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14,900 | story | neomeme | 2007-04-20T01:33:32 | How to build a community around your site | null | http://www.foundread.com/view/vet-reward | 4 | null | 14,900 | 3 | [
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14,901 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-20T01:35:03 | null | The point would be offline access to email. I used to use Outlook in disconnected mode on planes, back when I got a couple hundred emails a day. It made a big difference. Thankfully I don't get that volume of email right now.
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14,902 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-20T01:42:14 | null | Martin works for, basically, an enterprise intraweb consulting firm. Mostly J2EE and .NET, with a touch of Ruby thrown in to keep the guys happy. Very much an older school type of place though. Three-tier, web servicess, Oracle, the whole nine yards.
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14,903 | comment | waleedka | 2007-04-20T01:42:50 | null | I'm assuming that by "having your own blog" you mean a link blog on which you submit links to stories you find interesting in your area of interest (as opposed to writing your own posts) and others can read it just like they read reddit or digg. In that case, I'd say that a social news site is better because it won't stop when you're on vacation or not feeling like posting. However, for a very small domain for which there is not a big enough community, a link blog is the next best thing. | null | null | 14,860 | 14,860 | null | [
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14,904 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-20T01:52:12 | null | I mean both actually, not just link blogs. | null | null | 14,903 | 14,860 | null | null | null | null |
14,905 | comment | brezina | 2007-04-20T01:55:59 | null | We'll have to wait and see.. | null | null | 14,773 | 14,693 | null | null | null | null |
14,906 | story | joshwa | 2007-04-20T01:57:37 | Mike Davidson: Pagination and Page-View Juicing are Evil | null | http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2007/04/pagination-is-evil | 2 | null | 14,906 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,907 | comment | cmars232 | 2007-04-20T02:13:03 | null | Domain-specific, but interesting RDBMS alternatives:<p>HDF5<p>Mnesia<p>Kx<p> | null | null | 14,605 | 14,605 | null | null | null | null |
14,908 | comment | proj | 2007-04-20T02:13:09 | null | You still have to implement queries, sorting, joining, etc. If all your queries are simple key queries then you're basically done. You can also hash at the network level by assigning group hash identies to specific machines in your topology.<p>Where you will find a benefit to using a RDBMS is in heavy correlation, multilevel sorting especially when you're talking about very large data sets. This is one of the key problem that RDBMS address. If your requirements also say anything about atomicity and integrity of the data it may be a better investment in the long run to go with an existing database solution that had a couple decades to work out those details for you.
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14,909 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-20T02:38:52 | Alexa Backlash Begins, Call for Journalistic Boycott | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/19/alexa-backlash-begins-call-for-journalistic-boycott/ | 5 | null | 14,909 | 1 | [
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14,910 | story | nostrademons | 2007-04-20T02:40:21 | The Pirate Game | null | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_game | 8 | null | 14,910 | 1 | [
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14,911 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-20T02:41:47 | null | <i>'... Very much an older school type of place though. ...'</i><p>I agree with the thought, very much the <i>anti-hacker</i> ethic, established business. It's always good to give counter ideas, articles. Otherwise the you get the <i>feed-back</i> loop reading ideas that don't stand the test of time. | null | null | 14,902 | 14,862 | null | null | null | null |
14,912 | comment | slabuda | 2007-04-20T02:46:39 | null | You don't get as much SEO juice by using social news services. There is a little element in the HTML markup of some social news sites that essentially tells search engines to ignore the link. This means you don't get credit for that link back to your domain. In addition, having your own blog can increase the number of times search engines visit the rest of your site...again, SEO 101. | null | null | 14,860 | 14,860 | null | null | null | null |
14,913 | story | staunch | 2007-04-20T02:46:47 | Cross Site Scripting is a Big Problem [bug fixed] | null | http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/search1/?q=%3C%2Fh3%3E%3Ch1+style%3D%22font-size%3A+100px%3B%22%3ECross+site+scripting+is+a+big+problem.%3C%2Fh1%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22One+must+filter+users+input+or+render+it+harmless+or+bad+things+can+happen.%22%29%3C%2Fscript%3E | 9 | null | 14,913 | 2 | [
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14,914 | story | bootload | 2007-04-20T02:46:49 | Mr. Do It All | null | http://www.foundread.com/view/mr-do-it-all | 1 | null | 14,914 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,915 | comment | danw | 2007-04-20T02:47:33 | null | Using MogileFS (also by Brad) might be a solution. | null | null | 14,440 | 14,421 | null | [
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14,916 | comment | kmt | 2007-04-20T02:59:47 | null | 63M of those are AOL users:
<a href="http://dev.aol.com/aol-and-63-million-openids">http://dev.aol.com/aol-and-63-million-openids</a><p>Those OpenIds were created automatically. What percentage of those AOL users do you think even know what OpenId is? | null | null | 14,871 | 14,808 | null | [
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14,917 | story | bootload | 2007-04-20T03:04:12 | Google Labs Aptitude Test | null | http://ifindkarma.typepad.com/relax/2004/09/google_labs_apt.html | 1 | null | 14,917 | 1 | [
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14,918 | comment | rms | 2007-04-20T03:07:07 | null | I think everyone likes this site because it represents the fantasy of getting venture capital, which only a very small percentage of us will ever achieve. I'm not sure about you guys, but I'm a long way away from a five million funding round. It's still a lot of fun to learn about how to not get screwed by VCs. | null | null | 14,807 | 14,807 | null | [
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14,919 | story | rms | 2007-04-20T03:10:25 | Partnership agreement template for an LLC? | null | 5 | null | 14,919 | 6 | [
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14,920 | comment | slabuda | 2007-04-20T03:10:58 | null | want a job? | null | null | 14,032 | 13,968 | null | null | null | null |
14,921 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-20T03:11:53 | null | <i>'... "How much aptitude do you have for the sort of mind-bending engineering problems encountered each day at Google Labs? ...'</i><p>Relax, it's meant to be humorous. Great to read something that takes the 'p' out of recruiting. Btw, I thought it was: <p><i>e^((-i) x pi)</i> [0] instead of <i>(e)^(i x pi)</i> for Q 12 as suggested.<p>Reference<p>[0] <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=e+%5E%28-i*pi%29">http://www.google.com/search?q=e+%5E%28-i*pi%29</a> | null | null | 14,917 | 14,917 | null | null | null | null |
14,922 | comment | slabuda | 2007-04-20T03:11:57 | null | There is one...check out buildv1.com. It's still in it's infancy, but the mission is in line with the theme of this thread. | null | null | 14,108 | 13,968 | null | null | null | null |
14,923 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-20T03:14:14 | null | Via Reddit.<p>I submitted this because the incentives are very similar to those involved in startup equity, and the resulting proportions are roughly the same. Startups must choose how to divide the pot (i.e. equity) with each new hire. Each employee can then a.) accept the proportion, working hard to make the startup succeed or b.) reject it, slack off, and make them <i>all</i> walk the plank. There's another complication in that a pirate's coworker may catch him at b.) and tattle, forcing him and just him to walk the plank.<p>Why does this work like the pirate game, where only the senior pirate walks the plank? Well, think about why the senior pirate ends up with all the loot. It's because he's able to play the remaining pirates off each other: he can get away with offering 0 to pirate B, because he knows that B will be outvoted by the pirates that B is about to screw over. Similarly, a shirking employee is "outvoted" by his peers in a startup, who stand to gain handsomely (even if the founders take the lion's share) if the startup succeeds. They have a strong incentive to tattle on any shirker, which forces the shirker to work hard or get nothing. 0.1% of the company is a lot more than 0, even if the founder gets 50%.<p>This game also explains a lot of other accumulated startup wisdom, such as:<p>Why founders typically own 10-25% of the company each, while individual employees start at 1.5% of the company and decrease exponentially. Each new employee has decreasingly less ability to make the whole company walk the plank, and so the founders can get away with giving up less equity.<p>Why your first 10 employees are the most critical hires, and should be self-motivated hackers who want to see the startup succeed for its own sake. At this point, the startup has little peer pressure: if the founders are off negotiating a business deal, there's nobody to tattle on the workers, so if the founders own 80% of the company and each worker owns 1%, there's a strong incentive for them to goof off en masse. If, however, you have 10 people that don't care that the founders are making 10 times as much as them, then they will tattle on the next 10 hires that want to shirk, letting you give those hires very little equity.<p>Why tolerating a single shirker often kills the whole startup. Employees see that they will not lose their 0.1% if they shirk, and they figure that working hard so that the founders get 90% of the reward isn't worth it.<p>Why big companies are incapable of getting anything done. As the company grows and equity gets diluted, the options granted to any one employee become minuscule. Thus, employees have more to gain by making friends with their fellow shirkers than turning them in and boosting the stock price, and a culture of mediocrity settles in.<p>Why certain big companies have managed to avoid this. There are two basic approaches, carrot and stick. The "stick" approach is used by Intel and GE, and consists of firing the bottom 10% every year. Employees figure that $60K salary is better than $0 salary, even if they aren't sharing in the company upside while the CEO makes $100M. Unfortunately, this approach often means the company loses out on promising new hires who don't want to work in this environment. The choice for them isn't $60K or $0, it's $60K and the constant threat of being fired or $55K and decent working conditions.<p>The "carrot" approach is to give really generous cash bonuses for performance - often 2-3x the normal salary. This is used by Nucor and Goldman Sachs. Employees will not only work hard if it means the difference between $40K and $130K, but they're more likely to tattle on underperforming peers who bring their group productivity down. | null | null | 14,910 | 14,910 | null | null | null | null |
14,924 | comment | rms | 2007-04-20T03:16:30 | null | So I've managed to get myself an LLC. I have a friend that is giving me $10,000 dollars. I'm giving him 2.5% of the company for an investment of $10,000. That's a valuation of $400,000, right?<p>We expect to be generating revenue pretty quickly. Does his 2.5% entitle him to 2.5% of the profits, after my partner and I draw salaries? Or does he get a a dividend that is 2.5% of the salaries we are drawing? We'd also like a clause for us to buy out his shares. What's a good price for that?<p>Googling for "partnership agreement" gives me a lot of results. Are any of these more suited to our situation? Thanks, I really appreciate the help.<p>I'll let you guys know as soon as we launch. In the meanwhile, I'm not comfortable sharing the idea because with a basic background in the medical/laboratory sciences anyone could duplicate what we're doing. | null | null | 14,919 | 14,919 | null | [
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14,925 | comment | jmtame | 2007-04-20T03:32:15 | null | Both. I think the initial plunge will have the fear factor set in.<p>Once you've gotten your feet wet and have seen some return, you probably start to switch into the higher gears. | null | null | 14,855 | 14,852 | null | null | null | null |
14,926 | comment | rms | 2007-04-20T03:33:34 | null | As an intellectual person, I find blind faith in Christianity outright offensive. It doesn't make any sense to base your world view on the mythology of a Bronze Age people.<p>Honestly, I'm glad that you have the right to spread the good word on your website. But it's so rare I get to interact with a real, live Christian that I delight in the opportunity. Maybe we can both gain something.<p>So let's talk. Why do you believe in the god of the Christians to the exclusion of all the others? | null | null | 14,583 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,927 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-20T03:38:47 | null | I wonder what recently happened within Dell management that has caused them suddenly to start listening to their customers. | null | null | 14,815 | 14,815 | null | null | null | null |
14,928 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-20T03:42:53 | null | "people not running XP and using Java plugins in their browser"<p>were you able to install/run juwo? the BBC demo?
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14,929 | story | slabuda | 2007-04-20T03:44:05 | The End of a 1,400-Year-Old Business | null | http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/apr2007/sb20070416_589621.htm | 1 | null | 14,929 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,930 | comment | jasonyan | 2007-04-20T03:44:51 | null | I guess it's a good thing there's no authentication on that site.
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14,931 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-20T03:49:27 | null | Here is why I put that controversial paragraph:<p> "Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns [is ashamed of] me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven." [Jesus]<p><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2010:32-33;&version=31;">http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2010:32-33;&version=31;</a> | null | null | 14,878 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,932 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-20T03:50:37 | null | You don't need to know the name of something to use it. I think OpenId is going to become like an email address. | null | null | 14,916 | 14,808 | null | null | null | null |
14,933 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-20T03:54:01 | null | why do you believe that 2+2=4 and not 2+2=5 ? | null | null | 14,926 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,934 | comment | rmack005 | 2007-04-20T03:57:55 | null | Does the Arc/Lisp process only handle one request at a time? If it handles multiple requests at once how do you keep the writes atomic? | null | null | 14,861 | 14,605 | null | null | null | null |
14,935 | story | gyro_robo | 2007-04-20T03:59:57 | How to avoid start-up success? Not offering equity! | null | 11 | null | 14,935 | 11 | [
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14,936 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-20T04:00:14 | null | How many start-ups sabotage their chances by being too stingy when it comes to equity?<p>I thought I'd save everyone the trouble of going to a blog by ranting here directly.<p>A while back I was interviewing at a small company that really needed another developer or
three. They wanted to hire and made an offer -- a 20k pay cut, <i>but</i> they were going to
give me equity -- the magic word! Except the president/founder of the company wanted to
keep 99%+ of the equity for himself, so anyone else let in on the deal had to share a
fraction of the remaining 1%. I calculated that if the company was successful to the tune
of $10 million, my share would still be worth less than my initial pay cut. I
pointed this out to the senior developer who was trying to convince me to join, but his
blind loyalty to the company seemed to preclude arithmetic.<p>Prior to that I worked at another smallish company where the president/owner kept around
95% of the stock. A few top people got 1% or less. Other companies say they want to hire
"top talent", but they pay "market rates" -- which usually means the average according to
some salary survey, or less, and no equity.<p>It seems like some founders are so attached to ownership that they can't part with it, even
if it means greater success for themselves! It's like they have visions of dollars from
owning the entire company instead of a vision of what's needed to get there. While a
fraction of a percent of Google is worth a lot now, in order to get to that point, the
founders had to part with the majority of the equity.<p>Some start-ups work with two founders, but some have half a dozen (like Excite) or more.
Even reddit got more "founders" after the fact. If it turns out you need a new band
member, are you prepared to redo the original founders' percentages, or do you have other plans? | null | null | 14,935 | 14,935 | null | [
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14,937 | comment | SwellJoe | 2007-04-20T04:01:08 | null | You're still missing the point. Joins and sorting and grouping in SQL are what you use to populate the real data structures. Whether you know it or not, in all but the most simplistic CRUD application, you've gotta write code to deal with all of those data structures. The database is always in addition to that complexity. The argument being made is that you can leave out the database entirely in some environments, and not add that complexity.<p>The entirety of this thread is questioning the pervasive use of databases in web applications. There are some where it makes excellent sense (accounting, CRM, ERP, the stuff that's been the strong-hold of Oracle and SAS for years). And others (wikis, blogs, forums, photo galleries, etc.) where it may not make good sense, because you introduce hundreds of unnecessary operations and significant additional database support code. That's not to say a database is never the right solution for these problems (when your problem starts looking relational, you should start looking at relational databases, because your Ruby or Python or Lisp implementation is going to be worse than what PostgreSQL or MySQL have). And, as someone else mentioned (but got modded down)...when you start building your own flaky transactional layer, then it may be time to consider a database that has good transactions support. | null | null | 14,777 | 14,605 | null | null | null | null |
14,938 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-20T04:06:49 | null | <i>'... would recommend that one should gain a certain level of understanding of what's going on behind the scenes ...'</i><p>The upside of this is you work less & do things faster because there is a lot of functionality pre-built. Solutions become a lot simpler because you are utilising more of the framework, less custom code leaving more time to solve the real problems. | null | null | 14,749 | 14,663 | null | [
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14,939 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-20T04:08:41 | null | Any domain cookies for .bigheadlabs.com are vulnerable, which <i>could</i> be a real problem (Wordpress admin maybe?).<p>Domains are so cheap now that I almost always buy one for every project (even hacks) these days, partially just to isolate potential XSS issues.<p>I didn't mean to imply anything disparaging towards you, this kind of annoying stuff pops up even at Google. It's so easy to miss a spot, especially on quick hacks.<p>Thanks for creating that site, it's an awesome contribution. | null | null | 14,930 | 14,913 | null | null | null | null |
14,940 | comment | SwellJoe | 2007-04-20T04:14:40 | null | others have summed it up pretty well, with the "no false positives" perspective. But, I will play devil's advocate and say: Make sure you aren't just looking for "someone like me", and finding no one measures up. I've noticed this in some younger founders...there's a pair of folks who are nearly identical in skills, history, and goals, and this is not necessarily a good mix for success in a startup. They get along great, but they aren't a good team.<p>You both need the same drive to build something great. But you need to have different skills, different areas you enjoy working on. If you don't, you'll fight over the mythical bike shed and the hard solitary work won't get done. And there's a lot of hard solitary work in a startup. | null | null | 14,588 | 14,586 | null | null | null | null |
14,941 | story | pg | 2007-04-20T04:23:17 | Petition Against Alexa's Statsaholic Lawsuit | null | http://mashable.com/2007/04/19/petition-against-alexas-statsaholic-lawsuit/ | 11 | null | 14,941 | 2 | [
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14,942 | story | dawie | 2007-04-20T04:24:12 | MySpace News is live; poses absolutely no threat to Digg | null | http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/04/19/myspace-news-is-live-poses-absolutely-no-threat-to-digg/ | 1 | null | 14,942 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,943 | comment | evgen | 2007-04-20T04:24:35 | null | I would second the suggestion to try SQLite first (or give metakit a glance if you want something that lets you iterate over a table quickly) and concur with staying as far away from BDB as is possible...<p>The other advantage that using memory/fs has over a RDBMS for most simple applications is that unless you are doing complicated joins you will keep things simple and avoid introducing an additional layer of complexity and point of failure into your app. | null | null | 14,660 | 14,605 | null | [
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14,944 | comment | lupin_sansei | 2007-04-20T04:25:21 | null | Why would there be a plateau? The number of advertisers and their budget is not fixed. | null | null | 14,899 | 14,755 | null | [
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14,945 | comment | SwellJoe | 2007-04-20T04:25:42 | null | "should I just admit defeat?"<p>Definitely. It worked out great for Larry and Sergey to shoot that search horse and move on to empty pastures where nobody else was grazing.<p>Of course...sf0 has been around for quite a long time. I'm not convinced there's a business model there. | null | null | 14,786 | 14,778 | null | null | null | null |
14,946 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-20T04:29:20 | null | I like Strength is not only in numbers. I have never thought of it like this before. I was always under the impression that millions of users equals millions of dollars.... | null | null | 14,900 | 14,900 | null | null | null | null |
14,947 | story | dawie | 2007-04-20T04:30:13 | YC News is one of the best sites I have come across in a long time | null | null | 24 | null | 14,947 | 15 | [
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14,948 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-20T04:33:01 | null | Paul, I would like to thank you for building this site. I realize that this site is vary good press/PR for YC, but the value that its providing to me personally is incredible and the interactivity has me hooked. This is the best site that I have come across in the past 2 years. | null | null | 14,947 | 14,947 | null | [
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14,949 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-20T04:39:13 | null | Vlad, I disagree with your comment about iTunes. People want choice these days (long tail economy). Thats why people get their information on the Internet.<p>I think magazines still have value. People need something to read in bed, on the bus and on the toilet. Until I have an iPhone that I can do this with, I will read magazines. <p>I think magazines are on the way out, but they still have value for now... | null | null | 14,820 | 14,719 | null | null | null | null |
14,950 | story | dawie | 2007-04-20T04:40:27 | Hitwise acquired by Experian -- a great move! | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/hitwise-acquired-by-experian-a-great-move | 1 | null | 14,950 | 1 | [
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14,951 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-20T04:42:16 | null | Someone asked if the bubble was back a few days ago. I think it is. Companies are being bought left right and centre. | null | null | 14,950 | 14,950 | null | null | null | null |
14,952 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-20T04:44:01 | null | Long tail of Advertising. Basically there is an infinite amount of advertisers | null | null | 14,944 | 14,755 | null | null | null | null |
14,953 | comment | lupin_sansei | 2007-04-20T04:48:58 | null | Who here actually has an open id? I don't know anyone with one. | null | null | 14,808 | 14,808 | null | [
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14,954 | comment | johnm | 2007-04-20T05:04:11 | null | :-)<p>If you're doing Java, Azul Systems does 192 cores in 5U. | null | null | 14,883 | 14,541 | null | [
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14,955 | comment | mfhughes | 2007-04-20T05:04:53 | null | Here's an actual example, instead of all this pontificating. It's not that impressive but it illustrates the point.<p>I had to write an external "chat history" module (i.e., always send the last N lines of a conversation to a client as soon as client joins) for an IRC server, in python. (it's a long story)<p>Your standard RDBMS solution would probably involve the ircd logging directly or indirectly to a database, with a python script handling requests and doing selects out of that db. On a network with thousands of users, this will load a db machine down with IO operations. This also has to happen quickly, so that new text is added to the history log in near real-time. Batching is probably out of the question.<p>My solution was to have the ircd pass off its strings to another program (in this case, I used python) via a named pipe (this could also have been done via a socket, to aggregate multiple servers or do other neat tricks), and then have the logger app load these into memory - in this case, a giant python dictionary keyed on channel name which pointed to a constantly-updated ring buffer class for each channel. This ring buffer held the last N lines of conversation.<p>Writes were simple - h[c].write('text')<p>Lookups were simple - h[c].get()<p>Fast writes, fast reads, and disk i/o was batched for efficient logging to disk, at which point you deal with the data in batches and maybe store it into a db if you want to do something more advanced like with SQL.<p>Of course this could all be done with C within the ircd itself as well, using a hash table and ring buffers as well.<p>It was actually much faster (and logically simpler) than writing a DB solution, and I'm certainly no master hacker. | null | null | 14,732 | 14,605 | null | null | null | null |
14,956 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-20T05:07:02 | null | You should add yourself to the thank you list :) | null | null | 14,948 | 14,947 | null | null | null | null |
14,957 | story | mhidalgo | 2007-04-20T05:12:06 | Vote up if you would like news.Ycomb add a feature where users can save their favorite stories | null | 54 | null | 14,957 | 24 | [
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14,958 | comment | mdakin | 2007-04-20T05:12:33 | null | A non-SQL solution surely can work well and be a fine solution to some problems. Especially problems that are very well understood (like problems at the optimization stage of the project). <p>But can a minimal non-SQL solution provide the basic features that people want and expect from a persistent storage layer: transactions, allowing multiple process concurrent access to the data, relatively foolproof failure recovery procedures, etc? <p>A decent RDBMS gives you those features out of the box in addition to allowing you great data manipulation flexibility. It is this sweet spot of data manipulation flexibility and fault tolerance that makes SQL/RDBMS such a ubiquitous tool.<p>I suspect code you're "skipping" is the code that would give you those extra features that help with reliability and fault tolerance. <p>While it is possible to implement those features without using the RDBMS-crutch it takes real code and real engineering effort to do it. If you are writing "way less code" you are likely not providing replacement features. | null | null | 14,828 | 14,421 | null | null | null | null |
14,959 | comment | jward | 2007-04-20T05:14:53 | null | The way to do this is to go to the feature request thread and put in your point. People will vote it up there if they like it. This keeps the rest of YC news clear of feature requests and focuses more on start up stuff.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363</a> | null | null | 14,957 | 14,957 | null | [
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14,960 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-20T05:31:22 | null | A great question. I was watching a Charlie Rose interview with Peter Jackson from after
ROTK came out, before he won the various Oscars for it. He said his big motivating factor
was fear -- fear that he'd wasted hundreds of millions of other people's money producing
the most dreadful movie(s) ever made.<p>Being a big fan of the LOTR books myself, and feeling that the films' screenplays and
direction were both utter schlock, it occurred to me that this particular motivation may
not be conducive to doing your best work! I was a fan of his previous films, which seemed
to be done for the love of it.<p>We all try to gain pleasure and avoid pain. Most of us will work harder to avoid pain,
though, making it probably the more powerful motivator. However, letting it take too large
of a role in your life means your quality of life is negatively affected because of living
in constant fear. It becomes a habit, which helpfully probably keeps you alive, but it
does this by making you extremely risk-averse which also precludes future success! You may
not want to do anything new.<p>One example of how letting pain-aversion become dominant affects you is that you may become
extremely lazy. Let's say you've already got enough money that you don't have to do
anything. Well, work requires effort, and effort requires energy expenditure, and that may
involve some pain!<p>Of course previously you may have been excited to do the same kind of work, when doing it
was about gaining pleasure. We tend to behave according to habits, and I would suggest
it's not good to let yourself accidentally become habituated to using fear as a
motivating factor, because it will creep into all facets of your life.<p>So, very recently, I have consciously been trying to not react with fear and panic in
situations where I normally would. There are so many situations that are really no big
deal, except for the mental model we use which we have trained ourselves to freak out over.<p>I'm getting to think that the majority of our large-scale behavior is due to unconscious
decisions, and that we decide very little of importance consciously. So, in order to
effect change, we may need to train and condition our unconscious via emotional responses.
Almost like Pavlov-dogging yourself, do multiple things you already <i>like</i> in conjunction
with some other behavior and you reinforce it: E.g. playing music and drinking Coke while
hanging out with friends at the same time you're coding will reinforce your love of coding.
Constantly think of negatives while coding and pretty soon you won't want to code on that
project anymore, and maybe at all for a while!<p>I know this sounds cheap and gimmicky but I think it's very likely to be the case that our
strings are pulled by our unconscious. See the
Precognitive Carousel: <a href="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1422464">http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1422464</a><p>Also see this book on NLP (some of the formatting seems off from OCRing):
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/1984/Neuro-Linguistic-Programming-Using-Your-Brain-for-a-Change-Richard-Bandler-NLP">http://www.scribd.com/doc/1984/Neuro-Linguistic-Programming-Using-Your-Brain-for-a-Change-Richard-Bandler-NLP</a><p>If you don't have a plan for your unconscious/subconscious drives, you can bet others do --
advertisers, religious and political leaders, and random authority figures will try to use
pain (mostly) and pleasure to get you to feel like behaving the way they want you to.<p>I'm aghast when I realize how much of my childhood was actually a job as a field sales
representative for Mattel. They recruited me via television cartoons (ads) to direct my
parents' income to their revenue stream, in exchange for various "goods" now seen only on
Robot Chicken.<p>(World of Warcraft is the new Mattel, and they are Skinner-boxing away years of people's
lives.)<p>By the same token, when you as a founder are rich enough to never have to work again to
maintain your previous standard of living, you'll find all sorts of expensive toys pushed
on you, playing on the same ingrained habits from your childhood. You've been trained to
be fearful so that someone can sell you a temporary band-aid. (There are evolutionary
reasons why it's easier to push people toward fearfulness and pessimism -- ice age
conditions were harsh! The constant worriers didn't have much fun, but they stayed alive.
We're the descendants of people who got up and checked that the cave door was locked 57
times a night so sabretooth tigers didn't eat them.)<p>TV advertising now has two main themes: 1. "Look at these hot chicks -- now buy our
product!" And 2. "You're not buying our product? No wonder hot chicks don't want you,
fatass." Survival is a given in our society so the next most monumental drive is
reproduction. Watch how many people who want money from you try to play on this. Don't be
manipulated into fearfulness and insecurity.<p>If you're still young, try to be aware of when something is having an effect on how you
<i>feel</i> about something. If you can see how your feelings are <i>starting</i> to change on
something, you may be able to counteract it before a pattern sets in. If you're older, you
probably have to un-do a lot of stuff that's conditioned you without you even realizing it.
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14,961 | comment | johnm | 2007-04-20T05:32:25 | null | That's why these kinds of discussions are difficult. Not just the usual "it depends" but multiple levels of "it depends". As you say, if you're job mix is keeping a pipe saturated then raw latency is probably not your critical problem. Though, of course, if, for example, you have one pipe for bulk transfer and one for control/meta-data.... :-)<p>The comment about handling data locally was trying to get to the issue of how much data needs to be going back and for across the cluster rather than just living on the individual nodes. For example, we crawl millions of sites so there's an initial lump of intake data to each of the crawlers. On each crawler, that lump of data will get processed, redacted, expanded, and what not and only the resulting indexes and segments are ever transfered off the crawlers. | null | null | 14,881 | 14,541 | null | [
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14,962 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-20T05:45:04 | null | 4 comments and 2 points? C'mon, people, don't forget to vote up the <i>article</i> so other people see it. The top comment has 5 points, which is what the article should have, if it's worth commenting on! | null | null | 14,852 | 14,852 | null | null | null | null |
14,963 | comment | madanella | 2007-04-20T05:45:56 | null | From my experience, share grants, vesting and equity sharing are some of the hardest parts of the incorporation process and decision making. It's good to get as much thinking around them as possible because they are CRITICAL. | null | null | 14,807 | 14,807 | null | null | null | null |
14,964 | comment | anupamkapoor | 2007-04-20T05:50:15 | null | may you please explain why BDB sucks ? thanks ! | null | null | 14,943 | 14,605 | null | [
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14,965 | comment | rms | 2007-04-20T05:52:23 | null | Because I count two things, and two more things and see that there are four objects. I can observe with my own eyes that mathematics works. You can't ever see God, you have to take on faith that a book written almost 2000 years ago is absolute fact.<p>So why do you believe in the god of the Christians to the exclusion of all the other gods? | null | null | 14,933 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,966 | comment | cratuki | 2007-04-20T05:52:54 | null | Allegro-cache looks interesting although I haven't tried it:
<a href="http://franz.com/products/allegrocache/index.lhtml">http://franz.com/products/allegrocache/index.lhtml</a>
I like the idea of having a powerful datastore within the same process as the application because you don't have the IPC overhead. Although, if you're using prolog you're probably going to be less likely to want to do complex things in memory as you sometimes are with SQL.<p>Some considerations that come to mind:
1) Relational databases bring a form of 'automatic' documentation to a project in that somebody who hasn't touched it before can expect to make a reasonable start on understanding it by using known tools to look at the schema.
2) You get powerful hot-patching tools with a relational database (sqlplus, psql, or similar) that have the safety of things like foreign key constraints.
3) Major version upgrades. As you're developing you can track db changes by writing change scripts. Then when you do your upgrade you can 'pull the lever'. There's nothing stopping you from doing this with any other structure, it's just something to think about.
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14,967 | comment | rms | 2007-04-20T05:53:36 | null | I think the features request thread is overwhelming at this point. There's just too much there for new information to rise to the top. | null | null | 14,959 | 14,957 | null | null | null | null |
14,968 | comment | ryantmulligan | 2007-04-20T05:54:12 | null | I agree, I've learned at least 1 tip a week that has helped me get better at doing things in my life. | null | null | 14,947 | 14,947 | null | null | null | null |
14,969 | story | knectar | 2007-04-20T05:55:32 | A new rss-based content aggregator | null | http://www.feedmashr.com | 1 | null | 14,969 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,970 | comment | ryantmulligan | 2007-04-20T05:55:38 | null | Got it from Slashdot.com | null | null | 13,301 | 10,748 | null | null | null | null |
14,971 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-20T06:05:17 | null | From "The Other Road Ahead":<p>"When you have the users on your server, you don't have to rely on benchmarks, for example. Benchmarks are simulated users. With server-based software, you can watch actual users. To decide what to optimize, just log into a server and see what's consuming all the CPU. And you know when to stop optimizing too: we eventually got the Viaweb editor to the point where it was memory-bound rather than CPU-bound, and since there was nothing we could do to decrease the size of users' data (well, nothing easy), we knew we might as well stop there."<p>Couldn't you have done better if, instead of keeping all hash entries in memory, you kept them on disk and used memory as an LRU buffer? It seems like you could have fit more users on a server that way. | null | null | 14,616 | 14,605 | null | [
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14,972 | comment | rektide | 2007-04-20T06:13:48 | null | mmap of course?
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14,973 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-04-20T06:27:27 | null | Vote up if you would like people to stop misusing karma voting for polls. | null | null | 14,957 | 14,957 | null | [
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14,974 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-20T06:33:01 | Google 1Q Profit Rises 69 Percent | null | http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070419/earns_google.html?.v=15 | 3 | null | 14,974 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,975 | comment | wammin | 2007-04-20T06:42:22 | null | If you're planning on upgrading ... might want to wait a couple days. The update servers are slammed right now. It too me 12 hours to download some 1400 update packages (from 6.10). Though I'm happy to report that the update went very smoothly.
| null | null | 14,894 | 14,894 | null | null | null | null |
14,976 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-20T06:43:04 | Yoono jumps into group annotation fray | null | http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9710730-2.html?tag=blog | 1 | null | 14,976 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,977 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-20T06:46:39 | Dell brings back XP on home systems | null | http://news.com.com/Dell+brings+back+XP+on+home+systems/2100-1046_3-6177619.html?tag=nefd.lede | 1 | null | 14,977 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,978 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-20T06:47:31 | null | I'm planning on doing something fun with this in the next couple of months.<p>I think the ideal app here is a high-throughput, small-message app. Seems like I need to make a twitter clone... | null | null | 14,891 | 14,891 | null | null | null | null |
14,979 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-20T06:49:03 | The scary math behind Web 2.0 | null | http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9710510-7.html?tag=nefd.aof | 8 | null | 14,979 | 6 | [
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14,980 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-20T06:51:19 | Mozilla Thunderbird 2 takes flight | null | http://news.com.com/Mozilla+Thunderbird+2+takes+flight/2100-1012_3-6177557.html?tag=nefd.top | 1 | null | 14,980 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,981 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-20T06:54:47 | Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by traffic | null | http://news.com.com/Ubuntu+Feisty+Fawn+released%2C+hit+by+traffic/2100-1016_3-6177641.html?tag=nefd.top | 3 | null | 14,981 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,982 | comment | brett | 2007-04-20T07:17:31 | null | I'm pretty happy for just using delicious for that. It's always nicer when sites interact well with existing sites instead of bolting on a half assed version of the same functionality. Not to say that Paul's in the business of half assing things, but rather that it's slightly orthogonal to the main value of news.yc and already exists (done well). | null | null | 14,957 | 14,957 | null | [
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14,983 | story | felipe | 2007-04-20T07:43:53 | Who is going to Startup Camp 2 on May/7 in SF? | null | http://startupcamp.org/ | 9 | null | 14,983 | 4 | [
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14,984 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-20T07:44:48 | Teens get hip to exercising caution when online / Many wary about posting too much personal information on social-networking sites | null | http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/19/BUGU9PB3PN1.DTL | 1 | null | 14,984 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,985 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-20T07:54:46 | null | Interesting and strange at the same time. Definitely thinking about going. | null | null | 14,983 | 14,983 | null | null | null | null |
14,986 | comment | jey | 2007-04-20T07:56:56 | null | While you might get some good overall guidance here, I would recommend getting a consultation with a lawyer before acting on it. | null | null | 14,924 | 14,919 | null | null | null | null |
14,987 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-20T07:57:45 | ANALYSIS / Web 2.0 broadens its appeal | null | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/19/BUGU9PB4S91.DTL | 1 | null | 14,987 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,988 | comment | waleedka | 2007-04-20T08:00:32 | null | Quote: "Does his 2.5% entitle him to 2.5% of the profits, after my partner and I draw salaries?"<p>Sounds about right. However, with an LLC you can divide the profits anyway you like regardless of the ownership. For example, you can agree to have your investor get no profits at all for the first 2 years and then after that get, say, 10% of the profits (basically any percentage you agree on). Or, you can even be more creative such as having your investor get all the losses for the first two years (to offset his income from other sources and reduce his tax burden) and then get him to receive 2.5% of the profits after two years. You have full flexibility with an LLC, but consult a good attorney or accountant to make the best of it. | null | null | 14,919 | 14,919 | null | null | null | null |
14,989 | comment | RyanGWU82 | 2007-04-20T08:04:35 | null | Your friend is not automatically entitled to any cash just for being an investor. If he owns 2.5% of the company, it just means is that 2.5% of the business assets belong to him. If you operate the business for 50 years, he's won't <i>automatically</i> get anything back, unless you structure the agreement that way. If you sell the business or close up shop, he is entitled to 2.5% of the (remaining) assets and cash.<p>Nolo Press has a bunch of great books to help you set up your organizational structure, and they include templates for your operating agreement. I was just browsing them in Borders last weekend. They are <i>awesome</i>. And they're like 20 or 30 bucks. :)
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14,990 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-20T08:06:04 | Web 2.0 is all about the money | null | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/18/BUG4NPAB4N1.DTL&type=tech | 2 | null | 14,990 | 1 | [
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14,991 | comment | russ | 2007-04-20T08:26:03 | null | I've been using RoR for over a year, professionally for about 7 months and my best advice (it's also been mentioned in other threads) is to learn Ruby first. If you get to know Ruby pretty well, it's much easier to see through the smoke and mirrors. | null | null | 14,672 | 14,663 | null | [
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14,992 | story | rms | 2007-04-20T08:29:44 | Ken Thompson's theoretical C compiler backdoor | null | http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/strange_loops_dennis_ritchie_a.php | 13 | null | 14,992 | 6 | [
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14,993 | comment | andreyf | 2007-04-20T08:34:53 | null | Instead, why not let people see what they (or everyone else) has voted up? If I'm looking for something I've saved, I probably voted it up... | null | null | 14,957 | 14,957 | null | null | null | null |
14,994 | comment | russ | 2007-04-20T08:43:33 | null | Not to mention, less custom code = less bugs. Although I can only speak for RoR, most of these frameworks have probably done a good share of testing. | null | null | 14,938 | 14,663 | null | null | null | null |
14,995 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-20T08:48:42 | null | This claim is quite misleading. How many of those 100 million users are actually using OpenID? I suspect a majority of those are AOL accounts. Is AOL actively promoting OpenID among its users?<p>UPDATE: I just noticed kmt (post above) asked the same question, sorry for the double comment. | null | null | 14,871 | 14,808 | null | null | null | null |
14,996 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-20T08:51:20 | null | > Though, of course, if, for example, you have one pipe for bulk transfer and one for control/meta-data.... :-)<p>I do, but 15 usec is fast enough for that. :) I generally don't like paying a premium for slightly better performance. Even these rackmount systems are very pricey compared to putting together your own vanilla boxes.<p>Data bounces from node to node; the main reason to go 10gigE instead of 1gigE is actually for lower latency from the extra room. 100 Mbit of traffic on fast ethernet = 1 sec latency vs 0.1 sec on 1gigE vs. 0.01 sec on 10gigE (not counting overhead of course).
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14,997 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-20T08:51:23 | null | Too late. Vote me up for President 2008. I'm going to do my whole campaign in this one post, as well. My official web site is: <p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=14997">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=14997</a> Sure, it's hard to remember, but then again I only want geek votes. :) | null | null | 14,973 | 14,957 | null | null | null | null |
14,998 | comment | andreyf | 2007-04-20T08:55:59 | null | Also probably a good idea to submit your opinions here:<p>https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html | null | null | 14,941 | 14,941 | null | null | null | null |
14,999 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-20T08:58:25 | null | Very interesting, a specialized processor. 192 cores and 192 GB in 5U and 1000 watts! I wonder how much performance a 5-watt chip gives you.<p>In 10 years our cell phones will have 192 cores. | null | null | 14,954 | 14,541 | null | null | null | null |
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