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How about the "more details required" conference? I like the subject matter and speakers list, but you have a rather "open" schedule. I'm on the fence at this point: I wouldn't mind an excuse to visit friends in Atlanta, but I feel like my money is buying steadicat's awesome website design.
I'm looking for legitimate gripes with behavioral ad networks. I know most of the arguments from both sides about why they are necessary and why they might be evil.

I'm looking for concrete examples of behavioral ad network privacy violations.

Any discussion is welcome, but that's mostly what I'm digging for in this post.
Nice. I'm enjoying the tab-completion as well.
I made a typo and hit ^H to correct out of habit, but my history popped up instead!
A good part of market efficiency is the simple mechanism it provides to punish those who make wealth-destroying choices. Markets can't guarantee perfect decision-making (what can?), but free markets can provide that people who make poor choices suffer losses.
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Did this over the weekend. Hope it doesn't break things too badly!
Documenting the "average" airline passenger couldn't be done from an airport?

As for "The World Without Us", I'm confident that the world will continue to exist even if it's uninhabitable for humans. The issue is preserving conditions favorable to human survival, i.e. having a functioning ozone layer.
That's the way we are. Let me quote Fred: http://fredoneverything.net/HeadSpaces.shtml

It would be fascinating to get Zogby to run a poll which would ask the following questions:

What does a camshaft do?

What is a vertical flyback interval?

What role does expansion play in refrigeration?

What does an address bus do?

Timed delay of arrival is the basis of what common technological service?

What is the role of a CCD in a digital camera?

Name any spacecraft now in orbit around anything.

What does TCP/IP stand for?

What is the purpose of a torque wrench?

The questions measure, I think, the degree to which people understand the physical world in which they live. Now, I may be wrong (almost inconceivable, I know, it has to happen sometime, like an asteroid strike) but I will bet that anyone scoring perfectly on the foregoing will be male. In fact, anyone coming close will be male. Should this prove true, the conclusion must be that men and women inhabit utterly different head-spaces.
The only pressure here is in the tires.
I would hazard a guess that since teaching is a pink collar profession you would find more females in the Math Department since some of them plan on teaching it in high school. This doesn't happen for engineering since engineering isn't taught in high school. (Note: at least in the US to teach something at the high school level you typically major in it at the university level as well as taking teaching courses on the side.) The only female I know in graduate school math wants to teach college.
I think you've stumbled into a perfect way to win HN arguments -- appealing to Lisp
The last page also has some excellent advice on it. My favorite: If you don't like anything about the deal, even if it's just the salesman rubbing the wrong way, just walk away.

The salesman wants you to treat walking away like a nuclear option, but it's the biggest lever you have.
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> The typical argument is that wealth is a good motivator.

It can be a good demotivator when the disparity is large and hard work seems unrewarded, though - it can nurture a fatalistic outlook in which the rich are rich because the game is rigged, they "chose the right parents", etc., rather than working hard to get there. The rewards have to seem attainable.
Wow no reason to be so angry -- it's just some pings going back and forth. There's no need to make it personal. Besides, I've had way worse ideas.

We've always planned to have a variety of update notifications available -- the first we did was Jabber/XMPP, now RSS Cloud, after this we'll do some others. I mentioned this in my post on the subject, which you can check out here:

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/rss-in-the-clouds/

We've supported other things before, like Atom Publishing, that to this day get almost no use (literally less than but we support them anyway because it can't hurt and might help. In general I would consider myself API- and format-agnostic.
Second, the wealthy are very good at keep their wealth for their families, those who are like them, those who went to the same school, etc.

The wealthy take care of their friends and families? And this is a problem? Do you know anyone, wealthy or not that doesn't take care of their family?

The worse the disparity in income, the worse the economic mobility and the worse society is as a whole.

Debatable. Certainly, an even distribution doesn't fare to well either, especially if you have read any bit of history of the 20th century.

What you are suggesting however that the poor, without adequate safety nets, can become a burden to society that is a net negative overall. This may be true, but not what PG is talking about.

In Europe, however, you don't trip over the homeless and crazy as you do in San Francisco.

Um, what?

There are as many homeless and poor to "trip over" in Europe as there are in the US. Ever seen Gypsies?. And those "crazy" folk aren't on the street because they are locked away in institutions that the US - for better or worse - long ago decided weren't good for them.

Like I said, I'm not arguing about safety nets, because I think the US could use a few more, and I don't think PG was commenting on that subject either.
tptaceck writes: "But a 44-year-old schoolteacher might not care about those things."

That is the problem with PPP - it depends on making hundreds of such subjective valuations, all of which defy the actual market value of the currencies of the various countries. Why not simply compare the standard-of-living of 2 countries using the fair market value of the currencies?

I think such an honest approach is unpopular in the US because such an approach shows how much the US has declined over the last 40 years, relative to other nations.
Once, by happy co-incidence, I had a telemarketer call at the same time a door-to-door salesman knocked. I just handed him the phone and said "Here, talk to this guy".

Hilarity ensued.
I read your post and, while it makes some good points, nothing in it contradicts my statement.
I guess I'd suggest dropping the "movement" rhetoric unless you are truly promoting non-relational databases as the be-all end-all solution for object persistence for all applications and use cases.

Most advocates of technologies like Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant, Mongo, CouchDB, etc - don't seem to argue this, instead taking a much more responsible approach of suggesting organizations whose needs are best suited by non-RDBMSs check them out, rather than porting everything over whole-hog.

I suppose what I'm suggesting is that the "movement" frame doesn't match the mindset of most proponents of the paradigm. There's nothing political about it - it's just another (very awesome) technology to consider for certain cases.
I also once heard a stand up comedian, an immigrant to Canada with poor English, tell a story about how when telemarketers call he hands the phone to his children.

"Here, practice your English."
Rational Database movement (long, but play on words - I like that it doesn't imply anti-sql, but using rational choices when an RDBMS isn't necessary)

Neo something...

ModernDB

KV something...

Fast data...

East of SQL

Sorry. It would probably help if you laid out your constraints (need it short? need the word 'noSQL'? need an available URL? ...)

"I think maybe my creativity broke. Let's see, uh... meatloaf. Yup, it's broke alright." - Strongbad
...also have a look at cpio's -p mode, very old-school :-).
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"Easy Start" is a cool idea. We've talked a lot about giving different versions of the design center to different users based on their level of "expertise". So one path would ask you specific simple questions, like you said, and let them make one choice at a time. Maybe they would be able to switch over to the "Advanced Design Center" where they can really move and scale objects, add more text, etc...

I really like the "Easy Start" idea. There is something to that.
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We do support XMPP! Check it out:

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Tower of Babel movement ;)
OAuth signature methods - and why HMAC-SHA1 signing sucks.
Ince, looks very useful. Installing now!
Surely it's a bad idea to found a company with the sole goal of landing a job as a VC.
If I am not mistaken your site's concept mirror's http://ltlprints.com. Competition is always good and a form of flattery, as ltl has been around for more then year.

Also, a site completely in flash? I am surprised the flash haters here have not made any comments - yet. The design is awesome, but why flash - that can be psd to xhtml(ed).

Sorry if I am not positive here, just sharing what initially jumps out. Good luck - it looks to be a solid business/market!
I believe he's largely held in contempt, either ignored or dismissed as a loon. Unfortunately, Alexander has done a few things to paint himself into this corner. He seems to have a need to be regarded as a world-historical genius, which isolated him and turned his work into something a bit cultish. That's a great pity because his core ideas are so vital.
Yes I should also note that Objective-J and Cappuccino run well on the server-side (using the Narwhal standard library: http://narwhaljs.org), I only meant that there's no Objective-J server-side web application framework (which you don't need in many cases).
The problem, however, is that this subset of the economy (banking, investing), once past the IPO stage, is basically an entire exercise on how to make paper, not how to make wealth. The system, in overvaluing short term results, is often counterproductive. (Note Costco's poor stock price versus Enron before the collapse.) Goldman Sachs was profiting billions by having access to millisecond-level trading capabilities. ( http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-case-of-quant-tradi... et al) This is a case of a society becoming good at creating paper, not wealth.

And that is the point. Short sellers are capitalizing on the ability to create paper, not wealth.
Roughly in order of time spent, Neumünster, Bochum, Frankfurt am Main / Mainz, Hamburg and Berlin. I've never lived there, but my GF is German, and have been to and fro for weddings, meet parents, various trips etc.

I should hasten to add that this isn't an exhaustive list, I've been on a number of train trips too, but I wouldn't count the handful of hours in those places, e.g. Lübeck, Kiel, Flensburg.
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Greenhouse gas emissions are not smog, and they're not air pollution in the normal sense of hurting people in their immediate vicinity.

Greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global climate change, and the per capita GHG emissions of Mississippians are more than twice as high as the per capita GHG emissions of Europeans, regardless of the local air quality.

Also, that was only one part of my comment. The other part is that most Europeans enjoy all kinds of public infrastructure intricately related to living standards that Mississippians do not. The US has decided that impeccable road infrastructure is the sine qua non of public nonmilitary expenditure, but there is an enormous opportunity cost tied into a national land use and transportation model based on ubiquitous motoring and related low densities.

See, for example:

* http://www.newsweek.com/id/76929

* http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/subprime

Total car dependence plus industrial food and big box retail minus actual neighbourhoods, family farming or even gardening equals an ecological and public health disaster in slow motion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...

PPP is a very inaccurate measure of quality of life and cost of living. Countries with a bigger income inequality leads to far higher cost of living and much poorer quality of life. So suggesting that having a high PPP is good when the US on the Gini indices (which measure income inequality) rates a 45 and the EU rates a 31 is seriously screwed up and seriously misleading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gini_Coefficient_World_Hum...

Ignorance goes a long way, and Americans (both through blogs and the American media) repeatedly release BS like this, claiming the US is 'better' than Europe for an endless list of reasons. There was one of these racial BS things posted a few weeks about how Europe was worse off than the US because it doesn't have Wal-Mart. Ironically the UK does have Wal-Mart and it's being beaten by Tesco, and Tesco since 2007 has opened stores in the UK to directly compete with the US. Carrefour is the largest supermarket retailer in the world and far out beats the US in terms of hypermarket square footage. Two of the Big Three Supermarket chains are from Europe (Carrefour and Tesco). France also has a huge established systems of Cooperatives that far pre-date the founding of Wal-Mart and who have had hypermarkets long before Wal-Mart even owned a store overseas.

The promotion of these articles repeatedly is showing a very disturbing trend in the US posters on HN. I'm unsure if this is a reflection of the US as a whole or not, but it appears to me to be a strong effort by Americans to say "well it was already worse elsewhere, so it's not so bad here" to the economic recession. I find it worrying.
Yes, that would be another example of an assumption: that the disparity does not grow large enough for this to be common. This one would seem particularly unfounded.
Still shooting for a summer release?
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I'm predicting a catastrophe on the scale of the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit. Oh wait...
Use YouTube to shame big companies that owe you money
oh looking at it again the whole site is not flash. I got that impression because on first load it took awhile to load up; felt like an old time flash site for me. I'm using a Mac Mini Intel and my connection is 12Mbps down.
>simple app takes a few minutes to compile
>You typically will work in a hosted mode browser

I thought those issues are now thing of the past. At least that's what I saw in google i/o presentations.

For the other part it seems more like an issue with development approach and not GWT per se. I have only dabbled a bit with it and like it more than writing JS for full blown web apps.

Cappuccino intrigued me because of my background in desktop apps - albeit not Cocoa. There are many idioms I am used to, so I'll give it a spin.
I don't understand your comment. If you mean a Platonic Free Market, maybe. In the real world, the CEOs weren't penalized for their wealth-destroying choices, and the boards weren't penalized. Sure, they lost their jobs, but perhaps they never should have had those jobs to begin with. They got to keep the money that they didn't earn. And that market is about as close to a free market as you'll see in the real world.
Unrelated to the criticisms above...

Having not reread this essay for a few years, I'd forgotten what a wonderful piece this was. Your exploration of the common fallacies that lead people astray is particularly clearheaded and well supported.

However, you might want to reconsider the way you lumped, in passing, speculators together with thieves -- implying that neither create value. Thieves clearly destroy value, whereas speculators add information to markets. They create value in a very abstract way that is difficult to recognize, but is nonetheless there. A speculator that accurately foresees a shortage of grain in 6 months and therefore buys grain futures provides a service to society (by raising the future price of grain over the spot price, causing people to warehouse grain, which will take grain off the spot market, pushing up the spot price, moderating present demand for grain, and preventing an acute shortage).
I think Dustin is a supremely talented designer, and I find his writing generally engaging, but remain perplexed by how everything he posts, no matter how mundane, flies to the top of HN.
I don't see it happening because you don't change names once they've already been picked up by a community (well, you can but it's real difficult). Take AJAX.. that was just a coined name for a bunch of already existing technologies, but it stuck and it'd be next to impossible to change now (unless the whole concept were usurped).
Hahaha, I don't know anyone who bootstrapped a startup to serious cash since 2002 in Atlanta, PERIOD - and I've looked really hard, talked to everyone in town - let alone that did it and kept a family.
If this were Reddit or 4chan, you'd be getting the look of disapproval right now.
http://airbnb.com ?
VC is happily proven wrong by startup.
The reasons for using these new systems are varied, but often involve scale that relational solutions cannot achieve.

"We have not achieved it; therefore, it cannot be achieved."

How about the "NoSQL Movement". No Scientifically Qualified Logic.
It doesn't make sense to frame it negatively. You don't (often) see fans going to bars to root against a team.

I would call it something like the Alternative Database Movement.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758

You can skip the ~10 min intro.
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Actually, plenty of guys use Hadoop for CPU bound problems.

And the fastest way to use it this way is Java, which is what the number crunching users of Hadoop use. Which is to say that the emerging big data compute platform is Java. Which is to say that you're wrong.
Not only is 'movement' needlessly pompous (it's dangerously close to also having a 'manifesto'), NoSQL is uninformative - the negation can apply to a lot of things including key-value stores, LINQ, post-it notes stuck to my monitor, etc.
It should be noted that "joined-up" writing, as the Brits put it, is much more attractive when using a fountain pen. You don't have to go full-on Palmer (in fact I recommend against it; capital Q and both Zs are particularly obtuse), but some form of joining letters seems to be natural.
Ask HN: Is anyone running Ruby 1.9 in Production?
I have a Rails game (www.forumwarz.com) that's moderately popular. Right now it's running on Ruby 1.8. It's holding up well with our current load (about 2M dynamic requests/day), but we are in between episodes of the game.

Soon, we will launch our third episode and expect a large spike in traffic. We plan on adding another server to our pool, but it occurs to me that Ruby 1.9.1 might be a good idea too.

After a day or two of tweaking, I seem to have the app running on Ruby 1.9.1 in my development environment. Early benchmarks show that it's 3x as fast as the Ruby 1.8 version, which is quite promising.

I am curious as to whether anyone running a similar or larger Rails site are running Ruby 1.9.1? Is it stable enough for a production app? What are your experiences? Is there anything I should watch out for?
I learned the other day that not a single man under the age of 25 works in a state run nursery in the UK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article4... - Even counting the over 25s, there are only 56 men working in nurseries in the entire country.

If women feel unwelcome in areas of computer science (and I know that they do, and don't really judge their feelings on that), men in professions where they have to deal with kids are even more ostracized.. and we don't seem to be dealing with that problem properly either as a society (and I'd argue the men-children issue is more important to society overall).
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> Real programming languages let you implement your own concurrency models.

Yeah! You can write one of those suckers in an all-nighter! It's not like they're tricky or hard to debug or anything. Bring on the Java MonsterTM! Real languages let you use several concurrency models concurrently!
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Your points are valid, as he or she forgot to mention the following:

In most classrooms, not a day goes by without the teacher requesting students rearrange their desks to work in groups together, and that's all it takes for the desks to be in a different order for the next class.

Even if left-handed desks never moved, there are no rules that left-handed desks are actually for left-handers only. As a classroom fills up, it's hard to tell which remaining desks are left-handed. It's also hard for right-handers to remember to look for the same, and end up sitting wherever they were about to, along with left-handers.

Left-handed desks are worthless when there are no policies about actually using them. And half-desks are worse than full-desks, anyway.

http://handedness.org/action/fairdesks.html
Nice site. Is this cheaper than buying the same product from a local store?
I dont agree. A movement doesn't have to be fundamentalistic. It doesn't have to propose that SQL is wrong in every case, only that SQL needn't be the first thing that comes to mind when you need to persist data, or the only thing.

The various NoSQL-solutions are quite different in nature, the only thing that really brings them together is that they're not SQL, and instead of each of them doing their own awareness raising campaigns, they probably do well to gang up. I don't even think they should change the name, it's not until now when they've created the NoSQL-umbrella that they're really getting some well-deserved attention.

There are plenty of solutions out there, pick the best one, or whichever one you just plain like more. And that might very well be SQL. Just don't pick SQL simply because that's the only solution you even know about. I think that's a message worth spreading.
Can I apologize? My daughter was pulling at me and I started to skim. I'll read it in length, give it time, and then post again. Mea culpa.
We (madebysofa.com) are using it for an upcoming product. The most important lessons we learned are:

- We can really bring near-desktop-class-user-experience to the web, and that's amazing.

- Cocoa programmers pick it up fast. In our case a week or so, and one more for all the tools around it (press, nib2cib).

- Some stuff is missing/broken in the framework, but you can look at the source and fix it! We're not used to that with regular Cocoa where we have to basically guess what is happening inside.
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A trick is something a whore does for money, not something that improves your code.
I like it. Or maybe IndieDB?
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