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The immediate feature that comes to mind is to be able to rotate the canvas that we're drawing on. I noticed that your logo (which is awesome) is actually in a different orientation than the drawing space.
- availability means access to the data, not just uptime

- I have never seen changing schemas on the fly in a RDBMS programmatically (except admin functions). I have seen overloading of column types however.

- "super column" data stores have a deistinct design advantage that you can not get from relational DBS.

- everyone that is using relational does the same thing when they get big data: denormalize. From materilzed views al the way to sharding and replication.

- banks use transactions, but not as a two phase commit. it is a single atomic record - not partial updates.

- we still have some species from the age of the dinosaurs, but the land is rules by those that have evolved.

- I agree that banks should be consistent. Not sure what he author was saying here

- CAP is relevant to ALL datastores. Consistancy, Availability, Partition tolerance : pick any two.

- if your post does not get committed to Facebook, it may be important to YOU, but the application is designed more for availability
I don't think insurance companies care much one way or another. If people prefer to prolong their life as long as possible, then insurance companies would just increase premium payments and pay for these procedures.
There are a few programs in the U.S. that do that. I got to be part of one back in 2007, News 21, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation. To your point, just having someone from the outside skeptically examining official claims led to people losing their jobs: http://newsinitiative.org/story/2007/08/28/holy_land_experie...

That's the follow-on piece to a longer story that's apparently only readable in raw HTML now:

http://newsinitiative.org/story/2007/08/23/the_holy_land_exp...

It didn't take much for the leadership change to happen there. I read a few stories about the place getting acquired by a T.V. network with a bad reputation. I interviewed as many people as I could by phone over a few weeks. Then I flew there and spent 3 days wandering the park interviewing as many people as I could. Then I wrote out the story they had told me and my editors worked it over a bit to help it hang together better. When it was published, it didn't seem like I'd actually found anything terribly interesting.

However the simple fact of stitching everyone's testimonies together was enough to show that the company's leaders weren't all telling the story people thought they were, and that led to the ouster.

The News21 program recruited about 100 graduate journalism students, gave us each $7500, and had us report on very narrow topics for 3 months. My team was assigned to "religion and public life" and while this was a private theme park, it was a place where religious themes were displayed very openly. Others in our group went to Mount Rushmore for 4th of July, which is apparently a very religious affair, the Mormon pagaents in upstate NYC, and so on.
If they were interested in saving money for it's own sake, they wouldn't have bothered using sterling silver for the metal parts.
I also noticed the emphasis on analytics which is actually very much a weak point of NoSQL. You can't do ad-hoc analytics in a NoSQL database without performance at least an order of magnitude worse than youd get in a relational system. NoSQL only works with analytics when you know all the questions you want ot ask ahead of time.
Personally, I tried to share the original NYT article, but it was behind a registration-wall so I shared the Forbes one instead.
My apologies for this. I get the magazine in the mail, I didn't realize the full-text link would hit the paywall.
Doubtful. Some of the already-scheduled course offerings feature Berkeley faculty:

http://www.saas-class.org/
http://www.security-class.org/
Apress (and many others like them), you just lost one more customer
Apress, like many other websites, only accept payments using credit card. Me, being in security, am extremely reluctant to give my credit card details to every website that asks for it. Why can't all websites accept paypal and/or other similar services ?
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That's sort of the idea ;). But, especially after seeing it done in a couple hours, Mr. Hollywood is not likely to know it's worth $300.
I can't believe that some teams haven't already started doing this: hire a data scientist or two and turn them loose with statistics, film, and some assistant coach to help them make sense of the game and its nuances. Apply some machine learning and you'd have a really serious tool to apply in predicting your opponent's play calling.
What I've seen (and really like) is doing a great High Deductible Health Plan (i.e. HSA-eligible) -- something where you get top quality coverage for extreme things, and get access to the best doctors, and negotiated prices for everything from the first dollar each year, but are on the hook for the first $5k or so of costs.

Then, your employer gives you $5k/yr tax-free into your HSA account; if you don't use it, it's basically equivalent to a Roth IRA. It's actually better to spend cash out of pocket and then leave the full amount in the HSA, since it can be invested tax-free forever, and all gains are themselves tax-free. You can easily end up with a few hundred thousand dollars extra.

This accomplishes the useful goal of getting people to be price conscious for their medical services, but doesn't impoverish them. The one thing it might do is promote time shifting expenses (if I know I'm over the $5k limit in one year, I'll get all my other elective stuff done that year), but it's not a big deal otherwise.

IMO, the HSA thing was one of the best reforms in health care in a long time, and one of the (few) good things GWB did.
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We have this feature in 8centsms.com but we verify ownership of mobile numbers. We've had problems with spammers sending fraudulent "from" headers like "BTUK" (ie. british telecom) so we recently put in some checks to ensure we have to manually verify each account once they spend up to a certain amount. I think that if you're blindly allowing people to spoof the sender id you're just asking for trouble ... Also this seems to be a pretty expensive prank ;)
Not NFL, but a friend told me about this last week: http://communityvoices.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/spor...

Ack, it appears the original is here, my apologies: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/scorecasting/0...
Very cool project! I'm using it to try replicate some of my favicons into the QR code for the sites.
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For Twitter, you may want to use Paper.li to track the stories linked by people you follow. You can also add in hash tags, lists, and a few other non-Twitter sources (e.g. RSS feeds) as well. I have two that I use, one built around my "Security" list and another based on two or three hashtags and my "Data-Science" list.
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One example of why you should do your own back-ups
Can I use this to sign any document? (ie. in the same way that Preview allows you to sign documents now in Lion).
Overall cool idea, and I respect anyone who makes such a thing from a craft perspective. But the decision to make it look like a grenade was extremely unwise and arguably dangerously stupid. Walk into a building with a large number of people who don't know you, and the odds are one of them will see it and freak out, leading to a police/security encounter or worse.
The article is, IMO, total crap.

There are advantages to NoSQL in some cases. I am even happy to write about them. However, they are not really the advantages listed here.

The first is that SQL databases can in fact be distributed in some cases. Look at Postgres-XC for an example of write-scalable distributed shards while maintaining a consistent, relational model.

The second is the focus on analytics. NoSQL analytics is very much of a problematic area. Doing the analysis typically requires very intensive searches of the entire data, and NoSQL databases are not optimized for this. Consequently analytical data tends to be slow to build and then maintained on data input, rather than generated ad hoc from existing data (using the entered data as a single point of truth). This leads to a lack of flexibility even though prepared reports load quickly. It isn't clear to me how different this would be from summary tables maintained with triggers.

Now NoSQL has some advantages:

1) Where you don't need ad hoc analytics, where you have highly defined functional requirements, and where you have well defined network protocols for interop, development is often faster, and performance is better.

2) I think it could be very interesting as a network transparent back-plane if you will for various kinds of network services.
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Interesting point. I wonder what graph of oversight level vs. corruption level looks like. I'm sure the point of diminishing returns occurs at only 1/10th a dedicated journalist. However, the marginal societal value (cost of corruption compared to cost of oversight) might continue to be positive for awhile as investigators are added.
If you want to do visual programming, check out the Processing languange (http://processing.org) as well as Hackety-Hack (http://hackety-hack.com), which is a Ruby Environment for kids of any age to learn how to program.

Hackety-Hack.com also has a StackOverflow-like Question/Answer page for people new to programming to get assistance.

Programming is fun and rewarding, but it's also one of the most challenging mental exercises you can submit yourself to. Be prepared to feel discouraged once and a while but don't let it sink in. Anyone with drive can learn to program!
If there's a list of things NOT to ever make a joke about it in public, then near the top of the list would be combat explosives.
> I remember a test that compared MySQL to SQL Server (Microsoft's SQL Server) a few years back.

Just curious, how many?
Hackathons aren't necessarily about shipping. To me, they're about having fun with smart people and maybe (or maybe not) producing a seed for a future shipping software product. In the very worst case scenario, maybe you learn something.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't seen anyone carrying the "Hackathons are how we build software" banner.
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It serves to show that, if you want SQL performance, maybe you'll have to ignore the ORM. Every point tells you something. Whether this something answers an important question is a completely different matter.
I've never been to an OpenBSD hackathon, but I've heard good things about them from others. They get a lot done on ports and various projects (PF, OpenSSH, etc) during the hackathons. It seems to be a big part of their culture.
Google, NetFlix, or some other company that uses it as an integral part of their product. Get them to pay you $100K instead of you paying them $100K.
cool, I will have to check that out!
The landing page for your app is visually appealing, but it focuses on features instead of value. The closest thing to a value statement that appears above the fold on your site is this: "Our easy to use collaboration platform has been built to allow you to work with your documents how you want and need them." But even this statement is quite vague.

If you can answer the following question in the first screen of your landing page, you'll make it easier for potential customers to become actual customers: "How will this app make my life better?"

I'd be happy to help you answer that question for your customers: http://www.hnofficehours.com/profile/philipmorg/
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I won't make an account here for the same reason I don't log in to sites using facebook, I only want a relationship with the site, not a giant 3rd party.

The site itself looks great, and would be a site I'd like to join, except for the google login part.
Convenience generally trumps everything else.

And taste. Pizza is really good.
Whether or not this is true in every detail, I think the point that it is essentially true is undeniable. And there isn't anything objectively wrong with it, it's just not what we want to watch. Heck, I'm a computer programmer and it's not what I want to watch. If I want to see algorithms running against each other I've got all kinds of other places I can do that.

Let's leave the humans something.
Well, as a designer who does his best to understand his medium and make web pages load as cleanly as possible I can only agree with some of this.

As for my role as a designer, most of the decisions that are made as to what composes the website is not made by me. They are made by people above me in our company's chain-of-command. Most of these people have no idea what's involved in making a website but if I wish to continue receiving a paycheck I do what they say. I do try to educate them in some ways so that they can understand what's what but it doesn't always work out that way. Most of the things on the websites I work on that I do not necessarily like I can do nothing about, they are mostly marketing decisions.

Some of this hate towards designers can be spread around a bit more I think.
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Fascinating that you've actually done this! What is sad to me is how little effort was required to bring about this level of transparency. I'm not suggesting that you did not work hard on this series, but it's not like 10 investigators spent a year interviewing everyone possibly connected. Perhaps the bright side is that you've demonstrated the potential upside of non-profit transparency work by showing how low-hanging the fruit might be.
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Interesting find & I wondered in this post, "Why Startup Hubs Work" ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3077165 could the randomness of Startup described by "pg" really be Morphogenesis? ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/6215220131/

The original paper, Turings last can be read here ~ http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing....
I think many coaches already do this, however their predictive results are written on paper and carried around in their binders by assistants. Every coach has a list of scenarios when going for a 2pt convert is advisable, when going for 4th down is advisable, as well as dividing plays up according to yardage & scenario.

Additionally, the amount of film that is analyzed prior to each game, as well as the amount of free-agency these days means players are so familiar with one another and opposing team's play books, that the technology already exists - in their brains.

Maybe it's the football purist in me, but I really don't think iPads would add much. In the NHL, the Maple Leafs have an iPad or two on the bench during the game (the NHL has no restrictions) and they stink.
Yeah, my response was fairly tongue in check, but it isn't hard to imagine a scenario where the idea guy starts grumbling and shells out whatever you ask.
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Find Smiley is an awesome physics-based puzzle game, your goal is to get the smiley below the dotted line by placing TNT to the correct position and then blast it.
This. Plus "let's have everyone's body and mind gradually deteriorate over several decades before they die".
I think you grow out of that stage.

Programming is addictive for teenagers. They get a job and at some point start hating it. They do hobby fun projects in spare time. Get old, no more passion.

God says...
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upon the plain in the highest contentment and satisfaction at seeing with
what ease he had made a beginning with his grand purpose. But scarcely
did he find himself upon the open plain, when a terrible thought struck
him, one all but enough to make him abandon the enterprise at the very
outset. It occurred to him that he had not been dubbed a knight, and that
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I never studied game theory, but I think that makes you sick.

God said war was "servicemen competing". I'm a civilian.

God says...
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desert I'm_bored patience fun how_could_you so_let_it_be_done
African fer_sure just_between_us exorbitant Okilydokily

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This seems petty in the scheme of things but the vision for
LoseThos was recreational programming -- a place to do those hobby projects.
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Blue Blox is a cool puzzle game, your goal is to reunite the blue blocks and keep the smiley blue block off the ground in each stage.
That first paragraph was eye opening all on its own. I actually think I've collected masses of links to compiler resources from one or more of your comments in the past, so thanks for this one too.
The debate over NoSQL vs SQL datastores seems to carry many of the same overtones as the debate over static vs dynamic typing in programming languages, with similar arguments being made on both sides.
A massive redundant array of probabilistic logic networks sounds pretty familiar to me.
Yes, this is accurate. The coaches and stats guys do this before the games and they all know what they want to run in given situations and what they believe the other team will do. It's just written down on paper.

Trust me, NFL teams have stats and programmers on board.
This story in the WSJ from back in December adds a lot of context to the issue of game time technology in the NFL. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020389340457710...

As others have commented, it's hard to believe that teams aren't already applying Moneyball-type analytics to the game.
nice start. Get me a way to import the opml file of my feeds from google reader and I'll give it a serious go. Thanks!
I think that depends on which government we would be talking about.

How much judicial process a person would get, and whether the person with the transparency grenade would be killed with or without judicial process, would indeed vary from one government to another. But it would be a rare government that would forget about searching people thought to have grenades with them in secure areas as a CONSISTENT practice. (Counterexamples to what I just wrote: A confidant of Hitler was able to bring a briefcase containing a bomb into a meeting with Hitler.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20/new...

A group of CIA operatives were assassinated by a person they believed to be an informant, who was actually a Taliban double agent.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126225941186711671.html

So maybe someone attempting to penetrate a secure area, especially a trusted person, might get lucky bringing in a transparency grenade, even in the artist's intentionally provocative form. But in the general case, it is probably wiser to use better tradecraft and disguise the spying device as something harmless that belongs in the secure area.)

The more serious suggestion in the page submitted here is that perhaps we can all live a little more freely if only we can find out what is being deliberated by the most secretive regimes, the regimes from whose territories we most rarely see posts on Hacker News.
If you are seen pulling the pin from a grenade, you're likely to be shot on sight.
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You're right and you're wrong. I think the delta in progressivism in each society is merely correlated with regressive VATs.

Being largely unable to implement the same degree of redistribution (remember also that income taxes are higher in Europe), I don't buy the argument that having more regressive taxation schemes ala a higher Sales/VAT in the United States would have a negligible effect on inequality.

I don't know about you, but 50%+ of my income went into consumption.
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Unfortunately that feature got dropped from the MVP... it's definitely very high up on the list. You can edit the image afterward of course.

Thanks for trying it out!
> If the new me is identical to the old me I think I would. The new me is not supposed to notice anything different other than I woke up in a different place. The old me should never wake up once the new me has woken up.

As far as I can see stepping in such a teleporter basically amounts to suicide. Whatever is happening in another part of the Earth doesn't change a thing from the perspective of the guy getting shot.

So suppose we change the story a bit: we don't create a new copy of you, but we still shoot the old you. For you (the old you) this isn't any different than the previous story. Would you still go for this?
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Play selection is part of the game, and picking the right play under stress is a fundamental part of the game. Palming this off to machine computation is taking a fundamental part of the game and tossing it out. If you throw in runtime updates, it becomes even less about the guys on the field on the day, and even more about which franchise can afford the best statisticians.

I'm against just plugging tech into games simply because it's there, particularly if that tech is not available to all comers.
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If any security personal saw a transparent plastic flashing light shaped like a grenade they'd likely write it off as a trinket.
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when you incorporate a limited liability company, you must inject capital to this entity. This is the paid up capital. retained profit is not capital, if my rusty accounting can be trusted. valuation is definitely not capital.
Of course you can change schemas on the fly. Just because ALTER TABLE goes ka-thunk on MySQL doesn't mean it can't be done in more robust databases.

I'm not sure what you think two-phase commits are, but they ARE atomic transactions. They are essentially "Everyone cool with this transaction?" "Yep!" "GO."

The CAP gotcha is that you already have partition tolerance - if you didn't, your database would go "boom" when a node went offline. So, really, it's "pick one".

And believe it or not, Facebook moved some stuff from Cassandra to HBase in part because of its stronger consistency model.
awesome, will wait to see some of these virtual instruments getting mainstream with professional artists playing them
I'm confused by the sign-up form. "Just in-case I ever forget my password, my email address is..."

yet an e-mail address is required for logging in. Seems like it's more than "just in-case...".
It didn't work, I am logged into all four yet it told me I was only logged into Twitter.
Space. Maybe silicon.
This is written by a man who thinks each and every paragraph he writes is worth linking to.
The Coderwall site scrapes your public Github information but doesn't show you any "achievements" until you tweet about "@coderwall". Seems like a shady way to kick start a developer community.
In the past, I too would have thought that good code needs to take a backseat when shipping is a priority. But now I have realizes that if I just think for about 5-10 minutes, I am able to avoid a lot of mess for almost no penalty in shipping time.

Good design keeps things clear in code and in your mind. It can handle changes a whole lot better as well.