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I'll get downvoted for this, but Bitcoin transfers are immediate. There are so many things wrong with the current financial system that the best solution is a new system altogether.
Voted Oracle & Other (DB2)
Several years ago I came across a website that allows you to make an average face, by averaging the images of multiple people (http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average?img=/tomcat/averag...). Averaging two dozen faces produces rather striking results (http://boston.conman.org/2007/08/28.1). Even averaging a few faces produces better looking people.
It can. But only for integer data types.

As already pointed out, for floating point data types the two versions could (and probably will) result in slightly different answers due to rounding issues.
http://code.google.com/p/traceur-compiler/
ATL startup aims to be LinkedIn for sports
The 'App Store' brand is so important to Apple now that they have no choice but to go hard to try and own it. It won't look good for Apple's claim if Amazon can stand in court and list off reams of other App Stores.
At TransLoc, we use MySQL and have set up a cluster of four nodes, using streaming replication across two data centers. It is something that all of us were familiar with and it almost, sort of, kind of support GIS functions, which is something we need.
Can we please stop calling the vivisection of the patent system "reform"? That is just what congress is calling it to make the ideas more palatable. I have contacted my congressman asking him to fight this, and I believe you should too. First to invent is what makes our system unique, and is what gives small inventors a chance to compete against patent farms like IBM.
Nevertheless, the support for Alien Dalvik[1] might help.

[1]: http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-n9-android-app-support-promis...
I suspect that in a few years there'll only be two (native) apps: Making phonecalls + webbrowser. (yes the webbrowser will also play mp3s and talk to the camera to take pictures)
Legacy apps, Ingres.

All sorts of odd little things, SQL Server.

Various legacy data processing and newer data warehousing jobs, SAS.

New projects, in theory Oracle but there seems to be a degree of resistance. It'd be interesting to see how that pans out but I won't be around there much longer :)
My point is that their UI could change, and it's easier to test out UX on something that you'll use everyday, than on something that you'll never use. They made Github because they wanted to use it themselves, not because they saw it as a money making scheme.
Hypersonic jet promises L.A. to Tokyo in 2 1/2 hours
Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book was my favorite programming book in high school. I read it everywhere I went, even when camping. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn how the lowest-level graphics primitives were drawn before GPUs. The first half of the book also makes for an excellent guide to optimizing algorithms by reducing overhead and converting to assembly language.

My only complaint about the book was that the publisher (Coriolis?) included a notice at the front saying that no code samples, algorithms, etc. could be used in any project without their express approval, but most of the algorithms and code were previously published elsewhere.
What is it about Postgres that you don't like?
<i>I definitely have a sense that the K-POP labels have virtual stables of up and coming "properties"</i>

Someone I knew in London 5 or so years ago got a Development Deal with one of the major labels. He stayed in his normal job, but was paid a retainer to not talk to any other labels for a period of time. I don't know how much it was, but the first time the money hit his account he thought he'd been overpaid and called them so they could correct their error - he was told it was the right amount.

They'd give him some studio time occasionally and have him record demos and do showcase performances for various important people. They offered him a personal chef and a personal trainer to tone up.

Last I heard nothing had ever come of the whole thing. No records released, no attempt at publicly launching his career, etc. I assume the money stopped coming at some point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist_development_deal
I'm really confused as to what anyone is supposed to call the online store where one sells applications? It's as if someone trademarked "Department Store" and all of the sudden, Macy's, Sears, JC Penny, Dillards, etc couldn't use the term to refer to their stores any more. That's insane.
Github employees are the target market, they use Git don't they? What use is developing a windows app that none of the developers will use initially?
Git Extensions is pretty nice for Windows. http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/
You are exaggerating.

Is it only me who likes JS better than CS? :( It's stylish.
In addition to PostgreSQL and Redis, we use Hbase.
I just graduated from college and even I can see how short sighted and naive this statement is.

Does he really think you can just waltz around and "buy" companies? Remember...Morin and Dorsey are already rich. Why would they sell to you?

CEOs also do way more than just buy things. This post just shows how naive and sheltered the poster really is.
I've found the Facebook Android app to be lacking compared to their mobile site, maybe the iPhone app is better. As for Kindle, Netflix, VNC, and ComicZeal I just could not fathom actually using a 3 inch screen for visual media. I've used the Netflix app once or twice when I didn't have easy access to a laptop, but those situations are exceedingly rare and the experience was very lackluster. They also completely murdered my battery so I pretty much had to have my phone plugged in if I planned on having any power to use my phone in a few hours, so the application of it would be seriously limited.

It feels like you are confounding iPhone and iOS in general (you specifically mentioned tablet ecosystem). The N9 is a phone and I cannot fathom why you would care that the OS that your phone runs on has a robust tablet ecosystem. I also feel like you have must have a very unusual lifestyle to consider Kindle and Netflix apps on your phone at all imperative; do you have an unusual commute or something?
Microsoft sends an IE9 cupcake to Mozilla for shipping Firefox 5
I have a weekly gamer meeting that always orders a pizza. We could easily put in a deal offer of this sort.

This might not be everyone but I think a lot of folks have a routine they could leverage for a pizza deal.
The Chrome OS phone you mean? I'd be all over it.
I've been pleased with Postgres 9's streaming replication. We use postgres primarily for PostGIS.
JavaScript is a programming language that compiles to bytecode. It can be treated as object code, but it is a very different and higher-level thing than the term "bytecode" generally denotes.

Calling JavaScript "flexible bytecode" is like saying that all Turing-complete programming languages are the same, or that all objects capable of driving a nail into a piece of wood are equivalent. It's true in a very facile way. JavaScript can be treated kind of like bytecode, and all Turing-complete languages can be treated as a simulation of a Turing machine, but the details that these rough descriptions miss are more numerous and more significant than the details that actually went into forming the generalization.
Hidden Marketing Power in Vinyl Stickers
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JavaScript is a programming language that compiles to bytecode. It can be treated as object code, but it is very different and higher-level thing than the term "bytecode" generally denotes.
Sybase & Oracle - in investment banking
their work is often hidden behind locked platform or unguessable urls. think they should be released and aggregated. Suggestions and corrections will come
We use KDB+ for anything speed-critical - not on the lists, so I voted 'other'
Mark Suster on Funding in a Frothy Market
SQLite all over the place – it's great having a super portable DB format for quick little hits.

There's nothing quite like sending a DB as an email attachment.
We made the switch before 1.8 was released, and made the decision during the 1.6 cycle, give or take. Auto-sharding never worked reliably in our tests. I think schmichael does a good job explaining the new features that would have helped -- spares indexes, in particular -- but the core issues still remain (lock contention, no non-blocking online compaction).
There were online stores that sold applications before Apple did so. What's wrong with calling them whatever we used to call them, before Apple started calling theirs "App Store"?
You have a very slim chance at even breaking even, let alone getting the big payout. Your article, frankly, does more to convince people to become consultants, rather than the opposite.

The choice you present is as if a person with the motivation and insight to start something has no choice but to throw caution to the wind, abandon any semblance of stability, and burn the ships (as the saying goes). Plenty of very successful entrepreneurs have proven this wrong -- there is no need to romanticize a very risky proposition.

On the one hand, you present a choice where a lot of one's income is scalable and under your (mostly) direct control. Sure, there is a limit of around $250k/year -- that's a gross of $2M+ in a decade. Meanwhile, you have more flexibility with your time than you would at most jobs. The typical startup entrepreneur, if they last a decade, will have gone through multiple ideas/ventures in that time frame, while earning 10-20% of this.

On the other hand, you present the notion of taking a wild, largely unmitigatable risk -- live an austere lifestyle while devoting 60+ hours/week to your pet project. Your only way to manage risk is to try to confirm early-on in the process that you are actually building what people will pay for (or even want) ... before you build it. Even then, the territory remains largely unknown. Any number of black swans can swoop in and completely destabilize your agenda, turning what you think you know upside-down. You simply cannot plan for success -- high-risk proposals are always subject to wild fluctuations in the landscape (or else they wouldn't be high risk) -- the best you can reasonably plan for is to make a product and release it.

The end of your post does your argument no favors either. Establish a practice where I can sell my talent for (at maximum) $250k/year, or go work on one of four me-too ideas? There's a reason why the devs you approached said that they want to work on their own idea, or in lieu of that, consult.

EDIT: I'm sorry if this reads harshly. I tried to give you honest criticism without insulting you. I regret using the phrase "me-too ideas".
What if they picked longer durations because they already knew their goal would be hard to reach?
A good engineer doesn't have to worry about job security.
My company uses actual filing cabinets that have actual physical files.
Although I'm very interested in the subject matter (I have a production site that uses MongoDB and AWS), I often find presentations like this incredibly annoying to read.

The problem is that presentations are short-form jot notes that are meant to be supported by a delivery as well. The vast majority of the value comes from what's not written down.

What's worse is that the "signal to noise" ratio detracts from my ability to understand what you're really going on about.

Some examples:

You say "MongoStat is Amazing" why? how? what does it do? (I've personally played with and used it a little, but I'd like to know why you're amazed by it. How can the things you've learned improve my practice?

You mention starting with 1.2 - does that mean you're not using 1.8? I've used 1.2 and was suffering 80% - 99.9% CPU load, as soon as I updated to 1.81 the load dropped to closer to 0.03% for most of the same operations. Does that mean your talk is invalid? Obviously there's a lot more to your story that I can get from your slides.

All things considered though I'm no trying to come off as a jackass. Normally when I see a HackerNews->slidedeck I just get frustrated and annoyed by things like the "inside joke" and "cute kitten slides" that rely on the speaker to deliver some insightful punchline. In this case I did read one or two interesting points.

Though I find I'm still suffering from the signal-to-noise problem that accompanies all these decks, this was better than most. I'd love a bit more narrative around the points that matter and a bit less around things that don't (how to query in mongo isn't really necessary in a story of why you abandoned it, is it?)

Anyways - was that a rant, review or stream of consciousness?

TD;DR Thanks for the slide deck; I hate slide decks; Yours was less terrible than most.
The Evolution of Angels into VC's
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I'm surprised to see that Oracle even has as many mentions as it does, given how rarely you read about it here on HN. We're locked into it at my workplace, and every time I'm reminded of this PG quote I cringe a little:

"The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous was the company. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those."
Hey Redis folks, if you haven't played with http://radishapp.com/ yet I'd love to hear your feedback on it.

Also, go Postgres! Woot!
In what language do you routinely find 2000 lines files that are skimmable? Best to split it up logically, problem solved.
Dispute with Web Design Company
To give a quick synopsis of what is going on, I hired a "legitimate" web design company to put together a very custom website for my first entrepreneurial venture. Without giving too much detail about the idea, I wanted to have them design an interactive map for the downtown area that I live in to bring the character and life of that area online.

After a great deal of research into what kind of programmer to use, local or foreign, freelancer or a company, I decided to use a local firm that I was referred to by a student of the company's owner. He is a professor at the university in town as well. He was extremely enthusiastic and seemingly knowledgeable about what I was going for. The price tag was around 10k with 2k required up front and the rest to be paid after the project was completed. The estimated time to complete the project was 8 weeks. A mobile version was to be included.

I agreed to the conditions and paid the 2k and letting him know I had to have it done by July (This was late February).

Fast forward to last week, 15 weeks in and the project was nowhere near completion. I let him know last Wednesday, the 15th, in a respectful manner that I was not pleased with the progress nor some some of the work they had done. We had originally agreed to use a different graphic designer but he used one in house that was cheaper. I receive no response so I emailed him again Monday mid-day to reiterate what I had said Wednesday. Keep in mind I was never rude in any way. His response later that afternoon appalled me.

He stated that I was clearly dissatisfied with their product and that unfortunately our relationship was irreparable. He then went on to describe that according to their term's of service there was no refund for deposits but he would be "kind" and give me half back ($1000) along with the map design that I expressed my discontent with and a dictionary for the database but no actual code. He attached a contract his attorney had drawn up and that was that.

Now I am a month and a half away from deadline, I have formed an LLC, and met with an accountant as well as several other businesses to set this venture up. I am losing half of my deposit. It will be very difficult to have this completed in time starting from scratch.

The legal loophole he used to bail on me is that they offer no warranties, expressed or implied, in their terms of service for their products or services. I just never imagined something like this would happen. I have tried contacting him and he is very short using only legal jargon and says he wishes me the best while maintaining he is doing me a favor. I am pretty sure he just doesn't have time because he is a professor and a PhD student finishing in December.

Is there anything I can do about this? Any advice is appreciated. This is a learning process and all I can do is view it that way but it is nonetheless extremely frustrating and unethical in my opinion.
The platform as a whole matters a lot less than the exclusivity of its best apps.
what kind of sharding scheme do you use?
Turning that around: perhaps people pick non-round, non-default periods when they already have other hard external deadlines to work around, and such deadlines also drive other positive activity.
Application Store?
If the reason you're working there is to learn about the coffee business... then yes. If you want to know about the margins, and business side I assume you would inquire about those things from your Manager. If you're curious about sourcing etc (things corporate might take care of) I think our analogy is broken. Working at a startup will let you in on some of the inner workings of a startup, if you that's what you're looking for.
Reminds me of when Intuit was building out Quicken -- most of their versions were built using cross platform tools, but inside the code it became a big mess and most recently they decided to scrap the whole thing and re-write the mac client in native objective-c instead of c++

Sure you can build cross-platform stuff using Java or QT, but has anyone actually liked the stuff that came out from that?
I agree -- I've been a USAA customer for twenty years, and they by far have one of the best mobile banking products around. From what I've seen on BankSimple, USAA has already been there for years.
Is there a similar list of widely believed conspiracy theories? Or, even better, a list of conspiracy theories which have been proven true.
Interesting to see Tokyo with so few votes. On benchmarking it had the smallest memory footprint when loading ~17GB of packed binary data. Been awhile but I remember testing redis, postgres, mongo, and bdb. This let us keep all the low latency read-only data we needed available in memory and provision the smallest possible machine to do it.
+1 for PostgreSQL and PostGIS for Geospatial needs.
This reminds me very much of Navin R. Johnson. Not only just in phrasing, but also the attitude that he'll be "just fine" with his few apps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VbI5zcB8Ac
Thanks. Yes, me not mentioning that, apart from my GUI nitpicking, the GitHub app seem to be great, may have caused the confusion.
As far as I'm aware this would be no different when reimporting a dump from MySQL/Postgres. If you're not restoring from a snapshot then the indexes have to rebuild themselves.
The company in the article is now calling it the "App Shop"

EDIT: See cpg's response, it's actually cycling.
It would be great if the claim does not hold up, however, this may take a while.

In the mean time, to avoid a crushing blow, we have started complying, by cycling the name of the second tab with the top suggestions we are getting - over 830 so far ... http://www.amahi.org/name-the-store

We'll do search/replace of other strings in the site soon ...

Worst case is that Amazon and Apple settle out of court and screw everyone else.
They would create new shares. If they buy someone for $4bn, they create $4bn in new shares and if the public market values the acquisition at $4bn, the price will remain the same. Usually, companies that acquire pay a premium and will take a dip though.
Thank you!!! I know you're not mean't to put posts like this on HN, but I've been searching for a shortcut like that for a long time! :)
Good points here, although i must note that your appeal to authority ("many intelligent people") does not lend credence to any of these arguments. For many people, they are no more true than any random syntactically correct sentence. And in any case, i feel this thread is diverting to a ... religious argument.

p.s. "...but it's impossible to prove that no form of deity is possible" - could you point to a proof of that?
What filesystem did you end up using? Ever looked at GlusterFS (http://www.gluster.org/)? From an (admittedly unscientific) comparison of the various free/open-source distributed filesystems, it seems the best to me.

Ceph is still in beta, and the fact that Lustre only supports a single Metadata Server is really scary to me.
LulzSecBrazil knocked out brazilian giant oil company Petrobras!
tango down petrobras!!!

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Funnily enough I started doing some stuff to in CoffeeScript for the first time today. So far it's been a lot of fun. As a Python guy, any language that has meaningful indentation gets a plus in my book. I'm still getting the hang of it, but so far I am considering switching heavily.
Syntactically? No. Ideologically? Absolutely.

Guess which is more valuable :)
We use Database for objects (Db4o).
But "app" has been a genericized term since at the 1980s (See "Killer App"). And I'm not seeing how if "Foozit" is a generic term how you can copyright "Foozit Store" if the term is in fact describing a store which sells Foozits.
I'd totally use an open source clone of that.
Flickr is one of the few places where Yahoo gave them autonomy, and its paid off in their retaining profitability.

Yahoo unfortunately doesn't let Flickr innovate so they've fallen behind now adays.
N = 192 teams.
Two (remote) hackers looking for work
Two eastern-European hackers are stuck after a meltdown at their startup. We have bills to pay, and eating something might be okay as well.

I am a long-time abuser of Java, have a living breathing commercial Common Lisp system behind me, and I'm a general jack of all trades. If it's broken, I can probably fix it intuitively and pretty darn fast. I've spent a long time working for large companies, so I can think in terms of business requirements, talking to clients, etc...

The other half of the pair (David) is a functional programming fanatic. He's well versed in Haskell, has a deep understanding of Scala and Javascript (node.js included). His ideal job would like to tackle hard algorithmic problems. He's pretty jaded and would love for some difficult problem to hand him his ass.

We're local, long time friends and would like to keep on working together if at all possible. Think of us as the strike team beta. We're not in your office, but we get shit done.

If you or someone you know would benefit from our skills, please get in touch.

Thanks,
Ivan & David
Postgres and Redis for one thing and mysql for the other.
Wow this is incredible, thanks for the tip!
"no matter what we do planet is here to stay, it is not going anywhere. We cannot in any way affect the sustainability of it"

The earth is undergoing one of the largest mass extinctions in its entire history. And it's largely humans' fault.

The eath is undergoing massive climate change. And it's largely humans' fault.

Humans are polluting their environment on an unprecedented scale. We are causing enormous losses in biodiversity. And this does not even begin to address the devastation that a large-scale nuclear war would cause -- something that's still a very real possibility.

Sure, Earth's geology will survive, as its surface is like the rind on an apple and it doesn't matter much to the Earth's interior what happens on the surface.. and we can barely affect the geology of the surface.

But we can and certainly do affect life on Earth. Sure, humans might have a hard time killing off all life, but we're doing a pretty good job killing off a good fraction of it. And yes, humans are a part of nature, but a particularly destructive part.