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MySQL is a good database for basing a CMS on. (for a loose definition of database)

It seems to me that the success of MySQL can be tied directly to people using "database" for things where what they really need is "filesystem".
I'm not sure what this all boils down to. What does this mean for how I interact in public?

If I still decide to talk to the beautiful women I encounter, that means I'm placing importance on sex, right?
Because otherwise, I'd be staring at my work and not really giving a hoot.
Or are we saying there's a fine line between pursuing women and obsessing over the idea of love and sex as a determinant factor of one's self-esteem?
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animation tools. Edit: Users Wintamute and biot have solid replies as well.
Wife (not a techie) says she wants Android now, so there's no one stealing her fingerprints.
> MySQL is to a database as PHP is to a programming language.

Yup. They're both easy to work with, highly productive, widely supported and tooled, and suitable for a very large number of projects.
Seems like. That's also what this comment on Reddit says:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1niheb/mongodb_...
One classic example is tree/graph structured data.

I've worked extensively with modeling and querying medical concepts and relationships in RDBMS. I realize there are tools like recursive common table expressions an materialized paths that can aide querying such data, but now that I'm working at a different job using neo4j, I can see how much simpler the medical informatics domain could be modeled and traversed in a graph database.
So sub/sup is offered in the Mac version, and on the web, but NOT on the Windows client. Isn't that crazy!! It's like they're trolling given the CMS can clearly deal with the idea of sub/sup
You're not missing much.
The only thing that I can see on the page is the old facebook header image, like this one [1].
There are some weird invisible elements in the source, but they aren't shown to me for some reason.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thefacebook.png
Physical laws exist. Objects in the real world have to follow those laws. I accept (I think) your point that ML and simulation can be used to "discover" those laws in some inductive sense.

What I'm having a hard time with is the idea that markets necessarily have "laws" that are "discoverable" in the same way (which is what I think you're saying). They might do, and clearly some smarter people than me believe that they do, but where is the justification for this?

@contingencies mentioned [1] a George Soros quote about classical economics being based on a false analogy with Newtonian physics and markets are just the behaviour of individuals. Observations of particles tell you the behaviour of the particles, but the behaviour is fully determined by underlying physical laws. I don't see how this is true of behaviour of actors in economics, except in the obvious respect that the bodies of traders and the hardware of trading systems are subject to the laws of physics. What am I missing here?

I also wonder if there is a danger of building automated trading systems that are based on ideas from econophysics, and using their resulting behaviour are proof that the ideas were correct in the first place.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6481663
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What are you actually trying to say? Not everything in your post is a full truth.

MS's graphical query plan tool is actually pretty awful and hasn't been updated since forever, quite often hiding the most important information, like estimated rows vs. actual rows. It takes quite a while to learn how to actually read it unless someone shows you. Like months. And it's really just a wrapper around SHOW PLAN, which MySQL has with EXPLAIN.

I'm not convinced that SQL Server Data Tools easily manages schemas, I've only been using it a few months but it seems a massive hack to me which relies on constant schema compares.

MS also constantly push you to use the graphical tools, but if you play in the tools and then try to make something repeatable it's a right PITA. Your only option is to turn on the incredibly annoying 'Autogenerate change scripts' whereas in MySQL you can just look at the history tab in Workbench which shows every command you've run. Imagine that. Everything as SQL scripts you can modify and re-run!

Finally, SQL Server Management studio is an absolute dog performance wise, I actually still miss Query Analyser which was much better IMO.

And you can't actually use SQL Server with something like Ruby or Python without quite a massive amount of effort. I know because I've tried, there's no decent, easy to install, equivalent of ADO.Net without mucking around with ODBC connections. At least a year ago there wasn't.

As for the problems with MySQL, he mentions in the post the problem with MySQL is the lack of certain types of operations.

Also there's a bunch of gotchas, sub-selects perform terribly in MySQL, which makes the EF unusable on it.

Still, I've used both and SQL Server is much better if you're developing with C#.
To be taken seriously when making performance claims about 'relational databases' rather than 'mysql', yes, you may need to venture into products that aren't as simple as mysql.
"On the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world’s largest companies, the first non-financial firm is General Electric, which ranks 44th."

This is even scarier than the apparent fact that econophysics is a real thing. I'd like to know the history of the Forbes Global 2000 to get an idea over time of how dominant financial companies have been. I have a hunch they have always had a part (JP Morgan Chase anyone?) but surely this is a new phenomenon to be so dominated by companies that don't actually produce much.
Reminded me of "psycho-historians" :)
http://omnipapr.com Not a startup yet just really a side project. You can have a look at the interface with the test account. user:test pass:win
> The question is: how could one find evidence that justifies or refutes the idea that the scale of firms does in fact fit zipf and that measure is being obscured at the tail?

Well, I think to find that evidence, you would have to take a measurement of the amount of shadow banking from one of these firms. Objectively, you can't do that, since there is no agreed upon definition of what the term shadow banking means.
>Azure is great and i think you underestimate it's potential. I've seen PHP developers using Azure because it's more advanced then anything else on the market (their words, not mine). Windows Server has an optional GUI, powershell is Microsoft answer to get an advanced terminal, ...

I'm not saying these things don't exist, I'm saying they don't interoperate. To get from where I am now to running on Azure/Windows would involve a lot of changes that would put me in a worse position if C# didn't work out. It's not something you can just dip in and out of.
In my increasingly reflexive editing of website CSS:

- I disable ALL nags. If there's a modal, slider, fixed bar, or fixed social element, I nuke it.

- If it moves, I nuke it.

- If anything is labled "viral", "tease", "nag", or "social" there's really good odds it's getting nuked. Really, stuff like that just makes it too easy, and I may add some wildcards to my default CSS.

- Unless it's a premier site (e.g., NY Times, the Guardian), I'll nuke the "Recommended", "Trending", "Most Viral", etc., columns.

- I'll strip any 3-column (or otherwise multi-column) format into a single column of body text, generally about 40-50 ems (about 850-1000px) wide. The LH column generally becomes a full-width header, the RH column a full-width footer. If they survive at all.

- Bump all fonts to 15pt (body text), 14pt (usually for overview pages), 10-12pt for most navigation elements.

- Backgrounds to to white or very close to it, text to black or very close. #fffff4 background, #222 foreground, is about as much as I'll push either.

I've noticed that the result is much more soothing reading experiences, with far fewer distractions. It literally affects my ability to focus and peace of mind. Had my stylesheet manager (Stylebot) blow up on me a week or so back, having to deal with The Web As Published ... just drove me nuts. Most site's design simply sucks.

I've got over 500 sites styled to my preferences (many are just very quick and light changes, a few more involved). The results are ... mostly pretty nice.

Among my favorites:

Buzzfeed:
https://plus.google.com/photos/104092656004159577193/albums/...

Unbuzzed: https://plus.google.com/photos/104092656004159577193/albums/...

A 3-column to 1-column design:

3 cols: https://plus.google.com/photos/104092656004159577193/albums/...

1 col: https://plus.google.com/photos/104092656004159577193/albums/...

And this seems to kill the "Top 5 posts" bits:

blockquote.pullquote,
blockquote.pullquote + p,
blockquote.pullquote + p + p,
blockquote.pullquote + p + p + p,
blockquote.pullquote + p + p + p + p,
blockquote.pullquote + p + p + p + p + p,
blockquote.pullquote + p + p + p + p + p + hr {
display: none;
}
For almost 20 years I've had this problem with "give away open source, sell the support," because I thought if it works well people don't need support.

I've learned a lot in those 20 years that made me realize that it's not that simple, but stories like yours make me keep coming back to it.

On the other hand, how hard have you tried to market support contracts?
So who provides support for the base product? My concern with the free and 'enterprise' version of products, is support for the free.

You could say just community support, but then if things aren't getting fixed either you end up fixing them or your product gets a bad name. If you provide email support, you're tying a lot of your time to the free product.

Just curious how others handle this.
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Not that surprising that lots of spending happens at the end of the quarter, right? There is implied misconduct here but no real evidence that this is a weird pattern.
Why would you think this is black magic? The SWF format has been open for years and there are many other flash players out there.
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Right frame isn't loading properly when it progresses to the next one for me (on Chrome), so I get a kitten or a black screen. Pretty easy choice.
A live video community for solo-workers? Interesting concept. Will it work?
http://signup.cafesoloista.com

I'm intrigued about this. How many solo-workers, solo startup founders are there in the wild? Are there enough to form a viable community?

Does video make or break the idea?

Your opinion is gratefully welcomed.

Mike
One problem. The kittens are loading much faster than the other images. This might be skewing the results.
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I do believe that the point he is trying to make is not that you should say the same thing but with fewer words, but rather that you should say ONLY what you NEED to say. ie. Don't beat around the bush!
Or just disable javascript.
I feel that both your remark and the one you were reacting to are strangely correct and do not contradict each other. MySQL does "simply" work for many projects, especially if the number of rows doesn't go much higher than a few million.

Similarily, while the design of PHP must be considered terrible in some respects, it certainly allows you to quickly create webapps and ist does so in a way that is rather "native to the web".

But I think if you start non-trivial new projects on the PHP+MySQL stack today you are just lazy. Python (for example) with modern frameworks and Postgres gives you virtually all the advantages with fewer of the downsides and many nice extras like a more vibrant higher quality ecosystem and a better designed language.
Freelancing in Europe is most of the time very similar to be a full time employee. You have to show up at your customer's premises and work for 8/9 hours with the other employees. No way to deal with more than one client at the time, unless you start working 16 hours a day - which I'm not afraid of - but it's not a sustainable model on the long run. So, no, I don't think that being a freelance is equivalent to running my own company.

We had multiple problems in my company. The main one, I think, was new clients acquisition. It is a very time consuming process that often results in lot of (paper) work and meetings and no contract signed. Another mistake, as I mentioned, was not focusing on one or two specific geographical markets. Flying people around Europe, paying them hotel/food and daily allowances it is costly and reduces the margins greatly. Not to mention the language problem: very often, if you want to work in Germany (just an example) you got to speak the language.
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The question isn't, "Is there intelligence?" The question is "What is intelligence in terms of a definition?"

You're saying that if many people find you beautiful, there's a quality driving that, and it's "beauty". That's fine. Beauty exists. But aren't you almost admitting that it is a quality and therefore subject to what evaluates it? In other words, if 5 people call someone beautiful or ugly, are they beautiful? If someone is good at Latin and languages, does that mean they are intelligent? And if someone is not good at Latin, does that mean they are not?

Further, how many people do you have to find to say you are beautiful to be you are "defined" as beautiful? That's not a definition, that's just further confidence-building; the more you have the more confident you can be. But that still doesn't mean there's a point where you can say it is definitively so, and therefore you don't have a true definition.
Thanks NKCSS - I wanted to share this with a lot of folks but also be clear on that link.

This is a great way to get to Windows 8.1 and save quite a few $$$ that I stumbled upon this morning completely by accident.
Intuitively one would expect that there are reasons why companies cannot be larger than a certain size (to exaggerate, none can be larger than the global economy). As companies approach their theoretical maximum, one would expect the distribution to deviate from the power law, as the actual data in the article demonstrates.
The study takes on-balancesheet assets as a proxy for company size and fits a model to it that largely works. Fine so far.

But the implication that this works at the top end is either that the companies are hugely mis-stating their on-balancesheet assets or that there are other companies, much bigger than FNMA, that have balancesheets with multiples of the GDP of the States.

Neither of these explanations are plausible even if you believe that they're all lying, thieving scumbags. The numbers are just too big.

However, there is another explanation. That on-balancesheet assets isn't a good proxy for size for big financial institutions. And all of a sudden the problem is solved because on-balancesheet assets isn't a good proxy for size for big financial institutions.

Apart from anything else many of them run huge assets and liabilities off-balancesheet. BTW that doesn't make them secret, they hit the accounts just the same, it just means that the proxy in the study won't work.

And for what it's worth, this is wholly orthogonal to the size of Shadow Banking, how much stuff is hidden in the Caymans etc etc. Fascinating and worrying subjects in themselves.
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In my experience, independent contractors work on very tactical tasks for an hourly fee. Whereas consultants provide strategic direction and confidence for a fixed fee. Those 2 differences (and their corresponding incentives) create 2 very different worlds.
Ignoring flash does an even better job.
Well, each department spends the money it gets allocated. The timing looks unfortunate, but I see no reason for making a connection and implying a misconduct.
I seemed to get two nag screens that I couldn't work out how to close so here's a cache without them:
http://web.archive.org/web/20131001183734/http://killerapps....

Edit: Blocking Javascript on the website with the No Script add-on should probably work too.
while it's a wonderful idea and I love it, it has one problem. No matter your work, you can't beat kittens.

And also the work images sometime don't load.
This seems like it's the usual "use it or lose it" budget spending pattern that happens on the last day of the fiscal year. This is more obvious when looking at the sidebar graphic: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-annual-agency-bat...
I noticed pitcher.io uses hash fragments do you guys plan on going to pushstate? Have you noticed any issues with google indexing the hash URLs?
What's up with this in the footer? "Financing: Government of the United States · Control: CIA and NSA"
So it is CMS with an API? With metadata option.
Regarding the article - it looks like the civilian workforce, who do things like award contracts, clearing their desks before the shutdown.
The barrier is something I noticed in people who like to learn for learning's sake. The more I learn, the more I set myself apart from the crowd. I find that seeking out others who like to learn is the only solution (aside from becoming a teacher of some sort, which I'd guess is a bit more lonely yet at the same time self-gratifying).

Knowledge is like money, the more you have the less you have in common with the gen. pop.
This isn't ignoring flash, it's supporting some random subset of it with different bugs.
More like a CMS that is just an API. That makes all the difference.
Why was this story submitted? It's not Hacker News.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yes, some people love to talk politics all day long, and there's nothing wrong with that. However, this isn't the proper forum.
It's a very nice idea. It can be very helpful when working with content people. It really can save a lot of time developing and configuring the content management.

In my opinion, the interface is a little confusing. It took me a long time to figure out how to create custom fields, and I was looking for it! From my experience with CMS, it's by far the most important feature. It should be very easy, especially for content editors to create by themselves...

Other than that, it can be very useful. I'll remember it for a time I'll need it...
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See the "Inside Job" (2010) documentary movie - (at least in USA) there were attempts to regulate the now unregulated banking activities. The banks' lobby was just too powerful and in result not only the banks remained unregulated, but the regulation system was reduced in staff and weakened.
By automation I mean:

- Server provisioning (Puppet, Chef, Pallet and so on)

- Software life cycle automation (Continuous Integration and deployment, automated testing, scaling testing to virtualized environments, static code analysis)

- Cloud-based automation - same as server provisioning but on the cloud and with different providers

Lots of enterprises don't invest much time and effort in automating their infrastructure. That leads to convoluted deployment procedures and horrible problems in production: I guess you guys know exactly what I'm talking about.
If something seems scary/spectacular/surprising it's usually a good idea to do some fact checking. In this case it's very easy, since the authoritative source (Forbes) is available online.

GE is 4th, not 44th. It seems to be a typo.

http://www.forbes.com/global2000/
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Minor nitpick: Very often editors pick the click-baity titles, not those writing the articles.
So what do you propose we do exactly? What is your solution to this problem? I'd like to hear how we can do more than vote.
I don't know why this was downvoted.
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I've heard lots of complaints about mysql, do you know if query deadlocks are more common with mysql than with something like postgres? I've been running into that a lot lately, and I don't understand what the hell is going on. None of the queries I'm executing have particularly long run times (usually a few milliseconds, occasionally 100ms), but I still get random deadlock errors from time to time. I've never run into this on any other database platform (most of my experience is with Oracle and SQL Server), and I have no idea what the hell is going on.
getsymphony.com seems to be quite close to this, self-hosted.
Sure, if you define success strictly in terms of reproductive fitness. By that standard, two of the heroes of hners, pg and Steve jobs, are abject failures, while a crack whore who has eight kids who were taken away by cps is a paragon of success.
Smarter for whom? Adobe? It's in their interest to keep the 'depreciated' Flash going as long as possible, whilst it still makes them money.
I keep hearing people recommend MariaDB, which is fine. I'd add in Percona as well. I have/had a decent run with it, but MySQL limitations with querying make me look towards Postgres. SQL engines are hard to do right, no wonder most of MPPs are built on top of Postgres.
It still has the ridiculous limitation that some shows can only be watched on a computer and not on a mobile/dedicated device, right? I never understood that reasoning, why there are some shows that I have to pull out my laptop to view rather than using my Roku.
I tend not to be launching much stuff when I'm working - editors, browsers, VMs etc are already open. Plus I have three monitors, and tend to have it opening on the smallest so it doesn't get in the way.

I do think Microsoft should have made it optional - it's obvious this is what people wanted, and it's not like it would have cost them much in development/support. Still, at least there's now a huge bunch of third party software to replace/augment it, most with far greater configurability than the original Start menu.
A lot of it is paperwork and bureaucracy making a false perception. Purchasers make requests to procurement all summer. Procurement backs up, then pulls massive OT in the last few days to get it out the door.

Part of it is also "parking" in contracts. What's shown as "spending" isn't just stocking up on unneeded widgets for the sake of spending, but committing to contracts that will use it over the next couple years.
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I've worked on complex sites for digital agnecies (100+ pages, 30+ templates, 25+ plugins), as well as on smaller sites for small businesses/individuals.

Technologies I use: PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery, CodeIgniter, WordPress, mySQL, ZURB Foundation (3 & 4), Bootstrap, SVN or Git for version control, Fogbugz or Sifter for issue tracking, HipChat to stay in touch. Self-taught and resourceful.

Reach out to me at: hn [at] heta [dot] co (not com). I can send you links to live sites I've developed, sites I've converted to WP, etc.
Interesting idea Mike, but why don't you just kick it off straight away with some off the shelf tools and see if people respond.
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Or create a bookmarklet pointing to:

javascript:$('#globalPaywallWrap,#TB_window,#TB_overlay').css('display','none')
"Developer Productivity" that leads to "ops people refuse to work here" isn't a stellar strategy.
Unless your work incorporates multiple kittens. Moar kittens > One little cat
So you write your code and where you would have content you say something like {{bucketname}} and you can mess with it in the cms? What's the tempting language?
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