skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also loved the feature once madly, just lost that love at some point. Maybe I'm just more used to pressing middle-mouse all the time for other reasons as Blender uses it for navigation (as well as other 3D tools I'm working with).
Forget Germany as an asylum target. Our politicians have massively restricted asylum acceptance and even for those who do get accepted it's a hell of a fight and even more paperwork.

Also, you have the problem that you likely won't even be able to enter the European Union, except if you smuggle yourself via the Turkish-Greek border - but then again, the Germans simply fly you to Greece because this is the place where you entered the European Union technically.
Funnily, last time I used it it was so quick I didn't think it was working!
Hmm. Well, looking at the Github repo activity, Darin is actively involved in the GHC formulae these days. In fact he's actively involved in getting Homebrew's GHC formula prepped for OS X Mavericks, which you note as an upcoming issue below. So that's encouraging.

And while the stability of GHC/Haskell Platform was indeed questionable during 2012.2.0.0 and the beginning of 2012.4.0.0, they cleaned it up as time went along and I haven't noticed any issues with it for the past 4 or 5 months. You make a comment below about Haskell Platform being associated with specific GHC releases, and AFAIK Homebrew actually freezes GHC at versions compatible with the current release of Haskell Platform now. The reason I prefer to use the package manager instead of the pre-distributed binaries is because it provides for a deterministic and (theoretically) testable/repeatable upgrade path.
And not only kids.
I remember from my univ days (comp sci) we have this algorithm and data structures course. Typical lecture (2 hours) went like this:

-introduce some completely new (for most of the audience) algorithm or a data structure

-start doing advanced analysis of its complexity in various cases (or in case of data structure costs of various operations)

The problem with that is that when you encounter something new you usually need some time to get familiar with it, to play around with it for a while to get intuitive grasp of what that thing is and what properties it has. Without it it's very difficult to follow any advanced analysis because you probably don't even fully understand how the thing works for various inputs/doing various operations.
As it was, 75% of the lecture was too difficult to follow for most of the audience which showed (most people zoned out and just mindlessly taking notes).

It would be much better if home assignment before the lecture was to read some theory and maybe try to implement the algorithm/data structure to see what problems you encounter and then you would come to the lecture with specific questions to answer and understanding what may constitute a hard part.
This flipping approach makes a lot of sense to me. It's similar to learning by doing: you first get some very basic understanding and then try to do things and learn along. Traditional approach on the other hand is similar to reading several 500p+ books about OOP and Java and not writing a single line of code along the way.
You might find this Wikipedia article helpful in case you change your mind about Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Syrian_ci...
I'm sorry, but I don't really understand what point you are making. For some people traveling is not hard. For some people traveling is hard. But even for those traveling might be well worth the difficulties. Many good things are hard.

Now, personally I would argue people who say traveling isn't hard are wrong. I've traveled a lot, lived in a few quite different countries, and much as it's incredibly natural to me, it's often proven to be hard, much harder than staying in one place, in the culture most common to me...
True for official regular expressions, but not for the ones used in most programming languages. http://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-...
Maybe we should turn it the other way. List accelerators withh good feedback and the list of startups and people we can contact for performing the due dilligence.
I wish more articles were written like this: start reading, ask yourself x questions, only to see them answered while you keep reading, in a nice concise way, no more no less.
I was playing with a javascript crypto library and grease monkey. Here's a quick and early facebook demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HlQJWXlknE
I don't really have anything to offer but I do want to wish you good luck, I hope you get out safely.
It would be easier to escape to Turkey first. Later on you can try your chances with European countries via their embassies in Ankara or Istanbul.
I second what w_t_payne said. The following are just some ideas, please keep in mind that I'm no lawyer! This is no legal advice at all!

If you do have relatives in Germany, that might be a route to explore. I heard something in the news, that this may be an option.

For working though, that's going to be a tough one. Reading the Wikipedia article (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeitserlaubnis) right, it states that:
"Asylbewerber dürfen für die ersten 12 Monate überhaupt nicht arbeiten (§ 61 Abs. 2 AsylVfG), anschließend gilt ein nachrangiger Arbeitsmarktzugang nach der BeschVerfV (siehe oben)."
Which translates to: people seeking asylum must not take up any employment for the first 12 month.

As well as "Asylberechtigte, Konventionsflüchtlinge (§ 25 Abs. 1 und 2 AufenthG) sowie Ausländer mit einer Niederlassungserlaubnis (§ 9 Abs. 1 AufenthG) haben nach dem Aufenthaltsgesetz ein Recht auf Erwerbstätigkeit.", which transaltes to: people granted asylum (and some others) holding a residence permit, are allowed to work.

That's both ends of the spectrum, so there may be some middle ground after 12 month. I'm not lawyer though!

Finally, I think, maybe the folks from PRO Asyl may be the right ones to ask.
See: http://www.proasyl.de/en/contact/

PS: regarding hosting, from my exprience it's a somewhat lengthy progress, depending on the regonal administration. Your host will have to provide financial standing for your stay (requirements differ for the duration of your stay), with that he or she has to send that document certifying the financial standing as well as a signed invitation to you (the original), with which you have to go to the german emabassy in your country and apply for a temporary visa.
It's probably possible to recover the text from the blurred image (depending on the amount of blurring), some people would consider it a challenge
In case some people are not aware, Benjamin refers to the closed and paid Experts Exchange community, whose domain name is particularly easy to misread.
I don't take it personally at all. I see your point and fully understand it. I consider someone to be an expert at something when they 'know what they don't know'.

But, what you are saying isn't limited to MOOCs.

When you are learning on your own to fully understand something, you don't let magic fly. When I learned my first programming language I didn't allow myself to use any libraries at all. I made myself make everything from scratch so I knew what every moving piece was doing.

In my opinion, the onus is on the student. I work with plenty of devs who have CS degrees from top schools who will look for a library to do something that can be implemented with a line or two or code if they would take a few minutes to learn about it. Sometimes it's laziness, sometimes they don't seem to have the ability to learn something without it being force fed to them. I've also had problems with some of them during code reviews because they don't know what they don't know, and in their case they have a piece of paper that says they are experts so they refuse to listen and learn.

These courses are far from perfect, but they are a stepping stone for people who have a burning desire to learn. It's 3:30am where I am. I've been working on an algorithms class since I got home from work at 6pm. (with occasional HN breaks). I'll get a few hours of sleep and go to work. This has been my life for almost a year. To say I lack any expertise at this point is a little silly. I have nothing but a HS diploma and I'm keeping up with MIT open courseware. I would say they are doing something right.

And I think that going from tech support to developer is a little more than a self-assessment.
I'm not an expert. But if you are seeking asylum, you will not be allowed to work for about a year. The biggest problem with Asylum in Germany is probably how to enter Germany before any of the other countries between Germany and Syria...

You might try a "blue card", if you can get a good salary. But I am not sure how easy that is from Syria at the moment...

Also keep in mind that islamophobia in Germany is rising across the board. And no, my fellow Germans generally make no distinction between copts, syrian christians or muslims.
Hi. To get asylum in Germany is difficult.

First of all, make sure that you take a direct flight to Germany. If you enter any other European Country before, you have to get asylum there.

Second and maybe more important. If you try to get an asylum in Germany, you are not allowed to work for the first year. It's crazy and doesn't make any sense.

If you still want to get here. And it's a great city. Here is the Email address of the refugee help in Berlin:
buero@fluechtlingsrat-berlin.de
Depending on its use, the first thing I generally do on a new server is disable the OOM killer.

At runtime:
sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=2

To make it persist, just add vm.overcommit_memory=2 to /etc/sysctl.conf
Seek asylum in the first safe country or Turkey, then contact other countries embassies.
That's the point GP made. It is not markedly different, and it is not different at all. The content is just simply useless.

From Googlebot's perspective, it is not cloaking at all.
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I guess I'm one of the few people(?) who like the OOM killer. If all your deployed software is written to be crash-only[1], and every process is supervised by some other process which will restart it on failure, then OOM is basically the trigger for a rather harsh Garbage Collection pass, where software that was leaking memory has its clock wound back by being forcefully restarted.

Of course, this works better when you have many small processes rather than few monolithic ones. But now you're designing an Erlang system :)

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[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/191059/
Come to Sweden. The Swedish government hands out permanent residence to anyone who wants one.

Got 10 kids? Not a problem. Bring them along, the Swedes will gladly pay for everything without questions. They'll pay you so much money each month for all your kids and to help you along that you'll be making more than most middle-management here. And if you do encounter a Swede that questions why you wanted asylum in Sweden instead of another arab country with similar culture and language, just call him a racist. That'll shut him up.

Want some Swedish pussy on the side? Swedish girls are the most naive, PC-indoctrinated females on this side of the solar system. They'll sleep with you in a heartbeat. Feel like slapping her around to teach her her place? That's ok, she'll forgive you and excuse the behaviour with "that's his culture and we must be understanding of other Swedes' cultures". All schoolkids are taught that all immigrants, each and every one, is just as valuable and productive member of Swedish society as even the most hard-working Swede.

sigh
Long time VIM user here and I completely agree, not only for beginners, also for pros.

Basically it follows the KISS, and in some sense UNIX, principles.

I have never used the vim distros but I have gotten to a point where I just rm -rf'd my whole .vim dir and started over with only the plugins I required at the time. Then added more as I needed them.

Of course, I have always managed well without the file browsers many use.
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Thanks, I can totally visualize that arbitrary number of Olympic pools now!
There are some schemes in place that make it easier for non-EU nationals to get a work permit in Germany, it would require you to find an employer that pays a wage above a certain threshold (I believe it's called Blue Card).

A really helpful english-speaking source for any expat information on Germany is the http://toytowngermany.com/forum forum, especially the lengthy thread on visas and work permits: http://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4675...

Here's the thread for the Blue Card scheme: http://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2673...

Hope that helps a tiny bit and good luck!

Edit: Another link to official information on the Blue card:
http://www.bluecard-eu.de/eu-blue-card-germany/
I would also advise against Germany, one of the problems is that people who seek asylum in Germany are not allowed to work. ( I know nothing about other countries, but if you work for an Australian company, it would perhaps best to ask them for help.)

Good luck and stay safe.
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Agreed. The animations where the background or the lines around the text transitioned were nice, but the first few times the text flipped or was replaced made me move my mouse away to check that I wasn't missing something. Some of the effects (e.g., bolding) clipped the last letter from some of the words (Ubuntu 13.04, FF23 with a minimum font size set).
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i feel your pain. its unfortunate to be Syria now, i heard recently Sweden is approving asylum applications in the EU on a smaller scale. call the embassy to double check.

anyhow forward me your CV and email and let's connect, tech-wise we are recruiting node.js - backend dev if this could help. here's my contact: swissnamir@gmail.com
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I think you are likely to have greater luck on a working visa than as an 'asylum' seeker (which European governments consider themselves flooded by, and you'll have to prove specific persecution in your home country rather than skills in your job). What you need is the right visa which your skills can qualify you for and will lead to permanent residency or citizenship. This will vary by country. A difficulty with Germany may be that a lot of the process will be hard to understand if you can't read German.

Good luck to you. I (white Australian) visited Syria a few years ago. Every piece of news I hear now from Syria just saddens me.
Asylum and Work are 2 different things and in germany they accept only one.
1. Asylum and you cant work.
2. Work, but for that you need many many papers and time.
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I'd be curious what a fellow hacker on the other side of the world thinks about the current situation.
memory_profiler [0] mentioned in the post actual can detect memory leaks in compiled C extensions as it uses the OS through the psutil module to measure the aggregate memory usage of the Python process rather than asking the Python runtime itself. It can therefore take into account memory that was not allocated by the Python malloc.

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I am not an expert so don´t take my word for it. But I heard that a general role has always been that you have to get to the country you which to have asylum in in order to apply. European union is discussion a banded that rule for Syria but I dont know the status of that decision. An other rule is that you have to apply for asylum in the first country you get into.

However...
Sweden also spend lots of money on a virtual embassy in second life. Read more about it here: http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Lifestyle/Reading/Second-Life/

Maybe you can do a think of virtually applying for visa in sweden and write a pressrelease and push it on mynewsdesk.com. Startup community is also big in Sweden and we need skilled developers (Im swedish).

Carl Bildt,Foreign Minister of Sweden since 2006 (https://twitter.com/carlbildt) is very active on twitter and in my guess most likely to respond to a virtual request for visa by twitter and second life. This is a long shot but something you can try by your computer.

When you get visa in any EU country it is easy to move to germany and travel over boarders within EU.
Might be worth contacting these guys for advice: http://www.deutschsyrischegesellschaft.de/ (I just googled my way to this, so I don't know how helpful they are)
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I think Solomon's temple is more dignified than this.

God says...

whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

43:12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the
whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is
the law of the house.

43:13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The
cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a
cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge
thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher
place of the altar.

43:14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle
shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser
settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the
breadth one cubit.

43:15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward
shall be four horns.

43:16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square
in the four squares thereof.

43:17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad
in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a
cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs
shall look toward the east.

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God gave very detailed instructions. Explain where these instructions came from.

I prompt for input using forms in my OS. Currently on my Find-text form there is a "whole labels" checkbox. I think I have a bug, just recently created and discovered.
Slightly off topic.

In germany there's a movement called Freifunk.
The ambition is to build a community driven open Wifi-Mesh-Network by flashing low-cost routers with the Freifunk firmware. So these routers can auto discover their neighbours and then connects via the routing protocol called batman-adv to a mesh. If there's no neighbour router, batman-adv gets tunneled over the internet to connect to the Freifunk network.
It's an IPv6 network with gateways to the IPv4 internet.

The problem in Germany is, that on the country-side, there are a lot of dark holes by providing broadband internet.
Some villages has to connect with 64kbit/s. We have the year 2013..
What the people in these villages do is, they hire one big fibre and share it over the community driven Freifunk mesh network to gain broadband access to all the people in the village.
This is incredibly terrifying and at the same time a testament to mans desire to live and ingenuity to survive.

I wonder what OH&S would think about the situatin today.
Hi I will update this post, but I think you have several options. Try to get to any country you can that is in Schengen, once you are in you can carry on your freelance work, apply for working visa and go to Berlin for interviews. If you find a company to work for they will help you out, almost every country is in demand for devs.

I theory, I believe you may just come to Europe and if you state at the border that you seek an asylum they can't refuse you ( according to international laws, until your asylum is decided on ) and then take it from there.

Turkey is the closest country you don't need a visa for.

I will make an update but in any case don't double-check everything yourself, those are few things I vaguely remember from school.
Exactly, the bubble it's not bad in all use cases. Nevertheless it would be really great if you actually have a real control over it: switching from one "bubble" to another for different contexts or disabling it altogether.
This reminds me of my one and only question on Stackoverflow: "Throwing the fattest people off of an overloaded airplane." http://stackoverflow.com/q/7746648/67591
Off-topic, but 'masel' is the Scots word for 'myself'.
Anything sufficiently random to avoid automated guessing is going to be too long to enter on a keyboard.
> I hate you auto-kudo, I hate you so much.

The fact that you hate it makes me love it, and I even can't explain why.
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Your best solution might be to move to whatever country will be most likely to accept your asylum request (and preferably will let you continue to remotely work) and then apply for a work visa to a country with more of a tech scene.
German here. I think asylum isn't what you want. If the company in Australia that you worked for can not help you get in touch with companies in Germany. Tell them what you can do for them and about your situation. A lot companies are used to employ IT professionals from all over the world and know how to do get you here.
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Just as there are horrifying VC stories, so there are bound to be horrifying accelerator stories. With VCs it's really the top tier firms that are the ones you want to work with; many of the others are under pressure at all times to make up for mediocre returns, which is not a formula for a happy working relationship with them. It's going to be the same with their earlier stage cousins...
I couldn't before but now i can see all the answers without ?share=1. Did they change their policy? I can't find any blurred answer anymore.
Skip Germany and go to Sweden or England, where people are more than happy to speak English, and there is already many Syrians in Sweden, especially in Sodertalje. Sweden will accept you based on your skills far more easily than Germany, all you need is to find a job, and right now the market is open for a guy of your skills - programmers are in high demand. Look around on various Sweden/Stockholm job posting sites, from there you get the visa and safety. The startup scene is also nice.

As someone else mentioned in Germany as asylum seeker you arent allowed to work. You can come to Sweden and seek asylum and you'd be allowed to work, and when you do sign a contract then you can get a permit to stay and cancel the asylum request. PM me and Ill give you names of good companies that are on the lookout to hire.

As others said, to be able to apply for asylum in EU country X, you have to first set foot in that country X and not in another one, so, go to Turkey or Israel and then fly to Sweden from there.

Sweden is also more flexible, its a country where they look out for the best interest of you as a human (mostly), so if you come to Sweden and continue working for Australian company - it is enough to get a work permit, all you have to do is prove that you earn more than minimum amount, I believe around 1500usd and pay taxes, to be accepted.

As a war refugee my self, I urge you strongly to leave Syria now, for the love of god no matter the price, buy those tickets and get the hell out of there and far away as possible, Sweden, Canada, Australia. (Not Germany, France, Italy, USA, Turkey they all suck.)

Your life is all you got, dont waste it on that war. Take with your closest family if you can.
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Sorry about your situation.

Are you Syrian? It may be easier to get to a country that does not require you having a visa then you decide on what to do later. As a dev, you can work remotely and earn money.

Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Syrian_ci....

Best of luck man.