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I am neither for MongoDB or for any famous ABC or XYZ DB. But before I make my decision to change to any other DB, i evaluate my using my own conscience and not depend upon bashing of any X DB on the internet.

I had the opportunity to redesign the architectures of few productions running apps because of this superstition "Companies are falling due to MongoDB, lets switch to another DB"

Every single time, as an architect I have found that developers are just being fancy about their first-hand experience with some other database and they are unable to think in new direction which MongoDB is built for.

Following are the things most people miss:

1. MongoDB is not safe/secure. Anyone can hack it -> the default configuration were not optimized in previous MongoDB version but it doesn't mean it lacked User security API.

2. MongoDB does not support JOINs or query API just sucks -> No, it doesn't. First, You need to learn about denormalization and schema handling. Second, MongoDB supports JOIN semantics such as $lookup & $graphLookup. Third, it supports ElasticSearch like text searching capabilities and scoring. Fourth, it supports data aggregation pipelines with various ways to compose the data transforming operations including above 2.

3. It does not have triggers like RDBMS -> It has "change streams" which is more flexible than Trigger. This feature also enables multiple application servers in microservice architecture to use MongoDB as a central store. Want a custom ETL streaming pipeline? You got it.

4. It does not scale like ABC or XYZ DB -> Again understand point #2. Also, look into docs how distributed sharding works across replica sets. Spend some quality time figuring out what should be the KeyField to be used for distributed sharding of Data.

5. Licencing sucks -> Have you understood the whole project cost and complexity ? Have you actually looked at all the terms and conditions or are you just a big fan of OSS and for that you can support any stupid alternative?
To spur consumption, China preps plan to boost disposable income by 2020
> Security is critical on iOS as some apps have the ability to log you in or restore a session without any sort of credential check. This is despite the fact that unique device identifiers are not supposed to be used by devs.

I've noticed this before. How is that possible?
They could turn off cellular and turn on bluetooth.
A small number of protesters are waving US flags because a) they still, rightly or wrongly, see the US as a bastion of freedom and democracy, and b) they are specifically looking for foreign governments to put pressure on the HK/CCP government not to remove basic human rights from HKers. Also, some US far-right nutters trying to co-opt the protests, thinking they were among anti-commie friends. They were wrong, they are not welcome.

Pepe the Frog does not have the far-/alt-right connection here that he does in the US and elsewhere. The image is simply used as something cute and funny.

Molotovs... well, very few if any have actually been thrown at the police, rather than at barriers or police stations. There has been a ratcheting of violence, driven almost entirely by the police, and ultimately the government's complete failure to respond or act to massive peaceful protests. I am strongly in favour of the protests, and while I can't say I agree with every action of the frontliners, I cannot condemn then - I know what they're fighting for and against.

(Some) US cops are terrible. (Many) Hong Kong cops are brutal and out of control. I don't wish either force on either population.
The only thing that works for me in that situation is to decide to do it and then do it, no matter what. It’ll suck for a couple of weeks, but by tracking weight, body fat, and just looking in the mirror for changes, it sucks a little less.
I don’t think he is benefiting himself.

I think he’s just fucking things up because he can, and he gets his jollies by fucking things up. He doesn’t care what the consequences are, because whatever happens, it’s not going to hurt him.

I used to call him the Shitposter-in-Chief. But I don’t think he’s just shitposting.
IANAL, but this happens fairly often within the community. My loose understanding is that code released under the AGPL remains licensed under the AGPL; the license can't just be retroactively revoked like that. The company may require that active forks adopt a new name and branding due to trademark disputes, but this is a different matter not covered by the license.

I was not able to find an active fork; the closest thing I'm finding so far is here, but it hasn't seen any activity for 7 months:

https://github.com/normousdb/normous
adblocking encrypted dns:

https://nextdns.io/
A lot of startups for sure
Exactly, especially since high margins on those is a defining characteristic of intel. They can match on price if they kill their margin. Matching on performance or power usage ? That’s where their problem is.

Meanwhile amd is making sure to be low priced yet ahead for as long as possible / as many processor gen as possible to create themselves a stable market share, not just the people who buy whatever is best each day, but those that like stability and uniformity and wouldn’t go with zen but now that zen+ and zen2 confirmed it they just might be tempted
Either two weeks or six weeks, for small and large batches.
I am happy to see a piece about Emily Nussbaum here. While it may not be typical "Hacker News", Emily's writing and perspective are top-notch. Her analysis of The Sopranos following its finale over a decade ago is included in her new book and was a spot-on take on the controversial ending: http://nymag.com/news/features/33517/
It's just calories in/calories out. Skipping a meal is likely to result in eating less calories, unless you make up for it later.
forcing someone to obey you rather than just destroying them for defiance suggest you need them around for something.
Im wondering just what a tyrant would have left to occupy thier time when all of the tyrannized are deceased.
do i have to know the cantonese roots? because the 3 components are nowhere in the red and black image.
Amd kept leaping ahead in single core while intel finally got their security mitigations in place. Although intel was ahead against zen+, it was not by as much as you imagine since a lot of the intels where tested with mitigation’s partially off by then (and then of course there is intel insistence on reviews being done with smt off which is cute since amd performs better on it too)
One of the defining characteristics of a cancerous mass is that it grows faster than the healthy tissues around it. The only way it can do that is by stealing nutrients that would otherwise have gone to nourish those health tissues.

Cancer is very good at getting food from the body. That's why it can grow so well, and that's why many cancer patients lose weight as their cancer advances.

It's really not possible to simply remove a cancer's source of food... not without killing the patient. Cancer's source of food is the patient's source of food, and if that is not available, the patient themselves becomes cancer's source of food.

Like any other tissues, cancers may respond to hormones, and in some cases hormones can be used to affect a cancer's growth. Hormones are not "food," but chemicals that affect the operations of cells.

Radiation is never preventative; it is a targeted therapy for killing cancer cells. They only give it to people who have cancer and really need it. I would think of it as an integral and important part of your friend's treatment.
I host my own VPN and it's great. Algo VPN [0] makes it dead simple, as well.

[0]: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Lonely people can still plan their lives and act as adults. I'm one of them, a cat sitter is watching my cat right now. In any case, usually having your friends pet sit has to be discussed in advance as well. You have to hand over the house key etc.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20817627
Whitey Bulger owned the loyalty of a large and well funded organization specialized in evading law enforcement, and even that failed.
1Blocker X is brilliant. Use the YouTube website, not the app; content blocking only works inside Safari afaict (for instance, Firefox on iOS doesn't seem to benefit from the content blocker).
Which also got majorly reversed now, intel uses way more power than amd for equivalent performances
Not using UEFI does not work that well, then you're back to MBR and the continual fight between Windows and GRUB.

I run a dual boot Win10/Fedora30 system (UEFI on a SATA3 SSD), it's pretty good, both Windows and Fedora.
How to prepare your learners for online study
It might be a stupid question, but how do I sign up? I can't find it anywhere.
It is fascinating, but around 18 mins 45 seconds "cancer" is noted as a contraindication for fasting! Unfortunately there was no mention of what the cancer type, metastatic status, etc..
I've often heard locals refer it to nothing more than "Bahasa", but yes, correctly you'd have to say "Bahasa Malaysia" or "Bahasa Indonesia", which can get umbrellad to "Bahasa Melayu", but that then sometimes offends the Indonesians, so I'm sticking to "Bahasa". My previous comment is valid for both.

Since we're nitpicking: People calling any Malay or Indonesian language "Bahasa" really bothers me, Bahasa means language, so if you tell people "I speak Bahasa", literally translated to "I speak language", it/that sounds really weird to me. (Personally, I find that beautiful. If nothing else is specified, it "defaults" to itself, how awesome is that?)
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> "I just don't give myself any choice about whether I'm going to the gym."

I use this strategy too and it's the thing that has worked best for me. I make it a rule and don't let myself ask questions. No "do I have the time/energy?" or "should I do my workout today?", because it's always easy to find a reason not to. Wiggle room has a tendency to grow and suddenly you haven't worked out in a couple weeks. Then a month. Now you have to start over again.

Taking choice out of the equation makes it a lot easier to form and keep the habit.

If you go after work: "In order to go home, I have to go to the gym first." As though the gym is required step in the process.

If you prefer the morning: "In order to have breakfast, I have to do my workout first."

That's it. That's the rule. Like brushing your teeth before bed.
OAuth2 token authentication?
gphoto2 is more for archival. For whatever reason it feels safer to me to use the CLI as a feeder for the other apps; gphoto2 grabs the photos off the camera, pops them in a folder, and I then import into digiKam from there rather than from the camera.

The archive is independently backed up and remains a pristine home for all my digital negatives, without the risk of me annihilating things in digiKam/Darktable, which I am wont to do ;).
> On my puja table6 is Donald Trump. When I look at his picture, I say to him, “I know you from your karma, and I don’t know you for your soul.” And I am compassionate about that soul because he has heavy karma.

This is beautiful. Actually the whole article is inspiring. He seems to be operating at the level of his teacher.
Disabling iMessage means texts go unencrypted. I'd say that for 99.9% of threat models, keeping it on is the right move.
> As for the author publishing the story before receiving a response from SpaceX, that’s on the author not SpaceX.

It’s on SpaceX, journalists can’t let companies kill their stories through silence. The story quotes Holger Krag as saying SpaceX replied “they do not plan to take action”. Quite different than “incapable”.
Does everything need to be monetized?
This tactic has been used a number of times that I'm aware of, in Eastern Europe, South America and the Middle East.
And is destroying intel bang for the buck on desktop and high end computer. Way more power and still for a lower cost, with massively lower power usage too.

The only area where intel is not currently being destroyed that way is laptop chips, everything else from the 100$ chip to the 7500$ chip going and means cheaper than intel’s alternative for more performance and less power usage.
A little over the top... I mean Google is bordering on Evil but this is definitely over the edge.
Very surprised this made the front page. Everyone should have shifted to ssds years ago for laptops. The productivity win was a no brainer a very long time ago.
Nushu has a rather interesting (and recent!) history of discovery by the wider world. No one is really quite sure when Nushu was created. We have records that during the first half of the 20th century, several people from the outside world stumbled across the existence of Nushu.

However, the study of it really began in earnest with a scholar named Zhou Shuoyi, who toiled away with one of the few remaining readers, Hu Chishu, of it from the 50s through the Cultural Revolution. Hu gave him a set of Nushu documents. Then during the Cultural Revolution he was targeted by the Anti-Right movement and his original Nushu documents were burned. Hu had by this time also passed away.

A then-recently-minted philosophy PhD student, Gong Zhebing, who happened to be canvassing the area heard of the script from some locals, who had only known of it as a script that occasionally replaced a few Chinese characters, or was used for decorative purposes.

Gong managed to find Zhou and together the two of them tracked down a surviving woman who knew the characters, an 81-year-old by the name of Gao Yinxian. She had a cache of Nushu documents that Gong and Zhou were able to translate into Chinese characters. Gong and Zhou also recorded samples of her singing some of these documents.

Gong then published in 1983 his groundbreaking "A Report On the Study of a Type of Special Script," (关于一种特殊文字的调查报告) which led to the widespread recognition of Nushu and is the main source of the events I've related above. At the time of publication, Gong knew of only two (!) surviving women who could read Nushu, Gao being one of them. This was a script that was potentially on the knife's edge of survival, having already been threatened once by the Cultural Revolution.

If you can read Chinese I'd recommend a look at Gong's original article here: https://www.ixueshu.com/document/ff408e73ad9fa2af318947a18e7... as well as well as a summary article detailing the discovery process of Nushu (女书:谁是第一个发现者和第一个研究者 as published in 学术研究 by 蒋书红 and 孙雍长) https://wenku.baidu.com/view/943f24631ed9ad51f01df20a.html

Otherwise, if there's sufficient interest in this thread, I can try taking a crack at translating them. No promises though. They're pretty lengthy articles.
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My experience with the medical community is exactly the same, it's frustrating. If it's difficult to diagnose and doesn't have clear visible symptoms, almost all doctors immediately say it's a psychological issue. If you show them any research and ideas what could be done they immediately dismiss it, because you are not a medical professional.

Everyone that never had an issue like that has a really high image of the medical profession, so when you tell them about your problems they just think you're crazy and you should listen to the medical professionals.

Would you mind telling me how you solved your issue? I found some things to make my issues a lot better, but it's not completely fixed, yet, so I'm very interested in hearing other peoples' experiences. My email is in my profile, if you don't want to discuss it here.
Some apps with persistent "anonymous" logins save an identifier to the keychain and sync it with iCloud so that it persists between installations and across devices.
Great article. Should be required reading for test designers as humans also tend to pick up on the implicit heuristic clues that bypass the need for knowledge and understanding as prep schools teach "don't know the answer? These 5 simple rules will improve your guess"
Exactly this. I don't see any other solution that offers remotely near the same privacy that Briar does.
iCloud Keychain. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33775569/how-to-sync-key...
You’re thinking zen/zen+. Since zen2 along with all the security limitation intel has had to include in their chips, amd is not running behind at gaming anymore.
I do exactly the same and it gives you a the added benefits, that you get a bit of documentation of the code for free.
And yet Apple still sells their base model 2019 iMacs with HDDs.
These days? It appears so.
There is a "times viewed" counter at the top for questions.
I think that’s the conspiracy theory version. He died in India (and admittedly some details were strange), but AFAIK the body was returned to Canada before being cremated.

The lost keys nonsense has all evaporated. It was just a standard Ponzi scheme [1]. Had it all been planned, I would assume they’d have left things in a less disastrous state (Gerald and his co-conspirators).

[1] https://documentcentre.eycan.com/eycm_library/Quadriga%20Fin...
I tend to think the person who can truly identify that the question is a dupe is the questioner. The moderators who are insufficiently annoyed by a duplicate question that they want to link it can surely propose a link, but just like answers are accepted, a duplicate closure should be accepted.

It is always so frustrating to me when I find exactly the question I need an answer to on SO, but it's closed as a dupe of a question it's clearly not a duplicate of.
Who was the royal?
Herbert used many sources. "Kwisatz Haderach" for example comes from Kabbalstic tradition, which in Hebrew (kfitzas haderekh - קפיצת הדרך) means "contraction of the way", referring to ability to warp space (i.e. to travel huge distances in short time). He even describes the term the same way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefitzat_Haderech
Any recommendations for non-Apple iOS IMAP client app, which does all processing locally?
I'm no lawyer either, but my understanding is that the defendant can try and get the plaintiff to pay for legal costs if they can prove that this was a strategic lawsuit (as in, the plaintiff sued for the primary purpose of coercing the defendant).

Since Wag! would be the plaintiff here, I don't think they could recoup any fees.
Briar is definitely far superior. However, one major drawback is that it is not cross platform. This alone means it won't gain traction in the Hong Kong protests, unfortunately.
More like "Musk company does something arrogant again"
"I don't know many people who get saddled with $25k of brand new car debt when they turn 18."

Spend some time near a military base. Brand new Mustangs galore. And when you ask the kids who bought them for some details you find out these Lance Corporals are paying like 19% interest. -_- A side-effect of schools not having classes like Home Economics anymore.
>why should I spend time writing the answer

There's a world of difference between über (rare and awesome) active users ignoring "tiring" questions and actively downvoting and closing them, which is what the parent comment is complaining about.
I don't think that's right. As you gained weight, your basal metabolic rate would also go up until you reached some equilibrium.

If a pound of body fat consumes about 2-4 calories per day, then your extra 38 calories is only enough to maintain an extra 10-20 pounds of weight, not 100 pounds.

You also need to subtracting the extra calories you burn carrying the extra weight around.
It was originally an Incredible Universe.

It's the only Fry's near Seattle, so it will be sad if it goes away.
OT I guess but I find the current story about kidnapped Anne-Elisabeth Hagen more interesting and no one is talking about it, I guess because no one is translating the Norwegian?

Billionaire, the kidnapping kept secret for months, seems like police incompetence and block chain.
I see a lot of people here having success with goal-setting and gamification, but sometimes it's a struggle to come up with concrete goals. This is especially true if there's no obvious problem to solve at the moment (OK weight, good body image, stress managed, just not exercising). What's a good goal, then, for someone who simply wants to increase useful lifespan? "Run at least X miles every Y days" feels like "write X lines of code every Y days", which feels arbitrary unless you're training for a distance-running event. How much is enough? Where are the diminishing returns? What do you even measure?

Gamification is basically a way to substitute fake goals for real ones, which works for some people but not all.
"Scientists looked at people with genes that are linked to lower blood pressure and cholesterol.

They then compared them to other healthy adults to calculate the benefit."

Going from a study like this to implying that taking drugs to lower cholesterol and blood pressure is just as good for health is just incorrect and is what gives all these health suggestions such a bad reputation.
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Can the Hk government ban these?
Honest question.
+1. A portmanteau, a verbified noun, a nounified verb, and so on -- these "abuses" of language can help carry meaning in a way that random names cannot. That said, "functor" perhaps did sound to its originators like what "mappable" does to you (and me) now.
> it’s not clear to me why the various impacted cities don’t choose to ban through traffic

Can you physically turn the streets into cul-de-sacs? Where I live a lot of domestic streets are cul-de-sacs presumably to prevent too many people driving past.
How hard was the text to decipher? Not very. Scholars managed to track down a scant few last surviving readers of the script and were able to decipher texts with their help.

How similar is it to known Chinese scripts? Most Nushu characters are modified from standard Chinese script, sometimes just by tilting a Chinese character. However, Nushu, unlike Chinese characters, is generally speaking a syllabary. Each of these Chinese characters was chosen for its sound (in the local dialect) and then reused in all places that sound was used, regardless of the original meaning of the Chinese character. There are some "homegrown" logograms as well.

However, it is completely unreadable to a Chinese speaker. Certainly I can't read it at all. All that sticks out is the occasional slanted standard Chinese character, which because it's a syllabary, I have no idea whether it corresponds to the meaning of the Chinese character in ordinary Chinese.
that is pretty awesome. Nicely done
I think the kind of people who take forums/SE/wikis very seriously and have a strong belief in the Platonic ideal of their respective forum are exactly the kind of people who should be completely excluded from having any kind of status on that site. There is such a thing as taking something too seriously.

The puzzle is: how do you sustain a site with unpaid "user contributed" content while you actively discourage the most prolific (and also likely most problematic) users?
Far less serious (and not polysyllabic), but still linguistically interesting: the Chinese character for _biáng_, one of the most complex in modern usage. There are 15 variants of the character consisting of between 56 and 70 strokes, which can be recalled with various mnemonics. It is not yet included in standard Unicode, but scheduled for inclusion in March 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangbiang_noodles
I still don’t know what that word means. I looked it up, and it’s not in my dictionary (MW). I suppose I’m not the target audience.
It's possible to build FreeBSD images for amd64 with nginx and a small but fairly complete base build at about 70 MB by just tweaking src.conf and a MINIMAL kernel with virtio built in. I do this for virtualization on DO, Vultr and my own bhyve machine. YMMV.