skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As well a few days beforehand facebook had a media blitz about adding a new relationship status (domestic partnerships) into the mix.
I'd just use wifi.
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Depends where you are. We had one in Puerto Rico (i.e. warm water coming into the house) and I loved it. Up north it's questionable. And note that when it's on, especially during the winter, it will suck down a lot of amperage - like, 60 amps. If you've only got 100 amp service, like I do, you probably want to go with a gas heater.
Everyone should convert - Photoshop is still a necessary evil for image editing and sprites - but with grid layout frameworks, it's really never been easier to mockup a layout or three in pure HTML greatness. Add the flair after.
1. Put velcro around your house in various rooms

2. Put velcro on the back of your iPad and iPhone

3. http://www.apple.com/ipad/velcro/

Warning (taken from Apple's page):

"Tweet from the street at your own risk!*”
...
*Do not attempt.
Your post reminds me of some statistical data I saw a while back that says that Americans have a very poor view on the actual economic status of those around them and the rest of the country.

link: http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/09/30/wealth-and-an-american-...
If OSX always tries to reuse the same blocks, it's also reducing the lifetime and reliability of the flash drive because it's not doing wear leveling.
Ah thank you, this answers my original question. In response:

1) I contest that this is "unlikely" for SQL -- MySQL (unless I'm misremembering) orders data on disk by its primary key, which would be an equivalent optimization. (PostgreSQL does not do this to my knowledge.)

2) In my two queries above, I demonstrate both O(graph) and O(traversed) (in that order). At least in PostgreSQL, this is very much under control of the user as well, since WITH queries are evaluated in a specific order.

3) There is no way to specify such things in SQL. However most SQLs are designed with the idea that the query planner is smarter than you (it almost always is, at least in PostgreSQL), so you shouldn't be trying to specify execution plans anyway.

Overall, I see no reason for graph databases & SQL to be separate. It seems that if graph DBs really only address performance issues as you claim, that one is throwing out the baby with the bathwater by creating a new kind of database rather than simply adding specialized optimizations to e.g. PostgreSQL.
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I vaguely remember that this has to do with more with the paper than with printing technology, the paper being very expensive until recently.
What type of advantage does this give you from just looking at amazon.com?
Anyone with some IT background should be familiar with a single point of failure concept. This is why I personally don't use FB Connect, OpenID, etc. If anything goes wrong with your single global login process, you're in trouble. It doesn't matter whether it was your fault or your provider's.

When I create web products, I don't hesitate that much. If people want it and if it can increase signup conversion, then let's roll with it. But I don't use that as an user. A good password manager is more than enough for quick and convenient logging in.
I'm not sure FB is a single point of failure - Twitter signin seems to be nearly as prevalent. In fact, you could probably do something about identity by leveraging these separate identities into one, so that if you lose one (like Om) you wouldn't be separated from your online identity. (Not to mention you could reclaim the failed point based on your other identity components.)

That's vague, but seriously - a "single" point of failure is a business opportunity waiting to happen.
Here's what I did when we built our house about 10 years ago:

I ran a bundled cable containing 2 cat5 and 2 coax to each bedroom, the kitchen, my office and the family room. Even with wireless it's nice to be able to put another access point in pretty much any room. I did additional single cat5 runs to various places where I didn't think I'd need all four. Today I'm not sure the coax is still justified, but it has been handy for satellite. Now, I'd at least run several cat6 to each location and just leave it in the wall.

I ran speaker wire everywhere, every room including the garage, outside for the deck, even the laundry room. It's just sitting in the walls/ceiling in most places still, but I add a new "node" occasionally.

For the music nodes, I have a bunch of airport express units in the basement where all the wiring terminates. They're not running in wireless mode, just plugged into a gigabit switch with a single channel amp hanging off each one.

I got several of them refurb here (apple has them refurb too):
http://www.cowboom.com/product/160235

These are the little amps (they have various wattages):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001P2VV50

You can spend as much as you want on speakers, but I usually go for the cheap ones since they're generally just for background music anyway. That lets me put in a new node for under $150.

Here are some cheap bics that I have in a couple of rooms:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0008MFIFM

Also:

- take pictures/video of all your open walls so you can find your wire
- label all your wiring at both ends
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I don't disagree with the overall point, but the McDonalds analogy doesn't quite work.

By specifically going to McDonalds you are indeed showing them that you're shopping for a McDonalds Happy Meal, because that's all they've got to sell. But when you're searching for a given term on a site that indexes the entire internet, you're just looking for whatever's most relevant, regardless of where it's hosted.

If you'd wanted the search to only apply to YouTube, well, that's what direct youtube.com and the "site:" keyword are for.
I won't use any service that require FB Connect.
They canceled the common share in December and gave the company away to the top executives in a private stock offering. These are not the benevolent capitalists you are looking for.

http://www.jal.co.jp/en/other/info2010_0831.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/12/27/jal-idUSSGE6BQ08C2...
You're right about caching. I wasn't sure if graph databases took the typical NoSQL approach of massive non-normalized tables to avoid computational overhead.

SQL doesn't scan either -- tables are indexed via either a hash (O(1)) or a tree (O(log edges)). While I do realize the speed advantage of a specialized structure, I feel this could be better implemented as a specialized index/storage mechanism in SQL than as an entirely new database system.
Let me offer an analogy that (perhaps) paints Christian belief in a more charitable light. Indeed, there are many places where I, as a Christian, say, "I don't want to analyze this further".

There are many places too, as a programmer, where I say the same thing. I do most of my work in the application stack, and have only the vaguest understanding of what goes on in the guts of the operating system and kernel. I trust, though, that someone has spent time and energy thinking about how the operating system and its API work. I also suspect that if a fey mood ever took me, I could work my way through the kernel code of linux and understand what's going on. The reason I haven't is that I spend most of my time at a different level of abstraction.

The system of beliefs that underly Christian faith are similar. Many people work at a level of abstraction, if you will, that doesn't involve the sort of careful analysis that is, nevertheless, possible. Other Christian thinkers have explored the interplay of reason and faith with extraordinary detail. When someone says, "I'm happy to stop my analysis here", it might not mean that what underlies their belief is irrational, it might mean that they haven't had the time or the inclination to examine the layers of abstraction beneath it.
It is not that they couldn't -- although the priests may not have been able to -- it's that there was no reason to. It's not like there were millions of Christians in the year 1. The Jews were very busy dealing with the Romans and not too worried about the ongoing impact of a dead Jesus Christ.

Keep in mind, too, that many Jews believe the rising again/son of God story in the bible was a myth, a parobal, and that it was not intended to be an actual rising from the dead.
How do you know someone has an iPhone? They'll tell you.
Because a lot of people need to produce CMYK output as part of their everyday routine.
Unless you're in scientific community, where it's common to have to convert GBs of data from one weird format to another, or possibly analyzing them, nevertheless knowing only e.g. R and Matlab.
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Interestingly, from what I understand, heaven nor hell are never explicitly mentioned in the bible (old testament).
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I love OM, but if he has no web without FB, than he has some serious issues. Maybe it is really time to realize there is a life away from our computers.

Side note: I am glad HN does not have a FB login rule.
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I have met plenty of religious programmers and computer folks over the years, they just don't generally talk about their faith.
From the user perspective, I don't use Facebook Connect because I don't think a third party site should be given access to any of my Facebook information, nor should Facebook know what other sites I visit.

I'd much rather they all stay ignorant of one another.
I used zotonic a few years ago, it feels very "unerlangy" and I think thats a good thing, they have put together a fairly solid product and the site + documentation is top notch, it did feel someone stuck between being a cms for end users and a web framework for developers but that may have come from my preconceptions.

Its nice to see some mature + user friendly web components come out for erlang
If you're able (and if this applies), put a 2"-3" piece of PVC or other conduit from somewhere in your attic to somewhere in your basement, where you can get to it. You never know when you're going to need to fish cable from high to low or vice versa.
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This guy loses credibility when he says that Django templates is ugly and that there's no unit testing framework.

Those are defensible positions in the first 10 minute impression of app engine, but building a simple app (and testing it with GAEUnit) should put both to rest immediately.

Yes, the Datastore is unreliable, but a newer, more reliable version has been released.

App engine is still my preferred platform of choice -- just waiting for ssl, naked domains, and per-entity-group selection of which datastore service level to use.
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I don't think so. youtube has agreements with all the major record labels. The videos still show their ads whether the videos are shown on youtube or elsewhere. I doubt youtube would want to strain their relationship with the music industry by allowing developers access to their api if they didnt have an understanding in place.
Wait, you don't have to pay for university? What is this accounting magic? I had to pay!
>Laugh if you will, but I've found sketching out mockups in PowerPoint to work surprisingly well and about as fast (or faster) than paper since I don't have to redraw the whole thing after too many changes are made.

Yes, it can work.

And this is the premise behind Keynote Wireframe Toolkit (Keynote is Apple's equivalent to Powerpoint):

http://keynotekungfu.com/
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Thanks for sharing, Amy. It's been very educational watching your transition and hearing about your product success. I'm working on a new product and you've been a great motivator!
Note to self: Stop using the 7-11 argument with your teenagers.
Your question is too vague and not really answerable with brevity. So I'll give you a piece of general survival advice that worked for me.

Reiterate constantly that the other party is doing good work, you respect them, trust them and everything you indicated above. Also be equally clear in what you need from them to do to avoid making you get crazy. Portray the issues you have with them as issues that are your own; "you know I lose attention span if I don't say something every 2 minutes in a meeting." in lieu of "you talk too much and I can't get a word in edgewise".

If they make you crazy by being flaky, ask them to try and meet basic needs such as contact with you and alternate deadlines. "When do you think it will be ready, best case? Worst?" Most people who are flaky will come in around worst case, because they procrastinate. Just an example.

You're in a high pressure relationship that will undergo an accelerated and constantly changing rate of romance, passion, honeymoon, frustration, fear and mistrust. This is normal; just keep focused on your trust and empathy for your co-founder and be clear on what you need from them.

"I really appreciate your enthusiasm when speaking to investors, and I would like to have a few more opportunities to contribute to a point. Could you please try passing part of the answer off to me in pitching or discussion?" - Whatever it takes.

Manage your co-founder, document your requirements and more than anything, don't stay angry or let an issue lie for more than 15 minutes to cool down.
Windows 7 has an XPS Viewer (Microsoft's attempt to replace PDF).
It's open source; you can probably just tweak a global variable somewhere :P
> because there are so many and their skill set and salary requirements translates so well to other industries.

The skill set of completely fabricating what you and the company can accomplish, getting other people to believe it, accepting a "modest" salary of 10% of this fairy tale, deflecting all blame for anything that goes wrong, and looting the company in your severance package (because you would do the same for your good old boys on the board), most surely does translate to just about any industry.
> You can't compare the output of a country with over 300 million people with Northern Europe.

Why not? The comparison is considered fair whenever it favors Northern Europe, so why is it unfair when NE doesn't do as well?

Northern Europe has roughly the same population as the US. The people look basically the same. They're considered first world. etc.

> The money spent on technology alone is probably larger than the combined national budgets of those countries.

Not even close. Total govt spending, per capita, is roughly the same. (Canada spends a bit less per person than the US.) So, there's no way that US govt tech spending, which is a small fraction of govt spending, can be greater than the total govt spending in those countries.

The US probably does have more private spending on tech than those countries, but that's because the US' greater gdp/person lets it spend more money privately on everything.

So, why is their GDP so much lower? We keep hearing how much better they are, so why doesn't it show up in output?

Yes, it's plausible to choose lower output, but is that really what's going on? Let's see the numbers showing that having less makes them better off.
If people read Dan's blog post http://blog.crushnotifier.com, they'd realize what a good and down to earth guy this his. Honestly, I think he's an inspiration to put oneself out there and give your projects a shot. It's one thing to not like a product. It's totally another to bash and write hateful comments like those on TC. That doesn't encourage other young entrepreneurs to take risks and try products out, which could be a horrible side effect. The best will always rise above it as I think Dan is doing.
Actually, I think the message is that it's more important to be competent than nice. Most of those laid off would have probably preferred an overpaid, aloof manager who kept the company afloat.

Not saying you have to choose, of course. But being competent at management doesn't require you to be loved by all your employees.
"The Toyota Way" is decent and interesting, about half manufacturing but half culture.
Groupon is essentially a fancy retailer that "drop ships" everything. In accounting terms it's done this way:

$760M Gross Revenue

-$360M COGS (cost of goods sold)

-----

$400M Gross Profit

-300M (Itemized expenses)

-----

$100M Operating Income

-$10M Tax/Depreciation/etc

-----

$90M Net Income

Figures besides revenue are just guesses of course, but this is how it's done in accounting terms.

For a real example see something like Amazon: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AMZN+Income+Statement&an...
This is 100% correct.

(And the reason I never promoted my facebook app "unfriendly" - which notified you when someone dropped you as a friend)
> Why does everybody care that the GIMP doesn't have CYMK support? The vast majority of printing presses can do their own color separation, trapping, and registering automatically.

Yes, so why use a CMYK workflow, when you can wait until your design gets to the printing press and have the thrill of seeing if it prints as you want it to...
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Posts like this annoy me. It only gives details about the symptoms of the virus and gives zero details of the infection vector. What does this virus exploit? How does it take control of the computer? Is it a root kit? Does it have a C&C server associated with it allowing it to become a botnet?

It is especially frustrating because although I am not a Mac user I like to keep up to date on threats against the Mac platform since exploits on the Mac are easier to port to other *nixs. Does anyone have actual details on this trojan?
Under the law of demand, i.e. rising prices decrease demand, it is overpriced when lowering the price increases total revenue. Reading the comments on his post, it could be overpriced.
I don't get the sense of that, though it may well be the case. Specifically, as they referenced that he takes the bus to work, wears suits off the rack, etc.

Honestly though, I'm MUCH more impressed with the accessibility -- knocked down the walls of his office, eats lunch in the regular cafeteria, etc. I know very little of Japanese culture, but he at least gives the impression that it's sincere, and as I mentioned, my initial expectation was quite cynical.

Offtopic (bearing in mind my Japan-ignorance), having an excess of meals and entertainment on your business tax returns is an invitation to be audited here in the states. You might want to speak with someone who can give you legal advice without winking. ;-)
This is no joke. My picasa usage just went from ~20 GB to 0.6 GB. While I appreciate this change, I can't comprehend the rationale behind it. It doesn't seem like storing lots of little files would be cheaper for Google, so why would they ignore them for the purposes of calculating your quota...?
Yeah, the Mcdeez analogy doesn't really work, but you know what I mean anyway....
At the risk of sounding xkcd-esque, what is your definition of "fail"? I agree that RIM attempting to duplicate Apple's consumer-focused strategy is unlikely to yield Apple-like results in terms of market share and immediate profit, but let's remember that that's not where RIM started out. There's always a lot of money to be made in B2B, which just happens not to be the competition's strong point.

Finally, the whole smartphone area is ten years old, consumer-focused part of it less than five years old: less than mature, and way less than settled. In another ten years, this all might have turned out to be a silly bubble as Moore's law erases any effective differences between smartphones. Will Apple "fail" when its percentage profit per device and market share falls to current Macbook values?
> Yet our citizens now live an astonishing six times better than when I was born.

By what metric? From everything I've read the income disparity in America has increased steadily since the 1950s. Are we 6x happier? 6x Healthier? 6x More free?
What baffles me that we are trying to convince programmers to support Unicode while many programs and websites won't even accept special symbols. In passwords.

I mean, how dumb does the system have to be to reject the @ char in the password field? Or worse yet, accept only _numbers_, as my university does.

I think we did something terribly wrong somewhere in the char set conventions.
oh and in case the zotonic guys are reading this.

I have a feature request :) what are the chances of packaging zotonic for agner (http://erlagner.org/), it would make it very attractive for erlang devs to try it out
I couldn't agree more. I'm guessing they assume the reader is familiar with the Windows trojan.[1]

I posted because I still thought HN would find it interesting.

[1] http://www.darkcomet-rat.com/
I must have a different version of Mac OS X than the artist -- my credit card never gets billed when Software Update grabs me the latest updates.
I think the general consensus is that getting significant funding requires a broader team. You have an advantage in that you're fairly far along on the development aspects. You have plenty of equity valued at whatever amount it is. Depending on your project and your terms, you really should consider having a co-founder or even two with supportive skill sets and backgrounds, good networks and contacts.

This will greatly increase your survivability in the near and long term. Unless you're a purely technical "develop and release then 'look ma' no hands'" product.
Thanks Chad, I really appreciate it. I'm just trying to have fun with this, and it's really distressing that these people who don't know me are calling me names, hating on me, etc.

Seems like I need to grow a thicker skin and accept that it comes with the territory. :-/
I haven't yet seen a suggestion for sound-dampening blankets/foam. If you live in an urban area, keeping the bedrooms quiet could be a huge pay-off as even
minor sleep disruptions (you don't even have to be aware of them, let alone be awoken) measurably affect mental acuity and overall energy levels.
That's why you need ventilation! The house itself needs to be airtight, for energy preservation. The heat-recuperating system and natural ventilation takes care of taking out the dirty air. Of course when renovating a house (a renovation will never get it airtight) with antiquated dangerous heating systems that can exhaust fumes when malfunctioning, those need to be removed.

Modern building standards (I don't mean building codes, I mean state of the art in building engineering) says to make houses 100% air tight, but with proper ventilation systems, of course. Opening the windows and doors is not enough! CO levels will get back to 80% of their old levels in 30 minutes after closing them! Modern houses need to be continuously ventilated to achieve the highest levels of living comfort.

(PS I'm a real estate developer)
Is the Moon that good of a source for 3He? Wikipedia doesn't suggest that - it says that the Moon is thought to have 0,01 to 0.05 ppm on surface while natural gases contain up to 7% of normal helium with some of it in 3He form and the atmosphere itself contains 1.38ppm
After going to their website and reading their FAQ in its entirety, I am still confused.

Why would anyone dream of offering goods, services, or other currencies in exchange for "bitcoins"?
On the subject of the social benefits of railroads, I really liked this Tony Judt essay a while ago, “Bring Back the Rails” http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/bring-b...
Interesting feature that it has a p2p? network to allow for two players. Other emulators seem to require a direct network connection to play two player games or share the keyboard with another person.
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