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>> If taken on for the right reasons...

Most people don't take it for the right reasons. They take it because they've been told to. And they aren't doing anything towards enhancing their understanding of debt.

For example, lots of people will go into debt to go on international trips. We structure our travel on our credit card and pay it off right away because it pays us to fly again! But most people don't have that system in place, they run up the credit card debt and then take 6 months to pay it off. I just plain hate the idea of paying for something today that I used up yesterday.

And I don't think the emotional impact can be overlooked. Even if you can make an argument to me that it would be "smart" to carry a transient purchase as debt (and I know you're not going to try to, I'm just making a hypothetical), I'd still feel bad about it, and that bad feeling is going to have a real impact on my quality of life.

Before I was finally out of debt, I paid off my student loans before I paid off my car (when I had a car) because even though the APR was higher on the car, I could pay off the student loans sooner. It's a snowballing effect. It felt like an accomplishment and it helped me maintain my frugality.

Telling someone with $30k in credit card debt (I know several people like this, it's not that uncommon these days) that they shouldn't run a balance on their credit cards isn't helping them. You've not told them anything they don't already know.

But maybe they don't already know that they don't have to have a big house. That's the intention of my story, to try to jolt people out of their half-waking state. People aren't perfectly rational beings and it's probably stupid to expect them to be so. But there are simple rules of thumb that I think people can take to heart that will improve their overall outcome much better than telling them "you need to consider and be careful with the debt". People work much better with all-or-nothing measures, rather than measures that rely on subtlety and restraint.

It's probably why no-carb diets work out better than calorie counting. It's not because carbs are particularly unhealthy, it's that people can't constrain themselves to the small portions necessary to count calories while eating complex carbohydrates. I know I can't. So what makes more sense? To repeatedly fail at exercising restraint? Or to succeed at a slightly less efficient plan?

Even taking on a mortgage is most of the time a bad call for most people. They live in the house for 5 to 10 years, then move before they get even close to realizing the potential of the property. Then, instead of getting a similar-sized place, they get something larger, something that fits inside their paycheck. Even if they sold their previous house for a net profit, they just roll that over into the new house. The net effect is that they are constantly renting from the bank.

That only makes sense if the mortgage costs less than rent for a similar place. If it doesn't, it's smarter to rent a place and sink the difference into a fund for buying a place when it does make sense to buy. But most people aren't going to keep track of their finances like that.
When the experts seem to know just as much, I don't see much difference.
- The best keyboard. I've tried them all in all 3 major platforms, and nothing comes close.

- ClearBlack displays that do some crazy shit in sunny conditions, so you can still see the screen.

- Awesome cameras and awesome image postprocessing that sacrifices color fidelity in favor of image awesomeness.

- Lumia Cinemagraph is a killer app.
Maybe on some tiny two lane rural highway can you get away with the left being only a passing lane, but in an urban congested 10-12 lane expressway with exits on both the left and right, well, those rules just don't apply.

The reality is that cars are becoming very ineffcient methods of transport. Most carry only one driver, take up a lot of space, etc. The days of driving on a rural highway with two lanes and having the left lane designated as just the passing lane are long behind us. We don't have the capacity for that outside of rural areas and as more areas become congested with car traffic, the less polite people will be.
Are you posting exactly the same comment multiple times with slightly different wording and a new user account each time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9583236
>- View the extreme values of a result set? I.e. I run a query which returns 200 results, and I want to look at the first few and the last few. (PMA: home and end. CLI: scroll?)

SELECT TOP ORDER BY ?
Soon to be, it looks like: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theplanetarysociety/lig...

They are well along, this is a test flight for some of the systems I believe. The Kickstarer is for the rest of the funding for the main vehicle. It's not 100%, but a substantial chunk.
The final outcome is the same - static files on a cdn - so it won't always matter but netlify lets you:

1) run a build process

2) own domain with automatic ssl and redirecting to w/e www-or-not, https-only etc

3) deploy with git push

4) url rewriting, header inserting, proxying
Licensing is the reason all the Apple GNU tools are forever stuck on old versions now. Once the tools moved to GPLv3, Apple stopped updating them. Check out how old your version of /bin/bash is on a completely up-to-date OS X machine.
I use AWS:

- Everything integrates with it, there's a lot of tooling

- Safety of the herd
Two accelerometers could tell you something! They probably aren't sensitive enough to get the job done at that scale, though.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau was a brag:

"Thoreau pitched his Walden in this key; he claps his wings and gives forth a clear, saucy, cheery, triumphant note ... the book is certainly the most delicious piece of brag in literature ... It is a challenge and a triumph, and has a morning freshness and élan..." - John Burroughs

Stories like this give hope to all those trapped, and existentially unsatisfied in the rat race.

The internet (and USPS, UPS and Fedex) are the most amazing of all human inventions. It lets us live like Thoreau at Walden with access to the global economy.

I've been doing just that for the last 8 months, and it saved my life.

I suppose many will take that as a brag. Kindred spirits will be inspired, and maybe, just maybe we will coalesce into a liberation movement, and join together to make escape cheaper and accessible for more and more people.
Azure, awesome PaaS services, very easy to set up, good documentation, good pricing, very good performance and I really like the fact that they are working really really hard on Azure. Big new stuff is being released every month.
It's good for the economy in the short term because it brings demand forward (whether this is then repaid in more productivity in the future is the problem!)

Terrible for individuals though, brings untold misery.
There's a setting for that under the misc. tab on their site. I agree though, that's a very poor default.
This sort of thing was lampshaded to hell and back in the Portal games.

On the surface it's a hilarious first person shooter with a gun that harmlessly puts holes in things in almost exactly the way normal guns don't. Yet it's actually a place where human life and safety is meaningless, where unconciable acts of terror and horror happen everyday (or at least did). And their PowerPoint slides are just awful. It's clear there's a systemic problem in the facility with sustainable testing. Aperature Science may be the most evil corporation ever, and it ends up being funny simply because they're so incompetently banal about it.

It's helpful to remember that giant machines chewing through our world and wreaking havoc on our lives are just side effects of lots of like-minded people working together for a common cause. Teamwork can bring you Star Trek or it can bring you Aperature Science.

There's a moral to be had there, but I'll be damned if I know what it is...
If you think that a click is "easier" than the CLI because, presumably, a click is just a click...then the features of the CLI are not for you. The point of a CLI, and programming in general, is the ability to be explicit with the software and the machine, rather than learning to use the buttons laid out for you by a front-end designer. Sometimes, the latter is good enough, of course.
I closed it the moment I saw a huge anime image coming up as I scrolled. Perhaps give a warning that this is related to that sort of thing?
I love Digital Ocean, I have been using them a while now.

I like the UI, the referral programme and the speed of there whole spinning up process and finally I was once in arrears by 2 months and they were pretty lenient with payment.

Talking about referrals if you want a free $10 - https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=c8555bae4f81
I've used psql for years but never knew about \e. Lately to work on big queries I've been doing a lot of \i foo.sql (while editing foo.sql in a separate window), but maybe I'll see if I like \e better. Thanks for sharing!
We can't afford that at the moment for numerous reasons. Also I love what I do, she isn't married to her specific job, and she misses the baby a lot all day.

My point wasn't that I'm forcing her to make a major life decision because I prefer that for some reason. I was saying she has the ability to go part-time, she wants to spend more time with the baby, yet she is very concerned with making this change because it is a rare thing to do in medical field.

edit for s73v3r: She's already near the top of her field's salary range.
AWS - primarily S3 because their cloud storage is inexpensive and easy to administer.

Azure - websites and mobile services (and by extension SQL Database) because we use .NET
DO is really nice. I use a little droplet myself and for the given price of 5-10 USD/month it is a great value.

Once you want something more I wonder if there are better options. Take there 320 USD/month plan. You get 32GB memory, 12 CoreProcessor, 320GB SSD disk and 7TB transfer. If I take a fixed price server at Hetzner I get 128 GB memory, 12 CoreProcessors, 2x240 GB SSD disk and 50TB transfer. Even the smaller machines are much beefier than what DO has to offer.

Once I am running a business 139 EUR {~155 USD} per month should both be fine.
We all have different definitions of "sad".

"Sad" can also be accepting inferior products because of emotional and moral reasons.

We're not talking about human rights violations or something here, so not everyone has an appetite for moral grandstanding and voting with your wallet.

"A company that attacks open standards and tries to create schisms in the community? "

Amusingly, many software darlings of Silicon Valley behave poorly. Uber, Twitter, Apple, Google, Facebook all behave aggressively anti-competitively in their own immoral and unique ways. Every company I listed attacks open standards in some way or another and creates schisms in communities on a regular basis (or their entire market is based on such walled schisms of larger markets).

If you're the kind of person who assess all hardware and software from a moral perspective, then that's an interesting and rare way to approach your decisions in this space, but not everyone finds it "sad" to use "use the best available".
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In my experience, this is not the case if you have short release cycles combined with hard commitments. I work at a company that does enterprise software that releases every 8 weeks, and there are still problems when we commit to shipping a feature for a particular release.
I'm not sure what they would use today for finding water. We're talking a good 30 years ago. On an interesting side note, I discovered that I had the ability to witch for water, which I've never really put to good use.

I've also had experience installing a catch box (there's another term for it that escapes me right now) in a creek and running miles of pipe always with a slow decent to gravity feed several holding tanks. A word of warning, bears are curious about the sound of running water through pvc pipe, so bury that pipe...
It will be interesting to see how the utilities react to this. Right now the utilities in California are phasing in a $10.00 per month base rate which is fixed regardless of the amount of energy you use.

I would think that this base rate could go even higher as a means to discourage local energy storage. In this scenario, the only recourse for the energy consumer would be to disconnect from the grid entirely.

Some states have laws (e.g. Florida) which prohibit consumers from disconnecting from the grid for 'public safety' issues. Are the utility companies powerful enough to
get more states to adopt such a law, or pass such a law at the Federal level? We will have to see.
Probably since 2008, to be honest. Every week brings a new "And this is why Apple are doomed" crank out of the woodwork in direct contradiction to the fiscal facts.

Apple could take -just- their profits from 2014Q4 ($18bn), burn $10M a day, and it would still take -nearly 5 years- before they were done with just that lump of cash.
2) design an experiment to prove it

I think this is incorrect. A good experiment is designed to disprove the hypothesis. And so if the experiment fails to disprove, we've got one more vote of confidence in the hypothesis.

It's never possible to out-and-out prove any hypothesis. There's always going to be variables that we didn't think were relevant. All we can do is keep adding to the heap of evidence in its favor, by falsifying more and more objections to it.
A quick Google shows this is an unreliable measure, could you explain the joke further?
For more generic use, I really like DBeaver, as it works with most RDBMS, including Oracle, SQLite,PostgreSQL and MySQL:

http://dbeaver.jkiss.org/
I think the user just copy-pasted the linked comment. The linked comment account is quite old - 2487 days.
Robert Reiner on bionic athletes and Cybathlon
I tend to avoid viral GPL/LGPL projects:

1) Because I wanna have the freedom to eventually sell the software based on third party libraries.

2) Even if I would want to open source parts of the project, I mostly can't open source all of it, because of proprietary code from third parties (e.g. bought assets from Unity Asset Store).

3) I have no interest in a license telling me how I have to license my own source code.
I highly recommend the "Particle Adventure" for lots of info about basic particles physics that's accessible to the layman

http://www.particleadventure.org/

In particular, starting at this page should give you an idea of how many components there are and what sorts of information come out of them:

http://www.particleadventure.org/component_detector.html
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Of course it isn't. I've been consulting from home for past 5 years myself and there is good and bad in any option you pick. I keep bringing up part-time because of the self-actualization reasons. I am just saying look into non-full-time possibilities because being away from the baby all day is already stressing her too much.
I'm sure advertisers will love this.

One more reason to upgrade to FOSS Mozilla Firefox.
Why should simply having money be rewarded more than actually doing the work?
I remember seeing in the past Cybershot phones with less than average specs, but a gorgeous camera.
You are thinking about traffic in terms of cars per foot. The right way to think about it is in terms of cars passing a spot per second.

A lot of traffic problems stem from the fact that you get more cars per second from quickly moving smooth traffic than from slowly moving dense traffic. Therefore if something bad happens to rapid smooth traffic, you quickly get a phase transition into horrible traffic.

Now what does the transition from horrible traffic back to good traffic look like? The first step is that you have to get back to smooth traffic, and then that has to speed up.

If nobody smooths out traffic deliberately, then you don't get this until the volume of people wanting to pass gets so light that all of the stop spots "evaporate" on their own because there is no pressure on them. Then the road speeds up. By contrast if traffic has been smoothed, the bottom speed steadily increases, and you get back to full speed much earlier.

Plus smoothing traffic will save on your own car's wear and tear.

Oh, and on merging? Go read http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/wz/workshops/accessible/McCoy.htm. You will find that in the real world when drivers are instructed to merge late and politiely, merging happens significantly faster, with far fewer conflicts between drivers. So how you merge actually does matter. A lot.
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I turned off JavaScript to see if the site still worked: it did. I then navigated to different pages to see if it was slower than the "blindingly fast" the blog post promises: I couldn't detect any difference.

In summary, I have no idea why you would use React to build a static site, but I sure hope they had fun doing it.
Morality is not logical, so my saying "no logical reasoning" does not preclude a moral reasoning. There are a lot of things that people should do morally but they choose the logical answer instead.

Like I said, I don't want to play politics. I don't care about which option is morally superior. I worry about moral choices all day, I take the moral high ground where I can, I recycle and I buy fair trade coffee and I make sure my clothes don't come from sweatshops, but at the end of the day... I just want to play my video games. I owe absolutely nothing to AMD, they've never saved my kitten from a tree, so logically why would I buy their products if there is something that works better?

I mean if you want to bring up morals, think about that power draw reduction... I'm getting that power from a coal plant down the road. Isn't the morally correct option to go with hardware that draws less power so I can save the environment?
Having professionals negotiate for the team doesn't necessarily mean the pay will be equal among the team.

Actors, who also work in a creative field and also have vast differences in talent, use many kinds of intermediaries.
(Copying from elsewhere:) I highly recommend the "Particle Adventure" for lots of info about basic particles physics that's accessible to the layman

http://www.particleadventure.org/

In particular, starting at this page should give you an idea of how many components there are and what sorts of information come out of them:

http://www.particleadventure.org/component_detector.html

Although the cartoons seem a bit silly, this is what my professor gave me as an undergrad to get oriented, and it was really helpful.
Well, "defect by design" is still a defect and I have to work around it on almost daily basis. Besides, being able to do (bool+int) could not come from C since C didn't have bool at the time.

EDIT: actually, there are two defects here. One are the implicit numeric conversions. The other one, which causes me most grievance in this context, is that size() on containers returns an unsigned type.
Excellent post. I feel Dickens summed it up well.

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."
> It's probably because in California, 18-wheelers are required to stick to the right lane and have a lower speed limit (55 instead of 65).

Autos with trailers and trucks (vehicles subject to the 55mph limit where other vehicles have a 65 or 70mph limit) are not generally restricted to the right lane in California.

They only are restricted to the rightmost lane on roads where:
(1) where there is no other designated (by sign) set of lanes for such vehicles, and
(2) The road is not a divided highway with four or more lanes in the direction of travel (where the default, without a designation, is that they are restricted to the two rightmost lanes for normal traffic, plus the next lane out for passing.)
No one ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster (2012) [pdf]
Semantics3 launches the world's first push notifications API for ecommerce
I definitely don't know the circumstances that lead you to having 4 children from two different marriages, but was it someone else's choice to do that? I'm sure you wouldn't change bringing your kids into the world. I just had one and despite my costs and life priorities changing a lot, I can't imagine not having her! If your priority before having kids was financial independence, you probably would have made different decisions and held off on the kids and possibly the marriages, no?
Absolutely 100% yes.

> If you're a software developer in the first-world, you're making, what, $75k/year or more? If you spend wisely, you can live quite comfortably on $30k/year, at least before housing costs.

You've hit me on the head. That's very much what I make, and I actually live on less than $30k/year.

It's not even hard. No smart phone, no cable TV, cook my own meals, old car, ride bike to work, enjoy simple things like walking and frisbee (free). I've saved enough in 4 years I'm on the cusp of taking 4-5 years off to go adventuring.

> If that's what you want to do, that's fine---but don't pretend it would be impossible for you to cut back.

I feel this resistance from people all the time. They will very quickly tell you they need their iPhone, cable TV, latte and new clothes weekly.

Our society has it's wants and needs mixed up. Once you fix that, it's easy.
Well, yes. Most of user are like animation, cartoon and game. They are very well.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5... I seriously hate that sometimes the dialer app crashes or freezes when I'm receiving a call (and I end up being unable to answer that cal).

I mean, seriously... THE DIALER APP?!?!?! Even a $10 Nokia has a stable dialer...
But if she's allowed to pursue her career ambitions, then it might be possible in the future.
You’re out of luck I’m afraid, they’re implementing it too: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/oWhmLMv...
Yeah, using Linode as well. Surprised it isn't more popular TBH.
Looks too cheap. For how long have you used them and is all your experience positive. Their $/GB RAM is more than twice cheaper than DigitalOcean which are already quite cheap (compared to AWS and the like). Apparent downside of RunAbove is that the ration of cores to memory is lower.
Does it matter that much for such an I/O heavy usage?
Ask HN: What antihuman design have you seen in a computer?
While I was reading a post about anti-human keyboard design at http://www.pixelstech.net/topic/128-What-antihuman-design-have-you-seen-in-a-keyboard, I was thinking a more broader question. What anti-human computer design have you seen? Here for computer design I mean hardware design, interface design, peripheral design etc.
A description of the parts of the Large Hadron Collider, in 90's rap form, is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
That's exactly it. Unfortunately for a lot of people, ignoring their spiraling debt problems is easier than packing boxes.
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Their support is first rate and the #1 reason I won't change to another provider. There is nothing better than opening a chat window and having someone who is knowledgeable respond and who can get the problem fixed right away. To me that is worth the premium I pay for using Rackspace over a service like Azure or AWS.
>but you can't hold the fact that AMD has failed invest against NVIDIA. Look at it this way, if TW3 hadn't added HairWorks everyone would have the static hair meshes. As a game developer I would integrate HairWorks so that I could shine on compatible platforms (albeit I'd probably disable it by default for AMD, instead of having a bad first experience).

TressFX does the same thing, but AMD worked with Nvidia to optimise it for their GPU as well, so everyone's happy. This would have been objectively better for the user, if you disregard the money the devs received from Nvidia for implementing HairWorks instead of TressFX.