skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically: not. Historically, I don't think there were character sets that had it as a character. Unicode nowadays has it, but discourages its use.

http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ch07.pdf: "Another pair of characters, U+0133 latin small ligature ij and its uppercase version, was provided to support the digraph “ij” in Dutch, often termed a “ligature” in discussions of Dutch orthography. When adding intercharacter spacing for line justification, the “ij” is kept as a unit, and the space between the i and j does not increase. In titlecasing, both the i and the j are uppercased, as in the word “IJsselmeer.” Using a single code point might sim- plify software support for such features; however, because a vast amount of Dutch data is encoded without this digraph character, under most circumstances one will encounter an <i, j> sequence."

But don't take my word for it; I used Google to see what a Dutch keyboard layout is supposed to look like because I don't think I have ever seen one in real life.

There were typewriters with a ij ligature. That makes sense because that is about the worst kerning pair you can get in a monospaced font (but as a monospaced ligature, it is fairly tight with those large vertical stretches both at the left and at the right)
No, that's silly, because it presents a chicken-and-egg problem -- where would you put the Virtualbox VM if you don't have a filesystem that all three OSes can read?

I was very intentional in suggesting it be a separate physical device.
My condo building has a room for that purpose - unwanted electronics, hazards, clothes, furniture, appliances, etc. I just take it down there and they take care of the rest.
I actually really like the lighttpd config structure, but its not actively maintained and doesn't have the amazing community that nginx has. It is clear that nginx has won the high performance web-server battle..
Thanks, Steve: Global music revenues rise for the first time since 1998
Ask HN: Web Development in Decline?
Can anyone explain this trend:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=javascript%2C php%2C asp%2C web design%2C programming&geo=US&cmpt=q
Healthcare providers in the US are paid by insurance companies. It is incredibly useful for providers to know if the patient that just walked-in for service actually has eligibile insurance benefits for the services about to be delivered. Historically this is done via phone calls and fax, if done at all.

There are ANSI standard EDI transactions designed specifically for healthcare insurance eligibility inquiries (there also exists transactions for claims, but that's the other side of the puzzle). The standards themselves are pretty simple. But unfortunately, from a business development and integration perspective, the effort required to become trading partners with healthcare insurance companies is extremely high. There are plenty of vendors and clearinghouses out there which make the process easier. But this company is trying to make the setup and integration even easier with self-service sign-up and credit card billing. It's a novel idea.

Edit: I have no affiliation with Eligible but I've been working with the underlying technology for many years.
Dunno mate. But I do wish I could hunt and skin the little buggers, like in FC3!!!
I can only speak of physician's offices but I would imagine the process is much the same in hospitals, if more bureaucratic.

Before a test or lab is ordered, or before a specialist visit is scheduled, one of the assistants needs to verify that your insurance will actually cover the procedure. Typically this means the assistant needs to call the insurance provider, give them your information and what procedure(s) they are checking on.

Insurers provide this data but there are close to a dozen disparate standards and formats. Eligible consolidates all that into a REST API that developers can build applications on top of. From what I can tell this is definitely not for the healthcare industry, but for our industry to build healthcare applications.

I have no affiliation with Eligible, but I've been working in healthcare IT for several years, although not at the startup level.
Interesting parallel. I think the motivations are actually similar: for both sysadmins and non-tech end users, change is a disruptive thing rather than a desire; what they desire is a stable working product as a means to an end.

It's only high-tech early adopters who see change as a benefit for its own sake.
Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'Barely Legal Teens'
Well that is a time where a lot of people lose their hair color.
>The big advantages of a dedicated VA are trust and communcation

Thats a great point. From what we have seen with Premier, some users start referring the project to the team member that has been taking care of their projects. So instead of saying,

Premier,

Please take care of 'x' for me.

They will write:

Joane,

Please do 'x' like it was done last time.

And then Joane will then make sure that the project is done perfectly. In this case, it becomes Joane's responsibility that the work is done perfectly.
I agree that more women need to quit "talking about being a female founder", but not interviewing someone based on the fact that they go to women's organizations/etc? That's wrong and very likely illegal.
Suggestions of things that works for me.

Custom made ear plugs AND ear lube when you insert them. Custom ear plugs are under $100 can be made by any audiologist or ENT. Much better sound reduction than the ones that you buy that are throwaway. The ear lube by the way creates an additional sound barrier and adds to comfort as well.

Good "bucky" brand eyshades. White noise (a fan) going.
This is huge and might make IE a real contender again.... if they can actually keep up with the competition.
> Let me be frank: I received a 1 page resume of a female computer scientist, where the word "women" was mentioned 8 times (organizations, etc). We did not interview that person, since frankly we were scared.

I know this is usually verboten on Hacker News, but I find no other way to encode this thought...

Boy, you guys sure sound like assholes. Sounds like she dodged a bullet.

Y'know. Frankly.
I think people won't buy it because it's not fashionable. 1) People already opt out of glasses in favor of contacts. 2) People already wearing glasess will just look awkward.
Did you consider any of the tools of democracy? Although it can take time, that should work just fine if most people actually agree on what to do.

If you are in a minority of the population which wants to unilaterally impose its will on everyone else because they are more important, however - then I guess that democracy is no good and only an armed coup will do. Let's hope that people don't start thinking that way, because then we are all in trouble.
You are correct, for good number of Ajax and DOM events, the jQuery can be utilized, however the tutorial takes into account less events, that is why it is advised to use the other way round. (answered from the author)
>What the hell happened to the Google we knew?

It never existed, and people were pointing that out this whole time.
Sounds like someone from Stanford.
The spirit of the United States Constitution and subordinate laws has been wholesale abandoned and legalism has been adopted. The law has been usurped by corporate interests, both for-profit and unprofit, to consolidate power in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals.

Equalitarianism has over-taken liberalism. Democracy, as H.L. Mencken projected, has been leveraged to undermine the Republican government.

The noble lie of the nation state is fighting to preserve its perceived legitimacy. Regardless of the specifics, Swartz has gone down as a martyr in the court of public opinion and "the people" are becoming increasingly untrusting of their governors and government. Once trust is lost, it isn't easily restored.

The elephant of tyranny remains until generations to come forget again.

RIP Swartz

nwzpaper.com/articleView?articleId=133
nwzpaper.com/articleView?articleId=141
nwzpaper.com/socialContract
Maybe you should try actually providing constructive criticism for the submitted link instead of this hurr USA insurance is dumb meme garbage.
Wow, all the years I didn't sleep like a rockstar. Used to be able to stay up 2, maybe 3 days without an ounce of caffeine and maybe a quick 15 minute nap here or there.

Looking back, how much of that time I really needed to spend awake, I don't know. You get more effective with age.
I'm not saying there's not vast room for improvement here!

I just don't think that abolishing mandatory education/training/socialisation/what-the-hell-ever is a good idea, and it seems you don't either :)
I understand how that would add a bit of overhead, but it doesn't seem all that crazy. Certainly a well architected client app wouldn't have any issue with this. Maybe I'm missing something?
TurboLink does less, so there are less things to screw up.

TurboLink always replace the whole body, not just part of the page. There's no input focus to maintain. Server side render a page the same regardless of whether it's fetched normally or through TurboLink. Links fallback correctly on JS-disabled client.
"Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem—and a particularly useless sort, because good ideas often come from outsiders. The question is whether the author is correct or not. If his lack of authority caused him to make mistakes, point those out. And if it didn't, it's not a problem."[1]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Why? Most Windows devices being sold have touchscreens. Most Macs do not.
For $6 an hour, how is this profitable? How easy can it be to find intelligent, English-fluent people with bachelor's degrees, anywhere in the world, who are willing to work for the fraction of that sum which is left after overhead costs and profit margin are taken out?
Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted.

http://www.roberthjackson.org/the-man/speeches-articles/spee...

In addition to being a Supreme Court justice, Robert Jackson was also Attorney General and also the chief prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials.

The qualities of a good prosecutor are as elusive and as impossible to define as those which mark a gentleman. And those who need to be told would not understand it anyway. A sensitiveness to fair play and sportsmanship is perhaps the best protection against the abuse of power, and the citizen’s safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility.
Traditionally health information technology has been run by non-technical bureaucracies sitting around a table creating "specs" that hackers then need to mud through (usually 300+ page pdf) in order to integrate/implement. The bureaucracies intentions are good: free up the data to build from, but the result is just the same old legacy vendors end up using it.
ST2's first public alpha release was in January 2011 and there was an update about every two weeks.

Six months later, July 2011, the first Beta was released and Jon Skinner said there would be monthly updates now that ST2 was in beta.

True to his word, there's been about an update a month and then in June 2012 the Beta label was dropped. After that, there were a few ST2 updates, mostly fixes, until September 2012. So by no means is ST2 an "unfinished" piece of software. And while I'm sure it has many bugs, that's practically a truism for any piece of complicated software. I personally have not actually noticed any. I wonder if the author has.

My takeaway from all this is that Jon Skinner delivers.

If you want a yearly subscription, well, that's really no different than what Jon Skinner is providing, except that instead of paying once a year, you're paying once every TWO years, if the past is any indication of the future.

Finally, complaining about plugins breaking is like complaining about the Lightning connector on new iPhones. There's a strong list of good reasons to make backward-incompatible changes to the plugin system.
It shouldn't be taking up too much space. I can imagine its transparent screen is clipped in front of the monitor when not used. When used, you pull it toward you to create the volume for the 3-D activities.
Except Google knows nothing about customer service? Not even a phone number to call, let alone an in-person presence. Also, Google TV was a complete flop, along with their audio streaming device.
The picture says coffee, not water.
More precisely, it's the way women can wind other computer nerds around their finger. The sword of attention cuts both ways.
> I would love to see some article on What TurboLinks actually breaks and How to avoid it.

The big change is that instead of getting a clean slate every request, you now have one, long-running JavaScript environment. That's where Turbolinks derives its speed from, but it's the biggest change, and this difference in assumption has been where the issues have popped up.

Honestly, I have not followed turbolinks' development very much, so I'd look through the Issues if I were you to get a better idea of what kinds of things have cropped up so far.

> Discourse is pretty fast, but to say 300K zipped JS file is peanuts just doesn't cut it for me

Sure. I think you'd be surprised how quickly you can get up to 300k of assets in a site, though. Plus, you're only fetching it once, it's all cached afterwards. Regardless, as far as I'm concerned, the practice beats the theory. Turbolinks and Ember have both been show to speed up web sites in practice.
Doing antisocial things for money is corruption in the public sector. The same grade of evil in the private sector is fiduciary duty and entirely acceptable, regardless of how high the cost to third parties.
Your insinuation, that hospitals reject the uninsured, is incorrect. Please read about the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act [1].

[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an...
Good stuff man. I am with you 100%.

My only tip for you is that I have a ganja induced munchies addiction and I think that at one point I was eating too much of the shit and not enough of the good stuff. Resulted in terrible stomach pains that landed me in the doctors office with pills to stop my stomach muscles from spasms.
Anyways, good luck with your fitness as well.

badapada I'm loving it.
But degrees are a very strong indicator to most companies that you will do what you're told, have good "work ethic", etc.

I dropped out of college because I was learning very little, at a slow pace, and mostly in areas not related to my major. I love to learn and work on interesting projects, but I've never been the type to do things just because an employer/school/society expects me to. And I've definitely had to pay for it in many ways...
I didn't have my window maximized when I clicked "pricing" and this happened:

http://i.imgur.com/w7IAIyD.png
''Single assistant shared amount multiple clients'' instead of among.
This is a modified version of the Prisoner's Dilemma. If there is trust then overall costs go down and the number of sales goes up. This is a net win for both sides.

If one side does not follow standard business practices, which the auditor argues happened here, then that one side may get better benefits. But this is actually an iterated prisoner's dilemma, and the standard tit-for-tat strategy of the Prisoner's Dilemma makes good sense. That is, shut out Cisco from future contracts for a period of time.

This encourages future vendors, who want repeat business, to stay in a regime of trust and relieves WV of having to pay for staff with full domain expertise on all contract-related matters. A role of the auditors is to identify these problems after the fact and use debarment as a way to disincentivize this vendors from this behavior.

This isn't naive. It's basic game theory.
When you sign up you get $30 free credit (600 free test transactions to start).
This actually is pretty amazing. It looks like it can become practical.
What about "People who would like to 'evaluate the situation for themselves and cross on their own terms' but must instead wait for the walk sign because the cops in their town have nothing better to do than give jaywalkers a $200 ticket"?
I think we'll be waiting a long time for her to include careerism and score-settling among her motivations.
Really comprehensive guide here - Thanks for posting
Second that. Mozilla persona is fully distributed and not owned by a single entity. Moreover, it sounds like great engineering: do just one thing and do it well.

I hope it becomes the universal single sign on of the Web.
I suspect you are going to get a lot of "you are wrong" comments; primarily from people who would say "I cross slowly, but I am not average!" Good post, I liked it.
Having worked on a government contract before, this doesn't surprise me at all.

They were going to spend all the money the feds gave them. Whether they spent it on over powered routers or "consulting" or something else, it was all going to be spent by the end of the project.

There are enough projects overbudget that being on budget looks really good. And there's always a concern with being under budget that next time the feds won't hand out so much money, and you might really need it then.
First: That is not what I asserted. What I said was subtly but importantly different: that her piece was full of platitudes and thus her prescriptions rely on her authority, which is worth examining. My point was substantive.

Second: There is no less compelling argument to make on HN than a citation to that post, particularly when the argument involves the word "ad hominem", which for some reason seems to be a particularly difficult concept for message board nerds like us to grok.
Agreed.

People have no obligation to include anyone in their writings. It's not immoral or wrong for someone to use language that does not include 100% of people.

It was you who wrote:

> And such a reminder would be completely appropriate. If someone else didn't remind him, then you should step up and do so yourself.

That said, your comparison is absurd, especially considering young women handily beat young men in college graduation rates and beat them in pay, even taking into account the predominance of young men in tech.
Would be interesting to see a complex analogue signal being fed through the digital pipeline and then inverted against the original to see the differences.

It's not a real demo but there's a drawing of it at 9:45 or so. The "quantization noise" is the noise introduced by digitization. And of course the rest of that whole section is the same thing, albeit with a simple 8-bit signal.
That's a neat bit of people-watching. My favorite way to learn about someone is to physically spar them. You learn a lot about a person -- how aggressive or defensive they are, their cleverness or ability to improvise creative solutions, how they respond when backed into a corner, and how they react when given control over the ring.
>Sorry to pedant, but a case will typically not get to the Supreme Court at all unless two circuits come to different conclusions.

I don't see how that is inconsistent with what I posted.
Application Security Testing: The Double-sided Black Box
All extremely good advice, but the whole process of getting a CPAP machine drives me bonkers (at least in the US).

A CPAP machine is a couple hundred dollars [1] (certainly less than a thousand) and everyone I've ever spoken to about one has either instantly, the first night of using one had a tremendous dramatic improvement in their sleep or it was sort of 'meh'.

Given the costs and extremely minor risks (we're talking about a small fan that blows air into your mouth) you would think the diagnostic process would be to just give you a CPAP machine and see if it helped.

However you HAVE to go through a sleep study to get one, and you have to get a prescription to even buy one online. All of which means thousands and thousands of dollars of extra health care expense with very little to show for it.

1 - http://www.cpap.com/customize.php?PNum=2507&PAID=0
You'll just have to learn to do one of the encodings in your head.
The point is that if you need granular partial refreshment, your javascript needs to be a lot more smart, like what to do when add/update/remove a comment - that is you end-up writing view logic both client-side and server-side. As stated in the article, the view logic needs access to both server-side data and client-side DOM, where it resides depends on which side the view logic requires more communication. The argument is that if you rethink HTML, then most web app should be designed in a way so that UI interaction significantly improves the UX. That's why we need client-side MV* to be an enabler for such re-thinking.
MARISSA AND THE GOOGLIFICATION OF YAHOO. AND WHY I THINK THAT’S OKAY.
holla!
There isn't a per-site cache in Railgun because it's part of our large shared in-memory cache in our infrastructure.

Currently, cookies are not part of the hash.

We have customers of all types using Railgun. As an example, there's a British luggage manufacturer who launched a US e-commerce site last month. They are using it to help alleviate the cross-Atlantic latency. At the same time they see high compression levels as the site boilerplate does not change from person to person viewing the site.

What sort of sites do you think it doesn't apply to?
Company culture not friendly and supportive? How to stop jerks at work
I did some speed tests here: https://github.com/steveklabnik/turbolinks_test

Apparently, even though the browser doesn't re-download the assets, it does re-parse and re-execute all of it. Which makes sense. This is where Turbolinks adds the speedup.
Yes I know.

They put it on windows 8 because we have enterprise edition available to us at no additional cost and that ships with hyper-v at no cost.

VirtualBox is a royal POS and VMware is expensive so this means a significant cost saving.
I like Browserstack. I used it before modern.ie endorsed it and I've been fairly happy with the results. In the beginning it locked up a bunch, but it has gotten better and better
It is also a very affordable and quick way to "build stuff", which is one of the strongest ways for children/adolescents to get excited about their "work"
This looks incredibly powerful. If there were no edge cases of unsupported insurance companies, I think you'd be able to build tools around this service (as it currently is, not what it promises to be) to replace an entire class of office jobs already.
>Lighttpd is missing

That's like saying thttpd is missing. It isn't tested because it isn't relevant.
The same piece dismisses explicitly the idea that ambition and careerism played a part in these problems. The issue here seems to be one of competence, not of motivation or integrity.
If you think watching someone cross the street will tell you anything about how they act in other situations, allow me to introduce you to the fundamental attribution error: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
"Here is a benchmark that shows the performance of a watermelon and a large canteloupe lobbed from a trebuchet using different kinds of wood and rope under different wind conditions. We tied random weights to each melon for no apparent reason."

What the fuck is the point of a performance benchmark if you didn't tune any settings for performance?