skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who is feeling more and more contrarian lately in my comments here and regretting it, I think it's because after a decade of HN, everything starts to the look the same. Everybody is trying to sell a framework, a startup, a language, or their own personal brand and it turns into a big circlejerk of everyone patting themselves on the back because they've got some secret knowledge. Sometimes it doesn't seem like any real learning is going on as nothing is scientific or rigorous or anything more than an anecdote. You start to wonder how different some of this stuff is than hundreds of religions that have long since died.

This is a larger issue with developer burnout I suspect. You master one thing and there's someone standing on the corner saying..."well, actually, I've got something better" and there's a very real anxiety in that evaluation process. Does object-oriented programming suck? Are functional languages the future? Do you really want an SPA? Should you replace your C codebase with Rust... or Go? Is Bitcoin worth getting in on? etc etc

You will interact with some of the most brilliant people on HN, and most of them are friendly and mean well, but without actual disagreement nothing interesting gets said.

...that wasn't intentionally contrarian.
> It makes moderation easier.

This is why there is no spam on self-hosted WordPress. Oh, wait.
Jeff Bezos's wife Mackensie writes one star review of “The Amazon Store”
One of my best friends helped me found and run the company (support-intelligence.com) for the first couple of years. I've run it for the last eight years on my organic farm in the East Bay (of the san francisco bay area)

I split my time between farming and writing code. Support Intelligence is a boutique cyber security company. We have F100 customers and I really enjoy living in two worlds.

The choice for me was simple, I greatly dislike what silicon valley does to entrepreneurs. I don't think many folks understand how VCs destroy lives.

So I'm happy with not being rich and having two jobs that keep me engaged in life, technology and politics.
There are plenty of giant corporations with no ads on their website. When you already hire teams of ops staffers, the trickle of money from online ads is going to be next to worthless.
The cheap bulbs I found at Costco are high CRI. I think it was these in a smaller package: http://www.costco.com/Feit-LED-A-Lamp-60W-Replacement-Soft-W...
I flew Kyiv Borispol (Ukraine, KBP) to Tehran (Iran, IKA) recently, and our flight went over the northeast tip of Iraq. Normally the flight (Ukraine 751) flies close, but not over, Iraq - around 33 miles from the border [0]. In my case, however, because of harsh weather we went over Iraq for a bit, which was definitely interesting. I know Iraqi airspace isn't the same as Syrian airspace, but it's definitely pretty damn scary being a few minutes' flying time from ISIS strongholds.

[0] https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AUI751/history/20170104/...
There has to be a happy medium. If we aren't built for stupid amounts of blue light, then it seems counter-intuitive that some people might need that.
I'll toss this out there. I am a software guy who manufactures a simple electronic device on the side

The product cost around $30k to develop plus around eight months of full-time development effort. We currently make about $15k-20k a year in profits. I've been doing this for six years now, and we make small incremental improvements every release that don't cost a lot to do. I mostly focus on overseeing manufacturing, QA and maintaining a dealer network who will sell the product.

I am embarrassed to say I haven't spent a lot of time on growing the operation, but on the flipside the return is pretty good for the amount of work that I put in to it.
> A lot of people read the same things, should we all burn out?

Eventually? Would everyone burn out at an equivalent speed?

I don't know the answer to your question. I do wonder if it has to do with being closed or open minded. The difference of a person enjoying being in a bubble, and one who wants to think outside of the box.

Also, there are platforms where people gather who think outside of the box. However at some point they become so popular, that the status quo of the masses takes over. (Reddit seems an excellent example of this.) To me, it seems akin to the principles of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone
Mark, don't. we have enough idiots there without you.
That might be due to a lack of Chrome optimization on Windows - on OS X Chrome activates the dGPU for me only when something employs WebGL or plays any form of media.
Yes! Support is also the part most potentially terrifying to me, considering starting something while still employed at a full time job. Seems like it could quickly become a massive time sink and source of stress.
> The inequality thing is far from unavoidable. In a democracy, at least, a society perceived as more fair for the majority should be attainable.

This is a nice thought in theory, but not really true as long as campaigns themselves are funded by private capital. And any attempt to change that leads to private capital (cough Koch brothers cough) funding candidates to stop it.

I'm not super optimistic this will change without some kind of dramatic event (revolution, war, SS being defunded and lots of old people starve, etc.).
yeah! It's amazing how much people give fixing these things as a remedy for burnout, and yet (in my anecdata) it never works. One common advice is taking an unplanned vacation, but tha can be even worse, because it reinforces your brain's burnout by rewarding the burnout feedback cycle at a meta-level.
Hey Derrick! Glad to have Pageproofer on the site :D
You can (any probably should) slightly fuzz the addresses you're providing Uber. They're tracking you with GPS before and after your rides anyway, but you might as well make it a little harder for them to track you.
Network. Go to the meetups.

Don't rely on serendipity, we can do better than that. Use your programming skills.

Pull the meetup list, get all of their twitter profiles, search everyones last 1000 tweets for topics you are interested in. Pull all of their code on github. Push it through the profiler and find the talent.

Mirror github if you have to. Pull the whole darn thing, it's only a couple of hundred gigs (if you dont pull the code) Profile everyone based on their stars, contributions, watchers and pull requests.

How many other meetups do they go to? What's their history like on other forums?

Put the pics of these people on your phone, and then go and find them at the meetup. Pull their customer lists / testimonials and any other publicly available data.

Look at their company DNS records. Pull their company filings if they're available. Know their revenue, know their customers. Who's making the decisions at this company? Who is signing the cheques?

Scientia potentia est
It's a pleasure to see DHH pat himself on the back each time his stopped clock overlaps with the hour.

I don't get this metaphor. How is DHH's clock stopped? As far as I know, he has a very successful business, while leading an exciting lifestyle (he drives racing cars!), and he also heads a wildly successful open source project. I can think of few other besides perhaps Marc Zuckerberg, who is winning in life to that extent.

Many people who stumble into a certain amount of fame and adulation, like him, get sloppy when they write. They start to repeat themselves. They don't offer evidence to back up their claims. They don't dig deeper than the insight they offered in the last five columns

It doesn't seem like you're disagreeing with him though.

It might be interesting, for those who want to do the work, to consider why VCs invested more than $120M in Ev

You're completely missing the point! We all know why it makes sense from the perspective of the VCs. DHH is writing from the perspective of a founder, and the deal makes a lot less sense from that perspective. VCs make many bets, expecting to lose most, but win big on a few. The founders however, don't get to make more than a few bets, and the odds of winning one are very low.

Secondly, investments fail all the time. Medium might be one of those. Our understanding of the world doesn't change much if that's the case. None of this is really news.

What a cynical way to look at this. Sure, the VCs will be fine if and when Medium fails, but it will have an impact on a other lot people: employees, who've spend years of their career for nothing and whose stock options are now worthless, and customers who have come to depend on the product.
Ask HN: What hosting platform is everyone using these days?
I've started working on a side project today but I've been out of the web game for some time and I'm not sure what exactly the options are these days. Do people still use Heroku? AWS λ? Firebase? Digital Ocean? I know this is very much use case dependent but I'm still curious.
It's just hard to believe that such a person (with such low baseline) could come out of Facebook. Their interview process is quite thorough.
For the high-level sweep of history in a single volume, The Penguin History of the World is hard to beat.

But realistically you have to get closer. Pick a time period, or a theme, or even an individual, and start digging. Some people like local or family history. Try to find a selection of voices to read, but beware of the pseudohistorians and pop-scientists.
I agree with you that this is probably overblown.

But, just to play devil's advocate, it seems plausible that sunlight might activate some kind of defense mechanism in the eye that protects it from the effects of the higher energy part of the spectrum.

If nothing else, the overall brightness levels would cause your pupil to shrink more in sunlight than under LED lighting.
The light from good quality LEDs should be indistinguishable from halogens, and better than any CFL. I've replaced my entire household with Philips 2700k LEDs of various types and they are excellent.

Poor quality LEDs are awful - the 50/60Hz flicker/strobe effect that many produce is very annoying and fatiguing and it doesn't surprise me that they're considered a health hazard.

Try quality LEDs and you won't regret them.
With CFLs, for me, it depends. The cheap or worn out ones tend to flicker ever so slightly (at 50hz where I live), and that's unnerving.
1. Been thinking about doing book reviews on the blog actually. Any tips/ideas for crowdsourcing it and getting the community involved? Maybe I'll try using the forum for that.

2. Will try to do updates every few months or so in the future, don't want the interviews to get stale!
I use mermaid and flowchart in github readmes using an extension for chrome. The basic idea is that the libraries are part of the extension, and the markdown calls out what kind of diagram it is.

chrome store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-diagrammer/...

https://github.com/jdoconnor/chrome-diagrammer
I'm not giving them credit, they may be wrong too. The fact is there is non-trivial communication overhead and either or both sides can be wrong.
It does? You can run powershell in ConEmu—I run it in cmder.
We have passed in "render" functions as props before, but I didn't know you could pass an anonymous function as a child. Also, I didn't know you could pass in a function to `setState`. Could be useful!
Also, those lights are suggested for skin exposure, not for staring directly into or for illuminating your space... still though, proximity would encourage more harmful interactions.
If you forego the unnecessary requirement of Markdown support, you have plenty
of good wiki engines out there, my favourite two being part of Trac and DokuWiki.
>I also feel it takes a bit of nerve to think that you should be financially compensated for writing your personal blog //

Surely it depends on whether you're writing for your own benefit or the benefit of others. If you write to benefit - by the action, catharsis, etc., of writing - yourself then of course not but if you write to entertain, inform, etc. others then it seems reasonable that those who consume that writing to that end should get their costs covered in some way.

I guess we could have arms length government managed blogging platforms, that would enable people to blog, others to consume the beneficial ones and avoid commercial entities being involved in the system (I think if you look current free blogging platforms probably can be traced back to advertised commercial entities?).

It probably all depends on what sort of profit a blog is making. If they're actually paying themselves a living wage from their personal blog then arguably that shows it has value and that they should be socially allowed the opportunity to be paid (through the proxy of advertising) for that blog. I'd warrant from my experience that most blogs don't cover costs with the advertising they carry if you considered the act of writing them a commercial undertaking (eg UK min wage is ~£8 ph, so a blog writer would need to receive enough to cover ~£12ph to be covering wage cost alone; how many of the millions of blogs ever made do that?)?
One of the amazing things about software that we all write is how well it integrates with many other aspects of life, particularly (though without a doubt not exclusively) intellectual pursuits.

This is, of course, why it pays what it does: Software for software's sake pays about like math for math's sake, with the same people paying.

But unfortunately it seems that despite the deep integration with other facets of work and life, most professional developers seem to basically write code 80-100% of their time (including associated activities like meetings etc.). Far fewer developers are also domain experts (or at least domain enthusiasts) and spend, say, 30-50% of their time coding and the remainder working within the domain or on integration.

I wonder if this separation between the coders and the domains contributes to burnout. Maybe it's more economically efficient (specialization and all that) and we all like our abstractions. But having a lack of meaningful contexts to switch to, i.e. eating ice cream for every meal for lack of broccoli, can't be great. Directly gaining the benefit of the software should also help with perspective, motivation and an appreciation of the work invested.

But maybe it's too hard to find people who can fill what are effectively 2(+) roles in given field? In what areas other than science/engineering do people actually do this?
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Legacy Application Strangulation: Case Studies (2013)
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13329424.
Maybe this problem is too hard for humans to solve. We've spent a long time trying to crack this nut. I am more bullish on Machine learning solving this problem quickly in the next 5 years.
https://www.junglescout.com/ is a good example for Amazon too. But, I think you nailed it, enthusiasm for a niche is key
multiple experiments were made, one at 6000 as the GP mentions, but also one at 500 lux. There's more information here but in French[1][2]:

On the other hand, by exposing the same animals to a luminous intensity similar to that usually used in dwellings (500 lux) for 24 hours, only the LEDs appeared harmful

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev...
[2] http://www.inserm.fr/actualites/rubriques/actualites-recherc...
How do you make sure it's the user responding and not the installer that tricked the user that's sending keystrokes?
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There's burnout and there's burnout.

Some burnout is basically your mind slowly coming to associate some (class of) activity with negative feelings eventually building up to the point where it basically becomes an emotional net negative to the degree you can't push yourself to work on it anymore and you (have to) disengage.

Then there's the kind of burnout where you've been marinating your nervous system with extreme amounts of stress hormones for extended periods of time (months or more likely years on end) and when your performance starts to degrade due to this, as it inevitably will, you keep pushing yourself to maintain your expected standard of productivity up to the point where your body is basically trashed and your productivity suddenly drops precipitously to virtually non-existent levels which generally takes years to recover from.

The former is mostly psychological; the latter starts psychologically but most definitely crosses into the territory of the physical.

As an aside; the book The Upside of Stress [1] is a really good book on dividing 'good stress' which basically trains up your body and 'bad stress' which bathes you in damaging hormones. Many burnouts happen when someone with a high workload unwittingly switches from good to bad stress.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23281639-the-upside-of-s...
Talk to your manager - let them know. The first thing you should learn upon entering the workforce is the power of communication. Most people want their employees to do well, because it helps them.
Do you consider learning how to code?
Do you know of any specific efforts on that front?
Hosting trade secrets on a cloud-based service, where any Asana employees can monitor your activity, where Chinese hackers (yes, that fear-mongering term actually applies here) can get to your trade data, pre-copyrighted/patented ideas, etc etc is a terrible idea.

If they sold the software maybe you could host it on-site, but having this on centralized servers with many other companies is incredibly risky and generates a huge target.
Can't find the study, but it was statistical analysis of results of different wine competition. The result was something that bad wines was always viewed as bad, but on the good part of spectrum the good wines ranked kind of randomly.

So it is more like we know what we do not like, but there is very little agreement on what is considered to be good wine.
Duh, just vote for the guy that promises a higher basic income!
How do a business provide monetary return if not by creating value? A house also provides value (in the form of housing), why would anyone want to pay rents otherwise?
Servo is not a "display engine". The term is "rendering engine", but that's an inaccurate bit of terminology, most of what a rendering engine does doesn't actually deal with rendering. A better term is "browser engine".

Parsing, styling, the DOM, running JS, handling networking, computing layout are all things that a browser engine does that don't involve rendering. Many of these can't be done on the GPU, and for others the GPU brings no additional benefit because it's not the kind of load the GPU can magically parallelize.

Servo's rendering stack does make extensive use of the GPU. https://github.com/servo/webrender/ (talk by patrick in https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/) There's also work on glyph rasterization on the GPU going on right now.
Uber also tracks you before/after, even if you're not using the app.

I can only guess all the reasons why. But it should help them predict supply and demand/gouge you better. It's worth knowing when everybody starts to head for the exits from the Rolling Stones concert. And if you came from there, it's worth knowing to predict what fare you might be willing pay, even if you hail a couple of blocks away from the arena to avoid the crush.
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this was in response to:

> As builders of web systems, we need to be conscious of which 3rd parties are gaining access to private user data. There's no reason in hell any Google or Facebook widget should be embedded in my health care providers website, yet somehow that's a thing. Any other website is usually even worse.
Xiaomi hits $1B revenue in the world's fastest growing smartphone market
It's not arbitrary, or about whose votes matter more or population density at all. It's because the United States is actually a union of what was, before the founding of the country as we know it, relatively sovereign states. By joining the union they were giving up much of that sovereignty. It was good for the union that more states joined, so the great compromise was to allow states who were fearful of being dominated by foreign opinions to be granted additional votes just for being 1 state. So Rhode Island residents don't just vote as individuals - they get some votes proportionally and some votes for being a member state of the union. How do so many people educated in the United States not know about that compromise?
It's incredibly toxic behavior and should be mandated that people reply to a post before downvoting it.

"Hey, let's penalize that person for participating!"
Congrats to the team! Long time irssi user here, I've tried to move to several other clients over the years (for change's sake rather than any real reason), but nothing ever "stuck" with me.

Relatedly to this happy news, a gentle plug for a project I was involved in: https://github.com/rburchell/irssi-relay

irssi-relay allows you to connect weechat's relay clients to an irssi instance. I don't think it's gotten much use outside the few of us that work on it, more eyes are of course welcome.
"Meaningful use" legislation in the US healthcare industry already mandates the release of certain data that helps with public health surveillance - in fact, it was one of the major goals of those regulations (as well as advancing the state of healthcare tech, enabling health information exchanges and interoperability).

For example, see this article which talks about how "meaningful use" legislation enables cancer surveillance via provider reporting to cancer data registries:
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr/meaningful_use.htm
Eh, the point is avoid unnecessary work. If you have just one diagram, creating it by hand is not a problem. If you have 10 or 20, you want automation. Especially since you'll want to keep the diagram continually updated, maybe tweakable with different styles; editing all diagrams by hand every time for every colour change is arduous compared to just running a single command to re-render.
I love my Honda Element, purchased in 2009--the last year Honda manufactured the Element. Now it has enough miles on it that I have been considering replacing it, but have not been able to find a suitable alternative vehicle. There have been rumors that a new Element part of the 2017 Honda USA offering, but my local dealer has not heard of it. See, for example, http://bestnewsuv.com/2017-honda-element/ which has some speculative information.
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The sub-headline:

> Ride-hailing companies aspire to be something akin to public transportation, but that doesn’t extend to sharing data with governments.

So this is supposedly noteworthy for that reason.
Sorry, I meant to say you could pretty easily make quicksort using the techniques in that link.
It is starting but most of them focus on predictions. Here is a paper that links to others but should give you an idea.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25750696
Name me a thing, a biscuit, a light bulb, a gadget, a piece of metal, where there isn't some sort of agency that claimed that it increases the risk of cancer by 0.3% based on a study based on a sample of 8 patients and an opinion from the author's grandma!
> Also unless you are doing really stressful work what is it that makes you burn out?

I think you are making too many assumptions about what kind of work and what work environments are stressful for different people.

Could the term "burn out" be abused? Of course, it's something that is difficult for others to verify. That fact doesn't make it less real for those actually experiencing it.