skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In terms of respect, I respect people who value logic, reason and morality over terms of an agreement"

Then you, like me, have no respect for you. Again, you are blaming the tenant for the amount of the settlement when that amount is due to factors that the tenant did not create ... if you bother to read the article, you will see mention of the triple damages that could have been awarded -- that was set by society, not by the tenant. If you don't want personal comments, then don't be so cavalier about making public proclamations of disrespect for others ... especially when they are victims of atrocious behavior. The landlord willfully violated the law for their own benefit and at the expense of the tenant. They are lucky that it's only a civil penalty that they can afford, rather than being thrown in the hoosegow.

"did the tenant deserve 400K?"

See how you change the subject, from whether the tenant deserves respect as a human being, to whether they deserve a 400K payment? That sort of thing is why I have no respect for you.
If anyone is looking for a simple web solution, I found Taskcade (http://www.taskcade.com) to work quite well for daily tasks and quick note taking.
Terminal Velocity is cross platform and open source and awesome. https://github.com/vhp/terminal_velocity
Soon. But sooner is better.
definitely. I'd always keep track of my post IDs so I can see who replied to my posts
Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls
Well, ClojureScript will run just fine on Node.js. It fills the same niche, it seems.
http://www.straitstimes.com/business/banking/ocbc-debuts-use...

"OCBC Bank said Monday (Nov 14) it became the first bank in Southeast Asia to use blockchain technology to make local and cross-border inter-bank fund transfers."

Textbook use case for blockchain IMO.
Low-cost Android One phones reportedly coming to the US
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Out of all the databases I tried throughout the years RethinkDB was the best. His bit about "worse is better" nails it I think. It was an elegant product targeted at the wrong group of people. ReQL alone was a masterful piece of design and it was great fun composing queries in Ruby instead of some weird JSON frankenstein DSL. At one point I was pushing 500k events per hour through a single node on an c4.xlarge instance with plenty of room to grow. I'm sure other databases would have handled the load just fine as well but I didn't really want to find out because RethinkDB was so much fun to play with. I was very sad when I heard they were shutting down.
the climate is a lot less chaotic than weather, and aspects of it are not so hard to model correctly. For instance the IPCC far projections for global average temp from 1990 have been very good.
"Moderation in all things".

- Roman playwright Terence, circa ~200 B.C.

Still good wisdom, twenty two hundred years later.
Hey there, thanks for bringing this up. First, I want to apologize for the inconvenience you've experienced as a result of this issue. Second, I'd like to apologize for the delay in getting back to you on this as well.

You're right, 3+ weeks is a pretty long time for something like this to be affecting people. Unfortunately I don't have an ETA on when this issue will be resolved, but I'll be keeping tabs on it going forward. Please feel free to add additional comments to the issues if you haven't already, or you can reach out to me directly. Again, I'd like to apologize for any trouble this caused you and others affected by this issue.
Thanks for pointing that out, just noticed the "/_drafts/why-rethinkdb-failed.md".
Fun fact: spiral galaxies' galactic arms are stationary waves. They don't spin like spokes on a wheel. Stars in the arms don't remain in them - every star traverses through the arms and the regions between them [1]. Indeed, correlations have been hypothesised between Earth's extinction events and our Sun's predicted passage through these arms [2].

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Us-jonCLA

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.4838.pdf
> The enormous popularity of the self-destructing-message app Snapchat has helped its developer, Snap Inc., grow to more than 1,500 employees.

Ok, even at a conservative average salary of $70,000 / employee, it works out to $ 105 Million in salary / pay alone (per year), for these 1,500. That's not counting cost of office space, travel, marketing expenses etc.

So, my question. What is SnapChat's business model? How do they make money???
The article mentions (and I agree) that OKRs aren't meant to be used for employee evaluation but rather provide a user focus on what they need to work on.

It's easy to lose sight of what your goals are when you're knee deep in a problem, so OKRs are helpful to remind you what you originally set out to accomplish.
Right, providing universal maternal health care in the world's wealthiest country is exactly the same as Stalanist USSR.
+1 anecdote, had 4 years as embedded systems engineer, quit to be a junior django dev making way more. If there's one fucked up industry that's called Embedded systems :D
This is hilarious because about a year ago I was scribbling on a plane about our idealized organization and I came up with this:

http://imgur.com/a/feJoK

CEO - Focused on managing team (Traditional definition BTW)

Product Manager - Focused on UX

Customer Manager - Focused on Onboarding and Client Management

Customer Acquirer - Focused on Acquiring Customers

Financial Manager - Focused on Managing Capital Flows

You could (or possibly should) combine The Customer roles into one and the financial one with CEO and you'd have the same setup that Feld describes.
So is it "probably" or is it "actually"? You don't have an evidentiary foot to stand on and you know it.
This is incredible, truly a work of art.
All of 'wtbob's comments have been posted within the past hour, well after I skimmed the comments two hours ago, and while HN is not nearly as active as it was earlier in the day. I've sincerely tried to engage you fairly and charitably, and in the case of looking at behavior, as objectively as I can, 'adrienne. I wish you the best.

Edit to add: Within the time it took me to compose this comment, at least two of their comments have been downvoted.
Who imposed it? There's not exactly much central control over postgres in general, and just about none over the tooling built outside the core repo.
I am not blaming the tenant for the amount. I am saying I do not respect the tenant. The tenant does not deserve 400k which can be about half way to buying a house in certain parts of the bay area. I cannot respect someone who accepts a penalty fee he or she does not deserve. IMO The tenant deserves at most 30k for her troubles. 400k is immoral, illogical and unreasonable.
> You can't budget properly and allocate funds if you have no funds. Look at all the countries with a high level of social services. They collect a lot of tax.

If their primary purpose is to take care of the roads, that should be one of the first items that gets funded with taxes they already collect, therein lies the problem people have. It's not like they have no money, it was improperly allocated to the point where they were in the negative to meet the needs required of them. We are not a country with a lot of social services, we have very few. It a case of the government not doing their jobs well and taking more money cover that fact up.
The auto-updater really isn't ready for prime time, sadly. I'd suggest waiting until https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/8106 is resolved before using it in your project.
So nobody here is surprised this massive cooling infrastructure is getting built for custom ASICs for blockchain computation?

Allied Control was recently acquired by BitFury Group, a leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, which builds its own fully custom Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), PCBs, servers and data centers.

Novec fluid [is utilized] in the Georgia data center to deploy 28 nm and 16 nm ASICs more efficiently.

“250 KW per rack"

I sort of realize this isn't being done on people's basement GPU rigs these days but with the drama with the ASIC vendors a bit ago I thought the bitcoin hardware market crashed.

I guess only on the hobbyist end.
Postgres is horribly painful to cluster though, while RethinkDB clusters are trivially easy to set up.
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Photoshop isn't available unless you pay money or violate copyright, so I can well imagine not having exposure.

That could be me. I think I might have used it though, on a System 6 Mac with a 1-bit black-and-white screen. (resulting opinion: Photoshop doesn't support color)
Maybe there are things one could learn from Japanese managers other than the work hours?
Deductive logic is sort of like the machine code for reasoning. It encompasses everything, but it is hard to see in daily usage, just like machine code. Bayes Rule is just one part of it.

If you look at the Mizar mathematical library you will find a formalization of Bayes Rule using plain FOL.

In fact, one of my Logic II (an intermediate logic class) exercises was formalizing a version of Bayes' rule in classic first-order logic.
Amazon Developed Kindle Is Not for Reading but to Outclass Its Competitor
the poorly managed BLM to the Forests Service

which is still run by Obama appointees, just like Interior departments.

One change that Obama could have made at the beginning (or anytime since) would have been to move Forestry into the same Cabinet post as the National Park Service and BLM. But, no.
First, thanks for your candor in this.

If you're open to edits, the $200k revenue/employee rule of thumb really doesn't make a lot of sense when you're comparing your three alternate business models (Hosted Rethink, DBaaS Rethink and "Hey, maybe PaaS on top of Rethink?").

Like you, I thought it would be way too hard to run a service (my own company was encouraged to do so, and we shied away for it for the same reason you stated). However, having seen it now from the inside for GCE for nearly 4 years, I can say it's much easier to "service-ize" yourself than it is to have built a product people want. And moreover, the shell scripts and operations stuff really scales (effectively, the hosted DB offering is the binary plus a bit of bash, while the other offerings require yet more "not done before" software).

Even more surprisingly, this statement:

> Managed hosting is essentially running the database for people on AWS so they don't have to. The alternative to using these services is setting up the database on AWS yourself. That's a pain, but it isn't actually that hard. So there is a very hard cap on how much managed database hosting services can charge.

turns out to just not be true in practice. People pay us (Cloud SQL) and AWS (RDS) a surprising amount of money to run MySQL in a VM for them. It turns out that people really like outsourcing even a small amount of pain, but that we're (as engineers) easily blindsided to "Um, why would I pay you XX% over the raw VM price? You're just running some shell scripts for me". Little things like automatically updating to the latest version, configuration replication, etc. are things that nobody will bat at an eye at paying you for (I believe in the DB space in particular, it's because the overall cost of your DB is dwarfed by "All the rest", so it's a good trade of people time versus $$s).

I hope this doesn't come across as Monday-morning quarterbacking, but if I did mine over again I'd take the "Build a great piece of software, and even if it's open, service-ize it for folks". It's true that you're competing with the Cloud providers, and that it seems like you wouldn't really be able to get people to pay you for it (and it's not your core competency), but I think it's the best option for this flavor of infrastructure software moving forward.
You can't do science without logic. They are all highly intertwined.
Man, I would have loved to pay for RethinkDB. Granted, the blame lies on me here, but something I was disappointed to see the first point not acknowledge that RethinkDB didn't really ask for money. I mean, I don't know if they changed it after folding, but go the site and tell me how to pay for it.

I would have paid a licensing fee to continue using it, but we've taken the time to switch over to Postgres now.

EDIT: Also, re: metrics of success, the examples listed as wrong there are _exactly_ why I enjoyed the product and was willing to invest time learning and implementing in a relatively new technology.
The biggest problem with flat management is that it isn't really flat. It only means that there is no formal organizational structure. Think of it like the Wild West: It's flat in the sense that you can get away with any behavior if you have enough influence or force. Those who are powerful end up ruling everyone else, making the system anything but flat. I'm not at all convinced this is better than a structured system that tries to ensure fairness (even if flawed). A lot of folks at Valve had very bad experiences with unfit managers (mostly at Microsoft), and I can understand why they developed a system to avoid the nastiness they experienced in the past. It sometimes works well: The unstructured teams appear to be very effective at product maintenance. The products that are already successful and have an established fan base do well with a small group of folks with an informal leader, who doesn't have to make difficult decisions to keep the fan base happy. For new products, there are lots of difficult decisions that affect the future of employees and customers, and it doesn't appear possible for a group to make these decisions together. I spent many, many hours in meetings discussing the same issues repeatedly because there was no leader to make a final decision and allow everyone to get back to work. Instead we just debated without end, causing everyone to become unfocused and demoralized. It's analysis paralysis in the worst way I've ever seen. I now understand why many social groups from primitive tribes to 1st-world nations have leaders and chiefs. It's fine to vote them out when necessary, but having visionary leadership is really critical to development and I don't see how this can be distributed among a group unless each person shares exactly the same vision, which I suppose is possible, but unlikely.

I think the best solution is to build structures that greatly reward effective management. Having a good manager is a tremendous benefit to both the company and the manager's reports. Of course, this is easier said than done, but the return on investment spent in this area is really quite high.
absolutely, as long as you still get enough protein, vitamins, and fiber and remain within your target calorie intake. (hard to do that if you're eating 1,500 calories of butter though of course) not a nutritionist but i did stay at holiday in express last night.
Why not position yourself as the better mongodb? You explained pretty well in the post mortem (and to yourself in 2014) how much better rethinkdb is to mongo. All you had to do was aggressively market yourself as the better option by directly comparing yourself to it.

I remember when iPhone first launched, the first 30 min was spent just trashing then-current smartphones - the blackberrys.
And they're speeding up!

"Already travelling at super-hurricane speeds, winds on Venus...accelerated by an astonishing one-third" between 2006 and 2012 [1].

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/06/19/3784975.ht...
Design experiment(s) that would invalidate hypothesis.

This is the sticking point with nutrition and medical studies though. With the existence of IRB's and medical ethics practices, it's challenging and best and impossible at worst to run medical experiments up to scientific standards. Maybe rightly so, but it does put handcuffs on the ability to do hypothesis based testing for nutrition.
I see that you are based out of India. How do you plan on dealing with law enforcement issues? (Great site, btw).
Just before I release that blog post, a friend of mine shared over email how banks before the FED was created used to issue their own currency in the US and how it led to recurrent financial crisis and skyrocketing interest rates that were eventually paid of by farmers.

He also mentioned that it does not necessarily apply to Settle (anyone can issue assets not necessarily banks) but I figured it was interesting enough to share it here.
Problem is that if she screws up, someone might die. I would be terrified if someone approached the medical profession the way people do software development.
A two week leave, that's asking her to check well over 10,000 documents a day.
Thanks! Extensions should allow for image and file upload functionality.
Here is a post about fats from the same author: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/a-study-on-fats-...

Conclusion:

"Should we be eating more polyunsaturated fats? Should we be avoiding saturated fats? The honest answer is: I don’t know. Given my review of the evidence, I stand by my previous recommendations [1], which essentially focus more on foods and less on nutrients. I think the state of nutrition research in general is shockingly flawed."

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/upshot/simple-rules-for-he...
Perhaps I need to clarify, these systems are chaotic hence the difficulty in modelling them, I didn't mean to imply anything political.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system
Thanks for bringing this up, we'll add tab support and other shortcuts in an upcoming update.
I wrote shouldn't instead of won't.

That said, my reasoning went along the lines of:

Where I live at least people rarely switch phone numbers and I have yet to hear about a single person that I know or have worked with who have had their phone number hijacked.

So, lets say that other people are less lucky than me and this warning will pop up twice a year, -will that be enough to trigger warning fatigue?

IMO, probably not.

Will we still have a problem with warning fatigue? Yes. Why? Because of the sticker and warning requirements created by American lawsuits and EU cookie law. (Oh, and IIRC my country isn't much better in this regard, just smaller so less of a problem.)

While not a citation I hope this explains my reasoning.
I just noticed today that that isn't working as intended. Will be releasing a revamped tags UI very soon that should make all this easier.
"The only stress and pressure in life is the stress and pressure you put on yourself".

Life goes on.
Err, no it's not:
Individuals with exploding head syndrome hear or experience loud imagined noises as they are falling asleep or waking up.

I experience GP's comment as well and it's from real sounds.
That website screwed up my scrolling on Chrome, works fine with scroll wheel but the trackpad two-finger scrolling just does weird side scrolling.
1) innovating worldwide tax evasion schemes.
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Thanks, now that I know people are using the Ruby server I'll start versioning it. I agree, those items would be great to have. Will definitely try to get to it. In the meantime, feel free to submit a pull request for any of those items and I'll be happy to merge it in.
Hosting a torrent site is completely LEGAL. Since we are acting just like google "a search engine".
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The database will never sell itself. You need use cases - even Oracle sells sofware solutions for ERP, CRM and SCM which come bundled with a Oracle database. Microsoft SQL server is another example of bundling. So use cases come first before correctness, consistency or excellent SQL.
Something really weird is going on there. There's something really odd in Safari too.
Nice write up! My outside personal perspective was that you needed to endure for longer. Things like Mongo rode the "Relational is a deadend, NoSQL to the rescue!" wave and gathered momentum before people started fully understanding the consequences of choosing Mongo. Now it seems there's a lot more caution being taken. Anecdotal accounts of people having success with things are taken with a grain of salt. People seem to be looking for more of a tidal wave of acceptance.

As an aside, lately it seems it's "OO is a deadend, Functional to the rescue!" ... so maybe you can leverage that wave instead... or deep learning... OverThinkDB maybe :)
It's hard to sell something as low level as a database. For a startup there needs to be a specific itch to scratch, an itch that many potential customers experience frequently.

As a systems-guy (more or less) I find that frustrating, but I have seen many times that this is so.

It still worth having the courage to try and these guys did that. It could have worked. Hats off.
What was the actual go to market strategy? Selling to enterprises? They have the money to spend but it seems like there was never an enterprise version of the software itself with features that are paid only. This is the high-margin sales that database companies build on, and then perhaps offer cloud and managed service to capture more spend. Support plans can also be great revenue, although they're not a sales driver but rather just required for big companies and likely break even for smaller ones.

That being said, it's an interesting database and I'm still looking for a solid distributed OLTP document-database with SQL/joins and multi-cluster replication... maybe someone else will try again.
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