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I use it in my ruby app with mongoid gem. My data is not huge, and I only expose it to my users through a read-only API. I absolutely love the flexibility that mongodb/mongoid offers. It almost feels like not worrying about the DB, states, schema, etc. anymore. Please note that mine is an experimental project, and not a commercial one that I run for business.
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I've been professionally relying on it heavily since 2010. For the right kinds of problems, and used properly, it's pretty nice.
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It depends on the nature of your project(s) and the data you want to store, as well as what you want to do with it. If you're storing and retrieving things that make sense as persistent documents with JSON-like structures, sure. If you're going to be editing those documents frequently (and changing their attributes or--most importantly--their size), then you might want to look at some other database structure, or some blended solution.
Sounds like one of crazy inventions in 1920's !!
Despite the sentiment on HN, it's more popular than ever, and may become the 4th most popular database in the world soon: http://db-engines.com/en/ranking
We isolated it to East 1a zone and have taken our webserver in that zone offline until the issue is cleared up.
> Once a company goes beyond a certain scale these perks can be delivered quite cheaply, at a much lower per employee cost than the employee would ever be able to get for themselves. This is one of the things a big company can use to entice people away from small startups where they might not get similar perks.

Or you could just, you know, pay them more.
I'm curious about this as well. Currently bootstrapping in my bedroom. Seems like you do the same thing in YC as well but with more people and networking in process but can a network save and solve all of your problems? I think not...what it boils down to is just grinding and hustling like with any small business (and not end up like Washington Redskins from South Park)...maybe the network is important when you need to find the right people for your team or build partnerships or get an interview with Peter Thiel.
There is a certain sunk cost associated with being the first mover
I used to work for a startup that took Peter Thiel's cult culture advice to heart. They paid employees 60-80% of market salary in exchange for the chance to participate in their mission to change an industry. Free food abounded, and there was a cultural expectation to stay at work through dinner.

The result? From what I've seen, this company is still doing well, but around a dozen employees I knew have left. Hopefully they make the compensation changes required to make employees feel respected for their time.
HNer's are probably not the target demographic for MacBook rentals, mostly folks who can either afford to buy or get a loaner in a pinch.

As a rental business benchmark--here's a good podcast interview by Scott Britton with Noah Lehmann, who started an exotic car rental operation> http://life-longlearner.com/noah-lehmann-haupt-interview/
I still keep a dot matrix printer and some fanfold paper around for printing code I'm working on - saves taping pages together.
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I thought Nixon just wanted to appear mad enough to use nuclear weapons rather than actually being that daft...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
Have usb device supply some kind of a checksum/key of its firmware when connecting to the computer.. the driver would then compare that checksum/key to the list of trusted checksums.
But of course, hackers could extract the checksum from the driver, and hack the firmware to always return it :/
How did you manage to read 7 books in a month? That a book in 4 days.

I hope to finish To Kill a Mockingjay this month.
We use it with writeConcern 0 and journaling off. Basically for a best effort document store. The type of data stored is such that if a few records get lost every now and then it's not the end of the world, as long as inserts are generally very fast.
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Interesting, beacons are definitely becoming more and more present and QR codes never caught on outside factories.
Parts of it were boring, parts of it terrified me (way more than Lovecraft ever did).
> As a startup of the batch, you get high visibility thanks to Demo Day and to your own TechCrunch launch. Thanks to that, we were able to get more than 300 signups in our first couple weeks (see exactly how we did it here).

This seems contradictory. 300 signups over a couple of weeks does not imply "high visibility." Your TechCrunch article (http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/front-is-a-shared-inbox-app...) only received about 229 shares and 154 Tweets (with most of the comments being from existing users and not prospective users), which makes Front seem more of a counterexample of TechCrunch visibility instead.
This article is classic. The thing that strikes me most is the author's assertion that hiring should not be based on the classic indicators like talent and professionalism, but on some kind of subtle chemistry that a person either does or doesn't have as you perceive it. As he puts it, "Why work with a group of people who don’t even like each other?"

Well, in the adult world, you hire mature, professional people who learn to work with each other and overcome their differences. It's fine if they aren't all buddies outside of work. In the startup "Real World" (a la MTV), you artificially craft a group of people who seem to "mesh" and then suffer the consequences later when the latent adolescent dynamics emerge.

I remember interviewing at a certain prominent software agency. I won't say who they are, but will only say that you've probably heard of them. Things went great, as far as I could see. I represented myself as someone who was technically competent and could get the job done. Great, right? They ended up passing and not taking me on. It took me a long time to extract the reasons why, but eventually they revealed that it was because of a perceived "culture issue."

Startup geeks don't seem to realize how frustrating an experience like this is. You go in, having done all your homework, having all the right experience, then you're turned down over something that you have absolutely no control. Something that is completely un-actionable and basically equates to saying "we just don't like you."

This cannot and should not be the way that people conduct business in the tech world.
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We've been fans of Bitcoin since going through Y Combinator with Coinbase in Summer 2012. Back then the value of BTC was just over $5. We're excited to announce that we are now one of the largest product catalogs now accepting Bitcoin.

What is Zentail.com? Launched in July 2014, we're a fast-growing online shopping site that is relentlessly focused on providing the lowest possible prices on over 100,000 products primarily in the electronics category.

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Can I ask why it would have stopped being considered a viable data storage option for new projects? Are you asking about document storage as a whole, or MongoDB specifically?

I've been using MongoDB for many years on most new projects. The advantages I find are that it is easy to setup and use and lends itself nicely to adapting product requirements that typically accompany a new project.

It's also nice that there is a large community and talent pool that supports and is familiar with MongoDB, so if you bring someone on to your project, you don't have to worry about someone getting up to speed on a less well-known document store.

In any case, I would consider it a viable option for any generic "new project" though the devil is in the details and there are certainly project requirements which could make it less viable.
Has anyone gotten triggers to work with MongoDB? I know they are not officially supported, but you can "roll your own" via parsing of the oplog. If anyone has a good resource for this, I would love to see it.

My dream architecture is MongoDB+REST backend, pushing data changes as events over RabbitMQ, consumed by business logic C++Qt. Mongo would make this way easier if I could get triggers working.
Hi, thanks. I didn't mean to indicate you weren't capable of adding a CDN. I was just providing a counter to the "why complicate the architecture" argument.

Thanks for the explanation of the "Almost Ready" message. I do see that, however I took it to mean that an instance was being spun up (as I waited). Might want to change that to "Coming Soon" or similar.
Nobody claimed that the Chinese people are morally inferior.

Your example of comparing the challenges of starting a news organization to compete with the likes of Fox News to that of the censorship that has been going on in China for years seems to a stretch, to say the least. Same goes for your "right to vote" comparison.

I recommend you visit Amazon and pick up a couple of books on China if you are interested in getting up to speed on what is going on. Also, check out the events that have been going on in Hong Kong.
Almost exactly this comment comes up in every thread that talks about start-up culture, or one that discusses internal dynamics in successful high growth start-ups.

There is a kind of "formula" that is thrown around in the startup world as the ingredients of successful startups before they really get huge:

- Small teams

- Very fast growth of user base

- Less than robust technical infrastructure

- Obsessive and arguably irrationally enthusiastic founders

Why all these? Because they are CHEAP to start and stop and feedback is immediate and focused on the team. They are also pretty fragile, hence why you need people who will persevere in the face of insane obstacles. In a startup it you will have too few people for all of the tasks that you need which requires a certain type of personality, someone super flexible, adaptable and dedicated to expanding your capabilities no matter what.

Thiel et al. are not describing work environments of people who want a comfortable life as a first goal. They are describing work environments of people who are rabidly pursuing a massive goal (hold aside for a moment judgements about what those goals should be).

I am unsure why this post almost always shows up on these types of discussions, considering that this forum is arguably for the rabidly focused founders, rather than just people who are technology focused.
Careful. Starting solo means you don't have a mentor around to say, "Hey, don't do that, you'll get thrown in prison." :)
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By your reasoning there are only two mobile platforms: iOS and Android, because the other options aren't as good. Cable, Satellite, and most DSL is plenty fast enough for Netflix.
Since this is like the old floppy disk days, where any disk could be infected, would a version of the same solution apply? I'm thinking of the old boot-sector protectors that would announce your disk is clean, thereby occupying the space a virus would otherwise claim. Of course there would have to be something in place to verify this wasn't just malware calling itself a protector.
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You should definitely go. But I want to add another point not being mentioned: Make sure you have the offer officially in writing before telling your employer. I know of a number of people who were burned when something fell through on the other end and they were left in the lurch.

Also, business is business... Any software consultancy SHOULD understand the inherent risks of a client poaching and/or bringing work in-house. If your current employer will "be really mad" for you advancing your career you should get out ASAP as they don't care about their devs.
I think you're being kinda pedantic. It's like people who write "ATM Machine." It's wrong, but it's not a big deal and the reader understands what they're saying.
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I recently started a business that uses it. It was a good fit for the data I needed to store, and the nature of the product is such that even if I'm wildly successful I probably won't ever need more than one database server.
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> Plus India no longer closely associates with Russia.

I don't know how serious it is (I think some members consider it more important than others) but India and Russia are two of the five members of the BRICS group, so there's definitely still some degree of cooperation beyond just trading partners.
Rapid interconversion between vector and bitmap formats remains hard.

Rapid fractal compression remains hard. Some of Barnsley's techniques should be off patent now, or soon.
We blogged about our launch: http://blog.frontapp.com/hacker-news-techcrunch-and-product-...

Following our TC launch, we were featured in other channels, which gave us more signups. 300 might not seem like a lot, but these figures are very conservative and we only counted users that really tried the app.
Why is that a counter-example? The ISS is incredibly more expensive, complicated, and accomplishes less science because it's "international."
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Many of our customers do (I work in HIPAA-compliant hosting), so I can tell you it's an alive and well thing. Many forms of patient data don't really fit well into relational data structures, so it's not surprising that Mongo (as the most "popular" non-relational db) is common in healthcare apps now.

Most healthcare apps are not "large" in nature and often have way more writes than reads, so many of Mongo's weaknesses don't show themselves in those applications.
I really appreciate what you've laid out here and honestly would like to know more about it, both as a bootstrapper and as an investor.
South Korea always boasts a great deal of connectivity and fast internet speeds but much of the population is locked to a very insecure way of authenticating Korean users via SSN or ActiveX plugins for banking that led to majority of credit cards being compromised a year ago.

Lot of websites are blocked, porn and whatever South Korean government deems as threat to their "National Security". Replying to a thread on a North Korean site will get you a visit from the police, blog about smoking marijuana in Canada and get arrested, make a porn video in Canada and get arrested.

The population has to pretty much deal with having fast access to a limited web, that is less secure and stuck in 2001 designs. Even if it gets faster and faster, the underlying issue that information is not truly free in South Korea is something the government likes to keep everyone in the dark about.
it can be very dangerous to run your startup like a cult, most notably because you will be building an enormous, ever-increasing blind spot. people will try so hard to fit in that they will not want to speak against the group, a cult most would expect to be very harsh to opposing opinions.
I would really like to do something like this in HTML5 + WebGL for some retro game ideas I have. Like, even doing this with a Z-Machine interpreter (Zork, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, etc.) would be fun.
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These questions are so basic they seem like either trolling or a back-handed way of expressing an opinion.

If, as your comments suggest that isn't your goal, then spending 30 minutes on wikipedia would be a better use of time than asking HN about Chinese politics.
I think they are being tarred with the same brush as FIFA, or caught up in the — perhaps anachronistic — view of Switzerland as a haven for tax evaders.
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Oh man, I just had flashbacks of pages and pages of enterprise lingo that were much less clear than your sentence. I think Ansible suffered from that at one point, too.
Being a YC alumni gives you access to an incredible community. We are humbled by the amount of help we've already received.

That being said, it does not mean that who can cold email anyone from YC and expect an answer. As always, you have to mind your manners :)
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For Putin and other VIPs Russian police usually just removes all other traffic and pedestrians from streets and roads, ever ambulance cars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxGXT2b0W2A

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=кортеж+скорая

Most ridiculous Putin's requirement is to weld all manhole covers.

In 2013 Putin decided that he dislikes drivers' booing and started to fly to Kremlin by helicopter. To build new landing site he removed huge part of Taynitsky Garden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taynitsky_Garden

http://i.imgur.com/bUuwmp4.jpg
The curvature is fine, mostly what seems off to me is the amount of "noise."
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Don't forget that some of the biggest advertisers during the Olympics are American companies like McDonalds and Coca Cola that need broad exposure to survive.
I think you missed a critical piece about economies of scale.

A larger company would likely be able to negotiate a lower per-instance cost for a "perk" than an employee would be able to get themselves. Hence if you "just paid them more" with the idea that they would be going to get that same perk, it would cost some multiple more given that they don't have the same purchasing power as the company.

You can disagree that they would go and choose the same perk, but this line of reasoning assumes that there is no consistency of preferences eg. Gourmet coffee or good food is fungible as a perk regardless of the provider.
The extra that you have to pay somebody to compensate for the lack of say gym services could well be substantially more than it costs a larger company to deliver gym services themselves.

Consider that a gym membership might cost $50/month at a private gym because the gym needs to make a profit. There is also dead loss because of time travelling between work and the gym.

A company might well be able to provide on site gym services to employees at a much cheaper rate, especially if they already have space that is underutilised, they don't need it to be profitable and the facilities are so close that employees can just work out during their lunch break.

So with everything factored in you might be comparing $60/month to compensate an employee for a private gym vs $15-20/month with an employer provided gym.

The net result is healthier employees because more of them are likely to use the gym than if it was not provided and it's also a more efficient way to provide gym services if it is used by more than X% of employees.
And look how badly Linux turned out. ;-)

(sarcasm in case it wasn't obvious)
It's not that the PHP community lacks smart developers, it's that they lack smart developers that really work with the people who have no idea what they're doing to improve everyone's skill.

If there's one thing that I found impressive about the Perl community, typified by Perl Monks, it was that any question, no matter how stupid, was always answered thoroughly and respectfully.

There's no analog in the PHP world. It's too diffused. The people that are making a living writing world-class PHP applications don't talk to those just getting started and doing everything wrong.
Wouldn't it break even if the control goes to the else part?

I mean, how does the programmer know that Windows 9 will not break in the else part? (and only break when clubbed with Windows 95 or Windows 98)
It ruined then because the infrastructure was only used once.
> Remember, movies only run at 24 FPS.

Please do not say such a thing without also including the footnotes that movies get away with that by:

1. having no interaction, so the audience has no way to feel the delay between frames; as opposed to interactive media where the delay is easily felt through the latency of input to action on screen

2. having interpolation built in naturally into the camera, i.e. motion blur being entirely free
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God damnit, another "this looks really cool in a demo but has no actual practical application" showcase project from Microsoft.

Flashy animations, incredibly purpose-specific widgets, and interactive graphs? Check.

Video showing kids and families using the app to look up / compile trivia, for something nobody has ever actually done or would have any reason to do in real life? Check.

"Social integration" as a selling point? Check.

Microsoft: stop making this shit, like Office Assistant or Microsoft Bob, thinking it's a way of selling your platform to "the average user". The problem you want to solve is "customers aren't buying enough Microsoft products" - the problem you have in solving it is you think users say "I'm not buying enough Microsoft products", too. That is not the problem that they are looking to solve.

People only say "that's something interesting I could play with" when they're trying to convince themselves to buy something they don't need (like a Quadcopter, or anything "as seen on TV") - it seems Microsoft's target audience for the last decade has been exclusively the kind of consumer who looks for reasons to buy Microsoft products (in other words, Microsoft employees).
A common topic (and an on-topic one at that) during the last olympics was the technological locking down of the media surrounding the event (e.g. NBC in the US). The interest in the IOC's corruption is probably connected to that.
How do you bootstrap a company that requires significant R&D before an MVP can be shipped

It's hard but possible. Your team could do consulting on the side to pay for the R&D. A hardware company I am very familiar with did this for 2 years and skipped all seed funding, to build a highly complex and expensive hardware product. It was succesful.
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Might be worth noting that there are term limits for political roles in China as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_People's_Repu...