skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not riding a motorcycle would have a much larger effect on survival chances than wearing an Apple device.
Ultramarathons (full 100 miles) usually takes between 24-30 hours according to one source (WaPo). I'm guessing you're thinking of regular 26.2 mile marathons.
Italy is full of CNG vehicles. There's a big push for them in Belgium right now, and I'm probably missing a lot of places...
That's a pretty good insight. Last year everyone was talking about the record number of private unicorns and how it was hot to wait longer than ever to ipo. This year everyone is talking about how all the unicorn ipos have been utter shit.
I thought I had read this before. Here is the link to the original blog post from the institute that did the research.

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/where-how-park-your...
The issue is that using AirBnb to let your home is simple and that people do not do their homework or realise what letting property entails.

AirBnb is only a glorified advertisement and payment platform. They cannot do anything about this sort of issues. There are not a letting agent. They are not a substitute from knowing what letting property entails.
I know apple watch can do such things, I just dont like how they hype this, I do think this is a soft sell, somehow apple is evil because they sent the message that Apple watch can save your life, so people will buy it or discuss it , it kind of become viral. while actually it doesn't guarantee it will behave the same when you have a heart failure.
My mom says she does not use sudo, please advise.
He may have been choosing quality over quantity.

Thinking of deaths of people I've known; dying at home in bed seems preferable to most.

"Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande is an excellent book on this subject.
When do you charge it?
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But the large majority of eng lit and history etc grads don't get high flying jobs.

But it does show that compared to peer professions Engineering is badly paid even more so in places like the UK and EU
Sorry for the late answer but yes it's not possible to keep elm's purity and safety while having a direct interface to js.
This seems to be the case for most banks in Japan. Also a lot of government services. Last year I ended up posting some documents to immigration because I could not get their online form to work.
My usual way of doing this, is by spitballing an estimate with the team, multiplying it by 2.5 or 3, inventing some meaningless milestones and gantt-charts and presenting it to an outraged management. Then we haggle down to something realistic + a thin buffer. The management has a sense of control, we have realistic deadlines.

Caveat: I work in the financial industry, where the complexity of writing a compiler and whipping up a Tableau dashboard are perceived to be equal.
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I think you'll just need to rewrite that Sharepoint that app first.
Really depended on the watch face. High contrast ones were perfectly readable, low contrast really needed the backlight.
Product was not helping society. Only fuelling increased consumerism of pointless crap. I was on 3 days a week by the time I left, with a pro rata salary that sustained my life comfortably. Still couldn't justify the work to myself.
To be honest, I actually prefer the fake click of the new trackpads. It feels very real, it's not at all comparable to the taptic feedback on the buttonless iPhones.

The fake click feels so real that people don't even realise it's a fake click if you don't tell them.

The mechanical trackpads only allowed clicking in the bottom half (since it was a hinge), and in my experience it was unreliable. After a few years, clicks started registering twice, or not at all, etc.

The fake click track pad allows clicking everywhere, it lets you configure activation force, and for me it has been working flawlessly every day for years.
It doesn't scale to zero, but the article was about how much more it costs running only serverless 0-24, but how hard it is to fiddle with Linux/deployment/CNAMEs/etc. (Especially that they have constant load, 10+M req/day.)

And so it seems to miss the obvious middle ground between raw EC2 (or Elastic Beanstalk managed EC2) and full on-demand Lambda, which is modern managed hosting (PaaS, Deis/Dokku/Heroku).
WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. The only personal emails I receive nowadays are from my parents, and people travelling abroad without reliable internet connections.
I only hire people who can reliably estimate. How can you call yourself a pythonista if you cant reliably estimate. Incompetent estimators have no place in my organisation.
I would imagine it is possible the sensor in an Apple watch is more sophisticated than a single ecg lead.
NOOOOO! Do not do this.

I have a Garmin Fenix 5X and it does not make the Apple Watch look like a toy. The Apple Watch integration is seamless, the Garmin Connect integration is a joke.

Moreover the Fenix has a clunky user interface, and is bulky and ugly.

The Apple Watch absolutely trounces the Garmin in every aspect, functional and aesthetic, except for two:

1) Water resistance: it's hard to argue with the Garmin's 100M water resistance.

2) Battery life, but it only does better here by being massive (ref. previous comment about bulkiness).

Seriously, unless you're spending a lot of time in the water, and if you're able to put the watch on charge every night, buy the Apple.
I completely agree on how hard this is. However, I've built the best relationships with managers where I kept my foot down once in a while. I guess they like the struggle and the honesty in the end.
1) start with dual-write to both the DBs for all the writes.

2) all reads from Mongo

3) in the background start data migration, one key/document at a time; transform Mongo document into RDBMS table/rows and insert... have mongo document id as primary key for main table... for every document migration/insert, lock the corresponding RDBMS row, this will ensure data consistency...

4) create code path to read from RDBMS.

5) test it in stage for different fail-case scenarios...

6) ideally, do canary type push to single server etc in prod to see if read from RDBMS seems fine (this assumes #3 is done)

actual steps may vary... but these are high-level steps....hope it helps...
And changing the name of something while keeping the icon/logo (almost) unchanged only adds to the confusion...
269 Canadian dollars, so a bit less. Also iWork and iLife are now free.
While this is an interesting counterattack in the ongoing Culture Wars, I don't think hackernews is an appropriate place for it.
The 2018 LG Gram 15 is great on weight, but man does it feel like cheap plastic with a lot of give.

Also, cramming a number pad into the keyboard seems like a poor trade off.
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We are standardizing our way to deploy software using templates in our CI/CD system.
Basically, the developer adds a ticket to JIRA and after 6 minutes later some magic happens and there is a repository, a pipeline that builds, run tests, coverage, security, and publish the "service" on the 4 environments that we have on the cloud. Actually, 3 (DTA) as production needs manual approval (bank's bureaucracy).

Repositories will have by default master branch locked, minimum of 2 reviewers for pull-requests, etc.

There are a limited number of templates (api, queue consumer, etc..) that we support right now and we are adding more as we can. These templates come with examples and already with the main project and the unit tests one.

The developers have no permission to create the repository themselves. They have to use the "repository vending machine" described above.

That saves us a lot of time, ensures compliance and security and makes it easy to move people from one team to another as the process is always the same.

Customization is possible for intermediate parts of the process, but any pull requests with changes to the YAML files will require an SRE to approve it.

The drawback is, of course, lack of freedom for the developers and we are getting some pushback because of it. The main argument is that this goes against the "you build it, you run it" and they don't want to be tied to a "set of mandatory templates".

How do you do it in your organization?
How do you ensure security, compliance and a good level of automation for your build pipelines?
My company uses SharePoint and Chrome. What are we missing? As a light user I've not yet missed a thing.
Software development nowadays is as much about using trendy / hip tools than anything else, sadly.

Especially web development.
Why are you posting this link?
We've got a typical turnaround but rarely ever find the need to fire someone. I suspect that's the case for many other IT companies. There are simply so many other options available for developers, and if someone is not happy, they'll gladly just leave.
The clever part was using his secretary's instead of his own.
Opera has been a great Chromium experience for me.

I see many recommending Brave. What are the benefits of it over for example Opera?
In your article you write,

>But dressed up in sufficiently confusing language—see the Butler passage from earlier in this essay—no one can tell what if anything is really being argued.

As someone who has a cursory interest in critical theory, the passage was perfectly readable to me, especially if you're familiar with what the structuralists such as Althusser were arguing in the first place. The idea that it's only some ideological force that keeps deconstruction in play is false, since Althusser himself was sympathetic to the political goals of many deconstructioists - he was literally a Marxist and is heavily cited in critical theory even today. For that matter, one of Althusser's closest partners, Etienne Balibar, very frequently takes on issues of capital, race and gender from a structuralist perspective in new books he writes every year. Could the passage have been expressed in clearer terms? Maybe. But it's a mistake to charge it as not being able to tell what Butler is arguing.

As an aside, this same criticism is leveled against Hegel, but the most progressive thing you'll find in Hegel is his takedown of phrenology. Confusing language is not at all limited by ideology. On the other hand, there are very clear writers such as Marcuse and Althusser who form the bedrock of critical theory today. As Adorno wrote in response to a criticism of his literary style:

>"Now, from what you write about my language, to be honest, I find it very difficult to imagine that you mean it seriously. Your argumentation shows a true obsession with the thought of the reader. With my stuff you obviously didn't even come up with the idea that I'm not interested in him, neither in catching him, nor in snubbing him, but only in the most adequate and rigorous presentation of the matter possible. That is probably the only linguistic thing that can be done seriously against the cultural industry."

You say confusion, Adorno says rigor. I have a hard time seeing why I couldn't have substituted your Butler passage for a passage from a paper in recent abstract mathematics or type theory.
I guess it depends who you ask. I preferred the Labour policies from the last GE, but outside of some pie-in-the-sky thinking about private education and universal credit, I think they have some solid policies.

The average person doesn't care about policies, though. Labour under Ed Milliband had some good policies, but he was undone because he looked weird when eating a bacon sandwich. You could argue the same for Gordon Brown, who looked weird when he smiled when compared to the overly polished David Cameron.

IMO, the people just don't like Corbyn, and many people cling to the idea that the PM is the outright ruler of the land, when Brexit has shown the exact opposite - they are a leader, but they need a house to push their majority through.

I do agree with you, though. If Owen Smith had plotted a coup a few years later, he'd probably be 20-30 points ahead, and Boris would do everything possible to avoid a GE. The one good thing about Corbyn is that he is a campaigner, so the second a GE becomes a reality he'll be in his element.

If Boris wins, then I give up. The Tories will have sold their soul for Brexit, the Labour party will have destroyed any credibility as a viable opposition, and the Lib Dems will have aligned too heavily with the Tories to be viable themselves. I don't know where the country goes from there, but I would love to not be a part of it.
I think it miss one article: do not override native scrolling!
Specifically this part:

> This course did not exist until 2003, when Professor Ng taught it for the first time with 68 students, and very little like it existed anywhere on college campuses 15 years ago.

I took a Machine Learning course as part of my degree in 2001/2. About half of my year in the department attended. The course had been running for many years and I understood it to be a standard fixture in CS department curricula across the UK at the time.
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I think your opinion is wrong. Even placebo has a higher than 0% effectiveness.
You could get IETab and set it to open those sites with it.

It seems the risk is using IE for other tasks and getting exposed to malicious code, and the main reason you would open things other than the site requiring IE is that it's the browser you keep open?
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Thin laptops are like big screens on phones and cheap airline seats. Lots of people say those aren't the most important criteria, but the tyranny of the majority says otherwise.

As far as this particular tech goes, the frailty of the butterfly keyboard is only half the problem for me. The other half is the lack of travel itself! I'm going to hang on to this 2015 model until it completely dies and then go find something else if what's on offer from Apple feels like typing on a sheet of tin foil on a kitchen counter.
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Other factors: getting a bit of exercise, wanting to be away from the busiest areas to avoid your car being dinged.
Rarely do I get the uncanny feeling of someone else describing my experience or taking the words out of my mouth, but this one did it so, so well. Somewhere in between The Circle and Silicon Valley (the show).

I often think about walking away and working as a baker.
I was also curious, maybe because the statement was a surprise. There are certainly differences between cultures, so how would you even decide which empathy distribution was the best one?

I did find a longer discussion of the topic, so it seems the idea wasn't pulled out of thin air, but it still isn't a measurement: https://chublicopinion.com/2015/12/06/the-unbearable-coldnes...
But... This whole conversation was about peak oil. We don't need all that stuff right now. We only need to build it before we run out of oil.

And I am saying that it is going to take us a much longer time to run out of oil, than it is to build all that new infrastructure. Not because building the infrastructure is easy, but because there is a whole lot of oil in the ground, and therefore we have a lot of time.

IE, people will stop using oil, because the price of solar, ect has gone down, way before we come close to actually running out of oil.
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Note: there are 100GB bluray discs now that can be recorded using consumer burners. There are also M-Disc bluray discs which are specified to last about 1000 years (with some science and testing to back it up, even though no one tested it for 1000 real years obviously), because it uses a more hard "rock" layer to store the data instead of basically a color dye which is used on regular burnable discs (which last for 10 years according to some sources).
To be totally fair you purchased the 5X, the biggest one on offer. A comparison with the 5S (6S now?) would be more reasonable.
I wonder to what extent open source desktop applications have affected the commercial market. 20-ish years ago a lot of people were predicting OpenOffice, and other OSS apps would take over the world (running on desktop Linux). That didn't happen, but I wonder if that's the case because they pushed down the price of consumer shrink-wrap* apps? Or was it just increased competition between the commercial apps?

* It's been a long time since I've used that term.
I don't know if I'm having one of my hyper-literal moments, or if this is some other neurodiversity thing, but I can't make sense of the last paragraph... Can someone help explain it to me?

The way I read it is:

* 219-09-9999 is a made-up number that was never issued to anyone.

* The woman thought it was her number for unexplained reasons.

* She used the pamphlet as evidence that it was her number.

I must be missing something important. Is it a joke, with the punchline being that she thought the pamphlet was her social security card? If so, how was this the fault of the Board? Was it her SSN somehow? If so, how did the pamphlet prove it?
"Easier". Yes, you could reverse engineer all that information yourself. It just takes ages.
Estimating knowledge work is always more unwieldy, and in this context you are often working towards outcomes which ultimately have no precedent (although they may be made up of known components).

It is also more difficult to initially assess the skills fit of candidates for knowledge based work, especially those that require creative problem solving, and unlike other engineering disciplines past outputs are opaque and hard to rely on as simple markers of past performance.

For a project, in order to produce a good estimate you need to understand scope, then align it with precedent, adjust for your resources and productivity profile and then view all of that through a risk lens to set probable outcome ranges.

For a programme, in order to produce a good estimate you need to understand and manage the risks, constraints and dependencies across all your projects and ensure that the projected benefits (both hard and soft) are still net positive, meaning the investment makes sense.

From my observations at least it doesn't look like the idea of development as "investment" in a product or service is very common. I'm assuming because time to market is often the ultimate driver rather than cost, in which case, congratulations, you should increase your costs on more numerous and productive resources whilst aligning your strategy and risks to iterate on smaller scopes faster so that dead ends can be quickly parked.

The problem isn't so much the estimation process as it is more generally poor portfolio/programme governance and management practices and more specifically a lack of risk management and understanding of contingency at those levels. I find IT, and Software Development more particularly, to be some of the worst offenders, but that is because the risk profiles of such projects are vastly different to the risk profiles of other types of work. The productivity of your resources is difficult to discern and a lack of precedent for similar-enough projects and knowing what their variables were, all meaning you really can't produce a reliable estimate with incomplete information.
I suspect that generally only healthy people would become serious endurance athletes. Is that taken into account in these studies?

I also suspect lifting weights (and a bunch of other things) is important for long term health, how does that relate?
To re-iterate my other comment, there are M-disc bluray discs now (up to 100GB per disc), which seem to last for 1000 years, if kept away from direct light and in good room conditions (low temperature and humidity).
It certainly is flamebait when you bring in an inflammatory and divisive topic into a thread like that. Doubly so after trawling through another account's history in order to find something to attack them with. Please don't do these things in HN threads again.
Hunting had a social aspect too.

But it wasn't a social activity. Just like gaming, it's gaming the majority of the time.

Social activities have parts that are similar to gaming, like when a group of friends ends up playing beer pong.
But it's a social activity, not gaming.

And that's where we make the distinction.
Can you actually delete IE from windows as the article recommends? I thought it was an integral part of the system?
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I've had terrible experiences in this industry too -- look at TechLead, his wife left him! but we're being forged into something stronger than steel -- that's why I wear a silk tie, not because I'm trying to be some kind of corporate drone.. as Simon Sinek says, 'Start with why' -- nothing matters per se, but for the meaning behind it
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Yeah Logic Pro 7 was $1000, then version 8 was $500, now Logic Pro X is $199
great big list of stuff that only fully works in IE here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/install/browser-...
That's very insightful.

And yet those men are still sexist, but in a protective way.
Doesn’t really change the other arguments, does it?
I've run a business longer than a decade so I know how hard it is and I've burned out several times over. But I just don't give up and a no has certainly become a NO.
Rumor (from this site) consensus seems to be custom low RPM hard drives optimized for long life.
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I just assume everything has some small chance of killing me and try not to let it bother me too much.
Just for fun I googled it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/359494/which-equals-oper...

I don't really see what is so horrible about these answers?
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It's a measurable metric which they can through advanced engineering at. Even if they fail once in a while like they did with the last gen (I bought a 2013 mbp instead) I think it's a net positive that they try at all.
The main issue with Corbyn's Labour is that it is too much on the left, with some major policies being textbook communist (e.g. nationalisations with handing control to workers), and a Marxist as Shadow Chancellor.

Their current delirium about private education, which is also a textbook communist party style policy (suppression, assets seizure and "democratic" redistribution), only adds to this.

I could add their populist war in private landlords and calls for rent controls...

Beyond Corbyn himself this does scare many people away.
> The thing is, the will of the people is what the referendum said at the time, nothing else. If it's changed, so be it, but the first result must be implemented first.

Regardless of your intent, this specifically argues that we should implement a decision made by people who since have more information and have changed their minds. That is emphatically not a good position.

This is why we generally (mildly facetious) are governed by learned adults, and not children frozen in time. The ability to change opinions is what helps us and society to evolve.
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Damn you Stack Overflow -- well what I hate about my favourite language is all the noobs who think they know what they're doing who don't even know how to compose a commit in the imperative
True. But besides their interest in acquiring exploits, I think their data collection seriously collides with peoples amendment rights against arbitrary state surveillance.

I know there are some judges and institutions that enabled this madness, but I think they might be guilty as well.

These judges should be accountable to the public in theory.

I am not saying the everyone working at the NSA is a criminal. But maybe Snowden was the only one with perspective.

The NSA as an institution certainly did more damage to the US than most of its enemies.
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