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I meant Katrina as a mark in the national debate/ conscience. Tragic one off event, which while we should try our best to avoid does not bring enough substance to be the pillar, let alone the foundation of the policies afterwards.

The handling of Katrina was terrible, but for various reasons the event did not scar the public deeply. Maybe because no one could figure out how to (ab)use it for media whoring and free pass for every legislation.
well this just saved me $20. AWESOME
> 15 years ago, I would not have said software developers, software engineers, or test engineers were part of IT. IT was that department that kept the corporate computers working and worked for the CFO, not part of the department that shipped products and worked for the VP Engineering.

When I worked for an enterprise software company close to 15 years ago, there was clear recognition of both IT-as-internal-organization and IT-as-industry, and both people who worked in IT-as-internal-organization and people who worked in the development and support of products in firms in IT-as-industry were widely recognized as working "in IT". AFAICT, that is exactly the same situation as now.

(This shouldn't be surprising, since IT-as-industry is effectively just the outsourced version of IT-as-internal-organization.)
Here is an idea - Pause/freeze the trial period. Initially give a 14 day trial period. If the user does not come back after 2-3 days, send them an email that you have paused their trial for now and it will start running again when they login next time.
"Disclaimer"?
Hate to say it but they are onto the boring stuff. The cleanup after the Superbowl, if you will. People just aren't that interested in coming in and fixing code to run better. It's a really tough sell because it's tedious, un-sexy work.
Sure, and maybe one day they can make that need obsolete. I just don't think that day has arrived yet.
When considering this type of transparency, there is a spectrum of types of people. Some prefer radical transparency where every possible pitfall and challenge is openly acknowledged and noted. On the other side of the spectrum, a lot of people don't want to have any knowledge of the challenges, and in fact, work most productively in a state of naiveté.

Part of hiring is understanding how different people respond to this sort of stress. For me, I really prefer this sort of off-the-record honesty. I know a start-up is challenging, and a failure to acknowledge a reality that I know exists is a huge turnoff. But I can definitely imagine that some hires would find this scary and would find a startup that seems much more "perfect." You attract who you want to attract.
I have heard good things about this combination. You buy your on VPS setups to get redundancy or regional dispersion and cloud66 manages the deploy.
I will offer an experience which is the inverse of this!

I am a male software engineer who works in fashion (and before this I worked in wine.) I knew nothing about wine when I started, and my fashion sense is prototypically, well, male-software-centric.

People in the wine industry are palpably aware that people view it as "hoity-toity". Professionals I've worked with are usually very gracious in explaining what it means when you say a wine is "dark" or "buttery" because that pretentious image is something we want to overcome.

Fashion is a bit different. "I like that chambray shirt!" What? "Erm, that's, uh, that denim material you're wearing." Oh.

Or "I saw someone next door with an Hermes bag; it was gorgeous." Everyone had quite a laugh when I asked who Hermes was. Or expressed surprise that the Vogue Spring edition is the one where they show off new styles, which is why it's so thick and has so few ads. Or the difference between hair paste and hair gel.

I feel like there is a bigger lesson in this story: I've got to stop making people feel silly for not getting my Star Wars references, and they've got to understand that there's no logical reason I'd know anything about the big names in fashion. I occasionally meet people who get this - you know your domain and I know mine, and we can still talk to each other without othering.

And that skill - of being able to get along with your PM even though they "clearly don't know anything about code" - is one worth developing.
I definitely agree that you should have some kind of usage limitation so that if the person doesn't decide in 30 days they can come back and try the product still. However, what I've done for my product is given away the full product for 3 weeks and then limit usage after that. What I've seen, is more people buy my pro version instead of just the basic because they can test out all the features. They can also still come back and test the product and aren't shut out if they miss the time trial window.
I didn't stop reading.
LPGL isn't vastly better than the GPL as it makes it difficult to link statically and/or release for closed platforms. Its advocates would probably see these as plus points, but I'm not sure that they're going to increase uptake.
It seems purpose built to garner upvotes from many of those who frequent HN - insults the American right wing while praising European level-headedness and rationalism. Add in a final parting shot at American stereotypes and I'm not surprised at all I found it at the top.
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I'm not sure what you're driving at. Visit their website. See where the only words on the page are, "Everyone's Private Driver™"? I think it's pretty clear what they're selling.

And in the case of Uber Taxi, they comply with all legal requirements for a Taxi service.
That makes sense, still I think the removable sdcard was the way to go, I had more storage at 32 Gigs with my own sdcard before, now with Nexus 4 I can't mount it and it's limited to 1/3 the capacity.
They did it for the lulz. Unfortunately, the lulz were on them.
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I once looked and could not find any evidence that Newton said that. Since the quote is designed to sound good to modern ears, the attribution to Newton is probably bogus.
This sounds like the equivalent of a male nerd complaining about "brogrammers"
In my opinion, articles like this represent the most interesting part of technology. Google Glass itself is awe inspiring - when I was 6, I dreamed of having something like Google Glass (and using it to accomplish my dreams of becoming a Jedi). However, the most fascinating part will be watching society and its norms catch up to the technology.

/waxing-philosophical
There are plenty of non-bros in Chicago. I live in Chicago, and have no problem successfully avoiding them.
Of course it does. Just indent by four spaces:

1. Foo
1. Alice
2. Bob
2. Bar
Refreshingly honest. Do you allow remote workers as this seems like an obvious solution to widening the talent pool.
But it's okay. There will always be something else to talk about, and it's not like every technical person out there loves everything you name and then some. That's not what defines us.

Sadly... I have received criticism and ridicule from some for liking things like knitting (talk about a minority), WoW, and My Little Pony. Doctor Who, LotR, Firefly, EVE Online and all that stuff is usually "awesome!" and untouchable. Beyond me why this stupid double standard exists.

Or, how I spent one Harry Potter midnight book release waiting in line watching Grey's Anatomy (the medical romance/drama on ABC). Big freaking deal.
You're talking about your post in the comment thread, right?
Your strengths are not your weaknesses
So then they have my address and keys to it?
Nope, no possibility of abuse there!

It's strange, but I really find it hard to come up with a legitimate reason for this service - I think there's a place that'll copy my keys down the street from me. It would take me less time to get my keys copied there on the way home than it would to actually check my mail when I get home.
Pretty cool stuff! glTail [0] does similar visual analysis of pretty much anything.

[0] http://www.fudgie.org/
Here you go: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tchami.kin...
I hate to be 'that guy', but is caching really considered 'premature optimization'?
Hook objc_msgSend to trace Objective-C method callz
Because these superficial changes are part of the package that they're selling. They've got charters (or whatever) in cities all over the world and their first product was a livery without the scheduling nonsense and with a pretty reasonable price. Telling them that the thing that they want to sell is against regulations is fine, but saying that those regulations exist strictly to protect against bad actors and that exemptions are granted for everyone else is the same as saying that you think that they are bad actors. And in that case, asking people to sign a petition saying that they're not is completely reasonable.
I’m not helping
Dotcloud offers the service: http://docs.dotcloud.com/services/postgresql/

The biggest caveat is that you don't get integrated no-fuss horizontal scaling the way you do with their MySQL and MongoDB products.
The most accurate part of this is that line near the end... "...nor will I mention the [A], the [Z], and everything else." That feeling of an endless list of responsibilities is a definitive property of launching a startup.
Legal risk to UK based forums etc has always been high.

This article gives a nice (but now outdated) guide to what those risk ara and how to handle them [1].

It concluded that you were at less risk if you did not moderate, because if you did, and failed to cull posts that were illegal (hate speech is illegal in the UK, also yuckier things), you were less likely to get in trouble.

Effectively, this forces a site to moderate, which means they become exposed if someone posts a nasty and they don't remove it within a reasonable amount of time.

I was troubled by this when I set up a forum for a largish youth theater. An organization like that in the UK is very into child protection (criminal record checks all round), and they worried that they would be responsible if the kids bullied each other or posted inappropriate photos. We really didn't want to spend time moderating.

The most surprising things are criminal or at least civil offenses in the UK. No 1st amendment here.

In practice, we'd probably just run a private forum like that anyway, but if we were sensible, I guess now we'd not do it.

[1]http://www.out-law.com/page-7841
"But for some girls, it feels like women are alienating the girls who want to be in IT."

For most children, up through high school, it feels like they're being alienated by their peers for being "different."
Seems like link is dead, does anybody have a mirror by any chance?
Everyone's got their own thing that they like and hate though.

I personally love trying to optimize and speed things up. On the flip side, I really hate doing CSS and Javascript front-end things (I can do them, but just prefer not to). Speed/optimization stuff (which I'm still getting better at every day) just feels more quantifiable and is a more interesting problem.

If the writer can open themselves to remote people, they've definitely got a better chance at pulling in some good people to help. But the one caution is against someone who wants to some in and do a rewrite of 90% of the stuff- optimize, don't start over.
Had a hard time understanding the OP's point...but mostly because I don't understand what the event was about. Was it advertised explicitly as an IT/engineering event? I guess you could assume that from "Women in IT", but I think it's nice that such an event shows how information technology encompasses a lot of different fields. Even on "Hacker News", there are a good number of articles about marketing and law because geeks realize that being successful is not strictly based on coding skills.

As someone already pointed out, "IT" is a nebulous term. In my day, while at college, it was almost never used to refer to computer engineers, but was more intended for MIS majors, which was considered to be the "computer science of Excel". So it's kind of strange that the OP is calling for more elitism when the event used a term that's extremely vague and inclusive.
If I were running an online marketplace in the United States and cared about protecting the sellers in my marketplace from fraud:

https://www.balancedpayments.com/
I think his honesty about the situation is a smart decision, especially for hiring. What's worse for a startup than having open job positions is to hire someone based on false optimism about the company and invest in training him, only to have that new employee quit after a month when the going gets tough.

The best person for a struggling company to hire is someone who believes they can help solve the challenging problems and will work relentlessly until the issues are resolved.
This is cool. Tools like this are useful to me, as a developer, when there is a breadth of information available. I'd take that over a nice UI any day.

Definitely a nice job.
Try Kuler by Adobe (free)

https://kuler.adobe.com/
+1 to counteract the downvotes. This turns me off too. I know they're a Rails shop, and that's super popular with hardcore Apple fans, but Ruby code doesn't seem to mind when I write it on my Windows laptop. When I chose my machine, it outspec'd the MBP in every way (from screen to SSD/RAM to build quality) for less money -- not a valuable mindset at an early startup? The host OS doesn't matter all that much when you spend half your time SSH'd into Linux servers anyway.
This is awesome. Just bookmarked it.
The problem isn't PM's know jack about code. The problem is the set where a PM would even be required. That means there's a structural flaw in your process.

The idea of having a project manager is ridiculous. People _should_ manage themselves and take ownership of the project. Making the PM useless.
Yep. There's plenty of services that do it, Jeff just built this for me because I was being stubborn and didn't want to fork out the money.
Just don't forget that you're dealing with problems caused by growth and demand. You're basically being crushed by latent, pent up demand. I feel your pain. But I have to say, having problems for those reasons can't be all bad.

And, if high quality photos are your issue, talk to Pete Warden over at Jetpac. He's wicked smart, friendly, in SF, and deals with high quality travel photos on Jetpac.

Or (And?), talk to AirBnB. They deal with photos, are in SF, and are also YC alums. Don't you all have each other on speed dial?

As a founder, I wish I had your problems. But, I have to say, I also wish I had your level of access to potential solutions and advisors.

My YC interview is on Sunday. Hopefully by Monday we'll have each other on speed dial. :)
OK, then, I thought of Sam Harris as being 'anti-theistic'. (That was the idea I was shooting for with the term 'hardcore atheist' -- being not just doubtful but actively opposed to the idea of dieties/creators.) His book is after all titled The End of Faith.

Allowing for the idea that anything interesting might happen to consciousness after death strikes me as atypical for anti-theistics.
I was browsing HN on a friend's computer that without adblock and clicked this link. Wow! Is this what the internet looks like without adblock? The ad/content ratio is crazy...
If I recall correctly, it's not Java-only anymore. I started setting up a Jenkins server for CI for my Django app. I never finished getting the configuration right, and I'm not 100% positive you can serve Django from it (I don't see why you wouldn't be able to though), so I can't give an endorsement backed by experience, but it's something to look into.
It's not just the stigma that IT isn't womanly, it's the idea that a young girl... already completely dejected by her peers, is forced to endure classes made up of 100% high school boys.

Unless the teacher is incredible defensive of the girl's position in the class, she will most likely drop it.

I am not surprised there are so few women in IT.
The fact that in all of the history of philosophy nobody has provided a firm argument that the existence of a god is impossible?

There are plenty of kids on the internet who claim gnostic atheism with their "proofs" which usually involve various simple paradoxes that have been resolved by more serious philosophers plenty of times.

By your question, it seems like you may have misinterpreted what I said.
> They're a uniform. It's how we id the friendlies on the battlefield

I'm not sure about that. I think people tend to wear things they feel good about. Sport jerseys, political shirts, or funny t-shirts just make us feel good. Some people feel better when were the in-crowd things, some are our for themselves.

// this is my favorite http://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html#30 the 4.4 t-shirt
You seem to be implicitly thinking of 'marketing' as pejorative.

I'd suggest instead that identifying an audience for a potential product is actually part of making an awesome product.

There's a pretty wide stretch of territory between not caring whether something is business viable and only caring about building a successful business.
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Does anybody have experience deploying Django to Elastic Beanstalk? I'd love to hear a comparison between them and Heroku.
Cool, thanks. The problem here is in the elisp manual, then.
Can't edit again for some reason.. so here goes for anyone that is interested. Included modified spec file and built-RPMS:

https://github.com/justicel/nginx-pagespeed

Pretty sure github is going to yell at me about the binary files :P
There was a plan to get something into orbit by lifting in a balloon, then putting in a vehicle that was a cross between a wing and a balloon where as it accelerates, it generates lift, pushing it up so that drag becomes less, etc, eventually launching cheaply. But I haven't heard of the company in a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_airship looks like what I'm thinking of.
This was exactly my thought. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I read that they'd slowed to a crawl due to a lack of caching.
Most amazing computer training video ever
Your journal would only be academic if a judge says it is academic. It doesn't matter that you call it academic; I doubt any judge would agree. So you would not have any defence.
Ask HN: What books are you currently reading?
Please don't limit your responses to technical and nonfiction materials!
Yes, we could use more research in the technical side of that. Right now hard-rock drilling is so expensive that geothermal is only viable where natural circulation of underground water brings heat up from hotter regions.
IT is the industry. Software companies are in the IT industry. However, the actual "IT Guy" sysadmin/tech-support job is a role within the IT industry. I work in IT, but IT is not my role personally, I'm a developer.
Looking through jQuery's test suite provides alot of insight also

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/test/unit/core....
Amazon has a ton of guides on common use cases for their services, one of which is hosting a static website on AWS using Route 53 to handle DNS, S3 for managing files and requests and CloudFront as your CDN.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website...
The Hustle, A defense in kind.
I tried it on my own little webpage [1].
Results in short:
0.5 seconds to 0.9 seconds shorter load times. Beware, that I only have static content on that website.

[1] http://zufallsheld.de/2013/04/26/googles-nginx-plugin-ngx_pa...
I don't see why this would invalidate the concept of physical keys.

The problem of visual key copying can be easily solved by either making keys in a shape that doesn't allow to see the ridges easily (something like 'E' with middle bar being the actual key) or by making a "dynamic" key that changes shape after you insert it into the lock.
Limiting choice is BAD. The whole reason you should be creating and using free software and OSS is to not weld the hood shut.

But you sound like you want to limit choice for users. The whole point of free software from the GNU perspective is to keep options open for users, and not allow downstream devs to "weld the hood shut" on derivatives by adding more restrictions on what users can do with those derivatives.

However, there are other reasons people choose it as well. One motivation you sometimes encounter is a view that, if someone's code is used in proprietary, commercial software, they'd like to be paid for it. Hence the dual-licensed model used by libraries like Qt and the Stanford Parser: you can use the GPL version if you're willing to GPL your own app, or you can buy a proprietary license if you aren't. Seems reasonably fair: I give you my code free if you reciprocate and do likewise with your own code, or I sell you a license for cash otherwise.
Outside of Companies who's core competency is related to technology 'IT' means everything that is computer related. Actually its even further, I cant 100% pin it down, but the feeling is its like, if you dont have a CTO or Chief Science Officer or something of that ilk, everyone who reports up to your CIO is considered IT. Try that on, its the closest to what I have seen in my career.
The idea that advanced aliens wouldn't bother talking to us / visiting us if they could because we're too primitive is obviously wrong.

We still have tons of interest and even affection for animals on our own planet who are far less advanced than ourselves.

And it's obvious that if we could travel around the galaxy and we detected life forms on another planet, we would obviously go visit them and check them out.

The issue is that, for it to have any hope of ever visiting or communicating with us the intelligent life would have to be in our own galaxy. Which is a lot less likely (going down from billions of billions to just billions of stars.)

Even then the task is far from trivial. But I think it's a certainty that if intelligent life does exist in our galaxy which is more advanced than ourselves, it will obviously try to contact us.

Also based purely on what we know about life on earth intelligent life which is capable of developing technology is exceedingly rare when compared to life in general. It's not necessarily required that any planet which gives rise to life ever eventually develops intelligent life. If not for the extinction of the dinosaurs we'd never exist. So personally I tend to think it's most likely there are other planets with life in the Milky Way, but possibly none with intelligent life. And even less likely for it to be more advanced than us.
Michael Lopp on Apple, managing humans and disruptive technology
> I occasionally meet people who get this - you know your domain and I know mine, and we can still talk to each other without othering.

This is so true. Many people are all too quick to show off their knowledge at someone else's expense, when instead it could be so much more: an opportunity to share something that will be completely new to that person; to share a passion and give someone a new perspective or idea or experience or whatever and give that person an insight into your domain. That's a wonderful thing and a privilege, and to waste it by instead using the opportunity to "one-up" someone else ("you've never heard of x?! [how stupid can you be?!]") is such a shame.

Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1053/
I fundamentally disagree with the idea that consuming cultural artifacts that happen to correlate with liking engineering has anything to do with liking engineering. If you think liking Star Wars is necessary for being an engineer, you're probably missing some pretty good people who just aren't that into Star Wars.