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It's about 1Mbit a month... (1Mbit = 328.5 GB).

Has anyone on HN been successful in a previous startuppack round?

Why...

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html

If you don't have enough time to watch the entire video, just watch the "Linked representations" which starts at 24 minutes (4 minutes long).

It's on a 2D graphing library but his visualizations are incredible.

Am I missing something but I always assumed that valuations at this stage of a company is to do with huge/vast sums of money being removed from the table by the founders and they've done this by selling a good stake of their equity/voting rights in their company.

The founders are now rich.. but the company isn't.. and if they raise a next round, their true valuation will shine through...

Looking at a listing[1], I notice that you provide email addresses to users and presumably act like a craiglists for anonymous messaging...

I'm just curious though, don't you find that you get spammed out if you do this?

I think providing email addresses to users on a marketplace is a great way of keeping discussions/messages boxed up in your platform, but showing the emails on the site must result in way too many spam emails?

[1] http://42floors.com/ny/new-york/25-w-39th-st/3171

I've stopped reporting anything these days. The report system isn't there to actually do anything... at least not in the disciplinary sense.

It's there exclusively to make the people who are reporting things feel like they have some solution to things they disagree with.

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I recently reported two separate comments on Facebook.

The first comment was on startup investor's profile picture after he announced that he was getting married to his long term boyfriend/partner (about two weaks ago). The polite version of the comment basically went along the lines of saying that he would be "judged by allah" for his sins and should die.

The second person was a friend who commented on a picture of several football supporters and one of the guys had a turban on. The comment said "I see a dirty terrorist".

So I kicked my 'friend' (who was really just an associate anyway) from my list and reported to Facebook...

Both of these reports came back saying that after reviewing they haven't broken any rules...

Apparently the Facebook staff who run the review proceedures are the same folks who leave comments on the cesspool over at YouTube...

That's not how things work... You can't just create some system and see governments flock to you. There are years of consulting and specification requirements.

Linux is open source... Office Libre... Go convince a public office to switch to Ubuntu..

Saving money is often at the bottom of their focus.. and then you have competing interests releasing figures that show it is more costly to switch to free alternatives.

Public spending is a corrupt cycle.

Kinda feel like a jerk on this one. Wasn't really expecting to be able to nuke it so easily.

    ab -c 30 -n 3000 http://www.blinklink.me/b/4XIxfoeF4C0

    Concurrency Level:      30
    Time taken for tests:   93.802 seconds
    Complete requests:      3000
    Failed requests:        2137
     (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 2137, Exceptions: 0)
    Write errors:           0
    Requests per second:    31.98 [#/sec] (mean)
    Time per request:       938.024 [ms] (mean)
    Time per request:       31.267 [ms] (mean, across all     concurrent requests)
    Transfer rate:          182.47 [Kbytes/sec] received

    Connection Times (ms)
                  min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
    Connect:      116  165 165.9    122    1276
    Processing:   137  771 624.6    625    6827
    Waiting:      132  733 595.7    601    6823
    Total:        254  936 644.7    789    7062

Maybe I missed this bit of information, but can someone explain....

They use a multi datacenter master - slave redis cluster? What's the relationship between the master and slaves?

Are the slaves just failover? Or are they for read only?

How have they configured their writes and reads from their main application? I'm just curious how their application routes the reads/writes in such a multi-database setup. (Are they using DNS for a manual failover?)

Has anyone installed Piwik for multiple accounts?

My product allows users to create and launch their own website. I'd quite like to be able to quickly provide basic statistics for users (alongside Google analytics if they want it).

We run a multi-tenant application so have thousands of sites running from the same codebase, however, each site owner would need it's own statistics. At the moment, we just let users provide their own Google Analytics, but it would be nice to report to Piwik I think and give them their own preconfigured stats area?

Some companies just don't understand how to write acquisition/winding down letters.

"We're excited" should almost never be used in an acquisition post unless the users also have something genuinely to be excited about. ie. Cookies, Balloons and otherwise exciting things!

Instead, what they wrote is:

We're excited to be acquired, thanks for making this possible, now GTFO our servers in the next three days.

(Also on another note, couldn't you replicate their entire business in a weekend using Docker, vanilla Redis, and the boto python API?)

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Edit: (Since this is the top comment, I'll paste the comment from the founder who is hellbanned).

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    Hey, I'm Miles Smith, the Founder of MyRedis. I sent the email this morning
    and didn't read it through the eyes of my customers. I take ownership of
    that. We have updated our website, and sent a followup email to all 
    customers, to clarify the availability of customer data.

    All customer instances and data will be fully online and operational until at 
    least July 30th.
    Furthermore, I will be storing an archive of all customer data for 
    an additional 90 days,
    just in case someone missed something.
    I will be available to help all customers who would like assistance in migrating.

    Miles Smith Founder, MyRedis

(Miles you are hellbanned. No one can see your comments from your current account)

If you know that you need to be grouping by dates... then it's usually best to store the date fragments in a separate column so you can take advantage of indexes.

The project is pretty cool, but I don't think it's worth adding the dependency lock-in for the functions.

Simply, if you know ahead of time that you want GROUP BY date, then you should create a new column for each interval. `week`, `day`, `hour`.

That way you will have fast queries...

Looks good. You should think about adding Facebook Connect for registrations... especially with how much a lot of people like to announce how motivated they are to look after their health, and after all, "it's a good thing that you told everyone you went to the Gym, otherwise that session would have been totally pointless".

You should also make it clearly what your business model/pricing/fees/plans/what to expect once you sign up. This information is really difficult to discover without subscription.

To a lot of sellers, this is going to be a non-starter... The pricing model of 2.5% per transaction plus paypal/stripe fees, means that in liklihood it will only attract casual users who barely make any sales... The pricing is probably fine for these users, but it's priced well beyond the convenience that it offers for established sellers who might just be thinking, "let's give it a shot".

Marketplaces go for the 4-10% per transaction.. but provide payments and the actual exposure on their marketplace... Shoplocket is just providing a widget to integrate...

So ultimately, I only see these guys as going after the really (emphasis) really, small fishes...

What do you guys all use for email management between a small 2 person team (founder co-founder)? I've seen that one person has already mentioned https://www.helpscout.net/

I've been using Assistly/Desk http://www.desk.com , but find that it's actually a bit overpowering, and adds a lot of support meta-junk to each email that just makes it looks like we're trying to be an enormous company, when in fact, we don't get that many emails, but at the same time, we want to handle each email efficiently and promptly.

This is all really obvious though...

The title and the first 80% of the article is written to allow a casual reader to infer that there is a problem with S3... simply put this isn't the case, and through brute force guessing the researchers were able to find some publicly accessible files containing sensitive information in a bucket... (assuming of course that the bucket owner didn't intend for the bucket to be public in the first place?)

This really isn't restricted or exclusive to just S3 buckets.. if you randomly hit enough web accessibly URLs you'll find confidential/sensitive material else where as well. People might feel slightly more confident or relaxed in what they store on S3, but the author doesn't make any convincing points to suggest this.

The findings are on a par with research such as "eating fatty food causes heart problems", or "exercise is good for you"... or "Amazon S3 service used as intended causes pages to be publicly accessible"...

If the Summly could do research TL;DRs as well, it would be, "S3 buckets set to public are accessible to anyone".

How did you do the recording for the <canvas> demo of the product? You got my upvote just for that.

Raising $2-5000 between 5 developers should be a matter of 2-3 days work for the collection bunch...

Have you tried actually looking for work, raising then taking someone else's money. It's not even a lot of money... No one will give you this amount of money, because if you struggle to earn 2-5k between 5 of you, then you don't have a single shredd of hope to see any return on money borrowed.

Go earn the money... look for jobs.

This feature didn't work at the best of times, and became so unreliable...

I also don't believe that the blocked sites was linked to my Google account, because I had blocked sooo many different pages on W3Schools that I just abandoned using the blocked sites feature altogether.

I enjoyed watching the video since if I had read your comment, it would have spoiled the entire reason why this post is pretty hilarious..... Finding out the context of a "joke" before the joke being told is kind of a spoiler.

Anyway, watch the video if you can, it's worth the minute.

When Fox news present the data....

http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-charts-tricks-data-2...

Is this even possible?

1000 listings, and 50 dollars invested, would mean that even at a 10% conversion rating which I think is safe to say, for a fresh launched website is obscenely high, would mean you were paying 0.5 cents per click. (half a cent).

I don't think your advice is applicable to what the original posters wants.

Without knowing what exactly the OPs business is....

It's a poorly phrased question, 1000 (paying?) users, and retain them for what duration? Are you just wanting 1000 MAU, or just views... With 1000 users, depending on your signup, this could mean a factor of 1:20 of users to views. Both of which could be irrelevant to your actual businesses main metric which is sales?

To the original poster, try and clarify what you are asking...

> "it seems you bogged down parts of the network"

It's MIT and Dropbox... I'm sure internally MIT can handle a one thousand new mailing lists at any given occasion (until they are deleted), and I'm 100% sure Dropbox didn't even notice a blip on their network as a result.

And also MIT don't have to check for anything. They deleted everything when they were done.

I don't know why it was such a big deal for some MIT students to feel like they have to win the Spacerace either, but I did actually enjoy the article, although I'm not sure why the effort was made in the first place either.

I'm not being cynical, but are they purposefully holding back some of the more important details on the "How it works" on http://www.tweaky.com/

I can't actually find the details on this. Is this an offline service, or are you expected to provide access to your development server?

This is what I think it would say (which would scare the hell out of me)...

1. Submit your brief

2. We assign each task a $25 charge.

3. You pick a developer.

4. You provide FTP details to your live production server

Are you enacting Poe's law? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law

I seriously cannot tell, and you didn't wink at the end?

Since McDonald's are easily franchise-able, I suppose they could legitimately be used as a Mafia Front... But really, Poe's Law? wink ;)

It's hard to ever say one use-case/situation is wrong, another is right. The ends justify the means... etc. yaddy yadder ya...

I also wasn't looking to single you out.. I know it was a high voting comment since it was at the top of the thread, so clearly did resemble a large portion of the HN's sentiments...

But, all the same, I just want to make the point, HN-community should try and step up in this situation, right?..

For the comment (below) asking for the link to the article I was referring to when I said "HN is not your Mommy"... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220156

This is a really disturbing story. I hope you get a satisfactory resolution.

Anyway, there has been a trend recently with regular HN'er saying that people should stop using HN as a way to get justice. "HN is not your mommy".

I strongly believe that this is exactly the time that HN should step up, upvote this story, and ensure to it that a guy who creates the technology he wears see's some kind of justice.

Can someone explain how she is able to do this? Set aside the boldness of the move, but if anyone ever should be put on some kind of "garden leave" or some kind of non-compete it would be a person moving from a prominent position in Google to become CEO of Yahoo?

Anyway, that aside. One thing that I hope that comes from this, is bringing some of the same Google-quality-developer-friendly-ethos to Yahoo. Dispite consuming several Yahoo services, I'm always disappointed at how slow they release changes... and if there is one thing that Yahoo needs it's changes..

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[] June 16th, "Marrissa Meyer Makes Move to Yahoo",

[] June 20th, Yahoo switches from Bing to Google Search.

[] July 21th, Bing sees enormous drop in QPM.

Coup of the century? Who would of thought, should this actually happen, it would be the best possible outcome. Sacrificing the queen to totally dominate the search market even further.

Just in case you aren't aware, all companies award themselves an EPEAT grade. Once they award the grade, it is then reviewed and the grade can be lowered if they don't live up to the standard.

I only bring this up because you would be mislead if you think that Apple broke any rules on this one. They followed the book...

The problem however is that they grossly overestimate their qualification for EPEAT gold rating. EPEAT must review and reduce this self-awarded and clearly inflated rating if they want to keep any credibility for this standard...

Disclaimer: I love seeing things go bad for Apple... But, they haven't strictly broken any rules.. They've just been ridiculous trying to award themselves EPEAT gold.