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> Facebook levels of load would be a great problem to have. Until then, who cares?

It shows up a lot faster than at Facebook levels of load. Because php throws everything out at the end of every request, you're going to need to buy a lot more servers a lot more often if your app does take off. Or you end up paying zend lots of money for things like caching that are built into nearly every other language.

> Doubtful, but this isn't even a good point. Working software is the important deliverable.

Until you're stymied next year because your current codebase is falling apart.

> You missed the point. Writing a web app with a language that's basically tied to the web makes sense. It's not the most important point, but it isn't 'nonsense'.

I'd much rather have a language isn't tied to any particular ideology. Yes, your clients are web-based at the moment, but your database isn't web-based, your mail server isn't web-based, etc. Driving everything by your presentation layer is a terrible, superficial way of looking at problems.

> He said as much in that point. Did you bother reading and thinking about the article, or just trip over your own drool racing to the comments section? I'm just going to stop here.

The original blog author posted this with an air of php exceptionalism. Other languages equally have no problem handling the issues that this author claims exist.

This blog post, and your response, is a classic example of the php hammer syndrome. Yes, it kind of works, and seems neat at a superficial level, but once you start to use it, you start seeing all of the glaring flaws in the actual delivery of the product. Workarounds become dogma, and everyone suffers as a result.
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You hear this a lot (Google is an advertising company, they make 95% of their money from ads). But by that metric many companies are ad companies. Pretty much every web site on the web is just an ad company, because that is how they actually make money, most of the television and radio industries are just ad companies, because that is how they make money.

From http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html if I'm reading it right, 69% of their revenue comes from ads on their own sites. For mine that deserves to be counted as "technology company revenue" not "advertising company revenue". If they didn't have their own ad arm they still would have made a big chunk of that 69% by using some other company to show ads on gmail, youtube and their search page, but if they were only an advertising company they would have just made the 27% that was pure "advertising on other sites" revenue. Just because youtube makes money by showing ads, doesn't make youtube not profitable.
I think it's fairly simple in that the overwhelming majority of people (including most physicists) haven't got an intuitive grasp of exactly how relativity works. This possibly includes Einstein.

It wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out that the basic assumptions are not flawed at all, but that whole piles of stuff is being assumed in proofs regarding expected consequences of these things which prove to be complete nonsense.

The other aspect of it is mathematics itself, which is probably not up to the task.
I'd like to think that local communities will have at least somewhat of a filter for ignoring people who don't consistently make progress from week to week.
I'm convinced that even if someone did prove that a basic assumption of modern physics is wrong, it would automatically be assumed in turn that the author is a crackpot

Well, since 100% of "proofs" that the basic assumptions of modern physics are wrong over the last century have, in fact, come from crackpots it's a pretty good working assumption.

I'm convinced that the physics community isn't interested in the slightest in new ideas.

Uhh, nope, the physics community is extremely interested in new ideas. We sit around generating 'em all the time. We're not especially interested in outsiders who come to us with claims that they've proved some fundamental physics result, though, for the same reason that we're not particularly interested in Nigerian princes who email us offering us millions of dollars in return for assistance in moving money out of the country: those things just tend to have a ridiculously high failure rate.

If I weren't interested in new ideas, why the fuck would I be a physicist? For the chicks?

If ever someone bearing all the hallmarks of a crackpot does come up with a fundamental new advance in physics, though, I'm convinced that this will eventually bubble to the surface. No such luck for the real Nigerian prince though.

As an example to how bad things have become in the realm of physics, it's safe to say that the vast majority of thinking adults believe that black holes exist, because so much major media has told them so. But when you look deeper you find that there's no definitive evidence

Sure. That's also true if you replace "black holes" by "zebras". Do zebras exist? I've never seen one! I mean, I have, but it could easily have been a carefully dyed horse.

I think the level of evidence for black holes is not quite as strong as the evidence for zebras, but I think it's reasonably congruent with the level of confidence among physicists that they exist.
I recently built an entire application with licensed theater showtime data. The data is licensed by two companies in the USA, Tribune Media and Westworld Media. One or both of these companies will approach you should you scrape data from their affiliates. Eventful.com, for example, is a subscriber to the showtime data from Tribune media.

The application and company we built has since shut down for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was the cost of licensing.

nickadams reply is completely spot on. Either license the data or go home.

nickadams is also spot on regarding the complexity of the interfaces to which you would need to integrate. The extraction, translation and loading of data is hugely problematic and time consuming. The providers data comes from theater owners and is therefore, by definition, inconsistent. Theater owners like to put marketing information into data fields on an inconsistent basis. For example, under Amenities will be "50% of on Tuesdays."

If you want to talk in greater depth about dealing with Movie showtime data, get back to me.

As for the grey area, believe what you want. nickadams and I are in perfect agreement on this subject. We've both been in the trenches and know the territory well.
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Something that people forget is that the Apple II was a powerhouse of videogames back in the day -- the industry goes through phases from general use machines to the console business depending on what hardware is out there and also where the creative energy is as well.
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"I don't want to get into a debate about absolutism or anything, but that's a pretty bizarre statement. "to me" = acknowledging my own subjectivity. "for a buyer" = a generalised group. Weird."

I'm sure he meant "in my opinion, it's a bad investment [for whoever buys it]". There's nothing bizarre on that sentence, really.
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The site looks good, but a few prominent TLDR use cases and/or call-to-actions would be useful.

I already use Linux and am not sure how I would use this, and am too brain-tired at the end of a long day to dig into the site and figure it out.
I'm writing a little Sinatra app for my fiancee's birthday. It's nothing complicated, it just displays a different reason I love her each time the page loads (or you can permalink to a specific reason).
A lot of people used to carry pens on their shirts. Many still do. Now using bluetooth earpieces is commonplace. I am sure people will get used to using very tiny gadgets on their clothing or ears if they assist them in meaningful ways.
I get the impression that the issue lies more with engineers' inability to choose a language based on the problem, and being forced into Java whether it made the most sense or not.
I'm most curious about the role mentors will play in nReduce. From what I understand, mentorship is the secret sauce at YC and TechStars. It also seems like the hardest type of person to attract to a fledgling operation (compared to hackers and investors).
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You're right, I missed the part where "can't do cross-shard transactions or joins" was describing the old mysql infrastructure, not F1.
Well I had fun reading this article, because I read it while abseiling off a sixty-story building naked. If you didn't, that's your own problem.
An amazing infographic: effortlessly tells many stories with minimal ink by carefully arranging information to enable many possible comparisons.

But more importantly, he goes into the process; obtaining an extremely interesting raw data source, writing Python programs to iterate the design.

Pretty much everything on style.org (Jonathan Corum's site) is beautiful and effective.
Google itself didn't help, so could you? What is AI/ML? I suppose the AI part is artificial intelligence?
I'll reserve judgement until the case is concluded, but something I see repeated with this is that they are a very diverse firm. That's great and progressive.

It still doesn't mean something like this couldn't happen.
>> A few observations

I think you threw a few judgments in there too.
I've witnessed enough weird ketamine trips to hope nobody close bothers with it again.

It's too sketchy and has a wide variety of effects on people, depending on your brain chemistry. It can produce sedation, or very fast anti-depressant effects, and/or other unusual body responses [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine#Adverse_effects
There are two things going on here. First, as other commenters have noted, that as you increase the number of dimensions, the search space grows exponentially. The second, and deeper problem, is that our intuitions about 'volume' fail for higher dimensional problems. As you increase the number of dimensions, the outer shell of any hypercube holds much more volume than the inner portion of the cube. This means that if you were to distribute points with a Gaussian distribution in 2D, most of the mass is near the mean point of the distribution. As you increase the number of dimensions, more and more mass is contained within 'outliers'. In high dimensional space, things that seem unlikely in our usual 3D world become far more probable.
Just signed Curvio up for it. We're already launched, but we have a half dozen new features/products to launch this summer, so hopefully this helps us stay on track even better! :)
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I explicitly stated that FB has its positives. But wasting hours doing anything is bad. FB stalking people != stronger ties. It's a problem many people face, along with excessive gaming, etc.

I criticize the assertion that changing weak ties, in the way FB does, is a net positive for society. It's one thing to reconnect with an old friend, it's another to spend time everyday browsing through pictures of people you haven't seen in 10 years. Too much of the latter happens on FB.
I don't think those would make for good controllers -- there's no tactile feedback so you have to look at it to know what you're doing, in which case you're staring at your phone so why have the tv? I can sort of see it for party games, but that seems like a niche audience for a console.
Another big problem with studying high-dimensional spaces is that you run into many configurations that simply do not make sense in three dimensions/correspond to completely nonphysical shapes. This makes it difficult to study real (3-D) structures using many parameters because results in higher dimensional spaces do not necessarily correspond to a real shape.
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I think you're right for AI, and I'd gander Machine Learning for the other.
They could, but I'm not convinced that a touchscreen makes nearly as good a games controller as the old sticks-and-buttons.

Controlling something on a flat screen while looking at a different screen puts limits on the number of "buttons" you can have and be able to push reliably. Also, holding an iPhone like a games controller would be uncomfortable over longish periods of time.
Yeah, 2004 was still kind of the "dark ages" of Linux: where the other OSes had moved on but Linux was still mainly sticking with the text-based install and "network drivers need to be downloaded" phase (in my experience).

I will give you that Unity suffers from a lack of customization (I'm willing to give Canonical the benefit of the doubt that it's still a WIP). Unity/Gnome3 is exactly what I've been trying to customize Gnome2 to be like for the past 6 years.
For those of us bootstrapping while holding jobs, is it ok to not be full time for this as long as we are shipping?
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The Apple TV has hardware to support Bluetooth already. No reason Apple couldn't release a dedicated game controller.
First comment on article:

"Would this be hardware-based or software-based? As in, what if I put Linux on my ultrabook, can I still avail of this feature?"
For some reason I still remember him as the 'Dark Tipper' and explaining emule (or was it torrenting?) on Tech TV's The Screen Savers. I never would have imagined him being an angel investor/entrepreneur.
Have you looked at Capybara + Capybara-webkit? with the :js => true option set on your test cases, you might have some success. And it's still ruby, which is nice.

https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara#calling-remote-servers
https://github.com/thoughtbot/capybara-webkit
I don't know from what background you're making that statement but in general it's good for people to know that E=mc^2 only when the object is at rest, otherwise you must account for momentum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence...
You can tag things, which hopefully serves the same purpose as foldering.
I'll add some tools in the future to rename batch tags.
Ask HN: Image processing as a service (IpAAS?)
With all the client-side infrastructure as a services that are popping out lately, I think it is an exciting time to be able to put up a quick prototype and host the entire thing in a CDN.

But some things still require non-JS, backend infrastructure to run. Image processing for one. Do you peeps know of any service out there that does image processing as a service and also happen to provide a javascript sdk or REST api?

Thanks in advance!
Actually, the Javascript SDK handles the auth token for you. Once you have successfully completed a logIn or signUp, the token is stored in localStorage until logOut is called. And then it is passed along with subsequent requests to authenticate. So, you don't need to worry about how many characters the token is, or things like that.

We should definitely make the documentation clearer on this point, because this is all stuff that should Just Work.
So how does this work for remote teams that would miss a (full) week? Just update the next week with what shipped?

I am planning on attending a conference at the end of July (BSides Las Vegas/DEFCON, for those wondering), which would probably take me completely out of the running for shipping anything that week.

I am still very interested, but have other responsibilities as well. How would this work?
To be clear: I didn't say that Facebook was a waste. I said that Facebook's engineering effort was wasted, relative to the societal benefit (pick your definition) we see from the equivalent people at Google. And by extension, I made the point that Facebook hiring all these people was a net loss to society, because it didn't do anything but make an already good product a little better.
A lot of people used to carry pens on their shirts

Isn't "pens in the front pocket" a defining characteristic of a 1950s-era nerd?

Now using bluetooth earpieces is commonplace

Sure, among two classes of people: travelling salesmen and complete toolbags.

I am sure people will get used to using very tiny gadgets on their clothing or ears if they assist them in meaningful ways.

Oh sure, I'm just arguing that it'll never be cool.
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"JSX offers a solid class system much like the Java programming language, freeing the developers from working with the too-primitive prototype-based inheritance system provided by JavaScript."

Pass.
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the jsx source code of the "hello world" example is only 62.5% of the code needed by dart for the same example. 5 lines vs 8 lines of code.

the compiled JS source of the "hello world" example is only 0.5% of the code needed for the same task by dart. 91 lines vs 17259 lines code.
Unfortunately the universe doesn't care about what you'd like.
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Not to mention that "black hole" and "dark matter" are sort of place holder names that end up sticking.

These phenomena are also attempts to fix the old model because they didn't produce the correct predictions. Physicists are doing exactly what the OP would like them to do.

Paradigm shifts are also very hard. Your current models predict a lot of things very very accurately. Just look at all the stuff we've built. A new model has a lot to live up to if we want to use it.
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I find that hard to believe. Have a friend put a box beside you. Ask him to flip a coin every day for a week. If it comes up heads, he will put a 3g phone in that box. Otherwise, it should be empty.

I will bet you that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
"Well, since 100% of "proofs" that the basic assumptions of modern physics are wrong over the last century have, in fact, come from crackpots it's a pretty good working assumption."

Oh, please, which ones?

Maybe the crackpots that challenged the notion that light is a wave and never behaves as a particle

Or maybe the idiot that thought that massive objects can bend light.

And yes, Albert Einstein was considered an idiot and a crackpot. After all, he was just a patent office clerk.

"Uhh, nope, the physics community is extremely interested in new ideas". BS. No, the majority is not interested in that. They're interested in grants and the status quo

They only 'accept' the new ideas when the evidence is overwhelmingly in the favor of the new idea and they'll look like idiots if they don't accept it.

You may call it skepticism, but I call it cowardice. And it's very easy to hide behind the skepticism veil, but guess what, it doesn't bring a Nobel home.
You're witnessing second degree dilettantism at work.

Remember, we started out with a rock-solid reference impl called RRDTool. RRDTool is 13 years old and about as mature as it gets. It's also surprisingly usable and relatively wart-free.

However, its documentation is not written as a narrative "guide", so inevitably some kid eventually found it too complicated and decided to reinvent it, without realizing how far out of his depth he went. That's how graphite happened.

Now 37signals sees graphite, and goes full Dunning Kruger with yet another knock-off, this time leaving out everything that would acknowledge the slightest understanding of the problem domain. While graphite at least tried to mimic the RRDTool file-format 37signals just skips over that whole "complicated binary-stuff" and writes the data as newline-delimited ascii-text...
If you can do at least as much work as some "full time" employees every day you can probably call it even ;)
Anecdotally, the business in my story above did not, and still does not, contract out janitorial work.
Yep. If you can ship every week, maintain a fulltime job, and not go completely bonkers in 12 weeks we'd love to have you! :)
Not a non sequitur at all. You wrote "you're assuming far more agility in the OS choice than is realistic in the market" which was a point to support your case about NVRAM. I was merely stating that point was weak because, realistically, the agility in OS choice is increasing within the market.

I actually wrote in defense of the traditional filesystem model in another post on this thread. Just because I don't agree with your reasoning doesn't mean I don't agree with your conclusion.
And FAQ on the help page links to #faq, should be faq.html
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This is far and away the most shameful comment I've ever read on Hacker News.
Ask HN: Streaming music and licenses 
Other than Youtube, are there any practical options out there? I suppose I can use something like Rdio's API, but this would limit the app to Rdio subscribers. I'm wondering if there is any possibility for smaller-scale apps to negotiate some kind of streaming deal, similar to internet-radio licenses. How do sites like Turntable.fm pull it off? Is the short answer lots of lawyers?

Thanks.
That certainly marked the end of something for them. But they continued to be a very powerful company for another 10-15 years. They leveraged their long distance business to buy everything in sight in the 90s (cable, mobile, even NCR). But by the time the internet bubble came, and everyone built out massive amounts of fiber, that ate the lunch of long distance in a matter of a few years (hence my "5 years" claim above -- they had to start selling assets in 2000 and were acquired in 2005).
"All that matters are your best"

I agree with some of your ideas, but in my humble opinion, this attitude will cost you your business faster than anything.
Randall's come out with a number of these.

Scale of the Universe, Radiation, IPv4 space, lakes & oceans, gravity wells, and Money all come to mind.

http://xkcd.com/195/

http://xkcd.com/980/

http://xkcd.com/482/

https://xkcd.com/1040/

http://xkcd.com/681/

(You can curse me later).
Connects automatically when in range of any supported network even when device is in sleep mode. What a wonderful way to needlessly drain your battery.

If your device is asleep during your commute, do you really expect it to have any charge left after driving through downtown and connecting to two dozen wifi networks?

Sounds like more Windows malware to me.
Would've liked to see his argument in infographic format.
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I agree that exercise is important, but this guy's life seems so planned out in advance it's almost creepy.
Their website has a pretty comprehensive privacy policy: http://kicksend.com/privacy
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For what it's worth, it's not "Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light" so much as "Moving faster than light is a concept which makes no sense physically."