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First, I get frustrated whenever I have to use MySQL. However, if you think the MySQL tools that come with the software seem immature you should try Oracle's. There's a reason why TOAD for Oracle is the de facto admin tool and why it is not made by Oracle.

I worked around 2 years with Postgres as a developer and I loved it. Very stable, very solid, many features and no surprises.

Every database has surprises. Oracle has fun with transactions and DDL, null handling of string types, etc). PostgreSQL has surprises galore when dealing with collections and no these are not well documented.

For example the following two are handled very differently by PostgreSQL because nobody can agree on what correct behavior is for collection tables:

CREATE TABLE foo (
bar int not null,
CHECK (bar > 0)
);
CREATE TABLE bars (foo foo);

INSERT INTO bars (foo) values (row(-1)), (row(null));

The above is allowed, but:

CREATE DOMAIN baz int not null check (value > 0);
CREATE TABLE foo (bar baz);
CREATE TABLE bars (foo foo);
INSERT INTO bars values (row(null)); --not allowed
INSERT INTO bars values (row(-1)); --not allowed

The thing is that in collections domains are not handled like column types. You'd think this was intentional but if you:

ALTER TABLE foo ADD is_bar NOT NULL DEFAULT true;

Postgres will happily refuse to do so, saying it can't follow this if foo is used as a type on another table. There is obviously a bug here, but as discussed repeatedly on various email lists, nobody can agree on what needs to be done about it.

Though if you are working with collections I suppose you can assume you are going to find all sorts of surprises. As I say multiple table inheritance is far better as long as you can think in terms of composition instead of OO inheritance.
It's not Stanford, but UIS offers an online degree: http://csc.uis.edu/

UIS is associated with UIUC, so I can't imagine the coursework is of poor quality.
Textbooks and eyeglasses are guarded by copyright and patents. I cannot improve on the design of Oakley sunglasses and hire a firm to manufacture them. I can modify it for myself, but that is a much more limited form of freedom. Microsoft probably wouldn't care if I somehow reverse engineered Windows and modified it for myself only.

Same goes for architecture. When I buy a house, I can make modifications to it. But I don't think I have the right to hire construction companies to build new houses based on the design.

Electronics and car companies guard heavily the schematics and designs that makes it possible to repair their products much less reproduce them.

Edit - One more thing:
Just the ability to modify something you own (like textbooks or sunglasses) does not make it free. For example, I've made many modifications to OS X through utilities and configuration. The fact that OS X doesn't come with source code is equivalent to Textbooks not coming with their LaTeX source.
Here's a review of the X1 Carbon with Ubuntu by someone who owns a System 76 laptop: http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/lenovo-x1-carbon/

I don't know anything about the "pure" OSS OSes.
Take a look at this review: http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/lenovo-x1-carbon/
They did, it got rejected & they created that thing instead
My preferred way to code is leaning back in a chair with my legs resting on an ottoman or something similar. I'd be really interested if anyone else has more (anecdotal?) evidence supporting this.

For the record, I tend to develop using a laptop resting on my legs, and my arms at my side, since my desk chair is pretty wide.

I do wonder whether I'm going to regret this in 20 years.
>The author didn't mention a weight limit but you can passively cool the CPU with a copper heatsink on the back of that monitor, something like 9" x 21" of copper fins has a lot of surface area to work with. Might save a bit of power there too.

He actually intends to do passive cooling, though I'm not certain his heatsink is going to be large enough when the CPU is running at full load for an extended period of time. You can see him discuss the casing and see the planned heatsink here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S...
In statistics, which this is, a "prediction" is an outcome that the statistics suggests would happen. The "cause" isn't involved. A predicts B, means that having factor A means factor B is likely present also. And that is that. There is no suggestion of causation.

This is a science magazine, the reporter would have read a lot of papers over his career, and because "A predicts B" is such a common use to denote correlation in statistics, I wouldn't blame him/her.
But there are many IM apps on the iOS App Store. Why was it rejected?
Have you considered just calling Herman Miller or Steelcase? They should be able to give you a definitive answer on the weight limits for their chairs.
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Its too late for me to read through in full now, I'm afraid I'll have to defer that to tomorrow.

However, when coming across anything to do with writing async code in .Net, my immediate question is how does it compare/cooperate with TPL, Rx, and the new async/await keywords. From skimming, it doesn't appear these are mentioned at all.

Is this of any use in the .Net4/4.5 world? Or just for writing code from the .Net2 era? (Or Unity/Mono, which I'm not so familar with).
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That's why you set up rolling backups for /dev/null.
one important part of discovering new music is discovering new trusted sources. that'll build trust between you app and your users, and i'm sure the folks whose keen insights you're scraping would appreciate it.
Predict is something you can do if something is "correlated"!

Having creativity is highly correlated with a longer life, therefore, creativity can be used as a factor to predict whether a person has longer life.

It doesn't mean that if you get more creative you live longer, just that if you look at the existing population, the more creative people are likely to live longer also.

See?

Search for this phrase in this paper "We show how simple image statistics can be used to predict the presence and absence of objects in the scene before exploring the image."

http://cvcl.mit.edu/papers/TorralbaOliva03.pdf

You can see how "predict" is a word for an action you can take if something is correlated.
Steelcase makes some great stuff. I have some vintage steelcase chairs that could easily handle someone large and will last forever.
Pretty small SVG image:

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John Cage's famous piece is not simply silence, it's the performance of silence.
Absolutely, when I had my Fiat, I drove all year round and almost never with the top up. Winter is so much fun with sun and warm heater on your face. A thick hat and blanket keeps it cozy.
Talks about Mer, Nemo and Jolla Mobile.
to bad this has already been done and patented 100k times already.
It would hurt founders' perceptions but wouldn't actually decrease any individual founder's chances of success. YC would just accept a bunch of people who aren't likely to get funded.

What would happen if you split up the batches into two groups, YC Classic and YC Black Swan, and placed founders into the groups post-interview? People who were placed in YC Classic could continue to have the expectation of ~100% demo day success they do now, while the people placed in YC Black Swan would be told "I find your idea interesting and we'll let you in but don't expect funding after demo day." People could take the Black Swan offers as rejections if they wanted.

There are a bunch of problems with this approach, but I wouldn't be totally surprised if way more than 30% of YC Black Swan was funded.
Stonebraker isn't entirely impartial here as he's trying to sell his own product in this area (VoltDB) which is highly dependent on the "database-side logic" approach.

Well, the quote is old, and the db he was trying to sell at the time was Informix, but I suppose that's a fair bit of truth to that. It is worth noting however, that he suggests in that paper that RDBMS and ORDBMS engines operate in different markets.

There's an important tradeoff being discussed here, which is, "can we get directly the data we want from the query", versus, "do we need to load all the data into our app first and filter it there". This is of course the critical thing that a lot more people need to learn, and the work I do with SQLAlchemy is all about this. But in the SQLA approach, we use Python constructs on the app side which expand into SQL functions when rendered in a query. The effect is very similar to that which I see in most of the examples in your posts.

The only reason we do what we do in Postgres is because we want to support multiple programming languages with minimal work. It is a matter of having this be an API accessible to multiple tools where some may be written in Perl, some in Python, some in Perl, and some in Java. If you are just writing a single app and don't want that portability, yeah, it is the wrong approach.

Keeping SQL functions as app-side constructs has the advantage of source code management. It's easier to support multiple kinds of backends (I run against PG and SQL Server a lot) since you aren't tied to a stored procedure language.

Right. There's a huge tradeoff here between "one database with logic centralized for many apps" and "one app that runs on many databases." I am not convinced you can do both gracefully.

The big namespacing problems I see are, what if two different kinds of "classes" want to have the same method name ?

Yeah, we struggled with that, which is one reason why we are using input types to construct classes. Function overloading then solves the problem.

save(asset_item) and save(journal_entry) then both work and can be discovered as needed from the system catalogs.

I am not saying this is the right approach always. I am saying it is an approach which trades away the ideal of "one app on multiple databases" for the ideal of "one database for many apps."

Choose the right tool based on what you are doing.
Yes, that was a Hail Mary toss that worked. The question is, is the new guy of Steve Jobs caliber, or is it a shyster who can only sell himself as such? (I hope he is.)

The new guy is the desperation move, not the way an organization should solve problems on a regular basis.
Whoa, dude, are we in a computer right now? NASA scientist thinks we could be.
There aren't any black swans yet that I know of, though there are at least two companies we rejected that must have valuations close to a hundred million, judging from the amounts they've raised. What worries me most is the possibility that we missed some we never heard about, because they either died or didn't happen.
Delivered-to is still going to be valid. You'll have to be able to read all email headers, though.
Really? I get Linkedin spam shit every day for god knows how many years. Every time I delete it or report it as Spam, I still get the stuff the next day. Most annoying website in the world. I even changed my profile to reflect that since I could figure out how to unsubscribe once I finally logged in.

http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/matt-gascoigne/17/a25/9b6
This would be 100x more fun if you could link to queries.
Rob Pike said it best when he quoted his friend:

My late friend Alain Fournier once told
me that he considered the lowest form of
academic work to be taxonomy.
And you know what? Type hierarchies are
just taxonomy. You need to decide what
piece goes in what box, every type's parent,
whether A inherits from B or B from A.
Is a sortable array an array that sorts or a sorter
represented by an array?
If you believe that types address
all design issues you must make that decision.

Reference: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentia...
So I've done some limited work with writing C/numpy extensions (for numerical work) and it's gone swimmingly. However, a lot of performance-critical things I need to do don't necessarily fit into array/matrix numerical computing - lots of times there are difficult,complex datastructures involved that need to be accessed in the "inner loop" (not really a loop, but you get the point). I typically end up using Java for these sorts of problems, although sometimes Pypy does okay.

I rather dislike the constant advice I see doled out to those who mention Python's performance issues - namely, that they can just rewrite the performance critical parts in C. Lots of the time, the performance critical parts are just as sophisticated and require just as much abstract, high-level coding as the rest of the program. Some awareness of that would be nice.
> Not according to Jeff Bezos, who spend a good portion of his presentation explaining how Amazon make money with their pricing strategy of the Kindles

He may have explained how they want to make money, but I don't recall Amazon or Jeff Bezos ever having stated the Kindle Fire has made them a profit. Indeed, Amazon have been very reluctant to even release hard sales figures for the Kindle Fire.
Size C Aerons are pretty robust and should be reasonable for 6'6" 275-300#. Plus, if anything breaks, you can get spare parts and just fix the broken part, so a $800 Aeron ends up not being as expensive as a $250 chair every couple years. There's also a 12 year warranty if you buy new (or buy used for $300 or so instead)
>> First, chairs are cheap compared to salaries.

While we agree on this point, I feel that this is bandied about a little too liberally. I love comforts and toys as much as the next, but this has been the general progression of the above argument at my current company :

1. "GeekDesks cost *nothing* next to a developer salary" : GeekDesk acquired ($900 per)
2. "Ergonomic chairs cost *nothing* next to a developer's salary" : Steelcase Leap chairs acquired ($1k per)
3. "30 inch Dell UltraSharps cost *nothing* next to a developer's salary" : Dell UltraSharps acquired ($1.2k per)
4. "New machines cost *nothing* next to a developer's salary" : Retina MBP's acquired ($2.2k per)
etc.

I am not arguing that the above were all frivolous expenses (geekdesk is worth every penny, whereas the jury is out on a 30 inch display), just that the argument has potential for being applied very liberally.

When compounded with other perks such as paid conferences, travel expenses (hotels etc), office meals and books, the costs of maintaining an office can rapidly spiral upwards.
I'm the same when it comes to typing and I've found out that the Aeron is perfect for this. It leans back enough for me to put me legs comfortably in the desk and due to its robust build, I know it won't be breaking in a year.
Tell HN: Free iOS Apps generate 1.6c per download in advertising revenue
Can other iOS developers provide additional stats to validate this model.

My method is simple:

Advertising revenue per day / number of downloads per day
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Thanks! These are all I made.
I have once met Benioff (never have met MZ), and what really struck me as odd about him was how unfazed he was by occurrences that would really shake a regular person up and throw them in a spiral of self-doubt.

He seemed to never lose an ounce of morale from anyone telling him "no", he seemed to be doing this pretty naturally by never faulting or doubting himself but rather placing the blame on the nay-sayer. The take-away for me was someone whose morale cannot be broken is an unstoppable train. I have to be honest, it seemed full-fledged delusional to see someone never question them self based on other people (and some very important/influential people's) judgement. But that seemed to be him.
I meant it tongue-in-cheek when I said "facebook generation", but it seems we really have a generational gap here.

The code needs to be open source, versioned, vetted, and only obtained via a trusted repository

http://www.procmail.org
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
http://www.mutt.org/

The user is no longer instantly able to access the latest version of the application by simply typing in a URI.

Yes, that actually bothers me a lot. Can you imagine the crazy effort that I go through every time I update my mail-client?

It takes the better part of 5 minutes every time (I'm not exaggerating here) and last year I had to do it twice!
A month or so back I mentioned that I'd recently switched to doing most of my computing while sitting in one of these:

http://www.dwr.com/product/lc4-chaise-lounge-cowhide.do?sort...

and I can now offer as an update that it's really working out well from a comfort perspective. Obviously, this isn't necessarily feasible in most offices; but if you work from home, I highly recommend it.
Would either of them have received an interview though?
"You have to ignore the elephant in front of you, the likelihood they'll succeed, and focus instead on the separate and almost invisibly intangible question of whether they'll succeed really big."

This reminds me of Arthur Rock's heuristic: he said he invested in startups that were "open ended with no limits to their success" as opposed to ones that seemed likely to succeed.
This would actually be a rather useful, real world use case for Little Printer: http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/
Would it be crazy if you had guest days? Perhaps a prominent person would curate a playlist. It would be a cool way to drive traffic.
Absolutely nothing better than an Aeron chair
Can you have your own persistent TCP connections on iOS or are you required to use Apple Push Notifications? If not, that's probably why.
What if you changed how YC operates so even more of the startups flamed out before Demo Day? An internal Demo Day, perhaps?

If the public Demo Day is now fraught with too much expectation perhaps it should be treated as a PR event rather than a goal for the startups to shoot for.

This doesn't solve the other problem you mention, which is that you'd be surrounded by people flaming out, which would be stressful in a lot of dimensions.
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Ah, how to use the law of large numbers and utility functions to make money!!!
Although, unexpectedly this is not due to a growth in the number of discouraged workers. It's not clear where they went. See http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/09/why-did-labor-...
47% of capacity with 248 gigs free.
In my mind the reason for this is often increasing government transparency and encouraging citizens to be more critical of the government by exposing them to the gruesome realities that most of us don't see often. I think that the hypothesis here is that violent acts or murders committed for the camera is fairly rare, which seems fairly likely based on my observations. I'm not sure though and would be interested to hear from someone with more information.
I disagree - I've been considering buying a tablet just for my kids, and Amazon has put a better option on the table for parents. I can't tell you the number of times I've found my kid browsing some Youtube videos or in the Apple store after being upsold something in the game itself.

So for me - and I expect for other parents if they can get the word out - Amazon is making a play for my Apple business.

Still amazes me that Apple didn't see the kids/children's market and provide a better solution than the restrictions - I mean they are ok, but the lack of separate profiles means I'm constantly tweaking them as I work on the iPad, then my son grabs it, etc.
That is an extremely old Snopes page, written at the dawn of the internet, when pictures were captured on film or tape, not in bytes. I recall reading that very page back then. It does say 'last updated 2006', but the most recent reference in 1999, and only seems to talk about famed snuff films to that date.

To contrast, the main article gives a direct link to such a snuff film as snopes says doesn't exist. Shock sites also had things like the Taliban beheading videos. Snopes is clearly wrong on this one.

I'm not sure how much 'big business' shock sites would have though - I can't see them selling much in the way of subscriptions, only monetising through web ads.
For what it's worth, I weigh about what you do (a bit more, sigh), and used a sized-B Aeron (which should've been too small) at work and a Steelcase Leap at home, and didn't ever have any issues with breakage. I also found that regular $100-$200 office chairs would break yearly or so, so I think we must put comparable strain on our chairs.

I will also note that you can find Aerons for about half-price used and the Steelcase Leap for an even greater discount (as it is not as well known.) I paid $350 for my current Steelcase Leap, and that included delivery (of myself and the chair) right to my doorstep in the nice older gentleman's Mercedes, complete with heated seats.
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am i missing something, or does crunchbase have the investors wrong?

ie, that it was Technology Partners (http://technologypartners.com/cleantech.html), and not Technology Venture Partners US (http://tvp.com/Investments.aspx has no mention of Tesla), who made the investment (not to be confused with Compass Technology Partners who also invested). oi, names...

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-wins-in-the-tesla-ipo/
A translation is entirely different from a reformat. Translating Homer from Greek to English is more than simply matching up words. It is a creative venture that results in a fair amount of originality. According to the Supreme Court of the United States, "the sine qua non of copyright is originality."[1] Effort is generally irrelevant when it comes to determining copyrightabilty, so a reformatted version would need a certain level of originality to be copyrightable.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm
Also argued to be 'uniqueness' by a Professor at Miami School of Law: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1906047
I would love to see this. Some of the most interesting (and educational) stories that come out of TechCrunch are those with the "deadpool" tag. Unfortunately these posts are rare, with writers more likely to cover financings or acquisitions instead. This is unsurprising, since no one is paying their PR firm to publicize the fact that they are going out of business.
Actually I agree about the MyISAM tables. Those are great for lightweight content management, more or less that initial use case I mentioned.

The other thing is that when I switched to PostgreSQL for important work, I still had to keep MySQL around for database prototyping because it wasn't until 7.3 that I could drop columns from a table. PostgreSQL was pretty ugly and hard to work with in 1999 but it has gotten a lot better. I would further note that while PostgreSQL has gotten a lot faster, MySQL has become more feature-complete at the expense of speed.
Are you claiming that it's a fact that legalisation of child pornography reduces instances of children being exploited to produce pornography?

If not then I'm afraid I don't see how your comment is relevant to your universal claim in the previous comment in this thread? You never mentioned these conditions along with your previous requirement not to limit was is against the moral norm by use of legal statute.