skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, oddly relevant - I've been working on a RegExp implementation in JavaScript using similar techniques (minus vectorization of course, RIP SIMD.js). There is no efficient way in JavaScript to replace many patterns (e.g. a list of sentence fragments with optional whitespace, capitalization, pluralization, etc.) against a large document where the replacement requires metadata about the subpattern that was matched (e.g. to replace a term with a link to the term's definition).

I wonder if I should switch gears and try to write a native Node module for this instead. This looks really great.
Doesn't an IPO require some actual disclosure of financials in a format accountants would accept?

Or is there some way to IPO without outing exactly how much the burn to date has been subsidizing rides?
This joke might be going to the core of the chief argument agains visual programming. After a while, you just don't see the matrix anymore.
Look at how little of the novels actually takes place within the borders of the culture though. The only place he can tell interesting stories is outside it, usually in neighbouring "primitive" societies - and the only way he can make relatable protagonists is to give them something equivalent to a job, despite this being supposedly extremely rare in the culture.
Rape? When did that happen?
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Since so many knowledgeable people interested in watches are around here ... What are some affordable, good quality watch brands? Somewhere around 100 to 300 Euro maybe? I like those beautiful, elegant designed watches but 10k EUR upwards is way out of my league.
Because these costs are carried by the owner of the restaurant(s). An uber driver is more comparable to the Mc Donald's line worker.
Great learning project, but for production just use Unity unless you absolutely, positively (triple-check) cannot. You will be massively more productive.
sane like Go

Yet Go uses the oh-so-error-prone return value error checking that has been so successful in C :/
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Yes - now...
I thought this was going to say "people on facebook are getting sick of media companies" but I keep forgetting people are the product and not the customer.

Wait no I didn't forget. That's why I left.
I wasn't trying to say that continues models are not valuable, only that the question "is the world continues?" does not make sense if we can only interact with it in a discrete way.
How big were the first hard drives?
Go has this "interface" thing which lets you do duck-typing, and it's checked at run-time, as the types in Python.
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Elastic acquires Opbeat (application performance monitoring company)
If you're a typical HN reader you could probably retire to somewhere with a low cost of living tomorrow and live off your savings, or at worst you'd have to spend a few years saving up first. But you don't.

Long-term unemployed people whose cost of living is subsidized (in the US due to various legal quirks this is mainly disability) are generally substantially less happy than employed people. I don't have studies to hand but would you dispute that result?
I think I'd rather not have GC in my OS. Oberon was a pretty small language, so perhaps the pauses were more acceptable.
There is a bug filed against the chrome driver send_keys issue, and a workaround...one that requires recompiling though.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=17...
This article could be a tweet with that table.
Is there not a point where GC overhead becomes negligible? There have been production examples of Go maintaining sub-millisecond GC pauses with a multi-GB heap under a server workload.
https://twitter.com/brianhatfield/status/804355831080751104

Surely there are better reasons to disregard Go for gamedev by now.
This article is kind of old news. It's been generally known for years now that MtGox ran the so called "Willy" bot to buy up BTC and that that contributed to the price rally.
I think this might actually be a chance for the european tech industry. More people will stay here (in europe) + come here to pursue a career in the tech industry. What is needed additionally is a network of investors and vc-people to realize great ideas.
Unfortunately, there is a limit to the damages that can be claimed in small claims court. It differs from state to state. In Massachusetts, it is $7000 (http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/small-claims-suits-ho...) .

He could go to regular court to claim a larger amount, but that's a more involved and lengthy process.
To witness, note the success of HoloLens.
A hot debate going everywhere about Tabs vs. Spaces in Coding
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Hi guys,
let me show this library that I created to support the math part of my other OOP: react-svg-pan-zoom.
I hope that it will be useful for your projects ;)
We don't interact with complex numbers but "Are quantum 'probabilities' complexL" is still a meaningful question.
>Now if you've managed to make some heavier hydrocarbons, the US Navy might be interested in talking to you.

Every army, navy and airforce globally should be extremely interested in talking to you. Their most strategic resource could turn into commodity. Stuff like widespread algaic fuel production could significantly lessen geopolitical pressures globally. This should be in top three priorities of any pacifist institution.
i discovered it today. So sad.
what is in medium that scared them.
D may be a sort of "SpaceX" of languages, designed to improve the competition up to a point it's no longer needed, more or less like Scala did with Java. But even that is a huge success, maybe better than finishing C++ off.
Wonderful, here goes the hoax again; let the moral panic bloom. :-/

I liked the one about "backmasking" more, nowadays it is just one-in-a-dozen of fake news.
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It would be interesting to get the Opbeat's founders perspective on why they'd sell and close a product they've been working on since 2012. Just to soon do it again, but this time for someone else's company.
SpaceX. Of course they still need time, work and funding. But they have a working product ahead of their competitors that clearly shows a path to the future of space exploration and colonization.
I've dipped my toes into using OpenGL and Go a few times and it seems pretty nice. But I'm entry level graphics programming and so it scares me off to go further (surely someone would have used Go by now in a 3d game, if you can do Minecraft on the JVM, why not Go)?

I keep wondering if it's not possible or if there's just not a lot of overlap between Go programmers and gamedevs? Wish someone knew.
Is it just me, or do a surprising amount of dystopias involve ad companies?
I haven't studied Bohmian mechanics to any reasonable degree, so I cannot comment on it. But preliminary reading has me sceptical because it relies on infinity. Time will tell I suppose.
> Buses aren't cheap either, and in rural areas, you might need several smaller buses to get everyone to school in a reasonable amount of time.

So... have them take the regular buses? Seems incredibly wasteful to try to fill one bus with school children when those areas are (or should be!) covered by the regular bus routes.

> Schools in more urban areas often have security guards, and most schools have put more money into physical security as well with the perceived rise in school shootings (not trying to start a debate as to whether or not this is happening).

WTF?
Elastic enters APM space with Opbeat acquisition
He might have been a jerk, not all jerks get the same treatment of being covered in Front Page for every single issue. And that's what makes me believe it's inflated https://hackernoon.com/travis-kalanick-lost-today-hoping-to-...
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Well, it is the only LLVM language on the list. Even so, Nim transpiles to C and should be fairly comparable unless it is because of the async part or like you said they're cutting corners. I guess it's possible they're just that good, but it seems unlikely.
It's a fact that women can speak more than men. But not sure why that is important during board meeting.
Ethereum crashed from $319 to 10c on GDAX after ‘multimillion dollar’ trade
Wow it seems to contain a full level editor written in vala, a language I hadn't heard of. It seems to be a high level language similar to C# but with a native compiler and some different semantics (RC instead of a tracing GC for example). Is vala widely used?
Ah. Well i fundamentally disagree with you as we would have a refugeee and immigration crises that would be near apocalyptic. We would not have 10x immigration. We would have hundreds of millions of people pouring in to the United States as they flee Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Property value would instantly rise to a degreee such that only the ultra-mega rich could afford even a dump, and those of us who are already property owners would likely form a new caste where only those of us who have already purchased property could afford to live in a city.

Our food production, public health services, infrastructure, and environment would be completely overwhelmed and the government would be helpless to stop it.

"Within reason" is unreasonable to me. You're just saying "increase immigration it'll be good". What if it isn't? Your argument largely centers around more immigrants == better economy, but that's assuming we actually will have jobs for them, and that they don't get stuck in cultural ghettos and then turn to crime or radicalization. A society that is not culturally homogenous is not a very strong one.

Instead of taking in all these people, we should make where they live not a miserable place to live. I enjoy the population density we have in the United States. I have 0 interest in accelerating our population levels.

Or maybe I should. Since I own property I'll just get rich off of it. Hmmm.

There is nothing wrong with immigration or immigrants per se, but we really need to be careful with the rhetoric and think through our immigration policy and how it affects us at home, and how it affects those around the world.
Your comment is like "I don't need nails because I have screws".
This is not formulated as constructive criticism. This is formulated as prophecies. "It will fail because...". "It can't work because...". Or formulated in the form of "I know better".

A constructive criticism would weight pros and cons, explain POV without condamnation and not make grandiose pronostics.
Probably a reference to the lackluster background checks performed by Uber et al.

Closest aggregator of data I found seems to have a very anti-ride-sharing view ("We are an initiative of the Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association"), but here it is nonetheless: http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/rideshare-incidents
I have to reply to your comment, since I don't find his comment to be political at all, more pointing to the semantical point of things being illegal.
Second, I've browsed through the comments and their submitters comments. I find it striking some people's accounts have been banned on the basis of very few comments.

Lastly, the political debate is often the thing I find interesting about the comment threads on HN, Its getting to see the different viewpoints which interests me.
Ofcourse we have to be civil and respectful towards each other, but when we are, I don't see any problem on any topic, how can any topic be destructive to the intended use of the site?
You are never in control of your company unless you don’t have employees.
To the extent that people have a "need to be needed," we should ask ourselves what the most efficient way to meet that need is. Perhaps the answer is to keep "make-work" jobs around. Of course we'd hide the pointlessness of these jobs behind initiatives that "create jobs" and economic policies that "support small businesses" or "enforce fair trade." We've gotten really good at preventing workers (and perhaps ourselves) from knowing that the work they're doing is pointless.

The reality is that a lot of people already are doing the equivalent of receiving their basic income in exchange for digging and then filling in a big hole.

But maybe there's a cheaper way to meet people's "need to be needed" that's less wasteful of resources. Sports? Video game competitions? Intellectual debate? Volunteer work?
There are a lot of possibilities here. I'd love to find out.

In any case, I think it would be prudent to separate the debate about how people get most of their incomes from the debate about how people find meaning in their lives. Tying the two together is only one option and I'm not sure it's the right one.
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C++ says what the regex must do, but not how it should do it or what the performance should be.

To be honest, I have no idea if the "what the regex must do" description rules out particular algorithms. I suspect that, in keeping with Committee tradition, it's basically a new interface over POSIX ( http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/re.html ). By "Committee tradition," I mean "compare 'catgets' with C++ message catalogs."
Easy. Because the people not using Twist would have a spam problem. And if they are required to use Twist, then their email is not an actual email any more.
Your inbox would be a mess of Twist messages. Good luck finding the emails you are waiting for.
Thanks for the kind words. You'll have to roll your own 'replace', and the all-matches semantics of Hyperscan may give you some headaches - you'll need a careful reading of our Start of Match semantics and to craft patterns that yield "less surprising results".

If you can share your workload, or want assistance in figuring out whether to do this and/or how to do it, please contact us on the mailing list or on the email link for Hyperscan on 01.org. We're always interested in sample patterns, especially ones that fall outside our normal wheelhouse of 'network security and then some more network security'.
Thomas here (Node.js lead from Opbeat). Don't worry, we are not closing down Opbeat :) We'll continue to run the current version of Opbeat via opbeat.com until we can port users to the new Elastic APM product that we are currently developing
Seiko and Orient have lots of nice mechanical watches in that price range.
I was wondering if I could use this (using a plugin) or Chrome to generate PDF files on the web server. Most of the PDF generation software out there are quite expensive.
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I am not an expert, so I can't vouch for build quality, but skagen.com watches are my favorite in the low end of your price range.

Mostly because of the look. They have styles that are different, without being oversized, gaudy, or obvious knockoffs of expensive brands. The thin titanium ones are understated and nice looking to me.
> Is there some waste in school systems? Sure. But probably not as much as you think.

This honestly applies to many areas of government, not just education. However, for right wing propaganda, it serves as a convenient boogy man to ram through tax cuts for the wealthy.
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I'm not sure I understand. Does this mean that multiple linux kernels are split up, for example, on the graphics card cores such that each core on the GPU and CPU gets a "mini-kernel"? And then from that point all programs can run selectively on certain bits of hardware?
Its really only used for gtk3 apps. I think it was created with that in mind by the gnome team
Maybe it's possible with the print option Chrome offers. Regular Chrome can print to PDF files. Maybe headless Chrome supports that.

Edit: It's possible. It's on the introduction page of Chrome Headless

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-c...

Look at 'Create a PDF'
It even supported live video editing.

Pauses weren't an issue for users' productivity.
I often run into situations where I want to schedule a meeting with someone, but don't want to go through the hassle of configuring a professional appointment scheduling tool (such as doodle.com). The idea of cal.tf is to email a link to your calendar (such as my.cal.tf/ajfb429j) and the recipient can simply pick a time where you're free and reply with their desired date/time via email or IM. This makes it easy for the recipient (because they don't have to sign up for anything) and you, because you don't have to put your availability in writing, which is always awkward.

In Google Calendar's built-in sharing options, you can only select "Share via email", where the recipient then has to import your calendar into his/her own Google Calendar (so this is meant as a more permanent solution, not for quickly scheduling a meeting) or make your calendar completely public (which will lead to it showing up in Google search results!).

On cal.tf, you can choose whether to show the full event titles or just "Busy" indicators on your public calendar, and the sharing link is long enough to make it hard to guess.
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You can't stream them on Windows either. Apple has discontinued Safari for Windows and the last version released - v5.1.7, won't play the videos. I suppose the thinking is, if you're developing for an Apple OS you are likely to have Apple hardware. As the article mentions, you can always wait for the mp4 file to download.
If you want automatic you can't go wrong with Seiko low end such as Seiko 5 series. Some even rated for diving.

If you value accuracy as in quartz, can't go wrong with g shock. Basically known for it's toughness.
20 years ago they redesigned already built products to make them more consumer friendly (nothing wrong with that, pretty cool).

Now it's mostly lagging behind and making their products less consumer friendly.
Anyone know if this supports audio playback?
We use wkhtmltopdf to do this server side. It as a few problems and quirks, but it work well enough for us.
Definitely - I only remember the coverage because we were going to Greece at the time and my wife (who has no interet in tech) announced one day that she was going to take some Bitcoin with us... Which rather surprised me.

I didn't think anyone was actually doing it just a lot of noise generated by journalists who should have known better.

Edit: did we see anywhere on Kos allowing you to pay by BTC.... no!
I built a diamond kite with my dad and it is one of my favortie childhood memories. For some reason I have never done it with my kids yet (Finding that awesome kite paper has been elusive) but I have built dozens with kids I worked with. Such a great learning experience.

http://www.my-best-kite.com/kite-paper.html
"The best X" always only lasts for a week or so and is highly subjective, I would be much more interested in a comparison chart of current models.
Hi Thomas, fellow Copenhagen developer here. I understand how you are transitioning the product to Elastic APM. I'm simply curious of the motives. Why would you want to do that instead of building your own product at your own company? Wasn't Opbeat profitable, yet?
I was heavily spammed with vincerocollective.com watch ads up to the point when I just ordered one. I am not an expert, but the one I got does its job - it looks good.
So using a CDN? I wouldn't list that as a 'benefit' of a cloud-based solution, anyone can use a CDN.
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For me it is the glance over to the next cubicle or next aisle to see if the person is on phone, heads down working, or is easily interruptable. I don't have remote technology to do that. The best I have is an IM which is a cognitive load for me and an interruption for them.
I think I should have been more clear. I really wasn't trying to nitpick.

Just thought some people might be surprised that the retaliation was not criminal, and at best results in injunctions, fines, civil liability, etc.

Because I didn't word it better, I find myself in the odd position of arguing with people who probably share my high level opinion on the matter.
Short squeezes happen all the time. Look at the ticker RH in the past few months, or AMD over the past couple days!
But why would the WSJ consent to this? I find it exceedingly hard to believe that they don't get anything in return.
Why? Did Microsoft do something?
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We use Azure, when you deploy it actually goes down, like proper down-down, timeout errors. Long periods of down-time.

That doesn't happen when I deploy on dedicated servers.

It really does depend on your setup and cloud guarantees nothing.

Also, 2.37s for parsing a HTML doc and then making it more readable is awfully slow, assuming it gets sent the HTML doc.
This is very cool.It needs to be introduced in colleges.
> It is a practical question to ask about existence questions that require an axiom (axiom of choice often) which gives no constructive way of doing something. To what extent is that actually useful?

I'm by no means a mathematician, but I do sympathize somewhat with this. To put it a bit controversially, the axiom of choice feels to me almost like the string theory of mathematics.

There's a lot of really cool stuff you can do with it, but we've left the realm of even potentially useful, and are off approaching a form of rigorous philosophy.

I was looking into Banach–Tarski recently. Is it actually that useful to discuss something which almost certainly can never physically exist in our universe?

Now of course you could play devil's advocate and say as some point people claimed you could never in the universe have a negative amount of something, so integers aren't useful, or a square root of a negative isn't useful so no imaginary numbers. Things are created all the type in math that we don't find practical applications for for decades or centuries.

Yes that's true, but it's not a question of absolute, it's a matter of degree. Has math swung too far into the world non-relevant "play" at the expense of other discoveries?

Recently we've just come across one of the most incredible tools of the past 1000 years. Computers! As a programmer aware of Hindley-Milner it boggles my mind the amount of programming people have been doing doing centuries without the benefit of computers to run them on. Now that we have them we can course correct. Previously we shooting in the dark, and were surprisingly accurate. Now that we have computers this utilize them to focus more and prioritize the amazing things that come from powerful computability.

Let's explore the systems that can be constructed using these new amazing tools. Infinity in itself is ok as a model common real world applications (pi, e, sqrt 2).

Getting out of my knowledge area, here, but what tools would we discover if we were focusing on a math without the Axiom of Choice? What proofs would be reformulated and what tools would we develop to do this work.

Again, everyone should be free to think about whatever they like, but as a field it should also be cautious of how it spends it's resources. Particularly it's most valuable resource of intellectual capital.
It would be my impression that 1s of cpu time used per request is a very very high value for the given problem. Am I incorrect?
There certainly are some niche use cases for less efficient methane:

"Therefore, when we looked at the overall system optimization, it was clear that methane was the clear winner. "

Elon Musk's 'Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species',
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14573837
I thankfully watched the Simpsons, where that game was referenced once. So I got the pun after only a year or so.