skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DISCLAIMER: This is NOT legal advice. I am not a lawyer, and there's a hell of a lot of risk in what I'm going to tell you to do.

When I was a teenager, someone I knew did something nonviolent but pretty bad (severe academic dishonesty) and had a non-empty answer to the "Discipline Question".

You might judge me negatively for keeping such a person as a friend-- and I shouldn't have, but that's another story-- but at the time, I was naive and not a great judge of character. Anyway, he asked for advice on the Discipline Question and I told him to take an "odds and evens" strategy: rank his choices. For the odd-numbered (1st, 3rd, ...) choices, omit it. For the even-numbered ones, full disclosure. The idea was that whether the information would be disclosed (by the Guidance Office) was an unknown but constant variable: they'd either tell all colleges or none.

If his HS Guidance Office disclosed to all, he'd have a slight chance of getting the ones where he did disclose (his evens) and no chance of getting the ones where he omitted (the odds).

If Guidance disclosed to none, he'd have a slight chance of getting the evens and a pretty good chance (they wouldn't know) of getting the odd-numbered choices.

His HS took his mistakes off the record, so they didn't disclose. He did well on his odd-numbered college choices and zeroed the even-numbered ones. If I recall correctly, he got 3 out of 5 odds and 0 out of 5 evens. Not a lot of data, but the conclusion was: don't answer the Discipline Question.

There isn't a constant, hidden variable (guidance office) for your case but it's still unpredictable how easily employers will find out and how your conviction will be perceived. There are hidden variables you can't easily measure.

So I think "odds and evens" is the right strategy. Full, honest disclosure with half. Full omission with half. Collect data. Iterate.

You didn't hear this from me. I don't know the details and I'm not a felon, but I think it is pretty fucked up how any felony leads to long-term economic disenfranchisement, so I sincerely hope this advice helps.

With governments, full disclosure always. It's unambiguously illegal to lie about a felony conviction to get a government job. So tell the truth.

Get a lawyer, too. Find someone who's dealt with this and knows the risks. I don't think my "odds and evens" approach is, to quote Inception, "strictly speaking, legal".
That's correct. Yes, I read the article :-)
JavaScript integration between Sublime Text and Chrome DevTools
That's a bummer, I just bought Scipy and Numpy and was looking forward to reading it.

Another piece of advice for people: about 80% of Python for Data Analysis is the same as the online documentation for Pandas, the other 20% some examples and other notes. So if you're buying it you should buy it to support Wes McKinney, not to learn a ton of new stuff. Which wouldn't be the worst thing you could do, pandas is pretty awesome and I don't know what else you would use in Python to do statistical data analysis. (Of course there are separate tools for more specialized analyses and techniques like ML and NLP, but I mean "plain ol' stats".)
I've got some numerical analysis code in f77 that leverages lapack. I tried translating to C but was never happy with using clapack or atlas.
Have you tried security related companies?
Couple blogging their cycling trip around the world killed in Thailand
String constants are interned at compile time. Dynamically created strings are typically not interned.
Now, more than ever, you don't need to work for someone else (as an employee). If you have the skills, you can do very well as a freelancer/consultant. The pay can be good, the work can be interesting, and they won't run a background check on you.
That's kind of ridiculous. The point that most people are making is that if someone does something incredibly stupid, or there is corruption in the system that follows down the line (like what happened here), it doesn't matter whether you have a repository.

A backup clearly would have helped here.
ATT has a program called "DriveMode" http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=2964

It proactively replies to text messages if you are driving, so you don't get distracted.
JavaScript example is wrong:

<a href="#" onclick="helloWorld(); return false;">Hello World Example</a>
Well, you don't have to lie on your resume or on your interview but have you considered just not mentioning it? Unless you're applying for certain types of jobs they're not going to do a background check on you, and you're unlikely to be under any obligation to disclose that you were convicted of computer fraud if you're applying for a computer related job.

Also, think about taking jobs in countries that aren't the U.S.. It might be nice to have a fresh start somewhere else, but I don't know what sort of visa troubles you'd have with your record.
I've really enjoyed working with flask. Django is good, but it's a bit heavy for some projects
You forgot that they are a giant mood killer. Anyone who has been in a long term relationship where condoms are the primary source of birth control knows what I'm talking about.

Want to have sex in the shower? Forget that.
Want spur of the moment sex anywhere in the house? Not unless you want to carry some condoms with you all the time.
etc.

I hate condoms, but I hate the idea of being a father more.
> Can we please not turn this thread into a complaining session about SO's policies?

No, because every website has to be all things to all people, even if it means the destruction of the few things it was actually good at.
I've been at several startups and never undergone a background check, to my knowledge. I've never been asked any "Have you ever..?" questions. So this is less of an issue than you might think. I get the sense companies only start doing background checks when they grow large enough to become targets for litigation.
I wouldn't really call this "corrupting the RAM". It's not "corrupting" it more than running any other code; it's just taking advantage of certain states.

(I'm not saying it's not extremely impressive. It is. It's just slightly misleading wording)

Edit: Downvoters: Did I misunderstand something? I read it again along with the original forum post, and it seems pretty clear that this could theoretically be done on an original SNES, without any tools, it's just impossibly hard in practice. So how is it "corrupting"? You wouldn't call a buffer overflow attack "corrupting RAM", even though it's based on exactly the same principles. And you certainly wouldn't call playing the game normally "corrupting the RAM", even though it's manipulating the RAM in the same way.
It's linked in the article, but if anyone is interested in more runs like these, here again is the primary Western community for TASing:

http://tasvideos.org/

And these are the two primary Western communities for human speedrunning, whose members usually post videos on Youtube and stream on Twitch:

http://speeddemosarchive.com/

http://speedrunslive.com/

Japanese communities tend not to be as coherent (to the best of my knowledge), comprising mostly independent, anonymous runners posting on http://www.nicovideo.jp/ or other sites.
>I care that it fits!

Many men don't maintain a constant level of hardness during sex. The condom fits great while harder, but slips off while softer.

So you are clutching the condom to make sure it stays on. Great usability, right?
The probability of this occurring is far less than what happened here.
If you apply to any company small enough to not have a dedicated HR department, I think there's a very good chance that it literally never comes up. Arrest record certainly isn't part of my standard interview questions. (And, in my biased opinion, working at smaller companies is a lot more fun anyway--especially for someone early in their career)
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If you think you've got a business that will absolutely, no bullshit, leave a dent in the world be a king and enjoy it, after all when is a King ever poor?

However, the majority of businesses won't leave a dent in the world and that's okay, and taking the money is fine because you start a business to make money. It's great being a king, but someone is always waiting with a guillotine, or a sharp dagger, or a poisoned glass. Take the cash, move on, hope next time you leave that dent.
Taking your arguments though, is it clear that the lesson is teaching cannot be commoditized. Isn't it the lack of understanding and valuing of the research component that makes them see professors as adding little value? Programmers in most tech businesses do provide clear value through their work. So if anything the lesson seems to be it's not enough to do something valuable. You have to make sure the stakeholders understand and value it as well.

And in this regard I do agree we have a huge disconnect between modern research and people. To some degree this is because of the increasing complexity of the frontiers of research, but I also feel we no longer have the public figures in the research community who act as bridges and translators between academia and the public.
Despite what you may have been told by others or simply be assuming because of your political convictions, there was no significant inflation in the United States in the 1930s. The decade was in fact characterized by overall deflation, with prices lower at the end of the decade than they were at the start.

Abandoning the gold standard was a crucial and positive factor in stopping deflation during a time when it was wreaking wholesale and unprecedented destruction on the American and global economy. The move was entirely necessary, and did not lead to inflation as you can hopefully see from the actual historical data:

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-in...

The federal budget did turn expansionary (until 1937 when Roosevelt slowed spending in the face of evidence suggesting a mild recovery was underway), but the overall increase in federal spending under the New Deal was offset by shrinking state budgets and a series of bank failures across the interior which shrank the money supply. Look at the E. Cary Brown essay "Fiscal Policy in the Thirties" for the aggregate budget stats across the entire United States. Or just look at the inflation stats -- are they consistent with a story of unfettered government spending?
I have the perfect solution ... Randomly click on articles you have no interest in. I'm sure (other than my nerdism) that my profile is so eclectic that they're totally confused. And if that doesn't work, I don't have a Facebook account.
I agree 100% , MS brand hurts its own products outside the corporate realm.
They should use a total different branding for non Windows related stuffs or rebrand themself totally.
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The current VC model, throw money at the wall and see what sticks, has worked pretty well.

Yes, funding dumb ideas is a side effect. So what? If the returns are sweeter than funding more conservative, organic growth oriented businesses, then that's where the money is going to go.

Access to capital is not a natural right. If you need investment for your 'lifestyle business', it's your burden to demonstrate that you can outperform the status quo.

'Finding safety' isn't really complementary to striking out on your own.

I propose that your rage might be better directed at the current state of academia instead of the VC ecosystem. That seems more in line with your goal of promoting long term innovative thought.

Yes, in academia you won't necessarily own the rights to your inventions, nor see most of the economic benefit. But it's never been easy to have it all...
Only for sequence diagrams, but you may like
http://www.websequencediagrams.com
The US generally won't issue passports to convicted felons. (That's the Google consensus, anyway.)
Perhaps this is obvious, but how do you perform "testing" for prototypes?
What does "never have to look at the right side of a menu" mean?
To the OP, it would seem reasonable to inquire with an attorney about petitioning to have the conviction set aside. I am not a lawyer, but it seems that a restoration of rights via means of an expungement or even a Presidential pardon would be avenues likely open for you.
Old Jasper Carrot joke:

Straight man - There's a report that children are bored 3/4 of the time at school. This means they are not being prepared for working life

Jasper - really? That sounds like excellent preparation for working life
> Yes, this time I decided I didn't want to argue my perspective.

So arguing or reporting him were your only options? Would not a simple "shush" have sufficed? You have some very serious man-hating anger issues.
I find it amusing that Dart is apparently bad because it has batteries included, and that the third party ecosystem should be relied on more, yet the author has no trust in third party 'future' libraries and likes that Dart has core support for it.
State of Tech #98
Prices are on the right side of a menu in America. It means you never have to care how much you're spending on a meal.
You really aught to reread my comment. I mentioned RAID because it's the most common form of this mistake.

Let me repeat what I said, italicizing the important parts:

Mostly it's because they have decided that RAID 1 or RAID 5 should be a decent "backup" strategy,* but then there are those who believe mirroring systems is how to do backups.
As if the US isn't a big bureaucracy?
It's impressive, but would the same input timings work on a real SNES, or does it depend on emulator inaccuracies?
I thought I was a great programmer when I was 19 and staying up for 30 hours grinding it out. I was totally wrong. I'm on the wrong side of 25 and I've realised even though I spend less time writing code, I'm a significantly better programmer because of it. Sometimes to write code, you must not write code; wax on, wax off grasshopper.
I've found that most smaller companies do not do any sort of background check on their potential employees.
Awesome project :)

Have you looked at Graphviz? It's an opensource project that generates diagrams from graphs, it's used for example in doxygen to generate class diagrams. Good for inspiration.
Oh... thanks. "Derp" on my part.
You know, gender aside, this is what more companies should do; there's an enormous demand for skilled engineers out there, yet very few companies that acknowledge there just may not be any more in the market and they need to create said skilled employees themselves.

The problem for employers is that trainees and interns are a risk; you need to screen them beforehand, and then you take a gamble about whether they'll get up to the required skill level in six months or a year to be up to par to the rest of the company's team.

I heard about a major consultancy company's success in attracting interns as potential future engineers (Ordina iirc), they said the success rate was about 1 in 20. Which, for smaller companies (<100 people) is simply not enough.

The article itself states they hired eight people from Hacker School, which is daring and commendable. I'm curious as to how those people will develop themselves in the coming year.
Somebody else posted this in the same thread: http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_sapolsky_the_uniqueness_of_h.... It overviews sharp distinctions between the behaviours of animals and humans.
2M for 600k profit was just a very poor offer and your father chose right regardless of what happened next. (Judged by the limited information provided)
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A lot of sites use 'your password is weak/strong/very strong' indicators, there's still a lot of weak passwords used for them.
* Freelancing & consulting could be beneficial in your situation.

* Applying to smaller companies without HR departments could also work in your favor. They probably won't have any kind of background checks or standardized lists of questions they ask everybody. Don't lie, but you don't have to volunteer info either.
I believe it's about the money your money will earn that buys you the freedom. Consider having $5 million in the bank. You buy some conservative Pimco bonds earning 5% per year and bam, you've got $250k in yearly income (pre-tax) doing literally nothing and never spending a dime of that 5 million. If that's not freedom in any city in the world then I don't know what is.
FB big data will soon be able to predict your next bowel movement and recommend reading material based on your Likes.
One feature I've missed while using Postgres is the built-in REPLACE INTO that MySQL provides. I know it's possible to create a function to accomplish this in Postgres for specific cases, but is there some general variant which could be applied to multiple tables?
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I've seen several, and most work environments are dysfunctional. I live in New York. Finance goes from C+ to C-; VC-istan is much worse (F). I've never worked in California so I can't evaluate Silicon Valley VC-istan but what I've heard is that it's not much better.

Including the companies where I've been brought in to consult (where I can be less specific) I've probably seen 20 corporate cultures. About a quarter are neutral or healthy; three-quarters are deeply broken.

The best work environments I've seen were in government research think-tanks. Basic research (outside of academia) has the only really good cultures that I've seen. Academia's culture is less mean-spirited than Corporate America but failure is more final (getting fired in business is no big deal in the long run; in academia, missing tenure is deadly).

I've learned some uncomfortable truths along the way. One of those is that, in a subordinate role, overperformance is dangerous-- far more perilous to your job security than the alternative.

That doesn't mean people should slack off and give up. No fucking way. It's better to excel and accept the volatility. It's more virtuous, you enjoy it more, and eventually when you find your tribe or are expected to lead, it pays off to be excellent. However, in most subordinate roles, overperformance is short-term dangerous. I don't think anyone who's been around for long enough doubts that.
True but you've got to consider the numbers we're looking at here.

As an example an iPhone 5 has a 5.45Wh battery, if you wanted to replace that with a super-cap and charge it to 5V in 20 seconds you'd need to provide ~1000W of power or 200A @ 5V. Even if the super cap had very low ESR, call it 1mOhm, which is extremely low compared to current super-caps, you'd still end up dissipating 40W as heat with ~96% efficiency.
Even in Silicon Valley, one could do it for $5M after taxes.
How groupthink can ruin startups
Yeah, it seems to me that if you consider it irrelevant to your qualifications for your job, you should just omit it from your resume. There's a formal "job application" form that you'll have to fill out where they ask you whether they have any past convictions, but that usually comes after your interviews and you've accepted an offer.

That might be a bit surprising, but here's how it works at every company I've interviewed at: you find a job posting, you send in your resume, they call you for a phone screen and if you pass, they'll call you in for a full day of interviews. If they then make an offer that you accept, you'll finally fill out the formal paperwork.

However, if you apply to a big company job through their own HR portal, you're probably going to have to fill out the job application form when you submit your resume.
A park with no other people in it is / sensibly percieved to be unsafe.

Yet put a regular soccer game there, add in seats so that lunchtime workers sit down for a sandwich, encourage adults to take lengthy actions that simply involve bein there and the place both becomes safer and feels safer.

It's human nature to feel safer in a well lit, public space

The space is rarely the issues - it's the lack of other people

Blame the car culture firstly, blame bad architects next, blame atrocious town planners mostly

If we want to feel safe we know how - have adults outside.
I don't really feel either of those features are that 'strange'. Most of C++'s features are not bizarre considered in isolation. Their ugliness comes from the fact that they have surprising limitations, unpleasant syntax, and don't compose well.
Perhaps you should consider applying for positions where the skills that got you in trouble would be an asset, i.e. penetration testing, security research/consulting
Personally, I do not single out any one time for meditating in the way most people think of - passive sitting and breathing - but I often take breaks from my work to go and get decaf coffee, and I will take those times to stop doing anything or thinking and just be mindful of the act of walking. This is usually called active meditation, due to the contrast with the more widely known (in the West) passive meditation. If I'm not with anyone, I will also do this as I take meals or drive.

If you are interested in learning about active meditation or are more the type to set aside time for it in your day, I would highly recommend Tai Chi.
There's a SNES9X movie downloadable from [1] which should theoretically automate the timings, if you have both SNES9X and the ROM.

There's also a video there that apparently shows the timings on a real TV.

[1] http://tasvideos.org/1945M.html
It would be great if you could expand this to ER or EER diagrams.
Every single project, open source or not, needs to have a "Why Use It" page.

(Now this is more of a "Testimonials" page, but for server tech it will do.)

> Apache is like Microsoft Word, it has a million options but you only need six. Nginx does those six things, and it does five of them 50 times faster than Apache.

This is exactly how I felt. I'm a pea-brained dolt in the server sphere, and when I was remaking my server I went with nginx over apache on the advice of a friend because "the config file is easier to understand."

He was right. And instead of being frustrated and bumbling through apache until it worked the way I wanted, I was able to configure nginx (for the first time!) in mere minutes. With nginx I was able to move on to the "get frustrated by Wordpress" phase of server setup much sooner!
Do you personally go for a gnostic type meditation? What's that like?

As for myself, I'm trying to sit one minute per year of age. The internet told me this would be enough.
Safe to assume it is a faithful emulation.

edit: Because that's the expectation of the scene in which this video has made waves.
As far as I know, crunchbase doesn't provide a spreasheet where you can quickly look, filter, group companies and startups.
none of the JavaScript ones even work in Node.js, I'd probably consider

console.log('Hello, world!');

to be the closest to universal one.
That's an interesting story.

As a counterpoint, since we're all just dealing in anecdotes here, I had a non-empty answer to the "Discipline Question"; I was suspended for "hacking", albeit after voluntarily telling my principal about it.

I disclosed it on my applications, while my high school did not. I was still accepted to MIT and Stanford. I later learned that MIT actually called my high school to get clarification on it, so I know it was seen at least by them.

I was also a finalist for an NSA scholarship program (flown out to the Maryland "friendship annex" for interviewing) despite having disclosed it.

So, I dunno what my point is. Maybe these things depend on who reads your application or what, but it's not an automatic dealbreaker, and I do encourage people to be honest.
Just tell us, rather than try to look smart. It's not helpful.
Kevin Mitnick seems to be doing well with http://mitnicksecurity.com. Granted his celebrity hacker status may contribute to that success, but it goes to show that a Felony conviction is by no means an impenetrable barrier to creating a consultancy or working for one.
this is not true. its discretionary but only in the case of drug traffickers is it strictly forbidden.