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See CouchDB.

What is CouchDB?

A document database server, accessible via a RESTful JSON API.

Ad-hoc and schema-free with a flat address space.

Distributed, featuring robust, incremental replication with bi-directional
conflict detection and management.

Query-able and index-able, featuring a table oriented reporting engine that uses JavaScript as a query language.

http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/intro.html
Glad to hear it. I was really excited about the idea of using an actual mac. Every time I buy a new computer I get really close to buying a macbook. Unfortunately for Apple I love playing video games. It is really pathetic when I go to buy a new computer after 2.5 years, only to find that latest and most expensive macbook available (which is marketed as a graphics workstation mind you) has a video card 1/3 the speed of the computer I am replacing.

If Apple found a way to add a semi-reasonable video card to their tiny cases, I'd be happy to give them a shot.
Lovely, the Esperanto of calendars. It's bad enough my birthday falls on Christmas Eve, now it's forever to be on the Sabbath too? No thanks.
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Some people, groups, or governments could change over on a case-by-case basis to a week-based system, without a sudden change to the worldwide date system. Just label the weeks with numbers, e.g. 1-Wednesday, 27-Monday, or 52-Sunday for Christmas this year.

It seems Chinese people generally don't remember the time of week so much as the Month and date. Whenever someone in China tells me "this is happening on the 28 November", in my mind I have to work out what day of week it is before I can internalize it in my memory. Chinese seem to just remember the month and date. Schools often say "Monday's and Tuesday's timetable will be shifted to the previous Saturday and Sunday, respectively".

And of course their idea is Western-centric. Chinese and Muslims both have their own calendars for festivals.
I just pointed this out to a friend and she gladly brought up the Shire calendar from Tolkien's works, which according to her has 12 months, 30 days a month, 7 days a week, 365 days a year with the date of each month staying the same weekday due to the separation of the five other days as holidays that are separate from the months (including leap-day, which doesn't belong to any day of the week).

Which actually solves the exact same problem in a much cleaner fashion than this proposal.
Though I'm happy that Godaddy was made to buckle by the collective force of the internet, I can't help but ask: what about the other 149 companies on the SOPA list? Has no one thought about this? The only reason the internet went after Godaddy is because it is one of the few companies within the internet's reach. None of the major media player on the list have suffered or will suffer. Why? Because the internet is an utopia and the world out there is way way bigger than the internet can reach. So much for that fantasy, everybody.
what this tells me is that I need to put my name in my comments, :) thanks
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Why preserve the seven-day week? The appropriate factorization of 365 is 73*5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar

Plus, the Discordian calendar has the advantage of already being implemented in Linux!
I'd like to know how much extra complexity these leap weeks add to the calculations that would supposedly be easier... I would imagine that it is non-trivial.

Am I the only one that likes the fact that dates occur on different days? This way everyone's birthday will occur over a weekend every few years.
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> Though yes, the other things on the menu are a lot worse.

Like the white meat chicken nuggets that are actually made from dark meat and processed the shit out of. You know, because people won't eat an actual white meat chicken nugget, you've got to use the mould-able dark meat and shape it into a chicken wing shape and then bleach and throw in two-thousand chemicals to make it look right.

My problem with the beef is that they somehow get regular ground beef from 22% fat up to almost 40% fat by weight. It's almost like they just stick suet on a George Foreman and serve the ungodly result.

The thing I find disturbing is that 100% beef simply means 100% beef products. Commercial dog food often claims to be 100% beef, but actually contains cuts and pieces we don't even consider safe for consumption, let alone edible.
What would happen with birthdays that occur on days that were cut out of the new calendar? Jan 31, May 31, Jul 31, Aug 31, and Oct 31.

Also, that extra week business seems more confusing than leap years. "Every 5 or 6 years" seems indefinite.
Do you really think that any SOPA supporter is going to say they want to stifle innovation in favor of more litigation?

Well yes, although they wouldn't use those words. They would say something about "defending artists' right to control their music." As you can see, this is completely equivalent to supporting increased litigation at the expense of innovation.
Policy makers don't get intelligence from Stratfor!

For fuck's sake! You people are truly clueless!

"Policy makers" get their intelligence from the CIA. Duh! No government relies on Stratfor, it would be grossly irresponsible.

Stratfor makes most of its money from corporations that operate in foreign countries and are not large enough or important enough to have CIA-access.

This means corporations OUTSIDE the military-industrial-security complex. Anyone inside this complex uses Stratfor for light reading at most. The real intelligence is classified and is available to megacorps that collaborate with the CIA.
Nice writeup. After reading the first paragraph, I challenged myself to come up with something and here it is:

https://gist.github.com/a982f1fee5116d289323

Example run:

expected:
a 0.166666666667
b 0.333333333333
c 0.5

observed:
a 0.168
b 0.291
c 0.541

For a list of n items to choose from, it appears that pick() will terminate on the first iteration of the scary-looking while 1 loop with probability ~1/n. For n = 3, and I've run this many times, I've not seen the number of iterations exceed 30. For n = 26 it easily goes into the ~200 range at the extreme.
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A more simple solution is to have 13 months of exactly 28 days, plus one day for new years day. That's even better because every month is exactly the same number of days which means semi-monthly and bi-weekly billing systems are the same thing. And because there's the same number of days anything billed per month can be easily prorated per day, and any billing cycle will match up with every other billing cycle... so basically everything imaginable becomes considerably easier.

The only real problem is coming up with a name for a new 13th month and where to insert it.
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if you read the linked article, you see the explanation: the fourth commandment specifies resting on the seventh day. any proposed calendar that doesn't have a seven day week will never be adopted as long as religion still exists.

and even if it weren't for religion, everything is structured around a seven day week. changing that would mean a drastic lifestyle change for most people.
Will this include a profit share with users for wasting twice their time? ;)
haha that what they should answer at the clever flipped question. Haskell is the answer for all the questions, in originality order.
"It is absolutely conceivable that a lot of the people already working on Firefox simply never thought of adding line numbers.."

The bug was opened in 2004.
Don't forget that motor vehicles are well regulated, dangerous, powerful and profitable. It still doesn't mean dad won't hand the keys to his 17 year old kid and said kid won't try doing 160 and take out a hotel lobby.

We wilfully put aeroplanes in the hands of thousands of pilots. It doesn't stop them coming to work drunk, or falling asleep at the wheel, or heck snapping.

The reason governments won't strictly regulate space ships will be the same reason governments don't strictly regulate driving. It costs too much.
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I want to remove distractions

If you want to "provide a clean viewing space" and "nothing more" then leave off the music or give me an option to opt-in. Speaking strictly as a consumer, I don't think of the web as a "push" medium. It should be a "pull" medium. I want the HTML I ask for. The same goes for audio-visual. I hate it when a web page imposes a soundtrack and/or video on me. Give me access, but don't push it on me unannounced and unasked for.

How do you know I'm not listening to my favorite mix on iTunes?
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i dont know how he did it with a name like plentyoffish and to do it all by himself, let alone from canada. that man has skills.
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I like your idea, let's get together and discuss it over drinks. Hows your 1325357149?
Are you saying criticism of firefox must be restricted to bug reports and mailing lists?
They had to implement the Return Value Agenda program because a lot of the teams in the pilot project outright refused to participate in any way other than work on their startup. Christian, an ex-staffer with Start-Up Chile told me that there were people who literally never left their apartments and when asked whether they would host a meetup outright said "Nope".

It's unfortunate that happened, it's kinda of screwing it for the rest of us. Actually, a more comprehensive application process would have fixed a lot of the problems :)
i kinda like this idea
This problem has been seen before, when countries adopted the Gregorian calendar at different times:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_dating
Which university are you talking about?

(I'm learning J and other APL derivatives right now by myself by experimenting with the J docs and pinging the amazing people at the J software forums).
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It sounds like Startup Chile is bullshit if (and only if) you have better options available. Startup investor quality is judged relative to other investors.
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This highly depends on the kind of apps which needs to be done. Its highly difficult to generalize a backend for a n number of apps. I am not comparing the term "backend" here with Parse or YQL or aggregating datasources which is great. You write a backend to custom suite your app so that its highly performant both on the client and server side and you have paas hosting services for the language of choice. I would personally not like to have a generalized backend.
Incredible, just earlier today I read this strip (and of course wished to post it on HN):

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-24
If the browser can decrypt it then it is a simple matter to get at the decrypted code.

If you want to make it really difficult to "steal" code just run it through a minifer. You'll never really be able to hide what a script is doing though. If you want logic not to be user-known and very likely user-modifiable you -must- make it server side. If this weren't the case DRM would actually work ;)
> Not supplying ICS for the Galaxy S will help the sales of S II and the Galaxy Nexus.

Or will it help the sales of Xperias, Sensations, RAZRs, etc.?
Loved the writeup - honestly, I have no problem with the extra detail between the first super-naive approach and the ultimate best solution, it strikes me as a great way to teach problems like this. Especially when compared to the upper-level math "strip the scaffolding" approach, which always leaves you wondering "How the hell did anyone ever think of that?"

One small nitpick. [tl;dr - please pick a proper license when you publish code on the net] I went to the code snippets page because I was considering using this code in one of my projects (it's a bit cleaner than the code I've been using), and found this statement:

If you're interested in using any of this code in your applications, feel free to do so! You don't need to cite me or this website as a source, though I would appreciate it if you did. However, please don't plagiarize the code here by claiming authorship - that would just be dishonest. I also caution you that while I'm fairly confident that the code on this site is correct, I haven't mercilessly tested every line, and so there may be a lurking bug or two here.

Please, if you're releasing code on the Internet that you hope for people to use, just pick a standard license, and ideally, put the license specification in the comments of the code itself (this one sounds like MIT, BSD, or zlib would probably be fine with the author). I know, you're being nice, you're being casual, you want people to use your stuff, and you're not going to sue anyone.

But a self-penned informal license like this means that when Joe Java wants to pull in AliasMethod.java to help out a math library that he's working on at his bank job, he can't just go ahead and do it, because it's not on the pre-cleared list of code licenses that he's allowed to import external code under. He has to get explicit approval from legal first, which means that he has to convince someone there that spending 15 minutes looking over the license text and deciding whether it's solid enough to trust is a worthwhile use of time, all over a couple dozen lines of code that he could implement a naive version of in 20 minutes plus testing. At a lot of companies, that just means "no." It also presents difficulties for open source projects that might otherwise like to incorporate your code because of license compatibility concerns, in many cases requiring them to e-mail you for specific permission to include your code inside a differently-licensed project.

More concretely, I'd be nervous relying on this license statement for a couple reasons: first, it says "using any of this code in your applications". Would a separately distributed library file be considered an "application", or are we only allowed to use the code inside full running programs? Second, what about redistribution of the source code, and derivative works? It's sort of implied that this is allowed (how would someone claim authorship of this bit of code if they weren't redistributing it?), but a proper license should make source redistribution and modification rights extremely explicit, without that it's typically assumed that there are none.
Instead of DST, we will be starting work and school one hour later for half of the year. We have universal time. It's GMT.

There are many people who don't care what time it is in another country (domestic jobs and the unemployed). There is no real incentive to have everyone relearn what time they get up and go to sleep.
JSONP should only be used for public web services. otherwise, any third party website could make privileged calls.

The BaaS architecture is actually a perfect situation for making privileged calls with CORS, because the server is wholly responsible for the user's identity and permissions.
Pretty nice! Too bad a non-trivial segment of the population won't be happy with 13. You might as well call the new month Deviluary. :D
On the REST part it is not ideal for complex object based system where there are multiple resources which have n number of relationships and different http verbs on them can be mean different operations when exposed in a different way. ( I know its confusing.. :)). I just look at it as a design pattern which makes client side devs consume your services easily. It definitely helps in creating simple webservices but REST as a whole I would say doesn't satisfy everything a backend developer would want to expose or do in an efficient way. Think of batching... in REST.
JSONP only works for GET requests. It's not 'proper' AJAX. You wouldn't be able to POST, PUT or DELETE.
This is interesting but the leap weeks are kind of fussy, 5 or 6 years.
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It's been a few years but I'm looking to get back into the game and work on a web application. The trouble I'm having is that I need to make it semi-scalable (naturally, as a start-up I don't want to focus on this too greatly) but am also looking for something CHEAP.

It would seem like a cloud solution like Azure, Google App Engine or something else would be optimal but I've also heard it can cost much higher than something traditional.

Nowadays, where should one invest the time and energy when working on a new web application?
Nobody important uses the analysis service. Everyone important uses the CIA.

Stratfor serves small and medium sized businesses with global operations.

Huge military-industrial operations like Halliburton get their intelligence from the CIA.

You don't know what Stratfor is. It's a niche news product, nothing more. Like any newspaper, they have secret sources.

But the news product and analysis services offered by Stratfor are extremely benign. Anon is targeting them for no other reason than that Stratfor is a small business who hired a shitty engineering firm with bad security practices.

Any script kiddie can go around finding non-technical businesses with poor security. Stratfor's 70-person staff is peopled entirely by nerdy writers with humanities degrees who spend all day compiling mostly-public information released by the world's parliament buildings and militaries.

Stratfor deals in the analysis of public information for the benefit for private parties. No government agency relies on them, though they may subscribe, Stratfor will not be their primary source.

The people who rely on Stratfor are companies too small and inconsequential to get CIA-access.

Anyway I support the mission of Anonymous to hack the government and hack evil big corporations but Stratfor is not part of that complex and no juicy information is going to come out of this leak. It's going to be extremely mundane stuff and will probably get a few innocent cab drivers in 3rd world countries murdered.
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Ok, I'll give you an opportunity to downvote me back.

You keep turning this into something more melodramatic than it really is by using words like 'insist', and like 'bitch'. That's not conducive to a discussion.

Somebody pointed out what they think is a flaw in some product. In one sentence. Your defensiveness to that sentence is just way out of proportion. It's not unsurprising nobody's responding. A downvote is the appropriate response.

Elsewhere you said:

"you don't need to act surprised.."

That is passive-aggressive. You're insinuating surprise that I can't see. And you're claiming the surprise is pretend. A lie. Who wants to respond to that?
Isn't this what frameworks like rails, grails and spring roo are for? They make creating a basic CRUD app trivial. If you just need a trivial app then use one of these frameworks, anything more is obviously going to require customization on the backend code. I suppose there could be a niche for managed RAD (rapid application development) packages, or something like that, where they help people build an app using rails, or something, and then host it, but its not nearly as groundbreaking as seems to be suggested, these frameworks are fairly trivial to use as is to get basic CRUD functionality and if you need more customization then you're already moving out of the territory of having the backend as a service without having to pay custom development rates.
All of Dick Cheney's friends get their intel from the CIA. Stratfor is small potatoes.
just create the app first and scale later. but if you have to, make sure to abstract your db layer so that reads/writes are separate. and placing CDN and implementing caching will help scaling your app a long way.
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Herb Sutter goes in to a bit of detail about this here:

http://herbsutter.com/2010/03/03/where-can-you-get-the-iso-c...

I've actually emailed him, suggesting a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding model for standard documents - the idea being that when the target is reached, ISO gets the money and the standard docs are released into the wild.
The companies are just going to have to adapt to the culture.
I'm a little skeptical about the domain of usefulness of this algorithm. The simple method that computes the CDF and uses binary search for sampling is called "Roulette wheel selection" in this writeup.

The only difference at the big-O level between the "beautiful algorithm" and the above simple algorithm is, the latter takes log(n) steps for sampling versus O(1) (setup and memory usage are the same).

How many problems have n large enough so const1*log(n)+const2 is significantly more than the constant in O(1) algorithm? Not many, I'll bet, especially since const1 and const2 are small due to the simplicity of the simple CDF-based algorithm.

If it was O(sqrt(n)) vs. O(1), this would be a different thing, but log is different.

This is not to diminish the inherent interest in the sampling arguments used, and the existence of a big-O faster algorithm.
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For a second (before I read the actual article) I thought this was referring to people's use of a camera flash.

And in that regard its annoying that a lot cameras have flash enabled as a default. :(
That is because most the Chinese are hard working and do not work on a 7 day work week. Most Chinese get X days off per month or X days per 10 days if more than 3 days off per month. Not X days per week.

I believe most Ayis get 1 day off per month. Factory workers 1 day off per 10 days. Office workers 1 day off per week.

Actually, with the bigger factories their workers are getting 1 day off per week (e.g. established textile factories, foxconn, etc.).
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Why would Google want to fragment its userbase by having to separate classes of accounts, Google+ accounts and regular ol' Google accounts. That would be lamer.
The MongoHQ API is making great strides moving in this direction and as was mentioned in another post, the team is dog-fooding it so much that they are building the next version of the MongoHQ web app on top of it.

The added benefit that we see is that we are experts in managing, optimizing and scaling all of the backside data structure for you, while offering solid analytics, performance metrics and visual tools that allow you significant control over your data as well as critical insight into what is happening.

Really excited about this type of development going forward and good to see other offerings in the works!

(full disclosure: I am one of the founders of MongoHQ.)
A great deal more trouble?
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