skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is not your party, you're just serving canapes

Nailed it. This is the key difference, and matters a lot psychologically: you're not just acting as a waiter during the show, once the party is over you can't stick around you have to let go and move on to serve at the next party.

Comparatively, letting go on an ongoing product in a burnout inducing situation feels like you've given up while sticking to your guns feels like fighting windmills, either of which is just soul destroying in its own perverted way.
The untold story of QF72: What happens when automation leaves pilots powerless?
I suppose I could be persuaded to work in high risk consumer credit if the point was to eliminate the exploitation and I suppose doing that in casinos means getting rid of them.
Let me get this straight: H2O's contribution to this project is a bunch of deep-learning libraries that they didn't create? How will they maintain and extend that? Do they know how credibility in open-source works?

H2O wrote its random forests and GBMs, neither of which show large performance gains on GPUs compared to neural nets. And the neural nets in this initiative were created by Google, Berkeley, Microsoft... This looks like the OpenStack of machine learning, an unmaintainable project that will crumble under its own complexity.
Because, frankly, I don't give a shit about aggregate "wisdom". (It's aggregate opinions, no wisdom to be found there).

Many movies are polarizing. In aggregate, they're OK. Talking to a single person whose opinion I trust is much more helpful than getting an average from 1,000s. Look at Yelp ratings - everything is pretty good by now, and the recommendations are mostly meaningless. They don't fit my needs, if my needs go beyond "I need edible food in a certain price category".

It turns out experts trump the crowd when it comes to opinions, because the opinion of a crowd is almost always indifferent.
Yes, but exploits for these bugs has been published now.
Since mobile browsing is so prevalent, you would expect websites to be more optimised for mobile cpus/bandwidth and therefore very fast on ethernet connected desktops. But more and more I find sites that take so much time to load I feel I'm back to dial-up days. This blog doesn't even have ads.
It's absurd considering the fact we can stream full HD content in several devices on the same connection
Imus' map of the Wallowas is amazing. I've probably owned or bought for friends at least 15 copies over the years. There is one hanging framed next to my desk. So glad to have that level of depth and accuracy of an area I love. The most recent printing is a little blurry and they are now using a glossy paper. The old matte finish was easier to read and felt higher quality. Richer details than any of the Forest Service maps of the area I've seen.

Edit: Last summer I was backpacking and found myself recalling what I thought I had seen on the map, wondering if perhaps I'd found an error. I was on the trail to Francis Lake, pulled out the map and it was then I really appreciated the level of perfection, realizing that nope, he got every detail right.
AI Translates Sign Language into Text
> I think a big factor in burnout is that most work is ultimately meaningless, or even morally wrong, and on a deep level, we're aware of that.

Wouldn't this mean that people who work e.g. in the advertisement industry are overall more depressed or burnt-out than people who work, say, in medicine?
I saw a copy of this sitting on a table in a bookshop in Dublin a couple of years ago and picked up and read it for a while. I would have liked to have loved it and maybe as a teenager I still would have been able to invest it with the a little bit of the real magic it seemed to lack for all its technical accomplishment...but I guess I've exchanged those powers for something else - or just lost them.

The thing that still amazes me is how words themselves -
without any other props - can still engender the kind of mystery and sense of romance which they were aiming for. Even when we're used to entertainments with far more sensory power.
On the other hand, I find myself suffering from "icon blindness" sometimes - it is usually after working for some time, but at some point, I just don't process them very well. Command-tab window switching (MacOS), for instance, is something I end up staring at a lot, trying to figure out which one I want.

But then I tend to interpret text much more quickly and without having to think about it than with icons, as well. I'm just a word person. Probably why I'm generally happier typing at the command line than poking and clicking at buttons.

I'd take the text-only iPhone, myself. Stark is fine.
If you explicitly ask someone with the form "are there are organizations that are infalliable to leaks?" they're likely to say "no of course not. Humans make errors"

But if you phrase it to something like "Can the government be trusted with backdoors to protect us from terrorists and Chinese hackers", then suddenly public sentiment will change dramatically.
Many people in administration don't need much more from their office suite than regular users. Many others do, though, I agree -- hence the extensible part. Either make the extensions by dedicated government IT staff or pay someone to do it; open-source either way, obviously, because it's absurd to use public funds to commission proprietary software.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gatekeeping
The share of U.S. economic output that's paid out in wages in at the lowest point since the government started keeping track of it. In 1964 AT&T was worth $267 billion in today's dollars and employed 758,611 people. Google is worth $370 billion but has only about 55,000 employees -- less than a tenth the size of AT&T's workforce in its heyday.

We're going to get self-driving cars in our lifetimes and the number one job in most states is "truck driver". My job as a software developer is to eliminate jobs (or simply prevent new ones from being required). I'm personally responsible for the loss of more jobs that I have.

> As veterans came home from WW II and 'mustered out' we provided the GI bill to train them in skills other than soldering. This provided an economy that transitioned a standard army to one tenth its previous size.

Of course, they transitioned into a world where all the other major countries had their manufacturing industries destroyed by war. Again, extrapolating from the past has it's issues; you cannot simply say "training" was the only, or even the most significant, factor. If you had a functional body, you could get a good job.

> using tax payer money to provide the education and training to anyone who needs it to take a job that could use them.

I think right now we have an absolute glut of educated people; no time in history have you needed to be as educated as you are right now to get an entry level position. People are literally taking jobs that don't pay anything. The number of recent collage grads that are underemployed (employed in jobs that don't require their degree) is at the highest level in 20 years.

> What I categorically reject is the notion that there is any solid reasoning for trying to artificially create jobs that happen to meet existing skill sets.

Absolutely; it's a terrible practice. And the thing is, you don't even have to artificially create it. We already have "bullshit jobs"[1] that fill this vacuum already.

[1] http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-d...
My 115 Things – minimalist lifestyle
What zbyte64 said. Once the animal dies, the enzymes that constantly fix and error-check DNA are no longer around. DNA then degrades over time, cleaving in half every ~521 years on average. So past a million years or two, the fragments are so small, meaningfully putting them back together would be an impossible task, like reconstructing a porcelain bowl you had ground into dust.
1) Fuchsias' initial release was 2016
2) This website seems to be... only about it?
Is it even a problem if they can't compete with Amazon on price? Generally the reason to fear monopolies is abuse of market capture for profit. If you own all the corn, you can set the price. But Amazon doesn't own all the commerce - it just undercuts everyone. But that is a win for consumers until Amazon tries to exploit its position.

But the moment they do that, right there is where you can undercut Amazon. If they are abusing their competitive advantage by the nature of abusing it they are giving it up.

At worse, they raise prices circumstantially to maximize profit, but that is more the benefits of winning the market than of exploiting a monopoly, because they would still be overall cheaper than any competitor could manage.

As long as Amazon is cheaper (and not exploiting employees) than what a competitor could do, the consumer is winning.
This works pretty well - we manage ~ 300 severs in a similar manner. One wrinkle is that I ask the new user to add their keys to their github account (ie github.com/<username>.keys ) which gives them the ability to add/del keys and jira me to update their user.
A Russian Honeytrap for Gen Flynn? Falling Victim to the New Red Scare
I disagree. Every day we become more and more dependent on computers, and more specifically, networked computers. The IoT is exploding with horrific security implications. Everyone is focused on the next big thing, and no one is paying attention to the house of cards we are building.

So for something like this to happen now is much better than it happening later, because people need events like this to wake up and motivate action.
It looks like you have not done any "looking" at this at all. This is a worm that is using the ETERNALBLUE (and possibly other) exploits to infect all vulnerable machines on a network without user interaction

plenty of stupidity for sure, but the stupidity is at the number of unpatched systems
Wow that's a painful read. Non native speaker or just terrible writer?
It's like the (independent) bookstore employee. They probably make minimum wage but they are interesting to talk to, are up to date on the latest great books, and really do add to the value of the store.
Agreed. Also, apart from mowing, a lawn can really be as easy or hard to maintain as you choose. Mine it kinda bumpy, has several patches of moss and has plenty of dandelions; I don't think "fixing" these problems will ever become enough of a priority to get it done. And of course, I'd never use chemicals of any kind for the lawn.
Show HN: Phonique – GUI Editor for AVAudioEngine
They print titanium and ceramics ive heard. Must be expensive. I would be very interested in seeung someone print a ceramic motor, beefed up to account for poor strength of ceramics. Yes most hub motors are closed but its very common for people to drill holes in the walls of the motor to get some air cooling. Less common is actually filling the closed hub motor with oil -- ive seen blog posts where people report that if you get that to work it does wonders for cooling. But there are huge problems with it, mainly related to accounting for the expansion of the oil as it heats up. Even less common is real liquid cooling where coolant is channelled down the axle and into the stator. Doing it with plastuc would mean having some metal inserts for heat conduction to the coils.
Conceptually such a thing isn't possible in the US (currently). You would never even be arrested for saying that, let alone sentenced to jail. So the existence of even a single incident in other countries does say something, I would argue. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyder_v._Phelps - they went to the funeral of a soldier who was killed in Iraq, whose father happened to be gay, and held up "GOD HATES FAGS" signs and proclaimed to the world, at his son's funeral, that he had been killed because the father is gay. Pretty much the most offensive thing imaginable and the supreme court sided with them 8-1 that they couldn't even be sued for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
For people outside the United States, switching away from microsoft really is a matter of national security (It kind of is inside the US too, but that is a different argument). If leaders of a nation allow their civil servants to be so lazy that they damage national security they deserve whatever results they get.

Using new software today isn't like it was in the 90s, the OS is much less important. UIs can be delivered by web and all the user friendly UIs (all mobile OSes, and no desktop OSes) area ll similar enough that many users can't tell the difference. If this is the barrier to someone's national security...
It's not proven impossible so it's very much possible - what is your argument to disprove the multiverse theories?
That would be a tough argument to make. Similar to how you would have trouble going after a gun manufacturer for murder rather than the attacker.
Forget the bitcoin angle: let's remember you have to arrange some way for the drugs to get to you. That could mean providing your address for mailing, or arranging a meeting, but regardless it's in no way anonymous and certainly traceable back to you, especially with the resources that law enforcement has.
Yes, the luxuries like rent, education and healthcare. And yes, "somehow" is a word that appears very often in every discussion about UBI.
Hi,

I'm Chris, I've been working on Phonique on and off for a few years, multiple re-writes, different wrappers and I've just re-wrote the app for AVAdudioEngine, it exports Swift Code.

Any questions, please let me know!
Don't forget to glue the USB ports; yes all of them. No, IT will need to setup a PXE server.
It doesnt involve only pdf.js file, the key is a bug in samba that means that all you need to get infected is to connect to an infected network.
One of the reasons? https://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-claims-collecting-royalt...
Hey its me, your past. Really though, I'm currently 20 and dropped out of school last year (GE's kicked my ass), and started working full time as a prototyper. I know I am probably going to have to go back at some point, but what really made you decide to go back? Was it for a higher payroll, or better fulfillment?
Just wanted to say thank you as I can relate to every single word in that piece.
The word "purpose" would fit what I'm talking about, but not really the way it seems to be commonly used.

I distinguish these things by their target of focus:

A "purpose" is concerned with one's place in the world. It's an attempt to fit in. It is also often done in a manner similar to picking your favorite color. "I want to be a star athlete".

A high-level "purpose"/"goal"/etc. is concerned with the state of the world. It's often not too concerned with where you are, it's rather concerned with results, and it can be good or bad, and it needs justification. "I want the game of soccer to be beautiful".

The latter is considerably more resilient than the former, as it is not reliant on personal performance as much, and the latter can guide the former. You might even ask whether the game of soccer needs more athletes to be beautiful, or if you did become one, you'd have a much easier time rejecting things like cheating and doping if you think they do not help, while someone concerned with being a star athlete is very inclined to cheat since that is their purpose and they don't have an overarching goal to stop them. And, in the end, if they nonetheless fail to become a star athlete, they'd have quite the crisis, while the person with the goal will be OK with it as the game of soccer will likely stay beautiful without them, and, even, consider if athletes are not really the biggest threat to soccer right now given their sheer number.
I have always found the daemons that come (or don't come) with linux rather odd. I suppose it is a quirk of how it is developed and who is responsible for what?

I agree that ping should probably not use setuid. Setuid seems like a hack to me though I am sure it is a necessary one.
There's no evidence that this attack targeted the NHS specifically, they are simply one of the most visible victims
That's exactly the point. If you can figure out how to automate the job come back with a solution. But until then give them respect. They do difficult that can't be automated so far.
Seriously, we already have robots that mop and vacuum. Scrubbing tables and taking out trash are just more expensive - it isn't a technically infeasible thing to do right now, especially if you sacrifice some of the magic by just putting UV strips on the tables to indicate where the robot should scrub, or some such.

That eliminates the day labor, you would probably still want a weekly cleaning crew to come around and get in all the nooks and crannies, but it is also reasonable to design buildings around being robot-maintenance friendly, and the more and better of a job the robots can do the less often you need the cleaning crews coming through until you never need them anymore.

The problem right now is that buying a robot that can wipe tables is a large upfront expense few places want to eat up. Prices will come down, though, as they always do. The cost to manufacture machinery is fairly fixed by volume in the endgame anyway, you just have to overcome the R&D costs.
If I were a country that was not allied with the US, or otherwise feared potential power plays by the US against my nation, I would not use any closed source software originating from the US.

Same applies to China, to Russia, and any other nation with a well funded cybersecurity division.

A nation could order a software producer under their jurisdiction to write an automatic updater pushing malware to collect:

National secrets

Credentials

Access to critical systems

And who knows what else if we are being creative. We use our computers for everything. Coded source software, especially with automatic updates, is systemic risk and it's going to bite a lot of people really badly if a cyber-competent nation ever decides to initiate WW3
A similar situation arises if you're autistic (not a mental illness, but with parallels in public perception) with assumptions of Rain Man savant-like abilities and mannerisms as being the norm.
Ah yes, I get your problem now, you have to deal with changing environments, not just your own setup to solve a particular problem. I see. That makes it a lot more complicated. Is there a way to fold the pipeline into a single process?

Not pretty from a modularity point of view but it just might get the job done.
Functionality is always second to security. In this situation you patch all the machines and then you test which still work . If the machines at the hospital dont work because some software was incompatible with the vulnerability fix (which is almost unthinkable in most cases)- then those coputers are simply unavailable and surgeries are cancelled or whatever the impact may be.
Wow, that's pretty amazing work!

How is he able to add new supernodes to the cluster? I would expect a supernode to have some sort of credentials that are used for authentication. If not, isn't it possible to neutralize the botnet by overloading it with supernodes that don't send malicious commands?
Making Music with Code – Intro to the Web Audio API (screencast)
"Pretty predictable" is already something different, and those topics have a steady influx of new information to mutate them at least somewhat.

The other factor, of course, is the heat with which these things burn. When they burn to a crisp, the crisps are all the same.
Yes, but it is a statistical process. There are many copies of the DNA, so some fragments might still be useful (?)
Funny that they hired the creator of Ember to work on the new version. Not even him could make it faster?
How would you know where to align the sequences? I am not an evolutionary biologist so maybe one of those people have a "yes, actually!", but consider modern descendants of dinosaurs have 1 billion base pairs and 20,000-23,000 genes[1], and the fact that we have many many living versions of those fowl to experiment with. Trying to realign chopped up bits of dna with who know how much completely missing, and minimal opportunities to experiment or direct information as to how any particular sequence functions, I can't see any way to extract useful data from highly degraded dna.

More information of degraded dna handling techniques, albeit in the forensics field and aimed toward people, but interesting to me nonetheless [2]

[1] - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v432/n7018/full/nature0...

[2] - http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...
Related: if you like meta-narratives, I would highly recommend House of Leaves.
Interesting! Thanks for clearing that up. I suppose if you have a strange shader that does some non-linear stuff it also might be more obvious to the programmer to use something higher precision or tweak how the math is done.
Musk teases with first look at Boring Company tunnel and ‘electric sled’
Maybe we should be working on better ways to get the poor educated and integrated with modern society as opposed to making them dependent on jobs which take all of their time, don't pay nearly enough, and block any and all opportunity for a way out because there's no free time or disposable income.
Yes, communism would cushion the displacement of workers.

But that's not viable politically in many western countries.
>To be completely fair, it's not the NSA's fault that software has faults. Its the software manufacturers'.

The NSA has a specific mission to secure the nation's infrastructure. In witholding key information from US companies, it's failing that mission.
By know everyone should know the Earth is 6000 years old, on both sides of the coin! What is this nonsense :)
I think the most striking thing about burnout is that, in my experience, it actually takes time to recover from it. Like a wound that requires healing.

It wasn't a situation where you simply remove a stressor and everything automatically gets better. A problem was created in my brain and it took a long time before I was functioning properly again.
A couple extra points to complement the article:

- Boo support is all but dropped, so avoid going with that.

- The JavaScript variant is not exactly what is in a browser.

- For C# MonoBehaviours, the class name must match the file name (without extension) in order for Unity Editor to see it. Namespaces are both supported and not displayed when adding a component.

- The Editor identifies file relationships by the GUID assigned in "meta files" if "Visable Meta Files" is chosen in the "Version Control" entry in the project settings. All files imported will then have another created with a suffix of ".meta".

- Selecting an "Asset Serialization" mode of "Force Text" will cause Unity to use YAML for things such as scenes, prefabs, meta files, etc. This can make using Git much nicer as well as enable use of text processing tools (such as grep or ack).

- When importing assets from the Asset Store, always review what files the package wants to import! Many will ship resources such as Standard Assets which can be outdated and/or cause conflicts.

- The built-in package management will only update or add files from a package. This many times leaves stale files lying around which can cause problems.

EDIT: If using text (YAML) serialization and Git, trying to merge conflicts in scenes (.unity) or prefabs (.prefab) will almost certainly end badly. Better to coordinate changes between people through communication, doing a "use mine or use theirs" conflict resolution strategy when people step on each other's work.

EDIT-2: Here are three utility assets which I have found to be invaluable (all are free):

- Vexe Framework: https://github.com/vexe/VFW

- LINQ to GameObject: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/24256

- Unity Test Tools: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/13802
Closer with the opening of the South Island line! I was there just a few days before opening so I didn't get a chance to ride it >.< I was very disappointed. Maybe this year!
The 50th anniversary of Starfish Prime: the nuke that shook the world (2012)