skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides the usual regex aches and pains, the grammar for email addresses is far more complex than most people realize. According to a highly-voted Stack Overflow answer [1], the current RFC-specified grammar for addresses can't even be matched with regex alone. Combining the edge cases of the grammar with (say) Unicode normalization sounds like a recipe for hours of fun.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/using-a-regular-e...
Lawsuit seeks more than $5M from Apple slowing older iPhones with iOS 9 upgrade
FYI mozilla has this site flagged. Not sure if this is a joke or real.
Yes. The current situation heavily favors multinationals over wholly domestic corporations. In almost every country, but particularly in the US. That's why "inversions" are all the rage - if you aren't a subsidiary of a corporation in a low-tax country you almost have to become one.
iOS 9 Slows iPhone 4S Complaint
But people try and minimise their taxes as much as possible.

Taxes that corporations pay are more complicated and they have more legal avenues to minimise tax payable.
> Don't forget that many of these large companies paid off the politicians to ensure there were these loopholes to exploit in the first place.

Which companies did that? Can you provide a link to more details?
Good; they should be.
I presume that one of the problems with one queue for all registers is that people will perceive it as a longer line. A five person line at a particular register doesn't seem as bad as a fifty person line for all ten registers.
And this is exactly why I have such a deep distaste for typical forum "moderation"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10804163

Dang seemed to presume that everyone here would just "gawk" at Ian's issues. He assumed that Ian's cries for help would be responded to in bad faith.

Had "Dang" simply left the post alone, it's very likely that some people here could have touched base with Ian and prevented this suicide from happening.

Instead the thread was deleted, for no reason other than a moderator unilaterally decided to remove it based on prejudice. Now Ian is dead without anyone here being given a chance to intervene, when they would have had the opportunity if the thread front-paged.
Hi there - I wrote the piece and you pretty succinctly summed up some of my internal arguments for not sharing the story. I'll share some of my thoughts on those and why I ultimately decided to share anyway. While I knew some customers/prospects would appreciate and possibly admire the transparency, my main concern was that others might be deterred.

First, they might be deterred by the issues I mentioned in the post. None of the challenges I mentioned in the piece were special. We lost a customer. We had an outage (a year ago). We were stressed. Every API company and competitor, not to mention our customers, have had a similar story. Of course we made it through those challenges, or we wouldn't be telling this story. They made us stronger. Plus, we love it when prospects ask about uptime because it's something we take seriously and where we have a great track record :)

Second, they might be deterred at the idea of failure being ok. Perhaps the message in the piece is too subtle. It's not supposed to be that it's ok to be lazy and fail at stuff. It's about getting perspective and not letting your anxiety cripple you. I hoped what would come through in this piece is that we care very deeply about our work, so much so that sometimes we needed to be reminded that it's not life or death.

Finally, I'll share some of my thoughts on why it might be beneficial to share.

First, like I mentioned in the post, being a part of the tech community and contributing to it, sharing some of the lessons you've learned, is very rewarding. I've found that when you give, not only does it feel good, but the community gives back, often later on and in surprising ways you didn't expect. You reach like-minded customers, partners, candidates, investors, all kinds of things.

Second, as a data company, trust is incredibly important to our brand. Some might disagree, but I think sharing the more human sides of the company helps to expand that trust. This is how we have always operated the company, and I think it is a large part of why we not only have a lot of customers (and growing), but many fans. We like knowing our customers and we like them to know us too.
I have run Ubuntu and RedHat on multiple hardware, Desktop, not just server, dozens of machines the past 10 years. Freezing on all those hardware combinations was never a problem. Crashing was absolutely never a problem.
I didn't get the reference.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(paper)
Unity, like it or not, is quite stable.
Obama also wanted to reduce income tax filing to a single-page affair. Almost all such proposals along these lines founder on the rocks of legislative buy-in. Given Trump's penchant for denouncing other people as idiots and worse, even if he were to be elected I'm skeptical about his ability to get anything substantial done. Sure, some in congress would be intimidated or enthused into working with him, but others would conclude that he would be in place for 8 years at most, whereas government projects and finances typically involve much longer time horizons. I seriously doubt anyone trusts Trump to supervise a rewrite of the Constitution.
The only people who think the police are evil are uneducated knuckle draggers whose total education is TV "news" and the internet while surfing the web in their mother's basement.

You are an imbecile.
I'm a keen.io customer, and I don't feel betrayed. YMMV.
And yet the kernel that he has created and is developed with his methods, it runs on the greatest variety of systems, from toasters right up to being the predominant OS in the top 500 supercomputers (by a wide margin).
It's not free to terminate an employee in the US. The (former) employer pays for the cost of unemployment claims. A company like Twitter will likely also pay severance, because it makes them considerably less attractive to future hires if they don't, and also because it can be cheaper than dealing with a potential lawsuit from a terminated employee.
... Antibiotics was not chosen out of the blue. We control every part of their life in order to eradicate another life.

I read your full comment, and I don't really care what you care about, my point was to point out that your point was inconsistent, whether you were expressing it as your "own" point of view or a "friend of a friends" I don't care, the point is still inconsistent.
I am from the U.S.
I think the American might have forgotten something. All European American are "Not American". Our ancestors came from Europe and kicked out the "Real American". We should stop discriminating people with different ethnicity, religions, etc.
1) Yes. This is true and annoying especially if you care about short term cash flow. If you super care about this you can play games with your W4 to cut down your withholding and instead pay quarterly tax payments. Though if you screw up and underpay you'll owe penalties.

2A) Indeed I agree. Though personally I put the chance of this ever happening at precisely zero due to the political optics.

2B) The difficulty of determining what is a capital gain and what is income is, in fact, one of the biggest theoretical arguments against a zero cap gains rate.
The police were called because he was drunk and trying to break into someone's home. Then returned and was banging on another door. He died the next day, and not in police presence, but you want to blame the police for his actions? His actions which caused at least two citizens to fear danger to themselves that they felt they needed protection from him? This is all the police' fault?

May I ask your age and education level? Do you always blame others for your actions and when bad things happen to you? Especially those things that offend others in your neighborhood and among friends?
The police were called because he was drunk and trying to break into someone's home. Then returned and was banging on another door. He died the next day, and not in police presence, but you want to blame the police for his actions?
White dudes don't usually bend over like this. Why didn't he go back with an AR and take the fucking cops out? Strange!!!
>Yeah, or, Apple benefits handsomely from money spent on their behalf by the federal and local governments (e.g. the roads and public transit infrastructure serving their headquarters, the funding for the public universities and subsidized loans for private universities from which they draw their employees), but apparently doesn't feel any obligation for funding those benefits.

It's hard to see any way to do the accounting such that Apple doesn't already pay for that and more.

And if you're going to start doing that kind of accounting, shouldn't governments credit Apple with the personal income taxes Apple employees pay?
Think smaller. Most of the mechanism has to fit inside the dimensions of an arm or elbow.
I have a problem when people call tax burdens fair. There are so many ways to define fair its rediculous and has no solid meaning.

Also, on that note, its not logically possible to tax a business alone. Any tax a business pays must by necessity be passed on to consumers, else the company goes out of business. You can get around it by only taxing profits, but then you open the giant loophole of all value that's not profits, like capital, income, tax free expenses, etc. There is no "fair" way to do that makes everyone happier.
Eleven Things Americans Should Do
According to publicly available information PS4 APU is comparable to 7790 and this is how it's can perform on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf0qdt9HZCQ

Also since this test Gallium Nine only become better for running things in Wine.
Ian Murdock – A victim of police brutality?
For me, I decided long ago to slow down, and not feel on edge while I wait for someone to finish so that we can get to the part where I get to talk, and not interrupt so that I can show that I know the answer or disagree before a sentence has been finished. I find that I listen better. YMMV.
While at-will seems like firing quickly is common, it's really not. In a large company there are often (not always) many HR hoops to go through in order to fire. Often these have to do with legal processes. For example, an employee might have developed alcoholism. A company cannot legal dismiss the employee if the employee is willing to go to rehab. They can fire a contractor/consultant (provided the contract allows for that).

It also has to do with morale. If Jim just disappears and he's a FTE, that makes people nervous. They might start looking at a different positions. If Sally the consultant is gone tomorrow, oh well. There is often an "us" v "them" relationship between FTEs and consultants. It's not necessarily antagonistic, but it's not as amicable as FTE to FTE.
>However, all it takes is one Federal case and all of a sudden the law against it actually matters, and on that day saying it's legal in your state won't amount to diddly squat.

1. Are you suggesting that states will start enforcing federal drug laws if a resident in a legal state is brought to court?

2. Are you aware that the DEA has done countless raids in California?

3. Do you think that this particular incident and the concerns it raises is a local law enforcement issue, or do you imagine that the DEA operates by going through people's trash for tea leaves?
Is that "chad@" or "chаd@" (homoglyphs)?
> Why would you take risk into account for purposes of taxation? Should gambling income be taxed at a commensurately lower rate?

There's actually some bizarreness in the English tax code around this. Most taxpayers are subject to a 28% levy on investment returns. Gamblers themselves aren't taxed on winnings while the house pays 15% on their profits. (The treatment of professional gamblers is a conversation for your accountant.)
Like Amazon, is there any goldmine for software where I can go and find what users want after having used different software products?
If I buy an asset that only appreciates at the rate of inflation, then I end up paying taxes on what amounts to a fake gain. Even if it appreciates faster my effective tax rate is higher than the actual number used to calculate my taxes.
Maybe the regular brain has empty space so is can flush toxins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrospinal_fluid#Circulatio...
SAD NEWS – Debian Founder Ian Has Passed Away
I crashed it within a few minutes. Clicked Lists -> Member Tab => Subscribed Tab ... beachball, crash.

I'm surprised in a way this is a native OS X App - from what I've seen of Node.js + electron something identical could have been written that was cross platform.
Depends what your definition of 'fair' is. Conservatives think it's 'fair' that everyone pays the same rate. Progressives think it's 'fair' that everyone pays what they can afford.

'Fair' depends strongly upon one's beliefs, and can't be objectively defined.
Here is what he did:

1) He tried to break into someone's home.

2) He fought with the police who were called by the homeowner.

3) He was drunk.

4) He returned to the same neighborhood and banged on another door; subsequently arrested

5) He died the next day, after the previous incidents.
No, he's not. He is a little arrogant - it's hard to be such a significant tech lead without being so - but if you actually read what he writes, he's not actually that abrasive.

What happens is that some sensationalist idiot will see Torvalds lose his patience and post an angry retort to someone, and post just that response to places like HN, completely out of context. I've lost count of the number of times it's happened here, when everyone's tutting about Torvalds' behaviour and how he's "so aggressive right out of the gate", when no-one looks at the thread history to see him being patient and explaining things.

In any case, zero of the tech heads from Jobs on down satisfy your demands to be taken seriously. I really don't understand why Torvalds gets held to this higher standard of hippie-level friendliness when people don't expect the same from other major tech project managers. I mean hell, Jobs was adored for having opinions that people considered ridiculous.
Ohh, I didn't get it at first either. Thought of the country.

Best image to explain a hanging "chad": http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1400000/Halloween-ho...
About 20% goes to 'income support'. There's a slightly partisan-but-fair breakdown here: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/12/federal-spe...
For the first time, scientists observe a two-phonon quantum interference
I find a lot of websites will eat passwords that contain special characters. I don't mean that they'll tell you it doesn't match the password policy, I mean that they'll accept the password and then tell you the password is wrong when you come back to sign in. I eventually had to teach my password generator to use only a few usually-properly-handled special characters when generating to avoid the hassle of having to reset the password every time. The same thing is often true of long passwords -- websites will accept the password at the UI level, but it probably gets truncated somewhere in the processing, and you don't know which character you got cut off at, so you have to reset to something shorter.
i wonder how many books we all downloaded

i got

APL Programs for the Mathematics Classroom Norman Thomson

Arithmetic Geometry Edited by Gary Cornell

BASIC Game Plans Computer Games and Puzzles Programmed in BASIC

An APL Compiler Timothy Budd

The Chemical Bond Tadamasa Shida

Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code

Proofs from the Book
I think you're missing that this is EXACTLY my point. I'm really doubting a disc that could fit inside an elbow would be able to stop the torque of a few hundred (900/4) lbs on it. Actually one inside the elbow would have a very minimal surface area on the disc in the first place.
I agree that the only real restriction that makes sense is a minimum character count. The others just tend to get in the way. I haven't seen anyone implement it in the wild, but it'd also be cool if there was a wordlist of the 25 most common passwords that the site matched against and refused to accept. I think those two policies, minimum length and no super common passwords, would do a lot to minimize the effectiveness of dictionary attacks.
not really, people are doing some experiments with linux kernel as well.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...
You can do what you can to improve and encourage the adoption of technology that makes dragnet voyeurism impossible, and individual surveillance expensive enough to be reserved for bona fide investigations.

As much as feasible, avoid buying into technology that prioritizes shiny bells and whistles over privacy and security.

And perhaps try to practice and spread greater tolerance for personal lifestyle differences, hopefully to reduce the amount of persecution in the event that nothing can prevent the surveillance state from emerging.
>If Apple (US) sells an iPhone to an American customer, they will pay US corporate income tax on the profits from that sale.

Except they don't, really. They use the same "double Irish" scheme in the US. Apple has offshore holding companies that own the IP for that iPhone. When a US customer buys an iPhone, much of the actual profit gets shifted to the offshore subsidiaries as an expense. That's how they ended up with $200bn offshore and only $10bn or so in the US.
BEYOND CONTROL: MATHS OF a CONTROL SYSTEM
Thanks for sharing this. I've always appreciated the HN community. Happy to answer any questions!

(Also, that's a weird title. Any mods want to change it?)
Chad's also the stereotypical douchebag name.
I think the better analogy would be driving with a very very dirty windshield. Or a slippery stealing wheel.

It's not that absence of debugger would make you (in Linus' opinion) more careful because it's risky, but because it's really inconvenient.
If you're just using xset, you're missing out massively.

Use xinput instead, it gives you full access to all of X's acceleration profiles and all the parameters you can tweak with them.

http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/PointerAccel...

I cannot agree more that said xinput interface could do with a UI though. Not because I hate the commandline but because repeatedly entering long commands with numbers just kills it for me - there's no rapid feedback loop.

And so I continue to avoid using my ThinkPads' Trackpoints because I can never get them to a point where they aren't a strain to use.....
We made a read-only ethernet cable for network capture
Interesting. I found more about this on Wikipedia [0]. As a tech hobbyist with a PS3 in my teens, I was genuinely interested in a desktop replacement. I shared this interest with others in my cohort at the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
The old Twitter app for OS X wasn't theirs either, they just bought and re-branded Tweetie. So they could have re-branded TweetDeck even more easily.
> Conservatives think it's 'fair' that everyone pays the same rate.

Which is a position completely ignorant of the marginal utility of money. No, it isn't fair that for one guy 10% could be the difference between getting by and not getting by while for the other guy 10% means no change to his lifestyle all.

No, progressives think it's fair that the burden is felt equally and that requires understanding how money works.

> 'Fair' depends strongly upon one's beliefs, and can't be objectively defined.

Fair does depend on beliefs, but some people's beliefs are objectively stupid. Anyone who denies the marginal utility of money and insists a flat percentage is fair, doesn't understand money and doesn't belong in the conversation just as anyone who believes vaccines cause autism is objective stupid and doesn't belong in that conversation. Everyone has opinions, that doesn't make them equal.
The site is now blacklisted for Chrome users. I've emailed the author letting him know about this issue.
I don't understand how this could be news to anyone. The US has the lowest labor force participation since before women entered the workforce. The H-2 program, like the H-1 program, is just a way to flood the labor market so employees will never enjoy the sorts of labor shortages that are the only way to raise real wages.
> Run screaming if the video card is made by Nvidia.

In my experience, it's the opposite. 5-6 years ago, ATI was the friendly one and nvidia gave you hell trying to get it to work. Now it's flipped - the ATI cards I've tried just plain don't work, whereas the nvidia ones will work, and with a few choice harsh words, will work well. Just my anecdata, though, and this is with desktop cards, not laptops (I use thinkpads with intel graphics...)
But tech blogs get review items all the time. Youtube game reviewers too. Most published film critiques are due to free critics screenings.
15 News Stories from 2015 You Should Have Heard About but Probably Didn’t
While it's true that fair is hard to define objectively progressive tax rates are easy to support from quite a few underlying premises:

1) utility maximization
2) Rawlsian justice
3) fee for service model based on benefits received from government

It's actually pretty hard to justify a flat tax from most underlying axioms. I think you'd actually have an easier time justifying a flat fee where everyone pays the same $ value regardless of income.

I also contest your assertion that "Conservatives think it's 'fair' that everyone pays the same rate." While that might be true for some conservatives, political support for progressive tax rates go much beyond Democrats.
I have just read your link.

I'm one of those people that don't believe humans to be special and would happily see them being replaced by what made them obsolete.

I don't believe in Friendly AI. Yudkowsky's thesis is flawed. We should be replaced.
"Similarly, if you were earning 7 figures and wanted to help society / people in need, would the government really be your best choice in terms of bang for your buck?"

Under the current tax code, people already have the ability to donate up to 50% of their income to charity tax free. How many people do you know who donate 50% of their income to charity every year?
It seems like Anker and Aukey are the only two companies I trust these days with accessories.
A flat tax is a bad idea. A progressive tax without deductions might work, but a flat tax would just be a huge tax increase overnight for 90% of Americans.
Apparently, one or two homes, and there are limitations on the deduction for your second home.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p936/ar02.html
> I have a problem when people call tax burdens fair.

Well I have a problem with people who think fair doesn't matter.

> There are so many ways to define fair its rediculous and has no solid meaning.

Fair is like porn, it's hard to define, but everyone knows when they see it. It's genetic, even monkeys have a sense of fairness and refuse to cooperate when they're being treated unfairly. If that's not enough meaning for you, look harder.

> There is no "fair" way to do that makes everyone happier.

Sure there, look up the veil of ignorance; people think more fairly when they don't know which side of the equation they'll come out on.
I co-run an ISP in Montana that started out wireless (40/10) and now does FTTH (100/100 Mbps to 1/1Gbps). We don't see much difference between our wireless and fiber customers in terms of consumption at the moment. I am interested to see what happens when streaming VR becomes prevalent. Our biggest streams are Netflix 4K streams; biggest downloads are steam/console game downloads (~25Gbps).

It is fun to watch new customers bandwidth consumption. It maxes out for a few days to a week...and then then drops. As far as we can tell people back everything up, update everything, torrent everything .... and then run out of things to download / upload.