skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all honesty, I'd have to check. The worker nodes in our architecture will be able to use PostGIS indexes just like regular PostgreSQL instances, and the master node should correctly handle (partition) most PostGIS functions. Still, we'd probably need to implement parallelization for the && operator, which shouldn't be that hard.

That said, I don't want to misguide you here before going over PostGIS' documentation more thoroughly. If you could ping us at engage@citusdata.com, we'll send you a reply once we know for sure.
There are some part of "American style employer flexibility" that they cannot do. e.g. they cannot give people less than 4 weeks paid vacation. They cannot let employers fire people who are gay, etc.
Uhh.. I have a Nexus One, and that was not my experience at all. It took a fucking long time to get updates. But maybe that's because I had one of the later models of Nexus One, which supported AT&T 3G, and all the updates only went out on time to the people who had the original model.
No.. having founded a company is a decision made and re-made by historians.

Steve Case was VP of Marketing when AOL was founded as Quantum Computer Services. As his role grew, early employees left, and time passed, he became the co-founder.
Seems appropriate to quote an old HN comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3905794):

"After the first night of the 2008 SciFoo conference at Google, @gnat Torkington's twitter stream contained a gem: 'At SciFoo opening session. 300 people standing around networking. Meanwhile, Larry Page is quietly unpacking chairs at the back of the room.' (from memory, not exact)"

The CEO (or any leader)'s job is to make sure that whatever needs to be done, gets done. Sometimes, that means unpacking the chairs.
Agreed 100%!

HTML is for documents, not Frankenstein coded applications.
Not enough of a change from the existing SQLite 3.

What I'd like to see most is trivial interoperability with JSON. Almost all the code I write that goes near SQLite has a trip through JSON as well and it gets tedious mapping between them. This also means being able to support things like a value being a list which Postgres can do.

Other than that a way of doing offline mode and online synchronization builtin. CouchDB tried to address this space, but wasn't practical to integrate into most products.
I am interested in more details/criticisms of the above use case. Better approaches? or "Holy balls, that's idiocy!"
i was thinking more along the lines of just simply running mysql on ssd/ram-disk devices.
Or on the contrary, if those doesn't work with prescription glasses, this could boost the LASIK market.
Very Siri-like.
Onlive announced a google TV edition of their cloud gaming platform at CES 2012 that works with a console type gaming controller. Not sure if the playable version of that has shipped.
Few gasoline-fueled cars actually get 60 miles per US gallon of gasoline in Europe, because they advertise MPG numbers in imperial gallons (3.785 L vs. 4.546 L).

They have plenty of small diesel-fueled cars that get around those numbers, but remember that diesel is less energy-dense and is more expensive in the US, making owning a diesel car a wash here in the best case.
Justin from justin.tv basically decided to record his entire life with a head-mounted camera as what later pivoted to the company we know.
Thanks.

And again: what the audit entails is interviews, requesting and reviewing records, and the like. This doesn't guarantee that a SAS70 site is doing what it says it's doing. But if there are gross inconsistencies in the statements and documents, they should stand out.

From there, use the SAS70 report as a basis for your own questions. There are some very good summaries of things to as at sites such as ServerFault, WebHostingTalk, O'Reilly, and elsewhere.

If the SAS70 report says that all access is controlled, but you find you're able to casually stroll through the main door ... something's not adding up. Dig deeper.
There is no retirement
Shutting down a company is no fun, so I wish them luck.

Considering the problems with Jawbone's Up (which I also bought), I think we can all agree that making hardware is... err.. hard. There is definitely something of value here, and I hope someone gets it right.
Was MongoDB run with safe true or false?
Having the cutesy ASCII art on the left impedes quickly copying and pasting the block of commands. Please get this quirky owl out of my way.
Let's be honest here. Kindle family of devices is aimed at average consumers. It's sold at retail stores, and everything is setup for you out of box. In fact, it's a bit of a pain to break out of Kindle Fire portal and revert back to native Android.

OTOH, Google Nexus family of devices is targeted towards a different crowd. Nexus devices are comparatively sparse, receive latest updates, and not marketed at all.

With a Nexus 7, there's nothing stopping me from downloading the Kindle app and buying / reading my Amazon content. Try using a Kindle Fire to read Google Market content. If you've never used a Kindle Fire, you have to "jailbreak" out of the Kindle portal where they keep closing the holes.
Ask HN: What would be a fair set of database benchmarks?
With the recent discussion around MemSQL vs MySQL vs NoSQL solutions, I've become really curious if their is a 'fair' way to do some sort of comparative testing or benchmarks.

I'm thinking of something like Tim Bray's WideFinder project[1], something practical and straightforward that lots of different people with expertise in different data stores could approach.

1 - http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/09/20/Wide-Finder
Aren't you essentially describing the Nexus line of devices, minus the the tad unrealistic 5 years of software updates ?
Hey, capsule_toy is totally right — that error shows up if you use an email associated with an existing account but claim that you're a new user. Shoot me an email and I'd be happy to give you a copy of the book for free!
I suspect that debt plays into it. Americans, particularly ones fresh out of college, tend to have a crap-load of debt. Then they "demand" higher pay because they literally can't have the same standard of living without it.

Although I could be wrong. I certainly don't know much about how Europeans view debt.
The report, "Oil: The Next Revolution: The Unprecedented Upsurge of Oil Production Capacity and What It Means for the World," underlying the New York Times piece kindly submitted here:

http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/Oil-%20The%20Next%...

The appendix shows the methodology.
Your Klout score is "steady"
Rad. This is a bit dated, but the to-do/-eat/-drink list was all sourced from /r/grandrapids redditors: http://www.hipmunk.com/guides/usa/michigan/grand_rapids

Researching it made me want to go!
My phone, purchased brand-new last summer (the model itself is almost, but not quite a year old), still runs Android 2.3. It will run Android 2.3 forever, even though Google owns the company that made it. Jelly Bean, released last year, is still on less than 10% of all Android phones, and may never even exceed 15%.

If Google can't get its act together on the update situation, a lot of people, myself included, will not be buying Android phones the next time our contracts are up.
+1 for Peep Show.

I have a feeling thought that "See it from their eyes" was their schtick, but that they dropped that when it became apparent that it was a good TV show (e.g. Season 2+'s title sequence doesn't explain the PoV thing)
Want Siri? Buy the iPhone 4S without a subsidy.

Sure worked for Apple...
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Sigh. Somebody at NYTimes has a bone to pick with Apple. How else can you explain this softball article. How many times did they say "Google isn't revealing" or "We weren't told", etc, etc.

Not a single mention of the obvious difference between manufacturing an ultra-compact battery driven device like a cellular phone in the TENS of MILLIONS and a big, single board, no display, AC powered device in the HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS.

I'm now at the point where technical article from NYTimes = garbage.
My Wakemate worked great, and I even bought the bigger wristband for it, but didn't use it after I switched to a Galaxy Nexus from an iPhone 4 back in December.
This is true, but typically you will decide your minimum API level. A lot of apps moving to 2.0+ API level minimums in order to reduce the clutter.

However, compared to hardware variations and manufacturer/carrier modifications, API level is a piece of cake to handle.
That hasn't been my experience. "It's as good as native" seems more driven from hope than reality, or more generously, ignorance of the differences that would stick out like a sore thumb to someone intimately familiar with the native platform.

I note that you're a web developer. Full disclosure, I work in the native mobile development space.
I know, not really newsworthy - but arguably fantastic.
Err... I hate to break it to you, but most pornography is done for cash. The people don't actually do it for fun, and, hope not to burst you bubble, but they are faking a lot of the time…

A little blue pill and some 'acting' is all you need,
He got a hold of their Twitter account too. Check the stream, as the interactions are hilarious. https://twitter.com/#!/wakemate (but hurry because I'm sure the tweets will be gone soon).
Google Glass feels like the next bluetooth headset, regulated to specialized use.
Not a fan of the title.The post doesn't even go on to argue that "you're" not the CEO, just that "you're" ALSO the janitor. So "You're the CEO - but You're Also the Fucking Janitor" would be more accurate.
It's a hoax: http://mashable.com/2012/06/27/back-to-the-future-hoax/
Less space than a Nomad. No Wireless. Lame.
> the firmware was hosed in such a way that pretty much all units would fail over the course of a few months

I initially had some good experiences with the android version which then got more and more unreliable until I stopped using it altogether. I was led to believe that this was due to bugs in the android app. Are you now saying that it is actually a firmware bug on the devices?

And if yes, is there any hope to have this fixed once everything is open sourced?
This is also a famous quote from Steve Jobs[1]:

Steve Jobs: (what the CEO does) I don't know. Head janitor?

[1] http://hot-facts.blogspot.com/2011/10/facts-about-steve-jobs...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't natural gas a win on CO2 also. Low molecular weight hydrocarbons, when burned, produce more H20 and less CO2 per unit energy than the heavier hydrocarbons. CH4 and C2H6 have relatively more Hydrogen than C7H16 .etc. Coal is almost pure carbon, so all hydrocarbons win vs. coal.
Nice! From a quick look this seems really good. Thanks.
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Youtube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxmbbtuRszA&feature=play...
Are you involved in the open sourcing arun hinted at?

If yes, what will this include and when can we expect to see some code?
guelo: Google Glass isn't about making movies per se but about sharing personal experiences -- live and otherwise. Think about it for a moment and you'll get it.
pngquant backing this service works in premultiplied RGBA colorspace (but with 32-bit floating point per gun).

However the distortion is merely a side-effect of reducing image to 256-colors (from 15k colors).
Hard as in writing code in three different languages. Apart from that I think tech community giving too much credit for Apple and especially Google. They could have fixed this native vs html5-js-css thing two versions ago.
My Wife owns a cafe underneath some flats.

Occassionally the flat sewerage backs up and effluent pours into the cafe basement.

My Wife as the owner is the one there ungumming the pipes until a plumber can be hailed.
This competes with Sonos, not Apple. Wifi connected audio units with powered amps, synchronized into playback groups, tablet-based controller, starting at a $300 price point? But with video, which Sonos doesn't have. Sonos does have audio input (so I can, say, connect my TV's audio output and broadcast it throughout the house) but otherwise, Sonos had better up their game.
To clarify that, the RT version will compete with ARM tablet prices; expect ~US$500. The Pro version will compete with Intel-based ultrabooks; expect ~$1200.
None of what you covered provides any advantage whatsoever to your users. It's all about making web developers happy.
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People have been doing that for awhile with moderate success. Retuning it to not assume quite as severe of penalties related to disk-access work decently.

It can produce some seriously impressive write-heavy performance.
Google promised like two I/Os ago that they were solving the fragmentation problem with some kind of new agreement with device makers, but after that we never heard another word about it.

Maybe it's not Google's fault, but that seems like it's skirting the issue: a year after ICS was announced, something like 7.5% of devices are using it, and now we're moving on to JB. We can sit around and blame Samsung and HTC all day, but Google is the steward company of Android and this fragmentation is a real problem that affects developers. If it's creating a shitty situation for developers, it's creating a shitty situation for users.
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Yes, you're probably right. 3 years is more reasonable. For some reason I thought Apple was supporting 5 year-old devices, but they are not. And they are the ones setting the standard, here.
OP here: Sorry about that, really what the post was meant to say is that if you think of yourself as the CEO there is already a problem, but if you think of yourself as the Janitor you're probably in the right mindset for success.

Did not really expect the post to trend up HN so fast, but thanks for reading and for the feedback!
shit, my bad
It's important to remember that the CEO/founder role is where the buck stops. You're ultimately responsible for every mistake and fixing it. He's right that it's not glamorous. I think that if you're a sole founder you figure this out pretty quickly though. And as a rule of thumb: Always ignore Silicon Valley hype.

By the way: writing words in ALL CAPS, italicizing lots of things, and saying 'fucking' a lot made it painful to read that blog entry.
Three different languages that provide vastly superior runtime libraries and tooling that facilitate implementing first-class applications on the target platform.

I agree that supporting multiple platforms is suboptimal, but instead choosing a suboptimal common platform isn't any better.

We already tried that once with Java desktop applications, and Java at least tried to provide a viable common widget/platform toolkit.
Recording of Sergei Brin's Demo of Google Glass
That's my experience too. I've encountered this anti-technical BS at a company as small as eight.

And you're spot on in that case: the two directors spent a quarter of every year at their out-of-state retirement home and otherwise didn't look too kindly upon surprise or change.
The firmware was fixed. Only the initial batch of units that was sent out had the issue. And almost all of those were refurbished by us.
Okay, this is clearly a comment by someone who's never worked a low-tech job. You validate correct data-entry by testing samples.

I worked a job back in high school where they spent months editing Excel spreadsheets full of data only to pass the edits to me as handwritten changes to printed pages. The stacks of spreadsheet pages I was given were meters high.

Since the human-made edits met simple patterns, I was able to write Excel macros to describe and perform them. I finished a week worth of work in one hour. In my case, they saw me reading a book and got irate even though the work was done and correct. I was a contractor, so they just asked me to go home early and collect fewer hours. I got paid less for working faster.
It's unlikely that the cost of the review system outweighs the costs involved in going non-native for most use cases.
It's an Android device. Presumably, it will have the same apps other Android devices have - including Netflix.
Their latest blogpost is from +1 year ago. Last i saw they were trying to make memcache/redis on ssd. Any update or inside info?
Nope, the opposite. There are a lot of technologically incompetent non-startup SMBs that do this.

Startups are much more likely not to jackass themselves into something stupid and just use Hadoop/Amazon Map-reduce/whatever.
I don't want to give any concrete details yet (this forced a premature announcement). We are hoping to include everything one would need to replicate the product.
Thanks for the feedback.

I typically italicize and bold things in an effort to break up the black/white monotony of my site but I'll keep the advice in mind and maybe go back and make some edits.

As for the 'fucking' I agree, it was actually pretty hard to write too. I grew up in a middle class family in the South most of whom would be appalled by the way this post was written(the language) but I thought it put some fire to the post, and the title as well.
Now that it is official that WakeMate is dead, it would be great to see some kind of post mortem.

People keep iterating that hardware is not as easy as software, but WakeMate actually solved some of the biggest problems, including being allowed to sell the devices in the EU (for which you need to meet some requirements many small hardware companies do not want to deal with).

I would love to read about what actually went wrong. I guess there are some great lessons to be learned here.
Unfortunately 8bitalpha.com uses GD library which has very outdated, crappy quantizer:

http://i.imgur.com/7bq7X.png
TPC-A might be the easiest to implement (even if its no longer standard), if you have access to larger pool of client computers, e.g. at an university.

The other TPC benchmarks might fit better, but they are difficult to impossible to implement yourself.

The (better) alternate might be using your application as a benchmark. But this might show that not the database itself is the bottleneck, but your application framework.
google glass reminds me of the segway . . . really cool futuristic idea that just doesn't fit with the way life is lived.
There's an entire organization dedicated to this: http://tpc.org/
If you're looking at Sacramento, consider the flood risk.

The entire city sits in a flood plain, and is protected by floodwalls, levies, dikes, and flood gates.

The last major flooding of major structures that I'm aware of was 1956 (mostly affecting areas north and east of Sacramento State), but given changing weather patterns and grave concerns over the delta levee system, nothing is certain.

Most of the major datacenters are clustered along US50 (which follows the American River), with others downtown and in West Sacramento, also within vulnerable zones.

Probabilities of a major flooding event exceed those of a quake. Though of course the Fremont/Hayward datacenters are direction on the Hayward fault.
How does MemSQL's design differ from other in-memory relational databases, such as Oracle's "TimesTen"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimesTen
Maybe, but is assembly labor really that large of a fraction of the total cost?

If us labor is 20x the expense of the alternative ($0.60 vs $12.00/hour) you'd have 16 hours of hand assembly to account for that price difference. That seems implausible to me. However, i've never manufactured stuff, so what do i know.
The resolution on the tablet is 1280x800, so about 720p. The Xbox360 is only 720p and that has fared well.
David, planning on writing something up soon! Hopefully other people can learn from our many trials and tribulations.

Getting EU certification was actually pretty easy. I'll be sure to include information on that.
I never got my promised replacement power adapter either. I thought it was just me. :-(
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It may be disgusting to you, and you may not understand what I meant, but I'm afraid, my friend, that doesn't change the fact that there are correlations between the choices you make and your socioeconomic profile. It's the whole basis of collaborative filtering. You like movie A, B and C and will likely like movie Z. You buy a Mac and are likely to book more upscale hotels, you keep an old yahoo or hotmail account and you're likely further down the adopter curve.

It's like when you visit a website and it's still using comic sans and looks like it was from the Geocities days, you form an impression. This is your brain do collaborative filtering. Same thing with email host.

Yes it's an email account, but they come in different flavors and some flavors are associated with the early adopter (cool kids) crowd (@gmail.com), and some are associated with their parents (@hotmail.com)
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So is the Galaxy Nexus (which this shares a SoC with), and it's considered weak on there. It's unlikely blowing the output up from 4.7" to 47" will be very pretty.
Have fun - Fry your brain
I love the part that says: "Applying an electric charge to your brain should be considered extremely risky".
So can we start a discussion on the use of those "no, no" type things. Is there any time they are worth using? (By the way, i really liked the title, I think this idea applies a lot of places outside of just CEOs)
If it's anything like most military portals I used while serving, it'll pretty much only work whenever it feels like working, and will be slower to load than getting an error on your LES fixed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/

Brainstorm - 1983.
We fixed one of the issues. I processed enough returns on refurbished units to know that there were still several bugs. One of the main complaints is that the wristband would be dead in the morning - I believe this was caused by a firmware defect that caused the bluetooth radio to blare at full strength all night. That being said this was almost a year ago so I might be misremembering specific issues. One thing is for sure though - there were bugs even after we revised the firmware.

As to fixing the firmware - that's absolutely possible although we made some non optimal decisions with the hardware itself that caused the WakeMate to waste a lot of power. That's one of the reasons why the WakeMate's battery is comically large for the amount of usage you get out of the device.
yeah it would make much more sense for them to just use the % cut. Get a bunch of developers tied to their platform...and get that market share
'Fraid not. I'd talked to Slava back when I lived in New York but that didn't grant me any information you can't find on the website. I really only talked to him at the time because I was looking for work at the time and I'm a database nut.

I don't know what they've been up to since.
Don't change it. People on here have weak stomachs. I like a bit of strong writing once in a while, especially after having to sift through all the "I'm a CEO too lol" garbage that makes it to the front page. It's not out of place here.

I completely share your view on this one. I'm not a CEO (CTO, heh) but leaders do what it takes. While ego can have its place in business, being the CEO of a shitty little startup is nothing to brag about. Once you're making millions a year in profit, then I think you're allowed to let it get to your head (although the best ones don't).

I think the best leaders in the world recognize that being a leader is just another job. It doesn't make you better than anybody else, and it's not an excuse to look down on people, whether they're willing to learn from you or not.
I'm very glad you posted it, as I don't know if I would have heard of Gene Sharp any other way.

The fractiousness of the discussion is unfortunate, but nobody has to read it.
I'm really sorry about that. We kept trying but never had the cash to source a replacement and get it re-certified for use with our product.
The worst part, in my opinion, was the miserable communication. I had some contact with their support and they kept promising updates to their software over and over again. Of course, this never happened.