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Hey brm. There's a view profile button which when implemented will show a link to a persons twitter page amongst other goodies.

Also, you can get to twitter via the date on a persons tweet.

Maybe these aren't enough. Can you suggest how you'd like to see it implemented?
They also have 300+ FTEs in addition to 200+ contractors.
What about the alarm and the immobiliser? I know if I can't use my car remote - i've got serious issues - first the alarm will sound as soon as I turn it in the door - and then the engine wont start.. (And my car is 14 years old)
Glad you enjoyed it. Anything you'd like to see tweaked? I hadn't seen MLIA - cheers for the heads up on that too.
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Seems like quite a logical jump between the article content (one MIT student decided to hack his door to be controlled by his iPhone) and the headline (all MIT students have iPhone-controlled doors and love them).
Normalization was just an example, the point was that joins are expensive. Even denormalized, you can't do much without joins for any complex data structure.

Relational databases are always are good solution; however, they are not always the best solution for the problem at hand. The real problem is that once someone has their head wired to an RDBMS, it's often impossible to get them to even consider another solution. It becomes their golden hammer.

The articles main point, that "SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution", is absolutely correct.
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Maybe not with a 14 year old car, but most cars with keyless entry and an alarm will have an internal disable switch (as stupid as it sounds). Break into the car, the alarm goes off, disable the alarm. As for immobilisiers, if you have the microchip in the key, there's no reason it should immobilise?
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"the point was that joins are expensive."

That is a blatant myth. Joins are not slow.
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95% of what interests me about Google Wave is that it's an open protocol that anyone can implement. So, I'm 5% interested in this.
Also considering that NYTimes is a major news contributor to Twitter, Techmeme and our own HN, I wonder if this is implemented, what the impact will be!
I agree.

Where is the innovation? Packing a mashup with a forum thread isn't all that amazing.

One day, an entrepreneur will come up with a business collaboration tool that isn't based off a message board or a wiki.
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Is it possible to write an remote(I should be able to use with my Sony TV, BOSE music system ...) application? I tried searching iTunes store didn't find any. Are there any technical limitations?
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Everybody's right in that it's a) not free, b) not an open protocol, and c) not a huge quantum leap past message boards, but I gotta tell you: I was interested in this anyway because I am desperate at this point. I am so sick of email—a dozen individual messages being sent one at a time between one person and another, out of multiple participants, somehow magically supposed to be forming a single conversation; people sending individual copies of a document, editing them, then replying all with a new version, et cetera. It's maddening.

So, what do people do? Generally speaking, one's coworkers are simply not going to sign up for a web app if it's not simple and obvious to them. Email is easy. What tools DO people use like this, to create centralized, threaded conversations, that don't require you to create a new account or pay $6 a month for what (so often) amounts to a message board?
2mmm is instantly recognised as 2 10 ^ 12, or 2 billion by Americans, or 2 milliard by Europeans.*

Don't know how it is in Europe, but few in America would recognize 2mmm to mean 2 billion.
Not necessarily.

A radio station needs to play some "hits". If the price of the hits is "you don't play anything indie" AND money....
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I'd expect a Las Vegas law school to have special expertise in gaming, but does it have special expertise in other start-up relevant areas?

Like I wrote, no one mentions Stanford Law, they mention Wilson Sonsini, so why would Las Vegas be different?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction

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"Awesome! I can just store things in a JSON-like list and not have another table or anything!" Oh, what if I want to find all the users who have 'ruby' as an interest? Oh, I can only lookup by key? And yes, there are ways around that. You could create a table of interests and each interest would be a key in that table and it would have a list of people with that interest.

This is not true of CouchDB. Indexing is done on the keys generated by arbitrary Javascript views. A view returning results keyed by interest is trivial.
That's just a decoder, and it's a directly derived work of libtheora, not independently written or divergent.
Most Facebook users are older, 35-54 now largest age group
It would be interesting to see a SQL parser (a front-end, basically) on top of a distributed, HA key-value store. It could even be a pluggable MySQL engine (there already is a Memcached engine).

Of course transactions and certain types of constraints would become impossible (as key-value stores do not provide for atomicity), but that could be an acceptable trade off.
"loads of money being thrown at things like education"?

State funding for the University of California has decreased from 7% of the state of California's general fund in 1970 to 3.2% in 2008. Between 1990 and 2008, inflation-adjusted state support per UC student fell by 40%. As a result, the total inflation-adjusted education expenditure per UC student (including student fees and contributions from UC General Funds) decreased by 19%, while student costs rose by 138%.

That doesn't sound like money's being thrown at education, at least not higher ed.

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Even though lately I am putting a lot of effort into it, I have this problem of frequently forgetting the names of people. Sometimes I forget very familiar names. This has sometimes resulted in pretty embarrassing situations. Is there any tip or trick that can help me?

Thanks in advance.
Ok, I love the Bay Area, but better electrical grid? Seriously?

I hope you have it better on the peninsula than we do in Santa Cruz, because here it's roughly equivalent to a 3rd world developing country. In Sweden, I ran my computer for years and never lost anything to a power glitch. Here, I won't even plug in a computer without a ups because MTBF due to power issues is about a week.
Didn't they read/listen the "Free" book by 'Chris Anderson' (posted here on HN few days back)? Who will pay to read the news? Who will pay to read the blogs? I feel sorry for the news site and the business in general, but I am afraid this strategy isn't going to work. Will be happy to be proven wrong!
In fact donation may work even better!
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I would assume it's because facebook has become a great way for that age group to get in touch with people they haven't seen in years, not for job networking, although I may be wrong.
The LZW GIF patent trolling was from Unisys (It was a submarine patent for Compuserve), and it only affected encoders -- it didn't threaten the web in any way.

The video wars were because [Apple, MS, Real, Macromedia, Sun] were all trying to compete with each other using crap products that conflated [Branding, Plugin, Container Format, Codec] in a mash of uselessness.

Flash won not because it had the same codecs on all platforms, the plugin was customizable the same way on all platforms, and the end-user branding was all yours to theme.

The most interesting part of <video> is not codecs or containers, but the full + uniform control and customizability via its Javascript API. The only reason there is any problem at all is because Mozilla is refusing to expose access to QT / DirectShow / GStreamer.
I mean yeah, it's good to be prepared, but given how much money would be thrown at every town preparing for a nuclear attack that could happen with some very low probability, I can't but think that if we want to save peoples lives the money could be better invested in things like reducing traffic accidents, accidental gunshot wounds, obesity, cancer or any number of things that kill that many people every couple of years.
Distracted by culture or drugs and alcohol?

Anyway, a place is what you make it. If you are not happy where you are now, its likely moving won't change that.
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I'm really sorry to say that, even though I really like the quality of NYT articles, I won't pay nearly that much. Maybe $0.99/month, but I can't justify the $5/month.

It's slightly sad though; all of their articles that are posted on HN are quality material.

I hope they realize.
Funny, my reaction to your statement is, why would anyone use Linux? (as a desktop operating system...)

I'm a pretty good programmer. If I had to change the source on a program to use it, I wouldn't. I have better things to do with my brain cycles, and that's all there is to it.
Many smartphones will allow you to attach an image to an addrbook entry, use it to consciously! Everytime you call and recv a call, you will see the name+img together - so you can associate name with a img and vice versa!
Do most browsers actually support hsl/hsla? Never actually paid attention to that. Would certainly be nice... though I've already put the conversion code in CP.
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Agree. But let me just add that even if you bothered to try what they did, they could still fail and you could still succeed. Not because of why, but because you were less lucky than them.
Wow, I thought I was just being shy, but I've been adhering to a similar strategy my whole life when joining a new group: stay back, let the group welcome you in instead of forcing yourself into the group.
I also find that befriending single members of the group outside of the normal group environment works well in gaining some legitimacy in the group. After friending one person, you just apply the transitive property of friendship a couple time and hey! you've got a ton of new friends.
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If you're going to use SQL why would you use such a limited backend with a parity mismatch and a much greater set of limitations in place of many heavily-optimized-over-decades backends?
The basic point seems to be "if you're new, shut up". Probably good advice in most cases.

Perhaps the headline could be changed to "How Groups Perceive Criticism From Newcomers" - I was expecting an article about how a group changes based on an influx of newcomers, which has been a topic of interest on HN lately.
>You ever wonder why there isn't any other good office apps? Is it perhaps because a several time convicted monopoly abuser is using the power granted to it by its multiple interlocking monopolies to prevent this from happening?

Uh, no, I'm pretty sure it's because creating an office suite is a hell of a lot of work, and because Office is really pretty good, and so it doesn't make business sense for anyone to compete right now. If Office were lacking, you'd see competition. As it is, I don't think the (near) monopoly on office suites is actually hurting anyone. It's not like Microsoft isn't innovating - I've been using Office 2010 builds for a month now and it's very solid, with tons of improvements over Office 2007.
Some counties in California have been talking about leaving the state for a long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Jefferson
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K/V stores don't provide ACID properties themselves, but you could bolt them on pretty easily. For instance:

Atomicity: save a journal of the pre and post values of any rows, and on commit take all of your staged changes and write them and then delete the journal. If you're ever going to hit the DB again and you see a journal file that wasn't cleaned up, roll back to whatever pre values there are.

Isolation: use a semaphore to cause the start of a writing transaction to block all reads and writes, use a semaphore to cause the start of a reading transaction to block all writes, and escalate from reading transaction to writing transaction when necessary.
I can guess: No more links to NYTimes.
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I'm bad at this too, a few tricks I use:

- Say the other person's name out loud as you are introduced.

- Picture their name written out.

- If it is a common name, picture a friend or famous person with the same name.

- If it is a foreign or uncommon name, break it down by syllable and picture things with names that sound like those syllables.

- Try as often as you can to recall the names. If you're in a new group of people, mentally go around the group and recall everyone's name every so often.

The hard part is remembering to use the tricks, though :)
Perhaps you should use the Shakespearean insult generator. http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html
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EXPLAIN SELECT is your friend. Rails does let you view the SQL it generates, right?
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I'm pretty sure my original comment made clear that I was criticizing the particular example given by the author. The author's argument, at least up to that point, rests on a foundation of bullshit.

After that point, maybe the argument grew stronger. But I don't know because I stopped reading.
Slightly off-topic, but, was I the only person slightly disturbed about the rant about the 3D printers being American made machines?

Maybe it's because I'm British (living in SF) but I still find that kind of patriotism smacks more of jingoism. I'm all for working with local craftsmen and supporting local business, I think that's great, but I still don't get how this kind of transparent nationalism is seen as a good thing in the US.
I'm not sure about that. On a recent plane trip, I sat next to a 14-year-old who was lamenting that her mom was now on FaceBook because she needed to be for job leads. I've heard similar stories from several of my recently-out-of-college friends.

And my cubemate is Facebook-friends with her manager, which makes for an interesting dynamic in what she can or can't post online...
What's the old joke about giving up rich food, drink, smoke and women -- you won't live any longer but it will feel a decade or two longer?
What does HN run on?
Could be that 97% of customers have no need for indexes. I have none on my personal site; with rows numbering in the dozens and pageviews/day numbering about 20, I could probably brute-force search over the database in Python and it'd still be fast enough...
Zach Smith, one of the founders/makers is in both projects. Also, we (I'm RepRap developer) collaborate on designs to print and reuse each others technologies and ideas. Because both designs are completely open source, the can reuse whatever is practical and also differentiate themselves to be used in different 'market segments'. RepRap is meant to be more adjustable and modular, and meant to be able to replicate most of its own parts. The Makerbot doesn't have this requirement and can mostly be made on a laser cutter. Although several parts of the Makerbots are printed on Makerbots and/or RepRaps.

Erik de Bruijn
http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/categories/7-RepRap
I really can't stand the hype around these document DBs anymore. Sure SQL database are overapplied. I realize many people are incompetent with them, and that they often don't give appropriate thoughts to alternatives. The title is fair, but then it veers off very quickly into hyperbole and misrepresentation.

To state that the applicability of relational databases is narrow is egregious. Any one of the list of reasons could be a reason to use a relational database, it doesn't require a significant portion at the author seems to imply. There are other reasons too... like how error prone it is to write raw map-reduce code to generate a query that would be trivial, fast and guaranteed correct in any relational DB. And I'm thoroughly sick of the boogeyman of scalability as well. You can go up to the scale of 99.99% of web applications with relatively little hassle.

The article acts as if data integrity is usually not important, but for the vast majority of applications that are out there in the wild and older than a 6-month startup the data is far more valuable than the code. For a huge subset of all data SQL databases represent it the most accurately with adequate performance.

I don't care if the pendulum has swung too far towards SQL--this type of article is intellectually dishonest and won't help anybody make better decisions, it's just more hype.
No way in the world I will pay for this. Nothing that special in the NYT to me. They are already close to going out of business as is. This won't make it any better.
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I'm bored with the endless speculation. I wish they'd go ahead and actually try it instead of sending up endless trial balloons. If it doesn't work they can try something else after 3 months.
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So there are more 35-54s than 25-34s on Facebook. However, there about twice as many people in the 20-year span than in the 10-year span, so they're still underrepresented.

More 35-44s than 25-34s would be news.
He completely misses the giant iceberg that is Google Native Client -- there's only a few simple 'local' apps necessary for ChromeOS to be a perfect full-time desktop for me:

* A good terminal emulator / SSH client

* A VNC / Remote Desktop client

* A means of running a custom GNU userland locally -- User-mode Linux would be great, x86 virtualization would be good.

NaCL could also be a terrific gaming platform -- none of the crippling performance issues from Flash, and existing software is very portable to it. Think about games like QuakeLive and Off-road Velociraptor Safari -- fuck, think about a port of Steam with even a fraction of the catalog!
Has the author ever spent time in both states? Why California?

A) Proximity to the beach / ocean / in-and-out.
B) If you've ever spent a long weekend in texas you are probably qualified to be a Entomologist. I picked up a car in Dallas two years ago and discovered that June Bugs and Praying Mantises were not just illustrations in national geographic!
C) California girls.

Most of the so-called "worst places to do business" polls are built on financial models, how the !%!@% does that translate!
California has tons of oil offshore. We just decided as a state we dont want to drill it for environmental reasons.
I wonder how this will affect estimates of the Drake equation?
I wish the Firefox developers would focus on bug fixing for the next big release. There are so many bugs that are not fixed for many years. For example alt-text on images not correctly shown or disable-output-encoding on XML/XSLT being ignored. Instead that add more and more features. The awesome bar already made me switch to Opera, I miss some extensions though so I do keep an eye if Firefox gets "better" for me.
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Wow, that's interesting, my gut reaction was that the site had turned into a free alternative to classmates.com.
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Sounds like something else may have caused the founders to leave, maybe there was some friction between the top brass?
If it's anything like Android, it will be open enough (well, completely open, actually) that you can hack it to make it do what you want. You could hack it to work with Yahoo or Microsoft, or DedaSys, for that matter.
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Chrome is my main browser and I even switched back to Windows from Linux just so I could enjoy the incredible speed increase. Web browsing is one of my primary computer activities, so an OS that boots up quickly and uses the fastest browser would be greatly welcomed.
I like Safari's dev tools, but its missing some really basic stuff that Firebug makes easy.

In Firebug, you can double click on anything in the dom view and edit it. In the CSS view, you can easily add new attributes. The autocomplete for CSS styles is awesome.

Also, you can grab any asset file (css, js) and open it up in your default text editor.

Safari 4 web dev tools isnt quite there. It only needs a few tweaks, but they don't seem to be adding them anytime soon (people have been asking for these features for about a year now).
I can't help but read these articles.

Really. One after another.

Unfortunately, I never get anything out of it.
I totally agree. These small issues have also caused me to drop Safari dev tools in favor of Firebug.
To check out the damage:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=flamewhale

It's pretty amusing how seriously some people take this.

Also, it seems to hit the max API calls / tweets pretty quickly. Maybe you should make an army of Twitter accounts? Though Twitter may disapprove...
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Does anyone know where something like profit sharing falls on the reward continuum? It's still a "bonus" in effect, but it's a shared bonus if done right with no per-person computation and thus no individual component to cause people to distort their behavior or worry about unfairness. On the other hand, it can still easily become an expected thing. On the other other hand, it seems like a reasonable way to reward people for helping create a successful company. I've read writeups of studies around bonuses, but they're always around much more targeted per-individual bonuses instead of something approximating a profit share approach.