skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to get dragged in an argument about what atheism is, but the commonly accepted definition is that it is nothing more or less than the belief that no god exists.

The big bang has exactly nothing to do with atheism (why bring it up at all ? it's just a science topic) and "believing that a god exists but deciding, like an atheist, not to follow any rules" is not being an atheist. It is being a believer in some god (so, a theist) as well as an anarchist.

ALL your examples were people that are very clearly not atheists, since all of these examples involved believing in one god. They are only various examples of monotheist practices.

There can not be branches of atheism - and I know I'm exposing myself to a misguided answer making reference to the no true Scotsman fallacy, but it would be wrong. The very etymology of "atheism" leaves no place to branches: if you believe that a god exists, good, even if you think there is only one this still leaves many ways to believe in it... however, if you believe that no god exists, which is what atheism is, there is only one way for something not to exist at all.

There is a fundamental difference between believing something exists and believing something does not exist. Believing that it does not exist is a very simple belief, with no possible nuances while believing in the existence of something does leave place to interpretation.
Don't give in to pressure. Double-check the facts, because they might be pressuring you so that you miss something. Make sure that they value you.

If they're legitimately what you're looking for, though, it may just be inexperience on their CEO's part. The pressure may just be incidental.

Having answered none of your concerns, I wish you the best of luck.
And, in music video form

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
Aspergers here. Great read. My dad had it really bad. It's amazing in retrospect how much everyone adapted their lives around my dad to compensate for his abhorrent behaviors. Not one person said: "Maybe he's got some kind of psychological disorder". That was the hardest part growing up in my household. The not-talking about it.
> I'm _I_ collecting the money when a third party (or automated process) deposits it on my bank account?

Yes. You don't have to physically touch it to own it. There is a concept of "clearing", once the money clears it's yours. The dispute is if it's enough to avoid clearing payments, or if you should avoid taking any orders altogether.

> It would be the equivalent of delegating that responsibility to a non-jew. I don't know how would that be ruled, but I remember reading that it's allowed to let non-jew servants perform tasks on the sabbath, though I have no idea if it's accepted by the Hasidics.

The rule there is not in dispute, Hasidics are the same as any other observant Jews.

The rule is you can not pay a non-Jews to work specifically on Sabbath. However you can pay him to work, and let him decide when to do it, as long as you give enough time to complete the work not on the Sabbath, if he decides to work on the Sabbath that's none of your concern, he's not Jewish as is not required to keep the Sabbath. You can also pay by the week and then the payment is not for the Sabbath.

Incidentally a slave (even a non-Jewish slave) is not allowed to work for you on Sabbath, also animals are not allowed to work for you. Computers however are not alive - automatic processes are unquestionably permitted. AI (if it's possible, which I don't think it is) will be very interesting.
Oh my, this is the most awesome guide to growth hacking I have ever seen. Regardless if you like the term "growth hacking" or not one thing runs true the techniques are awesome.

One criticism I have heard a lot about growth hacking is that the techniques/hacks are often temporary exploitations that only work for a short time. While this is true, all these tactics can iterated and adapted as time passes.
> It could also be distance or lack of time or avoiding creepers or having more fun things to do or not knowing about the event in the first place or some hidden factor we didn't think of. The point is that there's a filter and its effects aren't necessarily known to us, so it's hard to deduce what's wrong when some people don't show up.

Except for the creepers issue (which only can be solved by bringing it up to the organizers), thats on the fault of the attendee. You can't make connections if you're not there. Don't blame the organizers for that.
It's not really a circumvention, but I'd call it a hack indeed (i.e. an ingenious solution[1]). It works by modifying the subject of the law. I.e. Jewish law forbids carrying objects between public and private domain on Shabbos. What is considered private and public domain has quite clear definitions. So using that method (of connecting areas with some wires or ropes) one changes the status of the area in light of the law from public to private domain. I.e. the law applies all the same, but its subject is different, so carrying becomes permitted.

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html
Do you ask to see the resumes of candidates?
It looks great!

I haven't inspected how you did it but I guess it shouldn't be hard to apply it to other GNU manuals also, as all are very similar in the sense that they all are produced using the same tools.

Another idea: local search function similar to Sphinx's would be really nice.
"Autism" is a 'spectrum disorder' so at the low end you have Asperger's which does not involve linguistic or cognitive development. Unfortunately, at the other end you get significant impairments in social communication and interaction across multiple contexts as well as significant cognitive impairments.

Much confusion stems from the sliding scale definition as it can be difficult to separate (no vs mild), (mild vs moderate) , or (moderate vs significant) impairment.
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Yep, except think magnitudes bigger & faster. Right now, we're applying this to visual graph analytics problems in a few key industries. If you do infoviz, email us and I'm happy to share more!
So clearly you belong to the branch that just ignores the topic of where existence comes from.

I define God very simply: That which created existence.

You can not just disbelieve in existence, so you have to clarify what kind of atheist you are.

You are probably using a definition of God as: An intelligence that created existence.
Ask HN: Non-tech co-founder paying for tech co-founder's living expenses?
How frequently does this happen? Anyone have first-hand experience? If so, any specifics on how it worked out, equity splits, dollar amounts, and timelines would be appreciated.

Personally I think this arrangement makes sense because for the first 3-12 months most of the work is in building the product. The best thing a non-technical co-founder could do is pay for everything, including the living expenses of the technical co-founder.
Looks like it's the (Brazilian) Embraer A-29 Super Tocano:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano
They both are equally difficult to get work on with many of the same issues as you stated on Freelancer. Strictly looking at interface I really like oDesk. There's a thread on Hacker News where you can post out what you can do/see what others are looking for. I would suggest that.
At the start of the project, the Germans were still advancing through the Soviet Union, and the Solomon Islands were still actively contested. U-Boats were doing a number on convoys.

Victory over Germany wasn't a sure thing until late 1944. The fact that U.S. leadership had the foresight to make a massive investment in the Manhattan Project at a time where half of the US Navy's carriers were out of action speaks a lot of them.
Yes, it changed the way I view the world.

Sometime during my teenage years, I started not caring about the world around me, and just tried to improving myself. Think faster, go faster, multitask, get things done.
Although improving these abilities are cool, they focused my life on getting more money, getting promoted. Not really focusing on what really matters: being a better person, being happy, enjoying life.

Meditation changed my view. I try to spend more time with family. When I take out the trash I enjoy the path I am walking on, the stars in the skies, the wind.

All this sounds a bit "hippie", but I am more happy now than I was before.

I highly recommend meditation to anyone. I am meditation using the iphone/android app "headspace". It is really helpful for anyone that is beginning with meditation. It guides you through all the process.
From Minneapolis to ISIS: An American’s Path to Jihad
>>I sometimes ask candidates what the letters "MVC" stand for. The successful response rate is around 50/50. I ask candidates to briefly explain the advantages of the Model View Controller pattern,

It's good you don't ask for a definition. Even the inventor of MVC thinks it's rarely been applied as intended [1] (see forward by Trygve Reenskaug).

[1] http://downloads.nakedobjects.net/resources/Pawson%20thesis....
Everything in this article is true.

I work for Syapse (http://www.syapse.com), and we are trying to do something about this problem. As a startup, we have a laser focus - we are building systems that help practicing doctors, mainly oncologists, take advantage of genomic data. We focus on improving UI, workflows, alerts, access to up-to-date knowledge and yes, data entry.

If you are interested in this field, please consider applying for one of the open positions. We are looking for server engineers, data systems engineers, UI engineers, DevOps, etc. We are located in downtown Palo Alto, CA.
What were his abhorrent behaviors?
Frustratingly, only when we do the client-only demos on our macbooks (iris). Our 'real' version is AWS or dedicated nvidia boxes, where we don't get it. OTOH, this sort of thing makes me excited that we can expect significant HW-driven speedups for our approach for years to come.
The Hail Mary and, by extension, the Rosary, are often considered "meditative prayer" because the Hail Mary is so short that its recitation becomes muscle memory after only a short while.
True, but this is true regardless of loyalty cards. I'm not sure what info they can get from a credit card alone, but I'm hoping it doesn't include email address, phone number, or physical address.
> why can the government execute Apollo and Manhattan projects, but botches such simple projects as the Bradley APC carrier?

Because they were different governments. Yes, they were both labeled "US government", but the brand has changed a lot.
Music labels are reportedly pressuring Spotify to limit free streaming
Votes? Really?
Unwavering compassion and rehabilitation. The way their existence unfolded meant they had no choice but to commit a crime. All the systems around them shaped them into doing that as much as they shaped me into the person typing this message. Design rehabilitation programs accordingly, there should be no trace of 'punishment'.

(Of course it would be nice if crime never happened in the first place but that would require a major reorganization of society, probably comes with the AI overhaul. Also, if laws exist to regulate society they should be designed with that instead of moral values and regularly tested/verified to ensure they are working properly.)

Edit: And there are those who think free will and determinism can coexist [1]. I haven't looked into those ideas yet, still trying to work it out myself.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
Constitutional democracies exist for this reason. But typically when people talk about "majority violating rights of minority", people generally mean "mass of people taking away everything from the rich".

Look, even America, as a constitutional republic, took the rights away from millions of blacks for a long time. The Constitution at its inception did not save them.

I really believe the rich have scared people about democracy, because really democracy scares them. Don't let it scare you.
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Agreed on this.

An Expand All/Collapse All button would also be nice (but not instead of expanding by default-- the whole reason I'd be reading those documents is to read the stuff in the collapsed sections).
Its garbage because its written by big companies with slick salesforces like oracle, etc. The design/UX is an afterthought; the main thrust of these companies is suits closing the big deal. The interfaces built by these companies are almost never designed by anyone with taste, done in java, and look like your typical j2ee architecture with circa 2006 web interface sensibilities.
I think the best approach would be options for different people to choose.

Think you can pass a hardcore whiteboard interview? Go for it.

Would you rather spend a day and solve a real problem we have? Lets see what you got.

Think you have the attitude, just not the knowledge to match our exceptions yet? Do you have time for an internship? Ok cool. Lets play.

One size fits all is a bad idea for interviews. Just as how teachers test their students.
Thank you! That really means a lot to me, I don't get to discuss these ideas often.
I agree that goroutines have their advantages, but I think you're missing an important point about the theory.

Functional programming and async I/O in single-threaded languages are closely connected. Functional programming has no built-in notion of time; conceptually, the time a pure function takes to run must not have any effect on correctness, or replacing a function call with its value would have side-effects. To allow time to pass in a way that matters for correctness, you need callbacks, and monadic types are a form of callback-based programming. In a single-threaded program, the goal is for functions to execute as quickly as possible so that the user doesn't notice pauses, so the solutions end up being similar.

So these are not implementation tricks; they're fundamental to the theory of how programs execute. Erlang is built on callbacks as well since each event results in another function call.

Goroutines and blocking function calls are fundamentally different. Blocking function calls need to return at the right time or it's a bug.
G K Chesterton was also a convert (edit: to Catholicism) and extremely prolific writer, be sure to check out his work if you haven't had a chance yet. I re-read Manalive every year or so.
Coupon Code : ForScience
This is what killed the 7 children in Brooklyn yesterday
To just expand on some of the comments below, here is the relevant section from the DSM-V: http://docdroid.net/v7s2
Lame, red flag, tell them to stuff it.
I'm not so sure it's actually irrelevant, however it had been two or three months since I submitted a site that I'm working on, and it hasn't been added yet.
How do electric circuits correspond with commandments made in the BCs?
> weight lifting

I don't know too much about Crossfit but the impression I've always had is that it's the polar opposite of careful, mindful, "correct" lifting.
Except for this model to work, you need to enforce DRM, otherwise competitors will sell that product for much less. I think quite few people do have a problem with the DRM:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7986327/keurigs-attempt-to-...

http://mashable.com/2015/02/07/keurig-2-0-bad-taste/

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/06/unsurprisingly-people-did...

https://www.gourmet-coffee.com/Keurig-DRM-Freedom-Clip.html
$ links https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html
Link: [start: Top]
Link: [index: Concept Index]
Link: [contents: Table of Contents]
Link: [up: (dir)]

The GNU C Library

Short Table of Contents

* [1 Introduction]
* [2 Error Reporting]
* [3 Virtual Memory Allocation And Paging]
* [4 Character Handling]
* [5 String and Array Utilities]
* [6 Character Set Handling]
* [7 Locales and Internationalization]
* [8 Message Translation]
* [9 Searching and Sorting]
* [10 Pattern Matching]
^C
$ links http://elmerland.com/gnu_manual.html
The GNU C Library

[About] [By: Elmer Landaverde]

Edit: Added [] to show selectable links (note that [] are not actually displayed in links' output)
Agreed that the expandable sections feel a little unusual for this type of documentation. They're great for drilling down to particular information, but not so much for skimming or reading straight through.

I might even suggest putting the sub-section navigation in the sidebar a la readthedocs.
I had a friend who was a video game designer for iMagic back in the early eighties. He told me that they all stood up when writing code, and that they listened to loud music so they could dance while they worked.

I working from home most of the time. Usually I take my shoes off when I'm at home, but starting just yesterday I speculated that I might be more productive if I left my shoes on when working. It does seem to make a positive difference.
Damn, I should have made Apples vs. Goats instead of Apples vs. Robots. (Yeah, shameless plug: http://applesvsrobots.com/)
Heh, aperture.science is a "premium domain". Damn!
Lessons Learned Building the Raspberry Pi Dramble
You are just trying to bend definitions to make them agree with what you're saying.

The common definition for "god", from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/god#Noun is "A supernatural, typically immortal being with superior powers".

The "supernatural", "being" and "superior powers" parts are very clear. If you can accept that a supernatural being with superior powers created existence, then you cannot be atheist.

If you believe that what you call "God", with a typically monotheist stance, is whatever created "existence" whatever that means, and whether or not it was a natural process or a supernatural being, then your personal definition of "God" is not the common one, and you should have given it earlier.

Also, I do not ignore the topic of where existence comes from (although that formulation sounds quite weird to me) but I leave it to science, and I am not an atheist either. I do have difficulty following the reasoning of occidental monotheists though, who seem to try very hard to spin their definition of a single "God" in order to claim that atheists are just believers like any other theist.
personally, I think the SVN question is a pretty good example of "can you talk intelligently about any aspect of any complex system you've ever worked with?". If a candidate can explain one, I'll recommend to hire them. The resume provides a good list of possible subjects to discuss, otherwise I just cast about randomly, try to chase threads in the conversation until I find something with some depth.
lost "for.science" for a split second :(
Your last sentence was heart-breaking. Whether or not the list applies to you - whatever you've gone through - and whether you are somewhere along that autistic spectrum - none of them define you on their own. You are not the sum of checkboxes on a list. You're a person who has survived a series of challenges. Keep surviving and keep being a person, not a count of checkboxes.
I don't quite understand a lot of the arguments in this post.

The one that got to me was about startups who are stuck in their own niche. Every coffee shop doesn't need to become a massive chain, it has its' own niche and probably makes the owner a tidy sum. Startups are the same. Sometimes a coffee chain will make it big but it is unlikely.
Same. I don't think any of the tests work properly.
There's some information, you need to know. In Argentina, people has no representation. You don't vote for a "district representative" as in the USA. Here people vote on a "party-list" called here "lista sabana" (http://babeldigital.com.ar/data/img_cont/img_imagenes/img_gr...)

The "lista sabana" is a large list of party-candidates (in 6pt font) headed by the "leader" or "caudillo" name (in 62pt font).

If the "caudillo" has a 40% approval rate, the first 40% of people on the 6pt-font list WILL enter the congress, so the firsts spots on the lists are literally SOLD beforehand, based on the "leader" popularity index. The spots can also be exchanged for "popular support" with labor union leaders (to herd people into political rallies).

So, here the "congressman" have no direct relation to the voters, they've only a direct dependency on the "leader". They do as they're told or else they will not be included in the list on the next elections.

There is no such thing as "constituents" in this system.

That's a reason why DemocracyOS and the "Net Party" are viable here. When representation is completely broken, direct-democracy sounds good.

Here's a quote from a document on Paraguayan system (the same system):

"But what if the elected representatives of the legislature were not voted in directly by the people? Would that discredit the authority of the legislative branch? The actual voting method in Paraguayan politics for a legislator to enter government is to lobby for their name to enter a “lista sabana,” a list of names on a sheet that represents the party candidates. The people then vote for that party list, rather than for the individual. Party leaders can then decide which positions to give to the party faithful. In this way the political class can make deals, play at back room politics to add their name to the list, exchange favors with voters and backers, and conduct business behind closed doors. The Congress can then vote to apportion more funds from the Treasury to fund their election campaigns, increase their salaries and benefits, and buy their votes with political largesse. The system reinforces the worst excesses of political cronyism, including links to crony capitalism. Ultimately it erodes the social trust between the governed and the governors and creates inefficiencies in a country’s economics. Attempts have been made to remove, or “unblock,” the “lista sabana” by allowing voters to choose individual candidates to the legislature, but so far these attempts have failed."
Using the Olympus E-M5 Mk II as a Film ‘scanner’
I totally agree, small amounts are great and I wouldn't have any of my ideas if I hadn't spent so much time learning and connecting random facts via the internet. It's hard for me to limit myself, though. Since I'm a software developer I'm always online, and brain-sucking vortexes are two absentminded clicks away at any given time. That's a big problem I'm trying to fix right now.
This is called an exploding offer. It's not really real.
OT, but what exactly does Palantir do?
Good luck! I hope you guys do well and deliver an awesome product :-)
On a semi-related note: Man Pages in HTML that do not look ugly:
http://linux.bar/man1/memusage.1.html
Short summary:

- Constraints give more clarity to the decisionmaking process
- Small problems are magnified—and easier to analyze
- The network is *never* reliable
- Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong
- Cheap/free servers free you to have fun and experiment
- Building hardware is fun
I really like seeing this. I also write PHP for my projects, and I know it's terrible. I have no delusions about this. I use mysql_query despite knowing it's deprecated and possibly insecure, and if I'm building something that doesn't store any sensitive data and the worst case scenario of someone finding an exploit is that I have to restore from a snapshot, I really just don't care. I focus on building the product quickly and efficiently. Let the programmers of the world thumb their noses at me, at least I'm building something of value for me instead of some company.
Registered a domain, filled out my name/address/phone/etc, then got told the domain was already registered.

Went back and searched for the domain again and it is now showing up as a "Premium Domain".