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Nginx introduced least_conn lb method in 1.3.1 which makes it a bit better. http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#...

ha-proxy is a lot better than nginx + more flexible if you want to introduce non-http to your stack.

Shouldn't the request be canceled on all levels if you cut the HTTP connection to the frontend?
Yeah, I have been incredibly impressed by how good their digest email is designed. I am sure there is a serious amount of cherry picking (or machine learning) that goes into them but they are damn good, I say.
The difference between the two cases is that in a startup, your customers determine whether you're successful, and they are not in fact "willing to accept the credentials."

The only thing being funded by YC automatically gets anyone is a first meeting with most investors. It won't close the round for you (if only we could promise that), and it certainly won't get you customers.
It has: https://github.com/paulj/trapeze

You might also be interested in what's been done in the literature; look under "Staged Event Driven Architecture" aka SEDA.

Mongrel2 and OK Web Server both support the SEDA approach.
It's only "yesterday's war" as far as COIN is concerned. Against state actors, maneuver is still the order of the day. Even with counterinsurgency, moving infantry with helicopters is a force multiplier.

It's true that asymmetric warfare is the most likely face of warfare in the future, but countries with standing armies still remain a greater threat to the United States.

When, not if, the US gets in a fight with another country, it'll be the typical blitzkrieg again. So no, it's not "yesterday's war".
"There" a billion dollar company alright. "There" are also many companies that embraced OSS and realized it was profitable as well.
I have no problem with people voicing an opinion -- it's America. But what I think people are complaining about in this case is just ridiculous.
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I guess I'm just making the point that death being permanent is just as speculative.
(YC) create a factory farm for newly minted college grads to toil away in, each in their own niche. All of these startups come from the same school, and so they work the same way, using the same ideas, shared among them--so when the majority of these startups fail, the many graduates leave with the same monoculture of thought, which lessens the value of their experience

That seems like a profoundly naive opinion. If you have the chance to meet any random sampling of yc founders you'll find that they come from extremely diverse backgrounds and leave yc with just as diverse experiences
http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2013/02/growth-...
Yeah, I know. I figure that for incoming HTTP traffic it's relatively easy to balance the GET requests, and if they're doing anything remotely sane with HTTP those ought to be idempotent (if they're not, Googlebot will come along and delete their site ;-)).

For mutating requests, there's a solution as well, but it involves checksumming the request and passing the checksum along so that the database layer knows to discard duplicate requests that it's already handled. You need this anyway if there's any sort of retry logic in your application, though.
In Mongrel2, app servers subscribe to a named ZeroMQ queue and, when they're done, they send the response on a different queue.

You can actually configure an arbitrary number of different queues if you like, switching on request path and some other stuff I don't just now recall.
The solution here is to figure out why your 99th is 3 seconds.

I'm not sure this applies to the OP. His in-app measurements were showing all requests being handled very fast by the app itself; the variability in total response time was entirely due to the random routing.
I believe the argument is not that the Quora team should be incarcerated for putting up a wall, but rather that this setup may not be the best way to build a large community and, in the long term, a profitable company.
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I would do my first startup in the airline industry :).
Curious as to whether this uses a complex-system "ant" approach. I just modeled one for a final last semester.
Because PaaS is a generic technology for running and scaling applications with a multitude of different language/framework/stacks, and many/most of those apps do not share the specific properties of single-threaded Rails (including many Ruby/Rails apps!)

And Rails 4 is going to bake-in "live streaming", making single-threaded app servers even more of an edge case.
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I do not know all of the details, and this was someone I worked with over a decade ago. I've never had any particular reason to doubt his honesty, but I never tried hard to verify that particular claim either.

However I know that he was a Hungarian Jew. His family therefore would not have faced deportation to concentration camps until after the German invasion in 1944. According to http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005142 there were some children successfully hidden by prisoners in camps.

After some time with Google, I wonder whether he could have been the one born on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kastner%27s_train. (Which was indeed a cattle car on its way to a concentration camp - but the people in the car survived.) I do not know and, due to the fact that I have not seen him since I moved to the West Coast a decade ago, am not in a position to ask.
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I realize people aren't supposed to care about their own credentials, but we've noticed at least one legitimate use of them: to convince third parties. E.g. if your cofounder's parents or spouse had previously been pressuring him to stop working with you on your crazy project, getting funded by YC can fix that to some degree.

Though come to think of it, it may not be entirely bad if people are influenced by their own credentials. Morale is a huge factor in a startup. If getting some credential boosts someone's confidence, even though in principle it shouldn't, it may make them more likely to succeed.
VMs running full frameworks that are single-threaded. Why does that feel like wasting resources or bloating the architecture?
I think being on a mobile device is a decent excuse ;-)
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Getting into YC is not easy - I had applied about two years back, and it's not just me, a LOT of my friends had applied too, individually, either as sole founders or as teams, so I am not making up stuff. Some teams that applied, were composed of some of THE BEST hackers (REAL hackers, not marketers) programmers, and the best designers, with loads of experience running start-ups. But they never got in. Neither did I.

Atleast, I applied as a sole founder, so it's reasonable that I didn't get in. But I was surprised (shocked) to see that even the top hackers/designers never got in. I wondered why. And then I discovered, it was all about credentials. None of us were product managers from Facebook/Google/etc.

Here's the thing - This article is irony at best. I want you to understand that no matter what you do, what skills you have, YC looks into

1) Where you come from.

2) What credentials you have.

YC solves the credentials trap by looking at your credentials on behalf of the rest. YC is not interested if you have a good idea. YC is interested if you are a good executer of ideas. And it's a very fair metric. But, the way they do it is scary at best - Much of the people they select are only top dogs - (ex) product managers from Google, Facebook or someone from a well-known company. NO, they don't select everyone this way, but for the majority of the people they select, this is how it works. And as for the rest that they select, the ones without credentials, its a small percentage, which means you have to really compete hard to get in, if you're not from a well-respected company like Google or Facebook or Twitter.

Worse is the fact that the applications are filtered by the alumnii, hence you never know what metric they use to select people. But eventually post selection, you notice that these people who were selected are from some hot company like Google, Facebook etc.

Paul Graham is a great man, and I have great (enormous) respect for him. It's because of him that this start-up industry is receiving proper attention. But, if someone is going to tell me YC solves the credentials problem, etc. then I'm not stupid enough to buy it. It's simply not true.

If you've watched Ratatouille, you may recall the quote:

"Anyone can cook";

Which means (What it means is what the movie's about):

"Not everyone can become an artist, but, a great artist can come from anywhere.."
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but these seem like terrible reasons to use an ORM and good reasons for learning how to use a database. The purpose of the ORM is to provide a more convenient way of getting stuff done, not "cover up details so I don't have to understand them."
The only person using the words 'force the issue with a public spat' is me, and I judged that as 'fair enough'. I'm not against RapGenius and I'm glad the issue is being discussed.

But we haven't seen Heroku's comments, and while some parts of RapGenius's complaint are compelling, I'm not sure their apparent conclusions - that 'intelligent routing' is needed, and its lack is screwing Heroku customers — are right. I strongly suspect some small tweaks, ideally with Heroku's help, but perhaps even without it, can fix most of RapGenius's concerns.

Perhaps there was a communication or support failure, which led to the public condemnation, or maybe that's just RG's style, to heighten the drama. (That's an observation without judgement; quarrels can benefit both parties in some attention- and personality-driven contexts.)
>We should institute a minimum wage of ~$12/hr tied to inflation to fight poverty.

Can you walk me through the economic justification for this?
Ahhhh, the ST. My first computer. What a great machine. Loving all the retro software on HN this week.
@manglav Thank you for your response , for your information I have to say that all money processing systems banned Iran and Iranians to work with the system , as I already mentioned I have worked with an Employer from Netherlands in 2010 and I was Just doing freelancing but because of sanctions he could not sent money to me in my bank account and redirected the amount to a bank account to Bank of America which one of my relatives lived there. I have tried to work with the options you mentioned but they have banned Iran already. And I do want to work and have a job but not in Iran.
In WWI the Allies DID eventually use mobile warfare (why didn't anybody think of tanks tanks tanks) to decisively finish off the Germans [1][2]. Too besides, as pointed out below, EG is a recommended text in US military academies. Sometimes fun and games are improved by a little research.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Days_Offensive

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amiens_(1918)#Plan

"The Battle of Amiens was a major turning point in the tempo of the war. The Germans had started the offensive with the Schlieffen Plan before the war devolved into trench warfare, the Race to the Sea slowed movement on the Western Front, and the German Spring Offensive earlier that year had once again given Germany the offensive edge on the Western Front. Armoured support helped the Allies tear a hole through trench lines, weakening once impregnable trench positions. The British Third Army with no armored support had almost no effect on the line while the Fourth with fewer than a thousand tanks broke deep into German territory, for example"
It's a capacity/latency tradeoff. Perhaps I'm biased by working at Google, where capacity is cheap and latency will kill you, but IIUC Heroku runs off of AWS and their database tier needs to scale horizontally anyway, so reserving sufficient overflow capacity should simply be a matter of throwing money at the problem.
Most issues with cloud providers are not ones of technology but ones of trust. Trust always take precedence.
That's like saying Craigslist did it correctly and AirBnB didn't because AirBnB is only tailoring to a specific segment of the world's supply and demand market.

Rails is very widely used. How can you consider that an edge case?
There are always people working in Jumpin' Java, but I don't know if they're entrepreneurs. I've coded there in the past. I also really like Dash in the Inner Sunset.
There's a bibliography near the end with interesting things to read. That's generally where things to read if you're interested in a topic will appear, and there's no need to be harsh to the guy pointing you toward useful information.

No amount of buzzwords can conceal that you don't understand what "maneuver warfare" is, either; fourth-generation warfare pretty much is maneuver warfare. Your dilution of your point by introducing United States themes and specific tactical situations makes me question why you're putting so much skin in this discussion if you're as lay as your questions indicate. I'm not criticizing you, for what it's worth, just wondering why you're cloaking not knowing something with extra buzzwords -- you should be happy to learn, not apt to show off.

Terrorism and insurgency are forms of maneuver warfare, and the term "maneuver" doesn't imply scale (and certainly not armor, for that matter). Since you're quite obviously American, the Marine Corps' definition of "maneuver warfare" should interest you:

"Maneuver warfare is a warfighting philosophy that seeks to
shatter the enemy’s cohesion through a variety of rapid, focused, and unexpected actions which create a turbulent and
rapidly deteriorating situation with which the enemy cannot
cope."

That's from Warfighting[1]. Seriously, read up, you sound interested but misguided, and I made a throwaway just to spite you. :)

[1]: http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/mcdp1.pdf
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> I would counter-argue that WWI in particular was such a messy, horrible, ugly disaster particularly because of the use of non-fancy maneuvers combined with new technology.

Most of the military histories of that war I've read don't so much blame the tactics, but technological limitations. Radios were still too large and power-hungry to be practical anywhere but at sea, last-mile telephone cables tended to get cut by artillery as soon as battle started, and optical signalling (e.g. flags) were difficult to make out near the front, leaving commanders basically with runners and carrier pigeons as soon as battle started.

When a local engagement can be won and lost in half an hour to an hour, but the communications RTT is 2-3 hours, maneuver warfare gets impractical (as do a lot of other things, like long range artillery against anything other than fortifications).
Something my devout Buddhist uncle told me in our religious debates:

"I'm not claiming Buddhism and meditation are the only way to enlightenment, just that they are one way."

That's had a profound impact on my acceptance of people from different walks of life. I feel like one can find peace and enlightenment from a Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Islamic path, or as was the case with me, a psychedelic one.

To me, there is no question of universally better. Perhaps one path is more suited to a particular individual, but that's up to him or her to discover.
Both Iraq wars were fought and won with maneuver warfare.

That is two of the last three wars the US has fought, and exclusive to when they've had an opposing force that was actually structured.

The concepts haven't been abandoned just because there are other types of operations being conducted too.
The U.S. already spends more than any other country on education. Throwing more money at the problem won't necessarily fix it. I also want to add that people of above average intelligence are not well served by the high school curriculum either.

Next, the minimum wage will not fight poverty like you think it will. Something like a negative income tax would be more effective. Also, how would you go about paying for a school in a district if not for property taxes? There isn't just an easy solution to that problem.

I do agree with your last point though. Not everyone needs to or should go to college. Beyond that, I think more people should work after high school or take a years break instead of going straight to college so that they can actually think about what they want to do. The fewer people that get saddled with crippling debt and a useless degree, the better.
Its true that maneuver warfare is not completely dead. But don't forget the same things were said about maneuver warfare and the impending conflict with the Soviets during the cold war. And blitzgreig was yesterdays war.
These seem like pretty made up numbers for a blog that claims to be about statistics:

"And that changes perceptions. 1 out of 10 people with an idea would have pursued it in 2004. Now, maybe 3 out of 10 would."
YC is only arbitrary to the extent we are stupid, and though we certainly do make mistakes in deciding who to fund, we have some fairly smart people expending a lot of effort on the problem; I don't think we simply fund whoever's best at tricking us into funding them.

True, but an equivalent statement can be made by a decision maker at any other reputable credentialing institution as well. How is this substantively different from what an admissions officer at MIT would say?

I think the GP's point is that, for the credential obsessed, "getting into YC" is just the "getting a Rhodes Scholarship" or "getting a Supreme Court clerkship" for our milieu. I don't think that is an indictment of YC in the least.

Ultimately the OP's argument boils down to the claim that YC solves the credentials trap by ... transforming starting a startup into a credential, as long as it's done with the YC imprimatur. Hardly a solution at all.

(Ironically, there is a solid argument to be made about how your essays have done a huge amount to legitimize the act of founding a startup and embolden erstwhile credential seekers to take that risk, even if it doesn't come with a name brand institution attached to it. The author fails to make that point, though.)
Sure. Take Walmart for example. They had over 100 billion (edit: I was wrong it's 36 billion) in profits in 2012. If you assume they pay every one of their 2 million workers $8/hr then giving them a raise to $12/hr would cost around 15-20 billion dollars. In my opinion this means they can afford it. It also means that the government would stop subsidizing their profits through government handouts for the working poor.

Edit: realistic numbers of average pay for Walmart is approaching $10/hr making the total cost of a wage hike 10 billion.
> Like? What about employees at Lockheed Martin? Or say some other defense company.

You're drawing parallels between a defense contractor motivated mostly by profits and a nation that very literally holds a gun to the heads of its people in the name of progress. I don't believe that's fair.

The US for all its faults is nothing like North Korea.
I wrote a script that would unblur Quora answers (that one of my friends turned into an extension) a while back. Turned out that Quora started to just substitute blurred images instead of just blurring text via CSS soon afterwards.

I'm pretty sick of this constant cat and mouse game, and I just used the Google Personal Blocklist extension for Chrome to remove Quora from my Google search results.
YC is another credential. It's more closely related to the dreaded college (dun dun duhhhhh) than it is to something like an MSCE.

Let's compare the US college experience with YC:

Admission is based on a mix of objective and subjective factors: [✓]

Temporary Poverty: [✓]

Build a network of professional contacts: [✓]

Graduate owing somebody somewhere a big chunk of your potential lifetime net worth: [✓]

Put it on CV regardless of whether you do well: [✓]

(In Australia it's not as clear. For one thing, Australian admissions used to be entirely about high school examination scores. No interviews, no essays. Just the single number, please. Basically like every university requiring the SAT and only the SAT.)
The second war in Iraq was won with maneuver warfare?
Fixed that with a 'let us say' in the article. Thanks for pointing that out.
He does make a fair point that browsers will focus on themselves and not on fixing common bugs, so in the end benefit to WebKit will be less than anticipated by such move.

Also he does compare WebKit to oldIE, though I wonder is Gecko any better.
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There are so many mistakes here I don't know where to begin.

For example, we're actually very skeptical of people from Google, and in fact of people who've worked at any big company for more than about 18 months.

The question I care about most on the application is the one where we ask about something impressive the founders have achieved. Not credentials, but something they've done.
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Ah yes, firebug is also great for stuff like this. Click on firebug, click on the overlay, press delete. Bam, you have your page.

Doesn't work so well on mobiles though.
Wow, it only took us (the west) 60 years. That's what I call a progress! Not so fast please, a couple of billion people could live miserable lives before we stop the bullshitting around psychedelics and spirituality.
No, it's only 15 years old out of 20 years of the history of the web. Sheesh.
I don't understand how it is comparable to the NYTimes at all. Times pays people to write articles, not appropriating random people's free content.
Besides tools that allow code execution like http://codepad.org/ or http://repl.it/languages, I'm not aware of anything beyond C9.
haproxy also has a few balance algos[1] that it can be configured to use. I would think something like static-rr would even be somewhat better than random.

[1]: http://cbonte.github.com/haproxy-dconv/configuration-1.5.htm...
I use Pelican on a couple of sites (like http://dylanfoundry.org/). One thing that I really like is that it is ReStructured Text, so most of the same things that I do with Sphinx for docs can carry over and the work that I've done with Pygments for syntax highlighting, still applies.

There's some room for improvement here and there, but it works pretty well and was easy to get going.
I'm nitpicking, I know, but it's not America. You're on the internet, you know. It's the world.
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Cheaper to fly to the U.S. and back rather than buy Adobe software in Australia.
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I upgraded to Pro because the Free plan doesn't have the SSL option. The Pro account also gives you more page rules and the caching and response times are visibly better.
I guess the point of the post IMHO was that YC solves the credential trap by becoming a widely accepted credential, not by not looking at other credentials.
You answered your own question in the next sentence. If we were bad at picking people, how could we have become the equivalent of getting a Supreme Court clerkship in 8 years?
use wrk[1] or weighttp[2] instead.

[1]: https://github.com/wg/wrk

[2]: redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki
This sounds interesting, but kind of suspicious. What app is serving that kind of volume continuously other than fb or goog?

You running zynga on Heroku or something?