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Only in situations where society has power over individual choice, which, I grant up front, is exactly the society we have in America.

To put it into perspective though, Michael Bloomberg recently attempted to ban the sale of large sodas in New York City. I, as a personal choice, do not drink soda, because I believe it's the devil, basically. That said, that is only a personal choice.

I agree that it's obviously detrimental to society on the whole, but so what? I'm not beholden to society on the whole, nor is society beholden to me. The idea that we should ban soda, even if we know that it is bad for society, and even if we know that it is bad for the individual, is antithetical to freedom, and a practice which I don't support.

All that said, I agree that we live in far too controlling a society, and this is exactly why I oppose the notion of socialized health care; which is that as more of society is involved in my medical choices, more of them have incentive to eliminate every unhealthy thing that I might do (and vice versa). Despite the fact that I am a very healthy individual by most standards, I don't want my freedom to drink the occasional soda evaporated by those who mean well.
Note that Stonebraker makes some good points, but there are many ways to build scalability and Stonebraker is too fast to dismiss many.

In particular, his criticism of traditional databases seems based more on philosophy rather than evidence.

I'd advise reading both sides of the story:

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2009/09/16/relational-databas...

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2009/07/03/column-stores-and-...

http://architects.dzone.com/articles/stonebraker-talk-trigge...

http://gigaom.com/2011/07/11/amazons-werner-vogels-on-the-st...

http://dom.as/2011/07/08/stonebraker-trapped/

The date on some of those posts in interesting. 2009 is quite a while ago now, and I'd suggest that columnar datastores haven't exactly taken over. Some implementations have made some progress (eg Cassandra), but OTOH many non-traditional datastores have added traditional-database like features (eg, Facebook's SQL front end on their NoSQL system), and traditional databases have added NoSQL features too.
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I played a few games of Kerbal Space program recently, so I can understand what's happening a little better now.

I'd love to have a place somewhere where I can "watch" launches in a way similar to KSP's map view. You would be able to see the rocket, including it's essential info (altitude, speed, the ball thing) and also be able to see the manoeuvres they do.
The actual purpose of mining is to extend the blockchain. It just currently has the incentive-producing side-effect of creating bitcoins. In the end, mining will be funded through transaction fees.
Get dedicated T1's if you can afford them. Debugging phone issues is near impossible if you can't trust your network.
> But this seems to be first actual Main memory database.

Eh, not really...

This is exactly what SAP has been doing for several years via Hasso Plattner and the Potsdam Institute:
https://epic.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/Home/HassoPlattner

If you've ever worked with large scale "enterprise" database warehouses, they tend to be slow and clunky. Back in 2006ish SAP took the whole Data Warehouse (well mainly just the data cubes) and chucked it into a columnar database (at the time it was called TREX, then became BW Accelerator) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREX_search_engine

TREX exist way before 2006. SAP also bought a Korean company called P* (IIRC) which did non-columanr (traditional relational) and threw it into memory. SAP also had a produce called APO LiveCache - http://scn.sap.com/community/scm/apo/livecache - which lived around the same time.

This has now all evolved to a standard offering called SAP HANA - http://www.saphana.com/welcome - In it's second year of inception I believe SAP did roughly $360m in sales just on HANA alone.

Also, IIRC is InnoDB basically the open source version of exactly what you're talking about with "Postgres to main memory"?

edit- correction in TimesTen
Greener than digging up precious metals to melt into blocks to be buried again in safes.
In saying "This will likely be downvoted to hell" you are basically saying you are smarter than us.

Hence why you'll be downvoted.
I think they might be if you're outside the US. That is, the NSA monitor all communication within the US, so a US citizen uploading a file to MEGA would be recorded. A non-US citizen uploading a file to Google Drive would be recorded. But a non-US citizen uploading a file to MEGA would not be recorded most of the time, unless the NSA happen to be listening in on the right underground optical cables that day.

The claim is not completely false.
Honestly, let's think a little bit here. If this story was reported on in China, what currency would it be converted to for the readership?

If a story about American dollars being stolen was reported on in China, what currency would it be reported in? Is the dollar just a wrapper for the Yuan?
I'm pretty sure I just heard someone in the background saying over the radio, "What you talkin' 'bout, Willis? We going up top. Totally different". Not what I remember hearing as a kid during NASA launches :)
You're confusing a spec with real-life implementation. The article is discussing the latter. The study of linguistics is separate from the study of language and grammar.
Why do people use online wallets? I don't understand.
You can still do a pretty similar experiment. For instance, startups 1-50 get into yc like normal. Startups 51-100, together with 50 randomly selected startups get grouped together and tagged as "the bubble group". Meaning that they were on the bubble of getting into yc. Pretty high honors. However, they don't get any access, consultation, etc. to yc itself. Then after a few months you unblind which were highly selected and which were random, to see who does better.
Bitcoin advocates talk about lack of regulations a feature, not a bug, so I'd wonder how well it'd go over.

I think it's important and will have to happen eventually.
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Do we give websites the right to serve us ads in their ToS? That seems like the only blatant legal issue I can think of.
There's also a question of how do you define the index fund. The S&P is pretty non-ambiguous. How do you define which startups are in the index? By the time they're definable as a real business, they're no longer early-stage startups.
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Given recorded history, why would anybody sell insurance to bitcoin companies?
You're speaking of her father's indiscretions, not hers.
I know it when I see it!
FDA halts sales of 23andMe DNA test kits
Pretty sad, especially for folks who lost coin.

The part that intrigues me is the whole security aspect of it. Take your average bright guy and say "Lets set up a place where people can store and move around gold coins. All the gold coins are going to sit in your living room, and of course if anyone were to get there hands on those coins they could melt them down into pieces and resell them so that you never knew where they went. There is going to be more than a million dollars worth of coins in your living room, do you think you're door lock is up to it?"

Ok so its a stretch, but Bitcoin has two interesting properties, one it is pretty fungible, and two most if not all governments consider it about as 'real' as the gold in World of Warcraft. If CFAA doesn't apply (say the server is outside the US) then what exactly would you even charge someone with who "stole" 1000 BTC? It isn't recognized as currency by any jurisdiction on the planet as far as I can tell, so what got stolen? Numbers? Block chain data?

This fairly unique combination of properties quite possibly make Bitcoin the ideal target for thieves. Better than cash, better than raw gemstones, better than pretty much anything except possibly bearer bonds [1]. Have you seen how much security there is around vaults that hold bearer bonds?

And yet people create exchanges or wallet services or whatnot and then seem shocked when they get compromised by very sophisticated programmers [2], that steal all their BTC? You are surprised?

Given these huge thefts where is the money going? I mean is there a steady stream of redemptions at exchanges? Is there a note in the chain when the coin is transacted for cash? Should there be?

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/bonds/08/bearer-bond.as...

[2] When the payoff is huge, the risk small, you can pay someone a lot of money if they are good to get you the coins.
It comes as a mix. We took a pic for you: http://i.imgur.com/RQ74EK1.jpg
Countdown aborted at T-6:11. Looks like they still have some issues to resolve.
I'm 23 and missed when this change happened.
I see. Well thanks for your answer. Maybe I know better what are the options now and what I'm looking for at all :)

As I say, the idea would be to edit a database/file directly on the web (i.e. no local excel file). Since the original post talked about TSV I thought there might be a niche for such a light JS editor.
Sure--the reason the US has such a strong image of the Nazis burned into its cultural psyche, is that, in our minds, we were almost them. Totalitarian eugenics was the zeitgeist among the progressives of the 1930s and 40s, growing directly from the just-recently-settled implications of Darwin; and America, as in many other intellectual movements in the 19th and 20th centuries, was one of the central participants in the discourse.

However, we never did any eugenics. We thought about it: explored, in all its Consequentialist glory, every facet of the avenues available to us at the time; had our strategists and think-tanks outline hard-nosed evaluations of the pros and cons of such actions; but, then as now, it never came to anything. There was no top-down governmental push to force sterilization, or death, by active selection from the population. And as far as I can tell, with the way the US government is designed, there could be no such push; there isn't an arm of the government from which it could legitimately originate.

Even without the Nazi example to reflect upon, the deepest into depravity the American system would likely have sunk would be something like sterilizing entrants into our dystopian prisoner-industrial complex. :)

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Seperately, I must just point out, your last paragraph reeks of Reactionism[1] -- just because we were wrong, does not mean that we will be wrong in perpetuity, and there is no reason to flinch away from even evaluating the consequences of things like eugenics when those consequences are constantly changing alongside advances in technology.

There may come a point where there will be no negative consequences at all -- a point when, say, a mother can just take a pill to ensure that from then on she will conceive completely genetically-healthy children. To flinch away at that point would be madness. The question is, how close must we be before flinching away is not madness, but just sub-optimal in the net-present-value of global DALY[2]? And how close are we now?

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-fa... or to summarize http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year
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I think I heard them mention a computer that hadn't come up properly. Still, they have a reputation for fixing things quickly.
I didn't submit it or upvote it, but read the piece and found it interesting. For me, the value to HN isn't so much of dealing with wealth but one of being that quick distraction wondering how a problem like this might be solved to better society, and whether it can be ultimately solved.
Thanks for this. I heard it too, but thought for sure that I had imagined it.
Forgive me for being mathematical in order to make my point:

My hypothesis is that having more information cannot result in a worse average outcome, given a rational response to the information (correctly accounting for relative risk). As a doctor, I do not have to recommend follow up scans if the cost is greater than the benefit, but I should still seek to use the information from those once they've been done.

I suggest that the above holds true even if there is some known chance that the information is junk.

To put it more simply, early intervention is always better.
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Here comes their favorite word..."nominal"... :)
But in theory a majority cartel could control which transactions get added to the block chain. You'd be forced to follow their chain. And if you wanted your transaction processed, you'd have to follow their rules.

I'm not saying this will happen, but it's possible.
Man, I hope SpaceX has far more success with their launches than I do in KSP, otherwise Orlando is going to have quite a fireworks show.
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BIPS was a payments processor. Merchants used them to accept Bitcoin payments AFK.
"Here is a company who is trying to make genetics more accessible, approachable, and comprehensible"

No, it really isn't. It's trying to make a mass-market product that it can sell to unsophisticated end-users who don't have a prayer of understanding what they're seeing. Accuracy and precision are secondary concerns, and without those you're not actually doing genetics, but pseudo-science.

I have a number of friends who have received 23's "analysis", and come to me to interpret all/part of their results. They're garbage. You shouldn't take any of it seriously, in any way. To properly interpret even the simplest parts of their report, you need a background in statistics and genetics that only highly trained people have. And even then, there's usually not enough information -- you need to do tons of digging into the literature to find out that some relative risk increase is highly conditional on population or that the original experiment was flawed in some subtle but important way.

As they say: things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. There are things that are complicated for a reason, and you can't just discard the inherent complexity and claim it as a virtue. It's not disruption to be irresponsible.
There is another phenomena that appears related to this. Younger americans are adopting an interrogative tone for sentences that are supposed to be statements. I really enjoyed that restaurant? The salmon was really good?

I really noticed this in my German class. There are students from various countries, and one of the students was an American girl in her early 20s. She was a nice person, but you could really see people going through the "are you telling me or asking?" confusion all the time. I think there's something deeper going on here. I don't want to wax philosophical too much, but our current culture appears suspicious of statements. As if uttering them is crass in some way. I don't claim to understand why.
Actually, the file is encrypted on the client side using JavaScript, so even the NSA listening wouldn't see it's content.
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I stopped eating regular meals and live of a cup of black unsugared coffee, a cup of water and a daily switched apple or can of tuna in natural olive oil. I haven't felt healthier in years. Regular meals are not necessary to survive and with this diet you will save a lot of money, feel healthier and become spiritually awakened.
The original AllThingsD article is a much more interesting read (and included the actual memo):

http://allthingsd.com/20131124/while-users-lament-only-25-pe...
HIV tests are pretty simple, from a diagnostic test point of view. It's really a boolean - HIV present, or not present. The meaning of a particular genetic variant is much more ambiguous.
And Steve Jobs. The two dominant companies in personal computing, both founded by drop-outs!
In orbit 1/4 the distance to the moon? Wow! I didn't realize we put satellites into orbit at that height.
> Rather, we should see it for what it really is: the norm.

I don't know maybe I am an exception but I see companies shutting down products far from the norm. I normally tend to trust bigger companies with stability and invest most of my energy in them. I still have my hotmail/yahoo/aol accounts from the mid 90s working just fine.

Google is an exception. It feels like they are punching themselves when walking forward. Their current goal is to provide a comfortable integrated experience. Even though from a business perspective, it makes sense to shut down unviable products and services, from a consumer point of view it only causes frustration and loss of trust, which ironically is quiet opposite of what they are trying to achieve.

Ask yourself:

Keeping all other variables constant, which would you trust to be around longer:

Google Drive or Dropbox?

Google App Engine or AWS?

Google Wallet or Paypal?

Google+ or Facebook?
Well, as an aerospace engineer, I don't think any vehicle should be called a drone. Unmanned [Combat] Aerial Vehicle is a better term, or even Remotely Piloted Vehicle.

But if we must use the label, let's say that a 'drone' meets one of the following:

* Has weapons
* Operates autonomously
* Operates over the horizon
* Requires runway facilities -- large remotely-piloted aircraft

Everything else is just RC, including the quadrotors in the article.
Marking some functions as suitable for internal use is fine. That's not something that's generally considered as falling under the definition of encapsulation.

Encapsulation is a mechanism to hide information, to conceal internal state or values. I'd argue that this an anti-pattern. Hiding data is almost always the wrong thing to do.
"Inexpensive" strikes me as a good alternative.
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Take bioforte resveratrol. That's what worked for me. I'd wake up at the time I wanted to wake up and would take it. After a few days I would always wake up at that time. Also, the thing about resveratrol is that it will give you (clean) energy during the day that will be capped off by feeling tired at night when it's time to go to bed. It has a great normalizing/regulatory effect. You can use Melatonin at night in the beginning, but you probably won't need it permanently.

That said, I went right back to being a night owl. There is something about working late at night into the early morning. Something peaceful, something serene, something that causes me to be more productive than ever. Being a morning person didn't even come close.
Lesson being, the world is shades of gray, you don't just call all government good or bad unless you want to be spectacularly wrong and confident about it. The world's realized that the communists were idiots who thoughtlessly caused a lot of suffering when they got their way, why don't the libertarians learn the obvious lesson? Blanket ideology ratcheted up to 11 leads to really bad ideas.

On the particulars -- the TSA has never caught an actual terrorist. The FDA has stopped potentially harmful and/or ineffective drugs from coming to market. Anything could be improved and, given drug research costs, there's probably a lot of room for improvement at the FDA. But "let's abolish it because ideology" doesn't fly. In 23andme's particular case, they seem to have an extremely mild and common-sense set of requests that could be fixed at the disclaimer level.
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Trust me, no "hipster hacker" anywhere on the face of the planet has ever uttered the words "I know what would make this project better; an XML datastore!". Nothing is less cool than XML.

The hipster solution would be MongoDB. :)
It is possible that they were only transferring the data to a third party (for some cash or some secret order).
The short wikipedia page about her seems to claim that she ran her father's business after his death for a period of 12 years. That doesn't seem like a prison with gold bars, it sounds like a career. Sure it seems like her personal life wasn't a fairytale but how many people's are?
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I hate that this requires flash. Anyone who can continue updating for us that can't watch, that'd be great. Thanks :)
No one will want to work with you (or, at least, who you would want to work with you) if you have grammatical and spelling mistakes in your job listing.
Sorry, I'm Italian. I'm not a native English speaker. I try my best :)
Another nitpick, from the linked "CEO page":

"it appeals to technical people that appreciate elegant solutions"

Should arguably read as "people who appreciate". "Who" is preferred over "that" or "which" when referring to people.
Just reset to 13 minutes.
Now they're trying again! T minus 13 minutes! So cool!
I've wondered about the use of ellipsis in Hacker News comments, e.g. "That's quite... unusual". I guess it's supposed to indicate that the writer had to stop and think hard to find the right word, but I feel like there's some semantic meaning I'm missing. Has anyone else noticed this?
You're right. They're not going to be able to say "our data shows you have disease X". They probably have no business saying anything of the sort.
You are equating false negatives to harmful information, when in reality it is the same as simply not taking the 23andMe test. The only thing 23andme enables you to do is act sooner on things they get right, and any false negatives are irrelevant—you didn't ask for a diagnosis and they aren't claiming to give you a diagnosis. You cannot be harmed by a false negative any more than you will be harmed by not buying a 23andMe kit.

> you might decide against certain treatments or tests based on that

Since you are mentioning treatments means, you must misunderstand what the purpose of the test is for. If you have current medical problems that you need treatment for, you wouldn't use 23andMe's statistics in order to chose a treatment, you ask your physician to help you get the treatment you need. If 23andMe had a false negative on my condition instead of the true positive, I would still get diagnosed once I started developing symptoms eventually. Nobody who starts having health problems thinks "I should first consult my 23andMe results for things that I should specifically mention to my physician that I don't have".
I suspect 23andMe didn't provide documentation because they very much want to avoid being treated as a medical service, and fear submitting this documentation would serve to further put them on this path.

There is a bit of a contradiction here that "natural supplements" get this huge pass from the FDA, but applying some math to very, very natural genetic data doesn't.
> I feel like we have our very own identity, philosophy and beliefs

Care to articulate them here?

(I'm sorry about the attention your project received on Wired. That's really rough, I can't imagine what you must be going through, getting publicity like that.)
The beauty of not being a NASA launch ;)
That sounds like fun! I'm jealous. I never played Barkley, but I have fond memories of playing Streets of Rage and Madden on the Genesis. The controls of the current iterations of Madden for me are much to complex, it's a chore to remember and master.
Held, reset to T-13m. They have an hour+ long launch window so they have a good chance of lauching today.

Edit: clock is counting down again, launch estimated to be 3:30pm PST.
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We put lots of them up there! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit
OMG so so so cool
>In defense of High School football and younger, most of the players aren't physically developed enough to cause and long term damage to themselves or anyone else (in terms of head related injuries).

Do you have any evidence to back up this speculation?