skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say it is a work life balance issue.

I am not saying its not a problem, but I am struggling to see it as a mental health issue.

The first hit I got on Google doesn't talk about exhaustion or burnout. It does mention depression, which I agree with.

http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/help-information/an-introduct...
An indie developer released his numbers lately and it made the front page of HN. I don't recall the game and actually never even head of it, but I remembered being impressed by his revenue, especially considering how simple the game was.

>but it's curious to me because the games continue to be made.

I think the numbers are more impressive than we assume and the work, especially for an indie-quality game, can be done with a very, very small team. Only a handful of the top played games in Steam are actually AAA games. That leaves a lot of dollars available for smaller shops. 2014's success story? Goat Simulator with 1.4m copies sold. Even at its modest $9.99 pricing, that's pretty decent money for what is essentially a joke game.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/steam-gauge-measuring-...
burnout? Or the thrill of being a founder...
There's a big chance that When I file my French taxes, my income justification is based on my Adjusted Gross Income on my US tax return since I don't make any money from French-EU companies. isn't the right way to interpret the source of your income.

(I'm not offering that as advice, I'm pointing out that those offices are relying on a characterization that you and whoever is paying you are making. A US corp with all of its operations in France probably doesn't qualify as a non EU entity...)
He did what he did. Belief is stronger than any medicine be it western or "witchcraft".
I'm not entirely sure why this is explicitly gender-specific, given the unisex example questions.
Yes, there is some subtlety here.

But the point stands, which is all the discussion of "why he picked the UK" as a place to avoid extradition seems to be missing the point. If he were comfortable with the government of the UK he'd be relaxing in a pub or reading in the park rather than holed up inside an embassy somewhat out of the reach of UK law for two years.
steve jobs will come again. after apple releases the 7" iphone 7, he will return to cleanse our world - punishing the wicked, and rewarding the righteous.
Also for the record Jobs was offered a life saving surgery when initially diagnosed and chose "...alternative treatments like dietary supplements and juices."

I am astonished that somebody as worldly as Jobs chose to do that.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-jo...
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You can also type `gmail` and hit `ctrl+enter` which will auto add `www` and `.com`.
HN does not allow to give hat-tips or other Twitter-like credits. Where should they even put that? In the title?

It is: first come-first serve and I don't think you can even mention the OP of this post without scrolling back and looking it up. It doesn't matter much to you and me.
There has been talk of a Europa lander as part of ESA's JUICE mission [1], provided by the Russians. Looks like it has been de-scoped however.

[1] http://sci.esa.int/juice/
"social changes from the pricing policy changes of marginal EC2 instances" sounds ridiculous when given this context, right?

It changes when the context are not "marginal EC2 instances" but instead energy and resources burning machines, used (often) by ignorant software developers and their organizations allowed and actually encouraged, partly even actively driven into such purely self beneficial behavior models.

For a definition of social: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social ... obviously driving software development into a scarcity of computing power would haven "social" consequences: in the development teams f.e. interactions and priorities would need to change dramatically.

But maybe software development turned almost into a "commodity" because of the commoditization of computing power available to even the most ineffective mental artifact aka program.

And that in turn was possible in large extent by off-loading the true costs of assembly / dis-assembly / disposal and the resources needed to build those machines onto people in underdeveloped regions of the world...

Now what could the social change be, the more expensive computing devices could allow for in those regions?

If people cared about "effectivity" not only via a detour to "uh, i need to recharge my phone, again?!" f.e. but essentially because because they would have to pay the true cost for their ineffective setup of hardware and software?

What could the social change be... ;)
I wonder if there's some geography bias there? Rails seems a lot more popular in the Bay area than the rest of the country, which could be artificially inflating its value.

Then again, the armies of replaceable keyboard monkeys typing in Java might be artificially depressing Java wages, too.
Free of charge succeeds the object "photo effects" in the sentence, thereby showing that that feature comes not as an in-app purchase, but free (thus, not denoting the price of the entire product).
One piece of warning from the article regarding "last write wins":

>..., this is really a "many writes, chosen unpredictably, will be lost" policy—but that wouldn't sell as many databases, would it?
I don't see an about page, is this entirely automated on the Alexis end? Could I send a picture of two outfits and ask which looks better? Does it have location-aware suggestions?
Of course a better way of doing it in C is:

for (char* p = s; *p; p++) {
doSomething(*p);
}
2-3 Gallons of fuel, or about $10-$15.

The time spent on flying the penis' outline is slightly less than 30 minutes. According to flightradar24 the plane is a Vans RV-12, which consumes about 5 Gallons per Hour. A Gallon of AVGAS 100-LL costs around $5 in the Southeastern Region, including Florida.

If he's renting from a club, I'd estimate the cost to the pilot at anywhere between $50 and $80.
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Anyone else think it should be titled 'potentially life-saving' instead? There was no guarantee it would have, though it did have more potential than the transplant he received later in the year.
edit: titles -> titled
If you turn off your computer or ever intentionally close your IDE, you are doing it wrong.
Why the Apple Watch is designed to break China
They can pass regulations that make owning, manufacturing, or selling such a weapon a pain in the ass. There's a whole category of crimes that automatically turn into much more serious crimes when you append "...with a deadly weapon" to the original crime. The government can arrest people and charge them with a trivial crime that turns into a felony because the suspect was carrying a weapon.

Or they could just do what they already do with guns: require a permit to carry the thing and then simply refuse to issue permits. As I said, guns are effectively illegal in the Boston area, and Heller did fuck all to change that.
Taking a step into the imaginary future of space
When I got to the part about his fall as a teenager, I started to wonder whether something was damaged in his brain that made him who he is (mentally). A brain MRI might tell us a lot more, but I imagine he wouldn't agree to that.
This appears to be a copy of Magic (apparently "Magic for X" is now a market category?), so it is likely unautomated.

There's also a reason you haven't heard about Magic in weeks.
> Even the dev with the fix wasn't rude about the original problem, he seemed pretty humble about it actually.

The Ruby community is very good interpersonally from my experience. It's a culture that I think comes from this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINASWAN
No, not really. Life extension is life saving, after all.
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eh - i like being able to design a site in photoshop, architect data models, build a site in django, build the templates, the css and javascript and launch it. I don't think that leads to burn out.
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H1-b is also a lot more expensive to hire because of the processing and many companies start the greencard process for H1-bs, which is even more expensive and highly scrutinized.
Smugness: the dark-side of hubris. Hubris being one of the three virtues [0].

I like to remember the past of computer programming as though it was once friendly and receptive to people of all skill levels. I owe quite a lot to the geeks who came before me and answered my stupid questions, gave me powerful tools to learn with, and accepted my contributions; flawed as they were. Without making a few mistakes along the way I wouldn't be where I am today.

I don't know whether I would have given up if the people I met were more smug and mean-spirited but my progress might have been slowed by it. Life is too short to waste bothering with people who are miserly with their good fortunes. It doesn't cost you anything to be nice and share your knowledge and wisdom. It may pay off when the person you're sharing with rises to stand upon your shoulders one day and pay homage to you.

[0] http://threevirtues.com/
Thanks. I'm not really in the loop; why haven't we heard about Magic in weeks?
The author makes some valid points, but instead of banning stock buybacks for all companies, I think there would be a stronger case for banning stock buybacks for companies that have been beneficiaries of bailouts with public money.
I disagree. Laws in American states provide for different degrees of murder, and can adjust the range of punishments accordingly. Inchoate offenses can be tacked on for actions that increase the severity of the crime or attach guilt to other people.

We simply have different rules in our ethical systems, you and I.

I, for one, am less apt to makes crimes of someone's thoughts or intentions, in the absence of actual harm. I also feel the role of policing should be more in the nature of investigation, capture, and detention awaiting trial, rather than prophylactic protection.

I would very much like all police work to start with identifying that a crime has occurred, work backwards to find out who did it, capture that person, and then turn over the person and all available evidence to the courts. I find the trend towards identifying a potential criminal, then gathering evidence on that person until a crime can be identified, to be anathema to a free society.

Whether RU committed the crimes of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder or not, the police committed crimes themselves in exposing him, and I find it more acceptable ethically for the guilty man to go free than to allow the state's justice system to profit by its own corruption. That's the fruit of the poison tree doctrine. It's how we keep a free society free, and how we protect cops from retaliatory violence from the people who feel they are serving themselves rather than justice.
Sometimes, you want to spend your money supporting a company that supports the development of Linux.

Dell and Google have a better record on this front, and the XPS 13 and the new pixel are "solid gear".
I know, I was intentionally curt in my reply because snark is best solved with more snark </snark>
Great link! Does anyone know of a similar document for Europe?
Men don't have a monopoly on "burnout, exhaustion, depression" so the negative blanket statements about men could be left out entirely.
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Is Mozilla being forced to buy Adwords to protect their users from malware?
For a while I've been moaning about the fact that paid results on Google search for terms like "firefox" or "download firefox" lead to dodgy download sites with versions of Firefox full of malware[0].

After reading a comment mentioning the issue again today[1] I did a few searches to see if anything had changed. I was surprised to find that the ads that show up for the search term "firefox" are links to Mozilla's own site: https://i.imgur.com/F9Ct4Tf.png although sometimes the malware ads still show up as well: https://i.imgur.com/oRpU5Mq.png

It appears that Mozilla, faced with a situation where many users were unable to install Firefox safely without getting malware, have decided to outbid the malware ads themselves, to try and ensure that their users get a clean download. The real Mozilla link is always the top organic result, so I can't see what other reason they would have to start bidding on expensive Adwords keywords.

Do Mozilla folk here know if the decision to start buying Google ads was discussed publicly? Is this a new policy? How much are they having to pay for this? Have they asked Google to take down the malware ads?

I find it hard to see this as anything other than extortion by Google: "pay us or your users get infected".

[0] e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879229 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335401 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7971201

Screenshots: https://i.imgur.com/Ote9c2k.png https://i.imgur.com/lzKU3FO.png and an older screenshot from back when the ads were more clearly marked: https://i.imgur.com/jX5Lt9F.png

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9193250
It's always nice when a small change is a big win.

This reminds me of the gc_disable() PR that reduced composer install times by half a few months back.
> I would say it is a work life balance issue.

Did you even read my second paragraph? Even though it might be caused by a bad work/life balance, that doesn't mean that it isn't a mental issue when you eventually become burnt out.

It's like a depressed person who starts exercising and gets some relief from that - "Oh, then it seems that your problem was your physical fitness, not anything to do with depression". It seems a bit myopic.
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And I have to point to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
Is Apple the new BlackBerry?
I'm a volunteer for the ticketing system for whenever people send e-mail to Wikipedia using the 'contact us' link. This happens to us all the time as well. As you might know, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so we get questions about virtually everything.
Haven't read the paper yet, but sounds similar in concept to what Geoff Hinton aims at for image recognition networks.
No imprint, no privacy policy, nothing. But I should submit my cell number? Seriously?
At scale, I would agree with this, although I wouldn't say "prevents", I would say "discourages". You should definitely notice large effects at scale in any economy, in this case, people definitely do buy more junk food because it's cheaper

(I even do this, and I prefer healthy foods when possible! But at your typical gas station, junk:healthy::10:1, which is not quite the same problem)
I wonder what the average Android engineer makes compared to the average Java engineer.
Religion is not required to have irrational fear.
Windows Core is Windows 10 is Windows Core is Windows 10
Are you telling us there should be a form of copyright for the first person to publish a link on a social media ? And then everybody should thanks this person and forget about the author of the original work ?
Can you name a procedure that's actually life-saving, then?

As far as I can tell, any medical procedure maxes out at "extending life"
Your Presentation Won't Please Everyone
> very capable Corvette would be high on most enthusiasts lists

It really isn't, not in europe.
This was kind of depressing all those fucking names and my fiance and I couldn't find one in common.

Other than that, I think it's an awesome idea.
How is that even relevant?

He is reporting about programmer salaries, not tutoring a college course on programming.
Once when debating the poor quality of programmers with a friend, I said "You know how dumb the average programmer is? By definition, half are even dumber!"

He responded, "Only half? Do you mean the mean, the median, or the mode?"

And there's the rub. There may not be a shortage of engineers, but there's a serious shortage of good engineers. And I'm not sure more H1B will solve that problem.
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From what I've heard, people gave up at the waitlist. The unit economics do not make sense either: the CEO said that they break even overall, which is unsustainable when you consider cost of human capital/oppertunity cost. http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/27/catch-a-tiger-by-the-toe/

However, from their Twitter account, Magic is apparently not dead. https://twitter.com/tweetmagicnow
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Note that the links in a linked can be in-line with the contained data (aka. intrusive pointers). Albeit quite uncommon, they don't need to be pointers/references at all, but indexes.
Or distant relatives of the advanced nanotechnology brought here by aliens who seeded life on this planet.
The fruit diet was something he tried years and years ago because he believed that if he only ate fruit, he wouldn't have to bathe. So he ate nothing but fruit and never washed himself.

He was wrong. He stunk, and he eventually gave it up after everyone in his vicinity complained.
I thought the Schengen area had a 90 days in/180 day limit for USians? Is that only for the visa waiver?
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That's just a blatant rationalisation because people don't like change. There's nothing natural about understanding either metric or imperial, so suggesting that humans inherently are born with more understanding of one is silly.

Metric only wins in my book because it is much easier to convert units (there are no magic numbers for conversion factors). However I'd laugh at anyone who suggest metric is better because people inherently internalise it better, just as I laugh at people who suggest the same for imperial.

The US should switch, there are no legitimate arguments against it except perhaps [short term] costs. Certainly not "because F is easier to understand." It is only easier because you grew up with it and are used to it...
> "We were storytellers. We were kinda thrown by the wayside. The innovations that adventure games made over the course of their lifespan were absorbed into the other genre of games. You have inventory. You have object manipulation. You have puzzles. You have all these things that adventure games that are now a standard part of most games. So the adventure-game part was kinda absorbed. But what they didn't do is grab the stories. We told stories."

I could not have put it as well as this. But this.
"DHTML era when DOM based Javascript widgets and libraries were all the rage"

Serious question (I've been rather out of touch with web programming): What era are we in now?
> A 2013 study by the Economic Policy Institute showed that American universities graduate 50 percent more students in computer, information science, and engineering each year than are hired in those fields

This is a reasoning flaw: companies don't need people who graduate from certain fields. They need people with certain skills that are difficult to attain. A degree in those fields is correlated with the skills in question, but it is very far from a predictor.
It's a statement that comes from knowing a lot about the tools and not a lot about the area in which you're applying them. That applies to a lot of startups, rarely the successful ones, and in this instance it certainly applies to me, and probably most of the readers of this thread.

The purpose of the comment is to offer up the strawman solution so that we can hear more about the interesting part of the problem that means it isn't trivial.
google adwords is too expensive tu buy by mozilla, it will never happen
And? Someone output things in non SI units to something that expected SI.

Shit happens. Want me to point to the Beagle probe? Space isn't easy.
In the end, we all will die.
"Attack of the repo man" is a classic case of this behavior http://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html
Would you find that "most people commit felonies (without harm)" to be convincing evidence of policy flaws?
"Yeah I'll have a quart of Coke" certainly sounds weird.

It is strange now that I think about it that we have imperial measurements for milk but metric measurements for sugary drinks/beer.
Not me, I watch the travel channel so I can see the beautiful outdoors. Oh...
OK - 7 today, 700 tomorrow. The first tax code was just a few pages.
That makes no sense.

I'm pretty sure that I would die during the first play from scrimmage if I suited up and tried to stand in for a middle linebacker in the NFL. The burden in this example, as in yours, is on the idiot who is so inspired, not the one with exceptional athletic skills.
And imagine what would you have been able to do if you used sane measurement system ...
also do not discount the idea that many refuse such of friends and acquaintances because they do not wish to feel indebted to them.

anonymous donors are fine. seeing the person who helped save your life each day may not, you may feel incorrectly they think they have a right to question you when they don't feel the same
> I am astonished that somebody as worldly as Jobs chose to do that.

It is incredibly difficult to take rational decisions when your life is at stake. You are then probably the least capable person of taking good decisions.
Tiered storage is already here. If you're using block storage in the cloud those guys are already do all sorts of optimizations (for their costs) that include tiering. And on your own desktop / own server side you can do this today on Linux with bcache or dm-cache. Works great for databases.
Good job, tenderlove, that's a nice performance boost.

Personally, I really dislike Ruby's syntax, though I haven't spent a huge amount of time with it (because I dislike the syntax). The use of bracers and other lexical markers makes code a lot clearer and faster to decipher, imo, than a bunch of def and ends. (I know that () are optional in Ruby, can you also use {} if you desire? Again, not 100% familiar with the language features. Just know some standard rails implementations of the language).

Maybe it just hasn't 'clicked' with me yet, but bleh. The dynamic typing doesn't help its case in my book either. That's my personal preference, and why I try to avoid using ruby, even for the web backed by rails despite it's popularity. Then again, if you need to get a web project up and running quickly rails is never a bad choice (in my experience).
>Not only did they do this (and Sweden was forced to pay restitution)

Source?
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