skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you burnt out would need to be addressed first? Is it because your company understaffed for the work that needs to be done, too much travel, deadlines to quick, etc. Depending on which one it is, quitting might be the only option if you are not able to have your management address the issue promptly. What I have done is go to their office and say Hi Manager's name do you have a minute? If they say yes go ahead and close the door and let them know you are feeling burnt out due 'REASON HERE' and that you were wondering when you will be getting some extra personnel to assist you with the work.

Your manager should then relay this information into seeing what they can do to lower the burden you having to take on by hiring more people or lightening your work load. If that is not something they are able to do then you will unfortunately have to start looking for a new job that does not weigh you down so much.
I am not sure how that conversation would go. In this era companies do not have a lot of loyalty, and it might taint your image.

In your comment, you say that you tried to address your burnout, but is that really true? Maybe think about the causes of burnout, and try to get to the bottom of that. I know that for myself, I get burned out when I feel like I am on a treadmill, where I work but there are no results (in other words, the feedback loop gets broken). If that is the case with you, then maybe you could adjust your role / projects so that there is a better connection between work and reward or progress. For example, reducing page or app size, increasing performance, things where there is a high chance of making some measurable benefit.
I still can't get over Google Play Books
>Why is being white so important? What's the difference?

Replace "white" with "jewish" and you'd fit right in with holocaust deniers/apologist.

So just to be clear, you have no problem with ethnically cleansing a nation to change its political disposition?
I maintain the Twitter API client library for a popular language, and I have a love-hate relationship with the Twitter API. Parts of it are really nice, but sometimes I feel like I'm playing whack-a-mole with the documentation.

The example responses they provide are correct... except when they aren't. They use heterogenous JSON in their responses (silently replacing string literals with arrays, but only for some responses, etc.). They've added error codes without updating the docs for months on end (which sort of defeats the point of an error code - what use is it if you don't know what the error means?)

The only way I'm notified of these changes is when people file bug reports with the library, and I always have to ask them to tell me the exact query that cause the error for them, because they're almost impossible to reproduce otherwise[0], and the API is so inconsistent that I can't try and manually search for similar responses that will cause the error.

On the other hand, the Twitter API is a seamless[1] way to interface with an incredibly useful and powerful product, and it's a great source of data. I just wish the developer experience were seamless.

[0] e.g. https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/anaconda/issues/82

[1] Assuming your client library works, but I can't assume that if I'm the one responsible for maintaining it!
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I come here for news on cutting edge technology and startup culture, not social issues.
Are you proposing that before having jury duty people should be taught how to use bayes rule?
It think it's easier to prosecute people who rip off individuals, as Bernie did, rather than ripping off the general public. It's easy for people to see harm in the faces of the harmed (be they rich or poor) rather than failing to follow a complex law with an even more complex scheme. The harm to the public may be terrible but if you can't easily explain things to lay people, you might have difficulty over many months of tedious testimony getting them to care.
Yeah, that's sort of the point, isn't it?
I think you underestimate the quality of a thousand hand sorters. That machine may replace on the order of a hundred hand sorters, but I doubt it's 1000.
The profit motive is showing its true colors. It'd be a very tough argument to claim that "YouTube Red" is playing a vital role in Google's attempt to organize the world's data. It's purely a grab for revenue/profit.

Netflix (as well as HBO, and many others) already has commercial free streaming movies. HULU (as well as others) now has commercial free streaming tv. Content wise, what YouTube brings to the table is the user generated content, and YouTube Red does not seem to be centered around user generated content. I'd say user generated content is caught up in the mix, if anything. Google could index HULU and Netflix instead of creating YouTube Red.

Also, it is a false choice to say, given the assumption of ad-free services, I should either have to pay for ads or Google should take a loss in revenue. There are many other business models, such as P2P, that could facilitate ad-free user generated content channels.

The rub? P2P doesn't work too well with commercial content generation. And so, we find ourselves back to ads vs subscriptions, and back to the revenue grab.

When talent at Google is working on YouTube Red, it's not working on other problems. I can think of many other problems I'd rather see Google working on, given their core competencies.
Brill! Looking forward to trying it
Doesn't work when chromecasting.
Interesting - a 16:9 screen splits into two 8:9 screens - almost squares. A 3:2 screen splits into two 3:4 screens, much more useful document-style aspect ratios.

That said, with the surface/surfacebook, we're talking about small 12-13 inch screens anyway, not enough physical real estate for that kind of work. You'll likely connect to a larger external screen if you're looking for a splitscreen workspace.
You know, the kinds of comments you have repeatedly made in this discussion helps create an atmosphere where creeps feel okay about doing shitty things and everyone looks the other way and says "Boys will be boys."

I get that you think you are just being pragmatic, but since you do not have an actual solution to offer, the best thing you can do is at least not help promote an atmosphere where folks think it is normal and okay for men to behave this way. Choosing to not put out the fire with gasoline is a constructive choice if you have no real solution to offer. It at least burns slower that way.
Is the cost of cancer care ground zero for reform?
I was in the audience for the keynote, the clear message was that twitter was confused about what their relationship to developers should be, and they're looking to fix that.
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Tableau is ~$2000 a yr, and Qlikview is > $1000 (although the recently released Qliksense is free).
It doesn't allow (non-random) FTL communication. You can use it to generate the same random number in two locations.
That's not true. The border has always been open for people to pass freely for centuries.
Restricting border crossings would be a change in immigration policy. I don't think it's necessary.
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Does it turn off ads in the mobile app and in you tube kids?
Forgive me. "Overtly premised on things we know to be false." Though obviously any argument immediately predicts its own premises. ;)

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tychonic_system :

> Tycho admired aspects of Copernicus's heliocentric model of the solar system, but felt that it had problems as concerned physics, astronomical observations of stars, and religion. Regarding the Copernican system Tycho wrote,

>> This innovation expertly and completely circumvents all that is superfluous or discordant in the system of Ptolemy. On no point does it offend the principle of mathematics. Yet it ascribes to the Earth, that hulking, lazy body, unfit for motion, a motion as quick as that of the aethereal torches, and a triple motion at that.

> In regard to physics, Tycho held that the Earth was just too sluggish and heavy to be continuously in motion. According to the accepted Aristotelian physics of the time, the heavens (whose motions and cycles were continuous and unending) were made of "Aether" or "Quintessence"; this substance, not found on Earth, was light, strong, and unchanging, and its natural state was circular motion. By contrast, the Earth (where objects seem to have motion only when moved) and things on it were composed of substances that were heavy and whose natural state was rest

So, the Copernican system was acknowledged to be mathematically superior, and the Ptolemaic system was acknowledged to be a particularly obvious case of special pleading. The Earth was considered exceptional under the Tychonian system because it was too heavy to be constantly in motion -- as a large terrestrial object, its natural state was rest.

Interestingly enough, I remember learning about a Renaissance scientist who did several experiments to the effect that there is no such thing as a "natural state of rest" for terrestrial objects...

Furthermore, the idea that the Earth is exceptional is severely undermined by the moons of Jupiter. From them, you would see exactly what you see from Earth, and you could readily fit a Tychonian model with a sun going around Jupiter -- but why would you? (This is what I was referring to originally, but this particular argument is slightly weaker than I was thinking of.)

I'll also note that, as far as Wikipedia is concerned, the Tychonic system wasn't exactly well-established at the time:

> It was chiefly through the influence of the Jesuit scientists that the Roman Catholic Church adopted the Tychonic system, over a period of nine years (from 1611 to 1620), in a process directly prompted by the Galilean telescopic discoveries.
America optimizes for resilience against an oppressive government in some potential future and for that sacrifices a lot of things in the present.

I don't think that's even remotely sensible, but it seems to be part of America's cultural DNA.
I'm not an expert but quantum entanglement definitely does not allow FTL communication.

I believe quantum key sharing requires a classical channel in addition to the quantum channel, hence no information is transmitted faster than light.
Yeah that is a pretty odd outcome.
Don't forget to ban the plough. These unemployment causing disruptive technologies are ruining farming!
It makes sense to survey and try to think of ways to consolidate common functionality and data, but after a certain amount of that you need tackle modernization in small chunks, even though you will need a good way for systems to talk. And the business deal needs to be structured in small chunks too.

If you try to make a giant deal up front that is supposed to encompass all spending and tasks that many managers, engineers, or companies can think of, of course you are going to overrun. Or similarly trying to reproduce/refactor all of the efforts over several years of the predecessor teams of engineers and managers.

And another part of this is that people are bidding, which means you have to be in the ballpark of the other bids, and you probably need to be lower than the lowest bid, and everyone has an incentive to bid lower regardless of the actual scope because they have to make their bid attractive to have an opportunity to even actually examine the real requirements.

But its even harder because estimating even a lone software project is very difficult. Its hard to sell realistic budgets, since business people are often used to interacting with relatively simple to use software like Excel, where it might take a day to figure out the most complicated part of a spreadsheet for a certain purpose. By the way, don't underestimate the power and real value of spreadsheets to business people.
Can we say this is the side effect of bringing something which people wanted, Ad free & subscription based service?
Yup, ineffective law enforcement and judicial system turns the survival street mantra to "Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6."
In the Bay Area, this chat triggers the Employee Retention Response Workflow.
Good. Time for a new popular video platform.
> Facebook has also done this repeatedly ... They just make breaking changes to production APIs all the time.

They do, but that doesn't slam the door shut on a developer/business purely for the sake of slamming the door shut on a developer/business.

From what I've seen, Facebook encourages API usage. Twitter encourages it until you make money, then they shut you down - often stating they're building a similar app/service and you'd be competing with them -- only then to never launch said app/service.

Twitter as a platform isn't worth much (as evidenced by year after year of not turning profits). The value in Twitter is the data - but they are locking it away.

Why not go the Google route and charge for API usage over a certain threshold. Twitter could stop caring what users do with the data, and make money as their ecosystem grows and becomes more successful.
As I said before:
There is a check box next to the purchase button. The check box says that to complete the transaction you agree that information will be transferred to the destination country.

Not all that hard or complicated.
I think people do deserve to be surprised. Competence is not the same as selflessness. Many people routinely question whether the FBI is operating for the good of the country, but most people at least believe that they are good at their job.
I don't follow your analogy. How does technological advancement in transportation relate to the privacy and security of our own genomes?
Thomas Browne, who coined “hallucination” and “suicide”
I mostly agree with what you're saying. I'm only calling the title of the first post sexist (because it is on its face). I realize that Leah may not actually be a sexist (I only know what has been written in the two posts), and I don't really believe that she is.

My point is that the responses that were generated, both hate and faux support, are almost entirely predictable from the title of the article alone. We know that people tie their identities closely to a gender and like to group together along those identities. So, when you make a statement like "Things men have actually said...", you have set the stage for people to come down on the side of whatever group they identify with.

I think that is counter-productive. It seems to only be propagating the real (at least, what I perceive to be) problem, which is that people will find characteristics in specific instances and then begin projecting feelings on to people that they think have similar characteristics, even when those feelings are unwarranted. I'm not saying that Leah has done this, I'm saying that others will begin to do this when they come across an appropriate trigger.
If that's what happened then good, but it sounds like people who don't agree aren't getting kicked off youtube, they're just not shown to subscribers.
It's the nyt, so they are at best imprecise and at worst wrong. Entanglement can be thought of as a resource that allows you to do unexpected things (win the CHSH game), but sharing information isn't one of them.

A better discussion can be had at http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?cat=33
eh, if you visit redtube enough, it becomes a brand name. For those that don't use redtube it sounds like they copied the "tube" from youtube.
Thanks!

Yes, some kind of trial or even a free plan is where I'm looking.

It's got a HN-type karma system built into it, both the content and the comments. So if you boil it down to its essence, it's almost a reddit (preferably HN) for video with a netflix-esque interface.

So maybe it's free to post and view video links, free to upload content directly (which you can earn money from), but costs to view hosted content (which then pays the uploaders). Free user's views don't count towards payable totals, but paid user's do. That's the plan I'm leaning towards, actually.
Your analysis is inaccurate with regards to the article at hand.

Rich, powerful people were on both sides of the Dewey & LeBoeuf case. This is an example of rich people ripping off other rich people (usually investors). All of cases listed in the article follow this pattern.

However, you are correct with regards to the Libor scandal, which wasn't mentioned in this article directly, but would be a better example of serious crime against the public going almost entirely unprosecuted.
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Did you ever read what I wrote, or did you just set up a Google Alert for Cloud66 and decide to push your "marketing link" with Cloud66?
So, you can pay Twitter for access, and people do just that. We pay quite a chunk of a money for a significant percentage of the global stream of Tweets, and we use that to do analytics and sell those analytics to customers.

Now, we also pull data from thousands of other providers, so it's not like we have all of our eggs in one basket, but we have a great business going where twitter is a significant percentage of the total volume of our data. Twitter also has certain advantages as a data source that many other providers don't.
> What motivates scientists to use a publisher's services?

The lowly human desires - prestige, career advancement, money, power. Achieving publications with highly ranked journal is necessary for keeping contracts with university and for grant money coming in your direction. And so lots of researchers get complacent and try not to think too hard about the current system. Changing it for better one may require legal action by the government. Compulsory free copy of publicly funded research paper would be great start.
The government should dissolve the people and elect a new one, then? Even as a joke that's in very poor taste.
That's a good point - I didn't realize that. Still easy to cannibalize if you have an AC motor :)
How do you know? Maybe this 'hacker' hasn't released the classified stuff yet.
twitter needs to monetize what it does best, like how linkedin monetize recruiters and 'influencers'
I suppose because it's clear what you get with those names.
It's always a disaster when I have to work with an app that uses Fabric because it requires weird IDE plugins and sign ins and other nutso stuff and the build can fail if you don't have them. If they just made it a Gradle dependency like any other library it would be easy to use. Sometimes I'm lucky enough I'm paid to work on other parts of the app and can just comment out their init stuff so it doesn't crash and put it back in when I'm done.

That said, their IDE plugin bullshit is likely due to trying to automatically capture and upload the mapping of pre-obfuscated code to obfuscated code for when crash reports come in. Still, I would prefer just a app compile time dependency and then a gradle build tool dependency if they really have to do that, no breaking the build just because a certain plugin/desktop app isn't running.
Christmas at the Farm
The American system was set up based on the real-life experiences of a group of humans who lived under an oppressive government. The "cultural DNA" recognizes that oppression is a natural state for authority and so what we attempt to optimize for, with varying degrees of success, is power federation.

This is not some abstract bullshit we use to justify arming ourselves. Very real suffering happens when power is consolidated with no checks, and the notion of trail-by-jury federates power in a very real way. Your opinion of the sensibility of this is not really a factor, to be honest.
Good old Aaronson, thanks. My recollection of "Quantum Computing since Democritus" informed my frowny-intuition about the NYT article ... should have gone to his blog directly no doubt.
I have this laptop. The 8gb ram is a real issue for me (due to VM usage), so I'm looking to switch away from it.

That said, aside from the memory issue.. I love this laptop.
I can't stress (no pun intended) #3 enough. Mental health is too stigmatized. See a good psychologist! Many specialize in this type of stress.

In addition, try guided meditation (I use Headspace). It feels kind of hokey at first, but it really helped me through a burnout period.
I think the real problem is that these miscreants are only able to rip off the public because government policy pushes the general public into a position where they are exposed to the risk of dealing with fraudsters. For example, decades of policy encouraging unsustainable home ownership in the leadup to the housing crisis. More generally, a policy of monetary devaluation that nudges individuals and retirement accounts, etc. Into risky investments (instead of stashing under the mattress). Fictional regulatory reporting requirements that make it easier to create the veneer of propiety than actually exercise it, etc.

So there is a problem that ultimately the government can't look too hard into these problems without making it glaringly obvious that the reason why the public is exposed to harm that would normally be against individuals is it's own fault.
http://imgur.com/xzb3mVo When I try to select Users-> Id (or any other option) it does not get selected/saved. I'm using Postgresql
While everything you said is true, I feel its worth pointing out entanglement is stronger than simply being able to generate the same number in two locations, a feat easily accomplished via classical means.

Edit:

Entanglement is akin to the following... Assume Alice and Bob are distantly separated. Alice has an arbitrary float variable called x. Alice and Bob both have a function rand() generating floats between zero and one, with a shared seed so that they can both generate the same random numbers.

Classical correlation is that they both can call rand() with their identical seeds to get the same random numbers.

Entanglement is that Bob's rand() is actually ((x + rand()) % 1), where Bob instantly and magically has access to Alice's variable x. No information can be transmitted, because the distribution of random numbers hasn't changed, and Bob doesn't have direct access to x. But something is different, and if Bob is clever, he might be able to do some fun stuff.

This isn't a perfect analogy, but perhaps it helps.
As a 2nd generation Colombian myself (parents were born in raised in Barranquilla but I grew up in the states) I applaud you and your team for this effort. Colombia tech has always been a bit "behind" the times from my POV and unless efforts like this continue to grow & thrive then we can't elevate the overall education for the status quo, so thank you. I will be purchasing the sticker & t-shirt
That must be the case, right? Software being as diverse as it is, probably a creative individual could sit down and name 700 types of software application, but more likely they were numerous variations of CRUD, shuffling information in and out of databases, managing who could access what information, and presenting it in various ways.

Clearly there is something very wrong at the planning level of these big, failing, IT projects. Perhaps the temptation to begin by writing down all the commonalities between different software systems and seeing how one big system could do everything is part of the problem. But it's also easy to see how it is tempting to do so.