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> People think that Unicode support is just a matter of implementing multi-byte characters, but it's so much more: you've got collation rules, ligatures, rendering, line-breaking, punctuation, reading direction, and so on. Any technical standard that aims to cover all known human languages is going to be a little bit complex.

Half of those are irrelevant to MySQL or any other database. Those are front end problems. Even reading punctuation, text direction, and the like will only be important in more advanced collation orders (as opposed to just binary ordering, which he was using).
I suppose this space of hosted business dashboards is fairly new (2-3 years?) and services will improve. Last time I checked, Geckoboard wasn't allowing tables and arbitrary HTML. I also played with ducksboard and leftronic. Each of them have some strengths and some weaknesses. GB doesn't store your data while ducksboard does, GB is cheaper than other dashboards, leftronic has better maps than others etc.

Does anyone know of a dashboard that I can host myself?
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>>I ran mandelbrot for 4000 cycles<<

That reduced workload only runs the program for 1/10th the time of the workload shown on the benchmarks game website.

Run the program for N=16,000 and see that "JVM startup costs and JIT costs amount to nothing" even for these "short, synthetic benchmarks".

(Incidentally, the "usual" cold start measurement shown on the website is the best of 6.)
I believe Leaky (YC S11) was aiming to disrupt the auto insurance industry, yea? Anyone know how they're doing? And if they have ambitions larger than price comparisons?

Also, somebody please disrupt the diamond industry. I can't wait for the day artificial diamonds easy to find, customize, and purchase online.
Agreed it is very fast but I believe it is only searching against 3.4.4?
> We need to rethink as a society what banks are for, what exchanges are for, and what clearing houses are for. If they are for the profit of the few at the expense of the many now, that is because it is the business model we have permitted.

Is that really true compared to Silicon Valley? Do banks concentrate wealth a lot more than a Google or a Facebook? If not, how would you feel about some random dude commenting on his blog: "We need to rethink as a society what tech startups are for, what angel investors are for, and what venture capitalists are for. If they are for the profit of the few at the expense of the many now, that is because it is the business model we have permitted."?

Regardless, if banks are "concentrating wealth" they must be doing something right since after all, the ultimate purpose of a business is to make money. If they do so through illegal means (fraud, deception, etc.), we already have a legal system in place to deal with that. If they don't serve us well, we have the ability to vote with our money and move to another bank which treats us well.

If those two mechanisms are failing us, as some people claim, I'd be genuinely curious to know why it fails specifically for banks while it works wonders in other industries such as tech. I'm tempted to think that it is because the barrier to entry to the banking industry is so amazingly high largely due to regulations that it favors a few large banks at the expense of eventual competitors. I'd be curious to hear what others here think and welcome rebuttals.
I get the impression that the Ouya's bread and butter will be coming from casual gaming. Hardcore gamers will always want to stick to a beefier console anyways.

Someone wanting to play Tetris, Canabalt or other low-time-investment game is probably plenty satisfied with something like the Ouya.
Ask HN: Any one have any stats on how many HN 'users' are bots?
From a real user (but I guess you'll have to take my word on that :)
hah that looks amazing :P. I admit, need to work on mobile. I think the easiest would just to have an app for it though.
Is Amazon opening a software center in downtown Detroit?
Their about page [0] suggests it is just 3.4.4. Still pretty impressive though :)

[0] http://codesear.ch/about
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@Strangiato you really think television isn't important and viewing habits don't merit much thought? television and viewing habits both drive big $$$ and are vehicles for politics etc.
You need only twitter auth.

Let's assume you don't want to remember anything.
But once when you do a commit you might do it like:

git commit -m "Add magic beans to make super scale //tweet"

Is it easy enough?

Most services are useless for most people. It's true. I built it because I need it myself. But I can assume there some people just like me in the world.
Princeton gets on some top 10 lists as well. But the point isn't that there's anything wrong with Harvard or the Ivies in general (you'll surely get a fine CS education at Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Penn, maybe even Yale), the point is that the center of gravity in the tech startup world is right now at the schools with top-tier CS and Engineering departments, and it's not because they have some special "incubator" sauce that other universities don't, it's just that they attract a large body of entrepreneurially-focused students.
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I'm no Solr expert, but bug SOLR2155 has a patch [1] that does a geospatial search using geohash prefixes [2].

As far as I can tell, you take the point's latitude and longitude and interleave the binary bits - so if your record's latitude is 11111111 and your longitude is 10000000 your geohash is 1110101010101010. You index on that, then when you do a spatial search for the point nearest to 11111110,10000011 you look up key 1110101010101101 and a prefix search finds the closest value in the index is the the record you inserted earlier. Presumably then you realize there could be an even closer record at 11111111,01111111 which would have got stuck at 1011111111111111 in the index so you look there too just in case, take the closer of the two search results, and bob's your mother's brother.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2155?focusedComme...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
>It's not possible to take at best 80 years of reasonable data from 4.54 billion years of the planet's lifetime and come up with sensible climate projections.

What an obviously vacuous statement. It's a lot like saying, "it's not possible to take at best 30 seconds of data from 10 years of a car's lifetime and come up with a sensible projects as to whether you're headed for a brick wall."
I am the only real user here. The rest of what you see are all bots I control, or figments of my imagination.

Even pg is a bot, see: https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot
The place with all the beautiful trees costs more, so lets build more housing there, cutting down the trees while doing so.

Same idea: You will lose the character without some sort of effort to not.
I like paying for products that I enjoy, I figure I'd rather pay them $9/month than try and get enough referrals to get the space I need. Now it seems I've lucked out because of that decision I suppose.
Actually, what I meant was that people would actually talk to the voters themselves. That's not lobbying; that's campaigning.
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What specifically do you think the difference is, and how do you know?
I don't know anything about amazon payments, but anything that is dealing with the US banking system via ACH or the credit card system is exposed to chargebacks.
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The future of flash memory: tiny (and extremely tough to build)
> (BMP subset of) UTF-8

The hell of it is, UTF-8 expands gracefully to the astral planes; it's UTF-16 that you need to worry about, either because the people designing the software never heard of surrogate pairs, in which case they didn't give you UTF-16 but UCS-2, or implemented surrogate pairs incorrectly.
This would be perfect for crawling with a large number of distinct IP addresses, or for fighting DDOS attacks.

However:

"All network traffic is proxied through a central data center we maintain."

https://gridspot.com/compute/api_help
It's true that glyph rendering won't matter to a database store, and that binary collation is "good enough" for most people (but then again, "good enough" is how you get to a UTF-8 implementation that doesn't support 4-byte characters). That said, it's also true that Unicode characters outside of the BMP are still pretty exotic/specialized:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5567249/what-are-the-most...

Is it "excusable" that MySQLs implementation of UTF-8 isn't standard? That's a judgment call (they are up-front about it in the docs). But given that most unicode characters "in the wild" lie in the BMP, I can see how they'd make that trade-off. There might well be a technical limitation lurking somewhere in the database internals that made 4-byte characters a problem.
dlvr.it provides this out of the box. There are probably other services that do the same. I think TwitterFeed provides options for only posting certain content but it's been a while since I used it

http://gopotato.co.uk/grabs/Screen%20Shot%202012-07-10%20at%...
Internally it can store them as 16bit so strings have a fixed length
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This comment should be at the top.

I don't see any reason to use Dwolla instead of Paypal if they are going to handle chargebacks the same way.

As much as I hate Paypal, you will earn more money by being able to receive credit cards from different countries through Paypal than being restricted to US customers and forcing them to wait 5 days to get money to Dwolla.
"Isn't applicable?" What kind of an error message is that?
We've been using Pig extensively for our MR queries and we're very happy with it. While i haven't used Cascading, i do like the pipelining approach of Pig more than the SQL-influence method of Hive. It lends itself better for meeting our needs.

Testing is a good point. If you're running Pig through their APIs it is definitely easier to test than command-line running scripts. We've written test code that reads and runs pig scripts through the API using fixed sample data (stored in HDFS for easy access), read the results, and compare it to expected results (also stored in HDFS). Honestly, you don't need too much input data to prove the correctness of the query.

Remember that Pig also supports placeholders in your scripts so you that you can set them in run-time to define input/output paths, etc. This makes testing easier.

Dependencies can also be stored in HDFS which makes it simple to run your scripts w/o the need to distribute jars around.
I could do a design audit. I do them for other startups, no charge.

http://byjess.net/posts/design/audit/
According to Wikipedia, the original version of UTF-8 supported >4 byte characters, and was later restricted to 4 bytes by RFC 3629 in November 2003, seven months before MySQL 4.1 was released with Unicode support. (There were 96,447 Unicode characters at that time.)
It sounds like it wouldn't be perfect (some good brain cells would die), but it'd likely be a heck of a lot more selective than existing methods of dealing with brain tumors. And certainly better than an alternative of letting the tumor grow any more.

It sounds like this could work on cancerous tissue in its infancy, which is probably the most promising thing. Imagine a potential vaccine for cancer, just enough dosage to kill that first bad group of cells.
But when did people really start using more than the 16bit unicode chars?
Securing an application through web config
Why would people contribute? You're basically profiting off donated energy. I doubt that's a sustainable model.
I guess the point is , why would I buy one of these instead of or in addition to an xbox360. Just being slightly cheaper won't really do it.

Most indie games don't really sell very well and the ones that do will be ported, Indie games generally also have the advantage of being very easy to port, especially if you use SDL for the graphics.

Plus anybody who's into really obscure Indie games probably has a PC already. The advantage AAA consoles have is that they can provide high end PC level graphics for much less money than a high end PC because the are subsidesed.

They might have more luck making something for the casual gaming market and consentrate on making an innovating controller that works well for exiting android touch screen games but can be used at a distance from the screen.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeons_Law
Nevermind classic email clients, let's begin with the method the author used to make his point. It's a verbose mish-mash of disjointed text flow and pseudo-infographics. It does not flow well at all.

From what I can tell, you can achieve his vision of an email client by changing preferences in Mountain Lion's Mail.app client, so his vision is here today (well, soon).
That's actually not true. A large part of the reason MMOs typically split the userbase into many shards is that the world design itself won't cope with the full userbase in a single instance of the world. You need a lot more space, a lot more places where interactions happen, etc. Imagine how much bigger the world of WoW would need to be to make the entire userbase work in a single world.

One of my favorite articles is on this very subject: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/114192/Opinion_Designing_...
To me, this means that "the Internet" has no idea who the voters who voted for Smith are, and why my idea was specifically focused on finding out.
But to devil's advocate that point of view, isn't this also the case with the banking industry- to negative effect? It was systematically deregulated over the course of a decade and the hugely negative effects of that are only coming to light now.
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The implementation is neat but it doesn't really seem much faster than LXR, which gives you additional info and context. (http://lxr.linux.no)
Yeah, to be honest we're trying to avoid the business of selling wholesale access to a lot of IP addresses, hence the proxying of traffic.

If there are specific, legitimate uses for a large number of IPs, for example fighting DDOS, then that might be something we should build!
Tom Christiansen's talk Unicode: The good, the bad, & the (mostly) ugly covers a lot of Unicode wrinkles and how Javascript, PHP, Go, Python, Ruby, Java, and Perl handles them.

Slides for that talk and two other Perl-related Unicode talks are at http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/index.html
It's funny, earlier I read the comments and they were mostly all about what a stupid idea this was, not a powerful enough system, can't force free, doomed to fail kind of stuff.

I pledged this morning thinking how unique games are really going to flourish. How the simple graphic games can come out to be awesome, I mean we all played the classics right? Those 8-bit marathon games that gave us hours of joy, then hours more when they remade those games on the new system with the same old graphics, barely a remake in fact just a future port. And, I've sat as a gamer and watched all my friends buy those classic games over and over again, same graphics, same sound, same awesome gameplay.

So now we have this chance to get a lesser powered system out to nearly everyone, people that can't afford to game but wouldn't mind the hours of time and boredom that is swept away by even the most casual of games. (heard of Zuma? Plants v zombies? etc.)

I remember this morning seeing all the negative comments. It's 1:55 PM my time now,and OUYA is at 938,733 dollars. Clearly minutes away from being fully funded, with another 29 days they'll go over their asking by three to five times (if any of the kickstarters I've watched grow like this act as a valid indicator, which they should). So I'm left wondering, how many people will be eating the words they said today? I don't think it'll be OUYA, or any of the people that have backed the project already, waiting for the day that this console fills in a niche that the big console makers never even considered needing filled. I for one can't wait.

As of finishing this post, the project is fully funded at $953,325.
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>At the risk of sounding like Scrooge: I would assume most people think of Penny Arcade as the thrice weekly "content drops" (while viewing the rest as peripheral) and it certainly doesn't take 14 people to draw a comic.

I get the feeling that they want to change this perception, especially with the recent hire of Ben Kuchera to write full time news and commentary for the Penny Arcade Reports site.
http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/index.html

Specifically the talk titled "Unicode Support Shootout: The Good, The Bad, & the (mostly) Ugly"

It's a year old now, but it's still relevant. It gives a very detailed look at unicode support across JavaScript, PHP, Go, Ruby, Python, Java, and Perl.
If this stuff were easy, it would have been solved. That said, if Apple let us have the APIs, we could take a stab at solving it ourselves.
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Combine this news with the fact GM is now going to flip from 90% outsourcing on software to 90% insourced and big things are happening in the Motor City. Or is it now the Cloud City?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4225430
I think you mean latency between client and server. Second, there's a small exponent (let's say 1.3) in your simulation work (collision detection and newtonian motion), that can saturate a CPU quickly. quickly

Your end-to-end latency from a user clicking something and seeing the results is 2x latency + simulation time.

While I like software implementations of hardware optimizations as much as the next guy, what kind of replication distribution do you expect? You're splitting up your data-set in RAM across many machines, yet you've got them replicating data from each other. How much of your data-set do you expect to be accessing frequently?
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Nothing. That is another totally viable alternative.
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Is there a way to view one of these tables without having to log in?
An obvious way to do this is how consumers can upload solar power to the grid, and it comes off their bill.

With enough people involved, the compute version of this could be self-sustaining, and the infrastructure guys just take a wee percentage. They are unlikely to be replaced by purely free infrastructure, because money is involved (even if in the form of credits). If there was a shortage at particular time, some people might supply that themselves, for extra cash. Distributed compute supply = local compute supply, with latency advantages.
Oops, I think I misunderstood what was being said. Sure, if PadMapper became the main place renters go, then it could pose a risk for Craigslist. I don't see that as likely, though - it's well structured for the technically literate, but my impression is that it's somewhat confusing for many of those who aren't. To add to that, it's extremely hard to build a brand strong enough to reach the landlords of the world, who are on average older and less likely to be early adopters of hip web technologies. Anecdotally, most PadMapper users tell landlords that they found the place on Craigslist, because it would confuse them to say "PadMapper". So, in my opinion, it's unlikely to be a real threat. Hope that makes sense.
part time for sure. No one is full time at MajCom. We have lots of volunteers.
No, but I'll make a video right now.

edit: here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1O7HkBj74c
Especially annoying are those people who think the transformations formats are all of Unicode (and consequently suggest to use UTF-32 "to solve all problems").
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Definitely.
There is a project at the FU Berlin.
[Saros - Distributed Collaborative Editing and Distributed Party Programming](http://www.saros-project.org/)
It's based on the Eclipse platform and XMPP.
>> if they wanted enthusiasts they really need to bump up the hardware

Since when did game "enthusiast" become synonymous with people who prefer PC type games that require large amounts processing power?

Many of the console games that I would consider the best of all time, like Mario 3, Final Fantasy, Tetris, Street Fighter 2 and so on would easily run on the Ouya. Sure, 3D games are great, but there were plenty of deep, rich games that weren't just about slinging polygons at high frame rates.
I'm not bullish on the idea of real-time collaborative coding. Maybe a simple CRUD app can handle that sort of thing, but anyone who's spent days debugging a corner case knows that the presence of someone else tends to just complicate the process. I agree with others that this could be great as a teaching/mentoring tool, or maybe an easier way to do code reviews. Just not seeing the point with collaborative coding.
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We're about to launch a service that allows comparison of benchmarks from cloud providers (UnixBench/IO & BW), would love to run it on your plans to compare against Amazon etc.

http://serverbear.com/benchmarks
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Gmail can have several star colors and labels, too. So I guess you could replicate his workflow there as well.
Ok yeah, that's more of a code browser than just search.
Speaking theoretically, Dynamo is some really clever tech built by some very smart people -- it's clear that Amazon are using something very similar internally, so it must work in practice. Beyond that I've no direct experience with it or its performance profile.

If I had a very large, rapidly-growing key-value application and a shortage of experienced ops engineers that made maintaining my own solution impractical (e.g. a cassandra cluster) I would look hard at dynamo.

However, as a matter of principle I am very suspicious of the lock-in that comes with proprietary solutions, no matter how clever. We try not to buy cloud services that only have one vendor.
As nobody said it yet. I'm always very wary of phrases like "a portion of all proceeds will be donated...", and in this case it caused me to stop looking.
The reason is that we don't know how generous or not that portion is, and what the definition of Proceeds is.
Better to state that clearly as in "20% of the price".
It doesn't have to be a large percentage, but we do need to see it as fair.
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Then call it utf8-bmp, not utf8!
While I agree with the premise of the article 100%, the example used is pretty silly. I use the built in timer all the time and have no problems with it. When I saw this featured by apple a few weeks ago I was really annoyed. There are far more useful and just as well done apps that could have been featured instead. It's absurd to me that he could complain about making 5k in a month on a freaking timer app. Also, 7k seems like overpaying for an app this simple. I would happily do it for half of that and be thrilled at getting 5k back in a month.
Threadsy might have solved much of what you're looking for; unfortunately, they shut down.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-33200_3-57354466-290/threadsys-gon...

I would love to see someone else try to build this. Filtering options would need to be robust and flexible to combat potential noise and info overload. I could see marketers being an easy initial niche customer. General consumers, not so much. But I'd sure pay for something like this.
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There are purists that would insist that data binding is always less efficient than writing your own bare metal approach.

Largely, they are right. But the time invested in doing so could often be spent elsewhere, while your data-bound forms work "just fine".