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I'll be honest (and chances are I'll get a great explanation as to why I'm wrong), I don't understand the whole YeSQL-NoSQL argument.

Relational databases, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, are great for some things -- especially when you need to (put simply) divide and recombine various pieces of information easily. JOINs. UNIONs, etc. are fantastic when you need them, and it's where relational databases excel.

On the other side of the equation are hash and "document" databases, which are mostly key-value stores with some unique functionality (e.g. the indexing feature of Tokyo Cabinet Tables). These are great when you need to store a large volume of data, but don't need to frequently recombine the stored data in many different ways. You can run simple queries with some hash DBs and retrieve specific data, by key, at the drop of a hat; this is where (for the most part) key-value stores win out over relational databases.

It is clear, at least to me, that these two classes of DB serve two different purposes, with some overlap. By that logic, I see no reason why they can't happily co-exist in a single project. In fact, I'm using multiple database formats in a single application without any problem. Sure, there is a little more management and some extra logistics involved, but the point is that each type of database is used with its strengths in mind.

I'm not going to force MySQL to be a giant hash table when something else will do the job better, and I'm not going to force Tokyo Tyrant to try and be a relational database (not that I really could).

Am I wrong in finding a happy medium between multiple technologies?
You just need to go across the Bay Bridge. I'm not sure how or when it happened but for some reason San Francisco is very white and Oakland is very black.
Contrary to what the movies/TV portray, generally when groups of straight single women go out to bars together they are not looking to hook up.
I found the cutest ones to be straight Asian. Of course, they were also the hardest to make things work out given the severe language issues

Depends on where she's from. In countries like the Philippines, English education is much more ubiquitous than, say, Japan or China.
What does beating anyone to the punch have anything to do with this? This isn't some race to hit a specific market first, and I doubt they're trying to go down in internet history as The Organization that Led the Revolution Against IE6. Regardless of who came out against IE6 first, this can only strengthen the effort, and lengthens the list of popular services against the browser, which will hopefully change things.
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What if you already have a variable called _c and you pass it to MYMACRO? Is there any way of generating a guaranteed-unique symbol, similar to GENSYM in lisp?
And no, I have no idea why that specific sentence came to mind.
I'm really interested in Lamson and Zed Shaw continues his impressive output, but this service seems fruitless. I can unsubscribe from any reputable company's mailing list. Most useful alerts already come in both HTML and text variants. If I really don't want the mail, I click "report spam". Gmail has already "solved" the spam problem for me anyway.

Why would I use this really?
Your description of "busy people" == insane to 99% of the population, so what he said: "...no sane woman is going to join you" is essentially true.

But yes, insane people should date other insane people. Nobody else will understand them.
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Just to clarify, client-side == application-side, or the application as a client of the database.

Is client-side hashing really that big a deal?

No, it's not that big of a deal, but I tend to feel that any layer of logic that can be done on the DB end rather than the implementation end is better off in the former. Voldemort is a good example, as noted in the article.
That defeats the point, since the guys who accept all apps will get a score of zero, while not doing their main job description.
It's not a big deal when you do it the first time. It's a big deal when you need to start adding servers. What do you do?
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Wellll, not to nitpick, entrepreneurs aren't necessarily achievers.
Am I wrong in finding a happy medium between multiple technologies?

No, you are correct. The main source of contention lies in people trying to use a particular technology outside of its comfort zone. Many in the NoSQL crowd suggest that this is a common symptom of SQL installations. Unfortunately, a good portion of the arguments that address this point are hyperbolic and seem to suggest that SQL is rarely the right tool. This is what keeps degrading the signal to noise ratio.
I agree and I face this problem. Generally I circumvent this by firebugs capabilities to edit the HTML dynamically, but it has to be done too frequently end up uninstalling IE8. and installing it again at a later point. IT department thinks that IE7 does not make the security cut .. I dont know the specifics of security cut.
Google should create a translation module for dead languages. Why stop at scanning old books? Scan some ancient tablets Sergey!
You're assuming only guys live like this?
"Scientific" government is what produced the USSR and is currently operating in China. There is even a word for it: technocracy.

People who think they know best for everyone else need to be kept far away from real power, whatever their political flavour.
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Hypomania is pretty much a temporary phase in bipolar/schizoaffective disorders. There isn't really such a thing as being in a perpetual state of hypomania. The debilitating effects of the other aspects of these illnesses (psychosis, mood swings into depression, etc) are likely to greatly outweigh the short-lived advantages of being in a mild state of hypomania.

In the real world, this means the visionary plans and energy levels experienced during hypomania are most likely to be washed away in a tide of depression, or lead to the sufferer doing something irrational like joining a pyramid marketing scheme. There will be exceptions, particularly in creative fields or environments where the sufferer is able to coast or be supported through the negative cycles. Ever work with one of those people who slacks off and fails to meet their schedule most of the time, but occasionally delivers something incredible out of nowhere in the space of a few days?

So, are entrepreneurs hypomanic? The real lesson of this article is to beware of how easy it is to confuse DSM-style bullet point symptom lists with medical diagnoses.
I think it's a pretty fair approximation.
The idea of a government managed currency account for instance, could provide a boost to ecommerce depending on how well it's implemented.

And the idea of having standardized forms for major asset purchases is not without merit.

//edit: wow, I didn't realize you had totally expanded and revised the original comment (top of thread). It's kind of rude not to flag such a major change.
Microsoft will have to get on board. It's pretty much a given that this will go in the Chrome OS, so I can't imagine MS just letting google check off that feature.
"So now, the biggest socialist since FDR"

While this article contains a lot of interesting data, I would take it with a truckload of salt.
Hard to say without knowing more about the deal, about the lawyer pricing in your local market, and about whether you will be using a big firm or not.

In very rough terms, and assuming a deal that does not have a lot of different elements to it beyond those you generally describe (for example, one that does not include a funding component), $5K to $10K might not be out of line when you include a term sheet, drafting/document markup, meeting time to discuss issues and strategy internally, and possible attorney-to-attorney negotiations over at least some issues. With a big firm, start with $10K as a baseline and assume it can easily climb from there (in more complex deals of this type, fees can easily run $20K-$30K and up - yours would not appear to fall in this category, though).

Key points:

Negotiate for a fixed fee if possible.

Have your lawyer do the first draft if possible. Your lawyer will have a good template to start with, and it tends to be more expensive to have to work backward from a first draft that is heavily slanted against you than it is to have it set out right in the first place.

Get detailed early-stage advice from your lawyer in the background but do the preliminary negotiating on business terms and basic legal structure directly with the other principal if you can, before getting your lawyer too heavily involved. If you feel you are too inexperienced for this, then use the lawyer up front but you will pay for this.

Don't scrimp on the customized terms needed to get the protections properly woven into the final documentation. Your company will have the most to lose if this is not done right.
I also work in one of these and I'm not terribly surprised, but my own observations are that it's a bit less lopsided than that. I already mentioned that both my team and my cube are split 3-4, so 42% female. The other team I work with is 6 females and 9 males, so 40% female. That's in engineering - UI design and UX research seem to be even more balanced, and HR of course is virtually all female. At a rough guess, the numbers I see in the cafes are maybe 60-40 male/female.
You can't be a libertarian and a socialist at the same time. Libertarianism is against coercion whereas socialism (excepting voluntary socialism - eg hippy communes) is a forced system of banning voluntary trade.
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You mean Yahoo's patent. I think it may have played some kind of role in some negotiation long ago between Google and Yahoo, but I doubt it has any effect now.
They tried that in the UK in the 70s. Paul Graham mentions it in one of his articles. It just serves to drive wealthy and ambitious people overseas or to spend a lot of time and money looking for loopholes. The net result is that the size of your "economic pie" gets smaller and smaller.
> Also why is there a lack of African American people there?

This article attempts to explain it: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0615/p02s04-usgn.html
Not really the exact same results. Having low-speed CPUs doesn't quite lead us to drill for and burn more fossil fuels.
Thanks for posting the Orwell article. I hadn't thought about the difference between democratic and tyrannical weapons before.
To understand why Cash for Clunkers doesn't work you need to understand the Broken Window Fallacy: http://jim.com/econ/chap02p1.html

In a nutshell you can't create wealth by destroying useful things.
Yeah, I threw in the "sane" to cover cases like that. I know of women that'll readily work 70-80 hour weeks for a startup. But I wouldn't exactly call them sane. ;-)

Incidentally, I'm kinda curious whether there's any correlation between insane hours and success at the fuck-you-money level. (I know there's one as you go from high-school education to professional degree, but I think the causation is backwards: people work longer hours and get paid more because their jobs are more engaging, they don't get paid more because they work longer hours.) From what I see - and this seems backed up by Outliers and Fooled by Randomness - massive success seems more proportional to how many risks you to take and how much randomness you expose yourself to than how hard you work. Curious if there's any data on this...
Because females are less likely to be entrepreneurs and less likely to be programmers.

You don't even need to have a whole blog about it.
I agree with Evernote, it is awesome in so many ways. Moreso for retrieving stuff you read 12 months ago. I rarely add my own notes, but you can do that.

But as good as it is, it could be so much better, its search engine is really quite bad, not to mention the UI. But its by far the best thing I've found, I love it.
I first thought Android wouldn't be more than a concept platform at least for a next few years but I must say, I'm stunned.

Apple is working really, really hard to crank up the market pressure and to make Android a very lucrative, unrestricted cross-device choice of platform for all those totally pissed off by iPhone's AppStore.

I wonder what it's like having a day NOT seeing anyone blog a rant about Apple and AppStore.
I agree. Any suggestion for a 90% tax bracket for anyone making more than the (above board) income of a civil servant cannot be taken seriously.

I wish he had written this naked insanity at the top of the page so I didn't waste my time reading everything up to it.
Funny story...I was taking a multi-week trip to Europe while meanwhile attempting to finish my submission for Advanced Rails Recipes.

No problem, I figured, I'll just use Google Docs to write it from internet cafes.

I got hit by this problem. I could figure out enough French to save my work and what not, but not enough to tell Google to show me Google Docs in English!
I believe the technical term for this is ad hominem. Is it even possible for an argument to be true if it subjects the author to a witty reply? Apparently the Internet would have us believe that all such arguments are a priori certain to be false.
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Agreed. A company is a miniature snapshot of the city it's in. If the girls in marketing in HR aren't into engineers in general (or vice versa) it doesn't matter that they work in the same building.
Repeat after me: 2009 has been a complete disaster for the iPhone.

Nothing has gone right. Even the new hardware and OS launches, which should have been all good news, were marred by bad PR. So far, all of these missteps haven't seriously hurt the bottom line. But, if Apple stays on this trajectory, isn't it only a matter of time?
Geeks write the cool applications. Geeks who love their iPhone.

Remove that love and you're left with a mobile consumer market as full of ingenuity as the business of custom-tailoring b2b enterprise applications.
I always love meeting charismatic people. Especially people who work hard and don't sleep because they're living the life of an entrepreneur. We all know we had to go through it pushing for our businesses to strive. It's good to have a reminder to "keep trucking" whenever we feel the pressure piling on. -Peter
> Yeah, I threw in the "sane" to cover cases like that. I know of women that'll readily work 70-80 hour weeks for a startup. But I wouldn't exactly call them sane. ;-)

I dunno man. A normal girl who likes "shopping and hanging out with her friends", who sleepwalks through a boring shitty low-paying job, who doesn't exercise and doesn't take of herself... that's sane? My girlfriend in London: Family was high in the Communist Party before the Iron Curtain fell, got in the ground floor as entrepreneurs, sent her to study architecture in London and Tokyo, won some design awards, went swimming 4x week and did yoga 3x week. Had great, brilliant friends. When not studying, working, exercising, she'd go to eclectic cafes near Old Street or we'd go to the National Gallery or British Museum or some various gardens or have tea.

She's not sane? Girls who "hang out and shop", follow American Idol really really carefully, and sleepwalk through life are sane? I guess sanity is in the eye of the beholder.

> Incidentally, I'm kinda curious whether there's any correlation between insane hours and success at the fuck-you-money level.

I think there is for a few reasons. First, a job might require 20-50 hours of "firefighting and admin" per week, where every hour over that is actually productive work. Going from a 40 hour workweek to a 50 hour workweek might actually double your productive output. Second, the more you work, actually the more you live and get done. Expression, "If you want something done, give it to a busy person." When I was hyper busy, I'd get little trivial tasks done super fast. Now that I've got more free time, it takes me way longer to do minor bullshit like get car insurance or respond to some letter or something else. When I was hyper busy, I'd only "touch stuff" once. Which cut down time and stress from tasks by a lot. Third, when you're busy working all the time, you actually spend a lot less money, because you're working all the time.

> (I know there's one as you go from high-school education to professional degree, but I think the causation is backwards: people work longer hours and get paid more because their jobs are more engaging, they don't get paid more because they work longer hours.)

That's a good point, sounds true too. I think it's more cyclical than a causation/correlation thing. Longer hours, more skills, more engagement, ability to put in longer hours, more skills, more engagement, and so on. That's my guess anyways. Good comments.
Ask HN: Best marketing videos / webinars for software today?
My team is trying to put together a presentation for a project management app - it's different from BaseCamp / FogBugz etc in that it is primarily a tool for performance metrics i.e. analytics and not a web based SaaS. It's for larger professional services firms, more specifically those engaged in a lot of fixed-price contracting. For example - auditors, architects, actuaries, some corporate law firms ...

Hence the video would be more about how the software could transform your organisation (a la salesforce CRM etc) rather than the typical walkthrough of a web interface with roles etc. Ppl on HN may think of this space as "enterprisey" but it's not necessarily. If anyone could recommend good videos or best practices that I could incorporate in creating said video, please do let me know.

Thanks in advance for the good advice HN!
I'd think women would be way over represented in that, at least, when I was at Google, it was the recruiters and HR people flocking to LinkedIn, not the engineers. FWIW, I was on four teams at Google. I was the only woman on all of them except for Orkut, which was about half women.
I find the discussion absolutely fascinating.

You can tell that most of these people didn't really predict today's internet. Just look at the comments about tightly coupling images to links and the suggestion of "icon" to imply that images should be small.
I'd also take it on another site.
Edited: District is certainly a great scene for men with deep pockets and the women over 35 who live them.
Going to a bar to meet women is stacking the deck against you in SF. The best place to go is yoga class. Plus, you'll be able to actually do something nice for your body at the same time.
Doesn't seem to answer the paradox of who will enforce the socialism in a libertarian society. What if in this society you want to share my wealth but I don't?
I stopped reading as soon as he posted something looking like a dictionary definition.
No kidding. My app also features "Frequent/intense sexual content or nudity" because it displays information from wikipedia about parks nearby. And any third party content is 17+
In this case, however, the cars are not only being destroyed (the broken window part) but money is also being injected into the economy via the rebate. Now, I make no claims about whether or not putting money in the economy in this way is actually a good idea or not. But it's not as simple as the broken window fallacy.

Anyway, the only reason why the cars are being destroyed is to meet the other (primary?) goal of the legislation: raise average fuel efficiency.
Naspter got closed down almost straight away, and as soon as people could buy music easily online (iTunes) the market for online music grew massively.

Seems to me that online copying only happens when it's easier than buying content legitimately.
I feel like I have a good sense of who Zed is and what he does; from that information, I would come to the conclusion: no.
Hmmmm... colon, open paren, close paren... curly brace... I think I've got it!

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...now to run the script!

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There's another way of being "scientific" when it comes to policy. Instead of having a bunch of crooks in positions of power deciding for everyone, why not have the government designing markets and institutions that work, leaving the decision-making for the people?

The scientific approach to government should not be the USSR over-centralization. It should be intelligent design. Create the incentives, set the rules, and step back when the games begin.
Killing IE6? Think again.
I've been hearing all this non-sense about killing IE6 and how is making the web a terrible place.

I understand how time consuming IE6 and how every time I do a project I see my budget suffer because of IE6. I hear my developers complain about web standards and how evil Microsoft is.

But then, we look at the analytics. Analytics don't lie. They are the pulse of your business. And at the end is all about revenue. Hard cold cash. And when my site, has 19.000.000 IE6 visits, I couldn't care less about web standards. I just can't make them change their browsers. Most of them can't.

And I can't afford to not serve them.
In a way, computers are already replacing a lot of people at investment banks. Mostly brokers and traders, for sure. Even David E. Shaw himself once wrote that a lot of stuff in finance that is currently done by humans should be done by computers.

However, if you take a look at actual banking, like commercial banking and corporate finance, the sector remains rather low-tech. And there's a reason for it: there are no new ideas in banking. It's all about packaging and selling old ideas. That will never be replaced by computers, unfortunately.
I've been hearing all this non-sense about killing IE6 and how is making the web a terrible place.

I understand how time consuming IE6 and how every time I do a project I see my budget suffer because of IE6. I hear my developers complain about web standards and how evil Microsoft is.

But then, we look at the analytics. Analytics don't lie. They are the pulse of your business. And at the end is all about revenue. Hard cold cash. And when my site, has 19.000.000 IE6 visits, I couldn't care less about web standards. I just can't make them change their browsers. Most of them can't.

And I can't afford to not serve them.
In Amsterdam a friend of mine observed that the combined weight of bicycle and a lock strong enough to ensure that it will not be stolen is a constant.

We still haven't figured out the depth of this observation, does he mean that the lock is so heavy that the weight of the bike is negligible or does he mean that as the weight of the bike goes down the weight of the lock must go up...
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Yeah its a total SEO move. Damn good one too.
The broken window fallacy covers both the destruction of the window plus the supposed benefit to society of the spending.

Assuming the government didn't print the money from thin air (if they did it means more inflation), then no more money has been injected into the economy than if the programme didn't exist.
It really sucks to design for IE6 but to make purposely make a site that breaks in IE6 is so bad for accessibility. If your CSS messes things up in IE then at least just displayed unstyled semantic HTML. At least the user will be able to access the content which should be what matters most.
Just tried with "i am a boy but not a girl", never reaches equilibrium