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Is it me or does Thiel look like a younger version of PG in this pic?
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Formerly bang.el - reasons for the name change: https://github.com/magnars/bang.el
This looks interesting but lacking in documentation and the support site is blank. I'm not sure what I would be signing up for. How does it work if you don't need to install something server-side?
Well, I have to admit it's probably a fair price, about 3x-4x revenue.
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He knows you were joking. It's a bad joke. "It's a joke" is not a magic bullet that means you can do no wrong.

Poisonous ideas spread as jokes. That is one of the ways they spread. A person thinking well about the issue wouldn't find the joke funny because it doesn't make sense. The joke relies on some poisonous, bad thinking to be understood. It has bad assumptions, and a bad way of looking at the world, built in.
I'm reminded distinctly of this response to the idea that you can divine greater insight from diving deep into the words of Twitter users:
http://barthel.tumblr.com/post/22521415345/you-can-see-in-tw...
i read in my book that amazon is the best cloud service provider and seeing this thing can't really prove it.
I am still confused which cloud service i use ? Amazon is only one which Indians are currently rely on ,since latency is bit smaller for amazon servers as compared to other providers.
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FWIW here's Google App Engine status page: http://code.google.com/status/appengine
It wasn't the "1-click" part of the button that was the defense, it was the "Buy with" part. That is, when you actually click the button, it's telling you that are buying it.
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I made this to express my outrage and hope to help others easily express theirs too! http://robbiet480.github.com/StopLyingToUsAmazon/
I don't know if the bats are still there this time of year, but if so, check them out. It's truly an amazing sight.
That's actually a pity, because monads are easy to understand, being just like a normal design pattern ... name your favorite one and it's probably harder to understand than monads, because monads are actually well defined.

I was also giving Scala as a better language to experiment with such things, because the funny thing about Scala is that monads are more composable in comparison to Haskell or other functional languages.
While the crowds were huger than I've ever seen, I agree with you on the talks. It was refreshing to hearing from Ben Horowitz. Ron Conway, a living legend IMO, provides fascinating stories of tech giants (the part about Sergey and Larry feeling doubtful of ever getting to be successful as Sean Fanning was cool to hear). Finally, I really enjoyed hearing insights from Jessica, who interfaces with all these YC founders.
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100mm annual.

100mm lifetime is still one hell of an achievement, but I'd imagine significantly more reach it than 3%. Lots of B2B companies survive for a few years with 8 figure annual rev.
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I could this being big with the homeless...
Support site is getting populated this week. I am also creating a demo account to allow users to test the service without signing up.

Webmon is external monitoring only and that's why there's no need for server-side installation.
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Thanks to everyone that took the time to view my personal site and give feedback. I've lost my cofounder since I posted so that makes the site that much more important.

Redesigned Site: http://christopherbiscardi.github.com/
1. Your claim re: Taxi licensing... Without exception, every de facto law is in place to "protect people". Whether or not that's the case is for the lawyers to argue and for the court to decide.

2. I can't argue that I wouldn't complain if I was an entrenched incumbent. Luckily for me I guess that's not the case.

It's just my opinion, but as I see it, it's fair enough to classify all the aforementioned cases as examples of analog regulations in a digital world. New digital players taking advantage of the latest technology, and old players taking advantage of yesterday's laws.
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heroku only uses one AZ, apparently. Which is completely awful, for a PaaS...
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I did sell one in the LA area and got them to go 5%. I hope what you describe is more common now.
Also, shoutout to WePay:

https://www.wepay.com
Ironically, on the first hacking health event, our server was running heroku.. and heroku went down. 3 months later, we have the second hacking health in Toronto and all AWS is going down.
A hacked phone might need less power, but it's also smaller, which means a smaller battery. My phone gets 10 hours of battery life in constant use, and my laptop gets 10 hours of battery life in constant use. Obviously the laptop has a much, much larger battery, and sits in a much, much larger footprint. Imagine phone-grade hardware with a laptop-sized battery.

I'm not criticizing your version of the dream. That's the beauty of open technology, everyone can have their own dream and see that it becomes reality with a little bit of work. What I was thinking of would be about netbook sized with the majority of it being battery. Full sized keyboard mounted in, console-sized display, leaving a huge empty space inside. Without having it in my hands to actually judge battery use, all I can do is dream of a 30-hour battery on a black-and-white, unbacklit display powered by a full sized keyboard.
Isn't it the universal standard because there isn't something better?

I agree though, there isn't a obvious replacement.
IIRC, Steve Jobs died.

Furthermore, cancer survival rates in India are worse than in the west - what's the justification for the claim that these alternative treatments work for Indians?
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They should outsource it.
It's not really Javascript though, it's just C# that looks like Javascript and is called Javascript.
The ability to reimage the SSD is the last hurdle preventing me buying one.
"...but it could also double as a backup."

Take care when treating a high-availability set up such as this as a back up: if you are replicating all the changes between 2 database servers and an application error (e.g. not a database outage) causes some kind of data corruption, you are hosed if the corruption replicates and you don't also have some previous "snapshot" of the data that you can roll back to.
The wording is slightly ambiguous: You could read it as if it would display both the repository global latest commit and the current directory latest commit.

This is not the case. It only shows the directory latest commit.

Which is awesome!
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No, he claimed that no other animal dreams about social interaction as much as we do. He mentioned a study into it.
Yeah this is another important point. Part of the cost of AWS is also a bit of an insurance policy against you physically breaking your servers :)
The boundary of html5 has been pushed far beyond this before.

In this the author said most HTML5 games are pacman, etc. If you look at Bastion for the chrome store, it's a very complex game with great graphics on HTML5.
And even there it was an odd confluence of particular circumstances. Two factors: 1) at that time, "life, liberty, and property" had become a catch phrase of sorts; but 2) Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin were both skeptical of property being a natural right (vs. a socially created right justified by other, more fundamental rights), so may have pushed for an alternate formulation (this is poorly documented and disputed).
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This is a valid criticism, but is mitigated a little by the fact that some of these success stories include within them wisdom from preceding (or competitive-contemporaneous) failures.

This is even the case, indirectly, where the Startup School presentation can't fit the speaker's whole story.

For example, I think the Travis Kalanick presentation about Uber at Startup School was great. (I'd love to see the time-unconstrained 'two-hour' version of the same talk.) But, it was just about Uber: a current big success.

Kalanick also did a shorter -- and perhaps even better -- talk about his previous ventures at the 2011 FailCon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QrX5jsiico

Combined with the SS12 Uber presentation -- indeed, perhaps best viewed just before -- it provides real context, and a much better idea of the range of outcomes and challenges startups face. And, of the entrepreneurial qualities that gave Kalanick repeated chances at Uber-like success.
The other issue is that you can have redundant services, but when the control plane goes down - you are screwed.

Every day I have to build basic redundancy into my applications I wish that we could just go with a service provider (like Rackspace / Contegix) that offered more redundancy at the hardware level.

I know the cloud is awesome and all, but having to assume your disks will disappear, fail, go slow at random uncontrollable times is expensive to design around.

If you don't have an elastic load, then the cloud elasticity is pointless - and is ultimately an anchor around your infrastructure.
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I've been using Node.js more and more for simple services, scripts etc.. and that's on Windows. Have some data migration process scripts in Node.js because going from a flat structure across many database tables (with weird joins etc), to a hierarchical object structure was far easier in Node.js. The output was dumping to .json.gz files to be called from a simple service, in addition to a statuslist.json file... the partner wanted a filter... was faster/lighter to re-use the node.js implemented parts, and re-implement the 4 api calls in node using ARR as a reverse proxy from IIS.. works great, and now handles the edge cases better... Was under 3 hours of work.

I know this isn't Mono, of which I've been a big fan, and it's my first go-to for building certain applications cross platform, but have to admit that Node.js seems to be a better workflow, when you want to get a small task done. No spooling up a new project in VS, with build efforts. It just works.
why in the world would you pick a nazi as your character?! D:
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Batteries are heavy no matter how you slice 'em. They will always (AFAIK) offer terrible joule/kg performance compared to a tank of gasoline.

I don't think replaceable modular batteries would be that much heavier than whatever's being done now. But yes, there would be some additional overhead, given that even the smallest cars would probably take more than one battery module.
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They don't claim all their customers forever will get the privilege. Just customers of this car. For as long as they're making the offer. And that's really not that many people. They're trying to do, what, 3000 a quarter?

That's many fewer, I would guess, than could possibly make the charging stations really profitable. And they need some solution to long-range travel, and nobody else is going to fix that for them. So the costs are sunk in pursuit of the real goal (selling cars), and they're not going to make much money selling power anyway, so why not turn it into a unique and reasonably cheap feature?

I would expect that once Tesla and/or electric cars are more established, they'll change the terms. At least they have the option. Note the "Supercharger enabled Model S" phrase--already laying the groundwork for future changes to their policies. Good reason to get in early, if you can.

Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if their long-term plan is to cede charging to the rest of the world. It's not really their focus as a company.
Beautiful design.

To my eye (and my personal taste), the book image should be valign=top. With the longer quotes, the book image at the middle looks strange.

Also, again with the longer quotes, the blue links are difficult to read on that dark/grassy field background. The grey "from" is basically illegible.

I'm using Chrome 22.0.1229.94 m.

Great work, though!
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Perhaps the distinction is that the Mono devs favor wrapping native UI kits instead of inventing a platform independent abstraction.
disagree. the only area it really hurts the wallet is multi-AZ on your RDS, because it doubles your cost no matter what and RDS is toughest to scale horizontally. The upside is if you scale your data layer horizontally you don't need to use RDS anymore.

two c1.medium, which are very nice for webservers, are enough to host >1M pageviews a month (wordpress, not much caching) and cost around $120/mo each, effective $97/mo if you prepay for 12months at a time via reserved instances.
On which subject in particular do you want pointers to additional reading?

(I'm going to assume that for basic background information, such as the history of the "first-sale doctrine", you're as capable of using Google and Wikipedia as anyone else.)
Funny when I read it I was wondering if it shouldn't be more like 2-3 Instagrams at current FB stock price but I guess it was never said how much was in cash.
As another responder noted, it's not actually a random word in this case, but in general, "random japanese words" have been popular for naming in the software industry since the 1980s ("Wasabi Systems" etc).

As far as I can tell it's simply because Japan (and the Japanese language) is perceived as exotic, futuristic, and cool, which are exactly the image the tech industry wants.

My perception is that in the '80s, it was done even more randomly ("pick cool-sounding word off of sushi menu"), and people are a bit more sophisticated now and more likely to actually consider the meaning, but the root cause seems the same.

I suppose the image of "futuristic Japan" might be waning these days, but the mainstream popularity of Japanese anime/manga in other countries probably picks up the slack...
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Very cool game. I love the art style!

I've been working on Ejecta[1] in the past few month. If you want to publish your game on the iPhone/iPad, this could be interesting to you. I'd love to know if (and how well) it works with your game.

[1] http://impactjs.com/ejecta
Let me explain to you why it is a funny joke. It is funny because it involves Amazon undertaking massive technical measures, with huge reputational damage in order to try to kill a story which is primarily not spreading via Amazon-hosted sites anyway.

It's akin to a man with athlete's foot deciding to remedy it by discharging a shotgun into his leg.
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Life expectancy of a car 150,000 to 300,000 miles [1]
Cost of electricity: 6 to 12 cents per kWh [2]
Performance of Model S: 300 miles in 85 kWh [3]
Cost of Model S: $57,400 to $77,400 [3]

Electricity cost: $2,550 to $10,200
Percentage of $57,400 vehicle cost: 4.44% to 17.77%

There's also a supercharger 'activation fee' for the models that don't have the highest end battery [4] which presumably rolls in some of that cost. So I agree this is probably economically feasible.

Of course, it all depends on what their profit margins are like when they get to serious production, what the charging efficiency is like, how much use Tesla's charge stations get, and how good a deal they can get on their electricity.

[1] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12040753/ns/business-consumer_ne...
[2] http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/cost.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S
[4] http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/update-supercharging...
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I will have to re-watch that part and correct it, thanks for pointing this out.
Braintree is the name of a town in England... I think they came from there. I dont think there was a suggestion of brains on trees.
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Actually, you made it a lot clearer for me. Thanks for the writeup.
The problem with that attitude is thus:

People think "women aren't interested in this", which leads them to think "well, since women aren't interested, we don't have to try to be inclusive at all", which leads to them behaving in ways that mean women don't feel welcome and hence aren't interested in participating.

I'm not saying you're guilty of that process - but the "women aren't interested" trope can be rather pernicious.
I was under the impression Bastion was made with monogame and compiled to NaCl for the chrome store, which is a bit different than HTML5.

http://supergiantgames.com/?p=1611
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Yes! You should! I, for one, would love to hear why.
Well.. I can state that Wells Fargo Bank, Intel, and American Express all have .Net development in-house... As do a lot of other fortune 500 organizations. In fact, I'd be willing to wager that 90% of the F500 list uses Windows, Linux, .Net, Java and other development. The pissing match is moot anyhow. I will say that I feel that Windows + .Net is a much friendlier environment to develop in/with than Java.

That said, the more I "get stuff done" with Node.js, the more I absolutely like it. Many small parts working together, integrating with other systems, and deployable on disparate platforms... It may not be "enterprise" and the tooling may not be there yet.. but doing with a 100-line script what takes a couple of projects in typical "enterprise" fashion is really nice. Our email spool handler is an 84 line node script. Our API service is 122 lines in Node.js (on top of some data migration scripts).

That said, Mono offers a lot... You can run your EXISTING applications on new platforms with minimal retooling, and reduced licensing costs... if you already have nix environments it's less costly all around. If you're new to nix, then sticking with .Net/Windows has other advantages.
Well if a doctor finds a tumor, doesn't biopsy and the person dies, the doctor gets sued for huge sums of money.
Likewise a dealer could set up a showroom in a mall.
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Just so the current reply to your comment isn't the only one: I really appreciate that you keep track of this information and make it available to others. I still have the attention span for a few minutes' reading, and I prefer a dense text full of citations over some schmuck's strongly-voiced opinion or an anecdote about that one time they went to that one thing. So, thank you.
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Agree, other than I will only call Orbitz for space travel. In 500 years time they will be a great brand.
Thank you all for the answers. Yes I suspect that I was a bit quick to jump on the appeal of the faster microcontroller on the Due while I wont really need it at all, especially in the beginning.
Whats the alternative? Building your own is certainly not.
What a great comment. It's worth more than most of what is currently ranked on the homepage, and likely the best thing I've read today. Reality checks like these are sorely needed to offset the glorious stories of the few that made it which are vastly outnumbered by the untold stories of the many that did not.

> Get fucking lucky.

That is the most important factor in business success, and nobody, not even YC with all their algorithms has been able to consistently increase this factor.

All other factors will have some impact on your chances but without luck you're stranded.

YC has become a proxy for luck, if you get into YC that in itself counts as you being lucky and your chances for a future success go up enormously. Not because YC has some kind of magic sauce but because others see it as you having been vetted.

But with that in mind, what I really find shocking is that there are quite a few stories of people that did get lucky and managed to throw it all away.

So another factor in failure is quite probably the extent to which people are able to recognize and capitalize on their luck. There is probably no life without opportunities but they're few and far between.

If you're asleep at the switch when luck passes right in front of your nose then all your execution skills and connections will amount to nothing.
Couldn't help but do a little digging..

In the first 99 comments of this page, average comment text size is 231 bytes. Counting all comments in articles on the front page right now, there's 1678 of them, making somewhere around 388kb of comments for the past 12 hours.

So for safety's sake round that to 1mb/day and multiply by site age (5 years).

That gets us 1825mb, projecting forward it's difficult to imagine a time when a single recent SSD on a machine with even average RAM wouldn't be able to handle all of HN's traffic needs. Considering the recent beefy Micron P320h and its 785kIOP/sec, that could serve the entire comment history of Hacker News to the present day once every 2 seconds, assuming it wasn't already occupying a teensy <2gb of RAM.

Even if Arc became a burden, a decent NAS box, gigabit Ethernet, and a few front end servers would probably take the site well into the future. Assuming exponential growth, Hacker News comments would max out a 512GB SSD sometime around 2020, or 2021 assuming gzip bought a final doubling.
> I suppose the image of "futuristic Japan" might waning a bit these days

It's funny, because anyone who's actually been to Japan can tell you that it's not the least bit futuristic anymore. And I'm not talking about traditional culture - I'm talking about an entire country stuck in the 70s/80s, technologically speaking. There are rare pockets of fresh air, mostly provided by the outside world (like smartphones), but the Japanese have by and large failed to understand or grasp the digital revolution.

Tell me something - is there a single internationally famous Japanese software company that you can name? Even if you want to talk about famous Japanese programmers, the only one I can think of is Matz, but he's Mormon and has 4 children - not exactly your average Japanese guy.
Here, here. I still use mine daily, even after getting an iPad.
I know people who are building 21st century versions of pets.com and doing quite well out of it ;)
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