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The wired version of this device was in human trials ~10 years ago through cyberkinetics, a startup spun out of brown to commercialize the technology. See NYT article from 2004 tal…

looks like your site is down?

This is not new technology. A company called cyberkinetics commercialized this 12 years ago and made it work in humans. See their coverage in wired from 2003. http://www.wired.com/…

Definitely an impressive benchmark by any standard. However, there are some things to be aware of: 1) They used Infiniband interconnects. Running on ethernet is likely to yield les…

California, New York and London - Multiple positions INTERN, REMOTE, H1B welcome 10gen is the primary sponsor of the MongoDB open source database. We're hiring rapidly in all roles…

How scalable is this? Are there capacity or transaction rate limits on Cloud SQL?

Amazing that this post hits HN the same day Oracle announces "Oracle NoSQL Database" ... http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/nosqldb/overview/...

OK, you hooked me with the title. But "FreeBSD + Erlang" was kind of a dissatisfying reason for how you achieved it. Would love to hear more details! How far we've come since http:…

Well put. Many of the same reasons I joined 10gen and am very happy to work with Nosh ;)

It's useful to differentiate between "SQL Databases do not scale" and "SQL Databases do not _cost effectively_ scale". The second argument is more accurate. Vertical scaling of a D…