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yes, but oracle is expensive, especially since it requires people who really know about oracle if you want to be up to speed relatively quickly. So as always, it is a tradeoff: it seems that in some cases, not having the usual RDBMS guarantees is ok because there are less admin costs, etc...

So sure, some people don't understand those tradeoff and make stupid choices. But people who choose technology without properly assessing the risks/advantages are bound to fail anyway.
Dear Steve Jobs: You're wrong again.
Oh, I thought he was talking about an actual store. I suppose this explains the believe it or not part.
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I got a TED (www.theenergydetective.com) and took 3 years to get from a $250 electric bill to a $40. Later I did a similar thing for heat efficiency. Though I suppose that's not what you were asking about.
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Again this topic brings out the "Always use relational databases" folks.

Few say "Always use NoSQL stores".

Most of us who use NoSQL, use it in conjunction with other stores, some of which are relational databases and some aren't.

Lunch isn't free, blah blah, etc. However with NoSQL solutions, we can optimize the things we care about (reads and writes) over the things that happen rarely (changes to the schema, indexing, etc) if we want to. Sometimes our apps demand it, sometimes before the cash exists to even try to use oracle or the people you have to hire to properly support it.

I don't get why people steadfastly assume everything fits the paradigm they're most comfy with. It doesn't. People who are just as comfy with your paradigm found stuff that works better, easier for them.
+1, I went to to a talk by him a few years ago and from memory some of the quirkier things he had hooked up were automated mousetrap notifcations and an ambient orb that lets you know how much energy your house is using.
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Ah, true. I was posting it more as just a simple sighting of Windows, and because Jason's setup is pretty incredible.
I'm concerned with the authors heart rate. I hope he's well.

The article certainly has truth in it, but I would propose a rename to: Random ramblings from an Android user. Also, I propose the author might take a look into Paul Grahams essay on "How to disagree"[1].

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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Wow, I'm so going to buy this. We've got another baby on the way and I was looking for something like this to use as a baby monitor. Nothing out there has really caught my fancy yet, but this looks pretty darn awesome.

BTW, I might not represent your potential customer base perfectly, but I would ideally like to see a few more screenshots of the web interface on your website.
i don't follow how the article goes from this to looking forward to everyone being involved in a 3rd industrial revolution. the conclusion i would draw is that there is an unprecedented unemployment crisis looming.

Yes, it does seem that there will be unprecedented unemployment crisis. However, who will buy all the goods that the robot produce?

Moreover, it does seem time and time again that people manages to find work. Some people say there's alway works to do.

Thus, it is imperative that entrepreneurs find new uses for the unemployed masses, educators to reacess how they teach, and so on, to ease the growing pain. Let face it, we don't want to get another Luddite rebellion.
Do you have a link? All I can find is the circuit simulator results.
Free is awesome, until it’s not
a school at stanford and they lack technology? perhaps someone should quickly build an ipad app to put on the table at the auction. onsite folks can bid on the ipad, and folks at home can bid via browser. take twitter id so all bids are tweeted to drive even more bidders. perhaps the basis for a yc startup...
I have no problem with them releasing a commercial JVM with extra bells and whistles and middleware - most people don't need that anyway, and the few who do are more than willing to pay.

But they had better not nerf OpenJDK relative to what it can do now.
Don't suppose you'd be willing to post this uber-script somewhere?
If you have nothing to say but ad hominem and calling his literacy output cardboard without backing it up, maybe you should say nothing at all.

We now know that you hate ESR's self promoting behaviors, but where is the substance?
Would you mind telling some of the tools and techniques that make this easy for you?
> this is exactly why mobile is winning now. It's so much simpler.

Are you sure? Here's a relevant quote :

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup
I know this isn't a popular POV, but I've always thought that developers should work on last gen hardware. Getting good performance out of last gen hardware ensures great performance for the typical user.

(okay, let's be reasonable, the build machine should be stupid fast so nobody is sitting around for half a day while the repository builds).
I was thinking the believe it or not was on account of who invented the Yahoo store?
Steve Ballmer cashes in 49 million Microsoft shares
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How RIM’s PlayBook Could Have Succeeded
It is a version for browsers (or mice, more specifically). So instead of being mouse and touch event, it is mouse only.
s/strong/static/g

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2010/08/what-to-know-before...
Part of almost every scientific paper is the 'discussion'. Here, the scientists discuss what the implications of their findings are. This portion of the paper is always up for further debate (hence the title 'discussion').

So, given some operational definition of 'persons', a statement like, "The scientific research ... suggests that dolphins are non-human persons..." may not be entirely out of order in a scientific paper. If dolphins are persons, it's not a big jump to say that they qualify as individuals worthy of moral consideration.

Now, whether their operational definition of person is good or not is a question up for debate. Science has debated the meaning and use of many terms and ideas throughout history. Questions about the relation of the planets and stars used to be primarily theological (harmony of the spheres and so on). Some of our most famous scientists worked to develop good tests and supporting mathematics which slowly created the science of astronomy. That process has been repeated for many, many things over history. Personhood may be another one of those debates, one which we have the opportunity to witness in these sorts of studies.

So, provided the philosophical statements were properly positioned in the paper, I don't think they were entirely misplaced. Sloppy journalism is another issue entirely, though, and a common malady of good science.
Fortunately they can't do that. It's GPL'd, no take-backs. They could conceivably remove things from future releases, but I'd expect to see a community fork in that case.
Can you please provide more detail? I provided an explicit issue--"hardware first, software second"--along with and a specific very common example (iOS SDK) and how I felt that ordering choice (inflexible: I checked with the site's editor) limited the ability for many people to be able to explain that "why" in an effective manner. I would hope you'd be able to show me some counter examples, or show me how I'm simply missing some obvious reinterpretation that would allow me to look past this bug.

The specific hardware and software I use to do my work is something I have spent a lot of explicit time thinking about, both alone and with the people I work with (we have spent so much time bickering over what the absolute best keyboard in the world is it would sicken many people), and I simply do not see a way to make these stories insightful or compelling with the constraint of explicitly discussing hardware first and software second. :(

A final comment: I did not say that they aren't doing anything right. I stated quite explicitly that I "personally" felt there were other interesting goals that were being left aside, and I will say that apparently some other people agree with me or we would not have seen the couple comments in this thread that led me to decide to post something to expand on the thought. Please do not assume that people expressing their personal opinions about something implies that that they believe that thing has no value to anyone.
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Ask HN: Boxers v/s Brief (or a hack?)
Just wondering what do you prefer? Boxers or Briefs?
Or have you managed to get a new hack for it?

I prefer boxers - love the free-flowing air. Bliss.

(of course most interested in some hacks)
Literally the fourth sentence in: "I’m also going to presume that you have the set of skills the particular job requires."

Nothing about this guide is about circumventing the natural ways people find jobs (save for one step, and perhaps the lengths of which I'm asking people to try), but illuminating what has worked for me, and reiterating some tried and true methods of success.
I feel you didn't even read the article, yet felt compelled to comment.
Volume isn't really the issue, but mass might be. In the case of the toner cartridge (which appears to have been a sub-assembly of an actual printer) a truly devious individual might have removed the correct amount of toner, and then offset it with an equal amount of explosive material. The mass doesn't change (mostly due to the fact that the toner cartridge had excess space in it to begin with).

What does change is the chemical signature of the contents. That would require inspection of each item as it is presented for shipment. Hence the problem.
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As I understand it, Mercurial development was started as a reaction to this mail where Torvalds states that the kernel team is looking for Bitkeeper alternatives: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/6/121

Git didn't exist yet at that point.
Are you using Wowza?

Did you modify the actual Axis firmware?
RDBMS does require a bit of planning (not too much, and not too rigid) and previous experiences building good data model; both traits don't exist in hotshot hackers/startups these days because they either don't have the patience or much deeper experience.
What do you suggest I change? I don't really know CSS.
I used to own one of these http://www.panasonicfa.com/?id=TAWERS and it did not replace the worker. It did make him twice as productive with better quality, but he still had to load and unload it. The machine cost $1600 per month on a lease, so it wasn't 'free' either. It also took someone with programming skills to get it going, which again was not free. So while I am a big fan of automation, the thought that it is free and requires no workers is a fantasy.
I've used Airfoil and other Rogue Amoeba products for a number of years. They have another app that runs on an iPhone / iPod / iPad that lets you stream audio to that device as well. My whole-house audio system has gone from being a Russound multi-zone switcher to a number of airport expresses, Mac minis and ip*'s using various Rogue Amoeba packages.
What about if your boss, an ugly 250 pound butch twice your size, pulls you into the stalls, pulls down her skirt whispers in your ear "You do want to keep this job right?" and proceeds to grab your head and pull it between her legs?

Would that do it for you?
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You just described the reason my father-in-law (and now I) believe that the best outcome is no movement. Thus we both vote (in the US) to try and create a stalemate in house vs Senate - both parties are so screwed up they damage everything they touch.
I disagree. It very much looks like most or all western countries are about to follow Japan's track of long decline.

An important missing part is also energy availability : See this for instance: http://netenergy.theoildrum.com/node/7069
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> However, who will buy all the goods that the robot produce?

absolutely, that's part of the problem.

> Moreover, it does seem time and time again that people manages to find work. Some people say there's alway works to do.

the vast majority of unemployed people will not "find work". they will be "given work" by other people who are in a position to take advantage of them.

if the benefits of automation aren't socialized you can count on increasingly sadistic ways of "putting people to use".
Ask HN: How does position within SERPs affect click-through probability?
Suppose, for example, that the first search result on a page of Google search results is swapped with the second result. How much would this change the click-through probabilities of the two results? How much would its click-through probability drop if the fifth search result was swapped with the sixth?<p>Can we say something, with some level of assurance, about how expected click-through probabilities change if we do these types of pairwise swaps within pages of search results?

--
To clarify:

We're not after click-through rates relative to time (the sort of click-through rates which can be calculated from the leaked AOL date). What we seek are changes to click-through probabilities.

Click-through probabilities are determined by several factors, including (in no particular order):

(i) perceived relevance of the title;
(ii) perceived relevance of the summary blurb;
(iii) perceived relevance of the URL;
(iv) position;
(v) font/decoration.

What we'd like to know is: all things being equal (all the other determining factors), how does position affect click-through probability? If the fourth result, say, was switched with the fifth result on a page of search results, how would this effect their respective click-through probabilities?
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Sun's revenue came from workstations, which got disrupted by PCs. Everything else drove that.
Since I cannot edit my original comment (no idea why), I'd put my update here:

Looks like the people that replied my post got into deep technical discussion without mentioning a startup in the scale of Twitter. Exactly like what the author pointed on: no successful product yet.

I hope people can see a pattern here:
Twitter: FlockDB, and varieties of supporting infrastructure
Facebook: Cassandra and in-house tools
Google : GFS, BigTable, and in-house tools
LinkedIn: Voldermort + varieties of supporting tools

Each successful startup build NoSQL solution based their own needs.

Better make sure your needs align with them sir.
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Things like shoes, underwear, liquids, and electronics come to mind.

Umm.. just as a thinking exercise what can one do with this?

My take, make a bomb which is deployed in the shoe and is triggered by your urine with some electronics in your underwear. You can have some liquids which will help you piss (normal drinks do help but make it specialized).
he is a deca billionaire and just in his mid 50s. Great to see.
Isn't that a scene from a John Waters movie?
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Interesting to see that they have dropped most of the blue/orange color shades which has been synonymous with the brand. Definitely, this is a welcome change and the site looks better.
Ask HN: Multi Dimensional Spreadsheet to visualize data about your business?
Our startup accounting sucks, I have no idea where money is going to and coming from (and don't let me start about time...). Accounting is just an example, this can be applied to many problems.

So today I was playing with Excel trying to understand something in my business... but boy was it a mess, took me 10 minutes to understand I wasn't going to have something that made sense on it.

Yes Excel/OpenOffice calc etc can be used as multidimensional with pages but seeing data spread accross pages really becomes a mess.

I have four main dimensions:

1) The date in which a passage of money happened

2) Which client or provider the income/expense is relative to

3) Where will the money go/be taken (paypal, bank account, credit card...)

4) How much taxes (VAT or work related ones for example) applies to that amount (optionally this one can go with the third dimension)

Those are "full" dimensions as I call them because I will need to do calculations on all of them.

I was hoping in not having to use a database and a programming language for this but if there was some piece of software similar to a multidimensional spreadsheet that did the trick.
What are business analysts using these days?

I have no formal math training so I'm not looking for an enterprise solution that I think will come in handy for really a lot of things for us "metric visualization" nerds

I also know there might but since i'm a metric visualization nerd I want to learn to use a multidimensional spreadsheet (and you should too) since it will be often useful for startups and gaining insight into how a business works.
Maybe he's stuck using an Android phone?
http://stephen.wolfram.usesthis.com/

"My current desktop system is a Windows 7 64-bit 8-core machine"

Although to be fair, he also says it "changes practically every week."
Is anyone here going to develop for this thing? I should think after iphone, ipad, android, palm, regular blackberryOS devs and maybe windows phone7, devs will have their hands plenty full. Can people really take on this totally new OS? Or will it only be the big companies that do it (ie. playbook won't get many apps built)
I wonder if Apple's decision to deprecate Java on Mac was based on these plans.
It should be noted that a conspiracy of the upper and lower classes against the middle is an old historical pattern.

But has it ever been tried when there was so little friction hindering the middle from leaving? Especially in the case of small business owners; several that I've been dealing with for many years have moved out of California over those years. If you don't depend on unique resources/ecosystems like Silicon Valley and Hollywood, if, to take one example from my experience, you just manufacture and sell vitamins and other supplements, what's keeping you in California?
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I've probably spent ~1K usd for 5 rooms.
If it makes printer cartridge vendors display the tiny quantity of ink / toner that you're buying for $100, then maybe not such a bad thing after all ...
I have no trouble with the scientific method, in fact I'm a science fanboy. I do maintain some discomfort with your <edit: my interpretation of your> stance though.

I hope my first point doesn't come across as nitpicking - it's not meant to. I bring it up because it seems to be the primary way that people who think they understand science, but don't, perceive science. It is that you seem to value things that can be proven true. Nothing in science can be proven true - that's why it's so uncomfortable to so many people, and in fact is why the scientific method was such an epistemological break from the past. All we can do is disprove things. My problem with holistic medicine or chakras or chi isn't that dissection hasn't found evidence. It's that the theory/model/worldview isn't formulated in a way that can be falsified and therefore the the views have no meaning in a scientific context.

Note that I didn't say they were false from a scientist's view. They simply aren't meaningful - they're content free. A scientist wouldn't actually say they're true or false: a scientist would say that science has nothing to say about them.

The second issue I have with your position is related to the first point but slightly different: I think it's incorrect to label as false models that have no evidence. For example, say a holistic medicine practitioner relents and formulates one of his practices in a falsifiable way. Tests are done and no beneficial effect is shown. I think the appropriate response is that the model is unlikely to be true, not that the model is false. We simply haven't disproved the null hypothesis yet - that's not to say it won't or can't be done. The scientific method just adds 9s to the certainty. It is never certain.

In short, a scientist is profoundly and radically humble.
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1) enterprise servers 2) Java which drives enterprise computing which runs on any platform. Didn't these two things work against each other for Sun ?
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I'm a bit obsessive about researching things I buy, so the idea of just picking something seems like a relief. Then again, having had gadgets with one flaw that annoyed the crap out of me, I'm driven back to research. (For example, a DVD player that suddenly decided that 1) a parental controls limit had been set and needed a password to override (0000 worked fine), and 2) EVERY movie was above that limit, including Lady and the Tramp, which is a children's movie from the 50s for goodness' sake.)
Two words: pivot tables
Why people can't accept the fact that Apple doesn't care about having biggest market share. Of course if they can they'll be happy to take it like for the mp3 players market. At the moment, looking at the numbers, Android is eating market share mostly from Apple's other competitors. Remember, this is not a race to be the company who makes the most money, it's just about making tons of money, and this is what Apple cares about. Look at the computer marktet, they don't care in selling more pc than Dell, they care of making a boatload of profit, even with their 7%.
Did not know about the TweetDeck thing.
Wait, what? How did yet another instant messenger client get a million users in 2 weeks?
I found his ramblings on it Just Working to be of interest. My experience with getting an IPod to just work was the same. Getting music and apps on the Android phone is far easier than the IPod. Their stance of requiring the ITunes app really harms the User Experience there. It actually suprises me that they have let it go like this for so long. I would have expected from Apple's reputation that they would have made it much easier by now.
Ask HN: Has Y Combinator ever accepted a Non-Tech Company?
Hello, I am wondering if Y-Combinator has ever accepted a non-tech company into its program? Seeing that its for Start-ups I am wondering if they are only going after Tech Start-ups or is any type of company welcome?
I'm sure they don't laugh at us running around like idiots throwing away toiletries, getting strip-searched, and shuffling through security barefoot while someone ogles our naked bodies in another room.

I don't entirely understand the individual psychology behind terrorism, but I'm absolutely certain that it isn't so they can laugh at us when we're in the security queue.
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> Apple doesn't care about having biggest market share

If this is true, why did Jobs make such a big deal about market share during the earnings call? Shouldn't he have just ignored that topic?
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