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Why, to make it to the HN frontpage of course! :)
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Non-technical people don't query.

They call me up, ask me to do a "quick report across the inventory db with the project cost data." I send it off to them. If they like it, we push a report (maybe with a couple of parameters) into production.

My gut is that we aren't lacking for good technical options in analytics and data warehousing. To be honest, the lion's share of my work in data warehousing is helping the users know what questions to ask.

But there is lots of room and probably several excellent lifestyle to 8-digit businesses for good BI.
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Gobitron 1 hour ago

Interesting, but how is this different than Context.io?

nicholasreed 1 hour ago

developer here: there are definitely some similarities to Context.io, but I think the key differences are in the pricing (free), push events, write and storage API, and permissions granted. We're handling all the authentication and security, and apps just request certain parts of the email as necessary.
Here's someone who thinks the 'Great Filter' is ever-more-compelling virtual/entertainment/game environments:

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/why_we_havent_met_an...
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> good developers should also be able to drop down to Assembly, C, C++, if the application really requires it.

The ability to do that easily is one reason why I used to be very fond of Objective-C.

With something like .NET, though, I submit that it shouldn't be too much easier than what we already get with P/Invoke. The unmanaged code really should be isolated in order to prevent it from corrupting the managed code's memory space, but that inevitably means that there's a hefty performance toll to calling into the unmanaged code. Having the ability to pepper the application with tiny little snippets of low-level code would probably do more harm than good, by enticing less-experienced developers to make a habit of burning 10X time in domain-crossing every time they want to save X time in CPU cycles.
'Non-Confusing Slider Toggle UI' implemented in JS
Wow, take that Betteridge's Law!
Why isn't it a replacement? From what I read it seems it's like a very large and transparantly scalable SQL database
I'm always skeptical of banks trying to use small interest rate differences to get me to open an account. The bank can simply change the interest rate on my account 6 months later, after I've moved over my bill payments.
Falling behind != default support for MongoDB

Besides, adding mongodb support (including admin) to Django is trivial with pip install django-mongodb-engine pymongo.
See, if you'd taken English classes instead of Theology, you'd have recognized the neologism of "Damascean".

The first poster was saying something casually, and I was making a joke. You're taking this sub-thread way too seriously.
Improvement to the ORM should be the #1 priority IMO. This is my single biggest pain point with Django.
You are somehow imagining that this will be administered in a strictly controlled manner. It won't. In fact, I will be very sad if it's not part of the regular capitalist marketplace.

Will it lead to overpopulation? Yes. Bloody wars? Yes. Almost completely stagnant population? Suicides left and right by 200-y.o. people? Perverse class imbalance? Complete overhaul of society as we know it? Yesyesyesnotreally.

Because once you institutionalise and put such and such rules in place (a bureaucracy), people stop thinking. They stop thinking and become not people, but things - and they do it to themselves, willingly.

And that is the greatest crime of all.
This floored me:

"The professionalisation of management has, some argue, been the single biggest factor behind the economic advancements of the past 100 years."

Not electricity, rapid transportation, semiconductors/computers, telephones, the assembly line, or public investment in research. Professionalization of management. Mmkay.
Any economist would.

Could Google be leveraging their grasp of the world's free information to predict their competitors' pricing changes?
> At their volume most manufacturers would hand over details of connecting to their display.

You'd think so, but I have had a hardware firm refuse to let me look at the data sheets unless they got a commitment to an order of 300,000 chips. And that was even though I tried to flash working-for-a-big-player-in-the-business credentials.
I wouldn't attribute the change to "agile" ... but would attribute the problem to poor design. Subtle difference, but you get the same garbage in agile stuff - just depends on the PM, really.
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Sure, I have nothing against improvements :-)
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a naive question, while javascript etc are used for client side, php/ruby for server side frameworks, what's the point of python these days?
I noticed python guys are keen on attacking php specifically, never the other way around though, why is that?
it's said ruby can not scale well comparing to python for large deployments, is that still true?
what's the place for python, do we really need it at all these days?
maybe the django-is-falling-behind is just a sign of python getting irrelevant?
The competition Google is putting up in this space reminds me of a Ben Horowitz quote from Startup School (paraphrased):

You have to have a 10x better product to beat established competition.

Compute Engine has a long way to go to be 10x better than AWS. For most (including me) it's not just about storage and CPU units, it's things like VPC, SES, IAM, etc.
Skylon would basically use the cryogenic fuel as a giant internal heat sink.

A more fanciful application of the concept: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StealthInSpace
It's unfortunate that they restrict the number of cores according to license tier. I was excited about R integration, which is where I do a lot of parallel computations, until I realized this.
Ah, just like the awesome engsoc_on_campus escapade at Waterloo in 2006...
If you need to hand a check to someone and know the amount in advance (babysitter, maid), make it out to her name and mail it to yourself. Then hand it to them.
I know next to nothing about black holes, is there any relation between the size of a black hole and the amount of matter it's "swallowed?"
Show HN: We built a Continuous Delivery platform just for mobile developers
I wonder how much longer until the established banks adopt similar ideas.

From looking at (but not using) Simple, it doesn't seem like they have any technical advantages, they were just able to start fresh without the bureaucracy bloat that current banks have and focus on modern convenience.
If your data is too difficult to integrate into HDFS (doesn't have to be HBase) using existing Hadoop tools, I suspect you're going to have to do some work to use that data on any platform.
Real, and yes, you have a real ABA and routing number and can print your own.
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It's also worth mentioning that the customer service really is phenomenal, and I'm hoping that they scale this up at the same rate as the rest of the business.

Part of the magic in the support is having a button on the side of the site where I can just open up a ticket and describe an issue, and in short time get a response back from a real human being. For instance, I went to Mexico a week or so ago and sent them a message asking them to note this on my account. They quickly responded back stating that they had noted this, and including a list of fees and limitations that I could expect when using my card down there. This was a far superior experience to sitting on the phone, punching in prompts, and answering security questions.

If you do need phone support (I have once so far), the number rings through to a real person, and is superior to big banks in response time and helpfulness in my experience as well.

I'm a big fan of the service, as much for what it is now as for what I'm sure it's going to become as it continues to grow.
I believe the 'economies of scale' argument, but I also imagine that this move is related to the RedShift announcement. If Amazon wants users to use their offering for data warehousing and analytics, they'll need lots of cheap storage for hosting the data.
Continuous Delivery is a process that automates builds, testing and deployment for software. This saves developers a lot of time and helps improve the quality of their app because tests are run so frequently. While there are a lot of great solutions for web applications, there is really nothing that works well for mobile.

We think there's a lot of value in building a service specifically focused on solving problems for mobile developers. That's why we decided to build cisimple. Please let us know what you think about the idea and if you want immediate access to our beta email me at kevin [at] cisimple dot com.

Check out our recent article on TechCrunch http://tcrn.ch/QnQbJJ

Also, here's a post on why Continuous Delivery for mobile is different:
http://cisimple.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/what-makes-continuo...
You don't need to store the entire block chain in every client, even in a model where you don't want to trust a third party server. Most of the block chain is "dead," in that the coins in those transactions have changed hands since then. You can drop those transactions as they can't affect anything. Further, since the block chain contains a Merkle tree, each client only needs to have log(n) blocks on hand to validate the entire tree (i.e., provided by someone else or federated across the network).

There's a lot of compression possible that the client hasn't bothered with yet. The community expects this to eventually be a solved problem.
Agreed. I keep looking for reasons to use Django for anything other than small/medium complexity apps - but Rails keeps winning for these..... yet I prefer Python but have to construct in Ruby.
the lack of joint accounts continues to be a barrier for anyone that isn't legally single.
Totally agree, and they'll just be left in the dust while paying bucket loads for services that we can now acquire for greater deals less. At the end of the day, Amazon should have no problems finding clients interested in this service.
As a small business owner, what I would find to be more useful would be if someone is sending me a check, they could scan it themselves and then email me the scan. I could then process the check with an app on my side.
It's in the More dropdown.
I don't particularly see the unix philosophy ever shining through in object oriented design. The problem is that objects are too inflexible - you can't just glue methods together, piping arbitrary objects into methods like you can do with data at a command line prompt.
Why does _data rely on _size being initialized first? It uses "size" not "_size" in the expression.
1) When scrolling is erratic (due to the mouse, the browser, or what have you) and reading a long article, I highlight a word in the last-read paragraph to allow me to scroll that paragraph up and not lose it.

2) When pages have low contrast, but I don't want to say View / Style / No Style (alt+v, y, n - in firefox), I'll select the whole page.

3) When pages have extra-wide text lines without sufficient spacing between lines (i.e., they do not conform to typographical rules for reading ... for example, Hacker News comments), I'll select individual lines in order to better follow the length of the line.

4) When interrupted in reading a lengthy article, so as not to lose my place, I'll double-click (middle wheel button is keyed to double-click) my reading position to highlight just that word.
I came to say the same thing.

I see that Jesse acknowledged some critiques above and said he would pass on the feedback so hopefully it doesn't fall on deaf ears.
Bootstrap isn't a CMS. It does nothing to manage content but is instead a visual framework of HTML, CSS, and JS. It's essentially a good baseline of nice looking defaults.

It's popular because design is hard. Seriously hard. And the skills required to code up a cool web application do not often overlap with the skills required to make a site that isn't hideous to look at.

Bootstrap allows you to have a permanent check on the "design site" in your list of things to do for launch.

Not only does it look great out of the box, but it's also a great starting point for real designs (hence the name "bootstrap"). http://builtwithbootstrap.com/
Despite the overwhelming sense of ego that pervades every word Wolfram and his organization ever writes, you owe it to yourself to try Mathematica.

When I had first encountered Mathematica in college, I thought "this is neat", used it for a few calculations, and forgot about it. Fast forward to a few months ago and I decided to install a demo just to learn about term rewriting and pattern matching.

What I discovered blew my mind: It's just a lisp! Every expression has a "head", which is just a namespaced symbol. FullForm[x+y+z] is really just Plus[x,y,z] and Head[Plus[x,y,z]] is simply Plus. Squint, and it looks like (+ x y z) to me... The really interesting part is that the entire computational library is built around term rewriting. While there is mutable state, it exists almost primarily at the symbol definition level. Everything else is pretty much pattern matching on trees of symbols. Even the rendered output is just a drawn representation of a box-oriented markup built out of Mathematica forms. It's quite amazing.
not sure if you're trolling - please define "web scale"?
I wonder how much benefit an MBA from a top school gives beyond signaling. If you are admitted into Harvard/Stanford/Wharton/etc you've been successful early on in your career. It seems to me that pursuing an MBA at that point is an extremely risk averse move. Credentialing for the sake of credentialing.

While there are tons of successful graduates of top MBA programs, it may be a function of who is admitted and not a function of the value added by the program.
A very nice solution - and I am happy to say I have a little app on the stocks I can try it on straight away.
Its not a throwaway comment because you're confusing analysis with non analysis.

2007-2012 = 5 years

2007-2015 = 8 years

It goes without saying that these are not equal. or equivalent. etc. If you google "fed" and "forseable future" you will get a variety of reports discussing the recent movements and QE decisions from 9/12 (at various levels of sohistication). So to sum, the notion of "perpetual" (or: open-ended) QE is closer to realtity than what you suggest (the finite 5 years of QE, etc). [1]

TLDR: we are in a period of "open-ended" QE

edits: clarity

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[1] The fed hasn't gone further explicitly because "further" is not "foreseeable" with any credibility. Policy parameters = f('hope') is not what they get paid for, or why they are entrusted with power. etc.
well the operative word is "economic" .. you may have all of the above but without commercial acumen there is nothing economic.
I think there is a startup in this. A simple API on top of S3 accepting and pushing updates. Useful feature, easy integration, pain to implement well on hour own.
I doubt that the Bitcoin community is large enough to affect the video card market.
I currently bank with Wells Fargo, and am gradually making the switch over to Simple. Couple reasons why:

– like most banks, WF have a ludicrously outdated web interface that makes doing the simplest thing inordinately painful.

– like most banks, WF suck at providing a complete historical transaction history and search. Case in point – a couple weeks ago I wanted to query a transaction on an older account, after checking online and being transferred between at least four different customer service agents in different divisions, I was none the wiser. The best they could do was offer to send me printed statements, at a $100 cost.

- like most banks, WF make obscene profits while engaging in shady practices - e.g., trying to upsell me every single time I call them, mailing me an offer for a "free" credit score service (that, if you read the small print, is actually a subscription) and not least discriminatory lending practices (c.f., recent settlement with Justice Dept)

Bottom line, they don't deserve my business.
Atrocious like (99.99% of) the rest.

I've stopped letting myself get frustrated over this a while ago. The intention of basically all movies are to entertain. And for those that do not know otherwise, shiny beeping flying objects floating around on a screen conveying 'logic' and 'paths' will always be more comprehensible compared to a command prompt.
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A number already have. Citibank and USAA have offered this for a while, in fact.
people who mine bitcoins probably don't report that on their takes.
Does anyone have insight into how painful it is for non-technical people to query their data warehouses?

Depends. Back when I did DW stuff my general workflow was to speak with the analysts about what they were trying to accomplish. From there I would create the cubes and additional metrics. I would also set up all the processing schedules at this time. The analysts would then use an Excel plugin that provided a pivot table interface to any cubes for which they had access. It worked pretty well.

For straight data access I would teach the them basic sql and/or build sql templates for them that they could extend.

My goal was always teach a man to fish and get out of the way.
the yield keyword is going to be very cool
I was literally talking to someone yesterday about how I couldn't believe a plugin like this didn't exist yet. Long overdue. Well done!
I've never tried this, but is using SQLAlchemy with Django relatively easy and production-worthy?
You are forgetting webRTC.

(peer 2 peer data connections)
I'm not really clued up on the Northern Ireland conflicts, I do however find the idea of locking people up without trial and keeping them detained for long periods of time, barbaric, regardless of what they are accused of.

Things in Northern Ireland are much calmer now than they were (which is great!). There's still a lot more to do though.

What's interesting is the things that didn't work but only made things worse. Interment without trial, made things worse, sending the army onto the streets made things worse. Car bombs by terrorists, or punishment shootings against 'informers', made things worse. This sort of violence makes things worse.
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You mention you still have a "main bank". What are the reasons you maintain that relationship and don't completely sever ties? Do you plan to make a full switch to Simple? I'm not being facetious, I just want to point out that this is pretty common--for people to have a "side account" separate from their primary bank (we saw lots of people using prepaid debit cards in this way).
My bank (Charles Schwab Bank, U.S.) has had this for a while now. Also other cool stuff like two-factor authentication.
If you're on payroll, some employers let you split your paycheck between multiple accounts. That's a useful way to get some money in and try the service without having to totally go all in.
Some of those industries have legal and or regulatory reasons for not hosting all their data on AWS. In addition, AWS isn't always the economic boon it's made out to be. Those fees can really add up once you start moving enough data around.

I'm a big fan of AWS. But, like any other tool, it's not meant for every job.
Once thing I still have hard time understanding is Chrome App Store and Google Chrome Apps. I'm guessing it's something akin to Adobe Air, but has there been any success stories with Air? Also, I feel like Chrome App Store goes against the idea of open web.
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Ask HN: Do you limit your code to a certain line width?
If yes, then
1. How much?
2. How strict are you in following the limit?
3. What do you think about this?

I'm interested because I was trying to format code to 80 chars wide, but I find that a little less. I think between 100-110 is a sweet spot for readability.

PS: I write Ruby/JS.
This was true a year ago, but after the introduction of getUserMedia it's so close you can taste it. We've setup our app so as soon as all these features are stable we can have a non-Flash version with local storage, playback, and recording. Right now it's abstracted out into store and recorder classes that have a flash version and a Chrome version depending on what features are present.
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No mention of Web Intent API?
Where can I go to find more information about Vagrant's plans for supporting more hypervisors than Virtualbox?
Certain US government mailing lists have this same problem. For example, the Federal Register table of contents listserv, which sends out daily mails consisting of links to government notices. Every few weeks, lawyers all over the country — plus us random wonks who also read the Federal Register for fun — get an autoreply from some other law firm telling us who quit or got laid off:
http://listserv.access.gpo.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1210C...

I'm only surprised it doesn't happen more often. I guess, given the intended audience, it's not so surprising that it doesn't get abused. But still, it would be incredibly easy to send out a fake email pretending to be the Federal Register. Imagine all the fun you could have issuing your own antidumping notices and arms control regulations.
tl;dr - patterns are seductive, and without understanding yagni, they strongly tend to be counterproductive.
Yes. The radius of the "event horizon," which is the spherical boundary that serves as the point of no return, grows as it swallows more mass. For a Schwarzschild black hole (which doesn't rotate and has no charge), the event horizon radius is 2GM/(c^2), where c is the speed of light, M is the mass of the black hole, and G is the gravitational constant.

The singularity at the center doesn't grow. But a black hole's "size" generally refers to the radius of its event horizon.

Wolfram Alpha computes it for you:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=schwarzschild+radius+fo...