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I'm interested in an answer to this also. If you find one, let me know.

In my experience, the "Build the Free Web" events are usually selected on the basis of actual engineering and not hype; the presenters there are typically from projects that are pretty good.

I work at NuCypher, and I think our project is very much based in sanity and solid programming. I feel confident that people will actually use our token to build interesting distributed things.

When we attend blockchain-oriented conferences, there are a few projects whose teams we usually gravitate towards and who seem (at least to me) to have similar principles (less hype, more logic).

These include LivePeer, Fluence, and Origin (I'm not currently invested in any of those, but actually I think I want to change that).

In addition to actual crypto assets, I also think that the Python tooling is really coming of age and full of a lot of very sober and solid programming - most of the projects that Piper Merriam and Jason Carver touch are worth looking at.
I completely disagree with this post. I setup an LLC late last year and it was a very pleasant experience via Atlas. They clearly show a checklist of what you need to do, or what you're waiting on. They email you along the process, or if they need anything from you. If they need additional verification (IDs) they reach out to you.

I would definitely do it again through Atlas and I've told others to do the same.
Yeah, I don't understand it either. There is a company which puts 300 M$ effort into developing something and then another company is using the first company's brand recognition to get a competitive edge while offering zero added value (And no, hosting mongodb in AWS not a new thing, only uninformed people would assume so. When I look around I find services like Scalegrid or MDB Atlas itself which is exactly the thing that AWS is claiming to justify their decision). So yeah, you are right, I can't see how could that be wrong either.
Possibly it had a hole for the handle part of it.
That's Knuth-Liang hyphenation, which is something different from Knuth-Plass line breaking.
Reverse engineering the MongoDB API, getting it to work on Aurora storage engine, verifying existing CLI/drivers work and having it all scaleable and supportable.

At least a few months work there. Even for Amazon.
The smooth surfaces are modern filler to make the object whole. The pitted and damaged surfaces are pieces of the original.

It'll be hollow since they thought it was a vase.

It's unlikely the filler is solid, these reconstructions are generally made as faithfully as possible to the original without too much synthesis. So it should be the same shape as the original is presumed to have, but no engravings or anything which might be unreasonably speculative.
doesn't this assume the user is walking around with the page open, the front tab, and the phone unlocked for a reasonably long period? which websites do I spend enough time on for that to be true? I don't generally walk and read
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I feel like it's only easy if the organization has no clue what they're doing... If a standard email interface allows easy slipups of sensitive data in that manner, you definitely shouldn't be using an unmodified interface.
I love how on HackerNews posts, the top two comments are always two diametrically opposed takes on the same article.
Yeah, overall this seems like a bad move by Amazon on multiple fronts. The name of the new service is DocumentDB, which by itself is a name they have recycled from competitors...
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> I doubt that they actually built this on top of Postgres.

Maybe not (but OP makes a lot of good points for why it is), but it is still based on the aurora limits, 64TB of size, 15 low latency read replicas in minutes, and presumably 1 write capacity which makes it a laughable nosql system since it cannot scale past 1 servers write capacity.
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Is this comment supposed to be irony?
And yet many of us are using it in Production.

Including companies like Adobe, eBay, Expedia, Sony etc.
I would stop using Stripe if they start dictating what bank I can use.

I use Stripe Atlas. I agree that the SVB minimum checking account fee is quite high. So I will look to move to Azlo. If Stripe tells me I can't do that, I'll start asking customers to wire my payments to the bank directly.

I think that I am happy with Stripe handling the paperwork and basic payments for me (and to compensate them for that), but I'd always want my freedom to run things without extraneous terms.
I was so inspired by that video when I first saw it that I built my own Ur board.
I prefer the 4 2-sided dice approach to the single 4-sided die, because the normal distribution of values allows for slightly more strategy.
We also house ruled that rolling a 0 gave you a reroll token.

Oh, and it is a genuinely fun game.
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I find a bunch of horror stories about DynamoDB and PostgreSQL too. Your point is? How is that even related to the fact that AWS is basically piggybacking on MongoDB-s R&D effort and brand recognition?

Also it's clear that you have zero knowledge about Mongodb hosted services. Because otherwise you would know that very good supported hosted services exist which are 100% compatible with AWS (beside MDB Atlas).
I would assume so, but are you confident that the law unambiguously permits this? This isn't a rhetorical question, as I don't know a ton about the GDPR, but uncertainty is one of the worst forms of regulatory costs, so it's not really something you can wave off without knowing how it will be interpreted.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. I am not gonna repeat myself. Read my previous comments on the topic.
What should one be using in its stead?
10/10 it's the hamster wheel. That gets everyone.
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^ This. Best comment.
Which is exactly the problem. It doesn't matter how careful you are if you're one bad meme away from irrelevance.
Even assuming that AWS adds no value, what exactly is wrong with offering a "no value added" hosting service and charging for it?
I might look into that; the recommendation is appreciated.
Operating systems, compilers, and web browsers come to mind. There are currently:

* 4 independently-developed competitive compilers (gcc, clang, msvc, icc)

* 4 independently-developed competitive operating systems (windows, macos, linux, and bsd --I'm grouping the BSDs as one since their source code has a common ancestor)

* 3 independently-developed competitive browser engines, soon-to-be 2 (edgehtml, gecko, webkit)

And it's been that way for a few decades now; doesn't look like anyone is interested in taking the resources to make another one of those.
> A country like China could easily control obesity by banning all the companies producing obesity by selling obesity causing food products

really? so ban rice and wheat production? I'm pretty sure I can get fat on natural foods. There have been fat people long before Coke. Japanese Sumo get fat on chanko nabe. Nothing artificial about it.
A great reflection on both the quality of the teacher and the promise of the student. And I really liked all the subtleties captured in such simple code. Refreshing!
Nope, first time ever I hear about something such restrictive. That by itself would be a reason for me to not sign an employment contract with Amazon.
DynamoDB is written on top of MySQL (more specifically, MySQL's storage engine, not the query engine) so using Aurora which has a newer design would make sense.
Surprisingly? I'm surprised myself that you expected to be not-bored :)

I am a south bay native and only recently does SJ have some cool stuff to do downtown. The beer scene in particular is fantastic.
The variety of life on Earth is so cool.

Echidnas and the platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes. The average lifespan of an echidna in the wild is estimated around 14–16 years. When fully grown, a female can weigh up to 4.5 kilograms (9.9 lb) and a male can weigh up to 6 kilograms (13 lb).[8] The echidnas' sex can be inferred from their size, as males are 25% larger than females on average. The reproductive organs also differ, but both sexes have a single opening called a cloaca, which they use to urinate, release their faeces and to mate.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna
> Could have gotten free fixes from the biggest lab in the world

Wasn't this one of the main points of contention, though, in addition to not purchasing a commerical license? Amazon not upstreaming (m)any of the fixes?
Every company that is based on california, or that employs you in california, is better.

No matter what the non-compete says, if you're in CA, you can use your own hardware and non-work time to develop anything that doesn't directly compete with your employer/dayjob and doesn't use trade secrets/IP from the company.

Amazon though is mostly based in Washington, where no such law exists, so sweeping non-competes are legal.

The above is the reason that there is a difference between various FAANG companies. Even if the company policy requires you to get approval, if it really isn't a work-related piece of code, you can simply tell them to pound sand and CA will have your back.
The red block gets faster and faster, introduction of smaller squares worth ten points, it became quite a challenge for me to keep a score above 100 on PC with arrow keys.
> I knew it was time to start looking when I was informed that I had to get prior permission to do ANY open source contributions even on my own hardware on my own time.

This attitude seems kinda common, unfortunately. The critical issue is probably what the boundaries for 'work for hire' are. CA law [1] offers protections. Spolsky [2] offers detailed real-world context.

[1] http://law.justia.com/california/codes/lab/2870-2872.html

[2] http://www.brightjourney.com/q/working-company-intellectual-...
Discussion from original post in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893
At one point during grad school (after far too much RPC middleware implementation work) I was able to decode hex dumps of CORBA packets in my head
Realistically, I think that a large portion of that 300M went to sales and marketing at MongoDB... However, I agree with everything else you said.
As someone who has lived in SJ for most of my life it's closer to Phoenix.
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LOL yeah, it's like watching a sport. By about a score of 300 the enemy is just too fast for our hero. =/
Only in tech do people think that a money losing company is “successful” because they were able to convince investors to buy stock instead of defining success as having a business model where income is greater than expenses.

In reality long term profitability is the only metric that matters for a corporation
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I would have thought that you could get pretty damn close with just some simple stats in frequency space normalised to the base frequency, i.e. Fourier transform divided by the fundamental frequency.
I bought a personal pizza at the grocery store with a substitute crust made of chicken meat. It was awful. I think it was something like this: https://www.realgoodfoods.com/product/mixedcases/

I assumed that the crust would be more bread-like, but somehow made with some chicken meat. It was more like a flavorless thick circular slice of chicken breast with pizza toppings.
Indeed. The "confusion" bit is pretty condescending.

It reminds me of the similar bit of "I'm sorry you're upset." With that, you're not really sorry, and you're fake-apologizing for someone else's actions.
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Lawyers move slower than software engineers. There could have been years of exchanges between the company prior to this.
I've went through Stripe Atlas as well -- and didn't have any issues whatsoever; When we decided that we didn't want to be a C-Corp in DE, we made it before the actual setup, however, when we ran into issues with our process, their support folks were very very helpful and it was zero hassle switching banks.
There is plenty of Chinese food with lots of sugar in it, not to mention those that are super carb heavy. It isn’t just the western versions of Chinese food either, you could avoid processed and fast food and still have a problem.
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> I've never seen a SQL driver and wire protocol that was not awful in some way.

Have you seen the PostgreSQL wire protocol[1]? I recently built a logical replication client driver for a project and found the protocol to be excellent. After looking at the documentation, I'm no longer limited to languages that have drivers for Pg, because I know how easy it'd be for me to just write one.

Just because some SQL drivers and wire protocols are awful (looking at you, Oracle[2]) shouldn't mean one should go running to the hills, let alone to JSON.

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1: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/protocol.html

2: https://noss.github.io/2009/04/28/reverse-engineering-oracle...
Would those metrics give you any sort of warning about merchants who no longer tend to contact Stripe support when they have problems? Seeing fewer or no support requests from a merchant could mean everything is working well, but it could also mean that people aren't telling you any more when things are not working well.
Kuhn Rikon Can Opener: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcdoKOhKYbg

Seriously.
By "most Android", I mean "everything without a Titan chip". I'm not convinced that it's meaningfully less secure for anything but targeted attacks by abnormal skilled attackers. Should be better, if its kernel is better maintained.
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God bless you for this
Here ya go, https://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Bet...
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MongoDB could have been having conversations with Amazon prior, trying to negotiate a licensing agreement. These negotiations take a lot of time at corporations, I could easily see someone saying "hey, MongoDB's starting to squeeze us, let's get some people working on Plan B before they cut us off".
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Obsessed with games, obsessed with drugs, obsessed with food.

What’s the common denominator? Obsession. You can control it for awhile and move the obsession to something else, but it’s the obsession that’s the underlying problem. You’ll just find another thing that in moderation might be just fine but when obsessed over has some dark side you never imagined.

Ask me how I know lol.
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More likely a bunch of overfunded, SV nitwits sent a very successful sales rep
This is one reason I'm sad the Volt didn't take off more than it did. For me, 95+% of the time I only use electric (commute is 12 miles each way), but I never have to worry about "range anxiety" or doing detailed planning for charging stations on long trips. For me it really is the best of both worlds.
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https://amzn.github.io has all of the various open source projects Amazon has created
Difficult to know for sure, but it's probable that MongoDB made Amazon aware that they would introduce such a licensing change, in a bid to put pressure on AWS and get them to contract with MongoDB.

It didn't work.
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Just because we send government pork to big farm and all kinds of other regulations around limits on what food can be sold and how doesn't mean they are good ideas. I am open to the possibility, but I severely doubt that lower food prices are actually a bad thing and that whatever market equilibrium we'd have without intervention would be problematic.
Stripe Atlas was pretty good for me. The most organized corporation I've created yet. I also stopped using and paying SVB, because I forgot about the account and actually never used by account for a whole year so they closed it. I opened an BOA account without issue. My only problem is that the mobile app isn't great for ATLAS yet.
That’s the most careful vegan pitch I‘ve ever seen, cudos.

I‘m all for reducing meat consumption. We don’t need meat every day, and maybe not even every week. Everybody except meat processing companies would be better off.

My personal view is that complete meat avoidance will lead to long term health challenges, 5-10y down the road. There‘s too much valid-sounding criticism of the china study to just believe its conclusions. Some low-mercury seafood every now and then does loads for your health.
I'm not quite sure what you're getting at with the "No, it's Java EE" comment. JAX-RS is a Java standard, with several implementations, and you don't need a "Java EE Server" or anything magical like that to use it. And that link to the Custom Marshalling section of the JAX-RS docs is a little weird; my example doesn't require monkeying with low-level stuff like that and most users don't.

Dragging protobufs into this is weird too; you've ignored the IDL and build infrastructure required to set that up, and in any case that's specific to when you're working with protobuf APIs.

I'll go back to my earlier point, which I think you've illustrated fairly well, which is that well-written Java code tends to be more concise and less verbose than Python (and friends). Our two examples are nearly identical in terms of meaningful lines of code, but in the Python example you have to ask for marshaling.

I'll also point out that flask (which I use myself for python webapps) handlers are forced to interact with flask-specific objects and therefore are obnoxious to test; the JAX-RS example is pure program logic and can be tested as vanilla Java code. This is one of the big advantages of moving marshaling "out" of your program code.
It might not have been cheaper to make their own version than to pay MongoDB, but it might still have been worth it to Amazon in that case for a variety of reasons.
What is "single lead" device? Is that a single electrical contact patch? How can that detect anything? I've used a single patch with 4 electrical contacts for a 30 day Holter test, plus the standard 24 hour Holter monitor with a bunch of patches and wires.
> In any case I don't see how having their own hosted version of MongoDB is a middle finger to open source

Especially when MongoDB is itself no-longer open source.

In fact, AWS is providing a service compatible with MongoDB 3.6, which is open source. In a way, AWS "forked" MongoDB 3.6 after the creator of MongoDB made the software proprietary. Isn't that what Open Source is supposed to provide?
Reading only the headline, I thought this was going to be a claim that it'd accelerate so fast it would lift its front wheels off the ground--like this... https://youtu.be/_59wxPsC9NU?t=142

But what he actually said... that's just crazy.
I was looking to buy a 9700k and wasn't considering amd for probably 8 years.

Even with Nvidia and Amd, amd came out and than I bought a 1060.

I might just wait this time for amd.
Exactly. A non-issue.
I don't believe that is true. I've witnessed too much satire of that sort become reality, both offline and online. Of course, I can't speak to the rate at which it is harmful.
It is if they are reasonable and not total fabrications that are deceptive. That's not to say that musk was being deceptive, I don't think he was.

I think even this thread shows that people take Musk's jokes or snide comments as truth.
I think you're both saying the same thing here. The key point is that nutrition can change the weights of your equation, which must be accurate even if by appealing to the conservation laws of the universe, in ways that are not obvious to many people. For instance aspartame, a fake '0 calorie' sugar, has been shown to have a relationship with weight gain by numerous studies including some controlled experimental studies. In other words it's not confounded by the fact that overweight/obese are likely substantially more likely to consume aspartame infused products than others.

But there's no magic there. While the exact mechanism isn't known (it's not that it simply makes you eat more food) it's going to come down to something that impairs your ability to burn calories. So the equation still stands. It just means that if you consume aspartame you need to eat even less to see weight loss (or not weight gain) than somebody who does not. In practice the exact opposite happens, and then people try to blame things outside their control - such as genetics. But such arguments hold little weight. Obesity has skyrocketed exponentially in just the past several decades. People didn't suddenly all spontaneously change their genetics. But nutritional standards, and indeed calories consumed, both radically changed for the worse.
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The nuance here is all in the difficulty of actually taking in fewer calories, due to things like limited willpower
Can you recommend which other company you used to incorporate an LLC in Delaware?
Correct. They added more gateway compat layers in addition to Mongo and renamed it from DocumentDB to Azure CosmosDB then.
I had to stop reading this article when the first paragraph spoiled one of the character deaths in The Prisoner.
Some arrhythmias are trivial with a single lead because they manifest in the rate at which the heart beats. And from there, you can imagine there are a spectrum of arrythmias which become more morphological and likely harder to detect.
But that's San Francisco. There absolutely are large cities with far more culture than the entire Bay Area (SF included), great food, things to do, and all that, where you can live 15-20 minute walk from downtown, in a decent neighborhood, in a nice place that will cost you probably 1/3 of what a repurposed chicken coop goes for in SV, and not have any parties right out your window.

Sure, you probably won't get to work on something as disruptive and world-changing as Theranos, Juicero, or whatever the latest SV hawtness is, but I think it is a pretty good trade-off.
Caused by diffraction around structural supports for the optics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike

EDIT - for Hubble specifically, here’s an exploded view: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/exploded_view1/

The spikes are caused by the arms holding the secondary mirror.
> especially if you were thinking about working on a game

Why games especially? That seems to be the one area the would be absolutely free of any conflict of interest with amazon.
MongoDB is not horizontally scalable either is it?
I cant use this crap locally?