skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that would also a 100% bet on Amazon.

There will also be a number of companies where a "small" DevOps teams leverages a large number of cheaper systems (owned, leased or whatever) for lower cost.
Great advice, especially with starting with super short trips. One of the most important things is clothing and these short trips will let you figure out a good set of shoes, how to layer clothes etc, without putting you at risk of being shivering cold with blistered feet in the middle of no where.
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You can parse JSON into an interface, but you end up doing tiresome casts if you structure is just somewhat nested.
How has he written so many books considering the speed of the interface? Even in interviews, he seems to take a long time to respond.
The pricing doesn't make much sense. It's $99 in the US, and $195 in the UK (125 pounds). It's cheaper to order the US version to the UK.
You don't have to. You can give a value for the root namespace instead.

Namespaces are needed for embedding things like SVG, MathML, etc. in HTML or XML documents.
yeah, apparently my favorite star-watching location (on the roof of my grandparents' cabin in the shadow of Thorodin mountain, near Nederland, CO) is yellow in this map. But at 9200 feet and with mountains and trees blocking direct light from all directions, the sky is just as clear as my other favorite star-watching place (Beecher Island battleground, in one of those completely unshaded regions on the Colorado-Kansas border.)
Stripe raises $70M at $3.5B valuation, double that of January
It's actually good to hear that the saddest day of your life involves something gettings stolen. There will be much worse days. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's just stuff. It's sad, but don't let it get to you too much.
I'm confused by the <calendar> example near the top: you can already define your own elements in HTML5 (and backport it to older browsers via html5shiv.js).
The very one.
> We don't need namespaces in HTML (or in XML for that matter, but that's a different story).

Bzzt, wrong. How would you propose we allow other document types to be embedded in HTML (like SVG)? Just hope the tag names never collide?
Tell that to Oracle, who hasn't bothered with OCI libs for VS2013 yet ;)
Thanks for your suggestions! To replay,

1. I'll fix this.

2. When you switch from one DB to another in postgres, you are essentially making a new connection instead of reusing the same connection[1]. In PSequel, you could create different connection bookmarks for different databases and open multiple connections at the same time in multiple windows.

3. In my company, we write migration scripts (activerecord migration) to modify table structures. We usually don't modify them directly/manually. 80% of the time we use GUI tools just for viewing data and testing out complicated SELECT queries. I didn't realize that many other people's usage patterns are different. Anyway, the feature of modifying table structures is in PSequel's roadmap.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/q/10335561
Ha, funny guy. The US immigration system is shit.

Explain to me how someone can become a permanent resident or a US citizen who is current a citizen & resident of Canada, India or the Philippines.

H1-B visas are the most straightforward way for someone with an education to get a job and permanent residency in the US. O and L visas are not universally applicable. Family sponsorship isn't always possible. Not everyone wants to marry an American.

It's not like the UK, Canada or Australia which have point-based immigration systems. The US has very few ways for a competent, educated immigrant to enter the country.
There's actually been loads of both small and prominent organisations accepting bitcoin. Save the Children, American Red Cross, EFF, Greenpeace, Hal Finney's ALS fund, Mozilla, Wikipedia etc etc.

If you look at the Humble Bundle for example, Linux users consistently outdonate windows users in voluntary transactions every single time. Bitcoin is a bit like that, too, both because of the type of crowd and because people are eager to spend and use bitcoin and to support charitable organisations that participate in the bitcoin ecosystem.

Lastly, it's an interesting angle because payment processing costs 0% for charities, yet the payout is in dollars, euros or a bunch of other currencies including bitcoin (just like for any other business btw if you use Bitpay)

It very much seems like charity is one of bitcoin's biggest usecases at the moment. Not saying it's the best thing ever, but we shouldn't discount it as there being no interest and no charitable bitcoin users.
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Came here to drop a link to web components ;) imho, empowering devs to define elements & their behavior is better than defining a standard set of elements & their behavior.
If you can't provide any evidence, you're making it up.
You have to differentiate between the WHATWG and the W3C, which have different goals/purposes and different HTML specs.

As the link you referenced states, the WHATWG's non-versioned living standard attempts to stay "a little ahead of the implementations" with the goal of (hopefully) guiding implementors toward common goals.

The W3C periodically looks at already-implemented features and creates versioned snapshots (like HTML5, HTML5.1, etc.) with the goal of providing developers with a stable, known set of features for development.

Different purposes, different specs, both useful.
User-level feature specs with Cucumber
My parents came here for various reasons, but one of the straws that broke the camel's back, so to speak, was my dad giving in to paying a bribe just to get telephone service installed at his house. Where I come from, Bangladesh, that is just how you do things. And the institutions you have to deal with were created by people who think that's okay. I think non-immigrants take for granted how amazing, and fragile, it is to have a society where you don't assume you'll have to pay a bribe to get your phone service installed. Or to be able to rely on institutions created by people who don't assume you'll have to pay a bribe to get your phone service installed.

I'm not against immigration. I'm for preserving the virtues of American culture that you don't see in a lot of other places (even among the wealthier and more educated folks in other places): attitudes towards corruption, women, racism, homosexuality, the environment, entrepreneurship, risk, personal happiness, family relationships and hierarchy, etc.
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Are shared libraries a memory win in production environments? For shared libraries to be a win, you have to be running different executables on the same machine (or VM) which share libraries of significant size relative to the memory use of the program itself.
You also have to be using a big fraction of each shared library. With static linking, if you need "cos", you get that loaded; with a shared library, you bring in the entire math library.

Modern production environments often involve only one program per VM, or multiple instances of the same program. In such cases, shared libraries are a lose.
Ian-- can you share an email address? Interested in learning more about Crowsnest
The discussion about H1B's is becoming so polarized. As an Engineer, I want to work with other good engineers <period>. You can really good talent from abroad - or you can get really bad talent that costs less. So it's not black-and-white.

I think whatever systems are in-place are undermining talent, in a field where it's so hard to see how good a worker is before they come aboard. So it's not even about external vs. domestic talent; it's the hiring that is fucked.
> the U.S. has nearly unlimited room to accept immigration

Says who? The permanent ecologically sustainable population of the U.S. is under 200 million. Supporting the current population at the current standard of living involves running down aquifers and top soil and fisheries. We could certainly cram in 600 million at a far lower standard of living. Why should the people favor a reduced lifestyle?

Where exactly are the added millions going to live? There aren't really viable sites for new cities. No, with continued high immigration we're really talking about adding massively to both sprawl and overcrowding in existing cities. Citizens rightly regard both these developments negatively.

The demographic trends in America were set in the 1960s and 70s to level off the population at a pretty comfortable figure around 200 million. With the massively increased immigration of recent decades we're going to hit somewhere well over double that. To what advantage? The parallel America with a much lower population would be a much nicer place to live for the vast majority of people.
I found an interesting comment between the gif: https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/ac676f47f7bbc619... by h4cc

> Behold, found something in the docs about garbage collection:

>> Therefore, it is probably wise to call gc_collect_cycles() just before you call gc_disable() to free up the memory that could be lost through possible roots that are already recorded in the root buffer. [...]
FYI, I am the employee mentioned in that post and your statement is just hilarious.

Obviously, a young French guy with disposable income, no dependents and earthly possessions that fit in a large backpack and a suitcase is not representative of the majority of H1B workers but the specter of deportation is not very scary to me. The last two times were just opportunities to travel.
You could have said the same thing about tobacco, 50 years ago. That did not make the suffering of those with the proclivity to develop cancer any less gruesome.
This just feels like an advertisement for Brewster.
The U.S. only has unlimited capacity for immigration if the composition of the immigrants already closely resembles the overall U.S economy and culture.

If 100% of immigrants are neurosurgeons, that simultaneously gluts the domestic labor market for neurosurgery and creates shortages in all the other jobs that typically support neurosurgeons, down to the cafe baristas and hairdressers.

What you want is to import the right immigrants at the right time. If you get an unbalanced mix, the economy will be disrupted as surely as a washing machine with socks on one side and jeans on the other.

Limiting the absolute number per year allows the economy to adjust as the new participants come in. Being a little smarter about the different skill sets that come in would allow greater absolute numbers to immigrate and assimilate.

But I don't particularly trust the bureaucracy to calculate the numbers that would provide the greatest overall economic benefits, either, so perhaps a stupider and simpler system that largely eliminates the need for bureaucratic decision-making would be best.
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From the other side, I see a lot of over paid "local" workers that spend a lot of time talking and doing no work. Why don't you take your honesty to your bosses and tell them that they are abusing the H1B system to save money? This is my biggest problem with honesty that comes with anonymity. Look, I am not saying there is no abuse of H1B. That is not the government's problem nor it is the problem of the immigrants. It is the American corporates that you work for that abuse the system. You are diverting all your anger towards people who want the experience to live elsewhere. Regarding us not assimilating into your culture, I have no idea what that means. On one hand, I see a lot of people moving to SF just for the variety in ethnicity so you can all be pseudo liberal and then start complaining about ethnic divide.
Git's storage model is such that every commit is physically a snapshot of the entire work tree. Git makes this efficient with delta compression (essentially, deduplication) which is extremely efficient for text (in fact an entire git repository can be smaller than a single SVN checkout) but is less effective with large binary files since changes don't produce compressible deltas.
"So 13^64 is an upper limit for the number of positions."

Your conclusion is correct by a huge margin but the argument is flawed. There is state that is not in the board position:

- white or black to move?
- is an en passant capture possible?
- is castling still possible?
- how many moves since the last lawn move or capture?
Maybe they'll distinguish themselves by not doing any or very much of that at all.

Do you have any candidates for service termination?
Have they released a cause of death for Prof. Grimm?
What? You don't expect them to act in a moral fashion, do you? Business is a game, and most business people play it like a game: how far can I go and still be within the rules?

When morality is divorced from business, this is what you get. I don't see it changing anytime soon.
These aren't being given out free, they are charged per usage - there is obvious incentives to keep the products alive.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most failed Google products had no direct revenue stream other than advertisements.
WHATWG is made of a very small subset of the members of W3C. The vast majority of W3C members are not part of WHATWG.
Namespaces in XML was the biggest mistake in XML.
> In general we are looking to meet the market of folks who are 100% in cloud environments, where the adoption of a SaaS solution is not as much of a concern

In theory you could meet this need via a prebuilt AWS image or something. Then people can still get up and running with one click but within their own cloud environments.
And you just said: "There's standard, normalized ways immigrants have come to the US for a long time now."

But for this guy's sake you'll make an exception? Is that because he won't form an ethnic ghetto?
Not free at all.
Somebody's got to take advantage of these kids.

More seriously--there's a lot of talent outside that place, and if companies were willing to pay those same wages (or even 80%) elsewhere in the country, this "talent shortage" would disappear as soon as the first paycheck cleared.
The jason package implementation decodes the entire JSON object to an interface{} using the standard encoding/json package.
Bryan Caplan makes strange arguments sometimes. In this pdf [1], he says if you don't want immigrants to vote or receive benefits, then why not just prohibit them from voting or receiving benefits? That would still be more humane than keeping them out of the country altogether, right? He doesn't even mention that it would create an underclass, which is one of the biggest reasons for crime and other social ills.

[1] http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-...
Or, you know, keep the person they've been training for 2 years and that is now the most knowledgeable about some sizable chunks of the product...
A concept always invites picky comments, but one can be subtle about it. I agree on few tags, like <logo> , <calender> , <nav> .

but I feel there is still more that is needed. Specially with regards to <select> and <input> tags. Have you come across how tricky it can be to style both? Both of these require more simple styling and controls. Also, I would very much welcome some sort of basic encryption for data submitted by <input> tags, given that many don't need SSL certificate level of security, but being totally naked is not okay as well.
You should be able to log into iCloud.com and manage/find your devices there.
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HTML5 may have enabled some of that, but I think the thing that actually "wrestled the web back from plugins" is the iPhone, or more generally, the smartphone. Popular devices that people wanted to target, without support for plugins (sure, Android had Flash for a while, as a second-class citizen, but it never had support for arbitrary plug-ins).
In my experience talented people have many options and US is not the best choice.
The EPA and Environment Canada.
Do you have any tips on how to get started? I have been wanting to try some freelance gigs on the side but there seems to be a lot of friction to get started.
I agree... (was on H1). The core problem is that the sponsoring company is in control. Control needs to be moved to the candidate (worker). The H1 should not be tied to the employer, but to the candidate, and they should be able to switch employers by registering their new employer with the DHS (HR of the new company and employee act on signing day). H1'ers should be free to move at will and immediately after entering the country (or at most, a 3-4 month wait).

Most of the time the consultancies put H1'ers on the bench waiting for a job... i.e., they over subscribe H1-B's every year. There needs to be an exponential charge to avoid over subscribing tactics... perhaps the app fees double (and keep doubling) for each additional candidate past 2.
There's also a chance that the credit card you used to purchase the items had a purchase protection clause, though they're often time-limited and some don't cover theft from a car.
The shipping used to be $90 I think (because it's tracked there and back international delivery).

I suspect if they want to develop the UK sales at all, they will need to adhere to certain regulations regarding what information they give out, rather like what the FDA does. This means treating UK customers slightly differently, which incurs additional expense. I'm not hugely surprised.
I guess. The stolen stuff are some of my essential daily tools. I need my laptop for everyday usage and my passport is important for me to get home during winter break, which is in 2 weeks.
Login to https://www.icloud.com/ and use "Find My iPhone" to track your MacBook and iPad. If the thieves are stupid enough, they'll turn the devices on at some point, giving you a good idea of where they are.

Do this as soon as possible, and check back constantly. Good luck!
I replicated our DNS on DNSMadeEasy, which I've used in the past on a very high-traffic website. They have an incredible track record for uptime. And they're really cheap.

We manually exported our DNS configuration from DNSimple as a single file and imported it to DNSMadeEasy. Pretty easy transition, although we have to make future changes in two places.

I set 2 nameservers on the old host and 2 on the new, and am keeping that configuration for automatic failover in the future. The DNS propagated fairly quickly and our site was up and running for many users within an hour. Glad that's over with.
Glad you're interested!

My email is ian (at) crowsnest (dot) io. Alternatively, you can signup on the front page, and I'll reach out to you a little later today.
Integration is a matter of degrees. The trend with recent editors (textmate, sublime, atom) is that they expose more abilities to integrate with simple editor functions. I don't see how this doesn't qualify as integrated.
Being a dummy, I put off setting up iCloud because I was too busy with school work, thinking I would be able to set it up during break. Not anymore.
Do you really think your situation represents the majority of H1B employers?
What you're looking at with those offers is likely a PhD in computer science or engineering who specialized in something those companies want. Those aren't what you think of as internships done by Sophomores or Juniors in college. They're an extended interview of a highly sought after expert in their field. Both of the candidate by the company and vice versa.

That's why the offers look more like salaries. Also, those "housing" offers are ridiculous. A 1 bedroom here can cost you 2k/mth easy. A flat, $1,500. I wouldn't be surprised if they're staying in corporate housing and those are just estimates of the value in the internship "package".
If you bought the macbook on a credit card, that will occasionally include insurance for theft, loss or damage. I knocked my new iPad off my desk a week after buying it and visa paid for a replacement with very little hassle.
I'll bet there were a lot of people who were upset when shipping containers were standardised too.

There's a GREAT book on the subject:

"The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger"

http://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy...
This is not a university anymore but a business with very few up in the hierarchy [..] profiteering and the rest of us are milked for money

This is exactly the impression I have of many American universities, which seem to have collectively fallen victim to a sort of 'administrative capture'. A typical example is the recent pay increases of 20% for the University of California chancellors - on salaries in the mid-$300,000s. The regents who voted for this said they intend to boost the pay of faculty and other staff too (who have also been subject to years-long pay freezes), but to me there's something fundamentally wrong with the idea of starting with the people who have the least economic need and are already handsomely compensated.

http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/UC-regents-award-20-...
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Let's go further. This country was founded on immigrants. This country is powerful because of the wonderful hard-working immigrants who have come to this country and seen opportunity and seized it with both hands and their teeth. It's not the lazy, entitled, molly-coddled, citizens who would rather watch endless episodes of real-world who made this country great (and yes, I, sadly, fall in that category). It is the people who came here with nothing and worked as hard as they could for themselves and their families who keep reinventing this country. We should welcome as many hard-working immigrants into this country as we can.

From an economic perspective it makes sense, too. My wife came with her family from Vietnam in 1991. They were given 1 year of public assitance of $1100 per month. There were 11 people living in a rented house that didn't speak a word of English. Since that time they have grown up, gone to college (and paid for it through working side-jobs), become nurses, optometrists, and doctors. The return the US is getting on their pitiful $13K investment 20 years ago is an annuity worth $Millions in taxes alone! Sign me up for that kind of investment!