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It probably depends heavily on your routes out to the internet -- it's likely that for someone else the situation is reversed.
I'd be a lot happier if I saw hints that FathomDB would also handle slave/mastering situations as well. Ideally it would be really easy to set those up, add new slaves, etc. I didn't see anything on this in the FAQ-- nor a clarification on the backups. Are the backups daily, are they EBS snapshots, etc?

Right now, the only thing that looked overly compelling (versus our existing RightScale/free+MySQL tools) was some of the performance analysis reports, but we get hints at that via other mechanisms.

Promising, especially if it grows. I'm hopeful because we use so much EC2 and this could help us speed things up if it adds more features.
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I agree with you. I just wanted to consider what would be the optimal way to jumpstart a competitor. The chance of any city actually carrying out the plan I suggested is microscopic.

Which is itself an interesting point, because it shows how unlikely the Valley is to face significant competition in the foreseeable future.
Sure, I'd be curious to hear why you think so. I'd be interested to see how it compares to the other explanations I've heard of this perennial phenomenon.
Just a fun shrinker we cooked-up. It will be a very long time before these urls get very long.

For example, Hacker News is:

http://➡.ws/퐐

They won't work in IE6, but that's just the way it goes. Should work great on Twitter, hopefully.
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"Startup founders are mostly hackers, and hackers are much more constrained by gentlemen's agreements than regulations. If they shake your hand on a promise, they'll keep it. But show them a lock and their first thought is how to pick it."

I love this quote, and agree wholeheartedly. Hackers are typically some of the most honorable people I know, and when they say something, they mean it. Likewise, they're some of the most ingenious people I know. When it comes to taking something apart or putting it together, hackers can usually do it.
Elaborate first, else your post is merely a "vote up if..." type post that adds nothing useful to the discussion.
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I think the way to do it is not to compete with silicon valley directly but follow the path of Singapore and they caymans in betting big on a niche. Rather than trying to be the best at everything like SV is, aim to be truly world class in just a few areas.

I think there's probably a dozen cities in the world that could be world leaders in cloud computing simply by offering great deals on data centers as long as research and development work is also being done there.

A city could leap to world class status for mobile/location based services by offering to buy every citizen a smartphone and then inviting startups to come experiment.

Really, cities sho:ld take the exact same advice startups take: find a niche and serve it well rather than trying to crack the mass market with some luke warm offering.
I thought it was going to be some story about a webcam coming on accidentally at a really bad time.

The article has some good advice. Also, remember to clear personal data from your web browser if you're demoing a web app.
There's a big difference between a family making $75K and $250K a year. I wouldn't lump them together as 'upper middle class'
Agreed. Same goes for the discussion and comments for Fowler's article:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=496285
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They may actually have been better off in Tampa. They've ended up slowly and gradually creating something really excellent, and that suits their personalities very well. But they are unusual people (in a good way).
Could anyone comment on the feasibility and speed of using this service as a database for a non-EC2 dedicated box?
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My guess is that the way to get the rich, angel people somewhere else is to offer a better environment than SV, in the literal sense of the term. It seems, for instance, that Boulder has attracted a fair amount of angels, startups and the like, despite (or maybe because of) being a fairly small town in proportion to the bay area. For instance, if I made a pile of money, I would not live in the bay area (I don't live there anyway, so maybe I won't make a pile of money, either:-). After all, rich or not, stuck in traffic on 101 is stuck in traffic on 101.
There definitely is. The question is whether a free million dollars would be enough to compensate or not.

It's interesting we're even unsure of that. It means we're at least considering the possibility that merely being in the Valley is worth a million dollars to an early stage startup.
Where does the author find securities guaranteed to provide a 10% after-tax annual return for the next 47 years? I'm sure there must be some out there somewhere... after all, his entire model depends on such securities existing.

In all seriousness, compounding is great... IF you can reliably get good returns. These days, after taxes and inflation, you have to be very lucky to get 5%, never mind 10%.
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The Valley itself started out working on what was initially a fairly small niche. And whatever displaces it will probably do the same. But to do this deliberately, the city would have to pick the niche that's going to explode, and that would be really hard. The Valley didn't pick semiconductors; more like the other way around.
Honestly, Silicon Valley has one killer asset that is hard to match.

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YMMV, but with a larger operation having the CEO get involved in customer engagements that don't mean either closing a big sale or ensuring one isn't lost causes most clients to assume the CEO is their buddy.

This means he's now their go-to guy for the most trivial of issues. Besides being a PITA for the boss this also effectively neuters the account team. Not ideal.
Generally, I just use my own (co-located) DNS server from my laptop. However, I sometimes run into problems with wireless providers away from home, especially at airports: sometimes they have it set up such that you have to log in or pay at a URL that they expect the local DNS resolver (which their DHCP will have handed you) to resolve to the local server.

So, for example, foo.someprovider.net when resolved at City Airport using the local DNS server will point to an IP handling payment/login for City Airport, but the very same hostname foo.someprovider.net at OtherCity Airport will resolve to a different IP that happens to be the payment/login server on the local net at OtherCity Airport.

I've run into other instances of this. Basically, not taking the DNS server that DHCP hands you, sometimes causes problems. Usually you can figure out what's happening and change your settings, so it's an annoyance rather than a real failure.
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Same here for my neighborhood. For me, this warrants not using the product at all... why use something that has an incomplete dataset? I could be missing out on that perfect listing!

Another thing is that some postings don't contain sufficient information for a machine to know its location... such as "near the Xyz subway station" or other atypical types of addresses that the project's parser might miss.

It's a cool mash-up, but I'll pass.
The "not many contacts" part is addressed, according to the OP, by moving no less than ~30 startups in one batch.
Not allowing me to enter my location, and instead having me zoom/wait-to-load several times makes me wish that closing the tab somehow inflicted pain on the software.
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Atwood thinks too highly of himself for my liking. Just saying.
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I don't "hate the big megacorp" at all. I just think it's no longer necessary.
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Meta: You've written quite a bit about what would it take to replicate a Silicon Valley. Is that merely an exercise to try and better understand startup ecosystems, or have you actually been asked for this kind of advice (by governmental institutions, I presume)?
Sorry to disappoint: there is no great tale of working back channels, I just emailed them on the address they provided in the conference info.
8 or 16? In 5 years? I think Moore's Law will get us more than that. Typical now is 2 to 4.

And while I agree that the most popular language will be something brand new, it's based more on non-public information I've seen.

I'm not sure I agree with your "superiority theory". Languages become popular because of the core problem they're solving. C++ was popular when Windows came out, Java when the web took off. The next big language will be able to handle multi-threading easily, so that when we hit 64 cores, it won't be a waste.
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Thank you for writing this.

I've been putting some considerable energy lately into trying to grow a startup culture in my area (Grass Valley, Sierra Foothills) out of thin air. To date that has involved launching a co-working space, founding a "solopreneurs" organization, and beginning to pitch the benefits of startup culture to local investors and shakers/movers.

I'm not looking to compete with Silicon Valley -- for reasons that you and others have pointed out, I don't think that's possible -- but I do think that we can create our own unique version of it. We're geographically isolated by two small arterial highways, there is a lot of scenic beauty and outdoor activities, and there is a strong push to localize products and services. There's also a healthy respect for technology here -- Atari was a prominent figure here back in its early days, Grass Valley Group engineers top-of-the-line video equipment, Spectrum Sensors & Controls builds various motors and potentiometers for government and high-tech applications, and the local cities are keen to attract more high-tech companies. For those reasons and others, I think there's a chance of incubating a small but successful startup environment here.

So although on the face of it what you wrote would suggest that it can't be done here, I think it also indirectly provides some support for it.
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I'm think it is wholly because it is unenforceable and unverifiable when it comes down to it. P3P allows websites owners to assert their privacy policies, and some aspects of the TOS, in "machine readable" formats. This was supposed to allow standardization to allow better filtering automatically when you visit a site. You tell your browser you are only interested in sites that "collect cookies for the purposes of aggregate data collection" and "don't sell personal information to third parties", and the browser was supposed to warn you, or change its functionality, based on your targets with the site's claimed assertions. It doesn't work like that though, for the same reason the Firefox bad certificate screen ended up being more annoying than useful: no one actually cared about security more than using the site. It's easier to override the settings and use the site. And you could never be sure, until after the fact when it's too late because the information is already out there, that the policy was ever followed or not.

And because of that and the way IE's default "internet zone" cookie policy worked, you pretty much had to, as a website, assert policies that were amenable to the IE defaults.

This would only work when there is significant competition between interchangeable and interoperable sites anyway. Facebook asserts policies A, B, and C, while Myspace asserts policies X, Y, and Z. Well, those policy differences don't mean anything if I actually want to use Facebook because that's that's where my friends are. Privacy policies are only a differentiation point if the policies are different and the services are exactly the same, which is actually impossible (and not really in the indivdual sites' best interest anyway).

P3P has some use as a way to monitor the privacy policy and TOS on a site, and have your browser notify you of changes. I don't think this is necessarily better than what happened with Facebook TOS where someone was following it closely, actually read it, and raised hell about it. There's an emotional aspect tied to that, one that doesn't exist when your browser pops up a box with a warning you just want to dismiss and get out of your way.
The idea is certainly worth trying, but I fear where this falls down is the most important kind of funding, which is publicity.

Tech media, bloggers and so on, they're all in the Valley, and they are very narrowly focused on local startups. They will hype the startups next door relentlessly and mostly ignore everyone else. Sometimes they will even ridicule or actively bully outsiders as astute techcrunch readers will have noticed.

Startup culture takes more than startups I'm afraid, but startups are certainly a start, so why not try?
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Amen to this. I once had a professor who was a) a genius and b) insisted on editing code live during the middle of a demo after having found a bug. You could practically see the eyes of the demoees glaze over in real time.

Our other professor, who was a) a genius and b) had some marketing skill, approached every product demo like it was the invasion of Normandy. He didn't just have it drilled to perfection, he had a Camtasia video of the entire thing drilled to perfection so if anything crapped out he could say "Whoops, technical issue -- now switching to the video of when I did it earlier today. As you can see..."
While corruption and error are certainly major factors in privacy, there are some things that are just private. I don't want people, even people I know and trust completely, to know about the details of my sex life. Not because my sex life is crazy and deviant, because it is private. I don't want to have clear bathroom stalls, not because I'm doing something wrong or worry about someone harming me, but because it is private. Voyeurism is an invasion of privacy, it doesn't hurt people in any other way, but it is illegal, and should be.

In short, privacy is import because of the instinct you mention. The desire for privacy is the reason for privacy. Privacy is like freedom, it is a basic human desire and requires justifications to violate or remove, not to support.
Even if it were possible, I still don't think it a good idea. That money has to come from somewhere, and it comes from the bank accounts of people that planned to use it on something other than investing in startups. There's nothing that startups add to a community that I think is a priori better than other things that a community of people would have chosen voluntarily to spend its money on.

Some places fund startups, some don't. That's what comes from having free will and individual liberty. Other people may make different choices than we would, but it doesn't follow that we should force them to be like us. I suggest we should respect other peoples' autonomy.

It has long been the credo of the social planner that the common man is too stupid and too provincial to pursue his own happiness, and that he should be cajoled into doing what is good for him. That credo has been the prelude to a lot of well-intentioned misery. I understand that there are things which are "public goods" which we may wisely choose to produce with public dollars, but investing in private businesses doesn't strike me as one of those public goods.

I don't see the social value in taking a lot of money from private folks to spread a concentration of startups more evenly over the landscape.

I understand that Paul is pondering what can be done and not what ought to be done. I just don't think it is a good idea. If I want to live in an area with lots of startups, I'll move to Silicon Valley where people have voluntarily chosen to fund them.

Finally, Paul states that this is a good idea because municipalities already waste a lot of money on projects of dubious value, such as baseball stadiums. That's true, but it doesn't follow that those municipalities should spend that money on other projects of dubious value. Another response would be that they should leave people and their money alone.
Is there a benefit to using EC/2 for mysql if the majority of the work is reads rather than writes (Something like 90/10)? A large site I work (non-profit) could move all our mysql DBs to EC/2 with something like FathomDB, but I worry that it will be more expensive (and not that better performance-wise) than our current dedicated server at Rackspace.
It's useful to have contacts other than people working at other startups.
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I'm not too sure if you are arguing for or against the commercial RDBMS.

To me, that sounds like a pretty good argument against it - the great thing about MySQL/Postgres+Sharding is that it scales down, as well as up. You can start out with a single server, then gradually add in extra servers as you need them. With the "single big DB server model" it doesn't work like that - you have to make a pretty decent investment early on in the software licence, build your software to use it, and then the pricing isn't linear, either.

Plus, the backup/redundancy thing sucks too - with sharded MySQL you need a couple of spare cheap servers, but with Oracle etc you need to pay twice for the licence and a second server.

OTOH, in a corporate environment it's much easier to predict your usage and the pricing is easier to justify. Also your priority is safety+justifiability first rather than price or even price/performance.
It means we're at least considering the possibility that merely being in the Valley is worth a million dollars to an early stage startup.

Close, but not quite -- we're considering whether staying in the Valley is worth a million dollars. It might be that being in the Valley is worth far less than staying in the Valley simply because moving sucks so much... even if you're not "tied down", it's still a couple weeks of packing/travelling/looking for an apartment/unpacking/figuring out your way around a new city/etc which could be spent coding.
Well, sooner or later the company needs to scale. Better later than sooner.

The hockey stick of employees right after funding is lethal. It's not an organic growth, productivity drops through the floor, and instead of managing code (which they're experts at) the founders start managing people (decidedly less expert at this).

It's an error of inexperience. You only make that mistake once.
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Can you elaborate on this? It sounds very similar to something I was saying about tarsnap recently -- that if I had been in San Francisco, I'd have launched tarsnap twice as fast and it would be half as good as a result; and that being in Vancouver gave me enough distance from the startup world that I could avoid getting carried away with hype -- but I might be reading more into your comment than is really there.
Give more money to the VC industry in California because they're the only players capable of picking winners? Where is the evidence the VC industry in California is even competent?

From the outside California looks like its waking up from a ten-plus year orgy of mal-investment enabled by a mountain of easy credit driven by irrational international capital flows. I understand that Paul's role is encouraging investment, but this is disastrous advice for cities. Give away a million bucks? Talk about welfare capitalism. A much better approach would be a matching funds program for local ventures.
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I'd think running sql queries over the internet would slow down response time. Or is it not significant?
Nope. But it could have been if for a different service/purpose.
It is very very simple. Just arbitrary and not (entirely) mathematical.
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Interesting timing for the essay, since starting March 1st New York City seems to be attempting this exact experiment (I know there is already at least one HN thread post about it already).

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/nyregion/19bankers.html

To be fair, convincing laid-off quants to stay in the city and form startups isn't quite the same as trying to get SV #2. The city probably wouldn't mind falling into PG's footnote #1 trap, because in the worst case the program would be an alternative to paying unemployment benefits with a free option should someone hit a jackpot.