skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the NewSQLs I've seen are shared-nothing cluster databases; that's basically the definition of the term. (Of course, that technology was invented in the 1980s and then forgotten, so it's new to somebody.)

As for open source, something you can't say is that open source communities are unable to develop this kind of software.
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Cool! We're looking to solve that problem too. We'll release a toolset for non-developers in December (along with a suite of tools for developers). There are so many people out there that want to do scavenger hunts, but it is very difficult to do it from scratch.
When you're writing for underpowered chips, ARC is a godsend. If you're writing for a mac, there's GC available.
Several of the videos include Code Challenges, which test your knowledge by writing real code in the browser. We are going to be expanding this tool throughout Treehouse to offer more opportunities to code-along as well as take challenges.
Thanks.. My laziness gets to me in finishing the projects. I do the fun part of getting it to work, then slack on the polish it needs to be complete.

Just selling the lights would be best. Shipping on the 2 foot by 4 foot panel wouldn't be worth it.
I don't think so. Instead, price will likely not decrease; especially as/if demand grows.
I would expect an increase in SSDs, especially since they are a "substitute good" for HDDs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_good
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Thanks for pointing that out. We're working on a brand new Groups product that will come out in one month. It'll have a custom signup process.

For now, the way Groups sign up is like this: Sign up and then add "sub-users". It's not elegant, but it works for now. Then in a month, we'll launch something super sweet.
Luckily corporations have shifted those funds to fat bonuses and golden parachutes.
To add validity to their new term "NewSQL" possibly? (I don't know, just guessing).

To the "NewSQL" term, I don't really have a problem with it... from their "how it works" it sounds like they are genuinely doing something interesting and cool with SQL. I have no qualms with them calling it "NewSQL".

I don't know why marketing terms get people so mad, sometimes they make sense.

I'd also point out that the first few times people used "NoSQL", I imagine there were comments along these same lines talking about how silly it was.

It isn't like they named it "WebScaleSQL" :)
That's fair. Riak seems interesting to me more from an almost academic perspective; as I said, I haven't used it. My go-to are MySQL and Postgres, too (though I use Redis a decent bit as a communication pipeline).
Not sure if you're being serious or not...

But this is probably the worst Gladwell article I've ever read. I just finished the Jobs biography, and Gladwell is just repeating parts of it. I know Gladwell has a set number of words he has to deliver to the New Yorker each year, but I'm actually kind of surprised the New Yorker accepted this article. It's practically just plagiarism.
Now that the Steve Jobs book has 'become its own celebrity'...
To everyone mentioning redshift/flux; they are great (I use flux on every computer I have) but they do not solve the issue being raised here. Bias lighting keeps the light levels behind your screen (or whatever you are looking at) higher, so that your irises don't have to contract and expand nearly as often or as much. This leads to less eye strain. (http://www.cinemaquestinc.com/ideal_lume.htm seems like a good explanation, first hit on google)

Redshift/flux vary the color temperature of your monitors. This keeps your internal biological clock from thinking the sun is up at midnight because of a bright white high-color-temp monitor. (More info at http://stereopsis.com/flux/)
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Between cities? In the cars of people who bring their laptop with them home from work.

Across oceans? Never underestimate the speed of a ten foot container filled with 2 terabyte harddrive :)
Why can't you do both?

The people who are finding your sell pressed CDs would probably buy it whether it was on Spotify or not. If those initial buyers then wanted to share the music with somebody else, I would think Spotify would be a MUCH preferred option compared to ripping the CD and sharing it on a torrent site.

As an indie musician, your goal shouldn't be to milk as much money as you can from your 200 person fanbase, right? It should be to double and triple that fanbase. Self pressed CDs seems to be one of the slower, more painful ways of doing that.
You really just need to find some reasonable route. Your current routes are very unlikely to be the shortest / cheapest / metric of choice; they are mostly decided politically.
Krugman's article is not very interesting (at least not by HN standards). It's clear he has his biases.

But the HN comments here contain some pretty cool links, which is why I upvoted it.

I worked in the renewables space for a little bit and my conclusion was that far too many companies were making political bets, not technological or business bets. Specifically, a lot of business models depended on an extension of Kyoto to the US, which did not happen and is unlikely to happen any time soon. Without that the business models were interesting,but not compelling.

Personally, I do believe renewables can replace a significant fraction of fossil fuels, but they have to do it based on cost, not political correctness. I'm not saying that as a normative statement, but as an observation of American politics. There was a brief window of time when carbon could be priced the way environmentalists wanted it to, but that's not going to happen again any time soon.
The article says there's total capacity of 43,461 MW in the USA. Hopefully the USA can manage more than the (from memory) 20%-30% utilisation rate the UK manages.
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The server is getting hit hard. You can see a mirror here: http://dglittle.github.com/smiley-slider/
This darknet wont be supporting IM then? ;)
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Couch now has an inbuilt compaction deamon, so you can configure it to run automatically

https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/trunk/etc/couchdb/def...
Few if any banks are going to be "good" and none will really have an "API." Set your sights low. The best you're likely to get is the ability to upload a batch file, or if you're really lucky, a NACHA formatted file. Expect to post collateral with your bank, tying up anything from several thousand to several hundred thousand dollars (depending on your volumes).

There are reasons why ACH is problematic; it's not [solely] because banks suck. There are anti-money laundering (AML) as well as anti-abuse protections that must be taken.

We at Lighter Capital did find some reasonably forward-thinking institutions in our search and I'm happy to share what we learned offline -- rlucas@lightercapital.com.
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Remember this when they elderly fight tooth & nail against any cuts to their precious welfare programs...

The average medicare recipient has only paid ~$75K in taxes but will extract >$500K in services.

The 'Greatest Generation' is bankrupting this country.
"In the past I've fulminated about various social networking systems. The basic gist is this: the utility of a social network to any given user is proportional to the number of users it has"

This is a bit clumsy. If all of my friends are on a social network, it doesn't much matter who else is on it. The utility of a social network is proportional to the number of users I care about.
Dude, was the Fox News ad hominem necessary? This doesn't look like Reddit...
Because none of my neighbours will have the hardware. And if they don't have it, I'm not getting it because it's a waste of my time.

If you expand the number of neighbours to all of those that are within a mile of me, you increase the likelyhood of finding somebody by a large amount. I would buy kit just because I'd be interested in finding these people.

Chicken/Egg etc
A Better UI for the New Gmail: expandable header/scroll to top à la Google+,...
For what its worth, you can add functions to structs in C using function pointers.
Akismet's sign up page has been using a similar idea since their relaunch. You can see it in action if you:

1. Visit https://akismet.com/signup/

2. Click "Sign Up" under the Personal plan.

3. Move the "What is Akismet worth to you?" slider.

They use a sprite[1] in their version, not the canvas, but the effect is similar. I'd suggest that their implementation is a little clearer than the one presented in this thread's link; moving a control and seeing a face to the right of the slider change its expression is possibly clearer than grabbing the face itself, where your mouse pointer partially hides the expression.

[1]: https://akismet.com/img/ab/smiley.png
How? An open source project goes commercial and someone forks it to keep an open source derivative going. The system works. I don't see how this is a lose-lose. If the Growl dev loses users then it just goes to show that it's not worth paying for. I won't offer my opinion on whether it's worth $2, especially at this point in the project lifecycle, but you might be able to guess it.
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I've never had that problem, though I do have a memory-foam mattress. Sleep Cycle has always worked exactly as advertised for me.
There's an aspect of "I had to do this, so you should too" in recommending that list, but it's not fatal to the overall principle: if enough programmers get on the same canon of fundamentals, then they will all benefit from sharing a common paradigm.
The world's fastest Objective-C JSON serializer/deserializer
This weekend, I finished writing the world's fastest Objective-C implementation of a JSON serializer/deserializer.

It has a simple API, compile clean (even with pedantic warnings), has 90% test coverage, and supports compiling with or without ARC.

Code is here: https://github.com/kstenerud/KSJSON

Benchmark is here: https://github.com/kstenerud/JSONCompare
technically, it is the generation after the "Greatest Generation" that is the problem.
This was something that was discussed pretty heavily on the various IRC channels during the 2009 Iranian Election.

Cell phones, wifi, etc. had mostly been cut off in Tehran, which is where there were some really horrible things happening that the rest of world needed to know about. In a situation like that, a mesh network full of wifi devices that could communicate with either HAM operators, or satellite internet operators would have been really helpful.

A lot of people were actually surprised that the CIA didn't have something like this sitting on the shelf ready to be distributed. (And this is where I start sounding like one of those people, but the CIA has been involved in revolutions in places like South America. A communications kit seems like something that they would employ.)
I would not call Python a well-thought out OO language. Its OO is essentially a cranked up dict; the abstraction over the dict is just barely papered over. It can get pretty awkward.
The 'Greatest Generation' is just about gone. It is their kids doing the bankrupting.
If using MD5 is all you do, you'd still be
susceptible to brute force attacks.

Only if you know the algorithm and salt used (i.e. your source code is also compromised, not just your database).

Otherwise, demonstrate to me how you can find the passwords that relate to these hashes (all of them use the same salt):

23C206503ABD36FCB575FC8F12791CF0
D82BDB4160F60B657D6F994B553D2E63
0DA0572E042F822F91772F14269548E6
CB8BF6C16029400885F9A68A17576FA7
7CE4F679810409CF1477CF142B481EF9

It should be easy, right?
It shouldn't. GC is not perfect, ARC is not perfect, no language is perfect. All of them can be improved. ObjC is definitely being improved.
Spec wise it beats the Kindle Fire in just about every category (More RAM, more Storage Potential, Better Battery Life). The question is will B&N stick with it and keep pushing.

Two things make me think they will.

1. They recently made a deal with Appcelerator to favor apps built using those tools and to provide more support for those developers (for those who don't know Appcelerator allows you to write iPhone and Android apps with web tools like RoR, Python, Javascript, CSS, etc...)

2. They are offering support in all B&N stores.

So they're being developer friendly to get more apps created (as opposed to Amazon where you have to give them permission to give your app away just to get in their store). And they're working to draw in casual users.

To my eyes that makes the Nook Tablet a very attractive offering both for consumers to buy and developers to build on.
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I get a different read from the story. The Greatest Generation has not spent themselves into debt with hundred dollar a month smart phone bills, five hundred a month auto leases, another fifty for high speed internet, a thousand dollars to coffee shop across a year, and so on and so on.

My parents are from this generation, they saved. I am trying to be the same way but it is very difficult. There are so many many temptations out there and we are heavily marketed too on every front.

Look, we have people lining up at night to buy iPhones, the latest video game, or to see a movie. That generation remembered people lining up for food, the draft, and other such true necessities of life then.

The "ME" generation is bankrupting America by wanting the rewards of a successful life without actually having to work for it. Instant gratification doesn't work, but it sure doesn't stop people running for office who promise it.
Unfortunately, the same sites that are naive enough to use MD5 for cryptographic hashing are also likely the same sites naive enough to use oversimplified regexes that fail to validate all possible inputs.

(If I had a dollar for every time the 'emailaddress+foo@gmail.com' failed to validate....)
Massive DDOS at DynDNS?
DNS for our domain is spotty at best ... anyone else seeing severe issues?
"Slow to impulse, standard orbit, Mr. (Crusher|Sulu)"
Any chance of launching an Android Development course? Treehouse seems to be exactly what I was looking for, but the topic that I am really interested in at this moment is not there.

Congrats for the product, the site is amazing and I enjoyed the free videos a lot.
What I haven't tested, though, is how long compaction takes- that is, how it scales with db size and whether more frequent compaction means closer to constant scaling.

Once the prototype was up I started working on other parts of the system (and the business for that matter) and only half-paid-attention to the mailing list.

The mailing list for couch is quite good, btw.
The Nooks run Android underneath, right? Any idea of what version of Android will be running on this new Nook? Too much to hope for 4.0, I imagine.
Do you have a source for the 75k to 500k figure? I have problems with the Baby Boomers, but I never came across that stat before.

Also, is it adjusted for inflation? You could buy a car for $1k back in the day.
Yes, they're called trap streets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
I would be willing to pay $2 if I use the app often and if I see it updated/maintained at a decent rhythm. I know it may not be "normal" to take the frequency of updates into consideration when paying, but it is my personal point of view.
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No one has actually run out of drives yet. Most manufacturers have stated they have drives enough to last them through the end of November

Actually, the situation looks much worse than that, from where I sit. I work for a major "large account reseller", and my code is what builds the customer catalogs, so I've got an intimate view of this.

As the drives become unavailable, one would expect them to be marked as backordered in the datafeeds we get from the suppliers. But the situation is so dire that two of the three major suppliers (Ingram Micro, Tech Data, and Synnex) have actually removed hard drive products altogether from their feeds.

(my code doesn't appreciate this: it knows the difference between backorders and discontinued products!)
Not to discredit Matt or his point, but I think the illustration of percentages does very little in illuminating valid points when it comes to taxation because most people don't understand the mechanisms and the theory behind tax law at this level.

I agree with Matt that the focus on Google is unfair, but the use of these one off statistics without an in depth review of the companies named above for the last 10 years is also unfair (Yes it takes a review of the past 10 years to establish a proper understanding of a company's tax position).

But, I will qualify that GE has an amazing tax team and the oil and gas industries are a beastly at lobbying.
OK, so this is still the definitive thinking. I think you've told us about this before. Thanks again.
Very interesting approach. I would say the main page needs to be easier to navigate to content areas.
There is a fork on github no os86 don't remember the name but is supposed to compile to arm
Believe it or not I am actually glad they are charging subscriptions. For me businesses that charge are a sign of quality (within reason of course).

I know I am getting tired of using "free" services that actually aren't free at all when you factor in the time I have to use to really extract value from them.

I am just hoping Treehouse actually provides a service that makes a difference, i.e. someone can learn faster and more efficiently with Treehouse than some other way.

So far this looks good. Can't wait to try it out later tonight.
IIRC the Color runs 2.2; so I'd expect at least that. Odds are it'll be 2.3; they've had the time to work with it. Even Google's "core partners" (Moto, HTC) are claiming 2012 for ICS updates for their handsets, and they're probably getting advance access vs. B&N.
Would you guys be willing to do something like a Bronze plan, where maybe you get access to the videos but no offline viewing? I'd love to pay something like $10-$15/mo for the most basic access.

Also, I'd like to toss in my obligatory "Awesome job with the design!" comment.
Impressive. Been a fan of Hark before they adopted the name, so pretty happy to see it progress so well.
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Does submitting to the App Store require you to provide source? If so, it seems like a compelling reason to enforce a single language to avoid the explosion in skills required for the app reviewers.

Otherwise, I have no idea.
Site looks amazing...however the fonts on Windows are hard to read and are jagged, especially in the testimonials section. I'm sure they look great on my MacBook but don't forget the Windows crowd when designing (Test case: Vista with Chrome and FF).

Good luck with the venture. I am a firm believer that online education in software development is going to be big in the coming years. Get recruiters to start using your service to weed out recruits ;)!
That is awesome, could anyone explain how it is done?
Could not find anything (I understood) in the source.
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You can't help but be bitter about this.

We (the young) didn't do anything, or ask for anything. But thanks to the speculative greed of previous generations, we're saddled with (even post-crash) unaffordable housing prices that favor the already-wealthy. Buying a home on a middle class working income is nigh impossible, unlike in their generation. So far from joining the speculators, we can't even buy a roof over our own heads in most places, especially places with jobs.

Our governmental services are collapsing in a large part due to the money we're pouring into pensions - pensions that previous generations voted to give themselves. Ones far more generous than anything history has ever seen. Everything can go, including our education system, but the pension is sacrosanct. Touch it and a legion of Baby Boomers will have you for lunch.

We're the generation of suckers. We (and probably our children, too) are the ones who will be paying for the ludicrous excesses of the Boomers, while getting nothing ourselves. Defined benefit pensions? Hah! Traditionally people pay into their future. We are stuck paying our past.

Bitter? Me? How could you tell?
I believe that with GPUs it's now faster to calculate possible MD5s on-the-fly than use rainbow tables.

Hence the current advice is to use "alongpassphraseasyourpassword" rather than "L33$Pa55wd"
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That touches on my main point. I think relatively speaking it has outlived its usefulness, but twice a year its very disruptive to my family's daily schedule for a few days. My kids are too young to understand it and just know that their day is off somehow.
I remember being around when everyone was laying into PHP in much the same way as people are tearing into mongodb now and it makes me smile, because it means they're doing something right and they'll be around for quite a while if they're responsive to the feedback.
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I wanted to play with Objective-C for some numeric computing, but until Intel's c++ compiler supports it there really was no point in even getting started with it for me (sorry gcc)
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Alas, I can't downvote this link.

Can anybody explain why I should go with this instead of Pg?

To the submitter or anybody else sufficiently knowledgeable: When will ORMs get support for this? I use SQLA but could port Django or ActiveRecord code.
I agree this is a shady post. Even "how" it was posted is shady. So I am not standing 100% behind it. It is just more of a gut instinct.

At the same time, it got on the front page because the story resonated and made sense to others.

There were quite a few people who commented how "oh yeah I've had problems with lost data". And I think that is what pushed the post's popularity more than the original pastebin. So the discussion got a life of its own after a while. Followed by response posts and response posts to those and so on.
> This keeps all cookies separate

Not flash "cookies". You only have one flash plugin that runs in every browser, and has one "cookie" store.

(Not that I know if/whether FB abuses this, I don't even have an FB account. Just sayin'.)
Fsync means "wait for acknowledgement after each request", if Fsync is off, all calls are fire-and-forget, no errors are reported. There are a few Fsync levels though, you can use it to make the call block until the data has been relayed to at least N other nodes.
No, the analogy is perfect for what happened, and a killer comeback on Gate's part. I don't think Steve appreciated competition and tried to kill it with a shotgun instead of a better product, this is very evident with the attack on Android, and with the absolutely absurd patents that have been filed by Apple.

Short term Steve Job's model of doing things has worked out really well, but if it was allowed to continue (and grow) at the rate it was, it would have created a stagnant world where having a screen on a phone would be patented by Apple.

Tim Cook is an excellent choice for the next CEO and he will probably do very nicely at Apple; his changes are very welcome in my mind.