skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't claim a miraculous explanation; I only said I no longer think these cases are faked. I think "incorruptibles" are a fascinating phenomenon that I can't explain. I believe in miracles, and I think some incorruptibles might be miracles, but I don't really know. There might be other ways that the lifestyle we tend to call "holy" does something to retard decomposition.

However, I don't think your explanation is sufficient because decay usually begins immediately upon death due to the presence of organisms already in the body before death. Sealing the coffin would not prevent such decomposition.
What makes you think I don't have experience with it?

Yes Hasidim would say exactly the same thing. Perhaps with some pressure to increase learning. As long as he assured people that he performed the actions, they would only have a problem if he tried to "convert" as it were others.
There's nothing "iconoclastically freethinking" about espousing centuries-old, dehumanizing views accepted uncritically by a regional majority.
Based on your post, my concern is that you will stick out as a "sore thumb" insisting on using Arch Linux in a Windows shop. Basically, you are signaling to your employer and coworkers that you will be difficult to work with.

Please spend first 90 days building a good reputation and impression for yourself with your supervisor and coworkers and later use your reputation to drive any changes. By insisting on using Arch Linux, you will be wasting yours and others time in accommodating your preferences in recreating the workflow and tools that everyone else is used too.

You should focus on learning the tools and workflow used by your employer. You are no longer a freelancer who can chose their own tools and workflow, you are a cog in a machine now and learn how machine operates.

Your first priority should be to learn Windows and Development tools used by your coworkers. Find out what PHP framework and technology stack being used. And learning them is your next priority.
This is overblown.

The lisp is not "rendered", it is executed. Any language that can implement a recursive-descent parser/generator could be the basis for this -- it does not require lisp or lisp macros. Think about what a render would have to do, and you realize that the model of using embedded rewrite rules (macros) might be slightly more convenient, but not a really a distinct advantage over executing code which renders or outputs instructions to render later.

The problem is most definitely not that you have to output an intermediate language, the problem is that HTML/CSS sucks. It is originally designed around presenting static text documents, and the committees involved were not smart enough to figure out a way to depart from that over a decade ago when pixels became important to the web.
What's the benefit?

The headline, "Discover Healthcare. Boost Your Career." is way too vague to persuade.

This is off the cuff, but even something like "Find a Better Job in Healthcare" is a clearer benefit that's likelier to convert.

When it comes to your text, as others have mentioned, there's no need to reinvent the wheel. Steal from successful landing pages. Use Cialdini's principles, especially social proof.

Last, avoid saying wishy-washy things like "The plan is to be up and running Fall of 2015."
http://i.imgur.com/SLLsFfV.png

I think it should look something like this, it's a quick mock up, but I think it should be distraction free and with a clear path to the desired action.

Maybe a link to the multiple option test, but I think it's too distracting.

Please also note that I took the liberty to change some text, I don't particularly like how the first text reads, a little too long and complex, I'm a little too tired now but I could help you out.
Wow, SWAMP is great, nice find!
Was it the PyImageSearch book ? I have heard it's really good. Followed some of his tutorials, But haven't bought the book yet.
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I don't know the answer, but doesn't that have to come out in the valuation employees are given? Since there are huge tax penalties both to the employer and the employee for giving in-the-money options, you (in theory) must be given options with a strike set by a 409a evaluation. I think it's best practice to have an arms-length evaluation, since if your cfo sets it and the irs disagrees, see tax penalties. Is this not the state of the world?
The paper doesn't explain how this may have been accomplished. That would be a very interesting analysis. Since this was a primary, is it possible that the Republican party favored Romney as a candidate and thus modified vote counts to his favor? I'm curious how this would have logistically taken place.
Urbit --

Since we have you have you here, could you respond to the accusations of racist views that are being attributed to you? In particular, do you consider yourself to be "racist", and if so, what does this term mean to you?

I read your blog for years, and I never got that sense that you were advocating for personal or institutional discrimination against individuals on the basis of their race. Did I miss this point among all the others?
That's just weird. I strongly disagree with some of my favorite people.
>Mathematics describe rules of reasoning which preserve truths about the world.

I'd disagree even with this, and state something even weaker. Mathematics describes rules of reasoning. A sound mathemathical theory of the something in the real world is a (partial) correspondence between statements about the real world and mathematical statements, such that the mathematical manipulation of statements preserves correspondence to truths about the world, or produces statements that don't correspond to the world.

I think this distinction is important because it emphasizes that it is the scientists' responsibility to pick an appropriate mathemathical model.
In that Carlyle essay, he says these, among other things:

"Once we get this far, we are almost all the way to Carlyle on slavery. We have not agreed that a man can be born a slave, but we agree that he can sell himself into slavery. That is: he can sign a contract with a master in which the slave agrees unconditionally to obey and work for the master, and the master agrees unconditionally to protect and support the slave.

Moreover, this contract need not be a mere expression of sentiment. It can and should be enforced by the State, just as a loan is. If the slave changes his mind and runs away, the State will capture and return him, billing the master for the expense. Or at least, these are reasonable terms under which two parties might agree on the permanent relationship of master and slave."

"A person makes a good slave if he is loyal, patient, and not exceptionally bright or stubborn. But even great intelligence is not necessarily a bar to a good experience in slavery, as the experience of many Greek slave philosophers, such as Epictetus, shows. A slave must carry the unique burden of personal dependency and obedience, which we are all used to expressing only toward impersonal government agencies."

"Of course, like gay marriage (or ordinary marriage), slavery is not without its abuses. When we think of the word 'slavery,' we think of these abuses. Thus, by defining the word as intrinsically abusive, like marriages in which one party beats the other, we can conveniently define away all the instances of slavery (or, for that matter, marriage) in which the relationship is functional."

I mean, if those are not actually supporting slavery, it seems to be only because he takes care to voice a lot of pro-slavery rhetoric without actually crossing that line.
The company likely has a processes setup around the fact that everyone is running their dev environments the same way. Trying to do things differently without yet understanding their process will only complicate things.

For example, at my job everyone runs OS X, so build scripts, etc are all written with that assumption in mind.
I think it's really strange that you can not install linux or bring your own laptop. Maybe you should have second thoughts if you'd like to work at that place.

That said, I think you will be able to adjust if you want. Just use vim on Windows, or use sublime with vim keybindings. You can also use a VM fullscreen. Works fine, I've done it before.
I'm planning to move to a rural town in Rhode Island late next year, and I expect I will be traveling to Providence and even Boston for meetups, conferences, consulting jobs, etc. You're now living in the greater Boston metro area. Think big!
Thanks for sharing your article on this matter. It's very enlightening.
Explain who you are, and why people should enter their email address – what will you tell them now, and what will you tell them later? How will you use their email address to benefit them?

It's unclear whether this is for recruiters or for talent in the field, or both.

If it's for any of those, explain how your company will help them in terms that are meaningful to them.

Also, since I work for an analytics company, I would ask – why don't you have any analytics code loaded on your site? Even GA could provide some insights, maybe the people visiting aren't even your target audience. If you add analytics, you may also find some other insights about who your visitors are, and why they are bouncing.
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Bringing your own hardware is not allowed in the majority of places (not located in SV). Its a security matter. Running a VM is fine. That shows they are flexible. you might run into issues if their whole development environment is built around windows and windows tools. Be open to it.

PHP is a language like any other. it has good and bad parts. what might prove useful is to focus on learning the codebase.

Good luck!
Action vs desire ... interesting contrast with xtianity: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery. But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
Agree with you 100% and that is the point of my comment. Understand the tools, workflow and processes used by the employer first.
Oh, when you said "hard disk controller" I thought at first you meant the SATA bus master.
His view is almost coherent and makes me reflect on how I unconsciously polish the edges of my own ideas to make them fit. I can see him doing the kind of thing you or I or anyone sane might do to smooth out the rough spots in our belief systems, and seeing him do those apparently innocuous things with ideas that are obviously crazy encourages me to ask if I'm believing anything crazy myself. It has happened before.
Of course, tons. But there's also a lot of PHP out there that doesn't use frameworks. Knowing how things like sessions and headers and requests actually work is probably more immediately useful for PHP than other languages, for which there's likely one de facto framework that everyone uses by default.

In PHP-land you're just as likely to walk into a job where interns have been hacking crazy stuff into a Simple Machines forum for the last year as encounter something built on a framework. And of course, mixing javascript, css and php together with whatever happens to come out of a database query (which is encoded in who knows what) is not at all uncommon, so even frontend knowledge is helpful.
http://rabbisedley.blogspot.com/2012/08/richard-feynman-meet...
> it's not my decision, and there aren't many local jobs in my area, so I'm taking what I can, and that's work with PHP at the moment.

> I asked if I could install Arch Linux on bare metal but they said no. They said I have to use a VM. They also mentioned I can't bring my own hardware.

Beggars can't be choosers :(

Whether your Linux VM setup is acceptable will depend entirely on what the rest of the shop is used to. For example, if they develop on Windows desktops and deploy to Windows servers, you may need to use Windows scripts and test for Windows-specific corner cases, which would be difficult to do on a Linux VM. You may need to adjust all of your tools to use Windows line endings (CRLF). You may find that some of your tools don't work correctly on a vboxsf or samba filesystem. Be prepared to make compromises where necessary.

On the other hand, if they deploy to Linux servers, your knowledge of Linux and your VM might end up being a valuable asset for the shop.

In any case, don't say that you "can't use anything else". Of course you can. Learning to use a new OS or editor is not terribly different from learning a new language. If you can learn a new language, you can certainly learn to use Sublime Text or whatever.

Unwillingness to try a new tool just because it's outside of your comfort zone could reflect poorly on you, no matter how well justified you think your choices are. Your employer has shown flexibility by letting you run a VM. Try to show some flexibility in return.
> The last time she showed signs of non-conformist behaviour, her husband consulted the community leaders. They sent her to see a mental health specialist, who medicated her. ‘The mental illness card has been used often in cases like mine,’ she wrote. She has since seen another mental health specialist; he gave her a clean bill of health.

That is pretty brutal. "Mental health" was often used by opressive regimes to discredit and punish dissidents. In the Soviet Union they would do that to religious figures (Orthodox Christian priests and political dissidents). The card then was flipped. The religious figures were basically considered "mentally ill" for believing that God exists, and they would be subjected to heavy doses of medications in order to "snap them out of it" in hopes they would see the truth. Of course, the true underlying reason was to remove them from public life so they don't spread those ideas, and as a side-effect torture to punish them so others may learn their lesson from it..
I don't lean libertarian because I think I'm John Galt and want to "stop the motor of the world". I lean libertarian because I want to have access that motor at all.

I want to stand on the shoulders of giants, not ask giants for permission and I don't care at all if the system that allows for this is called "marxist", "capitalist" or any other "ist" you might dream up.
I stuck out at my job using Emacs with C# and did just fine. A lot of experienced developers have their favorite dev environment. I've never seen it used against them.

I spent my own time, i.e. lunch breaks, adopting the company workflows to my dev environment.
Not only that, being so adamant about using Arch Linux would make you look ignorant/partisan. Now don't get me wrong, I'm more likely that most to make a stink about not being able to use Linux on the job, but you can still get most of the important tools on a Windows box: Unix utilities (cygwin), nice tabbed terminal (Console2), GVim, Emacs, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. One tool I lean on heavily is the Silver Searcher (granted, you could could install Perl/App::Ack) and I was able to even quickly find a Windows port of that just now: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/the-silver-searcher-for...

Given the availability of most of the good stuff on Windows, I don't think my workflow would change very much if I were forced onto a Windows box right now, apart from the occasional bummer about some bleeding edge software being unported or some library assuming Mac/Linux. Indeed, it was being forced to work on a Windows machine for a couple years that made me switch from TextMate to Vim (it made sense to become proficient with a single cross-platform editor).
To be fair, the DOM is that abstraction layer already. It just performs horribly.
> Many people enjoy gambling knowing fully that the expected value of the process is negative... your entire argument against it falls apart unless you are willing to take it to its full conclusion and blast every entertainment industry in existence.

There are other forms of entertainment out there which people spend money on, yes. Some of them are quite ridiculous. Most of them don't have a business model centered around honing variable-reward reinforcement strategies to addict people and keep them hungry for more. (The fact that people enjoy engaging in it despite knowing that the expected value is negative is in fact the point I was making about malicious third-party brain-hacking.)

And yeah, by and large people get to decide what they want for themselves, even if it's self-destructive, because it's a free country, and we're substantially better off as a whole as a consequence of that freedom. And some of them choose gambling, so bully for them. That doesn't mean I have to like Harrah's or afford them any more respect and affection than I afford to Phillip Morris.
Never is a rather bold word choice, especially as I know of a few examples that disprove it.
I think the argument is being made to users of entirely different environments, like monolithic software in Windows or mouse-controlled GUI applications on OS X. You could replace Linux with BSD, the GNU toolset, or the general concept of the command-line interface, and the image would still be making the same point.
Sad that the political power of the Hasidic community is able to result in the justice/medical system being abused like this. While people are rightly wary of other tight knit religious communities, I think that abuses like this in the Hasidic community go unchecked because it's politically unacceptable for police and politicians to criticize the Hasidic community.
This seems to me to go a long way toward explaining why dissimilar metals make the best bearing interfaces, i.e. the atomic lattices don't match up.
Boy oh boy did Rowan and his crew ever stick it to the hedgies. That's an amazing tale. If they get away with it this will be a truly legendary outcome in the financial world. Of course, as interesting as it might be to watch these masters of the universe playing their games and trying to screw each other, it's worth remembering all the folks at the other end of the pyramid they're perched on.
Clarification (at least from a USA perspective): Interviewers are not generally banned from asking about your political affiliation. In many states, there are protections against discrimination based upon political leanings, but they are not implemented across the board nationally.*

As a good rule of thumb: if you really want the job, do not volunteer potential employers anything about yourself that you don't think would help you get hired. They aren't cops or courts; depending on how laws are crafted state-to-state, they are legally allowed to consider some categories of information that they aren't legally allowed to ask you outright if you volunteer it.

*There are protections in place for the bureaucracy itself, but they were implemented for practical reasons early in the country's history when it was observed that a party change leading to a clean sweep of the federal government right down to the last front-desk agent regardless of their capabilities in the task at hand was highly inefficient.
Maybe I'm jaded from my backpacking experience, but reading this the scam seems more than obvious, which makes it that much braver of the author to come forth and admit to it.

If these things are not shared, people will keep falling for it.
Why should oauth be separate from user service?
Might want to tone down the smugness of the title.
They made 3 billion USD from Google Play in 2014. (30% cut on all sales)

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-new-way-to-...
I did this mistake once... I'm also a linux guy, but I was working in a company where everyone was using Os X. I did install an arch on my laptop and used it for almost a year.

Now, with the hindsight, it was a big mistake : it did make me loose so much time ! I did had to fix one script out of 2, the build system was not working properly, etc... And linux and Os X are not that different !

Don't do that... Use the tools that you company gives you, and try to fit in the company. Otherwise, you will be seen as the guy who does not want to do stuff the same way as the others. Even if everything goes well with your coworkers, you will end up waisting time every day.

You can install vim on windows (and sublime text does have quite a few almost decent vim plugins). You will miss i3wm a lot, but you don't need it to do good work.

Learn how to use the most efficiently the tools your company gives you (Windows and PHP). If you want to change something (at least for your first couple of month), try to change something that will make everyone life easier, not more complicated.
Months, not days (really, this "I want it tomorrow" culture is quite harmful). And yes, I do think developers who become co-founders or C-levels should take some time to familiarize themselves with basic legal and financial concepts as well. Things like optionality and the time value of money, and protective provisions. And basic accounting. And, in our case, international tax and labour laws. Helps when those discussions come up. Helps filter out incompetent but slick sales types (after all, Sturgeon's Law also holds for businessmen).

Nevertheless, it's not black and white. I personally think that being familiar with a little bit from all the fields that you will eventually touch as a founder, is immensely value adding. But if you have a good network in a trustworthy environment, you can get away with not.
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1. Your sentences are too vague. From what I'm reading, could be anything from a Forum to a Job site.

2. No HTTPS.

3. The email field does not look like one.

4. Instead of creating buzz with things like "coming soon", "almost here", "change is coming", you mention that you would launch in Fall 2015. Nobody wants to sign up for service 3-4 months in advance, especially when it's hard to tell what it is.

5. Description paragraph is way too long.

I'd also advice you to spend 10 extra minutes and put mixpanel on your page. You would know exactly what's turning people off.
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>avoid code sharing wherever possible.

Oh dear Lord. Are you really serious?

>write far more unit tests than functional/integration tests.

This is a terrible idea. Integration tests are by their very nature loosely coupled, whereas unit tests are tightly coupled.

>(if you separate out components later, those tests can't move with them)

If you refactor code under the hood you will inevitably end up throwing away unit tests unless your code is already very loosely coupled.

>if you use an ORM or similar, you are probably going to have a very bad time about it

Using (good) ORMs helps you to significantly reduce boilerplate code. Reducing boilerplate code is always a good thing.
> Judaism is much more concerned with actions than thought, it's also more concerned with this world than with heaven.

That's disputable. For example there were those who claimed that observing commandments mechanically, without intending to have the spiritual effect is actually worse than not observing while intending to have it.

This idea was expressed by R' Shmuel Alexandrov[1] when he was defending non observant Jews who intend to act righteously, vs. "observant" ones who don't do it out of spiritual reasons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_Alexandrov
From the article:

By the time the deal was about to close, Loveman
remembers that it was “a bit uncertain” as to whether
every bank would honor its commitment. But they did.
Did they ever release the source to that tool? I'd love to take it apart
I'm even more shocked OP got a job hacking a language they haven't touched in over eight years.
I wouldn't underestimate how much secrecy plays a role psychologically. Not being able to talk to friends, family, and loved ones about what you work on can be a real drain.

(Spoken from some experience; I did classified work at a DOE nuclear lab in the past.)