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s3 seems great for scaling out storage, but I'm sure there are gotchas.

I work in a very different area, but my experience with ec2 are you should drop what you're doing and immediately price out leaving. Roughly: for big hadoop tasks, ec2 is a horrid environment. The boxes are slow, flaky, and shitty; the network is slow and super shitty; and everything about the experience is ass. Oh, and the emr admins are assholes who push broken code; code that couldn't even have run once. These assholes, after issuing us a hotfix to a boot action, proceeded to change the path to the hotfix (without mentioning it to us), breaking our production clusters twice in in 30 hours. I guess I hold a grudge but I like sleeping. The point is emr and perhaps ec2 are complete amateur hour.

Quoting myself earlier:

from a former employer who wants to stay anonymous, ec2 bill per month: $97k
peak, softlayer: $26k. 1/3 the cost, 2x the performance.

And let's not mention emr; a $15k/mo cluster in softlayer did something like
5x the performance of an emr cluster that was costing (and running!) $2k/day.

I'm not kidding about 1/3 the cost and twice the performance. And this wasn't even with rack/switch local boxes, which would improve performance even more.
This sounds like an easy way to make sure nobody wants to be an executive of a major bank. Why would anyone want to take charge of an organization where the actions of any one of hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands of employees can get them thrown in jail? Do you have the ability to monitor that? Or anyone you know? Would you bet your freedom on it? Do you want bank executives to be the sort of people who play the odds on going to jail vs. getting money? The smartest people in the world have trouble getting your friend feed to display ads you want to see. The smartest people in the world cannot get their 1ms trades--to use your example--to succeed more than 50+epsilon percent of the time. They don't have this genius power to monitor all fraud that you think they should have. And before you argue that banks don't even try to set up monitoring systems, they actually do. Every major bank now is into big data and machine learning precisely to stop employees and customers from breaking the law. (They are hiring, by the way.) This is in response to Congressional and popular pressure.

In summary, I cannot think of a single significant way in which you understand what you're talking about.
An awful lot of words to say essentially a) Google has a similar product and a hint of you stole our idea but that's ok, OP likes competition and b) OP has learnt much but won't say what it is (at this point I assume it's because of competitive reasons) and c) he's willing to share some of the insights to the market with Google directly so invalidates my assumption in b).

Regardless of how the blog was written -- this is how I got to know LiveNinja. Kudos for that.
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This is a terrible writeup.

>>There is no way to ever prove or disprove whether any encryption was ever happening at all, and whether it was or not makes little difference.

That is the whole point in open sourcing the code!
Did he ever lay out concrete examples or reasons as to how Google is doing it wrong? I gave up digging through all the fluff.
As the author I have to disagree. All I'm asking is that they make the Free/Open Atom and RSS feeds work at least as good as the streams in Facebook does, and that they implement chat.

First one: That only needs to switch the Feed button to a "Like" button that subscribes you to the feed in one click. Then it needs to change the "new tab" page from a speed dial to a stream of those feeds. This stream could be hosted in the cloud (probably it should, to be available anywhere), and so would not add any bloat.

The chat I understand can be seen as bloat. But still, it's just one function, not those hoards of functions that the original Mozilla suite had.

And the point here is that it's really important to make people less dependent on Facebook, to pave the way for other initiatives and efforts to create another chip in the Facebook wall, and then some others another chip, etc. until the wall finally comes crashing down. IMO that's so important that one extra function, adding a little bloat, is well worth it.
Does anyone understand the point they are making in #9 about VPC?

Are they suggesting using HAProxy in your public subnet and ELBs in your private subnets? Is this their reference to avoiding using a NAT box (actually PAT)? Don't you still need a HAProxy box in each of your AZs?
We have 315 users now(still not much, I totally agree in terms of YC numbers). "57" is the number that we converted from the likes of okCupid and match on to truffle
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> Why would he provide fodder to Google Helpouts product managers?

Because the article has no actual content and sounds like self-congratulatory fluff. It doesn't convince me that LiveNinja is better than Google's offering. It convinces me that the author of LiveNinja cannot actually point to one concrete thing that they do better than Google.
It's still an undesirable result even if it compiled a portable Linux .so just for your CPU architecture. The requirements are so flawed the system should be junked, not hacked around.

Also, I'm not sure why my post was dinged, but Firefox extensions/addons/plugins can call into native code and can do pretty much anything an ActiveX control can do. There is no "sandbox" as someone else implied.
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My startup is in the same space as them and I can promise you that running our own storage is much cheaper. Azure and AWS run around 7K per month for 100tb.

When you factor redundacy I need to buy 200tb, factor in other server infrastructure with the cost of a 4TB drive running around 180 and I can spend 15K to buy 200TB of storage.

Put another way, we can own twice the storage capacity (or 1x mirrored) for roughly 2 months of S3 storage.
Feedback:

1) I feel like including in your limited app space/pitch "finding people of your class" is a poor indicator of your ability to market the product. While there is some way to spin the whole "find people with similar intellectual interests/career aspirations/etc.), referring to "class" specifically seems elitist, and would be poor marketing IMO.

2) In the "impressive things," Nishant wrote "getting scholarship" though it should've said "getting a scholarship."

3) The tone of the app seems childish at points (references to "fat little boy," "I want to spread love"). While it's good to not take yourself too seriously, it might've been a little too much perhaps?

4) I don't think you explained/framed very well what exactly is the problem that people are facing that you are solving. If you can draw upon some references to people really preferring to date others with similar educational/professional background or something, that would've probably helped.

Just wanted to give some constructive (but conjectural) feedback. Good luck guys! :)
I've bought it the very first day, and it should arrive sometime tomorrow... I've always been disappointed in my Galaxy Nexus, so I'm really hoping that this one won't disappoint.

My hopes are pretty high though. And I thought the battery wasn't easily replacable, but that video tells the contrary. I'll see for myself I guess.
Right, the word "class". Of course people still look to date in similar... circles?
But why on earth should VC's fund it in that case? Isn't that an entrepreneur's decision, not the VC's? Blaming the VC's for not funding this seems ridiculous to me.
He was correct, Capitalist refers to a very small number of people who own and manage capital. My definition (the textbook definition), was describing a system of capital ownership.

Unless you labor under the delusion that capital is not owned by a very small number of people, I do not know how that definition caused you to think the exact opposite of the definition.

Also, I am not wielding "greedy" as an insult, as I clarified immediately after using it. This is a greed motivated system. It is what it is. It is not an insult, it is a description. I apologize if you disagree but I am not really interested in debating if water is wet.
90% of small businesses fail within the first year, or so the conventional wisdom goes.

Not all of them can possibly fail for completely unique reasons.
Consultants. Not freelancers, consultants. They have to charge that much so people know they're consultants rather than freelancers!
It was the switch to Gnome3 that drove me to CentOS...although I'm not sure xfce would be enough to make me want to go back.
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It's funny how GrinningFool seems to be associating "online" apps with cloud-based services (Google docs, dropbox, etc.) and thus equating offline with their pre-cloud iterations.

I think the OP's intent applies to every app that uses data (pretty much most apps except self-contained games). Think of something like Foursquare (remember them?) that is geo-based, yet totally dependent on communicating to their server. I never used the app, but how did it handle not having a data connection? Better yet, look at the iPhone's built in Mail app. It creates an outbox for any email I try to write and send while offline (so it can handle being offline), but at the same time, it gives me a no-connection pop-up warning for almost every action I take, which is understandable, but also not very usable.

Also, the old offline-only apps are NOT the same (in terms of UI and behavioer) because the new offline-aware apps have to live in both worlds. They must do work when connected and "cache" work (both up- and down-stream) when not connected--and they must do this seamlessly even when the connection can come and go without notice or predictable duration. I think it's this dual nature that the OP is talking about and I agree it is a new paradigm that most apps don't handle gracefully.
You attempted to discredit his post by attacking the arguments he used.

Holy crap that's some egg on my face. There must be some Latin name for that particular brand of rhetorical gaffe, "attacking the arguments".
gitolite makes it ridiculously easy, but that one does not work on windows i believe.
That's why change orders should happen for anything that isn't specified at the time of signing the contract. They can be zero cost, they can be clarification change orders, they can swap scope, or they can involve additional cost.

I try to get to a cadence of about one change order a week on projects lasting longer than ten weeks. Sometimes, depending on how onerous getting an SOW signed can be, we'll even queue up change orders (with the client's willing participation) to execute right after the SOW is approved by legal.

There are plenty of apps that version mockups, but it's also possible to add layers to existing documents as well, whether it's photoshop, visio, etc.
If he were to acknowledge the main differentiation he would lose a lot of Android users. Hangouts, will be integrated in all 4.4+ devices providing a huge direct market for Google. In just one service announcement, Google has successfully outsourced their support department.
https://rhodecode.com/ provides EXCELLENT solution to host both mercurial and git repositories. And its free.
This sounds to me like either a cheap marketing post or a terrible cover letter. No more.
$30,000 for 100sqft doesn't seem like a good idea though.
Great. I am looking at integrating it into my fork of ethercalc so i can store not just the metrics but also some of the indicators and statistics i compute on them. For my use cases (R and spreadsheets) it would be handy if i could get results in csv format straight from the API when i make a query.
Yes, that's a good thing. But it's only one tiny piece of the puzzle. It's like saying "if you want to tackle climate change don't try to lobby the government for stricter regulations or for a price on carbon, just recycle your trash". This is such a huge problem that we need both tiny, personal initiatives, and systemic change. We can put all our eggs in either one.
1) Ah, so its a constraint optimization problem where a solution is guaranteed to exist? This sounds more than a bit optimistic.

2) You must live in a first-world country.

3) I know this first hand living in Beijing, part of the reason we have seriously bad pollution in the winter is because all the farmers in the surrounding Hebei country side burning whatever to stay warm.
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Nope - a push notification appears on your lock screen - just tap your phone at that point, and voila, you're unlocked. It's pretty slick.
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According to Drew Houston at Websummit last week, they haven't spent any of that money.
Ah yes, I saw this. According to a post on their forums, the Thrift DB runs about 15 minutes behind HN itself. Not terribly great for my particular application (that checks for updates), but no doubt useful for other things.
The providers are the people we can't trust.
From the Business point of view, it should embrace facebook - if user experience turns out bad, they will shift to chrome..which firefox would not want for itself
My project is closed, their project is open. No party is directly involved in any money-related activity and there are many legal and political reasons behind this situation.

There is much backstory to tell, but my intention is not to deviate from the main thread, but to share that I can relate with the frustration of not being able to stand against a competitor due to lack of resources.

In my case it was more viable to give up since it was a "for fun project" (and the fun stopped when I had to take care about defending my work, getting a lawyer, taking care about how to license it, etc.), but I'm pretty sure that if the project were an important part of my career or my living I would have looked for options to save it.
> making it ideally suited for video creation services, 3D visualizations, streaming graphics-intensive applications ...

And, presumably, cracking hashes!
go talk about nomads.
It seems out disagreement is just stems from different shades of "foreseeable." To me, it's a foregone conclusion that scanning technology will one day be able to verify claims that one is "unable to recall," though we can't foresee exactly how and when this will happen.
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This isn't one of the apps that I read, but that would definitely be a negative for me. The world doesn't need more class divisions.
No, just for the most part greedy people. Sometimes greedy people were able to bribe greedy officials to bend laws, especially in relation to oil in Oklahoma on American Indian reservations, who we initially stole our land from anyways.
Could you link to a screenshot instead of a potentially malware-laced page? Edit: Here's one, posted by mgadams3 in another thread. http://imgur.com/QksCQuw
I think the cause here is google following the injected urls from third party sites.
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The open stairs going over the kitchen (!!), and the bed with nearly no protection barrier are two bad points that strike me in the prototype
That sounds exactly like the idea behind federated social networks. I've blogged about that in my post 'Think like the internet – Or how to fight Facebook, and win" http://blogg.forteller.net/2011/think-internet/
1) Can you elaborate on the 'no messaging' logic?

2) I hope you have a rockstar marketing/leadgen guru.
And I disagree on the disagreement. :) If I download a dmg file, I assume the author knows how to write software for a Mac. If I download a zip, I assume they don't.

At least they need to change the name from "latest.zip" to "Knock for Mac.zip" or something like that.

Even better would be having it in the Mac App Store. Since you need to download the iPhone version from the App Store anyway, it would be better to keep things unified.
Everpix team: sorry to hear that the runway ended before you could take off. It is a great idea, but with such tough competition for user acquisition (esp free competition in the B2C space), it's easy to see how customer growth couldn't deliver the returns needed for a VC-backed startup. We considered this space heavily but decided we'd be no match against the giants throwing money at this space.

At Tourbuzz, we've approached the photography market from a commercial angle. We've bootstrapped a profitable niche in professional real estate photography and are now planning our expansion into other niches. I do believe that the feature set you were formulating is one that is in consumers' interest, it's just a matter of finding a way to monetize it successfully. The photography space is still huge and growing, and there is plenty of time to build large, successful companies in the space.

We'd love to talk to you about the future if you're interested.
So you password protect the HTTP interface; is there anything that protects the 0mq interface?

I used to for a PaaS and we made a mistake allowing one component to run any command what so ever. This can seem appealing; but it's a security risk extraordinaire.

Security keeps taking a back seat to useability :(
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We're moving more into the realm of calling ourselves a backup service than the aggregator/viewer service we are mainly today.
Very weird they do not use the amazon domain for that and yet it looks exactly like amazon.

Teaching consumers bad habits.
> Of course it has. Pre-sherman anti-trust act it happened all the time.

Most of the sources for this aren't entirely convincing. A small example: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/hammer-ant...

A monopoly by definition must include a condition that there is no competition, not just that the market is dominated by 1 entity. The frequency that this happens due solely to market forces (ie. no coercion, violence, corruption, etc...) is low to nil.

> Your opinions do not match the universal truths of an economist, of which I know many (of different nationalities). Libercrazians like to pretend that they are supported by economists, most of whom (barring the Austrians) think they are whackos.

First, I'm hardly a libertarian (at least not of the American variety), nor do I find the pop-economic theories of 'Austrians' convincing. In fact, in all the economics I've studied (not my major, but took quite a few courses) the 'Austrian' school was hardly mentioned. I've seen it mentioned more on HN than I ever had before... BTW, my views would probably fall more in line with neoclassical economics, though I don't work in the field, I do make a living investing in stock markets.
I've been using xfce since I started in on Ubuntu. KDE and Gnome were too fat, and lets not even bother with wasting breath insulting Unity.

The only thing I've ever enjoyed more than xfce is custom WM setups, but that's going pretty far down the "lean" route. If xfce can run smooth on a first gen 1.6ghz eeepc, it will be fine for anything else.
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If you load a buttload of mp3s on there and / or a small library of movies and tv shows, then 16GB is not that much. Especially once you add in a few hundred photos at 3 or 4MB a pop. And some of the more graphically intense games out now surpass the 1GB mark.

And various social media apps have fairly large local caches. Examples include instagram, tumblr, and vine.

So if you're just using a bunch of cloud services you don't need a lot of space, but not everyone uses their mobile that way.
Are you saying that releasing a similar system under an open source license will prove claims about the way their code worked in the past or just that we'd know if encryption is happening in the open source system?
yeah definitely -- you could even potentially pick which wall to slide the 'window panels' into, so you could move your windows to a different wall entirely.
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I should say though, it was a beautiful product and did its job extremely well.
How fast can you text on it?
You read the article right? Especially the part where the creator of Infiniminer is tired of people saying that?
Well, I think the article said it was $35k per month in AWS costs alone. If they had 6800 paying customers at the cheapest rate ($50 per year) they were making $333,200 per year -- $27,767 per month.

My #1 priority would have been getting the storage costs to be break-even, with plan to get well under in a year. I have to assume they tried and discovered they couldn't get their numbers low enough.
My favorite tweet about the subject.
https://twitter.com/HuffPostMedia/status/397811579527233536/...
Lest anyone seriously consider this, keep in mind that the success of cryptography is that you don't need any "blind faith". Properly designed crypto systems are those which don't force you to lean on any pillar that might give way unexpectedly.

"Just trust the server to avert its eyes" is untenable. It's untenable because it's unnecessarily risky. We as a community can do better than to use someone else's design full of holes merely because it seemed to work.

Crypto systems seem to work until they don't. And when they stop working, it's likely you'll never realize. But your adversary will.
This is great but adding a shower would be a huge improvement towards making it a more feasible choice.

Because as a general rule: every day I need to sleep, eat/drink, urinate/defecate and shower/bathe. Enable all those functions and you have a compelling product/price.
Absolutely. That's why I say we need many more things to take down Facebook. This is just about starting, making it a little bit easier for people to not spend close to 100% of their online lives in the walled garden of Facebook, by giving them an easy option for two of their functions. It's not about replacing Facebook completely, it's just a start.
Wow, I just signed up for Everpix two weeks ago. According to this article, they had already written the message announcing their end when they took my money.
Does anyone here know of a comparable project in Ruby?
Interestingly, one of the "characters" did come forward, with their own "historical truth" review (4/5 stars) that doesn't exactly fall in line with MacKenzie's conclusions:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3J863C5ZP53BA/ref=cm_cr_dp_tit...
Things aren't so clear cut. Laws have to draw boundaries around things all the time, even if the particular location of any particular boundary cannot be easily justified, the necessity of the boundary's existence most certainly can. In this case, we can regulate electronic transactions, but we can't regulate cash. Furthermore, it happens to be the case that when you allow electronic transactions willy-nilly bad things happen, and it's harder for those bad things to happen when cash is involved (Breaking Bad would have been completely different if Walter White had hid is money in Bitcoin). So, we regulate electronic transactions more than we do cash. It doesn't solve all the problems, but it does mitigate them.
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