skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the best page of career advice I've ever read, and I think that our current culture will quite inevitably bury it in a locked safe, in a concrete vault, in the Marianna Trench.

What's the real point of the Courage Culture? It's to build a cult of bravery and manliness in order to sucker people into bleeding themselves dry for a chance at a big break, but most especially for someone else's immediate profit. As michaelochurch will inevitably arrive to say, the Courage Culture is what VC-istan uses to exploit the young, strong, smart, and ambitious people who aren't exactly very wise yet.

Yet the advice is correct. Success doesn't come from the one tiny spark of an idea that kindles into a bright fire, guarded and fed against all odds in a battle for glory. It comes from being in the right place, at the right time, with the right skills and the right willpower to see where there's a demand for something and fill that demand.

The upside is, despite place and time mattering greatly, skills and willpower also matter greatly, and are fully under your control. There's also very relevant advice from Paul Graham for the place-and-time issue: stay upwind, if you can. Keep yourself positioned where lucky chances can find you and you're ready for lucky chances. Once you've got skills and an ability to position yourself upwind, it's just a matter of time and combinatorics.

That was the first hard part. Then comes the second hard part of actually doing the hard work. But if you even made it through the first part, you've probably got the willpower to apply yourself to the second part.

I'm gonna stop ranting now.
I took it as an ironic comment.
Cute, but I[0] don't think the law is that straightforward to interpret. At least according to Wikipedia[1], "cruel and unusual punishment" is a legal phrase all into it's own, regardless our lay interpretation of the individual words.

In Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), Justice Brennan wrote, "There are, then, four principles by which we may determine whether a particular punishment is 'cruel and unusual'."

* The "essential predicate" is "that a punishment must not by its severity be degrading to human dignity," especially torture.

* "A severe punishment that is obviously inflicted in wholly arbitrary fashion."

* "A severe punishment that is clearly and totally rejected throughout society."

* "A severe punishment that is patently unnecessary."

These "principles" probably themselves have oblique legal meanings seperate than what we'd expect, and there's probably been a new ruling or two on the 8th amendment in the past 41 years.

--

[0] IANAL.

[1] Yes, I know.
Worst thing is that there is so little discussion/coverage of this in the UK.

Other than the Guardian the G20, GCHQ, NSA findings have hardly been covered. I'm most surprised by the BBC, even if they did get a DA-notice I would have expected them to be somewhat impartial.
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Today is NBA draft day, maybe you want to know how prospects of the last 30 years developed.
Marital status single? I guess for legal reasons, he left his partner behind. 'Baby, I know we need to talk, but I am currently on the run from the American government.'
Both "GNU" and "/" are hard to pronounce.
I'll reply here again: Thanks for that! I'll check it out now
Have a look at Fabric (http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.6/)

I wrote a quick fabfile yesterday that automatically commits/merges my local changes, pushes to a private GitHub repo, then SSHs into my production server, pulls down the latest code and restarts the web server. Gives me feedback along the way too.
The servers are returning the output of the redis-py library, which maps returned values from redis into python objects (hashes -> dicts etc).

I had a quick look but I don't see an easy way to have redis-py pass forward the raw return values, though I think it could be done with some effort. So this isn't a drop in proxy for a redis server just yet.

Edit: referring to the TCP/HTTP Servers above, the library itself can be used as a drop in replacement for redis-py in python.
The police have ALWAYS been given the tools to do this kind of thing by the courts and parliament. (in all of Europe, at least.) There are loads of offences still on the books that could mean almost anything, but which can be used as grounds for arrest. The police have ALWAYS used their 48 hours of custody to remove certain troublemakers from certain areas under every type of government. Taking away your ability to shout in the streets for 48 hours is not MUCH of a restriction on freedom of speech. Get a blog and millions can read it, but nobody will. Most people don't have time for politics, and the majority won't until resources are no longer scarce.

People, if you support Pres. Obama you have to go along with statism because he is one. Supporting him because he is the "least worst" even though you hate any statism is stupid. If you don't like a big government, support someone else.
Most of your argument revolves around comparing different substances, while I made a point specifically about crack, though I will allow heroin in the same category. Nobody with a little worldly experience would compare crack or heroin with tobacco or even alcohol. We don't have to be all binary about it, "if we ban one addictive substance then they should all be banned!" It's okay to look at things on a case by case basis.

I've been as close to hard drugs as you can probably get without actually being an addict. It destroys lives, families and communities, far beyond the addicts themselves, and it happens in a very nefarious way where addicts gradually lose control, without ever intending to go that route. I have seen some of the smartest and most sensible people turn into zombies who would and did sell themselves, their kids' toys and baby's diapers for drugs. This is not the choice they thought they made when they started on drugs. A lot of people aren't capable of making this choice, they can't fathom the consequences, and those consequences affect many others than just themselves. That makes it a societal matter, not just about individual freedom.

The fact that underground markets exist with all their associated ills is neither here nor there, this is the case for anything illegal.
Are we programmers lazy?
I don't think it is a talking point outside of the US (if it is, I have not been exposed to it), but people in the US do like to point out what they perceive as "a war on christianity" in other countries.

If the country in question is, I don't know, Cambodia, perhaps that is true (no idea if it is or not). But if the American christian fundamentalists are claiming that there is a war on christianity in England or France, then they are without doubt full of shit.

It seems like there is a certain brand of christian fundamentalist in America that really wants to think that the Romans are still tossing them to lions or something. They find that idea vindicating perhaps, I don't know. I don't get it.
Some say monopoly, others say horizontal integration.

Most non-tech savvy types want the ability to have their email, cloud document storage, cloud music service, browser history / favourites, all effortless syncronised between devices.

MS have actually been not that bad at doing this in metro. The share charm is extendible, integrating things like DropBox wouldn't be hard.

So long as they make APIs for say extending the images selection thing available to 3rd parties, I don't think its that bad.
How I live and how I work
He left his girlfriend behind. He's not married and never has been.
Using 'A' and 'Z' for up and down is always great fun on a German keyboard where 'Y' and 'Z' are switched.
The DEA Seized Bitcoins In A Silk Road Drug Raid
Quite often marital status is simply used to indicate if the person in question is married or not. As far as I know that wasn't the case for Snowden.
I got your ebook when it first came out at $1.99.

I'm going to mail out stickers for my next project.

(Can I has free book? Why do we have to wait till October, so far away.)
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Jesus. He would have gotten less prison time if he'd chopped off some random head.
What I found weird about this article is its portrayal of Barrett Brown as just another journalist. Sure, he was technically a journalist, but calling him that doesn't paint the most accurate picture of the situation.

Barrett Brown wasn't attached to some independent news organization that was doing investigative pieces on Anonymous -- he was a "leader" of Anonymous itself. And he tried hard to be one of their main public faces.

I always thought of him as someone who kept his hands clean of most of the dirty work just so he could maintain his public image. While he wanted to help the cause, he didn't want to shun the spotlight and assume a pseudonym, so his hands were tied. But he still kept in close contact with many of Anonymous's other less-than-law-abiding leaders, which of course, made him quite the target.
True. I had forgotten the exact status, still, I was merely using it as a pretext for my terrible joke.
Huh? He wasn't married before. But yeah, he left his girlfriend to keep her safe. Apparently she knew absolutely nothing until he blew the whistle.
I wonder if it would have complicated the whole thing if he had been.
We usually choose the time of push based on the nature of the fix. A DB change/fix can cause cache issues, so the cache needs to be warmed again.
If this document is genuine, it's a little ironic that they forgot to include his middle name.
I'd assume that single in this sense means "not married", as opposed to "not in a relationship at all".

Wikipedia backs this up [1] but I'm not familiar with Ecuadorian legal nomenclature!

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_status
Steve Wozniak: Edward Snowden Is A 'Hero'
There's another possibility: Maybe opera has an internal service that accepts software uploads and automatically signs them. That way an attacker might have spread malware without having stolen the certificate.
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So, obvious question... why do you not have tests in this set up?
Married to his ex-job maybe
Metra paid $50,000 in 'frivolous' patent suit, officials say
I wonder if it's possible to be addicted to passing judgment and feeling morally superior. There are some, especially in the religious right, that seem to commit a lot of mental energy to things they purport to hate, like sexual deviance and infanticide. From a distance, at least, there seems to be a compulsive quality to it. Why decorate a roadway with messages about awkward or obscene subjects, grabbing your attention and forcing them into your conscious awareness, unless there was some kind of reward? Indulgence in covert fantasies? Or something like schadenfreude?
You can click on link and then flag it if you think it's appropriate.

"If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)"
- http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Big mistake in the first para. This is what happens when MSM covers tech. Tor and the discretion of the sellers makes Silk Road EFFECTIVELY anon, not bitcoin per se. The sellers have your postal address and your bitcoin data.
Well, it was done by the Ecuadorian consul in London, so maybe he did not have all the facts.
From the WSJ:

Late Wednesday, Univision Networks posted images of what it said
was a "safe pass" for temporary travel that had been issued to
Mr. Snowden [...]

But according to a senior official in Ecuador's foreign ministry
on Wednesday, Mr. Snowden had no such pass. "He does not have any
documents issued by the government of Ecuador, such as a passport
or a refugee identification," said Galo Galarza, a senior
ministry official. He didn't provide additional details.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732432820457856...
We still debug and fix on production servers from time to time (once every few months), although we have intermediary staging environments and a full release procedure.

But, when sh*t hits the fan, the business enter in the "ain't nobody got time for that" mode and they urge for the fix.
Ecuador denies giving Snowden a travel document: report

"That's not true. There is no passport, no document that has been
given (to Snowden) by any Ecuadorean consulate," Galo Galarza said
in comments posted on the website of Ecuador's Teleamazonas, a
private television station.

http://news.yahoo.com/ecuador-denies-giving-snowden-travel-d...
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Working on that CI server. bundle exec cap production deploy for now ;)
This is just scary.
How can anyone now think that a government having any data about our online activity is remotely a good idea? Clearly, the potential for misuse is far greater than the prospect of actually finding terrorist activity through it.
I responded in the sibling comment, but I'll say that you are missing the fact that information campaigns don't reach the very people who are most at risk. Saying it's their own fault is a failure of understanding and empathy, IMHO.
OT: Looking at the US polls, the smearing worked nicely.
The clouds have gone, but the now defunct and abandoned military complex near my hometown in Ede, The Netherlands is still rendered 'classified':
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.067359,5.699562&num=1&t=h&...
Which is weird, because even Area 51 is completely visible in high-res.
Git annex and my mom
Opera is still big on mobile, there's still nothing quite like Opera Mini, they should be careful at defending this.
Cool, have fun!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m58fv5FOIO1qfv6zxo1_500.jp...
I would assume that opening an office there would mean they need a company there which means they will have to adhere to the law there.
His daughter wrote a memoir: Martian's Daughter: A Memoir http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009HBYAR2/
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There is a key difference between this story and the Snowden case. It is unlikely that the UK government will actively pursue and convict any of the sources of the story. The UK, for now at least, appears less desperate to demonize its citizens.
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That should never be necessary; if you invest in the appropriate automation you can get your regular deployment process down to a few minutes and then even emergency fixes can go through the normal channels. The benefit is of course mainly the ease of day to day deployment, but it does mean that in those emergency cases you don't need to worry about what you've forgotten to do, or how your changes might mess up the assumptions baked into the automated system.
being a UK citizen (sorry, subject), my opinion on Obama is largely immaterial, but since you asked:

I broadly agree with much of Obama's rhetoric, and I imagine much of his policy (although I'm not clued up on the details, what with them hardly affecting me.)

I do disagree with him/his government on a number of issues though, including the International Law around his use of Drones, the fact that Guantanamo Bay has not been packed up and the people detained there tried for offenses or released, and on his surveillance and national security policy.

Insisting that people either support or oppose a politician 100% is ridiculous. Politics has hundreds of variables; you can't insist on a 100% match before you'll "support," or even "vote for," or even "campaign for" someone - or else the US would have 300,000,000 politicians all voting only for themselves.
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At my company I tend to think that we hire very competent developers. Our code base is so complicated (because of legacy code and/or the complexity of the tasks) that developers make mistakes all the time. They are caught by both a peer code-review process and the QA team or support/customers. I trust that you are "incredibly competent" but 1 mistake a month seems very low to me. But what do I know! :)

What type of product do you have?
Do you have a QA team?
Do you track new and close bug counts from week to week?
Similarly do you track regression counts from build to build?
Does the code base have a high completeness rate for unit tests?
Do you only deploy if you pass the unit tests?
What if you introduce a bug that screws up the data, do you have a fallback strategy?

I'm curious because I always had a dream to be able to deploy on a daily basis but I've never gotten there "yet". It's always nice to hear what others are doing for daily deployments.
On Snowden and the Enduring Need for Civil Disobedience
Congrats, CEOs You’re making 273 times the pay of the average worker.
Very infrequently. Once or twice a month, generally for immediate, critical bug fixes.
Is creating controversy a way of getting more revenue? (Kotaku)
This can lead to a bug, if you play human vs human and resize both paddles, the "ball" speed up and eventually go through one of the paddles
This doesn't seem that bad to me, what problems is it causing?

The only changes I'd make would be to wrap it up in a script so you have one-click deploys, and possibly implement the 'copy and symlink' strategy that Capistrano uses so you have minimal downtime during deploys and instant roll-backs if necessary.
I suspect your music library isn’t as large as mine. I’d be old and gray by the time all my songs had been played 100 times.
Teaching discrimination, racism, and segregation to 3rd graders
I was so impressed by this 'blue eyes', 'brown eyes' experiment that I felt like sharing.
In theory MI5 / MI6 / GCHQ / etc are also subject to full government oversight and have to obey the laws.

This story is interesting because it shows the police don't obey the law. There are strict rules when using undercover officers and a number of cases show undercover officers flaunting those rules. (To the point where an undercover officer forms a relationship with someone he's watching, and has a child with them, still in his undercover identity.)

The laws are defined in RIPA.

And it's not just MI5 doing it - I'm more alarmed about the private black-listing of individuals. (Which was a driver for data protection laws in the UK; and also a driver to expand those laws to paper based records and not just computer databases).
I actually don't mind this to an extent - I practice amateur rocketry as a hobby (and thus order some things that might be considered suspicious).

I'd rather the police knew exactly what I was doing than just see a small part and assume it was something bad. It's not an ideal situation, but given the whole terrorism excuse, but I'd rather be watched and know that I couldn't be confused with someone who has malicious intent.
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Yes, I should probably be a little ashamed to admit it at my age, but I exceed 65mph in a suburb just about every time I drive a car. And fairly often, so do the people in front of and/or behind me. It's not evidence of anything.

And, I don't think we need to get all extreme (-ly gullible or naive) and start accusing the feds, on thin circumstantial evidence, of violently murdering American journalists in the middle of Los Angeles.

Because what we already know they are doing -- be it engaging in conspiracies with these weird and shadowy 'defense' contractor corporations to perpetrate mass-scale 'disinformation' campaigns, or setting up secret courts to rubber-stamp their secret requests for secret police to secretly surveil all citizens based on secret interpretations of the law -- is plenty egregious, outrageous, and fundamentally dangerous enough.
Maybe this is only true for the main browser windows, not small popups
Any explanation to such strange thing?

Is it fake document? I wonder why there is no photo, no signature or stamps.

Or is it just ecuador playing safe?
"I am incredibly competent. I make maybe 1 minor mistake a month - if that"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger
I also practically live as I did when I was a student. The main difference is I have a mobile phone a Spotify subscription. Living like this is easy, convincing your gf to isn't...
Or you know, under certain circumstances allow executing multiple prison sentences related to the same case in parallel, rather than sequentially.
The situation in this country as become so strange that it's impossible to talk about it without seeming loony.

"The contents of the Stratfor leak were even more outrageous than those of the HBGary hack. They included discussion of opportunities for renditions and assassinations. For example, in one video, Statfor’s vice president of intelligence, Fred Burton, suggested taking advantage of the chaos in Libya to render Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who had been released from prison on compassionate grounds due to his terminal illness. Burton said that the case “was personal.” When someone pointed out in an e-mail that such a move would almost certainly be illegal—“This man has already been tried, found guilty, sentenced…and served time”—another Stratfor employee responded that this was just an argument for a more efficient solution: “One more reason to just bugzap him with a hellfire. :-)”"

How can you talk about this with friends and acquaintances convincingly?
I don't understand what it's supposed to do, it just spawned three windows, one plain yellow and the two others with 3 stripes and an increasing counter. Is that a bug or did I miss something? (I tested with up-to-date firefox and chromium, same thing)
It's a biological drive, like hunger, but it's the only one that's primarily mental, rather than physical. When you eat food, it literally gets into your blood and changes your body chemistry. So watching hamburgers is not the same as eating them. But how can your body detect sexual satisfaction without the involvement of the mind? It can't. So you can transmit it remotely.
Is a professional looking website design crucial for success?
I think that a professional looking website design is becoming a standard for startups. All the famous startups have a nice design. It need not have to be complex, just simple. If I see a website with not so professionally looking design I do not trust it so much. This approach is very strong in my country (Slovakia).

What is your experience? And please, could you have a look at my site - https://reltrek.com - and tell me something about your feelings? We are trying to find out, how important is to pay for professional design in this early stage.

Thank you much!
Well ... a few times a day. Very big and complex web portal here.

Live editing and debugging on the servers is strongly discouraged. But still have to do echo print_r from time to time.

Lesson learned trough the years of practice - there will always be big enough lump of fecal matter that when it hits the fan it will make you abandon all of the best practices for a while.
The stunt performers have their own insurance and are presumably more cognizant of the risks they undertake.
Deploying frequently when you're 1-2 developers is much easier, usually. A very important predictor of code quality that I've found is gut feeling, and, when I feel pretty confident about a piece of code, it usually turns out fine. There have been times when I said "hmm, this 3-line change doesn't feel right" and it turned out to have a bug in it, so I rely on intuition a lot (tests can't catch everything).

When you've only got a few, experienced developers, it's much easier to ask "hey, how do you guys feel about the changes?" and push if everyone's fine. With larger teams or less experienced people, you need to go through more testing, which slows things down.
Cool baby picture
Here is another cool and really funny picture of a baby!
Unless someone decides they don't like you for an unrelated reason, then you might be easy to confuse after all...
Can anybody decode this jibberish? Is it any wonder our rights are being violated by lawyers, lawyers-turned-lawmakers, and lawyers-turned-judges?