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Check this list out, Running Python - Django [1][3][4]:

-Instagram[0]

-Pinterest

-Disqus

Disqus.com - Disqus serves over 3 billion page views, and more than 500 million unique visitors a month on it's Django stack. As far as we know we are the largest installation out there.

-Mozilla[2]

addons.mozilla.com and support.mozilla.com

250k+ add-ons, 150 million views per month, 500+ million api hits per day (firefox checking for updates!

-Justin.tv(they moved to Django from Rails)[3]

-NASA

-National Geographic

-Canonical

-Bitbucket.org

-Discovery Networks

-Intel, AMD, HP, IBM

-Lexis-Nexis

-The Library of Congress

-The New York Times

-Orbitz

-PBS

-Rdio: Huge traffic Radio site.

-VMWare

-Walt Disney

-The Washington Post.

-lanyrd.com

-OSQA Sites.
OSQA is an Open Sourced similar copy of Stackoverflow, a QnA community. AFAIK some 5K sites are powered by OSQA Stack. OSQA is built on Django.

-Youtube, LinkedIN, Google, NetFlix, Amazon: Python Stacks.

-GMail, Google Calendar, AdSense, AdWords, Android MarketPlace to name a few of the heavy hitters from Google are on Python - Google App Engine.

[0]http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/how-to-scale-a-1-billion-st...

[1]http://jacobian.org/writing/django-community/django-communit...

[2]http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2011/06/06/large-mozilla-s...

References-

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/886221/does-django-scale

[4] http://www.quora.com/Django/What-is-the-highest-traffic-webs...
Prices have come down considerably. $1300 or so buys a 20 cell display. Also, in many countries, they are subsidized.

And no, they do not really compare to a 20-character LCD display. Reason is that blind user have to rescan the line with their hands whenever something changes, and that takes longer than visually scanning it. Effectively, blind users only 'see' two or three characters simultaneously.
First thing that came to my mind was Tony Stark's computer.
Well, with QML... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML

Although, we've run into issues where the garbage collection in QML suddenly kicks in and causes skipped frames leading to jerky animations. Garbage collection is not a panacea, especially not if you want predictable performance, which a responsive and smoothly animating UI requires. There might be solutions like doing incremental time-bounded garbage collection or by not allowing garbage collection at all on the critical, has to run at screen refresh, animation path.
Then the bleeding-heart liberals attacked in 1988,
complaining about their “filthy air” and their “lung cancer”.

This was, of course, the thin end of the wedge.
In 2000, the FAA banned smoking on commercial
planes altogether. Talk about a bunch of buzz-kills.

Really? Does anyone actually think this was a bad idea? Forget the "filthy air" or "lung cancer", exposure to smoke can seriously aggravate asthmatics and other folks with respiratory conditions, not to mention cause respiratory conditions in children. Surely smokers can abstain for a few hours instead of exposing everyone in a confined space to their cigarette smoke. I'm at a loss as to why anyone would complain about this.
Pick whatever one the founding team will be most productive on. Now, try your damnedest to find a business where scaling problems are even on your radar.
http://www.google.com/history
I choose what I want to share on FB.

I don't want Google near my user info.
Creepy!
I agree, music and programming really aren't that different. Just for fun, consider this analogy:

Staff => C++

Tabs => Python

gTar => codeacademy

Staff, like C++, can be quite flexible/expressive, but is loaded with historical baggage and redundant nonsense, and is not easily portable (it was clearly designed with piano in mind). And it has been the defacto standard for a long time (ok, this is a bit might be slightly less analogous).

Tabs, like python, are clear, practical, concise and to-the-point, but lack some information and rigidity (dynamic typing), and need certain requirements in order to be useful (a python VM / fretted instrument)

meanwhile, the gTar looks to be more of a learning environment like codeacademy: it guides you through step-by-step and lets you pick up the basic idea of what it's like to play/program, while still giving you a slight sense of freedom. But of course, it is still just a specialized learning environment, and not a 'real' guitar/programming-environment.
Many years ago I came across a simple graphics program that created caricatures. Details are vague, but it involved plotting the key aspects of a "normal" generic face on in some sort of grid-space, then plotting a more typical (or "interesting" face).

The program then exaggerated the differences between the two. It was fairly basic code, but remarkably effective.
This isn't a judgement on ads. This goes to whether I can move networks if I choose to.
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Minority shareholders can sue if directors breach their fiduciary duty to the shareholders as a whole. It is not strict democracy.
Is that where they say that Facebook contact information may be exported to yahoo and hotmail, but not to gmail?
This is really weird—it even works when you cover one side with your hand.
Audi's strategy in the early 2000s for winning Le Mans 12- and 24-hour endurance races against Bentley was to engineer their cars around failure. The Bentley cars were faster, but Audi engineered theirs to be easier to fix. Over such long races, there were bound to be crashes or failures of various parts and the faster Audi could fix their cars, the quicker they could get back out on the track to outlast the faster cars.

A great example of this was that Bentley used the lightest bolt they could everywhere on the car to minimize weight, but Audi used the same size bolt everywhere to minimize the number of tool changes needed to replace the parts.
How is GitHub worth less than Pintrest

a) Media companies are generally pretty valuable. Pinterest allows users to show clear interests, which should be very easy to convert to commercial intent.

b) The potential market for Pinterest users is much larger, with much less competition than GitHub

c) Software development tools generally are difficult to make money on. Infrastructure can be slightly better, but still expensive. A16Z knows this market as well as anyone (http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2007/070723xa.html)
I took it to be sarcasm. Anyone that puts "lung cancer" in scarequotes has to be joking.
FB does allow you to export your data:

1. Go to Accounts Settings in Facebook.
2. Find a link "Download a copy of your Facebook data".

Data includes all your wall posts, photos and friends names plus their email addresses.
IMHO, it's just the way of things everywhere on the internet. It wont ever change, and the entire population will eventually develop a thick skin. I personally have zero tolerance for abusive verbal behavior, but I've become very comfortable with it in text.

On the other hand, user moderated communities like Hacker News and Reddit seem to cut back on this a lot. Only funny or informative abusive comments are shown.
Harry calling our approach "Dark pattern" is probably far streched. Appsfire App booster is a dialog system and the feedback system is built to give the developer a chance to answer the user before he s goes public about his review. This is in our mind way better than the current practice in the app store. If you want to look at Dark Patterns consider paid review/ratings systems, incentivized ratings systems many apps have built in, or simply abusive intrusive popups breaking the user experience that will probably lead to unjustified negative reviews in the app store.
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> Amazon

I would double check your sources on that one.
The solution to that is to make the driver responsible for cleaning his bus, and also to give him the right to eject people that doesn't follow the rules.
Look up what an IPO is. It is an investment round, not a sale of personally help stock. Most shareholders are forbidden from selling during the IPO period. And in FBs case, they would have gotten better deals on secondary markets before the IPO.
Thinking also for a while to switch—what was the trigger that you switched from Rails to Python/Django?
Clearly free-to-air TV must be worthless too.

And I guess you think Newspaper profits (used to) come from the price people pay for them.
And with that, I agree. Actually FB is providing some level of data movement. I was just replying to my parent comment that was indicating that data should be not be given to Google but to FB because the former will put ads on it.
Expensive schools don't necessarily have motivated students, especially not at the undergrad level. I've met just as many morons from the Ivy Leagues as I've met from state schools (and brilliant people, too). Cost has little to do with desire to learn or focus for an 18-year-old to twenty something.
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https://bitbucket.org/plans

(Which now supports Git: http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/10/03/bitbucket-now-rocks-git...)
Please consider not recommending self-signed certs. StartSSL offers free SSL certs. Use that instead.
He doesn't mention an email, he says "John expressed to me" which could also mean a telephone call or a meet up.

Just saying
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No, he referred specifically to his own mother.
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> DB tends to be the limit

Yes, but Rails is another huge factor too (the ORM, Ruby itself, etc.)—you would get Rails scaled somehow to 18m visitor but it's damn hard.
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Did they consider a loan?
And http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html
Some would say the same thing about removing in-flight beverage service or tossing blankets, pillows, and airline magazines to save weights, yet airlines do it. I think it is equally ridiculous to care about such costs, especially at the cost of focusing management away from the top line, but using logic to suggest it does not happen may not get you far in this case.
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Sadly, that tenant has to be balanced by a problem you can accidentally cause by following the premise of that article that was demonstrated in another article by the same author.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beli...
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Scientists at The University of Texas and Washington State University have come up with an interesting observation. They have found an improved response to stresses in those animals
Netflix makes over $100/user/yr of revenue. Why couldn't Facebook?
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When I finally got through to the WordPress admin, I immediately saw the problem: although the caching plugin was installed and activated, caching was turned off in the plugin’s settings page. Talk about a dumb mistake…

There are a few free load testing services that are good for catching problems with caching or concurrency. I've used http://blitz.io/ before going live to tune my caching and have survived a few HN front-pages.
Please write a post about it when that happens and link it from HN.
Page's point is that you can't import your Facebook contacts to another service, such as Google+.
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Having used both github and some Atlassian products (though, to be fair, not Stash), my instinctive reaction is: No. No. No, No, No. No, No. No.

That might be wrong, but I'd need to see a lot of evidence first.
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Query can take a filter function.

https://github.com/aaronpowell/db.js/blob/master/tests/publi...
If the TSA allows lighters now, I imagine they also allow matches.
In fact, the only way I was able to import my Facebook contacts before closing my Facebook account was to import them to a temporary Yahoo account first.
> People who met me in person were often shocked at how much my in-person impression departed from the picture they had in their minds. I think this mostly had to do with imagining me as being the sort of actor who would be chosen to play me in the movie version of my life—they imagined way too much dignity. That forms a large part of the reason why I occasionally toss in the deliberate anime reference, which does seem to have fixed the divergence a bit.

-- http://lesswrong.com/lw/4y/on_things_that_are_awesome/
No one was promised a hundred billion dollar valuation. Everyone saw the prices on Sharespost.
Thanks for sharing and spending time to document all the steps. Impressive achievement in such a short time.

Will you continue to build on this platform or is this simply a side project?
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My favorite quote is at 2:04: "the cumbersome setup for the slideshow at home are gone..."
So he used WordPress. Is anyone interested in a tool like WordPress with good support for easy-to-install plugins, but built on Node.js/CoffeeScript?

I ask because I have been working a tool like that for a few months and I'm pretty anxious about the reception its going to get, since I'm pretty much basing my whole life on it.
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My favorite quote is at 2:04 "the cumbersome setup for the slideshow at home are gone..."
Nice.

Along these lines, by the way, is my Javascript port of Apple's "key-value coding":

http://quile.github.com/keyvaluecoding-js

which allows you to traverse object graphs without all the null-check nonsense. Admittedly the purpose is slightly different, but they seem related.
Really cool, but I don't really see its relevancy here on Hacker News...
It's only hard if they refused to award more options or RSUs after IPO.
If by addiction to money, you mean necessity for it to pay the bills, then this is true for most workers.

I suspect those of us electing to work upwards of 60 hrs/week at startups have other issues to work out beyond the allure of money.
...and then when the driver of $ethnicityA kicks off a passenger of $ethnicityB, there's a lawsuit and we're back to square one.
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Countries with reasonable (& enforced) regulation of working conditions still grow tomatoes. They just cost a little more.
Email Addresses?

Really?

Those were removed for quite a while. If they're available now, it's kind of a big deal.
Is the music they're playing during the countdown something identifiable? It's the kind of thing that's perfect for playing over and over for hours without getting repetitive.
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Once a stock option vests, its future value is irrelevant, since one can simply buy the stock at market price if the option is underwater. The option only offers a small hedge against volatility.
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Sounds very interesting. Not sure you should be basing your whole life on it, but still curious to see it!
And what's the P/E at the $33 price? OK then.
> Those same people, ignored or hugged will often just find harassing your channel boring and move on.

I wonder if an "invisible ban" would work with trolls? What I mean is that their messages appear to them, butr not to any other user. So the troll isn't aware they've been banned. Has anyone used this?
Thanks! But I'm not sure how else I can build on it except add more sites… if you have any ideas I'd love to hear them :)
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There'll probably come a time when the Congress will get involved, and mandate that any personal data that was provided by the user should be transferable to another server upon the user's request. Sorta like number portability.
Stop putting words in my mouth. I never said that this is a solution for labor rights or unemployment right now.
No, he just accidentally posted the same comment twice. The new one got autokilled. Then he deleted the first one, leaving a single dead comment.
There are people who enjoy smoking and playing Zynga games, though. Positive benefit is relative. Just because you don't like cigarettes or Farmville doesn't mean that no one does. The argument that Blizzard doesn't care how much time you put into World of Warcraft doesn't hold up, either. The lower levels have a lot of grinding and the higher levels have multi-hour raids. World of Warcraft has addictive properties baked in to keep you playing, just like Zynga games. You could make the argument that Zynga is "evil" for milking addicted players for thousands of dollars, but Diablo III's auction house creates a similar dynamic. Isn't it enough to say that you think Zynga's games suck, but Blizzard's are good?
I occasionally venture into the IRC rooms for Rails, node.js, or some other technology when I need a quick answer that can't be found elsewhere.

I'm always shocked at how stereotypically asinine and snarky the responses to legitimate questions are. Yes it's IRC, yet somehow I expect it not to live up to its reputation - yet it does every time.
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Why are flats in Dahisar so popular today? 
The real estate market in Mumbai looks calm these days after an upheaval in the past 2-3 years. An economic blow suffered by America, imprints bruises on the Indian market, the tricks of the trade are bewildering and befuddling many times.
Google has sold its last copy of. Sketchup
http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-home-for-sketch...
Trolls and malcontents have infinitely more time and will put infinitely more effort into abusing a community than good standing members will in participating. Trolls will jump through every hoop. I've seen serious trolls not care if their personal details are known; they're unafraid. But I've seen honest valuable members work extremely hard to keep their information provide.
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That's an observation i've made myself a dozen times too, i'm from Flanders (Belgium) where basically not a single show on public television is dubbed, all shows are subtitled and I'm confident that it has been a great stimulation in my ability to speak and understand english, even though it's not perfect. When I look at the other side of the country (Wallonia) where they speak french natively almost all shows on public TV networks are dubbed in french. The wallonians I know are pretty hard to understand when they speak english, they might grasp the grammar and spelling but their pronunciation is really bad.

PS: I don't mean to generalize here, it's just my personal observation, of course there are a lot of french talking people who speak perfectly understandable english fluent. I just feel that the fact that I've watched english spoken television shows all my life has helped me a huge amount in learning english.
Okay, semantics; you're right, in my haste I misread the original quote. If you're judging a game strictly on quality, platform has nothing to do with it; most (all?) modern platforms have decent game libraries so dev time just depends on what you're used to. If you're judging a game on mass appeal, popularity, or user friendliness -- or just plain success -- platforms absolutely, beyond a doubt, matter.

As for your last point though... lolwut. iOS was just an example, the same is true for consoles, other app markets, etc. iOS apps bear "no weight" in the statement that a proprietary platform causes slow time to market?! iOS is one of the largest and most developed-for proprietary platforms, which makes it a great example, which means it absolutely does bear weight -- and a lot of weight at that -- in a statement that generalizes proprietary platforms. </semantics>
Thanks for the info. Account seems to be normal again, mental state is not.
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Watching this from Scotland live over the Internet. Feeling quite excited at the prospect of private enterprise supplying the International space station and hopefully kick starting something.
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Invisible bans only work so well; trolls figure it out pretty quick. I've used it on forums.
I don’t want to sound like an old smart ass but I’m regularly grateful how the tech community evolved; the article mentions it too, it was _really_ bad. The usenet of the 90’s and early 2000’s was a fierce battle zone and newbie chip pan.

Nowadays community leaders refuse to tolerate assholes (<http://jacobian.org/writing/assholes/>) – back then they more often than not acted like those. I wouldn’t have thought back then that we’d come ever so far.

Not that we arrived yet…
And because of this, other people who want to export their contact list to Gmail shouldn't be able to without large amounts of manual effort?
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At this point, it's almost easier to enumerate the things that are not yet criminal offenses in Britain.
I can't believe I'm staying up to watch this, but it just might be history in the making.
HN Meetup Munich: May 2012
It's HN Munich Meetup time again.

Date: Thu 31 May 2012
Time: 19:00 -- open-ended
Location: Reitmor 3
Reitmorstrasse 3
80538 Munich
http://www.reitmor3.de

If you'd like to present something, please give advance notice for planning. There is a beamer but keep in mind that people will be drinking beer while you talk.

If you are (part of) a startup, company, or financier, this is an excellent opportunity to step in front of the HN Munich community.

For questions or suggestions, contact us at hnmunichmeetups@gmail.com.

See you soon,

HSO

PS: Please leave a comment indicating whether you're coming so we can get a rough idea how many. Thx.
I used to be called a ninja at my old startup when i moved out to the valley. Quickly changed after going to a few meetups
That's a very good and important question. It's too easy to dismiss it, because "it's just a game". Still, people do get addicted.
Part of his point is that Facebook's T&C related to contact export would surprise many of their users.
Joe Davis has been encoding data into DNA for some time.

http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Davis_(artist)
Which is completely true. But the overall impact could be as great as a new Intel, midterm and from a global perspective.

Seems you get more disruptive bangs per buck now than you got some time ago.