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Kudos on setting goals! I offer some unsolicited advice below.

For 1, there's no nice way to say it but... are you overweight? Overweight people are much more likely to have issues with back and knee pain, so losing weight could help (in addition to the other health benefits). Really though, it sounds like you should see a doctor about these problems.

For 2, have you tried listening to guided meditation? UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center[1] has put out some good tracks. I recommend starting with [2] and [3]. If you prefer a male voice, Sam Harris has recorded some guided meditations as well.[4][5]

Also, I think it's best to avoid result-oriented self-improvement goals. Instead of "meditate with no distractions for 10 minutes," try something like, "meditate three times a week." It's a similar story with exercise. Instead of "run a 5 minute mile", just try to run three times a week.

1. http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22&oTopID=22

2. http://marc.ucla.edu/mpeg/01_Breathing_Meditation.mp3

3. http://marc.ucla.edu/mpeg/02_Breath_Sound_Body_Meditation.mp...

4. https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/mindfulness-meditation-9

5. https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/mindfulness-meditation-2...
Because stereotypes that apply to women are usually about us being stupid, unable to manage finances, being weak, caring only about things like jewelry, not understanding politics, philosophy or anything that requires brain. If you see something pinkified or "for women", you can safely assume it is also dumbed down. It is not always so, but it happens to be true often enough.

And mostly, while many people believe stereotypes about women and tend to judge individual women through them, I found that people are less prone to do the same with geek related stereotypes. If they know you are programmer, you get the benefit of the doubt and people are willing to accept you are not borderline autistic.

On the other hand, convincing them you know your stuff is harder if you are women.

Probably related, negative stereotypes about geeks are equally irritating if I hear them too much, but they are much easier to avoid. You just do not hear nor read them as often as some stupid jokes about women. There are also many positive stereotypes about geeks (geeks being geniuses), positive stereotypes about women ends up pretty much with us being "nurturing".
Hey there! Sorry about that.

There wasn't any malicious intent, I certainly don't make any money off of this. I just made this project for fun because I thought it'd be useful to have aggregated data from other reporting websites.

I'll remove the data at your request, though.
I've worked in two big Java/.NET consulting shops. They both were OK with 60% productive work. If you performed better, you were able to get bigger bonuses. If lower, then they started to work on your productivity (tutoring etc) or fired you. I usually showed up about 50% of the time and did some work from home. Worked great for me.
To add to your meme, turning on a phone also gets the device to ping out for cell towers, adding a data point to a large database out in the Utah dessert...
What is actually absurd is that those companies don't pay those taxes in the US either, because they can keep the money in fiscal havens for ages...
While I don't doubt for a moment that the US Government has the technology to do this, I do doubt that the TSA, which is basically the government agency equivalent of the shortbus is allowed to have access to it.
That's a good point. Criticizing top tech companies is more marketable as journalism than doing deeper cultural analysis -- so you aren't going to see the women doing the deeper cultural analysis as often (though I would argue that this article does just that). You should read up on what feminists are writing lately.
I'm not responding to the article, I'm responding to the parent, who is saying that encapsulation is "much favored" over inheritance. It is not. At least, not amongst more experienced programmers.

Even in marginal cases, you can reasonably decide that a data model should use inheritance. There's no presumptive bias against it.
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This is difficult to quantify, but I'm guessing if we could graph productivity, it would look a lot like a sleep graph. In maybe the first 3 - 4 hours of sleep, you are deep in. That's the most productive sleep. Though you might go through a few cycles in that time, the cycles are deep. Then the cycles get less and less deep until the final hours in which you are barely sleeping. Some freaks of nature may be able to get by with less than 6 hours of sleep. Most need 7 - 8. We probably know those lazy teens who can seem to sleep all day. Some people might break up their sleep by sleeping for 4 hours, waking up to do something for a few hours and then going back down to sleep for another 4. Regardless, we all go through the same basic processes and have the same needs. Again, I think it really helps just to observe yourself and find out what works best for you. Experiment with many different ways and track that however you can. Maybe even just writing in a journal.

As for the side project, I meant working on a project for the employer. For example, if your job is X project on foobar.com then you might open up Y project on foobar.com as something you believe the site needs that you are more interested in. Again, this would most likely be after your 4 hour productivity burst. Maybe it's something you have been intersted in becoming an expert in. Perhaps one day you could jump ship and find a different employer to hire you for that expertise. Win for you, win for the employer.
Swipe left on their name and tap delete.
Yeah, my first thought upon reading the title was that this was about ensuring access to the data on any device coming into the country.
Dark matter is not theory, is real, the gravitational effects have been observed, we don't know what it is yet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
And the Daily Mall's only source seems to be "unnamed' TSA officials. And the article lacks any real detail. Also, they threw this obvious false-hood in their article: "The Transportation Security Administration will not allow cellphones or other electronic devices on US-bound planes from now on."

Can we please remove this from the frontpage of HN until we have another source? I know a bunch of people are going to take the headline as fact without researching the source.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2682478/Airports-fac...
Oh absolutely, the type enhancement is what makes it so interesting to use, but the point is that it's not necessary for it to be a mixin. It's a very nice extra.

I'm not sure about python, but Ruby completely inlines the mixin's code. It needs to do this because instance variables can be created anywhere, including from inside the mixin, but they still need to apply to the object of the actual class. This gives interesting cases for collisions, where 2 mixins create the same instance variable, but it's a decidedly non-inheritance way of doing it.
You stated it's not a healthy business model period. Yet there are many places in the world where a lot of money is being made at it. So what gives about your statement?
well just plug its charger and turn it on...
That would be obvious on an x-ray.
> Validate the integrity of the device from looking at the screen?

Essentially, yeah. If you can't turn it on, it could be an IED disguised as a cellphone. (Or so the TSA seems to think)

Of course it's all just pointless security theater. I keep waiting for the general public to realize that these sorts of measures are useless wastes of money and demand they stop. I fear I'll have a long wait.

(Edit: TSA not NTSB)
Maybe that's a good excuse for why Apple no longer make devices with user serviceable batteries :)
I wanted dearly to love the K750/760. But they feel cheap. And my unpleasantly creaked / flexed, adding to that sensation.
Yes, but that is not how it is used in everyday English. That word is not used too often of when it is, it does not refer to musical talent.
Like others have told, any complaint you make must be processed by the company. If it endangers human safety, failure to do so is against FDA's rules and can have dire and expensive consequences to the company in question.

Fixing bugs in a medical device is not slow because it'd take a long time to fix the bug itself. It's slow because there's a lot of paperwork (Device History Files, specifications, tons of reviews, etc.) and system testing that follows. That's why you'd only correct issues that do not endanger patient safety once there are enough or when they can be combined with new features in firmware.

There's also always a risk that those fixed issues cause patient endangering bugs.

It can take almost one year from implementing the fix until it is running on any significant number of medical (imaging) devices in question.

FDA's rules are there for a reason. Although... someone should tell FDA git exists. It's silly to revision things manually in Word documents.
I always assumed the x-ray machines would show operators if a phone or notebook seems to be tampered/modified. If looking at a boot screen makes the process more secure, we should really be concerned by the airport security in general.
The article is here: http://geeksta.net/geeklog/exploring-expressions-emotions-gi...

The article has more graphs, satisfying some curiosities. This specific graph has been obtained applying a regex[1] to a sample of github commit messages.

[1] (?i)\b(a+rgh|angry|annoyed|annoying|appalled|bitter|cranky|hate|hating|mad)\b'
In a sense, but that's a bad analogy. If you want to make unflattering comparisons to advertising, the general concept of targetted advertising is closer.
That's an awesome goal. I have so much respect for people who just stay fit all their lives. I am so happy I didn't burn out as an athlete in high school or college; lifelong fitness is so much more meaningful than an emphasis on being competitive at a young age.

Fred Beckey is one of my fitness heroes. He is 91, and I'm pretty sure he still climbs harder than I do.

http://tylerroemer.com/gallery/original/fred_beckey_yosemite...
In finance, I've dealt with larger (but not much larger) dense matrices.
Start doing inversions in pole dance class.

Steps towards this include going to pole dance class at least once a week, if not more, doing the "pole crunch" exercise my teacher taught me to build some of the strength I'll need for this, and having a pull-up bar in my bathroom door, at which I try to do a few pull-ups most times I pass by it. I work at home so this can be several times a day.
No, this isn't Linux Journal, so you're fine.
What if you are more effective/productive in 16 hours than they are in 40? Wouldn't this warrant a higher salary?
Should we assume that men have a natural tendency to cry a bit less because men cry less often?

The articles are more strongly consistent with the theory of gender socialization -- that the media et al coerces girls to focus (obsess, kill themselves over,) appearance, and without it it would be impossible to say to what degree such a thing as actually "biological". The rational course of action is to assume an absence of such a theoretical reality until evidence is found, just as with anything.
Yes, people are different, and you're right that when something doesn't bother me doesn't mean that it shouldn't bother anyone else. But we need to draw a line where a "this bothers me" said by someone is actually meaningful and not oversensitivity. I think we can agree on that one, because a world where small and harmless statements that are in no way degrading can be deemed "offensive" by a very small group of people and judged because of that, would be a chaos. Some reasonable threshold must be there. Reasonable, of course. We shouldn't also allow really offensive and malicious statements and viewpoints and actions to slip by. I cannot stress this enough.

I can testify that people who are seen as geeks and/or nerds are very heavily stereotyped. I know I've been shaken off by a girl on one occasion when I mentioned my field of study, no joke. It's an extreme example, but the pendulum can swing both ways. But I didn't feel like the "female culture" was unwelcoming to programmers :) I just thought about how I met an isolated case of an idiot, and of course, that's how it is.

I still haven't heard someone say or allude that women, or a woman, is intrinsically less capable with tech-related crafts. I believe, though, that there are people who think that way. But I at least hope they're isolated cases, and I believe that they will be met with scorn from others just as much as they would from me, and that their behavior won't be tolerated.
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Those aren't the kinds of managers you'd want to work for anyway.
I appreciate that, thank you. Part of my problem with aggregation is that it removes the ability for people to amend or rescind what they've posted, or for me to drop listings out of Google when there's a legitimate dispute. The bedbug life is 1% programming and 99% angry/despondent/litigious email.
Seeing some youtube videos of 80 year old powerlifters was very inspiring. There was one guy who started at 40 years. It's never too late to start.
Their website is disturbing close to the excellent North America premium coffee service I use, Craft Coffee (@craftcoffee ; https://www.craftcoffee.com/). Maybe it's just me, or maybe it's just the red logo and brown vac bags, but this kind of smacks of that crappy "just different enough to not be infringement" move.

Besides that (and Germans need coffee too!), getting premium coffee delivered is such an amazing thing. I now live in a smaller Canadian city and my fresh roasted, premium coffee options have declined. I've been enjoying Craft Coffee for several months now and not only is the product excellent (I do regular reviews on Twitter, @quinndupont), they are a really great group of people who are always willing to reach out and help or just take suggestions. A start up that actually listens and cares; it's the main reason why I like to support new businesses.

[Edit: one of the best things about Craft Coffee is that they source their fresh-roasted beans from all over North America, so you get the cream of the crop from roasters you'd never be able to enjoy otherwise; you get three different roasters each month.]

And, if you happen to sign up for Craft Coffee (I totally recommend it!), they offer a 15% off coupon code. Look around for a friend's code (they get a free month if you sign up), or (trying not to spam here...) use mine: quinn1922.
to be able to boulder grades V2 - V4. I'm currently ale to do V1 and V2 with mild ease. I've been bouldering since the end of march and go 2 to 3 times a week for 3 hour sessions.
I assume that people using the term "Web Diva" are referencing the first definition. Although I can't say I've ever heard anybody use that term, this article was the first place I heard of it.
Hi guico, I'd love to chat if you'd be willing. I'm doing something very, very similar and would love to pick your brain!

I'm dpaola2 [at] gmail if you'd be willing to email me :-)
Dont worry if you wander off, it is impossible not to. Just bring back your attention and continue. Don't make it into a contest.
You have to love politicians ability to dissemble and appeal to emotion rather than just fix the problem.

1) Taxes: This tax structure is legal, and used by the majority of large international companies operating in the EU. The EU has the power to change it, if it wants to, rather than just bitch about it. The US will also get its chance to tax this money, if Google/Amazon ever bring it back into the US (the US, unlike the rest of the planet, loves to tax companies for money made elsewhere).

2) Data: Data retention and anonymity is actually fairly regulated by the EU and the US (sometimes conflictingly). It is again within the power of the EU to change their regulations, which they have done in the past, instead of just bitching about it.

3) Antitrust: I like how they play up the search result "alleged" anti-trust angle. There are anti-trust laws on the books in all of these countries, and there were even congressional hearings in the US about this topic (which found nothing). Unless they are implying that the legal system in the EU is broken, I don't get why the politician is banging the drum on this one.
There are no other good theories. Most alternatives that don't involve dark matter or dark energy posit that our current theories are wrong on a very large scale, which we don't have any evidence for at all.

On a different note, don't mix up dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is real matter that we can observe the gravitation effects of. We know it's there, we just don't know what it is because we can't see it. Dark energy is a placeholder for a gap in our current cosmological model. We can model the properties of it, but we can't observe and have no idea in the slightest where it comes from. Neither of these things is a matter of 'making it possible', they're just questions we don't have an answer to yet, and no satisfactory way of working around them.
Sailing vacationi in Seychelles, mid-August
Hi guys,

I'm organizing a sailing vacation trip in Seychelles in mid-August and am looking for people to join. It'll be on a 46' luxury catamaran/sailboat for 1 week cruising around the islands, snorkeling and adventuring. I was able to get a steep discount on the charter through business contacts - price would be roughly $500 per person when we split the cost.

I have 3 people so far and we're looking for about 4 more people to join. This would be a photo-centric trip, so if you're interested in photography, all the better!

Please message me if you're interested, and I will send more details ASAP.

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How are you balancing GSLP with 5k running so far?

Are you running on rest days or doing a combo?
There's an official TSA statement http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2014/07/06/enhanced-securi...
I once managed a 50% raise and a reduction to a four day working week, with one of those days remote. I patted myself on the back a lot for achieving that, but I was cheating, a bit, because I went from permanent to contract with the same company.

Not very strangely, the reasons that I wanted to leave my permanent position at the company in the first place - terrible, confused, and often obnoxious management - still hurt just as much even on more money and with fewer days. I quit again for good after another three months.
Are they? I haven't had the chance to compare two monitors in the same room, but as far as I know no two are alike, and none has ever achieved a perfectly flat response curve. Take also high-end headphones, where it's way easier to have a similar acoustic profile, yet any two models with similar characteristics (on paper) are very easy to tell apart.
Probably more like passing out deodorant or shaving kits.
My guess is that they have intelligence that someone is working very hard to do something that I've long worried someone would do, which is to make explosives look like the cells in Li-on batteries on x-rays.

If you look at an x-ray of a laptop or tablet, it's obvious where the batteries are, they're regular shaped objects much denser than the circuitry in the rest of the device.

If you mixed explosives with something to make them denser to x-rays (so that they look like lithium masses) and shaped them to look right, you would avoid the only really effective screening tool available. If you can do that, then sealing them and cleaning off residues to keep from setting off explosive vapour detectors would be trivial.

This way, they can verify that at least some of the batteries in the device are real. It still wouldn't prevent someone replacing some of the cells with explosive and wiring the rest to give the right voltage but less capacity but doing that would require custom battery controllers which is another step up in sophistication. Every step up in sophistication is an opportunity to intercept terror networks.
Tomorrow's headlines: Passengers forced to crap in a bag to prove they aren't hiding explosives.
Now someone just needs to setup autonomous charging stations next to security checkpoints and rake in the dough.
Is there any evidence that terrorists are capable of constructing a device that plausibly looks like a cell phone but is a bomb? Have they ever done this in the past?

What about laptops?

I do not think this is about security, so much as it is about punishing people who make it impossible for the relevant officials and spooks to snoop on the devices.
Not necessarily. Since the Macbook Air doesn't have a hard drive, you could disguise some kinds of contraband as the batteries, hard drive, and CD drive. Newer X-Ray machines might have the configurations of known laptops known by the software, but I doubt the personnel would be able to tell the difference if some effort is made to disguise the x-ray images.
You can also change this file - https://github.com/PerfMonkeyCo/browser-perf-runner/blob/mas... and send a pull request to the repo. Will run the same tests for you.
That is pretty standard already. You usually get tax credits for foreign paid tax.

The key is do they have the jurisdiction to tax you in the first place? If you only have a factory & employees in Luxemburg and just exported your product to the rest of the EU, is it really fair to tax you at Scandinavian tax rates for example?
That is not recursion, but basic procedure call; from wiki:

> Recursion is related to, but not the same as, a reference within the specification of a procedure to the execution of some other procedure. For instance, a recipe might refer to cooking vegetables, which is another procedure that in turn requires heating water, and so forth. However, a recursive procedure is where (at least) one of its steps calls for a new instance of the very same procedure, like a sourdough recipe calling for some dough left over from the last time the same recipe was made. This of course immediately creates the possibility of an endless loop; recursion can only be properly used in a definition if the step in question is skipped in certain cases so that the procedure can complete, like a sourdough recipe that also tells you how to get some starter dough in case you've never made it before. Even if properly defined, a recursive procedure is not easy for humans to perform, as it requires distinguishing the new from the old (partially executed) invocation of the procedure; this requires some administration of how far various simultaneous instances of the procedures have progressed. For this reason recursive definitions are very rare in everyday situations.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion#Informal_definition

Recursion quickly causes a stack overflow when you get it wrong in a strict language (and sometimes even when you get it right!), iteration does not (rather, the CPU just spins and memory is safe). Also, iteration is intrinsically less expressive than recursion, meaning it follows to use it via the principle of least force.
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> I really disagree with this. Have you tried before?

The problem is everybody has widely different ideas of full throttle productivity. Lets take salary as a decent proxy for productivity:

At every company I have worked the "norm" is 15-20 productive hours a week. Standard salary is ~$110-$140k/year for a senior dev working these hours.

So as a rule of thumb if you can work a consistent 40 productive hours a week you should be able to earn at least $220k+/year (and in reality closer to $300k/year).

I do know developers earning more than $250k/year. It is possible if you are top .1% or if you organize your entire life around work. However, it is not easy, and nor should it be expected as the "norm".
You might want to look into http://authrocket.com/ as well.
How is the worst case not n^2 on a case you don't use medians of medians?
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To be fair, I'm partially being downvoted for my sharp tone.