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I loved Webvan when it existed, and then Tesco's delivery service in the UK, but never got into the delivery options in the US since then. (I also ended up with >30 of their crates...)

I'd pay $50/wk for someone to go to storage freezer (deer, beef), the butcher in Alameda (other meat), Berkeley Bowl (produce), Tokyo Fish Market (fish, japanese stuff), Whole Foods (365 is a decent deal, failthrough for anything not at the above), Costco (specific bulk items, like ito-en green tea and san pelligrino), and Trader Joe's (frozen food) to get groceries. Unfortunately, I think I outgrew Safeway some time ago. The other problem is I often want to buy highly seasonal items, based on availability, price, and quality. I don't think there's a good way to get the quality I want at a single store at a decent price; Whole Foods comes closest, but is expensive. Add BevMo for liquor, too.

Webvan had basically one or two steps better quality than Safeway (on par with Andronico's), and all in one place.

A service to get stuff for a party during the party (e.g. if you run out of beer) in 1h for $10 would be awesome. I don't think I'd use 3h Safeway delivery even if free. I would use a higher end service with great quality food (by going to the right shops) if the ordering experience exposed current inventory status.
I haven't used the LLNL port myself, but I would be shocked if it were not rock-solid. First, ZFS (unlike, say, DTrace) has reasonably limited dependencies on broader system implementation; you don't have to port other subsystems to get ZFS working. Second, even where it does have external dependencies, it can operate remarkably well when they're not functioning: because of its indirect checksums, ZFS can operate correctly (or at least, non-fatally) in the presence of nearly byzantine behavior from the I/O subsystem. Third, of the ZFS issues I've seen and helped debug over the years (and my data has been on ZFS as long as just about anyone's), none have manifested themselves as data corruption or (in the absence of physical failure that exceeded the redundancy of the pool) data loss. Finally, of these issues over the years, virtually all were fixed inside of ZFS itself -- there was no platform specificity to either the problem or the fix. (The exceptions being platform-level I/O issues that resulted in pathological performance -- but it's hard to call those ZFS issues.)

tl;dr: absent glaring port issues, ZFS on Linux is or should be at maturity of ZFS itself -- which is to say, very mature.
They also see that their product is an app store, and it is going to get eaten up in the next few years as desktop and mobile OSes converge around security models that will not let unsigned apps from outside the app store onto user devices. This is the same reason they are building out their platform on linux. It may be the largest change they will have to make as a company, to try and convert their entire business away from it's traditional roots as an app (game) store for windows, as windows 8 and further generations introduce tighter security and stricter requirements around app distribution.

The same goes for mac. I'm sure they realized the mac app store was going to kill their business on mac. In a few OS generations, unsigned apps will be unallowed except for the most power users.
To me the parent's statement was entirely valid. A spreadsheet has a certain definition to many people. That definition includes doing calculations. While people use programs like excel to do many other things that Grid will be good at, that doesn't make it a spreadsheet app. Also, this is a very rude comment with name calling etc. that clearly doesn't follow the HN guidelines. If somebody other than pg wrote it it would be heavily downvoted by now.
This was a great post. I have a lot of respect for you for being so honest and open. Do you want your next gig to be related to robotics?

Side note: I remember when my first phase of 'burnout' hit me and I literally got sick at a meeting with a bunch of investors. There's a whole post to be done on taking care of yourself in a startup there.
People are excited by Node doing numbers like this because there is a massive active Javascript community - with hundreds of thousands of people using Javascript all day every day at work. 0.01% of these people would ever consider learning Erlang, and even if they did they would not be able to use it at work - ever. As with everything having better features means nothing if nobody adopts. I am not saying nobody uses Erlang and I am not saying people are not adopting it - but the number are just not comparable to the Javascript community . Lastly just because you know a but of Javascript I realise that this does not mean you can architect massive real time systems. But it is like WOW even people that play casually aspire to having the best kit or playing for a top guild.
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I'm not drinking 4 cups of whole milk for breakfast.

I'm probably never going to eat a cup of almonds and some celery for lunch...

I think you need to put some serious work into making sure that each suggestion is appetizing as opposed to rummaging through the pantry and finding something that technically meets the requirements.
RAIDZ is about cheaper redundancy than mirroring; that's its optimization constraint, and by altering the ratio of drives to bit parity you can adjust to your risk taste. Since all drives need to be written and read for every read and write, the array will only be as fast as its slowest disk. But for large files, you still get the benefit of parallelism in drive bandwidth (rather than losing out from longer seeks). I see hefty throughput in video files on my home NAS, for example; over 400mb/sec locally, in practice it's limited by the gigabit Ethernet on my network.
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The other day when IV came up, I decided to check out their Careers page. My mission was threefold:

1) See what kind of people they like to hire and what they claim those people will be doing.

2) See what their mission statement and recruiting copy looked like.

3) See if there was a job that I could apply to, not because I have any interest at all in working there, but because I thought detailed notes of the process might make a good blog post.

1 was pretty generic -- generally just lawyers to do lawyer things, and a few engineers and project managers for some nebulous "projects.

3 didn't really lead me anywhere -- I couldn't find a position that I could apply to to even get offered an interview.

2 was the most interesting. Reading their website, it sounds like what they are doing is trying to make the world better by helping inventors get their inventions out and defending poor inventors who have great ideas but are being crushed by big companies.

I really really hoped that they aren't so delusional that they actually believe their own hype, but I fear that they are and they do.
Yeah, how dare we as developers criticise a website disseminating wrong information like W3Schools. It's not their fault they get tonnes of Google traffic and have made no effort whatsoever to bring their site inline with other equally great resources.

The first Google result for the query, "div tag" is a W3Schools page. The page then cringefully displays a sample piece of code with an inline style colour attribute that probably would have been acceptable in 2002. Don't get me wrong, as a developer I think W3Schools can serve a purpose, but I've often found myself on a W3Schools reference page and not leaving a single useful piece of information.

It feels like W3Schools hasn't changed since it launched. I'm guessing the software company that runs it has better things to do and doesn't really care whether or not they're miseducating people.

And by the way, I think the author is about 7 years too late on the W3Schools hate train, the article reads like hating W3Schools is a new thing.
Thank you. I lied a lot as a teenager, became really good at it, then realised my life would actually be easier if I just told the truth all the time.

I hope my next gig will be somewhere amongst the union of robotics, consumer tech, useful, helps humanity, and scalable. It wouldn't have to be robotics (but robotics can be arbitrarily vague anyway), as long as there's room for me to learn and I can actually see people using what I've created.
That's the problem though, people who have been misled by w3schools often don't even realise it.
This would be the perfect tool for me and my friends if we could only change the macronutrient percentages (protein, fat, carbs) for the day and for each meal. Otherwise, great work. One of the coolest web apps I've seen in a while
It says "Coming Soon" on that page, not "Released". That's not how it works at all right now, and moreover what do you need to crowdsource?

If you're a developer and you make an app that doesn't violate the rules of the store, you should be able to submit it. That's how the App Store works.

Having to rally community support with no promise of what the threshold for acceptance is is crazy. Doesn't seem more transparent or less cryptic to me at all.
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I agree. As much as some people in the world want App.net to be, the majority of the world doesn't care. After all, even Twitter took years to be accepted by the main stream users. Are your mom and dad on Twitter? If the answer is no, then even Twitter hasn't succeeded yet. Without millions of users, neither will App.net

The majority of the population is used to paying money for services, but they pay to the services where they have no other choices - telecom companies. They do so because phones used to be a luxury, then a necessity, and I think they still are a necessity. You can't just wish your iphone into sending a message, you got to have it connected to some network.

Even if Dalton raised the .5mil and built the network, the network won't grow and without growth it will soon stagnate and die. He could then, of course, open the network up on a freemium model, which may be an interesting experiment, but chances are at the end of the day advertising money will be the only source of truly meaningful revenue. After all, if Facebook and Twitter are giving you everything for free and only asking for your ad clicks, why would you want to pay? I mean, I know why, because you want an open network without ads. I mean, if you had a choice to buy milk and cookies for your child or to buy a month's worth of social networking ... I sure hope you pick the cookies.
That site needs some serious work - I spent a couple minutes trying to figure out how to use it or get it to do anything before figuring out I had to contact them to try it out. No thanks.
You can change it for the day at the bottom of the "meal options" menu. Not yet for individual meals though
Yep, how classy of DanielRibeiro to do so (that is if it was intentional or not), but I don't see how it wasn't intentional unless Amazon have started adding them to the end of their URL's, haha.
If you have near-zero marginal costs and you benefit from user numbers, charging basic users is completely insane.
Is there a similar site that is less Firefox-specific?
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Yeah I had a history of bending the truth until I realized it just got me in more trouble than it was worth. Interesting article in Esquire on 'Radical Honesty' you might enjoy here: http://www.esquire.com/features/honesty0707 -- You have to take it with a grain of salt, but a good read at the very least.
My understanding is that it is. There's been a box inside (and now out front) for a few weeks now.
I'm just wondering if you're not working on any of the three ideas at all, why not mention them atleast? Someone else may benefit out of it. On the other hand, if you plan to re-visit them in the future...
I do not think it was intended to be personal, but somehow I find it strange that "feedback" gets bashing. Isn't that what "Show HN" posts are for ? What, you care enough to post your question/impression/opinion about an upcoming app, and you are treated as a member of "worst forces at work in the world", a servant of the Devil or something.

In my book ANY feedback is valuable, even the ones who say your app is crap/irrelevant/missing a key feature. If one if scared of getting feedback, then entrepreneurship is probably not the right occupation for them.
I agree. I've been developing web stuff since '98 or so, and w3schools is quick, easy, and I've never run into an accuracy problem that affected a real, production site. Most are academic.

Sure, there's better sites out there, but sometimes you just have to trust the Google.

If the site shows up #1 for 90% of web stuff you're looking for, then others obviously found it useful too.
"I didn't care enough about money to run a startup."

There's the rub. A startup cannot be about the money - it's about changing the world and the way people live. If you are already doing that and feel fulfilled in your job (which most entrepreneurs simply can't), then more power to you.

You don't start a company for the sake of starting a company, you start a company because a startup is the only possible means by which you can bring to pass the change you want to see in the world and live the lifestyle you want to live. Michael Arrington compared it to becoming a pirate. "The potential for riches was just an argument for the venture. But the real payoff was the pirate life itself."

That having been said, I love the refreshing honesty about the reality of startup failure. A small part of me wishes more people wrote the stories of their failure; TechCrunch would be 90% people running through savings and eating ramen and 10% successful exits. Thank you for giving a real perspective into what entrepreneurship can be like.
1 slice of pan-fried bacon is under 50 calories. If that's the meat in my sandwich, yeah, I think 8 sounds pretty reasonable.

on the other hand, that's a lot of salt. nearly 200mg of sodium per slice. so yeah, if you are watching your sodium intake? probably a bad idea. But calorie-wise, completely reasonable.
Fair enough, that wasn't a great example. However the Steam UI becoming randomly invisible when docked and then undocked, in-app browser constantly breaking, and using their own notifications UI that gets stuck on screen and doesn't offer Growl support are better examples.
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>As with everything having better features means nothing if nobody adopts

Well, it means my product is going to be superior since I went the better, if less well known, architecture. It's not like erlang is a little unsupported side-project of a language, it's actually older then javascript if you count the time period before it was open-sourced, and only a few years younger if you don't, and is used extensively by many industries.

Also, just because javascript the language is more well-known doesn't mean javascript the server architecture is more well-known. I would argue it isn't; when people want a highly concurrent, solid server, erlang is always mentioned.

Lastly, erlang is a pretty easy language to learn. I had the basics down in a day, I had a prototype pubsub server that could handle 50k connections in two. The syntax is a bit strange, and honestly it does get in the way sometimes, but it's not hard.
I would be curious to know how something like Play! with all Async requests, or MVC with all Async would do. Probably similarly impressive, but I really have no idea.
I like the simplicity. Obviously your site can only get better. One thing that would interest me in upgrading to a paid account is the opportunity to select how much I'd would like to spend on the food itself, is there any way to take in to account local food prices? Keep it up!
Well they're still described on the company website, but I didn't want to drive traffic to them when I'm not actually going to pursue them (commercially at least).
Imagine a simple market (if you're wincing already, I'm right there with you, but you asked for this right?). There are 100 customers, and two products. The products are interchangeable, save for the performance of their bloom filters.

This is a zero sum game from the perspective of the two companies providing the products.
Very nice and useful App. Please consider options for different metrics as well like KGs and Metres/CentiMeters.
This is the age-old philosophical discussion on whether free will exists or whether it is just an illusion (the so-called free-will vs. determinism debate). The main argument against free will is that our actions are directly determined by the state of our brain, and that since we don't have complete access/control to our brains, we don't really have free will.

Yes, perhaps. But I do not think that this implies that we do not have any free will, but rather that our choices may be influenced by processes that are oblivious or transparent to our minds. Take the simple choice of picking an arbitrary 5-digit number. It's likely that most people will say the first digits that come to mind as an answer. I certainly did. These numbers may have popped in mind as a consequence of their current brain state. But the thing to remember is that a person still has the choice to purposefully alter or re-consider their response. They are not forced to simply choose what first comes to mind. In other words, they can choose whatever number that they want.

So yes, while we may not have total free will -- and there is experimental evidence to support this -- I don't think that we absolutely and positively have no free will either. The truth, I think, is somewhere in between.
There's a sliding scale for this sort of thing
For instance: I would happily drink 4 cups (which sounds to me like approx 1litre ... I really dislike 'cup' measurements) of whole milk every morning
How was this site built?
I'm assuming it's not talking about thick-cut bacon... that sounds just about right to me.
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Off to a good start. I like being able to lock items into a meal, pulling foods from the left menu, the food picker and the sliders for fats / carbs / protein. The presets for vegan, paleo, Atkins etc are handy but need some adjusting. The biggest thing is getting more recipes, especially for the different diet types. Also avoiding too much of one item, like nuts or bacon. Probably some more help / tips / hints would be useful for new users.
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If this could build a week at a time I would never stop using it.
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I conceptually agree with you but this service is called "Burner", they have couldn't have picked a worse name for a 'legit' service. They have metaphorically written "for criminals and wanna be spys" on their back and are carrying around a 10 foot sign saying "Department of Justice, come and get me!".

Everyone looking at this service is completely justified in being skeptical and asking questions.
Funny that your UID is Papa_Bear.. and you are having difficulty finding a setting that is "just right"
It's remarkably accurate. There's stuff in it that makes me wince, but I suppose that's a feature of any accurate portrait.

Randy got to see everything, even interviews, and he's a very observant guy.
How do Zynga employees feel about the company's summer 2012 stock price drop?
> "I think the author is about 7 years too late..."

If Hacker News participants ran the world no one would care about history. We can discuss things that happened in the past. It sure as hell sparked discussion here.

> "Don't get me wrong, as a developer I think W3Schools can serve a purpose..."

And it does. It's easy to understand, which is not something you find often in sites trying to teach something. As I said elsewhere, good code makes crappy tutorials since it introduces more concepts that can confuse and overwhelm a inexperienced reader.
MG Siegler: I don't think App.net will succeed
Post: http://massivegreatness.com/walter-white

I couldn't agree with him more.
1) It is service no one wants/cares for. People don't mind ads on Google/Twitter/Facebook.
2) There are already other services that are at scale.

Overall, this really stuck with me:
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" - just see Google's recent transformation.
Worth noting that we can't verify if these are Zynga employees, of course.
Maybe not, but I can still appreciate them and remember what they offered.
Sure, but that's not what I was asking. Compared to these competitors, app.net has a business model that relies less on a huge customer base to show ads to. Could a smaller user base not suffice when you charge users upfront? Can it be successful without unseating Twitter? Can it have a different sort of success (e.g. a healthy margin and a good user experience for nerds instead of hashtags at the bottom of every TV show?)
I did. I am fully aware of the inaccurate content I ran with from w3schools, which is why I corrected myself. That does not change the fact w3schools was there when I needed a source that was easy to understand.
I honestly don't believe it's fair to not interpret the maybes as name calling. Even so, the "But you ... represent one of the worst forces at work in the world" cannot possibly be defended as not a personal attack. Come on! I would not say that to someone's face, and it certainly isn't being civil.
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I used linux and windows as my primary OS's for a long time and recently picked up a macbook air. I thought there was something wrong with it for a fews hours due to how 'blurry' the font rendering was and I still have the hinting turned down. I'll give you that its "prettier", but easier to read.....no.....
I think it varies heavily by personality and economic status. For me, $5 or less is a rounding error. For some it's $1 or less, for others it's $20 or more.
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I'm sure people had the same complaints about smart phones.
To the extent good code makes crappy tutorials, the language is what's broken.

An unproductive comment, but I think it's a defensible one.
That is exactly why they are a special case that should be handled by the file manager, not the file system.
Perhaps the real problem is your counter-reaction: "almost everyone knows and admits that 9/10 fail."

A lot of people think that, but it's not 9 out of 10 startups that fail.

It's FAAR worse odds than that.
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Or, maybe Steam itself will be the stalking horse for Steam for Linux. It makes absolute sense to me that Steam will push Linux hard, planting a flag on the OS in the eyes of gamers, while simultaneously trying to turn this spike in adoption into good will with the Linux community.
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I would happily drink [a liter] of whole milk every morning

Same here, plus you could throw in some stevia & cocoa to make it chocolate milk without adding much extra energy.