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And by told I take it you mean read on HN ?

Because none of what you said is really all that true. MongoDB has never ignored writes without giving errors. You have always been able to check if the write failed. The issue I think you're referring to is the F_SYNC immediately to disk default. Which was changed many years ago and was never the default for any of the language clients.

MongoDB is a great database in specific situations.
Ohm is language-independent, but our reference implementation is in JS. There is also a Smalltalk-based implementation that was done by Patrick Rein at HPI: https://github.com/hpi-swa/Ohm-S
This makes me sad. We based our Ethical Advertising concept that we're doing on Read the Docs (http://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ethical-advertising.htm...) on their inspiration.

We don't have nearly as much mobile traffic (only ~6%), so hopefully we will be able to make it work, but this doesn't fill me with confidence.
Assuming 27 years of 10% compounding is quite the leap.
Judging by rental and house prices in my neighbor I think we get plenty of hype.
Right speech is independent of its volume. Money can only increase volume, so get rid of it. Money isn't speech, it's amplification of speech, and as such should not be protected.
Models are not inherently scientific, just because something is trying to make predictions doesn't make it scientific.

May I ask, what do you think of economic models? Would you call them scientific? They are using similar underlying equations, both complex systems and they both make many assumptions.
The key here is "refusing help". In the US it's pretty well one of our basic rights unless we're a danger to ourselves or others. There are really only 2 choices, establish enough trust to encourage the person to receive help, or wait until their behavior violates the law, at which point they've forfeited certain rights and treatment of some kind can be mandated.

This process has mostly been used on addicts and alcoholics (treatment or jail, drug courts), and sometimes works.

Here in Key West, you can also get a bus ticket somewhere else, presumably where the person has more of a support system (family, friends)... if you agree not to return. This solves the problem for Key West, anyhow :)
Thanks to you. And me. Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffet have our paychecks covered. Warren's companies take most of what we spend offline, Jeff's companies take most of what we spend online.
> ... which is perfectly reasonable. What's your point?

It shouldn't be this way. It serves no purpose. You first claim that everybody has access to resource X at a reasonable price (because we don't want to discriminate against poor people), then when resource X starts to run out, they enforce bans instead of charging more to people willing to pay a premium (and getting the resource first) and then using it to expand production and access to everyone.

This story plays out everywhere, whether in Soviet Russia or in California or in NHS.
http://resistancereport.com/resistance/crowdfunding-lawmaker...
You and I would consider Berkeley Earth to be a "red team."

But for right wing politicians, a "red team" either produces evidence against AGW or stays silent.
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According to open data[1] the largest contributor to her campaign is Intuit and it's employees.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N000...
Houses are going for 500k+, please, less hype actually. All we want to do is build cool product and enjoy our life. I don't think anyone in Seattle wants the SV arrogance and lifestyle.
Depends on what you mean by "preparing." If the tax code is simpler, that means that there are less lines to fill out and fewer pieces of supporting documentation to find and attach. When people talk about making filing simpler, they mean that the lines are pre-filled, and the supporting documentation is either easier to obtain or somehow not necessary.
11 weeks = 55 days, this is a lot. I have an average of 42 (depends on how bank holidays are placed in a given year) and it looks good (Paris area).

Though when I think of that, a friend of mine who works at the CEA mentioned something like 50 days off.

For US folks :this does not include sick days, these are completely independent (and not capped)
Update / Delete is forthcoming. We have a version of it working but have not pushed it yet because it is part of a broader set of changes that have not been made availble yet.
Such a shame. A bad week for the web
I think the direction is generating designs so quickly that the 'designer' is essentially exploring a design space manifold in realtime.

You'll still need someone to do it, but I think designers are going to get the kind of boost in productivity that accountants got from spreadsheets. Whether that translates to fewer designers, or more and better designed things... I suspect the latter.
You desire a system that encourages and facilitates blatant deceit?
Usually they have other lists that include illegitimate wealth like drug dealers or royal families or corrupt politicians.
There's actually another pretty interesting library 'react-lite' https://github.com/Lucifier129/react-lite

It's a slim down version of React. "intended as a drop-in replacement for React, when you don't need server-side rendering in browser(no ReactDOM.renderToString & ReactDOM.renderToStaticMarkup)."
>"All cancers are caused by somatic mutations"

Its strange that epistasis cites that paper so freely since he has expressed skepticism about this idea in the past. In fact I may have discussed that exact paper with him awhile back. The layperson probably wouldn't realize it but this is a very hubristic first sentence, almost purposefully offensive.
The only fields in the PE header dealing directly with the stack are:

SizeOfStackReserve: 0x00100000
SizeOfStackCommit: 0x00001000

Certainly nothing there that indicates which way the stack should grow. PE does not deal with the stack directly.
Trivago.
Sorry I'm mistaken. The end of the fiscal year is the 5th of April in the UK.

In the US, I think this is different. So this is a more dramatic result considering.
That's exactly why we have a proliferation of taxes and tax breaks instead of a simple tax system. Perform a thought experiment. Say we just have a straight 35% income tax. Now, say you need to raise additional revenues. Do you (1) raise the single tax; or (2) impose a new tax on some specific part of the economy? Option (1) gets everybody mad at you. Option (2) gets only a tiny number of people mad at you.

Same thing for tax breaks. Say you want to cut taxes. Do you cut the marginal rate, which helps everyone (even non-voters), or do you target cuts in a way that helps people who are likely to vote (homeowners, people with employer-paid health insurance, old people, etc.)? Same thing with business tax breaks. Do you cut rates for all businesses, or do you target them for businesses that are big employers in your state/district?
Well, whatever we go with, we have to square it with the fact that fructose is worse than glucose in terms of causing diabetes.
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The reason Amazon doesn't issue dividends is not because their prices/margins are too low. It's because they are constantly reinvesting in the business.
A smear piece. While condemning the whole of BMW engineering the author is putting more effort to use the words "sht" and "fck" than he is to disclaim even once transparently that all of his "experiences" are based on cars that were 20 years or older at the time.
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True, but women have to take drugs to stimulate egg production for harvesting. These drugs have side effects. My sister in law went through hell during multiple rounds of IVF.

Spanking one (or many) out in a cup at a collection center has virtually no risk to the man.

Check into Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome...

http://www.advancedfertility.com/ovarian-hyperstimulation.ht...
Congratulations on what looks like a very impressive piece of software. Do you guys have any plans to add collaborative features to Construct? Where, say, students in a remote classroom could work on the same game together?
That episode is no longer available, but I remember it when it was first released.

I wasn't at all impressed with the depth of the research they did before starting their experiment, their ability to stick to their diets, and their general understanding and approach to the potential science they could have been doing.

The whole thing was a superficial puff piece that you can't take seriously when evaluating something as important as health.
If a family member needs care and won't move, what do you do? Let them die?
At least some companies offer services aimed at families. In an industry that seems to be driven by immature 20 something graduates, family oriented accounts and services are rare. I have dropped use of several very promising services because they don't allow easy sharing within the family. Companies like Y-combinator that focus their efforts disproportionately on young single males instead of people with life experience only contribute to the problem IMO.
Since 1990 (27 years ago) McDonald's has returned 10.87%, including the Internet Bubble and Subprime Mortgage crashes.

March 30, 1990: $7.38

March 29, 2017: $128.84

I am not saying it'll be Bezos, but someone will get there within the next 2-3 decades.

[edit] And while I'm at it, AMZN has returned 36%, annualized, over the last 10 years, encompassing the Subprime Mortgage crash.
> When your visitors explore your application, their HTTPS requests arrive at the closest regional edge node, buff up with Middleware, then intelligently route to your application processes over a hardened SSH tunnel.

ssh is a terrible way to transfer bulk traffic. The send/receive buffer sizes are fixed to small sizes, so you can never get the benefits of TCP window scaling. So there will always be an artificial transfer rate ceiling that's directly proportional to the latency between the edge node and the origin server.

You'll quickly find you'll have to use an ordinary TLS-over-TCP connection in order to attain adequate performance over high-latency connections.
I think that's optimizing the wrong thing; people should be aware of the amount they are paying in taxes.
Not widespread is a bit of an understatement. In the context of malware analysis I would be astonished if someone bothered to use a VM escape bug. They're valuable; you don't waste them by sticking them in a piece of malware to pwn some poor malware analyst's machine.

VM detection is much much easier, so there's not much point.
_That's_ the thing I don't get. I'm running a FreeBSD laptop, fitting in well with my colleagues who're running OSX. Prior to FreeBSD I was on Linux, and it was even easier.

There _is_ better available, both from an ethical and technical perspective. At least for what I'm doing (Ruby, JS, Lisp coding - and editing mostly text documents).

Perhaps your requirements are different?

(Edited to add: I run Android on my phone, and use SyncThing to sync files across my phone, laptop, and home server. All works smoothly and reliably).
eh. But also filters people who are serious about work but also serious about their mental health.

I know myself well enough to know that I am less productive when I don't get sunlight. I suspect many other people are the same.
The maximum one-way fare on BART is ~$15 and that's if you're going between OAK and SFO (which I imagine is very uncommon). Non-airport rides max out at under $8
UHT milk has not flavour, it is just like water.
A friend, who knows more about aviation than me, once told me that Dubai is a great location to build up an airline hub which could provide non-stop flights to every major airport. I was now wondering whether Seattle, Rio and Sydney would also make good locations.

I checked, and there actually exist non-stop flights from Dubai to the other locations, but I was not able to find non-stop flights between Seattle-Rio, Sydney-Rio or Seattle-Sydney. Funny.

It is however a bit ironic, that there are 12.000 km non-stop flights (or even farther to Auckland for example) from Dubai, but you cannot fly 2133 km non-stop to Tel Aviv.
I see a lot of suggestions for diets in the comments here, but not a lot of citations. It's good that others have recommendations to share, but at least back it up from something.
Bypassing your ISP or mobile provider is more challenging.

In theory you can opt out of FBGOOGZON tracking.
If the article's author understands that it's often reasonable to use a shorthand which isn't supposed to be taken literally, it's hard to see why they're unhappy about Google's use of the term "Family" in this case.
And yet Toyota relies on people more than any other car maker and at the same time leads the reliability statistics.
Because I'm not a 19th century missionary.
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I think it's moreso the fact that nothing 'new' has really come out of Seattle.

Kind of hard to build hype if your two main talking points are 20+ and 40+ year old companies.
Inflation alone means eventually someone will. (Just like Rockefeller's adjusted fortune is 300-400billlion)
Agree that CTR isn't the main metric that matters from a business perspective, but it's the one to verify the statement "no one clicks on banners".
Was thinking the same. Have driven cars in the same price range and while maintenance is indeed expensive, I've had a hard time even coming near 1k a year.
Incredibly, Seattle gets only 2.61% of all venture investment. #8 in the US, behind San Diego [1].

[1]: http://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/02/the-spiky-geography-of-v...
I thought "coherence" was the model by which quantum systems spread entanglement to other systems; the larger the system the 1st system into contact with, the bigger the effect of coherence loss in the 1st system and the larger the "measurement"
some people seemed to take pride in it
'Unreal when it targets you': Faceless trolls attack online
It was mostly Bowdlerism. All sorts of classical literature has bawdiness in it; Apuleius' The Golden Ass is probably the most famous.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler , the man who tried to take the sex jokes out of Shakespeare.)
Virtue signal harder, there are still some people in the back who can't see how morally superior you are.
I don't see how that is the Eu being anti-democratic. Note that I oppose the regulation on the merits as well but procedurally:
- all member countries except for Ireland and Slovakia voted for it in the council. That includes the German I have no illusions it wouldn't have passed in the German Bundestag
- the EU parliament voted for it
- the ECJ struck it down for violating the Charter of Fundamental Rights

It basically the same thing that keeps happening within Germany, it seems like the institutions work equally well or badly.

Now what is a problem is that national politicians like to hide behind the EU. That's why you should always check who voted for these things in the council. Usually it's the same people (or at least parties) who later they the EU is forcing their hand.
The mentioned discussion by Antony Green: http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2011/02/more-australian-...

I think his points are pretty good ones. There was a lot of anger and unhappiness after the 2010 election and the role preferences played in it. I'm not going to change my mind entirely on one poll which hasn't ever been repeated when there are valid objections to the question and the signal isn't even that large. You could have polled people on if the electoral college should be gotten rid of after the last US election and you'd probably get a similar sort of polarised answer for the same reasons.

More importantly, I don't really care about what people prefer in their voting system. That probably sounds bad, and I think it's important that people trust it but it's a technical answer to the question of how we discover what people want. That's what I care about, which is why I support compulsory voting which ensures a more representative government at the cost of forcing everyone on the rolls to vote.

I'm also not some weird person who thinks we have it perfect here. Obviously optional preferential voting in all cases would be better, not just for the federal senate, and Hare-Clark nationwide would be even cooler than that. There's always improvements to be made.
Thanks for the detailed followup. I will admit that I have been less than charitable.

If this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404 had never happened I would have far fewer concerns. Since that week I've been keeping an eye on all posts that vanish from the front page or get severely punished and politics seems to get the axe more than not. Again this is N=1 and not a "study" and contains all of my biases.

Sorry for being disgruntled. I overreacted to what I perceived to be a policy that has continued for over a week.
Taxing consumption is already done in many parts of the world.
UK: most things are subject to 20% vat. Fresh food is 0% (normally), and there are a handful of things (children's clothes being the only one I know offhand) at 5%.

There's also heavy duties charged on fuel - over 2 pounds per US gallon (plus 20% vat). Alcohol - 28 pounds per litre of spirit.

Lots of these systems exist, and work, outside the US.
Because rich people spend a much smaller percentage of their income on taxable goods, so to be revenue-neutral the "fair" sales tax would have to be at least 30% (if you believe the FairTax fans) or over 50% (if you believe other economists).
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I hope it all goes well for your wife today. I know it must be a really anxious time for you both. The above happened to us in the last week so the terror of the prospect is still fresh.
Actually in the states that can still be discrimination and you can still be charged. Obviously it would be judged by a jury of your peers, however people have been successfully charged with discrimination in the states even when they defended themselves with your exact argument. Ethical concerns aside your advice is extremely legally dangerous.
Turns out reality is more evenly distributed than HN.
There are a lot of attacks that some people would call terrorist attacks that others would not. Take Dylann Roof for example I personally consider his actions a terrorist attack. But I have had right wing people I know say that he's just mentally ill, which I feel is reductionist. If Reuters called Dylann Roof a terrorist, there would be people claiming that it has a liberal bias.
Justify your second claim, please. I am no expert, but that seems very unlikely.
Is the js ecosystem that bad that people can't manage their dependencies?

Honest question.
One of the reasons Bezos picked Seattle was due to Microsoft having a lot of software engineers he could get. So MSFT is a big reason that Bezos is in Seattle. Also it was close to one of the biggest book distributors. Amazon was originally a book store.
The goal is not making it easier, but maximizing income for the collecting entity. And guess what: there are different entities competing for maximum extraction.

The most infuriating situation is when a tax taxes already taxed money, so in fact you are paying taxes for paying taxes.
Yeah. Unless the analyst is your target environment, I wouldn't expect to see it a serious current VM escape.

I might expect to see someone including an antique attack against some old Sandboxie or something, but nothing more.
AMZN average annual return last 10 years: 36.07%
Do you think making politicians dependant on funding makes politics better?
Are you maybe mixing up car wash and car detailing?
Ask HN: VC Tastes database
It's often time wasting to enter discussion if VC and founder aren't aligned. I put together a little filter dashboard.

https://vida.io/dashboards/CxKphSwHQqEeuGTEL

Where can I get the data for this?
I would say that it's kind of the opposite. Having high developer costs means that you need investors in order to scale. This helps investors because it means if you want to succeed, you need to get investors, which they can use to their advantage to get more desirable terms for them and their rich friends.
Scientists - or rather, researchers - don't make huge amounts of money, but it does often require huge amounts of money to facilitate their work.

It's not uncommon to see a researcher at a university in the US who makes $80-$120k per year apply for and obtain a grant that's worth tens of millions of dollars to the university.
I get mad at option 2 each time they do this, we got more crap to deal with, more rules, more bureaucracy, more paperwork. If you want to raise taxes, fine, but stop trying to hide it and extract in every corner.

I do however agree you need some control about where you ask taxes on, but keep it simple. And reuse those tax-levers whenever possible.
Wow it's been 4 years?

Would you believe it if I told you it's running on the smallest digital ocean instance, backed by MongoDB (!), and the only time I had to do any maintenance on it was when DO turned down the machine I happened to run on? The service doesn't exactly scream complexity, but it's nice when you put something out there and it just runs!
A complex tax system allows competition within the tax advising service provider market. You get what you pay for... the original American Way (tm).
I think they already settled that.
That's a great way to make the general public hate the EFF because they think it's spying on them.
That just means that Google is vertically integrated the advertising value chain.

And while the law would probably let the ISPs sell your actual web history, in the past ISPs never went anywhere near that far. They more or less did what Facebook and Google do with their data.
Public transport is supposed to alleviate congestion on the road. That there exists those unwilling or unable to make use of it is irrelevant, so long as a sufficient percentage of the driving population can and do use it over driving themselves.

There is no reason to imagine that compensating those not using it (for any reason, be it disability or in a niche area in the city, or simply unwilling) would be a part of the goal of providing public transportation.

It is not a gift to the people from bottom of the government's heart, that they would try to offer an alternative gift to those unable or unwilling to partake in this wonderful service.
I interpreted the point of the article as being that we tend to focus too much on AGI and not enough of how disruptive "narrow" AI may be. The only thing I disagree with there is that I think lots of people focus a lot on the potential issues of broadening use cases for ML. But I agree that AGI is mostly just a distraction to that discussion.
Yeah I'm reading a nice book from Coecke and Kissinger [1] just issued and am loving it, it's the story of String Diagrams for a wider audience and with all the details fleshed out (not just hinted as in Baez TWFs). Monoidal categories, tensor networks, directed PGMs, quantum computing and even vector space NLP semantics are all particulars seen from this vantage point.

[1] Picturing Quantum Processes, ISBN 1108107710
Yeah but a flat tax would be extremely regressive. If you had a simple equation like tax% = x/4 + 10, where x is your tax percentile, politicians could loudly say that they wish to increase or decrease the slope of the line and people would know that increasing slope would mean a more progressive tax.