Hello nice persons,
Would any of you python mathematical types be willing to help me solve
a problem using pandas (and/or numpy)?
The math itself isn't hard; the difficulty revolves around my
unfamiliarity with the tools, and good god is this ever a huge load of
learning I'm having to do just to reshape some data.
--Naomi
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Anyone able to pick up a server for sudo?
// Matt
----- Reply message -----
From: "Philip Neustrom" <philip(a)localwiki.org>
To: "Matthew Senate" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [support.iocoop.org #1711] wikispot.org server
Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 11:41 PM
I don't have a car, but localwiki can donate this server to sudoroom if we can figure out a way to pick it up and transport. I will need to pull the drives, though. Ideas? It's relatively speedy, just not worth colo'ing for us (switched to ec2 for now)
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Ben Kochie via RT" <support(a)iocoop.org>
Date: March 19, 2013, 11:25:00 PM PDT
To: philip(a)localwiki.org
Subject: [support.iocoop.org #1711] wikispot.org server
Reply-To: support(a)iocoop.org
Any chance you can pick up the machine this Wednesday (March 20)?
On Fri Mar 15 13:41:12 2013, ben(a)nerp.net wrote:
Sorry we didn't get a chance to sync up this week. I'll be oncall this
weekend,
so I'll be home most of the day, except I have some errands to run
between
12:00 and 16:00 on Saturday.
On Mon Mar 11 18:11:43 2013, philip(a)localwiki.org wrote:
Wednesday works better - I'll swing by then. Around what time?
Philip Neustrom
Executive Director
LocalWiki
http://localwiki.org
On Mar 11, 2013, at 5:57 PM, "Ben Kochie via RT"
<support(a)iocoop.org>
wrote:
I unracked the machine and will be home later this evening.
This week is somewhat busy. I will probably be home around 10pm
tonight, unless
you want to meet me at City Beer Store between 7pm and 10pm.
I'll also be available some time on Wednesday evening after the
coop
board
meeting.
On Mon Mar 11 17:23:58 2013, philip(a)localwiki.org wrote:
Your apartment would be great! Let me know when a good time to
pick
it up is.
Philip Neustrom
Executive Director
LocalWiki
http://localwiki.org
On Mar 11, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Ben Kochie via RT
<support(a)iocoop.org>
wrote:
Oh wait, if you're in SF, I can bring the machine to my
apartment
in
SF.
On Mon Mar 11 17:20:58 2013, ben(a)nerp.net wrote:
It looks like this machine as accidentally racked in Layer42. I
looked
at the
console and it's in a crash loop.
I unplugged it and can either ship the drives to you for data
recovery, or I
can arrange to ship the whole machine. Please let me know.
On Thu Mar 07 15:06:13 2013, philip(a)localwiki.org wrote:
Would be good to get this machine if possible. There may be a
couple
of things on it we'll want, as it died (?) right before the
move.
I'm in SF so if you're here too it shouldn't be too hard to
coordinate?
On Mar 7, 2013, at 1:24 PM, "Ben Kochie via RT"
<support(a)iocoop.org>
wrote:
No, Graham gave all of the equipment to the coop. However
we're
likely
just going to recycle most of it since it's pretty old gear.
-ben
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Philip Neustrom via RT wrote:
I'm assuming graham has some machines he wants back? If so,
you
could pass this machine on to graham and I could coordinate
with
him
On Mar 7, 2013, at 9:26 AM, "Ben Kochie via RT"
<support(a)iocoop.org> wrote:
I can either arrange to have it sent to you, or I can do
the
data
wipe for you
if you would like.
On Tue Feb 26 23:16:57 2013, philip(a)localwiki.org wrote:
I haven't been following all the colo deracking threads,
but
I'd
like
to let you know that we've migrated off the machine after
it
stopped responding yesterday so it can be safely deracked
this
weekend.
The Q I have: what will happen to this physical machine?
It
has
sensitive user data on it so I'd like to make sure it gets
either
destroyed, returned to its own (us? Amit?), or picked up
by
us.
How
should we coordinate this? May be easiest for us to just
take
it
and hand it off to Amit if he wants it.
Thanks for all your amazing work!!
Philip
After digging through some archives of c-base (an epic hackerspace in
Berlin), I thought it'd be wise to start collecting memories of sudo room.
I've created http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Press to neutrally and unbiasedly
start charting our journey from fledgling to Mother Goose to wayward
hackers.
Please, 'read all about it'. add, and expound
http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Press
without confusion,
notconfusing
We were supposed to finally vote to update the Articles of Association
on 3/20, but the wiki went down on 3/18 and stayed down until this
past weekend! We didn't feel comfortable voting without the diff in
front of us, and knowing that the full week of "online-consentability"
was not fulfilled. But now the wiki is back up - thanks to all the
people who worked hard to fix it!
This message serves as your reminder. You have an extra few days to
review the diff online, to make up for lost time:
https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Articles_of_Association%2FCo…
Hope to see you at the 3/27 meeting and finally make this happen!
All:
There's a lot of wiki spam that is being created as of the 24th- I would
like to propose that we have either a temporary block or email verification
on users who create accounts and immediately create new pages, and possibly
a block on certain ip ranges.
thoughts?
(who wants to go in and revert the recent spam? Who wants to make it their
full time job?)
-matt (hbergeronx)
This weekend, I and several other sudoers laid ethernet cable from
SudoRoom to the front door, which meant crawling through the
"crawlspace." It was successful! And we've learned a lot for the next
time. I've documented the experience here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Attic
tl;dr it's a giant deadly attic. Be very careful.
hi everyone,
if you are interested in food hacking, etc. please join the new *sudo-food*list.
additionally, we have a few new lists for people to join as well.
please check out all the specific mailing lists here:
http://lists.sudoroom.org/
- marina
Romy,
I believe you misread my intent. It was NOT about PR and they aren't selling anything except t-shirts (for the non-creative). It was a request for interest in participating. Sudo is a creative community. I'd waste our time asking for anything else, no?
j.
On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
> Cool!
>
> I'm more interested in being creative. We do not always Have to be Promoting or buying Stuff
>
> It's nice all these companies are offering but I'm not a pr company .. And if I come up with an idea but do nothing but promote someone who already has something what's the point of sudo room ?
>
> I like that guys point from the last meeting . Lets make it more about creation and less about lame fake product placements
>
> So i avoid this option as much as possible
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Romy Ilano
> Founder of Snowyla
> http://www.snowyla.com
> romy(a)snowyla.com
>
> On Mar 25, 2013, at 8:10, J Clark <LitSL(a)manymedia.com> wrote:
>
>> It can be done and it's pretty cool. There's a company, PhaseSpace, taking those ideas a step further: using the LEDs for animation (e.g., Spiderman). See phasespace.com and towerofthedragon.com. Are there sudoers who might like to help with the Tower movie? Those folks would love it to be a community-participatory thing.
>>
>> j.
>>
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Romy Ilano wrote:
>>
>>> Hey I hung out at sudo room yesterday ... The sound art guys were cool!
>>> Then came a public school dance group -- this lady led a bunch of male dancers which was neat. I'm so used to women dance troupes
>>>
>>> It got me thinking:: how do you get the different groups to cross pollinate more?
>>>
>>> Do sudo room people mix much with the dancers or the public school?
>>>
>>> I'm already thinking of ways to coax the dance group to work with the experimental sound guys and do some kind of dance music hack!
>>>
>>> Maybe we can build arduinos to put on the dancers !
>>>
>>> Mwahaha
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Romy Ilano
>>> Founder of Snowyla
>>> http://www.snowyla.com
>>> romy(a)snowyla.com
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> sudo-discuss mailing list
>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>>
---
Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy(a)snowyla.com
Begin forwarded message:
>
>
> I'm more interested in being creative. We do not always Have to be Promoting or buying Stuff
>
> It's nice all these companies are offering but I'm not a pr company .. And if I come up with an idea but do nothing but promote someone who already has something what's the point of sudo room ?
>
> I like that guys point from the last meeting . Lets make it more about creation and less about lame fake product placements
>
> So i avoid this option as much as possible
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Romy Ilano
> Founder of Snowyla
> http://www.snowyla.com
> romy(a)snowyla.com
>
> On Mar 25, 2013, at 8:10, J Clark <LitSL(a)manymedia.com> wrote:
>
>> It can be done and it's pretty cool. There's a company, PhaseSpace, taking those ideas a step further: using the LEDs for animation (e.g., Spiderman). See phasespace.com and towerofthedragon.com. Are there sudoers who might like to help with the Tower movie? Those folks would love it to be a community-participatory thing.
>>
>> j.
>>
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Romy Ilano wrote:
>>
>>> Hey I hung out at sudo room yesterday ... The sound art guys were cool!
>>> Then came a public school dance group -- this lady led a bunch of male dancers which was neat. I'm so used to women dance troupes
>>>
>>> It got me thinking:: how do you get the different groups to cross pollinate more?
>>>
>>> Do sudo room people mix much with the dancers or the public school?
>>>
>>> I'm already thinking of ways to coax the dance group to work with the experimental sound guys and do some kind of dance music hack!
>>>
>>> Maybe we can build arduinos to put on the dancers !
>>>
>>> Mwahaha
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Romy Ilano
>>> Founder of Snowyla
>>> http://www.snowyla.com
>>> romy(a)snowyla.com
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> sudo-discuss mailing list
>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>>
Hey I hung out at sudo room yesterday ... The sound art guys were cool!
Then came a public school dance group -- this lady led a bunch of male dancers which was neat. I'm so used to women dance troupes
It got me thinking:: how do you get the different groups to cross pollinate more?
Do sudo room people mix much with the dancers or the public school?
I'm already thinking of ways to coax the dance group to work with the experimental sound guys and do some kind of dance music hack!
Maybe we can build arduinos to put on the dancers !
Mwahaha
---
Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy(a)snowyla.com
I'm watching the Recent Changes list and seeing a huge wave of spam.
I wasn't paying attention to the wiki until about a week ago, so
forgive my ignorance, but is there a strategy for dealing with this
stuff? Can I help?
Cheers,
Naomi
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skype: nthmost
http://twitter.com/nthmost
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
>>> And who's interested in getting kopimism religious services started up
>>> again?
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> jae kwon is the high priest, but isn't everyone a priest of kopimism?
>> (forgive my ignorance)
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Andrew <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com> wrote:
> i'm interested.. we actually pirated Kopimism from the original Swedish
> sect. so we can ordain anyone we want as a priest of the Oakland Church of
> Kopimism
I'm a kopimist rabbi and can perform conversions, but they're not
recognized by most haredi kopimists. I can also write kopimist fatwas.
And who's interested in getting kopimism religious services started up again?
---
Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy(a)snowyla.com
I am a happy girl, sitting in the hackerspace feeling all pwnie, which is
like a bronie, only not at all. (But I do like unicorns!)
I was given the password to the downstairs door on Friday. I came inside
imagining that there would be other people up here. Alas. There was no one.
I tried the downstairs password on the upstairs door. FAIL! (Mine, not the
system's or the hackers that put it together.) I could not get in. In fact,
I didn't even know the right URL to *get* in the door.
So I sat my bee-hind down on a couch in the common room, got on the wiki,
looked up "door access", found the server name for the inside door access,
and went there. It took me a few tries to figure out the password, but it
was not a hard one.
The door lock is kinda sticky. You can get the right password on the right
URL and hear the mechanism trying to do its thing, but the lock doesn't
fully unlock. The trick is to push the door closed tighter while the lock
turns.
So, yup, I'm inside. Between bringing cookies and breaking into the space,
I guess I should fill out the web form and start calling myself a real
sudoer now. :p
How secure do we need these doors to be? If we have people in the space
MOST of the time, then there is a lower need for security. With an often
empty space, there's maybe more of a risk of theft, vandalism or other
nastiness.
Security through obscurity is no security at all.
- Lish
--
http://www.alwayssababa.com/
thank you so much bill! this was an absolutely urgent need and i would like
to extend a million thank yous to you for fixing it. we will suffer through
the lack of a single sign on, but that pain is worth it for the pleasure of
having the wiki up and running.
i'd like to also take a moment to thank others who have been doing awesome
stuff for the sudo community (if i have left you off the list this is my
oversight and not an intentional slight!):
thanks to andrew & jordan for working on the outside door - this is
imperative!
thanks to mitch for the soldering workshop yesterday
thanks to naomi for organizing the radio room (i'm sorry, but i unplugged
the ethernet switch because it was giving me some trouble!)
thanks to whoever has been getting the site up and running every time it
goes down
thanks to ray for feeding us at meetings and to all who have taken on the
roles of exchequer, facilitator, note taker, and last minute etherpad
switcher
thanks to everyone who has been trying to improve our conflict resolution
process
thanks to morten for bringing his family by to see the space and say hello
and thanks to everyone else who comes to the space, hacks at the space,
brings others to the space, and works to improve things that allow our
community to work better together and love sudo room.
- marina
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:10 PM, William Budington <bill(a)inputoutput.io>wrote:
> The wiki has been fixed, there was a problem with the wordpress common
> login with mediawiki plugin. This means, unfortunately, there is no
> unified login. So reset your wiki passwords
> https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Special:PasswordReset and you'll get a
> new temporary pw emailed to you.
>
> It is a long and arduous process, but the spirit of righteous
> revolutionary sudo solidarity, nay, Sudodarity, calls on us to bear it
> together. The spirit of Sudodarity will ring from our glorious
> Kopimistic towers and halls! Sudodarity Forever!
>
> Bill
>
> _______________________________________________
> sudo-discuss mailing list
> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>
Hi All,
Has anyone seen the 4x4 keypad thats been laying around the space for a
while? Its got a regular set of buttons you would find on a touch tone
phone plus A - D?
PS losing this will not delay the door project as i have a spare, but that
one already had headers sodered on.
Thanks,
Andrew
I think while its apparent that a discussion on issues of privilege, who is sheltered from what types of harm by existing social structures, and related topics are beyond the reach of this discussion, some of the statements i'm seeing in this sound like garden variety victim blaming. If that many people had been that overwhelmed by him, there wouldnt be criminal charges on record.
On 3/23/2013 8:42 PM, Naomi Most wrote:
> Yeah... I'm going to chime in here to perhaps add some perspective as
> to why it did take so long.
>
> Shawn seemed like a pretty decent guy. I thought he was a little
> skeezy (he was always heaping more attention on the ladies at
> Noisebridge than was warranted by normal dictates of conversation /
> situation) ...
>
> ...but I just figured "slut", not
> multiple-misdemeanors-warrant-for-his-arrest-etc.
>
> And I'm (probably) a lot more socially aware than most hackers. I'm
> also pretty fearless for someone of my gender.
>
> What that means is that someone like Shawn instinctively goes after
> women full of fear and self-doubt, who don't see his manipulation
> coming.
>
> So while people like me, who interacted with Shawn on a very regular
> basis (he was there almost every afternoon I happened to be there),
> figured, "hm okay, nice enough guy, here a lot, whatever..." he was
> able to throw down some major bullshit in other social territories.
>
> When you've got victims being fearful and unconfident people in the
> first place, it's extremely unlikely they will come forward about
> whatever happened to them.
>
> And in this case, the victims all (reportedly) said, when they were
> approached about his actions, "I thought I was the only one!" The
> subtext of a declaration like that is, "I thought there was something
> wrong with me, so I didn't want to tell anyone."
>
> ...
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> The huge question Noisebridge is presently dancing around right now
> is, how many of our current cultural disturbances are based on
> Noisebridge being broken, and how many are basically inevitable
> outgrowths of NB having grown to 10 x Dunbar's Number in community
> size?
>
> My money's on situations like Shawn L. coming up again, and not
> because NB is broken, but because these are the problems of our time.
>
> The positive side of that is, maybe, despite these being hard problems
> that nobody has yet been able to solve, hackerspaces can figure this
> out. And then we'd win Civilization!
>
> --Naomi
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:18 PM, rachel lyra hospodar
> <rachelyra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Feel free to follow through on the ideas you have posted here and report
>> back to the group.
>>
>> If you believe that people acting on their own agency haven't gone far
>> enough it would be more productive (and considerate of mitigating factors,
>> such as the social shitstorms heaped on women who pursue harassment
>> remediation within the tech community) to go for what you see as the next
>> step, rather than criticizing the tactics chosen.
>>
>> I disagree with some of what you have stated (re permanent demonization of
>> bad actors) but you are welcome to that opinion.
>>
>> R.
The wiki has been fixed, there was a problem with the wordpress common
login with mediawiki plugin. This means, unfortunately, there is no
unified login. So reset your wiki passwords
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Special:PasswordReset and you'll get a
new temporary pw emailed to you.
It is a long and arduous process, but the spirit of righteous
revolutionary sudo solidarity, nay, Sudodarity, calls on us to bear it
together. The spirit of Sudodarity will ring from our glorious
Kopimistic towers and halls! Sudodarity Forever!
Bill
In case folks are curious about what is going on at NB regarding this
individual who repeatedly stalked people to their homes.
Whatever your take on safe spaces and openness, this discussion may help to
inform your conception of potential dangers to different members of the
community. I hope we all work to be open to the experiences, and needs, of
others.
R.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Snail" <snailtsunami(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mar 21, 2013 12:18 PM
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Consensus on Barring Shawn Landden from the
Noisebridge space and community (Was Re: On Asking People To Leave (Was Re:
Shawn L. ))
To: "Noisebridge-discuss" <Noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net>
Last night, we reached consensus on the decision to ban Shawn from
Noisebridge and the community, which in full wording goes, "Shawn Landden
is barred from Noisebridge. He is prohibited from entering the space or
participating in the community."
The statement is intentionally worded to so it can be interpreted to
encompass DIGITAL as well as PHYSICAL space.
You can see the meeting notes at
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2013_03_19
I am relieved to see the community band together on this decision, without
hesitation, and hope that it encourages people hurt by this person to
return and continue to be a part of our community. :) Because we do care.
And I always look forward to discussions on what we can do to do better
next time, because it will happen again, at Noisebridge, at every
hackerspace, and it will happen with people we like and are very attached
to and we need to be prepared, mentally, to make difficult decisions.
I know members of other hackerspaces like to joke about Noisebridge drama,
but this is not silly Internet drama. These are real problems that happen
in every hackerspace, every place on the planet, and we're trying to solve
a problem that is unsolved (how can you guarantee the safety of people in a
space, when that space is in a society where violence and threats against
people is accepted, even lauded, because the recipients are women?).
We talk about it openly, and I'm glad talk is open. Information is our best
tool here.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Danny O'Brien <danny(a)spesh.com> wrote:
> Shawn,
>
> We are consensing on banning you from Noisebridge next week, which is
> a fairly serious step that we've only had to enact twice before.
>
> As in a previous case, there is a document containing ten Noisebridge
> community member's statements about your behaviour among the
> Noisebridge community. The document is being kept offline for privacy
> reasons, but can be read by anyone who wishes to contact the keepers,
> who are Alex Peake and Tom Lowenthal, both of whom are well known in
> the community.
>
> There was swift consensus on making the banning proposal, with no
objections.
>
> We went onto discuss how, as a community, we would pass the collated
> information more widely to other hacker communities.
>
> I speak only for myself when I say that the best thing you might
> consider doing right now is returning back to Washington where you
> have an outstanding warrant for your arrest in the matter of violating
> probation, felony stalking, violating a restraining order, harassment,
> and stalking.
>
> I do speak for a large proportion of the Noisebridge community who
> have made it clear that they wish to communicate as widely as possible
> what we know about your current state, and to warn others who you
> might harass. We are already reaching out individually to hackerspaces
> in our area, and will be relaying the news to Portland.
>
> http://pastebin.com/EWBJ4WmN
>
> We also spoke about how we might better react more quickly, and listen
> more swiftly to those who were concerned about your behaviour earlier.
>
> Shawn, I don't think I can say this any more explicitly than this in
> public: we at Noisebridge are extremely concerned by your behavior,
> and worried for your mental health. Please return home and seek care.
> You have been banned from several houses in our city, you are about to
> be banned from Noisebridge, and we are about to make even more public
> our concerns. You have been told all of these things repeatedly by
> individuals, groups of housemates, and law enforcement, and have made
> no change in your behaviour. Please change it now.
>
> d.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Shawn <shawnlandden(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> To be terse here, I am currently not in San Francisco, but in Portland.
>> Consequentially, I can neither be at Noisebridge while unwanted, (by
some)
>> nor attend meetings.
>> ---
>> Shawn Landden
>> +1 360 389 3001 (SMS preferred)
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the wiki is down
so this is an ultra simple question
new person wantsto hack on a saturday or sunday afternoon
how does a noob do it?
i know there is some code thing... i always prefer to go there when someone
else is there.
it's irc right?
Hi, I wanted to start publicizing my workshop this Saturday for Today I Learned. But it looks like the wiki for Today I Learned is broken. Is it still OK to do the workshop on Saturday afternoon? My idea is to teach anyone and everyone to solder using lots of fun and intriguing kits for total beginners to complete successfully (and cool enough for experts to enjoy, too). TV-B-Gone kits, Brain Machine kits, blinky-light kits, and lots, lots more. Anyone can learn this stuff! All skill levels, all ages -- all welcome! More info:https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Circuit_Hacking_Mondays Any way to get the workshop on the Sudo Room main calendar? It would be nice to use this to attract some new folks to Sudo Room. Thanks,Mitch.
for your reading pleasure:
http://www.windley.com/archives/2013/03/build_the_world_you_want_to_live_in…
Cisco has made the assertion that there will be 50 billion devices on the Internet by 2020. That number might be high or low as it related to “devices” but I think it seriously underestimates the number of connected things that we’ll need to eventually contend with—by several orders of magnitude. The real number is likely in the trillions.
The driver, of course, is Moore’s law. John Clippinger reports that an Android phone can be had for $30 in some places. That same connected, computational, sensor platform will cost $3.00 and then $0.30 and then $0.03. When a wireless sensor platform costs $0.03 where will it be? Everywhere. Everything, even disposable things like razors or pens, will be gathering data…about you.
We probably don’t really have a choice about whether a $0.03 wireless sensor platform will exist. Technology marches on.
But we do have a choice about how it will be employed. If we follow the path we’re on now, all those devices will be controlled by some company somewhere that is providing the service behind them. [snip]