skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It starts really early on. When I first used MongoDB I thought to myself "what a fresh breath, I can finally ignore normalization!" The documents I inserted would contain all the information I needed. One retrieval and I got what I needed. Wow!! But then I started doing sorting, searching and I had to do most of the work on the client side (my backend). At that point, I found myself in trouble because in my other tables I also dup my information. Data has to be updated in multiple places. So I thought "let's take out the dup data." Then I found myself not knowing how to structure my document data anymore... back to some sort of normalization. At the time the searching and ranking in MongoDB were also poor, so I was forced to doing the entire thing on the client side regardless.

I went back to PostgreSQL since. I probably needed a good one-on-one expert training with MongoDB, but I just found myself happier with RDBMS. You don't have to be strict normalization in RDBMS, just enough to make sense for your use cases.

One thing I really did like about MongoDB back then was storing blob (files). It was the best solution available without setting up S3. At the time there was a limitation with 4GB (??) but MongoDB worked for my use case anyway. That being said, please don't store files in any databases today. Use DB to store references to a real object storage like S3. When the DB crashed, you better hope no corruption.
The Space Shuttle isn't powered during re-entry, is it? I think in the context of records, "flight" usually is taken to mean self-powered flight, otherwise it gliding (or falling).
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I would go even further to argue that you can get a high quality meal in most of the US for that price as well.
Here is an answer in the CS Theory Stack Exchange that explains how: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/a/18399/13730 (I'm not endorsing it as a practical way of doing it, mind you.)

The idea is that the only explicit recursion is contained in generic combinators "fold_result" and "unfold_result" that are "boring" in the sense that they can be derived mechanically from the "resultF" data type and do not actually know about the binary search; they just do recursion.

In practice, folds and unfolds tend to be more useful for other things.
If Boston Properties wanted to add WeWork style services to their current buildings, they could do that. And if it didn't turn out to be profitable, they could stop doing it and still own all their buildings.

Or they could contract with some well-known service corporation to provide those services in their buildings. Sodexho?

If WeWork wanted to own all their buildings, they would need to convince a lot of landlords to take stock instead of cash. Though I don't know that they could afford to do that.
Well, what is clear to me is that another account, not Dash's author's, engaged in unethical practices. The author said it was a family member, but I can't verify that, so it is still unclear.

Publishing the phone call was kinda dumb, yeah, but it's still pretty far from "engaging in unethical practices". It seems more like a guy feeling cornered, acting under pressure and making bad decisions.
Maybe they just surveyed bootcamp attendees.
> I think my point is pretty clear.

I didn't think you had a point, it looked like you were asking contrived questions so you could antagonize him with his answers and "win" the argument, instead of just making your comment about subjectivity in the first place.
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> Which is why I think wework is grossly overvalued and likely to follow a parabolic trajectory.

I still think the same way about dropbox but thankfully for YCombinator as well as Drew, Arash et al reality does not follow my train of thought. (I am ashamed of the way I reacted to the original news about Dropbox and I bring it up not to shame dropbox but to caution myself from saying something like that again. The world is... weird. I mean the top story at the moment is mongo db valuation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508507 https://archive.fo/hxHW4 )

Edit: name
We used Platjoy for a while (doesn't ship you food, just makes buying food from grocery/instacart easy) and provides recipes.

It was pretty good for a bit, but the recipes were not as good as we would have liked. I think services like Platjoy make the most sense in the future combined with automated ordering from services like Instacart.

It makes more sense IMO to only handle half the equation when the two businesses do not need to be integrated. (logistics on one hand, recipe on the other)
The rich corporations and people are used to having wealth transfer "up" to them. That's why it has gotten so out of hand (the gap keeps increasing). By flipping the UBI switch, they aren't going to all the sudden say, "Well, it was a good ride while it lasted." Those tax increases will be funded by syphoning everyone's UBI back to the rich in the forms of price increases.

So, then the poor will be left with decreased Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. But hey! At least they get 12K a year!
I’m told they absolutely flooded tech meetups in the SV area and with advertorial talks - talks on NoSQL (that just happened to use MongoDB of course), lots of FUD about SQL vs. NoSQL etc etc.

I’ve no idea to what extent this was true, or if it was whether it was their main marketing approach, but it might have been quite an effective strategy: talks at meetups are often 'trusted' to a greater extent than other ways of reaching devs & if you can find a new generation of devs who are just starting out and hook them on your product before they get the chance to explore other approaches then it could work. High cost of course (someone has to pay for all that time) but if it gets you a leg up on your competitors in a $billion business then that’s what the VC money is for...
I think you're using a different sense of the word "corrupt" from the one in the post you're replying to ("The "scientific venue" has been corrupted."). I know it's easy to lose nuance in internet discussions, but please read the posts above more carefully/charitably. Nothing Cuddy did was corrupt in any sense, only poor science.
Same exact experience for me (in NL). I have to say that compared to all other co-working spaces I used (6 so far), WeWork is the only one that really nailed it in terms of operations. (WiFi/Internet, delivery, key-cards, ...)
Personally I think the biggest problem with bus maps is that when you get on a bus, you can't find one. The inside is plastered with advertisements and "public service announcements" telling you to go to the opera and not drink soda. Instead if could look at the wall (or grab a pamphlet) and see where I need to get off for my transfer, that would already be a huge improvement.
Yeah like OP who sounds like a jackass.
I was actually going to build a tool that scrapes HN every couple minutes and looks for stories that were hot (on the front page) and then drops by 20+ slots. I've happened to be involved in a couple threads where this inexplicably happened, and I was unhappy to see the discussion being muted (people previously involved continued commenting, but no new people saw/joined the thread). I was going to show the buried posts on a site called toohotforhn.com, so that people could go to find the discussions that they might have otherwise missed. These days, much of it is around silicon valley and the treatment of women/minorities, but it could also include stories that are negative on YC companies that get buried (inadvertently, perhaps) as well.

Others have pointed out that if you want more discussion on X, you can go find it elsewhere. The point is that I want to see what HNers think about X — which is why I think a tool like this would be useful.
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Raggedy couch and a suit on the back of your office door.

You didn't mean to stay there until 02:00, but you're going to have to be back at 06:00 so you might as well stay there.
Spoke too soon. There is a way via Flashlight --> https://github.com/w0lfschild/Flashlight But there is a problem with the dependency mySIMBL and High Sierra --> https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL/issues/62
"Though Percocet and other oxycodone-containing medications were originally used only for acute (short-term) pain, changes in government recommendations and aggressive marketing by pharmaceutical companies have led to a dramatic increase in the use of this drug in patients with chronic (long-term) pain since the 1990s."

https://drugabuse.com/library/the-effects-of-percocet-use/
Gusto is just as good
Those urban rail systems were built by huge, monopolistic corporations, and were generally ripped out by local governments— e.g. Fiorella LaGuardia used WPA employees to tear out NYC's trolleys:
http://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/09/archives/last-trolleys-rol...
And much of the mid-20th century suburbanization that gutted American cities for decades was driven by high-minded federal policy, prototyped by that of Rexford Tugwell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexford_Tugwell

To me, the lessons of 20th century American urban policy are more about the dangers in embracing the wrong technology (automobiles as the solution to all transportation problems) and rebuilding cities to serve that, as opposed to a simplistic story about private interests destroying down public goods.
Yep, i think thats the one.
Good luck eliciting those numerical assignments, and then tracking them as they change in continuous time based on what your rational agent ate for lunch, how his sex life has been recently, et al.
Hm, I can agree with you but I'd say there are limits to how effective you can be in asymmetric warfare. Eg., Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.
>>Janitors tend to be male. Housekeepers tend to be female. It is similar work with a different name

Except it is not really the Same Job. Janitors tend to be the job title for Commercial, Industrial, and Business crews that do far more than just some light cleaning. For example the janitorial staff at my company operates medium duty equipment (Zamboni Style Scrubbers, polishers, large compactors, etc), has specialized training in hazard waste disposal, and does light maintenance tasks such as painting

Housekeepers are an occupation that is mainly Residential the involves primary light duty cleaning with limited exposure to non-household type chemicals

Calling the 2 jobs "similar" shows your ignorance of the occupations

>Arguing that it isn't really due to sexism and that women just have interests in fields that happen to pay less is a pretty crappy justification for a well documented, unarguable fact.

I believe I have, and will continue to argue these points, as they are not actually facts. That are ignorant statements with no basis in reality
Home appliances, cars, medicines seem likely candidates. I think it would be used to assess demand for new products as well.
except blue apron is generally in tech hubs where an average delicious meal is probably ~15$

although i would still argue that 10$ for the meal plus the time to cook it is still more expensive than paying the $12-15 to order something from seamless. not worth it to me at all
Agree that we're pretty much in line. Your arguments echo those you might hear from a "dissenter" type in the "spiritual but not religious" movement [0]:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_but_not_religious

> ... personally I think that 'men of the cloth' are criminals of the worst order, they willingly and knowingly spread mental viruses that cause great harm to society.

I think this is probably the place where we differ the most. I think the people you discuss certainly exist. I think there's also people in those positions for the right reasons. As usual with any potential stereotype, it's important to look at individuals as individuals.

(That said, the "seed faith" movement [1] needs to be nuked from orbit.)

[0] Not that I'm aligning you to the movement. I'm just noting the similarity.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1xJAVZxXg

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On the aside of my usage of "DAE", in this particular case it's a bit of a tongue-in-cheek reference along the lines of "preaching to the choir". That is, I don't think it would be a stretch to say that any argument presented as "rationality vs dogma" would have a population heavily leaning towards the former in this forum.
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it is indeed very sane to locate in Europe for very early stages. The one problem you'll have is funding. Aside from that, everything else is nice. Yet, this one problem means we don't have hard-sccaling companies.

I guess Docker is the archetypical company : started in Eu, moved in the US for $$
Can't reply to your later response, so I'm replying here.

I just wanted to note, in case you were unaware of this - that there are priests and other clergy who would self-identify as atheists, but choose not to "come out" for a variety of reasons, depending on their community, family, society, etc.

Some can't or don't because they don't want to hurt their community or family, who see them as a leader, a friend, someone they can trust, etc. They stay in to preserve this foundation.

Others don't because they don't have anything to fall back on for their livelyhood - no skills to provide for themselves and/or their family.

Other stay in the position because they fear (or know) that the person coming after them (their replacement) may not have the best of intentions in regards to their community, their parishioners, the church organization, or whatnot. In other words, as an atheist with morals, they believe it is better for them to continue to guide their "people" as best as they can on whatever topics are out there being questioned, vs letting someone else come in who may do more damage (ie, "fleece the flock").

Any of these reasons or excuses - however you look at it - does have a moral dimension to it, and causes these people great anguish at times.

For this reason, this was set up for these people - for those already "out", and for those "still in", but looking for a way out, or just to have a safe place to discuss things:

https://foundationbeyondbelief.org/

It's not a perfect solution. There was a fairly recent event where a fairly well-known person was in the group as an "out atheist" for a few years, but then rediscovered her religion or something - don't ask me how that can happen, but I'm not one to say it can't - and there was a fear that because she had "insider information" about the group (their member list is kept very secret for good reasons, because some of the members could literally face a death sentence for apostasy); so far (as far as I am aware), nothing has occurred, but it is always a possibility that a "mole" could expose people to actual danger.
The 9/11 attack is the best proof that Americans have no idea what they are doing around the world - Bin Laden himself has said that the attack was meant to make Americans look into policies of their own government and realize what sort of harm they are doing abroad. Instead, America(or at least, most of it) assumed that the attacks were the result of some brown people really hating freedom - so the terrorists have actually completely failed at their stated objective there. Instead, US used it to justify further expansion of the military and invigilation of their own citizens.

It's explained really well in this comment, if you can be bothered to read it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/wcpls/this_i_my_friend...
In theory, yes. In practice, you could build something on top of wlroots, which does a lot of the work for you. In fact, check this out:

https://github.com/swaywm/hsroots
I think any Canadian cities like Toronto or Vancouver or Dublin, Ireland are best contenders for the title and here is my reasoning for it. You need to wait for about a year to get a H1 visa to work in SV or work in the same firm for over a year elsewhere to get an L1 visa. So essentially SV today is a representation of diverse global talent who could get the visas, which is a very limited demographic. Historically SV did have an information advantage but if information were truly open, which I think is what the world is moving towards, I would assume any country with access to true diverse workforce without any limitations on workforce mobility will have an upper hand. And you already see accrual of talent to some extent in these cities. Nowadays whenever top 5 companies hire new talent from countries other than US, they usually bring them directly to one of these cities outside US. Competitors open up shop in the same cities because of easy access to talent.

I can see a world where ideas and startups increasingly coming from these above cities. And for the same reason, I don't think any of the Chinese cities pose a threat to SV. If anything Chinese cities can produce a Chinese version of the product but it will be hard to produce a global firm without access to diverse global talent.
I'm following this in a somewhat similar position but with less 'success'.

Over the last 7 years I've worked for 6 companies and have been let go or fired from all of the software oriented positions. In total accruing ~3 years maybe of employment experience. I've now been out of work for over 1.5 years and am confused about what's next.

My last position was for a large company. Worked out okay for a little while but gradually turned into a political shitstorm amongst other problems. After I left, I had realized that my interest in personal software dev had vanished, I had no interest in working in software, and nothing to show for the time I'd spent there.

Now things have got better. I surrounded myself with smart people, took some time off (the majority I was unable to find gainful work), and tried to find inspiration. I took some risks, had a lot of adventures, and am much more satisfied and happy. Only problem now is that software development tends to detract from all those things and it's tough to reconcile.

Also went back to school for this semester because as a Canadian I can't hypothetically get a work visa anywhere else without a degree and I wouldn't be doing anything more productive with my time.
How many women do you have on the mod team, for perspective?

I have my doubts about how welcoming HN is for different demographics, and while the grandparent poster is handwaving things with a mental mockup as you say, absent transparency on moderation policies many people inevitably feel the same way about the moderation.

I mean, at present you have a bunch of secret rules to make everything run better. That works OK as a practical strategy, but it also reduces buy-in - which is why I get heavily downvoted any time I suggest that government intelligence services are inevitably going to adopt utility-maximizing strategies at the expense of liberty, no matter how many times I qualify this by saying I'm trying to be descriptive rather than prescriptive.
It works for Adderall, which is just good old amphetamine.

They use specific salts and specific isomer ratios in order to make it patentable.
A cynic, and, perhaps, a realist could consider their motivation to be fairly similar to that of a private blackhat attempting to purge foreign malware on hosts that they own, or may want to own. Exclusive control being always preferable to competing control.

I'd be far more impressed and grateful if these state services released disclosures and actual patches for complex zero-day vulns, particularly in unmaintained, widely deployed closed-source products such as WinXP. 8-Ball says that is 'Unlikely' though.
It got a second chance & got 33 votes the second time, but no discussion. Oh well - maybe it needs an explanatory blogpost or two in order to draw people in.
We've banned this account for violating the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, trollish usernames are trolling:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...
They've got way lower margins than the original manufacturers and can't really compete with them in terms of marketing?
Is that right? Apple's own website says it doesn't. Aside from that, I can confirm it doesn't show up as an option on my Mac.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207513

MacBook models from early 2015 or later

MacBook Air models from mid 2012 or later

MacBook Pro models from mid 2012 or later

So, what's the deal? How's it working on yours?
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I forgot where I read this, but Blue Apron spends a ton on customer acquisition, though non-traditional media channels.

I listen to several podcasts (Bill Burr and Joe Rogan represent) and every single episode they got an ad plugging Blue Apron - except they recently yanked their spots on Burr's podcast because he joked around too much.

They're probably banking on LTV of their customers, but it just doesn't make sense when a lot of your customers cancel after 6 months and it costs 400 dollars in marketing expenses to acquire each one.

I just don't see a sustainable business model. The food industry is remarkably cutthroat, and the margins are already razor thin, even for a restaurant.
I think Puppet makes for an interesting example.

Having spent the last decade of my life mired in config management systems from CFEngine to Ansible, it seems like the pattern is for a complex system to be replaced with a "simple" system, the "simple" system quickly gains complexity, and then we see a shift back to a simple alternative.

I'm starting to strongly suspect the root of the problem (at least within this context of config mgmt systems) is that everyone wants to write libraries, nobody wants to write a config.

By this, I mean if a Puppet user wants to install and a simple single site, instead of a simple manifest or internal cookbook with just a package resource and template, they frequently reach for a Apache module from the forge. Similarly, if an Apache module doesn't exist in the forge, they will try to publish one. This results in vast dependency graphs of questionably maintained modules, and new users to the ecosystem saying "Wow, this is way too complex. Oh hey, Chef looks simple." A short while later you get the Supermarket, and the cycle continues.

I'd argue centralized repositories of config management modules/cookbooks lead to the decline of any given config management system, and the best way to avoid that is to use a real config management system (chef/puppet/whatever), but stick to the basic resources, and avoid 3rd party modules at all costs -- they will quickly go unmaintained. And seriously, do you think you'll need to deal with that obscure setting for apache on irix that the popular community module supports?
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MongoDBs clients are much more simple to use than that of RethinkDB. Imho that was the number one reason it didn’t gain traction.
Wow, thank you for posting this, and it definitely shines a different light on the reasons why some people might remain even if they really do know better.
> Can't reply to your later response, so I'm replying here.

HN does not show the reply button for recent posts. Maybe an attempt to prevent responses without thinking?

Anyway, you can always click through the timestamp to the post's permalink. The reply box is always available there.
It was the first, well known, company supported JSON document store.

It is being used by Facebook, Metlife, Expedia, Sony, eBay, Adobe etc.

In what way isn't it ready for production use cases ?
Both are definitely on the TODO list, I created https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg/issues/139 and https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg/issues/140 to track them.
Doubtful, you can just charge more for it in that case. Lots of drugs are not supposed to be taken long-term. It doesn't necessarily make it a net negative for the pharma company.
They may simply be hedging their bet, since they previously invested in Uber.
https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-...