skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that is a feature and not a bug. At least for the contractors and their friends in governmnet.
Well, they don't rely on a single API, though. They've implemented dozens of API's. They also have some of their own API's, as well.

If it were a case of relying on 1 or 2 mission-critical API's then I'd be worried.
But a dict is a list of paired elements? I do like the fact that you can convert freely between string/list/dict. It removes a lot of boilerplate type conversion. Want to serialize a dict? In most languages that's boring code. In Tcl it's so easy you do it all the time.
Sid Roth It's Supernatural Tv Program
The substance of this thing came around my head, my shoulders, my body, and when it did my body was thrown down to the floor, no one was praying for me, no one was even praying at the time, but my body was thrown down to the floor and instantly my spirit man was caught up into visions. And I began to see like a video scene in front of me and the Lord started to show me things that would happen in my life over the next several years.Sid Roth It's Supernatural Tv Program
USB device pretending to be a keyboard
Ambulances have the word Ambulance flipped backwards, not flipped upside down.

This intuitively seems to be a major break of symmetry, why would a mirror have a horizontal preference?

It isn't the mirror with the preference, but the vehicle. To understand why, consider an ambulance facing you head on with the word "AMBULANCE" printed on it and the paths it could take to show up in your rear-view. It could move along a lateral half-circle or a vertical one (or something in-between). If it went along a vertical half-circle it would end up upside-down and behind you; since it goes along a lateral one it also gets laterally-flipped, but because cars have left to right mirror symmetry , you don't notice (except for the words ambulance).

We have a huge bias evolutionary bias towards that type of lateral symmetry (e.g. in animals, other humans) and to things moving along a lateral plane while maintaining vertical orientation.
I didn't mean a physical paper phone book: www.superpages.com, for example. It wouldn't surprise me if there was no listing, but it is still what I would try first. I note that in another comment, you mentioned that you tried the bank, but they wouldn't help if it wasn't found in the branch. I would have been tempted to leave it in the branch to be found by someone else. :) I guess that leaves the police. They probably stand a better chance of tracking someone down.
That was a joke. It could have been more obvious maybe. Sorry for the confusion.
Absolutely true, it depends on your circumstances.

However take something that sounds like a step in an assembly line. Data entry. One of the examples in First, Break All The Rules was a data entry group that took the woman who had the highest data entry speed (and also significantly lower error rates) and worked with her to see if they could do anything to improve her work, or to replicate her abilities.

In the end she sped up considerably to what they would have thought previously to be an utterly impossible speed, with even lower error rates, and several other people on her unit wound up with data entry rates that exceeded her initial already stellar levels.

The fact that a job is simple and boring does not mean that it can't be improved. And the people who both have the most potential to be improved, or to improve it are generally the people who already are best at it.
You may want to browse the telecommute jobs from careers stack overflow: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/telecommute
Thanks for your time an input. To answer your question, yes I believe my position is critical. I don't have any backups as of right now that are familiar with what I do, but that is not to say there aren't other employees that could potentially pick up when I leave but I believe the projects can be at huge risk if leave suddenly. I don't know if the managers are open to negotiation but I think it doesn't hurt to ask. To answer your second question, I haven't looked at other employers, but I have a lot of friends that work in the area and they say people in their company with similar responsibilities make a lot more than I do. But I will take your advise and try to negotiate and if that doesn't work out try looking into other places.
C'mon, guys. Lightweight markup languages are hard. That's why there's the word "weight" in their name. It's obviously better to send data like this through the cloud, because it's going to be really, really, really expensive for your application servers to compute the markup transformation. Sending data to the cloud is totally free, and relying on remote services is way, way easier than hosting a library. Way easier. Someone has to implement the API for that vendor library. Them shits is hard.

Let's not forget that for every second you wait on this spectacular deal, you're literally bleeding money. While you deliberate, thousands upon thousands of customers lose their shit over the fact that your site doesn't have support for textile. They're rage-quitting your site, and their shopping cart was full. Did you hear that? Boom, you just lost a sale because you don't have Markdown on your site. You could have Markdown on your site. Just sign up now, before you miss out.
Yep, spot on. I had no -1s, then I blocked someone and they showed up.

Interestingly enough, under advanced options, you can also set it so ONLY certain people show up. I keep a list of girls I'm hitting on and sometimes only select them to chat with. Imagine my confusion when these were the only profiles listed under PrivacyData ;)
I think the reality is as jinushaun has said it- there's a ton of legacy apps, and new development is in technologies other than ASP.NET.
@jobowoo, Zapier is for business, as IFTTT is for, well, users of (mostly) social networking type products. You can tell the clear difference by looking at the services provided by Zapier vs IFTTT.
HTML5 Scrolling Performance
Sorry to hear your news.

When people say 'remote' do they generally mean 'in the US'?

I am based in the UK, about 3 hours from London. I know I have a fantastic skill set (Ruby, Rails, Postgres, APIs, Semantic HTML, Heroku, people management and Accenture consulting experience) but I have never found a single company in the UK willing to consider on remote working.

Such a shame for both sides as I don't want to move my young family to London.
Explain SQL injection without technical jargon
The integrator market is insanely large. There are very big name players that are effectively system integrators and charge huge sums of money to get different systems to talk to each other.

Once they have the platform fully ironed out, the level of application for Enterprise clients is virtually limitless.

For example, imagine if you could build a workflow by dragging and dropping to connect your Salesforce.com implementation with your back-office provisioning applications, based on a conditional logic and then send out SMS confirmation to the client, make a SFDC case note and update a bunch of statuses... all without writing a single line of code.

Enterprises already pay for this through the nose. They will keep paying, because it's worth it.

Enterprise customers also LOVE control. If they can have a business analyst do the work, instead of hiring an army of 3rd party integrators, they will over pay for it. If they can keep everything in-house at a reasonable cost, they will.
I love to cook. I take pride in adding all the right spices, caramelizing onions properly (a 30+ minute task), marinating cuts of meat (before we became vegeterian), etc. But I also work, and have a family (wife isn't the best cook). So when I get home at 5pm, I have 2 small kids that want to jump me, and I immediately have to start on dinner. Honestly, it's all I can do some nights to not say "F--k it, we're ordering out."

In my family, "good food" isn't an option most weeknights. So we either eat out (which is expensive and/or unhealthy) or we make simple crock-pot/ rice cooker recipes, which even my wife can do.

It's not always black & white.
GORUCO and gender diversity
Zapier seems well positioned to help companies sync data, and create streams of info between web APIs, IMO.
I'm an avoid back country snowboarder (split boarder) in the Canadian Rockies, and now further north into Coastal Alaska and I've spent many seasons as ski patrol, and taken numerous Avalanche training courses.

After my first 4 day course, the message was very clear:

"You are now the least knowledgeable people that should be in the back country".

I kept thinking "I know just enough to know I know nothing".

Reading this article it was very hard not to angry. Severe lack of training and practice caused deaths.

* 16 people is a huge no-no.

* The fact that someone in the group (a Liftie!) didn't even have a beacon should be a HUGE warning sign.

* Hitting the slope at 11:45 seems wrong to me - the day had warmed by then allowing the snow to consolidate.

* No clear route identification or plan

* The didn't dig a snow pit to assess avalanche conditions on the slope they were about to hit - my personal number 1

* Multiple people dropped in at once - the biggest no-no of all!

* They saw evidence of big slides on the way down, but kept going anyway!

* Waiting for those above by just standing around waiting in the potential slide path.

* Calling 911 immediately shows a lack of experience and understanding. Those buried have ~13 minutes before their chances of survival drop to essentially zero - help is not coming to save them. YOU MUST SAVE THEM.

* Calling 911 to report a body is a freaking waste of time and could cost others' buried their lives. KEEP SEARCHING AND DIGGING!

I hate to say it: They were asking for it, and a lot of them knew better.

Please, please, please, never go into the back country without training. Even a weekend course will be great. Don't let your friends or those more experienced than you convince you it's not needed - anyone that says that is not worth going with, because you are risking your life with people that don't know what they're talking about.

EDIT: If you want the first-person avalanche experience, watch this video. I go snowboarding here all the time. Turn the sound way up to really feel it. This person was saved by well trained back country ski partners. http://vimeo.com/6581009
Thanks for the advice. Honestly, being that I work in startups, am a year and a half out of grad school, don't have to well-to-do parents, and support my partner, I think you've helped me realize it's definitely not so smart to be bufferless.

Honestly, part of this mania began when I looked at my statements for just one provider (Chase) and realized the minimum payments they were asking for (~$300) covered ONLY the monthly interest. That sort of freaked me out, and I got spooked at the prospect of allowing that bank to rent-seek on my back for the next few decades, while I lack any sort of consumer rights to even ask a court for bankruptcy protection.
Ask HN: How much $ it takes to a company support my H-1B?
I'm doing freelance for a company and would like to live in the US(I dream about it), the pay is good(or average, if you take sillicon valley average into account) and they seem to like me, so I can probably negotiate with them. They are also very fun to be with.

How do I proceed? Did anybody have some kind of experience like that? How did it turn out?

Btw, I live in a third world country and got a CS degree. Went to US 3 times when younger(don't know if it does matter).
I think most of the encyclopedia CDs, like Microsoft Encarta, were quite tasteful. At least for their time. A blast from the past: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ4ptApL-k4
Update to Messaging and a Test
If you don't have kids you should not be working and enjoying the single life.

I have kids, and am in a start-up, just takes planning.
Maybe someone will ship a Bootstrap template that will abstract away the difficult math, maybe using CSS3?
What a stunning tribute to the story.

Every part of this was precisely, beautifully and expertly planned to have a profound emotional pull to see the story through to the end. It worked. While I was reading, I felt the emotion from the words + the animations + video + audio.

I love the format, design and style. Simply brilliant.
Thanks for your input. Yes but are you implying that i tell my boss that another employer is willing to higher me for X amount? I feel a little uncomfortable taking that approach.
I'm not clear on how "No person..." selects some subset of people with whom such government prohibitions apply.

You're looking at it wrong. It's that the text does not allow for a certain class to be excluded, which is what the Obama Administration is doing with respect to "military-age males."
If you buy this, you're automatically demoted from programmer to "computer guy."
I feel there is a lot of noise around IDs as URIs yet I've seen nobody (I may not have looked deep enought) talk about their main benefit as I perceive it, which is putting resources into the perspective of a global namespace. Thus allowing a service to reference resources provided by another service. This to me, looks like a practical revolution. We may at last have our contacts served by one entity, our statuses by another, our shared files by still another, and yet all of them could be handled as one distributed API.

The code glueing the whole to produce, say, a distributed facebook-like app, would still have to know the specifics of each provider (before standards emerge), but it would effectively break the isolation and allow us to composite services much more easily.

Where am I missing the point ?
Hi, I'm part of the team working on HTML5 Boilerplate.

As this featured project is, in some way, defining itself relative to what it believes HTML5 Boilerplate is and should be, I'm going to chime in with some thoughts.

If someone wants to create a new project after their concerns have not been shared by others maintaining a large, existing, community project (e.g., how Lo-Dash came to be) then that's fair enough. But I'm always disappointing to see people do so before raising their concerns and making their arguments. It would avoid the repetition of errors and discussions that have been addressed previously. We could also work together to adapt HTML5 Boilerplate if there is a good case to do so.

Once-upon-a-time, I didn't appreciate the work and community knowledge that went into HTML5 Boilerplate. However, after I started to open issues against the repo and contribute to the project, I realised that it has always been very open to contributions and changes of direction. I had significantly underestimated how much thought and combined knowledge was going into the project, and how much it was constantly evolving.

It's hard to design a useful starting template that's clear and friendly enough for newcomers, documented enough for explorers, and svelte enough for experienced developers. We're always trying to figure out the best way to present the value of the project while not scaring away too many people. Hopefully, we're doing a decent job of balancing those concerns and making people feel welcome in the discussions.

I hope that developers will continue to work with -- and look to join -- the people developing HTML5 Boilerplate at any given time. If you think something is missing or should be removed, make the case for it. We listen and learn; we're constantly evolving the project.

Thanks

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> HTML5 BP is maintained by Google people.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4949018

That's not true. Only Paul Irish works at Google.

> "Slim HTML5 Boilerplate" would be a better title
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4949635

If that's what you're looking for, just delete jQuery and Modernizr from HTML5 Boilerplate :)
Are you serious? Half the design agencies in the universe seem to have a massive stock of fonts that they once bought for one project (if that) and never deleted, copied onto their servers where any of their designers can use them for any new project, with little if any control or auditing going on.

You claim that there is a bogeyman out there who will come and sue infringers, but it seems to me that this is the rare exception rather than the rule. Ironically, the last case I heard about was HADOPI, the French anti-piracy watchdog, which got caught with its pants down almost immediately over the font it was using for its logo.

You seem to be living in this HN dream world where all projects are high-value and all clients are high payers. If you want to argue that font licensing works effectively in that market, sure, maybe it does. But most of the design world isn't like that, and the current copyright/licensing regime for fonts is doing precious little to promote their use in the rest of the industry.
Agree exact timing is not identifiable but the amount of warnings before 2007 was really pretty low. Maybe there are some that can be added to this list and it would be interesting to see if there were any with very different approaches:

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2009/07/15/no-one-saw-thi...

So there were a few but they generally weren't in the mainstream of economics (from Krugman to the Chicago School) which generally did a very bad job. Roubini did call it but none of the others on the list I linked to were people I had heard of before 2008 (but I haven't formally studied economics).

Many of the common models taught and used never indicate crashes, this sort of thing should just be thrown out. Most of them also don't really include the financial industry (including debt).
How we built a Christmas special in one hour - for Changemakrs
congratulations (no snark) - you're Clay Christensen

http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Chang...
The initial impression is breathtaking - captivating and provocative. Love it.
Apple kills a Kickstarter project
Another pro for Lua is it has weak references and JS does not.
This turns out to be a key component of Clay Christensen's original theory of "disruptive technology" (before it became a buzzword.) The theory is that the disruption comes in part because existing producers ignore the new technology, since initially it is only of use to a tiny niche in the market that doesn't care about performance. The niche is left to bit players, but it turns out to provide them enough oxygen that they can invest in R&D and improve the technology, eventually to the point that it's the best choice for all but the highest-end applications.

http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Chang...
is uchicago.edu on the list?
The Raspberry Pi is what I want!
The Super Supercapacitor | Brian Golden Davis
Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on earth. What he found was a new way to power the world.
I think they have a pretty solid plan. They understand ecosystems, such as why they developed multiple types of desktop software to cater to different needs in/for the creative community.
Get a pressure cooker, you don't have to 'hack' a rice cooker. And the bonus is, you have more predictable cook times.
It's not a problem in Bash, why is it a problem here? Right tool for the job...
Apple Nixes POP Portable Power Kickstarter Project Over Lightning Connectors
>It's weird how often discussions about amendments get caught up on wording, precedents and people's intentions rather than what is good or bad.

That's only natural. You have to determine what the amendment really means before you can decide whether or not it's a good idea.

Madison didn't want to include a bill of rights at all. He viewed the US Constitution as a document enumerating what the federal government can do, which is the most restrictive interpretation, and thus things like prohibitions on speech were obviously outside the powers of the federal government.

He felt that by including the Bill of Rights the meaning of the entire document was changed and people would argue it allows the government to do anything that isn't prohibited.

I think history has proved him correct in spades.
Pitchfork (the music review site) employs this technique for their "Cover Story" features, some are better than others. I personally enjoy the "alive" feel of the stories:

http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/
I just tried again. Can't drag the scroll slider. Latest OSX Chrome.
I think it is a bad idea to ask such a question from your account and not a throwaway (just sayin!).
Google its not a "Death Star" too?

They are also eating every microbe that could grow and become a stone in their way.. but this is not just Google, or Facebook.. using the words of google ex-ceo : "this is called capitalism".. they do not invent it, they are using it the same way all others (capitalistic) endeavors before and after them.

Big fish eat small fish
Increase the dyno
Looking good here ... Squeeze 64, KDE, nVidia GTX 570 ...
Nice. One issue is that the common idiom of cntrl+f is going to be broken with this. Would be awesome if the table supported a search box of some sort.
Continuous Inspection
In replying to @jeremyarussell bellow, because somehow my comment is being down-voted to oblivion and I cannot reply directly:

What can I say? To each his own. I did not say that you, jeremyarussell, or any specific person taken "per se" needs a higher thingie to stop him/her from committing any crimes, it's just that for example the 20th century has been marked by some of the most heinous crimes in our existence as a species while in the same time only a small percentage of our fellow humans are psychopathic or sociopaths or however else you want to call those who commit crimes for pleasure only. Somehow, to make up for the difference (in the "people killed vs. natural-born-killers" ratio), I believe that we have somehow to look deeper into ourselves. Also pls. see this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil.

And now that I'm reminded of Hannah Arrendt and the crimes of the 20th century, and for once to make a documented reference to Godwin's law on the internets (and to give people real reasons for down-votes), there's this little photo right here (http://imgur.com/PfM0e) of the Tiraspol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiraspol) train-station taken during WW2 by a German soldier. I paid around 0.50 euro-cents for the photo in an antiques shop (I live in Eastern Europe), around with other photos taken by the same soldier on the top of Eiffel Tower in occupied Paris or on the shores of the Aegean in Thessaloniki.

Now, those train tracks that you see in the photo at first don't signify anything by themselves, what with the peasant women waiting patiently for the next train or what-have-you. But if you happen to know (like for example I do) that tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of Romanian Jews (Romania being the country where I grew up and currently live in) were carried in trains to their final destination to close-by Transnistria (http://isurvived.org/Transnistria.html) then you begin to see things differently.

It took my country's Government close to 60 years to finally starting to acknowledge that we actually did exterminate people in Transnistria. Up until not that long ago there still was a statue of Ion Antonescu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu), the guy who ruled this country when all these, let's say really bad things happened, in a church's front-yard a couple of metro stations from where I'm now writing this comment. In fact, if I were to take the tramway to work tomorrow instead of the metro I would pass right by the said church (no statue of him now), which Antonescu actually helped build (the church, that is). Do you honestly think that church-building Ion Antonescu thought of himself as being a bad person?

And this is one of the many reasons why I think Governments do not deserve our trust.

Sorry for the long rant, now I can go to sleep :)
Sure, the key files won't be on the computer, but the decryption key must necessarily be resident in RAM or otherwise accessible by the CPU (in a register, such as with TRESOR mentioned elsewhere) to encrypt/decrypt disk blocks of a running system.