skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that "burnout" is a symptom of the endemic "hero" meme of our culture. Think about all the movies you've seen since the 1980s, the shows you've watched, the books you've read. Embedded in the majority of them is the simple idea that there's something special inside you that can set you apart from everyone else. It whispers seductively to that part of your brain that lies to you about how important you are. Any story or idea that fills the need to feel different, special, and unique passes through our scrutiny without a second thought. We want to believe it's true even as we examine our motivations for doing so because it's hard wired into our brains.

The problem is that this weakness is easily exploited. Writers, motivational speakers, game designers, poets... they're all in the business of hacking our brains. We've been doing such a good job of it since the sixties that our popular culture is unconsciously driven by it.

And it manifests as burnout when it clashes with other popular memes like the Protestant Work Ethic. If you just put in a little elbow grease and work harder you will stand out. If you write that amazing library to make programmers' lives easier they will shower you with praise on the Internet and invite you to speak at conferences so that you may shower the masses with your brilliant message. Burnout happens when all of the rewards of those fantasies fail to materialize despite all of the effort and hard work you've put into chasing them.

Worked 60 - 80 hour weeks for the last six months and still got overlooked for that promotion? Burnout.

Put off investing time with your family in order to work on that semi-popular open source library and pimp it out at every conference you can submit a proposal to... and you STILL aren't getting the accolades and recognition you deserve? Burnout.

My advice for avoiding burnout? Figure out where your desires and ambitions are coming from. Why do you want to work so hard for recognition? Why do you feel you need to be recognized? What's so important about it? Start from there.
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As the other guys have mentioned, titles mean nothing. Equity and the controlling stake mean everything.

The guy with 51% (or maybe 50.1% or maybe the adequate amount in your jurisdiction) has majority voting rights and he is the one who calls the shots.

According to what you have said, you guys are already at different stages with different ideas, which means you're in quite deep without any formal equity structure.

This will always hurt you later on, even if the co-founder is your own sibling!

Get the equity right and then just be co-founders.
Prius emissions: some value

Tesla emissions: 0.00

You could say that Tesla is just moving the problem to the power plants. Well, they solved the problem, now it is time for the power plants to do the same.
I had vertigo for about a month a few months ago. Another friend (in Australia) mentioned he had it as well when I tweeted about it. It can be caused by a virus. Your immune system gets whacked when you don't rest properly, so it's possible you had the same thing that was going around.

Try ditching the phone/computer after 8PM and just relax and enjoy life. There will always be more work to do in the morning.
The IPC architecture is SOA, but the OS comparison comes from the user control over its config and the Worker threads. I know "OS" gets thrown around too much with Web projects, but I went with it anyway.

Might be better to think in terms of Emacs - very plugin-driven.
That problem is not unique to LINQ or .NET.

It absolutely isn't unique to it -- powerful features allow programmers to shoot themselves in the feet, and this is true since we began this profession.

When dealing with larger applications and datasets it has the potential of easily imposing enormous costs, of the sort that absolutely eclipse most other anti-patterns. Appending on an immutable string through recursive function calls suddenly looks like child's play.

The truth is that in most apps, these inefficiencies simply don't matter, and to all of the "just learn how to use it right!" replies, I would say that odds favor that those people aren't using it right at all. But in the end it just doesn't matter that much because small amounts of data, low demands, etc, just makes it an irrelevant cost. Most apps are running with an excess of CPU resources relative to the demands on the app, so it just doesn't matter.

Many .NET developers have never run Visual Studio's profiler. They don't even know what the costs are, but we're in a world where 1500ms to load a basic form is okay.

When you deal with very large scale financial data, as I do, however, your world is a very different world. You don't just have a scrum where you try to teach people that LINQ isn't magic (which of course we did). The risk factors become much higher.
The current administration wants a reason to increase the military budget, so they would tell people. Aside from that, if it likely got out that US officials knew, it would be a scandal of epic proportions.
If you're English, be prepared for some weird attitudes (you're sometimes treated as "an enemy" just because you're English). It's nothing terrible (certainly not as bad as racism towards racial minorities (I'm searching for the correct way of saying this, not having lived in the UK for many years, but I guess that's better than "people of colour")), but it gets tedious after a while.

[English; lived in Scotland for 3 or 4 years]

[Edit: Interesting reading the comments. Maybe things have changed (though I would have thought the debate over devolution - which seems like a good idea to me - would have exacerbated feelings). This was ~15 years ago and many Scots explained it to me as resentment over Thatcher, poll tax etc (in fact, one reason we went to Scotland was in search of a more left-wing environment). It wasn't good natured ribbing and it was pretty widely acknowledged as being "a thing" (had many conversations with Scottish friends about it - one memorably said that it was considered normal in middle class conversation over dinner to trash the English in a way no one would dream of doing to any "racial" goup). And I could certainly understand the motivation (the "historical context"), even if it was occasionally unpleasant.

It also got considerably worse when I moved from academia to "real" work.

It wasn't trivial (any once incident, sure, but the steady drip over time...), it certainly wasn't isolated pockets, and it's something I would take into consideration in future. In short: I was glad to leave.]
Mr. Ive - what the hell has been going on with Apple mice in the last 16 years?
Sure, but I don't see other people doing SOA in the browser. So I will amend my statement: "In the browser!?! Awesome."
> If I could give the 20 year old me some advice it would have been to apply at Netscape when I had the chance. :)

Can you give a 20 year old ME some insight into what this means exactly? Unfamiliar with Netscape's culture, they were on their way out while I was on my way in!
I laugh-cringed at #4 when I read it in the article. I find it totally plausible for someone in the government to really say/believe this. It's pathetic, but I fear it's common enough in executive positions for some reason.

Tangentially, this is why in every project I've been at I always push for upgrading to the latest browser. Initially there is some resistance, but once in a while you meet with a gov manager, that has some pull, and will push back on IT. That's been the case at CBP. A year ago we were all supporting IE8 and cursing every minute of it. Now we're happily developing to IE11 and latest FF. Sadly it takes an adamant developer to push repeatedly for this when it should be IT itself forcing users and all developers to upgrade, if for nothing else than plain old security. I think they're "getting it" now though...
Making ubuntu.com responsive
Location has a lot to do with it... It also factors in heavily with cost of living differences, and quality of life for a single guy vs. a family.

I'm in Phoenix, which has a lot of developer work, though most of it is fairly boring line of business stuff. Compared to say San Francisco, which has a little more developer work, but the pay is the same or not enough more for most positions I've looked at and the cost of living is a lot more. There are other trade offs as well that favor SF over Phx, for example Phx is hot 3 months a year, and hotter than hell another 4.

There's a few more rural communities in southwest Oregon I'd like to live in, but there's not really any tech/dev work near what I'd need to make there. Being a software developer outside the top 10-15 major metro areas in the U.S. is a lot harder, and the pay is significantly less.

I'd honestly suggest the guy consider relocating... it's rough for everyone, but Houston, Austin, Phoenix and a few other spots have a pretty nice income to cost of living ratio, and plenty of developer work.
Wow much rip-off, such blatant, very copy, extreme fun still.
Does it matter, they're all great.
Reverse order, meaning 2048 is at the top.

http://doge2048.com/js/application.js
maybe.

adjectives used of the radar data: "inaccurate", "undisclosed".

adjectives used of the flight path: "erratic", "uneven", "zigzagging".

waypoints are thick as thieves, the odds of a flock of birds not hitting three of them are small.

...plus hitting exactly those waypoints makes no sense: the middle zig should have been skipped as superfluous.
This is brilliant, although I do find myself wishing for a key for which image is which...
The article talks about the turning moves being a rational choice to go to the Langkawi runway
Vodafone acquires Ono for $10 Billion
Human trust is the result of empathetic proof of work. It takes what is most valuable to you: time.
All that effort, and still no guarantee that they will actually work with you. Some may be willing to die, others might stealthily sabotage the product, etc. And if you can provide 20 freescale engineers with what they need to actually make something, you can probably just hire people normally.
Reinforcement Learning – Basics
Consider it a response to the "lol you use lisp?!? that's really old right??" bullshit you heave to hear whenever you tell someone you use it. Nobody said lisp is perfect for everything. Just that it's better than most people are willing to give it credit for.

For instance, I'd use C for embedded systems, tight control of memory, or building libraries I wanted to be used everywhere. I'd use Erlang for distributed programming. I'd use Haskel if I needed pure functional programming. I'd use Java if I had a team of 500 engineers working on an enterprise app.

For any other general-purpose programming, I'd probably pick lisp.
Hanging out on sites like this definitely doesn't help. In every thread it seems like there is someone who is a perfect expert on whatever being discussed.

Need to diagnose a problem in a defunct modem using only an oscilloscope? Someone can. Strange behavior of the JVM? Oh, someone has implemented their own JVM on a 4kb machine as a hobby project.

Then you get username delineation and there is this idea of some abstract "hacker" of hackernews (or whatevertechsite.com) that can do everything with ease.

Because after seeing all that I think if I can't debug modems with oscilloscopes or implement the JVM I'm behind and subpar.
electricity can be produced, stored and delivered by many means; no so for gasoline and other fossil fuels. by moving the problem to the power plants it is much more easily solved in a single location with greatest efficiency, without the consumers knowing or having to worry about it. it's separation of concerns, right there in real life :)
Couldn't this help you connect with those people just as easily as hiding from them? Either way, cool idea.

Since Foursquare isn't so big here, additional networks would be useful to have as well.
Enjoyed it, but man does it make the laptop run hot.
No matter what the control for, these studies are very limited.

If they say that intelligence is correlated with X, if we like X we will say that this proves X is a good thing, and if we don't like X we will say that this proves intelligent people are not so "intelligent" after all. Put another way, it's so hard to do proper Bayesian updating on such loaded statements, they probably make people worse informed on average.

I'll end with a quote from Mohammad Ali being interviewed by Michael Parkinson:

Ali: [Animals don't race-mix so human's shouldn't either]

Parkinson: But we have intelligence

Ali: They don't have intelligence, but yet they stay together [with their own species], we should have more intelligence than them, right?
Then don't link to it.

Any why the ticker name?
They're going to eliminate the alternate market for health monitoring. By providing a first party solution they can block all external apps, and require all third party solutions to adhere to their requirements.

Controlling yet another market segment with a mandatory 30% cost.
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Much brave.
Use image thumbnails please! You're serving 22MB on every page load. On my dsl connection, it took 110 seconds to load!
There's nothing wrong with "going hard" to reach a short-term goal. Burnout comes when "going hard" becomes a lifestyle. You need to make sure to allow plenty of time for resting afterwards, or your intellect and will wear out.
Video with nice footage of Edinburgh and the tech companies who are based here. Includes a brief shot of Amazon's roof garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH2CfrnsWG4
I fear this very utter waste of money. Someone at microsoft must be crying laughing.
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In the words of Groundskeeper Willie:

"Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!"
TIL: "The adjective sycophantic is perfect for describing someone who uses flattery to get what they want. The sycophantic guy in your biology class might compliment the professor on her fabulous shoes as he hands in his lab report."
I did better than I usually do. At first I thought the lack of a sense of what the numbers were would be a hinderance, but it seems to have helped this time (sample size n=1).
Great site. Is there a way (as a user) to mandate two-factor authentication on sites that don't natively offer it? I recognize that the obvious answer is no, but I'm curious to know if anyone has tried workarounds.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

--temporarily-embarrassed millionaires who, I might add, all know that it is their "destiny," their Heroic Tale to tell, to "regain" those millions through Hard Work, Grit and Stick-To-It-iveness. (But not Cunning. Cunning is for villains, like that guy who got the promotion instead of you.)
Existential fulfillment, finding some meaning in work or contribution is a need. There's plenty of big hairy social problems that need help: teaching homeless skills, volunteering or getting involved in local stuff. Tons of meaning and joy through helping people for the joy in itself. Even if it's listening to a local colorful individual that lacks friends. Giving back gets more back.

I heard about the Way of St James and Peace corps might give pause for compass finding. I dunno.
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Alternate explanation coming from a person whose high intelligence is at the level that is, arguably, a curse.

There's trust in competence and trust in character. They're different (highly intelligent and competent people can have rotten ethical character) but people tend to conflate them, especially in the business world. We have a hard time believing that visibly competent or "credible" people might be liars.

Highly intelligent people are constantly being underestimated because they live in a world that's not really designed for them. There are all sorts of permissions systems and rules and rate-limits on career progress designed for people much slower and less capable than they are. The conclusion is that those systems and the prevailing distrust they represent is useless and counterproductive.

Knowing that they don't belong in the harnesses designed for "the slow kids", highly intelligent people tend to assume that everyone deserves more trust than they are given by society. It isn't just a personal problem ("I'm too smart to be treated like a child") but a general one ("Who needs rules? Who needs management at all?") This biases them toward premature trust of others.
This is a good question. What are the odds that someone on the flight had a sat cell? If so, would it have worked in those conditions?
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How does it know who you'd want to avoid? How do you get their info and location?
iOS7. What more needs to be said about Ives when left to his own devices. And by his own devices of course I mean jobs and Forstalls devices.

Stick to the pretty box Ives, know your limits.
This is an interesting comment, my work flow is almost completely different. I wonder if it's a difference based on what language we both spend the majority of our time in (for me Javascript, python, ruby).

* For markdown I prefer the synatx highlighting and scrollbars that show up on github to the giant blobs plain text gives you.

* I rarely want to attach binary files while I often find myself embedding inline images to illustrate a point

* I use cat test | gist -c -f test.txt -d "Output from failure" (it puts the gist link in my clipboard).
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Talk @DockerParis about building replicable environments with Docker (https://www.docker.io/)
If this is a preview of the new Office for Mac, I'm totally excited. Office 2011 for Mac really didn't implement the Ribbon well, and this looks like it's an amazing experience.
I don't think most people consider a fedora and skinny jeans dressing 'too well', and those are the fashion items that come to mind when I hear the word 'hipster'. Then again, the word hipster seems to be context-sensitive... YMMV.
I was working on a project recently (in fact I still am sort of), staying late (really late) working ... and working. At first it was ok, but doing 3 weeks in a row with no weekend and very little break in between (the occasional game session here and there) really got to me. I remember one night I was sitting in the office I looked out of the window (gorgeous view - 35th floor in a sky-scaper in Abu Dhabi) and I just started crying. I had a massive breakdown. I've had panic attacks for the next 2-3 weeks almost daily.
Just to clarify, I love coding, I'm coding in my free time, I enjoy it more than anything. This being HN, I'm sure a lot of people can relate.
I find the page rather content-free, which makes it seem useless.

I'm used to the scrolling pages and general dearth of useful information such as specs/FAQs/technical details by now (which I still find infuriating, but it seems this is becoming depressingly common thanks to the metro-inspired dogma that giving users choice and information is bad), but this has absolutely nothing at all other than a screencap. Try including some information about how it works for those of us who don't use apple products.

From the screencap, I can assume it shows other people's location in realtime (or close to it), but there is no information about how the app works or where its data comes from (facebook etc checkins? ibeacon? bluetooth/802.11x listening? voluntary data submission from other users of the app?), pricing, usage details, or even a basic FAQ.

I kept clicking all over the place expecting some hidden link, but even examining the page source has revealed nothing.

Ironically, I opened the thread because I was interested from the title, but having people need to install an app to see what is actually does isn't a great model even if it does push your market stats up and inflate the "x people installed this app" counter.

I realise this probably comes across as mean, and I apologise for that (I'm sure my tone is influenced by it being monday, and not a great one at that), but it isn't really showing people if only a subset of those interested can see how it works. Even a comment with an overview of what it is and how it works would go a long way. I have seen metro-ish product sites done somewhat well (perhaps ironically, one of the best was apple's one for the dustbin, although that still suffered from a lack of specs), but people have to feel like they aren't looking at what might as well be a placeholder if it wasn't for the javascript and store link.
The wikipedia article doesn't mention how long this has practice existed, but I know this goes back to at least the late 90s.

Circa '98 IIRC, there was a module available for a webserver I worked with which generated a page with number of bogus email addresses per page, and a number of random urls per paged that when followed generated yet another page of bogus email addresses and links.

You hid the link somewhere on a legitimate page, added the base path as an exclude in robots.txt, and any mail harvesting spam-bots would get sucked in.

The idea may well have been around longer still.
I enjoyed this one more than the numbers and I did much better, 5396 and doge with sun glasses.
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Is it me? or my browser? (firefox) or my system? (Mageia with autohinting enabled), but I do not see any difference between the fonts on this site and the woff files I use myself in several projects.
I am a critical type user as I use design programs like illustrator and indesign for on paper designs.

Can somebody show me the difference?
Avoid CloudAtCost
I found the following email in my inbox today:

http://pastebin.com/gKfpWiWN

Note the following:

I never received the original initial email about this emergency maintainance. I doubt they actually sent that. I have a couple of accounts and none of them received the initial email.

Promising 'we will never have an outage again moving forward' is a dangerous thing to say for a company that deletes daily cronjobs from their clients servers because the disk IO that the daily jobs generate result in kernel panics or read-only remount of your VPS fileystems. (Is this a fix for that issue? Who knows .. communication is not their best skill)

So even though these folks run VMWare, which is perfectly capable of migrating VMs or simply suspending and resuming VMs, they decide to POWER OFF your VMs and tell you via email that you can MANUALLY turn then back on.

I know I can't complain because I paid $35 for a lifetime server and you get what you pay for. But seriously, this is all so incredibly amateur hour.
Finally! IMO OneNote was the best software in the MS Office pack. It was tough to transition to other apps when I moved to Mac.
I'm a 31yr old with a decade younger sister who introduced me to doge and I'm embarrassed to say that I did better in this version than in the ones with numbers. Much sadness
From what I've read that theory is bullocks because 45k is still in the safety margins the plane was designed for.
Can't say I ever found it particularly bad, just mild poking fun - my Scottish friend at uni in England with me had it a lot worse. Kind of like being Canadian in America, I suppose.
I have not laughed out loud at a HN post in quite a while. Thank you for that. When I scored the first time and it a said "such player", I laughed quite loudly in my quiet office.