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I don't think there's a SQL versus NoSQL battle, whatever that means.

SQL refers to relational databases, which are databases using the "relational model" of representing data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_model

This means that any SQL database is very flexible in regards to what you can store in it, not to mention that it is based on proved theory and battle-tested implementations of various features, like ACID.

But the relational model also breaks heavily when wanting to work with data structures that don't blend well -- like graph data. It also breaks down heavily when you want to spread your data across many servers. It is also not well suited to storing and querying billions of records -- sooner or later, your indexes are going to go beyond whatever storage / RAM capacity your servers have.

Btw, MySQL is a real RDBMS. Even if it lacks some features, it doesn't lack anything essential to calling it "relational" and talk about advantages or disadvantages of RDBMSs versus key-value stores or other NoSQL types.
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> A question like "Who was the U.S. President in 1993-2001" has a better chance of going uncracked.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Who+was+the+U.S.+Presid...
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All this makes me sick. Building a business out of sueing people with the explicit goal of settling out of court is clearly subverting the legal system for the courts are only used for extortion but not for making just decisions.

This is not a legal battle any more. This is blackmail.
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So many people are filesharing (or have been at some point). It is like making alcohol illegal...
I don't care, but most people do :)
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More like making drugs illegal, which has made many people very rich.
If you want something easy to work with and very customisable, try pyrocms. I use it in many of my projects over WP for the same reason you want something else: wp is a bit bloated for my needs.
I think the main purpose would be for Google to target ads very specifically like facebook does now.
So, is it even clear yet that filesharing is illegal in the US? What about when the upload ratio is < 1? What about when it's 0?

Also, has anyone been sued for sharing TV shows, or is it just movies?
If you like short throw keyboards you might want to give Cherry a try. I don't think they are very popular in the US (pretty big in Europe). I haven't found anything better than the Cherry eVolution STREAM XT and I try out every keyboard I can get my hands on.

And they are dirt cheap, too. I get a new one every year or so and fresh out of the box, it's like keyboard nirvana.
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>If you're atheist, is it "insulting" that Jewish kids have Bar/Bat Mitzvahs?

No.

If a someone told me I am not an adult because I had not had a bar mitzvah, I might be insulted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_passage
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I suggest a custom CMS. It seems everything in WP needs to be shoehorned into a blog context, belying WP's roots.
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That would be a sphere of water with radius <0.25AU: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.3+billion+cubic+kilom...

(Ocean volume figure is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean )
Hey Ed, thanks for your feedback. I'm aware of this and I'm still looking for a solution, let's hope Rick here can help me out ;)
However, saying "bullshit" with his disclaimer at the bottom, I'm also the original author of "High Performance MySQL" published by O'Reilly Media certainly lends more credibility to his statements than many other people (Bob Warfield for example).
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I feed that way too sometimes.

But then I remember that it doesn't matter what the world says or does, that our leaders are not only visionless and spineless but also ineffective playboys with a weak ego. That the multinationals have repeatably refused to change, even when we were screaming the necessity of that choice to them for a decade.

I remember that the bankers are a joke, that the middle class doesn't matter (make the product cool enough then they will buy it anyway); I remember that the dream that matters isn't theirs, but mine.

I remember that no matter how many sequels are made, how many WWII shooters are created, how many man years are given to graphics that is almost better than the real world, the creator of Minecraft is a millionaire.

I remember that the world needs the passionate, explorative, imaginative and the thinking more than it ever has, even if it does everything it possible can to deny it.

I remember that the critics, the negatives, the deniers and the naysayers don't matter as long as the men of action don't listen to them.
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Great product Rick, loving it; saved me a lot of work, I'd love to donate once I start making some money :)
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Hey Erik, Thanks for the suggestion, I was thinking of this since I really like the outcome myself. Might be one of my next projects ;)
Hmm, that isn't supposed to break... I'll fix that soon enough, must be the tweet button there. Thanks for checking it out though!
You would observe that history yourself, as you traveled toward it.
Are Neanderthals extinct? Not totally. Neither are dinosaurs 1.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird
But most people choose fun and money over taking a boring job that makes the world better. It's just human nature. Why should investors behave differently ?
Captchas have 2 purposes. First, prevent simple fly-by bots from spamming sites. Case in point, blog software is dominated by a few big players (e.g. wordpress) and many blogs allow anonymous comments, without something like a captcha it's a simple matter to create a spam bot that runs through a list of site's and spams ads or what-have-you in comments.

Second, captchas are designed to prevent automation entirely, including custom made automation targeted to a specific site. This sort of thing is less important for, say, blog comments since the value of a typical blog comment is extremely low. But there are lots of free accounts out there, for example, and if you use automation to set up new accounts you may be able to game certain systems to your advantage, corrupting the normal process of the market.
The problem is that the JS engines in browsers rely on not-so-sophisticated APIs to get to their millisecond values. This means that yes, you do get time in milliseconds, but the value is only updated every 40 to 100 ms
The best Radio Shack satirical slogan I've heard which sums up their decline:

"Radio Shack: You've got questions, we've got more!"
Also, the paid transcription they have is much much MUCH better than what is offered by Google Voice... (disclaimer: I actually use PhoneTag still, not YouMail, but both PhoneTag and YouMail have assured me that YouMail's new transcription feature uses PhoneTag's backend, due to their partnership to provide this service).
Sorry, missed the sarcasm there. ( Can't edit above post anymore )
Exactly. If a blown tyre is enough to kill everyone on board, it's not an especially safe design. Note that tyres had burst on at least 4 previous occasions, so that was not exactly unforeseeable.
I don’t agree with this willpower is a muscle hypothesis. Relying on willpower is a mistake. Willpower should be the force that begins a commitment to a new thing. After that you want to use other forces to keep you going. And you don’t need to be worried that this minimal usage of willpower will reduce your overall ability to have willpower because the thing that really builds willpower—much more than just blindly exerting it—is being successful.

What I’m essentially saying here is that addiction itself is not the enemy. You just have to pick the right addictions. Get addicted to the process of making long-term changes in your life, improving yourself, and doing what ever it is you truly want to do.

The problem with willpower is that exerting it is exhausting and one day you might not have enough energy to exert it and then, because you’re relying on it, you’ll slip and feel crap about yourself. You may wonder why you even bothered. The author does suggest at least one good alternative: change you environment to avoid temptations. Other good ideas are:

* Repeatedly remind yourself of why you are doing this difficult thing. Write down the reasons and make a point of reading them once a day

* Tell lots of other people about it so that it is embarrassing if you quit

* Make a step-by-step plan with each step being well-defined, easily achievable, and time-boxed. If this sounds like too much BDUF (Big Design Up Front)—I’ve started to hate planning because so often the plans need to change—then only plan up a couple of steps in advance

* Celebrate your successes: document each achievement you make toward your goal: even if it’s just ticking things off your step-by-step plan, have a physical action you perform that represents “Yes, I did it.”

* If behavior change is your thing, tie your behavior change to specific real-world triggers. For instance you can use walking through doors as a trigger to become aware of your posture. This can be difficult because often the triggers don’t exist: the last example does little to help a person who spends consecutive hours programming. But you can create your own triggers with timers, alarm clocks, software that makes use of accelerometers, or simply leave things out and open in your environment or tie bits of string to your finger etc.

* If you’re actively trying to avoid something, come up with something else to replace it. Particularly good is switching from one bad habit that uses up no limited resources to another that does. For instance if you want to stop biting your fingernails, which you can do pretty much anytime, you could take up chewing gum instead. The advantage to doing this is that once you habitually chew gum instead of biting your fingernails you can just stop buying gum.

(A lot of this advice comes from a book called 59 Seconds that has a section on motivation. All of it is based by scientific studies.)
"Most" is a bit presumptuous; email, social networks, and Hacker News are all good examples of things that are all reading-oriented. I'd say "most" of my casual computer interactions are eInk-friendly.

I've ordered a Nook Touch for rooting and development work, and to find out how well this theory works in practice. Maybe in a couple of weeks I will eat my words ;)
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turns out my original response was eaten by the daft HN 'unknown or expired link' thing.

but in short: It seems you misunderstand me. They both require understanding, but it is easier to effect changes on an OSS project than it is to make an author go back and rewrite or retest their article.
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Wikipedia as to "what the heck is naked short selling":

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Naked_short_s...
Aaron,

I do agree that the reporting was pretty bad. But the points you raised were much more grave than the report.

-First of all just because certain IM conversations keep coming out does not prove that certain documents that you or the Winklevosses demand exist.

-I've never met Larry but he is a Silicon Valley insider and close to numerous investors of Facebook. His comments are bound to be biased.

-I think the biggest opportunity you had to get the record straight was the book and ultimately the movie. I can understand not wanting to put your story through a filter but it was a good chance and you missed it. No number of open letters would give you as much visibility as the book and the movie would have.

-I know someone who's very close to Mark who said once that the movie was fairly accurate if a little exaggerated. I don't know who to believe.

Anyways, that's besides the point. Facebook grew to become such a huge company years after Harvard. What happened there probably has very little impact on what Facebook is today and it is a testament to Mark's leadership and entrepreneurship acumen rather than ideas, features or how it was initially envisioned.
There was a discussion in reddit about pthread api design http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bmnkl/pthreads_... .

Edit: sorry this was replied to smunz's comment.
Finally, a reason to go to Radio Shack
I'm not necessarily finding fault with Google, but I am disturbed
that so much invisible meta-data is being stored inside images.

It makes images trackable, and prevents anonymous speech and reporting
unless you are sufficiently tech-savvy to remove them. Even if you are
tech-savvy, how do you really know that you removed all hidden data?
There's more just Exif to worry about.

Hidden image data that I know about so far:

(1) Exif meta-data (Exchangeable image file format) which are things
like resolution and dates, but can include serial numbers as well.
Here's a handy list of cameras (usually high-end ones) that betray
your privacy by embedding a serial number:

http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/listmodels

(2) IPTC meta-data (International Press Telecommunications Council),
though I have yet to see a photo "in the wild" that uses it.

(3) XMP meta-data (Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform). This is added
by Photoshop for example. It's two long numbers (DocumentID and
InstanceID) which are different for each image.

(4) DRM and anti-counterfeiting stuff that might be added by image
editing tools. Many color copiers do this in the case of paper prints.
Okay, then explain this: There is no fossil evidence of neanderthals in east asia or australia. There is a lot of fossil evidence of neanderthals in europe. If humans mated with neanderthals, then why is there no stronger presence of neanderthal DNA is europeans (compared to asians) in either this study or the previous one?
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Actually, the operation of PLoS journals raises an interesting question. These journals charge the researchers for publishing papers so that these papers are freely accessible to anyone. But the charges are in the range of $2200 - $3000 per paper! Doesn't that mean the traditional journals are charging reasonable fees to the readers?
This post really resonates with me. I feel that the brain suffers without being used as a "memory store" of some kind. Maybe we use the same brain action to access memory as to access thought processes so that without the constant need to access memory we lose the other portion as well.

I am going to follow your advice, disconnect, and try to really understand some books.
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Somehow, to me, this just makes it worse. Maybe I'm still misunderstanding the situation here, but are you saying the timeline was this?

1) user sets up account, "Adafruit Industries"

2) user's account is flagged by someone, unknown to user

3) user is reading online, learns more about the Terms of Service, and finds out Google is serious that they /must/ use their real name

4) user /changes/ the name of their account to fit the Terms of Service

5) at some undetermined time later than #4, Google decides to act on the now obsolete flagged data, to punish the user for a minor transgression that they already unilaterally corrected

Does this really seem like a good way to be treating users? I've now read enough about Google+ issues that I'm on the verge of closing my Google+ account, and I already have a ton of followers and never had anything but my real name in the blank (despite the fact that EVERYONE online knows me as "saurik", and VERY FEW people know me as "Jay Freeman", so arguably "Jay Freeman" is a fake name and "saurik" is real)... I just can't risk my Google account getting closed for some frivolous reason: it is just that important to me.

Also, by the way, this entire notion of putting your real name on a service whose very premise is about privacy seems ludicrous... I know a ton of friends, both famous (hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter) and closeted (barely use a computer), who simply don't like telling random people online their real name, much less connecting it to a picture of themselves. Why isn't this circled or something?

"Humorously" enough, I just went now to find MuscleNerd's profile on Twitter and Google+ to show an example of someone who people /love/ on Google+, /only/ know as MuscleNerd, and obviously are quite famous, and you know what? It turns out his profile was deleted today... I don't even think he's noticed yet, and I don't think his insanely large following is going to be very happy about it.
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Clearly, we have to identify the non scaling or performance related qualities of NoSQL for the debate to make any sense. I don't think it is possible in general to define those qualities, because NoSQL systems don't have much in common. Using a negation to name the category is telling in itself.

You mention schemaless, but non of the BigTable derived systems are schemaless. Key-value stores are schemaless but RDBMS can do key-value storage just fine as can file systems.

I think this whole debate boils down to whether or not you need to normalize data. If you normalize, you need joins and that's the weak spot of most NoSQL systems. Doing joins in procedural code requires all data to be transferred into application process memory, which is only viable for modest amounts of data. (I'm not saying that only RDBMS can ever do proper joins, just that the popular NoSQL solutions in use today don't)

Normalization is also what mandates ACID because normalization means you're losing what I would call the "physical unit of consistency". Normalization, joins and ACID go together. It's all or nothing. (Of course pragmatically it's never all or nothing but it's useful to highlight the general point)

So, my conclusion is this: Use RDBMS or don't normalize (much). All the debates around RDBMS or NoSQL being simpler or more complicated turn out to be implicit debates about the need for normalization. When some people say this or that model is simpler, they either imply or don't imply a need for normalization.

In my view, whether or not you need to normalize depends primarily on whether or not the data is single purpose or multi purpose. If it's one app and its own private data island, then not normalizing often makes sense for simplicity and performance reasons.

If the data has it's own seperate life cycle, idependent of any individual app, then not normalizing is a terrible mistake that brings down everyone's productivity no matter how simple it may appear initially.

Having worked on data integration and anlytics projects for many years, I'm leaning towards the view that most data is multi purpose even if it's not initially expected to be. But that may well be survivors bias as apps that die young never cause integration issues. That doesn't mean they haven't fulfilled their original purpose.
Not really. I've never really jumped onto an open source project before. I've had pull requests of mine accepted into projects before but I've never been a serial contributor. That said, I feel like I'm coming into a phase where that may be something I want to do in the future. These projects that I listed here were just things I did by myself for fun when I Was younger. I had probably 10s or 100s more but most were variations of hacks and stuff that I've lost over the years, sadly.
Most people do not drive sports or luxury cars. Most people on twitter do not have thousands of followers. Maybe most people desire such things but most people seem to get by without them.
How does this differ from http://futureme.org ?

I used that service in the past to send myself a message from me pre-PhD-completion self to my post-PhD-completion self to ask how it was. Although it was basically procrastination at the time it was surprising and strangely cathartic to receive an email from a very different sounding me.
Actually, it is the Department of Treasury that prints and mints new money. This entity is part of the government, and also manages tax collection etc.

Though you are right that the U.S. government can't print & spend directly. The printed money has to be brought into circulation by the Federal Reserve, which lends it out at the Fed rate. Then again, the Federal Reserve's profits go back to the Treasury so the government can in practice borrow the printed money from the Fed without interest.
This is an empirical judgement: http://kuvaton.com/kuvei/evolution5.jpg
It is a legal battle as long as the legal system allows it, intentionally or unintentionally. The fact is, the blackmailers only have a case at all because the law criminalizes private file sharing. Instead of trying to work out how to protect illegal filesharers from being identified and blackmailed with out of scale "damage" threats, we should rather talk about fixing the overreaching copyright, which is imho the root of all those problems.
If they don't care, that's the best reason of all to publicly abandon them.
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With the recent stories about Google deleting accounts, and with one of my parents losing access to their Yahoo account for no apparent reason, I'm planning to leave free email services behind.

What IMAP providers have you used in the past that you can recommend? I'm looking for a paid account that I can use with my own domain. Good spam filtering would also be a plus.
I've been happy with Youmail's free and paid services. I paid when I needed voicemail transcriptions. Right now I'm using the free voicemail service.
I suspect that Neanderthals were smart enough and talented enough that we'd call them human and give them civil rights, today, if any were around. They mind be kinda odd, and incredible football players, but who knows.
In that case, humans and bananas are the same, right? No need for fine distinctions. After all, 50% of our DNA is the same.

The fact that sub-Saharan Africans are not of partial Neanderthal descent while every other race is does create the possibility that there are fundamental genetic differences between them and all other races. However, proving any such differences would be near impossible. What's racist is to claim that such differences exist when not a shred of scientific evidence for such a claim exists.
Facebook seems to be doing just fine with their graph data on SQL
"Disprove"

Methinks somebody doesn't know how science works.
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