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Ask HN: Discuss burnout with boss?
I am burnt out at work and not sure how to start the discussion with my boss. I've tried addressing the problem myself over the past year by means of exercise, diet, getting more sleep, more time spent on hobbies, socializing more, and pacing myself at work. It's not helping, it's just getting worse. I know quitting and finding a new job is an option but I would prefer not to. How can I have a productive discussion with my boss about burnout? How did you handle it?
There are lots more rules than that for swimming. The big rule is that swimming must occur at the surface. The fastest means of moving is dolphin-kicking underwater, usually on one's back. [Insert physics discussion re wetted surface and/or buoyancy.] The rule that swimmers must return to the surface quickly after leaving a wall/dive is to keep swimming healthy, to prevent it becoming a breath-holding event.

These rules are pushed. More than a couple champion breaststrokers have admitted to two or more dolphin kicks when leaving a wall underwater (sw 7.1) and the stroke itself is evolving towards dolphin-style kicking. Freestylers really push the 15m limit for underwater travel after dives/turn (SW 5.3).

http://www.fina.org/content/swimming-rules

Any evolved sport needs rules else it become a meaningless free-for-all, which normally results in unhealthy situations. If these new brooms are damaging ice and diminishing the skills needed to compete then they too should be ruled away.
I've made a 23andMe parser that can report on this. Actually, it covers quite a lot of their health results:

https://github.com/cslarsen/dna-traits

The test for Alzheimers is here: https://github.com/cslarsen/dna-traits/blob/master/py-dnatra...
(the algorithm used to be patented, by the way). By closely reading the algorithm, you can probably find out yourself, given that 23andMe still lets you browse your genome.

To see all health reports, run this file on the downloaded genome: https://github.com/cslarsen/dna-traits/blob/master/py-dnatra... (you have to compile the C++ code first)

Actually was playing with the idea of monetizing off this project, but the laws in my country prohibit me from doing so. In fact, just using the program I made is illegal unless its my own genome.
Cancer and Alzheimer's are on the rise because life expectancy is increasing.
> I've seen it counted that marriage confers over 1000 contracts or rights

Way over 1000 in fact, back in 2004, at the federal level alone, the GAO identified "1049 federal statutory provisions […] contingent on marital status or in which marital status is a factor"

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04353r.pdf
Couldn't find anything in their guidelines

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#pur...

And other big companies like Spotify have been doing it for years. I think I recall that this was in their TOS before though.
Magic made a huge splash on HN when it debuted, not sure about its current popularity.

https://getmagicnow.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087819
It is a bit heavy isn't? 3.48 pounds (1.58 kg), according to Apple.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
So how much would you pay for access to Twitter?

There's a ton of people who seem to know what Twitter needs to do, except it's never things that translate to profit. Take your own example with videos. It would be nice feature, but it's just costing Twitter even more money.
I jumped on Tutum immediately after it was announced, installed it across my test infrastructure, because it scratched an itch that was particularly hard for me. I like to think of myself as a good user / developer, and I submitted a few tickets with some bug reports and feedback, along with a few questions trying to clarify how they were doing what they did.

I have almost never been treated like such a piece of shit in my life. The attitude I got from multiple people on the Tutum team really drove home that they don't give a shit about loners like me, don't have time for my bug reports, and don't care what my questions are. It really left me thinking I must have said something inadvertently that totally offended them, but I couldn't find it anywhere when I looked.

I really hope I just got some of their team on a one-off bad day, or those people have since left, or something. It was really strange, and of course I immediately stopped using their software.
It sounds silly when you look at the weights involved, but the first and second generation models really aren't fun to use as a tablet for any extended period of time, just slightly too heavy and the form factor means you can't really use it one handed either.
That's EXACTLY what it is, I believe that was the actual design philosophy behind the thing, you are stating this like they messed up or didn't understand what they were building. Whereas it's much more likely (by the sounds of it) that you didn't need a PC that can be a tablet, you needed an iPad. So I think they built the thing correctly, you probably should have just bought an iPad instead of Surface Pro.
Too late. Nanoparticles have already irreversibly permeated the ecosystem.

Since long before Man, of course.

Being afraid of "nanoparticles" is something like being afraid of "chemicals"... in the fully silly sense. You need to be afraid of something specific, not the general term.

And I'm actually pretty down with a "presumed guilty until innocent" for specific, demonstrably new nanoparticles. (Most, if not all, carbon forms aren't going to be able to meet that bar, BTW.) Given the history of science and biology, that's not irrational. Generalized fear of anything "nanoparticle" is, though. The biological world has been nanoparticling just as it's been nanomachining for a lot longer than we've been here to worry about it.
I have really no insight into the US legal system but to me this seems to be almost entirely because people charged with "white collar" crimes are relatively wealthy and can afford a very vigorous defense.

There might be other issues as well such as

- a white collar employee being bit smarter, in terms of covering their tracks, ie don't use email, only take via phone or face to face. This makes these crimes much tougher to figure out.

- working in groups that ensure that everyone is equally guilty, ala the LIBOR fixing cabal. Having powerful friends is still a great deterrent to being charged with a crime. Look at the British child sex scandal.

- these crimes are much less publicized and incendiary. It's easy to get some people worked up over drug or assault crimes as they can put a face to a victim but with white collar crime its much tougher.

- their crimes tend not to affect other high power people.

- white collar crimes tend to be more sophisticated. If you believe this then it's not a stretch to think that you need to have better law enforcement working on these cases. This has always been the knock on the rating agencies, Moodies, S&P and Fitch, is that they need to be as good as the wall street quants to understand the new products but if they were that good then they wouldn't be working for the rating agencies.

I'm not sure I buy that argument completely but I believe that there is a bit of truth to it. I mean I know alot of quants on wall street and those that work for the rating agencies fall into two buckets, those that want to work 9-5 and those that aren't what I'd consider to be top tier quants.

Just look at the 2008 financial crisis. White collar employee's got rich leading up to it. and then to fix it, the US flooded the markets with money meaning that white collar employee's made even more money when fixing the mess.

Bernie Madoff's biggest failing was that he ripped off rich people.
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Maybe people would like to pay if it wasn't $30 but, say, 30 cents. The high price is mentioned not because people pay it regularly, but because of its absurdity.
Regarding the people in the offices around you, I am sorry for you.
Just out of interest because you seem like you might know - does Windows across devices do a good job with audio latency? Presumably Windows as a desktop OS has it down, does that carry to phones and tablets too?
Oh ok, so that's what the subsidies are preventing.
Because we are better at diagnosing them then years ago. It does not mean that there are more cases of "cancer, Alzheimer's, autism, etc.". People diagnosed with Asperger syndrome would be called quirky, or plainly weird twenty years ago.
But this is just rewarding them for using ads in the first place while we ought to be most supporting those who treat us better by not using obnoxious ads at all.

The real point is this is actually about having more ads, just like Google Contributor. This is Google working to tell the world, "if you want to get paid, even by people who donate directly to avoid ads, you must first accept showing our ads otherwise". So this is about increasing, amplifying, reinforcing the ads because there won't likely be a way to say "I want to get paid when people enjoy my work, but I don't want to push ads on anyone ever". Google wants people like that to not exist. If you want to be paid in any form, you have to accept using Google ads. That's their end-game here.
We can just change the definition of "proper functioning" so that all is well again. That's how we tackle most things anyway...
The calls for restricted immigration are certainly politically motivated (mainly variations on "I don't want them getting mine") so what's the difference? National borders mean less and less all the time. Clinging to them to weather this upcoming economic storm is like using an anchor as a liferaft.
> but most of their issues aren't arbitrary business decisions.

Happens all the time. App.net was original an "app store" for facebook but they decided to make a competitor called App Center or something and told App.net they could either be acquired or shut down.
> Is it worse than any other free email provider?

Not really, but they are definitely on the bottom of the trusted list. That being said, the WTFs in this story would be the same if it was yahoo, gmail, etc. The problem is that the emails were forwarded out from his work network.
Interestingly enough, the page crashes my firefox 100% of the time (linux / firefox 41) but works fine in chrome
I have to admit that I was also wondering about the anti-trust aspects of this. Given that YouTube is a dominant player (73.1% market share in the US according to [1], probably higher in many European countries where there are fewer alternative players on the market), one could argue that Google is abusing their market power in Internet video to push their own mobile OS. Since Google does not offer an app for Windows Phone, their YouTube Red service is basically 9.99$ for Android users and 12.99$ for all other supported mobile platforms. And - as others have pointed out - the 30% cut for Apple is not mandatory (see Netflix et al).

[1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/266201/us-market-share-of...
one: taxes are your subscription to the society plan that offers you property rights and other elements that allow an investment in farm equipment to be profitable.

two: the metric you use to determine the value of a person is highly arbitrary, based on GDP, divorces are better for society than marriages, despite the fact that children going through divorces suffer in school and later go on to accomplish less, capitalism is generally too myopic to actually address any existential risks to the human race.
YF's post: a rose by any other name, etc.

YF may not have been dishonest, but the post was also not worth engaging.
Or as Sneakers (1992) did it:

Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.

Bernard Abbott: Oh, this is ridiculous.

Martin Bishop: He's serious.

Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men.

Bernard Abbott: We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
This page is about cell phone plans?
Agreed. I am a millenial and I was super pissed when I discovered my new landlord required me to pay by check. Mostly because this required me to figure out how to get checks from the bank.
summary:

> Not only did the study determine that a tiny amount of sunscreen is all it takes to begin damaging the delicate corals — the equivalent of a drop of water in a half-dozen Olympic-sized swimming pools — it documented three different ways that the ingredient oxybenzone breaks the coral down, robbing it of life-giving nutrients and turning it ghostly white.
I'll never develop for twitter again. Fuck them.
Here are a few things Twitter could do to gain developers trust again:

- re-open the firehose. Let more people access it, even Gnip's (now Twitter's) competitor.

- remove the 100000+ users limit. Falcon Pro comes to mind, but since the author now works for Twitter, their are probably other good examples out there

- let developers monetize their apps using Twitter; maybe by providing a shared ads model.

That's not the end of it, but that would be a good start.
Thanks for adding the refs, I stumbled on it before yesterday and I thought it was interesting. There are a lot of exciting research going on at UWashington.
Now can they bring back RSS feeds?
Babbage created the machine and he would not know how to run it? He would not know how to program it? The absurdity of this is astounding. Babbage was the first programmer.
There is a google talk about Babbage's machines and the speaker also talked about Ada at the 36 min mark -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5p_tBcrd0&feature=youtu.be...
Right, I read it as your videos cannot be shown on the ad free site, since they wont be ad free. They should still show on the regular YouTube page.

Edit: Apparently I was wrong. There is another article on the front page stating they will be hidden on all forms of YouTube.
They'd have the wrong house :) I don't drink.
Microsoft has different levels of support as well as Apple and you can find parts on Ebay easily too. I honestly don't see how Macbooks are any easier to repair than any other ultrabook really.
Almost no one in the US is calling for restrictions on immigration.
I agree with your point, but "Google Android Play Music All Access Subscription" is an exaggeration. It's "just" Google Play Music All Access.
Please don't do this on HN. personal attacks are not welcomed on this website.
I thought it was against App Store guidelines to charge a different price in the app than one could get on the same feature outside of the app.
Alcohol is regulated in almost every state in the US. Because its dangerous.
Yup. The content creators will be an audience subject to exploit that cannot simply jump ship: a year or two from now, they'll make less and google will make more, because that's capitalism folks.
I agree. But, as a potential shareholder, let's point out the elephant in the room: Yahoo is not doing good. What is being done about that? If all you do is emphasize the positives, I have to wonder if you're taking the bad seriously.
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Twitter would have to decentralize their system to court developers again. That means creating a protocol and an open source server that implements the protocol.

Twitter is basically an inverted email system anyway. So there is no technical reason why it can't be structured more like email. They could make money like google does with gmail, but as a user I could sign up with any provider or even host my own server.

Then it might get interesting. To me the only thing twitter has of value is mind share ("tweet", "follow", etc...) and this approach is the only way they can leverage it to profit in the long run.
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Agreed. Gates is a marketing genius. Put him in that hall of fame.
You had me agreeing until the part about the NRA base going down with increased immigration. Now I'm all for it.
> Automation like this is why I call BS on the "we need more immigrants to keep the economy going!" folks.

This is a bit of a shortcut (and most don't realize it) to "more people doesn't necessarily mean less jobs to go around, as available work is not a finite product because of the amount of artificial demand an increased population can create".

We don't need more human drones; when properly funneled, increased immigration can mean a better economy.
That's not exactly unreasonable is it? There are companies that will pay for fire hose access, so it's clearly worth something.

It's also their only real product.
I used to develop food sorters. Color sorting is very simple in principle and much harder in practice. The main difficulties are good lighting, not shaking your cameras and optics to pieces and keeping the optics and lights clean.

For fruit sorting in particular there is the very difficult task of conveying the fruit without damaging it. The best sorter in the world won't help you if it mangles the fruit.

In my old lab, there are solutions to most of the common food sorting problems, not all of those solutions make it out to the field though.
Meanwhile the people who buy 2009 7-series for $30K get a ridiculously nice car for the price of a Camry... but they pay maintenance costs which are a lot higher than the Camry driver's. There's a reason not everyone is buying cheap used luxury cars.
I couldn’t find video of Dorsey’s remarks. Was there any hint that Twitter might relax those restrictions?
Prices of hard drives historically haven't come down. For a very long time consumer hard drives have been between $50 to $200. What changed over time was the size of the drive you could get for $X.

That's still happening, but it's happening a lot slower than it used to be.
Youtube is ripe for disruption right now. All these attempts to monetize will simply drive their users elsewhere.
Apology accepted, I’ll totally build my whole company around your platform now, since Twitter is so stable.
I think those numbers don't add up. Decreasing population does nothing for the per capita need for working-class people. Unless you think laborers are dying off at a greater rate than the rest of us.
Or perhaps it's some unknown combination of all the factors that you can think of, but no one really knows because the very illegality makes it difficult to determine.

This means logically, you have to ignore the preconceptions, because they have no basis in reality, just your biases.
https://www.vocalink.com/

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episo... is a Planet Money episode that goes into details of how it works.
There are also some good jailbreaks for this too
Yeah...that's a different take on Github, clearly. Terrible content with octocat and force push and all that. :(
Suction would bruise anything but the hardiest and greenest apples, same as a hickey except now it rots all your fruits. Some fruits are already ridiculously sensible to bruising as it is (pears from the family orchards bruise if you look at them funny)
Really now? No one? [edit: You added almost, I can almost agree now ;)]

Tougher border control is restrictions on immigration. Why do you think various billionaire nutjobs want to build a great wall of mexico?
The way I understand it, you can still host your videos. You just won't get any revenues. That is completely fine by me.
My guess is that Google can't. Tube was slang for boob tube or tv way before youtube existed.
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That's an important point. Drives the same size as those 5 years ago go down in price, but at some diminishing rate as they asymptotically approach zero $.

With storage its hard to say exactly what its doing, because it won't hold still to be measured. You have to allow multiple variables to change in any stats collected over time (capacity, physical size, speed, volatility).

It seems reasonable to chart the price of some standard capacity (most common?) over time. Is that changing any more?
https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2011/10/17/m...

> During the summer rumours about a new attack against SSL started circulating.

> The only reliable way to defend against BEAST is to prioritise RC4 cipher suites, as proposed by PhoneFactor.

RC4? That heap of junk? You're kidding.

[18 months later]

> Last week, a group of researchers announced significant advancements in the attacks against RC4, unveiling new weaknesses as well as new methods to exploit them.

Jeez, who could have seen that one coming.
>YouTube Red will also offer Background Play, so you can close the app while continuing to listen to the audio of whatever you were watching as you use your phone.

What a joke. This should be a standard feature.

iOS users: You can play audio in the background by playing a video in Safari, swiping up to open control center, pressing play, and then double-tapping the home button to go to another app. The only restriction is that you can't use Safari while the video is playing.
Why would you be super pissed? Accepting credit cards costs the merchant 3%, a substantial amount for the amount charged by a landlord.

Which is why check payments dominate larger transactions. Merchant fees are expensive compared to an ACH check fee (25 cents tops).
Import? We are not importing them. They migrate here because there is work. If there is no work, they won't come over here. It is basic supply and demand that is controlling this.
No, it's not. It's enforcing current immigration policies.

Moving towards an open borders would be changing restrictions on immigration.
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It wasn't as he said "confusing and unpredictable" it was manipulative and desperate. Let a bunch of developers figure out ways to monetize on Twitter then cut off their access and duplicate their strategies. Empty words.

Let me know if they want to give contractual guarantees that certain APIs will be available.
I thought it was "red" for red band trailers.
Google's Sandbox will also show more and more holes every day. Because it's a comparably easy target, especially with x86 being so complicated and even having undocumented Opcodes.

Even just mov or lea are Turing complete.
Did you read the article we're commenting on? It stated roundworms have been frozen and illustrated learned behaviors to certain scents afterwards. It also stated rabbit brain tissue retained long term memories.
What about the immigrants in high-skilled labor?

The recent calls for increased immigration are mostly about STEM-trained immigrants, are they not?
Pretty sure the Youtube Music app has a 'don't stream the video' mode.
If everyone had that attitude we'd still be using horses to get from point A to point B. :)
Also, if Youtube Red wants to become some kind of Netflix competitor down the line, expect even more draconian "anti-piracy" moves from Youtube/Google to please the MPAA (which you just know they are going to ask for them before they make any deal).
This might be the only exception to Betteridge's Law.