skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in the sense of "wrong", but in terms of difficulty of comprehension, for me it's call/cc in scheme:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-with-current-continuation

The main thing which helped me get some kind of grip on it was having worked through longjmp/setjump in C some time ago.
I recall a mate about 15 years ago who worked at Texas Instruments - once shared a plane ride with a director (they had a policy of upgrading people if they where on the same flight)

Apparently after the 3rd stiff G&T the older guy mused "gee I wish i had gone in with those guys" and he was referring to the traitorous 8 who left Shockley labs :-)
Then add to the problems I have with the very bad advice you're giving on this thread that this is a game or an intellectual exercise for you, and a lasting painful career-threatening injury to anyone who takes that advice.

Don't deliberately lie to employers who ask about your criminal record. The only ones who won't go absolutely apeshit on you when they find out are the ones who would hire you anyways if you just told them in the first place.

Like you, I have a lot of sympathy for people stuck with criminal convictions. We agree there. We'd both like to find advice to help people get excellent jobs despite stupid criminal convictions. My problem with your advice isn't with its intentions, but rather that I'm pretty sure it's dumb.
99 Bottles is way better because it covers iteration. FizzBuzz is even better because 99 Bottles emphasizes string handling a bit much.
Im a European, well British anyway....

Something occurred to me today regarding Americans and big huge stupid cars... I was watching the NASCAR earlier and there was a throwaway comment about some driver's sponsors being "local". By local they mean 60 miles away. Now to a Brit, maybe other Europeans, 60 miles feels like anything but "local". So, I get the impression that we don't understand the sort of scale of travel there is in the US. Which kinda begins to explain this fascination with big large cars with big lazy engines. These cars fit American geography and scale. I think it also explain what oil seems that bit more important to the Americans.

See, Im pretty sure that if an American came to live in the UK (maybe else where in Europe) and tried to run a big old American car here, it would take about a week before this American when off and bought a little European type car. Equally, Im pretty sure we'd ditch a small Euro type car for a big old American thing is we went to the US.

I too think American cars are a bit silly, but I think they make sense in context. I think American cars will get smaller and more efficient, but I think they will always be designed with those long distances and scales in mind.
I haven't paid a lot of attention to this, but I don't recall encountering either implication, and I do recall that the kickstarter is technically being run by the mother, who is of age.

Personally, this sounds like people engaging in heavy amounts of wishful thinking and poor reading comprehension, then blaming the other guy when they find out they got it wrong.
Curious: what did you use to take the notes ?
The problem is that hat the money goes into the mom's pocket and that rpg maker doesn't cost millions like examples you gave do.
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> With the possible exception of people living in old cities whose roads are just too small.

It's more the rule than the exception.
European car makers have a specific car category named "City cars", big enough to host 4 to 5 people but as small as possible to be easy to park etc.

Driving, and worse parking, an american sized SUV in europe is very painful. This is why he don't understand.

American cities are modern and built for cars, most big european cities have been built for walkers and horses, so now we got a tons of oneway streets and a general lack of space to park cars.
Why? It's not like the people who caused this to go way past the goal had no idea that they had exceeded the original goal. Kickstarter makes it perfectly clear how much money has been raised so far, and what the goal is.
graying would serve to make it slightly more annoying to see/click -- to dissuade casual upvotes.

You could also make the hitbox of the button increasingly smaller - to where the no.2 comment has a 1x1 px box.

tl:dr make it frustrating to upvote top comments -- if they really 'deserve it' people will go out of their way to do it
Now I didn't, and wouldn't, say that. (That's a rather rude thing to say.)

I do think that Susan Wilson probably doesn't need the money. But more importantly, I think this kickstarter (and however much notoriety it generates) is more what Susan Wilson is after here. It's almost finely crafted to be controversial, just at an edge of what is acceptable, and will be something she can cite for the next decade in interviews. It's clear that this particular woman doesn't need the money, but the fame she generates in exploiting her child is priceless.

edit: for clarity
It was traded in at the fixed conversion rate between gold and U.S. dollars.
Tired of these self-fluff pieces getting upvoted. Is this 'popular hacking' or hacker news?

On the face of the article: No, I wholeheartedly disagree. Less is not more and don't believe anyone telling you that. This guy is claiming that now that he has less time he is 6X better at his job due to 'unconscious cognition'.

I feel for all the parents out there that have kids and still maintain a career, but we need some evidence to go along with the article. Right now, this article looks like appeal to emotion. Everybody likes family and feels good about it. Skill and ability, like everything else, still needs to be measured and tested.
Then how can I judge them? Saying they did cool stuff? Everyone already says that.
The product, like all the other games-related Kickstarter campaigns, is the completed game. The whole "my brothers were mean to me so I want to go to RPG camp to prove them wrong" is the interesting story to get people to fund it. That's just good fund-raising: don't just sell a product, sell a story.

Whether or not the product is viable or that the girl will be able to complete the game with the funding requested is solely up to the people deciding whether to back it: is a nine year old girl with no prior experience who has to get training in the meantime going to produce a compelling RPG?

It may be an unrealistic campaign, but it's not fraud.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
Look at the date on the case (1942). Maybe it's relevant.
Two guys make fairly minor transgression at conference. In response, a woman makes fairly minor transgression as far as reporting it. Their companies appear to overreact, but who really knows since we don't know anything else about how these people did their jobs. Bloggers expend endless hours slicing and dicing the minute meanings of otherwise inconsequential things, hoping to peg blame where there simply might be none.

Have I summarized this who episode about right?
At-will employment is very complicated. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/what-is-at-wi...

What you say is essentially correct, but there's enough gray area that companies would not want to fire someone carelessly. Even winning a termination suit is losing, for PR reasons. So most professional jobs give enough severance to move on to your next job, unless it's "for cause", which usually means you did something horrible (but occasionally not).

Lying about a felony conviction is "for cause" and he'd get no severance if that was discovered and the reason (or discovered and made the reason after the fact). There is no dispute about that.

If a company will hire him in spite of the conviction, it's better to disclose. Most likely, he'll start disclosing it in 10+ years once he has a track record and no one cares. If no one will hire him, however, he might need an alternate strategy.
What to wear to a tech interview?
Penera bread can actually be healthy
So I currently work part-time in panera and at first I was sketchy about eating their during my break because of all the fat content their sauces have and some ingredients. But I thought to my self some of this can't be all bad. So I research all their ingredients and prett much knocked off all the bad ingredients and just substitute them with the good ones. I've been eating at panera for about 8 months usually 3 or 4 times a week and I can say its actually not too shabby with the high amount of nutritions that their healthy foods provides it helped my diet and I was able to reach my 8 pack. Of course it's a combination of exercise and eating. But more eating than exercise. This def workout to my advantage since I'm still a student. Don't have tons of money to buy food from grocery store and so my benefit of discounts on panera has helped.

Point of the story is panera can be good!
The pitch copy explicitly says the money over the goal will go to extending her time at camp, up to the length of the entire summer.

I don't know how much that would cost, but I think we're probably past that now, and I don't see any indication what the rest will go towards.

I've wished in the past that Kickstarter required some sort of open accounting for projects funded through them. But in practice I don't know how that would work. There's no effective leverage outside of setting that as a standard. If someone didn't, nothing could be done other than community pressure.
Thanks, that definitely explains what it was. Article was different, same topic, same title.
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"error establishing a database connection"
I have no bad attention i just want to show how simple search can be used to attack you.
Something tells me that if you got yourself a plane and then posted about it here, you'd get treated a lot more nicely than the OP.

The world has become a cynical and mean place. The guy bought a freaking working fire engine, and all people can do is whine endlessly about how impractical and wasteful it is...

But yet these same people wouldn't say the same about an aircraft, race car, or similar. Even though those are likely MORE expensive and equally as wasteful fuel wise.

Whatever, you get your plane! And you have fun with it. Ignore all these haters and cynics.
A lot depends on how you define "thought". If you define "thought" as any kind of mental experience (including "sensory" experiences such as simply experiencing the external world), then I would agree that our minds are "cluttered and chaotic", as they are filled with this experience whenever we are conscious.

On the other hand, if you define "thought" as a sort of verbal "inner dialogue", then I think it is possible to go through long periods of time without it (both in meditation and in more ordinary states of consciousness).

I am only a begginer at meditation, so I can not speak from personal experience regarding what deep, committed practice in meditation could achieve, but I have read many accounts of people in the Buddhist and Hindu traditions claiming to get beyond any kind of conceptualization or "thinking".

Certainly, there are also traditions which claim something like "nirvana is samsara" (that the "true" world or reality is the same as the "illusory" world or reality, in some profound sense that only the enlightened individual can grasp), that even in the enlightened state, what one does is "chop wood, carry water", same as in the non-enlightened state. So, some could argue, even deep meditative states could be just as "cluttered and chaotic" as ordinary states of consciousness. But this is not the only or necessarily even the most dominant view.
I'm arguing that except for what I listed, the information on resumes is not useful to me. If I got an email with links to repos, stackoverflow answers and blog posts and nothing else, that would be much better than a professionally written resume without such links.

There is not enough time to talk to the hundreds that apply - this is impractical.
That must have cost more than the actual vehicle? The "sustainable" part of my mind is competing with the "cool project" part.

I'm not sure which is going to win out yet. I wonder how competitive it would have been to send it by rail?
It would've been theft if the conversion rate was raised before the confiscation but people were paid out at a lower rate.
She didn't ask for millions, she asked for $829 and clearly specified where the money would go. It got overfunded. That's what happens with successful Kickstarter campaigns because there are no caps.

Any of the people I mentioned could've easily fronted the amount they asked for, but they didn't, and that's fine: running a Kickstarter campaign means less personal risk, more publicity, and a chance to hit the lottery with overfunding. It's not fraud.
This is one of my favorite responses. Thanks.
I'm still trying to figure this one out, and should probably dive into the literature on the subject for some more enlightenment (or perhaps someone with more knowledge can share something?)

Here's the thing. I consider my huge lack of formal education one of the best things that happened to me. I was home-schooled from 8 to 18, and the last five years or so I didn't even really have a teacher. I think for a full year I'd just 'phone in' the bare minimum of work, about two hours a day in the study room in our house, and pass the required tests.

I feel like the boredom got out of my system really quickly because of this, and my natural inclination to explore and learn took over, with nobody to tell me learning was dumb or stupid or uncool.

So I read every book I could find, learned programming, and had and developed an active imagination. Two more years of high school and six years of university got a long way to beat this out of me, but it's still mostly there, and I feel it's one of the primary reasons that I feel like I'm 'doing ok'.

Is this just me specifically, or can it be applied to most children/young adults?
>Is there some sort of crazy game of one-upmanship in the USA as to who can drive the most impractical gas guzzler?

Well, yeah. Seriously though, I didn't get the impression that he drives it every day, and the town that he lives in is tiny. I doubt anyone would. I don't know if he mentions it but I'd estimate the bounds for his fuel mileage to be 4 mpg to 10 mpg.

>What the hell I consider driving a car to work to be hardly justifiable at all in our trade

If you lived in Missoula Montana, I doubt you'd consider a car / truck as optional.
There's an app for that! ;-)

Seriously, on my Android device I have an app called Routinely which is one of probably dozens of apps focused on supporting the formation of positive habits. I've set up both a morning meditation activity and an evening meditation activity on it on a daily basis. It does regular scheduled notifications & it does the Seinfeld chain thing when you tick off a completed activity.

I'm following the Natural Stress Relief approach to meditation which is a form of mantra meditation not unrelated to Transcendental or Vedic Meditation. Each session is 18 minutes in length.

I'm not long into my practice, but I find that as a night owl, it helps me sleep more soundly if I do an evening meditation and that the morning meditation dispels the grogginess I usually have on waking. After meditation, I generally find myself refreshed, relaxed, alert and calm and there is a real delta in my state compared with before the session.

Link for Natural Stress Relief
http://www.natural-stress-relief.com/
Right on his homepage, he says:

> The notes were written in Evernote, and then exported to HTML automatically.
"Bad reference => war", to me, is essentially an endorsement of professional dishonesty.

This whole subthread is about 3-sigma outlier cases that (may) require dishonesty.

I am not ashamed to say that, in a 3-sigma bad situation, I would rather lie (especially, being an immensely capable person who would be a good hire, which means the lied-to party would benefit) than starve.

Honestly is a luxury of the 99% of us (including you and me) who aren't "cosmetically challenged" in some severe, career-damaging way.
I like living in a place where my kids can play in the front yard without non-stop surveillance. Every parent has had a kid run out of sight in the back yard, a store, or the mall. The idea that jerks like you say things like that every time something bad happens to someone's child really pisses me off.
It definitely did it for POST. That is what surprised us. We had a lot of users added and as I said the few second operation started taking much longer and we discovered it was because their spreadsheet uploaded was getting uploaded again and again because it kept timing out. Was not fun.

The "feature" is 'proxy_next_upstream'. We spent time cursing this Nginx definition of a feature.

http://serverfault.com/questions/51320/setting-up-nginx-to-n...
There's an infamous underflow glitch in Pokemon R/B/Y.

The minimum level for a Pokemon in the game is lv. 2. If you get a lv. 1 Pokemon (need to use another cool glitch for that), and that Pokemon gains EXP that's not enough to hit lv. 2, underflow occurs and it gets billions of EXP, and hits lv. 100 immediately.
This is not fraud. If the basis of the campaign were that her family is just too poor to send her, that would be fraud. But that is clearly not in there. As far as whether she needs it or not, many kids with rich parents don't get to enjoy that money. Some rich parents are just downright cheap and selfish, and others want to teach their kids the value of a dollar. My guess is that the daughter asked for the money, and mom wanted to teach her how to go out and get it instead of just asking her. They worked together and created a successful campaign.

The people calling this fraud are jealous. They look at their own kickstarter campaigns that aren't nearly as successful and wonder why they haven't been as "lucky". Looks like the mother is successfully teaching her daughter how to make her own luck, and that isn't a bad lesson to learn.
What places is this syntax a good thing? I read through the comments on your answer, but every single one that claimed this was either pointless (e.g. 0[x] instead of (x)[0]) or not even an example of the trick in question (e.g. "blah"[index] is not this). I was hoping for something interesting, thus my question.
Maybe you're right, but there are plenty of 'luminaries' where you could argue it was their stable family life that made it possible. At the very least it shouldn't be an excuse ;-).
$50K starts the auction, but the "Buy it Now" price (in the blue button) is $550K
I'd say soliciting money from others for an unrealistic campaign is tantamount to fraud.
Mirror: http://gayle.quora.com/That-Amanda-Blum-Article-on-Adria-Ric...
Uh, no. A clone of Bang With Friends is on sale.

The URL to this one is bangfriends.net, the real URL is bangwithfriends.com.
Why have interviews at all? You're an immensely capable person who clearly knows what's best for your prospective employer. Just hire yourself for them!
Strange how no one mentioned that they're selling bangfriends.net when the more popular one is .com (a different site)
Sort of like how if you asked about weird stuff in biology, you won't get a lot of Platypus answers, even though the Platypus is really weird.
Same here. Speed demands full attention and gets me into flow, where all that matters is the immediate sensory input and reacting to it.
After experimenting with meditation in my teens, I've found bio-feedback techniques have helped maintain focus, breed creativity, and given a general feeling of happiness. I'm not claiming anecdotes are evidence, but here is the technique that works for me:
When I find myself stuck on a problem or burned out I will put the idea of a problem in my head and really only just be aware of it. Then, I will shift my focus onto enhancing my perception of each of the senses, starting at sight, then smell(feeling the positive being inhaled and the negative exhaled), then recalling good flavors for taste, then just hear my surroundings, preventing the noise from causing extraneous thoughts. Finally I will feel with my skin, all at the same time all throughout my body. I'll continue this until I feel the need to stop (usually about 5 minutes).

I feel like a million bucks after this. Every time. More often then not, when returning my attention to work, the answers seem obvious and I am more tolerant of distraction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_cognition
Huxley also had thought drugs can only make us dumb (like soma in Brave New World) - until someone shown him psychedelics.

He even wrote later a book describing utopia (Island) which contained similar things as in Brave New World (drugs use, assisted reproduction, sexual openness, exposing children to death), but used in positive way.
Meh. I am not impressed by this teardown. There are many factors in this situation that one can argue about, but the one that to me is unarguably completely damning towards Adria's actions is this one:

She posted a picture of many men. One of them is smiling at the camera. It just so happens that his smile happens to have that naughty "heh heh heh, did you hear that sick joke I just made?" look. Almost everyone on the Internet, me included, thought that the guy smiling was the perp. Turns out that it wasn't actually him at all, and that the perp is actually the guy on the left side of the picture.

Regardless of what we may think of public shaming, or of what her role used to be at Sendgrid - Adria should've foreseen that everyone would think the smiling guy would be the suspect.

She publicly shamed the wrong guy!

She didn't deserve the rape and death threats, but to leave what she did without any consequences to her would be inappropriate, to say the least.
Nabokov's lectures on all those writers were published as a book, and it's very good.
You're asking a rhetorical question that insults my character by implying that I would fabricate a theory and then "push it" although I knew it was false. I'm fine with not being right or people having a different opinion, but don't insult me in the process.

Your other question doesn't make sense since it's factually incorrect (hackers school was free before) and puts weight on only one factor. The incentive Etsy made for women to join hacker school was of course offsetting some other factors. I'm saying that sexism or something devolved from sexism is one of those other factors.
Photographing someone without consent at a conference is really not minor, and posting said photograph to Twitter to enlist an army against someone is not minor at all. It's full scale bullying. The idea that these companies just randomly happened to fire these people coincident with high-profile, contentious events (for unrelated reasons) is actually absurd. Drowning people in death threats and DoS attacks over the internet is not minor either.
Can i medicate while sleep ? i am serious .
Phusion Passenger extends Nginx and turns it into an application server. An application server is a program that runs application code, so in this case it allows Nginx to run run Ruby/Python code. Likewise, the Apache version of Phusion Passenger turns Apache into an app server that can run Ruby/Python code.

The benefits are not lost. Phusion Passenger integrates into Nginx to give you the benefits of both. For example one of the tasks of Nginx is to buffer HTTP requests and responses in order to protect apps from slow HTTP connections. Phusion Passenger fully makes use of this Nginx feature and even extends it.
I agree. The net worth of the mother does not somehow make it more of a fraud than if the family genuinely couldn't afford the tuition.

However, from Kickstarter's policies:

> Kickstarter does not allow charity, cause, or "fund my life" projects.

Summer camp tuition (plus a new laptop) are not good enough as a project goal, IMO, and may very well violate Kickstarter's policies.
A ford explorer can stop on a dime. A fire truck cannot. A fire truck also has a blind spot equivalent to 3 ford explorers.