skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your kids can watch this, then it's past time to have "the talk".
I had the same kind of motivations and had a 83 day long streak. Was finding it difficult to contribute a lot on weekends. One travel broke my streak and was happy for it. https://github.com/manojlds

Blogging on github ( octopress, Jekyll, static files etc ) is one of the easiest ways to contribute.

Btw, anyone with similar habit for consecutive days visited on stackoverflow? http://stackoverflow.com/users/526535/manojlds
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Wikileaks is nothing new, folks. What is the actual innovation here? Governments and the interested parties that fund them through bond purchases have always over-stepped the practical boundaries in the quest to maintain and increase their power and control in relation to their peers and the masses.

It is true, however, that there would be no market for anything such as Wikileaks if there was no opaqueness in the public sector.

"Send us an anonymous package with information through post and we will vet it and publish it, if it's juicy" is nothing new under the sun though.
I have no idea either, the place is insane when it comes to getting a nice apartment!
yeah its often called perfect forward secrecy - PFS - too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_forward_secrecy
Because it's just another form of bread and circus to placate the masses while Rome burns all around them. Sports, IMO, brings very little long-term benefit to our society, especially compared to the money sunk into it. Who were any of the winners of $main_sports_event back when Bach composed his first works? Who took home the gold in the Olympics when Plato wrote down the Socratic Dialogues?

Cultures are not remembered by the sports heroes they produce. Yet Western society puts a staggering amount of money, importance, and social standing into the sports-industrial complex, and I feel that it is to our detriment. I'd much rather see music, art, and even the STEM disciplines take a more equal share of the BILLIONS plowed into 'sports! sports! sports!'

I just feel that, like cupcakes, sports is a 'sometimes' thing whose consumption has grown way out of proportion to the value it brings us.
Well, he said he rarely goes grocery shopping. I assume that means he has someone else to do the shopping and cooking. So he is probably not as savvy as someone who shops and cooks regularly.

He may not have many bean soup / bean salad / crockpot recipes.
MAXIMUM_PASSWORD_LENGTH is used as the max_length of CharField. CharField are unicode, and thus if one reads no further than django/contrib/auth/forms.py and doesn't see MAXIMUM_PASSWORD_LENGTH is also used on KDFs input (which work on bytes) one may get the impression that it's a limit on code units.
So apparently it doesn't give the owner root by default? I don't think I would buy such a product.

And this guy reports the means of getting root on his own device as a "defect" to be "fixed"? That is disgraceful.

You can make a NAS from generic PC equipment, altho it takes some work to get a lot of convenient features.
Ten times the temporal resolution, if you're willing/able to do it.
The current problem being that subscribed to an institution which has a library with the funds to pay for these things is currently either expensive or hard to get oneself affiliated with without lots of requirements and quirks. :/

I have access through my home institution, but I'm already dreading being suddenly cut-off from all of this information when I leave :/ - the idea that upon leaving the institution my ability or willingness to read existing content and contribute back should disappear is bothersome, to say the least.
I know many of us are desperately craving our next Schneier fix (I know I am!), but this is merely a repost of his Guardian piece dated 6th Sept :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6336523
Facebook draws the line between hominids that are serious about personal development, professionalism, the future, and those who are potentially unmindful, postwhores, where each, as with all things, exists on a spectrum waiting to be grokked by neuroscientists.

It's a proverbial turning on of a light-switch to see what is a roach and what is a fixture.
Donations to charity in general often cause credit cards to be blocked -- my wife and I do this thing[1] where we give large amounts to multiple charities on the same day each year, and last year it took a couple days to get all the charges to be successful and cards unblocked.

I think the idea is that credit card thieves use charitable donations to figure out whether they have a valid card, so they're considered especially suspicious[2].

[1]: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2012/11/27/celebrating-seven...

[2]: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/070607-credit-card-thi...
I rememberer long time ago when i was still in the land of Java I researched the topic there were GCJ as well. Dont know what happened to it And Something called ExcelsiorJET as well.
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It's intentional so they don't try and translate, say, your bank statement and end up sending it to google servers.
It compiles the Java but what about the big VM needed?

Found my answer:
Note! When you compile a program using RoboVM it will translate not only the main class into native code but also the transitive dependencies of that main class. So the first time you compile a program for a particular CPU and OS RoboVM also compiles many of the standard runtime classes such as java.lang.Object, java.lang.String, etc. A simple class like HelloWorld references about 1500 classes directly or indirectly. RoboVM keeps a cache of compiled classes and only recompiles a class when it or any of its direct dependencies have changed.

Wow
Without going in to a very long detailed family history, I do have 2 sisters that have basically worked less than 20% of their entire adult life. Between them they have 8 kids and 5 baby daddys. They do very well living on 'aid'. One of them is in Fort Meyers "on vacation" right now.

For every person trying hard and working to improve their life, there is usually a matching person not giving a damn and enjoying the freedom that not having to work gives them. Do they live in a nice house and drive a nice car? Nope. But they live as well as any college student in any fair sized college town, and had Playstations and X-Boxes long before I did.

But thanks for projecting 'your' issues on me. I never once said I got mine so fuck you. Not even close to that.
It seems like there is no perfect place. New Zealand or Australia? they are in a difficult time zone.

One alternative is having two fixed locations and moving on winter.
> December 9th at 4:12 PM

Where? Every location has its own time of sunset...
Thank you! You are making the community a better place.

I am sorry you are getting death threats for standing up for us. That's horrible :(
Or maybe you can go easy on someone writing an interesting blog post in something other than their first language.
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We didn't get enough data to be able to determine that, but I'd be very curious to hear if someone else did.
True, though I find the smaller the cities are, or rather the more they're similar in smaller size and population, the smoother the transition. As far as Brazil, I've lived in more neighborhoods and more cities than most Brazilians and the toughest experience was adjusting to São Paulo's 12 million people and spread out geography.

Cities of large sizes and big populations also create other problems such as with locomotion, quality of public transport, number of modes of transport needed to get to various points, etc. In essense, it came to preferring to live in a crappy, cramped yet centralized place vs a larger, more comfortable 'far away' place (from the city center). In São Paulo, often the time I would spend in transit would be double the time I would actually spend with a friend (versus smaller coastal cities where I could reach my friends in 10-15 minutes tops).
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Very very weak in perhaps the most important area: metadata collection for traffic analysis.

Not that this is an easy problem, but it needs to be seriously addressed.
I'm doing this in similar way.
Find place on AirBnB for month or two(much cheaper than weekly rentals), check that place has good internet, located in nice neighborhood etc. Than find some gym, favorite cafe etc and live life like regular local for that period.
Sharing Economy Policy Primer for Cities
Ah -- I usually use "apt-get safe-upgrade" for scheduled upgrades, and aptitude for all manual work.

So I had the effect right, but the commands mixed up :-)
It seems like it's back: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1mf1io/found_a_small_ro...
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Author here. Exactly as digitalboss commented plus a custom crafted html/css on top of twitter bootstrap. It's not perfect, but it does the job.

Best, Alex.
Your A/B explanation misses the point that the selection doesn't reveal the relationship, only the absolute value.

The selection doesn't actually reveal anything. You're given the opportunity to switch prior to opening the envelope.

Using your example, ignoring selection and envelopes and simplifying the goal of the answer: "Here's the letter B from a set of two consecutive letters. What's the other letter?"

A and B are just labels for the 2 options present at the start of the exercise. You can't assume you've selected B and then say that the remaining option is either A or C because only A and B existed to begin with (or B and C, whatever the labels are is irrelevant).

To put it another way: if you select an envelope and attribute a dollar value to it (in the Wikipedia article this is $20) and then suppose it's either the higher or lower value, then compare the expected value of switching in each case, the things you're comparing have absolutely no relationship to each other.

If you assume the value you chose was $20, and it's the lower value, then your initial values were $20 and $40, and you should switch. If you assume the value you chose was $20, and it's the higher value, then your initial values are $20 and $10 and you shouldn't switch.

In either case the only relevant piece of information is whether or not you chose the higher or lower value and you can't include all 3 values ($10, $20 and $40) in an "expected value" calculation because only 2 values actually exist.

Actually it becomes even more starkly obvious if you change the dollar value between each statement, eg: assume you chose $20 and it's the higher value. If you switch, you lose $10. But what if you chose $5,000 and it's the lower value? If you switch you'd gain $5,000 so you should always switch because you're only risking a 50/50 chance of losing $10 for a 50/50 chance of gaining $5,000. This is clearly ridiculous!
what is airbnb for digiral nomads?
Can you describe in more details what you need?
Hah, just did the same thing since last month. Only manage to have a 33-day long streak ( https://github.com/cheeaun/ ). Perhaps will do it again when I feel motivated :)
>>Also, most poor people (78%) don't have even one job, let alone two (nor are they even looking for one).

First of all, that isn't right from the data you linked to. 59% of people below the poverty line don't have a job or aren't in the labor force(Table 6). Secondly, it turns out that not everyone in a family is a wage earner so there is no way to extrapolate from that data point to how many are just living off welfare.

If you look at table 1 in the bls report you can see that those in poverty & and in the labor force without a job were 17%.
This is cool, but typically it's not considered a vulnerability when the user in possession of the hardware or with admin access can root the box. It's actually inevitable.

Unless an unprivileged, remote attacker can also get a shell on the box, it's not a big deal.
Yes, foreign nationals are allowed to obtain basic security clearances. However, in the defense and intelligence communities classified material may also be marked "NOFORN" – no foreign nationals regardless of their security clearance.
"I also think that Clojure is particularly enjoyable, elegant and beautiful, while at the same time extremely practical, easy to learn, and well suited to modern application development; it is the best designed programming language I have encountered in my almost-two-decades-long programming career . . ."

I am absolutely with you there, but after writing a reasonably serious, production-level system in Clojure, I suddenly realized a fatal flaw in this and in many other hip and cool languages. It is very, very difficult to write clear, readable code.

I accept that it might just be my lack of skill, but as the stuff I was writing became more complicated, I found myself writing the Lord's prayer on the head of a pin more and more.

In the end, I started to actually long for a language that had fewer language features -- something that allowed far, far less flexibility in the way ideas are expressed. C is far from perfect, but more and more I see the wisdom of one of the early statements in the K&R in which they say that figuring out what to remove is part of the art of creating programming languages (or something like that).

There's no language in which you can't write unreadable gibberish, granted, but some of these newer languages make it damn hard to write non-trivial programs that are easily read by others.
Yes, I think you are right.

But after reviewing my comment I think it is a point that is still worth keeping in mind.

The same kind of thing could happen internally within a company or even subconsciously within a developers mind.
"Some people set the thermostat to 72F and leave it alone 24x365. Some people alternate setting the thermostat to 85F and 60F every couple hours and complain constantly of freezing or burning up..."

In some countries, you just put a jumper on or wear cooler clothes. Personally, I like to be near the weather. It is all tradeoffs.
My experiences would tend to agree with you; I worked at The MathWorks (makers of MATLAB) for a while, and I was a little surprised when I noticed that the hard-core devs who developed the guts of the language (parsers, JIT, data structures, math libs) worked purely in C++ often using EMACS or VI, and only rarely would launch a dev MATLAB GUI. I suppose it makes sense that if you're working deep in the internals, all that matters is properly handling all the possible inputs that your function can receive and not really how those inputs get there - that's the job of other teams further up the call chain :) I still found it an interesting lesson.
"...and was finally in a position to really influence our development decisions at every level. Even at the most sensitive of them all: language choice"

When people say that "programming language doesn't matter", they mean it doesn't matter within the broader context of the company. And they're right. Language choice is never the key to success for the reason for failure that we in the tech field might wish it was.

Yes, it'll matter to programmers to some extent, but just like the author talks about how quality programmers will be open to new language choices, those same programmers will be open to getting things done, regardless of language.

Fixating on a programming language choice is premature (and worse, even irrelevant) optimisation for a whole host of problems that just don't affect a startup's success that much. Things like finding the best people, getting customers, and scaling will always be the harder, more critical aspects of running a successful company.
Really curious about what, if any, side effects you picked up. Getting a commit streak is cool, but did you learn anything about networking, or finding open source projects to create/contribute to? Something that you feel you'll be able to take with you into your work habit (aside from the awesome "learn how to habit").

Great post!
I tried the same thing a few months ago (this lasted 58 days), but some days you just don’t want to work.

A few notes:

- it’s the time of the commit which is important, not the push. So you can contribute on your projects locally if you don’t have Internet access (e.g. on vacations), and then push at the end of the week. It’ll be the same as having pushed everyday during one week (this works with personal projects, be careful with projects where there are other contributors)

- Only contributions on 'master' are counted by GitHub, so if you use multiple branchs for new features / bug fixes, the contributions will count only when (and if) you’ll merge them into master
Outside the Americas, you'll get a whole load of funny looks when you call them legos. It's like pointing out a field of sheeps.
Do you speak Portuguese fluently? Language is the thing...
Yes, absolutely.

The problem is that business documents like a bid, an estimate, a goal, a plan and so on all share similar surface features. So it's easy to mix them up.

The classic is "that estimate is too high. Change the estimate".

Conceptually, an estimate is an immutable object. What you're really being asked for is a new estimate that is closer to a goal.
This is exciting. But wouldn't this result in very large final binary sizes?
May I ask, what do you find special with Arch? Since it's the Window manager that you use mostly, you could use any other distro. On the other hand, I remember having many issues with Arch when they changed some settings, and since I switched to Debian, which I find more stable.
If it isn't rude, why are so many people offended by it?

People invented the "everyone's phone goes in a stack in the middle of the table, and if you touch it you pick up the check" custom because they find it so rude that people check their phones during dinner conversation.

When you're with someone, pay attention to them. Sure, if there's a long break in the conversation and neither of you has anything to say, maybe you can check your phone. But don't start checking it during an ongoing conversation; that's rude. That's a way of telling the person you're talking to that they're less important than the random minutia of facebook, texts asking if you're up for COD, the latest score in the football game, etc.

There are obvious exceptions. If mom's in the hospital due to a heart attack, or your best friend is stranded in the flood zone and you don't know if he's made it onto a helicopter yet, it's OK to signal to the people you're having a casual conversation with "hey, this is important enough that I'm willing to cut you off mid-sentence to keep up on it."
Yes. I learned beforehand. I couldn't imagine living somewhere w/o speaking the language (though now that I'm in Portugal, European Portuguese feels like it actually is another language, lol).
When Complexity Is Free
How do you do an eight hour stretch? At best I can work for two hours without needing food or a bathroom break.

Imagine you're working in public space. To take a break you have to pack up your laptop, power adapter, water bottle, phone, headphones, go put them in a locker (or just carry them), visit a wc, eat, take a break, go get bag out of locker, find another place to sit with power, set up computer, power adapter, etc.

It's a lot different than just walking away from your desk at home for 5 minutes to relieve yourself, grabbing a banana, then getting back to work.
This is a small mailing list, but people there can give you some ideas:

http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/equality
I did actually contribute to more open source projects that were not my own! This was because I had run out of my own ideas and wanted to keep making meaningful contributions. Some side-effects near the end were more negative than anything though, including a lack of motivation to do ANYTHING GitHub related. It was uncomfortable at some points because I felt I was being forced against my will to contribute.
Thank you! I am glad you found it interesting, it was certainly a learning experience for me :)
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Most incompetent fucks ever if they don't know it's God. Son-of-a-bitch! Fucken India-nigger clowns.

Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on
Date: Sunday September 15, 2013 11:24.47 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 53532

145:2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever
and ever.

145:3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness
is unsearchable.

145:4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall
declare thy mighty acts.

145:5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy
wondrous works.

145:6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I
will declare thy greatness.

145:7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness,
and shall sing of thy righteousness.

145:8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and
of great mercy.

145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his
works.
I'm guessing here but I assume he means a site for places to live and work or perhaps a preset agreement where both kinds of places are rentable at the same time, in a package sort of deal.

In terms of co-working spaces, they're often way more than I'd want to spend for a simple internet connection and a place to sit.
Still haven't broken my 30 day streak record since the last time I wrote about it [0]. Bums me out.

0 - http://blog.chewxy.com/2013/06/25/dry-spell/
And it looks clean.

I use 'noscript' and had to enable the javascripts in the page to get sensible justification.
Synodic day ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synodic_day )

Sidereal day ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time )
For example, I butter my bread butter-side up, which is obviously correct, but Zooks prefer butter-side down. Something really ought to be done about them.
Things I liked: Excessive porn may decrease a man's desire to engage women, exposure to sexual situations may be occurring at younger ages, the attention span of younger generations may be decreasing. (I use the term "may" because I don't actually know the extent to which these things could be harmful.)

Things I didn't like: Noah was a scummy person for whom I had no sympathy (not paying attention to his gf, lying, breaking into her account, having no sense of subterfuge at that, using chatroulette), the girl's obnoxious and clichéd speech at the end, and the numerous exaggerated aspects. And I would argue a lot of this video is exaggerated, like the ridiculous music- "cuddle jams" played immediately when Noah starts feeling down.

Overall, I'm not a fan of the video.
Good for you. I teach some Afro-Portugese students who have washed up here in the UK. I always think they are talking German amongst themselves in the cafe!
...and they did so spectacularly the first time around?
$ dbinbox USERNAME file.jpg - send files to your Dropbox from the command line
You put a marker in the ground that then becomes your point of reference, so it works even if the Sun doesn't set.