skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a side effect of inter-department competition, as far as I can tell. IT was insecure in the corporate space for a few decades (despite it being as fundamental to most companies as, say, the finance department) and many people fell into the trap of making it sound harder than it is in order to insure some job security.

The funny thing is, you don't need to make it sound harder than it is by making up confusing buzzwords, it's already pretty hard!. Especially in the enterprise space.

Imagine if the logistics department, or the aforementioned finance department decided to rebrand their standard practices every few years. It would cause ridiculous levels of confusion amongst the older workers, as they'd assume they needed complete retraining in this new thing. In reality, they probably just need, at maximum, a refresher course to bring their skills up to date with the newer procedures.

If you ever find yourself describing your latest project to a non-IT-savvy friend or relative, then you quickly realise that the buzzwords and branding are unnecessary to get the concept across. The resulting description, unfortunately, can be pretty boring. The other purpose of buzzwords is to make stuff sound much more exciting than it really is...
Probably not, but all of the other small income-based social programs add up in a hurry, especially for people who are on the bottom end. If you know that working more will cause your earnings to rise just enough to knock you over the line and end the free healthcare, fuel assistance, food stamps and all the other programs, its a huge disincentive. What's the point of working harder, if it means you're going to have even less money than if you didn't work at all?
Yes, it's easy. You only have to write something very interesting or have a very interesting project. Also, try to avoid the use of sockpuppets, because the system can detect them and your account may get marked.
Discipline is not really a conscious choice since you can enhance it through medication. So if you have the right makeup then you don't need motivation to do things while others can get roughly the same effect by taking Ritalin.
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Discipline is not really a conscious choice since you can enhance it through medication. So if you have the right makeup then you don't need motivation to do things while others can get roughly the same effect by taking Ritalin. Motivation however is something that can help everyone which is why it is so much more powerful.
G.D D.MN this is so well written:

"I do not consider self-inflicted episodes of hypomania the optimal driver of human activity. A thymic compensation via depressive episodes is inevitable, since the human brain will not tolerate abuse indefinitely. There are stops and safety valves. There are hormonal hangovers."
Whats the Point of Reading a Book If Your Going to Forget It?
I also say bring on the fizzbuzz. If I were looking for a job, I would welcome any opportunity to demonstrate my skills and set myself apart from the competition.
And what do you intend to achieve with it? Fake internet points seem to have a bromide effect on the psyche. I am addicted to it as well.
This article gets some important things backwards in order to take on its overconfident alpha dog tone.

Notably absent is how goals are chosen. Certainly some goals are better than others? And won't we be more motivated to pursue good goals and less motivated to pursue bad goals? And then mustn't we pay attention to a lack of motivation as the sign that we've chosen our goals poorly?

That said, I agree that discipline is important because even when you've chosen good goals, there will be hard, boring work required to achieve them.
Love that error message (I'm getting it as well).

"can not be completed due to We're sorry."

I might start using that as a reason.
Amen. Also loved the book 'The Willpower Instinct' [1] in that respect. No magic solutions; just a collection of insights into the multitude of relevant dynamics at play here.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10865206-the-willpower-i...
Because it is worthless
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Don't come to Sao Paulo, we don't have water here. It's not raining enough lately.
> (...) tried some other program. I know in my department we already installed alternative software for most people.

I've never heard of Google Earth alternatives. Any recommendations?
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Wow, this hits so close to home for me. I have intentionally been trying to cultivate better habits to underpin my own efforts to become more disciplined and effective, and in fact, I wouldn't have even been awake yet[1] to see this on HN if I hadn't been taking steps in that direction already.

From what I've observed, the most successful/effective/<insert positive adjective here> humans of the present and past (and presumably, the future as well) have been know for the rigor of their habits and schedules[2]. I'm curious to know what steps some of my fellow HNers have taken to cultivate better habits/routines for themselves.

I'll leave you with a quote from the legendary artist Chuck Close:

“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.”

1. It's before 7am CST, and I've been awake for almost two hours: https://twitter.com/thisisbrians/status/561486866914869248

2. This list is just of 'creatives' (whatever that means), but you get the idea: https://podio.com/site/creative-routines
Did you ever notice that nobody ever talks about how to cultivate disciplne? If it wee as easy as "just go do it" than everyone would.

The latest analogy of discipline is of a muscle. Do more and it gets bigger, right? Not exactly. While true in some aspect, it leads to bad choices on later decisions you make, at least in creative work.

Three ways to improve discipline:

1. Develop a mindful meditation practice. It will produce more awareness, which in my experience helps me get started and work through to the edge of where I am making bad decisions, and recognize if I'm bored or actually tired and adjust accordingly. You will know if it helps you within a few weeks.

2. Develop a choice minimal lifestyle. Arbitrary choices seemingly come from the same pool as discipline. Where possible, turn choices into a habit. "I start at 9 because I start at 9' not because I choose to start at 9." It seems odd but it works.

3. Closely related, excersise will increase your mental endurance, which is as good as discipline in many cases. Diet also increased it -- while a quick glycogen hit can help for 15 minutes, I have found great benefit to dropping sugar and simple carbohydrates out of my diet while working. It's worth seeing if it works for you.
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Motivation is what gets you started. Discipline is what keeps you going.
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Also good seems to be The Procrastination Equation [1]– the key insight is that there are (at least!) 4 variables involved in why we don't do things that we say we want to do:

* Expectancy, which is your own estimation of how likely you are to complete a task

* Value, which is how important something is to you

* Impulsiveness, determined by the environment that you're in

* Delay, which is the amount of time between whatever you're doing, and the consequence or implication of the thing you're doing.

Getting things done requires dealing with all of the above variables. "Screw Motivation, You Need Discipline" essentially addresses Impulsiveness- it says to be less impulsive, by cultivating good habits. Sure, but that's just 25% of the battle.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Procrastination-Equation-Putting-G...
The difference between the graphs are that the one linked by jusmus88 is illustrating the distribution of incomes of "families", whereas all three in the article you linked are for the distribution of incomes of "households". These are two different ways of analysing the issue that give different answers, and the differences are discussed in the article.

edit: Just to be clear, I'm not making any positive or negative statements about the article, I just wanted to help you work out what it was you had missed, and I think what I described is it.
good point, the gcc optimizer is smart enough to omit the preamble. it's still hacked though. inline assembly is one thing, messing with compiler-owned registers is another especially without a clobber list. btw why do you prefix your x84_64 start code with "mov %rsp,%rbp"? "xor %ebp, %ebp" is more idiomatic and efficient.

according to the abi (http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf), the stack frame is set up like this:

argc = [RSP+0]
argv = RSP+8
envp = RSP+8+8*argc+8

the same for x86 but replace 8 with 4. your code mirrors this but retrieves argv by taking the address of the second function argument (because you pass [RSP+8] to __init(), which is actually argv[0]). C provides no guarantees on the stability of addresses of passed argument values between caller and callee, so this makes your code subject to non-standard behavior. i can see this working for x86 since values as passed through the stack but not for x86_64 where values are passed through registers.

if you're seeing bugs between gcc -O3 and -Os it's likely due to that, or it's due to improper use of inline assembly/clobbering registers.
Not really.

There's a difference between what a cabinetmaker does and assembling IKEA furniture.
This was not one I played and have fond memories of. It's weird. After age 30, I have no interest in games. Before 30, I was obsessed.
The title accurately of your link was "Census data on income distribution reveal evidence of rising income levels for a rising share of American households", not the opposite.

We just had the biggest recession since the Great Depression. Taking such a short window will of course show wage deflation. You cannot remove the effects from bubble income and expect to keep bubble income.

The overall trend for most slightly bigger windows is wage increase. If a certain wage level meant middle class in the 1960s, or 1970s, or 1980s, or 1990s, then we have a larger ratio of people in that class, not less.

Of course if you define middle class as also increasing in income, then you can play all sorts of tricks. But the fact remain more people than perhaps any but the last decade are richer than ever. All your graphs point to exactly this.

Remember - bubble popped. It takes a while for those effects to smooth out.
"A choice", i. e. free will, and something that can be changed via medication aren't mutually exclusive. I'd think most people would agree that getting up early is somewhat in your control, but it gets a lot easier if you have an energy drink at 4am.

There's the theory (see the book by Baumeister) that willpower is like a muscle. It can both get tired and be trained. So the right mindset might not be "I will be disciplined today" – because you will fail and feel bad about it as you would fail if you just decided to lift that huge boulder. But if you chose to expend your willpower on something small but challenging, you may be able to train it and, after a while, be able to lift that heavy boulder.
No names, then names CNet and calls the leaker a 'she'.

The future of journalism, folks.
Well, that's in line with the marshmallow experiment.
The author argues that discipline is what gets you started and motivation is what keeps you going.
It's actually easy to "Just do it"

I will roundly reject your 3 steps to discipline, as they are wishy-washy and completely irrelevant to actually creating self discipline.

Here's a few steps that might help someone who isn't trying to be a massive poseur.

1. Be really really hard on yourself. Tell yourself constantly that you are not good enough, and you MUST do better, in fact it's pathetic how little you have accomplished.

2. Work, work, work, work, work... think you have time for fun? Think again smart girl|boy, now, WORK HARDER.

3. Develop a sense of humor about the horrible pain you are putting yourself through. That way, you'll be able to pile some more on, while telling yourself to wipe that stupid grin of your face.

Also eat well, otherwise you may get sick or fat or die... all of those things would be pathetic, beat yourself up some more.

Alternatively, join the army.

Of course, you can side step all this pain and suffering and just get on with it! Now get back to work!

(I hope my parent commenter understands this is firmly tongue in cheek, but I'll point that out anyway.)

(PS. of course, much truth is spoke in jest.)

(for a real response, see Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.)
All well and good. There are lots and lots of ideas for making states work better, be me effective, responsible and everything else.

That all has nothing to do with this. This is about what happens when governments fail financially. Financial commitments that exceed tax revenues and no way to balance them. European austerity measures can work (as they sort of are in Ireland) when the political situation is relatively stable and the underlying financials are not too severe. But, Greece is a case where it cannot work.

Printing money (aka monetary easing) is not just an alternative to what you suggest, it's what you do when the state's financials collapse.
> >how the sporting department despite those figures manages to be a net budgetry drain on almost every school which has one
> And so are music departments.

If the band directors made millions of dollars, you would have a good point.
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No names is related to "You can't use my name.". I don't see how mention of CNet is a problem here.

I agree with the latter part about gender. Noticed it immediately - that's not how it should be handled. I hope it'll be removed.

Then again - that might just be a way to mislead.
Ok, so what can one do? I have a genetic discipline disorder, as 23andMe could confirm you, if I could be bothered to do the screening. I possess exactly ZERO self-discipline, and in retrospect, I guess I never had any. I own my career to not having enough discipline to do my math homework at 13 - that's when I picked up programming. The lack of self-discipline is becoming an obstacle in professional lie though. How does one fix this?
Fortunately, the Windows version of Pro works perfectly in wine.
I wouldn't have a problem with professional sports if they weren't subsidized by the rest of society. Why does 80% of my cable bill go to pay for ESPN and ESPN2? Why are my tax dollars paying for a stadium who's profits go to the private owners? Why do I get a discount at the grocery store for wearing a football jersey? Professional sports would be nowhere the size they are today without the subsidies.
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Seems accurate in this case, no? The title sets you up to expect to read a profile of an individual doing some interesting research, and that's pretty much exactly what we got.
From https://demo.sandstorm.io/demo : "We only have one machine. It may get slow or crashy under excessive load."
Call it an amendment. I am neutral on the whole "connect to SSH through an HTML client", but I'll tell you what: the fingerprint is a necessary connection parameter, as much as the hostname or port. Not an afterthought.

Solve it however you like.

$ ssh --fingerprint ab:cd:...

or

ssh://user@hostname?ab:cd...

or

FINGERPRINT_VAR=ab:cd:... ssh somehost

or

what

ever.

One is ugly, the other is uglier. Fine. At least they're actually secure.

Guess: how many people actually check the full fingerprint before accepting it? On a good day, I remember the first four letters (2 bytes). Whenever I tell people, it's blank looks all around. What's a fingerprint?

And these are people who use SSH.

UI is important. UI matters. Good UI helps. UI UI UI UI UI.

The fingerprint is a required parameter for connection! Not just the hostname, also the fingerprint.

Sure, let the client cache it and automatically allow leaving it out on subsequent connects. But don't allow initial, fingerprintless connections. Never.

Implemented properly, this addresses the DNSSEC alternative. Do you have DNSSEC installed, do you trust it? Okay, get the key from there. Don't have it? And it isn't specified in the connection parameters? Woops, no connect. Impossible. Why? Because without a pre-supplied fingerprint, no SSH client should ever connect.

We don't need to debate DNSSEC here, the clients will speak. I know I'd be including the fingerprint in the connection parameters directly, but do as you please.

Make a get-fingerprint-insecurely tool, that just connects to a host and prints you what it thinks is the key. This allows people to still make insecure connections, but it's explicit. Make MITM and insecurity the cumbersome and explicit way. Not default.

This is such a frustrating, last-mile, almost-right-thus-wrong issue.

You're right in theory. In practice, unfortunately, people don't check the fingerprints. And the sad thing? We could do something to fix that.

Join the Fingerprints are a required connection parameter-movement.

PS: I think we're on the same side here. I don't go to sleep dreaming of SSH fingerprints: I'm just against allowing MITM by design. Of course, certificates, or any other means of ensuring the connection is not MITM'ed is just as good. Fingerprints as required connection parameters are just the easiest way to get that done, right now, today, in our way of working. But once everyone uses certificates properly: fine, forget about them. This non-MITM design needs to become part of everyone's understanding of SSH.
Before doing that, read the paperwork carefully. It may have the standard clause "All your work are belong to us". So the side project you do in your free time is also property of the agency even if it's only tangentially related to your work there.

Perhaps you may get an exception to contribute to a big open source project. You will not get money, but you will get more experience and things to put in your CV.
Sounds like motivation is optional ;-)
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I had parents that shared quite a bit about money with me.

I remember, when I was a kid, any cash gifts that I got on my birthday, festivals, etc. would be divided in two equal piles. 1/2 would go to my savings account, and the other half would be given to me to do with as I pleased. This was my parents way to encourage savings.

A bit later, when I was in the 5th of 6th standard (we don't call them grades), and my parents spoke to me about their investments in the stock market, I began saving up my half of the gifts (from the last paragraph) and invested that in stocks. They really liked me doing this, and decided that they will match all my investments in stocks (really tiny sums of money then) provided I do not sell until I am eighteen. I realise now, they wanted me to get into the right kinds of stocks. Stable enterprises, with good leadership, etc. After seeing me doing this for about a year, they handed me my savings bank account, with all the 1/2's of all cash gifts I had been getting for all my life (about 14/15 years). This was there way of telling me that they had some confidence in my dealing with money. At around this same time, my dad was buying a new office. He spoke to me about the loans that he would be taking to buy this. There was some cash that I had (a gift from my grandfather, to be given to me when I turned 18) and I asked him to use that to offset the loan. I'd already realised, that I was not going to need this money until 18, and it made more sense to use this cash and offset the loan. Why pay more interest to banks that you need to?

On the whole, there have been a lot of incidents in my life, where my parents have been rather open about their income with me. Now, I'm 2 years out of college, I see the difference, in that, I am able to advise friends and colleagues, some older than me, on where to invest cash, how to save tax and a few stock tips a year. (I'm still a really long term investor :) )
wow. that's a bold claim.

I'll throw away my 15 years of html and javascript experience now and put all my efforts into react.
I am also still exploring Swift, so forgive me if I got this wrong, but isn't the problem here the following:

Your RenderGradient() takes a RenderBuffer struct. Structs are passed by value. So two things happen in your RenderBuffer function:

1) You get a copy of the RenderBuffer, which means it and its contents (a lot of Pixel instances - Arrays are passed by value too!) will be copied every iteration

2) The work you do on the pixels in the RenderBuffer copy has no effect: you change the values of a copy and then ignore the copy. You don't return the modified RenderBuffer it from RenderGradient() or do anything with the result within RenderGradient().

So I think the reason you see such a big difference in this test between optimization and no-optimization is that in the first case, with optimization, the compiler knows that the work you do in RenderBuffer is a waste of time and simply does not do it.

While in the debug build the compiler does not apply optimization so your useless code is still executed.

You can confirm this by looking at the generated code. Or maybe simpler, render the RenderBuffer in an actual buffer or image for a visual inspection.
Interesting article about building momentum when dating
There's a whole ecosystem of software for building tile databases and viewing them on phones/tablets:

http://mobac.sourceforge.net/

There's also a bunch of "WMS Viewers" that you can point at National Map endpoints (which shouldn't have any licensing issues):

http://raster.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services

I've never had a use for them so I don't know if one works well and has nice caching features.
Yes. My boss is one of them. Cal Newport writes quite a bit about doing deep work. [1] Tobias Lutke of Shopify seems to be another. [2]

Most people are similar to how they were when they were in school, because most people don't deliberately put themselves in contexts in which they are forced to grow and develop.

Discipline, in my opinion, is seldom something that you develop entirely for its own sake– rather, it tends to be something that you develop to achieve some greater goal. Along the way you may find that discipline is a worthy pursuit by itself, but few people wake up at 20 and go "Jeez, I want to be really really disciplined!"

It's more like, you have some itch you want to scratch, and you realize the only way to do it is to train yourself.

[1] http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-...

[2] http://visakanv.com/marketing/tobi
I agree with your points, especially #3. Unfortunately that type of technology doesn't actually get much love in education, the irony :)

Speaking of such software, I've built a ton of it:

www.jasymchat.com (a CAS with text chat built in.)
www.appynotebook.com (Awesome digital binder)
www.schoolnotez.com (static portable version of Appynotebook)
I prefer this one: "RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis"

"The attack can extract full 4096-bit RSA decryption keys from laptop computers (of various models), within an hour, using the sound generated by the computer during the decryption of some chosen ciphertexts. We experimentally demonstrate that such attacks can be carried out, using either a plain mobile phone placed next to the computer, or a more sensitive microphone placed 4 meters away."

http://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/

Video: http://youtu.be/DU-HruI7Q30

I'm pretty sure there's a better video of the attack being performed somewhere, but I can't find it right now.
How about this:
Inspiration is the spark, motivation is the fuel, discipline is the engine. :)

If you run out of fuel, the engine cant help you find more. That's why I think the OP is somewhat wrong.