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Comment · 6 years ago
Nope, you misread me, I clearly stated the term "irrationality".

I consider myself as educated, though having your own kids and being responsible for their life and well-being is what makes you doubt vaccines, especially when you read about people developing multiple sclerosis or other neurodegenerative symptoms following a vaccination.

Comment · 6 years ago
This mostly comes down to the irrationality regarding risks when you're having kids.

Out of my own experience, and given the worst cases scenarios you hear from it's difficult not to fear for your loved ones (and I mean you literally feel it in your loins) especially when YOUR decision can have even the slightest chance of ruining their lives. -- Edit: Please don't get me wrong, I have kids, and their vaccines are up to date (like mine). A chat with an hospital pediatrist can help, for me it's when he clearly explained that without vaccines a kid can be gone within 2 hours. And virtually it's as narrow minded as refusing to take antibiotics.

Comment · 7 years ago
That's the reason why there was a USB port on each side of the original Apple keyboard (not the wireless one of course). These ports (on the back) are most likely located there with the idea of having a device pluggued in for good and not moved so often.
Comment · 7 years ago
I agree, what's more important IMHO is education/knowledge of existing data manipulation, after all 99% of the work is reuse not pure creation (incremental vs pure innovation).

Algorithmicians (? - well... algorithm researchers, obviously) and programmers are not working in the same field of work, even though the boundary might seem thin for most, there's a world between both.

Must all painters be artists?

Comment · 7 years ago
And that's why you must monitor your servers health. You know, for when they're starting to act funny.

I'm not related in any way with them but as a personnal favorite (I even use it at home) I'd recommend Zabbix as it's open source and quite straighforward to install and deploy its agents, once configured you can even forget about it.

Gosh, its default alerts will give you hints on things you never considered checking before while the integration of new/bespoke software can be done in a matter of minutes.

Comment · 7 years ago
Hello HN,

Founder and main developer here.

Archyn allows to build comparison matrices were any change on an Element is seamlessly cascaded everywhere without hassle.

I've built this because I wanted to have a smart comparison matrix generator without spending too much time on the logic and necessary orchestration.

For the record, all the examples you see in the landing page where built using this generator.

Basically to make your own Matrix you need to:

- Declare the Elements and Groups you'd like to compare,

- Create Qualifers and Affinities to link them (thing 1 "likes" thing 2),

- Create a Matrix and select which Elements or Groups you want to compare,

- Publish your Matrix and copy/paste its proposed code,

- Voilà!

Once done, your Matrix becomes live: any change to its Elements or Affinities will be cascaded down to it automatically.

Some sample data is already loaded when you sign-up so that you can play around to give you an idea about the concept.

Don't hesitate to give the free version a run, it's ad free with no time limit, and any thing you do remains private in your own Workspace (no sharing).

Also with any paid version you get the possibility to publicize your matrices so that you can embed them in your own website as well as an access to the JSON API for more complex scenarios.

AMA, suggestions and critics are welcome.

Comment · 7 years ago
Hi HN,

Founder and main developer here.

I've built this because I wanted to have a smart comparison matrix generator without spending a minute on the logic and necessary orchestration.

For the record, the examples you see in the landing page where built using this generator.

Basically to make your own Matrix you need to:

- Declare the Elements and Groups you'd like to compare,

- Create Qualifers and Affinities to link them (thing 1 "likes" thing 2),

- Create a Matrix and select which Elements or Groups you want to compare,

- Voilà!

Once done, your Matrix becomes live: any change to its Elements or Affinities will be cascaded down to it automatically.

Some sample data is already loaded when you sign-up so that you can play around to give you some idea on the concept.

Don't hesitate to give the free version a run, it's ad free with no time limit, and any thing you do remains private in your own Workspace (no sharing).

With any paid version you get the possibility to publicize your matrices so that you can embed them in your own website.

AMA, suggestions and critics are welcome.

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Point "2. Maintain regular backups." should rather be "2. Maintain regular backups and validate your restoration process."

How painful it can be when you realize that your backup process was wrong from the beginning and you're left with a useless gigabytes sized blob when in need to restore your DB...

Comment · 8 years ago
Yeah, well thanks for stating the obvious...

When you have kids you come very quickly to the realization that rewards aren't a mean to efficiently motivate. However intrisic motivation is exaclty this: intrinsic.

So what? Unless you can do Inception in your kids dreams to push them to realise that what you ask them is not what you want but what's actually good for them, you're bond to use rewards because that's the only thing that actually works.

Intrinsic motivation comes from the realization that you must do something for good (your own or others, but in the end it's only for you... but that's another ethical topic).

Comment · 8 years ago
That's what is explained in the Janus model, both universes coexist in the same space and are rejecting each other through gravity, matter "won" over antimatter only by a tiny bit but sufficient to allow large portions of matter to remain. Though the appearance of both at the early times of the universe was in beyond colossal amounts, both being annihilated by each other when they met.

edit: typos

Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks for the clarification, perhaps I was misleading, the point being that black holes have been deduced by mathematical interpretation, not observation of a phenomenon and today as per your own example we're still trying to find proof of their existence.

On the other hand, based on my understanding of the Janus model as I said in my first comment, the location of the seemingly void places are actually explained by the concentration of antimatter, which repulses matter through gravity. A possibly wrong summary of what I'm visibly struggling to communicate: This model explains how on the same way matter concentration attracts matter and rejects anti-matter, antimatter concentration attract antimatter and rejects matter.

Comment · 8 years ago
Actually, as far as I get it, black holes just don't exist: it's a journalist term coined for a mathematical concept. In short a black hole is how we call the possible existence of a place in the universe where there is no time nor energy, but it's no more than a mathematical possibility in the end as these are common variables in astrophysics.

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