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Founder of a (non YC) database company here.

Founding companies are hard, databases are really hard, and we're in the middle of a shakeout in the database industry. At Aerospike, we really, really focused on paying customers early. We gathered a huge number of the "big boys" in advertising ( who need ridiculous speed & uptime in a key-value system ) and have leveraged that into lots of enterprise use cases ( telecom, payment fraud, transaction processing ), which has kept us of interest to the investment community and allows us to fund all that we do.

The database problem is a _big problem_ requiring a lot of investment. I heard that very explictly from some VCs when I was first raising ( you're a fool if you think you need a $5 seed round, and we don't fund fools, essentially :-) ), and the drip-by-drip VC cycle then requires extraordinarily disciplined product / feature analysis. I get a lot of requests for more types of indexes, more types of notification, and we need to pick and choose the priority carefully. We want to - and hopefully will - get a chance to build everything eventually, but also need to answer the question "why should I use this instead of a familiar tech like Mongo or MySQL or Postgres", and "follow the leader" product planning is a classic fail.

Open source of course has to be part of the equation. Aerospike went open source late, about 2014, and I still wonder what would have happened if we open sourced earlier. Our core big customers need a supported product, but we've lagged, and I know Rethink's better DBEngines ranking comes from both more features and earlier open source. Open source is also driving prices down across the board - a $250M / year oracle deal, converted to EnterpriseDB or MariaDB, turns into a $2.5M deal. Further - for instructure, open source is the only escrow you can trust. The business model question is complex, and creates mistakes if you think the opportunity size is 100x the true size.

Anyway - I'm sad to hear of this change at Rethink, I remember when they were on Dana St and we were on Castro around the corner, both focused on and coding for Flash and building the best databases in the world. My best wishes to the team, and anyone who is interested can reach out to me directly.
It's starting to look a little like the Volkswagen fiasco.
That's not quite right. I've been selling on Amazon for 6+ years and have lost selling privileges a few times (every time due to an issue with our order management software). Sometimes dealing with it was as you described. But I can state factually that they don't always indicate that you're about to be shut down, nor do they always make it remotely easy to get back on or even figure out why you were shut down.

For instance, I went through quite a Kafka-esque nightmare just a few months ago. Something got messed up with our order software so that when we shipped something it wasn't marked as shipped and the tracking info was not uploaded to Amazon for a few days during a busy season. Customers weren't complaining since they were getting their stuff. Amazon sent a warning that our late shipment rate was too high just an hour or so before they sent an notification saying we lost selling privileges. I immediately figured out what went wrong. I got the order software working right again, and I manually marked all the "unshipped"-but-actually-shipped orders as shipped and added the tracking. I wrote to Seller Performance about this, exactly as they instruct you to. I explained what happened, showed them how I fixed it, and explained how we'd ensure it didn't happen again. Their response was simply that our late shipment rate was too high and that my account was suspended as a result. I sent the same info I had sent, and this time included full tracking info for all of the affected orders (and by this time most of them had already been delivered). I received the same response as before. I tried doing their "Contact Us" methods, but no one would respond to my messages or talk to me on the phone, since the account was suspended. All anyone would say is that I need to contact Seller Performance to attempt to get back on. Finally, after several emails to Seller Performance about this, where I basically explained the situation and how I fixed it and how all the supposedly-unshipped orders were actually fine or already delivered, but just phrasing it slightly differently each time, I was unceremoniously let back on, more than a week later. I asked very politely why it took me so many attempts to get back on, even though I just told them the same thing each time, and they said they could not discuss it, and that I may have my account suspended (!) if I contacted them again about this.

So maybe you've had an experience having your account suspended on Amazon that went smoothly, but that's definitely not how it always is.
I think the strongest guarantee is that the sustainability of their business very much depends on that. Billions of incentives to make not a single ex-employee able to say "I managed to hack my way to user personal data".
Manufacturing is a target because it's easy for people to see concrete results. They can point at something and say, "we made that", and it tends to generate some sense of pride. The same doesn't really apply for service industries or innovation in the service industries: "we produced consumer surplus by lowering transportation costs via automation" doesn't roll off the tongue as well. :)

The same problem exists for creating software. Massive software projects tend to be unimpressive to people not familiar with the IT industry because they don't comprehend the scale or fundamental difficulties in computer science that were overcome to accomplish something.

Compare airplanes and wifi on airplanes. Most people are impressed by an A380, but they couldn't give two shits about the incredible technology behind offering wifi 5 miles above the Atlantic ocean at 700MPH ground speed. They just trivialize it by saying, "yeah, it comes from that little radio".
It's an effective way to generate positive spin... hell the "on site guidance" has been the major theme the Kims have used for three generations in North Korea. It's a way to appear generous, helpful, and subtly signal your indispensability at the same time.
But it's accessible to people, that's the issue. Not my tech, but systems far away that belong to others.
Definitions are beyond me, but in this case I don't call it clickbait because it's the title given by the author to a text written from the heart, not to hoodwink or waylay. That makes it content, not bait tacked on later.

There's no need for every title to spell everything out. On the contrary, it serves reflection for readers to work a little, and 'reflective' (as opposed to 'reflexive') is the quality we most want here.

I wrote about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11979596 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161193 and a bunch of other places I can't find right now.
Maybe because they're catering to a vote bank that was most affected by manufacturing / factory jobs that went overseas? And there's little else those voters could relate to other than someone bringing back the jobs that they know well. There's also the righting the wrong thing that's appealing to many.

As TFA points out there is little chance of revival of American manufacturing. TFA makes a very good point that most of those who lost their factory jobs have moved to service industry and that's what the candidates should focus on making better.
I used to use Haroopad [1] unfortunately the author seemed to stop its development some time ago. This seems like a good alternative, in fact, it looks and works so well that I can justify its dependency on Electron. Props to @abnerlee for its work. I will definitely recommend this application to my friends.

[1] http://pad.haroopress.com/
What's your mission? And what's your product?
Yes and the source (that I've looked at) is high quality. That said, it's a very complicated program with no room for mistakes, and it is written in C++ so plenty of opportunities for memory/pointer issues. RethinkDB is very stable these days, unlike a year ago, and I think it could work well as a full open source project at this point (given the good code quality and docs). Absolutely critical to that would be relicensing everything under a much more liberal license than AGPL!!
We bought a successful app, loaded it with extras and watched it fail
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> Manufacturing was, logistically speaking, easier to organize. There were lots of workers at each factory, and most knew one another. Service work is more dispersed and done in smaller crews. Workers living in the same city and employed by the same retail chain, for example, would likely know only a handful of their compatriots. Fostering a sense of trust and shared purpose under these conditions is difficult.

Plus you can't just fire everyone and shut down the factory when they start talking union.
Actually, it is. I can tell by the way you argue that you are not (successfully) in science, so this is probably a futile gesture, but here is a paper which touches on what I am saying:

http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/53A/6/M4...

The paper looks at twins in Sweden. Hence, everyone in the study was subject to more or less the same environmental conditions, while only a portion (the monozygotic cohort) are genetically identical. You can use this design to isolate the portion of variance in longevity attributable solely to genetics, while making no other structural assumptions about the possible mechanism. At the extremes of the age distribution (this includes your lobster people) they essentially found no such component. Over the entire age range you can explain perhaps a third of variability in longevity by genetics.

Also, you seem to be under the impression that lobsters and humans are completely different at a genetic level. This is again false. I don't know offhand what the number is for crustaceans, but humans and frogs share about 80% of disease-causing genes, for example (http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100429/full/news.2010.211.ht...). A great deal of the animal genome evolved a very long time ago and is conserved throughout the entire kingdom.
Sure, but then you are also missing all the people who make below minimum wage because they are not formally employed. Which is a large number of people in Mexico. For example, the salaries of domestic workers are hardly ever reported (the average is around 2 minimum wages, but it is unclear what the lower bound is and is not like they work only 40 hours in practice, see: [1]), and the earnings of street food vendors probably vary a lot (it might often be above minimum, but in plenty of cases it could also be below).

[1] http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2014/02/05/sociedad/039n1soc
Sure, and to get that Python requires a big runtime to be present wherever it goes. Trade-off.
How good is: Leaflet.js
The big Internet brands have various levels of vulnerabilities/opportunities for competitors. Google search is weakening day by day. Wikipedia's design and software is static. Facebook can't decide whether it's a social network or a news network. Amazon and Ebay are vulnerable to niche competitors. Change is coming, and when it does it's usually unexpected.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12641936
> but if they wanted to, who would stop them?

The law, and the economic interest of all the rich shareholders that care about the company's reputation.
> without exposure ... to one another

They do have at least some exposure to one another - if you look closely at the photos you can see a bunch of them out of the pen and near each other.

And the text says they are in group pens when they get older.

They must have some reason for separating them though, it looks like a ton of work to implement and they wouldn't do that for nothing. Don't know what though. Maybe some of them get bullied otherwise?
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For what it's worth, both Amazon and Google can be the same way. (I've had to deal with such from both of them before.)

That said, it's not always that way with them, and I suspect Apple is similar. We always hear about the rough encounters, but few people write about "I just had this issue, and it got cleared up immediately. The end."
Want to see something really scary???

Here's his house: https://www.google.com/maps/place/7+Harvard+Rd,+Glen+Burnie,...
I think we're coming at this subject from different premises. Mine is 'obtain shelter' and yours is 'obtain housing'.

Yup, that's why in my original comment I talked about affordable housing, not affordable shelter.

Good for you that you like your current lifestyle and are a fan of tiny houses. It doesn't solve the problem space I am suggesting for the question posited.
Still less than Google's site for the new Pixel [1] :)

[1] https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/ckhRCy/pixel.google.com
Never brought up children... Yes of course children should be vaccinated for potentially deadly diseases. FYI libertarian's believe this too:

http://reason.com/blog/2016/08/26/libertarian-gary-johnson-c...
I'm excited to see that as well; that'll make it even easier to integrate with C code via FFI.
I think we've lost the binary size battle, just as we've lost the bandwidth battle. I agree, there has to be a better way, but development convenience is being prioritised.
Nature of the twitter beast. You can't actually educate or do much more than say, "read any of the 20 articles I've written on the subject" in 140 characters. And there are a lot of people who are very wrong about the sorts of things he talks about.

He knows his stuff. And he's dismissive and rude. The former forgives the latter, for me.
Answers to this question tend to get philosophical very quickly. The literal act of sending a message is democratized to the extent that we share protocols like English, UTF-8 or SMTP across our systems. But the social value of the message is oft contextual, creating an infinite number of spaces for socialization. You can have the same group of people in same room and yet send them on a radically different conversation by priming them to focus on something new.

Hence I think it is beyond the power of a company to monopolize the social sphere in Orwellian fashion, but monitoring, nudging, and creating an atmosphere - those things happen in any coffeehouse or bar. Small towns are known more for lack of privacy than the opposite.

In the past week I "returned" to Facebook after years of effective silence on it. The impulse was relationship-based, as many of these things are, but I had to decide on a method of engagement and decided that I was going to treat FB as a direct extension of Twitter, which I've kept up with - just tweet as usual but follow a second thread. I used to want to keep them separate to have parallel lives, but since I abandoned FB that "life" was already dead and I have learned a way of public living on Twitter that I am comfortable with.

Fortunately there is enough linkage between the two that this is straightforward. They have presented a tool that adapts to my preference, rather than an imposition or decorum. This, I think, is the direction that social software is moving towards inexorably - to separate or merge bodies, accounts, and personas as needed, across systems, according to various models of seeing the world.
This is why anytime you are dealing with things that anyone could conceivably find questionable you either develop a website or skip Apple. Their fanboys tend to have money, but let this be a lesson..
I was on a flight recently and the lady next to me had a large Samsung phone on which she was constantly playing games, etc. and I was very worried.

I was also afraid of questioning if it was a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 because the attendant made an announcement saying people should turn it off and she didn't. Next time I'm not going to be afraid. Can't imagine the consequence if it caught fire at 30,000 feet.
That sounds like a ton, but for the estimated 7k-10k homeless people in SF, that's $24k-34k per person annually. A lot of money, but not an insane amount given the high local costs of absolutely everything.
This is a great article.

The rage of the blue-collar masses is misplaced. It belongs with engineers, STEM people, operations research, Taylorist management. Globalism isn't the architect of their fate. We are.

Want enough work to go around? Ban the last 100 years of agricultural development. That'll create all the jobs you could possibly want, real fast.

Except then you'all find out that more work to go around is a wrong thing to want.
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3 is not quite true. tried deploying CE at scale at my last company, ran into a gnarly limit on concurrent connections the db cluster would handle.
It was a hard coded, undocumented limit on the CE version.

not sure if this still exists. but it took some digging into the source, and monkey patching to fix.
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> Well, the decimal calendar had 12 months of 30 days each, with either 5 or 6 extra days depending on leap years.

So not 10^x, 10^y and 10^z consistently without the constant need for special-case exceptions?

> Months had three ten-day "weeks".

So not 10^x-day weeks then?

> decimal [time-measuring] units are all about trying to eliminate as much as possible the historical peculiarities

Eliminate? I think you mean change.

> The irregular length of months, the weird 24 hours in a day, and the base 60 which has been obsolete for millennia now. All of these do not give any advantage to the users of these units today.

There is nothing more right about 24 than 10, unless you need to take your socks off to count.

There is nothing more right about 60 than 10, unless you need to take your friends' socks off to count.

10 gives advantages to people who count on their fingers. But, amusingly, less advantage to finger-counters than just about any other even-numbered base that isn't 2.

> Divisibility by 3, 6 or 12 are useless today because we now master decimal numbers easily.

I see you're a maths teacher! I, also, love the pure enthusiasm of the classroom. You can smell it a mile away.

I think that's enough from me. The rest is just imposition anyway.
Re: Food waste.

My experience with food waste is that it is primarily an combination of liability, lack of incentives, and very slightly infrastructure/organization.

Businesses and individuals worry about the liability; what if I /give/ someone food (presumably in good faith) and then they turn on me and sue me for some form of payout. (Political, laws)

The incentives part, how can you provide incentive for someone to give away food that is still good, but nearing the end of being good, to those who need it in a timely manor so that it reaches those with need. How can you encourage the correct kind of food being donated? (Probably political arena taxes and tax credits to manage this; yes both, you have to punish undesired behavior too.)

The infrastructure largely exists in most places, but communicating that to the public (awareness) and making the public's interaction with that structure easy (here's the one area Tech could help; aside from raw funds) are the issues.
I've flown a few times this month (Europe, multiple airlines), and on every flight there were verbal warnings and there were also signs at some of the airports when you check your luggage in. I'm pretty sure most commercial airlines and airports are aware of the issue and are making it widely known.

This is going to stick in people's minds – I overhead a couple of conversations where people were a bit confused about whether their phones were safe or not – they knew they had a Samsung, but many people don't differentiate between all the different models.
Please photograph and publish it. (Pics or it didn't happen?) This debate is important and shouldn't be muddied with hearsay on all sides.

Thanks.
You can also call me a hypocrite. My MX records point to Google and my A record points to gitlab.com's GitLab Pages.

I'm actually not brave enough to open a few public ports on a server I own and manage and drive traffic there. It's a mix between "scared" and "it only took an hour to set up the entire thing the easy way."

But I can sleep soundly knowing that if any of the providers I'm currently using become incompatible, I can move things very quickly to a new location.
You pay a massive markup on dated technology for that abusive treatment.
"That may indeed be beneficial, but isn't the panacea that is being touted."

We agree. That's the primary conclusion of the report.
Hi Ooshma,

Curious as to how you found and got your first batch of users that loved you and were paying for the product.
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While I agree and upvoted you, I think the realistic answer is that the alternative to this 34 MB editor is no editor like this at all. The author made what they wanted with the tools they knew.
You can already use it as a grenade/bomb in GTA 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Vaj33RYkI
I'm not entirely certain but I think it was

The modern synthesis of contrasting styles of thought in “east” and “west”
*Nisbett, R. E., Masuda, T. (2003). Culture and point of view. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, September 16, 2003, 11163-11170
perhaps https://www.pipelinedb.com/ can be an alternative as well.

It's not that we are super set on using RethinkDB, but love ReQL! Going back to SQL just seems a huge step back at this point.
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But there aren't a finite number of factories. If more factory work gets automated, then it will reduce the cost of building more factories and producing even more goods.

Whereas service jobs seem more finite. There is only a finite demand for burgers or shelf stockers, unless you increase the population. I really don't understand how a mostly service based economy is sustainable.

In any case, the service based jobs are just as vulnerable to automation. There are already a number of prototype burger making robots, for instance.
I wasn't aware of these facts:

--[T]here can be no revival of American manufacturing, because there has been no collapse. Because of automation, there are far fewer jobs in factories. But the value of stuff made in America reached a record high in the first quarter of 2016, even after adjusting for inflation.

--[T]here were 64,000 steelworkers in America last year, and 820,000 home health aides.... Soon, we will be living in the United States of Home Health Aides, yet the candidates keep talking about steelworkers.

Given the opportunity, I think I'd vote for McKinsey, Bain, or BCG to manage the executive branch instead of our current Presidential candidates.
This is disturbing. I've been working on an open-source Dash alternative [1] for Linux (anything with GTK actually) that is compatible with Dash docsets. Dash is a really cool piece of software, and it's really surprising to see something like this happen. I hope that this is resolved, and that we are Apple take steps to change their policy in the future.

1: https://github.com/techwizrd/tarpon