skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all projects need complex data representations. I would suggest that few projects need a complex data representation rather they need an appropriate one. As to views, transactions, and stored procedures consider a large open messaging system like Twitter. While a traditional database could help with the users profiles and settings giving that up for a significant increase in speed might be a great trade off for them. Or they could mix several database systems using the best tool for the job.

The idea that all databases need all features is a mistake, once one free open source project has everything and the kitchen sink it's time to start solving other problems.
I see a lot of statements here that are presented as fact that I don't believe are substantiated (and in fact are contrary to my experience), such as However, clawing one's own way out of abject poverty is best achieved with a healthy dose of both motivation and "g." and An individual with low "g" is going to struggle at both book learning and auto repair.

I have seen people who appear to all extents and purposes thick as two planks do marvels with engines. I have also seen people come out of poverty due to purely personality trains (such a disinclination to spend money and a fear of poverty) rather than any particular intelligence. Obviously we are talking about otherwise normal people, not those who are pathologically mentally challenged.

As to the whole "Not each child is secretly a genius", I don't know who thinks that anyway. It is entirely proper that a parent sees and seeks the best in the children but I don't think many really think their children are geniuses. And you don't have to look too hard at the children of academics to understand that a better aspiration for your children is to for them to be fulfilled and content adults. While intelligence can somewhat help with that, I don't see this as a stunningly obvious correlation.
the author basically states that intelligence is more a native product of genetics than upbringing/environment/education.

that's a rather filthy road to go down, it leads to all matter of discrimination :|

i would definitely scrutinize closely any paper that has this type of assertion
HP releases iPhone versions of classic calculators
I would say it depends upon what is it for, how much you sold it for and what claims you made when you sold it to the customer.

We are lining up server side apps for test preparation. If we ever stop server side, we will stop selling the app 3 months prior to server halt, post a notice about the same and boom.
Reminds me of Stuff White People Like

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/22/17-gifted-childre...

"Because an astounding 100% of their kids are gifted! Isn’t that amazing?"
Not all data is relational and not all data fits into records.
Google Speed Tips Get Picked Apart
Magento is a pretty powerful package, but also very enterprisey with very complicated db schema, and injection of behaviour with tons of xml in different layers, not my bag of tea. I understand why they chose PHP -- all the developers... but man the code looks like a mix between java from way back when and early wordpress.
Evolutionary Origins Of Your Right And Left Brain
You'd be amazed at the number of places that are willing to grant people a month long unpaid leave of absence for a wide variety of reasons.
I'm no fan of copyright. But in the case of music, unless we're talking about sampling or covering or remixing, then the reproduction is verbatim. Possibly bit-for-bit. This cannot happen with a website, as there are too many components: design, layout and artwork; back-end implementation; server architecture; business processes; staff; management; customer service and public relations... You can't be a "bit-for-bit" copy of Kayak's business. You can only be an also-ran or a better Kayak.
> usually with the same key as was used to encrypt

What's the context of "usually" here ?
File sharers don't directly compete against musicians the way bing travel competes with Kayak. I would say the closer comparison is instead of remixing/sampling a popular band you just release their song on your own album.

I don't understand or intend to comment on any of the legal aspects of this dispute, but as far as morality goes, Bing travel looks like a clone of Kayak with a different logo, and that doesn't feel fair to me.
" But you can't compare every phone to smartphones. A lowly Nokia 1100 costs less than $30. But it's your basic mobile phone. You won't find people doing a lot of browsing from it."

Correct but the point is moot because the IPhone doesn't have even one percent of the smartphone market in India(mostly Nokia, with Blackberry second with assorted others third. IPhone is nowhere in sight. The IPhone was a collosal failure here and likely to stay that way.).

(EDIT: Some rough numbers: Total number of cellphones sold in India annually = About 130 million. Number of smartphones sold in India annually =6-8 million. Number of Iphones sold in India so far = about 9,000. The math is ... interesting)

"What the $99/299 price is a small barrier to entry. It's like Apple is saying we want only serious developers submitting stuff to the Apple store. The world is full of good ideas but littered with half completed projects. This is one way of getting through the noise. And if $99 is too much for you then you weren't serious about it to begin with."

This is different from what you said earlier. First, you said.

"Development is free. It only costs you when you go to submit it to the store."

As you rightly point out in your next post, this is simply not true. You have to pay at least 99$ to develop an app and deploy it on your Iphone to test it. (unless you are claiming that "deployment" on a phone to test it is somehow outside "development").

Now you are saying you have to pay Apple to prove your seriousness. This is a different proposition from ""Development is free".

$ 99/299 to develop for the IPhone can be interpreted in many ways but "free" is not a valid interpretation. Hence my response to your claim that IPhone dev is free.

" It's like Apple is saying we want only serious developers submitting stuff to the Apple store. "

No it is not. In that case Apple should charge 99$ the first time anyone tries to sell a product in the Apple Store. By charging the money to allow a developer to deploy an app on his own phone, Apple is saying developing for the IPhone is some kind of privilege one has to pay for.

I for one will never develop for the IPhone where I have to pay to develop for my own phone, but that is a purely personal decision and certainly not "bragging" as you claim. YMMV. And that is as it should be.

The one good thing in all this is that at least In China and India, IPhones won't be popular for a long long time. Small Mercies.
Yeah, that is pretty hard, the fact that there's nothing to lose. I think it all comes down to motivation.

This quote from pj is possibly the best advice I've seen, although he was probably talking about full-time startups: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625644
I am currently in the process of testing other browsers and versions, including Safari and Konqueror. I do not yet have estimated dates for when this information will be available.

Bummer. It would be interesting to see Safari 4 (and full IE8 tests) in there as well.
MinnPost.com follows WindyCitizen.com's lead with real-time ads
The cloud is ominous but cloud/asp/saas based services do more for you. For instance Google Docs remembers every revision of a document, has access to that document from everywhere, no need to clutter up email servers and people can edit it at the same time or share it.

Also, let's say you have a massive spreadsheet that would bog down you local machine. When perfected spreadsheets and data will be like 3D rendering in the cloud, long processes can be divided up into small chunks and distributed across many servers to process it. There are 3D rendering network farms like this, you upload a model and it renders very fast in a grid on machines that are not economical to buy except for in a large groups.

It might seem like overkill now but when you are dealing with terabytes of data in the future and very distributed teams the cloud is a natural evolution. It isn't an end all be all but it has huge ability to take processing from one machine and spread it around almost like peer to peer did to downloading a file.
I checked for a few we are selling for 99 cents.. and the numbers are close to 400

I checked a couple for $4.99 and the numbers are below 200 except a couple whose numbers are close to 300

so the theory seems to be working as long as you are don't count your own or your friend reviews.
Ah, I read that before and it also stuck in my mind.
The submitted article consists mostly of name-calling

About 95 percent of your comment is ad hominem.

The article is stating a fairly bland truism, ie, that children vary to some degree based upon native intelligence. It's hardly worth saying except in the context of the educational world, whose occupants seem to share a near-religious professional belief in the unlimited malleability of the human mind.
It's more than plugins, PHP is used to get around the ugly rebuilding process. PHP is required for "dynamic publishing".
It's a shame people are downvoting this rather than answering it. It's a good question, and certainly within the scope of this article and HN.
Thanks for posting this. Tyler Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolution, is often quite interesting as well: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/
That was me :-)
> We were doing so before p2p came along and we'll do so again.

Speak for yourself :-)

As a teenager I grew up with bulletin board systems, and later, the Internet. Before I had any money to buy legal content, I was downloading free music as well as copyrighted works. I have never known a way of life that didn't involve being able to share music online.
it's absurd to believe in either of the two polarizing spectrums of this argument. intelligence obviously lies somewhere in the middle, and i would myself more favor the side that argues for potential and advocates the nurturing of all children instead of one that could potentially "write-off" certain children of what they would call Inferior Genetics.

it's just repugnant

[edit] sounds like i'm attacking YOU in what i said, but i am not. i'm just venting.
I get to him by his Silicon Valley histories, and read ALL of his blog in a couple of days.
Besides him being a great storyteller, he has something valuable to tell, even if its not your field.
Cool new tech: built in webcam + eye-tracking SW = screen only you can read
Movable Type was already open source. Their FAQ is unclear to me why this was forked in the first place. Wouldn't it be better to contribute improvements back to the actual product?
but it is designed to push the agenda of google. the g1 couldn't even be activated without creating a google account.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought those PHP tips were more than a little suspect...

GOOD: echo $_POST['description'];

That really should not have made it past their editorial process.
http://webcreme.com
what claims you made when you sold it to the customer

Very important this one.

I think it also heavily depends on whether the mobile app and the server side are complinentary, inter-dependent, or redundant.

For example if your web service was a way of managing say, your stamp collection and your app was just a way to browse it offline; that would be a lot worse than if your app was a standalone game, and the server side was just a way for people to list their high scores in public.

But, obviously some people are going to be mad anyway, since they had some expectations that you will no longer be meeting.
Aren't there plenty of Ph.D.'s who can't fix their cars? Sure, but the majority of them could learn if they were so inclined.

Inclination is a key component of effective intelligence. Saying "I could be good at math if I was inclined towards it" is basically equivalent to saying "I could be a big hit at parties if I was more charming" or "I could have a good jump shot if I cared about practicing."
Re: Bulky - It's a tradeoff on screen size. Hard to make a screen that's as large as the iPhone and make it any smaller. Does anyone make a cell phone with the same size screen as the iphone that's significantly smaller?

Re: Screen - While I've read that the iPhone is a magnet for screen cracks, I'll note that I've carried three generations in the same pocket as my keys, am clumsy as heck, and haven't managed to damage my screen yet. Very nice optical glass covering.

Re: Battery - Yeah, a $10 Replaceable battery would be nice. One (major) suckage about the iPhone. I carry a couple extra TruePower batteries for my iPhone. For $80 It both powers as well as charges the internal battery. I can go on a trip for a week without an external charger, and play games, watch movies, listen to music, etc... But they are big, bulky and expensive. Thumbs down on the iPhone on this one.

With all that said, the iPhone is not overhyped, it really is a pretty amazing/revolutionary system. I've had 3 generations of Treos, and honestly - the iPhone is almost a different _class_ of hardware, it was so different. A not uncommon scene when hanging out with friends is for us to all kick back with our favorite iPhone Games, Apps, Movies and just sit back for three hours with them.

Ironically - on a feature-by-feature comparison, the iPhone actually doesn't compare with a fairly large number of devices, but the Application experience is incomparable. Kindle, Eucalyptus, iPod, Camera, Clock (Stopwatch, alarm), Google Maps, Photo Roll, ZombieVille, GoogleEarth, WhiteNoise, iTunes, AppStores, WorldWar, SitckWars, FlightControl, Warfare Inc, are all Apps/Games I use (out of around 80 installed) _every day_ - I don't recall ever interacting with my Laptop with such a diversity of applications on a constant basis.

I've got a couple _seasons_ of TV Episodes (seamlessly) synced from iTunes, and I do the majority of my TV watching on my iPhone now. Don't even bother with the Laptop Screen most of the time. It's been at least seven years that I've actually turned on a television.
As a Linux user, I've found this site to be incredibly useful for developing sites that must be compatible with IE6. It prevents large changes after testing.
You assume that you need to get to anything frequently.

Although I'm just about 7 miles outside town and therefore it's not an issue for me, I figured out that if in addition to my chickens and veggie garden, I had a few cows (probably miniatures -- they're more feed efficient) and a handful of goats and some fruit trees, I really wouldn't need to leave my property except to work. And that could be done by telecommuting if I were willing to search for that kind of job.

My house is built on the east side of a hill. If I were starting from scratch, I'd seriously consider building it into the hill. With solar heating and all the windows on that side -- that's where most of them are now anyway -- and the rest of the house underground. In the summer, my walk-out basement is cooler than the air-conditioned main floor and Minnesota has about the same level of solar insolation as Austin, TX so we have more than enough sun to do it.

I like this guy's house and there really shouldn't be any reason it couldn't be built in the average suburban subdivision except for idiotic zoning laws and even more stupid Homeowner's Associations: how people can live in those things is beyond me!
I remember a day student at the boarding school I went to. He wasn't a genius. He didn't say much. He had to wake up in the wee hours of the morning to do farm chores. But dammit, he applied himself, did his work, and pulled down straight A's without making a whole lot of fuss about it.

100% of the kids aren't gifted. But something like 80% of them in the US could be performing above the current "average" level with the right encouragement.
Reboot talk on Agile Banking
Nuclear Explosion Simulations. If you have a nuclear weapon sitting in storage for thirty to sixty years will it still explode? Can't do real tests anymore by trying one out in Nevada.
Steve Pavlina also became polyamorous after trying (and quitting) polyphasic sleeping. Infer what you will about his marriage from that.
HeyZap (YC S09) Launches Microtransaction Platform
I usually leave LittleSnapper running in the background, and take a screenshot when I come across a design that I like, so my LS library is usually where I go first. The collection is pretty eclectic, so it would be tough to categorize to a specific blog / website / designer. The most recent entry is of the Versions website (www.versionsapp.com) - like Sam, I'm partial to many indie Mac software designs.

I also tend to browse Ffffound.com on a frequent basis.
Introduction to Intensity Engine: Combining virtual worlds and fast-paced games
Been using it since GrandCentral, here's the features they need to get moving on...

* International Forwarding. They should let me pay them (!!) to forward to my international phone. Even worse-than-standard-VoIP rates would be acceptable to me for this purpose, and as an expat I can't fully make the switch until they move on this. Also adding int'l numbers alongside your main US Google voice number would be incredibly handy, and possibly worth paying for.

* Number Portability. Let me take my number to you, and assure me that I can take it back in the future. There really should be a law about this...

* Transcribe Recorded Messages. Google voice already transcribes (or attempts to) recorded voicemail messages, which is occasionally handy and will probably get better over time. You can also record conversations with a number combination, and it would be nice to bring those two features together. Disclaimer: I'm currently working on a thesis which is highly dependent on phone interviews ;)
Scripty2 - a complete rewrite of script.aculo.us
It doesn't say anything about the possibility of appeal of the original verdict. Just that the decision of the "bias-judge" can't be appealed. (And apparently, they're going to fight that in the European courts.)
Images: Flying car? Here's what it is like
what does USV stand for in the title?
Union Square Ventures
http://blog.heyzap.com/uncategorized/heyzap-receives-funding...
50/50 revenue split ... good for them if it works, but I don't usually see ecommerce providers taking that big a cut ... except maybe amazon
Hmmm... Every price search site has a similar layout and ajax navigation these days. I can name you at least 2 -> wego.com / lessno.com
WSJ publisher calls Google ‘digital vampire’
"His initial example is how after Sept. 11th people stopped using Aeroplanes whilst car travel went up: except more people extra died in that year than died in the Sept 11th tragedy. Car travel was perceived as safer even though it wasn't in the slightest." I heard that statistic after September 11th. It didn't help. It just made me more afraid of driving.
I got most of this from conversations with Rich Schwartz. http://www.math.brown.edu/~res/
Well it wouldn't be claustrophobic assuming you make the dome with sufficient headroom. You could do some human factor studies and determine what size of enclosure people can lay down inside and still feel fine.

In terms of material, I'd prefer something more techie than wood - some sort of composite material to make the canopy light and moder looking. Maybe like a large oval shape.
And Apple, you have bugs in "usb put". Want the patches?
It seems to me that the incentive to innovate is rather low without IP protection...
I tried to log in to Tarpipe using my Google credentials just now and it completely failed. =/
This is incredibly exciting! This means that it is only a matter of time before some industrious developer starts implementing codecs and other niceties that are not practical to implement in the VM. (Like: an MP3 encoder for live audio recordings). The future looks bright for Android.

This also means (theoretically) that there is no reason that Android apps cannot compete with the iPhone in terms of speed.
no, They want an all Perl system using CGI::Application, why would they want an all PHP system?
From my VERY BRIEF look at the system, and if what they say is true about how easy it is to integrate, I think small-time game developers or even medium-sized flash game developers would be willing to take this hit.

I say this because I honestly haven't ever played a flash game yet that had this sort of system (most likely due to the complexity of it, both in the backend and frontend), and if a small-time game developer can spend 10 minutes setting this up with Heyzap, then its money well spent (the 50% loss in revenue) since they'd probably not take the time to implement the feature themselves.

Of course big-time flash game developers probably won't be willing to use this system if their games are that popular or if they have the resources to dedicate to creating their own system.
Set expectations fairly. Ensure degradation when server goes away is understandable. (For example, maintain a 'discontinued' message at a more-permanent URL as a fallback.)
Where does LucidDB fall into this scheme?
True. I'm just worried that requesting leave to start my own business would raise too many eyebrows. It's not exactly something a love-my-job employee asks for. And I do really like my job.
The VC Industry and the Arrival of the Microprocessor
You Can't Teach Height, But Can You Teach Programming?
I agree with most here that a monopoly isn't required by any means, but there is the issue of critical mass. I believe there's a nonlinear relationship between the size of the lab and the significance of its output. The sheer size (in dollars and brainpower) of Bell Labs and DoD-derived research were major drivers in their successes.
I could get in just fine with my Google credential... And to be clear: I've never used it, I was just saying the workflow technology they're advertising looks very useful for automating updates. It seems like the kind of thing you'd want to fine tune, others may not want or need that.
HeyZap has a lot of risk and little competition. If the model becomes proven, other companies will jump in and drive down the margins.
Copyright protects original works of authorship when they are fixed in any tangible medium of expression.

Musical works classically fall squarely within the type of protection copyright was designed to afford, the stated goal being to promote creative expression.

Interface designs, though, do not. The problem with claims alleging infringement of designs is that a party may, if courts are not careful, be given what is effectively a monopoly on an idea (Apple tried to get away with this in the early 1980s by claiming that its iconic depictions of common office items were protected by copyright).

In any case, this is not the place to get into legal technicalities but simply to point out (in answer to your question) that the principle of fairness embodied in the copyright laws is to protect original expression (such as is embodied in musical works) while not setting up arbitrary barriers to originality (such as would happen if a someone were allowed to corner exclusive rights on common ideas such as how an interface might be designed).

Thus, the type of case that might be brought against Microsoft is actually a tough one. It can be won but the showing that needs to be made has to be very strong.

I understand that there is a philosophical argument against the very idea of copyright, and the issues are exacerbated in our era of intense inter-connectivity, but the above sets forth the key principles as the existing copyright laws seek to uphold them.
The fact that someone is complaining over a service Microsoft is offering rather than ignoring it shows that they have indeed done something well with bing.

Now if they would only expand on their localization efforts so I could actually take advantage of this.