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that would make my head explode
Another obstacle I think Facebook will eventually run into is the fact that social graphs, to me at least, seem fairly static. I am not a celebrity, and for me, literally ALL of my Facebook friends are people I know in real life.

While it is interesting to learn new tidbits of information about them, I am also very aware of the fact that, for instance, none of them live in Mountain View. If I decided I wanted to move there, the first thing I would do is turn to Google to learn about real-estate, utilities, getting a driver's license, etc. I don't quite see how placing the constraints of a social graph on top of a search for unknown information will make that search more useful. When stepping into uncharted territory, I don't want artificial limitations on what I find.
Ask HN:  What are the killer use cases for key-value stores?
So, I understand that key-value stores are the new hotness (CouchDB, Tokyo Cabinet, the venerable BerkelyDB). But, I'm still looking for a good use case for using them in a web app.

I understand that something like a personal blog is well suited to a key-value store. There aren't many relational queries that you'd have to run. It's just a series of documents and titles, and you only have one person posting to the blog.

But, as soon as you have more than one table's worth of data, don't key value stores start to fall apart as a solution? As soon as you add a second user model to your web app, or add tags to your personal blog model, you have to start doing a lot more programming to get around those problems.

I'd love to hear from someone using a key-value store for web apps. How do you get around this? I'd also love to hear what the killer use cases for key-value stores are. I'd love to play around with them, but everything I can come up with, it seems like a database is a better fit.
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I wish I could give you an additional upvote for leaving out (intentionally?) economists from your list.
Are you buying one of these? I'm really tempted.
I don't think I've ever seen Facebook go after Google so aggressively before - the "surveillance society" language actually made me whistle under my breath.
Interesting read. However, there's one reason why Facebook and similar social networking applications fail for me, and I'm wondering just how many (or how few) people have the same problem. Consider Scoble's words:

You pull out your iPhone or Palm Pre or Android or Blackberry or Windows Mobile doohickey and click open the Facebook application. Then you type "sushi near me."

It answers back "within walking distance are two sushi restaurants that more than 20 of your friends have liked."

So far, there hasn't been a single social app I tried that managed to give me useful information like that. Why? Because they don't offer me a good way to differentiate and they don't learn. For these apps, all contacts in my network are the same and there's no way to teach them otherwise. On Facebook, I'm "friends" with:

1) People I see daily at work and we're friendly to each other.

2) People I've met in the past few years and we've been friendly back then but now were out of touch.

3) People from my ground school and high school, whom I haven't seen in more than 20 years.

4) A few relatives.

5) A few people with whom I have a lasting friendship.

Depending on what kind of "friend" my contact is, I would treat their recommendations of sushi restaurants differently. The same thing happens to me on the Goodreads site. I've found many great books there, but every time I had to search for hours.

I suppose it's just a matter of time before someone finally does it right, but I just wanted to point out what I find to be missing. And I'm really wondering whether other people feel the same or I'm just too damn picky...
Not the most current link on the subject (page last modified in 2003) but well worth a read. It is very important to know how to communicate to people thinking about suicide to persuade them to go on living.
I'm only really familiar with couchdb, and implementing things like tagging are very easy. Couchdb is document based with incremental map/reduce. So for blog tagging, you have a blog document. That has an array of tags or even just the tags on the string.

To be able to pull up documents based on tags you can write a view that will execute map/reduce to create a list of tags and the documenets the implement them.

So document structure would look like

{
blogtext: my blog text"
tags: ["tag1", "tag2"]
}

The map function looks like:

function (doc) {
for each (tag in doc.tags)
{
emit (tag, doc._id)
}
}

That will generate a list of keys and the document ids that match. So when you execute:

http://server/db/desgindoc/_view/tags?key=tag1

you' recieve all of the documents matching that tag. You can of course do more advanced tagging, but this was just a simple example.
Sounds more like you needed to read a book about mysql + database design. Its good to come up with workable solutions using what you know. Its better to figure out what you need to know for a great solution and go learn that.

That's my philosophy anyway. And I would imagine reading just enough to know whether you really should start from scratch again, or read much more to grok the required intricacies, would be worth it.
This is a false binary. It's not just using SQL vs using a Key/Value store. Caching/denormalization speeds up almost any algorithm; store a query result into memcached to make it even faster.

Scale up and get the biggest box with the most RAM you can find, and if you can afford your entire dataset in 15 GB of RAM for $300/mo in a 3 year contract, congrats, use EC2 Extra Large and you're golden.
Regardless of their ambitions, it's fun for me to see companies in different verticals go after each other. That's where interesting innovation can happen. This is far better to read than another "Google search-engine killer."
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Krugman is a good writer which I belive accounts for most of his fame.

Interestingly, Peter Schiff is a good speaker. It's not obvious but if I listen to him for a while I can become convinced of some things that I later am not able to fully convey to others. This is the moment I realize something went wrong with my judgement - I am convinced of something but I can't explain the argument to others.
After reading this, I feel old. I'm 30 years old and I feel like the stereotypical grumpy bastard who screams at "those damn kids" to get off his lawn. Why? Because reading this annoyed the hell out of me.

Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with what he wrote. It's just that I get annoyed by "magical solutions" that work well, but can only be applied to a minority. There's a whole lot of people out there who (for example) have kids and can't just get up, quit and spend a year traveling and relaxing and having fun. I'll probably get down-voted for this, but I needed to speak up.
Some libraries.

And then there are libraries like Prototype and Scriptaculous.
I agree that current social networking applications fail at real world search at the moment, but what is preventing Facebook from adding a search component which searches the broader internet and uses information about your friends, interests, and activities to provide better results? It seems like Facebook has access to a boat load of information about you that Google doesn't have.

Google has lots of information about past searches, browsing history, etc, but it lacks personal information such as the organization you are currently working for or your favorite TV shows and bands (or in the case of many of us, our favorite blogs and programming languages).
SQLite is targeted, actually, at specifically those people who would just use fopen() to store data: http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
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Moral of the story, don't add your boss as a friend.
His killer point is right here:

Yes, we’re having another baby. But look at what did NOT happen on Twitter: not a single diaper company contacted us yet. Not a single maternity clothing company. Not a single car company (yes, we’re going to buy a new one soon). Not a single camera company (already bought a new one for this occassion). Not a single insurance company (I need more). Not a single bank (I need to start saving for another college student). Not a single stroller company (need a new one that can hold two). Not a single vitamin company (Maryam is going through her prenatal vitamins at a good clip). Not a single shoe company (Maryam needs new shoes for pregnancy, and Milan is growing fast too).

That will NOT last.
A few years ago, I was in a tech support call with a Dell tech. He was putting me through some kind of reinstallation process, I don't recall exactly. Anyway, he actually had me boot from a Dell diagnostic CD, run debug.com, and type in the necessary commands to hard-format the drive. At the time, I thought the whole process was pretty novel. I wonder if they would do the same today.
Yes, one thing that I've read also helps is having a sort of nightly ritual. It conditions your mind to expect to go to sleep through repetition. It sounds like your glass of whiskey also may serve that purpose.
I thought that some of the potshots that Facebook engineers took at Google engineers sounded a bit radical, not to mention just... rude.

I'm sure that Facebook works on and solves some interesting problems, but to act like what they do is harder than what Google has accomplished? C'mon now.

I've yet to read an article about Facebook in which Zuckerberg doesn't come off like a jerk
I've went ahead, bought and installed fever on my server. One problem: doesn't seem to parse Hacker News correctly!

I really wanted a Hacker News to act as a "spark" in fever, but it does nothing, always says there are "no items". This is extremely disappointing and my attempts to reach out to Shaun via email (on the feedafever.com site) and Titter have failed, and I have received no reply. :-(
Oh, wow, you're completely right. That connection eluded me; thank you!
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Because I have seen the horrors that they wreak in a production system where they are responsible for mission critical logic.

The horror. The horror.
As the mises institute once aptly put it, krugman is a part-time economist and full-time partisan.

He spoke at my graduation and he definitely has an insightful mind, but I think he too often conflates his two mistresses of economics and politics.
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I was a late comer to that thread, so I'll repeat here the challenge I made there ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=657364 ): Can anyone tell me what exactly Krugman said about trade theory that was both a) novel and b) true?

Krugman is popular for the following reasons a) he belonged to the right social networks b) he's a very good writer and c) he's a very good at defending of policies progressives want to believe in.
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I don't know if Facebook has this feature (probably), but on Orkut you can assign friends to Groups, like Family, Co-Workers, Best Friends, etc...

It would probably solve your problem if an option to "Only consider the opinion of these Groups" were present. Of course, we'll fall into the problem of how noteworthy their opinions are depending on the subject. While I would trust my middle brother expertise on digital cameras, the youngest in the house is a chef, so each one should weight differently.

Something so complete will never happen (never is a dangerous word), because that would require other people to constantly input information like "I trust Gustavo's opinion on digital cameras", and even that isn't enough, because my brother is a professional photographer, and isn't the best person to ask if you want a cheap camera.

So, I don't think any of these "other people you know liked XYZ" will manage to give you things that you'll probably like (I enjoy different types of japanese food than my brother, for example), but they will help you socialize more. You'll at least know that your friend went to some restaurant, and tell him later about your experience.
Stop saying "people will downvote me for this" that's a reddit thing.

Anyway, if you yourself are burnt out, perhaps there is a different way to get some of the excitement for your job back. This might seem counterintuitve, but a side-project (MORE WORK) can be really refreshing, particularly if you force yourself to work on it in regular increments.
I won't speak to Jobs' health issues, but with respect to the insane amount of secrecy involving product launches, I really hope Apple keeps it this way...

...just makes it a whole lot more fun. We all need some intrigue in our lives, even if it's just from a company that sells plastic gizmos.
Brilliantly written, very thorough. It's interesting that the 'little guys' have that "I love my users, and I really just want to help them" mentality so at odds with the big players (I'm trying to take the same approach with Twitterscribe too). I wonder at what size it flips around and users become the enemy, or at least, an annoyance to be ignored.
The firmware update only applies to the latest model MacBook Pros, not all of them. And this information is easily obtained on the many Apple-centric websites out there. Presumably, most HN readers with a brand new MacBook Pro follow at least one of them. It's practically useless information as far as the larger HN readership is concerned, and exists here only as Apple fan-service.

(I'm a fan, and an MBP owner, but I sure as hell don't want news of minor Apple updates polluting HN.)
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Well I don't have money so I'm going to have to make the work cool. Right now the project is like Facebook in that it solves cool human problems but is simple (and thus boring) to build, so I don't know where to start other than use some cool new language I've never heard of (it's currently in Django).
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R is very powerful, but its use is mostly limited to statisticians. So providing a simple interface for people to leverage predictive models built in R is a great idea.

But their sample output (http://predict.i2pi.com/8MjSV2AA) just shows the distributions of all the input variables. I don't actually see any predictions.

Edit: There are no predictions there because there are no "NA"'s in the sample file to predict. You would think they'd create a demo file that would showcase the predictions!
I am sorry but the idea was a stupid one to begin with.

After 4 years in operation in what seems to be one the markets where customers had real pain and willing to pay for painless travel (and a monopoly?) they still needed credit to operate?
Was a nice surprise to open the page and see my wife's photo headlining it!

I agree that there are some things SQL databases aren't suitable for, but it's very often the case that something that's too slow in SQL stops being too slow once you tweak the right thing. When that's possible (as I said, that's very often but not always), actually doing the tweak is much simpler than reimplementing the subset of a DBMS that you need, but learning enough about the DBMS to figure out what to tweak may not be.

Here are some things I haven't found a good SQL solution to:

* Inverted indices. Fortunately, this is a big enough use that a lot of SQL databases these days have a full-text search extension of some kind slapped on the side.

* Graph data. This is kind of the same problem; the issue is that you can store your RDF or whatever in a table with subject, verb, and object columns, but not only are N-way self-joins an awkward way to query it, the SQL optimizer isn't smart enough to figure out that some verbs are orders of magnitude more common than others, and it should plan accordingly. (Not in PostgreSQL or SQLite, anyway, and I don't think in MySQL either.)

* Data of many terabytes. Use Hadoop.
Right now the project is like Facebook in that it solves cool human problems but is simple (and thus boring) to build, so I don't know where to start to talk about what I'm doing that would be interesting technically. I can't show anything b/c its not finished yet. It's currently in Django... I guess one option is finding someone who really wants to learn Django to take the project over?
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Personally, I don't feel burnt out. I always have a side project I'm working on and, even though it's sometimes hard to balance the time between work, family and side project, I do immensely enjoy it.

However, there were a few moments when I felt dangerously close to burning out. My solution is to get some vacation and stop doing anything that might even remotely resemble work. Just relax, spend more time with family, read books, play videogames. Get out of town if possible. That's my burnout-prevention mechanism. I guess I'm just jealous: the most I can get is two weeks of vacation time ;)

PS: Sorry, about the down-vote thing. I don't hang out at reddit, so I didn't know it was part of their culture. Thanks for the tip.
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Photoshop 7, though there are some things I miss from newer versions.
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A small part of me wants to read what must be a profoundly ridiculous argument for this. Thankfully, I'm not that masochistic.
There is a lot of things the government spends money on that I feel are completely stupid. Since we live in a democracy, the spending decisions are made jointly through the democratic process utilizing elected leaders, etc., and it is very unlikely any one person is going to agree with every spending decision.

That said, guaranteeing a loan to Tesla is about the best thing I can imagine taxpayer funds being used for. They are shipping electric cars now that people are raving about, and expect to be cash flow positive soon.

Electric and hybrid propulsion is the future, and if we can get their faster with some loan guarantees, why not?
When a publicly traded company is in question (in this case one of the most widely held and actively traded public companies), "fun" is not the proper justification. But I do agree with your wider point.
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MLS stands for Multiple Listing Service. Your San Antonio MLS is basically a database of all the real estate properties that are for sale in San Antonio at any given point of time. This is very helpful for the buyers that are interested in real estate property.There are number of advantages in using your San Antonio MLS for searching your real estate property.
The difference between Google and Facebook for me: I trust Google (to a certain extent). I trust Facebook in no way. Google's policies have generally showed that they're concerned about privacy and their targeted ads produce information relevant to you, without sharing it with the advertisers. I'm confident that if I give Google my email service, they won't sell my email address to spammers or any of the info in my emails unless forced, etc, etc.

Facebook has never shown itself to be trustworthy. They continually try and control their users data. They made it extremely difficult to delete an account before. Most of their ad providers seems sleazy and trying to trick you. Their stupid 3rd party apps get who knows how much access to your profile, completely unregulated by Facebook. Not to mention them secretly changing terms of service and the like.

I feel comfortable with Google. I never feel comfortable with Facebook.
In theory, yes. And in theory, all we would have to do is pave over a few square kilometers of New Mexico and we can power the entire world with solar.

But these studies completely ignore all of the practical issues with wind power at its current scale, let alone scaling it to power the whole world.
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Thanks for the link and the correction :)
This is great news; I hated everything that this company represented.
I think the idea was sound, they just executed it poorly.

They charged an awful lot of money for a very small savings of time and irritation. I think this wasn't entirely their fault -- the TSA put a lot of requirements on the Verified Identity program -- but they tried to run with it as a business and failed.

They wanted something like $129 a year, and for this you got a pass (getting it involved 2 trips to the airport or a Clear office and giving them a ton of personal information plus biometric data) that let you skip the ID check line. It didn't let you skip security entirely, it just let you get to the front of the ticket+ID check line.

I had a card for a while because I was flying out of Reagan airport in DC at peak times a few times a week for a year. Even under these conditions -- which would be best-case as far as a program like Clear was concerned -- I think Clear probably only shaved a minute or two of waiting off each time.

Their whole verification system depended on you, with assistance from a Clear agent, putting a smartcard into a kiosk, verifying your photo, and then verifying your fingerprint on a reader that typically didn't work very well. I think there was the option for retinal identification but I never used it (the scanner wasn't working the day I signed up for my card so it wasn't recorded).

Up until fairly recently, the TSA wouldn't let them use the Clear card, with all its biometric, smartcard glory, as a form of identification. So in addition to the whole Clear card process, you'd still need to get out your drivers license and show it to the ID-check person.

The whole thing had potential (which is sad to begin with, that airport security is such a clusterfuck that there's a market for anything that expedites it), but they never seemed to have it down right.

Personally I'm just glad to not have to fly regularly anymore.
"“In this environment, where transparency is critical, the more information you give the marketplace the better,” said Charles Elson, director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. “For a technology company that views itself as innovative, it’s a little odd that they are getting a reputation for lack of transparency.”

I would have liked more detail on why this is so. Why should a non-government organization have transparency one-inch beyond what is needed by its shareholders? Why is more transparency _always_ better? Seems like Apple is perfectly happy without having any.
What I really find interesting in this article is how some of the Facebookers are already considering Google as a Big Brother of Online world and in most cases, It is. I think Google is to Today's startups what IBM was to 70's & 80's Startups and Microsoft was to 90's Startups, a Gigantic and Monopolistic enemy to fight against.

they(Google) don't think Facebook's staff has the brainpower to succeed where they have failed. "If they found a way to monetize all of a sudden, sure, that would be a problem," says one highly placed Google executive. "But they're not going to."

This is the same kind of Arrogant and cocky attitude which made IBM irrelevant in PC market, Microsoft irrelevant in Online market and Maybe Google in Advertising. History repeats Itself every decade, atleast in Technology.
How can someone not have a lower opinion of Facebook after learning that they unnecessarily censor people in such a stupid way?
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And totally mess up my waves by reducing wind speeds. Stay away from my waves, you scoundrels!