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by Lxr 10y ago
Honest question, what does Heroku offer over Elastic Beanstalk other than being more expensive? I switched to EB and it seems more flexible and a lot cheaper, and I haven't wasted hours on admin.
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by Lxr 10y ago
Can I ask how your CFS is after starting the startup?
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by Lxr 10y ago
Not having a fear of death would seem to be very strongly selected against in evolutionary terms, so I'd say it's reasonably uncommon.
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by Lxr 10y ago
I wonder what effects this process has on the organism. For instance what would happen if humans ate graphene?
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by Lxr 10y ago
So if I pay $13 a year to use Facebook they'll no longer need to collect my data for advertising?
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by Lxr 10y ago
Oh god... doesn't this mess with plugins or something?
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by Lxr 10y ago
Note sure about a guide but I would start without any plugins at first. Otherwise you never learn what's vim and what's a plugin, and working on remote servers will be a pain. Also for a lot of plugins, there's a better way o
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by Lxr 10y ago
I highly recommend not using the Esc key, remap to jk or caps lock that you can reach without moving your hands. It makes a pretty big difference.
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by Lxr 10y ago
Julia is a lot (lot) faster than Python, Matlab or R. This doesn't matter so much if you're gluing library calls together (if using well-known ML algorithms that use native BLAS/LAPACK etc) but for custom stuff Python et al a
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by Lxr 10y ago
Thank god we have all these libraries. I mean remember the days when the back button worked, pages rendered quickly without 3-second ajax spinning animations, the browser remembered where you were when you clicked back, your phone didn’t ra
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by Lxr 10y ago
In a market setting, people will buy the car that prefers killing others to killing its occupant I feel. This matches what human drivers instinctively do in the situation as well. Maybe there will be regulations in place mandating which dec
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by Lxr 10y ago
Very nice site! As some feedback it broke my back button on Firefox though and I couldn't return to HN.
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by Lxr 10y ago
The article raises some good points but there is still a dichotomy here to me. Compare a successful startup with 2 founders with an established company with 2000 employees in the same business. The scale of the difference in employees vs th
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by Lxr 10y ago
Do you have any evidence that drinking/drug taking leads to LBD? Otherwise, this is just a classic it-won't-happen-to-me-because-I-do-X justification (see: I won't get cancer because I eat well, I won't have a car accide
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by Lxr 10y ago
My optometrist prescribed exactly the same thing for the same reason. I sometimes have trouble seeing in the distance because of too much computer/phone use, and your explanation is spot on what he told me.
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by Lxr 10y ago
SQLite works great as the database engine for most low to medium traffic websites (which is to say, most websites)...Generally speaking, any site that gets fewer than 100K hits/day should work fine with SQLite. Do people agree with t
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by Lxr 10y ago
I'm in my late 20s, I see my friends chasing high stress jobs working for other people's benefit and honestly don't understand it. Why would I want to be an investment banker working 60 hour weeks when I could build something
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by Lxr 10y ago
This is hilarious, I love it. I would also love to see this made into a public service with some clever ML algorithms to keep the conversation going as long as possible.
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by Lxr 10y ago
I have tried this with vim, but there are a lot of things lacking that an IDE could provide - code completion, searching of references, overview of the whole document, auto closing of blocks etc. It's probably possible to set something
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Ask HN: What LaTeX editor do you use?
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by Lxr 10y ago
The command to transpile should be havetogo :)
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by Lxr 10y ago
It's high quality as they go but not close to being a vim substitute in my experience. There are still tons of little things that don't work as expected.
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by Lxr 10y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted, I'm also interested to know how popular these sort of tools are compared to command line git and what the main advantages are.
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by Lxr 10y ago
The novel part is causality - obviously sick people are less happy but this demonstrates cause and effect.
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by Lxr 10y ago
Interesting, opposite experience here. My life became much easier when I decided to start new projects in python2 rather than starting under 3 and switching back in frustration after fighting with 2to3 for hours at a time. Even now I think
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by Lxr 10y ago
If most people open the emails right away, that’s a signal to Mailchimp that the user isn’t spamming their list. How do they know if you open the email (aren't third party images etc specifically blocked or cached for this reason)?
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by Lxr 10y ago
I'm curious, what is the lemon for?
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by Lxr 10y ago
Not on Betfair, it's an exchange. They make money either way.
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by Lxr 10y ago
L-BFGS-B is a hugely popular algorithm for box-constrained minimisation and the best implementation is still in Fortran. This is commonly used in machine learning. Things like scipy.optimize.fmin_l_bfgs_b are just wrappers for the Fortran c
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by Lxr 10y ago
> Assuming that insurance is correctly priced, buying a policy in any form is negative expected value Actually it's quite rare for insurance companies to record an underwriting profit, I believe. Their profit generally comes from in

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