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> (What's worse is losing 100+ BTC to Gox. :p)

I lost 18 BTC to MtGox... Bought most of them when the exchange rate was about $500.

I knew there was danger in keeping it on the exchange. I wanted to show my girlfriend who bought one of those BTC how easy it was to transfer them to a local machine, to demonstrate the power of Bitcoin because I was passionate about it and thought it had a chance of changing our corrupt banking system.

She kept putting me off, she thought it was some big procedure and just wanted me to do it. I forgot about it after that for a couple of months... Then MtGox exploded.

:-(

If you're out there, MtGox thief, I worked for that BTC. Karma will get you in the end.
The vast majority of us probably won't ever need that scalability anyway. Most places I've seen that needed something more scalable needed to just stop being so retarded with the tools they already had.
that's essentially what he said.
And if you're tired parts of your brain fall asleep before the entire brain, so you could be more attuned to more primitive sensory effects.
I grew up in India surrounded by a whole bunch of general health and nutrition advice which seems to be an aggregation of centuries of culture specifically suited to my culture, location and genetic makeup. There's no evidence for any of it, but it is what seems to have been learnt over the years. I have somehow always trusted it more than these ever changing fads that the newspapers were too eager to push at me. I know though that by the scientific yard stick these traditions don't stand up to scrutiny but I studied enough science to understand that these general advisory guidelines were as likely to be hocus pocus as my grandmother's so called wisdom. Mind you this is not about western medicine, just about food and lifestyle recommendations. #justsaying.
It is possible to buy a different non-AGPL license to MongoDB -- https://www.mongodb.com/community/licensing. With RethinkDB it seems completely impossible to do so. I begged and pleaded: http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2016/10/rethinkdb-must-relicens.... I just spent most of my time during the last two months rewriting SageMathCloud to use PostgreSQL instead of RethinkDB, with the catalyst for doing this being the AGPL licensing and some concrete enterprise customers needing a completely non-GPL'd stack for SageMathCloud. Coming out of this rewrite, and back to PostgreSQL (which I've used off and on for decades), I'm very impressed by PostgreSQL today, and the LISTEN/NOTIFY functionality is a solid building block on which to build something like changefeeds (thanks to the many HN comments on previous stories about RethinkDB for pointing this out!).
Definitely will setup a tor onion service ASAP.
re-write a better version from scratch using what you learned previously but not re-using code.
Not yet, but join the Slack group for early announcements. In development now: https://slackin-ekhdyygaer.now.sh/
The advantage is that even with the insane housing costs I'm still able to save significant amounts of money. For example 2 years out of school a developer can command $160k salary at the best companies (and those companies have a lot of positions to fill). Assuming $3600 a month on rent you have about $65k after taxes. (I guestimated most of these calculations in 5 seconds so be easy on my math)
I think he did mention this indirectly. Mongo performs better than Rethink on metrics that have nothing to do with what you truly want from a DB. He mentioned developers that would just whip up a script to throw thousands of writes at the database but never reads. Use cases that they would never see in real scenarios. First, you would need to educate your market that they need to care about the CAP theorem and what that is, that Rethink was damn good CP and that while Mongo might be fast, it isn't correct.
Some of us are keeping the RethinkDB database and community alive. The code is open source, and development continues slowly. The next release is almost ready. It'll have new features and performance improvements.
Silicon valley does not offer 9x the salary though.
I see what you're saying here but it might not be so simple. These types of countries are all competing doing all kinds of evil stuff to do so. All or most would have to be hit with whistleblowing & often for what you say to matter. What we've seen is large scale whistleblowing in some countries but not others. A few of those crying "Foul!" are almost certainly doing equivalent or worse but benefit from being the moral, high ground.

The result: a whistleblower for one just gives a competitive advantage to the others. So, both the country's policy and the whistleblower shifting people or investments to other scheming countries or companies are each causing damage.
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we DONOT have any plans to monetize

So my next question is - any plans on open sourcing? :)
I used to experience sleep paralysis as a teenager and it was terrifying until I worked out how to end it (stay calm and focus on wiggling a toe).

It always left me wondering how many stories about alien abduction etc were related to sleep paralysis. I read once that a feeling of being watched was common with sleep paralysis.
> Things are proven mathematically within a single model, nothing in reality is proven.

Preach it didibus! So few people understand this!
If every time I did not budget properly would it be acceptable to ask my boss for more money? Every time? Or is it my fault for not budgeting properly. I'd probably be fired if I did this.
I spent 1.5 years writing a ton of code using RethinkDB, and the last two months rewriting all the code (and more) using PostgreSQL. You are completely right, e.g., "For RethinkDB, it was wrong to try to force people to learn a new language to use a DB, when there are just tons of interfaces already, and the new language has incremental benefits over say SQL." rings very true. SQL is incredibly expressive and the tooling around it is very mature.
It just entirely depends on people's priorities. Some may feel that the particular career opportunities they have access to here are a very high priority for them.

Also, if someone had built a social circle over the early part of their careers, and are now thinking of these need for a larger place to raise a family, the social ties may be hard to give up. If they have no ties to the Midwest, done may be adverse to building a social circle and foundation from scratch again, even if the economics are favorable.
I don't know about nootropics, but often anxiety can be a factor of:

- low testosterone
- high estrogen
- high cortisol
- low DHEA

At least as far as the physical effects go (paranoia, sweating, etc.)

Might be worth getting testosterone and sensitive e2 scanned. In particular if one is also obese (testosterone aromatises to estrogen in fat cells)
"In my opinion the solution to not being embarrassed is to not do embarrassing things. "

That was the government's position against Snowden, Wikileaks, etc. Also called the "Safe if Nothing to Hide" fallacy. What secrets can cause damage in what ways is pretty broad and arbitrary. Interestingly, it applies to the government's schemes much like people's, private lives. We have to keep them in check more but that should be done by citizens leaning on various branches of government. Including groups doing something about problems in GAO reports.

Really easy to say, though, to never piss off any important person in any foreign country or company with one's private decisions or actions. Really hard to do, too.
I get that in a different part of the country, plus great music and culture and - SV culture.

With a significant fraction of your salary.
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I won't pretend to know about or have any background in medicine, but based on a cursory reading of the article, it seems to be a term for applying the Scientific method to medicine. The idea that we only started doing this 50 years ago is terrifying to say the least.

It seems to me that the problem here is that our industry, built around throwing expensive drugs at problems, paying for results and lobbying governments and insurance companies is ripe for abuse of "science".

That said, "pure" science is about more than published papers: it's about taking the data and observations you have and constructing the most likely theories and explanations around the observed evidence. If we had a capability to separate funding (and emotions) from research we might be able to produce good results given enough open data (which is itself a challenge).

As an uninformed software developer, I think medicine is a field where machine learning based tools will shine: ethical ("hippa") issues aside, we eventually might be able to feed all observed data, from diagnosis to results years after treatment into computer systems which might be able to make sense of the data and allow us to construct conclusions of the data unbiased by personal and business incentives.

Obviously our current eco-policital climate is strewn with roadblocks, but just wanted to put it out there that science doesn't have to lead us down this path if done right.
Same for fireballs, I have heard _very_ experienced, thoroughly rational amateur astronomers claim they "heard" a fireball when it is clearly at least 60 miles away and the sound waves can't arrive for another 7 minutes. We tried looking for answers such as turbulent plasma propagating magnetic waves to be picked up and retransmitted by nearby hunks of metal, now I can suggest to them it is all in their head.
We donot have plans on open sourcing soon, but we love open-source. Making it open-source will be considered in future for sure.
I live in the Bay Area. My wife and I, early thirties and a few years out of grad school, make about $300k combined and in our area (Sunnyvale) there are maybe 2 or 3 houses for sale at any given time under our rough budget of $1.2 million, which would be below the median list value for a house in the city. I say this as dispassionately as possible, but I would really like to know more about who is able to afford these houses. The article gives one example (doctor married to an engineer, no age given), but I wonder if that case is typical.
Didn't they shut the whole company down for a period of time to give everyone a break after that push? I seem to remember reading that somewhere.
> For me cognitive behavioral therapy with a very good psychotherapist was fundamental.

How does one go about finding a good therapist? At $100+ per hour, I could see it costing potentially thousands to find someone that's just good, let alone very good.

In the past the wife and I tried going to a few different marriage counselors, it was not very encouraging.
And 10.8 MB on OS X. This thing - 115 MB. And Quiver has far more functionality. I get the multiplatform thing, but Electron >_<
The commenters rip into the author for putting his tribalism aside long enough to be sensible on one subject. That site is quite the cesspool.
Born and raised in the South Bay and it's really hard for me to justify spending even 1M on a house in Sunnyvale. Wages are higher, yes, but it's still a huge shock. I imagine if you grew up elsewhere in the USA it's even more unbelievable (aside from NYC).

edit: looks like I got a downvote - did I break a rule? Didn't mean to offend anyone. Sunnyvale is a decent area but when I think 'one million dollars' I don't think Sunnyvale :)
I replaced my Time Capsule with a Synology NAS. Backups are still handled by Time Machine on the Mac (so they're still mostly unobtrusive and idiot-proof), but now they're stored on a mirrored RAID of cheap 3.5" disks.

The Synology box is basically just an ARM Linux machine, SSH/root is not locked out if you want it, so if you want to get fancy with off-site backups, you can set up rsync or whatever you want on it. They even ship with some GUIs for mirroring to Dropbox, S3, rsync, another remote Synology NAS, etc.
So is this due to zoning regulations or what?

Seems kind of ironic for the former hippy capital of the world (speaking of the bay in general here) to be pricing non-millionaires out of the area.
Two things are powering this insanity.

1 - low interest rates and speciality jumbo programs to lock in high earners are providing balloon capital. When this pops people won't lose houses because they have fixed rates, but they will be equity poor or underwater as prices will correct at least 20% with interest rates rising.

2 - cash investors chasing yield and security. The "cash" offers clogging every market are disproportionally inbound from foreign nationals and now even starting to be private placement. Blackstone and other huge PE firms now consider "single family" to be a category akin to multi-family and are placing billions to buy and rent homes for yield. All this blows up when interest rates normalize - eg investors would rather own treasuries / CDs / etc at 5% vs homes at 5%.

Sam Zell - an infamous CRE investor nw $5b - has recently said he believes there is a material value of 10-15% a year of holding CASH - eg that the market is just about ready for a major correction and I agree wholeheartedly(1)

(1) http://www.horizonkinetics.com/sm_cash_as_liability_zell.asp

PS - Some further evidence around interest rates driving home prices from this bloomberg article last year outlining the 0% down and "equity as collateral" from bay area landers -=> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-27/zero-down...
Thank you for working on this project. What is your indexing strategy?

Similar search engines have a warning that you should use a VPN when downloading that I think would benefit users.
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I dunno, man. NYC is starting to feel downright reasonable compared to SF now.

And in NYC I can get a bagel that doesn't suck.
What was chilling about the Hillary emails? They seemed quite inoffensive to me.
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> I wonder what the thought process of people buying $1MM+ houses in SV really is.

I think at that order of magnitude, it you would have to consider it a true investment, and you should be really bummed if you're holding on to it when the prices drop. I would be hesitant to question how much more the prices can go up. People say the same thing with the stock market all the time, but the long term trend remains up.

I'm from the Midwest, so I'm not exactly up on everything in California, but from a number of articles I've read I understand that San Francisco is really worried about maintaining their skyline. Because of this they don't want to develop anything really tall.

Venture capital firms are mostly in the same area (San Jose?), and the further out your startup is from there, the less likely they are to consider you. I'm guessing it's a waiting game for a big tech bust leading to a housing bust of some sort.

I'll take my $830/month rent for a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom (cable and internet included) in Iowa for the time being.
Or four of them in much of the entire world.
I really can't read all this negativity. Seriously you guys need to snap out of it. You created something fantastic, a database that perfectly answers need of developers. Clearly you need to give it time and align your expectations with market.

RethinkDB is fresh view on how databases can work and look, it provides level on goodness not seen before. Just continue building on it. Horizon is also awesome. Things don't happen overnight.
Will you offer any type of API? I'd be interested
"The difference is that Manning released it to Assange and Snowden released it to more responsible journalists."

Sort of. They're more responsible in the general sense but also foreign journalists receiving U.S.'s spying capabilities on foreign persons. The aiding and abetting concept is quite appropriate given they published all kinds of NSA attack strategies & subverted companies while the foreign attacks & companies... including in their own countries... didn't get the same treatment. Both attack and defense on the other side got a great boost while U.S. companies simultaneously lost market share.

Quite a bit of damage giving stuff foreigners shouldn't know to foreign journalists. I might be happier if there was a Snowden in all 20+ countries involved in economic and industrial espionage. Instead, it was just what mainly two (U.S. and U.K.) were doing outside the many eyes partnership that extends to Europe. Quite asymmetrical.
I'm going to fundamentally disagree with at least the target of Go. Go introduced a series of concurrency primitives with syntax that's made writing and reasoning about concurrent code a joy, something that's not the case in Java/C++/C/Python (maybe up till the late 3.X in the case of Python), and it did that with a language paradigm (interface driven) that's vastly different from Python's mixture of OOP and duck-typing.

And sorry, but "I wonder how much the industry could advance if we could simply persuade every developer to learn Java Postgres."?

Plenty of other people would say "I wonder how far along the industry would be if you people would actually learn how to manage your memory and write C".

Plenty of other people would say "I wonder how far the industry would have progressed if we let go of the harmful and outdated concept of imperative programming and embraced functional paradigms."

... and on it goes.

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Additionally, you say "I do find it truly sad how anti-intellectualism is pervading our industry" only to end your post with "why can't we abandon all our experimenting and learning and just stick to good old Java which obviously would solve all our problems", which is itself MASSIVELY anti-intellectual.
Don't forget the proliferation of electron so no one has to learn a new language and desktop toolsets.

Just for kicks I wrote a desktop todo list in GTK and C, not tools I had extensive knowledge of ever and nothing recently. It was a breath of fresh air how simple it was compared to doing the same in modern frameworks. A single ~30 line function to create the gui and the rest held together with a couple of function pointers. It was faster (to write and run) and simpler than anything I'd written in years. More responsive than the most responsive web framework too.
> I mean how much more are the prices going to go

People have been saying that for years, and yet they keep going up.
Hopefully, otherwise remote working will increase in popularity at about the same rate it is currently but people will just continue to leave such high rent areas.
I am experimenting with THC, CBD, and Lecithin, so far.

I started taking Lecithin about a week ago. On Saturday I took 40mg CBD. On Sunday (taking Lecithin as usual, but no CBD) I felt absolutely fantastic. In general, I have felt better for the last week. I'm also going to the gym about 4 times per week.

Completely not conclusive yet but I am continuing to investigate.

EDIT: Forgot Magnesium, for me this seems useful for anxiety.
Intellectual is the wrong target, just as much as easy. Humans have a limited capacity to understand complex systems, and once they grow to a certan point, your ability to integrate and innovate on them is limited due to overhead of the layers of incedental complexity. Easy is just shoving complexity under the rug. Simplicity, and building systems meant for our meager human intelligences is better.

I am not terribly fond of Go, but it has a decent answer in auto-implemented interfaces and duck typing. It's not about dumbing down, it's just different, and easier on the compiler, which is a significant advantage.

And as for async in java... ugh, how awful. We finally got something like promises and lambdas, but most APIs are still trapped in synchronous calls and using the JPA is a disaster of hidden thread-local state. What kind of stack are you using to make java async work? Maybe I'm just missing something.
Some of us have always lived here, and find it hard to move away from friends/family. I'm in that camp at the moment, but if I ever want to own a 'middle class' house, my partner and I will undoubtedly move (she teaches preschool and I'm a software engineer). Renting seems like the more 'sane' option because home loans are front-loaded with interest and non-equity payments anyways.
But the rest of your expenses are not 9x in SV. If you saved 2k a month on housing someplace else, but got paid 48k less, you'd be losing big time, especially since mortgage interest is tax deductible.
This title is highly misleading! I was hoping to read an account of how the author learned deep learning in 10 weeks and not just his approach of solving the problem which was still pretty interesting.
Real estate speculation by putting all your money in a your own house is generally not a good investment. You aren't diversifying, you don't have any information advantage over the market, you're unlikely to be objective about the value, and there are high friction costs in buying/selling it.

Maybe a bit like driving an classic car in everyday use. Except the car has low friction.

Edit: Not saying you should not buy a house, just that you should be honest about what it is - you get value from owning and living in it, and the market risk is unwanted for most people.
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I'm really curious if it's usage was political. I did find this forum post[0], but it didn't really shed any light on the question. It does, however, suggest that the term was chosen in ignorance of it already existing in fiction for (at least) decades by the time the space race had started. So, if the forum post is to be believed (I couldn't find the cited first source), a defense suggesting it was already in the lexicon couldn't be supported since the selectors of the term themselves admit their ignorance of the term previously being used.

Cosmonaut, I believe, more literally translates to "spacenaut", which sounds terrible, because of the Russian word for space, which, like our cosmos, is derived from the word kosmos. The English term cosmonaut is not through the greek kosmos and nautis, but just an Anglicization of the Russian word.

[0] - http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum34/HTML/000108.html
This would be a correct comparison if you spent 100% of your income on housing. On the other hand, if you are spending 15% on rent, or 30% on a mortgage, you amass a lot of wealth.
That site served blazingly fast. It's refreshing to see an ad free torrent site.

Since you aren't monetizing the site, how are you planning on keeping the site running? Donations?
That is simply not true. Even if you bought at the peak in 2007 in Sunnyvale you are likely up 50% or more on your investment. If you were lucky and bought in 2005 or 2009 your house is probably worth 60-70% more than when you bought it. This has been true for the past 25-30 years in much of SV. That doesn't mean it will continue forever, of course, but the trend has been there for a very long time now.
I don't know. I personally am more scared of carrying such a huge mortgage on myself.

A home worth $1M means $200,000 liquid cash + $800,000 in mortgage principal + $570,000 in interest + $300,000 in taxes...over 30 years.

Will house values keep growing to offset $570,000+$300,000? At what point does this greater fool theory end?
That's what's crazy to me, that a 1BR in Sunnyvale is probably the same as a 1BR in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Me and my partner are paying the same amount for a 1BR in Campbell as my buddy pays for a high-rise, swanky 1BR in downtown Hollywood. It's surreal.
Whether my conscience is affected by prevailing cultural norms won't stop me from opposing slavery, or the imprisonment of those who refuse to hand over a share of all currency they receive in private trade.

We must ultimately live by a set of values that make the most sense to us. I see no reason why I should not.