skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the fear of stepping on the toes of someone important (and I'm sorry if this is rude, but I'm going to say it), I think it's a disgrace that the top comment to this story is a dismissive remark about how the author is just "feeling entitled" while this excellent piece of health advice is far down the page.

I was burned out/severely depressed at one point, and it's obvious that the author needs to talk to a professional about the way he's coping with stress and expectations. If you're feeling like the author of this blog post, you need to take a good look at your goals in life. I've experienced this myself, and it's a tough situation to be in. Seems like a lot of hacker types are blind to this.

[Edit: Bonus point about your remark about working smarter. I get better results now than when I pushed myself to the beaking point, while using what feels like half the effort. It took some years to get there, though].
I think so ...we're going back nearly 25 years and I only had him for a Megalithic Science general studies course at A-level ...he was one of our physics teachers but not my one actually so my name recall is shaky - Andrew Taylor I think iirc
A story about production systems, Rails, monitoring and off-hour notifications
This blog post explains how a small Ruby on Rails default configuration change has caused a partial outage of Cloudinary's production service. The post also details certain system monitoring approaches and suggested ways to improve them.
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Speaking of which, one thing that most people coming to ubuntu from windows and OSX often don't spot (which I think you have, but I post mostly for the benefit of other readers) - Ubuntu, much as canonical has done a lot of custom work on it, is still linux. You can customise it in pretty much any and every way that you want. You can even not use Unity at all if you don't like it -- no reason to throw out all the great foundations and switch to a different distro just because you don't like one of the default UI settings :P

(There are several valid reasons for switching from one linux distro to another, it just makes me sad to see so many "I don't like Unity so I'm moving to Gentoo" posts -_-)
The power grid of the future will be controlled by neurons in a Petri dish
Once you're done coding, the code will be completed.

That's all there is to it.
They aren't printed on the keys:
https://www.apple.com/macbookair/images/features_keyboard_ba...
I must admit that I wasn't paying attention - I was sitting coding...
I have used maximum entropy classification for a quite similar task. It achieves better performances than Naive Bayes classifiers. But as the author remarked, the quality of the training set and the selection of features are very important aspects too.
Minor correction: 13.04 and 13.10 will only be supported for 9 months, but 12.10 will be supported for 18 months.
Mozilla releases beta version of L20n, Localization 2.0
Developers: You're (Probably) Doing Passwords Wrong, Too
Well, they are trying to help you get a job, they have a better idea on how to do it so the least you could do is provide them with the information they need. Given that most people still use Windows, I would, at least, send a Word document with the PDF. You can also send the ODT, nothing against that.
As it stands this is very web-centric. I'd suggest distributing all the points on different checklists for different types of applications. Relevant types that I could think of right now could be: Web site, web application, mobile app, desktop application, console application (maybe). Of course, many points would be the same for different applications, but some are only relevant to a subset (e.g. desktop applications don't necessaily need a memorable URL or use the browser's back button).

Very nice work, though.
Facebook's Open Graph Social Search, UX-UI Fail
Could VC 'value add' be quantified?
ahem yes. :)
It is still possible to customize Ubuntu, but you cannot customize Unity itself. It is no longer the goal of canonical. Canonical is trying to make an OS for an average person, who doesn't care about customization. Power users (ie normal GNU/Linux users) are not their target audience.
There is a shloka in Hinduism that might be relevant to this post. As stated in Mahabharata, when Arjun wonders about the futility of his efforts on the battlefields of Kurukshetra, this is what Lord Krishna says to him:

"कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते संगोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥"

(You have the right to perform your actions, but you are not entitled to the fruits of the actions. Do not let the fruit be the purpose of your actions, and therefore you won’t be attached to not doing your duty.)
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Seriously, can anyone tell me if they fixed the partitioner? I spent enough times dd-ing and rebooting before giving up. :(
Unfortunately the vast majority of scalable SVM implementations are only for non commercial use.
One for each term tab. Or tmux/screen session. How cool is that!?
BitCoin already has a hard limit hard-coded into the design. You don't need to hoard 5→10% to achieve scarcity.
I can completely understand his frustration with being put on the spot without much of a warning.

I had applied for a data analyst position with a "Big 4" shop, and after an initial phone screen, was asked to come in for an "aptitude test". After probing for details, all I was told was that this test would be around data analysis in my domain (which happened to be retail banking credit risk), with no further details about the format or structure.

Imagine my surprise when I came in, and realised it was a written test! That's right -- I had 40 minutes to write down detailed answers to questions on sheets of paper. One of these questions was a couple of tables and required me to write SQL queries that did a couple of operations on the tables. All with pencil and paper.

I spent about 5 minutes of the allotted time just re-acquainting myself with the 'art' of penmanship, and ended up focusing more on legibility than content (my handwriting is atrocious, barely more than a chicken scrawl).

Needless to say, I didn't get the job. And the kicker was, the HR chap said they would provide feedback on why I was unsuccessful, but never did, despite repeated follow-up attempts.

Bah, humbug.
European country, Mid-2012 non retina MBP
> people don't want to replace their cars with them. Why? It is an unsolvable problem

Unsolvable?

You aren't allowed to fly them at night, or over any populated area. They can't have more than a single seat. They have severe weight restrictions that mean you can't take much in them besides yourself. (Note: the previous few sentences describe the US regulations; other jurisdictions are different but all have similar kinds of restriction.) You can only travel to and from places that have a substantial length of runway for takeoff and landing.

Do you really find it difficult to imagine why someone might not find an ultralight aircraft a suitable replacement for their car?
I think it's that, but there's some subtlety to it. A minority person seems to be more likely to open a clinic to serve low-income people, perhaps as a side job to doing surgeries. There's also the trust issue between patients and doctors, so having someone who understands a community's needs might achieve better outcomes.
For anyone willing to relocate, Norway is desperate for engineers and developers. Everybody gets 25 days vacation, near-free medical services, insurance and pension covered by employer, 40-hour working week being the norm, etc.
Just remember, there is always a worse code base than the one you are working on, and on the flip side no matter how good you make your code base, someone will encounter it, and think it's a "poorly written mass of code".

:-)
Private colleges don't need to be merit-based. They choose who they want.
I can relate to this. Although there is only my fiancee and myself,I still have to provide an income to pay our rent, our bills and do my best to give her the nice things she wants. I'm working a 9-6 job, come home, sit back down and freelance to get more money than my salary brings in, just to pay off our bills. We don't even have anything on finance between us, we live on basics yet we struggle.
>>Installing and updating plugins is not something we do multiple times everyday.

That doesn't mean it always feels good to go and update each one rather than update all in one go and adding, removing, listing - all are made so simple by Vundle. If someone still loves the good old dirty way then of course it's a personal preference.

However, I would appreciate auto update or update notification in Vundle ;-)
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Entitlement to recognition? Everybody should be entitled to that. IDK if you are in the FOSS community but I talk to people who just want to write software that is used for nothing other than some minor recognition from some geeks that matter to them, who want to suicide.

Everybody is entitled to be recognized and respected.

Your comment made me angry that you missed so clearly the likelihood of this person being in a fragile situation. Hey, I have Aspergers too you know, there is no excuse to tell other people how they think they feel. It makes them feel ignored and under recognized. Basic human dignity: you recognize the efforts of others.

I'd say recognition for minor things is the lifeblood of society without money. Everybody is entitled to recognition.
esennesh@lap282:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
No new release found
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I tried stock Mint for some time, but found it buggy. I was a longtime Ubuntu user before that, having switched for reasons similar to yours.

Since then I've moved on to CrunchBang [0], which I absolutely love. For me, it hits the sweet spot of having everything I need without all the extra pizzazz (cruft?) of something like Ubuntu or Mint.

[0] http://crunchbang.org
Oh so now we are entitled to recognition? Everyone gets a trophy, right?

Hey it works for 8 year olds, why not adults?
Someone has to do the hard work of keeping the rich people rich. It's not easy.
What Makes Code Hard to Understand?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/848154

Looks like it never will, unless there's a Raspberry Pi with an ARMv7 (or up) arch.

Is there any particular reason you want it though? I use Raspbian on mine, and it works just fine. I couldn't be arsed with a GUI though, since the RasPi is just too underpowered to run a GUI alongside all the other crap I have running on it.
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No it won't because the Raspberry Pi uses an older ARMv6 CPU type that isn't supported by Ubuntu.
Don't you start whining too. It is entitlement, not a desire for recognition. No one is disrespecting this guy (so far as we know) they are just ignoring him, just like everyone else in the world spends most of their lives after early childhood, being ignored. If no one uses this guy's software it may be that it is just of no use to them.

And if you write FOSS just to hear the roar of the appreciative crowd then that is your problem all long. Remember the adage to "scratch an itch" whether OR NOT anyone else finds it useful.
When I was 24 and in the final stages of my ISP startup I thought I was burned out after working 80+ hours per week for quite a while. I mentioned this to one of my customers who promptly told me I was an idiot and too young to be burned out. He helpfully suggested I was just whining and to knock it off. I turn 41 this year and have to say - he was 100% right.
I don't live in Norway but I do want to say if you get the chance to go there it may be worthwhile... After all they are #1 in the world on the human development index... http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/NOR.html
Huawei has repudiated such plans:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertolsen/2013/04/25/chinas-hu...
Not really, just because of familiarity with Ubuntu Server. Raspbian has been pretty great so far, no complaints here.
In Univ of Cambridge CS course it's covered in second year undergraduate material - see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1213/Types/ (though not referred to by name explicitly).
Three Words:-Fast, Stable and Brilliant
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Raspberry pi has an arm6 chip I think and the minimum for ubuntu is arm7. It could be done but the OS would require considerable modification.
This is so true. Look at Hmong educational stats and they look like the stats for low-income African Americans. And look at where African Americans in the cities came from back around 70 years ago: from farming communities in the South.

There are plenty of Vietnamese with problems, but a whole lot of the refugees were bigshots. My neighbor was some kind of politician, but he made a living as a handyman.
My experience is the contrary: I have experience with customers from 30 different countries and, in general, dealing with US customers is the best experience in the business sense. I am working with long term contracts on Fortune 100 companies and small size companies too.

The main factor is the search for a win/win goal and the focus in value.

The Huawei case is much more specific. It is a chinese company selling security products. A bad match for US. I sell security related products to the main security vendors in US without any issue, and top security companies like Core Security sells to US Government Agencies even when they were founded in Argentina (obviously now established in US)
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Same. Local mirrors not updated yet I guess.
You need 'ex' for that, if you can stand the bloat.
http://www.slideshare.net/r1chardj0n3s/web-microframework-ba... this might be helpful

(bottle user here too)
I always feel bad and lazy for not finishing projects I've been thinking of for a long time, regardless of how nice my weekends are.

I totally understand Calvin.
Berlin also needs RoR developers. In fact, I think my place of work is looking.
There's that old saying: "If you don't value your time, nobody will"

Stop working unpaid overtime. If that gets you fired, so be it, but it's better than working yourself to death.

Your family would rather be poor than not be able to spend time with you

Assuming you're a decent developer you can get another job easily. If you seriously can't afford to not work 18 hours a day for a few weeks, then consider bankruptcy.
Their timing, especially for us in Europe is really bad.

If they announce update it should be available for us before we start doing actual work.
When some has commented "Maybe it's just me, but the Jobs worship on HN is getting pretty annoying.", it is vapid, as you say and without any tangible value or merit.

I disagree. It started a discussion and then you replied with how it isn't really out of line for things that people like.

Cognitive bias in action.

Yes, I agree. That's why it is good that the person commented and you replied. If they had just ignored the article, they wouldn't have received that information. How would anybody ever learn anything if we just read and discussed those things we already agree with?
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If you do the math, you'll see that an elite school's degree really will help you get into those midrange jobs. It opens doors, so if you have the ambition, it'll give you more opportunities.

Me, I'm kind of a bum, but thanks to my UC Berkeley degree, I barely have to make an effort to land a middle class job. Granted, I am a computer geek, so that's easy.
I never send an ODT, just a PDF.

My feeling is that it is just a business for them (as in not "helping me") and they will change anything in my CV (yes, lie; or worse: it will look like I lied) to get me an interview and get their share. The downside of this approach is that I will lose my time with a job interview I can't pass because I'm not a good match.

I know that not all agencies work that way, but some do.
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What Do We Mean By "Rationality"?
I thought UMich was considered very good too.
In case anyone else was wondering what the difference was between the Mac and non-Mac releases is:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/37999/what-is-different-about...
rmadison claims that it is only in sid, which is an important distinction, as current testing will soon be released as Wheezy.
A good point, though for most techies, running sid/Unstable should be alright on their desktop.
take six months off, if you can.

rearrange life, priorities things you like to do. Fuck the other stuff. Say no to people, say no to "must do" things.

Stop coding, building whatever. Help your son, go traveling, read a fantasy book, whatever.

And this is how you avoid burning out and improve your life quality.

Some relatives of mine, in Europe, have taken sick days, up to six months from work stress. They were on verge of burning out. They still got income. Also, employee don't need to know, why are you sick. It is private matter between you and your doctor.
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AVR founder explains why the embedded world shifts from AVR to ARM
Full disclosure: I work for Energy Micro, but I found this story really great. Probably very few of you know that AVR (now Atmel Norway), Chipcon (now Texas Instruments), Nordic Semiconductors and Energy Micro are all from Norway and they are major players in the internet of things / appcessory space. It's a 5 million country with bright engineers and great hardware entrepreneurs. Silicon Fjords FTW! :)
I agree with what you're saying, and I agree that there's a need to cut the use of polluting power-sources to run data-centres, but I really, really dislike the way it's being put across here.

Hyperbolic, emotionally charged phrasing like ``dirty CO2 spurting coal power plants'' makes it far, far too easy for people to dismiss the author of the piece as some sort of tree-hugging hippie wingnut with an agenda. What was wrong with keeping it simple with something like, ``coal-fired power plants''?
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-...
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Do you know any of those companies offhand? I'm looking around for jobs right now, but wouldn't know where to start looking for Norwegian jobs.
This is an article about burning out and we're discussing on how to do open source right.

That's a bit like giving tips on how to cook a healthy meal to an anorexic who tells you she's really having trouble eating enough.

Yes, we're technically correct. No, it's not really helping anyone.
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I've liked ubuntu and actually still use it.

I started using #! sometime ago. I agree with the lightweight aspect of it very much. One session on openSUSE on KDE reminds me of how lightweight crunchbang is :-D

For people already on non-ubuntu debian systems, I would recommend taking a spin on it.
"Wherever there’s a light, there’s data being generated"
How do you define "alone"? What I've found is that learning alone is a very high percentage of overall time spent, but being alone, meaning relying solely on google / stack exchange, is vastly more difficult than having a conversation with someone either in person or virtually.
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OK, maybe I meant "Could've got it. Chose not to."
well, you're not ''wrong''. I hope you will agree though that working for 18 months without pay at a startup very much stretches the definition of "employee". (as opposed to "cofounder" or "unpaid intern").

most people who can claim the title of "early employee but not cofounder" here at HN would not say they have gone 18 months without pay in that title or would do so. so yes it's a data point but it's a pathological one.

On the other hand, 18 months without pay doesn't scratch the surface of what a cofounder can expect: it's one of the best-case scenarios that anyone could possibly expect!

A cofounder would jump at a chance to see liquidity within 18 months of founding a new startup. More typical is more like 24 months absolute minimum, 36-72 months average, and often longer is the norm.

And during that time you don't just hock a watch or pay for fuel: most cofounders pay tens of thousands of dollars of their own money, often every month and putting every source of liquidity they can into the business as it ramps up.

and more often than not, as sad as all this is, most cofounders do lose 100% of their investment and have nobody to blame, nobody to even ask for a break. they have cliffs, and CANNOT jump ship. WHen a cofounder jumps ship they lose 100% of the entire equity they have in the company.

But at the same time, most startups simply don't go anywhere.

I would be hard-pressed to find a metric by which the average early employee gets absolutely nothing for his time and has to pay for all the infrastructure used to employ him.

it's just not the same planet.

of course there are pathological cases that are the worst of both worlds: early employees who should be called cofounders, are paid nothing, and do not get meaningful equity.

you don't need much trust to be an unpaid intern though.
For me the only criteria is to stay away from 'mentors' who have never worked on a product.

Being in Pakistan, I get to meet tons of industry experts who have racked up millions solely by outsourcing and creating low-quality software for cheap. All they do is that they bring you down to their own ambition-level. Don't listen to them !

some real life examples:

"so why would you like to hire such an expensive resource here when you can get two average developers for a lot less and he can get your job done? that's bur resource management"

"you mentioned celebrities in your pitch but let me just tell you one thing , those people will never use your app"
Just replace the embezzling co-director with defecting technical leads and I've seen something nearly identical.

I think it's simple denial.

They've decided that they know what the problem is/was and being in a position of power surely have to shortage sycophants for reaffirmation.

I expect they'd see the situation quite clearly from the outside, abstracted from emotions and prepared rationalizations.
When I originally saw this posting linked from on another site, I reached out to the author with a constructive comment that he work with other people. Now the comments are not visible.

So is the author wallowing in pity or depression?

As a long time coder, most of my work is no longer in use. Many of my current internal projects at work are only in use by me or a small group of people, enough though they could help hundreds of others (clients, coworkers).

And code is never done. I have dozens of projects in various states of completeness. Even the code in production isn't "truly finished", but it works well enough and has passed review.

I'm going to work on a few other OSS projects that may never be seen by a handful of folks. That's fine. I don't want fame, I like solving problems and helping others.
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When I review CVs I prefer them to be in PDF than DOC.

Then again, an ODT is better than a link to a very sparse LinkedIn profile.
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"Well, the first 2 turned out to be wrong."

Remember, a pipe-bomb is a WMD, so that one can still be argued :)