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Thanks for pointing that out :)
The final part will be up tomorrow outlining the future plans for Drizzle.
One of my favorite accessor method names I've run across is 'maybeGetCube()'.

The idea was that if it was cached, then it would return the cube, otherwise null. Cube was actually relatively aptly named, it was a big matrix of data BTW.

I guess really it wasn't THAT horrible, but the whole idea of 'maybe' doing something in code has always made me chuckle.
The caption mentions "units/m^3", which would seem to indicate that the "units" would be some sort of particle count, and the colors on the map are particulate density? Just a guess, though. Radiation dosage wouldn't typically be given in units per volume, would it?

If we assume (no idea if this is accurate) that the units are proportionally related to radiation dosage, though, and correlate them with other reports, the map bands might be roughly nano-sieverts per hour.

Completely rough and unreliable calculation to arrive at that: This animation shows a plume over the Tokyo area in the 10^3 to 10^4 units range on March 15, and peak values over the plant in the 10^5 to 10^6 units range. Other reports have radiation in Tokyo peaking roughly on the order of 1 micro-Sv, and levels at the plant on the order of hundreds of micro-Sv. So if the units were nano-Sv per hour, the orders of magnitude are about right.

Not sure what the total release given as "0.10E+19 Units" at the top would mean then. Anyway, why would someone make a technical-looking graph where everything is labeled in mysterious "units"?
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He means that they have mixed bathing, so there's no men's and women's side of the onsen and so everyone goes into the same bath, whether they know each other or not.

There are other arrangements, too, though. In addition to simply splitting the onsen between a men's side and a women's side, they can also change from one to the other, so you can have mixed bathing later in the night, while being split the rest of the time.
We don't use Drizzle directly, but have been using lib-drizzle to give us c library access to MySQL. In almost a year, we haven't seen any negatives.
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What is your point?

Presumably the correct response to bullshit is to call it out as such rather than producing your own.
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A good point, quite a few people are using the libdrizzle client library bundled with Drizzle. It is a high-performance BSD licensed library that can speak the MySQL protocol.
While a Trie is the "correct" datastructure with appropriate storage techniques, you have to be careful when your hands are tied regarding what datastructure you build it on top of.

When I benchmarked a Trie implementation using dicts of dicts in Python, and I found that the memory usage was an order of magnitude higher than just having a set or list of strings (2mb vs ~100kb), while the performance difference was negligible. I ended up going with a set.

The issue is that each layer per node has 26+ instances of your core object struct (whether it's a list or a dict), so any overhead gets ballooned really fast.
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One of my former classmates names everything he can get his hands on after various obscure anime references-- database names, variables, servers, you name it. Once in a blue moon, I'd recognize a function name as being a character or item from one of the few animes I'd seen and after a bit of tortured logic based on the background it almost seemed like a reasonable choice.

Needless to say, he does better working on his own.
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I asked for money and if I don't get it will cut it off. It takes a bit for an update to make it through the App Store, so I have a bit of leverage.
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Data in the UK isn't that slow for me. With a tethered iPhone (NetShare) and now a MiFi, I've often slurped 1GB+ a day.
I'm not sure you get it. This is hardware overlay. It's not running in user-space, it's being moved from memory to graphic card directly. A DirectX drawn window is not affected by focus or anything else. You can stop it by killing the process.

If someone came ahead of time to prevent it from ever gaining screen access, then that would be a problem, but since the order of app launches are known and can be controlled, it would still work.
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Provides a good overview of what's going on with the 4th reactor's spent fuel rods. These look like one of the larger threats, since they're much less protected.
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Woah, I think you're overreacting a bit there! Just like any other entertainment industry, money has entered the gaming industry and it has matured. Mainstream big games cost tens of millions of dollars to make.

But there are more cool projects happening on the fringe than ever before, led by small teams of indie and commmercial developers, willing to take on a whole bunch of risk and try new things. Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, Braid and the like basically are the Elites of the 21st century.

The most expensive games to produce are basically formulaic safe bets, but that should not take away from your enjoyment of the great games being made every day. In much the same way as the music charts being topped by pop rubbish shouldn't take away from enjoyment of the many great innovative bands with small(er) followings.

I think there's a good middle ground, too, which I think creates substantial value. Lots of high quality games take elements from existing successful games, and reshape them to make something fresh (but not innovative). This is basically what I'm attempting to do with my gaming startup (see: http://www.bigblockgames.com). But this approach is inherently cautious - I know it's not going to make me stumble on the next Minecraft!
And what is that obscure method?
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> I live in the US, and I don't know anyone who thinks this way

You don't know anyone who thinks of any of jaywalking, speeding, streaking, riding in a car without a seatbelt, smoking marijuana, and snorting cocaine as common and often harmless activities? Everyone you know thinks of all of them as activities limited to the mentally handicapped or partially insane?
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The article is behind a registration wall. :(
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I enjoyed looking at the table and found myself bouncing between the left and right column quite a bit.

I think what these types of articles really illustrate is that education can be another form of bling.
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Can someone point me to some good benchmarks showing the performance of Drizzle7 vs. MySQL 5.5?
That stuff has its place. But it's needed less commonly than it's used.
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Now might actually be a strategically smart time to do this, what with the ongoing and particularly major stories across the world.
I've seen that too. I don't think it was intentional -- the programmer simply didn't understand what the existing code structure was for, and "defactored" it.
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If it sounds dumb, maybe you should search for a better sounding cash register noise ;)

Seriously though, it would be awesome if you all of a sudden you had a surge of sales and your computer made as much noise as a slot machine hitting a jackpot.
Someone made a post yesterday about doing some statistical analysis of the tournament. Looks like someone has already done some serious work here.
Will simplified operating systems kill future innovation?
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Stargate Universe & The Sarah Connor Chronicles come to mind for me. Both went under just as they were hitting their stride IMO.
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Kind of what's going on here is that only very successful companies face a large enough impact from the tax that exercising the option of exit is at all attractive. Say your SF startup was being acquired for $50mm, $10mm of which is employee equity hit by the tax (investors and founders don't pay it). You end up having to pay $150k between you, which only now is starting to be a big deal -- even one order of magnitude down, it's not worth the hassle of moving your office to a low tax jurisdiction just to dodge 15k of taxes imposed over 2-5 years -- and of course you have bigger issues to worry about so the tax doesn't matter that much. Spread over 100 or so employees and it looks like a fairly small salary increase to be paid for cost of living reasons.

I faintly recall a discussion of when you should accept dilution (which a tax is) if it raises your chances of success. I tend to assume that startups locate in SF rather than the non-SF bay area for reasons that they feel give them more than a 1.5%*employee equity higher chance of success (shorter commutes for your people, etc.).

More generally, it's only going to be the very large companies that want to exercise their option of exit for this reason: moving sucks and nobody wants to do it. By the time it's millions of dollars in taxes (i.e. valuation > $1bn or so) you'd think about it, but I'd guess not before. So it's not the greatest idea from a tax equity perspective: a tax only the extremely wealthy find it worth their while to dodge is still regressive. Lame capitulations to keep the few companies with this high-class problem in the city are probably correct from a utility-maximizing perspective, if kind of morally distasteful.
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I guess grad school really is a bubble. I had no idea they canceled SG:U. What's this Sarah Conner Chronicles I'm hearing about?
Is this faster than postgresql?
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Yeah, it didn't save this guy from getting fired and it only made life harder on a another guy who he's never met. The whole "stick it to the man" mentality is childish and its shameful that this strategy is so common in software development.
You are joking right?

Because i could still just have my process kill your process and take over exclusive screen access... there's no winning this game.
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(RE)launches.

iirc, this was done for Hurricane Katrina and also the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Read the article - just ending processes is not allowed because those other processes need to continue to run. If you were allowed to end processes, then there would be no issue at all.
I've listened to podcasts on my iPod and iTunes for years, through successive generations of hardware and software on both ends, and cannot think of how it could be construed as an Apple weakness. It's a pretty flawless system.
Thanks :) Just trying to get it off the ground...
Given the NYT's war with people who want to read articles without signing up for an account, this wouldn't surprise me.

But until they do it, I can still google the base URL of an article and click from google, circumventing the need to log in.

It was so much easier when the article title was on the login page, I could just select it in chrome, google from right click menu, and click on the top link.

Ah well, I expect that will continue to work even if they try for a pay wall. I can't imagine that they don't see google referrals as one of their primary sources of traffic. Otherwise they wouldn't have implemented the google click exception in the first place.
It can be already, under the NET ("No Electronic Theft") Act, if memory serves. But the feds usually have better things to do than to prosecute people for that sort of thing.

Or at least they used to. It's clear that prosecuting infringers has become a priority recently. I expect more is to come.
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I agree, Netflix should just buy SyFy from NBC and revamp it. But where would they show movies akin to Sharktopus?
Yes, I have heard of Eve Online, but didn't realise all of these dynamics had been put in place.

I'm sure I can dig answers out to these questions elsewhere, but I thought I'd ask how the economy is balanced. For instance, mining new materials obviously increases supply. To what extent is this activity capped by the game mechanics in order to keep demand at a reasonable level?

I've heard of space stations being bought and sold, but I think this was a separate MMO. Not far off restoring houses and flipping for profit in the real world!
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I was going to chime in with my own ideas about solving this -- you can play this game all day long and I'm sure inciting that kind of discussion that was the intent of the author -- but this story about one particular request accidentally illuminates a key problem with Windows: too many developers and programs competing for one set of user eyeballs.

You'd think that would be a good thing, but far from it. What happens is that every little developer writing any kind of tiny little app 1) wants money, and 2) wants to remind you how cool they and their app is by annoying you in various ways. Sadly, the annoying part is usually done without any unkind intent on the developer's part at all.

I have no problem with the money thing, aside from it being annoying to pay for code that was just copied from MSDN and stuck in a wrapper, but the blinky-beepy-gotta-be-on-top thing is driving me nuts.

The author uses an example of one guy who "knows" he wants the screen all the time, but the real underlying architectural problem is much more subtle (and worse) than that. Every program wants to tell the user something, maybe only once a month or so. That'd be fine, if there weren't dozens if not hundreds of programs running on the average setup.

I've been using Ubnutu for the last couple months, mainly because Windows has become more like a video game, an XBox, than a serious operating system to me. When I started my windows O/S up the other day to do some multimedia chore after only two weeks without running it, every program I ran had updates and notices for me to attend to, including Windows itself. That made a 5 minute job take 2 hours, including the 15-minute boot time which was drug out because once I bought a Sprint modem, Sprint in its infinite wisdom wants to intercept and rework my network stack so they can "help me" use my computer better. This involves Sprint needing updates, resetting my wifi preferences every time it runs, forcing itself to run every time on boot, rewriting my access screens, and doing something with memory, thread, and priority allocation during boot that takes 5 minutes and can only be described from the user's standpoint as evil. And for all of my invective, I know they didn't mean it that way! As far as I know, they are honestly trying to provide assistance (assistance with lots of branding and subtle control over user behavior. Sigh)

This is crazy. Windows has become like the web, only with one web page with everything you might ever want to do on it crammed in there and you can't navigate away. Somebody at Microsoft had better get on the ball and get rid of atomic updates, garbage collection, and vendor/programmer-induced interruptive bullshit. (Yes, there are ways to eliminate GC and the nightly install crapfest, but that's a longer story) If they don't, Google is going to eat their lunch. I'm afraid you can't have one O/S that is both extremely complex and consistent across millions of different use-cases. At least not structured like this.
Exactly! Dow you want the conversations to be one liners (witty or shallow) OR do you want people to have meaningful conversations?

Assumption: You cannot always have meaningful conversation with one liners.
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Ask HN: Are these user-acquisition numbers good for a dating site?
I have an online dating site (The Matching Game - http://www.thematchinggame.com) with the following user-base numbers:

- 3,000 Daters
- 60% Women
- Average Age 23
- $1.27 User Acquisition Cost

I have no idea how these numbers stack up against other sites that are out there. I know the user base is small, which is why I'm asking. Need to figure out if there's any chance of making enough money to keep the site running as I scale it up.

Any insight would be very helpful.
Unfortunately we don't have any yet, although there are libdrizzle vs. libmysqlclient benchmarks floating around.

We don't benchmark against MySQL ourselves because we can very easily bias it in our favour. We would love to see other people benchmarking.

We do, however, benchmark every build against ourselves using several different suites as can be seen at:

https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-benchmark
This seems to depend on the exact phrase being asked on one of the source websites, with the quality and literacy of the answer varying by source. If you want to compete with the likes of WolframAlpha and Google an important next step will be to help it do simple maths and "what time is it in..." lookups.

On the other hand, it me gives literate and considered answers for questions like "how can get better abs", "how can i get a bigger penis". It also advises me I'm only 12 when I ask it if my breasts are too small but nevertheless offers very sound advice on attracting a rich man.

When I turn to politics it advises me that Barack Obama isn't a Muslim "but desperate people will say yes, so watch out for it", cautions that North Korea isn't evil "only its leader..." and doesn't want me to vote Republican

It doesn't seem to approve of smartphones, advising me to wait until later versions of Android are released, buy an iPod instead of an iPhone.

I'd be intrigued to know how you're sorting out duplicates for common questions.

Best answer is a toss up between:

>can you fly?

red bull

>i get too many girls

wake up
If you defenestrate it, it accelerates at about 10 m/s^2.
Faster is relative, Drizzle uses InnoDB as a storage engine and I suspect Postgres and Drizzle/InnoDB have optimizations for different workloads.

I would love to see benchmarks of things like OLTP workloads though.
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A sadly pretty-my-dead alternative was Jumpgate, quite an early MMO. It had quite poor economy features, but fantastic seeat-of-your-pants physics and joystick control.
Thanks for this. I always enjoy reading articles that help make Drupal faster. There were a few sessions at Drupalcon last week that dealt with this topic as well. This article definitely has more in depth technical details, though (which is good).

If interested, here are the a couple of related sessions from Drupalcon:

http://www.archive.org/details/drupalconchi_day3_test_tune_t...

http://www.archive.org/details/drupalconchi_day2_failure_to_...
Right click it from the task tray and select move. Your mouse cursor will jump over to the top of the window (even if you can't see the window) and you will actually move the item you selected rather than the topmost window you appear to be clicking on.

I called it "slightly obscure" because while the move option is perfectly normal, I had no idea that you could still select a window that was completely behind other windows.

EDIT: And no, "close" wasn't among the options for that error.
Don't sell yourself short, Vladimir. If you're going to work for free, try contributing to an open source project you find interesting. If you're going to work for a for-profit company, you should be paid :)
By and large people don't go crazy looting during disasters. The idea that the moment authority disappears, we instantly devolve in to dog-eat-dog anarchy is a myth - mostly promulgated by those who feel it's their job to be the one in charge.

There are notable exceptions, of course, but for the most part people can do a pretty good job of policing themselves.
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Many congratulations, and thank you. "Thank you" because I know from my own experience that these kinds of posts are extremely motivational.

I made my first sale a year and a half ago, and recently increased the sales so that I could go full time. Maybe I should've followed my own advice and posted it on HN: http://www.elstensoftware.com/blog/2011/01/21/going-fulltime...
Haha, didn't think of that. What if the retired billionaire just ran for President himself?