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When you have used the technology and seen with your own eyes the amount of time and effort it saves you when developing a mobile app, $85M really seems very cheap, especially when you compare it to how much they paid for an Instagram for example. Plus it should be mentioned that although their primary focus was on mobile platform, their SDK's also support Windows desktop, MacOSX, and traditional web dev. The potential is absolutely huge.
Look back at what's happened to the music business since Napster for past lessons on what has and has not worked.

To say "a site who's sole purpose is enabling the illegal downloading" is not completely true. File sharing has more legitimate uses than illegal ones. See Dropbox for details.
My guess is that startups mostly are about users. Great and innovative service, good support and energy. As soon as some big company acquires it, they start pushing things down your throat you may not like. A small company can't abuse you in that way since they must hold on users with both hands to survive. Big companies can't care less about you and they have the $$ to live just as well without you.
Still no response 8 hours down the line.
It is an excellent idea. Congratulations Nitin/Sumit and all the best!
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J48IihJbeJ0
A very good piece of discourse. I wish HN had more of such contributors.
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I'd definitely recommend http://clever-cloud.com/

It scales automaticaly, analyzing the resource you need on your server, and you only pay what you use, like electricity.

It supports actually PHP, Scala, Ruby, Java, Node JS, and it's still upgrading.
Also they have deployed PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchBase and they are working on MongoDB integration, and ElasticSearch as well.

This company is pretty young, so they have a good support, as they care for their customer. I don't hesitate to send them an email and then give a call, or to tweet their account. Usually I get an answer under 2 hours.

Short story: I used to work with Play 2.0 and MongoDB, and had several issues on Heroku because of a problem on their side with the MongoDB driver. They didn't help in 3 days.
With Clever-Cloud, everything worked perfectly, and they even helped me to deploy my app the first time.
I immediately migrated my apps from Heroku, no regrets since.
'decimated', as in, paying you ten times less?
Setup a centOS server with rackspace and use badger-rails to deploy with same workflow at Heroku. badger-rails takes a fresh centOS server and installed all dependencies for ruby and rails. Low-stress. https://github.com/curiousminds/badger-rails
Huge upvote to this. It's a really excellent story. In fact, Ted Chiang's short story collection is some of the best Science Fiction I've read in years. That story specifically is a great one (not the best), and I think of it every time this kind of article crops up.
Fiber mixed with a nutrient soup is not solid food.
The Bush administration's foreign policy mistakes are still continuously condemned by the press. Many, many years later.
I have never heard of this service, but looking at their pricing page, they seem to have made it as obscure as possible.
Instapaper's Android app, while not done by Arment himself, is probably the most pleasing non-Google Android app that I've used. He may not care about the platform, but he didn't push a poor Android product.
But the node.js modules and packet manager are really nice.
> gift third party developers with APIs...

Phrasing like this concerns me. When making platform decisions, I would very much like greater assurance that there is an expectation of how a relationship matures than you would find in a "gifting" scenario. I feel like sometimes the attitude from Facebook has been "We're giving all of this stuff away for free! What is there to complain about?" Free means no expectation of warranty and zero assumed reliability.

I don't really even care about free. If you're running a real startup, you pay for things, and I would gladly pay for Facebook API usage if it meant that Facebook took their APIs a little more seriously (I could talk at great length about all the subtleties in Facebook's APIs that require us to duplicate insane amounts of work that Facebook could _easily_ take care of). Amazon is clearly the best at this with AWS (especially in preemptively coming up with new services it turns out everyone was building piecemeal anyway), I would look at Amazon's APIs and try to port the some good insights to the Graph API.
I'd love to sign up... but recruiters should be hellbanned from this.
> > Actually, two labs reported achieving cold fusion before the results were published, and another also claimed to replicate the findings.

> Yes, but they were all false and later proven false. A replication doesn't mean two or more labs making the same mistakes. There's a bit more to it than that.

The article I linked to (which was written by David Goodstein, a professor of physics at Caltech and definitely not a crackpot) discusses the situation surrounding cold fusion in a great amount of detail, and illuminates the difference between proof and scientific consensus. If you believe the account, no one ever proved that the experimenters were not observing what they claimed to observe. Instead, the main problem was that the effects were not consistent, that they seemed to good to be true, and that there was no physical explanation at the time they were "discovered."

> > Generally, I suggest you devote more time to studying the history and philosophy of science before making pronouncements about it ...

> I have. Science requires testable, falsifiable theories. Psychology doesn't have any of those. This is not remotely controversial.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

> Quote: "Simply, to be scientific, a theory must predict at least some observation potentially refutable by observation."

The statement you cite is preceded by the phrase "In falsificationism..." As the article notes further down, "Naïve falsificationism is an unsuccessful attempt to prescribe a rationally unavoidable method for science."

As for psychology not having testable, falsifiable theories, that's probably true for some definitions of "psychology," but it's a huge discipline, and there are some rigorous psychophysics papers out there that test real hypotheses. (I'm a neuroscientist, not a psychologist, but I'd be happy to send you some of my favorites.)

> The measurements were apparently neuroscience, but the claims that followed certainly weren't. It's not uncommon to see an apparently scientific measurement, followed by conjectures that aren't in any way supported by the measurements.

I agree to this to a limited extent. The claim that everyone cares about is that Tylenol has a psychoactive effect, and showing that brain activity changes when Tylenol is administered definitely supports that claim. Trying to draw connections between brain activity and pain is much harder.

> Science proceeds by theories either supported or refuted by empirical evidence. Psychology proceeds by votes.

Both hard sciences and psychology proceed by votes. This is demonstrated by the cold fusion article, and it's also one of the main theses of Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Why do you hate psychology so much?
> If anything Facebook has only lost it's novelty because it's assumed everyone has one.

Sometimes I think every social network is doomed to die in a certain number of years. Facebook simply isn't cool any more because everybody's on it now, which mean's it's ripe for disruption by a network of cool people.
The Lean approach is sound, you just need to convince your clients
Didn't know about this. What's the difference between a new dyno and an existing one? Why would they act differently?
If it drives users away from iOS then it does. Apple is the biggest threat to google.
Wurm online has this. The reason why you probably have never heard of it is that it is too realistic. It takes days to build a house for example. The creator of minecraft used to work on it, I found out later.
A completely stupid thing for Twitter to do, like writing a post about their 12 hours of downtime ending in rollback by

1. starting the post with 5 paragraphs and a list of all the virtues of Twitter's engineering

2. spin the fact that, after a simple DB screw-up in production it took them about 6 hours to decide to just rollback from a backup

3. end the "postmortem" (which is, by the way, completely devoid of apology) by trying to hire

all the while talking about how working at Twitter is like building a rocket mid-flight (so, just like every other company)?

http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/twitter-performance-u...
Maven is very, very customizable.

I've built ETL libraries that use a completely custom lifecycle (pre-/post- extract, extract, transform & load) in Maven with a directory structure to match.

If you can't code in Java that will be hard, but it's similar to me complaining about Puppet because I can't figure out it's architecture fast enough since I don't know Ruby well enough.

P.S. Not saying you can't code in Java, but the original author did indicate the mere fact that it was Java was problematic.
Just putting it out there that my account on mentii is https://mentii.com/mentor/shane.armstrong and I'm seeking a mentor.
> I have never heard of this service

Maybe because it's French eheh. We don't have the same politics to go global!

For their pricing page, you buy Drops, which is like fuel for your car.
They offer a better documentation here:
http://doc.clever-cloud.com/pricing/
It will go from $600 (classical apps) to $2400 (huge apps) a year.

They designed their offer to be cheaper than AWS with same or better performances.
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I can confirm this too. It even works good with war overlays now.
Yeah, but there's a big difference between shutting off my Twitter access and literally removing me from the land I live on.
Thanks for the links. Your comments about the "OLDEST HUMAN VOICE RECORDING OF ALL TIME" reminded me about a thought experiment I once heard.

Imagine a pottery wheel spinning thousands of years ago, and people talking as it spun. Then imagine that for some reason, a stick or other object was leaning against the wheel, and engraving a pattern. Theoretically, the vibrations of the people speaking would be picked up (at some level) by this engraving.

The end result is that if you had a device that was sufficiently sensitive, and you could remove a sufficiently large amount of noise (caused by other sources of vibration), then you could reconstruct an actual recording of people speaking thousands of years ago.

Of course, it is not likely that this will happen in the near future, or even at all. In fact, a quick search will show that it has already been used as an April Fools joke by some scientists [0].

However, that is not to say that it is impossible.

The reason I love this thought experiment is because it goes to show that if you start with the presumption that at some point, our tools become better, then there are very few limits to what can be found out. What would happen if you went back 150 years and told everybody that in 150 years, we would have tools that can track the trajectories of sub-atomic particles as they travel at speeds horrendously close to the speed of light?

[0] - http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/02/20/5000-year-old-recordings-c...
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I think the word gift and give in this context are interchangeable. Sounds like you found a word to pick at and are now just hating Facebook for the sake of it. (You managed to extrapolate that Facebook has 0 assumed reliability because he used the word gift.)
Well, you can try https://www.cloudcontrol.com

They also support Heroku's buildpack API and compared to Heroku, they have a lot of support options.
I think the most effective short term way would to to provide a tertiary recruiter type account and have users be able to opt in or out of messages. Some people who are actively seeking work would be able to get the content they were after on your site and the recruiters would be able to pick from applicants who most importantly wanted to receive their messages.

For recruiters who take the method of making a normal account and using it to recruit to people who have opted out you could have a report ticket based system, even algorithmic-ally limiting the account abilities of people who repeatedly break the rules should they have a certain comment/report ratio.
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Thanks for the follow up, using the dev build in Ubuntu 13.04 it works perfectly.
Because he obviously loves to code, and once you have employees you become a manager. I'm looking forward to see the things he's planning to build.

Good luck Marco!
My printer, scanner, graphics tablet, and sound card won't work in windows (the printer manufacturer explicitly refuses to support 64-bit, the graphics tablet bluescreens win7 when plugged in, the others just do nothing). All work flawlessly out of the box on Ubuntu. Hooray for anecdotal evidence \o/
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I've been using Parse with great pleasure as well for a couple of months and I really want to keep using it because their API is really beautiful and their design is absolutely gorgeous. But the past event that worries me is the acquisition of face.com. Right after the acquisition, they assured everyone it would stay up and they would continue to support it for all the developers who integrated its facial recognition API into their apps. And just a couple of months later, they announced they would fully absorb and kill it as an independent service. Today, the domain doesn't even lead anywhere. Now I know that the scope and impact of Face.com were way less than those of Parse, but still, you can't blame us for worrying.

One thing that would personally reassure me would be for Facebook to add a "non-hosted" offering to Parse, which means the ability to download Parse's application and install it on my own server. If this was available I would keep using Parse as a hosted service knowing that in the event that Facebook decides to shut it down at some point, I can export all my data and have it running on my own infrastructure.
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Why are you surprised? USA in year 2000 was a much stronger and powerful country than America in 2008 or 2013. Since 2001 the USA is in downfall. Doesn't matter Bush or Obama, the country isn't recognized as a power it used to be. The tragic events of 9/11 could have and should have been used to make the America even more powerful internationally. They made it much weaker. Militarilly, economically, socially the US is getting much weaker every year since then.

I remember how back in 1990 the US administration was explaining Russians not to bomb Chechnya because "you don't destroy terrorists with bombs and occupation". I remember how in 1990s America was telling Asia that "you don't solve economic problems by printing money". And telling Japan to stop subsidizing "zombie banks" that should let to fail. Etc, etc. It's like you know what to do, but you don't do it and that this makes you weaker than ever. While others in the meantime took all your advise seriously and are building strong economies and societies.
Mythbusters did the 'recording in pottery' thing, if you're interested in that kind of programme.

One of the problems I see is that the pottery surface is inherently noisy, and the signal is very low. That would make recovering anything terribly remote. This isn't about needing better resolution to recover the signal, it's about the signal not being there because it's been obliterated by noise.
If I remember correctly, someone addressed this pretty early on with an argument that hinged on economics. I'm going from memory, but I think that living off of the prepackaged predecessors would be either unworkable (not comprehensive nutrition) or prohibitively expensive (treated as medical supplies rather than food).
Repetition isn't necessarily a bad thing. Whether compatible results can be obtained with independent analyses of the same data is surely an important indicator of success.

Of course that should not preclude the possibility of replication as described here.

I find the idea of threats to job security misguided. In the particle physics world some significant code (not everything, granted) has been made available for some time; e.g. Monte-Carlo simulators like Geant or lattice gauge theory codes like those from MILC, SciDAC or FermiQCD. Even highly optimised code has been available. Users are requested to cite the authors. No careers have been harmed, as far as I can tell.

Also, the code itself is not much use for replicating results without making the data available too. This can be more problematic politically and technically, but even here there are good precedents in the particle physics world.
Or throw brown rice, lentils/beans, and mixed frozen vegetables in a rice cooker. Add a can of tuna twice a week. For breakfast, prepare a green smoothie with frozen fruit, kale, and maybe some flaxseed.

The only slightly annoying or difficult part of this is cleaning up.
Ask HN: Facial hair and hackers. 
How do you deal with it? Any implied rejections from an investment because of overly bushy beards? What's the longest you've gone without shaving?
Hmm, all the examples of people given that did great things after 40 are the same people who established themselves as great names early on. That's not going to be true of the vast majority of older workers.
Not for rails, but Google App Engine has been a pleasure for Python and Java web apps.
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They're not saying they've invented LED streetlights, just a new type of them.
Pirate bay gateway through hidden service: http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion/

you and try it out through the tor2web.org site:
https://jntlesnev5o7zysa.tor2web.org/
I like atmail (which also includes calendar services etc.), but it's too expensive for my one-man development startup :/
He missed the sixth most abundant element in the human body, and, now that it's there, he is sure everything is OK? I can only say, "Wow".

I really believe that if an actual scientific study[1] was done on this, it would rank right next to a pure fast food diet. It's not that it isn't theoretically possible to make something that is "perfect" nutrition, it's that we don't know enough today to say definitively whether carbs or fat causes metabolic syndrome[2], much less how all the various micronutrients interact with macronutrients, gut biota, and phases of the moon.

Until we understand every piece of the nutrition puzzle, this is just dangerous. That he wants to take it out to others is even more frightening.

Until we get to where we really understand what the body needs at an individual level, I'm sticking with whole foods. I really hope this guy doesn't do long-term damage to himself, or anyone else, for that matter.

1. Unfortunately, it is pretty hard to double-blind whether you get a Big Mac or a cup of gray stuff. This isn't just a problem with Soykent, it is a problem with every attempt to perform nutritional experiments. It is really hard to perform good, predictive science in this space.

2. We need to know like chemists know how chemicals will react and physicists know how forces will behave. We don't.
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The first question shouldn't be “how much will it cost?” but “how much can it make?”
I'd say it is more of a "this is more tractable". Given that the barrier to doing a survey is so much lower for your users, the guys who accept "real conversations" will probably be significantly more optimistic about your product than those who don't..

Not true in my experience. In fact I see exactly the opposite. The folk doing surveys seem far more likely to fool themselves that there onto something. They're usually some way to cut up the quant data so it looks like "success" by some category or another.

Surveys are a great tool in the right sort of context - but early customer development isn't one of 'em.

I do a little workshop on survey design. The first slide is:

The First Rule of Surveys: Don't do them.

The Second Rule of Surveys (for experts only!): Don't do them yet.

(yes - it is a deliberate paraphase of Michael Jackson's rules of optimisation ;-)
Hi, Yes. Thank you very much :)

"The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing." - PG.

Deciding whether this is a best idea is up to you. Feel free to share your experience with my app.
I have no particular loyalty to Instapaper, but their major feature over Pocket, for me, is sending a compilation to kindle as an ebook (Kindle sees it as a magazine, complete with TOC.) People have been asking for this feature from Pocket for a while now (http://help.getpocket.com/customer/portal/questions/286894-k...), but without much encouragement that it will appear.
Unfortunately the world of scientific collaboration follows a strict pattern: The Article

Which is good as a way of 'settling information' into a medium but an awful way for today. It's the equivalent of stone tablets compared to what's available today

It would be much better if the product of research could be shared in a more flexible format. For example, don't get me started on reading two columns PDFs in a computer screen.

Flexible formatting, attachable metadata, reusable "source code" (that could be an excel spreadsheet, a txt list of data, or source code per se), redrawable graphs, etc

We need a faster, more flexible, albeit official way of sharing data. Yes, there are ownership issues, IP issues, etc. But maybe having a more easily searchable/traceable system may help with this.
I never really understood why C gets such a bad rep for readability. It's a very compact language, just having a couple of keywords and a few very fundamental concepts. There's no "guessing" what a line does, no "obfuscation by design", etc.
written by... a woman. surprise surprise. Well, she just need to move to a country where men are dispensable. She´s in luck because that's just about any other country in the world except for evil India of course.

Disclaimer: I didn´t read the "article"
I've been thinking about "dockerizing" my application. How do I "get in touch" about that?

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/wiki/Docker-0.2.0-release...
Normal people eh? ;)

Speaking of late to the party Facebook is just in the process of taking off here in Japan, it's already very popular and appears to be taking over from social networks like Mixi which have previously dominated here.

I don't have any numbers to back this up though, I'm just basing it on the change in usage I've seen here in the last two years. Certainly Facebook is alive and well here, even _useful_ if you can imagine it!
I like CloudBees (Java only). It's powerful, has high reliability and auto-scaling baked in.