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Ask HN: Application in Database
In a recent interview[1], Ryan Dahl mentioned that he agrees with the CouchDB people that the bulk of an application can be kept in the database, a lot of the UI is done in the browser and the "application" itself (Node-based in his case) would just proxy data back and forth?

Am I missing some recent developments here? I thought that with document- and K/V-databases we'd be actually moving further away from the troublesome realm of stored procedures, maybe even a bit too far (lots of integrity constraints etc. have to be managed by the app now).

I could imagine something like this for rather simple CRUD applications, but anything more than that sounds a bit disconcerting. My current job involves a database where petri nets and conditions are modeled via tables, making it very hard for me to cling to my sanity.

So, is this an actual trend and what's involved?

[1]: http://dailyjs.com/2010/08/11/ryan-dahl-part-2/
Company does company do. What's new? It's only when people started to believe the "Do No Evil" propaganda that disappointment follows.
Did you consider pre-rendering stuff client-side using SVG? I assume adjusting a few parameters in a JSON file is easier than going to a site, pushing buttons and downloading and replacing files.
I know that, however the one and only feature that makes everyone drool is ZFS. We do live without all the other nifty features.
The reason people can't read APL easily is it's one of many languages programmers know. If APL was the ONLY programming language any ever used anywhere, then all programmers would be able to read it easily after a little programming experience. Natural languages have the tersest syntax around, and people understand them easily because it's the ONLY language they learn, or one of only a handful if they're polylingual. It would be the same with a programming language.
I'm sure it's just coincidence that PedalBrain is down and Apple applied to patent the 'Smart Bike'
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/08/apple-in...
That's basically where I'm at now. Once my account was suspended I retired the spam bot. I even retired a similar project.

BookSuggest, in its web-app form, was the only way I could think of to use my existing technology in a way that wasn't, well... spammy. http://www.charleshooper.net/twitter/

The question I face now is: How do I take this application and deliver it to the user?
Jquery mobile is great because they will try to support as many platforms as possible. If you run a real mobile site with a lot of users you have to take small platforms into consideration, just like your website needs to support IE 6 if you have lots of users. It's not fun but it would be bad business not to do it.[1]

If a mobile framework can reach this goal it will make mobile development a heck of a lot easier, and I applaud that.

[1] You need some scale before development for platforms that maybe constitute 3% of your users will be a financially good option.
Indeed. I always figured I'd be leaning heavily on caffeine but it didn't really even turn out to be necessary.
ANT+ is not the same as ANT.

Apart from that, you may be correct unless the bastards are doing a C&D on "grounds" of their frivolous bike stuff patent application.

Edit: paragraph.
They can't change the license they already granted you. And moving now should not be any easier than moving in the event they do change the license in the future, with the added cost that moving may never become necessary. So, IMO, your comment on this issue is baseless fud. Developing a competing platform on tech you know to be patented is totally different than using validly licensed software.
Your view is skewed, but positively.

Search is (or at least was) one of the good areas of Yahoo for technologists.
It helps a lot that most people don't know that word.
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Travel is overrated.

http://earlyretirementextreme.com/travel-is-not-worth-it.htm...
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Eric Schmidt in 2006: "Today the Internet is an information highway where anybody – no matter how large or small, how traditional or unconventional – has equal access. But the phone and cable monopolies, who control almost all Internet access, want the power to choose who gets access to high-speed lanes and whose content gets seen first and fastest. They want to build a two-tiered system and block the on-ramps for those who can't pay."

Eric even suggested we call our representative to let our voice be heard on net neutrality.

Eric, here's a suggestion. Stop pretending you care about us. For some reason you think what's best for Google is best for everyone. It's not.
This is huge. They open sourced quake ages ago and that spawned a billion games and game engines. Can't wait to see what people do with this one.
There's such a thing as anaerobic conditioning. That is, you can condition your body to better and longer well while anaerobic. Think of football players, or combat athletes (boxers, wrestlers, MMA fighters, etc).

Further, there's more to conditioning than just your cardiovascular system - muscle endurance matters for most sports.
But why would they have to take down their website? That would be an issue in their app, not in the website itself.
I think they've actually got the long term covered. Everyone in The Enterprise (which is all Oracle cares about anyway) is already using Java. Those people want to buy official looking software with support contracts from someone.

They're going to be doing so for decades to come, either from Oracle itself, or someone who's paying Oracle truckloads of licensing fees to be allowed to publish their own Java implementation.

The only thing that could upset their subscription to money would be some inconvenient little company that decides to make a clean-room Java implementation that could target the same customers. This is what Google has done.

If they can win this in court or force a settlement that pretty much guarantees that anyone thinking of building that business model won't even bother to get off the ground, and Oracle can keep printing money.

It's funny that you should mention COBOL. Java turning into the next COBOL would be awesome for Oracle. IBM still makes billions selling systems to run COBOL[1], that's more than Sun ever made off Java.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1567595
Gigenet's service looks interesting. They don't provide pricing though. I'm guessing it's not cheap? Is it based on the bandwidth they'd have to use?
The market for Android devices dwarfs iPhone.
She is saying that the start-up mythology of success, which is vital to keeping up the spirits of the best of us, can lead the good-but-not-great astray in their lives.

She is saying that ideas are powerful, and internalizing the wrong ones can cause damage.

I recently saw pg give an interview wherein he discussed how much more Y Combinator focuses on who the founders are rather than what the idea is. This is a great start, and I think there is a lot of fertile ground that can really be developed into a powerful message that will reach many young people.
ANT+ is built on top of ANT if I've read the documentation correctly.
Morphine is not that expensive.
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The point is that we all consciously have reasons like what you're saying: independence, hating bullshit etc. However, all are motivated by hardwired goals of species survival.

These base needs make us want to gain advantage in mating, but also in things like independence - which give us a higher likelihood of survival (i.e. controlling how to fulfill our base needs, reproduce, not be killed by others, etc.).
Don't want to advertise something that might not be able to exist in it's current form, who knows. When you enter the legal realm people act in strange ways.
No, he said what he meant. An olive branch is a peace-offering.

A fig leaf is a token cover-up gesture that doesn't fool anyone.
People generally aren't remembered for "winning"; and Google is quite a bit bigger company than Oracle.
It's funny that a guy who built his computer from scratch used Microsoft FrontPage to build the website for it.
But it doesn't, really. I think that that sort of service could be allowed even for wired traffic with the language they are using. And, at the moment, they are putting no restrictions on wireless.

As it is, if any of the telco's started seriously violating net-neutrality, that could actually become a catalyst for real legislation. That is a check on the isp's. If we adopt this suggestion into law, it gives the giants something to hide behind. "Oh, you don't like that we are selling a "video service" that pipes youtube to your phone? Well, bring it up at our review a year from now." A year is a long time in this industry. Perhaps a year from now they claim that they can't afford to pay for the LTE infrastructure being utilized for this youtube pipe without the special service fee, or people will just dislike having their youtube run at a slower bandwidth. so it continues.

By saying "anything goes" we are letting the isp's set the terms of net neutrality. And the isp's have a terrible history when it comes to treating customers right.
I think you're missing a base case on your recursion there. :)
Wait. What tech company would hire you if you already have cancer ? Just ask Brian Reid.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/08/google_age_discr...
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ANT is not a single standard as such. Manufacturers had their own incompatible versions of ANT.

ANT+ on the other hand is a standard so that any ANT+ capable devices will be able to communicate with eachother. I assume there is some intellectual heritage, but the two are distinct.
This my friends, is hacking.
Because a low TTL means that a reasonable % of page requests are going to see not only the latency of your DNS server, but also that of the shitty ISP's fetch store return cycle, which can result in a couple hundred extra ms on top of your page serving time. This extra bit of latency can make for a bad user experience, so they may not come back (every little bit counts).

Because ISPs are likely to ignore it anyways and impose whatever _they_ think is a good value.
Relying on a DNS TTL of 5 minutes doesn't work everywhere. Some ISPs will forcefully reset any TTL below 24 hours to 24h.
I think that's a very shortsighted and dimwitted way of looking at things. The nebulous things like ideals are what guide people to their longer-term self-interest, their enlightened self-interest, rather than short-termism which hurts them in the longer term.
This would definitely be something more warranting of a website shutdown. Holding out hope for a driver issue or something, but I had a bad feeling about that frivolous patent app as soon as I read it.
You might want to check out the All in One SEO pack for Wordpress. It will help you getting your blog indexed by the Googles :)
How much did the flip flops cost each? Is it $10,000 worth of 10,000 flip flops, or 10,000 flip flops at X cost?

Maybe people could help to sell them like a pledge drive - people could sign up to sell them girl-scout cookie style, fundraising etc. Plug into people's desire for arbitrage opportunities and charity.
>Oracle could literally wipe them off the planet if they were inclined.

Oracle has a $113B market cap. google has a 155b market cap. granted, both those numbers are large, but Google's is significantly larger.

how many google Engineers do you think it would take to build a rdbms that is significantly better than Oracle's product? It's well within Google's capabilities. And yeah, it'd be a patent shitstorm, but it's not like google lacks patents or lawyers.

I mean, granted, oracle is primarily a sales company, so simply coming out with something better, for free, won't kill them overnight. But it would significantly hurt them.

Could Oracle write a search engine? No. the idea is just silly. so Oracle would be limited to legal maneuvering in their attempt to overcome google. I just don't see it happening.
Not sure why all my comments about this and Google's China stuff are blindly modded down w/o any reply/argument. If you disagree, explain why, maybe you'll convince me!
A thought but perhaps a well-crafted Kickstarter campaign could be an option? It wouldn't be people 'buying' into your business but they might be inclined to help given the less than ideal situation.

Good luck.
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Well it's your call to make and I'm not going to second-guess you on it. Good luck with the project, as you probably know I'm a jQuery fan and I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Naturally, I expect to see into, tap, ergo and when in the jQuery core as well...

http://github.com/raganwald/jQuery-Combinators

;-)
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Google seems to provide plenty of examples. Even if it didn't, I don't understand why you see this extortion as a stretch.
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That and buying tech and not taking it anywhere.

- What did they get for MySQL? Nobody was buying Sun kit to run MySQL. There was no move into the LAMP space by Sun.

- VirtualBox? A free desktop-class VM which still hasn't been integrated with any other product or seemingly used to build anything.
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Won't successful founders from YC will have the opportunity to work on what they want no matter how much money they have? Or do the founders you know want to work on things that are very expensive?
That was me! Email will be dispatched tomorrow.
Good luck.
PS. Hopefully there will be no 'auxillary problems'.
If I ever get divorced it's going to be due to my insistence that I was correctly taught "a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y and w" as my vowels.
Depends on whether you mean:

- Based on SysV standards - which GNU does for most commands, and which most Linux OSs did for initscripts.

- Based on Sys V code, which it obviously isn't.
The design shots hint that you are going to have toolbars locked to the bottom of the screen. In Webkit that's impossible to do without taking control of everything yourself (including scrolling) ala Pastry Kit. Is that really what you guys intend to do, or is that just an over achieving mockup?
I'm wondering if the lawsuit has anything to do with Apple. Ellison and Jobs are best friends, as far as I know.
Damn, that just made my iPad do a backflip without a landing.
Just because you understand a language does not mean you understand or recognize all algorithms that can be expressed in that language.
I forgot the most obvious thing: You might be riding in too high a gear! Pedaling should be relatively smooth, more like swimming than weightlifting.
Bad reputations don't hurt anyone in this business. Up until the 90's no other company had a bully reputation as bad as IBM (e.g.: their Hollerith machines were used by Hitler to control who was going to the gas chambers).

But still, no other company in the world has attracted so many bright minds (Jon Von Neuman, John Backus, Ted Cobb, etc), got so many Nobel prizes or made so many important technological achievements.
The real question of course is what's the unemployment rate for HN users?

I'd guess we're beating college grads.
Because it's a good publicity stunt?

I certainly hadn't heard of them before this.
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There is no such thing as good CSS framework. If you are using 960gs you are just littering your code with "grid_2 suffix_4" kind of presentational crap. What's worse to change layout you must change the html (class names), instead of tweaking just CSS.
In short — those who don't know CSS shouldn't use frameworks, those who do know don't need them.
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Nor had I, and now I want it.
That's a job well done, marketing-wise.
Many fitness people call this "stamina", or sometimes explicitly "muscular endurance", to avoid confusing it with aerobic endurance or conditioning. In fact, "conditioning" alone is almost always used to mean "aerobic conditioning".
Sell them directly through a Facebook Fan page. I'm cofounder of http://infusedindustries.com - we launched a store for Jelly Belly, and you wouldn't believe the number of jellybeans we sold by discounting the store by 25% for several hours. Feelgoodz would get money directly - not us. Could potentially sell thousands of flip flops through that channel by August 18 by marking it down slightly. Email me brian at infusedindustries.com
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I thought their product used a hardware cradle that contained the ANT receiver and presumably communicated over the dock connector, so that they wouldn't have had to use any built-in receivers.
Oracle kills OpenSolaris officially. Unofficially.
Isn't that the exact strategy followed by Sun? Being open and fostering a community sure didn't translate into sales for them.

The message Oracle wants to send is pretty clear: if you want to use Java in the mobile and enterprise space, you're going to have to buy one of our very nice support contracts. Considering that this is par for the course for most enterprise platforms and mobile (until Google wrote Dalvik), why would previous licensees make the costly decision to switch?
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The first 8 amendments are all defined as protecting individual rights: speech, self-defense, home, private property, self-incrimination, fast/juried trials, and torture. The others are defining limits on what Congress / states can do against the other undefined rights.
-I'm buying a laptop.

-Pah, a laptop? You want a desktop.

-Buying??? A real man builds a desktop.

-Builds it? Anyone worth anything builds from barebones.

-Barebones is for n00bs. I hand solder the whole thing together.

-Hand solder? You soft shite, I use a blacksmith's forge and a hot piece of iron.

-A hot piece of iron? I should be so lucky - I'm going back to basics and not using fire. I'm just bashing rocks together to get them the right shape.

(still, awesome achievement)
I had a motorcycle. I drove my car for any kind of a long trip, and my bicycle for everything else. Needless to say, I sold my motorcycle.
I feel that I owe John Resig a lot.
Probably the same way they work for ING Direct. You have a different bank account elsewhere (Chase, WellsFargo, BoA, Credit Union) and you transfer the money from that account into your ING Direct account.

Besides that, with Direct Deposit I can't remember the last time I deposited a check.
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Aren't these games based on the Q3 engine, which ID already opensourced many years ago?
It is just the other way around for me. I ride in a fairly high gear with low cadence, and get a muscular burn in my thighs, because when I try to push a higher cadence in easier gears my knees start hurting.
Let's test the theory: do you watch the TV show "House"?
If not, ask someone who does.
It's selling points are that 1) House is not quite, but almost always a total dickhead. Everyone else on the show are more normal doctors (which is to say, they're dicks, but they aren't as dedicated to being so). 2) House almost always figures out what's happening (but of course never right away, 'cause it's a TV show) because as much of a dedicated dickhead he is, he's also dedicated to being right - he's a caricature of the "I'd rather be right than liked" adage.

House is far and away the most popular character on the show, because, while he is an unpleasant, malicious, manipulative sod, he wants to figure out the cure to the disease, and make the patient feel good by being well.

Well, he's also popular because he's Hugh FREAKING Laurie, but that's another story...
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The parent post said, "what are some things you can't say on the Internet". I replied, "I am going to kill the president."

Guess I was right!
Since the first commit of jQTouch on GitHub in June, there doesn't seem to be much going on and every commit has come from one person. So I don't think you have to worry too much about that.

I wanted to like it but there just didn't seem to be much going on over there. Now that it's part of "Sencha Labs", it seems the focus is now over on Sencha Touch.

While, Sencha Touch is definitely interesting, they still don't appear to have announced pricing. Based on how they license and price their other products, I don't think I'm going to like it.

This announcement is awesome and makes me giddy. There really aren't any good options out there for mobile websites. You basically have to roll your own so this is great news.
>We're entrepreneurs here, and we're trying to learn from each other about what works, especially what's in the grey areas.

speak for yourself. I really have no wish to play in spamish "grey areas"

Being an Entrepreneur does not mean you need to abandon your sense of right and wrong, or your respect for your fellow man. I don't know about you, but this isn't the first company I've started, and it won't be the last. Damaging my own personal reputation in exchange for some more success at this one business is probably a bad idea, long term, especially when the business is one that only works as long as you stay 'under the radar' (meaning, it doesn't scale, because the facebook spam people would stop you.)
nice guess but I promise it is not BankSimple
I built cpu in an computer architecture class and it was one of the most useful things I have ever done, in terms of information learned. It was of course extremely limited (4 bit, so only 16 instructions, 16 type of instructions, 64 bytes of ram, only output was 4 leds for the single register, etc) but a great experience.
Just talked to them. They claim it actually is a miscommunication involving Apple's 'Made for iPod' program and that the site should be back soon (apparently a third party retailer had marked their item as "On Sale" without permission, which is a no-no) . Also said they're on track for a release in Sept/Oct.

UPDATE: Looks like the page is back in action: http://en.pedalbrain.com/
You may have an issue similar to mine. As the result of several minor injuries in my late teens I had many joints x-rayed at different times over a few years, and every doctor commented that my joints were odd, at one point the doctor had my other wrist x-rayed so he could compare it to the injured one. The bones in my joints are further apart than is normal. This results in a greater risk of injury to some joints, so one of my main reasons for weight lifting is specifically to strengthen the muscles that stabilize the joints.
Yeah, what we would have given to have an arm and a leg. When I was young, our hangmen only had heads. And when you lost, your opponent cut off one of your toes.
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Uh, opensolaris has been dead ever since linux 1.4.x
Where I'm from, we never declared the game lost until we'd gone through the entire alphabet. Once you drew the whole guy, you had to get creative: add tentacles, a hat, a giant turtle that the gallows is sitting on, one or more flying saucers, and so forth.
Mine in F#
It's definitely a goal to support fixed toolbars but we're still looking at how to achieve this cross platform in a lightweight way because these can be pretty heavy. We may end up offering a lightweight version that fades/glides in on scroll like the GMail floaty and hooks to support any scrolling fakery script you choose. Looking for input and ideas since were still at the R&D stage!
That depends on how this outrage develops. If it turns out that it hurts recruiting in the future, damages morale, or flat out pisses off a sizable number of people who now have a beef with Google, then it may hurt them more than it helps them. Granted, all these side-effects are intangibles; hard to measure and mostly ignored. However, the question of does it make business sense is a bit more complex than tallying up the balance sheet.