skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kind've the point though. Ideally, by the time you're out of the 30 year term for life insurance your investments and assets left to your family will be more than enough to pass on to them. With a 30 year term policy, you can pay $50 / month for 30 years from age 35 to 65 and if something ever happens you'll be able to leave $500,000 for your family. That's a total cost of $18,000 over 30 years for $500,000 in benefits which is an outstanding value.

Taking out loans against whole life policies isn't something I was aware of though. I'd be interested to know what type of rates you could get with the loans against that compared to home equity loans or equity lines of credit that you can also use to get at the money you put into paying off the mortgage if you need it.
Totally agree. For most people, even on HN, it is really hard to identify with all those multi million dollar fundings and billion dollar buy outs. This on the other hand, shows what is possible by one person and how it is not that easy to build something nice and useful.

I hope OP keeps publishing posts on what worked, traffic stats, revenue stats etc.

This is another site that was bootstrapped (I believe) http://www.forvo.com/ and seems to be doing quite well (though the quality is debatable sometimes)
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The point is watering your lawn is a drop in the giant reservoir. If only 20% of the water is being used by residents (in reality, it's a bit less) and you pass super aggressive water conservation laws targeting residential use such that it's reduced by 50% then you've conserved a whopping.....

10%

In contrast, a mere 12% increase in agriculture efficiency gets you the same win.

Targeting residents to curb the water crisis in CA is like targeting SNAP benefits as a solution to the deficit.

It just plain won't work.
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CoreOS Is Linux for Massive Server Deployments
No, they don't.

That's one of the several elephants on the room with the CA system. They issue non-leaf certs with a big frequency for people like the GP, with a honest reason to want them.
Ask HN: Should I pursue an ML career with good pay or a dream to teach abroad?
Alright, so here's the low-down. (25M) I'm currently a first year phd student in the sciences (programming-oriented) at an R1 university, but I'm leaving at the end of summer because a PhD was not the right track for me. In the meantime, I'm working on boosting my programming skills, since I have a connection that's getting me a foot-in-the-door over at an alexa top 10 website for a junior ML position. Basically, if I go for this, I stand a good chance at getting a position with a base salary of ~70k+

That's option one.

Option two is I pursue a dream Ive had for about a decade to go live in Japan for 1-2 years or so. Probably would start off just teaching English, since I dont think my Japanese is good enough yet for me to be able to compete for jobs I'm more qualified for.
My current financial situation is pretty much in the shitter, and I have loan payments and bills that make it effectively impossible to save anything.

Here's the thing though. I'm young now. and I know that that won't last forever. If I go for the career opportunity, yeah, sure I'll almost certainly be financially stable, but it will almost certainly also lock me into a particular location for years. And realistically speaking, life will happen, and the chances that I'll ever actually pursue the dream of living abroad will diminish greatly. On the other hand, if I go, I most likely will not be very financially stable, but I will be pursuing exactly what I want to do. I already know that I love teaching, since from my PhD program, I've been doing it for a year now, and it's literally the best part of my day.

So, if I go, I would be liquidating the vast majority of my personal belongings in order to afford the move. And of course theres also the logistics of getting a job/housing/etc.
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Sometimes I find "architects" curious folks. XAML was developed during the ray ozzie era right? That certainly has a "right way" with "Model-view-view-model" levels of abstraction insanity. Perhaps simpler is better.
As for support, I do have some from my family in case of an emergency, but its certainly not infinite.
I feel like in life, I've consistently taken the safe route. Now, I'm really tempted to take a huge chance.
I know that taking a year or two off to teach English would generally detract from my career, but I also am very self-motivated, and I would probably spend a good amount of that time building my programming skills even more.

tl;dr: Should I take a mid-pay job with high potential for future salary, but be locked into a particular location, or pursue a life-long dream and teach abroad for a low salary with low potential for future salary?
My objection is not with the goal towards conservation, but rather the tone, the method and the lack of leadership from gov't. The way its framed is unfortunate. It seems political rather than practical.
It's not inane. Look up how much of California's water is exported to other countries in the form of agriculture products.

See: China's consumption of the California almond crop.
Because you haven't fixed them.
"We're probably several decades from wide-spread, pervasive, advanced robotics automation. Heck, auto assembly lines and such have had advanced robotics for several decades already. A whole-sale transition to a post-worker economy is definitely not just-around-the-corner."

It's not as simple as "is the technology there". It's a balancing act between costs. Is it cheaper to hire people to work these factories, or is it cheaper to dump some R&D money into robotics and then install them? There's also a degree of uncertainty with the robotics, but ultimately workers can be replaced either because robots become cheaper or because workers become more expensive.

It's really not a rationalization because I don't feel it justifies mistreating workers, but it's worth keeping in mind that there is a tipping point. Part of the problem is that you or I or the workers on the line have no idea what that tipping point is, which creates a lot of FUD, which corporations happily exploit. "Oh, you really don't want to ask for benefit Y, that just might make the robots cheaper...".

And as far as people still working 40 hours a week, you're right. But what do you think this lady is going to do (even if she had her hands) if the robots replace factory workers? McDonalds is already doing some pilots of replacing their in-shop workers with robots, and the cashiers are now just kiosks. How long is it before all the low skill jobs are gone, and the displaced workers don't have the money to learn skills?
Parent's point is simply that in the home you can drastically cut water usage without it affecting your life much, but in farming the consequences are large.
NixOS has been discussed many times on HN already. However, Nix 1.9 was released today (/yesterday for the some):

Release Notes:
https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-1.9/manual/#ssec-relnotes...

Downloads:
https://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.9
The point isn't about whether cutting home use would make a meaningful difference, just that it's much easier for a household to reduce water use than for a farm.

Yes, we need water efficient farms (or, perhaps, farms in places that aren't so hostile to agriculture). But it's very hard to make a farm water efficient.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/03/ramen-hacks-30-easy-ways-...
Cutting agricultural water usage doesn't just affect California.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2...
If we instead, e.g., mandate that all showers be painfully low-flow, that hosing down sidewalks is illegal (and thus, they'll often be covered in human poop in the area around Twitter), and other such things that make it less pleasant to live here, workers will be less eager to live here, and thus, it'll be harder to keep the best ones (or even the average ones) from moving to another state or country.

And thus, yes, it would make California's tech and other industries less productive, and less competitive with their counterparts elsewhere.
You are looking at it the wrong way: things do not work by default (imagine you got world's first computer, some one has to write the code for it), hence someone has to spend the work on it for it to work.
That sounds reasonable enough, but is it even necessary? How much of the cost of residential water service has anything to do with the market cost of the water itself? My guess is that the vast majority of a residential water bill is for covering infrastructure costs, and that even a large increase in the market price of the water itself would barely be noticeable to residential water bills.
Very unfair comparison. Chopra is full of pseudo-scientific bullshit, whereas the Dalai Lama has notably stated that “If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.”
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One thing to be aware of is we don't know what the final deal looks like. Many times things are put out in negotiations to be taken away later. This is why "people" say, "The two things you never want to see being made are sausages and laws."
Using "they" instead of "he or she" is a grammatical error in many instances and it's considered acceptable.
You say GDP contribution to Californianis more important than supplying food to the state/country/world. I say feeding people and keeping food prices low is more important than that particular economic statistic when looking at the value of water consumption.
> If you are in the position to do so, have the offer ready, and make the offer right then and there.

only if more hiring managers did that...

> They more they talk the more they will reveal*

The* more they talk?
This would miss the point. Sure, it would still lighten the css file downloaded by the client, but it would do nothing to clean up the source file developers work with and thus lighten their cognitive burden, which imo is more important.
Well as far as the cheap part goes, my thinking was that these buildings definitely already have internet service in the first place, may as well just utilize that.. I supposed you make a point about reliability, but then again they're putting up with the whole 2-way radio interference, seems like the bar is already set low :P

I don't know, again I'm just thinking out loud, I'm no HVAC professional. We do use the internet to manage off site devices in my company and we tend to have more issues with power outages than we do with our ISP uptime, it's been a good solution for us.
Water is a scarce resource in this case. You don't exactly let the "wealthy" buy off everything they can just because. Scarce resources need to be regulated my friend.
Will the instituted Land Value/Natural Resources dividends be enough to provide everyone with the UBI sufficient to make a living? I am just looking for the basic napkin calculations here.
Most water used by cities isn't used for watering lawns. This is a red herring fallacy anyway because no one is proposing loosening up restrictions on lawn watering at the expense of waterin crops.
I would be very interested to see the compiler that can optimise away memset across a shared library boundary.
Anyone who has been around long enough knows not to trust Google, Apple, Facebook, Oracle, ... Microsoft is not uniquely untrustworthy when it comes to big multi-faceted companies. As for DNA, I haven't seen any dodgy behavior in the OSS area for 5+ years, and nothing like EEE since I started working here in 2007.
Which entire counties get nothing when they turn on their faucets?
> Of course farmers need to devise more efficient ways to water their crops, but I think it's strange urban dwellers don't understand the inelasticity of water for farming. At home one can cut showers from 15 mins down to 5 or two. On the farm it means not planting x acres that year.

Isn't that the opposite of the truth? I've seen statistics about the water efficiency of agriculture, and it seems to be that relatively modest investments can drastically increase the efficiency. Of course, when water is cheap, there's no incentive to increase efficiency.
I'll build the replacement for $800k
Of course they're large, because they use a lot of water. That's the whole point.

Cutting residential usage is comparatively easy because we don't actually use that much water at home. See the study I linked above if you don't believe me.
This is not, strictly speaking, a set of restrictions "on water use by farmers", its a restriction on some "senior" (pre-1914) water-rights holders, with more expected; many (but not all) of the rights-holders are farmers, but some are, e.g., municipal districts, like the East Contra Costa Water District, whose use has also been curtailed.
I admit- I got immediately distracted by a sub-link about the overall adjusted cost of the project, where the claimed figure in today's money was $30B. Out of curiosity, I looked up the total cost to date of the F-22 program (which has taken a hell of a lot longer to ship) and the gospel according to Wikipedia claims it's $66.7B. Is there something to be said for shipping under pressure? ;)
> Without water, locavores will have to become televores.

And if the price of California-exported food goes up, televores in the other 49 states will become locavores.

The fact that California is a huge net exporter of food suggests that the latter effect will dominate the former.
International legal agreements for criminal charges are pretty limited (AFAIK IANAL). I guess I could see internet service disruption becoming subject to international law but it seems also to introduce another vector for abuse.
Can someone explain to me why we don't just build a pipeline from Seattle or some rich water source up north down to California?
Homeowner's Association rules or even town planning/zoning may actually prohibit someone from using arid-friendly grasses or perhaps replacements like artificial turf or pavement.
I feel like such a pricing system would spell the end of water fountains (in parks, malls, stores, and whatnot).
Would spot welding rebar piece by piece convey the same tensile strength as forming each member?
Didn't even install for me. It's for tinkerers currently, I think. I basically wanted an Ubuntu that didn't deteriorate with time, so I guess I'm not the target audience.
>The primary contribution of agriculture is feeding people, not GDP.

Feeding people can be done in many areas. Why should one area sacrifice a limited resource when another area can do the same but with more of that resource? If they aren't compensated for the sacrifice of that resource, there is no reason for that resource to be sacrificed. Charity to big business will lead to being left destitute.
GDP is simply a measure of the value of this product which is "feeding people". Similarly, parks and landscaping, the cost of upkeep and the resulting increase in property values, are also accounted for in the notion of GDP.
He's a Nobel Peace Laureate and recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. He's been meditating on compassion and the self for several hours a day for 77 years (since he was 2), almost 200,000 hours of meditation. He's authored over 50 books. And he's a very charismatic, joyful, warm spirit--I saw him speak and I can see why many want to learn from and emulate him.

But I guess that's a question you can ask of any posting on HN, "why should I care about so-and-so's opinion, daily routine, life, etc?" So perhaps the burden is on the person asking to question to say why we shouldn't care.

Also, I would say that the Dalai Lama's teachings aren't meant to be intellectually rich. He does have a high regard for science, but I wouldn't say his teachings are intellectual. They are practical and meant to help you observe the world without the intellect.
Has anybody here got the experience of running NixOS in production or on the desktop (as the main OS, not in a never booted partition)?
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Increased costs means it becomes more viable to produce elsewhere where water isn't as limited, thus in turn easing the burden where it is limited.
> But it's very hard to make a farm water efficient.

Kind of a sweeping statement. Here's an inexpensive product that reduces water usage by 90%, aimed to farmers and especially good for citrus: http://treetpee.com/ttp-u/
CA is a major exporter of agriculture. It can grow enough food to supply itself even with aggressive curtailing of agricultural output.

If CA cities start running out of water supply, businesses will be affected. The ones that carry our GDP.

If you're implying that cutting back CA Ag production would be a national harm, then the nation needs to pull it together and help CA support the industry.

But in the end, this is just simple math. You can't solve CA's water crisis by only targeting residential usage. It's simply not a big enough slice of the pie.
Glibc seems like a good place to put it to me. If everyone is preferring hand-coding assembly primitives that workaround suboptimal standard methods (ucontext), then my first instinct would be to look into making those existing methods more optimal.

(Note: in case it wasn't clear, I'm not suggesting we put all of coroutines into glibc, just the stack dancing stuff)
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It may sound that way because I summed up alot of history in a few sentences. In truth there was more going on (AOL and Google had some hand in it too) but the bullets points still tell the cusp of what happened without the delusions that have been projected on top by it's fans or journalists.

That's not to say there is no value in the manifesto, in openness, in innovation or whatever. It's just not likely what gave it all of it's downloads.
Well said. Thank you for arguing with facts and numbers.
I fail to see the hype of 3D printing. We have milling machines for ages. As I understand it, what printing brings to the table is good niche applications where the shapes would be difficult for traditional machinery. Or when the printers are so cheap that "everyone" can afford them (not really there yet). For most applications it seems more a "because we can" than actually solving a problem people have.
The comments on the main article are too long. This isn't a problem with Agile/Scrum. This is a problem with poor management and not setting up teams for success. The entire point of Agile is to enable teams to deliver on their own schedule and by their own rules, with the team made up of all the people who will enable that to happen.
Sure, but you were touting GDP as the way to target water reduction, which doesn't make sense. I agree water should be priced based on supply, which would bring more efficiency to use in farming, lawns, or whatever.
Why did Borland fail?
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etcd IS a mashup of /etc (configuration files) and distributed.
https://youtu.be/z6tjawXZ71E?t=30s
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Thanks to MM for clearing up the subtleties between revenue and run rate in so rigorous a fashion. Will be pointing people to this link for some time to come I imagine. If we really want to get sophisticated, I guess we'll have to start modeling startup run rates using differential equations akin to rocket fuel in a spaceship approaching orbital velocity ;)

Which brings me to an interesting point. What happens if your SaaS offering explodes and it appears you should be charging much more for your product? Perhaps even 2-3x with no appreciable loss of customers. For the example of MM, the $500/mo recurring may start to seem low in the coming year as the amount of data and ai features increase. Furthermore, the market is somewhat finite (dealmakers). Can they get away with increasing fees by a large multiple year over year? And if not where will additional revenue come from as its concievable they will need to add more (expensive) data science talent to grow.
Looking for an ubuntu that didn't deteriorate, I switched to debian sid two years ago. Sid is a rolling distribution, so there are no releases. It's not that it does not deteriorate. Instead, it deteriorates at a rate that allows me to fix things as they break.

Mind you, I used Gentoo for many years before ubuntu, so I'm used to rolling breakage. Sid is a lot more stable than Gentoo (circa 2010)
Is this a joke? Your position is that Seamus Heaney's work (etc) isn't poetry? And that's because you don't think there's rhythm and melody to what he writes?

I find that very disheartening.
Tulare ran out not too long ago.
I believe poetry is the highest level of expression, using words. It's the purest and most powerful form of writing.

Now talking about poetry and programming (object oriented programming), here's a nice pun:

[...]
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
[...]
I thought Linux distros had enough in common that the low level stuff would mostly work the same. It's not the world's first computer. NixOS has the Linux kernel, x11, kde and systemd. Maybe that covers less than I think, but it sounds like a lot.
The OP makes real points about the failings of Agile. The Engineering team ends up subject to the whim of the Product Owner, or worse yet the PO is absent and things stall. Senior Engineers get marginalized, since they do things that can take longer than a sprint or have to do with internals not directly related to business needs. And Engineering is about a lot more than features.

Agile works for some development groups. But it definitely does NOT work for many others.
Don't worry about me; I got a refund.
edit: read that as countries, not counties

India is getting there [1]

[1]http://thewaterproject.org/water-in-crisis-india
How do you do this for JavaScript?
In Java I used a mixture of static analysis[1] and code coverage[2] with great success. For JavaScript there seem to be many (dead) coverage tools but nothing comparable to UCDetector.

[1] http://www.ucdetector.org/

[2] http://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/
I thought this was going to be about a C64. You'd have to POKE it to switch the heating on.

It. Just. Works. though - they should never upgrade.
At least where I live, as the case progresses and the foster parents create a bond with the kids, they really take what the foster parents say in heavy consideration. Especially if the kids have been assigned a good Guardian Ad Litem (the child's own lawyer).

The system can be broken. This is something that's governed very differently between states. And some states are far more broken than others. I think Utah (where I live) has a very good system (one of the few government programs I've learned a lot about and haven't been frustrated with how my tax dollars are spent). The numbers I'm familiar with say that 66% of all cases end with the kids going home with the parents. However, another statistic that makes that number much more impressive is that 75% of all cases, meth is involved in the home. So the state really works hard with the biological parents and places a heavy emphasis on reunification (as long as the kids will be safe from illegal activities) and the bio parents get a lot of government supported rehab no matter what the case is (ranging from parenting classes to alcohol/drug rehab). If you do the math, that means a lot of parents are successfully getting the rehab they need to they can support their children. I think that's impressive.
Is it? A significant proportion of that agriculture consists of luxury crops for export. Nobody's going to starve if the price of water-intensive foods like avocado and almonds increase a little.

If you care about feeding the poor, give them money to buy their food. Don't wreck the environment and distort the market with supply-side meddling.