skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're at your wits end, you need a break. Try not to make a serious life decision when you're overworked and stressed to the max. Clarity first - go for a long drive, swim, run or workout. Do something to clear your mind and push out some stress. Physical activity highly advised.

I've worked in a similar environment and even though there has been a lot of research of the dires and productivity loss of exceeding the 40hr work week, we still push ourselves. If you feel this way so does some members of your team probably. The team loses if you all don't take a breather or lighten your load. I don't know the best route - hiring more employees, take less customers, under promise and over deliver on timetables, charge more, etc but a conversation with you partner may help.

Google some of the research done on exceeding 40hr wrk weeks and maybe you can find some better direction.

You can get through this. Best of luck.
This isn't about meaningful variations. Go to Dell and HP's websites and see how many different ways (with different model numbers and sometimes even prices) you can configure a laptop with the same screen, processor, RAM, and hard drive.

I tried it at one point and stopped counting after around 10.
I don't see your email address on your profile, mine is jbarrec(at)gmail(dot)com
I like Walla Walla, but I have roots there on my father's side (I'm more tri-cities myself, but have been big city bound since I was 8). They have an intact downtown which is more than you can say for many of those towns.
Well, let me lay out my case:

"Meaningful Use" is tied to the regulations that also govern the glacially-developing interoperability standards, and is only achieved through certification. What "meaningful use" actually means is still not very well defined from what I know (I'm now in the financial industry so I haven't kept abreast of the current state of EHR regs.) So even if the industry settled on a standard themselves, they can't be sure adopting it or the non-existent government decreed standards would meet certification even for meaningful use. And meaningful use and interoperability are the result of HIPAA from 1996.

Doctors and hospital systems are hesitant to adopt any EHR solution because they will receive huge subsidies from the federal government in the form of tax-breaks as long as they are using a certified solution, which is the only way many smaller practices will be able to afford adopting EHR systems. There is a lot of uncertainty around committing to an EHR solution because the practitioners can't be convinced that the EHR systems will meet cert, so they're dragging their feet, which really retards the growth and revenue of the industry.

I think if there was a standard for interoperability that everyone knew would meet cert (which ties into "meaningful use"), we wouldn't be having most of this conversation.
In some cases, there's limited advanced identifying information before the voir dire. There's undoubtedly an opportunity for a search engine that can take a name and maybe a topic and present a quick summary (or even a quick desirability score).

Someone could start by grabbing a few indicators derived from the online presences of former jurors, then rating those indicators on a pro-plaintiff / pro-defense scale. (Or more specific sub-scales, depending on the type of case and features of the case.)

It'd be like Netflix. "You 'liked' that baby video, you might also enjoy voting to convict/acquit in this case..."
I don't think the issue lies so much in tacking on a bit extra to cover the tax as much as being subject to it without knowing. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect that building an application for another company would be considered a service. They may have done the research and discovered that service providers aren't required to collect sales tax and moved on. The tax code is such that you can't expect to understand every little component of it unless it is your full-time job.
You have to travel to the mailbox to send something from it.

That mailbox is generally surrounded by other people who might notice it's comings and goings, or unfamiliar characters posting large packages.

Frankly, the idea that metadata can't help us solve crimes but it can obviously be used to nebulously control a population is an oxymoron. Either metadata is useful, or it isn't. If it's useful, then why isn't it useful or potentially useful for dealing with crime? You can't have it both ways.
It's hard to think straight when you're going to be sleeping on the streets in a few days. Thinking becomes cluttered. Depression sets in. Please take that into account.
I really like that paper. Looks like it has been updated to V3 since I read it last.
I used FancyHands to cancel my Honest subscription. Glad that was money well spent.
On HN yes, but if this were reddit you might negate.
I used Vim previously, I went through a month of Vim and a month of Emacs. I settled on Emacs in part because I enjoyed writing in Elisp
People at eBay's online marketing department must be smart enough to realize that many of these ads were worthless to the company, yet it was worth it for them to empty the monthly budget on a list of generic keywords.

I read somewhere that alleged cookie-stuffers claimed that eBay's staff knew about the cookie-stuffing all along, and encouraged it so long as it increased the sales attributed to their own work in courting affiliates.

If true, these are both cases where incentive design (and measurement) are as important as people's skill with their craft.
I don't get the critique. The real value of something like HealthKit is that you have a convenient and potentially cool way to engage more meaningfully with your primary care doctor. Here's my pills, blood pressure over time, etc.

Integration with EHR in any way doesn't make sense, because you don't choose your doctor based on the software stack they are using -- it's based on perception of quality and whether the practice is in your insurance network. Google tried to take that route, and that product faded away quickly.

The situation described in the critical care world is more likely to be "improved" (from a consistency standpoint) by the waves of medical consolidation being driven by Obamacare (which drive outpatient and primary care), cuts to Medicare reimbursement (making hospital operations less lucrative), and Medicaid moving to a managed care model. (again, less hospital)

IMO, if you want to make sure that YOU get good care, keep a clueful relative with you when you get sick.
Second example say you want to compute

(x + y) * z - w

where each of them are long vectors but want to keep the look of the code readable and explicit. Naive way to do it will create lots of temporaries and unnecessary loops. Every binary operation is going to create a temporary (and entail a loop). But if you have laziness you just need one loop.

Can you elaborate on this? Why can laziness provide better code here?
Bring back the 40-hour work week http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_...
If you have programming skills, you can look for another job since you are pretty new on the job market.

Otherwise, you may learn a lot from the code you are copying and pasting from other people. You need to have more experience before you can land a more decent job.

Check out our free summer camp: "How to build a website like an engineer", hosted online in the Kickstarter project: http://kck.st/SY4CXv. Let me know if I can help.
Came here to say the same. Google already does what the article says, and has decent pricing. My only grief with their solution is that the "desktop" viewer is the "Google+ Photos" webapp (part of Google+) that really sucks bigtime for browsing your history of photos. Give it a try and cry.

Apple Photos.app on iPhone is tons better, with their moments, locations, people, search (in iOS8) and whatnot.
This is exactly why I quit freelance design as well. It's a never-ending cycle of you having to pour all your heart and soul into making your clients richer. And what do you get? Just a lousy paycheck.

There are way cool business models out there requiring far less work with far higher pay.
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Maybe I'm being naive, but the whole problem of how to model medical data isn't to design your system to do fine grained scheme of every possible problem, I'd think it may be better to find the minimum amount of schema that can define things - i.e. a few tags describing whether it's a lab value, order, medication, etc, and then a plaintext data store. Interpretation could then be passed onto specific clients based on the tags?
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A long time ago I was a workaholic and liked to be the guy who worked harder than everyone else. I made the mistake of getting emotionally involved with what I did for a living. Projects would stress me out. What saved me was finding another outlet for my workaholism. For me, it was Toastmasters. For you, it may be something different. Finding something outside of my day job that I could pour my energy and optimism into and at the same time, push myself out of my comfort zone, was key.

If you quit, it is not going to magically fix all your problems. The time to start addressing the issues in your life (everyone has issues) is today - not tomorrow or yesterday.

Please try to start balancing out your life (the cliche 'balance your life' is true - think of it more like a tightrope where you can fall off, rather than a seesaw). If you're going to quit, ask for a 1-month sabbatical (they might give you one).

Good luck!
The problem isn't that you don't know what to do. It's that you know and yet can't bring yourself to do it.

From the article: small adjustments to how employees think about work

The key word there is: think. It's surprisingly hard to change what you think. Even if there was a feature for incoming email to not interrupt you, you still wouldn't turn the feature on.
Yes - when I had insomnia problems, I showed the charts from the sleep accelerometer app on my phone to my consultant, and it helped them very much.
You're demanding an awfully high level of rigor from me for someone who has claimed an exclusively one-way cause/effect here without any kind of support or evidence.

In a system as integrated as the brain I think you'd be hard-pressed to prove that causality between two different traits can only go in one direction.
It seems to be written mostly in C, so I wonder how difficult it would be to port this library into an interpreted Lua 5.2 environment. Has anyone tried that yet?
Vancouver BC has the second most expensive real-estate in the entire world: http://globalnews.ca/news/1098143/vancouvers-housing-prices-...
Based on your comments your pulling in close to 4-7 Million a year in revenue. There's no reason your not pulling in 500k to 1 million a year personally. In 5 years your done. Not sure how long you stuck out your job but 5 years goes pretty fast at that pass.
My mistake, I actually installed the wrong app.
I've been bitten by similar complexities around indirectly managing the database connection pool in Go, too. There might be a little too much magic in the library (such as successfully iterating to the end of a resultset implicitly releasing the results).
What exactly do you need?
If you do all of your work "perfectly" and can't do it any other way at any expense you may just have anxiety issues. Quitting doesn't do away with it.

This entire story says to me that you are a selfless person that wishes to be more selfish. Be selfish. It's cathartic. You don't have to go overboard, but buy yourself pizza and don't share. Go to a movie and not invite anyone. Baby steps.
This has happened to me.
We decided last year to take our tradeshow budget and spend it on "point of purchase" materials for our resellers. This has worked well, sales are up 20% this year.
My friends and I in college had a blast playing it on the C64. One of them would occasionally buy and release mules, more to screw over the other players that wanted to deploy them for production, but I'm sure driving up the price of smithore was also a benefit. Good times.
I'm working today (Sunday) so I can accomplish something for work. Most of my work occurs on the weekend, before I go to work, or after I get home. Yet I am at the office >40hrs/week. It's a madness that I cannot sustain. But yay, we are moving to a new facility with cubicles (I have an office now). I just don't expect any productivity to be possible anymore.
Not a lawyer but those patents probably ain't worth the paper they're printed on.
> but rather to challenge the unstated assumption that people who avoid cognitive biases are necessarily better off.

But you haven't. Maybe depressive realism is better for getting things done - if, you know, you can get the 'realism' without the 'major mental disorder' part. (And why didn't you consider manic-depressive disorder? If being optimistic is so great, surely being manic is even greater...) Pointing to a literally diseased example doesn't raise much of a challenge at all.
It's certainly worth looking at. I personally find Jaynes's acerbic commentary entertaining, although I imagine it grates for many. His overall view of probability is satisfyingly coherent, but I do not consider myself sufficiently expert to assess whether it is meaningfully better than the alternatives. And there are places where I believe he is just wrong, e.g. he seems to reject Bell's inequality and view quantum probability as just another case of limited information.

There are also times, like in the chapter linked in the parent, where his zeal is bothersome. He begins the discussion of ESP by saying it would be too dogmatic to assign a probability of 0 to ESP. But, when faced with the evidence, he just throws in a bunch of other possible hypotheses that can explain it:

Therefore, this kind of experiment can never convince me of the reality of Mrs. Stewart’s ESP; not because I assert Pf = 0 dogmatically at the start, but because the veriﬁable facts can be accounted for by many alternative hypotheses, every one of which I consider inherently more plausible than Hf, and none of which is ruled out by the information available to me.

Of course the choice of priors for those other hypotheses were subjective, and there's no limit on how many other hypotheses one might add to explain away unpleasant data. This strikes me as more rationalizing than rationalist.
Sounds like you should quit if you think there's a reasonable chance to get a more satisfying job. Only you can guestimate that but I'd start with trying to get in contact with the old company you worked for. It sounds like that was enjoyable and you could move there now. It may feel odd to return to a place you left but assuming you left nicely companies you worked for are usually pretty happy to get ex-employees back (because there's no "risk" and they know who they get)
Why raise minimum wage?
I think you're speaking from a position of ignorance, and discounting an entire field based on your biases, with confirmation in the form of an anecdote about a grad student (or undergrad? - it's not clear).

Of course my comment is partly tongue in cheek, given that its form necessarily shadows your own statement for my desired level of irony.

My own biases come in part from my GF. She's an economist - a social science - and has opened my eyes in many respects. Most of all, it's extremely hard to get good data in the social sciences. She works in healthcare policy evaluation, but all the people collecting data are not trained in it - they're filling out forms, themselves often designed by people not trained in it either. And of course she runs up against the usual "you have to do it for the children" people who dismiss any kind of rational analysis of the cost / benefit of various different healthcare interventions.

Anyway, I'm a bit sensitive about this, because I see a lot of arrogant ignorance, especially in IT, with guys (usually guys in our field) dismissing whole fields that very clever men and women have dedicated entire lives to, without bothering to learn anything about what they're dismissing.
Wow, I'd heard of 1&1 but never imagined what kind of users take them up on their free trial offers. It sounds like their business model is smoke and mirrors. They maybe got a page out of the Comcast playbook.

Sorry to anyone who has ever signed up with 1&1.
Exactly. Isn't this as bad an idea as trying to parse HTML with regular expressions? [1]

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...
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Will we still be able to pay a moderate fee (like today) and skip SNI?
Your mom got lucky. When Kenmore was good, they were OEMing Whirlpool stuff. When they weren't, they usually sucked.

The GE stuff that you mentioned actually buying is a similar crapshoot. Until recently, GE was offshoring most whitegoods, and the quality was mostly junk. If you got the stuff made in the US or a higher end line, it's usually ok. But you never know.

If you want quality in laundry, buy Speed Queen or other vendors that make most of their money selling to laundromats.
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They seem so blindly focused on that one metric of girls majoring/working in CS. So much that they have no shame about exploiting sexist stereotypes in their message, strategy, branding even all the way down to web design.
I'd love to improve that metric as much as anyone. But it would be so so so much better to do it by working on the fundamentals rather than by manipulating people into CS using the very warfare that keeps them out.
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How the fuck is this downvoted? Jesus Christ. This article is pure shit and the comments at the bottom of the article were nice enough to at least begin explaining why.
1. loop: x + y, loop (x + y) * z, loop (x + y) * z - w.

2. loop: (x[i,...,n] + y[i,...,n]) * z[i,...,n] - w[i,...,n]

although I don't think the loops are going to be the main overhead in this case.
Of course it does, if that regular expression matches we have a valid URI. It's silly what gets downvoted on HN these days.
Well it does make deploymeny really simple, since it'll have such light dependencies. If it's statically linked it could even be as simple as unpacking a tar file.
That one I'm still not clear on. I THINK I should be closing that particular rows set already, the SQL is LIMIT 1 and I check if !rows.Next(){return ...}, yet... here we are :-)
Hollywood is juicing. Like, at glow-in-the-dark levels.
That's the thing I always saw as lacking with online advertising -- there's no brand placement.

Online ads always seem to me to be focused on transactional response "Wow, I can use this weird trick to buy a vitamin, sign me up!"

Billboard/display advertising is really effective at this. I happen to know that a particular orthopedic medical practice that I wasn't familiar with has a walk in clinic until 10PM every day to fix broken bones, etc. That's effective advertising!

In contrast, I've been a heavy internet user since 1994. The only product I can think of that I actually learned of via online advertising is those X10 video cameras that dominated pop-up/under advertising a decade ago. That's pretty sad for advertisers!
If each of the four variables is a vector, naively you might do (x + y) first, producing a new vector. Then you would multiply by z, producing a second new vector. Finally, subtract w, producing a third new vector. You have now iterated over the length of the vectors three times, and allocated three new vectors (two of which are no longer needed).

A better way to do all that would be to allocate a single result vector and populate it with the full computed expression for each element. This can be much faster for large vectors. Python's numexpr (among others) is designed to do just this.
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It's why you should always write regex (at least, anything beyond a couple of characters) using the `x / PCRE_EXTENDED` flag. It makes them ignore whitespace and anything following a #, so you can split your regex up onto multiple lines and comment it to explain what it's doing.
Except that he does imply in the conclusion to the article that they are reasonable conclusions to make. It's not just "twist to meet a predetermined conclusion", the author is actually saying that these are reasonable and plausible arguments. I'm saying that the first example isn't plausible because the quoted study is not representative of the argument being made. It's more a comment on spin-doctoring than quality of social psych research.
Never delete code. This is why you have git or svn, or whatever your tool of choice is. Never, ever delete code. You may think it's dumb, you may think it's crap, or useless or whatever, but in 2 years, you'll think. "Damn, I remember doing this already, don't I have some code in somewhere?" And you will.

You may look at it and rewrite huge chunks because you're a far better programmer now, but trust me, re-writing code is way easier than writing it from scratch
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It's techcrunch. They live in an Apple bubble.
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It's all about the PR to be able to say you support women coders.
1) I'm suprised that this kind of work is going on at Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, etc. Maybe I'm just unaware, but I thought that was interesting.

2) The conclusion of this paper is daunting. It sounds like it's impossible to reliably know if a campaign was -10/+10% ROI. Only if the campaign was =50% was it then just 'difficult' and not impossible.

Very cool stuff Randall and Justin.
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Yep. I know. I even deleted the github repo.
I'm seriously not sure what I was doing.
Remove all traces of a bad idea?
I worked in a sales environment like this for a summer break in college. I was the number 2 sales dude that summer, hitting all of the BS metrics that they fussed over. (ratio of premium to total sales, ratio of services to total sales)

But... they lost a fair amount of money on me, because I abandoned profitable sales that wouldn't hit my metrics, dumping them on others. Instead, I ended up moving lots of stuff with high price concessions. But I never sold anything without the metric-impacting accessory purchases. So I was #2 in gross sales, #1 in hitting targets, but #28 in profit. I made a ton of money though... paid for school the following year!

So, I'd say good luck, it's hard to know what to measure for when your business leaders are busy tracking metrics instead of leading. If I owned a restaurant, and the GM was fussing around with cameras and computers in the back, I'd fire him. Service business management is about taking care of customers and setting up systems to ensure that happens. Lead from the front.
I've seen cynical commenters on HN/proggit/etc. write that the reason why companies like Google are so intent on getting more female programmers, and more programmers in general, is that it'd allow for engineer wages to go down over the next decade or two due to the basic laws of supply/demand.

Not sure I fully buy into it- but it's not a crazy argument either, especially given the recent accusations of collusion to keep salaries low between major tech players.
They are truly terrible, for multiple reasons. I encountered a similar issue when canceling with them earlier, where they actually asked for my password over the phone:

https://www.andrewmunsell.com/blog/one-and-one-asks-for-your...
Microsoft also does it with SkyDrive, and has for the past few years.

Unfortunately, for a lot of tech journalists, until Apple does it -- it hasn't been done.
Sometimes you just need to burn the pictures of you with your ex and move on. In some way, you should "KEEP" everything, after all digital space is cheap right? But you can keep a lot of code around that you will never revisit in the future.

> but trust me, re-writing code is way easier than writing it from scratch

Not always true, and not even often true.