skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that mean this isn't cool? This is off the hook. Looks very similar to the iPad versions of Berlin.. high-res images quite a smart Level-of-detail differentiating between zoomlevels.
With .bin files (maybe to keep the format closed? are just raw speed?)

If this is done in an automated way they are on to something pretty great.

Also to do this, is really really hard/lots of work. So kudos for that.
Well, as far as I read the belgian case is about UberPop, the Berlin case about UberBlack, so that's different.
Awesome News. Competition really pushes companies to please their customers. Ever since Digital Ocean became the new hip, Linode has been pushing harder. My experience with them has been mixed. Forgiving their previous mishaps and the feeling that the level of Customer Service has gone down, they have been decent year long. I wouldn't mind recommending them.

[Edit: Removed the bit about DigitalOcean Plans. If you have Ghostery running, it apparently takes out the html block listing different plans]
because querying and aggregating your data with arbitrary conditions becomes much easier. Using SQL you describe what result you want and let the database figure out how to retrieve it.

In many document stores, you have to write manual map/reduce jobs telling the system how to get the data you want.
Somebody asked this on the blog post, here was the reply from Linode:

If you take the upgrade, you inherit the new plan specs, vcpus and all.

We’ve greatly reduced the contention on these new machines compared to our old structure, and in testing this new arrangement provides much more consistent CPU time with less potential for steal. We think it’s great and totally worth the move, otherwise we wouldn’t have done it. These machines are incredibly fast, faster procs, SSDs, the network is incredible, etc.
So looks like postgres and MS SQL support transactions on DDL whereas mysql and Oracle don't. :-)
im really impressed by their new CPU specs. from experience those aren't cheap and it's possibly the fastest CPU out in the market. combined with the SSDs, it may be that Linode currently is the fastest of any cloud hosting right now.
Mme. Too busy protecting our own interests mate! And the greedy wheel turns.
I completely agree with you. As Uber gets more popular, there's statistically more likelihood for assaults and rapes to happen (it does happen in some countries where taxi services are less regulated). What collateral would a distributed service like Uber have if one or more drivers turned out to be harmful to consumers?
If you are building a system for a fortune 500 with a well defined purpose, that will run for years, your #1 might apply. But if you are building something new that you aren't sure what will become yet, like a startup, I would go with the thing that gets you up running the fastest. This allows you to validate quicker and then perhaps change if the project grows to require it.

As for #2, I think that technology is now such a big field that this sort of argument is very rarely valid. NoSQL databases might be so young that there are no db admins with that as their primary field just yet, but that will change soon.
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Postgres is winning the war with MySQL, if you're going to classify it that way. And from everything I've read and heard on HN, Postgres is constantly improving on clustering/HA fronts.
> the "incredibly cheap tiny box" market

How big is that market, really? I keep a small VPS around for whatever (I like Hetzner), and I'm sure lots of nerds are the same. But for any usage that's even a little bit serious, $20/month is peanuts.
Threema let's you verify their encryption: https://threema.ch/validation/

I'm not a security expert, but... seems legit. :)
That quote doesn't directly relate to either of your points. It's only pointing out that an advantage is that Mongo is easy to get set up and load data into quickly.

In certain use cases, that advantage is important (rapid prototyping). In other cases, it's easily outweighed by things like the potential lifetime of the system and the needs associated with that.

No one should make a decision on which tech to use by any one strength/weakness in isolation, and I don't think this article is promoting that mindset.
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You missed the point.

Since most companies now are doing Agile development there isn't the big upfront design process where the data model is clearly understood at the beginning. Instead you have this situation where the schema is continually evolving week by week and hence this is why schema less systems can be appealing. It isn't about performance.
In short, I don't expect MongoDB, or any similar product, to spell the end of the relational database.

The author makes it sound like that was a possibility. SQL and NoSQL are two different tools in the toolbox and should be considered as such.
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I notice that Linode talked a good bit about their bandwidth and included outbound bandwidth in their pricing model which DO does not. I wonder if DO has a similar model or if transfer capacity the only thing you have control over.
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I think making that distinction is a mistake. All lists are obsolete the moment they are written down, but so what? The point is to review the list often enough that no problems are caused.
To me this whole discussion seems equivalent to the static/dynamic typing war in programming languages. And so far, none of the camps have "won" as has been predicted over and over again. There are tradeoffs to both and people will prefer one over the other for what they will believe are rational reasons but probably really just a series of coincidences.
Most interesting part in this great upgrade is that they went from 8CPU setup to 2CPU setup.
But yeah - 2x more RAM, SSDs will guarantee that I'm not going to switch anytime soon.
Sadly I need to wait a week until this will be available in London.
You mean https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/ ? Seems to be working at the moment.
Most of the vitrol stems from the fact that MongoDB's default settings were unsafe for a very long time and people were burned by it. Imo anyway.
No irony at all. Tobacco is the biggest killer, about 5X alcohol, and alcohol is about 10X illicit drugs. On top of that, illicit drug deaths could be brought down by taking the prison and police resources used in the Drug War and using them for harm reduction. Another thing about the Drug War is that zero deaths result from marijuana, and that's still a big component of the Drug War.

On the other hand, guns are used in about 2/3rd of suicides.
I'd not count Java as a sign that people at a place like strongly typed systems: Java is a default. The typing system has so few features, it pales in comparison with the alternatives. Those that are in a JVM and really care about a type system might be using Scala instead.
Well, if you're truly not using it, you could delete the instance and not be billed, then redploy when you need it.
This is a testament to how top management destroy shareholder value and an operating company in their own massive short term gains.

"I'll hire you for $50 million, then you hire me for $60 million, think how much value we just brought to the company."
I just did some price research and it looks like coffee shop coffee in NYC will cost you $1.50 to $3. Regular coffee.
They introduced hourly billing like a week ago :)
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Ugh, the fact that many of these charts show raw # of deaths versus deaths/100k really masks how much things have improved. In 1968, the population was 64% of our current population... So a flat line is actually a pretty massive improvement.
I disagree, but if that's how it's going to be, then let it be done by immigration quota. If something isn't actually going to be a free market, it is better to be honest about that. A pretend free market is the worst of both worlds.
The critical point in the life of a startup is very often that short period at the start, when the team is small and stretched in a hundred directions, trying to 'execute' on everything at once. It's really important to choose your battles.

Where I work (wavo.me), we went with MongoDB, and though imperfect, it was the right DB for us. It's quick to get going, and the schemaless document store makes it easy to change directions and iterate very quickly. That was (and still is) super important to us. It's really not about skillset, it's about cycles.
I think if your understanding of the domain is complete enough that you can map out a relatively wholesome definition of the relationships of data then you're probably right.

I think the advantage the parent is talking about is when you're exploring a domain that you do not have as deep of an understanding in. Schema-less data storage can be helpful in that exploration, as it allows you to dive in and get messy without much upfront consideration. Then afterwards you can step back with what you've learned/seen/experienced and build out your conceptual model of the problem domain.
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"vCPU"

In a virtualized environment, the number of "CPUs" you can see is probably not a great way to measure how much computing power you have.
Hey my company came up with the methodology for this ... just trying to get a sense from some locals if we got the right neighborhood for Cow Hollow? On SF Gate, there are over 150 comments, it seems like people generally agree (but also feel like we're not saying anything that "new"). Thoughts? Or any insight for the other Metros?

http://ink.niche.com/the-25-best-cities-and-neighborhoods-fo...

Thanks for the help and the feedback!

luke
It's open source.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromotingBuildInstr...

And I'm arguing with someone who prefers Microsoft Remote Desktop.

You're right that I'm using a 3rd Party to establish my connection, so there is that.
"progress stopped in the mid 1990s"
maybe i am missing something but it seems like the mortality rate would be a lagging indicator progress hence progress would have "stopped" earlier?

Not that I necessarily would say it stopped at all...
I am really sorry. I had Ghostery running, it took out the entire plan block so I was only able to see the FAQ.
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This example can be quite easily explained: its generated from a designer tool, as it is part of the Nimbus LaF. Its not really part of the JRE API, even though the class may be public.

Btw., the longest name for .NET is not much shorter: UpDownBase+UpDownButtons+UpDownButtonsAccessibleObject+DirectionButtonAccessibleObject
Jeff doesn't say "If you're a CEO then you only want 3 items on your to-do list and you should base that on which ones you remember each morning". He makes _general_ advice which he appears to think applies to everyone.
> Schemaless DBs make sense ... for some cases

I think his real point is that on a SQL database like PostgreSQL you can add schemaless parts to your data if you think that it's right for your case, and with other DBMSs "capabilities in this area are improving rapidly".

But starting with a "Schemaless db" it's much harder to go in the other direction. "The advantages of relational databases are not so easily emulated."
I don't have a to-do list, so much as I have a to-do priority queue. New tasks enter at one end, and the thing I do next comes out the other end. But more important, more urgent, and lower cost things can jump ahead in the line. There are probably a few things in there that have been waiting for years to get done, simply because they have such a low urgency, low importance, and high cost. Things like "build cool thing X without buying more power tools" or "learn to speak the tourist-relevant subset of language X" or "binge-watch show X on streaming service Y" consistently get shoved back behind "file tax returns" and "find and eliminate the smell" and "kill those rassafrassin', arglefarglin' ants before mowing again".
Yeah, I can agree with that. A lot of their claims of scalability and benchmarks aren't lies, but they come with a lot of asterisks. I know in my last job we used both mongo and (mainly) microsoft sql server, and frankly, I enjoyed developing against mongodb way better, but if I needed something to be consistently fast, there was no question I'd put it in sql server. (Mongo's query speed can be really variable, and the tools to diagnose query planning kind of suck compared to more established databases)
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Good, this is an excellent app and their success is much deserved. I look forward to what is to come from them.
That's neat, but it's very hard to tell the colors apart.
Thanks, I agree.

Of course my post is a bit tongue in cheek. Healthy nutrition and exercise are probably the biggest factors in living longer setting aside physical trauma. It even improves your mood, so I'm sure it lowers the suicide rate too.

I considered listing it, but this is a list of things that will kill you, not a list of things that will make you live longer, healthier, and happier... I would love to have that list please.
I worked for 7 years in NYC, considered the #2 tech hub. (Obviously, there's a huge gap between #1 and #2.) I'd almost certainly be an angel investor by now if I spent that time in SV. People about as talented as I am (and, some, significantly less) are now EIRs and partners at reputable VC firms, or even able to found. Place matters.

I'm not poor, but I'm not where I should be, and probably not where I would be if I'd started in SF. (Why I chose NYC would take too long to explain. It's not relevant.)

Once you have a national reputation and can get $250+ per hour consulting rates, you can live whereever you want. It takes a while to get there. Most people have to put in their decade in a congested, expensive, and not very pleasant region of the country before getting there (and some never do).

As for remote work, it has the same issues. If you have a national reputation already, you can get away with it. Most places, remote workers don't really advance their careers and are the first ones axed.
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Chances are, you're already running one.

If you have a smartphone, it allows the carrier (=client) to
access the device (=server) remotely.

Same for cable modems.

Maybe you also have a Wifi router.
It is listening for HTTP requests because it has a "Web GUI".
It is thus a web server, among other things.
Maybe it also has a "backdoor" for remote login as reports
continue to show this is common.

The idea is your devices are listening for incoming
connections and they have data stores to serve on demand.

You may disagree but I would call these servers.

Many people manage to setup Wifi routers at home.

And with a modem or smartphone, there is almost no setup.
You just turn it on and it starts serving.

So, I'd argue that "running your own server" is actually
something anyone can do.

Maybe the real barrier to "running your own server" is
only just confusion over terminology.
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An issue tracker _is_ a to-do list.

It's a list of things I have to do in order to fix bugs, add functionality, get code into production, get documentation into shape, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Often when I read articles like this I take them with a grain of salt. A lot of hate for MEAN technologies seems to stem from people who don't know how to properly use them. You're not supposed to use MongoDB like *SQL and if you try you're gonna have a bad time.

Let's say I have a big pick-up truck I use to haul xWidgets. My friend gets a little motorized scooter to drive around town hauling his yWidgets. Is it proper for me to believe that my friends scooter sucks because it doesn't haul xWidgets like my truck? I don't know much about scooters, but by friend says it doesn't have a steering wheel and it only has two wheels. How the heck can it steer without a wheel? He says it has "handle bars" for steering. Seems kind of dumb but I guess it works for him. He touts the fact that he gets 80mpg on gas but it doesn't matter how efficient it is if he can't haul xWidgets. Scooters suck because they don't work the way my truck does.
in my opinion, gmail became big when it was a kind of status symbol to have a gmail address. I doubt that ever reached asia. but at one point, there were people with gmail addresses, and people with yahoo and hotmail addresses. and if you had a gmail address and you met another person with a gmail address, you knew that person was "in the know." At that point in time, switching email addresses was seamless -- you'd just switch email addresses. nowadays, you're using email for important things. even just a little bit of inertia would probably keep many people from switching.
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Maybe the clock is ticking because thier large production deployments are migrating to other tech? At least we are seeing plenty of folks who realize that a query API on top of mmap isn't really a database. :)

One high profile migration: http://www.couchbase.com/viber
Yup, all of them need to get done, or someone's functionality isn't going to make it into production.
Probably pretty big - look at how popular tiny VPS providers are.

A lot people don't need an entire server and just need a shell, some file space, and a small web/app server.

Even just 10 years ago it was very expensive to get a non-shared hosting account. Go back a little further than that, and you were elite if you had a real server out there somewhere. Back then a low-spec co-located server was $300 a month. And let's not even talk about how expensive bandwidth was!
Have a look at Good to Great[0]. It's basically breaking down the qualities that make for the best CEO's, and the results are as research based as they could get, and also deliver some interesting conclusions.

[0] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-To-Great-Jim-Collins/dp/0712676...
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Most software development projects tend to be falling into two camps these days. Either they are simple and just need basic filtering/grouping in which case you don't need map/reduce. Or they are doing more advanced querying of data in which case Hadoop/Mahout is a better option.
I can confirm that is still the case with latest MySQL version, which is why my company is moving to PostgreSQL.
Side note: asset bubbles pop. Executive pay is not an asset.

I don't know where you work or what you do for a living, but I've heard a similar rant about executive pay from hundreds of people, whereas I've only ever seen a handfull of people trying to do something about it.

So, I propose to you, if this hurts your sensibilities so much, what are you doing about it? Are you continuing to feed the machine by working as one of their employees? Are you participating by trying to create an aqui-hirable startup? Or are you pushing to enact change?
1. they kind of implied that the seed companies build in a "security lock" on hybrid plants. Hybrid progeny have wildly different/non-uniform offspring because that is just the way genetics work. You have two pools of inbred (100% or near homozygous) plants, you cross pollinate them and they have very uniform results because they have pretty uniform genetics and have "hybrid vigor". The next generation (what the farmer harvests) has likely been open air pollinated has a garbled mess of genetics and will therefore underperform if planted. Enough so that it isn't worth trying to re-plant instead of buying new seed. It depends of the species however, Corn is like this, but soybeans are a self pollinating plant so hybrid soybeans aren't really a thing.

2. Not all plants are patent-able, only ones that reproduce asexually. Monansto/DuPont don't patent varieties of corn or soybeans as they don't reproduce asexually, but they DO patent gene insertions (aka BioTech Traits, or BT traits). Getting a gene that kills rootworm or has glyphosate (roundup) resistance is mind bogglingly expensive. When a variety has multiple traits inserted you'll hear it called "a stack". These high cost, high benefit efforts are precisely the kinds of things we would want to be patent-able to encourage companies to invest the huge amount of resources.
Honestly, I'm surprised to see Seznam on HN. I grew up on Czech internet in 90s and Seznam.cz (or "Directory" in English) has been huge for long time until Google has eventually beaten them. The vibe I get here from comments is like as if Seznam.cz is some new hot company while it is really a dying dinosaur like Yahoo.

Maps are not core competency of this company. They are early Internet pioneers maintaining huge portfolio of various services for almost two decades. Maps is just another service they are working on to keep users from leaving them for Google/Youtube, Facebook etc.

Btw, I spoke to Seznam.cz founder briefly once at some business event in Slovakia back in 2000 when I was 17

edit: their maps are created by Melown.com, see example https://www.melown.com/maps/
Redo solves some problems with reliability, which is good [1], but regarding complexity reduction and simplicity it seems to be not better than a plain Makefile. [2]

Also, I don't think it is a good idea to implement this in Go, because you are limiting your userbase to those willing to install Go and willing to compile and build your stuff. From another perspective: Redo is not a tough task, so why not using a ubiquitous language such as Perl or Python? That way, it would run out of the box on almost every machine. Heck, you could even implement it in portable shell script with acceptable effort. If you ever want to establish a new build system, the entry barrier should be as low as possible.

[1] But honestly, redo don't address any issue that "make clean; make" wouldn't solve. So the practical advantage is rather limited.

[2] Nothing wrong with plain Makefiles, though, I use that approach successfully for many small projects.
>if you name a company Uber, it's definitely implied that you're better than the alternatives.

Wasn't this the point of the name?

Where I live people use über often and it means pretty much what it means in German and has no Nazi connotations. (Of course most of our German ancestors moved here long before WWI)
Monsanto will cross-breed these immediately, right? :-D
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