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It's called a constitutional monarchy and is quite common in Europe (if that isn't obvious).

A few I can remember with constitutional monarchy: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Teledildonic

^^This is a Word?
Yeah, my info with the USPS is always the first thing I update. Sounds like it may be more trouble than it's worth.
There's no incentive for them to do that. Why would another corp want to go sticking their hands in this massive mess, possibly getting blowback from either Salesforce or the hacking masses?
Michael Anissimov was quietly dismissed from MIRI - I imagine it had something to do with his political views, that or his complete lack of technical expertise.
The guys involved in this movement can't conceive of a universe that they aren't the center of. A very Ayn Randian bunch.
this is the memcache compatible interface, so they should be

`select y where key = x limit 1`
Or Heisenberg.
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If we keep saying teledildonic is will be!
This post reminds me of my problems with reading sites like Zerohedge. They're right about a few things, including severe structural issues in the current monetary system. But as soon as I hit the word 'SHEEPLE', I immediately close the browser tab and stop reading. The word strikes me as intellectually lazy on several levels, and this is certainly one of them.
I am one of those assholes.
Yes, and coined by none other than Ted Nelson.
Really?
* You use your own empathy to understand if you can work with this person, if they fit culturally

* You look for lack of empathy in the candidate because that's the sure sign of a person that will break your culture eventually

Does that really sound like an asshole? Someone who uses empathy to determine if people would work together well?
Assholes generally don't use empathy.

Sometimes there are teams where there is a key player that runs the show, and the team would be lost without. That doesn't mean they do all the work or take all the credit. What I would be asking is how they were a key player, what made them important, what they did to emphasize the success of their teams, etc. This will quickly make them show their true colors.
Obviously not your bag, and not really mine either, but why call it sick?
No one said it was impossible to damage gold (there are easier wayd than to make it radioactive).

It's just much harder compared to doing comparable or greater value destruction to a bitcoin address, especially accidentally.
That may be cheap, but once you see a little traffic spike coming from Hacker News, all you get is an "Error establishing a database connection."
NSA malware infected over 50,000 computer networks
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This is ridiculous -- many of my friends booked flights out just to compete in this competition. Super disappointed in how it was run.
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Surely that's a good thing?!
I get the flashing while loading on OS X/Safari, but the page then loads properly.
Hey, Oxford Dictionary here is your word for 2014.

I feel sad for people who think mechanized dildos bots are a good enough substitute for sex.

I hope I never get that jaded - or desperate :)
There is a desperate call for better democracy. A good way to demand it is by exposing other options.

Btw, there was a prime minister of Bulgaria who was also a king by birthright. Talk about elective monarchy.
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The micro state idea is problematic. Most modern examples are effectively parasites on the surrounding nations. Singapore and Lichtenstein do tax evasion and money laundering for a living. They also skim talented people off other countries.

The big problem with the micro state idea is military power. Much of the stability apparent in the modern world is really down to the military might of regional powers. Leaving libertarian fantasy land of peacefully trading small states, what seems more probable and historically accurate is feuding for supremacy by any means.

Despite all the computer oriented techno wankery around here, the biggest value of the continental United States is still the Mississippi watershed. Anyone who controls it will be a world power. You can't realistically break it up into stable micro states.
Yes, and probably older than a lot of people reading this comment.

Howard Rheingold column using the term in a 1990 issue of Mondo 2000. http://janefader.com/teledildonics-by-howard-rheingold-mondo...
I think employment references are weird anyway.

What an employer is doing is asking for something written by some one they have likely never met, and taking that as some how equally or more valid than the person sitting in front of them in interview. Prospective employers have no idea what context a reference is written in, they cant even judge tone of voice or body language. They cant ask questions or anything. Its completely blind faith. The candidate can be questioned, tested and generally judged.
Please use the R word in a respectful manner. This isn't 4chan.
I have something you can build. @ me if your interested! (if you can't think of an idea)
I think it's a neat idea, but when I saw the name "TripStamp", I immediately thought of "tramp stamp", which isn't really a great association.
While I support the work they are doing, the Chinese themselves don't care all that much about the sites that are blocked. Having lived in China, everyone I spoke to did not care about Facebook being blocked. I'm making a huge generalization but to them if Facebook is blocked then it must not be very important. Why use Facebook anyway when I have QQ?

Changing the public view from within China to fight against censorship is harder but I think it would be far more effective.
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You can easily get the "Tyranny of the majority" under some democratic systems, particularly with direct voting on particular laws. You need a balance where you have freedom for unpopular subgroups in the population but sufficient checks on these subgroups so that they don't get up to anything too wrong. Democracies, if they are too responsive to popular opinion, can be easily swayed by impulsive movements and the press. Democracy isn't a single idea, so the type of democracy affects the freedom in the land.

Obviously any sort of power, democratic or not, is against "freedom" in the general sense. In reality, you need some sort of power structure, so the question is whether the democratic one is better than any other.
I do wonder whether by 'freedom' some people mean 'absolute personal freedom' rather than the greatest freedom for the greatest number.

Now it is true that a right of absolute personal freedom is incompatible with democracy, but it is also incompatible with pretty much all other forms of political structure, not to mention most physical laws, the existence of birth and death, and everyone else's right of absolute personal freedom.

Also, about the 'easy exit' conditions, I do wonder who is going to tell the royals to stick to the conditions if they decide to ban folk from leaving a particular state.
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No, everybody knows Mongo is web scale.
No. That abstract says that the bound it 12 if the Elliot-Halberstam conjecture holds. Under that assumption, the bound has been 16 since 2000. The trick that brings the number down from 16 to 12 under that assumption is the same that brings the proven number down to 600. This is actually described in the linked wired article.
And that is why to this day I always carry a stick of butter in my purse. Also, that is why I always enable WP SuperCache and nginx proxy_cache when running a WordPress site. Or just use a static site generator.
A-hole adds diversity to a team :-)

Often one is a-hole because he insist on basic principles, such as unit tests.
I don't believe they have the capacity to think about anyone but themselves.
They are going to have high load services in any case. Check "Internet of things" and "systems of engagement". Your traditional enterprise application is probably not the future of enterprise. It will continue to exist, but its importance will keep getting down.
I think the search bar should be on the right side because that's where people are used to it being.

I'm sorta iffy on what a digital scrapbook is. I think the above the fold part of the home page should illustrate the pain point and how you solve it.

I like the idea with the slideshow, but I think a video would be better, or at least a slide show where the user decides when it goes to the next slide.

I'm still not really sure what you do that makes making a scrapbook of travels notably easier than it already is.
It even has a Wikipedia page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics
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I will hazard a guess that making his living at Subway helped his math endeavours. He did not have to endure the stress of a corporate or academic rat race, and nobody claimed to own his intellectual products.
Because it isn't.

It's a handful of loud mouthed guys who have the phone number of a reporter who was looking for an article to write.
Everybody also knows Mongo has no transaction. Not a comparable product. Ah maybe comparable in this case, because this is read-only test.
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It's one of the three Jacquet-Droz automata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata .
Older discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6734277
From the context, I gathered that the missing slide is just the subsequent slide[1] without the blue oval.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/resource/presentations/clojure-core-asy...
Hey guys, author here. I just re-read this post (it was originally from a Quora thread a couple of years back) and realized that it is not my best. I didn't take the time to discuss my definition of "asshole" nor took the time to do the topic justice since it requires more than a few bullet points ("The No Asshole Rule" devoted an entire book to the topic)! I will make some mods to flesh it out.

I have also discovered that the downside of writing about assholes in the workplace is that criticisms of the piece usually end with the commenter calling you an asshole.
In this analogy does that make bitcoin the future AOL?
Would love to chat as well. Just PM JesseH on Freenode or shoot me an email. j.horne2796@gmail.com
My 1995 "homepage" is still online. I haven't had access to it since '96, and the company that hosted it seized to exist round the turn of the century.

I have no idea where exactly it is, and why on earth it is still online, but I'm fully expecting to celebrate it's 20 year anniversary soon.
> At cryptic.io we are creating a client-side, in-browser encryption system

Here we go again... Let me guess, these guys also figured out a way to disable the context menu from popping up to prevent you from copying anything from their page.

The rest of the article is pretty interesting.

Edit after finishing the last bits of the article: So why is this better than something like MonkeySphere or DNSSEC? Both already let you distribute your public key and don't require anything experimental.
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> prices much lower than any other provider

Does Anyone know their pricing? Qarnot Computing [1] does a similar thing and their solution is at €0.25/hour for “quad-core processors loaded with 16 Go of RAM”.

[1]: http://www.qarnot-computing.com/computing
Here is one I responded to just over a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6729736

So they exist. Not sure how widespread it is, but I would also imagine that it's a larger group than would be apparent simply because most folks don't want to out themselves as "anti-democratic" the most ultimate of sins.
Now you can have sex without even touching another human being!

Yeah, this is one activity I think I've going to stick to the old meatspace/wetware paradigm for, sorry guys.

OTOH I'm sure it's a fun device to work on :)
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The article was weak, but when you've got a school of thought that considers "ethnonationalists" an important part of it[1], it's difficult to escape the conclusion that most of its practicioners are racist, or at least consider many forms of racism to be less pernicious than liberalism.

Especially when your non-ethnonationalists include the likes of Steve Sailer...

[1]http://habitableworlds.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/visualizing-...
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There's a "Download MP3" link directly under the video.
In theory, democracy can be a somewhat workable system. (I wouldn't say robust but workable.)

In practice, at least in the last many decades, we have seen what happens when special interest groups get to write their own laws and regulations behind the scenes...often getting voted on in Congress before there's time to even read the bills.

Maybe the solution is to somehow 'democratize' the special interest groups? Well, I've basically advocated for awhile now that we need a larger group of representatives. (it seems ridiculous to expect a few hundred elected lawmakers to regulate the government.

Either that or we just need smaller government but if we want the government to regulate as much as it does in modern times, it's going to continue evolving as technology and industries evolve and that's one reason why special interest groups have gained so much power. They serve a purpose in government. It's just not transparent and 'refereed' like it should be.
Nepotisms and cliques are not good, and I'm not defending them - you should never recommend someone into a company unless you think they kick ass, and if you are a founder you should work very hard to keep the number of people who have worked together to a minority, otherwise the new folks will feel like outsiders.

But it certainly is the case that the kind of people you want to hire are the kind where anyone who has worked with that person would say, "I'd love to work with them again."
Funny, BT was the example I was thinking of too! I've moved on now but I had a good 9 or so years there.
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This point is probably too subtle for a lot of BT fans.
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Today for one or two people flying is often cheaper than driving unless you're marathon drivers. Once you roll a whole family in it still might be cheaper once you consider the food, hotel/motel, lost time due to infinite bathroom breaks, etc in addition to gas and miles on the car.

But you've made a good point; people made do with less back then and that should be factored in.

I think part of the problem is that the artificially low interest rates are turning "conventional wisdom" or "traditional values" on their head. At 6-8% interest rate and 1-3% inflation saving money makes sense as you get a real interest rate that's positive enough to make saving money smart. Putting away money for future expenses is a good thing as future expenses are discounted today via the interest rate. Living within your means is actually wise.

Today only a fool isn't indebted because with interest rates below 1% and inflation at several percent people are effectively paying you to take loans. Saving money for future expenses actually makes them more expensive; better to wait til you need the money and then borrow it so that you can reap the benefit of negative real interest rates, rather than pay it. Because it doesn't make sense to save money, people don't and that means spending. Good for the GDP numbers today, bad for conventional wisdom about money and especially bad for society's ability to withstand credit shocks or employment shocks as nobody has a cash buffer to see them through the hard times.
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What's up with the cartoon horse in the video?
Disclaimer: Political philosopher here.

Most people who put a lot of emphasis on the alleged conflict between freedom and democracy seem to assume a laughably simplistic definition of democracy taken straight out of early-to-mid-20th-century political philosophy. Basically, when they say "democracy", they mean "majority rule". And of course, if getting 51% of the vote were all there was to democracy, I would wholeheartedly agree that it's a nasty thing.

But political philosophy is one of the fastest moving sub-disciplines of philosophy, and most people who take philosophy and/or political theory courses in the first 2 years of college (or read introductory books by themselves) are unfortunately not given a real taste of the latest developments in democratic theory. This makes them pick up an outdated, straw-man notion of democracy (anybody read Robert Dahl?) and argue passionately against it. But if that's what they're doing, they aren't really adding anything to what Schumpeter said 60 years ago. What a waste of precious brain cycles.

Most influential political philosophers of the English-speaking world in the last half century (Rawls, Dworkin, Gutmann, Thompson, Bohman, Dryzek, Young, Mansbridge, etc. -- and of course Habermas) refuse to equate democracy with "obey whomever 51% of the population votes for". To them, democracy is all about giving the voice of reason a chance to be heard, even if it means departing from political systems that currently pass for democracies. They usually call for much more powerful constitutional constraints on democracy so that the most important human rights become extremely difficult to override even if you have a supermajority. Like all tools, democracy needs to be limited in its scope. If you have a hammer... you know how it goes.
There is nothing wrong with feeling this way - it is often the truth. I've hired many people who were frustrated with their jobs, and I've quit jobs for this reason. But there is a way to communicate it professionally - simply say that you didn't feel challenged with the work and that you weren't learning anything. Just don't rant about how they were a bunch of idiots.
Still around... haha

http://www.easylife.org/fufme/
So it's all MarkLogic's fault?
> These root certificates are managed by a small number of companies designated by some agency who decides on these things

You're trying to explain how SSL is secure, that everyone implicitly trusts the root certificates and then there's this. I immediately lost complete interest in your explanation (because you probably don't understand it yourself) and hence in whatever product and/or solution you're trying to offer.
I've used PostgresSQL quite successfully for the past few years at rather large scales and I can tell you, using TEXT everywhere is sooooooooo much easier on everyone involved. Especially on large teams (hundreds of developers) where migrations are a big deal. And especially when the business teams are essentially dictating the use cases. Those people change their minds ALL THE TIME ("Yeah, I know we agreed that we only need about 20 characters for the description here, but we now think 25 will really make the whole thing pop, ya know?").

And as far as the argument for keeping schemas in strict SQL so that some future database switch can be made more smoothly...I mean c'mon. Even if you actually do that (who does that?) you're going to have more annoying things to do than replacing some TEXT columns to VARCHAR.
true but offtopic. from the docs:

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MySQL 5.7 includes a NoSQL interface, using an integrated memcached daemon that can automatically store data and retrieve it from InnoDB tables, turning the MySQL server into a fast “key-value store” for single-row insert, update, or delete operations. You can still also access the same tables through SQL for convenience, complex queries, bulk operations, application compatibility, and other strengths of traditional database software.

With this NoSQL interface, you use the familiar memcached API to speed up database operations, letting InnoDB handle memory caching using its buffer pool mechanism. Data modified through memcached operations such as ADD, SET, INCR are stored to disk, using the familiar InnoDB mechanisms such as change buffering, the doublewrite buffer, and crash recovery.

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this is what is being benchmarked here, not pure memcached.
I haven't read the article, but...

This isn't at all comparable to disabling the context menu. Anything that runs client-side and is in opposition to the user is screwed as the user can get around it.

An attacker in this case would not have access to the client, an attacker in this case would be a MITM and would therefore not be able to mess with the encryption code (unless the encryption code itself is sent insecurely).
I can't speak for any neo-monarchists but the thing I see the most is the theory of eliminating the wage slave all together through automation and a basic income. I don't think those goals are by virtue in conflict with democracy but I can see how they could be.

Whether you agree with it's plausibility or not, I think that in and of itself is a worthy goal.
I've been in the travel industry for awhile and have been seen a lot of similar trip planning, organizing, and documenting sites come and go pretty quickly. I'm not sure what you plan on implementing but right now this really isn't different than the others. Not that you have to implement something very unique but I think you have to try to find something that separates you from the others. You're going to have a hell of a time trying to convince people to use your site. By far the most popular way to share your travels is simply creating a Facebook album and uploading all the pictures. For many, that's as simple as they want it.

Good luck!
It may be a small, minority world view, but it’s one that I think shines some light on the psyche of contemporary tech culture.

It does. And investigating why geeks are into HBD or nootropics could probably be an interesting article. I wondered about it. Maybe you could even take a look where this disappointment with the regular media/science/gov is coming from.

this interest just happens to coincide with growing media attention being paid to the problems of the tech industry, from sexism in video games to “bro culture” in the tech industry to gentrification in the Bay Area.

Haha. Or inflate your own importance and call people racist. That will probably, and sadly, get even more clicks (while fuelling disapointment with the media).
Well, to start with, go look in a mirror and fire the first person you see.

What is an asshole any way? Difficult to get on with? Racist? Right wing nut job? Religious myth believer? Loner? What?

All I know is that some of the best skilled and most productive people I have worked with have between called some thing similar by others. Well, screw them. If they have time to be slagging off skilled and productive workers for not coming up to their social standards, they sure as hell aren't being of any use to me.

I think all you can do is test the skill set and take some decent amount of time to try to get to know the candidate. Then simply go with your guts. Plus, be prepared to fire the person if it turns out you are wrong. I trial period is always a good safety net, for both.

BTW, how do you avoid working for an asshole? Much harder.
Some items from the video that were not mentioned in the article: One to many interactions, Record and replay experiences, Pre-recorded games/videos.

Of course, none of the above should really be a surprise but they still caught me off-guard.
Excellent details on the sleuthing that went on to find this error. I think it's great that there are great tools available to debug errors like this and your write up helps me in learning more about how to go about properly debugging my Node apps.