skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does not matter. I'm author of another KV store (Redis), but years ago got real-time chat working with MySQL, check this:

http://w.ebchat.com/channel/hackernews

You can do it with MySql, or with files in append mode with "message_id - message", and everything else.

I think that KV stores are great, but if you create a false sense of coolness this is going to hurt in the long run. It is important to show people why really new forms of DBs can be useful and important.

edit: If the point is instead the fact that the DB talks directly HTTP, the w.ebchat.com chat PHP layer is ridiculous, just a wrapper that takes parameters from the HTTP side and run a query returning back the data. I can only see the HTTP protocol as interface to KV DB as a good way to lost a lot of performances without a reason.
Wolfram Alpha Approaches 100 Million Queries (Interview with Dr. Wolfram)
My degree (in the UK) was 3 years and I feel I had a great education. I had plenty of time to attend whatever other courses/lectures I wanted, and when I elected to continue study into a 4th year, I got an extra degree -- and got paid to study -- that specialised me to the point I could start a PhD. (Though some in other CS fields went straight to PhD from the 3 years.)
Self-publishing helps POD take the lead in US
http://www.losethos.com variation of C/C++ language syntax at the command line.
I can create a chat application in just ruby, that stores everything in a flat text file and serves everything directly from mongrel, with no apache or nginx in the way.

Just because it has "fewer moving parts" doesn't make it good or special.

Separating unrelated layers is supposed to be a good thing. I seriously doubt that CouchDB is as good a general purpose HTTP server as Apache.

UPDATE:
This is what I think of when you say "It's got one less moving part":

http://skitch.com/swombat/btpj4

There's a reason we've split development onto multiple tiers.
It's time to create a bugtraq for black hat SEO, a strong full disclosure group will uncover page rank exploits.
Yeah, 3 years is better, cheaper, more effective. Then you can go back for a Masters when you need it. The extra year is not going to give you the extra kick. Only a Masters will do that. The Brits got it right.

Of course this will kill the whole private school 4 year franchises, that make you believe they can change you as a person (the Yale/ Harvard/... man). 3 years is too short of an incubation time to mess with you IMHO.

So much for dealing with the education priesthood.
Could you give a brief summary of the points for those of us who are video impaired? Thanks.
Why is it a bad idea to use a DB for a chat?
Obviously to give the victim less opportunity to respond promptly to the slanderous story.
Well one issue is the Cleartype is, somewhat unbelievably, worse than the standard Windows rasterisation for text at display sizes, where you would most want to use custom fonts:

http://jontangerine.com/log/2008/11/display-type-and-the-ras...

Personally, even with that caveat, I don't think the accessibility trade-offs make sense to ditch the built in system for some 3rd party hack. That's never stopped web designers before though.
I agree with most of your points. But, I found that it is very easy to hack your way out to graduate from college with good CGPA. You don't have to be very smart and hardworking on doing this.

And, I found that college is more about socializing than learning.
Leaves doubts in the mind of one guy. At least, that's all they could find.

Just being able to grow and remain profitable in times like this -- doesn't that show something?

And, uh, just because OpenTable is solely in the restaurant business in the U.S., does that automatically mean its business model is severely limited? There aren't other markets, other countries?

I have doubts like the next guy, but I have doubts based on logic, not FUD.
That's tough. It's a 60 minute video, and he makes a lot of great points. The style is fun, too.

From memory,

It was insular - people created and staying in their bubble and didn't interact with messy other code.

It was too easy to make a mess, and continue to work with it until suddenly the code become too fragile to change.

Proponents thought their world was somehow better, and didn't play nice. So others didn't play nice in return.

One big one that really needs the video to support it - it will come to be believed that professional programming will be based entirely and exclusively around "proper" TDD.

There are more. I'll see what I can do. Do you have any video capability? It's also on YouTube.
To address a previous comment made, I will be getting some upfront equity. This is more of an "incentive to reinvest in the company" kind of deal.

Referring back to my example - say I'm usually paid 5k/month but I decide I only need 3k so I ask for 3k and X number of shares. Those shares are assigned .0001 cents since the company has no established value so I now have $3020 in income. Shouldn't I just have to declare $3020 worth of income and the shares are now subject to capital gains?
Well in his response Russ Garret says its against data protection laws to transfer personally identifiable data.
"There are a lot of people trying to use pagerank for academic journals, but so far it hasn't worked well for various reasons."

Apart from eigenfactor.org, what other examples do you know of?

I'm not aware of anyone using PageRank for individual articles. (I know this isn't what you were referring to in your comment).

I'd be interested to know what algorithm Google Scholar uses to compute its rankings. The rankings it returns seem to be pretty close to pure citation counts, with some minor variations, which could potentially be explained as being due to some sort of relevancy of the hit to the query.
First thing comes to mind is CouchDB should not be general purpose HTTP server.
You will agree that you can't create real time chat in under 100 lines of Ruby code alone (still you need javascript)

This chat application author coded application in 100 lines of Javascript including validation that run on server.

I can clearly see the benefits of approach CouchDB took with CouchApps. I also know its not answer to all needs of Webapps.
560K new titles in the US last year, more POD than regular publishing. That is mind boggling. POD == Publishing On Demand.
As many philosophers have said in one form or another: Capitalism is horrible, it just so happens that everything else is ten times worse.
Chat is a messaging system. Sending messages from one user, to other users. A database is a ridiculous way to do that.
This guy is thinking too small, which reflects the year he stopped spamming. The problem is not high value keyword spam creation or even long tail spam creation or link cramming, the next frontier is legit unique low quality content ... and lots of it.

The stuff he's talking about is easy to spot and easy to kill, when the content is unique and low in quality but extremely high in number, the game changes completely.
I agree with your skepticism about the deal, but not because of taxes. Handling the taxes in a situation like this is a pain in the ass.

The odds of any startup succeeding in any business climate (let alone ours) is low. As employee #1 in the company, you'd want that $2k to be getting a founder's multiple. I don't know what that number is, but my mind jumps to 5-10x. So each time you're getting $2k worth of stock, you want it backed with a story that in 2 years makes you $10-$20k.

The question in this post doesn't contain any numbers (revenue, projections, go-to-market, funding plans), which makes me think that conversation hasn't happened yet with the founder. So what I think is, taking this deal is basically shoveling $2k/mo into a black hole.

I've been in this exact situation twice. I accepted the deal both times. The first time I came out about $20k behind where I would have been with straight salary. The second time, my "investment" made a little better than 25x, which set me up for my own first startup. So it's not like I think this is a rip-off; I just think you're leaving too much up to chance.

Finally, I don't like how Denny is wording this response. $60k/yr is a healthy pre-revenue startup paycheck. It's not rockstar comp, but it's not a rip-off either. If you're getting solid W2 wages, I think it's hard to say that the business "owes" you anything outside of what you can negotiate.
Walmart bans new Green Day album
It was pure laziness, not any lack of facilities. :-) I find it hard to devote an hour to a video when there is a good science fiction book around. Thanks again for the summary.
The advice people are giving you is way too complex. Here is the simple answer: Don't worry about taxes in this case.

1) An 83b is irrelevant for this problem (you aren't vesting over time, thus there is no chance of a large increase in the share price before you get your grant)

2) You aren't getting $2000 a month in stock. You are getting what he is saying is a fair equivalent of $2000 a month. You might have to report a couple bucks a month in income to the IRS, but it will be negligible because the real value of anything he gives you will be basically zero on paper

3) You pay taxes on the market rate of anything you get..keep that in mind.

4) If you really don't want to worry, don't get a stock or options grant, just "purchase" your shares from the company. At a fraction of a cent each, the shares are essentially free, so just write the guy a check. Since you bought them you won't be taxed until you have a gain.
you wrote a chat with apache and ruby sitting in front of it, the novelty of this is that there is 2 layers, couchdb, and javascript
What kind of experiments are these?

"One time my dad wouldn't let anybody swear or they would be fined 100 dollars. Now everybody is happy!"
Separation of concerns is a GOOD thing.

Anyone can write a big-ball-of-mud codebase with only one layer.
Yes, that's very cool, but can something interesting be done with an abstract combinatorial puzzle?
Oh, it's seriously incomplete. There's a lot more stuff.

I would recommend downloading it and playing it at double speed.
‘09 FbFund Finalist Looking for Facebook Developer
Our company, Life360 (life360.com), was recently named as one of this year’s Facebook Fund finalists (http://tinyurl.com/plmmmo). Facebook is currently a bit of a side focus for us right now, so we are looking for someone to become our lead Facebook developer and drive this forward.

As our lead Facebook Developer, you would attend all FbFund incubator meetings and sessions for us, and would get the full benefits of being a FbFund finalist, including any publicity that comes from our future Facebook efforts.

We need someone to start ASAP, and commit to working with us full time at least through the summer (hopefully longer if things work out). Pay will be crappy, the equity comp will be decent, and the opportunity we think is awesome—probably the only way to get into the 09 FbFund incubator at this point. We are based in Berkeley, and may be moving to SF in the near future.

We don’t have any formal requirements, but in addition to doing Facebook app development, we will also want you to spend a lot of your time doing JavaScript intensive UI. So please be able to show us you are pretty slick at doing cool AJAX development.

Send an email to chris@life360.com or give us a call at 415 462 0002 x706.

If anyone on this board has any other suggestions on where to find good FB developers, please let us know in the comments!
I'm sure I should be very afraid, but I had to skip the details after he bored me to death with that unfunny rambling metaphor for who the fuck knows what in the beginning.
Ask HN:  Who are the famous contributors to Hacker News?
By "famous", I mean people who are already well-known and successful in their domain -- not just entrepreneurs but also academics, authors, etc.

I'm especially interested in people that few of us know about but who are regular contributors.

An example of such a person:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=michael_nielsen

P.S. If you are such a person, feel free to tell us.
Pie,

Thanks, I agree. It may not have been a great submission/article, but it wasn't marketing pap. I tried to add a lot of photos to give people unfamiliar with the products a clear picture of what this tech is capable of. If anything I think this article would dissuade most people.
Yes, it is good thing. But will that method perfect for every use case.

Think about maintaining DB(Mysql, Sql language), Web server(Crazy config files), application server (Ruby or PHP), Client side(Javascript) just for personal blog/site.

Here layers are less and Languages(only one) and config files are less.

EDIT: "And less is good" , Arguments are endless unless you are talking about specific use case.
What makes this story slanderous? Do you have proof that it is so?

If not, you're just trolling and you should know better.
Yah, skip straight to 05:30.
To summarise:

Skip straight to 05:30. It starts with something completely unrelated and, to me, uninteresting.

This link works beyond the 41 minute mark:

http://blip.tv/file/2089545?filename=RailsConf-RailsConf09Ro...
the scripting layer has very little concern in the traditional web model, there are clear advantages to having that work done in the browser, hence the popularity of things like ajax and jquery.

why is creating any trivial website backed by a cms that isnt cuttie cooker blogger template still the domain of the ruby / phpist, we have had plenty of time to solve these problems with the traditional browser > php/ruby > mysql model, time for someone to come along with something new.
Northwestern has a two year J.D. programme. I forget the details but they have inter semester stuff for credit hours. IIRC they're really keen on work experience before letting you in though. Adam Smith Esq. had a good write up on it some time ago. You can practice in NY and possibly some other states with a UK or Irish law degree (undergrad, 3 or 4 years, cheaper).
Another Blanket Denial By Last.fm
you mean like the reddit guys?
Yes, I agree. Both TC and last.fm are speaking in non-commital terms that would allow them to easily back out of anything they said. It would be nice if last.fm just said "Neither last.fm nor CBS has ever transmitted any data to the RIAA which was not already publicly available" or something like that.
Sure, if they are regular contributors to this forum and few people here know their names.
Still has all the problems that counting citations do: how do you count multiple-author papers (particle physics has given up ranking authors and just put the hundreds of authors in alphabetical order, IIRC) and it encourages people to write piecemeal papers, because why say something in one paper if you can say it in two -- and get twice the citations?

Also, my favorite: What if you cite someone to say that they were completely wrong when they approached the same problem? Should that be counted as a positive for them?
ah, then you might want to take a look at http://hnstartups.com/ for a list of some of the users on here and what startups they do
A bit of spam on that page :/
It's like everyone is inventing IRC all over again.
I own a cleantech company, mainly small utility photovoltaics, in Australia a tradesman (a tradie) working with solar energy earns a minimum of $70Kpa (US$ 54K) and if he owns a company which employs 6 other tradies, he will earn over $1 million a year.

In Australia, the marketer even have a term CABs (cashed up bogans) a bogan is similar to a urban redneck.

I have often heard complaints from very high level government officials, that every time they increase the government funding of solar energy, all that happens is the tradies increase their prices.

In Australia, similar to many European pays up to 75% of the cost of installing solar energy equipment.

Richard Hayes
Carbon Free Solutions
Ask HN: Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder?
Like a monster.com but specifically for people who are interested in cofounding a startup.
There is lots of talks there, any favourites?
However the rant was interesting and perhaps informative. Therefore, I don't care what the guy does really or why he made this rant.
perhaps so is internet law, tricky waters to surf on I think.
yeah just noticed that too, hopefully markbao sees this thread and will clean it up
On the other hand, the arguments that FDA is using today to combat the use of checklists (also for sterilization) are almost exactly the same.

These arguments make a lot of sense when there is a common cognitive error. For example, the cognitive error that caused mistake A is also causing mistake B. I don't have enough domain expertise to say whether or not that was the case in this article, for its intended purpose.
UGC, a firefox tool bar that lets you flag stuff. If a user searches for something, and the first result is bullshit, chances are they'll be pissed enough to take the extra step to "punish" them by flagging the result
Previous similar discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224739
but if somebody ever does create anything that's effectively leeching then suing him would be ridiculously easy (emphasis added)

The problem is, according to the rant, that everybody is doing it.
I don't know and this explanation seems to be good (e.g. talent is not interchangeable because of social connections and big-hitter players supporting the union)

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/11...
But he is not getting $60K. He is getting $36K, or $18 an hour if he works just 40 hours a week. I suspect he works at least twice that which basically says that he will be working below minimum wage. My point is that he is being treated as an employee and as an employee, he is being cheated.
Interesting extract:

"Microsoft’s new search engine would lump results into categories specific to the query. For example, a search for a product may return photos, manufacturers’ Web pages and reviews, as well as places to purchase the product, according to one of the people. Each category would be included in a menu on the left side of the screen, with related searches and past searches listed in a panel below the category tabs. "
In this forum, if you have a pointy haired manager, you have already lost.
I wonder how easy it would be to prove that one of the users whose data was leaked was a citizen of the EU or the state of California, which have pretty strong data privacy laws if I'm not mistaken. I smell a lawsuit.
For Jim Collins, No Question Is Too Big
I hated vim the first time I ever tried it. It's "natural" to hate it if you're used to only Windowsy things (as I was).

After trying it out a couple of times, though, I came to realize that I like it.

Maybe you could give it another chance or two.
i like the parts where he equates estrogen with insipidness. nice ranty take on that at:

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-killed-smallta...

and a response that isn't so ranty ( and addresses other parts ) at:

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=tr...
This service could use some spam detection.

http://hnstartups.com/startup/275
Totally possible. Set up a MySQL server with a public username and password, define some stored procedures to keep the API simple. Share the procedures and invite people to connect using any MySQL client.
He's getting $36k if he takes the deal. We agree, he shouldn't take the deal. We disagree that he's being cheated; right now, it just looks like a poor deal.
VIM as Python IDE
Use VIM as a powerful IDE for Python - including code completion, pydoc, graphical debugging, task-management and a project view.
Good point. But i wonder how some services like GoogleTalk does the storing of the chat conversations. Maybe flat-files i guess?
Added bassist Mike Dirnt, more succinctly but just as effectively: "As the biggest record store in the America, [Wal-Mart] should probably have an obligation to sell people the correct art."

Where does this logic end? At what level of "bigness" are you no longer allowed to decide what you're willing to sell? Are you allowed to draw any lines about content? Green Day can't sell at Wal-Mart because they won't strip swear words out of their record. What about overt racism?

Best just to let the market handle this. Green Day is doing the right thing; it's not that Wal-Mart is rejecting them, it's that Green Day is effectively boycotting them. Great. One step closer to the day when we stop selling bits on little plastic disks.
They compete for students. They compete for professors (both those who will attract students and those who will attract grant money). They compete for peer recognition.

If colleges believe they can offer a 3 year degree that will result in students who are able to compete against students with a 4 year degree, they will do so. And, to be honest, a couple will probably try.

The format of higher education in America has been evolving for close to 400 years. During that time, many ideas have been tested, and you can still find a few colleges that are very different than the norm. However, the vast majority look similar in terms of how degrees are structured because that is what was found to be the most effective in preparing students for a career after they graduate.

You can argue over whether or not whether the traditional methods are best, but at the end of the day they work for the majority of students here. And, of course, the quality of higher education in America is high enough to attract people from all over the world.

At the end of the day, you don't have to take my word for it - just look into some of the research that's been done, both in terms of curriculum and general student development, and you'll get an idea as to just how much time is being put into determining the best ways to help students learn and grow.
Update: reporter caught in mortgage bubble didn't mention previous bankruptcies
rmdb's are a ridiculous way to run a chat application, other databases like mnesia (used heavily for ejabberd) work pretty well.

storage and querying are pretty typical functional requirements, I dont know how much more suited couchdb would be for chat than mysql, but you cant dismiss it because of the same preconceptions you have with other "databases"
"...invite people to connect using any MySQL client."

That is useful.
http://collabfinder.com/
@antirez the thing is that CouchDB is designed for replication. Every CouchApp is a p2p web app. This is different from the web we've known before.

CouchDB will never be as fast as some other k/v stores, but http based peer replication gives us a robust offline mode (and portable api) so that applications can run at the Edge.

Like this: http://www.slideshare.net/jchrisa/couchdb-to-the-edge
Link to the original reporting on this story.

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/05/the_roa...
OK this makes some sense. As long as there is no valuation, I basically don't have to pay taxes on whatever salary I convert to equity because the current value is nil. Now if/when the equity is actually worth something, I just have to pay capital gains, right?
I learned from a Media Studies course that distribution and promotion costs 100% of the cost of a movie. So a $30 mil movie costs another $30 mil to promote. Unless of course you get promotion by saying how much it cost!

[Additional] I loved the Hunt for Gollum and that was astonishing film making for the budget.
Took care of most of the spam on the page.
There's a difference. OSS is free for everyone. The things that reduce his film making costs are not free for everyone.
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That'd be very tricky, what happens if you undo when another player has just undone something?
It would probably be very frustrating to see your opponent undo all their errors.
I'm famous on Twitter.
I think the best way might be to post here looking for someone with free time and an interest.

Anyway, I happen to meet that description and have been looking for something new to start. I have a few ideas floating around in my head, shoot me an email if your interested.