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Creating a scalable service on MySQL
I am in the process of creating a scalable service in cakePHP and at this current point of time I have a working prototype using one database.

My question is what is the best way to move forward in regards to signing up clients and keeping their data separate.

Each client has their own database? This was my only thought as I am not interested in having data within the same table and prefixing will simply become messy.

Thoughts?

Thanks all
This distinction between license and ownership underscores the need both for open source software and also for expanding such models into other spheres. Here I am defining "ownership" as "economic ownership" namely the right to utilize a good in any way one wishes to (following Hilaire Belloc's definition of ownership). Here ownership of a copy is distinct from ownership of the ideas or expressions in the copy, and the question becomes what you own when you get a copy of a piece of software or a recording of music.

With a piece of software, what you own is typically restricted by a clickwrap agreement. You agree not to exceed your client access license ownership with server software for example. With music what you own is the right to listen to that music for your private enjoyment only. With software you get some limited economic ownership, but with music you only get non-economic ownership.

With open source software you get (nearly with the GPL and complete with the BSD license) full economic ownership. You can connect as many clients to the server software as you want. You can deploy it for customers. You can use the software in any way you wish to use it, and you can combine it with other goods to produce goods for resale. Only in this last area are there any limits to what is owned with open source software, and then only sometimes.

I don't believe that musicians right now know how to benefit entirely from creating entirely open content, but musicians could compete at the moment in part by offering additional ownership of their music: get my songs, play them in your store, display my videos publicly to an audience of 500 people or less per viewing, ensuring that people are buying not only entertainment but also that the music has value. The fact that it has value means it will be played more. The fact that it will be played more means it provides more advertising for live shows.
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That's not the definition of 'art' that they are using.
The proper way is to not use CDs/DVDs anymore :-)
"This just in, RIAA claims you do not own the food on your table, you only license it for consumption."

Last I checked Monsanto wasn't an RIAA member.....
I am troubled by the fact that you consider the entirety of America to be copyright infringers when the study only indicated that 46% (plus/minus 2%) of americans actually did so. That leaves 53% of non-copyright infringers who think agree with the copyright infringers (assuming all copyright infringers agree that fines should be under $100).

Your statement also brings up the question of whether something that an entire population (according to you) is doing should even be illegal.
The survey didn't just ask Americans who download music; it asked Americans in general. The results from the article suggest that many Americans (48%) don't think this should count as a crime at all.
The answer to that would be the 18th Amendment.
Just curious, couldn't we apply all 6 of these to Groupon? I think you'd get a "yes" on all of them.
I was particularly amused to see Google and the music execs on stage for a product announcement on the same day that a Google legal team was Congress's whipping boy for the SOPA hearing.
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Just as with gasoline-powered vehicles, I would like to have the choice of many different options.
Remembering DivX and how that turned out....
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I'm using the native mail app with Google account configured as Exchange - so it has push notification for both mail and calendar.
This is an illuminating example of how different assumptions lead to different definitions of what makes good code. I'm convinced that this is one reason why there is this belief that 80% of programmers are incompetent. It's not there aren't truly incompetent devs out there, but it's also easy to assume someone is incompetent just because they were working from different constraints and experiences than you, and the way they did things just isn't immediately apparent.
personally, i think that anyone caught infringing should pay a fine equal to the cheapest retail price (over say, the past year) of the thing infringed(like for like, if you pirated the hd version of a movie, you have to buy the blu ray or hd dvd version. if you took a cam'ed version, you have to buy a movie ticket), iff they do not already own it.

yeah, there's a whole bunch of issues that would have to be ironed out and yes, there's no proof you would have even bought whatever you infringed on in the first place, but i feel like its a much saner starting point than what we have now.
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The email would preferably contain the image itself - an hourly shot of happiness. On my own site, I offer hourly/daily options for alerts, and a surprising percentage opt for hourly - I think you could do the same. It would get expensive using a third party mailing service like sendgrid - just sending mail from your server via Exim is pretty easy and costs nothing extra.

I have a feeling you could get a surprising number of subscribers, especially since the puppies would be super-forwardable...
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If you're trying to work on the elliptical machine, I think you're missing some of the benefits of working out. It's a chance to unplug and let your mind drift creatively. I find that a lot of problems solve themselves while I'm running or weightlifting.

If you're really die-hard about working durning your workouts, try business audiobooks, or let Siri read you your emails.
As a linux user I can be fairly hardware agnostic. I used to consider apple laptops when purchasing a laptop. After I purchased my first thinkpad it was a no brainer, the real thinkpads are the perfect linux laptop. The ideapads are not so bad for a cheap tiny netbook thingie. They obviously don't compare to the thinkpad line but they are okay for what they cost...

PS I have the W500 and I'm curious why you do not include it among the real thinkpads.
Does this have any benefits over mSpot?
Dang..you've been working on this for a while. Why did you give up?
There's nothing on the site except a form leave email ..
As time marches on, the RIAA is going to see their business dry up, not from customers, but from artists, who can now easily handle their own distribution. They might as well change their name now to the Music Marketing Association of America, because that's all they have to offer.
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AOL has been on a downhill spiral since the dialup days have ended. It doesn't surprise me that they're trying to latch on to the Huffington Post's media empire, as Brad puts it.
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Their relationship with Facebook probably influenced (compelled?) them to sign onto this.

Indeed, one could imagine a potential copyright infringement complaint leveled at Zygna by Paramount, claiming that "Mafia Wars" borrows too heavily from the "Godfather" films. Completely frivolous, indeed, but possibly threatening enough to Zygna's daily operations for them to heed warnings about these bills.
This makes no sense especially given that even a human observer could not tell instantly just by looking at a piece of content whether the content is properly licensed. As others have said, there no reasonable way to 100% correctly detect and filter restricted or copyrighted content based purely on the content itself.

Just look at the mess that is the patent system... even "experts" in a field or art are making huge mistakes when it comes to judging obviousness and originality. Why do people think a machine will do as well, let alone better when trying to judge legality of a piece of content?

I think what it comes down to is the content industries wanting to force technology companies to fight piracy for them. Technology companies know that trying to fight something like this (past a certain point) just leads to an arms race with huge amounts of collateral damage on either side. Media companies are throwing in the towel, they just want companies like Google to fight for them, and in doing so bear all of the responsibility and cost (while gaining zero benefit).
Is Google losing it?
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This nicely draws together several sub-currents of developer thought pertaining to the "am I good at this?" current that all developers have. I found myself bouncing back forth on some of the ideals, waiting to hear how it all turned out for this developer... Basically the same feeling I get from a good short story.
It is deeply uncharitable of me to say so, but: cry me a goddamned river.
Do you mean torx bits with the security pin? Torx bits are everywhere, its hard to buy driver/bit kits that do not include most torx sizes. Torx+security pin is a different story. Microsoft switched to using them on all of the 360 controllers recently.
Kids will find things to be interested in so long as you don't smother them or stunt their independence

Spot-on, at least in my experience. My parents pounded into me a piece of wisdom- "Boredom is a choice". It seems to have paid off.
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Before getting to the site, my first guess was that he was pulling the images from flickr CC search.
iTunes doesn’t use DRM anymore so deauthorizing won’t work.
I don't like it but am more accepting of it when it is followed by a paragraph or so of useful content that the parent post did not include (for example, another argument supporting the same conclusion).
Yes, but do Senior Citizens recognise many of those brands?
Ask HN: Are company culture initiatives real?
I work for a software company and its launching a new company culture, with company values and such that are supposed to push us into the future. Has anyone been on either side of this? How did it play out?
I was a bit surprised too. I certainly don't count them in the same league as the others mentioned.
Outlook and Apple Mail already solve this issue by showing a notification (audial or visual) when the email was sent. I don't see how the situation you're describing is any different to what has already been solved in desktop applications.

If your email never got sent to the server in the first place why could the website not use local storage to determine an error or not? Gmail uses constant POSTing with drafts here to solve that issue (not sure if it uses local storage).

I don't see why this UI couldn't show you a notification if Send was pressed and communication to the server wasn't successful. Especially since it is doing so much client side work already.
$100 fine for every 99 cents they steal? I don't think the bank robbers' union would support that.
Cool - can you contribute the code to the repository so we can test and merge it in? Thanks
Hey, if we're going to have a fascist government anyway, I'd rather Google be the corporation pulling the strings... Too bad it's just not in their DNA.
First, google offers broke browser back button when it was launched [1]. And now this. Google does not know how to build a good web app; and does not know how to get search work in Andriod Market. What universe are we living in?

[1] http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2471767
Losing what? In some sense they are... when you're at the top of a mountain, the only way is down.
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certain aspects of school, like scheduled class time, project deadlines, etc. were intended to prepare the students for the workplace

In my view, it is preparation for the world. Preparation to be a functioning member of society. Sure, everybody has a choice. I have walked both worlds. I have decided there is little to no value in trying to live in some alternate world. Stores are closed at night. Are they evil corporations bending me to their structure and will? Friends go to sleep at night. Are they sinister secret agents controlling my thoughts? I feel better physically when I live normal hours. Is the government injecting me with chemicals while I sleep?

Of course you can rebel and follow your own schedule. But just as it is up to you to choose to rebel, it is also in your power to decide there is no value in rallying to such a silly cause. If I found value in it I might, but I don't. At the end of the day, schedule and structure provides value when you are trying to interact with a large number of other people. That's just the way it works, not some secret evil ploy.
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Too bad I don't have $25 to register as an artist.
If they want war, then we'll give them war. I'll write down the IP addresses of all sites I use and I won't use DNS anymore!
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I take it you're not willing to pay the $0.30/track to upgrade to the 256kbps un-DRM'd music that's been available for years?
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A cathouse, as it were.
Why not Zynga? Their demographic is not piratically inclined and due to the nature of their product piracy is probably not an issue to an extent it is for hollywood. However, their existence is at least for the moment linked to facebook. Anything that threatens facebook threatens zynga. If facebook has to police their users' content, you can bet at least some of the necessary money will come from facebook's cut of zynga's profits. Also, this is publicity right before their IPO.
Some digital picture frames will accept an RSS feed. Why not make your site able to automatically update such a frame every hour?

Are there any companies out there offering RSS based image feeds, intended for such devices? One can imagine a digital frame hanging on a wall and the owner can subscribe to themed RSS streams. Owners might be householders, or companies looking for attractive wall art. A set of free streams could be offered, based on the Commons. There could also be paid or ad supported streams, based on proprietary images.
DAAS - Dogs As A Service (in the cloud of course). I'd be all over it - great chick magnets in the park :) I remember half-seriously looking for something like this a few years ago and found these guys: http://www.flexpetz.com
There's a huge difference between "we have received your email and will make every effort to deliver it to the recipient" and "the recipient has received your message in their inbox". For purposes of "can I close my browser window?", the former is fine! Sounds like AOL decided on going for the latter?
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It's always the eternal "Good for user" vs "Good for programrers". I.e. When creating a new language, one must make choice.. should it be easier to read/use for the coder? Or easier to code from the developer side.

And, if we look carefully in the past, it seems that it always start with the "Easy for coder first" -------> "Easy for user". For example, when the first examples of Ajax came out, it was really hacky and most programmers would have never believed what they'd see today.

So, I think that you are half right with the "introducing complexity in an unstable, unaffordable and insecure client." Maybe with the actual technology and framework, you are right. But I'm certain that in the following months/years, we'll go toward the road of a better UI.

And, I still believe that it's not as hard as people think to make UI update first and update later. 99.9% of the time, the server returns "ok" or something we already knew. In the last 0.01%, we have to choose if we really want to make it to 100%.. but in these rare case, a hard refresh is perfectly fine.
Do you mean Levenshtein distance :)
Good thing that there's local storage that JS apps could be using to cache outgoing emails until confirmed they were sent.
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The '10x more productive' in this article was referring to people who reuse and adapt, you seem to have it backwards. You are infinitely more productive if you realize the problem is already solved. Not only is it faster, but it also isn't as likely to suffer from bugs.

But I also think you are assigning to him a slightly different opinion than I understood it. It's not just 'This would be a good time to use Excel!" or "This would be a good time to use Library X!", it's "This codebase already has something that is slightly different; we can probably generalize that slightly and save a lot of headaches". He is talking about people who write code every day, but people who are better able to apply existing frameworks to the new problem instead of banging out something from scratch.

Also with regards to your "still", this article is not new.
I don't expect belief. I expect effort.

I imagine you doing the rounds at dinner parties raising your finger shouting "Citation needed!" over and over again.

Google: gatto, liberal education, conformity, obedience. My argument is a point of view, not a research study.

Gatto cites Dewey, for the record.
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That would encourage piracy. If you pirate a movie right when it comes out, that's $20 or so, but after a year, it gets closer to $10. So: pirate it now, pay next year's price in the worst case!
> There is no higher improvement of quality of life than low infant mortality and longer lifespans.

Really? You'd trade off absolutely anything to increase those metrics?
Sadly, not economically viable in TV form:
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I'm not sure how well their website does either. http://www.thepuppychannel.com/
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Besides the gist of the ad, I noticed that Facebook did not use their logo without a background (AOL too).
that's be pretty awesome. I know of the "rent physical art" services, but none that do what you described.
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I must be misunderstanding your proposal, because on the face of it that seems to be so colossally ridiculous that I can't believe it is what you intended. Did you misstate your proposal?

There would be virtually no disincentive to infringement under that proposal. Why not just propose eliminating copyright?
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Since it works on iOS, there should be a way to get served the html5 version.
I can confirm that libxml2 is indeed great.
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i think the issue is with content protection and I believe with ios they have a client side drm protection. What legal music services aren't using flash for the only reason of digital content protection ?

edit: check out section on encryption. http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/networ...
Can I save them for offline playback? My 3G connection can be rather intermittent sometimes.
Sorry English is not my mother tongue: what is a turn-in box?
I thought it was up to $180,000 per violation (~$10 million, if taken to the extreme for 6 CDs)?
yeah, the submission via email is not ideal, but for the mvp I wanted a basic submission feature so mailto fit the bill. I'll look to make it submit via browser this weekend! Appreciate the feedback
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First, it does indicate a problem with the copyright system when such a large number of people (+50%, per Free Culture) are 'felons' under US law and liable for hundreds of thousands in damages.

While I agree with your conclusions, the logic here is flawed. If everyone started shoplifting, for example, it wouldn't indicate a problem with the laws that people are now criminals.

(Sidenote: Only a small number of people are felons on account of copyright. Under US law, to be a felon you have to have been convicted of a felony.)
Thank you so much! I use Android and this is amazing. As a side note, I saw a blog post on HN a while back detailing how to get 16GB of storage on Dropbox for under $10 using their referral system: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3126173
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I was thinking the opposite. Outside of Silicon Valley people say things like, you know Zynga... the company that made farmville. People think it is a 1 employee company. (I know they have a $B+ valuation, but no one outside the valley does, especially not law makers)
I gave up because it wasn't that useful and I can do something simpler that's faster to create while making money off of it.

It would be much more useful if most textbooks had an API or if teachers required for everything to be typed. The latter is not something that can be asked because there isn't anything out there that's good enough for public high schools to use (some students also don't have computers with a reliable internet connection).

There were some minor UX issues with it as well, but that's mostly it.
It would be interesting if somebody was to create a League Tables Redux with weighted standings dependent on (a) number of people passing a course and (b) popularity of subject with upper-league employers/universities.
In most classrooms teachers have a place for students to put their homework that's due. This is called a turn-in box.
Turn-in as in "Please turn in your homework by Monday."

The box being referred to here is the digital version of a physical one.
Did anyone notice the missing Godzilla-head in Mozilla's logo?
> SOPA is evil, but it's not going to severely injure Google.

Am I reading the bill in an overly alarmist way? It sounded to me like SOPA would make YouTube basically impossible to run.
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It's hard to say if that really makes it "unfair", since a lot of Ken Jennings' (and every other Jeopardy champion's) success was due to his reaction time with the buzzer. That's simply a huge part of the game.

On the other hand, nobody would dispute that a machine has faster reactions than a human, so maybe that makes it less interesting. Tough to figure out a great way to resolve that.
Did you work at the luckiest shelter on the planet? The one I used to volunteer at [moved away] was usually clamoring for volunteers (at least in the summer).

That seems like a very odd policy.
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