skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ouch.

My theory is that it's related to ego depletion. [1]

If that's correct, you should find things that you want to do, and do them. Start small. And do your best to not focus on the burnout; focus on what you can enjoy about what you are doing. Look for little victories; I'm convinced that accomplishing things, anything, can help recharge you.

I also think social connections can recharge you. Not the kind on Facebook, but the face-to-face kind. Facebook is particularly poisonous because, for the most part, everyone ends up trying to paint a perfect picture of their lives, leaving out most of the down parts. The contrast can make you feel worse.

It's also valuable to have a doctor run a standard battery of tests. It might be that you're really low on some important vitamin or mineral. Or that you have high systemic inflammation, which is a cause of everything from heart disease to cancer. (In which case you should eat more fish and/or flax oil.)

This is all (unfortunately) from personal experience (vitamin D was very low when they tested me, for instance). I'm feeling like I'm just recovering from burnout right now, in fact. Today was my first really good day in a long time, and that despite working long hours yesterday to get a last feature in. :)

Good luck. Hope you can find your way back to happy living soon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion
Strenuous exercise under conditions of intellectual engagement works wonders. Try rock climbing, whitewater kayaking, or any other strenuous activity with enough danger associated to keep you focused.
> As long as people only understand nutrition in terms of reductionist extremes, "alternative" diets are going to continue being a bad joke that achieves little more than inflating the ego and bank balance of people like Lustig.

That is demonstrably false both in the laboratory but more importantly in massive amounts of anecdotal experience by regular folks. Go read some fitness and diet forums, you think all those people who tried various different diets are imagining they're losing 20, 40, 100+ pounds on low carb diets?
In the 60s only a tiny percentage of the top students went to university and so the standard at university was much higher. A-levels are university entrance exams and so similarly were only taken by the best.

Even the old O-levels, taken at age 16, were equivalent to university level courses today. This fact is often used as proof that kids today aren't as smart at kids in the 60s, but in fact most kids in the 60s didn't take any exams whatsoever and just left school at age 15 with no qualifications.
You're writing a lot of words without actually saying anything. You can try and dress your original comment up all you want, but all you were doing was kicking someone while they were down to make yourself feel superior, while attempting to disguise it in the form of some highbrow but vague speculation of some future technology without providing anything of concrete value about it. This is HN, we're all aware of the possibilities of strong AI, but unless you've got a github account with a demo in it or some new algorithm, you're just spouting bs.
*diet coke
The linked doc is specifically minimum grade-level standards. It explicitly states that it doesn't cover how schools should address students that exceed those minimum standards, which would include anyone taking more advanced math courses.

"The Standards set grade-specific standards but do not define the intervention methods or materials necessary to support students who are well below or well above grade-level expectations."

I.e., this defines what constitutes "grade-level" skill sets, but lots of better schools will exceed those standards by one or more years - their 10th graders may be operating at the 12th-grade standard, etc.
I get all my Baas needs from local retail.
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I think I might have been fooled by the "3 minute charge, 1 hour of playback" claim. it does indeed also claim 7 hours.

That has made me happy, one more bit of Sony kit on the way :)
Erik, great comments. Thanks, I'll definitely reach out to you when we expand to southern CA, you're the core demographic. I was talking to a friend the other day who did a 'cost analysis' of how much she was spending on camps. It turns out it was close to $4500 just for two kids and only 6 weeks! I'm sure your camp budget blows past that. On another note, we're definitely considering 'stocking empty shelves' but want to focus on getting really good at figuring out the right way to get parents to register before expanding. I'll reach out directly!
If you start from the assumption that sugar is a poison, then you'd probably say no. That seems like begging the question to me, though.

If you examine the diets of healthy people, you'll see that some of them eat donuts occasionally. That would seem to indicate yes.
thats fine if you come from a perfect background but it sounds pretty ignorant, like you have no empathy for others and can't relate to others situations. for example, if you fucked up as a kid, but want to turn your life around it can be really difficult/impossible. furthermore, life can throw unavoidable things at people, like maybe they had to take care of a sick relative instead of getting an education. you sound like someone whose always lived in a suburb/nice area and has no perspective. i'm telling this to pop your bubble, go to africa or china or brazil, or even the ghetto. there are men there who work harder than you ever will and still can't survive on the money they make, regardless of how much their expenses are.
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This is just another example of Go's fundamental attitude. Stuff is available for the language designers, but not for you :

* generic functions (e.g. append)

* generic data types (e.g. slices)

* exceptions (like illustrated above)

* special case syntax

* Custom event loops

* precompiler macros (very bad to use, horrible, blah blah ... except of course for the people imposing this restriction, and YES they're using it amongst other things to workaround the lack of generics in C)

...

This attitude was common in middle-90s "generic" programming languages like Ocaml, Modula-2 and others. You should simply look at Go as one of those languages and treat it as such.

If this attitude bothers you, you should look at C++0x and D.
Of course you can, error is an interface, any number of concrete types can satisfy it, and you can use type assertions or type switches to unbox (and use) that concrete type.

This is a widely used idiom in Go.
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yep, good article!
Splash Math has iPad apps as well, and surprisingly it's all made in HTML5/CSS3, but gives full native performance even after so much of animations.
Outliers is a fun book about this type of stuff. It's not that the creator "hacked" the system for Flappy Bird -- all signs point to him being a super authentic game designer who just made his game, and for lack of a better word "lucked" into all the right circumstances. However, it's still interesting to try to determine which factors played a role in something that clearly had such a non-standard trajectory. Everything that goes "viral" has to have some catalyst that created the opportunity to go viral. Nobody knew about Flappy Bird in May, hence it could not go viral. Something changed in December and that is what is so fascinating.
How the car industry made crossing the road an offence
Form what language to what language ?
Aww... Thank you Joshmn. This makes me seriously feel good. I sit at my chair (granted it's a fancy chair) in my home/office toiling away at all hours and your comment just really made my day....(er night). New iterations to come later this week. Did you see we have Ukelele camp?

https://www.camperoo.com/products/k/ukulele
Note this is from 2013/12/19
The problem with #2 is that the author lists it as something that causes burnout when instead is one of the likely results.

I agree about #4 and many of the things he lists are a bit subjective and for some could be again result of being burnout. Your career stagnates even if you persist remaining in the same useless place forever and sometime starting anew somewhere else, on new problems, could at least temporarily help someone suffering from burnout.
a bear is a perfect example of an mammal that uses its insulin response during glut times to store fat.

1. gain weight during the summer by eating high sugar, high starch, high calorie foods such as fruit, berries, roots, honey/insects, and as much whole fatty fish as it can get its hands on for a super high calorie kick. it HAS to gain weight in the summer, and does so easily on that diet.

2. during the winter it hibernates and burns nothing but fat, losing the weight and avoiding starving. people can do this too, believe it or not. fasted ketosis is a thing you can sustain for quite a while as long as you drink water.

this doens't prove anything in humans, but is an obvious counter-example to no evidence to believe that mammals don't have food glut adaptations.

but just for anecdotes' sake, what does an obese human typically eat? exactly the same diet. high sugar (soda/fruit juice), high starch (all junk food), roots (LOTS of potatoes, mostly fried), and extremely high calorie kickers like cheeseburgers and pizza to ensure a calorie surplus.
Last I checked, Windows also doesn't ship with a C compiler by default. Even some Linux distros don't have it in the default install.
Have you ever eaten a dessert? How is that any worse than eating a donut?
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Note taken--maybe we'll just capture e-mail address!
It's possible, but it's not designed to. It was designed to run under init, as a daemontools clone. Explained further here: http://smarden.org/pape/djb/daemontools/noinit.html

"In contrary to Richard Gooch, I suggest not to implement service dependencies and runlevel handling in the Unix process no 1, /sbin/init, keep it small and simple, that is why I wrote the runit package"
i saw some study that said high school valedictorians dont usually end up with any better outcomes than the average person. intelligence isnt everything in this world. look at reality television and the music industry..
That's really well put. The desire to constantly problem solve doesn't let you relax and clear your mind at times. I saw one recently but found the advice lacking, felt like a waste of time and money.
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According to this guy, Jesus rode a dinosaur to work:

(insert appropriate YouTube link here)
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> (1) Find all confirmed transactions that have a signature that appears in non-canonical form (and thus likely confirmed under an unexpected TXID);

Unfortunately, you can't— MtGox had a long standing bug where they would author transactions which were themselves non-canonical form (they encoded the variable length values in DER as fixed length with excessive padding). This is one of the reasons their transactions were getting stuck.

People mutating their transactions removed the padding, making them canonical.
Not to mention the virtually universal control of Diabetes Type II without medicines by those who adopt this type of diet. Seriously, people go from insulin dependency to normal blood sugar levels in weeks.
This is an analysis of the code that facebook is trying to prevent from being pasted into the console

http://pastebin.com/0JXCVxXg
Isn't "Do long enough things you dont like to do." enough to burn out?
Evolution is on his side. We often have a sweet tooth, but rarely an Arsenic tooth.

That said, I do believe sugars should be consumed in moderation.
The most relatable way I've found to describe it as that after burning out it takes 100% of your current effort to achieve 10% of your previous output.

That's ignoring the random bouts of crying for no particular reason and things like that, because I'm pretty sure they're unique to each individual.
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At least some of the anti-sugar types are certified crackpots: http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html

I hope my account is old enough for your liking. :)
I actually submitted this as 'Ask HN' and provided link only for a reference (and motivation for my decision to seek feedback), not sure why the 'Ask HN' part wasn't published. Never had any intentions to promote bloomberg.com.
There is no "turtles" issue here. Pid 1 is special - if it dies, the system panics. It is good design to keep pid 1 as simple as possible and put the complex job logic in a sub-process. There are only two things on unix which init must do: reap any children it inherits, and start something else to do the heavy lifting.

Even sysV init works this way. The current sysV init is very simple -- the invocation complexity lives in /etc/rc and the related rc.d scripts which operate as subprocesses.

"Smart people" is a silly thing to say. We're all smart people and sometimes smart people make poor technical decisions. Let the matter lay upon its technical merit, not upon empty platitudes.
I don't know to what extent this is a joke but I am not laughing. Yc is a school where they pay you, Paul Graham et al did not take over Airbnb or Dropbox... the people who founded those companies run them.

The idea that a life is worthless or wasted if you make less money is beyond flawed. It is the most american/capitalist/rewarding thing to make a go of building something of your own.

Being a wall street banker has virtually no social utility. Airbnb and Dropbox improve the collective productivity of society and make real markets in the case of Airbnb. If it takes hundreds of people and millions of dollars failing in an effort to make a few big winners so be it, and when Yc makes money in the process they deserve it. They are taking REAL risk, and it seems the people who emerge from their program are better for it even if their dreams don't all come true.

Finally, the girl next to him is an important part of this little story. Women love men who are passionate, who are alive and who take risks. If all of society fell apart I'd much rather be with a bunch of hackers than bankers, the hackers are creative, passionate, loving and ruthless when necessary. Women understand this and they they love it... because they know they are always safe with a man who can build something. They'd rather eat Mac & Cheese with a man who puts up a good fight before kneeling down THE MAN... or maybe never has to kneel at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuDRGuOVjvU
I've read through "The Delusion of Gender"- http://www.amazon.com/Delusions-Gender-Society-Neurosexism-D..., where an Oxford, Cambridge, and UCL-educated Doctor of Psychology wrecks havok through Simon Baron-Cohen and his ilk's research.

It's a little boring, but systematic.
I've had to quit a couple of jobs due to the fact that
staying there maintaining the same old code base ...
would have been what resulted in my burnout.

Agreed––though if this is a problem for you, try consulting. But it's easy to forget that boredom can cause burnout too.
Awesome, love family oriented startups. Also check out activityhero.com. I used them last summer and they have more cities.
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See the link in the accepted answer. If you try to paste in "javascript: blahblahblah", Chrome is smart enough to remove the "javascript: " part. What the attackers do instead is to tell the victim to type "j", then ctrl+v the rest "avascript: blahblahblah". Just tried it in Chrome, it goes through.
I can't speak for him, but having written stuff using the Facebook API, Facebook is not high on my list of companies to trust in a business context. [1]

The kinds of vendors I like to work with are ones that depend on satisfying people like me. For example, locally owned restaurants in my neighborhood are high on my list, because the owner is present and knows that his livelihood requires serving his customers well.

Personally, I'd never build anything critical with Parse, because Facebook's survival does not depend on satisfying Parse's customers. They could take a $90m write-down tomorrow and nobody would notice. If they did it during a time of adversity, analysts would praise them for "focus".

Another way to look at it is what it would take to kill Parse. My guess is that if any one of a few people left Facebook, the person replacing them could either directly or indirectly kill it off. You see that sort of project-killing happening all the time at companies during reorgs triggered by people leaving. It doesn't have to be a bad business or anything; as long as something doesn't match current strategy or vision or ROI goals or an exec's mood, it's at risk.

Independent companies, though, are much harder to kill: if a CEO took a profitable company and said, "Hey, we're shutting down in 4 months," the investors would find a new CEO. Shutting down a whole company requires the executives and the investors to all agree, so it happens very rarely unless the company is distressed.

[1] That sounds a little unfair. I trust them to be Facebook, by which I mean to act in the best interests of their revenue model as they currently perceive it. I just don't expect that to align closely with my interests, and think any mismatch between the two will be entirely my problem.
I'm sure that both sugar and heroin are fine in moderation.

The problem is that moderate consumption of either is known to cause overconsumption.

So, perhaps not so fine in an environment of abundance.
The article specifically says what you're saying: I don't think any of them have really been developed with replacing SysV init in Linux distributions or elsewhere as a goal. DJB daemontools certainly wasn't

Systemd is winning this war because it created the war, by conflicting with sysv init.

Upstart predates Systemd, systemd just has more traction.
Plenty of people lost weight on low fat diets too when those were the hot shit a decade or two ago.

The problem with fad diets is that most of those people gain their weight back after the initial enthusiasm fades.

Without long-term (decades) follow up, it's impossible to distinguish the effect of a particular diet from the impact of simply being on a diet of any kind--which typically induces much closer attentiveness to calories and nutrition, at least in the beginning.

Also, Internet forums are hardly a random sampling.
Some behaviour may need to be initialised depending on the width of the viewport. For example: I may want to provide a side swipe menu in my mobile version that I do not want to initialise and become available in the web version.

Yes, you don't need a whole new site. But I as a developer may want to provide a better experience with the additional horizontal space I just received in the landscape mode. Or I may want to sneak in some ads on the side.

Media queries go only so far but they cannot help you to create behaviour that depends on the width of the viewport.
Don't you have to challenge the material for a grade and pass the final exams before you could skip a grade?
The same way any other crap (such as Windows, Java, PHP, NodeJS, Docker - you name it) wins - its winning is due to a "catchy meme" about it, which triggers an automatic, ignorant snap-judgement of an unsophisticated consumer.

Look, with Java you don't have to think about hardware and OS - a greatest meme ever (and you have to pay for tons of hardware because Java = waste). NodeJS - you could code server-side apps the very same way you write stupid web-pages (without any deep knowledge) - great meme. With Docker no sysadmins are required, and an underlying operating system is just viewed an abstract "container" for an app (they you will pay to "experts" who would spend weeks analyzing why your crap is so slow and unpredictable in production). With systemd you don't have to understand the subtleties, and it is run with Docker. Yay!

The list could be too long.
As build systems go, this seems like a promising experiment:
http://sourceforge.net/p/meson/wiki/Design%20rationale/

tl/dr:
-DSL for builds with well defined semantics, leverages existing toolchain

-design constraints for the system that make sense, i.e. speed, portability, usability and common sense

-does not try to reinvent the wheel but rather simplify the usage of existing tools

- the build config it generates on my Ubuntu box seems to really deliver on the speed promise - I have no benchmarks to quote but a small c++ codebase using all sorts of dependencies including boost compiled nearly instantly
You're right, but the extremely low visibility of wonderful resources like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM (and the articles it's based on, even in the medical research community) make "pulling in the other direction" (even if it's just as wrong) a good course of action for achieving a properly balanced view of the scientific facts.
Sure. What I think is unclear that I intend to highlight is that systemd (and yes, upstart) have intentionally and unnecessarily created this technical conflict.
When I did my study on the BaaS providers last year, most of them were venture funded and not profit making and almost all of them were in the business for only a few short years. The only profit making / long term businesses that were into this space were Kii and Apigee App Services. The rest appeared to be candidates for acquisition.
Going to "My Followed Threads" doesn't list the threads the I clicked Follow on, logged in, or not.

Also, after successfully signing up, the server response is sent back in raw text and that's all you see.
Also an opportunity for "concierge" service -- "Find/replace all instances of api.stackmob.com with api.example.com, and give us your credentials on StackMob. We'll take care of everything else. It's our thanks for signing up for our $500-a-month-until-your-business-dies plan."

Edit: It occurs to me that this is slightly complicated by the need to have API compatibility with StackMob, and I don't know the space well enough to know if anyone does that. In other PaaS businesses I'm aware that some companies maintain drop-in replacements for the market leader, because they make it possible to poach clients without asking for a $X00,000 rewrite.
This is a pretty good reason to never trust Chrome again.
Do you have some link to a good tutorial/guide showing those possibilities?
Lustig is primarily concerned with fructose (and sucrose, which quickly metabolizes into a 50-50 mix of fructose and glucose).

Carbs in general (ones that metabolize mostly into glucose) have been widely available for a long time. They are also processed in a more "normal" way than fructose.

It might still be a good idea to reduce carbs, but I'm skeptical that the ketogenic diet is healthy.
The only targeting Ads that work for me are amazon.com ads.

I always try to deactivate and fallback to classic ads. It was at least possible in FB some years ago.
Um. Bears don't have a glut in the summer. They eat everything they can and some still die from not getting enough. A glut is when there is so much food that you can eat more than is healthy. You don't see bears passing up salmon saying, nah, I had enough.
This is so awesome. Though I only have 2 servers and repo is not very huge but sometimes it takes close to 10 secs to deploy. A 45% decrease for python is incredible
well, I wouldn't call the technical conflict unnecessary - if there wasn't a need for a more featureful init system, then there wouldn't have been a motive to write a new one. As for the social conflict, that's just what you get with social groups experiencing change.
Given that I obviously did not, then, you might notice that that is a somewhat pointless reply.
The main issue is like it ever was with the UNIX wars, now Linux wars.

Cloning UNIX was not enough, now each distribution wants to "improve" UNIX on its own way.
Substitute magazines instead of webpages and you've got an answer to one of the most famous interview questions.