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I don't know your flow, but how about using a queue system to prevent the bursts of data?

We're internally using pubsub (and nats) sending billions of messages every day. We don't use the push mode as Spotify [0] but pull from the queue instead which allows us to run on our pace.

We do write into bigquery (and citus) and each components is doing it on their own pace based on what they're capable of process at the moment.

[0] https://labs.spotify.com/2017/11/20/autoscaling-pub-sub-cons...
Put a fluorescent protein in the W chromosome that's expressed in the embryo, then you could look for the tell-tale color and destroy the others earlier.
Why is the number of pivots the question? It seems like the questions should be:

- Do I still have confidence in the executive’s team’s ability to decide on a sound strategy and align people in that direction?

- Is the organization healthy and are good patterns of communication, coordination, and execution being laid down?

- Does the product direction we are currently taking have a sensical business model it can possibly support?

The decision-making processes around the pivots and the way they were communicated can provide a lot of information to answer these questions.
It might not exactly answer your question, but you may enjoy this description of what it would be like to fall into Jupiter:

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/5041
Ironically enough, I think the author did a fantastic job of demonstrating why "writing about music" is a fool's game. I love Bach as well, but what makes him the "ultimate", beyond reach of others like Mozart? The article paints numerous glowing tributes by Bach's fans, presents the inspiration of his life, but fails utterly in answering the ultimate question.

I've always believed that art is qualitatively different from pop entertainment. The latter is purely subjective, and aims to pleasure us. Art, in contrast, is defined by its ability to inspire its audience. Its ability to elevate the way we think, act, and look upon the world.

Which is more tasty, chocolate or oranges? That's an impossible question to answer in any objective manner. But which is more nutritious? Which is better for our health? That is something which can be quantified and discussed much more objectively. I look forward to the day we can have similar discussions about art.
I wonder if there will ever be monetary value in non-broken links... which links would you invest in?
Are VC funded ventures like Uber dumping into the Taxi industry?
~0u is also a safe equivalent if there is unwarranted fear around wrapping.
In many cases that propagation is just the distance to the nearest Starbucks WiFi.
> If you are already in doubt enough to ask, it's probably time to move on.

Why is it the case that doubts imply you should move on rather than doubts imply you should honestly investigate those doubts?
Maybe YC can fund a "better prisons" startup?

I'd be happy to be involved in such a project.
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The point is that a modern titanium bike frame costs at least $1200 even though it contains <2kg of titanium, and high purity titanium only costs ~$50/kg. So I can't see how just cutting the cost of the raw material would have a transformative impact on the bike industry.
It also sounds like these are the questions you need to have answered before you start your next startup job as well. ;) Looks like you have been joining and hoping the founders knew what they were doing, only to be disappointed.

Did any of your previous companies, that pivoted so many times end in success? Or were your exits worthwhile?
Throwing an exception is explicit as well.
Imagine having to explain to Equifax how your high powered legal team lost a small claims court case to a guy with no law degree.
> "The paper includes numbers showing it beating Redis by over 10x on a single AWS instance"

Right single core against single core,the best scenario for Redis, and Anna's an order of magnitude faster. I'm not sure what you don't find impressive about this.
I hope annoy blockers will be next internet thing soon. Block interacts with scroll - blocked. Big blocks overlap - blocked one that has less text. Inserts itself in-between later than 3 seconds after load - blocked. Looks like header - blocked. “This site is completely idiotic and can harm your senses, are you sure you want to visit it at all?”

Flash ads seem like toys now compared to this weapon of mass ux destruction.
No, it’s the implied treating your employees as children who value “totally zany” job titles rather than respect, meaningful work and compensation. It shows either lack of professionalism or malicious “how can we fool those code monkeys” intent. Just use descriptive job titles.
Vastly cheaper to postpone now just don't send junk up, but the problem is mostly limited to keeping satellites in space not simply leaving earth.

Even then in LEO you get enough drag to limit risks and the worst case ends up as a trade-off of safety vs continuous fuel usage. Remember, space is vast but satellites and space junk are both really fast and stay up for a long time. Prevent junk from staying in your orbit and the risks dramatically decrease even more so if you add maneuverability. Even better LEO prevents your satellite from adding to the mess long term.
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> I've always believed that art is qualitatively different from pop entertainment. The latter is purely subjective, and aims to pleasure us. Art, in contrast, is defined by its ability to inspire its audience.

So art, unlike pop entertainment, is not purely subjective? And can pop entertainment not "inspire its audience" or "elevate the way we think"?

> Which is more tasty, chocolate or oranges? That's an impossible question to answer in any objective manner. But which is more nutritious? Which is better for our health? That is something which can be quantified and discussed much more objectively.

If your goal was to provide an analogy for art vs. pop entertainment, I don't think it worked.

> I look forward to the day we can have similar discussions about art.

That might happen, but only when art, like nutritional value, can be objectively evaluated and have its "beauty" (or whatever the term is) concretely quantified.
> Advertisement is Facebook's #1 revenue model, its literally why they exist.

It's how they exist, not why.

I do agree that their data collection is very creepy.
We have to use pointers for various reasons. Legacy interfaces use them all over the place, so we continue to do so, and they don't really work like pointers at all, so they're horribly inconsistent. Boilerplate things like conditional & partial initialization require jumping through hoops to get working for references. We also have lots of shared & cached objects, so everything needs to be validated anyway, you don't really gain much by knowing a pointer isn't null.
I like Gould, but there's something I like more about Simone Dinnerstein's rendition of the Goldberg Variations. It's somehow warmer sounding to me over the precision of Gould.
> I feel like between Redis, S3, Cloud Storage, RocksDB, Cassandra, etc...this area strikes me as one that has been solved as well as we could reasonably expect it to be

This paper literally shows this statement is false. In what other circumstances could you provide one and two orders of magnitude performance improvement, and people would just shrug and say, "meh, I really don't think we need improved performance".
With all due respect, I fail to see how this is at all relevant. Could you help me out here?

It feels like you and others here are suggesting that we should not discuss sentencing policies in general because Shkreli was guilty, that seems insane to me.
Well, there's always Google.
It's hard to compare for equality, but in terms of musical talent, overall - Keith Jarrett. For some context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3FEBz5fby8&t=2464s
I understand that, but my point was the small size also decreases the odds of a collision happening in the first place.
I'm not surprised it's not the Air Force or NASA. As a civilian, there's no activity I undertake that any military person has any jurisdiction over at all (I suppose unless I go onto a military base). NASA, of course, is more of a research and launching facility; they don't really have investigators or the ability fine people.
> Still, at > 2 times the real original estimated cost, it's a good example of why we should go high instead of low when it comes to estimates.

It's also a good example of why no one goes high when it comes to estimates.

The realized cost is now to a point where it'd be politically unpalatable to approve the project. But since it's already in process, approving the incremental funds is essentially inevitable and won't cause much political backlash.

These estimates aren't low by accident. They're generally as optimistic as possible while still being in the realm of marginally plausible (even if wildly improbable). Once the ball gets approved and rolling, the momentum alone is usually enough to hurdle past objections as estimates meet reality, while diffusing responsibility (and therefore repercussions) along the way.
I've run across keyvalues.com before, and it's a great idea, but I found it didn't really help me. For one thing, there doesn't seem to be any way to filter by location (not that it would help me, since they're mostly in California).

But the bigger issue for me is that a "value" for me is either something that ought to be universal (like racial/gender equality), or a deliberate choice between valid options. For most of these values, I have no idea what the opposite choice might be. For example, GitHub picked "CUSTOMER COMES FIRST" (ironically, as their #2 value), but I'm not sure what the alternative would be. Investors come first? Make art, not products? Do any software companies have such values?

You mention on the "About" page an example of a value you originally wanted to search for, "whether they favored speed or perfection when it came to shipping code", which I think is a perfect example of a value I'd want to search for, too. Unfortunately, in the list of 50 values, I can't find any that represent either of these positions. The closest I can find are "HIGH QUALITY CODE BASE" and "FAST-PACED ENVIRONMENT", but they're not exactly opposites, and sure enough several of the companies picked both of these values, in adjacent positions. I don't see any way for companies to indicate they hold the opposite of one of these values.

Here's one possible goal for anyone writing a new software engineering job search site. Every month or so, someone posts a link to "They Write the Right Stuff" here on HN, an article about the Lockheed space shuttle software group. Make a job site that would let me find that as a career, never having heard of it and not having any prior interest in the field. For example, it could have a "speed"/"perfection" dial, and show me aerospace jobs if I turn it all the way to "perfection".
I do minor investing in biotech. The skills I learnt generally helped me to focus on sectors that applied to my knowledge base more.
> It’s inconceivable that another composer could take Bach’s place in that slot. Even Mozart or Beethoven wouldn’t cut it.

I'd pick Mozart.

When listeners hear Bach enumerate what seems like every significant variation technique for a given theme, they can quickly attribute mastery upon hearing that one piece.

But someone with Bach's abilities could just as easily have only imagined all those variations as potential music, then chosen only a few excerpts for a lighter, shorter setting.

Now, imagine this alternative-timeline Bach wrote in a late 18th century operatic form. For each aria he a) picks a fitting style (or mashes up fitting/effective styles), b) imagines the set of possible music based on the character of the text, and c) chooses what he thinks is the most fitting from all those possibilities. (Also, throw in a bunch of hidden musical jokes along the way.)

That alternative-timeline Bach would be superior to the real Bach. Because he came after the real Bach his output includes real Bach's mastery of counterpoint (Jupiter Symphony, Intro to Requiem). Also alternative-timeline Bach can imitate real Bach's style at will (two-part invention at the end of Rondo in A minor).

The only difficulty is that the listener has to listen to a lot of alternative-timeline Bach before they start to get a sense of the scope of his mastery.

Well, good thing the slot we're trying to fill gives an audience plenty of time to hear a variety of music from this composer's output.

Bach++ ftw.
I get why people are excited, and maybe these technologies really will go somewhere this time. But the first commercial AR systems are 25 years old [1], and VR had a wave of popularity in the 90s as well . [2]

The only way we can really call today the "early stages" of either of these technologies is by imagining a future where they dominate. But that's the very thing we should be questioning. I note that pretty much anything 3D has a long history of being heralded as the "early stages" of a revolution that never came.

The most obvious example here is 3D video. We're at the tail end of a boom in 3D movies, a technology that now only gets applied to certain high-priced, effects-heavy blockbusters, and could well vanish. There was an even shorter 3D TV boom. [3] And of course there was the 50s boom in anaglyph (aka colored glasses) 3D. [4]

But previous to that there was the ViewMaster, which was imagined to have all sorts of potential. In WW II, the US military bought 100,000 viewers because they thought the magic of 3D would be better for training soldiers. [5] And this history goes back to at least the Brewster Stereoscope, which sold 250,000 units in the 1850s, and was also expected to be revolutionary. [6]

Given the many waves of hype in this era, I think we should be careful of thinking that we are on the path to some sort of destiny. Smart people have been fooled before. It's perfectly possible that this will be just another hype cycle whose main result is a bunch of dusty old hardware in the junk shops of 2050.

[1] http://www.augmented-reality-games.com/history.php

[2] https://killscreen.com/articles/failure-launch/

[3] https://www.cnet.com/news/shambling-corpse-of-3d-tv-finally-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_film#The_%22golden_era%22_(...

[5] http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2015/08/24/did-the-...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscope#Brewster_stereosco...
You could just pay and operator to be on site and manage all that. They'd even have better engagement and awareness of 9ther issues if they didn't have to drive the vehicle, just observe and handle any issues.

One of the issues I have with all the technological unemployment discussion. The ONLY reason automation will destroy jobs is due to greed. Good companies will now utilize there newly freed up and empower3d employees to 10x there productivity.
If said sailboats would endanger radio transmitters of international importance, why not?
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> The latter is purely subjective, and aims to pleasure us.

A lot of composers of the Classical era such as Haydn would gladly say their music is made for the pleasure of all or as many people as possible ("I write my music in order that the weary and worn or the men burdened with affairs might enjoy a few minutes of solace and refreshment."). In fact, I would argue the whole point of the Classical style of the late 1700s was to move away from (in their words) "elitist" and complicated music of Bach and the opera seria, Mozart's operas being much easier to relate to as an average Joe than Monteverdi's. Yet all their works are inspiring and elevating - I think both goals can be achieved.
For those who are stuck in paywall:

https://archive.fo/5dUq7
> Hopefully you live in a state where the records of Marijuana offenders will be expunged eventually.

I don't necessarily disagree with nixing arrests for personal amounts / use of Marijuana, even the "I sold my buddy a dime bag worth that one time," but once we get into serious commercial activity is it not valid to keep those particular convictions?
The usability difference between scooters and bikes is meaningful. They fit into a totally seamless user experience that would be very difficult to manage with bikes. They’re more tamper-proof, smaller, easier to hop on and off of, easier to manage in crowds, etc. Anectdotally, Bird scooters have melded into the environment in Santa Monica, Westwood, and the UCLA campus in a way that I can’t imagine happening with bikes. Bird scooters are all over the place these days without being nearly as cumbersome as I imagine bikes would be. As a few others have noted in this thread, Bird is exploding in LA right now, and I believe it’s because of their approach to a seamless user experience. The 10% difference in usability between bike sharing and electric scooter sharing seems to make all the difference.
This is suspiciously close to what I imagine would happen when an advanced time-travelling society sends back an emissary to advance our technology.
I disagree with your unsubstantiated claim that the loyalty rate is attributed to the number of Android phone choices. People that use Android stay with the OS because it's what they're used to and prefer.

Also, there are 8 actively sold iPhone models.
> [citation needed] on this incredibly inflammatory comment.

The majority of people in general are too stupid for college, and criminals that get caught tend to lean towards the dumb end.
Is it possible to spin up a VPS then restore crashplan to that then seed Backblaze?

Should be able to get max throughput and cost will be minimal if only have the VPN for the time it takes to seed.
Shhhh. You don't want to draw too much attention to yourself now.
Broadly speaking, given a choice between getting on an airplane and traveling a few thousand miles versus strapping a headset on your face, there are plenty of scenarios where one can make a compelling case for doing the latter, even with today's hardware. Meetings, presentations, training, and more. The hardware is a big barrier currently, for sure; expensive and clunky. But that will change pretty quickly. The ability to showcase something without physically being there is very valuable. And yes, naturally, a lot more applications will emerge once the technology becomes easier to digest.
Something like this?

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
It would be nice if the author (or someone) made available a mostly-automated process for filing similar claims by people who aren't lawyers. The same successful arguments should work for any of us.
>Equifax’s attorney made sure the judge pro tem knew that she wasn’t wanted there.

>“You’ll follow the rules and procedures, right?” he demanded, before signing the stipulation.

>The judge, a lady with all white hair, nodded mildly. “Yes, I follow all the rules of evidence.”

Yea, my guess is that the attorney figured he could bully through and scare either the author or the judge.
No, and if someone did, they would report it to the developers.
I’m ready to be convinced, but which similar cases are we talking about?
It's also entirely plausible that the SpaceX parts did their job and something the government insisted on using / was sending up didn't work as expected.

Since failure is always possible, including from various forms of human error, and is often exacerbated by extreme conditions (such as launching to space) it is quite likely that we'll never know for sure.

It really /would/ be nice if there was a mandatory sunset period for de-classification (which required /active/ effort to keep reviewing and punting classified status forward).
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Yes, we're definitely familiar! We have people on the team who have been involved in the area since the first commercial AR systems, and a substantial portion of the team (including myself) lived through the previous era of VRML and VR hype.

Eyes are definitely wide open!
I know current senior engineers that see plenty of corruption and shady practice, including on road construction on a regular basis in Ontario, and yes, the Toronto area.

Construction companies routinely don't build each layer of road up to code. Thus potholes appear much sooner than they should.
> You could buy gold but it can be easily stolen.

So can your bitcoin wallet, or you could forget your key or lose your hard copy.

> People need gold but better.

Debatable.

> Bitcoin is just that assuming bitcoin network survives.

No, you can fork bitcoin, or create a thousand slightly different blockchains, and you can replace it in the blink of an eye. However weird gold is, it is a finite resource with real world applications (albeit not unique for most of them).

And I'm sure you can buy a number of funds or stocks backed by gold, if that's your thing. But you also have thousands of other stocks and funds, and real estate, and micro financing, etc where your money can both work for you while also potentially benefiting the world. Bitcoin without any application is a pyramid scheme, by definition. You put money in, to take money out later when more people have entered the system.
California law specifically requires wearing a helmet when riding a motorized scooter:

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/scooters

Here's the full text:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x....
No exits.
Yeah, I definitely need to do a better job in selecting who I end up working for
I wonder how easy it is to collect the judgment against Equifax.
I'm not talking about the reversibility of a theory. You can conjecture that our current reality could have been arrived at from two different paths. What you cannot do is assert the truth of a theory which selects one path in favor of the other, because the existence of any information which would make that determination would contradict that these both histories led to the same present. Thus there is no physical way to distinguish these histories.
I've been looking for gmail alternatives and this is my conclusion. Protonmail plays the part of the secure and private email provider, but, technologically, can't provide that. The only concrete thing their users have going is the superior legal environment of Switzerland. A less-than-concrete comforter is that if we believe that the people behind Protonmail believe in privacy, we'll tend to think they're more likely to try to protect ours if push comes to shove. This makes me look for alternatives.
At some point it would be possible for an entity to either launch (or more likely refine in space) enough materials to focus sunlight across not /quite/ the earth, but the orbital paths. Since 'light pressure' exists, this could be used to counter existing acceleration and thus encourage orbital decay.

It would take a while, it would be costly to start up, and boy does this sound like a weapon from 50% of space sifi stuff I've ever read or seen...

However I suspect it's still the cheapest solution to the issue.
Whilst they probably lost a certain market, they certainly gained another one, and I'm not convinced it's a net loss as a business.

Once this reaches Mcafee.com (as opposed to tunnelbear.com) I am entirely confident executives will inform me the product is an important part of our security strategy. At some future point, there will probably be a Gartner Quadrant rating them highly.

McAfee has a poor name on HN, but this isn't generally reflected in business. This should be self evident- they'd be broke if it was.
Indeed. If you're athletic or want to get there, I highly recommend checking out Summits On The Air (SOTA). It's all about climbing mountains with backpack- or goat-portable ham gear and building clever but lightweight antennas on the summit for hasty conversations. It's a blast and the people are almost universally interesting and nice. The total opposite of the guy with the fake police car and yellow flashing light bar on the roof.