skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Burnouts come in various forms and one of the symptoms is exhaustion. As another comment already stated a person has a limited amount of energy that can be spent. Working at more than 100% it's possible but consumes a lot of energy.

One of the sources of this energy can be excitement (adrenaline) because you intrinsically like what you are doing or because you get a sense of ffulfillment in completing things. Which brings us back to the antidote suggested by the post. The suggested actions are typical measures for improving one's self-esteem. When one's self-esteem is low one tends to suffer from the same symptoms as exhaustion.

The post suggests that burnout is caused by repeated failure of obtaining success after spending a serious amount of effort and commitment. This however is a classic example of something that induces low self-esteem.

So be sure that you are not primarily fueled by this need for success when working over your max. Because if that is what is giving you energy you will lose it once you have some failures.
Wow, so I am both an ass and a racist because I expressed my opinion that I think there is more to the story that was reported, despite me saying that when I was at school this was common place (inferring that I don't think her alleged "crime" is a crime at all). Suddenly the media are perfect and without spin.

I don't judge people based on their race, gender or sexual identity. You on the other hand seem quick to jump to accusing people of racism. You either view the world through a race-based lens or maybe you just play the race card to rack up your (impressive) HN karma.
> poor people in America are part of the same body politic as myself, while poor people in China are not.

...and you don't see that as the problem worth fixing?

I live in Canada, where we get copies of all the social-policy laws from the US forced upon us as treaties [to ensure Americans don't just drive up here for their marijuanas or what-have-you] with no ability to actually vote in the US elections that control these laws. This is just a mild case of a power imbalance that's much more pronounced in countries that rely on the US for much of their GDP (usually based entirely around exports.)

There's only one world economy, and it affects all of us, but only some of us are living in countries that get to affect it with each swing of local political sentiment. It would probably be beneficial to all of us--even you all in the US--for that to change.
I don't know. I've been messing around with programming on computers for 25 years, and it was only until the last couple that I have gotten into hardware hacking.

Arduinos and their ilk have made hardware hacking easier these days, I think. That, along with better websites to buy supplies, have made hardware hacking even more accessible than ever.
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Given the US's annual trade deficit with China is more than a quarter of a trillion dollars and growing every year by some $20 billion (i.e. an extra month's worth of trade balance per annum), surveys of this kind are not worth the pixels they are printed on.
Coinlab files suit against MtGox
This isn't proof of anything, but a few days after this incident the CC I use for Linode got a fraudulent charge, the first such in years. I cancelled the card, so no big deal, but this makes me strongly suspect that the attacker ended up with actual card numbers, regardless of the passphrase.
I just returned from China on the weekend. I spent a week in Hua Qiang Bei and toured two factories. I was blown away by the availability of seemingly everything. The article does not exaggerate the sheer number of components available for every possible use it seemed like. One section of a huge multi story mall was only security cameras, the next section was only home audio equipment, the next had a all the parts to make LED lights for architectural applications, then another had a desktop SMT machine for sale ($3800, 12 reels). It went on for several blocks of giant electronics shopping malls.

Language is definitely a barrier, and the sheer choice could be overwhelming. When you have 10 LEDs to choose from at Radio Shack you can make a choice easier than when you have ten floors of stalls that all sell LEDs. I got lost on several occasions wandering around these huge stores of parts. It was awesome.

I wish there was some comparable place in the US, but I have never heard of it.
Out of curiosity, who did you switch to? I would leave too (after being a customer for nearly 8 years) but I'm having trouble finding other providers which don't have their own set of issues.
In addition to what's the article tells, you can get in china components you just can't get in the u.s.

For example , the mt6250 which is 260mhz arm7 microprocessor, with 8MByte ram , with dsp, with cellular modem, with bluetooth and with all kins of IO.it can run a feature phone with touchscreen and run games. Or be a cool internet of things micro controller. Or.

How much does it cost ? $2 in volume , in low volume you can maybe get it in $3 in china. But no way to get it in the u.s. .

And i bet there are plenty of other gems available.
Great idea! Do we get to pollute the local ecology and go totally-hands off to let the businesses exploit the workers, too? Maybe a little child labor here and there?

I'm envisioning the 21st century version of The Jungle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle. Actually in all seriousness, that could make a seriously cool sci fi/social commentary movie. Read that wikipedia article, and picture it in 2015 right on the Mexican border of the US.

I realize that there is great merit in your idea. But at the same time, there are some ugly realities to consider. The good old days of the US was built on the backs of some very ugly, pretty much unrestricted capitalism complete with destroying the environment, exploiting the heck out of workers, child labor, you name it. Your point still has merit, and I'm worried about the future of the West as well.
It also has parking requirements and lot size minimums, which are a big fraction of the problems that are part of zoning in other cities.
Would love to see you in Canada. We really dont get much attention in Toronto, but i'm sure Toronto would love to see you.
This is a fascinating article, from beginning to end. Really mind boggling.
It's gotten so much better since Valve started to port over their games and they launched Steam for Linux which helped bring other Linux games to light.

This forced a good update to nVidia cards that helped boost all cards performance under Linux to be actually playable.

Once they port over DOTA2 (currently one of their most popular games that makes $$ after Team Fortress 2) this should also cause a large kickstart in driver performance as more users play their games on Linux.
Right, but as the computer's scale, so do the datasets.
We are like the goldfish of information storage, give us a bigger disk, we will give you more data.
when that day comes, I am sure many would switch to Linux, especially among the developers. In the past few years using Windows, I have stopped thinking about device drivers at all, I just expected them to work. I am looking forward to the day where this comes to desktop Linux.
Sure Linode sucked at security and probably still sucks.

But what makes you think its competitors are any better?
I just returned from 4 electronic shops on the weekend, in a major california city. I couldn't not find jumper cables and switches on the size that i needed, or plastic knob covers. let alone a good looking big metallic knob cover that i wanted. I finally found the jumper cables only at a frys, but for 7x the price i could have them online, shipped from china. But since i was in a hurry, I paid $20 for a broken stereo receiver at craigslist and removed the parts I needed.
Sorry, more detailed post can be found here: http://baohaojun.github.io/beagrep.html

The github project is https://github.com/baohaojun/beagrep

And your guess in very right:-)
> I am trying to understand the claim that using a picture of Lena is somehow sexist.

Probably because it was sourced from a Playboy magazine is all.
I interpreted "Crashed my whole system" as meaning that option wasn't possible.
had to search that.

http://franhendy.com/2012/07/03/my-address-is-1209-north-ora...

"Google, Apple, Coco-Cola, Bank of America, Ford, General Electric, JP Morgan Chase, Wal-Mart, American Airlines and at least 285,000 others will tell you that this is their legal address."
How about for those that just want a small instance system. I just do the smallest linode setup for some personal projects. From my understanding, AWS is expensive for that type of use case?
I'm still having a little trouble believing it. FYI, the article is from 1995.
Boulder, where I live, isn't as rich as San Francisco, but it doesn't have the poor areas either. I love it here, but I have to wonder what it be like to grow up in this bubble.

I've gotten very used to mountain views, lots of sunshine and short commutes.

The best way to remind me of how good I've got it is to invite friends from out of town to visit.
I'm glad we have so many centers of intellectual production making software rather than grinding out security cameras and assembling things designed elsewhere. That being said, I do appreciate the value in production and Apple points out to me every day the value of merging hardware and software, but by in large I'm glad America still excels on the on the highest end of the foodchain.
Ownership doesn't bother me as much as quality control. Cheap stuff often compromises quality regardless of source. As much as possible I try not to buy food sourced from outside Australia or New Zealand as I don't trust the regulatory environments elsewhere and don't want to be eating European mystery meat or Chinese melamine. I don't really care about source so much if it is a phone or tv.
Floats are outrageously complicated. Tread carefully! If you ever deal with the nitty gritty of floating point numbers you should read every post on the topic on Bruce Dawson's blog. It's up to 15 posts long.

TLDR - if you think you know all there is to know about floats then you're wrong. Read on!

http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/float-precision-... (has links to all posts in series)
The clever economics behind Apple's $17 billion bond offering
They still sell them, but everything in them must be edible (seriously):

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12/27/do-modern-no-chem...
if people did that, they wouldn't be burned out. hence a catch-22.
I'm not sure why this technique is MongoDB specific, since you can pretty much follow all the same steps with _any_ database that only writes to disk, and create an 'in memory' version.

In should be noted that if you really want a database that exists in RAM without messing with the filesystem mounts, SQLite supports this out of the box: http://www.sqlite.org/inmemorydb.html
The base rate is not directly related to effort. It is instead based on value.

Sometimes this makes for easy money. Usually it does not. Almost every programming project turns out to be far more complicated than originally thought.
What does "unhealthy" in this context mean?

Aristocracy is the norm for human civilization. I don't get why people are so chicken little about it. When your citizens are disgustingly wealthy they aren't going to have trouble buying those things.
wow, I hoped, but didn't expect that someone actually listens to my tiny voice in the vacuum of the great Interspace. :)
I honestly do highly appreciate that, it's a really great move by you and I'm grateful that you care about perfecting your product :)

Most companies think they cannot afford listening to their users, those who do earn my deep respect.

Btw. I'm from Germany and "mobile phones" can be differentiated easily here. Not only that, you'll even know which network the other number is signed up with.

D1 T-Mobile: 0151x, 0160, 0170, 0171, 0175

D2 Vodafone: 0152x, 0162, 0172, 0173, 0174

E-Plus: 0157x, 0163, 0177, 0178

O2: 0159x*, 0176, 0179

Locating positions of landlines phone numbers is even easier, because there are databases. The picture in the german wikipedia article explains how the association with a location works (no need to read the entire article). http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefonvorwahl But here you can get a free Database containing all landline numbers: http://www.vorwahl-nummern.de/vorwahlen/download.php

I really enjoy how metadata enriches actual data.

Direct link: http://www.access-paradies.de/download/pool/vorwahlen_deutsc...
Why do you think software is the "highest end of the foodchain"? Is finance even higher in your mind?

What makes you think that most hardware made in China is designed elsewhere? To the best of my knowledge, the HUGE Chinese smartphone/tablet market is based on chips, boards, and software all designed there.
Gorilla is a toolkit, not a framework. It's nice, but it doesn't do all that much beyond the standard library. To me, Go+Gorilla vs raw Go is not similar to, say, a PHP framework vs raw PHP.
search electronic parts @ http://search.taobao.com, you'll be surprised. keyword: 電阻 (capacitor)，電位器旋鈕（knob），貼片機 （SMT machine）. You can also check individuas store like this one [1], price is in RMB.

[1] http://shop33817767.taobao.com/
Phergie: An IRC bot written in PHP
Anyone in the know care to give a tl;dr for this, or even a bit of background?
Chinese “spy” caught with NASA laptop full of porn, not secrets
I live in Oakland and generally spend zero time here except either inside the condo or in a car driving to anywhere else.

I went to a local optometrist (who is surprisingly good); as far as I can tell, every patient who walked in was asking about Medi-Cal coverage or other government subsidy for the poor (which wasn't accepted, so they left). I'd far prefer to be around tech startup founders than the alternative, which is not "firefighters and teachers", but the poor and borderline homeless, it seems.

(I plan to move to Seattle or San Mateo County later this year; unclear if the benefits of Silicon Valley make up for the bogosity of California anymore.)
I'm one of those people who have a slight interest in the security but don't know enough about it to be properly informed about my own decisions.

For people like me who basically can't make my own decisions properly, where should I switch to? Is DigitalOcean better in this regard?
Regretably, unless some sort of worldwide ethical commerce treaty is established in the near future, a "foxconnified" workforce will be a basic requirement in order to mass produce anything, anwywhere in the world.
I started thinking of Blade Runner Los Angeles after reading the first couple paragraphs.....Hannibal Chew sitting in one of those stalls saying, "I just do eyes".
How can a DoS attack be used as part of the 'Gaining Access' phase of a hack?
Fantastic! Love it.
But the system is self-correcting so it's not really a problem.
Portal was released in 2007, so... six years for that game. :(
If you can't snag a developer phone, there is support for building it for a limited number of android handsets. Compatible devices:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
Installation:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
I'd really like to know this as well. (and I'm writing this post instead of just upvoting to hopefully encourage the grandparent poster by showing him that more than one person would like to know of the alternatives out there for switching)
The first CTF where the winner receives Bitcoins
I'll get there at some point...
As I understand it, for those who don't want to read the legal docs:

This past February, MtGox and Coinlab announced a partnership.

Coinlab, a Silicon Valley venture-backed company, was to handle MtGox's US and Canadian transactions. This was a massive announcement; news of it alone caused a 40% increase in the value of bitcoins.

MtGox (allegedly) breached the contract, however, by not giving Coinlab exclusive access to the North American market. MtGox was supposed to transfer North American clients to Coinlab. From the doc: "Defendants have breached the exclusivity provisions of the Agreement by directly servicing customers in the United States and Canada since the Agreement took effect".

The suit is for $75 million, an amount that Coinlab claims is "likely underestimates the actual damages."

EDIT: Shame the damages they're demanding are in USD rather than bitcoin :)
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Love the approach, but fyi your blog link is broken.
Robotic insect: World's smallest flying robot takes off
Android pico-projector tablet does it with mirrors
What if one of my "friends" masks as me? Or worse, what if they form clique against me?
Thanks, Telescope looks really good. Will try this one first to see if I can get something done
AWS Free Tier is...free.

I'd probably go with http://prgmr.com/xen/ for low end above that.
I have been testing/working with a few different providers. The three I'm currently working with the most are Ramnode, Gigenet and DigitalOcean.

Ramnode's panel is SolusVM which isn't as good as Linode but their performance blows Linode out of the water. They have ipv4/ipv6, multiple locations (Atlanta and Seattle) and a good owner who seems very open/honest with customers. I expect we'll see feature enhancements as they grow bigger.

Gigenet Cloud has multiple locations (Chicago and Los Angeles), ipv4/ipv6, good performance, good custom panel and a company that has been around for a long time. They use a SAN for all their nodes. Overall one of the most underrated cloud providers out there. (Note: I got free credits for beta testing their cloud)

DigitalOcean has multiple locations (San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam), a decent custom panel (would like to see more statistics and it seems a good staff. They did have a security issues that they seemed very open about (https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/resolved-lvm-data-is...)

Other hosts I have tested/used but did not choose:

Rackspace - Excellent panel, ho-hum support/performance. My biggest issue is they lock instance throughput and refuse to change that. If you have a 512 instance you are locked to 20 mbit which doesn't make sense as you are billed per GB. I asked to have this unlocked as my instances push more and they refused.

Amazon AWS - Great interface but the lack of ipv6 (unless you buy ELB) and poor performance had me look elsewhere.

Others tested/used:

Joyentcloud, Terremark, Zerigo (Was a long time customer but they went downhill when 8x8 bought them), Voxcloud, Cloudsigma , Azure, HP Cloud, Stormondemand (Another good cloud provider that just didn't fit with me), VPS.net, Gandi
Who shops there? Do they do enough business to justify their existence? Is it hobbyists?
another good one http://iwantaneff.in/repo/
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As far as I can tell Gawker / Adrian Chen broke the news, that's the only press coverage I can find so far. It's a bog standard Chen/Gawker production, but I guess there isn't much to say yet anyway.

The reddit thread on the subject isn't much better, get a load of this gem.

Hacker News (discussion forum for Y-Combinator which funded CoinLab) is zealously deleting any threads started to discuss this topic. They regularly surpress discussion of topics that might make them, or the companies they've funded, look bad. So, I think it's probably legit. The $75 million, on the other hand (if that's what you meant) is of course fine-cut bullshit.

Quoth a redditor who doesn't know that all gawker links are rightly and properly killed on sight.
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I get "Portal 2 is not available on your current platform" which is Ubuntu.
I second that question, and expand it a little. AWS is likely a more secure and trustworthy option given the recent controversy, but it really is comparing apples to oranges; they're both hosting solutions (fruit), but fundamentally very different.

Is there any service close to Linode that provides a similar service for a similar price? I know of DigitalOcean, but their CPUs are very underpowered in each plan compared to Linode's (especially after recent upgrades).
This has been fixed couple of years ago in mortgage systems.
It feels like they should at least be suing for bitcoins.
> This was a massive announcement; news of it alone caused a 40% increase in the value of bitcoins.

Either that, or it was announced as one of the bubbles was frothing.

But that's a nitpick; I'm interested in hearing what MtGox has to say in their defense, and I'd love to see the agreement ("Exhibit A", not attached as far as I can see).
Tin foil & toilet cleaner in a plastic bottle. Not sanctioned by the school, but not a tried-as-an-adult-felony. Quotes from her principal:

"She made a bad choice," principal Ron Pritchard told WTSP-TV on Wednesday. "Honestly, I don't think she meant to ever hurt anyone. She wanted to see what would happen and was shocked by what it did. Her mother is shocked, too." "She is a good kid," he added. "She has never been in trouble before. Ever. She told us everything and was very honest. She didn't run or try to hide the truth. We had a long conversation with her."

(http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/02/florida...)

Everywhere you look lately, messed up adults are failing kids. Chew your Pop-tart into a gun shape? Suspension, because zero tolerance! Shake up some toilet cleaner? Expulsion, felony! Because...zero tolerance. Gangrape, humiliate, and bully? Hide that crap and try to cover it up until the community outrage gets too loud because...wait, what?
I read the document and was quite surprised that MtGox had agreed to an exclusive agreement in the first place with Coinlab.

I would have thought that MtGox would have the upper hand in negotiations since they're really the only option given their dominance as an exchange player. Do we have any insight as to why they even agreed to an exclusive agreement for US/Canada transactions?
Steganography + Porn, that's a really neat idea.. You wouldn't easily get officials to analyze those files together with a forensics team. That scenario is awkward.

An error the official did was making his company a public target, by revealing that they might have sensitive data, without being prepared to an attack. Not so clever move, sorry.
I can't reproduce your results: I find typical searches give 1 or 2 links to Wikipedia on the first page. And if you add "-wikipedia" you can get rid of the lot.

I do realise Wikipedia is far from perfect. So many articles don't cite their sources, for example, or cite some personal website that doesn't cite any sources at all.
How Apple and other corporations move profit to avoid taxes
Coinlab, a who is NOT a YC backed company, aimed to partner with MtGox and provide a point of exchange in the US to ease the difficulty of transferring money to and fro for US customers. Sorry, that's the best I can do at the moment.

I originally posted that Coinlab was a YC startup, because I was confused.
I don't disagree with other answers, but I believe the situation can be described more easily: it isn't the same primitive, so, it isn't actually the case that someone is attempting to provide the same thing but faster: the OS is giving you "pre-emptive threads", whereas these alternatives are giving you "cooperative threads".

The argument is that for restricted use cases "cooperative threads" (which are the "dual", in a mathematical sense, to "evented" execution) are going to be faster than pre-emptive threads (which would require locks around even very short shared data usage, due to the unpredicability of the scheduler).

If the OS provided true cooperative multitasking, maybe it could do it faster, but that's something that has been pretty much decided to be a flawed OS primitive between processes ("OMG Mac OS 9 / Windows 3.1" ;P), and within a single process may as well be implemented in userland with little performance loss.