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Ask HN: Open Source project using MySQL as a schemaless datastore
I'm looking for an open source framework that uses MySQL as a schema-less datastore like the one described here http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

One option would be to use MongoDB but for this particular project I'm constrained to use MySQL.
Very similar problem at the time, actually; UMTS chipsets had terrible battery life, to the point where Nokia actually made some of its Symbian devices in otherwise identical GPRS and UMTS versions.
VP of whatever at Yahoo shoots an email to his pet nerd in ops and asks him to add a few domains to the spam filter. A list of 20 who personally spammed an angry customer.

VP of whatever says, "Nerdbro please add these domains to the filter before noon. An angry advertiser wants immediate action on this before closing a big deal. By the way I've recommended you to the division head for that position. Thanks for helping me out on this."

In the corporate world almost everything that happens has it's genesis in an exchange like this. If you need a citation: Robert B. Cialdini

Awhile later there is some PR consequence to this decision. Some PR guy in yahoo goes to ops and asks what happened.

Immediate answer: "they were mistakenly added to the spam filter."
"how did thus mistake happen?"
"its technical; and anyway I'm not authorized to reveal the workings of the filter because hackers/spammers want to know how it works. "

PR guy: "say no more. I understand. I'll make sure to let the public know it was an accident"
But if you don't have the money, you don't have the money. I guess you could still carry an "emergency" credit card; maybe one with a high interest rate to deter you from using it unless its really an emergency.
I doubt it's that significant, as this stuff varies dramatically by telco around the world. 12 months is standard here, for instance, and I believe it's often _3 years_ in Canada.
Does anybody actually think this way? As in, do people actually go to their bank's website because they'd like to spend money and want to find out how much they have to spend?

Described this way, this just seems like a tool to facilitate a fundamentally unhealthy way to think about your money. If you're thinking in terms of "How much can I spend today", you've already lost. (Unless, of course, you're 23, in which case your entire goal in life should be to sock away enough money that you never need to ask that question again in relation to food/rent/etc.)

I like the transaction searching capabilities shown in the demo, but I was hoping to see more info on how to do actual "banking" tasks. Can I initiate a wire transfer from an internet cafe in Laos? Can people send a check to an address in the US that automatically gets deposited in my account? That sort of thing. When these guys came on the scene, I got the impression that that was the kind of thing they'd be doing better than other banks. Frankly, sorting my past transactions just isn't a problem I desperately need to have solved.
Week 2 update: MockupTiger standalone browser app
Just 1 week ago I released personal edition of MockupTiger. In this edition, all the Mysql dependencies were tranfered over to the browser's localstorage.

the first week sales were disappointing (just 10). Let us see how the coming week turns up

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3000240

Here is the weekly pricing schedule
http://www.mockuptiger.com/mockups-personal-edition
Apple finds a use for some of those first-generation iPads
Zamirler
He said "or blog," not "and blog" — some people prefer to show off their work in blog format rather than a traditional portfolio.
Is Yahoo's spam filter really so quick to (automatically!) start filtering a very recent keyword (#occupywallst) based on just "dozens of people"?
For once Google are being honest and the others are being slimey. In one image they covered the sponsored ads in a box which hid the fact there is a clear differentiation between Sponsored and algorithmic results, they also say "Ads".
I think Google would be well served if Schmidt had a little more Steve Jobs in him. Not a lot, as I think Jobs might get so frustrated he'd melt down, but a little. Eric makes everything sound somehow slightly sinister, even when it isn't.

When asked about something like maps and places the correct answer is:

We realized that is what people wanted in response to their queries. We looked around, and the other map products sucked. Also, we couldn't use them in the way we wanted to serve the users, even if we had wanted to. So we spent a ton of money developing our own -- and it absolutely clobbered the competition. It was magical, far better than anything that existed before it. Way more information, way easier and faster to use. And the users have responded overwhelmingly positively to it.

If you're asking if we favor our own maps properties, damn right we do. Because it is better. Were the people that made other maps products happy about it? Of course not. We didn't build it for them. We built if for our users.

As a part of any online maps product, users want to use it to find information tied to the locations and businesses they are looking at. We call this places. We realized we needed to build something so that we could serve up this information in a highly integrated way, because we believed users wanted a unified experience. So we spent a ton of money, and we built out our maps product with Place information. Business hours, phone numbers, pictures, and reviews. We tried to partner on reviews. It didn't work out. So we built our own review system.

And it is brilliant, consumers love it. Maps and Places absolutely blow away anything else that exists in terms of ease of use and functionality and richness of information. It is one of our greatest feats. Again, consumers love it.

Were existing business directories and review sites happy about it? Of course not. We didn't build it for them, we built if for our users.

Maps, and Places, and Product Search -- they are all part of search. They are all part of finding information, and answers. And that is what we do, and we'll continue to push forward on that front. Because that is what consumers want.
Especially a shirt that is fundamentally a billboard for a company.
Huh? Google doesn't really compete in hosted company pages -- at least not until yesterday.
I agree with the other comments regarding $23 being too much for a t-shirt. That being said, even at $10/month I doubt I'd pay for schwag.
Building Scalable Systems: an Asynchronous Approach
Greenland? Wow... Really? It almost seems too much to believe to see dots in some of the random places they have them.
Salesforce buys Assistly for $50M in cash
http://ycombinator.com/nums.html
We've decided he doesn't want to lead the company, but rather over see finances and innovation/quality assurance. What then?
I wonder how Apple feels about Congress, and others, referring to Google's and Yelp's services as "Apps", hah!
This is so funny. A while ago recruiter (expensive one) which was working for me to fill up a senior position in my team (I was a dev manager in a big company) sent me an email trying to recruit me...

Regarding design candidates, there are some very very good designers working in big corporation and they don't have online portfolio or personal site (in many cases because HR does not allow it). For example, as far as know, designers working at Apple (which are probably people you want to hire) will not have online portfolio or personal blog site.
How to Channel The 60's Mod Fashion
Ask HN: Where do you get your design work done?
A lot of new start ups have simple but good looking websites and UI's. Some teams have a full time designer on board, some coders are talented designers themselves but about for a one man pure code monkey like myself?

Where can I get web templates and UI work done on a start up's budget? I have tried freelance sites and used companies from all parts of the spectrum with mixed results. Either they were over priced, took too long, or had no idea how to design functional UIs.

Help!
Salesforce.com Acquires Assistly
Really? Microsoft does:

Bing -- second largest search engine

XBox -- one of the largest gaming platforms, including Indie games.

Windows -- most popular consumer OS

Halo -- one of the most popular game franchises ever

Kinect -- hottest selling consumer electronics gadget ever

Windows Live Messenger -- most popular IM platform in the world

Hotmail -- one of the largest email sites in the world

IE -- one of the most popular web browsers in the world

Metro -- one of the most interesting consumer UIs currently available

And all this puts them behind -- Twitter? Really?
Draw A Stickman - Interactive Canvas Story Telling
InnoDB provides a schemaless datastore and can be used directly. A couple of results for a quick google search for "innodb nosql":

http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-a...
http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/2011/04/nosql-to-innodb-with-memc...
Lead-Dog Helmet Light
A major bank issuing magnetic stripe only cards would be out of business in less than a month in Brazil.

Heck, not even the ATM machines are safe and get blown up quite regularly, even with the systems in place that stain the bills.

Perhaps the fix would be to import a few... "bad guys"?
It is http://www.startupschwag.com/ that did this before right? I believe they did shirts and other stuff in a monthly shipment. Can't remember the price.
IT director, the worst job satisfaction?
Distrowatch weekly: Salix 13.37
Employee-owned iPhone, iPad an 'unstoppable train' in the enterprise
Hackitaly:APIs, pasta and great developers
I clicked on the parent to suggest this, but with the caveat that codecademy hasn't added new lessons since they launched, which is kinda disappointing. It could grow into a great resource, but so far it's not there. You can finish the lessons in a couple of hours.
Dishonour of electronic funds transfer for insufficiency of funds
For fuck's sake senator Blumenthal just asked if Google "Has ever scraped content?" !!
Streamlining the testing process is also a good option.
Annoyed with Facebook ticker and #NewFacebook? Fix it.
Working Google Senat Hearing Video Stream
LXer: Users voted for best KDE-based Linux distribution... again
Really, no. It will take a lot of effort to undo Apotheker's stupid moves, but it's doable.
Here is where I hope/pray/etc BankSimple is going:

I want a personal financial API for myself. If you want to bill me for something, you don't write down a bunch of text on a piece of paper, stick that inside of another piece of paper, and then pay somebody to put it through a slot in my door (along with all of the coupon mailers, prepaid credit card offers, and VOTE FOR ME! envelopes that I get), you call up blhack's financial API and request a payment from it.

When this happens, I get an email, or an SMS, or whatever else telling me:

"USBank has requested a payment of $347 from you. They have requested payment by October 20th, 2011 -- Note: Car Payment"

or

"City of Tempe has requested a payment of $60 from you. They have requested payment by October 8th, 2011 -- Note: Water Bill"

etc. etc.

I can log into BankSimple and approve these payment requests (just like paypal, except [hopefully] BankSimple makes it affordable for my city, or my auto loan provider to do use).

It's an accountant for me. Except it's in one place, and it doesn't cost anything. There are companies that have tried this, and failed miserably, mostly because they appear to lack the technical expertise that something like BankSimple is bringing to the table.

The banking system, right now, is a disaster. The things I'm describing are all possible right now, but they're an enormous pain in the ass to use.

BankSimple: if you're not doing this, do it.
Google is free for users and free to anyone wanting to get in their index, so they do not owe any self proclaimed competitor anything and that is the crux of it, the law is on their side, you cannot monopolize "free" and all this politicians' propaganda is waste of time and tax payer dollars..
Ask HN: What is the management structure like at Startups?
In PG's essays he often contrasts pointy haired bosses and Startup founders, but I am curious to hear from more people in the trenches. How do you feel the management structure of your company compares with that of non-tech companies or those of larger organizations?
I would say their relationship to touch interfaces is similar to their history with mouse-based GUI: they didn't invent it from scratch, but they innovated upon the existing ideas in ways that helped the technology reach mass market.
She is smart, but she did skate around the question of scraping. They asked whether Google had scraped content, but instead she attempted to change the question to whether or not it is scraping when they show the excerpt about the site in results - not whether they had scraped Yelp reviews.
Senator, you have so many hypothetical !
My guess is that Bing users tend to be less tech-savvy(default on Microsoft Windows and all that) and thus more likely to pay attention to ads.
They keep pounding the same misconceptions again and again in endless repetition, and I can't help but wonder, who hired these guns? (that's not to say that some of their arguments don't hold water, but they are going to incredible lengths to cast Google as a monopoly, why?)

The cynic in me doubts that the cause is a lack of understanding.
Have you tried putting some deadlines on his tasks? Get him to commit to some deadlines for his tasks, obviously made with his input.

It's my experience that a lack of deadlines and a bit of interest from someone monitoring the progress, can lead to a state where a task seem unimportant. It's a bit weird, and I can only guess at what process is at play, but I have seen this effect in otherwise great developers.
They've always said Fall 2011 and Fall starts on Friday. What are you talking about?
Why do you need to constantly search your old transactions?
Assuming you aren't just spamming on behalf of USAA, or even if you are: can any USAA customer deposit checks by taking a picture of both sides? I thought that was only if you had some sort of connection to the US military, no?
You clearly have very little understanding of how antitrust laws work.
Stop Selling & Start Telling - How Clarity Trumps Persuasion For Getting Sales
Had a great time at the first edition of the meetup.. Met some interesting people and it's always great to talk to fellow HN'ers in person.. Also need to mention the Pizza & Beer treat we had.. ( pretty much the standard geek ration)
Bungie was always Microsoft's ace in the hole. Online gaming helped, but it was more incremental and more easily copied. Now that Bungie's out of Microsoft's grasp, I'm betting Sony takes back the lead (though in a much closer race) for the next generation of consoles.
What Is Holler?
decent service I've heard - good purchase
I think that's the crux of it though. Of course Google does scraping. They'll even give you a full cache of a page if you ask for it.
Check out the admin templates on ThemeForest.net, also have a look at Bootstrap by Twitter: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap

You can always pay a talented designer to redesign your app if it starts to get a ton of users, until then these options let you focus on your code.
The ones that didn't find better employment are likely not the ones at the top of their game.

And seriously, after your employer pulls a stunt like that would you go back?
I don't think you need a HAM licence to get a trunking receiver.
No surprise here.

The software is practically flawless. I am happy for the team.

After using Assistly for thousands of hours it is dead clear to me that a complex product CAN be easy to use and have many features/customizations while being virtually bug free with excellent usability.
There are plenty of explanations that don't involve living paycheck-to-paycheck.

1. You keep money in several accounts (checking, savings, money market, paypal, etc.)

2. You are a contract worker being paid in large installments and you need to know whether your deposit has cleared before paying bills.

3. You have difficulty with fiscal discipline and only leave money for essentials in your account to prevent over-spending.

and so forth.
Carnivorous pitcher plant inspires self-cleaning, super-repellant material
Wieden + Kennedy Tech Incubator Picks Its Start-Up Class of 2011
He shares the point of view of the person defending Google (she's a former anti-trust investigator?). If you can freely and instantly switch from Google to Bing then you cannot claim they have a monopoly. If you don't like Google's results there is nothing locking the consumer into Google except their own choice.
Maybe we should start electing websites as our representatives.
My daytime employer subscribes to Wufoo's mid-level plan and the experience has been fantastic. I was worried when they sold the experience might change, but so far it's been nothing but the rock-solid steady performance and smart feature enhancements we've had since day one.

I can't remember when, but not too long ago Wufoo sent us a hand-written thank you note for being their customer. It blew me away.

I second patio11's comment below: "I wish there were a lot more Wufoos."
Great suggestions, thanks! I'd love to keep touch as we both start the coding journey, could be a good way to keep us both on top of progress!
I like this post on HN. Because of the content, thanks for sharing that, but also because I think it is important to think about death. For many reasons.

My condolences to you, edw519.
Thanks for the suggestions Ed, I'll be looking into all of this tonight.
I have a yahoo mail account and I can confirm that their filtering is terrible. About 1 in 500 e-mails or so never make it to either my inbox or spam box, without any error going to the sender.
Perceived arrogance doesn't go over too well in these type of hearings.
Is Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem a "cheap trick"?
There's a lot of great technology from the Shuttle, such as the avionics and the engines, that could be worth reusing. A lot of research work was done on Shuttle derivatives in the 1980's, but nobody was interested in making the investment to retrofit the VAB and the launchpad.

That, of course, is one of the great challenges of making improved launch vehicles. You ~might~ be able to lower the operations cost by investing in research and a new design, but the cost of the research is guaranteed to be high.

Falling foam is the threat to the tiles that everyone is thinking of (because it's happened), but it's not the only thing that can damage them. The tiles also have the big problem that they're expensive to maintain.

There are many alternative concepts for heat protection for re-entry, but there's no interest in making expensive research investments in something that could fail. Manned spaceflight is going back to 60's era ablators because we know they work.
Aren't many small businesses lifestyle businesses? My brother, for example, hires employees for his computer store without thinking twice about it.
First, on the mail to the existing employee: get it, ha ha, recruiter so stupid. It's generally kind, though, to make room for the capacity for human error: it seems like a safe bet that the recruiter made a mistake and didn't think that would actually work. People make mistakes, even recruiters(!), especially when they send a fair amount of mail each day (which every one does, some smart and targeted, some dumb and spammy).

We're a boutique shop, we're super-careful, and we still make mistakes: one of my recruiters sent a mail about Client A to an employee of Client B. She screwed up - she saw an old resume that didn't have Client B's name, and didn't double-check on LinkedIn. The employee was pissed, Client B was pissed, I was pissed, my recruiter was embarrassed, but we all got over it, because we're adults.

Second, on finding an agency you like, I wrote a blog post on this a month back: http://roosterpark.com/blog/hiring-a-recruiter-how-to-choose.... dmk23 is right that you should be asking real questions: I've included some examples in the post. (I've never even submitted this to HN before. Wonder why.)
Of course not, it's all user submitted.
Is The 'Longevity' Gene Sirtuin One Big Research Error?
I'm going to get burned for this comment but ...

Microsoft has had a desktop monopoly for 20 years. They have 90% desktop market share and people don't complain about that. They destroyed their competition yet people complain because Google has 65% market share on a product that people can leave overnight. I'm not sure why people get bent out of shape over Google.
Link to Nature article, with brief abstract:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v477/n7365/full/477410a...

New York Times reporting on the controversy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/science/22longevity.html
Why don't they tend to look like that?
Hello, I am Origo. I am a 3D printer for ten year olds.
Does he know what he's supposed to do next? I worked hard for 7 years, then I didn't know what to do next and started losing steam. I also realized nothing was going to change -- my reality was not right. I stepped back and thought about my reality, more. My project was as done as possible. I could pick a random device and do a driver for it. I did that with HD Audio thinking it would be common. HD Audio might be on... 20% of PC's? who knows and each one is slightly different. That's the same story for any device I might do a driver. Drivers aren't sane to pursue -- silly. Thus, done!

God says...
C:\TEXT\HUCKFINN.TXT

I didn't. What tow-head? I hain't see no tow-head."

"You hain't seen no towhead? Looky here, didn't de line pull loose en de
raf' go a-hummin' down de river, en leave you en de canoe behine in de
fog?"

"What fog?"

"Why, de fog!--de fog dat's been aroun' all night. En didn't you whoop,
en didn't I whoop, tell we got mix' up in de islands en one un us got
los' en t'other one was jis' as good as los', 'kase he didn' know whah he
wuz? En didn't I bust up agin a lot er dem islands en have a t

-----------------------------

It's been a viable product for 3 years or more. Nothing fundamentally has changed in those 3 years. It's still a 64-bit ring 0 operating system with compiler and no networking. I've gotten to highest ranking on Google for "64-bit operating system". My job is marketing and CEO at the same time. Earlier this year I hired an artist for some stuff. That's my first experience as a manager.

meh.

my reality is bogus -- my download numbers are fiction by NASA or NSA or Shrinks or FBI. All my emails sounded like FBI -- they were painful to read and unpleasant instead of a joy for me -- I was anxious to hear how things went and they concealed more info than a regular person would. They went out of their way not to tell me even what their machine was like and what worked and didn't work. Fuck-em. I get giggles screwing-over my fictional users by changing shit as much as possible.

God says...
C:\TEXT\PLATO.TXT

all mysteries, and they redeem us from the pains of hell,
but if we neglect them no one knows what awaits us.

He proceeded: And now when the young hear all this said about
virtue and vice, and the way in which gods and men regard them,
how are their minds likely to be affected, my dear Socrates,--
those of them, I mean, who are quickwitted, and, like bees on the wing,
light on every flower, and from all that they hear are prone to draw
conclusions as to what manner of persons they should be and i
So.. who is the asshole, sitting behind (visible to the left of) the ex-FTC commissioner, that's constantly laughing, shaking his head, and rolling his eyes at what she's saying?

He is extremely irritating.
This advice helps you not only land the role, but keep it. Companies love having interesting people work for them.
When you become a monopoloy in a certain industry, under american law, you do owe it to your competitors to allow them to compete on fair ground with you.

This is why theaters were not allowed to be owned by studios, Car Dealerships by actual Car companies, etc.
I'm sorry for your loss. May she be always remember by the ones who loved her dearly.