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Legends & History behind Rakshabandhan festival
India is aptly known as the land of festivals and every celebration in India has a legend attached to it. Raksha Bandhan history is as enticing as the celebration itself. Rakhi festival is celebrated in the month of August across India where sisters tie the scared thread on their brothers` wrists. There is many a Raksha Bandhan legend associated with this Indian festival.
The windows command line and setting up the environment primarily. And most of the tutorials online are from a Linux perspective so it's usually easier for new programmers not to have translate the tutorials into a different environment.
That actually is the case for me now, and it's difficult to stop myself. There are a handful of users that always post interesting posts so when I am skimming a thread and read one of their posts I am always more considerate to them...
This is beautifully written and a genuinely entertaining read. I love it just for that, without the politics or without judging the validity of it's message. I just really enjoyed reading it.
The last time I applied for a job, I applied to about 10 different companies over a period of a couple of months. I went to interview with three of them. One made me an offer, which I rejected. The second turned me down (Unfortunately, as I liked the place). The third didn't want to hire me into the exact position I applied for, but offered me a different position. At first I rejected, but I called them back 6 months later and took it. This was back in 2008.

I'm not sure if you can use that measure for anything. Your skill set, the job marked in general and your geography are huge factors.
What will the 'burbs be with no city? A bunch of housing for unemployed people?
#!/usr/bin/perl
use GD::Barcode::QRcode;
my $url = 'http://news.ycombinator.com/';
print "Content-type: image/png\r\n\r\n";
print GD::Barcode::QRcode->new($url,{Version=>3})->plot->png;

Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to rely on third party services to do things which can be trivially performed locally.
That's fantastic :D ye hopefully we'll have a definitive cure in a few years, even for the people who only notice they have cancer when it's in its later stages.

Of course by the time we have a cure, there will be some other disease we have to deal with :P
Because find changes to the directory first (carefully not following symlinks), and then deletes the file from there.

It does not delete the file using the entire path (which may contain a sudden symlink).

It's not possible to do this safely using xargs.

Take a look also at -execdir which does the same thing - changes to the directory first, and runs things from there. -exec is not safe and should not be used.

xargs is not safe if you are running against a directory not your own. You should use find and -execdir instead.

Yes, the original authors of posix made a mistake here.

> Also, rant rant, I really don't understand why find was extended with -delete in the first place.

I'm hoping you understand it now.
> Are you sure about that? Long division is admittedly rapidly becoming a lost art (calculators, cell phones, anything electronic has a way to divide!) However, I'd be surprised if nearly everyone wasn't capable of the rest.

I don't have the link handy, but the examples he mentions (train catalogue/newspaper) are the same explicitly mentioned in the Federal government's reports on the subject, and a significant portion of the population is not capable, according to those reports.
There's not a whole helluva lot functionally different between Windows 3.1 and Windows Whatever (in that they're all WiMPs).

No, the hardware may not have changed much, but the usage of computers in general society has changed, a lot. due to the internet.

When Windwos 3.1 was popular, odds are you couldn't use it to order cinema tickets at your local cinema, buy pizza, order your shopping, send a message to your mother, or watch the latest film as soon as it came out at whatever time suited you.

Now, when Windows 7 is popular, you can do all these things.
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besides it isn't true.

PG posted at some point that comments which had a lot of points before actually have more points after the don't-show-points change.
Paris, Barcelona, Rome (maybe Munich too):
You'd have to learn French, Spanish or Italian in order to live a normal life there. In Amsterdam, all the locals speak English, so it's pretty easy to stay here for several years without having to learn Dutch.
I have several foreign friends who've been living here in Amsterdam for years without having learnt Dutch. Of course it's always better to know the local language wherever you live, but in Amsterdam you really don't have to.
Not that his advice is bad, but these statistics are a bit biased. Trains make for some pretty unusually difficult channel conditions.
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On one hand the present is so strange as to be beyond sci-fi.

On the other hand, most everything he mentions is internally-directed tech: computers get smarter and we are more and more self-absorbed in them. "Big" sic-fi, like jet packs and field propulsion are still nowhere in sight.

So yes, if you want to plug a computer into your neocortex in 20 years and become one with the collective, life is looking awesomely like sic-fi. But if you want to visit the moons of Saturn, or have a Mr. Fusion power your time-machine car, it ain't happening.
Nokia secretly working on Android Smartphone? (image)
I'd say this is happening a lot more than we actually hear about. He also raises a good point about how if you gained access to a lot of people's gmail a/c, you'd also get access to a lot of other services they use via the password reset form.
Utrecht, a whole city to buy your art supplies.
Triunfo del Amor Capitulo Final
Maximilliano on behalf of a large family of Victoria in El Triunfo del Amor Capitulo Final says he does not object to the choice of his mother. the family respect to Victoria's decision who has chosen Heriberto as her husband. While at Triunfo del Amor Capitulo Gran Final that aired 26 de Junio ​​de 2011 Osvaldo said goodbye to everyone. Osvaldo will travel to Spain for a job, Osvaldo on this occasion to speak to Heriberto to make Victoria happy, he feels guilty for this has been a lot of hurt.
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They were probably using the "last chance" form to reset the password. That form checks the IP address; if they had control of the XP machine, they could have been using it to submit the form with a reasonable IP address and get the account again. Once they lost that, no go. At least that's the only thing that I can think of.
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That may be, but - at least in my case - the most typical mobile usage is on a train (everywhere else I usually have WiFi).
Trains moreso than cars/buses? Why?
1. Who needs this service the most?

2. Why do they need this service?

3. How can they integrate this service into their daily life?

The answers to the above questions needs to be on the frontpage.

Action step: Take your laptop and go to a coffee shop or somewhere you can ask a lot of people and ask them to identify the main benefit of your service from just looking at the front page.

The feedback should push you in the right direction...
One wonders whether most mathematicians and physicists reject the author's point of view because to accept it requires either (1) a deep understanding of set theory and its limitations or (2) an attitude towards truth that's rather more cavalier than you'll usually find in the faculty lounge.

I suspect that the author himself fails (1) and so must believe what he does due to (2). I will not pretend to understand the details or even the general background of all the concepts needed to get at the heart of the issue, but I will single out one example to illustrate what I mean (hopefully).

The author credits synthetic differential geometry [1] as an intuitionistic-logical basis for infinitesimals (because of its rejection of the principal of the excluded middle) and in the next sentence calls Abraham Robinson's non-standard analysis a theory based in "classical logic". Now, this must seem perfectly reasonable to anyone who has sweated through Robinson's process of constructing the hyperreals [2]. But the author seems unaware of Edward Nelson's alternative approach, called internal set theory [3], which takes an axiomatic approach.

Nelson (who, by the way, is one of those ultrafinists whose existence the author questions in his second paragraph) simply adds a few axioms to Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory and calls it a day [4]. He can do this because those axioms must be consistent if ZFC itself is consistent. Which seems unobjectionable enough, if you're not a mathematician; but if you are, you probably don't like playing with axioms. (As Bertrand Russell wrote, "The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil." He then rejects that approach, unlike Nelson, who admirably pilfers what he needs and proceeds to take a nap.)

And then you also probably don't like being reminded that ZFC's consistency (or not) is unprovable [5]. You see, Nelson's axiomatic construction of the hyperreals relies on the very same logical rabbit-hole as the author's intuitionistic logic: some things are neither provable nor disprovable in mathematics (or logic generally).

And that's why I say accepting the author's point of view requires either (1), if you realize that math is on shaky ground from the start, or (2), if don't much care and just want to get to the answer as quickly as possible (which is why I love Nelson's approach to infintesimals).

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_differential_geometry

2. http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/analysis_hyperreals.html#co...

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_set_theory

4. See Edward Nelson, Radically Elementary Probability theory, available at http://www.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/books/rept.pdf [PDF]

5. Yes, this is Gödel's first theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_incompleteness_theore...
I see. Chrome has bugs, but thank heavens because Firefox 5 for Windows (no less) doesn't.

I think I speak on behalf of all of us when I say thank you for enlightening us!
I'll save you time and the amazing cat and mouse game of trying to move your mouse around that site without it popping up a half dozen advertisements ... (oh and its a giant advertisement for the Phoronix product)

Power management sucks. Hardware vendors don't care that it sucks on Linux, they only care that it works on Windows. Microsoft pays people to make sure it works on Windows and browbeat manufacturers to make it work and they program around it on every platform where it doesn't work.

In the 2.6.38 kernel a change was comitted into the mainline sources which chose 'probably works' over 'randomly hangs.' The fix was to stop trying to do power control and that means longevity is shorter (sometimes much shorter)

Linux has maybe three people total (if you could somehow add up all the fractional people who care enough about this to work on it) who both understand how the latest invocation of power management works, and care enough to fix it for their system.

Sometimes their fixes get into mainline, sometimes they live on some out of the way branch because someone on LKM didn't like them, sometimes you have to write to them to find out what they did. If you don't have a system where one of these fractional people made it work, you're screwed.

This is the life you chose when you use Linux.

This is true for lots of things Linux. I would love to help fix it (the fact that Linux sucks in the corners that aren't sexy) I don't know how yet. I'm open to suggestions. Google could do this (they use Linux on laptops) but they would only fix it for the corporate model/rev not for everything.
Really? I would say trains, buses and cars are really common use cases for mobile data. Every second person I see is watching Youtube or playing around on the internet while they take public transport. It isn't biased data, there is an actual use case that it is presently failing.
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"overcrowded urban area that's big enough to need to drive everywhere anyway (or take a cab). All those people have to go somewhere."

I don't think that conclusion is true. First of all there doesn't have to be a reason to drive to the other side of the city, if urban planning was done properly and everything you need for your daily life is within walking distance. Secondly, high population density makes public transport highly efficient, so instead of taking a taxi, you can take a train or a bus.
Okay, I get it now -- I didn't follow your argument the first time I read it. Sorry about that.

In any case, the image is gone from both places now.
It's not quite exactly what you asked for, but have you seen the StackScripts from Linode? http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/

I have personally found that even distro-specific scripts require some tweaking across various hosting providers due to the default configuration of VPSs being different in each case. It has generally not been worth the effort for me to write complete bootstrap scripts so generic that they will work on anybody's VPS, but it's usually trivially easy to adapt whatever I have written to the quirks of a new hosting environment if the need arises.
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It'd be nice if I could turn on two-factor auth in case i notice something fishy with my account. Basically, an emergency function that would sign out all sessions and raise the bar to get in once a user feels their account might be compromised.
"If someone obtains one of your Application Specific passwords then they can use it to log in and access your data until you revoke that password but they cannot change your real password and deny you access to your own account."

Ah. I think this is the key I hadn't understood till now. Thank you.
Can air conditioners be driven directly by gasoline engines rather than generators->electrical AC? Perhaps just replacing the electro-compressor with an in-place gas version.
Looks like an another FUD from Ruby & Python world. Some people like braces and others don't. To market their tools, they often create these FUD and it's tiring.
However, things are getting better - Edinburgh has a pretty decent cycle path network (mostly on old railway lines, so they sometimes appear to be ridiculously over-engineered - with huge bridges and tunnels). We had a family cycle on Sunday morning where we cycled for about 3 hours with perhaps 15 minutes of that being on roads.

There's more to it than recreational cycle paths though.

In order to change people's lifestyle - i.e. to be a practical alternative to the car in cities - the paths have to go somewhere useful. In other words, you need cycle paths connecting offices, schools and shops. Even in Edinburgh I see that as a long way off - and the city council seem fit to sink money instead into the neverending tram fiasco.
Two seconds per frame on iPad 1. And two times crashing mobile Safari at the intro. ^^
Faster travel meaning you are passing in and out of cells more often, and you are more likely to be passing through areas with bad coverage either for man-made geographical reasons (a steep embankment between you and most of the towers in range for instance) or because your route is more likely to take a straight-ish line that may pass through a pretty uninhabited area that is ether completely unserviced by the cell network or where the only tower(s) in range are some distance away. Also if you are travelling by bus (and to a certain extent by car) you are more likely travelling a shorter distance than if travelling by train so are less likely to be passing through areas that are badly served because there is no money in the networks serving the two local farmers as well as they serve a small town.
I maintain a CLI tool that does something similar but for WSGI apps, and with a slightly different stack (uWSGI and daemontools). It uses libcloud to create instances so rackspace and linode are also supported among others.

https://github.com/jokull/kraftwerk
The information given is so utterly vague that I could be completely wrong, but: As far as I can tell, all their geometry is still polygon based. (I saw a few references to polygon counts in the video.) I believe that it is the lighting that is volumetric.
you don't have to be a knowledge migrant to get a so called 30% ruling. These are independent concepts.
In Opera, it's only a cosmetic change as long as you don't click the address bar. When you click it, the full url is displayed and selected, along with the http://, so no problems to copy.

(It is a bit disturbing though because it goes a bit too far, and cuts the parameters. for example, if I activate it, right now all I see is "news.ycombinator.com/reply", I won't see the id after. Though I guess most users won't care.)
Wouldn't say that hiring is easier in Amsterdam... It's always hard to get real good developers and when pusing out a job vacancy, most responses are from non Dutch developers who want to work in Amsterdam (not that is a problem).
I've done work for several Fortune 50 companies while traveling around the world -- design work that got written up in business and trade magazines.

You're just flat-out wrong about "serious stuff."

Also, a couple of my friends - Romanians - have spent more than the past year traveling around South America, so you are mistaken about having to "be from the first-class country to take advantage of the visa requirements with your passport," as well. Finally, health insurance from many countries covers emergencies overseas -- and for Americans, there are several specific options for travelers.

Sure, you say it's not for you and I believe you. It's not for me either, I've learned from experience. But a lot of the other things you say aren't factual.
Let me know if you disagree, however I think the problem so many people have in this thread (and an increasing number in today's world), and one reason a good number seek and believe in alternative treatments, is because the medical community (as viewed by individuals from the outside anyway) is viewed to be full of self-righteous elitists who believe they always know what is best when dealing with the human body, while a. People like to believe in miracles, and b. Successful outlier cases that are contrary to common medical understanding keep cropping up -- the media loves them and people notice them. One more reason could be that many have experienced alternative treatments be fiercely dismissed by their physician, even when it can be surmised that the dismiss-er is probably fairly ignorant on the particular topic -- it turns people off. Naturally physicians don't have to have an answer or even an opinion, so why does it seem like they often feel they have to? Can it be boiled down to personal insecurities and fears? Trying to live up to the stigmas around what a doctor should be and know?
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I for one welcome our pg overlord.
Ok, but why would you have to see https, then? Wouldn't a lock icon be enough?

If the idea is to drop the prefix because it's redundant and useless to most, then it's same for https. All what matters to the end user is that he is on a secure connection, I think.
I've done it and I "do significant things." Instead of being grateful for somebody confirming your suspicions, you'll find it pays to investigate the truth.
To be fair, though, not only Linux suffers from these problems, but all non-windows OSes. There is a standard for power management and such, ACPI, but vendors decide not to follow it but do their own thing and put in all kinds of hacks so that it works on windows and work around windows' problems.

This means that specific work has to be done for every kind of device (and whitelist/blacklist it), which is a lot of extra hassle for the developers of the OS...
Exactly right.
I have been saying for ages that services like Google, Twitter, Facebook should offer two factor. Now some finally do, it is a shame not to take advantage of it: http://www.rakkhis.com/2010/08/why-dont-facebook-twitter-and...

One of the main reasons I had some piece of mind when my account got hacked at MTGOX is that I had two factor on my Gmail: http://www.rakkhis.com/2011/06/i-was-hacked-mtgox-bitcoin-3-...

After this and another incident with a colleagues wife, I have made a note to set it up for my wife's account also tonight.
I've also activated two-factor authentication, and I don't think the drawback he mentions are that problematic:

This indeed increases security, but tends to be a bit cumbersome (I often have a depleted battery, for example, which could prevent access to my emails from a computer) and does not solve other case (like somebody stealing my laptop and using an already opened session).

1) You can print a list of one-time passwords and store it inside your wallet. If your phone's battery is depleted, you can use them to log in. You should store another copy of this list in a safe place, just in case.

2) If somebody steals his laptop, he could always log from another computer and disable his session and/or change his password. He should use a password-protected login on his laptop anyway, with an encrypted drive.
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Here is an idea: if security matters to you, get a better phone. They sell them in shops.
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Most of those laws apply to people who are earning money locally. All around the world, it's a huge grey area when the work you are doing as a visitor is not local -- such as working for a client back in the US.

Since in all my travels, I've never found a country with a clear explanation of what is & isn't allowed wrt remote work, I think of it like this: If you are on a trip and somebody from home calls you to ask you to make a decision on an investment, would that country tax you? No. If your investments back home made lots of money while you were on vacation, would that country tax you? No. What if you wrote emails telling other people what to do? What if you did a little bit of it for them? Etc. The thought experiment goes on.
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I didn't see any mention of cost of living adjustment.

Could it be that plumbers living in Boston are more likely to have college degrees than plumbers living in Salem?
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
What is wrong with RRD as a backing data store?
PG recommended this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilisation_%28TV_series%29
It gets worse: you can give up your US citizenship, but the US claims you must file taxes (and PAY taxes) for 10 years afterwards.

We are chattel.
I also noticed that, in Germany, currently, the codes take several minutes to arrive by SMS, which is a bit of a downer when trying to check email.
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Yes, we do develop Apollo actively. It's definitely a lot of work!
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Yeap. Trains going through rural areas, particularly with rolling hills can experience vast patches of no signal.

Even with flat land and line of sight to a base station, the signal is going to drop off with distance^-4, which is a lot quicker than in urban environments where it is distance^(-1.6 to -4). Finally base stations are fewer and further between in rural areas, so often you will be nearer the edges of the cell radius and experience worse signal and more cochannel interference!

But saying all that I do like the sentiment of the article and it is definitely good advice to design mobile apps for flakey connections...