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I'm s glad to see an article like this on HN, as opposed to articles that attribute success to massive amounts of luck.
Not advocating MongoDB, but I think if we base our opinions solely on how things were 2 years ago, we would end up still basing our opinions on how things were 10 years ago.
Software breaks, 'poor' design decisions are made, etc, but at the same time, 2 years is a lot of time for improvements to be made.

My HTML5 app failed me 3 years ago, I've now been recommending that everyone stay away from HTML5. /s
Of course, this is a great way to show what's possible with bitmessage! And it seems to work on my phone (with a couple minor ui glitches in mobile firefox).

On the desktop, Tor + Blinked is a very easy solution to basic anonymous communication.
To sound intentionally arrogant and possibly ignorant, this whole write-up is captain-obvious material.
That is incredibly dangerous. It is very likely that you were underestimating how impaired you were.
This reminds me a bit of a steve yegge quote.

"Having a good memory is a serious impediment to understanding. It lets you cheat your way through life."

This also reminds me quite a bit of the famous conversation between Eric S. Raymond and Linus Torvalds about "the curse of the gifted."
As far as I've experienced, both are required.
Maybe somewhere in the middle, but fair point. I have my bias for the style change, though that was a distraction from my point. It's premature, and in it's current form, doesn't add much value.
Another engineer at Tokutek here. As you see, we are up to 2.4, and have been investigating 2.6 and Geo. With all possible features, whether they be from MongoDB 2.6 or things we innovate on our own like partitioned collections, we prioritize and address them based on customer and user feedback.

Also, 2.6 is not an all or nothing proposition that needs to be done in one release. Features with the most demand (whether it be the new write commands or aggregation framework improvements) will be done before others. We've done this before. When we released 1.0 that was based on 2.2, we also released hash based sharding with it which was a 2.4 feature. We did so because users demanded it.

As for pushing bug fixes upstream, we file bugs when we see them. Our VP of engineering was a winner in the MongoDB 2.6 bug hunt with SERVER-12878. SERVER-9848 and SERVER-14382 are among the bugs I've filed.
You are correct. A native solution with a dedicated thread would be amazing.
Choosing to fight a man with a knife who is trying to rob you is stupid and dangerous, regardless of your training. I'm not sure what this says about the thesis.
Wait, intra-bulb? There's a wireless mesh network within different parts of the bulb, not just between the bulbs?
I like how some people do this IQ tests and brag how smart they are. The intelligence do not come from how you solve a test, or what degree you got. The intelligence is art of using a brain in a smart way in my opinion. Your tool is your brain. You can put it in to the rest, you can let it do the job, or you can actually test drive it and push it as hard as you can.
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The business model is not bad. Its the greed of those companies and CEOs that are hurting the business.
I think they watched to much Gordon Gekko movies when they were young and they still believe in his strategy like its a fast track to fame and glory.
I don't think the knife analogy is a great one. High IQ is more like having a ladder, in a world of cliffs. Someone can train themselves to jump higher than a ladder which is relatively short, but a ladder of two or three standard deviations is no longer in that range. If you have a tall ladder, try to focus your efforts higher.
new here and somehow I separated this comment from my comment he responded to, thought the upvote was like a thanks button. But I think it was a rhetorical question, because it was true.
Reminds me of the military.
Yeah. Reading "We want to freeze happiness" struck a chord with me.
See this study from Johns Hopkins:

http://www.heffter.org/research-jhus.htm

takeaway: Psilocybin may have a long-term anxiolytic effect.
Why aren't the video codecs GPU accelerated by default these days? Is there something about decoding video that prevents it from mapping well to the GPU?
I like the way calling it a "waking dream" hints that, during a trip, the subconscious (whatever it is concretely) expands its connection with the conscious mind.

The fact that lucid dreaming is a way to explore your mind ("psychonaut" is a name that both psychedelic users and lucid dreamers use) is more evidence of that, for me.
Wealth redistribution as practiced through government doesn't hands giant wads of cash over to poor people that lay around waiting to be targetted by scammers. The redistrubtive mechanisms are almost always free or heavily subsidised services - education, health care, etc.
There is a variant of the secretary problem that assumes a different payoff structure - each secretary has a payoff which is uniformly distributed U(0,A) for unknown A. As I recall, the stopping time is O(sqrt(N)).
I think the idea is something like this:

1. Apps are generally made by wealthy, well-off people.

2. For many apps, the goal is to create an experience that satiates the addictive urges of people with poor impulse control. These people often turn out to be less well-off, possibly because they have poor impulse control.

3. Because money is going from the less-well-off to the well-off, wealth is being redistributed.
Broken in Chrome 36:

GET http://mp3ornot.com/jPlayer/Jplayer.swf 404 (Not Found)
Our next step is to make available a legal software library that users of our app can then 'check' titles out from and use. We will keep possession of the physical media, and grant exclusive 'access' to each title to only one user at any given time, for the duration it takes to load on their computer. There won't be a fee for individual access but this could be a 'premium' app feature. We are considering transferring this project to a not-for-profit entity as well.

Any legal beagles on here that can give a rough opinion on this strategy, or the distribution on out-of-print software in general (both for and not-for profit?)
I can't help but have heard this story before, perhaps by an HN user in another thread in the past. Didn't the Ofer fellow end up dieing in a robbery further down the line?
> Empirically, people don't "hold out" during 1/e of their window because, unlike with the Secretary Problem, the payoff in choosing the 2nd or 3rd-best theoretical match is quite high (maybe 0.8 to 0.99) compared to the payoff (0.0 by definition) of never meeting someone as good as the best during your hold-out period.

The 2nd or 3rd-best theoretical match could also have a negative payoff (divorces you, takes half your money + child support + alimony). You can lose a lot more marrying the wrong person than never marrying at all.
Has GDP outgrown its use?
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It's the properties of CSS, and browser quirks that make CSS a pain. Not the ordering and markdown of files.
Give it a year or so, and credit will be much harder to obtain. Problem will solve itself, with massive consequences for the rest of us.

Problem is that we simply don't have economically useful things for people to do. This problem is hitting China. Unemployment is hitting people who are willing to tolerate this quality of life :

http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/...

It's being caused partially by the energy crunch (even with the US shale boom, net oil available to the world to use has been declining since 2005) and the lack of solutions (note that solar panels need ... a lot of oil to get produced, wind turbines need massive amounts of oil for their production, so so far the whole "renewable" energy thing has increased, not decreased, our reliance on oil. Hopefully that'll reverse in a decade or so, question is will it still matter by then ? Also global warming policies have basically moved a lot of factories which were in the west (where they were powered by mostly oil, some nuclear, little bit of gas), to China (where they are powered by coal). Coal is about 10x worse for the environment than coal).

But fixing the oil problem (e.g. there are massive methane deposits along continental edges that could replace natural gas. They're big enough that they put the total amount of oil available in 1950 to shame. We don't currently know how to extract them, but loads (as in dozens) of research programs are in progress to fix that) would not bring a permanent solution.

What we need is something useful for unskilled workers to do that is reasonably well-paid, can use any amount of unskilled workers, is spread about the country, and ideally cheaper than bailing out banks. Maybe we ought to take a page out of the Roman empire's book and start building cathedrals in every city in America ? Worked for Europe for several hundred years ...
MDMA's most infamous use that I am aware of, and which you didn't mention, is for the temporary but complete relief of the symptoms of Parkinsons. In addition I'm sure it would also be ideal for fostering empathy and discussion to come to terms with the imminent loss of terminally ill loved ones. I believe the Swiss have looked in to it for marriage counseling.
FB is a huge company now. Going through the reporting process, assigning to a dev, they get around to it after other assignments, goes to QA queue, it's tested, it'll get pushed out in a release. That'll take a month, easy. I don't smell conspiracy, I just smell software development.
My max straight key speed these days is 20, but 15 is certainly fine for this experiment.
good point. i'm just hesitant to throw lucid dreaming, meditation, and LSD into the same bucket. it's like comparing a hammer to a paintbrush to a belt sander.

i mean, they may very well all belong in exactly the same bucket. i am just hesitant to jump to that conclusion.
And you have the ever fun "I'm not worried about whether it compiles", followed up with endless "you forgot a semi-colon", "you didn't declare that variable", and so on.
People still use it. Hell, some people love it. I was using it about a year ago as a primary caching layer at the company I worked for then. Given a choice I would have gladly picked something else. Damn near anything else actually. Hope its improved since then.
If anything, I think the article serves to boast on the author's intelligence. And we all know what it means when a man talks about his penis size..
Thanks for the response, I read a post on the mongo-user group , and that's what I noticed, that a number of features are ported as and when necessary. Don't read what I say in a very negative sense, because I'm mostly curious, and it's my opinion that sometimes the little that we (I) get exposed to regarding TokuMX specifically is that it's superior to Mongo, that it's a "choose us or lose out" thing, but that happens when one doesn't follow a certain topic, but only sees it being mentioned here and there (understandable since Mongo has been the subject of "my start-up failed, and I blame it on Mongo; so burn Mongo" kind of discussions).

One more question if you don't mind: since MongoDB will support various storage engines from 2.8, including Tokutek's storage engine (can't remember its name); notwithstanding other innovations on TokuMX, would switching from mmap to Tokutek's storage engine mean that one ends up with Mongo having geo-indices and other bells, while having TokuMX's main feature?
In fairness, unless you have to be there, hospitals are full of sick people. These are, by and large, places to be avoided.

And this is as a epidemiologist working in hospital infection control.
I'm not familiar with US law, or generally litigious, but surely you could sue for damages, particularly so given the public statements on top of the false positive.
It may be obvious but not worthless to write about.
Yup. Super big names too like Verizon, Forbes, and the British Government too. So...
You did what??
Not at all, my claims of node not being production ready are 100% legit, and based on real-world applications. The thing that is enjoyable Go is that it IS production ready, if I could say the same about node I would still be using it.

Like I mentioned in my post, I decided to rewrite an application that I had been working on for the last month with Go. I decided that if I could do it in a week, and if it went well that I would ditch node. It went even better than I had hoped, and is much less frail. Node has many design flaws down to its very roots.

I'm not saying those are due to terrible engineering or anything, but they were choices that were made and Node is stuck with them for the foreseeable future until breaking changes can be made. That is if the core people can admit that it's not great to work with :)

I think the main problem is often people working on the depths of some system forget to really use it. It's so easy to get caught up in the details but if you don't step back and use your own product you're screwed!
In regards to weird things you can do with the JVM: You can actually allocate memory outside of the garbage collect from inside pure Java code. (Unsafe.allocateMemory, specifically. or you can use ByteBuffers, but I'm not sure which one is faster or if a ByteBuffer still interacts with the GC) This can allow you to deal with "objects" which are entirely outside of the GC, and can actually be a decent chunk faster then using normal objects. I did a microtest recently (which can mean absolutely nothing in practice) where allocating two normal objects and doing something with them was about 30% slower than dealing with memory outside the GC.

As for the other things you mentioned, those are actually pretty routine. At least in some places. If you're working on a game, then you're going to be reusing objects and calling native functions as a normal thing :)
Given the move away from the carrier-subsidized model for mobile devices, I am optimistic about the technical future of general purpose mobile computing. What I am not optimistic about is the ability to seamlessly access content across devices from data that is privately stored in the cloud, mainly because not enough people would be willing to pay for/fund the development of such a service/piece of software to make it worth developing.
The notion that "the burn rate" is too fast is both on epidemiologically shaky ground, and something I'd be disinclined to rely on given "the burn rate is too fast" was supposed to be why we hadn't seen Ebola in places now experiencing outbreaks.
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I take issue with the assumption that you're not a success unless you're a VP at a consulting firm. In particularly the assertion that the other engineers in the story -- who for all we know may have preferred to remain in their roles -- have suffered some terrible fate that we need to be warned against.
One of the greatest privileges of being on one’s own is the flattering illusion that one is, in truth, really quite an easy person to live with.

... as spoken by a philosopher, one of the most professionally distant stereotypes of mind. Engagement is hard, mmkay? You only get out what you put in to life. Risk aversion is hardly dashing.
This is done through a total rewrite of boto to support Python 2/3 [1]. And, as they say, "It's not production ready". So, It might be a little bit early to say that boto support Python 3 since every sub-module will need to be ported to be as usable as boto (to support each AWS service).

This is an outsider opinion on the project, if someone know more about it, don't hesitate to show me wrong.

[1]: see https://github.com/boto/boto3
Haha yup, I wont lie I have been an asshole at times, mostly because you sort of have to defend yourself when you're surrounded by people who attack your work, but after a while I realized it wasn't worth it so I just sort of detached (no longer on IRC, the mailing list etc). Defending your work isn't worth becoming rude yourself. Communities always form cliques that's just how it is.

The core node community was very unreceptive to change since the very beginning, to be honest Ryan and Isaac were some of the few humble people in the bunch. I've always been a "threat" to "the node way" of doing things, whatever that means. The elitism gets a little old.
Not really true with all the HTML5 apps based on Phonegap and WebView.
The impossible, and that makes them mighty.

Edit: For those downvoting, I was just quoting the article (I realise this was perhaps not the best quote, but felt it was the one most fitting given the question).
Is there any requirement for iOS remote position? Is the remote position required more skills?
Sorry to hear that. AFAIK it's legal in most places to buy spores and grow your own, and dosage is relatively easy to control. Maybe time for a mycoculture project?
on what basis do you base the assumption that the subconscious mind is something "concretely" ? Isn't it's non-concreteness kind of the point of calling it the subconscious ?
I remember a colleague who’s relationship was starting to get serious had a couple of reservations as, “She’s got some issues.”

My response was, “Everybody’s got baggage. You have to figure out if your baggage and her baggage make a matching set.”

I’ve been married twenty-one years, and neither of us are the same two people who got married all that time ago. There have been times when we’ve discussed if the two people we’ve become should stay married. There’s been times when love is strained, times when things are just comfortable, and times when my heart still beats faster when she walks in the room.

The number one piece of advice that I received that has stood the test of time is being able to communicate. If you are able to share with each other your dreams, fantasies, desires, fears, faults and foibles, you have a relationship that can be built on and can last.
Not everyone has a "I just moved to a foreign country and have to make a living somehow" moment.

Any specific advice for a person who found school easy and now has problems challenging themselves further in live?
"Be Here Now" is an interesting read because it starts out with the LSD experimentations in Boston and ends up with a guru in India. There are scenes regarding the effect (or rather no effect) the LSD has on the guru...

As far as the "only while you're meditating" thing, zen meditation is interesting because (based on my limited understanding) zen is really about taking the practice of your meditation and extending that "mindfulness" into the rest of your life. "Zen Mind Beginners Mind" is particularly good if you're interested. Zazen is one form where you are eyes-open.
<CaptainJ> THE LIBERATION OF KUAIT HAS BEGUN
<Alexander> WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<Goofa> The liberation of Kuwait has begun.
<Anipa> Mr Fritzwalter: the liberation of Kuwait has begun
<Tylenol> WAR HAS STARTED!!!!
<Alexander> WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Given that the human mind is essentially a behaviour-copy machine this is very likely true.

But keep in mind : the purpose of punishment is to remove examples of bad behaviour. Without effective punishment, bad behaviour will quickly crowd out any good examples you may set.
<MistDrake> Announcement from the president of US: The
liberation of Kuwait has begun

<Arkie> i'm listening to nbc radio....

<Starhawk> "Desert Storm"
For me as well. But using Google DNS server or OpenDNS solves the issue.
#Belladona# Bagdad Radio reports Saddam has ordered his
troops out of Kuwait IMMEDIATELY!
#Scott# unconfirmed, keep it to +war/+report
#alex# belladona - stop making rumors ....
Freedom is Quickly Becoming an Illusion
Homo erectus lived 1.8 million years ago. Neanderthals lived 33,000 years ago. There's a difference.
Maybe the downvote was because it isn't completely true. Nothing can be too fast, or too slow for evolution.

It's only that culture evolves by different means than genotipes, and by those means fitting the norm more than compensates any unfitness caused by health problems. At least at the short term.
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My dad has a version of this story. He was born in a village in Bangladesh and while he's not a VP at a "top 5" consulting company, he raised us upper middle class in an expensive DC suburb. He notes he was smart, but never the smartest person; hard working, but not the hardest working person; in addition to both, he was also very lucky.

There's an additional dimension too. Ambition and extroversion I guess. The smartest, hardest working people I know from undergrad are engineering PhD's toiling away on the tenure track. Failure according to the author.
whats the unique value proposition of this compared to the bajillion other web scrapers out there?
Tambayar will soon be making mobile apps available on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Stay tuned and provide as much feedback as you'd like in the meantime.
Let me say this.
Go with this thought - after the wedding it will be just a downhill and all the bad things in your partner will become worse.
If you can live with that - cool, go and marry your partner. But if you honestly will think about it and think like "it will be better" or "he/she will change/stay the same" or "after wedding it will be much better" - you are screwed.
You cannot bet your life on "it will be only better". Those things dont work like that, I see way to many people divorcing because they made this bet.

I hate the way to young people marrying out of "it makes sense" while guy goes to strip clubs every weekend and girls dream about some sexy guy taking them for a date. Its sick and sounds like pathology. Its really, really wrong.

Mortgage/Taxes is not the reason to get married. Love is. If you call me romantic, I am sorry, but it seems you didnt really seen true love.
Is there evidence that people who compulsively play games like this are less well-off? My understanding of the profit model of these games is that they hope to extract large quantities of money from a small population of obsessives ("whales"), bolstered by a small amount of money from the otherwise vast majority of non-obsessive players.

There's not a whole lot of research on these people, but I don't know of any evidence that they tend to be poor, while there is definitely anecdotal evidence some of them are extremely well-off ($200k+ salaries [1]).

[1]: http://www.polygon.com/2012/11/1/3587102/high-rolling-whales...
Just when I was happy using Flickr's API for creative commons image search - http://www.outreachpanel.com/free-images/

They gave me this huge data to play with :)

In past, I have had issues with CC images that were also tagged with 'getty'. I hope they have taken care of that issue.