skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Burnout isn't an intolerance for drudgery. Everyone has that to a certain degree and sometimes that intolerance can become elevated due to overwork, boredom, stress, etc.

Burnout, in my opinion, is the loss of ability to cope even with ordinary levels of difficulty and stress in the workplace. Someone who is burnt out no longer has any degree of confidence in their ability to achieve difficult objectives. And their ability to do productive work is diminished to a tiny fraction of what they were capable of before. It's not just that they are incapable of doing things that were at the limit of their ability before, it's also that tasks which were well within their grasp are now struggles, if they are able to do them at all.

It's fear, aversion, in some cases clinical depression, and loss of confidence. In many ways it bears a lot of similarity with PTSD or shell-shock: the most serious cases of burnout involve constantly reliving past failures or stresses at work, avoidance of triggers, anhedonia, increased irritability, lack of concentration, feelings of shame and hopelessness, etc. I'm not implying that PTSD and burnout are necessarily comparable life-events per se but it seems likely they share some cognitive pathways.
I guess I don't have an issue with a company that tries to do one thing really well.
Maybe she's better at marketing than coding - I don't know I haven't followed her project too closely.

But I think she's likely already demonstrated enough to land a junior front-end gig somewhere. Along with a work ethic and learning ability, she'll produce in that role.
Yet another business that took the approach of "customer adoption first, actual business model second." It's so frustrating to see this play out time and time again.
"Mostly I just wanted to get in and out."
Yes. I really very much hate shopping for clothes.
> "People aren't good and presented with opportunity, they act quickly to aggrandize themselves using whatever means are necessary."

I largely agree with your statement [1], but I do wish to point out that the usual libertarian response to this is that it applies equally to state institutions, and that Kafkaesque state systems can often veil this behavior from the public better than an individual can veil his own misbehavior from others.

[1] My only nitpick is that focusing only on the opportunity side of aggrandization ignores any potential risks, so inferring inevitable aggrandization from bad people + opportunity isn't the complete picture.
this is terrific. i'm baffled as to why google, msft, amzn, samsung and other device makers are not pushing harder to advance html5 and web apps as a way to attract more devs and eventually loosen apple's stranglehold on the app economy.

why not offer direct access to mobile hardware and user information (e.g., mic, photos, contacts) through the device's native browser? they could mimic security restrictions of native apps and only permit access upon explicit approval (e.g., tap here to let site X access your camera and contacts). obviously, they can't wait for html5 standards, and would need to act on their own. but at least this would attract devs who want a web stack instead of forcing them to use the device's native language and the slower app approval process.

i'm not suggesting this will end apple's hegemony; it won't. devs will always build first for the platform where they can earn the highest ROI, which is usually the one with the most (profitable) users. yet minimizing barriers for devs to build, release, and test on a new platform would attract more devs and at least force apple's hand at maintaining web parity on ios devices.

are these companies afraid of undermining their own app stores? are mobile devices too slow still?

smart people run these companies. html5 is making some inroads, but there must be a reason why apple competitors are not pursuing this route more aggressively.
Yes, but the Romans had few other options. Today people have lots of other options.
Starbucks is expensive. Probably more than a regular coffee at a regular French cafe. If french from all nations prefer to have more expensive coffee at starbucks than at their local vendor this just shows how badly the local vendors need to start to get back to work. Not that a regulation is needed to protect them from better competition. This might work in the short run, but it long term lack of exposure to competition will just make them weaker than they already are.

And there is another, moral hazard kind of a point: Why would you like to force people to buy something they perceive as worse? You are right they worked hard to get this money and this is not your or Government business how they spend it.
The failure mode of all voting system with central control is that the elite take over the most important part of the system: what is actually voted on. This will happen in a futarchy just as it happens in democracy. The end result will be, I'd predict, indistinguishable.

Only societies without strong centralization and with incentives on the elites that stand opposed to collusion have the promise to evade what happens to democracies. An example is that which prevailed for a fair time in Medieval Iceland, but there are few others: the opening society of the US gave way to growing centralization pretty quickly, and the original vision didn't last much past two generations. There were not strong enough incentives to prevent collusion of the elites against the masses.
> b) they have the maturity to understand that sometimes work sucks and c) provided managers don't treat them like shit, they tend to stick around.

Flip it around: What happens when you pay non-seniors at a non-senior rate? They go get a better paid job. How surprising.
Just yesterday this was very popular topic on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6482993

Nothing was said that "Things We Start" - the startup described in the OP post was shut down in March of this year because "the concept didn’t gather enough interest to warrant further investment."
Democract vs. Republican

Who. Will. Win.

http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=democrat%2C%20republican
While I recognise this question might be abrasive, I feel compelled to ask it.

Why does this belong on Hacker News?

This isn't technology. This isn't legal news (i.e. software patents). This is in no way related to Hacker News. I have no problem with interesting articles being upvoted, but I feel we need a place to put these or a tagging system similar to lobsters.
would you mind walking back through that and explaining the acronyms and the meanings. I can google things like FCF is Free cash flow, but understanding that? much harder
> In these comparisons, you also have to try to consider the cost of drug regulators like the FDA. Surely lives have directly been lost due to drugs not being approved.

Such as lives saved by thalidomide, perhaps?
Added to my to-do list for the FAQ (I operate the website). No, no such statement has issued, but then neither did Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning make such a declaration when she was arrested, and I registered bradleymanning.org and eventually help bootstrap what is now the Private Manning Support Network for her defense.
I'm a graduate student in CS myself, and I'd be perfectly happy to earn a salary at a job consisting primarily of teaching. That leaves much more freedom for me to practice hobbies and do research, compared to competing in today's field of full-time researchers for jobs and grants.
Well they have improved their model, they make quite a lot of money now through the app store, Android, soon self-driving cars etc.
Because Williams funded the company out of his own pocket using proceeds from the Blogger sale (or more precisely proceeds from Google's IPO, since that sale was for shares). There were other investors, sure, but not too many after he cashed out the Odeo investors (some insisted on staying in, but many took their money).

Dorsey, by contrast, was hired help - an Odeo/Obvious employee and then Twitter CEO (and then ousted ex CEO).
The traffic on the physical layer has to exit to the server housing the service though surely. The hidden service isn't distributed is it?

I read in another thread that they're reported to have hacked PHP to expose a vulnerability that gave them an admin IP address that was being allowed through the firewall. Seems reasonable.
Although this sounds like a decent idea, the challenge with it is that you're assuming a couple of things:

1) The start-up acquiring the lead list has the ability to progress the deals to closure.

2) The start-up acquiring the lead list is able to appropriately break-down their revenue in an easily audit-able/non-modifiable manner to demonstrate which $ came from the acquired lead list(s).

This type of thing may be an option for these guys going forward (once they figure out the kinks), but I think they're doing the right thing right now by charging up-front.
> there is no easy way to subscribe to CC for just a few months

Isn't that what the monthly plan does [0]? $75 / month rather than $50, but with the option to only pay for individual months. I think they said they were originally thinking of freelancers who might only take on work that involved using CC a few times a year.

[0] http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/buying-guide.htm...
First of all, I think you have gotten P3P confused with EME (or whatever the new term is). P3P, the "platform for privacy protection" was just one of my examples of previous useless stuff the W3C has worked on (it was basically a schema for describing a website's privacy policy, with dubious advantages over simply linking to a privacy policy in the footer).

Second, none of the proposals for EME that I've seen actually address the issue of being able to play the same content across devices. They aren't a standardized DRM scheme; they are merely hooks for proprietary DRM schemes, essentially a way to allow proprietary DRM schemes to hook into the HTML5 media player rather than having to use the plugin interface and implement the media player in Flash or Silverlight. It's basically just a plugin API for plugins that provide only DRM, leaving the rest up to the browser.

Don't think that this is meant to actually increase interoperability; a large portion of the "value" of DRM, for those who promote it, it the ability to have various lucrative exclusive contracts with particular cable networks, hardware vendors, and so on. You're just going to see more "Live NFL - a Samsung exclusive!", not actually be able to get Netflix on any device you want.

If it worked across any device, then it would need to work on open devices as well, but of course if the device is open you can bypass the DRM. So it's always going to be based on licenses, that only certain vendors can get if they promise to implement DRM securely and not give users full access to their own devices.
I wonder if this is why my university IT dept just broadcast an email saying that Adobe is "auditing" every computer on campus for the university's site license. They want to come into everyone's office and labs and run some "script" on every machine that does who knows what. Needless to say I said "no thank you".
Burnout in tech circles is like Depression in the population in general. 90% of people who say they have it really don't and the people who say it doesn't exist have no idea what in the world they are talking about. But for those who have it, it is un-mistakenly terrible.

I put in 80+ hour work weeks for 4 years straight at my last job and it got to a point where I was physically breaking down and developed a slew of transient (but terrifying) neurological problems. It got so bad I actually saw a neurologist who basically said that I was seeing the manifestation of extreme stress and had to stop (He actually pushed me to find a new job, interestingly.)

To your point, it never dawned on me that I was working too much. I had various problems that needed solutions and I was much too engulfed in the pursuit of their solution to really see what was happening until it became impossible to ignore. I'd venture to say most people with burnout are not driven there by someone or something but by themselves.
I did. Engineer too. Whatever.

Probably too old (slightly over 30!)
The problem isn't that there are ads juxtaposed against content, it's that historically, the ads have been fucking awful.

Open up a GQ, Vogue, or Condé Nast Traveler. Look where the ads are and how many there are. It's quite possible that ads act as content, and have for quite some time in traditional publishing.
A point needs to be brought out here. This article is not about traditional academic journals. It concerns journals of a kind that have been popping up like mushrooms in recent years. The article refers to them as "open access". I'm not fond of the term, since there are certainly selective, reliable journals that still allow submissions from anyone and publish articles on the web without a paywall. Regardless, plenty of more-or-less fake journals have been founded recently. As a researcher, I get solicitation e-mails from them every day.

It is true that it can be difficult for someone not in the relevant field to tell the difference between different kinds of journals. I know the difference, since I've heard of the major journals in my field, I know many of the editors, etc. But a science journalist might have more trouble with it.

For fields like medicine, this can matter a lot. It's the same problem we see with SEO and the like: how, in the modern world, do we form a robust measure of reputation and reliability?
I completely understand your frustration. Like you, I believe that every human being deserves the right to privacy regardless of their nationality or where they live or where they were born.

Unfortunately, the Constitution of the United States of America, the sacred document that Mr. Levison was attempting to preserve, does not guarantee that right to every human being -- only Americans.

I look at it at a first step. Once we've "restored" the Constitution and managed to guarantee the right to privacy for those covered by it, only then can we start to "expand" that to include every human being.

I have many friends from all around the world and I believe 100% that all of us should be afforded that same right to privacy that the Constitution gives me, but we've got to start somewhere...

(Disclosure: I'm an American and I have and do donate to the EFF, EPIC, the Tor Project, and I happily gave to Mr. Levison's defense fund immediately after it was announced a few weeks ago.)
Exactly. Like Pandora - here's a bunch of things we think you'll like based on what we know about you. Correct our assumptions and we'll make them better.
Get this shit out of here. We already have rule-by-money.
It's sad to me that this is not the top post. It seems that fact is a reflection of the problem at hand. We don't care about the oceans as much as we care about Twitter. :(
> ... nearly all agree that we need to move with great deliberation when altering the ecosystem of the ocean.

It's been quite a while since Humanity applied anything like deliberation to our ongoing alterations of ocean ecosystems.
Tone, obvious or otherwise, does not constitute ad hominem either.
Centipede Venom Could Yield Powerful New Painkiller
I've searched your PDF and did not find the keywords from Voting Paradoxes and Combinatrics [0]. What are your thoughts on this subject?

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFjApWH8R9c

A speech by Noga Alon [1], Baumritter Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Tel Aviv University

[1] http://www.tau.ac.il/~nogaa/
This makes much more sense than just shutting down. Congrats to the Cue guys (if this rumor is correct).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique
It's a little over half of that. And it was one of several places like that I found so I know it wasn't just "luck". It was not as simple as just "get on Craigslist and find something", though. I had to watch it carefully.

EDIT: Just checked Craigslist and I can STILL find stuff for under $1000/mo in numerous places in SF. The trick seems to be looking under "rooms / shared" and also not expecting to find a place in Pac Heights ;-)
> If the human brain was capable of determining an ethical and optimal solution for any given problem, people wouldn't create political philosophies as simplifying heuristics.

Well that's the thing. Anyone with experience with programming can see that it's quite clear that even a system with incredibly rigid guidelines can, when formed into complex interconnections, take a form that is both unpredictable and does things that are wrong.

So the answer cannot be more rigidity. Instead, we need risk management, and the willingness to forgo rigid determinants in the quest for optimal solutions, since they won't always produce optimal solutions anyways.

Yes, our non-rigid heuristics will likely themselves produce non-optimal solutions, but that's OK too since it's easier to adjust and adapt. Not every startup turns a profit for a VC either, but that doesn't invalidate entrepreneurial risk-taking.
Also, did you actually read this part of Loren's post?
""Two weeks ago, I quit. I wasn't headhunted. I don't have another job lined up. I'm not moving away. I didn't start a company on the side. I didn't hate my coworkers, or my bosses, or my commute. So what happened?

I just got bored."
I neither like misrepresenting other people's positions nor am I prone to doing it despite not liking it.

Have I misrepresented your positions?

If your answer was "no" then why not say that?
We've been using another ex-YC company http://hiplead.com/ which uses more algorithms and less outsourcing, and they've totally kicked ass for us-- that screenshot on their homepage is from us. I'm ex-google eng and know my way around AdWords, and hiplead clobbered it.

I'm curious if anybody's tried both?
It's $100k more than they had to give and almost certainly more than you've contributed...
One could argue that this would affect any number of technological subjects. From the obvious 'no oceans, no life, no technology' to the subtle change in stocks due to the report that the article is covering.
My experience welding left me with a phobia of all things electric. A mild phobia, but irrational as any risk blown out of proportion by the panicked human mind.

Power lines trail the countryside and cityscape, competing in ubiquity only with roads and fast food restaurants. In this I am also mildly agoraphobic, as one cannot leave the homestead without being stared down by the thick black cables, taunting and intimidating from their creosote imbued perches.

My mom said it was just a matter of time, the fear had been building for months, slowly.

Anxiety supposedly runs in the family.
They got big but they haven't gotten profitable. I could see branching out and taking risks if they had profits to invest. Without profits branching out is a distraction from not dying.
Well, pretty happy I bought Lightroom through Amazon right about now.

Reason: Adobe charges basically double the US price in Australia/NZ if you buy from them directly, and I refuse to pay a location tax since it costs them zero dollars extra to send me bytes through CDNs.
The tagline for show HN sounds really interesting, but going to your site makes it very clear that you don't understand how the lead market actually works. People don't pay for "hours of research", they pay for the contact info of a person who has demonstrated that they are in market and ready to make a purchase decision. It's not clear that the leads you provide are in market - from the sounds of it, you're just creating a list of prospects? That could be interesting, but prospecting is very easy to outsource and there are already several companies (data.com, jigsaw, etc) already have a very robust database of prospects for a lot less than $800 a month. I don't want to rain on your parade, but I think you need to really deeply evaluate your product/market fit.
Ok, I did stay more than a year or two in every job, and I want to be in control of my work, and I was no way near of achieving this simple goal when I left. Job done, I move on.
How credible a source is IPSO, the author of the report backing this story? From what I can tell it's a U.K. non-profit hosted by the Zoological Society of London [1], itself a U.K. non-profit [2]. Alex Rogers, IPSO's Scientific Director [1], is also a Professor in Conservation Biology at the University of Oxford [3].

Paper article is based on: http://www.stateoftheocean.org/pdfs/Bijma-et-al-2013.pdf

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Programme_on_the_...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological_Society_of_London

[3] http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/view/rogers_ad.htm
What makes the Sentiment Treebank so novel is that the team split those nearly 11,000 sentences into more than 215,000 individual phrases and then used human workers via Amazon Mechanical Turk to classify each phrase on a scale from “very negative” to “very positive.”

Can someone here please explain whether the use of Mechanical Turk here is a cop-out from building a better computational model, or just an ordinary use of supervised learning in place of unsupervised?
> They aren't a standardized DRM scheme; they are merely hooks for proprietary DRM schemes, essentially a way to allow proprietary DRM schemes to hook into the HTML5 media player rather than having to use the plugin interface and implement the media player in Flash or Silverlight. It's basically just a plugin API for plugins that provide only DRM, leaving the rest up to the browser.

Exactly: its a specification for a constrained plugin API focussed DRM, so that browsers don't have to either maintain a common general purpose plugin API (e.g., NPAPI) or, alternatively, have browser-specific APIs in order to meet content-owners demand for a DRM-supporting delivery channel.
We're using Docker in production (even though it's not 1.0) and it's been great so far. We manage a large number of small images on behalf of the end goals of our users at DevTable, and managing the images themselves was becoming a pain. To address this we built Quay.io, which we're using to store our images and feed them out to our servers in production. With your large number of apps and containers, you might find it useful too. We're basically trying to be the Github of Docker images.
By buying Crashlytics and MoPub they have branched out a bit.
Cool that's awesome.
Instapaper and/or Evernote support would be so great :)
$75 a month is pretty expensive for many freelancers and the only reason I considered CC in the first place was I got a 40$ discount of $30/mo, but again the penalty applied, so I didn't buy it. Sorry for not mentioning this in the parent post.
Thank you for your reply.

>The way I see it, this is them simply penalizing a monopoly.

Starbucks has a monopoly to sell coffee in France?
Amazon has a monopoly to sell books in France?

What are you talking about?

>While you could argue some subsidize their income through Amazon, many more actual French citizens earn their income through independent brick and mortar shops.

And in the free market economy this would be a sign that maybe, just maybe, they need to:
A) Get much better at this
OR
B) Start doing something at what they are good enough that people go there and pay them on their own for their services of products.

I'm not saying it's easy. All I'm saying is that you won't be able to protect them forever. It's good to treat them like gown-ups right from the get-go without assuming that they are too stupid to do something useful for the broader public.

>I honestly don't see how restricting Amazon alone affects the market that much.

Then why to insist on doing it?

>It wouldn't affect my aspirations towards publishing a book or marketplace.

Good.