skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonkblog recently posted about a study that claims to refute the "how doctors die" thing with evidence that doctors have roughly the same medical experience as everyone else when dying:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/06/how-d...
How to resist “dumb money” when you're a week away from startup death
You are confusing "Nordic" with "Scandinavian". Finnish is a Nordic language by definition.
Very important point. I think the older you are, and particularly if you have dependents, you need a longer period of savings. Couple TV programs (e.g. Suze Orman show) advise to have at least 8 months salary worth of savings.

I think if we have that bare minimum of comfort (i.e. 3/8/more salary months), then after that we should try to focus on being healthy. Working more and compromising health is a very bad deal. Even getting over-anxious about things leads to stress (which can lead to bad health).

Most of us programmers like our jobs anyway, provided work/managerial environment is not too bad. If we can just do it in a healthy way (YMMV, of course. 100+ is healthy for Elon Musk, and 40/50 for me).

I think even working towards an early retirement, may also not be a good thing, as some people try to. I have seen people age very fast after they retire. So if we enjoy our work, and are paid a healthy amount, and have decent savings. Should look to live a good life, right in the present. And not worry too much about long term.

Long term: I think for most programmer-entrepreneurs long term is more like a big exit after a few (3-5) hard years of work. The problem happens when realistically only a few of us can have such good luck. So being realistic, we should look at returns for the long haul (10 year periods). So staying healthy and alive, is very much needed, if and when we have the big exit.

I personally, started long(ish) distance running, to attune myself for a long haul work wise. At present work only around 40 hours (M-F). Sat/Sun only when needed (which is rarely). Don't compromise exercise for work. Get it done in the morning itself, before I have a chance to log in.

I also try to minimize the stress. What's a business without setbacks? So there are setbacks, e.g. partners breaking/not-renewing contracts . But I try to think of these things as just -ve events in a series of various +ve/-ve events. There are technical worries as well, e.g. EC2 volumes running out of disk space, within the next archival cycle, and increasing them fsck/resize2fs them, burning them in the image.

But also life goes on...in the present.

PS: Sorry, for not being specific, and randomly articulating even tangential things to the topic at hand. Hope its not too bad. :-)
I still don't understand how you're comparing socializing a company to a bankruptcy liquidation of a company. Am I misunderstanding some dimension of this that you're intending?

In one case the government ends up owning and running the company, in the other, the assets are sold off to the highest bidder with the creditors (and in the case of a criminal company like VW, restitution for their victims, which in this case would be VW owners and public health systems, among others) receiving the proceeds.

How is that functionally the same?

And, regardless of that: The single most important element of my suggestion is that VW committed a crime (well, a number of crimes, spread over many years) and caused harm to human lives and health. Unless the Venezualan companies you're talking about were criminal companies causing harm to humans, it is unrelated to this conversation. No one (certainly not me) has suggested a bunch of random major companies should be owned by the government.
~10ms from Tata and Airtel in Pune. Anyone got latency from Vodafone and MTNL?
Forgive my ignorance, but how come the range is affected by the protocol? Wouldn't it be the aerial?
Looks good !
However, you could implement infinite scrolling, which is the most lacking feature on HN.
I suppose we all have stories to tell and advices/tips to share; I too have gone through intense burnout, and initially it was just too hard to deal with.

Eventually, it turned out what really worked for me (it also worked with some friends who tried this) is to just do something else for a change.

Work on small, contained projects - maybe on unrelated problem domains, and consider changing your habits and do more things for fun, but whatever it is you do, don't try to 'force' yourself to do it.
Working out at the gym work wonders. Getting some good night's sleep also helps.

I would also snap out of it after a few days. This never failed me, but I realize that it may not work for everyone.
>they run so frequently no one bothers to check the schedule

Great if you live on a route popular enough that they do that. You are screwed otherwise. Even if you do live on a popular route, it also doesn't solve the problem if you want to go somewhere unpopular.

>I do not find it particularly urgent to make long-distance trips - presumably for leisure - within ten minutes of making the decision.

Good for you, but not that relevant for people that do. Waking up Saturday morning and deciding to drive out to a destination like this, spend the night, and then drive back the next day is not considered unreasonable.

>The bigger question is - why is it strictly necessarily to have to use it for ten minutes - just to get milk?

Because I need milk for a recipe I just found online and I don't want to wait 15 minutes for the next train, ride for 10 minutes, shop for 5 minutes, wait 15 minutes for the return train, and then ride for 10 minutes. And those times even generously assume I live right on a stop and there is a store right on a stop.
Heres a cpu profile from the same computer as mentioned above: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9bcabea8eedec8e1c671516b3a...
Some years ago (6 or so, from memory) I realised I'd been consulting in a role for too long and gone stale and had lost my creativity (not burned out, but approaching that state). I had just enough money to survive for 6 months so I stopped work, chilled and then started to play with tech again. I returned to consulting after 6 months and everything immediately picked up again.

Years before (11 years ago I think) I left a start-up completely burned out, having just bought an apartment, with no spare money (all my cash went into the purchase). The start-up had run out of salary, I was angry and wasn't in a clear space. I bailed the UK and walked around Morocco for a month on my own (I got very bored of my own company), on the very last of my money. When I returned, very refreshed, I started my consulting career. That break was essential to let myself recover. It surprised me how much the rest of the world hadn't changed in that month, whilst my outlook was totally different (happy, positive and ready for the challenges ahead).
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I guess most places outside of EU/US have an increased price

US-East is the cheapest one and it seems to be the one everybody picks first. I can only guess how the capacity there compares to other datacenters

Also you can expect higher costs for hardware and infrastructure in places like India and Brazil
What I think is most interesting about D-K is how it is referred to as universal, as an aspect of human psychology in general, but in fact the original studies were done in America on American college students and give quite different results when repeated in other cultures.
Was ok up until type systems. Please stop citing this pathetic "empirical study" already, it's totally unscientific.
This works because the interests of developers of the dependency and the dependent part are aligned, or can be aligned/decided in the case of conflicting interests.

For the rest of us, we need the practical ability to simply make changes that might break dependencies, because of that the ability to fixate to specific old versions, and the ability to create alternate/forked incompatible versions - simply because it allows people to go/develop in the direction they want without being tied down by others who may want a different direction or even no direction at all, because it's not maintained anymore.

The main reasons (as usually is the case) are social/political, not technical.
Presumably then you don't use any fossil fuels, or do you self flaggilate?

You can't just blame automobile makers for the existence of automobiles.
The middle class voted remain:

http://lordashcroftpolls.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/LR-b...

In this chart ABC1 together are often summerized as "middle-class"
I have a Slackware server, I have tried a few times to get started with .net core but I've given up every time because it's just so unclear what I have to do and where to find everything. Maybe if I have Debian or Fedora it's easy, but I don't, and I just cannot seem to find a simple article that says: here download this, run that, and you're good to go. So I guess I'll try again in a few months.
Because the author has an agenda, he's a dynamic typing and unit testing proponent. Do not expect anything even distantly resembling any kind of an objective science from someone who clearly is not interested in facts.
Earth has more than one ocean?

I guess your model\map might, so perhaps with these tools you can get insight into your question.

https://bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/dymaxion-world/dymaxi...

http://www.cartotalk.com/index.php?showtopic=9406

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe
But if there aren't human examples that machine couldn't write poems. They are just mimicking within the samples and structures.
Note that it is important if you have suspension though as you'll have a much smoother ride if the mass on the other side of the suspension from you is minimised. If the wheel is heavy the opposite and equal force will be felt when going over bumps.

The suspension reason isn't relevant to lightweight bicycles but important to keep in mind for other bikes.
Yes, you can use the Storage Made Easy service but you need to be a Personal Cloud user, it is not available in the free option.

See: http://blog.storagemadeeasy.com/amazon-cloud-drive-is-now-av...
In places with actual employment law (like the EU), you can't just fire someone with no reason.
Just added all used tags on the page, for easier search. You may not see it on a phone.
Compile time reflection have absolutely nothing to do with dynamic typing.
You would think that a web page about fonts would at least make a halfhearted attempt to use fonts that are somewhat readable.

I know we're not supposed to nitpick about formatting details and instead comment on the message itself. But when a page is about fonts, I think its choice of fonts is fair game. :-)

I tried to read the page in Chrome and Firefox on my Galaxy Note 4, and on desktop Chrome and Edge. It's barely readable in any of them.

Combine the spindly thin body font with the layout that doesn't reflow on mobile when you try to zoom in - what a mess.

The article would be so much more readable if it just didn't use a custom font at all and simply let the browser use its default font.
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Are you using 2016, which seems to be single-threaded?
1. Shared bath is absolutely unacceptable for family.

2. $55 * 4 * 7 = $1540 for week, with shared bath. We were in hotels with private baths (2 separate private bathrooms) for $1200.

Thank you for proving my point :)
thanks, just noticed i missed a crucial '2' in the reply
Try Google webfonts directly on your site
would be better if number of points was shown on comments button, to save one line of text on mobile devices
As someone outside of google, I'm having a hard time seeing how this would actually work. Not as in, it can't be done, as in, is there actually empirical evidence that the supposed benefits (how do you know silos are lower than otherwise?) are happening as claimed because of the monolithic code? Do silos really come down, do big changes to underlying dependencies really get rolled out, or do people hunker down into their own projects, try to cut out as many dependencies as possible?

Perhaps the extra tools, automation, testing, etc helps to a large extent, I can see that being reasonable, but I don't see how they solve all the problems I have in mind.

Perhaps more so, if you've invested in all these automated tools, I am, perhaps (certainly?) ignorantly, not entirely certain what those tools inherently have to do with the choice of a monolithic code base? Couldn't many of them work on a distributed code base if they're automated? I mean, we're talking about "distributed" in the sense that its all still in the one org here...I realise that in practice, this distinction between monolithic and distributed is possibly getting a bit academic...
Possible counter-examples to this are Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson [0] and Lyoto Machida [1]. There are probably more, but these are examples of two very successful MMA fighters whose backgrounds are based on Karate and whose MMA fighting styles are apparently very Karate-like so it can't be completely useless.

(Disclaimer: I am a complete layman.)

Also, for those advocating Aikido: how many Aikido guys excel in MMA?
(Only a slightly rhetorical question--I could very well be wrong.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Thompson_(fighter)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyoto_Machida
Those who say that the bookies got EURef wrong don’t understand betting
a 26inch wheel when spinning at 80 roations per minute (20km/h or 12mph) will have a Centripetal Acceleration of about 5g (G-Force) on the outermost spot. That does not make the wheel "heavier", but due to the gyroscopic effect and air resistance loose ever more energy, when spinning faster.

Fun wheel videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeyDf4ooPdo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty9QSiVC2g0
Only if you use a single, concrete data model. If your domain supports the use of something like event sourcing, your "data model" is surprisingly easy to change. Or in this case, is = are, and data model = data models, and they're actually derived from your domain events, which can be replayed. At any time.
I read only the ending rhyme of every sonnet => 6/6.
Why send audio wirelessly when the tech to play it is as small as the receiver?

Because you might want to stream audio from the Internet, or you don't want to waste time converting newer audio formats to MP3 and then copying them over, or you'd rather not have cables around you when you work out, or you might want to track what you've listen (particularly useful for audiobooks and long podcasts), etc.

Yes, these are not indispensable life necessities nor anything like that, but given the choice, I'd rather beam the audio from my tablet than carry an extra player.
if anyone wants a IP to ping or tracert, use below

server-54-230-174-13.bom2.r.cloudfront.net

btw 70 ms avg ping from LK, not bad
I was under the impression that the released sources for the kernel are not complete (they are missing critical features), but I'm not sure whether or not this is the case with the repos you linked. To be clear, you still need proprietary software to compile it (so it's not practically free under the FSF definition).
Certainly simplicity and understandability are very important language traits, but if you only concentrate on them, your language won't fit certain tasks well and won't get used for them.

Programming languages as Basic or Pyret certainly have their place and can empower people that didn't program before, but they won't take over the world.
I would love for people in my country to vote for policies that improved their economic conditions. Instead they listen to propaganda pushed by multiple billionaires (and many, many millionaires) working together to change politics, and who've discovered the best way to get people to vote against their own interests is fear of the other.
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You want an uneven number of master eligible nodes, so you can form a proper quorum (two out of three, three out of five). The total number of nodes doesn't actually matter. Smaller installation often make the same node master eligible and data holding at the same time, so in that case you'd prefer an uneven number of nodes. Once you move to a setup with dedicated master eligible nodes, you're freed from that restriction. You could also run 4 nodes with a quorum of 3, but that will make the cluster unavailable if any two nodes die. The worst setup is 2 nodes since you can only safely run with a quorum of 2, so if a node dies you're unavailable.
You get pretty much the same thing these days if both devices support NFC. Just get within range, and ding.
Speed, who cares. I need better latency.

At least Bluetooth mice/trackpads need better response time.

For example Magic Trackpad 2 is so horrible to use compared to Macbook built in trackpad because of bluetooth latency.

It's also jarring for audio and it doesn't help that they also use latency-inducing SBC.
Good read! Maybe it's my swiss blood but I have been thinking along the exact same lines this last week.
It is a strawman. Your quotes don't say what the author wrote: "the less someone knows about a subject, the more they think they know". And again later: "In two of the four cases, there’s an obvious positive correlation between perceived skill and actual skill, which is the opposite of the pop-sci conception of Dunning-Kruger." He is specifically talking about an expectation of an inverted relationship - a negative correlation - and his whole argument is based on that.

By his definition, the "meme" would mean people believe that those who are among the worst in the world at something would estimate their ability the highest, and those who are among the best would estimate their ability the lowest (on average).

Do you really think people believe this? That olympic gold medalist swimmers would put themselves in the first percentile of fastest swimmers, while people who've never entered water would put themselves in the 99th (well, not necessarily 1st and 99th - maybe it's 3rd and 97th, but the medalists would choose the lowest number, and the non-swimmers the highest)? I don't think I know a single person who believes this.

I have huge respect for Dan Luu but he screwed up here and created a classic strawman.
I wonder what strength the radios broadcast on. I do have a 2.4GHz wifi-router both downstairs and in the attic so you would expect no signal at all, given the situation. I'll admit that by this point it's extremely sensitive to spectrum pollution; a nearby laptop with wifi on will mess with it enough that it starts stuttering.
My only issue with bluetooth is with Android; it semi-randomly likes to change pitch and speed by a little [1]. Very noticeable if you listen to electronic music. Had it with my previous phone (Android M, CM) and now with my current phone (also Android M, stock) and different devices (headphones, car).

[1]https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=209473
> A solution to more democracy in the EU could be bicameralism as practiced in Switzerland - or many other democracies for that matter - as proposed by federalists. Here the people of Europe would be represented in one body of the legislative and the nations in equal parts in the other.

This is a shockingly good and after-the-fact obvious suggestion. Can someone help me understand why the Parliament (popular)/Council (national ministers) structure [1] isn't this?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_legislative_p...
Should you then hold individuals accountable for their own incompetence (rather than malice)?

Where do you draw the line between it being the corporation's fault and the individual?

(I suspect these questions are part of the reason it is the way it is currently)
Would you be able to expand on how the tech industry could benefit from Brexit? - Not questioning your point, I would just like to hear more about this point of view
Bad news good news
The Sun is quite a noisy radio transmitter across a very wide range of frequencies. Downside of having a big, hot unshielded fusion reactor in the sky.
This doesn't seem like a bad thing for the UK or any other EU member, care to explain why you think it is?
We kinda have it: the people are represented in the European Parliament and the nations in the European Commission.
Congratulations on so powerfully proving his point: that the root cause of stupidity is a closed mind.
Brain sending a whole load of 'nope' signals this morning - hope to come back to this later :)
Internet has been UNITING the world. Hence it's prudent to DIVIDE nations into smaller countries to protect the interests of Common man.
Do you have sources on that? If you read the article, it claimed that that might not be true.
That would be great! I would love to have some mac specific commands, but I don't care for the lamp/magento/git commands.

Is there a way to install only the dependencies that one cares about?
short answer? not that much.

longer - yes it's supremely well working society. society built from single atomic pieces called citizens. remove/change them, and whole thing will fall apart like house of cards. people here are given a lot of freedom, hence responsibility over their lives, ie through direct voting. as we saw with britain, similar approach clearly fails when tried even in another modern western country (yes I call it a failure, not because of result, but because the way whole thing has been done)

I mean, this is the country that publicly voted NO to extend 4 weeks of paid vacation per year to 6. I don't know a single other place where people would vote against their own interests (maybe Singapore? but that's not democracy to start with). And countless other examples.

this country was done via 800 years of struggle through violent events in Europe, and somehow it remained what it is now. you cannot expect to have this "national experience" present somewhere else, and randomly copy pasting something that makes sense here to other place won't work. because of people. don't get me wrong - I wish it would be possible, but I don't see any way.
Because it's impossible to stream music, podcasts and take calls ?
Sacks of water will do that :)
I've deployed almost exactly this on a new kubernetes cluster running coreos exclusively with 4 nodes, 3 masters and 3 etcd instances divided over 4 physical machines.

Things I haven't implemented yet is deploying the node-exporters via DaemonSets and the Prometheus config through a ConfigMap. Those are right now done through a cloud-config systemd override and a gluster mount.

Couple of things I ran into. The kubelet's running the kubernetes master components need access to the ssl certificates of the apiserver, otherwise they cannot be scraped by prometheus over https when they communicate with the apiserver over https. And I'm still very confused about a seemingly simple thing of getting a per request response time query. This is what I'm using now:

`irate(request_processing_seconds_sum{app="myapp", method=~"$method"}[5m]) / irate(request_processing_seconds_count{app="myapp", method=~"$method"}[5m])`

Two things: I'm confused by what I should set the vector time to `[5m]`. And how I can get the response time of an individual request. We've had a request take 30 seconds but that spike only showed up when viewing the graph over a 3 hour time period. When viewing it over 6 hours or 1 hour it simply will not show up even though it happend in the last hour.

Things I do really love is the ability of configuring services to be scraped by setting annotations to it. Works great when slowly transitioning your services to prometheus style metrics!

If any body has some pointers about querying and visualizing using grafana and prometheus that would be great!