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When I was younger, I was a rock-climbing bum, and used to travel Australia on a meagre budget to visit climbing areas.

Near Mt Arapiles in Victoria, there was (hopefully still is) a farm that had worked out that local climbers were the best source of cheap labour :-) They literally paid a day's wage with a bag of food.

I spent many happy days working on that farm (I already came from a rural background so was comfortable around animals etc) and the work always made me feel stronger, and more importantly, useful.

I also had the heart wrenching experience of animals dying in my hands, and was only consoled by the fact that the farmer was more distraught than I. It made me realise that the best of farmers know their animals, and care greatly for their animals above and beyond any possible monetary value. The fine line between "stock" and "pets" is a difficult one to walk.

It made me realise that the depictions of Wal and Cooch (especially Cooch, who would take a baby bottle to new-born lambs in the middle of a storm) from the wonderful comic strip "Footrot Flats" [1] were poignantly accurate, and that I really don't have what it takes to be a full time farmer.

I wish the author the best of luck, and a happy, harmonious life for the future.

Also, playing live music at the local pub with your son is awesome :-)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footrot_Flats
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Is this the 'Rival' Wrapbootstrap theme you've used?

https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/rival-responsive-multipurpos...

I like the use of the video in the header. Font size is a bit on the small size though.
I have heard about this from two sources:

1. Papers/case studies the master's of software engineering directory at my university provided while I was in grad. I can try to dig up some of these later if you are interested.

2. Friends who either worked on satellites or airpcraft
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Ye, sadly - I tried to make it as browser agnostic as possible, but I had a very tight time schedule for it - but PR's welcome! :D
>Why is Scheme/CL superior to clojure ?

Clojure's license choice is unideal: the GPL-incompatible Eclipse Public License. On the JVM, it's startup performance is quite slow, and personally I don't like the Java environment at all. Furthermore, the syntax choices baffle me: Having to specifically know when a form uses () or [] is just odd. The 'let' form stands out as a good example of Clojure's bad language design choices. There's also no tail-call optimization, one has to explicitly use a 'recur' form to approximate it. I'll stop here.

Now that I've ranted about that, here's what I like about Clojure: The persistent data structures and the concept of transients. Both of these can be implemented in the Lisp of one's preference, though, and someone's already done the basic work for my Lisp of choice: Guile Scheme.

>CL, Scheme doesn't seem to have as much library support

Any decent CL or Scheme implementation gives you access to a C FFI, which provides another ocean of libs. But yes, there are fewer libraries generally, but people were okay with that for Clojure. Clojure hackers wrote a whole bunch of libraries because they were excited about the power the language gave them. If more people would recognize the immense power and value of CL and Scheme, libraries would cease to be an issue, people would write the missing bits.

I work on a GNU/Linux distribution written almost entirely in Scheme. I think that's a pretty practical application, and good evidence that Lisps that aren't Clojure are good choices, too.
The main issue Elance/oDesk needs to fix - is to eliminate `the race to the bottom` moment. Maybe set some minimum acceptable rates? (e.g. $50/hr)

If this is fixed, it will become attractive workplace for lot of qualified engineers, including those on HN.

This will be a radical move, but it will also eliminate "bad" clients.
I live in a small town in Northern Greece and hate the idea to drive a long distance[1] to get milk and eggs.

[1] A long distance where I live is anything more than 8 minutes drive.
What I suspect is actually not "helping", but rather "blind trust" -- e.g. just having an arrangement with the US where the US sends in "selectors" and the Germans send over the data; and nobody competent/willing to screen the selectors the US sends in ahead of deploying them.

I think there are strong incentives to turn a semi-blind eye to what the US is sending in (or what is going out) -- until shit hits the fan...
beautifuuuul

I'd love to get more insights on how to properly play, some sort of music notation tips or best figured bass, I understand the spacing means tempo, but adding such info could help those of us who can read music

Also, I'd like to play with many fingers multiple notes! It feels natural to press all once you know there a chord coming.

Finally, thanks for such great piece of art!!
I write 3D animation software, so linear algebra all the time, and physics very occasionally.
>man pages benefit from concise, precise information, and pictures would be a detriment. Same goes for most news articles

Assuming specific audience of course. In case of news it's possible to find readers craving for big pictures. Or pictures only.
>> Then, on the stressful occasion, the recruiter asked me to explain their organisation chart, with the names of departments heads, which I couldn’t recall accurately. Was this question a subtle way of giving me advice on or an assessment of my preparation?

> What's the point of this question?

For what it's worth: if you apply in the country I live in for a position in public services you will be asked something about who's who and if you aren't you better find a way to mention it in the oral interview.

Also, it's a mandatory bullet point on the list of every job coaching service to tell the unemployed to get to know the organization chart of the companies you send your resume to.
Pinterest Is Poised to Explode with the Pinterest Developer Platform
Microsoft Adopts the Middle Finger
Pinterest is at a similar place to where Facebook was in 2007 and Twitter in 2010. The direction it chooses will greatly shape what type and size of company it becomes.
After all, the grass is always greener on the other side..
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There are some scrolling and spacing issues on mobile (iOS) for the first one.

Also, clickable links:

http://hungarianinterpreter.london

http://youaretheone.london
World, maybe. But in terms of building a somewhat-self-sufficient community -- which seems to be what's being suggested here -- why wouldn't all-engineers work?
Similarly, Nuremberg was something like 95% destroyed. It's strange to see it. The vast majority of the city looks obviously new, and it's all a very similar architectural style. The bricks are a little too clean, a little too straight, on these buildings designed to look 300-500 years old, that are only 30 to 60 years old--at the most!
I think, comparatively, given all the human and computer driven computation to create simulations on a screen resulting in something 1/100,000,000th as complex as a sqft of rainforest... Yes its not real.

Computation has been trapped inside boxes and tiny screens, virtualization with behaviors that don't even approach the richness and complexity of reality outside that box. Don't get me wrong, it's a noble and passionate endeavor, but it's misguided if it traps you there forever.
First, make your living through the Internet from anywhere.

Then, use the Internet to decide where to live.

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> Sounds like the OP was never a "programmer"

"We are problem solvers by nature, we just happen to be engineers and designers by trade."
Ah, you're saying that her objective from the start is to make the NYPD look bad, so she's ham handedly complaining about things that are innocuous.

That's fair, I got the sense from your first post that the article had some kind of mystery undercurrent of anti-abortion sentiment or something.
> A friend and I took responsibility to stress the advantages of learning and continuing to use Ubuntu.

As usual, FOSSers confusing ethics & principles with marketing. He's right, but that doesn't make it effective (sadly).
"We all know the saying it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. And everyone knows that, but I think there is a corollary: If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up. It’s better to fix problems than to prevent them. And the natural tendency for managers is to try and prevent error and overplan things."

—
Ed Catmull, President of Pixar

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2440-we-all-know-the-saying-i...
Sure. Whenever the log messages start to get pretty decent in size, like, when the log messages start including tracebacks due to errors, and you have lots of errors happening back to back, like lets say high traffic is causing some deadlock exception at the DB layer or something(this was our actual problem), this high write causes BTRFS to lock up. Usually this happens because of some kind of kernel level error, our ops guy is familiar with the exact details of the exception BTRFS throws. Suffice it to say, when that happens, it's not immediately obvious the instance is unavailable. If you have plenty of errors happening in a short time span, this behavior will start to roll across your cluster and depending if all of the hosts are running the offending container, your entire fleet of hosts will lock up. This sucks bad. The only real solution is to bounce the host machines -- though they seem to come back just fine.

CephFS had a similar-ish problem, where if you happened to ever own less than 3 nodes (almost always because of the above), it would have a real problem self-healing and start to get confused and re-elect bad nodes to quorum leadership, possibly clobbering all your registry data. We contributed a patch back to Deis to use S3 as a registry persistence layer because, well, having a volatile registry sucked. We were about to develop a control layer for quorum services to live on separate of the application services we were developing, and using a proxy in the quorum layer to communicate stuff like etcd. I would highly recommend this approach if you end up with any services that require a quorum.
Analysis of expected number of recurring encounters with strangers on transit
In 99% of software engineering positions, the ability to code, above a certain threshold, matters less than your ability to communicate, your domain knowledge, your professionalism, and your ability to ship.

If he "just wants to code," he's going to get stuck. If he wants to be a software professional, the sky is the limit for skilled individuals.
Disclaimer: I made the underlying analysis (but did not write the text). Usually I do coding for Transit App, but I was given this analysis to do for sort of fun.

I was given a large database of (userId, timestamp, busNumber), and a scrape of the website with the schedules and and the task to figure out how often strangers would keep meeting each other on transit, as a sort of global missed encounters search.

It's basically a big exercise of combining probability distributions. It’s impossible to infer what stop people get on because there are no vehicle ids; the only possible way to infer anything is to look at transfers (i.e. the time the user enters another bus, or the metro). The time is the time of the tap.

I figured out whether people do the same trip at around the same time of day on multiple days during the observation period, then record that as a ‘recurring trip’. I assume that a recurring trip is always done from and to the same approximate stops. From the schedules, I know how many buses are operating at any given time. For the rest it’s all probabilities

a) a probability distribution for how long people spend on different buses. This is calculated based on the transfers, i.e. when people tap into the next bus or metro station.

b) a probability distribution of which bus a recurring trip may fall on. It's based on the time distribution of the recurring trips; and the headways waiting passengers are expected to encounter. If there’s few buses an hour, and the recurring trips happen at the same time, a user will use each of few buses with high probability.

c) the probability distribution of a passenger being on a certain (but unknown) bus at a certain (known) time. If it’s more than 20%, it counts as once per week encounter, if it’s 40% it counts as twice a week encounter, etc.

d) assuming you take the same bus every day, the probability that another passenger is on that bus at the same time. This depends on the number of buses operating.

From then on it’s a matter of summing up the probabilities to get the number of expected strangers with n=1,2,3,4 or 5 encounters per week; assuming you take the same bus every day. There’s a little bit of fuzzing going on, but not too much.

EDIT: added how the analysis was done.
Yup, similar thought for me as well. A kind of high-tech commune/company (perhaps a consultancy) where people work and live together in a healthy community in a beautiful place. Of course a key factor to me would be daily meditation group-sitting. Peer pressure really helps with that one, and meditation done properly is the best happiness/productivity tincture you can get, for any price.
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Well I'm not a designer but I know what I like and don't like, if that makes any sense.

I think the Hungarian Interpreter one is great, but I agree with eranation that you have some font issues to work out to increase readability.

On You Are The One, there's a section in the middle of the page where a grid of pictures is left-aligned, and it doesn't look good.

You might want to add a plugin to do asset minification for you on WordPress. Even though the sites were fast, you're loading in too many CSS/JS files individually. On a 3G network, this is a very noticeable delay.
This is a good point really -- the BND seems to be exceptionally gaffe-prone. It seems the current BND president has to leave the office every few years over some affair or the other...
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Why can't they have a development branch while still keeping their LTS branch?
The "slack-killer" feature is nice, but I don't think this move does anything to Slack's business. In other words, its just clickbait / PR nonsense.

Why do journalists feel the need to artificially position articles like this?
You dont think it is presumptious of you to think you can somehow dissect a situation in an entire region (South America) without clearly any historical knowledge that can give you meaningful context? I say this because your question "Why didnt free speech and democracy stop such instability in the first place?" show a clear misunderstanding/lack of knowledge and tremendous oversimplification of Cold War era politics, neo-colonialism, caudillism, Spanish feudalism and decentralisation of power. Breaking it down to a simple explanation of "is free speech and democracy good and if such why didnt it help here?" is clearly silly at best.
Yes, so what systemd did differently is to reify a lot more of the machinery so you can define a reaction graph for these synchronous events.
Great idea! We will add a way to disable the chart today! Will let you know when its ready
Pretending to be very in-demand seems a common way to game most interview processes. But I would think that presenting yourself as being very in-demand, while not having any particular answer to "why us", could come off as having no particular reason to be loyal and work against you.
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I believe the source is Miasto Ruin or City of Ruins [1], which is a CG visualization based on computer modeling of what an airplane would have seen near the end of the war. See also IMDB [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Gk2b2N4vU
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4347938/
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> My son makes me feel more full of life than I ever felt before, when I really had nothing and nobody to take care of besides myself.

Children do seem to provide a fantastic relief for self-loathers.
Strangely the title just mentions a slack like feature whereas the article says the CEO desired is as a 'slack killer'. Although that part has no context whatsoever, they just took those words from some longer quote.
In fact, we don’t recommend bullshit, do we?
I did. In no way did the parent comments indicate that the situation described would be more susceptible than normal to gaming in the way the poster described.
I've also been using the bullet journal format for the better part of a year. It's a phenomenal way to stay organized and keep information at hand. It makes quick capture easy and I don't have to worry about losing where I put it later.

If you think in lists or bullet points and have had success with mindmaps then give the bullet journal a try.
No, it's not arbitrary at all, it's just subjective and depends on your personal relation with the animal.

Frankly, that video sounds like BS to me. How much time did she spend within family farms that raise animals? The idea that you need "invisibility" or to abstract animals as non-individual or as objects is so untrue it's not even funny.
I would sit with you.
If some one ends up abusing drugs to the extent that they have to rely on the social safety net, let them. No one wants to be poor, no one wants to live in the conditions imposed by the safety net.

As long as the existence of a safety net doesn't encourage people to use drugs (people who start using drugs like opiates are rarely thinking of the future at the time they start) then the two aren't really related issues.
I grew up on a farm. Not surprised to see this decision in the slightest. Farming is tough -- physically, financially, and in the end emotionally. But it is still a very rewarding life.

I can remember sitting on my grandfather's lap, riding on his John Deere two-cylinder (it was called a Johnny Popper.) Pre-school? I went to pre-farming. I was probably 3 years old the first time I rode a tractor.

By the time I was 8, I was driving that popper while two of my grandfather's farm hands tossed hay bales onto a flatbed trailer. We drove back to the barn, and I scampered up to the second floor and waited as those guys tossed those hay bales up through a huge opening. I had to stack the hay bales, and had to run my ass off to keep up. Then, we'd do it all over again until the barn was full. I was exhausted every day, but my grandfather allowed me to drink my first beer with those guys when we were finished. It sounds awful, but it was an amazing experience.

I'm no longer out in the field. For me now, the feeling of working on something with my hands is cathartic. Some of my best days for relaxing involve doing simple yardwork around our house.

The farm life works for some people, but not for others. What is great is that no one need debate whether that choice is right -- it only matters to yourself. Good for this guy, I think he made a great choice for himself.
> If the population is armed the police should be armed.

Interesting assertion. But there is no basis in fact. Legal gun owners, think of them and their choices what you will, also tend to be law-abiding.
Nice recommendations.
How would a new guy differentiate himself?

A new guy can compete on price, get work, get good reviews and then increase his rates.
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If the file doesn't have a copyright notice, I'd assume the author is the website's owner and its license should apply.

Maybe there should be a convention to add a copyright.txt file to websites like there is robots.txt and humans.txt?
Meh, I'm friends with the team and stopping by the office tomorrow anyway, so I figured I'd save you a step.
Just because you have some paranoid fuckups in your government doesn't mean you should give them all powers unchecked, right? Like all else in hierarchical structures, there should be some proper oversight and control, by unbiased authorities (well, it would be nice at least). Problem seems to be, these services run at free will, they feel above law and constitution, justifying just about everything with "terrorist threat" mantra. Politicians seems weak/corrupt so they don't stand for common citizen's rights. Somebody from Obama's government expressed frustration once how all these services/programs/activities run basically on autopilot, and nobody dares to cut their budget.

Let's take a step back... does anybody truly believe current terrorism can shake foundations of any western society? I don't mean blowing hypothetical nukes in manhattan, but real things that happened. Planes falling, buildings collapsing, very sad events, but nothing major in civilization perspective. Our perception of these events is hugely disproportionate, based on our fears. Yet we are, step by step, losing our freedom like the alternative would be total annihilation and end of the world as we know it. Not even terrorist themselves want that. And they are not winning in any measurable way.

It's natural for any ambitious organisational unit, with strong leader, to try to grab all power, influence etc that's available. Normal comapnies have strict boundaries how far the power can reach, so for example you won't find a single bank that is effectively run by it's head of IT, in fact in contrary (IT is a true backoffice, in the back of the back of the back of the rest). Just set the boundaries and enforce them with budget cuts threat. Now who will do that is the question :)
Wasn't the paradigm swiping between columns? That didn't work when there was more than a few columns.

What I had in mind was just relocating the toolbar to the bottom.
> I just watched a video comparing the Dodge Charger Hellcat to a Tesla P-85d. Both have similar power, and while you can debate the level of quality of FCA vs Tesla you can still drive a Hellcat(which is an insane gas guzzler) for less money for 5-7 years depending on your yearly mileage.

Was that for US prices of fossil fuels? While I don't know about Sweden (where this article appears to have been written), but compared to prices in the Netherlands, in the US gasoline is about 2-3x as cheap (at least, last time I checked, I don't own a car so I don't keep quite as close an eye on these prices).

Or compare for yourself (today's average Dutch price is 1.735 euro per liter):

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1.735%20euro%20p...

Equals 7.326 dollars per gallon. How much do you pay in the US?
Thanks for the input, another. I feel the same way except that I do enjoy the fishing with my Dad. But I do desire to enjoy and be good at the other stuff, I'm just not.
Thoreau abandoned his cabin after 2 years.
> the Dispose pattern in .NET,

Which is important. I have seen an awful lot in practice that you can't rely on GC to happen at all, or happen promptly if it does. Plus things like file handle leaks have even worse consequences in Windows than elsewhere. IDisposable is great to standardize manual cleanup across objects.

> include guards

Whose behavior is bleedingly obvious the first time you see it.

I am thinking if you believe these things are "cargo cult" (despite disagreeing with the term) you must be thinking of fairly mediocre programmers, who look at code and don't get curious about the explanations for things.
I don't know if that's their positioning, they've kind of just been a "come one, come all" type of system, letting the contractors and clients filter themselves out, for better or for worse. Newer entrants like Codeable, Awesome Web, and Envato Studio are focusing on the higher end. For WordPress work at around $50/hr, Codeable is great.