skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The discussion on reddit about this technology is interesting, especially if you're not familiar with how this is accomplished: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/bbg9c/unlimited_deta...

Apparently there are drawbacks to this rendering approach, although this company has claimed to have solved them. I'd be interested to hear from anybody here what experience they have with this type of rendering.
The "Amazing Service Guy" doesn't understand how A&F markets itself. When I taught, I had a student who worked at an A&F store for a couple weeks. He quit because he kept getting in trouble for being too friendly and talking to customers.

The people in the store aren't there to help customers. They are there for two things. Mundanely, they neaten up the store to meet the exacting vision of the maniacal CEO. More importantly, they serve as aloof aspirational models for customers.

Point being, this is a company that markets itself as the cool kid who doesn't really want to hang out with you. You're just not good enough. You then buy the merchandise in hopes that some of that snobby elite coolness will be bestowed upon you.

It doesn't surprise me that they'd be hostile to one of their customers. That's their shtick, man.
Interesting fact: If you restrict yourself in certain ways (e.g. no backreferences), it's possible to write an automatic "subtype" checking system for regular expressions.

(By this I mean you can prove, for two regexes, that if the first matches something then the second will always also match that same text. You can also test for exact equivalence by making sure the relation holds in both directions.)

I've used this before in code that dealt with XML schema (which are roughly regular expressions over trees), but it strikes me that it could be highly useful to have for the analysis & optimization described...

Examples might be an optimization database (if you see a part of a regex that's equivalent to X, substitute Y instead), or automatically generating faster-but-coarser regexes.
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Besides, you can't compare porn for men to porn for women. You have to compare it to romantic comedies, and romantic movies in general.

For example, watching Nights in Rodanthe, it was just ridiculous how much they mentioned that the guy Richard Gere plays is a doctor. His son was a doctor too. They must mention it eight times. Why? Because for a woman past her mid-thirties, there is no better thing to marry than a guy with a safe and very bankable job. Very objectified.
You've seen EveryBlock (http://www.everyblock.com/), yes? Among many other things, it'll give you newspaper/blog articles for a specific address in 15 U.S. cities. Not international or even U.S.-wide, but very damn good for its 15 cities.

(Disclaimer: I'm proud to work for EveryBlock.)
The problem is, people seem to genuinely like living in fear. Maybe it gives them something to talk about, maybe it's like being on a roller-coaster, but the media wouldn't blow things out of all proportion unless there was a market for it. Politicians wouldn't make some of these crazy laws if the public didn't demand it.

People buy newspapers less to hear about the real news but to be worried/scared/concerned about stupid stuff they shouldn't care about.

I think it's societies fascination with that sort of thing that needs fixing.

The vast majority of us will live largely uneventful lives and will die of old age/cancer/heart attack/etc. We're not going to have our kids abducted, be the victim of terrorism, die from swine flu etc.

Maybe it's that "You're going to lead an uneventful life" bit that people just can't bear to face.

The worst one recently is pedophilia. I went to my sons play at school a while back, and we were told we must not video the play, and at the end we were told we could take pictures, but only of our own children, not of other peoples children, and not of groups of children together!

Of course everyone ignored the headteacher and instead used common sense - taking group photos etc, but it's incredibly disturbing to see such ridiculous policies come into place. What sort of message are we sending our kids?

(If you haven't seen the Brasseye pedophilia special you should definitely watch it. Classic).
I think that may be outdated. There are intelligent, interesting actresses that are covered in main stream media, best known current example is Sasha Grey but there are many others.

How do you know that "even a brief stint in porn can cause long lasting deleterious effects", have you talked to them? As in any job, e.g. programming, IT, etc. there will be people who hate their job. I think the relevant question is whether someone is forced to a job they hate or has "deleterious effects"?

The idea that all porn actresses are clueless feather brains who were tricked into this trade and continue to be victimized is condescending.
>However, if the markup is not 100% regular, the scripting approach won't work.

Sounds like you need BeautifulSoup.
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I agree, and I think we can add some stipulations. If you want to perform an activity that measurably reduces the life of unwilling bystanders, then it should be regulated. That's why you have to drive on the right side of the road and not on the sidewalk, and why you can't dump your toxic waste into peoples' drinking water. Similarly, you can't dump toxic waste into other peoples' breathing air. Externalities -- it's unfair to push your costs onto other people. If you want to smoke indoors, work from home.
I find that incredibly shortsighted.
Use it responsibly, like alcohol?
Worse than that. The pants bomber failed! And while we're at it, so did the shoe bomber!

In short the system we already had - no extraordinary measures except a populace who was aware of the danger and willing to act, was sufficient. And furthermore to the extent that we are safe from similar incidents in the future it is because we have a populace who is aware of the danger and is willing to act.

Actually, speaking personally, I'm mostly upset at the pants bomber for ruining a good joke. I used to reliably get a good laugh by saying how much worse it would be if the shoe bomber hid the explosives in his underwear. Now that joke doesn't work as well. :-(
Avoiding people like Saul is one reason to do a startup
There's really nothing on the Internet I feel would damage children. Life sucks, get a helmet.
Stalin? Ruthless.

Hitler? Ruthless.

Saul? Not so much.
There is a bit of a split I think. The moment when some technology is invented vs the moment when as the result of that technology some revolution happens are not the same, but we can speak about a 'revolutionary invention' as well as the actual revolution without getting mixed up.

So, Minitel, which in turn was a turnkey terminal version of the videotex standard was revolutionary in the sense that it allowed a whole country (France) to use online services.

But the real revolution came when the world wide web allowed everybody to publish and consume content. The videotex services made a big thing out of being an 'information provider' and a 'consumer', which of course suited the telcos that deployed these devices just perfect.

It never crossed their minds that the unwashed masses would want to publish their own content.

The internet pre-dates the minitel system by about a decade by the way.

But the world-wide-web, a relatively simple layer on top of the internet is about as revolutionary a change as we've had since the electronics revolution and the advent of personal computing.
This happens with polygonal renders, too - it's called occlusion culling.

The problem is that point clouds can't be easily animated, and forget about applying physics to them, which makes them fairly useless for realtime gaming.
Is there a way to find the text you need to append after the # symbol (#xss) to get to a particular section without looking at the page source or using the TOC links?
Do you know whether the restrictions you're talking about limit regexps to the set of actual regular languages?
Can you define "child"? At what age is it safe for a child to see a soft porn act, a hardcore one? Who makes up these rules? If you say every parent should make up the rules for their own family I'd support that; sadly, in real life it seldom works like that, e.g. see the recent misguided Australian attempt to ban access to porn for everyone.
I thought that too, it doesn't have the ring of reality about it.

Even if true, as others has commented, this is far from the most ruthless behaviour in a corporate environment. Taking credit for others' work, blaming your mistakes on other people, creating an impression of doing more than you are, undermining people who are your rivals indirectly and behind the scenes, grinding down the people below you as soon as you move up (and sometimes doing so in the name of 'helping' them and showing you can make the 'tough decisions')... These are commonplace where I work among a certain cadre of people, and I work in one of the more enlightened big companies.
Xah's article on how to pick prostitutes is much better.

http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/las_vegas/20031015_cop...
Clarkson is awesome. Interestingly, his 'give me my freedom' bent would put him at good stead with those types from alabama who ran him out of town.
And a community of library writers so prolific that I actually went to check to see if M-x spoon existed.
Before arguing that tort reform is "desperately needed", it'd do you some good to go read up on Texas' experiment. In a nutshell:

* They passed the toughest, strictest malpractice reforms in the country.

* Seven years later they're still seeing the same skyrocketing health care costs as before the reforms.
The point is, it _is_ a massive over reaction.

Pedophilia is extremely rare. Getting every teacher to have lengthly criminal record checks done, having CCTV in schools, it's all theatre. But it's damaging. Anyone would think there were monsters lurking outside schools trying to get in to abduct children.

It just doesn't happen. Apart from to the 0.000001% unlucky people it does happen to. Which is the whole point.

As for dogs, it should be up to the owner if they want their dog chipped or not.
I was just having a conversation about this with a colleague yesterday. something new came out of it. if it fits your offering.. give it a shot.

Consider giving the User an option 'Not to Purchase' on the pricing/product page.

track it, measure it and force a quick two line feedback as soon as they click it.

You need to be careful with the wording though, as you don't want to misguide them into thinking this is a 'remind me later' kinda thing and hurt your sales.
It's worth discussing with your team. Gluck!
Whether or not the French, Canadian, German, or UK govt can do healthcare doesn't tell us anything about whether the US govt can do healthcare.

What is it about Medicare and other existing US govt healthcare that convinces folks that the US govt can do healthcare on a larger scale?

That's why I make my offer.

Let's give Obama free rein wrt healthcare for folks whose healthcare is already done via the US govts at any level. Not just Medicare/Medicaid (and the state programs), the IHS and other programs, but local, state, and federal employees as well. I'll even throw in companies that get more 70-80% of their revenue from govt. That's easily 40%+ of the population.

Note that those folks are already under "single payer".

In return for free rein, the cost per covered person is capped at today's rates for the first two years and then decreased 5%/year each year for the next four years. Since single payer advocates claim at least a 30% savings and that's just a touch over 20%, that per-person savings should be a slam dunk.

To sweeten the pot, he can use the money from the per-person cut to increase the number of people covered. I'm willing to consider letting other folks/companies buy into the program for the budgeted amount.

The only thing non-negotiable is the total amount spent per person. Yes, he's free to negotiate, remove import restrictions, and the like. However, he can't force people to accept the prices that he'd like to pay - he can only refuse to do biz with folks who don't charge what he'd like. And, if he removes import restrictions, that applies to everyone, not just folks under obamacare.

At the end of six years, we'll know for sure whether the US govt can do healthcare. Heck - I suspect that we'll know earlier.

Deal?
The ability to quickly package your Chickenfoot scripts into Firefox extensions also holds a lot of value

Definitely! I'm really interested in that feature - could you link to some docs of it? Couldn't find much on the site
I agree, and my opinion is that offering up Saul's behavior as a model worth following achieves some genuine progress towards making the world a crappier place.

By analogy, school bullies are very effective at teaching their fellow students the importance of resolve, self-defense, interpersonal dynamics, strength in character, etc. I don't see anyone congratulating bullies for their service to the community anytime soon, however.
I agree, although the only thing I do think is unfortunate is the fact that airlines have drastically _lowered_ the air quality on planes since smoking was banned. (They can get away with it now since you can't smell germs/recycled/stale air).

Kinda ironic really.
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I'm going to attend John's talk of the same name at Microsoft MIX next week. I bet he was practicing at a smaller event to work out the kinks.
Ah, yes, that's why I hate Clarkson: "Nor is it normal to stand outside in the rain to have a cigarette..." I've heard this rant 100 times before. Wanna smoke a cigarette around people's children, or beat your wife, or drive a car with no cat that gets 2 MPG and spews 2 dozen cars worth of soot, or about 100 other things you regret not being able to do now? Well, too damn bad. It's not the 50s anymore. Get over it and stop wining.
+1 The FireFox greasemonkey script tevolutionized my HN experience. Guess now I can finally switch to Chrome.
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Nice work. I've been trying to write something very similar to this for the last couple days so perhaps I won't need to complete it after all.

The one concern i have is that it appears to send up every url I navigate to; I'd much prefer to not have that overhead and instead have a button when I'm interested in a particular url. Having it query searchYC for each page i visit seems overkill, but perhaps not for some people.
I have read a lot of Rand, both fiction and non-fiction, and never seen her say it once. Can you please point me to a source to read so I can correct my understanding of Rand's views?
W2010 batch startup needs a designer and a Rails coder for short term gig(s)
Rails developer needed for 4 weeks work in May. We'll be hiring shortly after, so it could go on longer if you like.

Designer needed now for a small amount of brand work (logo, colours, etc), and page design (focus on pretty and usable). There will be ongoing occasional work here.

Can be same person if you're good at both.

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Ebook sales are pretty revealing when you look at them. There's a lot of women-oriented erotica out there, selling well.

Ebooks remove the stigma both of purchasing and being seen with the erotica, so it's an interesting market to watch.
Hmm. I get the impression that this was written by a someone who's main activity is designing.

I look at it this way. Form and function go hand in hand. The reason Tumblr is successful is because it's well designed AND it works. Where as Posterous, well, the design just isn't as pretty. It still works though...

If I had to choose though, I'd rather make something that works than something that just looks pretty.
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So at the end of this he runs a department, so he still a middle manager, how depressing.

Did he create anything? Did he invent anything?

He doesn't seem like much of a role model to me.

If I met Saul at a party I'd find an excuse to exit the conversation.
The algorithm I used should work with anything that's a "Regular Hedge Grammar".

An off-the-cuff understanding is that means a regular hedge grammer is a CFG written such that any recursion in the grammar is tail-recursion. (Hopefully that makes sense, although I'm mixing terms from different domains there.)

So, yes.

(n.b.: I haven't worked much with the theory; just implemented a couple of papers. :) )
One thing you don't mention is the cost of the "free" system. Remember, TANSTAAFL.
Gutenberg press was revolutionary because it opened up books to the masses.
On a technical level it was a relatively minor improvement over movable type, but the fact that the social consequences were enormous is what makes it revolutionary.

Yes. And it took the next 4 centuries for all of them to fully unfold.

Remember the Osborne-1 ? that was revolutionary. But only because it made people think that computers didn't have to be stuck in one spot.

I think you are onto something there.
Hey... if God had intended for us to see each other naked, we wouldn't have been born with clothes.
I disagree it was a serious attempt. Or at least a heartfelt one. Mobile was somewhere for windows to expand into.
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I created the Selenium project 6 years ago. These days, I'm working on my own Selenium-based startup, Sauce Labs ( http://saucelabs.com ) -- We offer commercial support for Selenium and have a cloud-based web app testing service, too, called Sauce OnDemand.

Regarding Google, you might be thinking of the on-going merger between the Selenium and the WebDriver projects. WebDriver was created by Googler Simon Stewart. He currently works at Google, but WebDriver was created when Simon was still at ThoughtWorks. Also, I am a former Googler (and former ThoughtWorker), and worked on Selenium during my time at both places.
Saying "these are the steps" might be seen as admission that the problem is widespread or likely to affect you.

By the way, if there really is a software problem (which Toyota has denied so far) then your steps will not help. The key is a button, and the brakes and the shifter are just inputs to the computer. Your steps would help if it's just the floor mats or a malfunctioning accelerator switch.
For a mathematician with an interesting and unusual life story, I'd go with Srinivasa Ramanujan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

Of course, there are more traditional "greats" like Leonhard Euler, Leibniz, Euclid, or Riemann.
As long as I'm picking nits, I'd also object to the final header being a 'Summary' - it's more a 'Conclusions'.

My speed-reading summary (aka tl;dr):

- Your RE2 implementation beats the snot out of sparring-partner PCRE, as graphically demonstrated in the tail end.

- At the cost of leaving out some esoteric features, and a bit more memory (still small for current times).

- Does Unicode.

- Has automatically-generated tests (supplementing a small core of hand-written ones).

- Leaves reader feeling like he saw a demo of fine precision engineering ;-)
Cool Story, Bro (Milo.com's response to Google Product's blue dot specials)
I'm second from the left, in the picture.
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1184971 which links to http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/re2-principled... (source for this).
I'm second from the left, in the Cool Story, Bro picture.
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Exactly, notice no collision detection or animations were demonstrated. Also didn't see anything really beyond some shader effects and a single point light.
I would think your best option is to carpool with those people who are already driving. Luxury public transit already exists in most cities with private limo and car services, and at least here in Boston it is very expensive compared to the cost of a T pass. While I also hate the smell of pee (I can't say anything about the customer service because basically everything here is automated), I am fine with it since it is only $60 a month.
Our need for fear is probably very deeply rooted in the primal desire for survival.

Fear drives almost everything we do, really. Fear of starvation due to random events out of our control leads to the invention of farming. Fear of being homeless leads to a work ethic. Fear of being alone leads us to form bonds with others. Fear is probably the only universal motivator.
You've obviously never heard of a little thing called "gay porn".
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They "almost missed the web" but then went on to have the dominant browser for over a decade

Leveraging the desktop OS monopoly to do so. Do you think they can pull an analogous move again?
I disagree. Clarkson is all about throwing human weakness into sharp relief.

So what if that's his opinion. He couldn't care less what we think and neither should we :-)

I think people like clarkson are really important to throw some of the idiocies of society into sharp relief.
> I would think it would be hard to find jobs in Erlang.

I've got a few cold calls over the years from companies in my area specifically asking for erlang experience.

I'm currently primarily writing erlang code at work. I've use it at my two jobs before this, though not primarily.

It's good technology, but I don't typically hire people who know good technology. I hire people who can recognize and create good technology. One of the erlang rock stars I hired at my current company did not know erlang a couple months ago.
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After reading Russ's original article in 2007 I did some work on bringing the nascent regex API in perl's core up to par so one could lexically replace perl's regex engine with the plan9 engine, PCRE and others.

One interesting product of this work was the ability to compare other regex engines to Perl's in perl's own test suite. See this journal entry for some info about that: http://use.perl.org/~avar/journal/33585

Maybe I'll resurrect some of that work once Perl 5.12 comes out and try dropping in RE2 and see how it compares to PCRE and Perl on the various edge cases involved.

This would be somewhat easier if RE2 supported Perl's syntax for named captures.
It would appear so, but I did not. I have no regrets and enjoyed my time as student and professor. I self-funded my PhD through fellowships and work, which gave me freedom to work on any problem I wanted. That taught me self-reliance and the power of creativity, not just technical skill and process. That is something I don't think my counterparts who were supported by grants grasped very well. During my time as a professor, I tried to give my own PhD students the same freedom.

I agree that having good discoveries and novel algorithms should be a good way to get a paper published. I respectfully disagree that the process isn't "cargo cult", though. In practice, it tends to be more often than not.
The research culture rewards quantity over quality, and most papers are rubbish. You will hear "Dr A has B publications" 100+ times more often than "Dr C has a few papers that have been cited hundreds of times." That's an indicator that our research culture is broken.
is there any evidence at all that this is any different from the 60 minutes hatchet job on audi in the '80s?