skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh. The growing lack of civility online makes me sad. I want to undo the traffic I just sent to that blog, so I've reproduced the contents here in the hopes that other people can avoid clicking on the link:

Crunchgate - What Makes Sammy Run?
By Loren Feldman, on March 2nd, 2010

Well it seems we have yet more about Crunchgate to discuss. I thought we were all done with this. It really is the gift that keeps giving. It seems our newest character in this pathetic tale is some guy named Sam Odio. Seems Sam owns Divvyshot. Sam’s also an idiot, see he’s the guy who Dainel Brusivlosky wanted the McAir from for reviews on Techcrunch. He says he never got it for him though. Good for you Sam. HIS FRIEND DID GET DANIEL AN IMAC though for coverage. Right Sam? Anyway, Sam wrote a big woe is me blog post about how I outed his crimes with Jason Calacanis. Only problem is it never happened. A lot of people knew that Sam was dirty and weak. Many people know of his story with Daniel Bru. I had 3 different people tell me in fact. Amateurs like these guys tend to have big mouths. Especially dopey ones with shitty iphone apps.

Knowing how weak and stupid someone must be to be in this situation to begin with I knew I could scare this guy into confessing his evil ways. I tweeted. “You have 24hrs.” That’s it. That’s all I said. Well, when you are guilty and stupid that’s all it takes to make you cave, because that’s exactly what Sam did. Sam, you are a weak dishonest dope. You were played by Daniel Bru, and now you were just played by your own guilt.

All I needed to do was give the mere suggestion that Sam might get caught and he confessed, and that’s what happened here. Social engineering FTW!! Sam you need to stop crying. You are weak, dishonest and stupid. I can’t imagine these traits help you with building quality iphone apps.

The real story Sammy boy is not you, but which one of your friends BOUGHT DANIEL BRUSIVLOVSKY AN IMAC FOR COVERAGE ON TECHCRUNCH?

C’mon Sammy the truth will set you free. WHO BOUGHT DANIEL BRUSIVLOVSKY AN IMAC FOR COVERAGE ON TECHCRUNCH?
I occasionally return to this and browse around: http://www.nt.armstrong.edu/terms.htm

The examples are great.
The deeper the pocket is, the further away the oblivion is.
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Only if your static types for strings include a seperate type per encoding. Most languages including the ducktyped just use a single encoding internally "utf-8" for example. So the String type is always compatible. For Ruby though it sounds like the string type could be any encoding. That to me sounds dangerous. It's not caused by the language being ducktyped. It's caused by the language having the same type with multiple behaviours. Ruby made strings into a mine field for 99% of programmers and safer for 10%

Not sure that's a good ratio.
In my opinion this sort of phrase conveys the opposite of laziness... it is evidence that the author has gone to great lengths to coerce his gut feelings into something that seems rational, plausible, and convincing.

This sort of phrase works like a logical/causal exoskeleton intended to support the far more loosely linked set of intuitions that motivated the author to write/communicate about the topic.

These sorts of things are not even necessarily the biproduct of conscious thought. We are trained by academe that our intuitions must be served on a platter of logic and causality, and our sparks of inspiration (or emotion) are rarely experienced in remotely the same way that we would communicate them, so we back-fill.

Ponder this the next time you have a spark of insight about something and then contemplate telling someone else about it. Notice how your brain adds on the trappings of logical structure ex post. In some cases the idea was highly logical and the trappings come easily, while in other cases the idea is moderately ill-formed or speculative and one notices his/her brain being effortful in its quest to find the logical/persuasive platter on which to present the concoction to others.
Also Neonode did this back in 2004/2005 with the N1. Apple's patent is a month old.

Demo @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-KS2kfIr0#t=4m00s

Edit: from question to statement.
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"Cash flow positive" sounds pretty straight-forward to me (would you care to explain how it is not?); sure, it may not have been profitable over its entire lifespan (which is perhaps your definition?), but once your cash flow in a given period of time becomes positive, if it stays positive you'll make up for any historical loss eventually.
This whole discussion is about parallel databases since that's the only way to scale beyond the performance of one machine.
Programming Ruby 1.9, with the pickaxe on the cover. I am learning Ruby now and it seems good after 66 pages.
i believe there is also a 'velocity' aspect. like, a bunch of votes in a short time is assumed to be a spike of interest, giving a particular article a boost.

i'm just guessing, though. i haven't actually read the arc source code.
Good suggestion. A commenter on my post also recommended Chris Pine's "Learn to Program," which lives online at http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ - I haven't looked at it in-depth, but it seems like it has potential.
The essence of NoSQL is that it gets its scalability by giving up consistency and reliability. Trying to run NYSE or Visa on NoSQL is pointless.
Swiping to unlock and other similar patented items are all "obvious" design decisions. All great design is obvious because great design produces things that are appropriate. Moreover, because great design is so obvious, it must be easy to design great things; the world must be full of great designs.

Right?

Um, no. The truth is that great design is NOT easy, and it stands out so prominently because the world is NOT full of great designs. Things like swiping to unlock are "obvious" only in retrospect. All great design is obvious -- in retrospect -- because great design produces things that are appropriate. But it is hard to do (PG has several essays on precisely this topic). Moreover, because it is hard to do, great designers are rewarded with some degree of protection for making the details of their innovations public (thus the legal terminology that patents "teach" a particular topic). I don't see why we should expect great designers to give up control of their ideas, willingly or otherwise, simply because those ideas are particularly good. Much of the logic in these comments amounts to "the iPhone had such a marvelously simple UI that everyone copied it, and because it became pervasive (by virtue of the copying), it must remain pervasive via Apple giving up the right to protect their IP."

I just don't buy that.

Also, people are asking "why now? why not earlier?" According to Gizmodo & other news sites, the brief is some 700 pages long. I'm sure Apple started working on this the day the Nexus One details started surfacing and it became clear it was effectively an iPhone clone. They can't sue Google (remember that Schmidt sat in Apple's huddles for years, listening to the plays, learning the playbook by heart, soaking up all insider info he could) because Google is intentionally disabling contested technology in Android -- they evidently know quite well what patent infringement means. Google is instead relying upon their handset manufacturers to enable the contested technology and thus take the bullet for them. I wonder why nobody is criticizing Google for using HTC as a "human" shield?
I think the problem is that in a startup, the leads are typical code slingers who are very good with programming, competent with SQL, and manage basic DBA (hand held by documentation).

Even if they are that rare startup that has heavy weights on both sides of the data/process divide, the second issue is that intelligent schema design (imo) does not fit the agile model quite that well.

Its really more of a economic issue than a technological one: it is quite possible that the poorly designed and implemented SQL - see above - solution can not scale. Obviously the problem is not SQL or RDBMs. But when you have a very smart, but young and not yet seasoned, tech team who hasn't seen it all, do you think they will blame themselves or lament that "SQL can't scale"?
Oh wow, I didn't think I'd stumble across a cofounder of Wikispaces here. We just got Wikispaces 100% up and running at UMass Boston and we've had it for a couple years at UMass Boston's Healey Library. Great product and definitely well improved with time.
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The way I understand it, components can share data.
Call me crazy, but acroread really worked pretty well for me.
I am both a perfectionist and very very impatient. It is the worst.
Great points, solid advice - I can't thank you enough. You've given me a lot to think about and definitely helped stack a few chips in favour of Ruby.

I'm a lowly web designer with many ideas for web apps that I'd love to implement/see implemented. Thanks again!
Well, my main issue is that for said companies, ads are essentially the only source of revenue. So what would happen if that source of revenue was cut off? Perhaps an ad blocker becomes wildly popular. Well, that destroys Facebook and Google's revenue model.

But it's also the nature of ads. I've never intentionally clicked on an ad. Anecdotally speaking, I've observed that the more sophisticated a user is, the less likely s/he is to click an ad. So in my opinion, a revenue model based solely on ads doesn't seem to bode well in an increasingly tech-savvy society.
"Your knowledge will be really relevant if you're looking to work on slightly older, more established Web sites like Facebook or Yahoo!"

Many newer sites are using PHP as well. PHP is used on established sites, but that just means that it's a proven concept. I also see many more jobs for php developers than Ruby (I have seen a few startups using ruby).

"You probably won't learn very good programming practices on your own - PHP has been pretty notorious for this, but maybe this has changed with PHP5, I haven't been keeping up."

I suppose this is true. But I think you can pickup good programming practices in any language.

Another reason to learn php is because it uses a C-style syntax, which will make it much easier to transition to other languages like c/c++/javascript/c#/Java.

Ruby uses a syntax all its own that you can pretty much only use in Ruby.

I also don't feel people should be learning a programming language through frameworks. It's like learning how to add and subtract using a calculator.

What beginners need to learn is programming concepts that they can use in any language.
C'mon now, as a dorkwad and an ideologue myself, I feel free to refer to my brethren here by those 'childish' names.

I don't feel that the patents are justified -- I'm merely explaining how and why I think Apple is using them.
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I don't understand the criticism here. "It turns out that X" is just another way of asserting that "X" is true. And a writer does not have to justify all of his assertions. An unjustified assertion could merely be just another premise for the argument.
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You certainly don't need to be a US citizen to have a US bank account, but they would want you to show ID and give a US address if you want to open an account in the normal way. Not sure what other options there are.
Google doesn't make it officially available, but http://www.androlib.com tracks it for each app. This is also how we read our international comments.
Hey - what browser/OS are you using? Could you explain/screenshot me what is broken?
1) Thanks! That's always the best feedback. ;)

2 & 3) I really needed outside perspective on this. It's been difficult verbalizing what I'm offering. I'm still working on the suggestions, but I've updated the page with a (somewhat) better description and with researched keywords.

Thank you for the feedback
No worries! I wish you the best of luck, and hope to see the fruits of your labors posted on HN one of these days!

Also, for a well-worded counter-argument to one of my comments, see rick888's post above ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1163355 ).
Just because some people can fuck up a good thing doesn't mean it isn't a good thing.

XML is simple. The problem was (and is) misapplication in areas it doesn't belong.

I'm sure that will happen with no-sql. No biggie.
Cash flows aren't exclusively tied to operational activities. You can lose tons of money on the operational side, but make up for it in investments and debt, thus making your company cash flow positive. I'm not saying that's the case with Facebook, but it's entirely possible that on the operational side they are losing money but still remaining cash flow positive.
Why not to read more books:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/lit/chap...
That would be a different kind of laziness. In one case you're looking at someone, that given a task, actively searches for a way to accomplish it optimally. In the other, it turns out, you're looking at someone completely going around the task, redefining it.

The result is not the same. But if it is interchangeable, that makes for a useful trait indeed. We call it «hacking».
Obviously not the same thing, but have you seen the installation of birds playing electric guitar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Kz8Nxb-Bg

I had the same thought as you when I watched the video - have the machine produce the audio track entirely.
FWIW - every roughly 2 weeks, an update to your app pushes you to the top of the Just In list.
From what I've read, you need to present a SSN, or present yourself face-to-face to open an account. As I presume you can do neither of these...

Perhaps, if you have a very trusted operative living in the US they could take responsibility for the transfers? Although, sadly your email might read much like a Nigerian scam! :) Minus the poor grammar and spelling errors. And the claims of royal blood.
Wow to the puzzle solvers.

On a side note or two; I so loved this game. It was the first game in many many years that I actually played to the end. In hindsight I also like the fact that Valve has not oversold the (to be?) franchise. But now I am ready for a sequel. There is a cake!

Now, all I need is time to actually play it...
I didn't want the point to be overshadowed by seeming like I was just talking up our app. If you're curious, it's aTilt.
One thing to consider is we also aren't using small development boxes. These were Power7 zSeries servers with usually 16 cores (8 in hardware) and up to 32GB ram. You would be surprised what these machines are capable of. Of course, I'm not saying I can allocate a gig in .24 seconds and set it to zero, but I'm not saying its not possible either (I simply don't know as I no longer have access to these machines).
It certainly seems to lack enough description. I'm going to add a few bullet points tonight that better describes the datasets I'm selling.

Thanks for the tip on Adwords. I'm going to add the privacy policy and a contact form tonight as well to cover my bases.

I haven't been too concerned with SEO at this stage, mostly because the domain is new, still sandboxed, and comprised of a single page. That is why I skimped on the meta description, and Google basically ignores meta keywords anyway.

Thanks
mobile apps are on our roadmap indeed. I'm just not sure if people research fantasy sports on their cell phone that much... Plus Yahoo and ESPN already have decent iPhone apps.
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Your statement asserts fact! Have you read about E Prime?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
The reason more programmers don't do that is because it is incredibly risky in terms of legal liability. The simple fact that you even looked at the patent database increases the chance that you will have to pay three times as much in damages if you are sued. Groklaw.net's sidebar has links to a bunch of information on all of this, designed to bridge the gap between lawyers and geeks.
You don't need to have Twitter's userbase to have Twitter's data problem. Look at someone like FlightCaster -- they're using a NoSQL database to handle a huge amount of data to be useful to even their first user.

With the advent of cheap, reliable, available commodity hardware and network access, previously difficult data problems are solvable. SQL doesn't make sense for all of those problems.
What an interesting video.. plenty of fire.

Using a Rube Goldberg machine would make one heck of an interesting way to light the Olympic Cauldron wouldn't you think?
What's beautiful about them? Many of them look overly complicated.
In the article he described in several ways how he had no real interest in medicine, just drifting into it because it seemed easy to study, and was physically repelled by the sight of people being operated on. This is not the kind of person you want operating on you.
Those are the problems I'm dealing with at the moment, so they're the ones that came to mind.
"I'd be interested to see a list of all the 46 passages though." -- the author links to http://www.google.com/search?q=site:paulgraham.com+%22turns+... which should allow you to see the words in a limited context
You've definitely got some valid points. I think I may be biased toward Ruby and Python because I like programming in them so much, in addition to the fact that I feel that my knowledge of them directly contributed to the quality and quantity of job offers I received when I was on the market.

My enjoyment of programming in Ruby and Python may have something to do with them both being scripting languages, and having easily-accessible REPLs (for the uninitiated: Read-Eval-Print-Loops, like irb, a program I mention and show example output from in my post). In addition, scripting languages just... feel easier. If you've got Python installed on your computer, go ahead and pop up a terminal if you'd like to follow along:

[jrheard@jrheard:~]$ python
>>> import webbrowser
>>> webbrowser.open_new('http://google.com')
True

If you weren't following along: Firefox just opened a new tab with Google in it! Isn't that awesome? How many lines would that be in C?

>>> import urllib
>>> goog = urllib.urlopen('http://google.com')
>>> page_source = goog.read()
>>> len(page_source)
6917
>>> page_source[:27]
'<!doctype html><html><head>'

The real power of Python and Ruby is that I can do awesome stuff without even thinking about it. At all. At least half the time I have a problem, the most I have to do is one Google search to find the built-in library I need.

The point I'm trying to make is that, syntax aside, I feel like Python and Ruby just get out of my way most of the time, so I can focus on solving problems and learning programming concepts I can learn in any language.

Jeff Atwood sums up a lot of my sentiments in his post "A Scripter At Heart", which you can read at http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/01/a-scripter-at-heart... .
I bet if someone got a bunch of experienced geeks together they could find prior art for most of those. Someone so motivated could start by getting in touch with pubpat.org.
NoSQL datastores are the new object databases without the compile-time shackles. (This already makes them better than ODBMS failures; they're not as hard to adapt to new programming languages or frameworks.)

I have believed for a very long time that you cannot be a good OO developer unless you really understand data modelling (which includes relational data modelling). There are often good reasons to break the "rules" of data normalisation (which is pretty much what NoSQL data stores do) but you shouldn't do so unless you know why you're doing this.

IMO, most data is more interrelated than people think that it is, and at least having a good model of how the data is related will make your entire design better.
So no one here thinks Facebook will go the way of MySpace within 1-3 years?
How unfortunate that you couldn't avoid the troublesome word yourself when identifying its failings.

Besides, the underlying problem has more to do with the verb "to be" (from which "is" conjugates) and the assumption of universal identity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
My curiosity is who declared war on who in the Google v. Apple nonsense.

Just a little over a months ago, Steve Jobs took some jabs at Google, calling them out on their motto ("Don't be evil") and saying they want to kill the iPhone with Android.[1] Now we have Apple suing HTC over Android devices - glancing over the documents[2] "HTC Android Products" is mentioned over and over and over, though WinMo phones are cited as well.

In the past, Google has intentionally removed features from Android in respect to Apple's patents, even at Apple's request[3]. This isn't exactly the case now, which is why I'm asking the question... did Google start adding in these patent infringing features first, or did Apple feel threatened first?

I don't think it's a coincidence that HTC is the largest manufacturer of Android handsets. Is it possible that Apple foresees a significant loss in market share over the coming years and wants to stem the flow?

[1]: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-...

[2]: http://documents.nytimes.com/apple-patent-lawsuit-against-ht...

[3]: http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/02/09/apple-asked-google...
That was the beauty. Portal wasn't a huge time sink. The whole game could be completed in a few hours, but still had a great story and depth.
I was going to say "We should hang out" but we would probably tear each other's eyes out.
I'm happy to take more action. (It's like a few shares of Facebook stock!)

Same amount, same terms? (FB revenue>$2B for 2014 I win, <$2B revenue you win, murky situations go to an HN poll?)

I don't think FB has yet found their revenue-rocket equivalent to AdWords -- current ads are not it -- but I think they will.
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Cassandra is by most accounts a pain to setup and administor. Mongo has good docs.
I think I get it. In lieu of thinking, people use qualifiers as metadata for their belief filter that says how much belief they should assign to the proposition.

So if you qualify a proposition with "it turns out", that tells the filter that you should probably believe it. Maybe it triggers an assumption like "there is research backing this up."

Notice it sounds funny to say "It turns out that you're a dumbass," as the filter also flags boorish stuff and so it gets mixed signals there.

And it seems deceptive when you state contentious things this way, it's like you're trying to slip stuff past the filter. Unqualified declarative sentences generally seem to trigger this, people always accuse me of "stating my opinions as if they were facts" === "Flag contentious stuff for me so I don't have to think."
The difficult spot for Google is that they have to sort out if they want to be the commodity mobile software vendor or get serious about hardware. Buying HTC would then make them a competitor to many of the companies that they're now trying to get on board with Android.
Legal and easy.

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