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It's hard to say no, especially to someone you work with everyday. So find a way to arrive at a "yes" that benefits both the company and the employee.

Fortunately you have several factors in your favor, and potential strategies to getting to "yes".

1) It's A Startup - resources are scarcer than a larger, more established company. Any employee who works at a startup should understand this.

2) No Process - there's no formal process for handing out promotions. Co-opt his self-interest to craft a process that treats employees and the company fairly. As a side benefit this will force him to think of the company's needs in addition to his own.

3) It's A Startup Redux - working for a startup often means sacrificing short-term gains for a long-term payoff. Structure any promotion so that while an employee may not get as much now they have an opportunity to earn much more in the future. (Usually, this comes in the form of stock options with a vesting cliff).

4) DIY - in a startup the best way to get a promotion is to build it yourself. A single Google worker is unlikely to move the needle on Google's profitability, either up or down. A startup employee can have a much greater impact. Inventing or improving a feature. Helping expand into a new market. Creating a process that saves every other employee an hour each day. These are all huge gains that can improve profits, either presently or down the road. Find the metrics to measure each employee's contributions and reward them appropriately.
How big do you mean when you say 'huge fields'? Attending to single plants individually, this would be far to slow to work over a huge area.

'In contrast to modern agriculture, where things are done with huge monster tractors' - You might be interested in what http://www.bluerivert.com/ are doing. They are essentially attending to every plant individually in smaller cropping areas.

Once you actually get to a large area, I.e 1000ha fields, it doesn't make sense to attend to every plant individually throughout the season. We do however have technology to plant each seed down to mm precision, and apply nutrients based on zones created within fields.

Also, does it make sense to duplicate all the infrastructure required for one of these, over every single paddock on a farm, when we could have a single, essentially autonomous, machine crop and manage the entire area itself?
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Could you suggest some good papers/articles on the topic?
You're confusing levels. That means that the member nations are the people doing the defending of free speech, not that they are (necessarily) the people from whom free speech is defended.

> As others have pointed out, the laws against murder/assault already handle that case.

Since I never suggested making any new laws, this is entirely irrelevant. I'm talking about what constitutes free speech and infringement of free speech, not... whatever it is you think would make special laws relevant.
Ask HN: How to get feedback on my prelaunch side project
So in the past I have spent months building a side project before showing it to anyone - this time I thought I would try and use the lean startup idea a bit more and have just built a landing page.

I want to use this to get feedback on the idea and see if it is something developers would actually use. My original plan was to post it to Show HN/Product hunt and I had hoped to get 5-10 people signing up so I could gather feedback. It seems these places prefer actually launched products rather than prelaunch ideas though.

What is the best way for me to get some feedback on my idea without actually building the product?

For anyone curious here is the launch page: http://preeli.com/
Seriously, who looks at MongoDB and thinks "this is a sane way of doing things"?

To be fair, I've never been much of a fan of the whole NoSQL solution, so I may be biased, but what real benefits do you gain from using NoSQL over anything else?
We'll find out! The lesson from oil and gas is that people find ways once the price goes up and the demand is there. Lithium is very abundant. Do we know what percentage of the cost of the battery comes from material costs?
The thing is there is intense opposition to projects like highrises near caltrain as well.

And a project like that seems like it could result in both keeping single-family housing in many areas and solving the broad housing crisis. These directly hit against zoning limits but I suspect there's more going than inertia.
I don't see how that's different from contacting a manufacturer and having them produce your product.

If you want the first-hand experience, it's usually up to you. Shared tool access is becoming more popular with the (hac|ma)kerspace scene, but even they have a hard time acquiring professional/industrial machinery of that scale. The insurance/risk in allowing you to operate it is not insignificant, either.

Best thing to do is to continue promoting personal-scale projects (like the one linked) that are developed to be accessible, but don't necessarily meet criteria to be production machines.
Shouldn't you at least mention once in your post that this is bit similar to diaspora? Or at least write a bit in there to say what your proposing does better than diaspora
Expanding on the "avoiding becoming Homejoy" train, how do you prevent cleaners and clients from striking a deal outside of your marketplace once the client is happy with the cleaner and is presented with a discount by the cleaner?
But it does support sharting. Your entire app. Into the ether.
I think he was asking what rental price would have you choose to live in a rental house/apartment instead of the VW. Eg, to what extent is your choice out of economic necessity, and what are you willing/able to spend to live in a more conventional residence?

Obviously, location matters.
> If people didn't feel safe in Uber, they weren't forced to use it.

Except that Uber is using venture capital money to subsidize rides to undercut the price of rides.

That's great, until they drive the properly compliant ride services out of business and become their own monopoly.

Keeping the ridesharing services market share fractured instead of monopoly is what really benefits the consumer.
Hey! Snapchat is pretty useful for seeing snapshots into the not completely dull parts of my friends lives.

It has its potential flaws in being able to save the images/videos but please don't do it the disservice of likening it to MongoDB.
Next thing you know, your account will be hacked and taken away from you. ;)

https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...
Lol, now these assholes also own the streets and traffic patterns around their houses. Good to know.
Would the vendor management support deterministic builds?
Idk about hype, but for node.js virtually every tutorial uses it. I think the stereotype is that postgres locks you into a data model but your needs vary drastically. I suspect mongo is harder to retool the schema than it is widely claimed, while pg/msql is slightly easier than is often claimed.

I doubt they meet in the middle, but both have great use cases. scaffolding out a quick isomorphic js app is great for mongodb for example. pg is faster and more robust.

its just tech, depends what you are optimizing for
I absolutely love Cassandra, assuming you have the right use case for it.

We had some aches and pains with anti-entropy ops back in the day (7TB + on too small a ring) but it's my favorite storage system :)
Thanks for your app, will share it!
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I believe this is solved by Mongo's "snapshot" method on cursors: https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.0/faq/developers/#faq-developers...
These days bgfx solves this problem. Why run around when you can target all graphics APIs at once.
Not to mention that the entire global market was massively supported (you're talking 20-50% of the global shipping volume) by crazily high subsidies from the German government for 5-10 years, over the period when cost went from $5/W to $1/W.
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mongo developer 1

Man, it's just taking too damn long to run this update. What should we do?

mongo developer 2

Uh....remove all the locks?

mongo developer 1

Oh, yeah, that makes sense, let's do that.

mongo developer 3

Hey, what are you guys up to?

mongo developer 2

Making it web-scale!

mongo developer 3

Good job, keep it up!
Any argument that boils down to "this other argument lacks perspective" presumes that there is a preferably alternative without all kinds of unintended consequences.

We're seeing the unintended consequences of one alternative. Of course, we haven't tested all of the possible universes yet.
> Uber and Lyft thought they could negotiate by pointing a gun at people's heads. Austin is the worst possible city to try this in with the possible exception of San Francisco.

Yep, completely agree. I think what most people outside Austin don't realize is that Uber/Lyft ran this campaign almost as if they wanted to lose. We received almost a pound of junk mail every week, constant texts, three phone calls, canvassers at our door after 7pm, signs plastered throughout the city. It was just completely dirty and really soured people's opinions.

Most people I know who voted against the proposition did it because of Uber's campaign.
Interesting that people have a very different reaction when they see a working video and not just some ideas.

Last time this was posted on Hacker News three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6451350
Or even better, don't actually evaluate anything at all, just return a response indicating that the script could have chosen to evaluate the input if it wanted to.
That is a worthwhile option, but parallelization hasn't generally offered me nearly that much of a win when I'm limited by memory access performance.

In my experience, you're best off optimizing relatively limited pieces of a system rather than big applications. And only consider the rewrite when you've looked at optimizing it in place. This means that the thing that needs to be optimized with a rewrite often has a chance of not having any giant stupid mistakes.

For example see http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-related-items.h... for a case where I found a thousandfold speed increase by rewriting from SQL to C++. As much as was reasonably possible, I did not change the basic algorithm.
If you want that you can always use a variant of postgres that does like greenplum, citus, and a few others. They're battle proven. There's also MySQL and its variants as well.

Not to mention that are NoSQL alternatives that have a better track record than Mongo like Cassandra.
I really wish I could start and stick to something like this. I once worked in a newsroom with a reporter who had the best/simplest list for story ideas. He just used a legal pad and wrote new ideas on each line. He then had a system of symbols to signify importance, status, etc. I've strived for something like that since then, but I have not been successful at sticking to it.
> Uber and Lyft simply don't want to do this because it threatens their profit margins.

You do understand how silly that sounds right? They want to protect their profit margins because... they're businesses! Uber and Lyft both said beforehand that they'd leave if they were forced abide by the silly measures put in place by the Austin silly council, so no, it does not make sense to blame them.
Broadly, there's enough space in the Peninsula to build whole high-density self-contained cities - Facebook wants to build housing at their office park and if the only condition was shops in walking distance too, I'm sure they could satisfy that requirement also.

Maybe these possibilities haven't been explained well but I sort of think there are other interests that would prefer things stay approximately as they are.

Edit: one aspect that occurs to me is that developers probably wouldn't want a process that solves the housing crisis immediately either. It seems to me that satisfying the pent-up demand for housing gradually, project by project, would allow a developer to scoop up a lot of the excess, monopoly home-value now enjoyed by homeowners whereas if a huge stock of apartments appeared in one big bang, developers could wind-up selling them at costs plus a small profit level.
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Postgres wasn't always a great document store...there was definitely a time period where if you wanted to take a document-oriented approach to data modeling, MongoDB was a good way to go. JSONB was only added in the last minor version of Postgres, and while the JSON and HSTORE types were available, it didn't give you quite the same speed. Now that JSONB is a thing, I think the two databases are more comparable as a document store.
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i thought the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayim_Bialik story was crazy. this is nuts.
if you are just messing around you might be interested in vuejs & rethinkdb. found it a pretty intuitive stack, much easier than react for me
In postgres (and a fair number of other databases) you'll not see that anomaly, even with read committed. Usually you'll want to have stricter semantics for an individual query, than for the whole transaction.
I guess I use full number of logical cores
That's not what "second system syndrome" means.
> Also perl is apparently as fun for humans python which I also find suspect after maintaining perl 5.x code.

When people talk about a language being 'fun', they need to distinguish between writing something new for the first time vs maintaining something or figuring out someone else's code.
Why are people so fervently pro-density?

Maybe the smart move is to find a sustainable way to maintain current levels, tell newcomers that maybe a different city is right for them, and focus on improving conditions for the people already living there. There's can be more to city's goals than neverending growth, right?
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Their big message was that fingerprinting does a worse job of filtering out dangerous drivers than Uber or Lyft's internally-used background checks.
> The environment is a public good. Which means that it is owned by all of us.

That not strictly speaking true. We all have a stake in it but we don't own it. Also 'the environment' is not a singular thing, lots of people own lots of different parts.

> Therefore, the people doing the harm owe us money in the same way that Subway owes you money if they accidentally put arsenic in their meatballs.

That might be true, but if their tiny bit of a harmful substance in every single sub, they do not have to pay reparations to each person. The amount of damage done, is so small that it does not it would not be enforced. The same problem exists with environmental economics.

> It's just a matter of choosing the right price.

Prices are never a choice. The need to emerge from human interaction and property rights.

I do however agree with me. The problem is how to slice up the environment in different property rights that can be enforced. This problem can often be solved on a local level, such as forest pollution. It is however far harder to do for things that are far larger, like oceans or the stratosphere.

However, such approaches if possible are to be preferred. Sadly the typical environmentalist (and Nonprofits) are anti-market and that is holding everybody back.
Noticed how I referenced 1 proper RDBMS in my question?

Fixed that for ya.

Yes yes I know, HN is not Reddit. But there's still something fishy about declarations of what is/isn't a "proper" RDBMS.
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As an outsider, I don't know what is going on at all, but since you linked to some people that are notable that are willing to go on the record, it seems appropriate to quote some of what they said,

"Andrea Shepard, a senior Tor developer, confirmed to the Daily Dot that she was in touch with at least one of the victims on the website several months ago. Alison Macrina, a Tor employee and advocate as well as the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, also vouched for the authenticity of the anonymous victims’ statements."

I feel like a conspiracy theorist by saying there are far too many rape allegations against people associated with wikileaks. Cui bono?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono

Edit: As someone that has almost exclusively hung out with educated/privileged people, I am just not used to anyone that would tolerate any assault occurring around me. People have never even joked about it around me, and I am the most crude person IRL. I am aware that I could be wrong, this story just sounds difficult to believe.
FB normally starts choking off group notifications after a group reaches a certain size. I wonder if Arcade City is paying to keep the group up and running.
I think this is incorrect, but it's not as simple as the other replies are making it out to be.

Under read-committed isolation, within a single operation, you must not be able to see inconsistent data. So if you do "SELECT <star>" on a table while rows are being updated, you're guaranteed to always see either the old value or the new value. But if you do two separate statements, "SELECT <star> WHERE value='new'" and "SELECT <star> WHERE value='old'" in the same transaction, you may not see the row because its value could have changed. Serializable isolation prevents this case, typically by holding locks until the transaction commits.

It gets messy because the ANSI SQL isolation levels are of course defined in terms of SQL statements, which don't map perfectly to the operations that a MongoDB client can do. Mongo apparently treats an "index scan" as a sequence of many individual operations, not as a single read. So you could argue that it technically obeys read-committed isolation, but it definitely violates the spirit.
1) The majority of voters in SF aren't homeowners.

2) ROI isn't the most important thing about a home.

3) Even if you value property values over other values, affordable housing that can support a strong and diverse environment that is vital to maintaining the strength of the region. If you kill that engine, you kill the thing that created the high values to begin with. You can shoot the golden goose if you want, but don't claim it makes good economic sense. It doesn't.
Yes, that is the purpose of the vendor directory. You copy the source of each of your dependencies into vendor/ and commit it to your own source control so it can't change unless you do so yourself. I personally use git submodules to manage the contents of the vendor/ tree, but the go compiler/toolchain itself doesn't really care how you get the files into there.

Edit: other comments below have mentioned some of the tools available to manage your vendor/ tree. Using git submodules manually can be crude, especially when adding dependencies that themselves have other dependencies.
It is, of course, true that Apple has a perfect legal right to choose the content they make available through their platform. At the same time, if they chose to exercise that right to promote games about slaughter while excluding games about mutuality in pleasure, that don't have a right to be immune to people calling them on their priorities.
No the compensation structure for drivers. I'll edit my post for clarity.
> npm config set registry https://your.registry.url/
If you continue to cycle the batteries as deeply as you were in the car this might be true but if you're willing to charge and discharge slower as well as cycle shallower the gain in life for a Li-ion battery is quite remarkable. Obviously you need more batteries but in general energy storage is just less harsh to batteries than use in cars.
That's sort of exactly how it is supposed to work.
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This is why EV's have a horizontal firewall, to protect the occupants from the batteries. Plasma burns are a big concern for the guys building and tuning drag racing and hill climbing EV's. (Electric vehicles are wonderful for acceleration sports but currently hopeless for any sort of sustained high speed/endurance racing).
C stands for compound. It's just that you have to take the growth of January into account for February.
Or you fix your taxis, like most of the rest of the world has.

I can use taxi.eu to order a taxi in minutes, it will be clean, it will be there quickly, it will be cheap, and anyone can easily start their own taxi company if they have a commercial drivers license and commercial car insurance.

That’d liberalize the market.

Uber gaining a monopoly is not a free market.

Hell, the whole fucking Unicorn thing, no, the whole fucking startup thing is about monopolies, breaking Antitrust laws, and it’s all intentional.

The whole point of startups like Google, Facebook, Uber, etc was to outcompete competitors by doing predatory pricing thanks to VC funding (for example, Uber pays drivers in several countries more than the ride brought them in profit), then getting a monopoly (for example, Facebook paying people’s data costs if they’d spend more than X time on FB, and automatically inviting friends in the early years in Europe), increasing the costs for competitors to enter the market (For example, Facebook’s Internet.org campaign trying to ensure competitors would have a huge disadvantage without lots of funding).

If you want to get the best result for you as customer, you have to basically ban any VC-funded fast-growth focused startups from the market you are in, and then try to reduce remaining regulation as necessary. These startups are not there to improve the service for you.
Well, privacy in the sense that they don't want their mommies and daddies see what they post.
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That's not why I thought it was ridiculous. I said it was ridiculous for using projected 2016 Tesla production and dividing that by actual 2013 battery production, when battery production is rapidly expanding. You either have to use 2016 projected battery production on the denominator, or actual 2013 Tesla production (a number very close to zero) on the numerator.
> Defence against sophisticated attacker is also good against a simple one

Sometimes there's no defense available. Like in the case of a 0-day. In this particular case, defense against unsophisticated attackers script-kiddies will save your butt.
Oops - corrected, I meant "Snapchat for Databases" rather than "the Snapchat of Databases". Also, semi-OT: your reply was hilarious.
The group doesn't rely on notifications to work. Drivers watch the stream of posts and riders post into it.
Can someone who knows explain why Wells Fargo is inventing a new API rather than using OFX? Is OFX deficient?
Those people are sitting on millions of dollars worth of equity.

The people who have been renting for 30+ years are the ones screwed by this.