skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one got me in stitches, a collection of developer insider jokes in one huge sentence:

AND ANOTHER THING when it’s midnight and your x-axis formatting function doesn’t convert UNIX times into JavaScript date objects properly because there’s no timezone information and I dunno JavaScript was written by some guy in two weeks (yeah I ain’t afraid to call it out what of it) and your binary-search based conversion of sparse timeseries data into uniformly dense timeseries data is causing so many data points to be graphed that it’s slowly crashing Chrome and you’re watching helplessly as your RAM goes up and Chrome won’t close the tab and it just doesn’t seem right that 2016, the year of the Linux Desktop has brought us this situation I mean I thought if you had enough <something>.js libraries this stuff was meant to just scale right up so tha-
I work in the UK equivalent, but have taken trips to US banks on Wall Street.

I'd say these days, the horror stories are rare. There will be times you will be expected to work weekends, late nights etc but these are VERY much the exception, and mostly for hitting regulatory deadlines, rather than business ones. Like a lot of places, it will depend on whether your boss is competent or an arsehole.

The working environment will be more formal than a startup. You may well need to own a suit (or two).

Some of the work is really interesting and cutting edge. Some of it isn't.

The pay (at least in the UK) is lot more than you would get in other industries.

One final thing I would say after being in the industry 20+ years is that there is less of a divide between the Front Office traders and technology. It's no longer seen as an imposition, but key to them making money and trading well.
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Well, cheaper wine probably has defects (things that shouldn't be there)

On the other hand, cheap (but not so much) wine is usually sweeter, which might explain the findings of the article (that people dislike more expensive wines)
Good BBC Radio 4 documentary on this topic, earlier this week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b070dkt9
The problem with 301 without cache headers is that some browsers cache this forever due to some interpretation what 'permanent' means.

You often can't use 302 because all your external links no longer work SEO magic for you with a 302. Google only transfers link juice with 301 [1].

If you make a mistake and misconfigure your server, you're toast.

If a disgruntled employee 301 redirects your domain, you're toast.

If a service provider misconfigures your domain, you're toast.

If a hacker (from a competitor) 301 redirects your domain, you're toast.

If you buy a domain that had a 301 on it, it's worthless.

If you buy a domain that had 301s on it that point to phishing sites, you're in trouble.

I always add cache headers to 301 redirects I use to at least prevent me from shooting myself with an arrow in my knee.

UPDATE:
[1] Google seems to have changed this recently. It also no longer considers http/https different pages as it did in the past with the same content https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-confirms-no-loss-...
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I'm interested in why you think you could do better predictions using WhatsApp?
> I find it quite depressing

Quit being so dramatic. There are enough good places in EU. There are loads of exciting startups in Stockholm, Berlin. Google has some interesting stuff going on in Zurich and London.

> the interesting stuff seems to be happening in the US (I currently work as a digital plumber, putting my university degree to waste).

There are enough plumbing jobs in the U.S. too. A vast majority of startup jobs in the Bay Area are exactly that. Plumbing. You either are specialized, in which case you have those jobs in both the EU and the U.S.

Also, as a person who went thru the H1B, I can say that you will find it way easier with medium sized and larger companies to get someone to apply for an H1B. There is no need for micro-optimization in terms of cities and such.
Meditation comes in stages, first you aim to "not think". Then you realize that's not actually possible and have to get past a wall of frustration.

Then you learn to just peacefully keep trying. Thats when you get to start letting go of your pent up mental baggage.

Now that you feel reasonably lighter. You can concentrate more easily and maintain a calm mind while deliberately thinking about specific topics. After you shed that baggage that built up from the last time you meditated.
You're right. Don't trust a random guy from internet to know anything about you.
cool stuff! but it seems good for small projects rather than large project for production websites.

PS: how did you create the gif with the code?
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> There's something about the look and feel of text that I'm used too.

Yeah, font rendering is great out of the box on OS X. However, you can also get that on Linux, using Infinality. Check it out. :)
Go is developed entirely in the open. I wrote Go's hpack and there are no other Go coworkers in my office.
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> This words are very encouraging for entrepreneurs.

Sounds like an non-sequitur to me: what's the link between Apple and entrepreneurs, and why should they be encouraged? Shouldn't they be encouraged by commoditization of silicon instead? >90% of kickstarted/'maker' projects would vanish if step 1 were "have your own silicon"
Yes, let's get your version into Go if it's better.

(I wrote Go's quickly. I've never profiled it, delaying that until Go 1.7, which opened for development yesterday)
I am not an Appleland citizen and therefore they (all of them) should comply. If this impacts their business, their problem. EDIT: you can downvote as you want, even the mafia and the terrorists worldwide instruct some sort of welfare state other than funnelling cash out of their country to fiscal havens.
Drink strong spirits diluted in water, see if you like

I think also taste is desensitized with time
HSTS is similarly one-way, but it's not indefinite, I think.
Great post. I'm sometimes feeling the heat myself. I think I'm maybe expecting too much of myself. I've been attempting meditation before, but I will give it another try after your read.
They'd rename it prime^26 or p128e.
People lose data too at a much greater frequency. if you're paranoid about Github, create crown jobs to automatically pull your repos.
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Cool hack and awesome, fun writing, but on a more serious note : how is knowing your friends' usage/sleep patterns useful in any way? Could it be used for some dark, machiavélique purpose?

And how about for advertisers? "Get your sleeping pills here" type ads?
cheers mate
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science..."

I guess some people think the purpose of 301 is more like that of 410: update references so you don't try to go there again. The difference is that with 301 you additionally instruct the client to not even attempt to go there again in the future.

But the article does raise an interesting point: if I own somedomain.example and set it up with a 301 redirect to myotherdomain.example and enough people visit it that most people will have cached the redirect, doesn't that basically mean I now own it for perpetuity (or until enough people have cleared their cache) even if I don't renew the domain and new requests to the domain are no longer served (by the same IP)?

Or do browsers have some kind of protections against this, at least based on DNS? It's a bit too convoluted for a proper DOS attack (because you need to own the domain long enough and make it popular enough to poison everyone's caches) but a naive implementation seems like it would effectively render domains unusable if someone set up a 301 on them at some point in the past.
Does anybody here have experience with a meditation headset? (I.e., biofeedback device for the brain)
It's not indefinite because you need to specify a duration. However nothing stops you from setting an extremely long duration and in fact most tutorials seem to advise doing so for safety reasons.
Here is an analysis of Google projects that have been closed later: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns
So, what happens when you try to read that article without Javascript enabled?

> You must have JavaScript enabled to view digital editions.

I see.
It's much easier to add such a scheme to any platform than removing it when the vendor decided for you that this is what you want. If you want to lock the box down, put the firmware in flash, clip the ~WP pin, pour epoxy on it.

I guess the Raptor Eng folks aren't opposed to adding something more flexible to a later iteration (I'd propose securely measuring the firmware into some trusted external store in the style of TPM1.x and working from there), but for now the project is about helping undo the damage done to the ecosystem by providing an old-style "all open" platform again.
Does Apple allow software that uses Tor on the App Store?
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The brand is Aspeed, blob-free operation but 2d acceleration only, found in server boards. This is not an SGI-style Iris GL workstation.
I would suggest you Sadhguru and the Isha Foundation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4hCvdDn7Zc

Meditation is substantially observation without identification, nothing more, nothing less.

If you want to start:
1. Sit down with legs crossed (comfortable)
2. Just sit and see thoughts, listen sounds, sense your body
3. Just be. No doing required.
I have never had a problem with PayPal, and the only stories I see of people having problems with PayPal are always doing something obviously bad, such as presales or calling a payment a "donation" or purposely lying about their location to get an account. PayPal offers cheaper pricing than Stripe for smaller sales and faster ramps for bulk discounts on large numbers of sales. It also has had a "complete" offering with APIs capable of managing chargebacks and separated authorization and capture since before Stripe existed (features Stripe didn't even seem to understand are important), and has done so with extreme API and UI consistency (which is absolutely key for any infrastructure component, and has been a complaint I've seen against Stripe, who seems to like using their customers as guinea pigs). What has been the experience you had with PayPal that has turned you off from them so badly?
If you do write that blog post, it would be cool if you not only covered the FreeBSD vs. Ubuntu aspects of the choice, but also the Ubuntu vs. other Linux aspects (particularly Debian).
I'm confused, probably because of too much variable usage in your comment.

If one or more of the variables were GitHub, or issue templates, then:

Don't be concerned. The user community listed grievances with some missing functionality. GitHub listened and implemented some. In this case without changing functionality for people who didn't want this. (So the person who likes the URL method can stick with that.)

Good on GitHub implementing something to help their users. Isn't that what we want? Or do you want then to ignore their community?
> When properly meditating, the goal is to not concentrate or think about anything.

I don't understand how have you got this notion about mediation. What you have mentioned can be useful for relieving oneself of thoughts which are a burden.

On the other hand, mediation is to concentrate on a purpose, directing everything towards the purpose, even the thoughts sprouting from your subconsciousness, all which eventually fade away.
Has a rampaging AI algorithm really killed thousands in Pakistan?
It's being worked on:

https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/wiki/F%23-for-Core...
As a candidate, I use the interview process to determine if I want to work for the company.

Part of the way I judge a company is wether they value my time as much as their own. When a hiring manager calls me up or emails me, he's "doing the work" and I will always respect that. The phone screen is something that costs them as much time as it does me.

I don't think I've ever jumped through any hoops before talking to the hiring manager. Why should jump through hoops for a company that hasn't convinced me that I might want to work for them?

I'm not sure if that's helpful or not. Good luck.
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You realize if this was an Android phone some random 13 year old could crack it.
Are you aware that there is actually no requirements.txt in your repo?
What if I have a recording of the account-holder's voice? Could computers be programmed to mimic voices after hearing a sample? What are the fallbacks - presumably old-fashioned verifications which might be subject to social engineering?
What is an API and why should you care?
Run-length encoding FTW
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A monad is an associative wrappable flatMappable. There, all done :)
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I hate to think how many of those hours I am responsible for...
UPGRADE Your IPHONE PASSCODE TO DEFEAT THE FBI’S BACKDOOR STRATEGY
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SPARKL™ is new infrastructure that works inside your networks to bring transparency to your business transactions.

It dynamically provisions services and networks as it goes - just in time. And it's all logged with full integrity.
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And it would only work for that specific model of phone. And to do so the FBI would have to have a public warrant for the search, granted by public courts. What exactly is the problem with that power? It's the same as one which lets them search your home.
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The only law I've seen proposed would force Apple to comply with the FBI request. Given that, perhaps the law doesn't currently mandate what you think it does?
In both cases the costs are imposed on a non-consenting minority - in the first case the minority is chosen by math.random(), in the second case the minority is chosen by genetics.

It sounds like you want to appeal to some principle that certain minority groups (those with "meaningful" group identities) deserve special moral consideration? Supposing that nerds or just some protectionist lottery victims created a "meaningful group identity", would that make them deserving of protection?

You are right that for an individualist (which I am), this is a lot harder. So I simply wouldn't share your moral conclusions, but I'd at least understand where you come from.
Have a look out for Chilean Casillero del Diablo [0]. Their regular range sells for between GBP5.99 and 7.99 in the UK (there's GBP1.90 of duty and 20% VAT in those prices - we have ridiculous alcohol duty rates in the UK).

I can vouch for all of their reds - Malbec, Cabernet, Carmenere....even their Merlot is a decent thing.

[0]: http://www.casillerodeldiablo.com/?lang=en
The thing is, while ever a backdoor exists and can be activated at will the fact a subpeona is require to compel someone to use it doesn't mean that it can't be hacked by someone else to use for more nefarious purposes.

Deliberate backdoors can't exist, Apple needs to put the foot down and make that clear.
I really like the fact that it allows the program logic to be exposed as Python, CLI & Web API in one fell swoop.

It makes me think about what other interfaces could be automagically created at the same time -- C? Simulink?
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It's kind of hard to make the argument that the FSF tried to subvert the intention of the GPL, since they wrote both the GPL itself and the four freedoms (the philosophical principles on which the GPL is based) .

You can make it, yes, but it's not a very convincing one.
I suggest you start with HeadSpace, it's an app with zero spirituality or religion, and IMO killer content (if I'm not mistaken, the voice of the videos is that of the founder himself, who used to be a monk). Most of the content you have to pay for, but it provides the first 10 lessons (for the first 10 days, although you can replay them as much as you want) for free, and I think they're a fantastic, easy way to get started.
that is correct for a 6 digit pin, of course if you used an alphaumeric passcode it would take much longer. brute force 8 characters would take millions of years, though in practice you could significantly reduce the search space in typical password cracking ways (word lists, etc) but never the less.

the takeaway is that you should use a much more complex password.
You can't ban $100 bills because huge number of those circulate in countries all around the world, most of them poor. Some families' fortunes consist of a few such bills in countries of Africa or Central Asia.

What's your plan here?
There is a really excellent resource here, http://www.dhammatalks.org/mp3_collections_index.html, that introduces what is known as "breath meditation".

Very simple, rewarding stuff. I listen to these from time to time and practice it for a few minutes every day.
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I took over a domain which had previously 301-redirected HTTP:// to HTTPS://. It caused us no end of trouble getting the alpha site online -- obviously we set up SSL but we didn't realise it was the _first thing we'd have to do_.

It also caused half a day of confusion to understand why some of our web browsers were still failing to connect and others could see the alpha site (because they'd never visited the previous 301 site at that address).
Actually, this isn't the case.

Your (mis)understanding (that meditation is spacing out and "not thinking") seems to be the common western one. In my experience, this is usually due to misunderstood ideas about practices like dzogchen or philosophical concepts like dependent origination.

Concentration is actually at the _heart_ of meditation and is a key element of the Buddhist noble eight-fold path.

Mindfulness is merely well-concentrated investigation. Once someone has developed an ability to cultivate sustained, one-pointed attention - they can use this attention to clearly investigate internal and external phenomena.

Many Asian schools have the first four Samatha Jhanas (deeply-concentrated states) as strict prerequisites for beginning Vipassana (insight / mindfulness) practice. Others regard "access concentration" as the only prerequisite.

In any case, a well-concentrated mind is required to clearly observe oneself. Yes, other thoughts will drop away as the mind naturally gravitates toward the joy and rapture of mental seclusion (from disturbing, burdensome thoughts and mental states) - but this is a _byproduct_ of concentration, not a fruit of _avoiding_ concentration.

The concentration states (along with the Brahma Viharas) can also be welcome refuges for when reality starts to come apart as one progresses through the Vipassana Nanas.

These things are very clearly spelled out in the canonical Buddhist texts and especially the commentaries[1][2]. Westerners seeking to "change their brains" do so at their peril without proper guidance. Peeling away the layers of delusion can be a destabilizing process for some[3].

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana's book "Mindfulness in Plain English" is a very accessible (and worthwhile) introduction to the subject[4].

[1] - [pdf] http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nanamoli/PathofPu...

[2] - [pdf] http://urbandharma.org/pdf1/Path_of_Freedom_Vimuttimagga.pdf

[3] - http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-dark-k...

[4] - http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-English-Bhante-Henepola-Gu...
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OopluCon 2016

A Day for the Smalltalk Programming Language and its Friends
Sunday 10 April 2016
8am-4pm

The Box SF
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SoMa, San Francisco, USA
•	Dr. Eliot Miranda will deliver the keynote presentation Cog - The Open Source Smalltalk VM
•	Chris Thorgrimsson of Lam Research is presenting. Talk name to be announced in 2016
•	Chris Cunnington is presenting An Introduction To Smalltalk
•	a request for further presentations will be announced on 11 Jan. 2016
•	this event will be promoted to the Ruby, Python, JavaScript and Objective C communities
•	the event is free
Contact Person: Chris Cunnington
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Even if you assume that the enclave is truly secure, you still have to believe that Apple or the manufacturer doesn't log the encryption keys stored inside it when it is being manufactured, no?
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There is this Zen proverb that goes like this:

"You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day -- unless you're too busy. Then you should sit for an hour."

While I don't think it's necessary to sit an hour every day, it does inspire me. In my experience, if you meditate every day for a few weeks/months, you will start feeling more 'grounded'. You'll be more calm in most situations. You will be chasing external happiness less, and just be more content with being. It's pretty hard to describe, but to me, it seems like a good thing.
This. Can people please stop quoting Jobs? He was a massive narcissist who propped himself up on other people's work.

This bullshit about A players was just his way of forcing everyone that worked for him to fear not delivering on his absurd expectations lest they become a "B" player.
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At least he's being clear about it, unlike big shops that silently display higher prices to users on iDevices compared to desktop/Android users.
Why can't you? Are you suggesting that reason doesn't apply to morality or the real world?

By abstracting in this way, we have a way to determine whether the principles we claim are important really are. In the case we are discussing, it seems like some other fact or principle from the original context is important. Which one is it, and why?

If we can't figure it out, maybe we should consider the possibility that our emotional/cultural baggage is misleading us. At the very least we should have less confidence in our beliefs than before.

Your critique seems very anti-intellectual to me - the claim that you can't reason about things outside their context seems like a cheap appeal to retreat back to our emotional conclusions. Am I understanding you wrong?
I'm not sure I fully parse your message. But I too believe that the mind is an odd loop, where you're own self can focus/amplify different emotions and while it may feel absurd by constantly not trying to think or feel it may help rebalance the whole thing.
$5/summary.

It ends up being about $15-$25/hr.
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> I now sometimes think of a very strict compiler for mathematics that catches errors from the math lingua.

Is that what Coq (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq) is?
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The video on the Application Explorer shows a Lazarus IDE 1.7 ?!

Great diagrams, BTW ! Love the overall very modern look of the website.
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> Because desire is linked to suffering?

Unfilled desire is linked to suffering.
Filled desires are linked to pleasure, but after fulfilling one desire, another one appears.

It's life. So it's not fulfilling desires but being conscious about how desires are born, and consciously choosing which one to fulfill.
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