skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The options for file space are called Free, Medium and Premium. The free

> version will offer all younited’s functionality along with 10 GB of safe

> cloud storage – but only for a limited time (starting 2014, the free

> version will offer 5 GB). Medium expands safe cloud storage to 200 GB

> and retails at € 74,99 a year. Premium provides users with 500 GB of

> safe cloud storage, retailing at € 120 a year.

From http://www.younited.com/support
MongoDb is not going to solve development/operations issues, which is what you are describing. If anything, it makes those things worse as it is much more cavalier with your data.
Except people were doing that long before the "cloud" marketing nonsense started,
First point was correct, other two weren't. It was basically a jab at how terrible the Windows 8 UI overhaul was, rather than a boast about how great the Mac UI is.

EDIT: Incidentally, the Windows 8 UI overhaul was terrible. Really terrible. I mean, that does need to be pointed out. Apple got a lot of stick for some slight changes to the way their icons appear on the newer version of the iPhone (forgive me, I'm not an Apple user so I can't comment, I just know the word 'skeumorphism' was thrown around with various levels of anger), but Microsoft seemed to get a much quieter and meeker acceptance of their terrible UI overhual. Yes, there were articles at the time saying "what is Microsoft thinking?", but it seemed -- at least to me -- to just be wearily accepted that Microsoft had dramatically changed their UI so that it was unusable for anyone coming from a previous version of their OS.

I'm not really sure why there wasn't more consumer outrage about Windows 8. Every Windows 8 user I speak to hates its UI, but they just seem to hate it and get on with it. Maybe it's because Windows users are generally less excited by their OS than Mac users? I've never really known a Windows user to speak at any great length, positively or negatively, about their OS.
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> obfuscations, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations

I came out reading this with a very positive feeling--though I must say I already believed most of the things discussed in these articles. Could you point me to some of the obfuscations, misunderstandings, and mischaracterizations? I'd be happy if I can correct some of my misbeliefs...

Are you rejecting the whole notion of "hidden power," or the premise that the hidden power influences and controls the Federal Reserve system and other institutions like the IMF?
The NASA article has some insight on that: http://www.earthcouncil.net/freshair.htm
It always amuses me when people compare operating systems and all they talk about is GUI.
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That's funny, I was just reading this blog post from Adrian Holovaty on some of the issues he ran into with deploying Python/Django on Heroku and how great AWS has worked out for him with Soundslice:

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/aws-notes/

He just about had me sold.

Anyway, I'm definitely in the wanting to avoid sysadmin stuff if at all possible camp. Does anyone have any thoughts on AWS vs Heroku for Django? Does Adrian's solution seem reasonable?
Personally I loathe stored procedures because often they include a lot of logic that shouldn't be on the database and they also generally involve SQL extenstions that are pretty terrible for the general-purpose computing you see them used for.

But if that layer is primarily used for providing, controlling, and optimizing access to the data I can see the appeal. And in that case? Being able to write the procedural parts in a language that's less-terrible than typical SQL extensions would be really nice.
It's probably either in the driver for the gps chip or the gps firmware; neither of which are likely to have source available for you.
It's not really very store-like but you're absolutely correct that a lot of people view it that way. One doesn't have to look very far to find threads filled with all sorts of vitriol and threats over some kickstarter project which, despite what one assumes were the best of intentions, simply wasn't delivered as promised.

Of course, the fact that "Kickstarter's Terms of Use require creators to fulfill all rewards of their project or refund any backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill" also reinforces the idea that getting what's promised is guaranteed. But that doesn't help if the money is just gone.
Great, I love to start my day with a bit of existential horror.

I had some stuff to do, but now I think I'll just stare into the middle distance and contemplate the pointlessness of it all.
It seems like since they're just quoting a maximum, higher should be safer. There can always be reasons it didn't hit the maximum, there shouldn't be reasons it exceeded it.
Sure! Here is what I see (with scripts enabled):

http://postimg.org/image/572wjz4rp/

It's similar to what browserstack shows (the wavy look of the top bar of the capital T in the headline, the "hat" on the capital O in the text), but in some ways it looks worse on my system, especially the bold face:

http://postimg.org/image/r4zddrjs5/

Note the jaggy lower part of the bold, lower case y, and how the bottom of the bold lower case e and the top of the bold lower case t are thinning out precariously..

Times, on the other hand, does not look blurry:

http://postimg.org/image/4cl9wjwql/

Maybe my eyes need recalibration, but personally I find times much easier to read, mostly due to its crispness.
Yes, China and India are considered "developing" countries by Kyoto and can produce all the CO2 they want under the treaty, so of course they signed it.

EDIT: and, of course, it was about CO2, not particulates. A country can make certain trade-offs about different types of pollution (particulates v. CO2 v. NOX).
A truckload isn't all that much. I doubt the truck in the article was carrying more than a couple grams of the actual material. The lab grade sources we use (that are considered safe to handle as long as you don't eat them) are on the order of micrograms.
I am Chinese. The whole China are suffer from air pollution, not noly Shanghai.
Sometimes it is just a lot easier and more query efficient to store a bunch of related data as just a hash or even with embedded hashes. Like, if you want to store a list of key/value pairs alongside a bunch of other data. Yes, you could do that via a bunch of tables and relations and joins and things, but conceptually if all that data can be seen as one self contained record, why spread it across a bunch of separate tables?

Sometimes a document collection is just a whole lot easier to reason about.
No Chicago! :(
It better to say it doesn't fit your business model.
Great! I am going to definitely use it for my personal project.
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page 2 and 3 is 98% screenshots ;-)
Ok, I get what you mean, but it certainly isn't jaggy. I'm running Chrome 31 on a MBP Maverick.
That was how the page started, and they didn't want to change it so as to not upset anyone by making them have to cope with new page UI. Even if it would work better.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/apples-mac-mini-reborn/
From Milton Glaser's "Ten Things I Have Learned" [PDF](http://www.miltonglaser.com/files/Essays-10things-8400.pdf):

> 3 SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM. This is a subtext of number one. There was in the sixties a man named Fritz Perls who was a gestalt therapist. Gestalt therapy derives from art history, it proposes you must understand the 'whole' before you can understand the details. What you have to look at is the entire culture, the entire family and community and so on. Perls proposed that in all relationships people could be either toxic or nourishing towards one another. It is not necessarily true that the same person will be toxic or nourishing in every relationship, but the combination of any two people in a relationship produces toxic or nourishing consequences. And the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your relationship with them. Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn't matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energized or less energized. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible and I suggest that you use it for the rest of your life.
What I find interesting is the chart where they estimate daily mining revenue to be on the order of $10 million/day, assuming current prices. Probably, that computation should be easy to verify using the various Bitcoin websites.

Fundamentally, Bitcoin is a transaction ledger. I suspect a ledger supporting the same volume of monetary transactions could be implemented using a single moderately sized server. Even if you calculate with decent margins and fail-overs, the true cost of providing most of the functionality of Bitcoin is more like $1000 per year. (I'm not calculating software development, since the Bitcoin software development also doesn't figure into those $10 million / day).

How valuable is the fact that Bitcoin is decentralized and therefore very difficult to control for governments? Is that worth $3000 million per year or more? And is there truly no alternative way to get there that is cheaper in terms of computing power?

If you're long BTC, it seems to me that that's what you're betting on.

If the answer were No to either of these questions, there would eventually be a correction.
I've wonder about #2 though. We see the downsides of saving in an inflationary system, but a finite currency system... do we really expect that to be stable for 50 years, and if so, based on what precedent?

I was surprised to see BOA list "It's finite" as an advantage. It seems like this mentality is all anti-inflation (which seems justifiable) yet the alternative is taking a wildly experimental approach to savings. BTC hasn't proven stability within a month really yet, why trust it for 50 years? And then if you put in that 1 day's wage of Bitcoins, what happens when the market cap for BTC fluctuates? It won't always be in a steady demand, it will depend a bit on how many people are using it, no?

I am a doomsdayer also I think that it can only succeed if it always remains the same price or keeps going up, but the belief that this is possible is obviously intellectually malformed.
$1000! Crazy laowai. As a data point, my current F visa is 2 years, multi-entry, 90 days and cost the nominal fee plus about $100 for the visa company to drop it off at the consulate.
Apparently, the F visa has been re-purposed and there is a new M business visa. Any practical experience with that?

[of course, China habitually hassles journalists (Bloomberg) over visas]
Normally technology is invented in Silicon Valley Start-Ups and then either copied or expanded to Germany. To see a slow developing company like the German post company (previously government owned) use a technology for years and then seeing people getting totally excited about the idea in the US years after is just a strange experience.
Not typically: using forking daemons does not mean that you can't also use threads. The ideal model probably uses both - so they can be stuck to a processor, but still use threads per request. It's nice to have a library to abstract the implementation details away for you, but not necessary.
Agreed, except that your internal documentation can't abstract away all the infrastructure. At least for the company as a whole.
Changing code is one thing, changing the DB is another. A deployment that changes only the code is simpler than one that changes the DB.

How many DBs do you have? Testing (usually local), staging, production? For how many sites?

It works the same, if row['new_field'] do_something() else do_something_else()

You have unit tests to make sure it works.

And if it was so safer and easy to do it PostgreSQL wouldn't have added the json field.
Build the cube from Cube instead.
I agree that there is a lot to improve upon the existing designs. Don't worry, my surprise was not meant as criticism on your project.
I'm not local but I have friends there. The Chinese were accepting of the pollution at first because of the success they were experiencing on a world stage. They figured that if the politicians and the higher ups could deal with it, then the ordinary citizen can too. Then the average citizen started realizing that the elite didn't actually have to deal with it because they would buy expensive air purifiers for their homes, cars, and work places. There has been more of an outcry against the pollution that is now causing all forms of health problems as of late and despite the heavily authoritarian rule of the regime, the Chinese government is prudent enough to know that a largely dissatisfied citizenry is always a risk. So the various local and national governments are moving, albeit slowly, to try and reduce their pollution levels.
Great reading! Things could of course play out like this but, since we have no really no clue, aiming for the stars is the most exciting alternative.

The biggest mistake we could be making right now is to waste the current free oil reserves that are probably necessary to move to the next technological level.

But I guess capitalism leaves no other option: we need the profit motive to keep things running. Maybe another economic system would be better suited to reach grand goals, but which one?
Well for one, that smog in London lasted a week, compared to Shanghai where it is persistent and getting worse.
Another song for Mandela, though released in 1989 as a B-side single: Simple Minds - Mandela Day...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_Day_(song)
If they said that, fine. It's not what's said though.

They make claims to be the hardware developer, with lots of pictures of circuitry and apparent prototyping.

It smells like a scam.
DevOps/Sysadmin here. If you want to avoid the DevOps pain use Heroku until you run into its pain points, and then migrate to AWS (or even Digital Ocean, if you don't need S3, elastic load balancers, etc).

Most developers should have no problem in AWS for small to midsize environments until you're scaling up.
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>To me the most interesting point in the future is 120 trillion years: when all the stars in the universe have exhausted their fuel, and the Universe has gone dark.

Sorry, but doesn't that sound like the LEAST interesting point in the universe?
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According to the data from this page: http://kopf.github.io/chineseair/ Beijing seems to typically have higher pollution levels than Shanghai.
Interesting, but how does humanity rise from a non-industrial dark age to high technology without any reserves of fossil fuels? I say we get only one shot at this - if we our our grandchildren blow it, we remain at ... ok this is stupid ... ewok levels of civilization forever after.
About a year ago I implemented a sub-system relying heavily on MongoDB. The load is not that immense, a couple of hundred requests per minute. The dataset is large however, several hundred GB, spread over millions of documents. Also, updates happens in batch, during the night, while reads are happening all the time. I have not had to touch the system since it was put in production over a year ago - it just runs.

MongoDB is a tool, understand it's strengths and limitations and it will serve you well. We achieves great performance for our use-case by correct schema-design / partitioning of data, and sane use of indexes - which are excellent in MongoDB. If you need to scale large, you need to store the data in such a way that it does not require much resources to fetch them, i.e. you must store the data according to your read-requirements. This is even more true in "key-value" systems like Cassandra, which is more limited in how you can store data. MongoDB is very flexible, so it's a lot easier to shoot yourself in the foot.
Is there a Python version? If so does it beat Fuckit.py?
Well they needed something to counteract the dusty image of the term "mainframe".
I think probably you need the context: Adam Curtis usually makes multi-part documentaries that span several hours, so his blogs have a pretty serious load on the old attention-span. That said, I've never yet been disappointed by the way he puts them together. He's very much a storyteller, but at the same time as he admits to weaving in his own opinions, he does at least do his dues as regards research. Some of the archive material he unearths is unbelievable, I swear he must just live on a camp bed in the BBC archive.
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"AWS is expensive, as soon as we start an instance, we’re billed for the entire hour, even if we only need to run a 2 minute test on it."

What you really needed to do was design algorithm that keeps machines running over period in time, according to a general trend. Not shutdown, and instantly bootup for every customer deciding to run tests.
"Change for the better"? That assumes that change happened at all. There's no inconsistency between using violence to effect political change and being magnanimous in victory.
Utopianism, of course. Imagine a civilization fueled entirely by hopium!!
No, I have to agree with the parent, it was overly verbose with no up front defined and consistent thesis or hypothesis. It's hard to read what feels like the meanderings of the authors mind when the central thesis that you thought you were reading about gets quickly diverted.

I know that a lot of people shy away from large pages of print, but the imagery and format of this article is pretty inconsistent.

That said, after reading it all, I think I agree with the author but it's hard to tell.
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I feel like this might have more to do with the poster living in DC. I'm in the DC area, and most of the job postings you see are for government contractors, which aren't exactly "cool". That's not to say that there aren't "cool" jobs here, but if you're looking at Dice or Monster, they aren't going to be the ones you see.
M0 would work as a comparison only if nobody saved in BTC. If people did save in BTC, you'd need a much broader definition of money supply as comparison, and cshimmin's comparison makes sense.

And since that's a common objection: a reserve banking system on top of BTC would at best last two generations due to a lack of a central bank.
This guy, uses, a lot of commas, when he speaks. He's kind of, got, a Christopher Walken, thing, going on.
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That's correct, Bitcoins are represented by 64-bit integers, since it's usually a very, very bad idea to use floats in the financial realm.

I suspect that Bitcoin's lack of divisibility past the satoshi won't ever be an issue, since there will probably be other digital currencies in use for small, everyday purchases (perhaps one of the altcoins, but more likely one that hasn't yet been created).
My job title is "UX Engineer"
Even his Manchester International Festival documentary was incredible, and that was at least a third musical collaboration...
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That photo just gave me a great idea for the next Bioshock game.
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Yet another 3 letter GOV killing off an innovated startup. What's next stopping Soylent. Why does Government kill innovation?
There's a big "movement" by CCP to control this thing. It's mentioned in major party conferences. I heard there's going to be 10 Billion RMB poured into this, and pollution would be considered as evaluation parameter for "party leaders".

However I seriously doubt most of the money will end up in vein or simply stolen.

So "enforcement" is to happen but I have little trust in them.
It's clear that the author is not referring to the game Taboo:

> The illusion of unity across religions can be dispelled by making the term "God" taboo, and asking them to say what it is they believe in; or making the word "faith" taboo, and asking them why they believe it.

He chooses to not represent certain things in language, but if we are operating in a situation where science has not or cannot make firm pronouncements, how do we act? The approach he is presenting is akin to just slicing off the fuzzy corners of a map, since by his estimation the clear parts are the only _real_ map. How we cut off those chunks of the map is arbitrary, and in that sense belies the ideological background of whoever employs this technique.
If it takes people to code it, it's still part of the expenses for running in that environment.
I went and read through the last page, and I would say that yeah, my second guess wasn't in the article but my third guess is. The author seems to be pointing out that OSX doesn't change and that's better.

It's still useless pagination.
This reminds me of a Time Team special where they pointed out that the island of Great Britain has completely lost its human population and be re-populated at least seven times so far.
My impression is that it has to do with Tiananmen Square (been there, tried that, didn't work) and being complicit in trading off economic advancement for maintaining Communist party rule. Also many government officials directly benefit from economic advancement via bribery/corruption.
Probably you are right. I was still drafting the final post when I saw it in HN.
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You just don't like the word "cloud" at all, and that's fine, but that is a different complaint from the original, which was basically that the term is being misused when combined with the term "private". If we are going to use the term "cloud" and assign it a meaning, we can certainly use it to refer to private clouds. If EC2 is a cloud for me, is it not also a cloud when Amazon builds services on it?
What's surprising is Shanghai's life expectancy being really hight (over 82). Would like to have someone with some knowledge about the subject expand a bit on the pollution/life expectancy/statictics subject (there will be consequences later? etc)
In my view, public acceptance requires stability. There's nothing that I can think of in the theory or history of Bitcoin to suggest that it should, can, or will ever, overcome its volatility.

"Store of value" acceptable to laypeople will never happen, so long as Btc is volatile.

"Medium of exchange" will be hampered by volatility because the use of Bitcoin by laypeople will require them to exchange Btc for a stable currency such as government money. This exchange is unnecessary when using a mechanism such as PayPal, thus Btc inherently suffers a higher load of transaction fees.

It's a vicious circle. Liquidity of the exchange between currency and Btc would help to address both of these problems, but is beyond the scope of the Btc concept itself. It will require further innovation. A possible scenario for success is that competition drives Btc transaction costs below credit card swipe fees, thus breaking the oligopoly of the credit card processing business.

Disclaimer: I use a PayPal merchant account for my side business.
Librairies that wrap exceptions into something else often do a disservice to their users. In this `Prefs:save()` example, what should the wrapping library throw? A "SaveFailedException"? That's more abstract, however now I would need to go check the source code of the library, find where the exception has been converted to something else, comment out the "try/catch" statement, and rerun the program. Then I can finally now what really happened and do something to fix it.