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> I think past actions of myself and our management team (which also includes employees) speak a lot for how we are probably gonna do things in the future

In my experience it doesn't.

Soon the company is too big to known everyone, new managements and leaders emerge, whether you want it or not.

There are a lot of people joining in a growing startup. They will outnumber the current employees quickly and shift the current culture with them. Startups change in all aspects, very fast
“Eject” command on Linux could be made to run programs as root
Frogpocalypse was one of the Biblical curses on Egypt in Exodus. But not a curse described anywhere in The Revelation.
what.. this doesn't make any sense and I don't know what Google has anything to do with this. Why can't you opt out of google ?

1. ISP monitor all your internet traffic. Google can only have access to what google services you opt in to use.

2. At this time we don't know how the ISP's will sell your internet history whether it be individual or in aggregate, but google doesn't sell your information.

3. I trust google's security more than ISPs
I have no problem with ads being targeted to me. It increases the likelihood something useful will pop up on my screen. I also don't mind using sites which are ad free, nor do I mind paying for ad-free services like YouTube Red.
Sorry, by "early 2000s" I meant the decade 2000s. I used "early 2000s" because if I just said 2000s, for me that could include 2011, 2012, etc. You are right I didn't use standard usage.

The second list is from 2000-2009, so the decade in question.

Basically, as you look at the list of concepts 2000-2009, to me those concepts are objectively weaker than the first list of movie concepts. This is just my personal opinion.
Maybe both the politicians and their staff. Some of these old Luddites have never sent so much as an email in their entire life.
Redis is one of the most reliable pieces of software we have used. We ran it in the debugger in our staging environment for 2years hoping to supply a good bug report years ago. Zero crashes to report on in two years under cache and analytics load. Please write the book, I have always appreciated your writing.
Why? I don't think it is.
This just showed up in my Pocket "trending" list: Become a Better Listener by Taking Notes, by a "global CEO coach," in the Harvard Business Review [0] (requires signing up for a free account, apparently).

EXCERPT: "Through my work with executive teams, I’ve developed a simple technique that can help anyone listen more effectively in meetings. I call it Margin Notes. You may already take notes during meetings, but unless you’re using them wisely to understand others and plan your response, you may still fall into the same trap of speaking before you think. Margin Notes allows you to think, process information, make connections between points of discussion, and ask effective questions instead of blurting out the first thing that comes to mind."

[0] https://hbr.org/2017/03/become-a-better-listener-by-taking-n...
Personal attacks are not OK on Hacker News, and if you won't stop breaking the guidelines we have to ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> One problem with Redis is that it looks superficially simple, but actually, like any tool used in critical contexts ...

Definitely. And on top of that, Redis is very easy to get started with, and as the article illustrates, you can plug along very smoothly until you suddenly find a mountain to climb. Shouldn't scare someone off, but one of the lessons is to understand what you're implementing and where the bottlenecks will eventually be - much easier said than done, in my experience, but something to aim for.
I disagree. I mean you make a good point, the monopoly power of ISPs is a problem. But even if you solve that, that doesn't mean you solve the privacy issue. You can have dozens of ISPs and even if half of them sell your data that's still a problem. And it simply won't be enough of a factor for the free market to correct.
> by treaty, the EU may only make laws where actions by individual countries are insufficient.

Who decides what is insufficient? When culture and values are different the call on what is insufficient may not work for everyone.
Unless I'm missing something, it shouldn't really be "redis or MongoDb". More like, MongDB vs PostgreSQL vs MySQL.

Redis is usually used for caching and scaling that DB's have a hard[er] time with. Not as a primary datastore.
Is there something wrong in your code? I don't see the effect.

smile> val x = Array(1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0)

x: Array[Double] = Array(1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0)

smile> val y = Array(4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0)

y: Array[Double] = Array(4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0)

smile> x + y

res2: smile.math.VectorAddVector = Array(5.0, 5.0, 5.0, 5.0)
All fair points, though I specifically had individual defense in mind. I don't know any good way for an individual to restrain accurate data once it's released, so poisoning is the only option I see to dilute the value of it.

At least when thinking about individual defenses, I tend to treat the regulatory landscape as a lost cause - currently I'm just hoping that privacy tools won't be actively outlawed.
For those looking for a more direct introduction to radare, you can view a simple walkthrough for analyzing a binary here: https://youtu.be/3NTXFUxcKPc?t=513
In my experience people don't read bulk email. At least not closely. They might not pay attention in a meeting either, but it's more likely especially if you discourage use of electronic devices.
I think you're misrepresenting the situation.

There's a difference between working to survive and working because it's enjoyable.

For example, I can work on my mountain bike skills, or I can sit in an office and work on code. One I do because I enjoy it, and one I do to pay my bills.

Computers, automation, and AI will take over the second type, but they won't take over the first type.

I'd actually go so far as to say your definition of work, meaning, and purpose is insulting and harmful to a large number of people. Does anybody really derive meaning and purpose by cleaning toilets, bringing people food, or stocking shelves? Should they? I don't think so.
I think this is a little premature until we know what exactly can be purchased and when. As of right now throwing money at this person seems like just giving him free money. Who is this person and is he trustworthy... what's he going to do with the money if he can't buy it ? Does he even know how to buy the data ?
> KEYS * ... O(N) with N being the number of keys in the database

How can this NOT be the case? The problem isn't the algorithmic complexity -- O(n) is optimal -- but that you are probably either bouncing around memory or running though way more of than you need to depending on the order returned and the data structure used.

This whole article sounds like a bunch of "Full Stack" developers running around making a mess of things with simple mistakes that any real back-end person wouldn't have made in the first place.
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> We aren't bootstrapped, we raised a seed round. Turns out when you don't need money it's easy to get ...

What? Why would you raise seed if you don't need it?
Freeserve, Wanadoo and Orange email addresses are no more. Where next?
I've long thought that if I had one "save the world" wish I'd have to think hard about confining invasive species to their native habitats. Admittedly, climate change, nuclear war, and space rocks are more dangerous, but man, getting rid of honeysuckle, kudzu, emerald ash borers, cane toads, etc would be quite an improvement.
Well, todays society would probably collapse, if suddenly someone would publish a website with everthing of everybody... (South made a fitting episode of that)

I mean there are so many lies, so many things people do only in secret, like porn or drugs. By numbers both are a fundamental part of society, but only some can openly admit watching/doing it.

Then all the normal lies, like what you really think about person xyz, or your boss, etc

Or the persons you are attracted to besides your monogamic partner ...

Or all the unsolved thieves, murders or dirty secrets of the governments .. Would probably make a big kaboom if all released at once.

.. Or a rethinking about how it might be nicer to not live with all those lies, but being able to live the way we are and feel and not hiding hit so much with fake politenes etc.
Doing a digital video upgrade for a historic movie theater -- brand new 3D-capable projectors that cost more than my house. Everything's checked out great, the projector has run perfectly for test screenings. Fast forward to opening night, half an hour before showtime, somebody opens the door to the control room and the projector suddenly shuts off. No warnings, no chimes, just crash shutdown. They start it back up, and a few minutes later the same thing happens again when the door is opened. They managed to keep the door closed through the opening night showing, and got the manufacturer on the phone ASAP. Manufacturer goes through the super-secret diagnostic log files.

Turns out that the only difference between testing and opening night was that the front doors of the theater were open, and it was a windy night. The projector has a "wind vane" style airflow sensor in its exhaust vent to check and double-check that the fans are running correctly. The sudden changes in airflow when the control room door was open was enough for the airflow sensor to drop and trigger a panic shutdown. Since the projector also had fan sensors and temperature sensors, the manufacturer okayed us to bypass the airflow sensor.
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Our genetic management infrastructure makes it straightforward to see where particular designs came from and how they've been used. It straightforwardly keeps track of the functions and restrictions of each design.

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Check it out, I'd be curious your thoughts. I'm happy to answer any questions. We built it all with Go and Ember - a huge thanks to those working on those tools.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6l4KYGeFvQ&list=PL5DSAtppP8...
But it's not a political issue. How politicized it is shouldn't matter.
Condoms exist and men who don't want children already use them. So, I don't think it is going to change all that much.
if we could use nuclear power exclusive to fix carbon, I think it would be worth it. I think a lot of people would say that this is worth it, and this inequality is in favor of nuclear power over the safest possible coal power.
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An interesting set of images. What's the deal with solar in Massachusetts? The state seems to have much higher density of solar than I would anticipate.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted either. Unions do operate a bit differently in Germany, which takes manufacturing capability seriously as a national goal and treats industry as a cooperative venture of labor and capital. It's a pragmatic approach that seems to consistently pay dividends. The Economist has some excellent coverage of the differences, look up one of their periodic special reports on manufacturing or Germany.
How is it different from a candidate who is related to the CEO etc.? If anything (at least in software) for now it would indicate a highly capable and inventive candidate.
In this automated world, that traditional viewpoint is rapidly becoming incorrect. That is, it doesn't require any person's resources or labor to provide much of what we consume. Its automated pretty much bottom to top.

As for the money, in transforming an agrarian barter economy to a modern one the USA had good use for a cash system for 200 years. But what about when the only obstacle to gaining essentially free goods is, a capitalist holding them hostage? Its all starting to break down.

Anyway, even a cursory examination of the foundations of the UBI initiative show that it pretty much pays for itself. The knee-jerk "I don't want to pay for other people to sit around" complaint is uninformed and obsolete.
> You cannot challenge science with teams. Science can only be challenged with evidence.

The goal of the proposed team would be to collect evidence and examine alternative hypotheses. No one is proposing creating a team for its own sake.

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a climate skeptic.
I guess that we'll have to come up with a way of having these workers have some kind of income. Otherwise, who's going to buy all those robot made products?
> He died of cancer as they didnt quite yet know that radiation was a problem for human health when they started out...

That's putting it a bit strong, after all Marie Curie died of "aplastic anemia brought on by exposure to radiation" in 1934. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

And "actress Midori Naka, present during the bombing, was studied extensively for radiation poisoning. Her death in 1945 was the first to be officially documented as having been caused by radiation poisoning" http://www.news-medical.net/health/Radiation-Poisoning-Histo...

So they might not have had good statistics but they certainly had reason to be cautious.

Of course radiation is also used to treat cancer, there is a good side to many things.
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Instead, if you're in a drought-prone area, you get water bans.
Do you have a source for how often this happens? I can't find anything specifically about subway pushers in NYC. As far as I can tell, it's a very rare occurrence.

That being said, I see fairly high numbers of deaths in general, mainly attributed to suicides and alcohol/drug use.

How would this barrier work? Would it withdraw once the train pulled up or something?
> That's considered "spray and pray" today. Today advertisers want data, data, data, and micro-targeting is everything.

And even with all that, the most of the targeted ads aren't any more compelling than content-based "spray and pay."

IMHO, targeted ads are pointless unless they're a targeted to a search query.
Except that with the 'dreams' that he sells, the rubber actually meets the road and goes from 0-60mph in 2.27 seconds, or puts real satellites in orbit and returns the booster to be re-used, or builds the world's largest scale Li-Ion battery factory to drive down costs...

Of course he's got some serious elements of self-promotion; it's required to build such a business. In his case, he manages to back it up in ways that most other self-promoters don't even begin to achieve.

(disclosure, I do own a bit of Tesla stock which has done nicely, also lost some with SolarCity, but didn't ride it all the way down to the buyout)
Are you? Do you know anything about how large their teams are and what their total salaries run per month? The OP also makes the assumption that the CEOs are taking money out of the business (beyond salaries)... which is not how you build an early-stage SaaS business.
Super interesting lesson learned article. Will definitely try out Redis, if it could replace Memcached (though it works rock solid) or be used as queue instead of Kafka (I dislike ZooKeeper)
Castro has people with the same culture living in much better conditions 100 miles away and everyone is aware of it. It's not quite the same, but if anything, the difference would make Castro more likely to fall, not less.
> only 92 of the system’s 425 stations accessible

> On average, 25 elevators a day stop working

Do 27% of elevators really break down on a _daily_ basis? That is abysmal if accurate.
And what if ISPs start banning VPNs in their TOS? What's the market based solution to that?

It seems odd to reject regulating against certain practices and reject the breakup of monopolies as well. Without a market that works properly many more specific practices are going to have to be banned. That's not an ideal situation. Monopolies are indeed the main problem here.

Also, VPNs seem to be under attack from governments, so I wouldn't rely that option being available forever either.
If I remember correctly, the SNP ran in 2016 (after the Scottish referendum) with a manifesto that said if UK voted "Leave" in Brexit but Scotland voted "Remain", they would push for a second independence referendum. So this was the platform on which they were returned to government.

Also, I think it's fair to say that Britain leaving the EU is a sizeable enough change to counter the "once in a generation" line — the choice is no longer Independence V status quo of 2014. Especially considering that at least some people voted to stay in the UK in order to remain in the EU.
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Wonder what is going to happen with Avanade if this goes through. I guess they will try to sell the majority share back to Microsoft.
Is Lyft really the 'woke' alternative to Uber?
Why not? 5 Ghz connections are capable of delivering > 1 Gbit over the... air.
This is the wrong argument, but the right point.
>Whereas normal operation deaths for nuclear is essentially 0, where deaths happen as a result of catastrophe. So there is something of a lizard brain mentality going on when it comes to near term risk assessment.

Has nothing to do with lizard brain mentalities but a lot with the history/culture in different regions of the world and the false dichotomy of "anti nuclear = pro coal".

The US never had a large scale catastrophic event like Chernobyl happen to it, something that's burned deep into many people of Europe to this day. From one day to another, millions of people had been told they shouldn't eat the "fruits of the land" anymore. When I grew up my family used to regularly gather mushrooms in the woods, that just stopped just like eating any game meat, that had a huge impact which can be felt to this day.

For most US Americans that scenario is only a theoretical one they played trough in pretend during the cold war but for many Europeans Chernobyl made it an way too scary actual reality.
Most stations have more than one elevator, but that's still terrible
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excellent perspective. if we take the very narrow computing field, there have been considerable inventions, especially in the field of medical science.
People said the same thing about companies offshoring jobs, consumers like low cost, acceptable quality items, whether it's American labor, offshore labor, or robots.
I suppose it depends on what operations you do on your table and what your query stream looks like. It's hard to imagine compute being the bottleneck for most SQL workloads . . .
From the same article:

> Indeed, studies have consistently found that the vast majority of scientists agree that the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change.

It seems clear to me this is a political maneuver and not obviously interested in the truth of reality.
Ah, I see what you mean. It is not easy to dispute matters of taste, but @ajmurmann has a good point in their reply.
Ultimately you're limiting your own connection. How exactly is the entire country going to use VPNs and get reasonable performance?

It's not a long term solution.
Part of having a civil discussion is leaving things like “your ridiculous PC SJW agenda” right out.
I think both sides just argue past each other. Democrats promote government regulation as the solution without discussing the problems. Heavy regulation often leads to stagnation and lack of innovation. You also have to deal with regulatory capture since your politicians now have huge influence and are worth bribing.

Republicans argue for "free-market solutions" which are actually government granted or encouraged monopolies where no competition exists.

There lots of examples of free market capitalism making the world a better place and markets failing as well. There are examples government run services providing great consistent services and there are examples of government bureaucracies soaking up budget and graft in their own or lobbyists interest.

Which tool do you think will work best in this situation and why? How do you plan to deal with the inherent problems of government involvement in ISP regulation?

I'm just tired of "free market solves all" vs "corporation are evil, government is universal solution". We learn nothing and convince no one.
I have the exact opposite experience from you.
That reminds me, I need to prioritize ripping blackberry plants, which obviously love their new Washington state environment, from my backyard.

I'm constantly reminding my mother when I visit her in Florida that, no, taking some clippings of that plant back home is probably not a good idea. You'd think it wouldn't be much of an argument after she just went on about what a problem cane toads are.
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I just quoted the example in the webpage (section "Vector Operations"), I didn't run it myself.
... which is perfectly reasonable. What's your point?
When a line of questioning flat out ignores huge amounts of evidence then it can not be considered "critical".
This kind of thinking is harmfully simplistic. When you rely on rules of thumb ("this sort of thing should go slowly") to make public health decisions, you are going to harm people.

In the US, we suffer from an insane degree of regulatory medical conservatism. No one else in the world takes as long to approve life-saving medications as the FDA, and this is not rational; it's a reflexive political reaction to the Thalidomide disaster that isn't grounded in sound reason or statistics.

Here is an extensively cited analysis demonstrating that the FDA's extreme standards kill vastly more people than they save.

http://www.fdareview.org/05_harm.php

This isn't an inevitable problem; medical regulatory bodies like the EMA are much closer to the optimal level of caution.
> We're a small company of 20 (in my opinion) great people and we just have a different relationship with our employees than most other business owners.

If that's not embodied in contract then it's, regrettably, close to worthless. Companies change, managers change, leadership changes, philosophy changes, contracts only change when they're renegotiated.