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dateutil is really great; j2labs is quick to point out `parse()` which I also think is worth mentioning on its own.

I think this project still fills a nice niche. datetime.now(los_angeles).astimezone(minsk).strftime(fmt) is long enough that you're going to have to find the StackOverflow thread in question to implement this, and maybe go to the stdlib. This library makes that a lot less painful.

If you go to the source, you'll see how tiny it is! It's nowhere near the complexity of dateutil. I'd love to see some of dateutil's darker corners wrapped into this library.
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Listen at 13.40, he mentions that although first funding came from YC they didn't go through a YC batch - Patrick had previously been a YC member with another startup: "Auctomatic".
tnx:)
This story appears on Reuters.com with the Reuters layout and Reuters branding. Whether it is syndicated or not, it is Reuters-endorsed content that, in my opinion, should bear the same weight as the Associated Press. It's kind of sad that content of this quality has made it to their site.
It would be a big loss for students if operations of online encyclopedias like wiki will be halted.
I had the worst experience using 99designs. The "designers" were terrible. The sketches they submitted shows that they barely have any design skills, when I reject their designs they start to complain and build up bad reputation around you.

Most if not all freelancing sites start well until they are discovered by unqualified people from India and the likes.
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thanks for advices. regarding twitter - no, never, no tweets. by the way, this is something someone could communicate to twitter - they actually say what permissions you give us (read your timeline + know whom you follow = to tell if your friends are here)
Cool. A random stranger asks you an incredible amount of horribly silly questions in an aggressive/bored/annoyed tone and they expect your reaction to be something else than "WTF? Leave me alone." If this really were about your reaction to questions the staff at border stations would be trained to look for more than "has a beard, looks around nervously" and the questions would be tailored to actually invoke some observable reaction.
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I use suspend-to-disk which suspends to my encryped swap partition. No need to "shut down" your computer, just don't use suspend-to-ram.
Wouldn't Firewire Target Disk mode just give them the encrypted data, i.e. useless? The admin passwords are stored on the encrypted partition.

edit: I guess your edits deprecate my reply
It's important to frame your story in a way they can understand. e.g. if you are an entrepreneur winging it to the USA. Just make sure that you frame it in terms they understand, instead of relying on your version of the truth to save you.

e.g. most border guards believe you need a 9-5 job for life and if you don't have that you are probably up to no good. So answer with that in mind. Don't include irrelevant details that don't fit what they can understand.

The more stuff you say they don't understand the worse off you will be.
So, you kinda made the part up about personally breaking then?
Anyone can start an LLC, there's no restriction. There's no law that says a foreigner can't own majority shares in US companies (apart from airlines).

You aren't necessary an employee of a company you start. If you aren't on the payroll, you aren't an employee. If you start a company, then take profits as dividends, you aren't an employee. You may not even be working as you might just be an investor with a bunch of smart nationals you want to hire.

None of this has anything to do with immigration. You might or might not be 'working' but that has nothing to do with being an employee. 'Working' includes working for free.

I know someone who came to the US for 6 months on a B1 visa after explaining to the US embassy he would be 'meeting with engineers', 'negotiating contract' and 'communicating with team back in home country'. This is not working, this is a 'business visit'.

On top of this these are perfectly fine reasons for certain nationals (think western Europe) while someone from India would very likely be declined.
The funny thing would be to animate those charts for the few last years. Microsoft and Google would not change much, but Apple's pie would be changing like crazy: no iPhone prior to 2007, no iPad before 2010.
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Schengen Agreement, which eliminates border control is in effect in 26 countries (including non-EU countries, like Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, but excluding some EU countries, for example UK).
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No I didn't make it up, I have recovered passwords on encrypted volumes just as I said, and just as you can. It's been a few months since I last had to do this. After posting I realized I was unsure if the hashing algorithm was really MD5, went and looked at the actual hash after posting to make sure that I had it right, saw that it's SHA-1 not MD5, and appended the post with a prominently noted edit so it would be clear I wasn't trying to hide anything retroactively through edits.

edit: It's foolish downvoting these two posts. The information is factual. I corrected my error about the hash. Both MD5 and SHA-1 are vulnerable to rainbow tables folks. To fix the rainbow attack Apple should be using Two Fish instead of SHA-1 which is highly susceptible to this attack, which is why I was able to recover my password. If you can recover your password, you don't have security. Attempting to do so is a good exercise in finding out if you have security, at least it was for me and I now use much better admin passwords, though the better solution would be for Apple to upgrade to a much more resilient hash for passwords.
I think you are right, even though you got downvoted.

I'm not white. In fact I look like I could be the younger, nerdier brother of Mohamed Atta. I got off my green card and became a US citizen only in 2009 (After I was sure McCain wouldn't become President, and after I was certain they couldn't draft me :-)

My papers have always been in order, and I've never had a problem with any customs or border guards.
Incredibly poor list, can't believe this story has even been up-voted. The year of 2011 would have made just a little bit more sense.
As an Australian living in Vancouver who travels to Seattle quite often, the best way is to take the Amtrak. You have to pass immigration at the train station but it's a breeze, and they board the train and check everyones papers are in order, but it's nowhere near as intense as driving across the border or flying.
why are WP7 devs clamoring for native code anyways? It's because the .NET performance is terrible.

Wrong. It's not because of .Net performance. They're asking for native support, mainly to make much easier to port games and other apps from Android and iOS to WP, being able to actually reuse code, instead of a complete rewrite. Nobody wants to write the entire app several times, when targeting to multiple platforms.
Ah, so its a filesize issue? ie- they have xxx TB of storage and they obviously need one cache/serving process per machine.

I was just curious why there was so many cache process's needed but this makes sense.

These guys might make good use of the open source backblaze specs- I know we are looking into this for some storage of video/image data : http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...
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Graham's Number is larger (way larger).
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Current Linux disables the device-initiated DMA mechanism for firewire and other "untrusted" busses, though it should probably consider more types of busses "untrusted" than it does. This requires the host driver to initiate DMA, which it'll only do for devices it knows how to talk to safely. Turning this protection off (and thus making the system insecure) requires both compiling a kernel with the debugging-only option CONFIG_FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA turned on and passing a kernel parameter at boot time, so you can't do it accidentally.

I thought more recent versions of OS X fixed this problem as well, but perhaps not.
yep, we'll fixing this. it seems chrome (perhaps smth else also) renders helveticaneue-light this bad.
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You are sure you can do remote DMA with eSATA? I've always thought Firewire was the only consumer product doing it.
This is good, but for my app, we just decided to do all of the presentation on the client side using javascript. This prevents us from having to know or store the users tz at all. That way, whatever tz they are in is the correct one. =)

We thought this might be an issue for things like emailing purchase receipts to people since that is something that can't just be 'rendered' on the client, but we ended up just asking ourselves "What would amazon do?" and looked at an emailed Amazon receipt.

You will notice that there isn't a single time in the receipt other than when the email was sent. Looked at a receipt from Apple. Same thing. Problem solved by just removing the timestamp from the receipt.

Thought that was an interesting tidbit that I hadn't thought of before.

This is the JS library I used and am pretty happy with: http://momentjs.com/
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Using named pipes (mkfifo) I suspect you could do that. I've not tried it in practice and there will be some warts to work around. e.g. the password prompt comes to mind.
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There are certainly other defenses.

I patched my kernel with TRESOR, so the key for my full disk encryption lives in the debug registers of my CPU and stays out of RAM. The encryption operations are all performed directly on the CPU utilising its AES-NI instructions.

So even if you manage to read my RAM, you wont get my full disk encryption key. I wrote up how I did this (and loads of other things) at https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simple_and_Sop...

EDIT: Of course, my RAM may contain other compromising data than my encryption key. So yes, I do shut it down when it's not attended, and have disabled firewire etc. Lots of details about other things I've done are at that blog post.
Yes, the admin password hashes have to be stored unencrypted otherwise you can't log in at all.
WOW! A faster internet speed. This is a good news.
Excellent idea. I'd also like to see less proportional charts i.e. with areas representing cash rather than proportion as well. Then we can see how much more or less one division in one company makes than another in the other company.
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My laptop has a built in smart card reader, and my desktop has a USB one plugged in with a hardware pin-pad.

The cryptostick does look cool. I've come across it before. I like the smart card because I can just pop it in my wallet like a credit card.

You can also get keyboards with built in smart card readers, where the numeric keypad has a mode to operate as a hardware pin pad (rather than sending the keypresses to the computer) I'm thinking of getting one of these at some point.
JoshAg is right. The Bill of Rights applies to everyone.

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If what you said is true and they made you sign that form it doesn't matter because the Constitution is still paramount and trumps your signature.
It's not the universities that are racial bias because Asians are overrepresented at Ivy League school.

The real question should be why is the SAT so racially bias?
I think it's brilliant!

It shows creativity and maybe they will attract less applicants, but for sure applicants who are a fit to their company, their culture and someone with the right set of skills.
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Ironically, Microsoft tend to make sure that this never happens inside the Windows API.
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Yes yes, a thousand times yes.

It needs some more work of course but the potential is right there.

Also consider the other way round (analyze page that have been created by other means and extract the metrics)

In fact there is a whole product hidden in this, with the proper design and approach.
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Actually I believe foreign nationals are provided many of the same rights that citizens enjoy when within US territory. This comes from the language of the 5th and 14th amendments, they refer to "persons" and not "citizens". Also I recall reading that the 5th amendment right against self incrimination doesn't apply at border crossings for anyone.
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would require a business visa.

Just to be precise here: it probably requires an employment visa, which is in a different category than business visas. You can come to the US and talk contracts with a company your company wants to do business with: that's (probably) B-1 (business). If you're doing work in the US, you need a work-capable visa. Some options would be TN-1 ("Hello Mr. Canadian professional"), L-1 (intracompany transferee), and J-1 (specialist).

I have some accidental knowledge about this because I used to help finangle things for Japanese folks affiliated with an employer of mine, but if you have any doubt about this sort of stuff, get a lawyer. The very fact of having a lawyer makes it less likely you will get tripped up because they know how the game is played and they will provide consequential bits of advice like "Give anyone asking questions the minimum information required and refer them to the stack of official documents you will carry with you." (Bureaucracies are state machines: you give them the minimum information necessary to get the state transition you desire.) They will also to be able to give advice such as "Given your circumstances, one way we could hypothetically do things is X but the on-the-ground reality would be exactly the same as if we classified it as Y and Y is orders-of-magnitude easier to pass scrutiny for."
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>There was no qualitative difference here between them, and the people that were showing up at town halls to complain about "death panels" in the health care law because some talk radio host or Fox commentator told them that's what the law had.

This is how politics _works_. This is how groups of people make decisions: they start reflecting the opinions of authoritative sources.
Don't you think that's throwing the baby out with the bath water a little bit?

I agree that it's a problem that people can easily dupe an interview by copying a readymade result, but that doesn't imply that public problems are unilaterally a bad idea.

In fact, I'd liken this to a public announcement of a security exploit. Someone has found an insecurity within the social algorithm of public problem interviews.
> For me, the most annoying thing about Python is that out of the box, AFAICT, you cannot get a TZ-aware datetime.

That's because the stdlib would have to get updated every 3-6 months, which it is not. Hence delegating to e.g. pytz for timezones provision.

> I don't know of any included solution for making TZ-aware datetime, short of writing your own subclasses for each timezone.

There isn't indeed, because there can't be an stdlib-provided way to do this which is actually correct.
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You can see it in action here:

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Apple got most of the revenue from iPhone and iPad products that appeared just few years ago. iOS devices drives sales of other Apple products such as macbooks for sure so we could speculate how small revenue would be without these devices.
and according to a news article I read at the time, when speaking to the doctors who were to operate on him, he said, "I hope you guys are Republicans".
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Math sucks a lot in Python 2.7:

3 / 2 == 1

Python 3 fixes that, thou, but still it uses floating point numbers instead of rational numbers.
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2 workers will always be on two different machines. We're probably going to reuse machines when you scale to more than that and increase process limits instead (this could yield better performance as you need to populate fewer local cache etc.)
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Reminder: Switzerland is not part of the EU (european union)

That's true, but Switzerland is certainly part of the Schengen treaty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement), which regulates border crossing throughout the participating countries (there is no formal border control, between those countries).

Leaving from Zurich to most European destinations by plane I usually don't even need an id.
Task Management, Internal Wiki, Document management, Source control are all handled by Redmine for me. You can roll your own, or go for a prehosted solution like unfuddle.com

As for agile dev, especially if you're working with a distributed team, a CI server is a must, and I GIT distributed versioning

Comms, Skype's working well for us, and Yammer as a shared noticeboard
You have no right to enter a country where you are not a citizen, regardless of what treaties and protocols your two nations have set up.

Well technically citizens of the EU have the right live & work anywhere else in the EU....
Well that's a silly comment. Is your entire life based around percieved relevance?

Zuckerberg could be considered "more relevant", but that doesn't make him a good person with morals.
OK, how hard would it be to get enyo running on one of these? Doesn't that sound like a nice hack to do? ;)
Very good answer, but the question sounds like a a setup :-)

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> I would consider ARC garbage collection

It's not, so you should not, because that's completely wrong.
Thanks, that is very useful, I was wondering why it didn't scrub it from memory when it sleeps.

Article discussing this setting and providing links to a free and open forensic library so people can actually test the FW memory search method themselves, yanking passwords straight off of their friends laptops as a fun party trick or what not: http://www.frameloss.org/2011/09/18/firewire-attacks-against...
> Small projects to specifically fit the needs of the users, instead of one large one that expands to serve all badly.

For something at the bottom doesn't the opposite principal apply(not fully/all bad but to a certain extent)? Isn't this why linux is popular for so many embedded device instead of some proprietary embeded os for instance.
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Well you get checked for the stuff and if you are over the allowed quantities for the stuff you have with you - and you may have to show your ID but that's it.

I've only crossed in Switzerland once (from Italy) on a motorbike, and they didn't even stop me. I slowed down approaching the border post, and the guy just waved me through. Likewise when leaving Switzerland going into France it was quite easy. That's cause the French border post was empty and we just drive through.
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If we want to see the change over time then it would be much nicer to see something like a stacked line/bar chart than an animated pie chart.

This could also show how the absolute amount of revenue has changed. I suspect that in MS's case it would be roughly similar, whereas for Apple the iPhone has come from nothing and total revenue has exploded.
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of course, I use scp and ssh tunneling quite regularly. I just like the concept of sshfs, will need to play with that and see how it could be useful