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Ask HN : Suggestions for Writing Background jobs
I need to implement a few background jobs, that run continuously in the background and do a lot of http calls to some API's to gather some data and store it in mysql. I would like your suggestions and comments on what will be the best way, architecture, language to use so that the system is scalable.

I will need it to be threaded so that i can pull data simultaneously.

What language should I use.

1) Ruby
2) Scala
3) Java
5) PHP

I know Ruby PHP and Java well.

Thanks
I agree, as a someone that is a fan of movies.. I don't see the problem of choosing which movies to see or finding enough places to talk about them, as a problem at all
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I don't have any hard data, only my own experience, but I think some customers prefer PayPal. I added it as a payment option to one site and they now get approximately 30% of their payments through PayPal.
Please. Zed's fame (or rather notoriety) doesn't come from Mongrel (never heard of lamson) and afaik his main association with Rails is the famous rant. Can you name off the top of your head some of the core developers of FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, JBoss, Hadoop, Gnome and a dozen others more important FOSS projects? I can't, and yet this doesn't say anything about both the significance of said projects and my familiarity with them.
Couldn't sleep last night, stumbled across this, laughed my ass off until I was tired, slept like a baby. Great fun, and thank God for making so many people hilariously terrible drawers.

And wondered what would result if we could have a chain with say Vermeer/Michelangelo/Da Vinci/etc. In fact the history of art can be summarized as a doodle chain, if we want to be very silly!
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Are you talking about the commuting or the work? Why would he be working at all? We only have to work now because resources are finite. When they are no longer finite what will be the point of working? I just need a food/water machine. If, for some reason, rent still costs then I'll just find the best paying manual labor job and send my robots off to work there.
It would be polite to put to least a hint of your question in the title so people know what it's about.
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If you know java and scala, I would recommend you to give Play framework a try. It is extremely simple and fast to set up and develop with, plus it uses Quartz scheduler library for the jobs.

http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.2.3/jobs

Alternatively you could simply use Quartz alone.

http://www.quartz-scheduler.org
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So basically:

1. I do sign up (but the sign up process is extremely streamlined)

2. I retain some sort of anonymity (I don't give you any personally identifiable information --- unless there's some embedded in the links I store) (and presumably your web server generates logs)

3. If I forget my password I can't have it reset --- I've lost control of my bookmark collection. Can I sign up again and make a copy of it that I can control?
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I noticed that after i posted. I have following HN for over a year but this was my first post so thats why...
Hmm. On the one hand I really want to spell out the steps we plan to take to turn what it is into a huge, huge business. On the other hand, I don't want to give away our strategy to potential competitors and partners.

What I will say is that people like watching trailers--our downloads and usage numbers prove that, as well as trailers.apple.com and other trailer websites which are very successful. However, nobody else does trailers on mobile as well as we do, and if they do better in some area we will iterate past them soon. Over the period of a few months to a year, we're going to have a respectable number of users using this simple app.

Additionally, we've built out our user experience so that virtually everyone rates the trailers that they see, telling our system whether they can't wait to see a movie, or if they're going to pass on it.

Finally, we are also building up our own social graph.

So, without going into too much detail, we think there is immense value in overlaying the graph of what people want to do in the future (which movies they want to see), with the graph of who their friends are.
And for the rest of your needs, Play gots you covered too...

You can use play's WS class to make asynchronous HTTP calls from your server, and it integrates nicely with MySQL or your database of choice too. I think it uses Hibernate under the hoods, but leverages all its power while simplifying configuration and usage.

You can use Play with Scala, and if you do so, there is a nice database layer called Anorm.
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> Can you name off the top of your head some of the core developers of FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, JBoss, Hadoop, Gnome and a dozen others more important FOSS projects? I can't, and yet this doesn't say anything about both the significance of said projects and my familiarity with them.

It's more like there is an important project, and there is a loud mouth, and you use that project - you have most likely heard of the loudmouth. Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman etc. are known because the projects they work on are important and we use them, and they are vocal, and sometimes arrogant about their projects.

Though Zed isn't in the same league, the same goes for him. He was associated with an important project, and he created controversy while he was associated with that project. You can write articles on "Rails is a ghetto" or "Django is a ghetto" or "Java sucks", and you won't be getting any coverage unless you already are a somewhat known name in the community. Zed's notoriety doesn't directly stem from the essay.
Given that the old version is $700 more than the new version this 'offer' is only aimed at those people who really really need the high end professional functions stripped from the new version of FCP (and they'll probably be cursing Apple and muttering something about switching to Avid as they place the order).
"Final Cut Studio can be purchased for $999 (or $899 for educational buyers). That's the same price the suite was being sold for as of July 2009, but $700 more than its newer replacement, Final Cut Pro X."

Yes, the new one costs 299. Way to make a buck...
I'm not sure that this actualy means anything. Just a pragmatic move while they get the pro features into FCPX.

I guess if there is any hidden message it might be that they are wanting to keep the pro's onside - which might be good news for the direction of FCP and Logic.

(also to note that there is nothing actually wrong with FCPX - I'm using it everyday working on some marketing materials right now. I can see that Pros are missing some features which is fair enough but it's an extremely usable application and I'm finding it very friction free to work in)
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His connections will come in handy, his judgement remains to be seen. It'll be interesting to see how much journalistic independence TC maintains, and how favourably his startups are covered compared to his competitors. I never got the impression that Arrington was the kind of guy to play fast and loose with ethics, but I could very well see him refraining from pulling an Arrington on his own startups, in the way he has on others.

Interesting times.
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Is that that St John's Wort patients have been extensively studied and it has been found not to have any dangerous effects?

Or is that that an insubstantial number of studies on St John's Wort have been carried out?

When I tried to find out about this (years ago, pre-Wikipedia I think) I couldn't find any substantive research.

For all their faults, pharmaceutical products are well-studied, especially the ones that have been on the market for some time.
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Love the app, but please make an iPad version. (doesn't need to be pretty, just play the trailers in fullscreen)
I can understand expecting a good dev to be interested in programming outside of work but expecting someone to give some company hours for free? Sounds like the guy is clueless. It's hard to imagine anything else he says will be useful given that sentence.
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I see Play is web dev framework. As far as my system is concerned I dont need to have a full web app. The system just needs to sit in the background read the database and then request 2-3 API's for data and put that back in the db. I expect a lot of writes to the database. I am reading about Play's support for jobs. Do you still think Play is the way to go ?
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A reference page for Matrix Factorization
Since a great many algorithms behind collaborative filtering, clustering and so forth used by the likes of Google, Facebook, LinkedIn rely on advanced matrix factorization and this field is seeing some important growth. I just compiled a list of different recent algorithm that have sprung up as a result of faster convex optimization softwareand other field such as compressed sensing. It is here:

https://sites.google.com/site/igorcarron2/matrixfactorizations
Most of the benefits university provides are not gained in class, those being accreditation, networking, and being in a group of really smart people. Moreover a lot of people are spending somebody else's money through scholarships and etc.
Maybe for Joe Bloggs who uses their "computer toaster" for the usual purposes: Facebook, email, twitter, music, movies, pr0n and being a good little consumer.

However, those of us who really NEED to do work on a machine, it'll never cut it and neither will the cloud.

If it goes closed everywhere, I'm out.
This is really just an extension or a new way to exploit the fact that a lot of nerds are doormats, and are completely unable to negotiate market salary. Happily, there are some who see the shenanigans for what it is.
Can't you give the option of either a) a very low-speed, but truly unlimited connection, or b) a high-speed connection with per-GB costs after reaching a certain amount of data transfer?
The article has exactly as much information as its title.
Of course, Avid Media Composer costs at least $3000 so they will probably just stay with FCP.
10,000 copies in one month strikes me as extremely low for a free app.
I just number them. e.g. "4 thousand billion". Little Billy Sands we call him.

But seriously, I have given them descriptive names - inspired by the supplier of meat to MacDonalds in Australia called "The 100% Australian Beef Company". I figured it was good for googling, and informative. Also reminded me of Humpty Dumpty (my name means the shape I am). And it worked.

Though I note most people go for clever and/or zany names, with creative spellings (so they be trademarked). An amusing "story" to explain a clever name can operate as a vector for word of mouth: by passing on the story for entertainment value, you also pass on the name. It's kind of like product placement, where the story is the movie. An example is GNU. It can also operate as an in-joke, creating an artificial elite.
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In my experience, why "developers" never use state machines:

a) Most I speak to had a Z-rate CS education which scraped a bit of OO design in Java and don't know they really exist.

b) Most languages they cut their first code in are about puking data around from SQL to the web which rarely if ever requires an FSM.

c) Someone thumped them over the head with "Windows Workflow for dummies" which is then assumed to be the answer to all stateful problems.

d) It looks hard so they don't bother.

e) "developers" should not be confused with "computer scientists". It's "builders" versus "engineers".
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> there aren’t any other tablets that are worth a damn

There's almost a smell of desperation in how determined the Apple centered blogosphere is to ignore or write off Android / Honeycomb right now.

I went to a workshop the other day, the score was three Transformers to one iPad; ASUS just upped their estimates recently to 800,000 per quarter. A colleague at work told me her husband was getting one. He just wanted something different from the iPad.

I'm not claiming they are anything like competition for the iPad yet in a market sense. They are a niche obsession, mainly among geeks. But the Galaxy Tab - thinner, lighter, better screen than the iPad? So good Apple is suing in panic to stop it before it even hits the shelves? "Not worth a damn"? Come on MG ...
I see your point. Play is a framework based in the pattern MVC. If you just don't provide any View layer, you can use the Controller to access the Model, and use the rest of the goodies Play gives you for free, like Jobs, the WS class for easy HTTP calls, a RESTFUL interface, etc.

As I said, you can always use just Quartz for the jobs (that's what Play uses anyway), and create your own Data Access Layer or use an ORM, or what you like.
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Re: your last paragraph

Degrees are less about learning than making sure you will do a certain amount of work for at least two years and more usually four, even if the work is dumb. So it signals intelligence and conscientiousness.

Having a degree tells people you're at least capable of being a member of the middle class. You're intelligent and biddable enough. Elite university graduates also got some implicit training in the social norms of the upper classes, and by virtue of the intense competition to get in you can be sure anyone who graduated from them is smart. More accurately, anyone they accepted, the dropout rate for top tier US universities is very low (except for Caltech).

And yes, people with degrees do think people without are dumber, and employers likewise, because its true. And alternative certifications for different modes of training/types of knowledge fall prey to the same problems. Having separate, respected educational systems, rather than one for the real people and one for the losers requires relatively low social mobility, or at least hard social mobility.

Seneca College sounds real cool.
Please stop calling using an iPhone (or similar devices and closed systems) "computing". It's playing around, nothing more. Someone else here on HN summed it up beautifully in a similar debate: if something isn't capable of general purpose computing, it's not a computer. The future of computing therefore does not lie in closed systems or toys like the iPad. Basta.

(I'm not an old man waving my cane, by the way. I loved the concept of tablets way before the iPad - I blame Stargate Atlantis :) )
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Yup.

There's no limit to the number of collections you can make. If the service is useful for people, I can create optional user accounts for easier management, but for now, just don't forget your password. Or make the password easy, because what's the incentive for people to even try to get control of someone else's list?
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And here you have the WS class:

http://www.playframework.org/documentation/api/1.2.3/play%2F...
Not really the point of the article, but it always unnerves me, when people talk about Turing breaking Enigma, and not mention whole effort ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma ).

Enigma was broken by Polish mathemathicians in 1938, then improved by Germans, then broken again, Poles had given all their discoveries to France and to Great Brittain, they also invented first "Bomba" to that worked mechanically.

It's complicated story, and these people deserve credit along with Turing. But till 1970 it was classified information, and to this day everybody talks only about Turing.

Maybe it's my nationalism bias at work, but I'd prefer if the whole story was better known.
And ditto for IPV6: https://github.com/ihrd/uri/blob/master/lib/IETF/RFC_Grammar...
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A little bit of googling suggests those comments came from a salesforce.com presentation he gave. Perhaps that part of the article was edited out and the title changed, but the url didn't.
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Ha! I'm guessing you're being sarcastic?

I just finished listening to John Siracusa on Hypercritical who was making the point that it won't be long until people start saying "there's no way this would have happened on Steve Jobs's watch".

It's easy to see the sarcasm when Steve's only been gone from Apple for a week, but give it a year and people will start forgetting that Apple lead by Steve would go back on decisions when they released they'd made the wrong call.

Another example of this that John gave is when they prematurely removed Firewire from the 13" Macbook. While Steve was CEO they realized that the market wasn't ready for that so they put it back in. And everyone was happy.

In 6 months, if Apple concedes they were wrong on something, will the market think Tim Cook is weak and Apple is doomed?
I thought the Khan Academy was about 'leave no learner behind'. That is, if you miss a concept in traditional school, you flail around the rest of the term. But in Khan Academy, you can review lessons, stop and start them, ask limitless questions in the middle because they're all taped.

SO, I would expect to see extensive data on the distribution of the scores - how long is the lower tail of the curve? Did they pick up those that would have lagged behind?

As is, they give a single percentage - improvement on an algebra test. So no meaningful data at all. Hm.
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Ah, so the tweets provided here are just a sample, just as the basic stream provides? At first I thought it would be all Tweets from 2011, which would be cool...
Really? I guess I am in minotrity, but after watching a few lessons on KA I I left with impression that quality of teaching is quite poor.
Educational videos may be one part of education, but they cannot replace all. Teachers are there to stay for a long long time and it has nothing todo with technology.
still pretty low, that's 700/day. I've never released a free app that didn't get < 1,000 d/l a day, and my apps are niche apps with no advertising or marketing at all.

I would remove the 10,000 copies reference because anyone who has any experience on the app store would see that those numbers are very low. It's like bragging about a 3.0 GPA.
Are most universities in the US for-profit, or is it referring to for-profit online-learning companies?
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I think the subtext is that. before, the Google line on the acquisition is that it was solely for the patents. Possibly to not piss off their other partners who are making the hardware that competes with Motorola. To my knowledge this is the first Google exec to admit publicly that having control over both the hardware and software platforms could make better products.
Yes, it is confusing to put meat in a category of foods missing from first-world diets. Should we add caviar and pound cake to that list too?

More significant: will it be a diet improvement to replace fatty hamburger with this 'meat'? Perhaps - since Americans eat pounds of meat per day, a whole week's worth of protein in a Wendy's Double with Cheese.
that strategy does not apply to mobile apps. You need a polished product before you release.
No.

Please spend some time learning what a CDO is, and the reason why will be fairly clear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation#...

The junior and senior tranches can only be equally risky if the probability distribution is perfectly binary (i.e., the only possibilities are either all borrowers pay 100% back, or all borrowers pay 0% back). This is simply a mathematical identity.
The average developer has changed since a lot of developers coded in C++. Most developers now are what would have been called scripters then. That's not to say there is anything less effective about being a scripter just that their tolerance for languages with a lot of learning overhead is low.
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The last I knew of it, there was a post on HN. I later asked hueypriest if their new hires would be trying to fix up redditOSS, and he said it was one of their priorities. This was a couple months ago (if not more), so it's entirely possible that they've done significant work on it. If that's the case, I suspect we'll see a blog post before too long.
"It would take about six weeks, and the deliverables included an iPhone app, an iPad app, a web application (both backend and frontend), and two Mac applications. It was very interesting, and I managed to get everything done"
Simply: wow. You're a shipping MACHINE. Good on you!
I'd recommend reading Steven Levy's "Hackers" for a better explanation of these guys and the rest of the hacker world: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729
Wow, just this moment I realized exactly what a hard time Tim Cook is in for!

People are going to forget that Apple ever made any mistakes under Steve although they were obviously testing boundaries aggressively and often retracting decisions. Poor guy!
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Well, it was a working prototype. The end result definitely wasn't ready for shipping yet.
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I have to ask, why is this important?
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