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That's incorrect. Sphinx can index documents and does not require an SQL database. Such has been the case for a few years now.

Facebook has $4 billion in cash on hand (pre IPO).

No excuse, simple theft. Google steals millions of dollars every year from AdSense 'partners' who have done absolutely nothing wrong. Google's AdSense forums are overflowing with s…

Feel your pain. I had a nicely successful social media property built around Twitter. It had a very large semantic system as part of how it worked, but I had to write an extraordin…

What's the point of Android? Golly gee, how about we just have no competition in smart phones, and Apple can own everything. Everybody else should give up so we can have a smart ph…

For this to be a valuable lesson, you'd want to know who clicked on each ad and what the follow-on action was. If a bunch of idiots that will never buy anything clicked on the ridi…

This certainly makes Facebook look like a fat bag of asshats.

The FBI, CIA and NSA already do this. Both domestically and internationally. American agencies have been reading UK email for years.

I wish it were just idiotic. The problem is that he's bought and paid for. This is Hollywood sponsored payback targeting Google and Facebook for their SOPA resistance.

When I'm awake

I'm more inclined to believe that by the time articles like this are getting published, it signifies something closer to the peak of incubator mania. Y Combinator will continue to …

It wasn't rude. The super rich in America control far less wealth today in proportion to the total economy than they did in 1900, when Rockefeller by himself controlled wealth equa…

China has zero chance of competing for a high national standard of living. The math will never allow it. They have 600 million people living on less than $2 / day. Unless you can f…

After reading into the post I had to scroll back up and check the date on it. I was sure this had to be from a few years ago. Atwood is talking like infinite scroll is the wave of …

A working piston of this sort would generate extraordinary sums of energy in a relatively short period of time, you'd need a storage device so the energy could be distributed when …

Electricity isn't expensive, we have a government that tends to make everything extraordinarily expensive. Obama's trillion dollar stimulus shot could have built a hundred nuclear …

As others have noted, that article is very wrong. Google did see that email was broken, and search was broken, and mapping was broken (old mapquest was horrible). They proceeded to…

Apple didn't invent multi-tasking gestures. There's no reason they should hold any patents on that. It's not novel because the natural option of manipulating content or a swipe upw…

I had the same problem for about four or five years in my early 20's. I got really sick of being poor, that changed my behavior drastically. I had to start finishing things and mak…

Congratulations on your early successes. That's always very important, it'll keep you motivated through all the various adversity yet to come. I don't believe for a second that col…

Start-up? Seesmic is five years old. They took $6 million in VC over four years ago. They're an established company, not a start-up.

Douche much? Looking over your comments on HN, that latest comment seems to be the peak of your contribution here. In over two years you've picked up 394 karma points. I'm going wi…

Softlayer is a lot more expensive than most hosts these days. They're closer to being in Rackspace territory now. You can get a dual E5-2609 with 32gb of ram + bandwidth from a goo…

Maybe it's just me, but watching all those robots move with purpose across the inventory floors is pretty damn sexy. lol