skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's my understanding that the original basis for months was the lunar cycle, which is astronomical for common definitions of the word. Part of what makes picking a calendar difficult is that the ~29.5 day lunar month doesn't fit neatly into the ~365.25 day solar year. So we've ended up with succession of adjustments and fudge factors.
Thanks for this, I use Perforce http://www.perforce.com/ but I've always wondered about using Git. Now I don't have an excuse not to give learning about it a go.
Foldscope: Origami based print and fold paper-microscope
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: the cloud platform of choice
At this day and age, I'd go for at least gigabit ethernet for the "fabric". Maybe just buy bunch of cheap gbe wifi routers and plug them together. I wonder what the network performance would be like if the built-in four/five port switches were used.
Planned obsolescence as medical innovation
You're missing my point.
I'm not saying we should NOT have ads.
I'm saying the level of quantity and aggresivity they have is intimidating.
Google, one of the most powerful websites in the world, and only one third of it's page when presented are actual results.
Not that you need to be an EE when the devices are integrated this much and vendors provide reference implementations but it is worth the money to get a decently built PCB quickly instead of doing it yourself.
Instrumental upbeat music for me as well. It doesn't guarantee the zone, but it often helps. I've been tweaking my working playlist on Rdio, it's here if anyone's interested:

http://www.rdio.com/people/syneryder/playlists/598011/Music_...
er...don't make sense
I tend to try and avoid "the zone" because I'll often find I'm holding too many ideas in my head rather than in the code and as such I'm not expressing myself well in code.

I used to come across code I'd written while in the zone later and have a hard time figuring out what I was doing/thinking. As such I end up with poor variable name choices and weird hard to follow algorithms that all made sense at the time but are a maintenance issue after the fact.

When you're programming in the zone, you're programming at your peak cleverness. I'm reminded of the Brian Kernighan quote - "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
Because the calendar used to start in March. Feb was truncated because it was the last month of the year, thus where to put all the fudge factor to make the year work right.
Etsy, Home of the Handmade, Takes On a Wholesaler’s Role
There's a lot of overlap here with what Paul Tough says in his book "How children succeed". Basically he also emphasizes the focus on a child's character, but to an extent that they regularly get graded on their character not just their performance academically.

It's a great read: http://www.amazon.com/How-Children-Succeed-Curiosity-Charact...
easy and very intuitional way for sharing scribbles.
It becomes a problem when you're protecting the entire city rather than just a few key areas.
PaaS Judo: With Cloud Foundry Ippon Deploys in 2 Minutes Versus 2 Weeks
It's also worth noting that 'winter' used to be monthless in the Roman calendar, so there were 10 months, ending in December (so all of the number names make sense) and then a big blob of 'winter' before the new year started.
It works fine on 34 Chrome on Linux.

You might want to give something like Saucelabs or Browserstack a go if they offer Linux?

Otherwise you just use virtualbox for an opensource winning way. :)
An additional option is to avoid sites that use practices, or a business model you don't like. For example: I like the forecast from weather.com, but they are one of the worst sites I have seen, and heaven help you if you have your speakers turned on when you visit them.

Now I use weather.gov and I am pretty happy with the result.
Where are you from originally? I'm from the U.S., and I'd be interested in working in Europe for a while. Also, where would you go about finding programming jobs in Europe? Do you guys have anything like Monster, or would I have to search around manually?

EDIT: Monster isn't just U.S./Canada. Thought it was.
Congrats! You reached 500 years without going unstable! - http://goo.gl/ZNMsyK
> March was the first, hence July and August were called quintilis and sextilis, for fifth and sixth, respectively

An even better example is the actual numbered months:

- Septum (7)

- Octo (8)

- Novem (9)

- Decem (10)
March or Martius* was originally the first month and the year was only 10 months long

http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-roman.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martius_(month)
Give me a moment while I play sad songs on this tiny violin for old people who are sitting on valuable assets.

tiny violin songs, very sad

OK then, let's talk about reality. Letting incumbents under-utilize valuable real estate is a bad policy. Anyway nobody gets thrown out of their house for owing property taxes in California because the local authorities just put liens on the property. Once the old folks kick the bucket, the local govt collects on their lien from the heirs or buyers.

There are also several other non-old-people-getting-evicted problems with Prop 13 and its siblings. There certainly is not any excuse for the ability to pass your property tax assessment on to your children or grandchildren.
"Finally, whilst I have never coded, because Clojure/Scala is on the JVM it’s very easy to pick up for a good Java developer."

I guess it's another recruiter wondering why he gets no respect from the cattle he handles...
I wonder if it's also possible to make it yourself from paper?

Or 3D print it?

Not that the makers don't deserve the money!
On the topic of ARM, does anybody know of a similar example like this for ARM? One that just shows you how to pass control to C and do some basic I/O?
Quantum Probabilistic Graphical Models (slides)
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Amazon's smartphone
Inside Jobs: How iOS Developer Danilo Campos Battles To Bring New Apps To Life
By "roll our own" do you mean you just used the twitter streaming API? Did that have enough data?
highly reliable android app, waiting for the ios version!
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the guy to read on flow. Try his book, "Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life"

Not exactly on your point, but here he is on video
http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow/

For a different approach, try this article, 'Your Never-ending (and Needless) Pursuit of “the Zone”' 1) You are living in the feeling of your thinking—whose quality is constantly in flux. 2) negative thoughts (actually, all thoughts) are random, neutral, and powerless 3) simply stay in the game.

edit: Never ending pursuit link link added
http://garretkramer.com/your-never-ending-and-needless-pursu...

edit2: The video does offer one response to your question, especially when he discusses the chart that appears at 15:28. Adjust arousal and control to home in on the flow state.
I'm not an expert, but my guess is because it makes it really easy to materialize the weights between layers as a 2d matrix and we have some really good library code out there for dealing with matrices.

There's probably room for experimenting with more novel constructions and even some papers out there looking into the matter.
One approach, if you're coordinating development through the foundation, might be for the foundation to require some percentage of the funds go to foundational improvements.
To see how/right wrong it is, you can actually look at the primary source material and see for yourself.

Here for example is an image of a pre Julian calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman-calendar.png

Among other things, you can also see another bizarre truth: the pre Julian calendar did not have a leap day, it had a leap month (more or less randomly inserted sometimes to delay elections). It's labeled INTER on the image.

The terms NON and EIDVS are the Nones and Ides of each month the latter of which I imagine Julius would have liked to reform out of the calendar all together. Hindsight.

Which reminds me of a not so useful poem:

In March, July, October, May,

The Ides are on the fifteenth day,

The Nones the seventh; but all besides

Have two days less for Nones and Ides.
Yeh my proper pc died with a dead HDD last week I am on my backup notebook which doesn't have all the plugines i normaly use :-)
Thanks for this reference (dialog Phaedrus, 274e-275b). This quotes Socrates telling a story about an Egyptian king telling the inventor of writing that he's not the best judge of its ultimate usefulness. Ironically, Plato was a writer and disseminated his thoughts by writing, which is how we have them.
LOVE THIS. still trying to do 2 dwarf stars. is it even possible?
YC wrote "April 15, we'll invite the groups that seem most promising to meet us in Mountain View between April 24 and 28. ..."

http://ycombinator.com/apply.html
I always submit bug reports, but I guess I do it for the wrong products. It sounds like MailChip is a solid company, and I have been thinking about putting together a newsletter....
Are you willing to pay for every website you visit? Oh yeah, you don't think you should pay for anything. Somehow money goes on trees for the websites owners, how dare they try to monetize their investments!
Well, should you take a cultural relativist POV then there's nothing "true" about Kantian ethics—it's a choice of values. It's interesting to see 21mo behavior selecting for those values.

If you take the deontological view then this is still a fairly complex behavior to execute. To consider whether this sort of judgement is one that should be fairly placed on the 21mo if it did the same is a challenging mental task.

So, perhaps babies are predisposed to heuristics which favor the categorical imperative. That'd be interesting and certainly worth surprise.
You asked, We answered
I am genuinely interested in why you think pope Francis has far more effect. There has been many popes in the recent past, how many people even remember their names? Pope Francis is trying to change some policies which might have a larger impact, but we are yet to see that. I would argue that Snowden's revelations are more unique and had an impact similar to 9/11.
The Thin Line Between Happy Users and Profit
Ha. The Atari Transputer (the Abaq) was an utter surprise to us folks in Atari engineering in Sunnyvale. One day there was a press release, and some Atari folks (that I never knew existed) had apparently decided to ship a Transputer-based personal computer.

I thought it was cool, but the Tramiels had other ideas.
How do you handle your taxes?
Different things work for different people but I'll throw my techniques into the ring. I have worked from home for the last 10 years so some of these won't be suitable for a corporate environment.

- Start immediately, as soon as you get to your work environment. For me that means no breakfast, no coffee etc... until one function/problem/failing unit test/something is done. Since I'm at home when I wake up I get dressed then go straight to the computer and open my editor and start working. This gets me in the mood straight from the beginning of the day.

- I find getting into the Zone is often really about finding the next task to complete. Leaving work on your local machine with a failing unit test or compiler error helps is a good way to give you defined task to complete next time.

- If the environment is noisy and headphones are necessary, music without lyrics. I tend to like trance or orchestral movie and game soundtracks.

- If it's not part of what you want to accomplish don't check your email until after you are already running out of steam. Reading and answering emails is easy enough work but usually completely kills any flow I have or at least fills my head with information not helpful to the task at hand. Same goes for any instant messaging etc...

- In much the same vein disable the internet for a while, I've never been more productive than when I was on an overseas day flight.

- People are distractions too, late nights (when I was in my early 20s) and early mornings (nowadays) are productivity's friends.

- Don't visit sites like HN until after work is finished. Hard to do but is knowing that "Company X releases/is bought by Y" ASAP going to help you work in any way?

- Finally (Work from home/self owned businesses only) if you're not feeling it, call it a day and do something else/go out have fun. If you're anything like me, by giving yourself a break you'll make up for it in productivity later.
You sir are a life saver. I hate weather.com with such disgust but was too stupid to find alternatives. Weather.gov it is from now on.
What have you been using Loomio for? I still can't say I really get it.
What do you do while your tests run? :)
There are many variants of A* that can handle changing environments/imperfect information, multiple goals, limited time, etc. A number of them are listed at:

http://idm-lab.org/project-a.html
Interesting.

- What other solutions to the problem of wealth being used for political influence have been proposed?

- Would lobbying/fundraising reform be a better focus, rather than attempting to make everyone, regardless of their contribution to the economy, have equal amounts of wealth?

- When was the last time nationwide wealth equality was proposed? What were the results? What about previously? What about before that?
I am originally from Istanbul, Turkey. But got my master degree on Software Engineering -again in my way- in Tartu, Estonia.

Usually every country here has their own online job searching tools. But then again a good looking Linkedin account, combined with an active github account where you contribute to open-source projects, always works.

If you will be more explicit about the country you are willing to go, I might tell you where you should look.
UK government website returns milkshake when searching for all countries
Click change country, select all countries, click set country, milkshake.
137,479 points over 500.2 years by just clicking out 12 earths randomly in the habitable zone and then set speed to max. Not sure I understand this.
I'm considering learning Git for managing my school-related stuff written in LaTeX such as notes, small assignments and big, collaborative papers. Should I?
Another term for this is flow. The psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi has written a lot about it. Wikipedia has a good overview at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology).
As a former owner of a 520 and a 1040 thanks a ton! That was my first machine with a linear address space capable of doing more than 64K, it opened up a whole world for me.
What taxes? This is European Union.
Interesting, I never thought of this problem before. In Thai, all month names are suffix with a word indicating number of days in a month. For example, "-khom" in "Mokkarakhom" (January) indicates 31 days, where "-yon" (e.g. Mesayon, "April") indicates 30 days. Benefit of being late-adopter allow us to name a month in a convenient way, I guess.
If the entire codebase gets through to this process, it seems like it would be no effort to port to another architecture (arm, mips, etc.)

Not saying it is an optimal way to cross compile.
Well, Occam was interesting, but nothing I wanted to program in. Not really.

I thought it was really cool that you could take a Transputer chip, add 5V and Gnd and a couple discretes and have a working computer. Add wires to other Transputers, maybe some DRAM, and you had a nice computing surface.

The instruction set was pretty neat; some very odd but interesting ideas. I don't know how you would get superscaler-class performance out of a stack machine, though.

I wish they'd done the same package-level tricks (+5V and a capacitor and go) to an ARM; that would have been lots more compelling. Occam was just too damned strange to catch on, and the C compiler I had for my T400 was one of the worst that I ever used.
So Twitter basically acquired their own data? Hmm.. more proof I dun know how Silicon Valley works.
There Is A Moral To This Story That Only Engineers Will Fully Understand
Would love that email. Thanks. My email is in the profile.
1) Put on headphones, listen to music without lyrics (or in language that I don't understand). 2) Close browser and email client and open code/text editor.
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Thanks snide. I will check them out.
Even if it was C, does it really matter?

I think everyone in tech knows (or suspect, at least) writing good C is hard. Very hard. But there is something comparable we can use? Something that can offer a similar level of interoperability?

I'm not really sure.
Enterprise software companies where software is installed on premise usually have some sort of Client Services or Integration team separate from the development team. The job of the team is to take the software and get it installed on site and integrated with all of the customer's other systems. Given the number of unknowns encountered at a customer's site and with customer's other systems, this is a good role for a strong generalist. Ofcourse, you also have to enjoy constant interaction with the customer.

These kind of engagements usually take months, though I've seen them easily go over a year in the banking industry due to sheer complexity of the integrations.
I've published another toolset in Python here: https://github.com/einaros/heartbleed-tools

The final test I did before publishing yielded ~100Mbit/sec of bleed from the challenge server, and had the prime in a few secs.

I also detailed a couple of other challenge observations here: https://hacking.ventures/rsa-keys-in-heartbleed-memory/
> For centuries in the western world, the Christian church, which considered this to be in its purview, kept trying different calendar schemes to try to make a set of months, preferably equal, fit neatly into the year.

That's not really a fair description of adopting a pre-existing system and issuing a single patch after more than a millenium. Sure, lots of things have been discussed, but not much has actually been tried.
... is your Planet 2 something that's even possible in real life? I'd think a large body so close to a star would get destroyed by tidal effects and converted into a ring.
First off, forget about MP3; I'm not arguing for a lossy standard.

You can't get an 18 kHz square wave out of a system with 44 kHz sampling. You need at least 1 harmonic before it'll even LOOK square, and that requires a frequency response out to 54 kHz, ie. a sampling frequency of 108 kHz. You CERTAINLY won't find one in a reverb tail, even assuming you had a generator for one in the first place (you might JUST get one from a cymbal crash, but I don't think the physics works)

The point being, your source material can't contain an 18 kHz square wave either since it's been through a studio production system with the same antialiasing filters.

Since you know nothing about me but seem to be making assumptions anyway, here's some background. I've worked in broadcast audio; I own studio recordings in 24 bit / 192 kHz (Linn release of Mozart's Requiem, studio master series). I also own studio equipment that can actually play it. Audiophiles are, by and large, cash cows for companies with no scruples.
Charging money is an awesome business model.
There are a number of lunar calendars that have had long use. The Jewish, Islamic, and Chinese calendars, for example. They are a bit complicated for that reason. The Jewish calendar has the equivalent of "leap months", for example, while the Islamic calendar has a "year" that is ~10 days shorter than an astronomical year.
Tried to find your email bovermyver didn't see it. Mine is in my profile. Thanks so much!
The amount of wear one homeowner causes to the roads or the amount it costs to educate one family's children is not dependent on local property values.

And the "externality" in restricting that land to your private use is captured by the housing market. If you're sitting on a plot of land worth a million dollars, it means you value that land at more than a million dollars, because otherwise you would sell it. Sitting on it is costing you access to a million dollars. Living there is costing you the money you could get by renting it out.
> There are plenty of other cities in seismically active regions where they've built upwards with great success

For example, Tokyo.
As a content creator myself it's disappointing when I see Adblock rates as high as they are, but I absolutely get it. If I'm upset at anyone in the Adblock debate it's the advertisers; the people who introduced intrusive pop-ups, auto playing videos, and those obnoxious banners with the smileys that scream "OH MY GOD, NO WAY!"

Then there are the issues of ads causing videos to freeze, browsers to crash, and containing malware. Or what if the ads are offensive to you or you have young kids in the house? For me it's impossible to blame users who just want to view their content in the most optimal way, which is why I see Adblock as a barometer for how satisfied users are with the way websites are delivering both paid and organic content.
I couldn't get heartleech to build at all. The Makefile is malformed, for a start.
What car-owning scenario is comparable to government driving someone out of their home via unaffordable tax assessment?
Spending your enormous profits on tax-deductible R&D in the name of empire-building sounds a lot more appealing when most of your obscene executive salary or dividend payout would go to the IRS.

That was pretty good incentive to pipeline money to Bell Labs or the PARC:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/07/24/xerox_parc_an...

And look where that got us.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7591573
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No, I'm saying that the article is claiming a difference that doesn't actually exist.

If it's being transferred over the internet, it's a file.

Electronic books are a subset of files, not a disjoint set, just as paper books are a subset of "paper with ink on it".
Speedcore?
This is exactly how my train my dog too.
Ideally, you find other short tasks that you needed to get done but in practice I keep a New Yorker or a book by my desk.

Less likely to only come to my senses half an hour and 8 tabs later ;).
Twitter's $100 Million Big Data Business
That's definitely a step in the right direction. The biggest hurdle you'll have to overcome is getting your application to enforce a process, that's a lot harder than you think it is because people tend to take the path of least resistance and process is rarely that path. You'll have to get buy-in from very high levels of any organization you work with, otherwise things will devolve quickly. Either way, good luck, I'll check out your product demo when you've completed it.
Show HN: Portable Win32 Heartbleed checker
Because there are way too many people exploiting the existing system; even if such a change were enacted, it would be immediately overturned via ballot proposition. Remember not just Prop 13, but also Gray Davis.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2642126

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6985062

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7225056
If you buy a $500k house you pay $5k/year in prop taxes. If that home doubles in value, you have $500k more in wealth (that you can tap withou cash out refinance) and pay an extra $5k in prop taxes. I'd say you're doing ok.
Heartbleed and static analysis
I could use some astronomy tips. It is fun, but sadly I am not learning anything with this.

For example, someone here commented about two stars systems, and if the planets are between them, they should closer to the center one as possible. This kind of thing I can test, see how it works and learn a little.

So a few tips as why another star in the center transform a planet's path from circular to an elliptic one, could help.
Yerba Mate, silence, and interesting work
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Thank you for the post explaining.

It's great to have good guys like you around. Keep up with the good job.