skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He absolutely is conflating the two types of burnout - the "my health and human relationships are falling apart and it's destroying me" type and the "I just don't have any passion for this work any more". Granted, the former can lead to the latter (especially when it leads to you losing passion for anything).

It's a shame because he is still making a very valid point.

It's not just startups that this should really be targetted at - there are plenty of people who feel like being bored at work is a sign you need a new job, stat. Work is supposed to be challenging and fun, right?!

And in the worlds of the SF Bay Tech Culture, at least, it's quite possible to live that way; to switch to the cool new company every couple years, or to jump to a new project within your larger corporation.

Of course, it's also totally possible to toil away at an unsatisfying job for no significant benefit. You have to step away some times - often, even - and ask if it's really taking your life in a direction you want to go.

It's crazy how much I've learned about a lot of these things as I've gotten older. But in other ways, I feel like I'm learning at 30 what other people learned at 20.
I'll be interested to read Language Log's (namely Mark Liberman's) opinion of this once it gets released.
The FCC is down. As a radio operator, I find this extremely disappointing: http://www.fcc.gov
It really depends on where you are. There are vast rural areas in USA, for instance, in which there are many rifles the theft of which wouldn't even be noticed for weeks. Just don't take them during the month before deer season.
We have no idea what apps actually cost to create.
Second most irritating misspelling after "loose".
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whoa, I used to work with Jay about 10 years ago. Small world.
LP is so sarcastic and snarly that it is difficult to understand what they are trying to say. Not an effective tone in an article about the problems of misinformation.
Actually, thanks for the pointer, although at this point I don't have any approved publications (that is, publications that have actually made it in somewhere). I'm a rising second-year MSc student, so I've had one paper rejected repeatedly (which I keep revising, because why not), one paper just got submitted last week, and one paper is currently under construction.

Can you recommend a tool for building academic webpages? The last time I did web design was making a shitty Pokemon fanpage in the 1990s, so I'm kinda out of date on what to actually do.
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Question from someone with little bitcoin experience.

Does this require action on the part of the original bitcoin owner? Or in this case has the FBI seized all the keys/credentials required to do this themselves?
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The author doesn't choose the reviewers. It isn't like a webtech company.
Yeah, I appreciate that. It's really easy to get tunnel vision on parts of a job that you don't like and forget the things that are good about it.
I don't see nuclear power as a great solution. The waste contaminates the environment for thousands of years. And the system is not fault-tolerant, failing in ways which render the environment uninhabitable for who knows how long (Chernobyl, Fukushima).

Yeah, it doesn't generate CO2. But at least you can live in a hotter world, can't live with nuclear waste/fallout.

(Also, we don't know that a hotter climate is bad, we've never tried it before)
Are you high? What does radioactivity from Fukushima have to do with ocean acidification?
Yes, but a little realism here: They have actually moved it from 80% (using single word analysis) to 85%. That's fantastic, but not the work of the gods.
I think it's pretty clear I'm giving my beliefs on the bigger picture (how we see human interaction with the environment), as a commentary on gizmo686's post, not providing any kind of guideline to the human race from my godly wisdom.

Would add more to the discussion if you elaborated on why you think it's foolish.
The TRE design builds upon the experience of both Arduino and BeagleBoard.org, combining the benefits of both community based boards.

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardTre
He is still alive. Maybe theres a reunion in the future, death row should be safer than a motel.
How can the FBI seize BTC?

"I'm sorry Mr. Agent, but I forgot my wallet password!"
I think you have made this up.

the first transaction to this address happened yesterday, do you think the FBI waited for the whole world to know about the DPR arrest and then started seizing the bitcoins. I think it was you who after learning about the news items started making these transactions.

Congratulations on having such a huge number of bitcoins by the way
All you need is the private key to sign a transaction.
Where do they write "phosphorous"? They don't indiscriminately sprinkle 'u' after every 'o'. That would be "phosphourous".
Because it's funded already. Ironic isn't it.
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So let's see what they do with these.
That's just not true, for exactly the example provided above.

It'd make no sense to let people roll their own browsers that circumvent DRM.
Not really. http://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/net_income

Amazon actually sells and produces things.
Flowchart illustrates how to be online and avoid the NSA (maybe)
Does PLOS protect against false claims somehow?
Which is usually encrypted and requires action (password disclosure) from the owner.
> At this time, we do not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or debit card numbers from our systems

That sentence is disinformation. It carefully leaves unanswered the question of whether the encryption keys were stored in a location accessible to the attackers. The only reason to use that kind of language is to try and confuse everybody into believing things are not as bad as they would otherwise look.
Is that the one Dan Rather's source used?
I don't understand. How do we know the FBI seized the bitcoins at this address?

Also, there are only 27,365 BTC there, but I assume that's a typo in the title here on HN.
How do opposing parties decide on a court to settle their differences?
I think you're proposing dire consequences where there aren't likely to be any.

Google copying Yahoo's front page code? Okay, that'll be in the news and everyone will have a good laugh.

Some Joe Schmoe Web Developer lifting CSS/HTML from an unknown client to sell to an unknown client? Eh, not so much. This probably happens often and goes undetected.
This site needs to get away from the whole 10pt Georgia thing.

Not only is the content about banal evil shit, but the type also makes that banal evil shit even more unpleasant to read.
Ok, the knack really seems to be work smarter, not harder. I haven't got it down to pat entirely, but I'm getting there.

If you have to work hard till 4 am to get school work done, you have a problem. You can group the problems though.

1. Wrong work
Odds are you do some work that feels like you're working hard but won't get you anywhere. I had a knack for finding those and working myself stupid over them. "Biology poster? Museum Exhibit it is". Whilst that kind of work can teach you something, don't fret it, and prioritize.

2.Too much work.
Don't follow in my footsteps and become an academic masochist. As said above, prioritize and cut things that aren't means to an end/enjoyable. Working on an important academic project you enjoy? Bullseye, it stays. Studying for a major exam that you require for graduation but hate? Dispatch it cleanly and quickly. There's techniques for that. Jamming on the guitar with friends? Sure, you have to relax after all. Working on a worthless elective class you hate? Do yourself a favor and chop it.

3. Handling work the wrong way
I'm down to 2 hours study for a 1 hour lecture (I think you can go lower), but I have friends who spend 5 on the same thing and grasp less. Is it because my friends are stupid? Hopefully not. But they tackle it the wrong way. Efficiency whilst studying will help you cut a lot of time off.

Also, understand that we run on cycles. Sleep/Wake, Work/Rest, etc. Every project I did where I tried fighting that fact (Staying up all the time, working all the time) turned into a burning wreck. So learn how you cycle, and work with it, not against it. Trust me, it makes your life easier.

Of course, I could rant on, but most of my mental images of dealing with these issues are really strange (So studying is like a multi-stage conversion-funnel where I try to optimize for x?), so I'll just recommend you the blogs of Cal Newport and Scott H Young.
http://calnewport.com/blog/
http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/

PS: You can get to little done for your taste, but working too little is mistaking the means for the end.
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Hi Rob, hope all is well. I don't think any of us will ever forget those Adrenaline days.
> Elected representatives would formally define and manage an after-the-fact measurement of national welfare

The paper scuttles itself in the first paragraph.
This is Canada but I don't think it's the norm (especially not in tech). 3 weeks is much more reasonable at a new job.
Are you sure that's an objective assessment of the relative risks, numerically speaking, and not just a common human failing of seeing slow acting, nebulous threats like climate change as being less dangerous than fast and scary threats like nuclear disasters? Nuclear seems the less dangerous bedfellow to me.
That just means that now is the time for all those Software Defined Radio experiments we've been putting off. Spread spectrum mesh networks encrypted so NSA can't spy on them... for the win.
That's kind of a scary part to it. Large organisations don't colocate code and credit card numbers. They carefully segment things and isolate them to completely separate silos in completely unconnected systems.

So I would infer that the attackers obviously had access at a very high level, probably compromising the credentials of someone very senior with very high privileges. Which in turn means they could almost certainly have compromised the encryption keys and would be most likely to do so before downloading the actual CC data.
Interesting reading.

Some things to think about related to the experiences of the author. At the time of coming into contact with Randy Kraft he had already killed at least 20 people, and during that year had committed at least 5 separate murders. Pretty sobering to think about.

Also, reading these details I can't help but be extremely critical of the criminal justice system's failures in regards to the case. There were so many opportunities to catch Kraft in the earlier days of his "exploits" that were wasted by either poor police work or poor judgment of the district attorney.
Whoops. Sorry about that.

My point (addressed incorrectly) stands. It makes less sense for me to answer "no" than for the person I was responding to to answer "no". If I was making a "straw man" then in what way was it straw? If I was misrepresenting his/her opinions, how so? Otherwise, if more-or-less accurately summarizing a person's positions is ad hominem then what does that say of those positions?
There's Goldman Sachs, the Sugar Cane Lobby, non-profits that raise money against childhood obesity. It'll really be voting with wallets.
Google Glass? As far as I know, Google Glass is originally a Google X project ... they did not acquire a company if I know correctly. They hired some people from the wearable computing field.
Of course I've noticed. One need not be an open-source hacker to have shipped a product, nor, perhaps, need one have shipped a product in order to be worthwhile as a teacher of programmers. One does, however, need to have done something.

His website presents him as a teacher and a motivational speaker. It also includes his claim to be a programmer, substantiation of which is rather thin on the ground. I haven't watched his videos, but if they're anything like his articles, they rarely include code, talk in bland generalities without offering much in implementation detail, and overall read as if written by someone with neither the experience he implicitly claims as a working programmer, nor anything like the level of intellectual capability and flexibility to which he aspires.

Contrast, for example, the whip-smart Steve Yegge on Agile consultants [1] -- which, not coincidentally, is how this Sonmez item appears to make his living, in collaboration with some kind of software-engineering equivalent of Kaplan, Inc. [2]. Pick whatever example you like of Sonmez's writing, and place it alongside whatever example you like of Yegge's, and perhaps you'll find it easier to see why Sonmez forces to my mind the old cliche contrasting do-ers and teachers.

His claim to be a programmer underlies his supposed authority, and his failure to demonstrate any accomplishment in the field undermines his claim; more to the point, if he were any good at it, he'd probably be earning a living by some means less distantly related to the field than selling snake oil to people who don't know any better.

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/10/egomania-itself.html

[2] http://www.pluralsight.com
No, "promoted" tweets/followers/trends aren't even close to targeted ads or what Google does.
Okay, we'll just be taking your computer.
And, even more tellingly, there are no fusion neutrons emitted.
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Some people have a perpetual hunger for knowledge of baseball trivia, others for the personal lives of B-list celebrities, yet others for the outcomes of video games.

One of the things I've learned over the years is that it's impossible to tell whether being obsessed with something other people consider foolish or trivial is genius or idiocy. Obsessively playing Starcraft might turn out to be a lucrative profession. We just never know.
Instead, much of the difference seems to be that the poor nations (many of which are democracies) are those that more often adopted dumb policies, policies which hurt most everyone in the nation.

This is taken as obvious, but I don't find it so. There are many things that are not attributable to tangible national assets, but that can nonetheless change its course: things such as historical accident of where a particular thing was invented, actions of other nations, natural disasters, etc. I see every reason to think that this sort of thing is responsible for wealth disparity, moreso than repeated adoption of "dumb" policies.
Yes, but:

typeof(["an array", "contains multiple things"]) == typeof({but_this_one: "is an object"})
I'm sure the FBI has it's own wallet.
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This is a rather simplistic view of "bosses in the government."

Sure agency heads and managing directors might have their own opinions on the shutdown, especially since they were nominated by President Obama (or appointed by someone who was). But they have their own responsibilities as stewards of an agency. One responsibility is ensuring the agency acts within the law and shields itself from liability. Shutting down a website is a very reasonable measure for minimizing liability when there is no one around to ensure accuracy of content.
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Put it in the padding of the car seat, so even if it's moved, it's not forgotten.
There's already a futarchy on /d/.
How is GDP a measure of wealth?

It's a measure of how much money is spent back and forth and not much else.

Some consider this money moving to be "progress" but it actually only highlights how many problems a society's people are willing to pay in order to solve.

The medical industry is a classic example of this. People are suffering and paying an arm and a leg for cures and treatment. GDP reflects the money aspect of this while ignoring the human aspect.
Quis custodiet?
How does this link show that BTC was seized? Flagged.
An extra hardware chip is a closed system. You control all the input that comes in. It is just a more annoying form of obfuscation at that point.
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I have no clue or context for what I'm supposed to be looking at, but the transfer of 0.1337 BTC is amusing at the very least.
That was meta.
The exact same intention is in martial arts katas.
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We shouldn't treat the law as some sort of obscure documents that can only be understood by high priests.

Here's the relevant parts of the anti-deficiency statute:

31 USC § 1341 - Limitations on expending and obligating amounts

(a)
(1) An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government may not—
(A) make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding an amount available in an appropriation or fund for the expenditure or obligation;
(B) involve either government in a contract or obligation for the payment of money before an appropriation is made unless authorized by law;

31 USC § 1342 - Limitation on voluntary services

An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government may not accept voluntary services for either government or employ personal services exceeding that authorized by law except for emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property. This section does not apply to a corporation getting amounts to make loans (except paid in capital amounts) without legal liability of the United States Government. As used in this section, the term “emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property” does not include ongoing, regular functions of government the suspension of which would not imminently threaten the safety of human life or the protection of property

The government can spend money already appropriated -- either under permanent "mandatory" appropriations or under some more limited multi-year appropriation -- it can spend money under laws that explicitly allow for spending prior to appropriation (the most prominent of which is the Feed and Forage Act of 1861) and under section 1324 above it can spend money in emergencies that imminently threaten the safety of human life or protection of property. That's it. An executive branch official can't just decide it would save money in the long run to spend a little now and save a lot later. The Anti-Deficiency Act is enforced through criminal penalties of up to two years in prison for each violation.
Excellent point. When I buy clothing online (Amazon, Everlane, etc), I try it for a week or two. If I love it, I buy several more (2-6, depending on if its shirts, pants, how much I love it, etc) and put them away in a box to pull out at some future point.
It doesn't matter if it's a great solution; it's the only solution we have right now.
True, although not every trade is zero-sum per se, depending upon the prediction market. More sophisticated trading strategies involve profiting off of the changes in probability of a given outcome over time (or at least the changes in perception of that probability), rather than simply buying and holding a one-sided bet on fixed odds. They amount to psychological manipulation of the market, buying and selling the same positions over time at local minima and maxima.

You're absolutely right about the power to "throw" a prediction market, however, provided the right parties can conspire to do so. This is essentially what Arnold Rothstein and associates did in fixing the 1919 World Series. Most people casually assume the fixers bribed the players to throw the game, then profited off the results. In actuality, their strategy was slightly more nuanced. They spread the rumor that the game had been fixed long before they actually fixed the game, thereby forcing an adjustment of odds on (illegal, unregulated) gambling books. This allowed them to hedge long against their predominantly short bet, covering them adequately in the event that the fix was insufficient to adjust the game's most likely outcome.
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I wouldn't expect a broken leg to keep a programmer from working, but if it did then you'd have disability leave, probably paid for by your work via disability insurance.
I have to say, the BSA being dicks about other people calling themselves scouts has reminded me that I should prod my Congressional people to do something about the fact they're discriminating on a religious basis while publicly chartered (and likely funded).
~= $3,248,000 USD at present rates.
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Because people like to buy beautiful things and hide them in clunky cases.
If only 4chan had a POST API.
The point is, it costs something, as a recurring cost, to keep them up. In a shutdown, the only costs you can justify are the costs of shutting down. It is easy to project that the long-term costs of keeping almost anything running will exceed the cost of closing the doors. The author wants to treat the shutdown as though it is temporary, while the executive is required to treat it as though it is permanent.
Jesus, it just goes on and on and on... and in the end, there's no heroic manhunt, no great victory. He was caught driving drunk with a corpse in the passenger seat, so used to murder that he'd gotten lazy about it.

You can't help but feel outrage that nobody stopped him... that the public wasn't sufficiently warned that any of these boys, these kids could have known there was a serial-killer stalking them.
As others have said, make it free. If it's paid now try to approach appgratis and pay them back with cross promotion.

While your game is free make sure they spread the word on any of the social sites and also get the players who like your game rate it in the AppStore.

Also try to get in contact with other indie game devs and cross promote with them.
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Yeah they also invest heavily in infrastructure. I am not sure if the same can be said of Twitter...
You don't hide a backup of your wallet on an ftp account somewhere or on a thumb drive?
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keep distinct login names for everything

It's probably best to keep distinct OS containers for everything. Don't trust the browser at all.
They have been every year for a long time now so I would be shocked if they weren't.

Last year's can be found here: http://startupschool.org/2012/ and this year's speakers page (http://startupschool.org/speakers.html) uses the same HTML template.
Oh oh! I remember this technique from Cialdini's Influence. During the Korean war, the Chinese used the same technique on American POWs:

For instance, prisoners were frequently asked to make statements so
mildly anti-American or pro-Communist as to seem inconsequential
(“The United States is not perfect.” “In a Communist country, unemployment is not a problem.”). But once these minor requests were
complied with, the men found themselves pushed to submit to related
yet more substantive requests. A man who had just agreed with his
Chinese interrogator that the United States is not perfect might then be
asked to indicate some of the ways in which he thought this was the
case. Once he had so explained himself, he might be asked to make a
list of these “problems with America” and to sign his name to it. Later
he might be asked to read his list in a discussion group with other
prisoners. “After all, it’s what you really believe, isn’t it?” Still later he
might be asked to write an essay expanding on his list and discussing
these problems in greater detail.