skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the article exactly agrees with you.

If you think that going on holiday will make things easier at work, you're probably wrong. Work is work, and taking a break from it doesn't make it not work. More importantly, if you take a break for a bit, then come back to the same grind, it's still going to burn you out.

If you are worried that you're burning out, and you find yourself trying to solve it by taking more vacations, ask yourself, "Why do I want to take a vacation?" You will probably find you want to get away from something (the "wrong" reason), vs. trying something new or doing something different (the "right" reason).

Like you said, take vacations that are a change of view (even if that view is just the beach for a week), not to quit missing your Tuesday Night Dinner.
Great tool!
BTW. how does this compare to Apache Tika for text extraction from HTML pages?
That can't account for the cost difference.
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Extracting audio from visual information
The only way I've been able to avoid burnout is to be deeply involved in things outside of work. I work a 9-6 front-end development job, but I also teach people how to train their dogs once a week, I write creatively for my own purposes, and I teach coding classes a few times a year. By adding variety and focusing on a few things that are important to me, I don't get burnt out on any of them. It does mean that I'm busy, but I've never felt more stable than I do now. I think having those competing priorities helps me keep the balance that I need to avoid burnout.
I prefer the pub, but there are obvious drawbacks. As long as you can stick to slightly less than two drinks it's okay though.
So what? Unless you have some SJW agenda it doesn't who builds the system, so long as the system gets build (and build well).

Washington needs geeks because they can't build the systems without us and they can't get geeks because they are washington. Geeks can build a system with (or without) a few workers.
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Make two versions: one without bluetooth ($50-100) and one with (I guess the late bird price is $200). I wouldn't buy the bluetooth one, because I don't plan on using wearables (especially not cycling).
I think defecating in the open is overall a cleaner approach, more sustainable, and the article doesn't go into details, but I'm sure those fields are not piles of excrements - I strongly believe people have found ways to do this cleanly over the ages so others don't step over feces, etc.
Location: Vancouver, BC / Paris, France

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Stack (pro): Ruby, Rails, Javascript (jQuery, AngularJS), Clojure, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, AWS, Chef

Stack (personal & experimental): Go, Erlang and Elixir, Rust, Docker

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xperez

Github: https://github.com/DuoSRX

Contact: jobs@xavier-perez.com

Other infos: http://xavier-perez.com

I'm a full stack developer with a preference for the back-end part of web applications. I'm currently working for KissKissBankBank (the leading European Crowdfunding website) in Paris (France) but will be leaving the company and moving to Vancouver BC in August. I'm already authorized to work there, no boring visa paperwork for you!

I'm looking for the next big challenge, ideally in a small company or startup. I love to learn new stuff every day and work with a team of cool people.

Bonus points if you're in those areas: crowdfunding, cryptocurrencies or hardware.
Unfortunately, the "helpful" rating on Amazon's reviews are heavily biased: http://minimaxir.com/img/amazon/amzn-basic-helpful.png
Wikipedia link hidden by 'right to be forgotten'
Out of curiosity, what's the best hackathon you've been to?
It's a combination of Frontline and the fact that my wife used to live there. My impression before you asked was that the German system was more centralized, involved more coordination with employers, and was tax-based. 5 minutes of research suggests that I might be wrong about that and equally happy with the German system.

Basically: I like private health insurance with guaranteed issue, community rating, and a coverage mandate.
Super Jungle Scout – Educational web game
We could have stars for multiple axes, plus a "choose n-of-m" keyword selection, but I wonder if that would be too complicated for users.

Example:

Service: 1-5
Cleanliness: 1-5
Concierge: 1-5
Modernity: 1-5
....

Choose three words to describe the hotel stay:
_ modern
_ rustic
_ rude
_ quaint
_ clean
...
This article poses a real question whether computer generated articles are suitable for encyclopedia consumed by humans.

Speaking of this, I would love to see Wikipedia in machine-readable language. Something like CYC project.

Edit: I know of WikiData, but there should be an unstructured analog to that.
In what context do you teach coding? I thoroughly enjoyed teaching while a TA in college, and have periodically thought I'd enjoy doing it again, but I don't have the inclination to go back for further degrees, nor deal with academia.
Seconded. I was confused by the no password thing at first until I found the link on this page https://workfrom.co/worker that described it. Now I like it.
Is anyone else getting a flood of spam followers on Google+
Google+ used to be my refuge from spam followers but I'm seeing a strange inversion: More traffic from people I know and work with on Facebook, and a flood of spam followers on Google+.
Can you roughly share when the developer API will be ready?
That's fine, I just wish people would stop pretending free speech is some great American value then. What they really value is the right to silence people by any means possible, stopping just short of imprisonment.
Secret serum likely saved Ebola patients
There was an interesting Planet Money not long ago about the legal issues in the US:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/05/30/317074394/drone-wa...
I think you're talking about the old slashdot moderation system. +5 insightful
> "It's a worrying meme that you shouldn't even expect your internet-connectible devices to survive the internet, and when they break its your fault."

This has been the go-to techie reaction to security problems since the time of dial-up modems. It's a bad attitude [1], but it's not a "meme". It's the only successful strategy an entire generation of technologically-minded people have found and preached in response to a generation's-worth of terrible software security, slow/absent/can't-be-arsed software providers and under-educated users.

Should things be different? Sure. Attitudes should be better and the software should be better. But so long as the latter isn't reflected in reality, there isn't much hope for the former.

[1] It's a bad attitude because blaming the user puts them on the defensive and reduces the chance of any progress being made.
Okay. Your model looks like TTA - a machine that is built on bypasses.

They are not new and they can be used to create very efficient chips (in terms of operations/watt) for some fixed functions (precisely, FFT of 2^N).

But they are 1) not fast in terms of raw performance for general purpose tasks, 2) not fast in terms of operating frequency and most important 3) prone to stall when present with non-deterministic delays like access to RAM.

You can add whatever functional units you like to TTA design, including content-addressable memory in disguise as FIFO. TTA design with such device will be identical to what you've described above.

I won't think you will improve performance very much with this trick.

PS

"not fast for general purpose tasks" - in some benchmarks TTA architectures executed gcc 10+ times slower than general purpose CPU with same frequency.

"not fast in operating frequency" - TTA requires crossbar, which is slow in 2D. You cannot make it fast.

"prone to stall" - you have to stop complete pipeline for a cache miss, otherwise you'll have divergence in execution.
$500 bucks a pop for reviews posted by people who are not under financial obligations to me is not small fish in any dimension.

And recovering money via the court system is another huge waste of time and effort for everyone involved. Stomping down on this hard is exactly what should be happening.
In my opinion and unfortunately experience, burnout is tightly coupled with procrastination. Neither burnout, nor procrastination is classified as disease, though. It is known, that a burnout is a life-management difficulty. [1]

To get to my point, the whole burnout process starts with procrastinating. However, the sources for procrastination can be very different. This is where you should fight the problem. If you have depression, get help. If you are lazy, well that sucks. (Sounds easy, I know. It is not easy in real life, I know). But in the end, your own inaction is digging your grave.

It's not the break you need. You need a new approach to handling life. Handling life differently. If you keep "only" taking breaks, the burnout becomes a cycle, instead of a one-time exhaustion. And you will go throught this cycle often.

The fact that I'm writing this, instead of studing/working, shows that my procrastination problem continues to grow, and eventually enlarging the burnout on the horizon.

[1] http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2010/en#/Z7...
This policy is in the same tone as other policies found on their web-site (e.g. cancellation policy). So I suspect it was written by the same individual and potentially at the same time.

Interesting theory though. Reminds me of the Amy's Baking Company "hacking" of their Facebook page.
Well, we could just agree that you're wrong ;)
I think you may have fixed it since I haven't had a problem in awhile but I sporadically had problems where the debugger didn't trigger on a break-point after awhile in a long debugging session. Is there a way to report heisenbugs like that which isn't going to waste your time?
Why would you work for somebody who doesn't respect you, except in a crisis situation? We will never, as a profession, get the respect we deserve until we make them give it to us. And they way to make them do so isn't to come running whenever they are in a crisis - it is to put a zero on the price in a crisis.
>Maybe it's the "star rating" system that's broken.

While less so for product reviews, I feel like restaurant/hotel reviews are more like movie reviews. Just like Battlefield Earth, there are some bad restaurants that universally will get panned. And there are some just wonderful establishments everyone will love, just like Shawshank Redemption.

But for everything in between, it's a matter of taste, which is why Netflix tries to infer your tastes and predict a star rating for _you_ rather than gives you an aggregate rating.

Someone might give a dive bar a one-star review because it's smoky, they only accept cash, and they only sell Bud Light. However that same person might give a 5-star review to a craft beer bar that refuses to sell mass market lagers.

On the flipside, someone might give the dive 5 stars because the drinks are cheap and it's one of the last places in town where they can go out and still light up. And they might give the fancy bar one star for being too pretentious.

Neither opinion is wrong, people just like different things. Glomming this all into an average star rating just seems to give me useless information.
The polio vaccine was fairly easy to discover. Give someone a weakened or dead version of the polio virus, and they develop antibodies, and they don't get sick when exposed to the full virus.

We are past the age when one guy running a small lab can just decide to cure something. It's going to take lots of money and lots of researchers and lots of false leads to find each new thing, and even after that there are going to be lots and lots of tests.
I've been teaching with Girl Develop It. If you have a chapter in your area, I highly recommend it! Both men and women can attend/teach, although its main goal is to promote more women in tech.
> Traditionally, fraudsters get around this restriction by turning to reshipping services that rely on “mules,” people in the United States who get recruited to reship packages after responding to work-at-home job scams. These reshipping mules are sent multiple packages containing electronics that have been purchased with stolen credit and debit cards.

Is it possible to fraud the fraudster here? You sign up for the work at home job, get a bunch of high end electronics sent to you, and then just keep it (or resell it locally).
"fifteen percent of the US economy (by dollars)"

Well, right there you have a problem. The U.S. has a larger % of the economy tied up in healthcare, and arguably worse services than any other civilized country:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS

the countries with the very best healthcare spend 10% of their GDP, the U.S. spends 7% MORE (17% according to the World Bank). And we're talking about very inefficient bureaucracies in most cases.

Every time I read about it, I'm amazed at how they can be so screwed up.

I have better healthcare than 99.9 of the U.S. population and I live in Uruguay - it is literally unbelievable for many that I can pay U$ 40 and get unlimited ER services with an ambulance at my door, doctor house visits for something like a fever, and amazing healthcare for U$ 150/month (plus small co-pay costs).

http://internationalliving.com/2013/06/the-worlds-best-healt...

And that's taking into account a very inefficient bureaucracy, with a corruption case affecting the government's perception right now.

http://www.latinnews.com/component/k2/item/61446.html?period...

Edit: further downthread, another poster found out the exact same data earlier

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8130257

Second Edit: in any case, the solution is going to be very hard and will require a very strong leader - I'm sorry for the U.S. that Obama didn't turn out to be the solution. There are no easy answers, I can understand what tptacek says about the Republicans not wanting such a massive nationalization of 17% of the GDP, and I can understand the Democrats looking at the mess and wanting to get it under their control.

I don't know if the U.S. has a strong surgeon's union, but there are several healthcare unions here in Uruguay that can raise their salaries at will by threatening (and actually going on) strikes.
>>>> If the government is guaranteeing it'll pay, why give them a price break?

>>> Because you want to stay in business and there are other healthcare providers the government could use instead?

>> Okay, now suppose that you have a patent on a particular drug or device or procedure and as a result are the monopoly provider of it. Where does the government go to get the lower cost alternative? Where is the downward pressure on your prices?

> Please refer to my points re subsides, loans and limits. These are not insurmountable problems.

So first you say that market forces will still be in play because the government could always go elsewhere. Then when provided with an example of a situation where market forces cannot come into play, you suggest that legislation can fix it. That is EXACTLY what tptacek was the problem, the loss of MARKET incentives and information.

> I'm not sure I follow. Price signals are based on demand.

No, no they're not. They're based on supply AND demand. This is literally econ 101. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

Normally demand goes down as price goes up because more and more entities get priced out of the market. With the government as the sole (or very nearly sole) buyer demand is constant because the government quite literally has a mandate to supply healthcare to the citizens. That means that suppliers have no incentive (short of avoiding legislative action aimed at them which they can cheaply and easily dodge through lobbying) to bring prices down. It's in their interests (read profit motive) to supply as much as they can at as high of a price as they can. This is the problem that people are talking about.

> 1. If the government is guaranteeing it'll pay, why give them a price break?

Why indeed? The threat of legislative action? See my comments above re: lobbying. Got a way around that? Most of the population of the US would be VERY interested to hear how you circumvent it. So far the only halfway viable strategy is what Lawrence Lessig is doing with mayday.us and that's a long way from making it a solved problem.

2. If the reason is passing laws saying you have to give them a price break (as you imply in paragraph 2), how is that not price fixing?

Again, see comments re: lobbying. Unless there is no possible way to circumvent the lobbying problem you're simply proposing that we replace one broken system which you dislike -- and rightly so, it's not that great -- with another broken system which you like. Sure you like it better but others do not. We're at the point of arguing about opinions.

"But other countries do it just fine!" you say. Okay sure, but which other countries with single payer systems have the kind of demographics that we do here in the US? Answer: none. They're all relatively small countries (relative to 310mm people) with rather homogeneous demographics (again at least compared to the US).

It MIGHT work OK and it MIGHT not be more broken than the system we have now but those aren't guarantees.
Why do we work?

Let's say that for most people following Hacker News, it's because their work matters to them; and, for others, it's just a paycheck.

Because of these differing work attitudes, you will see some expression of "burnout" (or some other work-related unhappiness). Keeping in mind these differences can help, but it won't solve this fundamental difference within a team.
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Sorry to hear that. You are better off talking to the accelerator and see if they could move you to another batch. B1 visa is a tricky visa. You need to have clear reasons for returning back to your country. You can show them any liquid and non-liquid asset that you own, maybe an inc. company,etc.
Command Line Faxing
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You'll agree on that alone then :P
>> Er... some infinities are more equal than others?

That's the whole point of the diagonal argument. To prove that.
Note: Phaxio hasn't compensated me for this post. I'm just a happy small-time customer :)
Why should we care about them? Let them rot, if it comes to where we have to we have more money to buy guards than they have.
Transport Triggered Architecture (CPU on bypasses)
Never Understood The Financial Crisis. There Is No Explanation For Stupidity
And the main page of Wikipedia is not updated, but:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
I used to choose awk/gawk, python, R for different file, numeric, textual and statistical operations. This is great, I would definitely use it.
Exactly what I meant. Thank you.

While you don't have to agree completely with me, and holiday are always nice. But if you need to take a holiday, then perhaps you do have something on your mind that you want to get rid of.
> Bottom line is that people are smart enough to filter out bad reviews.

The problem is that the software generally filters first - e.g. "show me the 'best of'" or "sort by top rated". If you're looking at a selection of hundreds of items, I don't know that your statement holds.
Saved you a click: they overbook
It is certainly possible, but it hardly seems advisable. The worst-case scenario is exceedingly bad.
But that was back when you needed a big company to do things and it was in a big crisis situation (ie WWII).
As long as the content of those articles is relevant and accurate, I don't see how that would impact on the suitability of the articles in question.

Does it really matter if a bot or a human has created an article as long as it contains facts and not thorough analysis?

Disclaimer: I haven't read any of the bot generated articles (at least, I don't think so).
I'm getting screwed with my stock options
So, I joined a startup 1,5 years ago. 2 non technical founders, a half baked product with no revenue at all, built with a freelancer. Joined remotely from a EU country, as a contractor with shit money and 10% equity in options. Fast forward to today, we got seed funding, are 17 people, and the founders want to take 4 points out of my 10 points to extend the options pool. They are each giving 4 points as well. The issue is, that in my situation 4 points represents 40 percent of my options, whereas in their case more like 10% of theirs. Talking undiluted percentages here.

I don't know what to fucking do. I'm "c level", but I'm feeling helpless. Also, we've set up an office here, and hired some people, so quitting and leaving feels like a bad option.

Also related question. I'm thinking of exercising my existing vested shares as soon as possible, but I'm not aware of possible legalities. Startup is US based, I'm EU based.

Experience + feedback much appreciated.
ODesk is screwing employers with their new “Hire for Trial Project” feature
This isn't BTC fraud, it's CC fraud with a traceable shipping address.
Maybe in a larger sense Yelp is working.

The people paying for the rooms are unhappy with them. They leave negative reviews. Perhaps the next wedding couple doesn't dig into the reviews and just skips over that place in favor of somewhere the guests will enjoy more. So the reviewers end up benefiting future would-be-customers, albeit indirectly.

If the hotel doesn't like this dynamic they can simply refuse to book wedding parties.
I firmly believe that the reason most major religions standardized a sabbath day was for mental health reasons. There's a lot of value to taking a day for yourself in which you do no work.

Even if you love what you do, you can't do it for 10 hours every single day for years.
I went through and read them all and they don't exactly seem "fake" in that the reviewer doesn't claim to have visited to the location. They are all complaining about the policies and attitude of the place, which can pretty well be gleaned from reading the policies on the site.
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The government (via the FDA) approves drugs for use. The government being able to approve drugs and own drug companies (while still competing with the private sector) seems like a conflict of interest.
This is what has happened to most of the reviews, not sure their criteria, most likely a human at Yelp has been notified and is looking into this posting. http://www.yelp.com/not_recommended_reviews/union-street-gue...

This appears to be from someone associated with the hotel in question: http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=igHDMTIuS5wYBi0KZ0jt...

It's at about 90 negative reviews posted today on Yelp.

Edit: now it's at 400+ negative Yelp reviews for the day.

Surprisingly their TripAdvisor profile has received 0 negative reviews today.
I think a really good example of how to do this is The Grindcore House[1] It is a Death Metal Vegan Coffee shop in South Philly. Almost every negative review is because of the lack of dairy, or choice in music. The owner has responded to a few of the negative reviews explaining his/her position in a respectful tone.

TLDR; if you're running a business don't get petty.

[1] http://www.yelp.com/biz/grindcore-house-philadelphia

EDIT: on further inspection there aren't as many negative reviews as I remember.
Trying to find a user SSO portal someone submitted here years ago
It was a simple concept, users could add sites along with the user/pass of that site and the link would be added to their portal. Once the user clicked it the app would just post the credentials. I played around with it years ago after someone posted a demo of it here but can't for the life of me find it!
Apologies in advance for the off topic, but what the hell is with that web site? I double-click a term on the page to highlight it for a search and it changes the font size. I move my mouse to the left because that's where I put my tabs and a menu pops out. They're trying to be clever but it's just incredibly frustrating.