skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly genetics are part of this as you say his parents both lived to 94 and 98.

But I would say what may help him live longer than his genetics would allow is the consistency of his health care.

Being rich allows him the luxury of health care, I think this is the biggest factor helping him and being able to eat well i.e. good quality food which is expensive. Even though here in Canada we have socialized medicine and at times it sucks at least it's consistent in that we have the care available. For small problems or major ones it's the daily availability of being able to get help and not waiting until it's too late due to lack of coverage or money to pay a doctor.
I do not deny his genius, but popular accounts of scientific work certainly tend to overemphasize individual contributions and downplay the overall incremental progress a generation of scientists of various statue can make. It has the practical effect of discouraging young people from doing actual scientific work on small, particular results, instead they feel they should immediately have an idea for a grand theory of everything.
Programming on the Toilet
Congratulations :)

- when you find yourself not being productive any more, stop and take a walk. You can't be productive 100% of the time, and it's important to accept that. 30-60 minute walks will do wonders for you.

- pick modest goals for the first month to make sure you knock them out of the park, and then set appropriate goals the following month. Nothing gets you down like missing your first set of goals and being perpetually behind.
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JDK8 + Facebook React: Rendering single page apps on the server
Side project: an automatic roster for evening and weekend emergency duties for groups of dentists. We run on Heroku and most of our saas cost is a dyno ($35), an SSL add-on ($20), and some phone/sms cost from Twilio ($5-10). We use workless to spin up and down a worker dyno when needed.

Since the tool supports an offline process we don't have incredible loads, so we use the free tier of most other services (e.g. SendGrid, etc.)

What are you spending your $200 on?
If you can do your work remotely then pack a small backpack, and travel around the world. No flights, just cheap road transportation, trains, boats, where you'll meet ton of people you'd never meet in your life. Go to South America, to Asia, to Africa, if you're smart and tough you can travel a year on a $15K budget.
Also not terribly excited about this. But i should also probably just move on from posting here. Not a big contributor and have found that overall there's a huge echo chamber dynamic to this community that's generally hard to break through. Really hard to have a dissenting opinion unless you're just doing it for academic reasons or devil's advocacy. I imagine with this, myself and many other new or not high participating members that don't go full heartedly with the general belief system here will find themselves wedged out of the conversation. Oh well.
Finally. I have loved using Flash for game development back when it was owned by Macromedia, and with AS3 it's still got a powerful API, but at the end of the day having an open-source implementation to work from is far nicer. It helps that Haxe is really cool, too.
These things add up so fast don't they? I think I'm around $200, which is down quite a bit. We had to get rid of New Relic, which broke my heart because it's awesome, and several other things to cut costs. It's all the little things that add up like LastPass, Dropbox, backup space, mail and so on. Sometime the FOSS alternatives aren't worth it, sometimes they are.
Jspm.io – Frictionless browser package management
Half drum kit cover
Take 20 min a day to meditate
There are next-generation NoSQL data stores out there that are better than MongoDB on many axis (performance, consistency, fault-tolerance, API, backup speeds, etc). One of these (full disclosure: it's from my group) is HyperDex (http://hyperdex.org).
Excellent! Give everyone a shovel. Half the people can dig the hole, the other half will fill it in again!

Seriously, make-work is a horrible idea and a gigantic waste of resources. Basic income frees people to live their lives and contribute to society in ways that are undervalued by the labour market such as writing, creating art and music or caring for children, the elderly or chronically ill.

How many people might choose to start a small business if they have the security of a basic income? It seems to me like a potentially staggering number of people.
In this Canadian experiment [1], initial results indicated some disincentives, but a lot of data was not analyzed, until many years later. Some of the surprising results include a reduction in medical costs.

[1] http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100
Brazilian here. Diniz is ripped and muscular because he takes steroids, as one HNer questioned below. This is well known here to people who strength train, from all the photos he takes showing off his muscles, and from the doctors he's associated with (doctors who charge an arm and a leg to legally prescribe steroids -- this was exposed in a national magazine recently, but was quite known before). How he does keep his muscles with a calorie deficit, I don't know. Probably just a bad article. And no, I don't really like the guy. He's just a billionaire playboy who likes to be on the spotlight. And yes, there are some brazilian billionaires who I admire. Just not this guy.
Not a lot here about China. One can only speculate whether they've been on top of our surveillance efforts all along, and how much of the Golden Shield project is about defense rather than censorship.
Congratulations on taking the big jump and going on a new adventure!

I'm hoping to be in a similar situation in the future (uni student with a gap of up to 7 months because I'm ahead of the curriculum, and I have maybe ~€3k in savings, while living with my parents). Here's some ideas I had for myself.

- Travel cheaply. I have friends in many parts of the world and hopefully some of them will let me stay with them. I could also stay closer to home and travel by bike with a tent, but sleeping in a tent might be harder to combine with a remote job.

- Experiment with freelancing, possibly on a "Pay what you want" basis because I won't really need the money

- Focus for some time on just learning the things I've wanted to learn for a long time; technologies, languages, hobbies, professional skills.

- Create some side projects, primarily to learn but some might also bring in a little money.

Disclaimer in case it wasn't clear: I'm not speaking from experience, those are ideas I have for the future.

> I'm also looking for any general tips about staying engaged and active while working from home

This is something I do have experience with and I found that communicating sufficiently, clearly and honestly is both harder and more important than at non-remote jobs.

Edit: I'm also bookmarking this thread to find advice for myself - thanks a lot for posting this question!
Try very hard not spending 18hs a day in front of the computer. It's really hard to do that when you switch to remote. Go out, shave, shower every day. Try to keep you healthy.
The Verdict on MongoDB
I am currently spending my life working on signal processing - constructing a story of what is happening in the world from sensor data. And you know what - noise is good. You would perhaps think that the thing to do is to turn on the filters, crank 'em up, and don't ever let a noisy bit of data through.

But, of course, that does not work. Noise is helpful. It's still signal. I can construct more information from a noisy signal than an overly filtered one.

Back to forums, I was a participant in several for a different niche area. One was obsessed with post 'quality' - a horde of moderators swarming around, then after awhile they'd comb through every thread, deleting every comment they found not worthy so they would have some kind of pristine archive, and so on.

They utterly failed. Oh, they are still trundling along. But the sites with the industry leaders posting? Those are the ones with far less concern with 'quality'. Why would an expert spend time crafting an answer to somebody when it is likely or possible that it will either not get approved to show up, or later deleted? It made no sense to them, they vocally complained, were again and again told this was for the greater good, and so they all left. Now, if you want to talk to an expert, you go to one of the other forums; if you want to talk to a complete amateur, but with never a post off topic, well, you go to the controlled one. You'll get terrible advice, or no advice at all, but hey, it's civil and on topic.

I've concluded nothing about HN yet, but I don't forsee myself clicking away, endorsing post after post. This is mostly a 'consume' site for me, and occasionally, post. I don't want to spend my time endorsing and clicking away. I'll upvote once in a while, and almost never downvote. I can't see that changing much. I can't see posting anymore; I am giving you value (or trying to), and you hold it hostage. Ya, okay, if that is how you feel, I'll go elsewhere. I recognize that sounds petulant, but back to the site in the first paragraph - a lot of people stopped posting because so much did not survive the great purges that went on. Why go to this effort if others will silence you?

Noise is not the enemy of quality. It is not the enemy of value. It's a wonderful side effect of free thinking, innovative thinking, of creation, of invention. It's messy, it's beautiful. I love noise for what it represents. Long live noise.
Any mention of mongodb these days should really be mentioning tokumx. It's got real transactions, compression, hot backup, and optimized (sequential) read/writes.
A little bit of both, but just because Haskell is so weird and different for most people, including most mathematicians.
Learn Clojure via Overtone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Mf...

I personally have to either wake up early, wake up and exercise, or start working outside my apartment (e.g. eat lunch out and take my computer) in order to not fall into slacking off all day. Assuming I don't fall into one of my slacking off patterns (e.g HN/Reddit/Twitter tech "news" all day), I've never had trouble staying engaged. I think of it as working every day but sometimes I get paid for working on other people's projects and others I get to enjoy working on my own. My personal priority list of things to do puts sleep and waking up without an alarm as the top priority.
> We use MongoDB in production, processing millions of new records every month and it works great.

It fails miserably in various ways when processing millions of new records per hour. On a very large scale MongoDB is unusable, but it is fine for problems 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller, so long as the data is not mission-critical.
This looks a lot like a way to implement group-think by effective censoring and burdening exchange. I'm not interested in reading a sort of Hacker News Reader's Digest. Being unable to figure out the reasons of your own greatness is a popular road to demise. It was a lot of fun, though, thank you for the ride.
Glad I came across this -- I have a need for a hash function with cryptographic properties but that I don't actually mean to use for crypto, but just to uniquely identify a file by its contents. Speed is really important to me. This sounds perfect for my application.
I don't think Microsoft Office is any better than LibreOffice for general users. Most of the Indian government officials are tad computer illiterate. They would not know what they use.
I kinda like your advice !
Speaking as a musician, it will cost you a bit of money up front, but finding a top notch teacher and taking a few lessons might be a great way to kick off the new phase of your life. Of course I'm saying this while having procrastinated on doing the same for myself. Find a teacher who could provide you with a frank assessment of your technique, and identify gaps in your abilities that might hold you back from fully engaging in your local music scene at a desirable level.

Also, a check-up on your technique might be a good idea in order to avoid injuring yourself once you do start in with those 5 hours a day. Naturally some instruments are more physically demanding than others, but any instrument can hurt you if you don't consider ergonomic technique.
I wonder how well this would work for really fast (150WPM+) typists, since at that speed the keys are often being hit simultaneously by many fingers and it becomes much harder to distinguish the individual sounds. The spacebar still remains distinct-sounding, however.
Note to the designer of this page: white background with light gray foreground text is a bad UI decision. Users need more contrast, as this page looks faded.
>A copy of you isn't you.

I'm surprised people still believe this. There are no souls. Nothing about the atoms in your brain are special. If I replaced them all right now with "different" atoms (if the universe even does have a unique identity assigned to every particle) you would be the same person.
Main work project: Around $500 a month split across 2 services - Mixpanel ($350) and Azure Hosting ($150). Its a 2 man team

Side projects: Around $40 a month split across 2 services - Gtihub, Asana
I remember using OpenFL a year ago or so. Probably less. The coding environment itself was very nice. But it was horribly painful in practice. Sure, you can compile to multiple targets, but don't expect it to work. And if it does work, chances are your code is littered with platform-specific macros and reams of platform-specific code.

To make it worse, many parts of the Flash API weren't implemented, had different semantics, didn't work on some platforms, or worked differently on some platforms.

I like the idea of OpenFL and I like the Haxe programming language. When I tried it, it was clear that things were improving quickly. I hope it has improved a lot since then.
You might want to test out tokumx. Document level locking and compression are two of the features it has.
I don't know how much money you have, but I would invest it into an income asset like a rental property or dividend paying equity. You will need an income stream if you want to live work-free for any length of time. Otherwise, I would buy a house or condo or find a situation where you can live "rent-free". Also pay cash for an older car. Those are your major expenses. Generally, I would live within your means, and cook your own food. Avoid travel and entertainment expenses, especially bars. Have fun!
Seeing these comments by themselves gives no context. While a good comment is likely to be recognisable by itself, this is not always the case.
It is a long time, but little has changed regarding the issues shown in that talk.
Indeed! I've had many friends who were really poor, and initial attempts to 'help' only lead to failure and frustration.

So far, the only approach that has had some effect was to take them out of their environment entirely. This 'shake-up' of their patterns usually had positive effects, even if they fell back into their previous patterns. But obviously this is a drastic and often impractical measure...
I think it's for a similar reason sites such as reddit and 4chan (though their topics are often rather lewd) have seen so much success. They're like big melting pots, and all the good stuff floats to the top. Sometimes even the most average of topics can be made interesting by a relative unknown providing some insight.

TL;DR you really reduce your chance of finding diamonds if you don't let some dirt through too.
I really appreciate the sentiment here, but at the same time I don't want to see a thread with five hundred comments that say

This.

Or whatever trendy catch phrase is floating around the mindspace that month. And this system differs from what you describe in that there will be no set group of moderators. The community itself will decide what it wants to see and encourage the type of contribution it deems valid.
Mine's still processing and I bought it in January :(
I've been working from home for about 5 years. If you want to be productive, the key point is to make a very clear distinction between work and leisure. On a normal job this is clear enough - the clothes, the physical setting, the timetable, all converge to trigger your professional mindset. Not so at home.

Organize a little corner of your house for working. Even if it's just a desk and a bookshelf. Keep it reserved for your work hours/activities only. If you can schedule certain activities outside the house, eg a shared workspace, even better.

Give yourself working hours and respect them - preferably for a whole week, but at least for the next day. If you have several activities, divide up your time between them in advance. If possible, set daily or weekly goals for the activities you are engaged in.

Dress for work, even if you are at home - not necessarily a suit, but put on some decent clothes and shoes, and brush your hair, make yourself presentable. Go out for a short brisk walk before starting work, to simulate your commute; possibly repeat at lunchtime (more relaxed) and in the evening.

Do not snack between meals - VERY important. Avoid sweets, fizzy drinks, pastries, as you are less physically active than before. Schedule exercise every day.

Create at least one "event" every day which takes place outside the house and involves other people. This will give a focus to your day. Make sure you get enough human contact. You'd be surprised how important work is in this respect, even if you have no friends there.

Edit: be very strict about your use of the internet. Reading news is not working. More generally, honestly evaluate how you use your time relative to the objectives you have set yourself for that day.
> Which means processing huge amount of data. Which SQL databases were never designed for.

When an article opens with a statement like it's difficult to give it much credence at that point. Unfortunately, this ignorance is very common among the MongoDB crowd.

Like your example? millions of new records every month? That's not a "huge amount of data". We're adding tens of millions new records each day, into mysql, and I would still consider our usage extremely intermediate if not amateur.

MongoDB has many benefits, they've improved on numerous oversights and flaws in their initial design, and it's becoming better all the time. What I'd love to actually see change is the naive belief of MongoDB users that it's a new, unique or vastly superior solution.
Thanks for this! Looks really promising. I'm a huge fan of statsd, but it seems like something so much better suited to a single binary than a whole node setup.
XPrize up for Artificial Intelligence that can give a TED talk
Flash is the plateform and the IDE, and nothing will replace the IDE regarding how easy to create and organise animations.

Sure,you can code in a text editor, But a designer cant do precise and complex animations with a text editor.

Editing and creating animations are 50% of the value of Flash and that's why the IDE is still necessary to develop games, wether they are HTML5 or mobile ones. Yes there is Unity but Unity is 1/ more expensive than flash 2/ sucks at 2d asset creation.

So no, Flash isnt dead,by a long shot.
Presumably because verifying the composition of the entire coin without destroying it is a very hard problem.
I'm around $10/month but I've yet to build anything that anyone has taken a shine to (besides myself of course).
even basic things in Excel are not supported in libreoffice, such as validations.

I recently attempted to move everyone in my office to libreoffice where possible and was met with a very large resistence from people who's spreadsheets simply did not work.

it's hard telling people that they have to edit functions/macros that were set up by someone smarter than them 10 years ago.
Download all messages between you and a friend from Facebook
I would wait to see the price and the battery life of the Moto 360. My Pebble lasts me around 5 days. The Samsung smart watch lasts 24 hours and is much more expensive.
I think the OP is saying for the general public it's considered a settled matter that everyone is equally likely to get HIV. Not that it's true, but that for PC reasons thats the acceptable "truth". To imply or state otherwise, regardless of its actual truth, would be some kind of ism.
To add to cooking idea, challenge yourself to eat "simply" – i.e with cheap carbohydrate heavy ingredients such as rice, pasta, potatoes as a substantial portion of your calories.

Use meat sparingly (it's expensive!) to make things more exciting, and always put onions, garlic and [all kinds peppers[1], zucchini, fennel (the bottom parts), herbs[2]].

All of those ingredients last in the fridge and can be "revived", or cooked when they're starting to go bad. If you're new to feeding yourself all of your meals and having food in the fridge all the time, the tendency to buy fresh products that rot in the fridge is high. These ingredients let you cheat a bit.

Olive oil and salt and pepper should be liberally applied to all of this.

Finally, on the the health front, you'll probably cook more than you need – this can cause overeating. I usually portion food into a storage container before I start eating, forcing me to control portions. When you start cooking all of your food and controlling your portions, you realize more what your body needs and honestly how little it actually requires for sustenance. Rich world countries eat such an incredible amount of food.

My two cents! This is a personal thing, so your mileage may vary, but hope it's a bit helpful.

[1]: I live near a substantial hispanic population, so all sorts of interesting peppers exist that can change meals completely for very little cost and effort. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum

[2]: Depending on your market and the season, herbs can be relatively affordable or completely absurd. I only buy it if it's fairly priced, can be a real gouger.
Moto 360 only supports Android (from what I can tell)

where pebble is compatible with everything.

although a touchscreen in a watch might be a great idea if done well.
I am fairly sure there is some causation there, but I am not sure which causation is greater: stay active => live longer, or the combination of be healthy => stay active with be healthy => live longer.

That gets especially hairy when one start thinking about what 'be healthy' means. That 70 year old who is physically healthy, but doesn't seem interested in what happens in the world anymore, is that a healthy person?
Since you're interested in Bitcoin, educate yourself on economics. There's a good reading list on /r/economics.
The shortest Distance is paris to berlin to london to paris accounting upto 2595.005 kilometers.

Ya I know that, sometimes it comes but please refresh the app and try again. If you are getting then download the npm package and set it on your localhost.

Everything is working fine in localhost but when I upload my code to the server like appfog or heroku then these weird issue comes. Visit my app on this link http://short-route-demo.ap01.aws.af.cm/
This will kill any kind of spontaneity in the conversation. Now you’ll have to wait an indeterminable amount of time before your comment becomes live and by then it may be irrelevant. So instead of a conversation we’ll end up with a series of statements. From an academic point of view it would be brilliant but that’s not why we’re here. If we wanted only educated opinions we could just read blog posts or technical books. Speaking for myself, I’m here for the community.

The more complicated a system gets the less usable it becomes.