skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This seems like an odd analysis if you mean that MongoDB is hitting the trough of disillusionment. MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, and Redis all came out at roughly the same time (2008, 2009) according to Wikipedia and their project pages. Is there a reason they would be on totally different hype cycles?

As far as I can tell, no one has hated on Redis or HBase (except for the brief period when antirez tried to add VM to Redis) because they both (a) work and (b) solve real use cases. Has there been any suggestion that Redis or HBase lose data?

However, maybe you are right in a more general sense. Do you think that the idea of NOSQL itself is reaching the trough of disillusionment? Are we seeing a shake out of which of these data stores are actually designed by people who know what they are doing, both in (database) theory and in (systems coding) practice?
You break the law, you get fined.

You really, really don't want to live in that country.
I am aware of that page and it is a great starting point but is not enough. Please take a look a this document from IBM
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/data/bestpractices/DB2...

I was hoping for something along these lines .
We have captions on all our videos actually. Can you see the 'cc' button on the video player (on the site)?
I think that's a waste of time. Discoverability of apps is primarily through the store, not the web site, from my experience. I don't think it would be worth the effort. Cool idea though.
Given that APIs, especially for iOS and Android, are evolving so quickly that your videos are already out of date, what is your plan for shooting new videos when content changes? Won't it be difficult to maintain the same professional editing and keep up with the changes for the given platform?

For example, the big players in iOS education (Big Nerd Ranch, Pragmatic) have been teaching iOS 5 since it was in beta; but you guys are on iOS 4.
Like depending on 20 other modules, 4 of which fail to build with the current version. Lots of bitrot.
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I'd love to have a wimax router, but aren't they expensive? And require a license to operate?
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I'm guessing you're referring to their claim of being able to do distributed transactions?

Data is spread out across transaction and storage nodes and it always available. When network partitions occur NuoDB continues offering services via the most available and healthy segment while the other segments provide a consistent read-only snapshot while awaiting reconnection at which point they will synchronize with their counterparts. Clients can simply reconnect to the active partition of the cluster to continue processing updates.

I'm not sure how they can ensure that network partitions only occur between fully replicated sets (i.e. how can all the data be available in all locations?)
For me, hackability will be the major issue. I'd rather run the Kindle app and the Nook store app on top of Cyanogenmod than on either of the supplied Android versions.

They should both run ICS pretty well, too -- but I place low odds on Amazon or B&N putting themselves to the trouble of porting it any time soon.
+1 I was also confused in the same way. The homepage is good at getting you started using the stuff quickly, but I wanted an overview of exactly what it was first
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It's more natural, at night at least. I suspect you wouldn't have gotten as much accomplished in another century.
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Did anybody actually receive a coupon for a device from hp?

I sent a request with my developer account name in the email body, but haven't received a coupon yet.
Or is this some kind of lottery again?
I've had two types of free prime memberships for two years now and I buy tiny things like a $1.55 audio cable or a $1.99 grill lighter every week (sometimes every day.)

Ups actually offers insane bulk shipping discounts with huge retailers like amazon and newegg. The amount basically ends up looking like a quarterly fee on the balance sheets.

Then amazon uses fixed shipping costs for all their 'amazon fulfilled' items with few maxing out the base cost, this means that they may net anywhere from 0% to 90% profit on their shipping of each item depending on where it's going.

I'm fairly sure that at the $79 price point was chosen so that if every single customer switched to prime, they would still run a positive balance on shipping.
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Thank you. This article is quick and easy to digest and understand.

There's always a lot of whining and complaining about how {crappyhash} algorithm is bad and how salts don't matter but not a lot a of {dothisinstead}.
This is a brilliant marketing campaign for Treehouse -- "come use us and we'll get you a great job!"

+50 on this launch guys.
Blog post explaining more here:

http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/11/07/veterans/

Stay tuned for more links to datasets, APIS, etc.
Anecdotal evidence might as well be no evidence. I'm not saying that you don't have a unique or clever idea, but it should be judged on its merits. This tool will be great for finding common passwords and variants where a system uses unsalted MD5 hashes; but it relies on known hashes, so for the vast majority of possible input strings that have no reason to be generated or indexed by Google it's ineffective.
Lucky for us, the new IEEE 802.11 was ratified in September and includes (finally) 802.11s for mesh networking. There is support in Linux and FreeBSD for several of the most popular wireless drivers. The open source router firmware dd-wrt also supports 11s.
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I would also love to take a sample test (or a 1 day free trial or something) so I can get an idea if it's righ for me before paying 25US$.

Looks awesome though!
This is a repackaging of the thinkvitamin website from Carsonified. These are literally the same videos I already downloaded from ThinkVitamin. Same talking heads, same, same...
My favorite are xmas lights (or the white variation) around the workspace. Nice warm diffuse glow.

I also recommend the compiz negative plugin at night time.
Majority of voip connections and some simple http authentication for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication

That means they're both md5-hashed on the wire and in the database.
So you've never broken a stupid law, like ripping a DVD?

Around 90% of the population break the speed limit. If you drive on a motorway, doing only the speed limit, you'll be holding up traffic.

When 90% of people break a law, that's a pretty sure sign that the law is bad and should be changed.

Thankfully, the law is soon to be changed, increasing the speed limit on motorways from 70 to 80. It's a start. Politicians have taken notice, and seen that the current speed laws (Put in place decades ago when cars had crappy brakes etc), are out dated.

The mobile speed cameras I see most often are hidden behind trees in areas that have a stupid speed limit (eg a stretch of road with no houses, pavements or people, but 30mph limit).

I'm not moaning about being fined - I take a lot of care not to be. I'm moaning that firstly, they are there to generate revenue, not save lives, and secondly, they actually make our roads more dangerous, with people paying attention to their speed, rather than real dangers/people/etc.
Why do all these people talk about Winamp like if it was the best player for windows? Sonique was WAY better, back in the day. Winamp was for the kids who didn't know any better.
Yes, as long as it's designed for speed, it's not a good fit for storing passwords. That's why people should use bcrypt or an equivalent. It has both built-in support for salting & a work factor.

(Source: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/)
Sorry, I meant to say the onboarding videos, but I spoke too soon. I just looked at the HTML video and it is indeed captioned, it might be a nice idea to put in a small blurb somewhere saying the lesson videos are captioned.

MANY thanks for doing this. CC is a big deal and helps more people than it gets credit for. I really do appreciate that you included it!
Yes MD5 is fast to compute and ... NO, in the example I've given it really does not matter much.

As I said, it should be easy cracking those hashes right? Prove me wrong.
Marketing statements notwithstanding, the name change was the result of something really boring -- a name conflict with another company.

Oh, "New-oh dee bee".
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.

This is a sort of strange view, which isn't much in keeping with what I've read about the 1960s/70s. If anything they were something of a historical peak of decadence/entertainment, with people lining up for rock-show tickets and festivals (Woodstock being only the biggest of many), a huge explosion in car ownership (including a big increase in "muscle car" sales), big increases in sales for both the film and music industries as record numbers of people lined up to see the latest movie or buy the latest record, the growth of suburbia as suddenly everyone needed their own yard and 3-bedroom home, a big wave of people replacing their B&W televisions with fancy new color models, etc., etc.

However, it turned out well for them in net-worth terms because splurging on that suburban home in 1975 turned out to be a good real-estate investment, whether they bought it for that reason or not.
At a glance, they say that they support most of SQL99, so semantically it wouldn't be hard to adapt ActiveRecord or Django to work with it, assuming the drivers were easy enough to use.

I guess they billed it as "NewSQL" not "NoSQL" which is pretty absurd.

I'd vote that you go with Pg, because it's Awesome MostAwesomeDude, at least until this has been around for a while.
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in case anyone else was wondering: the key CAP-related "compromise", from "how it works", is that on partition it supports transactions on only one sub-set of nodes (the "healthiest"); the others provide read-only snapshots.

http://nuodb.com/how_it_works.html (see "Availability and Resiliency").
It's somewhat optimistic to assume that the adversary knows no passwords - even if you can't create a user, phishing one isn't that hard. That makes recovering the salt much easier.
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Can anyone tell me how does the security apparatus work here?
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Ah, you are technically incorrect in saying there are an infinite number of "nicetry"+i hashes. There are an infinite number of "nicetry"+i passwords, but eventually there will be collisions as the hash set stays a constant size and the password set grows without bound. "Infinite" isn't a term to throw around too lightly.
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Part 3:

http://www.texdev.net/2011/11/07/writing-a-curriculum-vitae-...
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Mostly, there will be a column conveniently labeled 'salt'. And in e.g. a MySQL database, you can bet the native hashing format has been used.

Ignoring that, if someone got your database, you should assume they got your code. If you care about passwords not being lost, you use bcrypt or something similar.
Whenever one of these posts comes up it seems like there's a lot of comments rushing to defend salted MD5 or SHA1.

What's actually wrong with bcrypt that prevents people from using it? Is it not available on all platforms? Too computationally expensive?
Pro-forma agree. In the past few years, the few nights I've had trouble sleeping all turned out to be nights I accidentally disabled Flux and didn't notice.
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RYAN CARSON this is lame in that its an expensive version of http://www.codecademy.com

Also you are using the same videos from ThinkVitamin which provide good introductory knowledge and that's it.

Codeacademy makes you actually code and had badges long before you guys.
Which means it might have been altered by an editor who thought they were fixing a stylistic error.
I don't really understand why you're comparing automation testing (Selenium) with Javascript unit testing?
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Thanks, that's really helpful. Though at my current level of ability a text based game is plenty challenging:)
If you're suggesting that "traditional" databases operate without thinking about OS cache, unbuffered IO when called-for, memmap, etc., I strongly believe you're way off.
I sense another "SQL is not dead. It's still used by 90% of the web." article being written somewhere on the internets.

This is not directed at my parent comment but, seriously, this is getting tiring. Comparing NoSQL to SQL is like comparing a rubber mallet to a hammer. Sure, both might be good for some of the same things, but each has its specific use case.
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Man in the middle attacks may not work as well as you think. While it is possible to create false information using this darknet mechanism, it is possible using things like PGP to ensure that you are getting data from the same node. Of course, you have to figure out how to set it up right from the beginning; if someone messes with you before you know what their key is supposed to be, they can feed you false information.

You might be able to overcome this by using a many-to-many authentication mechanism. But realistically, what could the government hope to accomplish by feeding you false information? (this is the only thing they are likely able to do). Consider:

There is no way to back track traffic and discover who sent the request.

Once you realize a source is feeding false information, you know to never trust that source again.

It is easy to imagine a decentralized rating system for the quality of information provided by various keys on the network. Keep in mind you can't really fake who you are. You are your public key, no one else can publish under your public key but you.

EDIT: I highly recommend reading the freent paper:
http://freenetproject.org/papers/ddisrs.pdf
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Maybe I'm weird, but I actually really like Objective-C. My mind likes how the language works. I just wish there was more of a community around it so that it could more easily be used for things other than iOS/Mac development.
You must live deep in the land of tl;dr if five sentences is "lengthy".

But thanks for correcting my speculation. Wow. No skin support? That seemed to be one of the killer features of Winamp judging from all the screenshots I used to see. I guess the "killer" feature is "moves music between iTunes and your Android phone", which I've been happily using Salling Media Sync for ever since I got a N1.
Fair comment. The good news though, is that we're releasing new video every week and constantly updating current content. If something becomes outdated, we'll archive it for reference but focus on doing new video on the latest versions.
It's meaningless to talk about what an individual seller "needs", because they may get much more than they "need" or they may get much less than they "need". In short, the sellers get what they can; regardless of what they "need".

I was using the word "need" loosely ("needs to last longer") to mean that it's the economically desirable result for the population at large. If the limited supply lasts longer, then it's still available to those who have the greatest desire for the product (e.g. a company with disks failing in production).

The rising prices during a supply interruption seem to be the market working. By that I don't mean it's perfect; I mean if you don't like prices to rise when supply is interrupted, you probably don't like market economies at all.
I made a similar thing (also aptly named smiley slider), but based on SVG instead of canvas:
http://imagine-it.org/svg/sliderplugin.html
(https://github.com/pamelafox/smileyslider)
We used that for an app for letting people rate how much they liked talks at Google I/O.

Since then, I've used the same slider codebase to make a colored slider (green -> red), and I use that in my nutrition tracking app for letting people rate how well they avoided food groups each day (screenshot: http://www.everyday.io/img/tour_logs.png).

I find it easier to drag a slider than pick a choice when it comes to assessments. It's less stress for the user. Or atleast that's my hope. :)
Double that!

I'm a student as well that is just interested in learning iOS, not necessarily even to get a job.

I know you guys have put a lot of time into these tutorials and are looking to profit from them, but I think having a student plan would be helpful for us and for you!

I think 10-15 dollars a month is reasonable, maybe 20 dollars a month tops for a student pricing plan.
With due credit to Gates' intent behind the philanthropy he's undertaken, the relationship between good intent and good outcomes is by no means straightforward.

In the book "the logic of failure" by Dietrich Dorner, he presents simulation experiments with some disturbing results. In his simulations, people were tasked to better the lives of nomads with high mortality rates and tsetse fly infested cattle. This who first saw their mission as a humanitarian one - i.e. about fixing the health problems of nomads and their cattle - end up causing famines instead. Those who succeed manage to achieve a slow improvement in standard metrics.

I recommend that book to anyone who thinks solving the problems of a setup with many interdependent parts is a well understood thing or automatically apply thumb rules like "one problem at a time".
Which ones? Aside from a few DNS servers and some nice to have services (time.nist.gov or whatever), I can't think of any offhand.
The question really isn't SQL but ACID transactions. If you can do ACID transaction, SQL drastically reduces the amount of data transmitted.

There is no intrinsic reason that ACID transactions, with or without SQL, can't scale, just that up until now, it hasn't.

And there's a reason that until now, it hasn't. From the beginning of time, academic computer "scientists" have confused the terms serializability and consistency. In short, serializability is a sufficient condition for consistency, but it isn't a necessary condition. If you design a system that enforces consistency without requiring serializability, it scales. Period. Legacy RDMSes don't work that way, but that's their problem.
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Interesting that you say a lot of people want hand-holding - I agree.

But don't you think in an industry like software development, you need to be able to self-educate. Software just moves too fast. So a person that needs hand-holding is not going to "get" what it takes to be a good programmer.

Do you disagree?
No, more like around 2pm or so. I realize this doesn't work for everybody, but I wanted to point out that there is a solution to this issue which does not involve clamps or LEDs or anything of the sort.

I mean, the article has pictures of a computer monitor right next to a freaking window and it never even mentions natural light. It's just kind of silly.
Some day in near-future we will see penalties for recreational drugs like something stupid an retrograd.
I'd venture a guess that the solar energy provided wouldn't even cover a quarter of the energy cost required to cool a data center.

I'd go on to say that the energy coefficient between 35 Deg N and 55 Deg N probably isn't enough to offset the equation significantly.

As such I think that removing heat more efficiently via naturally cold climates would have a greater impact on bottom line. Check out wikileaks cave-based data centers in old Swedish nuclear bunkers. http://bitshare.tumblr.com/post/2383169988/the-wikileaks-ser...
(Sweden's bandwidth to the rest of the world also blows ours away.)
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I haven't watched any of the videos (as I'm at work) but I love that there are lists of the subtopics:
http://teamtreehouse.com/library/design-foundations/html/tex...

I'm always looking for tutorials to send to colleagues/friends who need an easy-entry into the basics, and it helps to know what topics are covered and how you've decided to organize/separate them. My main suggestion would be to include the subtopics on this page, or at least have a button that reveals them all:
http://teamtreehouse.com/library/design-foundations/html

The page is already a long scroll...having the list of subtopics, IMO, would be more helpful than detrimental.
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I'd like to add to this by saying that the new congestion control algorithms ought to be "friendly" to TCP to avoid congestion collapse. Backing off by a factor smaller than 2, or increasing additively by a delta more than 1 MSS per RTT are all tricks that would cause harm to normal TCP flows.

Granted that TCP isn't really "fair" between flows that have different RTTs, one could really justify tuning their TCP behaviour. But the challenge is to do this _automatically_, which is what TCP has so successfully done for the past few decades.

EDIT: DCCP decouples congestion control from reliable delivery and its congestion control algorithms are TCP friendly.
Cheers! Feels great to get it out in to the wild :)
I'm going to guess you come from the ops world, I suspect most dev's using mongo aren't really deeply knowledgeable about the things you point out. Sure you know what replication is, but its different once you actually configure it and are tasked to maintain it.

We've been using Mongo in production since 1.6, and I can say I've encountered a lot of things you described in your original pastebin. I'll say it, the product is crap. I've spent more sleepless nights working on mongo than I have with anything else.
Here's a link to a few infochimps veterans datasets:

http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-benefits-expendi...
http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/national-defense-outlays-...
http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-by-sex-race-and-...
http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-by-sex-period-of...
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I have a strange behaviour: I cant see the videos on Chromium/Linux Mint 11 while they work in Firefox/Linux Mint 11 on the same laptop, but they were ok on my Chrome/XP office computer. Any idea?
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Most Rubyists install Ruby & RubyGems through RVM nowadays anyway so it will make no difference.