skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a stake in this discussion either way, but it seems to me that you're not quantifying the tradeoffs properly (not that I expect you to, really.) It could very well be the case that the improved earnings of that Chinese peasant are vastly disproportionate to the loss experienced by the factory worker in Detroit. The middle-man transferring the money from one market to the other could be pocketing most of it, leaving the majority of people worse of and in a far weaker political position.

And while it may seem to be a net positive to humanity, that could very easily be a relativistic perspective that breaks down in the long term.
HP's new business model for the last 2 years :

* cut costs (mostly by disabling essential business functions)

* buy back stock using proceeds

The result:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

The person in Charge : Meg Whitman. In 2008, she was cited by The New York Times as among the women most likely to become the first female President of the United States.

Because what "worked" for HP, we should apply to all of the US.

Also see:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-24/why-hewlett-packard...
HP Enterprise are aiming to be operating out of a suburban Palo Alto garage by the end of next year.
Wow this is a pretty huge cut. However, I won't lie/sugar coat it -- I think of HP as one of the most stereotypically bad big companies (where you can go in get a job, and almost never get fired, despite not doing very much work), so this is probably a great move for them. I can't imagine it really takes 300,000 people to do what HP does.

I'm sure there are departments that do cutting edge hardware/software work at HP, and I just haven't seen them yet
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It looks like most people took pills with them, while the pharmacist did not. I'm a pharmacist and I would not take any. Maybe the sample size is too small for me to say this, but it seems that laymen overestimate the power of medicine.
Anil Dash started a document for folks to show support. He says he'll be in touch with the family soon.

https://twitter.com/anildash/status/644000575617658881
Neat.

Threw together a usermacro for Atlassian Confluence that uses this as a quick and dirty proof of concept: https://gist.github.com/gregmac/fa89a3d86dcb1a008153
This article is way more important than the web crawler example used to motivate it. It's easily the single best thing I've ever read on asyncio, and I've been using it in anger for a year now. I've passed it around my team, and will be recommending it far and wide!
The point in the article that deserves more attention is how creating a landing page was the most useful tool for the author. Sometimes I feel, before writing the first line of code of the project, the more important thing to do is to create a landing page and market it to the concerned audience.

This solves three problems -

1) You won't build something people don't need.

2) You get into touch with people who actually want to use your product and you can steer your idea into a more clear direction.

3) The leads motivate you (as it did with author).
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Even better if we could config it in the settings page (like topcolor...)
As a contrast, I consistently get actionable information that influences major decisions from my curated Twitter feed.
How was the header image made?
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> The tech company has struggled over the last decade to keep up with changing demands as customers move away from desktop computers.

Maybe, but laptop or desktop, HP has been always synonymous with crappy quality and design - among the worst I have ever seen. I just can't wait for them to stop making PCs so that we can get at least half-decent laptops from other manufacturers.
When you say money, you mean M0. When GP says money, they mean M2.
Lockheed Unveils ‘TR-X’ as Next-Generation U-2
There's another potential player in Laravel (PHP framework with similarities to Rails, with dependency injection), which has grown larger than NodeJS in a shorter space of time (based on Google trends).
If it's NP-hard, it's not really a "regular expression". It's more like a SNOBOL pattern, but with worse syntax. In SNOBOL, backing up was referred to as "pulling the needle back" as it backed out of a failed subpattern to try a different one.
Spigot does this for another reason: thanks to someone making the arguably stupid choice of using GPLv3 for a project linking to (propiertary) Minecraft source code, CraftBukkit has been DMCA'd by one of the lead developers over Mojang taking over the project when the lead dev team quit and is now essentially illegal to redistribute.
One tip: If you make your pipeline fine-grained, you have much more flexibility in terms of scheduling and parallelization, and also makes it easier to expand and design.

By fine-grained I mean that fetching, crawling, extraction and whatever other processing you're doing should be separate, discrete steps.

Example naive topology:

Fetcher: Pops next URL off a queue, fetches it, stores the raw data somewhere, emits a "fetched" event.

Link extractor: Subscribes to fetch events, extracts every URL from the data, each of which is emitted as a "link" event.

Crawling scheduler: Listens to link events, schedules "fetch" events for each URL. This is where you might add filtering and prioritization rules, for example.

Now you have three queues and three consumers, which can run in parallel with any number of worker processes dedicated to them. A naive solution could use something like a database for the events, but a dedicated queue such as RabbitMQ would fare better.
Thanks. I'm curious - what did you change on your site that caused no results being shown when someone searches for you on https://www.truste.com/consumer-resources/trusted-directory/ ?
Why cannot photographs be simply for the reason of memories?Not everyone person who clicks them uses them for blog posts and aims for maximum number of shares. If I like particular moment,I would like to click a picture a of it.I would like the picture to be my own ,because I would have a descriptive commentary in my head for the picture.A single location being photographed 'too much' is really not an issue which needs solving does it.I like the use-case which requires the parent's permission for a child's picture.

But apart from that,I see this feature being exploited quite a fair bit.

PS : I am not trying to add destructive comments here.But imagine going on a 20k vacation with a 5k camera being told you are not allowed to click a picture.
Yes, you've increased the amount of money available to people to borrow (M2) by $100.

it affects inflation, if not as much as M0 does iirc. (its been a while since I've taken econ, so i'm a little fuzzy on that)
My father is a field-service engineer for HP in Midwest (based out of Minneapolis, but he has calls all over from Fargo, ND to Mpls, MN to Madison, WI). He is _the_ go-to for their biggest, most senior, most mission-critical clients. He put together UMN's Alpha setup, is the only guy that USPS will call for help, MNSCU, Best Buy, UHG... basically, anyone with an HP setup (server or printer) that's a Fortune 1000 (and some of the smaller guys too) — he's their man.

He's feeling the heat.

He's made it through the absorption of Compaq, and when Compaq absorbed Digital. He's won a ton of awards with each company he's been at, frequently getting high marks for his professionalism, timeliness, availability, willingness to mentor the new guys, stuff like that. He also brought in more than $4MM in revenue for HP in one fiscal year, even though sales wasn't his job (I think it came out to 28 different contracts?) The next highest was $600k. It's been like that for 25 years.

Needless to say, he's pretty damn good at his job.

He's late 50s, but in amazing health. My mother, however, is in her 50s, and is in absolutely terrible health.

They cannot afford to lose healthcare coverage. My mom wouldn't make it, and my father would probably lose his mind. They just refinanced their 220k mortgage and put new siding on their suburban house, added new gutters, got the roof redone, stuff like that.

Please, don't make this about how shitty of an investment that might have been. That's beside the point.

He makes a good living — he filed $98k last year, but that's a _ton_ of overtime.

All he's known is hardware for the last 30 years. He's not a sysadmin and will never be. He's not some low-level nerd. He's the product of an unnotable tech school and he's worked his ass off to keep things afloat. I don't have the best relationship with him at all, but he's a human and I picked up my people skills (if you can call them that) from him.

Who would hire him at this age, with this kind of experience?
There are efficient ways to do it though (the article link to Scott), even if they are not always very easy to understand.
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I'll speak for Flanders, where I've lived. I presume it's not unlike some other large metropolitan mega-regions in Europe.

Something that may contribute is that life is fairly predictable in Europe, and by many accounts prosperous. This may sedate the entrepreneurial spirit.

Selling your labor to make a living is an entirely respectable choice. A comfortable life all the way to the end is more or less guaranteed. Labor protections are much more generous as well. In the US, starting a company is partly an attempt to escape wage slavery and toxic work environments. Somewhat exaggerated perhaps, but in the USA, the entrepreneur is celebrated while the salaried employee is pitied. (Unless when it's election season and all suitors crow about jerbs, jerbs, jerbs).

There is also an enormously amount of stored wealth in the existing infrastructure and built environment, much of it owned by families or collectively, and people enjoy continued long term robust family relations and social support structures nearby, cradle to grave. Generations of prosperity and fairly modest lifestyles see to that. This is lost to many Americans, when comparing snapshot measures like average yearly income or per capita GDP. But wealth - the measurable money kind and immeasurable chicken-soup-for-the-soul-kind is accumulated over time and regions like Flanders are positively rich with both. America - somewhat a cliche - MUST be sustained by growth, because the recurring costs of the necessities are so high. The built environment in America is basically a gigantic liability, only supported by a promise of future revenue. And the constant geographical movement of labor breaks apart families and existing support structures, constantly in need to be reconstructed. In this context, the promise of a fat payout after an IPO is a soothing balm.
Google Dataflow a Unified Model for Batch and Streaming Data Processing
You're not accounting for fractional reserve banking, where the banks only need to keep a certain amount of deposits on hand, and can loan the rest out to other people. For example, you deposit $100 into a bank. They keep, say, $20, and loan Erin $80 out to another person. This essentially creates money out of thin air since you still legally own that $100 dollars, and but now Erin has $80, bringing the total amount of money in our little economy to $180.

This all works fine assuming you don't try to withdraw all $100 since they only have $20 on hand. Nor would it be good if Erin defaults on her debt. Or the bank collapses. This is what FDIC is there to protect, where the government will create new money in case things collapse.
You're right to point out that the NSA doesn't give a fuck about the law, but..

> the rule of law is the point, it is a necessary condition for a civilized society and MOST ESPECIALLY the government needs to be bound by it

You seem to be overlooking the fact that the organization that makes the laws is, by definition, above them. The government is not bound by its own laws any more than a King or Emperor by his, back in the day.

The reason why you see crimes go unpunished is that people with political power and/or connections are effectively above the law.
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As much as programming required the same code over and over, there's still a whole lot of thinking that needs to be applied - at the core, there's the need to think like a computer just to solve the problem itself; on top of that there's a layer of understanding required to debug to make it more than just bruteforcong; and then there's a layer of understanding the fundamentals of the underlying architecture in order to be able to reason how to solve a problem in a fast, reliable, and efficient way. While a traditional programming class can teach how to write code, and maybe even how to solve basic problems on your own, a few short programming tutorials isn't enough to get most people into the right mind-set to go on learning the rest on their own, nor is it usually enough for them to be able to go out and write a full program from scratch.
I was impressed with some of the developments apparently taking place in American school systems:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-14/public-school-stude...

"In their zeal to crack down on guns and lock down the schools, these cheerleaders for police state tactics in the schools might also fail to mention the lucrative, multi-million dollar deals being cut with military contractors such as Taser International to equip these school cops with tasers, tanks, rifles and $100,000 shooting detection systems."

"Indeed, the transformation of hometown police departments into extensions of the military has been mirrored in the public schools, where school police have been gifted with high-powered M16 rifles, MRAP armored vehicles, grenade launchers, and other military gear. One Texas school district even boasts its own 12-member SWAT team."

"One SRO is accused of punching a 13-year-old student in the face for cutting the cafeteria line. That same cop put another student in a chokehold a week later, allegedly knocking the student unconscious and causing a brain injury. In Pennsylvania, a student was tased after ignoring an order to put his cell phone away."
The sexism is that part that they cut -- the gratuitous nudity.
It's sad that HP+Compaq turned into this zombie company
This person wasn't expected to stay the same amount late at the end of the day?
The pharmacist's bag was very small, and n size=1 here is very irrelevant. Medicines such as antibiotics can make the difference between life and death if you get an infection.
The NSA consists of many parts. Some people within it breaking the law does not mean that laws don't matter there.
The journey of a first-time filmmaker through the eyes of a software engineer
If there's as much demand for him as you're describing, he could probably make a much better living doing consulting for these companies than he could working for HP.
The new corporations are about efficiencies they are not paternalistic as their post-war incarnations. The situation is unfortunate but HP Enterprise Services has a goal of 60% off-shore workforce (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/meg-whitman-hp-offshore-60-224...). That would mean HP is going IBM route even though IBM got wacked big time.
Being able to build a team overseas seems like a superpower. A lot of the advice here seems to actually apply to growing a team anywhere, but I wonder how much harder it is in a different market.
Maybe relevant: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDoS
Update: Solved https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10216280
"humanizing" in a weird way. Which is good.

I strongly believe most refugees should get help where they come from but making sure they are treated like humans when they arrive can only help I think.
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I'm really sorry for all those people. Nothing worse than losing your job. I hope they at least get a good severance. It's a pretty mis-run company that is now having a lot of human collateral damage. Really sad.
"the need for any future corporate restructuring."

Ever.

Always funny when CEO talk about the future and think about the next quarter.
As seen @ 1:22:53 in Hackers.
That is smart. It never crossed my mind, but it's actually a good idea.

UPDATE: op writes "Fast forward to today: I launched Stage to the public. I’m still embarrassed, because there a lot of things missing and it has some rough edges here and there."

That's the main reason I (and many others) never thought of even launching a landing page for our side-projects (that never get completed). I'm kinda embarrassed, because instead on being happy for what I've done, I feel bad for what I didn't but could have done (if I had put more time and effort, if I was a better designer, etc.).
I don't know why I didn't think of this. I'm 24, a bit naive, bleh. I let him know in a text. Thank you.

I referred to HN as "my Silicon Valley friends"
You should be worried that even the police are so darn stupid that they do not understand that bombs are things made out of EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL, and not boxes with wires like you see in the movies. EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS are dangerous. So are the triggers that set them off because they are small containers of explosive that can be set off by an electric current.

Switches, on the other hand, are not dangerous unless they are attached to a blasting cap and other EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL. Neither are mobile phones (even though ALL MOBILE PHONE BATTERIES ARE MADE OF EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL) and neither are timing devices such as clocks. A clock is not even dangerous when it is attached to a switch, unless of course, a blasting cap and EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL is already attached.

Police and other personnel responsible for public safety, like teachers, cannot be allowed to wallow in ignorance living in a fantasy world. They must have some awareness of REAL THINGS so that they can recognize dangers. Why are these people not trained how to recognize EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS, triggers, blasting caps, etc.?

There are enough crazies out there know, also living in a fantasy world, that the people charged with public safety need to know how to distinguish REAL THREATS from Hollywood fantasy. I blame the incompetence and corruption of management, i.e. school boards, police commissioners, mayors, etc.
What was IBMs service offering? I'm not very familiar with the industry. The joke is, my father "gets paid to drive" because he's always in his car. Probably... 65% of the time he's in his car, 30% onsite, and 5% at the home office.

Can't offshore that, or can you?
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> They cannot afford to lose healthcare coverage.

And with Obamacare, they don't have to. They should be able to purchase decent coverage on the exchange, right? That's what we did when I quit my job.
Heh, it used to be a joke that HP was basically an ink company. Seems to become more true every day.
I quite like anltr4's ALL(*) parsing. It always seems to hit the spot between reasonable speed and user friendliness. http://www.antlr.org/papers/allstar-techreport.pdf
There's never been a better time to be an individual investor than today. You can buy index funds at costs that are constantly going down, not up. That's a good thing for the average investor.
If neurons are polymorphic functions, not keepers of state, it would stand to reason that certain functions at the root of a dependency tree would get more use than some obscure branches. Is it overreaching to suggest that object orientation has been detrimental to our understanding of cognitive processes?

I can think of so many memories of images of brains drawn into regions. Usually for comedic effect. But the symbol is powerful. Different 'parts' of the brain know or do things related to a specific domain. To imagine the brain does crazy things like biological macros is harder to draw in 2D, but likely much more accurate to the real world than having a portion of my brain dedicated to XYZ...
Nietzsche – The Dionysian Impulse (2009)
The amazing coverage they have is barely cutting it. He pays pennies on the dollar for the coverage they get. I can't imagine it would be like this at all on the exchange.
Most of US big companies are like that if they have more than 200000 people you seriously can cut 30000 jobs any time.
Definitely. Or, if consulting isn't to his taste, take a job with one of them.

In his shoes, I'd also make sure I keep contact information for all his best customers. Because if he gets laid off suddenly, he'll want to go back to them at least to say, "Hey, do any of your vendors need a reliable field service engineer?"
It sounds like the situation my dad was in. He had to switch careers in his early 50s, going from project engineering for a defense contractor to right-of-way acquisition and management in the oil and natural gas industry. He lost his job again at 60, but was able to parlay his leadership and management skills into a high level position with a company in Houston, partly through contacts he made while learning the oil business ropes.

Your father needs to put some serious effort into getting on paper all the skills, both technical and soft "people-type", that he's learned over his career and put himself out there. Minneapolis is a big city and it sounds like he's made quite a few contacts that he could leverage for help getting a new career.

Above all, encourage him not to give up!
Why I did not now about this.
Apropos snipping data from PDFs:

Tabula is a tool for liberating data tables trapped inside PDF files (via a simple web interface) - source on github http://tabula.technology
The is the operating system that I always wanted to make, without having the time or talent to pull it off. Just wonderful.