skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does that have to do with an SQL database schema? And what's the significance of the link structure? It's not so dissimilar from other websites or the web itself. Sure, it would probably make for a cool looking graph, but it has no bearing on the underlying storage method in this particular case. If it was necessary to understand or perform some kind of analysis on the relationships between objects like social networks and search engines do, they would probably have a more interesting storage mechanism to look at.

Personally, what I find surprising about this whole thing is that people are so amazed at the simplicity of the schema. A wiki is a fairly simple application. Think about it. If you were going to build one it's not much more than a basic CRUD application. You really only have articles (with versioning), user accounts, images/media and whatever other oddball features you want to have like statistics and IP restrictions. Hell, I remember seeing some beginning Ruby on Rails book that used a wiki as the tutorial application. This is pretty basic stuff.
Seven Principles of Lean Software Development
Storing power on the future electric grid
Google is got or rather is getting that one done.
The best of explanation of Finger Trees (data structure) I have seen
"bring Google one step closer to dethroning Windows on your desktop."

AUGH
Seconded. It's too bad; it would be cool to have a sat image of the mall during Obama's speech.
You could take a look at Aqua Data Studio or DB Visualizer. I haven't used DB Designer so I don't know how they compare, but DB Visualizer is a pretty nice tool and not too expensive.
Sure. It really wasn't as tough a decision for us as it could be for other startups. We aren't hiring and aren't actively raising money (though we keep in touch with many potential investors just in case). Also, our families are in the midwest. The only thing we "gave up" was that our startup friends almost all moved to San Francisco. But since we're working most of the time, it's not that big of deal.

If and when we have a war chest of cash, we'll likely move to San Francisco; it's a kick ass place but is as expensive as NYC.
I really don't think you're likely to have scaling issues. Your site appears to be static (if not, freeze it temporarily, since there is no dynamic content which adds customer value -- aside from the purchasing pathway, and honestly if your website gets brought down by too many people hitting that at once then you should just take your lumps like a man and then console yourself that as soon as you fix things you can retire to your own private island).

It is very, very difficult to knock over a site, even on shared hosting, with just static files which are not rich media. You'd need to have thousands of users a minute. I am not familiar with the podcast, but I am familiar with the concept of conversion rates, and based on the expected conversion rate from someone hearing a URL to typing it in unless his podcast gets piped in over the loudspeaker at MacWorld I rather think you're unlikely to get more than four figures of visitors out of it. You'll get through four figures in a breeze.

(Candidly, I think I wouldn't be hoping to see four figures myself, but that might be natural pessimism.)
It's funny to see someone who claims to be an expert be so wrong. We can learn something from that.
Rent  your torso.
Self replicating nano-machines.

It's a powerful and dangerous thing to wish for though.
Dude, with a name like sleep and a thing called hoes how can you go wrong? It doesn't look that bad as a scripting language actually, I applaud you that you actually created the thing. :-)
Is it just me, or does the phrase "cross-platform Web app" remind you of the JVM fiasco of the 1990s?
I am making a USB device for my start-up and the top comment is pretty much sums it up.
Other tips:
1. For low volume PCB protos (even 3 boards) you can't go past http://www.ourpcb.com for value for money. They have been awesome and very helpful. Ask for John. They can also solder those hard SMD chips and source components from your BOM.
2. For supply chain post your requirements at www.hkinventory.com - make sure you use a temporary email as you may get spammed. Usually it's a hard struggle to get a handful of components (they usually deal in thousands) but in this economic climate I think they will get what they can!

3. Plastic moulds is expensive, but again try posting your requirements at alibaba or something similar. In my experience, get a professional mechanial eng / industrial engineer to design the CAD. This may be 8k to 15k. Again I did a mini tender to three firms and got their responses and then chose one.

Good luck. Feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
Not inherently bad, but... I can think of a least a 100 things I'd rather do than read 100 books on the same topic.
I said "theoretically." Boiled down, you're collecting commissions to aggregate ticket inventory and find the lowest prices for buyers. If every buyer spent the time to find the lowest price (including spending the time to develop the knowledge you guys have of pricing, etc), those commissions would disappear.
You don't read Knuth. You put him on your nicest bookshelf and check out a page or two for emotional support when working on Java Enterprise Application #431404.
Thanks. I was hoping to find a Free (as in beer) one... I have been looking for quite awhile already but still could not find anything that is Open Sourced
Application developers see iPhone as way to get noticed
Ach -- El Reg has been playing up the "evil Google fooling people" angle for years. a) the general algorithm has been written up and confirmed many times. b) the power-law distribution of rankings is not a secret either. You don't need a three-page conspiracy piece to point out the implications of a + b.

I love this line, after 2 pages of conspiracy wanking: "Never mind that it's obvious."
Especially if the ski season continues to suck!
One Man's Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle
I think this guy had a lot to do with it: http://dammit.lt/domas-mituzas/

A lot of interesting info can be found here: http://dammit.lt/uc/workbook2007.pdf
Yes: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
I was just doing customer service help with someone today actually. IE 6.0. I wanted to throw the guy into a lake. Of fire.
This is a quote from my friend's law professor:

"We have courts and trials because at some point we decided to trade in our shotguns for lawyers to settle disputes"

In other words shutdown() returns a Shotgun. (I am refining the API here)
That picture should really be on your "about us" page =)
i havent tried it yet, but ive heard good things about tsung. http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/user_manual.html#htoc2
"Please disable my account."

Used to get hundreds of those requests when I had a prominently placed "feedback" link. Each one made me sad....

Then I changed the link to "feature requests" and nearly all of those requests when away:-) Then I made deactivating the account easier to find. The deactivation rates actually went down when people realized that they could do it themselves any time that they needed to.

"You're a cheep knockoff of [competitor]!" -- This one always got to me too. Spent months not advertising a site and changing it just to be different in fear of this one. I rarely ended up hearing this though.
I was pretty interested when I first saw SkyDrive as its capacity (25G) and features seemed actually useful - just what I need to keep a shared drive between a bunch of distributed computers. But mystifyingly, Microsoft do not offer any way to simply map it to a drive letter. You'll have to log on through a web browser and either do traditional file-upload type operations or install some ActiveX junk just to let you do "drag and drop" (which I don't want to do anyway - I want to script stuff from the command line).

Given how obvious mapping to a drive letter is as a feature, and how trivial one must assume it would be for Microsoft to implement, I can only assume they've deliberately crippled it for strategic reasons.

Assuming it's not just a delusional fantasy I hope GDrive gets this right, because this is a service I do want ...
Gever Tulley - 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/gever_tulley_on_5_dangero...
Hmm I"m not sure if that would be true since we're paid directly from Stubhub, Razorgator etc. The prices shown on TicketStumbler are the same as those shown on Stubhub (there's no extra fees on our end). Essentially, we try to save people time without costing anything extra.

If the user went to all those sites separately they'd still pay the same amount. What you're saying definitely applies to a place like Expedia that tags on extra fees.
I guess more people need to see Semi Pro.
Do Women Handle Start-Ups Better Than Men?
Would that (the longer tube) take into effect the diminishing force of gravity on each additional mile?
I've just started watching TED... but i really liked the http://www.thedolectures.com/ which are similar
Choosing a web dev platform: Rails or PHP?
amazed that it took them until page 3 to mention PhoneGap. As far as I'm concerned, that is a huge opportunity to alleviate the issues they build up in the first few pages.
Would that (the longer tube) take into effect the diminishing force of gravity on each additional mile?

No. From the description I quoted:

For this measurement, the definition of weight is the force of gravity at the earth's surface applying to the entire length of the material, not diminishing with height.
Was that a PC Accelerator editor, by chance? I loved that magazine- I always turned to the worst reviews first, just to see the crazy comments they had to say!
I saw him speak at my University. He's got the right way of looking at things. Very pragmatic. Also, one of my fave TED talks.
Well of course if everybody spent all that time to find the lowest prices and developed knowledge of pricing we'd stop making money. But they're not going to do that, just like everybody isn't going to randomly decide to learn the way air travel works and put Orbitz et. al. out of business.

Even if it cost 10% more to buy a ticket through TicketStumbler, which it doesn't (it costs 0%), it would still be worth it. You have to consider the opportunity cost.
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This is becoming a common so-called 'attack' on this young girl and I disagree. Girl or no girl; if it was a young boy I'd still think the same thing: that the student in question is not prepared for life learning. This is one of the things that higher-education is supposed to instill in students. And I'm not even for the attackers- let's get the student with this type of problem the help they need, there is no need for attacks... but if the student displays this type of behavior and opts for the easiest route, whatever their sex, and whatever operating system they're using, the unfortunate truth is that they are indeed not ready for the rigors of college and therefore, the role of being independent.
Modern Library held a "top books of the century" thing, using both critics and popular vote to make two lists.

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

The critics one is decent, if a bit off (Ulysses 1: yes, Great Gatsby 2: hardly), but the Ayn-Rand-meets-L-Ron-Hubbard on the other side always makes me laugh, even though I'm a fan of Rand.
It also looks at if you use a CDN, which may help him.
That's actually one of my childhood fears. Just that they were live beings, not machines.
We have had decent luck with <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/">Amazon's CDN CloudFront</a>. If you already use S3 it is pretty easy to configure CloudFront and make sure your users have a speedy experience.
I'm going to disagree. Let me share some background, I spent several years helping to write the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 spec. The original WCAG 1.0 as well as Section 508 specify an alternate text only site as a viable method.

Real world experience shows us those sites quickly fall behind. Text-alternatives are necessary for multimedia content, text-only sites as an alternative to good markup aren't.
Imob is 1 of the most fun and adicting game I have ever played
its been said a million times already, but its just not fair to compare a framework to a language. rails is like a well-assembled toolbox, php is like the tool factory.
I stayed up til the wee hours of this morning to watch Obama's inaugural speech (It occured around 2:10am for me) and I must admit I was impressed and saddened at the same time.

Impressed that you Americans are getting a leader who is inspiring and I hope he does great things for your country (so congratulations!)

Also I was saddened, as Australian politics is in a pretty poor shape right now, which we substituted an aging Prime Minister who kept our economy in good working order for a dud PM. Shame.

Where do I sign up to work hard to help a great nation?
Thermal protection and heat dissipation will most likely be a hard problem.

Getting a lander to survive into the lunar night is a big challenge in its own right.

If it can't survive the night, that places other constraints on the mission.
I want to be able to pause and rewind audio from my car radio.
Grammars for Generative Art
One alternative is to just use nethack (or a variant like crawl) as a testing ground for your AI agent.
Self replicating living beings? Wouldn't that cover just about all living beings?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but today's Ubuntu systems do come installed with OO, and even if not, it's not like it's difficult to acquire when the user grasps only the fundamentals of the package system(two or three navigating moves, a search entry, and one or two clicks), which is fully available with more applications than one has time in their lifespan to go through let alone actually use. :) But alas, the problem I think with OO, at least in my experience, is that OO is like a one way function- it accepts .doc formats but it's not /completely/ compatible the other way around- going to a purely Win Office(Word) world. I've noticed simple discrepancies after saving in OO and then opening in Word that I didn't particularly care for. However, the most full-circle solution that I found to that was(possibly an advanced topic for this student), is to open up something like VMWare Player or Workstation and there's your glorified Windows Office.

What urks me about these schools is that they're not as informed as they're supposed to be. Making such stringent requirements such as those are just plain moronic. But as you do, I see the cause- they're trying to make the dough through the licenses by demanding their students adhere to these rules.. when in reality they could just say "Windows compatible" - come on.
The build system on *nix. make, gmake, autoconf and related tools are really terrible.
I totally agree and didn't mean it as a criticism in any way. Just that in theory, you're providing a service that lets people convert money (someone's, not sure whose, perhaps completely fanciful) into saved time, and that the article is about you sacrificing time to reduce costs. The vonage example specifically is about that - some slight increase in inconvenience (i.e. lost time) for a cost savings.
Satellites, balloons, and math used to count inauguration crowd
This point isn't anything new. I sent this over to my economist girlfriend and here was her response:

http://www.econgirl.com/1/post/2009/01/first-post.html

The question of local currencies is interesting, but no matter what happens the consumer will have to pay for it in the form of increased inflation.
Thanks. I figured it wasn't too big a deal, but just want to be prepared.

I'm more focused now on making the site suck less when it does load. :-)
Pretty scarey though aren't they?
One click install java IDE and compiler.

One click install C IDE and compiler.

One click install Erlange IDE and compiler.

And so on and so forth.
You can solve the viewing angle problems without having to adjust the hardware too significantly - what about adjusting the perspective of the window that you're using depending on the angle that the thing is being viewed at.

For instance, if someone takes out both viewing angle clips, chances are it's sitting on a tabletop, so the screen could adjust accordingly so people aren't having to crane their necks to view the text accordingly.
Restore Scientific Integrity to the White House: Restore the basic principle that government decisions should be based on the best-available, scientifically-valid evidence and not on ideological predispositions.

Well that doesn't pull any punches.
Why would you want to be a walking billboard?
It's about time Push Lotus Notes email coming to iPhone
Whenever I see images like this I always get a little grossed out when I think that the splotches are people packed together. Dunno what that says about me.
I'm sure they would have wanted to have the satellite orbit at the appropriate time, but changing the orbit to coincide with a specific time isn't exactly cheap or easy.
Your belief is incorrect from my point of view. Sure, we want to help in some occasions- and of course there are bad apples in every bunch irrespective of your profession. But we don't do it because we want the "approval" of non-geeks, that's sad in my opinion, unless they have a sound reason for it. Why we do it is evidently not clear to you- which, simply put, is for the pure passion of it. If we sought to be appreciated(at least the geeks I know), or sought approval, we wouldn't be geeks. -Surely, correct me if you think I'm wrong, but unless you have experience in specifically enjoying what you do and you're not in it for the money and "starving in your garage", then don't respond. Of course there are geeks that do seek approval, - but you said "a lot" which can imply "most" and personally I don't empirically witness that. I believe Paul Graham and/or RandsInRepose has an article on this subject of why we do what we do, but the links are escaping me at the moment.
Problem: lump-sum up-front car-insurance that fails to take into account how much customer drives, and other risks.

Potential solution:

Car insurance by the minute/mile with instant-update rates based on:

* steering and pedal input
* time-of-day/day-of-week
* location
* speed
* acceleration data

It's a $200 billion market (US only). http://www.ohioinsurance.org/factbook/2006/chapter1/chapter1...

With payment by the minute/mile, customers would instantly be rewarded for driving less, driving more-safely, and driving in safer conditions. Ceteris peribus, insurers would have lower claims costs, and drivers would have lower insurance costs. Everyone wins. No one loses.
Holy god, "Head First Design Patterns" is #2? That's written at a 9th grade level. The illustrations are written at a 4th grade level.
Once you've identified what the exact problem, the solution is often obvious. And, since this IS a tech startup website, I cant imagine people who have possible solutions giving them away here.
That being said, you wouldn't need a satellite to take these pictures. Also, the Mall is under constant (heavy) surveillance.
Ah I see. Though with cell phone day time rates being what they are, the slight loss in time is well worth it :).
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Suggestion: Add a small margin to the bottom of comment pages.
I find that I'm frequently confused by the abrupt ending of comment pages. With the last comment sitting at the bottom edge of my browser, I keep having to remind myself that I'm actually at the bottom of the page, and no, there aren't any more comments if I scroll down more.

adding style="margin-bottom: 20px;" or somesuch to the top-level table element would go a long way to alleviating my confusion.

Is anyone else frustrated by this, or is it just me?
It all depends on what your hourly rate is. Both the phone and your time. See the now ancient Bill Gates Wealth Page (http://www.templetons.com/brad/billg.html):

"Which means that if, on his way into the office, should he see or drop a $1000 bill on the ground, it's just not worth his time to bend over and pick it up. He would make more just heading off to work."
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I'm more interested in what CMS they are using. Any ideas?
Really? No world peace? No world hunger (where dwarf wheat has saved literally millions of lives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug)? How about happiness? Comfort? Love?
The Wii?

Seriously - a few of my friends' parents just bought it and love it. They play some of the simple games like sports to death.
i had a similar thought a while ago, and then i just got used to it.
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Thomas Barnett draws a new map for peace

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/thomas_barnett_draws_a_ne...

In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is both sensible and breathtaking in its simplicity: Break it in two.

He's a great speaker, funny if a little hyper active. He received a standing ovation; presumably reflecting the timeliness of his message after the difficulties in Iraq.
I got flamed for suggesting this recently, but I'd like to see it:

Equal wages/prices for all regardless of geography, brought on by a single world currency and the internet? That would solve world hunger (which is a money issue, not supply issue).

edit: Awesome. It's getting downvoted here too? What the hell is wrong with the concept?

edit 2: Oh I was completely blind to the obvious here...I mean equal wages in terms of task (not geography). A McDonalds worker should make the same here or in another country (assuming McD's was charging the same for burgers too). Software developers who contract online are approaching this equality. I am not suggesting communism or some sort of set rate for work, individual productivity is really important.
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Some good points, keep the balance, don't get focused on yourself - as Ali G says, 'respect, keep it real'

I really like that email sign up box near the bottom, simple and no need to load a new page :D
I believe http://inthinc.com/ and http://tiwi.com/ are trying to do just that :)
Some things are obvious but not doable by just one, or even ten, people :)

For example, lately I've been thinking that a good solution for problems in Africa is to make possible to profit there. Just that. Companies will come, flourish, jobs will appear, health will improve, etc, etc...

How do you enable business in Africa to be more profitable? First, you need law (a stable and predictable set of rules to operate), and then education. Wish I could dethrone the dictators there and stablish schools and colleges, but it's not going to happen.

I am not claiming my solution is the best one, or that even it is original. But we do know the problem, now how work on the solutions...
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Wasn't the whole reason that Microsoft wanted Yahoo was its patent portfolio?
The wiki is the database, built on top of another database. It uses link structure and other document attributes to form different relations.

The relations(links) are like the relations in an SQL database. The relations in the wikitext are like database relations.

Much of the logic is built into the document attributes(wikitext), coded in the php layer. Mediawiki is a very big, and complex database. 1.5 million LOC. Which is fairly small compared to other databases.

Anyway... I guess my point is that mediawiki is a database, and that it's relations are not in the SQL - but in the wikitext.

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Heck, I got 4G for $60 from Amazon last year.