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> Monitoring first: we have a strong desire to increase this but we're a bit at a loss as to what a good light-weight solution is here

In my experience, a toolchain consisting of statsd => collectd => graphite. It will, assuming you have never used it before, consume about man-week to get it installed and tuned to your needs, but with benefits lasting for years.

Is it better than the paid tools out there? Probably not, but it's all open source, relatively stable, and has low cognitive overhead.
Show me where in e.g. California taxes are HALF of those in Germany.
It's definitely complicated, which is probably why no one has wanted to address it. People in tech nowadays, because money is just sloshing around and there are plenty of low hanging fruit to pluck, are largely not interested in solving difficult problems. I don't blame them, it's just an effect of the current system.
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Duplicates will always happen, and as you have pointed out, sometimes there is positive value to that. The idea isn't to avoid duplicates, per se, but to try to ensure that the same discussion doesn't get hashed out again and again in different different, parallel and unconnected threads. There have even been cases[0] where the mods explicitly dipped in and moved comments from one submission to another to avoid the "split discussion" problem.

So the idea is to ensure that anyone interested in an item can, should they choose, easily find and read the comments made by other HN contributors. Feel free to disagree, although the 17 upvotes (at the time of writing - votes may go down as well as up) indicate that there are people who do find it valuable/useful.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499286

Edit: Just checking your profile I see that you've been here less than a year, so you may not be aware that because it's me to whom you're replying, I can't down-vote you. In fact I've up-voted you, because while I disagree with you (obviously) I don't think your comment is especially negative.
Depends where you live. The relative costs of restaurants and similar food-preparation services vary wildly around the globe compared with the cost of buying food and preparing it in the same city.
I think the point was that killing a Serbian military officer would start a war with Serbia. Of course, the challenging part would be convincing Serbia to back the scheme; if Serbia was going to defend the territory they'd be more likely to claim it themselves.
Of course, the rice at the grocery store has all been hulled.

And much of it has been par cooked.
My students regularly show me how easy it is to calculate extremely precise results. Now, whether they should trust that precision is a rather different question, and one that even the good ones struggle with for a while. (In other news, I wish that more people paid attention to uncertainty propagation. Or heck, even just some oversimplified heuristics for significant figures.)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain): A tale about escape, thinking for yourself and looking upon society with a critical eye. Plus, I find the beauty of the language, especially dialogues written in the characters' respective slangs, stunning.

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoi): Intertwined tales about love and finding happiness that simply feels timeless. I think Tolstoi's greatest achievement is making the characters feel so human in this. For what it's worth i did not find it a difficult or heavy read at all.

The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyesky): Them russians really have something with humanness. Where Anna touches love and happiness, karamazov contrasts religion and ethics, faith and reason. Once again, it feels like it could have been written today and still be as relevant.

1984, Orwell. Don't think I need to go into this one, but every time i read it, I find something. This novel was really deeply thought out, inventions like doublespeak really makes you think about how we think about and react to politics.

I realize most of those are likely required reading in american high schools, which to me is proof that your public school system is not entirely lost. I wish we had read some actual substantial texts in my schooling and didn't have to discover these in my early 20s.
I wonder if we'll ever get back to "High Speed Air" in my lifetime.

Back in the 70s, you could rock up at the airport twenty minutes before your flight left, jump on with minimal hassle, and cruise along at 600mph to your destination. Now, you need to endure two hours of having your fingernail clippers confiscated so that you can fly at 500mph to save on fuel costs.

That seems to be the true advantage of rail travel. As it said on the loudspeaker in Berlin HBF last time I was there: "Please try to arrive on the platform at least five minutes before your train is scheduled to depart."

Sadly, I bet the way we'll end up equalizing this will be that somebody will eventually bomb a TGV and we'll have to start doing the two hour confiscate-your-kids'-apple-juice routine at the train station too.
I didn't argue about it objectively being better, I argued that it isn't suitable for _me_ - given the downvotes though, It appears that I am stupid and don't understand my own use-cases, and the general population on HN knows much better what I need.
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Assuming this is a serious comment, it's:

Here's a talk I gave (about computing shortest paths for British Rail in 1955).

Rather than

Here's a talk I gave (about computing shortest paths for British Rail) in 1955.

That is, the topic is computing shortest paths in 1955 for British Rail and the talk was given in 2012.
I guess the usual counterpoint is: they have to build a new track anyway (the existing one is getting saturated). Building a rail track or a maglev track costs about the same (almost all the cost is making the tunnels), and the maglev track is better, so why not go with the maglev.

It was discussed a little bit for the new high speed train line in Britain, but rejected for the reasons you state in your first paragraph. But Japan seems much less worried about reusing trains (different lines are usually operated by different companies with different rolling stock). And somehow they were able to get this project funded even though it will be many years until first service---maybe they just are more competent than the west when it comes long-term investments? :) So maybe the trade-off came out differently there...
So, basically you're saying it's OK that the abstraction layer for RethinkDB creates nasty code because it's native JS? I don't agree. I think nasty code is never OK.

Why can't the RethinkDB abstraction layer just be better? Why isn't:

var dateFilter = new Date();
dateFilter = dateFilter.setDate(dateFilter.getDate() - 30);
rdb.table('users').get([ { column: signup_date, gt: dateFilter } ]).each(function (err, user) {
// Do stuff
});

Possible? That's just off the top of my head how I would do it in a way that's native JS and far better than what's presented in the article.
> "So you've never had to edit a broken maintainer script under /var/lib/dpkg/info/* from bad post/pre install / removal bits?"

Nope...
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That would be ruinous to the planet barring a miracle dramatically reducing air travel climate effects in that short timespan.
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It's a perennial problem in development economics. Ignoring the reasons, the assistance that is intended to help usually does far more and even deeper fundamental damage than if nothing had been done at all outside of assisting in a catastrophic emergency type situation.
Guess it would work more like Fedora -> Redhat Enterprise Linux. You might be right about the profits, I have no idea..

The "open core" model is horrible IMO. It pits the open source version and the commercial version againts each other. What happens when someone would like to contribute features already planned for the commercial version.. ?
I have had Search History disabled for years, but not forever. I use my Google account all over the place, including at work and on my Android phone. I downloaded the search archive and it contained the same "No Searches" HTML file and nothing else. It's impossible to know whether they actually store this data, but at least as far as their direct user-facing interfaces are concerned, Google does not track my search history.
I believe it's a mistake to put Riemann in the same sentence as statsd/graphite. It really does not try and solve the same problems, it's more focused on alerting than trend analysis. In fact it recommends pushing data out of Riemann and into Graphite to perform long term trend analysis.

That said, if you have the time to invest in grokking Riemann (learn Clojure first), it would be a fantastic tool to base the rest of your monitoring infrastructure upon.
That is a completely valid point, and I have considered using emacs for some other small things (e.g., org-mode). I think the reasons I haven't started down that path are 1) I still feel some influence from my days in the Editor Wars and 2) because I am too lazy to learn a new interface and paradigm.

Perhaps this might serve as enough motivation to get over my laziness. :)
I didn't read the article, I read the press release yesterday. I read "needs rpm/yum" meaning I am not interested, meaning no point for me to keep reading.
But the HTML you describe is required for the modal as you describe it. I guess I'm assuming you want something to darken the body content behind the modal, which is what the first div would be for.

Otherwise, if you don't need the darkening div behind the modal, you can easily create a centered modal with the container being the body tag. Without flexbox. Today.

Again, I don't understand your expectations.
Actually, the TGV record was set by a specially-rebuilt train set that was heavily customized -- and the test crew reportedly couldn't stand/walk around the instrument car at speeds over 500km/h due to vibration. (The track they ran the test on was newly-laid and not yet open to regular traffic: they had to replace most of the overhead cables from the stretch where the train hit maximum speed due to arcing and shock waves.)

The big difference is that the TGV record set pretty much an upper limit on steel-wheel speed -- horrible vibration, and the wheel rims were close to supersonic, which would have led to more shock waves if they'd pushed it faster. Similarly, Formula One cars go a lot faster than regular road vehicles, but you wouldn't want to commute to the office in one! Whereas this maglev test demonstrated a technology that would be comfortably usable at this speed.
You can also checkout http://db-engines.com/en/ranking/graph+dbms which gives a ranking of various technologies (graph, document, search).
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Do you have any friends who smoke weed? Ask them and I'm sure you'll be able to find it.
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But what are you aligning? It seems to me that having "justify-content" is more semantic than "align".
Categorization like this would be great.

I'd also like to be able to bin things as "useful today" vs "something under development to keep an eye on for the future."
There are two ways a commute of 2 hours a day of commuting can work out. One, if you can actually get work done while commuting. (That has a couple implications -- usually it means a train, not a subway, so you can get a little Internet, and there's a minimum commute length before you can actually get productive.)

Two, if a substantial portion of that commute doubles as your daily exercise, and you can enjoy it and improve your health. (Usually this means a bicycle, which brings along certain weather-related implications to its practicality. Think it works better in Silicon Valley with its mild mild climate and utterly predictable rain.)
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I grew up in an area like that. Thirty years later, I left that same area because all of the folks fleeing the big city had moved there. It's just a matter of time.
The opportunity cost should be weighted between the productivity tasks that generate income for you. "If I make this startup or if I work on this job" type of things.
What's the point of knowing the opportunity cost of your sleep, eat or go to vacation?. Your "life" is on a different list. You have just one.

edit: rephrased a bit better
Side note: VMware ESX was a Linux based OS (yes, vmlinuz loaded vmware via kernel modules, not the other way around as VMware likes to tell people, you can see this if you watch ESX boot).
Metro and subway systems in the US are to me basically comparable to systems abroad. I'd argue most US city rails are better than Berlin's.

Where you immediately notice is longer distance commuter and cross-country lines. I often take the train from Chicago to Detroit, and every time we stop partway for ~15-30 mins because the company can't run trains in both directions on the tracks. Even when we are moving, most of the time we can't come close to our top speed of 130 mph because we aren't on high speed track. Compare this to EU trains which run across the country non-stop at top speeds of 180 mph. Granted, not everywhere has high quality service, but most major cities do, which definitely can't be said about the US.
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Nice idea.....
I paid for one hour with a physiotherapist, who basically took one look at me. My problem was basically that my hips were way too inflexible, so the according advice was stupidly simple.

Basically a bunch of simple dynamic stretches of the hips. E.g. put one foot forward and bend over as far as you can with a straight back, trying to touch the floor, and up again, take a step so the other foot is out front, and repeat. Or stand and hold on to something and swing one leg back and forth as well as left/right on front of your torso.

To that I added "asian squat". Just practice sitting in the squat position as long as you can as much as possible throughout the day.

It took me a couple of months to get to the point where my back squat started going up with good form. In less than 6 months I went from hurting myself at 60kg to doing 5x5 at 150kg without pain (though keep in mind that at I had been stalling at 60kg for ages and done what I could to compensate with other exercises).

I'd recommend a physiotherapist and/or a personal trainer you are very sure knows squats properly. A lot of personal trainers are clueless about strength training. If it's technique, the trainer is your best bet. If your problem is actually flexibility, a physiotherapist or a personal trainer that's experienced with e.g. gymnastics or yoga might be just as good for you.
Obviously ? Are you from the US? If so, I can understand where you're coming from. Maybe violence is not the answer, or have you thought about this possibility ? Their motto is "Live and Let Live", doesn't that tell you something ?

Or maybe you're a professional pro-war troll?
Look into local goodwills. There are usually one or two that will send a truck around periodically and stop to pick up a large group of donations.
I have had many issues with RPM and YUM breaking a system, something that hasn't happened to me deb-based systems. I find rolling custom packages and running an in-house deb repo and mirror to be easy and very reliable. There are quite a few things I don't like about CentOS/Fedora/RH are laid out. Yes, some of these are simply personal preferences, and some of these are based on technical requirements.

Live and let live - if it works for you, that's great, I don't have an issue with that. Unfortunately, it seems people have an issue with me not adhering to their own world view - pity HN is going that way.

I do genuinely appreciate your offer for help, many thanks :)
You laugh at the concept of a passport but there are lots of people who don't have a passport at all and no citizenship to any country. They would like to be a citizen of one country or another. This might be a great way to do it.
I agree for the most part here. But it's not totally insurmountable. Patch against your local development and/or staging copy then upload the changed files to your shared host.
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There will be no "collapse" the way some of these people think of it. It's not going to be like the movie "Dawn of the Dead" or whatever where one day suddenly shit hits the fan and prices skyrocket and everyone begins to riot and the SS comes marching down the street to kill everyone. There will be no "happening". It's far more insidious than that. Read the poem "The Hollow Men" by TS ELiot and you'll understand.

You'll just notice that every day simple things will become a little more expensive. Everyone's homes and apartments will start to get smaller. your work hours will get longer, but your pay will decrease. You'll see family and friends less, and find that in time you care less about them. Every day you'll find yourself lowering your standards for everything: work, food, relationships, etc. Job security will no longer exist as a concept. You'll notice houses and apartments shrinking. People will start hanging on clothing longer and longer. Less people will get married, even less will have children. People will engross themselves in technological distractions and fantasy while never truly experiencing the real world.

Whatever dream people used to have about what their lives were going to be will become for them a distant memory. The only thing left for them will be the reality of their debt and their poverty. And every minute of every day they will be told: "You are stupid, ugly and weak, but together we are free, prosperous and safe."

That is the collapse. The reduction of the American man into a feudal serf, incapable of feeling love or hate, incapable of seeing the pitiful nature of his situation for what it is or recognizing his own self worth.
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I will use the new archive.org to see what the previous version of archive.org looked like :)
ething that for me is non-negotiable. Those are hours of your life you'll never get back, and the whole process feels so draining. I don't know how people who commute 2 or more hours a day have the energy to go to gym, make food, read books, etc.

Well, generally they don't go to the gym, they eat microwave meals or have their partner cook, and read on the train.

My current commute is just under 1h each way, but that includes 20 minutes of walking, and as such feels fairly leisurely. Long ago it was 1h45 each way, on the underground; that was gruelling.
Puppet activists playing god and destroying the lives of the young researchers whereas everybody treat them as the great hero of the week. Is a problem, yes. To be young an naive and doing silly things trying to impress your crush is understandable and even likeable. But, when your love plan involves to 'morally torture' or destroy lives of other young girls and guys, and millions of dollars in stuff, papers should adopt a more responsible point of view.

The type of activism that repeat again and again old dated facts as if were current, is mostly a way to climb up socially at any cost, and to find comfort in the group. No intelligent people can argue that to give a expensive dinner of mouses to the wild cats equals to love or improve the life of those mouses. The peaceful and intelligent lab rats set free ceremoniously, with be soon bitten, chased away and most of them will be ripped in pieces for the wild rats before 24 h. The survivors will last a couple of more miserable days terrified, hungry, bleeding and isolated of their families. This is cruel for a social animal, and not much different to stealing a lap dog from this friend owners and house and releasing it alone in the territory of a wolf pack to be teared apart and eated.

Experimentation is mostly a tool to achieve something that a lot of good people disperately need as soon as possible. To make a taboo of this tool will not solve much of our real problems and probably will create a huge amount of human pain.

Labs should have sticks with "Is the Thalidomide, stupid" printed in uppercases, and those type of articles should probably be answered also with the same slogan.
First off I think you mean Debian not Ubuntu (Debian is the base for Ubuntu).

Secondly, RHEL and its derivatives are far more popular in the business world than Ubuntu and its derivatives.

Ubuntu is pretty much only popular in the desktop linux space.
Yeah, I agonized over that. That's why I ended up saying the slightly more awkward "onto" instead of "in". Clearly that wasn't enough :)
Sounds like a GitHub bookmarking app would be useful, or a browser plugin...
None. Acceptance into YC is the ultimate measure of success /s
Here are a couple of ABX logs that demonstrate an audible difference between 320 and FLAC

* http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=70598

* http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=100256&...

All lossy codecs have some problem samples and cranking up the bitrate isn't a guarantee of transparency. Newer codecs tend to do better than MP3, and at lower bitrates. The only point in lossy encoding is to save space, so it makes sense to do it as efficiently as possible, and considering that, 320 CBR is actually the worst of both worlds because it always wastes space, and is often overkill anyway.

An AAC file from a good implementation of the encoder (e.g. Apples, or either from Fraunhofer including the Open Source FDK-AAC from Android) will usually (for most people, with most music) achieve transparency in the mid to high hundreds of kbps.

The material listened to always makes a difference, therefore unqualified arguments about "can always tell" or "never can tell" are always flawed.
May not be safe. The health benefits of biking kind of plummet if you become an asphalt decoration.
Almost two weeks later, the news have this gruesome report of a young woman's death by dinitrophenol: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/21/woman-dies-af...

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She said her daughter began feeling unwell at about lunchtime on 12 April and drove herself to Royal Shrewsbury hospital, where she explained to doctors what she had taken. She said there was “no great panic” because “[Eloise] was still completely lucid and with it. At this point she still seemed to be OK.”

That changed when doctors carried out a toxicology report that revealed “how dire her situation was”.

“The drug was in her system, there was no antidote, two tablets was a lethal dose and she had taken eight,” Fiona Parry said in a tribute posted online. “As Eloise deteriorated, the staff in A&E did all they could to stabilise her.

“As the drug kicked in and started to make her metabolism soar, they attempted to cool her down, but they were fighting an uphill battle. She was literally burning up from within. When she stopped breathing, they put her on a ventilator and carried on fighting to save her.

“When her hearted stopped they couldn’t revive her. She had crashed. She had taken so much DNP that the consequences were inevitable. They never stood a chance of saving her. She burned and crashed.”

"""
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Yeah an easy to spot (and understandable) "staleness" rating would be +1
(i did not downvote you) This was my interpretation of your comment, my apologies if it is incorrect:

"I don't like YUM and RPM, and others shouldn't use popularity as a reason to use something"

Which I agree with. However, in this case, I think that if, in fact, RPM is popular among VMWare's customers, choosing that toolchain in order to make their new product more attractive to their existing customers is totally valid.