xerox machine.
jamieb "google that for you service" (TM):

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/reason

1. a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc. ...

3. the mental powers concerned with forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences.

So, its the difference between "reasoning", which we do in math and logic all the time, and "belief" or "motive". That is "reason" did indeed have a specific mathematical meaning at that time, and it still does today.

One might also google "mathematical reasoning"...
Not wanting to be _too_ snarky, but I hardly think "hours of research" translates to "web scale".

Do you _honestly_ think you could keep this up if, say, someone wrote a Wordpress plugin that automatically linked all your eBay sales screenshots into your blog, and Wordpress then installed it on their hosted service?

(Maybe I'm using the term "web scale" wrong, but in my head "web scale" means "the sort of problems Google, Facebook, and maybe Yahoo mostly get right, and almost everybody else mostly gets wrong". And the failure to predict the _first_ thing people would do is point it at goatse is a prime example of "getting it wrong".)
This is a problem I frequently have. A while ago I decided to try to read through the whole book, and then go through and do the exercises. When I actually did it it worked _really_ well, but I found myself not being honest with myself and skimping on the review.
I don't. :)
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In my case, I try to keep realistic dates of completion (considering that I'm no longer an undergraduate and right now I can focus in any topic I want.)

Sometimes it's difficult to get things done if you don't have someone behind telling you what to do next; but I realized, that if you master this skill, you are at a whole new level. I think this is the type of motivation that keeps moving the PhD students or the entrepreneurs.

At the moment I'm learning how to program for the Android platform, and this mobile paradigm has open my mind for a lot of things. I really want to pursue more this area.

I think it's a great idea that if you don't understand something in a book, tutorial, etc. investigate about those topics. But, never lose focus in what you are trying to accomplish in the first time; I know that sometimes it's tempting to keep checking that Math theory and things like that.

At the end, knowledge is another tool to get the job done.
> [...] they'd probably be better off building their product and figuring out how to best meet the needs of their current customers

That's nonsense -- a variation on the "Field of Dreams" fallacy of "build it and they will come". Customer acquisition, which PR and marketing feed into, is absolutely essential.

In fact, your advice is the opposite of what most programmer-founded startups should do. You don't win by having a better product that nobody's heard of. And I think anyone that's been hanging around startup-y folks for a while can tell you about a handful of friends who misunderstood that point to their own peril.

All that this post really did for me was make me hear FreshBook's name again. In fact, the ZenDesk naming spat is more likely to make me actually remember the name. And that's probably enough that if my company is looking for a SaaS support tool in the future, that we'll give them a look as well. Which is assume is exactly what they were hoping for.

For all the talk of what they're doing to their pristine brand here and blah, blah, I don't think anyone serious is going to hold this move against them in a purchasing decision. Bringing in new infrastructure software is not done on a whim.
> Grammar is a nice afterthought, but it's not a primary part of a language.

This is wrong, and it points up a fundamental problem with how we teach language. Grammar is language; it defines language. You know it at a deep level that is practically instinct for you; you don't know it in the same way you know how to type, but you still know it. If you didn't, you couldn't use language.

Two different kinds of learning are both equally vital to how humans get along: By osmosis and by explicit instruction. Your mother tongue is learned via osmosis, tying your shoe is learned through explicit instruction. Both are vital methods, but only the second (explicit instruction) leaves you able to fully verbalize what you know in a cogent manner.
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Contrary to the other responses you're getting, I think the answer is a resounding "yes."

If you were to imagine OWS without anti-capitalism, it would look like a bunch of libertarians. A Tea Party devoid of religious sentimentalism.
>So it stings a lot to have to face the fact that many of them are sexist pricks. Better instead to find some way to deflate that so they can continue celebrating themselves without interruption.

Though I'm one of the horrible woman-hating-assholes quoted a few times above, I have no interest in denying this allegation, as I actually believe that many people in this field are sexist pricks. I've seen it many times myself, and it disgusts me, I'm always shocked when I see it, and I have, on several occasions, shouted people down for their lewd and unacceptable comments. I'm not shy when it comes to sexism, and I really try to be on the lookout for it, as I want women to feel comfortable in our field, I very much enjoy working with them.

But it's counterproductive when people try to twist normal interactions and present them as if they're motivated by sexism, and that offends me because it takes away from the attention that the problematic incidents should receive. In this case, all the guy actually said was "wow, you were really hard on S", and that just doesn't bother me that much.

Are you, danilocampus, really going to say that without any other evidence you think that alone is enough that we should scream "Sexist!" and get up in arms? Because that's all the evidence we have. To me, it sounds like the real issue is that the manager didn't want to bother figuring out who was really to blame for the problem and just wanted the incident to not have happened. I can see bosses of mine saying similar things to me after an incident in the name of smoothing over a dispute while avoiding the need to go through an expensive fire/hire cycle...
Question about when startups should talk to a lawyer?
I am working with a startup and was wondering if I could draw upon the HN wisdom. At what stage do you recommend getting a lawyer and setting up your business entity?
I'm unsure why I was down voted for this. Was it because the down-voter didn't agree with my post (strange reason to down vote), or was it because it didn't contribute to the conversation (which I tried quite hard to do - by balancing both sides of the argument).

All I was trying to say was that in the field of UI, it is very hard to innovate though very easy to copy, and I can't help but feel that's what's happened here.

Path have made a very sexy looking widget which definitely added that certain something to their application, and someone has copied their hard work and made it free for everyone to use.
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As long as I can remember. Even very young, I would just read at night rather than sleep. Sometimes I crash and sleep for 5-6, once or twice I've slept more after going a few days without sleep.

I have always seen sleep as one of the biggest problems with life. If we could cure it, our effective lifespans would increase. So it's possible my sleeping habits are partly psychosomatic.
5-7 depending on the night, but would prefer to sleep more. infant and a startup...
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College education was intended for the elite. The proportion of the population that possessed a high school diploma, much less a college degree was infinitesimal. Indeed, as late as the 1950s, only ~8% of the population were college graduates.

In practice, the requirement for the classics was no impediment to elites; one could be admitted on the condition that shortcomings would be remediated. Once admitted, you could easily purchase the services of a tutor or cheat your way through.
When you need to scale, you'll find you'll be able to.

The question is probably more, "What can you do today to make scaling less painful when I need to, but without wasting effort today?"

The answer to that is to monitor everything.

Scaling is about being able to spot the bottle neck in the system and to remove it or work around it.

Unfortunately that's a hard thing to do, you need to be aware of everything: networking layers, hardware, software, how things work (or don't work) together. You've got to be able to holistically see the entire application and understand how one part impacts the rest.

Only obsessive monitoring can help you there unless you're a little bit savant and can visualise the whole system.

When you identify a bottle neck, you re-design and remove it.

How to make that easier? I find thinking of large systems in terms of a network of systems that each do "one thing well" helps. It makes identifying bottle necks easier as you cannot have doubt where a bottle neck is if a machine (or it's network) is running hot and it really does just a single task.

So the only advice I give people in advance of them having pain points is to not mix the use of a part of the system. If you have a database server, make sure that is the only thing that server does.

For anyone trying to learn how to scale, the way to scale differs from system to system. Very few people could tell you anything, though a lot of highscalability.com is general enough for web apps that you can build up an arsenal of approaches to common problems and turn to those when you spot bottle necks emerge.

Ultimately: you can't learn how to scale until you have to, but you can design your system such that it all does one thing well and is obsessively monitored... at least then when you need to you're in a good place to be able to react to that demand.
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By the way throughout highschool I only slept two hours, midnight to 2am. It seemed to me that if you wake up before reaching your REM cycle you do not feel tired.
> This is nontrivial, but is much easier than scaling your own custom stateful code.

Yes, this is an importance piece - and disagrees somewhat with your "don't think about scaling yet" point. Probably the most important part of designing for scale is separating the design into stateless, soft-state and durable state pieces. The stateless pieces are trivially easy to scale (with enough money), either by improving efficiency, using bigger machines or using more machines. Soft-state (read caches, write-through caches, etc) are a little bit harder - but still won't need a huge amount of care.

The difficult piece is durable state storage (typically a database). When you are just starting out, a big database of everything is probably good enough. Chose a solid, widely used data store (MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Oracle, MSSQL, etc) and use it. Do as little in this layer as you can - it's going to be the most expensive and difficult to scale. Put your business logic elsewhere. Protect it from read spikes with a cache. Design your schemas carefully.

Depending on your read/write mix, data volume and the requirements of your application, you can get pretty big (1000s of reads per second, 10s of writes) without any special database hardware or knowledge.

Things to remember:

1) Avoid tight coupling between stateless and durable state parts of your application. There is nothing wrong with running your DB on the same box as your web server when you are small, but don't write code that assumed that architecture.

2) Chose your data model well. Think carefully about the Nouns in your business, and the relationships between those Nouns (much like you would in OO design). Chose the interfaces and relationships between nouns carefully to reduce linkage. Try to keep interfaces clean.

3) Measure, don't assume. Your page loads slowly? Don't throw out Apache and replace it with Nginx. Measure what is taking the time, and concentrate on the slow piece. If your actual web server is slowing you down, then change servers. Most often, though, slowness is going to be either in your database or your application code.

4) Worry about interfaces, objects and design. Don't worry about technology. The latest buzzwords will not save you from bad design practices - and bigger hardware will only save you for so long.
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Are you perhaps thinking about the CoApp project? It's making some decent progess, check out CoApp.org for updates. Last I heard they were in the process of shallow-forking a slew of OSS projects and building them natively in Windows.
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I'd also suggest looking at both Logstash and Greylog2. They both can use MongoDB as the storage engine for logs, and can also do the field extractions.
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I wonder how hard it is to make a device which homes in on X-ray devices.... you know... to guide some sort of thing to an x-ray source.....

yeah, I agree. That's a bad idea.
I'd have posted it as a +/- against the 'standard' 8 hours :)
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Sorry about lecturing you about being foolish. I should have been lecturing you about being foolish and pedantic.

I should have said "work well" instead of "possible". Forgive me.
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