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Please take a look at my reply to barrkel.
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This sounds too flattering toward Riak; it almost sounds like an ad rather than an external congratulation. But what are the downsides & disadvantages of Riak when compared with other contenders? Why do you like it so much more?
This seems fairly neat. Is it possible to do something like this with MySQL?
"Around 10 years ago"

or in other words after 9/11 melted servers everywhere.
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So this is the only solution to weaken the currency? Why not spend the money on Germany instead of Greek? (things like Aerospace, Crazy Arts, Free public goodies...) Won't this make the same effect for the currency?

I don't know economics, I'm really asking.
I found it curious that there is so much hardware that is at around 20% utilization. Wouldn't it be better to have less hardware with higher utilization and buy cheaper/better hardware later if warranted?
(author here) I think this should also be possible with MySQL's stored functions, but one huge benefit to PostgreSQL is the schema/tablespace feature, since it means all our logical shards all live inside one database (you could do something similar with MySQL, but it would mean multiple databases or prefixing table names with the shard ID).
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This bit isn't the most impressive. Self-compiling languages are worthless until they implement something else. And it happen that IS (OMeta + Javascript + Nile), does implement more than itself. On top of it, they implemented:

- TCP-IP in 200 lines. Current C implementation use 10Kloc (50 times more).

- Most of Cairo's functionality in 500 lines. And it's fast enough. Cairo on the other hand weighs about 40Kloc. (Again, about 50 times more code.)

And that's for functionality they couldn't scrap altogether, or merge those with similar capabilities. For instance, you don't want to send emails, or publish a web page, or print a PDF, or, goodness forbid, a Word document. You just want to handle a fucking document. Send it, publish it, whatever, this is all glorified text (you do need the glorification, though).

The bottom line is, Alan Kay and his team rule.
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"Everything Else" also includes their cloud infrastructure which may be the product line with the most room for profit growth.
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You're making numbers up and don't actually know what the aggregate taxes for an average consumer in France, Germany and the US are.
99.999% is the standard for landline telephones, which I think is a pretty decent analogy here. Unless the customer has some crummy VoIP solution and doesn't trust their phones anymore :P.
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that's right, Steve's no Edison. Steve's better than Edison.
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My point is that default, or any other sort of fuck-the-system type of approach (e.g. let the largest banks become insolvent) is not a serious option. First, the time for such a thing has passed; second, even if it were now the time for it, give me expensive stimulus and bailout every day of the week. Sovereign debt and deficit spending are not what's killing us -- 70% of GDP is half what Argentina's debt was and it's well within acceptable limits. I believe that calls for austerity are foolishly, and derived from free market dogma.

crag suggested that the mere fact that Argentina recovered from such a staggering blow to its economy was indicative of something -- the implication, it seems, is that the fact of recovery is enough to warrant severe measures such as default.

That's stupid, for the reasons I laid out above.

You, however, seem to be supporting the original reasoning by employing an appeal to authority and suggesting that certain credible thinkers agree with crag's premise. However the one example you provided did not bear evidence of that. I don't know what else your point is -- I don't care to debate Argentina except that you seem to be using it as an example of something.

I don't know about "what if" and the hypothetical situation in which Argentina did not default. I know what did happen --default, followed by an IMF-imposed austerity program, led to 50% poverty. It's only when people got behind so-called "big government" measures that they actually started to see real recovery.
I suspect there are a couple reasons. First, having unprincipled economies in the Euro zone helps keep exchange rates low, which can be good for exports. Second, realistically no matter how strong Germany's economy is locally if the weaker European economies started collapsing there would be a lot of pain throughout Europe economically. Germany would rather try to delay that as long as possible.
Thank you for this comment! You're absolutely right - there was no reason for us to ask for write permission - fixed that.

I also think you're right about being clear when directing people to sign in (or do anything that requires them to give up their privacy) - we definitely need to rethink this.
lhs && rhs
lhs || rhs
lhs , rhs

Given the way js evaluates these, the comma operator seems like it should fit in nicely. I would have made this the first argument in my case for using the comma.
Most of the HTTP and PBC apis are the same so everything that has already been implemented should still work. I know they haven't added official support for secondary indexes, but I hacked them together real quick here: https://github.com/highgroove/ripple
Absolutely - I'd ask this to any interviewees claiming to be javascript experts but I'd never want to see it in production.
I have to respectfully disagree with your point re: Mailchimp. They are a company that makes it easier to make email newsletters. Nothing knock your socks off amazing there. But that chimp and the subsequent marketing around it has played a major role in customer loyalty. They recently hit 1M customers and, to celebrate, they gave away plushies, hats, and t-shirts all with the mailchimp theme. And they gave them away quickly. Really says something about customer love and loyalty imo.

http://blog.mailchimp.com/one-meeeellion-users/

Also, they do give you the "non-cheeky" option, so there's that.

Completely agree re: Feedburner. :)
At least in getting your foot in the door. I'm sure Boaz Weinstein did something right afterwards to get to where he is.

I think the key is to make your own luck by pursuing your passions and being good at them. Dedication and excellence are always appreciated - and things may work out in ways you don't expect. Sounds pretty much like a basic guideline for the entrepreneurial attitude.
We do many more hits a day with IIS and .Net on windows. And we're far from the biggest.
I wasn’t aware that I could de-chimpify. Thanks, I’ll look for that.

And I don’t mean to knock the entire MailChimp brand or UX or mascot, so much as that one most visible aspect.
I'm not sure how it compares to slashdot, but I have had some of blogs on thingist at the top of HN, reddit/r/programming, getting tweeted by lots of my heros, on adafruit (which was really cool, since I really look up to Limor Fried, a lot).

That is one of the coolest feelings in the entire world for a little nerd like myself. Usually

tail -f /var/log/apache2/access log

is running on one of my monitors all the time, so I can pretty much watch visitors as they come into the site (I don't even see the code, I just see blonde, brunette, redhead). When I've gotten that sort of traffic, I can't make sense anymore. It's the difference between taking a drink from a fountain, and sticking your face down a geyser.

Not only that, but to then watch your code stand up to the traffic is cool :).

Like a webdev version of your first kiss, I suppose :)
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Other than microsoft themselves:
myspace is still fairly huge but probably a mixed stack.
Plentyoffish is up there too - http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture
This is an MBAHacks follow up to Why I am learning to program. I got such a great response from the initial post that I felt compelled to follow up and share more of my experience.
I wonder if Jobs would disagree.

"The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.
I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much — if at all. These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light — that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important."

February 1996 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html
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I've used the "snowflake" like approach in the past with great success. It's really not all that complicated. The reliance on time in the Instagram approach is a bit scary. A few ms off here and there could really hurt this scheme. How do you handle seamlessly transitioning these across machines when your shards move?
I like it. Question, did you consider using composite keys of shard_id and id to make up a single primary key? If so what were the pros/cons you found with that approach?

btw, tambem sou brasileiro vivendo em san francisco (https://twitter.com/#!/artilheiro)
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Please help me delete my contributions or my account in Hackernews. 
My online identity is getting revealed easily because of Hacker news. I accidentally responded to the discussion about Google's algorithm and mentioned my real name.<p>Now my online identity is being tied to my real name.<p>Please Paul Graham. Please help me delete this post
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2153096<p>The worst part is that this comment shows up very high in Google.
> A lack of user generated media — YouTube clips, in particular — featuring Japanese faces and real names. Many performers, despite virtuoso-level skills, wear masks or otherwise obscure faces in their video content.

This is very true. I had noticed there were a number of performers with masks, but it didn't really sink in until I saw an entire masked orchestra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1KgDz_An2s

(The newspaper thing is true as well. I once got burned by the Mainichi Shimbun taking down its entire site; no problem, right, I'd just check the Internet Archive? Blocked in the IA. And no robots.txt on either domain, which implies they were so paranoid that they privately contacted the Archive to block all access!)
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What I'd be more curious to hear about, is how they deal with super nodes and if they're storing a map (or any kind of routing table) or simply using generic modulo hashing on a key.
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I think this rant is striking such a chord because it exploits a well known, if not widely acknowledged predisposition among developers - the breathtaking quickness with which we assume that the other guy is an idiot. Not that we don't understand the problem or that this solution addresses things we aren't aware of, but that the other guy is stupid and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a compiler. I can see Dahl doesn't like complexity, but has it ever occurred to him that software is complex because it solves complex problems?
Imagine walking into your office to find six of your coworkers crowded around a laptop reading your personal blog.

That was a fun morning. I have a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card: "Everyone knows Americans are weird."

Some friends of mine:

+ Works for the national tax office. Has to be the very model of Appropriate Japanese Male Professional. Raps on the weekends and goes snowboarding in the winter. Japanese male professionals do not dress in bling or like gangsta rap. Skiing is a borderline appropriate hobby for people in our social class -- snowboarding is not.

+ Teacher at an elementary school. Dating an American. What would the parents think, right?

+ Is really Korean. She swore me to secrecy about that because she has the sincere fear that if her best friends since childhood found out about it she would never get her old life back.

+ Does not want to be a salaryman forever.

+ Belongs to a weird religious cult. Like, really weird. They all get together on Sundays and drink the blood of this dead Middle Eastern-looking guy.

+ Has spent seven years in Australia.

+ Drop-dead fluent at English. Too good. Pretends to be less good around her coworkers but if they ever found out how good she actually was she'd be ribbed for it. One genre of that ribbing would be that she's angling to get an American husband, which -- as we've established -- is not generally something a proper Japanese woman wants said about her.
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Banksters have played it like drug dealers: "Have a loan" . "Buy our stuff" . "Interest rate is now 30%" . "Tut-tut, we have to call Bruno" .
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I think DuckDuckGo is already in the list. At least I saw it in Aurora channel for Firefox 8.
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I think the belief that Android apps have been less than well designed grew from earlier generations of Android. That current versions have built better UI tool sets, that more UI/UX level testing packages are becoming available, and builds using web technologies have made some apps equal to the iOS levels of design is clear.

However, a purely native approach (without titanium or phonegap for example) still has many issues in developing well structured UI.

It is clear however, that BUMP's application, while better than their previous design, does lack something. Android design is not particularly easy and I personally think that the various screens, disparate versions of the OS, and capabilities of the phones make development that much more complex. In a very real sense we need UI testing that automates this as much as possible. It really is too much work.

Still I think that there are UI frameworks coming out for Android that will alleviate all this complexity and allow us to build consistently well designed apps. Just not right now.
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From the "explain this in a paragraph" paragraph:

Athens has run irresponsible deficits for a decade
on top of an economy operating at a fraction of
the productivity of Germany and France. If it were
in control of its own currency, the solution today
would be simpler. It would print more money to
depreciate the currency until the value of goods
fell relative to trading partners, which would
grow exports. But Greece doesn't control its own
currency. It's stuck with the euro, which bought
ten years of low borrowing costs at the price of
three years (and counting) of difficult, if not
impossible, adjustments.

Interesting. Isn't this situation (not controlling your own currency) the same thing that happens if a country uses a commodity-based currency where there is a relatively fixed supply of the commodity? (E.g., gold). In other words, is what is happening in Greece a refutation to those who say we need to switch in the US to a gold-based currency?
True, but what sane bank would take on the risk (=higher interest) without knowing that it is worth it? So I assume there was some background deal, an assumption that governments will cover for defaults.
I wonder if this was a tip of the hat to Jobs, or a slight to Edison? I came into this thread expecting a few Edison jabs from technically minded folk.
For anyone who isn't familiar with git, I can see how that could be confusing. Other than that, the "How It Works" page (which is what I assume you mean by signup page) is mostly just explaining the secret sauce, and doesn't really matter that much to the end user (developers). All that matters is gem install heroku, heroku create, git push heroku master (etc).
Right now, it's a lookup dict in our Django app--which involves brief downtime just to update the shard map when moving the data (more on this in another post). We hash on user ID (in most cases) and then look the shard # in the dict, then look up the shard # in a logical-to-physical dict.

By the way we use & love Sentry!
Ah so you don't actually have 1000 (or whatever) schemas set up right off the bat?

Or I might be misunderstanding, and you're saying that you're just mapping which physical server has the schemas
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Not really. Like MongoDB, the first four bytes of an ObjectId are a timestamp. That the timestamp is synced with other instances isn't paramount because the actual value of the timestamp does not matter. What does matter is that the timestamp is new and increasing every second. This is to retain sorting capabilities. With the 13 bits that represent the logical shard ID from this article, Instagram will guarantee uniqueness of an ID within the granularity of a second.
This would only help when it benefits external currencies (e.g. imports). Otherwise it may help the GDP and economy, but won't lower the value of the Deutsche Mark.
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Thanks for the comment! We don't need the IDs to be exactly sortable, only roughly sortable within a second or so. As long as the clock doesn't move backwards on any given machine (we use ntpd in its gradual-adjustment mode), the IDs are unique.

The way we move shards is to use PostgreSQL's built-in streaming replication to create an exact, in-sync copy of a set of tablespaces, then 'fail over' to a new machine and start reading/writing to a subset of those tablespaces (this is similar to how Facebook describes their shard-moving process).
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I checked the protobuf spec, though, and Riak 1.0 is completely compatible with the older client libraries. All the changes are backward compatible. So you get perhaps 90% of the new hotness.
I don't understand how this is considered pollution.

How is this different from having a separate page per slide? It seems we have the same result but with a better user experience. Isn't this a feature allowing each slide to be linkable? Why is this considered negative?
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This is not PR, it is Media Monitoring. Call yourself that. PR means outreach.

Just got your first email based on Keywords I set, here is some feedback:

Let me set time I get the email. Also let me set how often I get the email: daily, weekly, monthly, hourly, real-time.

Export to Excel so I can sort through the results.

Highlight where my keywords appear, and show those two lines, not the first two lines of the article in which my keywords appear. (Allows me to get to the meat right away)

Include date the article was published. (I know I’ve said this before)

Allow web interface of the email so I can sort it online by publication name, date appeared, publisher influence level etc.

Let me publish a report and/or export to Word based on my settings. Eg. I might want to see reports in this format in MS Word for some or all of the results (allow me to choose which ones):

Publication name (Bold, Font 15, Arial)

Article Title (Italics, Font 15, Arial)

Date Published (Normal, Font 12, Arial)

URL (Normal, Font 12, Arial)

[Bullet] Each sentence where keyword appears.

Now I can start showing this report to my clients, and execs, and man do I start looking like I'm top of my game.

Also, if some pictures/analytics can be generated and exported to docs as well then that'd be great!
What do you mean by position? You're allowed to create rooms and assign items to the rooms.
We set-up the schemas ahead of time, and then each lookup is (with, say, 1000 schemas):

user_id % 1000 -> schema ID
schema ID -> database ID

then select FROM schemaID.tablename etc on that particular database.
"What does matter is that the timestamp is new and increasing every second."

Right. I'm just sayin' that you have to be careful when you move data with a caveat like that. Moving the shard keyspace (the 13 bits) to a new machine that started generating ID's even one second behind (the first 4 bytes) would be troublesome, no?
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