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If I ever got the freedom line, the first thing I would do is sell my house in the Baltimore/DC metro area and move to the middle of nowhere.

Different strokes for different folks though.
Still building the "feature comparison" feature but we have the "why use it" pretty much sorted, example: http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-search-engine-for-we...
People with convictions have become lawyers. I personally know of one who was a successful lawyer and then tried his hand at cocaine smuggling. Got caught in a sting, served time. Lost his license. Came back and went down a hard road to get licensed again, but he did it.

You can pull it off.
Warn your users when their network goes down (good UX)
why is there so much pseudo-cultural baggage? seems a signifier that this enterprise has nothing to do with what it portends. people who are into this sub-culture need to check themselves.
If you are looking for employment with a company, you will face difficulties (as you describe in your post).

Is self-employment an option for you? The web is one of the most democratic professions. Produce something people want to use and they (mostly) won't care about your background. In fact you can see it here on Hacker News. People post personal or professional projects, few people care about the academic qualifications or otherwise of the posters.

You seem conscientious and determined, so don't lose those qualities. Whatever you decide, good luck :-)
I tend to agree. I thought the whole point of gender equality was to be blind, so to speak, of gender?

If you have to specifically hire female people, it says their quality is lower (otherwise you would just always hire the best person female or male), which is not something I am sure I can support. Women are just as capable of being the best. It seems like an insult to give anyone special treatment just because of gender. Isn't that what we are trying to stop?
I find it's a lot easier to get through longer articles if I print them and don't try to read them on-screen. Something about reading from a physical piece of paper really makes it easier to focus. You can't ALT-TAB to another application. No alert popups from your chat client. You can underline, make notes in the margin, etc. which also helps.
His last sentence about ZFS is impossible to parse. Why aren't they using it?

"I’d love to see this in use, but, after having had excellent experiences with it on Linux for a couple of years, I’m a ZFS fanboy at this point; and, I don’t know how well it’s supported on SUSE, which is the distribution git.kde.org is running (although I’ve run it on Gentoo, Debian, and Ubuntu without any problems)."
That sounds like something from Atlas Shrugged. Amazing it actually happened!
PHP ones are wrong. Hello world in PHP is this:

Hello world!
Some products are being tested. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/1
I'm not a zen master or yogi, but I can promise you that if you try to measure the results of meditation (Am I feeling better yet? How about now?) you'll wind up chasing your own tail and giving up. Anyone promising wonderful results through meditation is very likely selling you something.

The effects of meditation are best compared to those of sleep. A good night's sleep doesn't make up for lousy sleeping habits the rest of the week. But getting enough sleep _regularly_ is key to being healthy, happy, and productive.

Ditto meditation. Trying it once in a while is likely as waste of time. But practicing it regularly (and getting better at it, which you will, with practice) can have positive effects, over time.

As an aside - Zen takes a good deal of commitment, but it's the least 'bullshity' of all the approaches to meditation/mindfulness I've encountered. Eight Gates of Zen is a great intro: http://www.mro.org/zmm/training/eightgates.php
I just spent a lot of time looking at the various examples on zaach.github.com. I actually started to write a blog article on it but never finished. Maybe I'll finish it.
I was thinking the same thing. I've done "formal" meditation, and since I've been doing Yoga, I find that it serves the same basic purpose. Plus, there's something both liberating and enhancing about using the physical challenge to focus the mind (and the mind to deal with the physical challenge).
You're missing the point. The current optimized-for-normal-javascript Chrome takes a 6x hit on asm.js code, compared to odinmonkey. That's kind-of crappy but it's not a killer, and it could get asmjs support (maybe, who knows). The fear I was talking about was browsers which are already much slower than Chrome , and have no chance in hell of ever getting asmjs support, hence the mention of IE6.
I live in Helena, MT (let's say 60k pop). I met a local piano tuner a few months back who had started a program where he would place unwanted pianos in local businesses and maintain them for free. He said the local market just isn't buying pianos anymore and he has a couple dozen sitting in storage. Rather than throw them out, which he is a real, tragic possibility, he gives them away.

I just opened a coworking space in town (grand opening was Friday!) and I'm going to try and get one of these pianos in there.
I wonder if the author realizes what a waste it is to drive a big car (let alone a fire truck) to the grocery store.

We all love nature. We go out of our way to live in a place where it is more spectacular. And yet we do our best to shit on it with the damn gas guzzlers. Because, you know, it's fun!
Great story. Makes me wonder how Nabokov, a literary critic himself and also pseudonym user ("Vladimir Sirin") to hide from critics[1], would feel about Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. Many content creators regard critics with disdain, until it comes to valuing their own time!

And Nabokov is at least partially right[2] about not needing context if the literature is good. You can pick up Lolita, open to any page and begin reading and I guarantee a smile will flash across your face within three pages.

~~~

[1] Nabokov: "Occasionally I used the little silk mask of an additional pen name in order to deceive this or that captious critic—with most gratifying results ("At last a great writer!" cried my favorite Zoilus in 1939)."

[2] There are huge bodies of work that, if you have context, you will get a LOT more out of, especially older works. Just as TV shows like Family Guy are a series of culturally-dependent in-jokes, so was a lot of the humor in Shakespeare, Chaucer, etc. And reading Li Bai and Du Fu's poetry is not the same unless you know the details of the An Lushan Rebellion they lived through, which had one of the highest death tolls (5.5%–15.3% of entire world population) of any event in history.
This is completely immature and un-professional. I want one.
Just below this post is "Tips for Gamifying Your Mobile App".
If you are using ruby, upsert woks well : https://github.com/seamusabshere/upsert
I start my day with meditation - It helps clarify the day for me. I started initially with 1 min of mediation then gradually increased it to 5mins.

I usually set the timer for 5 mins and once it goes off - it's a different me.
How Food Porn is Made
I always thought the teleprompter was already run by lobbyists?
That is not enough to solve the general case due to locking considerations.

If we have one transaction running delete and then insert concurrently with one transaction doing a normal update then the update will find zero rows to update if it is ran after the delete+insert. The inserted row will be invisible to the update while the old row will be locked. This means the update will wait until the other transaction is committed and then find neither the old nor the new row.

A correct REPLACE implementation would make sure the UPDATE would UPDATE the replaced row.

The above is assuming READ COMMITTED isolation level.
Interestingly enough, I think this is the first time I see this word used in English, though in Russian it is pretty common (unsurprisingly, used in the same context). In fact, Google has 10 times more results for Russian one than for the English one.
Mesmerizing animated GIF is what the Internet looks like
Not sure whether you mean the debug mode or the Game Genie code here, but both of these would be considered off-limits to most TASes. The former because it involves starting with a password (equivalent to starting from a save game, if I understand correctly?), and the latter because GG codes modify the game you're playing.
Just in case my title gets de-editorialized. I submitted this as 'Fraud: Millionaire using Kickstarter "girl controversy" to raise money.' (did have to edit out some typos on my part) The kickstarter isn't raising money for camp (as you might guess), but for single rich individual.

I am all for more funding to support young girls in computing. I would just like to see it applied to those that would not receive such benefits without additional help.

I am not for "shaming" in general, but I feel exposure is the only way to try to set this right. And this is ongoing, Susan Wilson has not withdrawn the Kickstarter which has collected over $22,000 to send a rich girl to summer camp.
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The high current needed for fast charging requires thick connector wires and produces a lot of heat in the battery, and also in other components of the power circuitry. The heat is the limiting factor in the charging speed for phones.
Pretty good article and I'm looking forward to watching your course on pluralsight. My wifes' friend works as an IT recruiter and we discussed in depth what myself as a developer looks for in recruiters (mixed interests - recruiters favoring employers over hires, basic knowledge regarding the spec the candidate is being interviewed for etc.). After our discussion, she subscribed to pluralsight so she could gain introductory knowledge on some technologies when she is looking for candidates - even though she is not a developer, such knowledge is invaluable (ex. knowing a sharepoint developer requires asp.net experience, or just some basics on JQuery/Scrum/Kanban etc.).

I've only been an interviewer a couple of times for dev positions, but I tend to look at attitude, passion for the job/industry (incl. self improvement regarding practice and learning via books/training courses), participation in communities/projects and freelancing experience aspects. If someone can get regular freelancing gigs that pay money, then it's a good bet that the developer is able to earn his keep and is pretty self-sufficient.
Rosetta Code has Hello World in only 245 programming languages (but a huge corpus of other examples in various languages).
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world
dup post?
There's been the same title posted recently (from a different site), that might be the reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5432157
Ask HN: Why HN RSS Feed has no date?
I was parsing HackerNews rss feed and I cannot find anywhere in the feed published or updated dates, timestamps or whatever similar. Does anyone know why?
> horribly uninteresting

That's your opinion. And apparently the community doesn't agree with you.
That's a pretty broad statement to make... You are assuming that out there only "your app" exists.

Actually, many times "your app" is somebody else's app that you bought or an app that somebody else develops and you don't have any control over it. Sometimes those apps are just bad (well, most enterprise apps are) and your only hope is that the infrastructure that you do happen to control doesn't make it worse.

I've never used nginx, so I don't know if the parent has a point or not. However, having a reverse proxy retrying _any_ requests to backends by default seems very bad form to me. Do you want your routers resending packets? It's the same thing.
We did this http://wplives.org/ral.html with our kids, yes they let you actually drive the locomotive around, it was freakin' awesome!
There are techniques out there for running TAS input files against real hardware for most of the common platforms. Some of the TASes on tasvideos.org are specifically flagged as "console verified" [1], indicating that someone's confirmed that they don't depend on emulator quirks.

[1]: http://tasvideos.org/ConsoleVerifiedMovies.html
Your freedoms don't extend to your employment (never has). Regarding your employment you've willfully signed away most of those rights (freedom of expression etc) when you signed your contract.
Yup, people often miss that PHP is modal and that the default mode is simply to output. So if you put Hello World in a file it actually compiles to these opcodes:

ECHO 'Hello+World%0A'
RETURN 1

Which is identical to the opcodes produced by putting <?php
echo "Hello World"; ?> into a file.
I'll bet the details took a lot of work but conceptually it isn't hard to understand at all. There is a bug which causes the game to jump into a bad address. The goal then becomes to manipulate the game so that this bad address happens to contain valid code, then trigger the bug.

You don't really need to know how RAM works to understand that. How assembly programming or Von Neumann architecture works perhaps. Or basic knowledge of buffer overflows and similar concepts.
Show HN: a simple and free JavaScript Error logger
>it uses far less memory

One of the main selling points for me. Especially for personal projects, I can go with a more affordable vps plan by using nginx instead of apache.
Yeah, you have to eat more quantity-wise (but really, not that much more). Personally, I love eating, so I don't complain about it :) Eating many times during the day is healthier for your body anyways.

I make a vegan sandwich with 30g of protein and about 700 calories. Add a protein shake and a side of chickpeas and you're pushing 90g. It's shockingly easy (and healthy) to load up on vegan calories if that's your goal!
If Kickstarter doesn't stop this sort of thing, it will soon be overrun with this sort of thing. I'm not necessarily against soliciting charity for those who may not deserve it (after all that would mean I'm against most non-profits in the USA), and there may be a sustainable business model for it somewhere else, but if this becomes "a thing" it will detract from the point of Kickstarter.
Would make a good movie title (We Bought a Zoo)
Maker Of 3-D Printer Guns Now Has Federal Firearms License
Yep feature comparisons, benchmarks even if never perfect,.. and.. what this cruft is for, are, well, useful.

But yep also, this nginx page is a testimonial page. Testimonial pages bring very little value as it's 100% subjective, and usually just "fanboy" content. And the 2nd half of your post is equivalent.

Personally I find Apache easier to configure, and with mpm-event its as fast as nginx (albeit both are fine httpds, and nginx has cleaner code). I could also compare both to text editors.

But none of this brings valuable info to me. It's way too subjective, and you know how people get touchy feely -and extremely subjective- when it's about favorite brand/software/company/validation-that-what-they-use-is-the-current-cool-thing
If this was meant to demystify something, then I completely missed it. Since I'm new to PostgreSQL, I was hoping to get a birds eye view from someone that knows his stuff, but what I got was keyword clouds. Could that be anything else but mystifying?
It'll be slightly offset by the fact that it has a diesel engine. Not enough to make it equivalent to car, but it's something...
Kickscraper - A ruby gem for the Kickstarter API
Wow. The people hyping whole brain emulation should take note.
Michael Dell Could Lose Vote, CEO Job in Rival Dell Buyout Bid
It's sort of a grass-is-greener thing to me. I'd be the last one to suggest that the American approach to jaywalking ('just do it') is a good idea. Especially in NYC, ugh.
> do firetrucks really need to be that huge?

How many thousands of gallons of water can a Prius hold? =)
If you can't see my point and want me to elaborate, ask like a normal civilized person and I might.
Conversation already running here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427771

and here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5425235

and probably elsewhere as well.
The rationing and price controls wouldn't have been needed if we hadn't been in such a hole at the start of the war. We did produce, but our national production in 1947 was actually 17% higher than in 1941. That is a pretty sad considering the amount of government war spending.
A better analogy would be a guy taking a taxi 26.2 miles and you coming along and saying, "I hate it when people move a marathon distance by any mode except running" for no discernable reason.
Strong argument for a 'maximum' cap on kickstarter funding.
So is your problem that the money is going towards a training course, or is your problem that she could have raised the money some other way?

Where is the fraud, by the way? What is she lying about? Are the people who are choosing to give their money to this being totally fooled and they think their money will be spent on something completely different?
I think the onus is on you and those who agree with you to discard all this "intuitively" and other hand-wavy stuff and come up with some hard evidence and/or citations, or back down and say, "we're making this shit up because it suits our biases."

I wasn't born yesterday. If someone makes a claim without a shred of evidence, it's perfectly legitimate to say, "Well, here's another alternate explanation that's just as unproven, so clearly yours has nothing special going for it." I gave you a Flying Spaghetti Monster, and you're telling me that intuitively, God has a long white beard, not a saucer.

I'm perfectly ok with your saying that you choose to believe something without a shred of evidence, to take it as faith.

But that won't change the fact that simply making shit up, asking if it's "wrong," and then saying that you'll stick to it unless someone else proves your unsubstantiated prejudices are mistaken is bunkum.

That thinking isn't thinking.
I love it.

Brit-nigger in denial on God.

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The questions some one needs to ask is how old was the OP when he was convicted (where they a minor) and does the USA have an equivalent to the rehabilitation of offenders act?
What are these conservative bonds that return 5%?
I've always wondered: why aren't there more diesel cars in the US?
The best way I've found to describe meditation is of giving yourself an opportunity to have no agenda; for 20 minutes a day you ignore the impulse to process every thought, memory, emotion or to plan or worry and just let it be. It's extremely liberating when you first experience the sense of control that comes with being able to let go, and you realize you've been spinning your mental wheels pretty much non-stop with no awareness. It's challenging at first - it's uncomfortable and anxiety provoking - and the benefits don't come for a few months, but I have noticed a marked improvement in my ability to regulate my mood and state of mind as I'm way more aware of the train of thoughts going through my head. Start with just 2 minutes per day and work up to 20 from there - it's worth it.
I hope you don't let this stop you from making your game anyway. Even though Fight Code may have beaten you to it, your game would still be impressive to potential employers.
Stack Overflow is Copied for Spam Bait site
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The second site HowsInfo is copying Stack Overflow and then link baiting with black Hat SEO to all kinds of SPAM sites. If anyone is good at punishing bad actors, these guys are a good candidate.
I think this Kickatarter says more about Susan Wilson than it does about Kickstarter.
Isn't $3600 kinda ridiculously inexpensive given that a Civic costs over $15k? What's the insurance and mileage on that thing like?
That's pretty cool, as a toy. Too bad he doesn't seem to have any use for it in that capacity.

Don't know if I can agree with him driving it on routine trips around town. Not only because of the extra gas consumption and CO2, but it also takes up a lot more room on the road, and it's a lot slower on acceleration wasting everyone's time behind him. When someone has a purpose for having a huge truck on the road you tolerate it, but if I found out I was stuck behind a slow firetruck because some guy wanted to tickle his own fancy I'd be less tolerant.

Yea, practicality isn't the end all of life, but don't be a dick.

Edit: Just wanted to add, it also puts a lot more wear on the roads especially during spring when the ground frost is melting. You might be within the law to drive it around, but your County Road Commission will not be pleased.
I used to do 10mins of meditation a day when i got my internship. I used to look forward to it everyday and remember that time of my life as really great. Things were going well.

At some point, for some reason i stopped.

Recently I made a new friend who i've now known for about 6 months. He told me a little bit about his past, and a particular part of his life where he started doing visualising exercises each day and made around $80k in about 4 months or so. He's now a successful financial consultant. True story.

He had been reading "The Master Key System" by Charles F Hannel that prompted him to visualise each day.

I just started reading it recently, and try to meditate a few times a week. Nothing to report as yet.
If you deliberately conceal a criminal conviction from an employer who asks, that employer is more than "not referenceable"; they're a company who has fired you for cause. Among other things, they are now another thing you'll have to either disclose or try to conceal from future employers, many of whom will ask whether/from-where you've been fired for cause.

In extreme cases, making fraudulent bogus disclosures to employers can be actionable, if for instance your criminal status comes up on a background check for your employer's clients or business partners and damages the relationship.

Deliberately lying about this issue seems like an extremely dumb strategy.
I submitted it in good faith.

I didn't see it and I didn't try to alter URLs. And I don't want or need the Karma. I don't think it is getting enough attention, so I am trying to help.

Now that I have checked. The others submissions really didn't point out the kickstarter wasn't benefitting anyone but one rich girl. $20,000 for many girls would be a good cause, but this is very much not.
Average once a day, shooting for twice.
Grew up in disciplined martial arts.
Easy trick to get started is count from 100 to 0 then back to 100, if you screw up, start over. Your goal is to go 100-0-100 without getting distracted or messing up the counting. This will discipline your mind to focus on "nothing"– your eventual goal is to be able to think of nothing hear nothing feel nothing. Someday you'll just stop counting and you'll be thinking of nothing. I can't speak to what its good for if anything but I still do it. Good luck!