skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article doesn't address the central point of the original essay at all
Another one to try is the geocoder team that spun out of Mapzen when it shut down.

https://geocode.earth/
Apropos of regex engines: PCRE [1] is an interesting and somewhat widely used [2] C library for Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions.

I was once on a product team where we used PCRE, and one of my tasks was building it from its C source on many Unix variants (such as Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64 UNIX, etc.) and Windows (x 32/64-bit OS versions for some of them). I learned something about the differences between the C compiler toolchains on all those OSes in the process. There was quite a bit of variation between them, in the commands and steps needed to compile and link programs.

[1] https://www.pcre.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Compatible_Regular_Expres...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hazel (PCRE creator)

[2] From the Wikipedia article about PCRE:

>A number of prominent open-source programs, such as the Apache and Nginx HTTP Servers, and the PHP and R scripting languages, incorporate the PCRE library; proprietary software can do likewise, as the library is BSD licensed. As of Perl 5.10, PCRE is also available as a replacement for Perl's default regular expression engine through the re::engine::PCRE module.

>The library can be built on Unix, Windows, and several other environments. PCRE is distributed with a POSIX C wrapper, a native C++ wrapper,[a] several test programs, and the utility program pcregrep built in tandem with the library.
Not a very good one. The author's point that negotiating with each individual tenant is fundamentally the same as negotiating with the landlord so there is no inefficiency is academic garbage. Negotiating separate deals with hundreds of tenants with a strange prisoners dilemma incentive structure is massively more complicated and uncertain in outcome than simply negotiating a price with the owner.
> Why is the latest generation constantly trying to solve injustice with more injustice?

Why is this a generational thing?
I appreciate you taking the time to provide context and insight here. Even having taken a wilderness EMT course, I still learned something from your comments. Thank you!
Hence "a lot" which allows for other processes. We agree.
It's short sighted cost cutting. An assistant/admin position is easy to justify for the chopping block, it's removal reduces headcount and the increased load on the specialists is not seen directly on the balance sheet for a while.
i meant revenue (which i think you'll understand why it's a problem if you've ever had to pay any corporate tax in your life).
Yep and that list could be much longer. I was a Tesla fan a year ago. Now I think Elon deserves to go bankrupt, even though I think this company understands and cares about UX more than any of their major competitors.
Thanks for the long feedback, we have a long tail of content in the blog so we won't migrate to a subdomain. Google says no problem, but we had SEO problems in the past when migrating subdomains although everything done by the book with redirects.
Most studio mics have a setting to taper off the bass end of the spectrum. A pop filter is a grate/net that sits between the mic and mouth to stop letters like ‘p’ sounding like a blast due to the air flow.
For those who see the headline and think wow a bit stiff, this wasn't their first time cheating:

The city first sued the Lees in 2014 for evicting tenants, including a disabled person, from one of their properties to rent the spaces on Airbnb.
The Lees settled that case for $276,000 and agreed to an injunction against further vacation rentals in their 17 properties.

Basically they got caught before paid small fine, and then just got back in the business.
That's the best idea I have heard this year.
It’s (likely) because they don’t want to add a secondary hdmi output for audio like a lot of other high end gear uses.
Well, I think it is an engineering problem. WPF is basically cemented to DirectX which only exists on Windows.
I think its testable. There's several parts.

1. Its clearly testable whether or not the phase of the circadian rhythm of humans shifts with age.

2. Having a range of circadian rhythm phases in your pack is useful for a 24-hour watch by definition, but in order for it to have been an evolutionary factor, watches that take advantage of this would have to actually happen in the wild. Finding wild packs of humans is a tall order, but if #1 holds for other primates or even other pack mammals, you could measure to what extent packs operate their 24-hour watch with different age groups at different times of the day.

3. The final price needed is to show that having a more alert watch gives a better survival rate. That seems self-evident, but it could also be tested by monitoring wild packs of humans or other primates.
The market is failing because of the distortions introduced by things like mortgage tax deduction, 30-year term mortgages, restrictions on new housing, etc.
They should ideally* use medical transportation services if there's bleeding or a broken neck, and be able to use something cheaper if there's no danger of further injury or creating biohazards.

*Truly ideally there wouldn't be ambulance bills stuck on people, but I mean within the framework of what's currently in practice.
No, if you care about democracy you campaign. Marking your choices on a ballot has roughly the same external effect as noting them in your diary.
I guess this is in line with a lot of people having to work from home in the evening or weekend because they get nothing done during the regular working hours due to meetings a other stuff.
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Performance results are based on testing or projections as of 6/2017 to 10/3/2018 (Stream Triad), 7/31/2018 to 10/3/2018 (LINPACK) and 7/11/2017 to 10/7/2018 (DL Inference) and may not reflect all publicly available security updates.

LINPACK: AMD EPYC 7601: Supermicro AS-2023US-TR4 with 2 AMD EPYC 7601 (2.2GHz, 32 core) processors, SMT OFF, Turbo ON, BIOS ver 1.1a, 4/26/2018, microcode: 0x8001227, 16x32GB DDR4-2666, 1 SSD, Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (4.17.0-041700-generic Retpoline), High-Performance Linpack v2.2, compiled with Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE 2018 for Linux, Intel MPI version 18.0.0.128, AMD BLIS ver 0.4.0, Benchmark Config: Nb=232, N=168960, P=4, Q=4, Score = 1095GFs, tested by Intel as of July 31, 2018. compared to 1-node, 2-socket 48-core Cascade Lake Advanced Performance processor projections by Intel as of 10/3/2018.

Stream Triad: 1-node, 2-socket AMD EPYC 7601, tested by AMD as of June 2017 compared to 1-node, 2-socket 48-core Cascade Lake Advanced Performance processor projections by Intel as of 10/3/2018. DL Inference:

Platform: 2S Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 CPU 2.50GHz (28 cores), HT disabled, turbo disabled, scaling governor set to “performance” via intel_pstate driver, 384GB DDR4-2666 ECC RAM. CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core), Linux kernel 3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64. SSD: Intel SSD DC S3700 Series (800GB, 2.5in SATA 6Gb/s, 25nm, MLC).

https://wccftech.com/intel-cascade-lake-advanced-performance...
Ancient quarry ramp system may have helped workers build Egypt's Great Pyramids
Rent control, at least in San Francisco, applies to buildings/units of a certain type. It is not given to people or applied for. You get it automatically if you live in a unit that qualifies.

So it is a right for all... just live in a building that qualifies. Most older buildings already do, so rent control is already applied to the cheapest units (again, in SF)
I've noticed that since I've started reading books for fun, that understanding technical information is easier.
https://www.vones.com.au/samsung-galaxy-s8-screen-repair/
Ask HN: Where do you back up your files?
There are several old HN threads about what tools people use to back up their personal files to remote servers, but I'm specifically wondering what the best options are for hosting the remote backups.

I'd love to push all my data to some remote filesystem using Attic, rsync, or similar tools, but am having trouble finding cost effective options.
I was trying to avoid giving my opinion. My curiosity was specifically around what conditions make a company subject to this new tax and its purpose.

Aside from my opinion on corporate taxing and government approaches towards it in general, I will give an opinion on new taxation policy in general developed as a counter to avoidance. More and more frequently, legislation is drafted to combat the lack of enforcement of existing statutes. And that same legislation is similarly unenforced like its predecessors. Most watch this history repeat and cheer it on with incredulity towards disagreement. Some believe this time will be different, others believe the same institutions that are failing at their obligations shouldn't be given a mandate to fail using the same approaches. It adds more codified word and less substantive meaning. Replace tax structures (only if you must), enforce, move on. Don't pile on, leave unenforced, and keep giving pitchforks to the citizenry while ignoring the responsibility of the collectors.
Conversely, what would be the point of going through the trouble of acquiring a profitable company and trying to impose disruptive changes rather than sitting back and raking in the profits? AFAICT this is what Berkshire Hathaway does, and it seems to work out well for them.

(Though this isn't necessarily intended to deflate any fears about IBM meddling at Red Hat; for a company as important to OSS as they are, any change is worth being wary of.)
"rental contracts ending" is a cute way of saying "evictions" and a way that allows you to mentally distance yourself from the messy gooey people problems that arise -- grandma getting thrown out on the street, communities being disrupted, etc.

I'm generally against rent control, but I still acknowledge that housing is more than a technical business contract.

It IS exactly just that to some people, but if you refuse to acknowledge the people on the other end, the only people you're going to bring to your side are your buddies at the country club.
I work at a company where most of us use Macs. Everyone that has upgraded from a 2013-2015 MBP to the touchbar model absolutely hates it, including me. There's gotta be someone around here that actually likes it, but I haven't met them yet.

Its OK if you like it. I'm sure lots of people do, but you know damn well significantly more people have had issues with this laptop than normal, so I'm not sure why you're implying otherwise.

The keyboard is by far the worst I've ever used, and I've owned a variety of $200 Wal-Mart black friday laptops and a couple of netbooks, in addition to some high end stuff. I had a friend with an older MBP attempt to show me something using my computer and he could barely type on it without frequent mistakes. Within a minute he was getting frustrated. It just feels terrible. I never thought anything would be worse than typing on a touch-screen but Apple's engineers have accomplished a horrifying miracle. Its like they intentionally tried to design something that's as loud as a mechanical keyboard while still having worse tactile feedback than a $5.00 rubber dome keyboard.

On top of that, its not noticeably faster, after 4.5 years it still maxed out @ 16GB Ram (They fixed this in 2018 but its too late), which is not enough for my use case + it died after 3 months (Not the keyboard, it was a power issue).

This is both the most expensive and the worst computer I've ever owned. The 2013 MBP I'm using now as a loaner while I get my new one fixed is, to quote Steve Jobs "Like getting a glass of ice water in hell." It just works.
Interesting enough, he did not have to make these concessions, Amazon wants to come to NY, regardless.

"This will be New York or it will be DC - Prof. Galloway, Feb 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3baKe4B3eyI
Well, optimization could also mean to remove unnecessary JS.
Ask HN: How do I respond to someone claiming he has an exploit on my site?
He's gone straight to asking if we'll pay for an exploit. I'm pretty sure it's a scam but obviously don't want to get in a situation where we've ignored a real issue. We don't have an official bug bounty program, but we'd be happy to pay out if it turns out to be a real exploit. What's the right course of action here?
I previously used a Mac Mini as an HTPC, but have switched to separate NAS running Plex server + a streaming box or stick as the client (currently a Synology but anything with Docker and maybe hardware accelerated transcoding should be good, and a Nvidia Shield as the client, but 4K Apple TV and Roku are supposedly ok too)

I like the flexibility of having them separate (upgrade separately, keep in separate rooms, etc), and having a unified “10 foot” UI I can control with a remote to access Plex, Netflix, etc.

You could easily get a 2 or 4 bay NAS + HDDs + Shield/Roku/AppleTV for less than the $800 base price of the new Mac Mini. Unless there’s a reason you need Mac OS I wouldn’t get the Mac Mini.

If you’ve already got the Dell I’d consider just using it as a server and getting a Nvidia Shield as the client.
> They care about your daughters but they care about their children too. If they do not fill in electronic records they will have to stay after work. Many doctors have to work at home until 1-2AM to keep up with recordkeeping.

I can certainly attest to this, from my own experiences growing up (in the 90's). My father is a doctor, and I distinctly remember him spending most of his evenings in his home office doing paperwork.
I asked him why he didn't do it at the office, and he said that many of his colleagues did... But as a result, they didn't get home from work until much later. (and he was already getting home just barely in time for dinner)
Not sure why Chris felt so much anxiety about the acquisition. Red Hat was already a huge company and things change. After all, it is just a corporate job and he can find another one, especially in this climate.

I can only understand his anxiety if he is an exec high up the chain and likely will be trimmed and his multi-million dollar salary is affected, and he has a huge mortgage, and lots of bills to pay and so on. Otherwise, life just goes on.
This is a pretty questionable methodology. I don't think it teaches us much about lower end configs.
Password Constraints and Their Unintended Security Consequences
No, just in Florida.
That depends almost entirely on what kind of rent control gets implemented.

If you only ever rent control 100 units, then yeah, it should only affect the owners of those units. You might have some other problems with it, it incentivizes slumlording, but it shouldn't be a systematic disincentive to build housing.

But that also only helps 100 people. If you expand rent control onto more existing properties or mandate that new units be built under rent control (or even just have credible candidates talking about doing that), it's a disincentive to anyone looking at offering rental properties - especially cheap rental properties, which are much more likely to become a net loss as prices rise.
You can add the language, mandarin vs Cantonese. Same pattern than Tibet and other provinces (basically cultural cleansing).
Since 97, about 1.5m mainland Chinese settled in HK. More than 20% of its current population.
Officially about 150 Chinese à day can migrate there.
VW: Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti
Solaris would still be a major player if IBM had won that acquisition contest. It would have just been another flavor on POWER.
I saw that, but also saw this on Heptio's blog post about the announcement:

"Heptio’s mission is to build a platform that accelerates IT in a multi-cloud world."

Just feels like some overlap with PKS, and both companies being Dell owned is interesting.
Voting Apps and Political Privacy
Since it’s USB, it has to be the DAC generating the hiss. No amount of electrical interference can do anything to the digital audio going Ofer USB.
Are individual lives ruined by having to move? I understand the pros and cons of rent control and there are valid arguments on both sides, but it doesn't sound like people's lives are being ruined. IMO, a lot of political and cultural tension comes from tying our identity to a piece of land. Maybe if we moved around more often we might be more tolerant of new cultures and people?
Or perhaps they use Humans first (like Mechanical Turks), and plan to replace them later by AI when the technology is there.
> how many hours your children wants to sleep

For my kids the trouble is "when" they want this sleep. My oldest goes to bed "early" and rises early. My youngest could stay up until 2-3 AM and sleep until noon (as she did this summer).
Ah, I see. Thanks
A Longer Life May Not Be in Your Genes
Even stuff like GCC and LLVM doesn't get made without lots of dollars/euros/yen/whatever.

Check how many of their key developers are on pay slips from multinationals, including Oracle.

Bills need to be paid and advanced compiler optimization research isn't doable as hobby.
Most of school year it is dark long before they go to sleep regardless of when they go to sleep. Half the time it is dark when they are leaving activities and it is going to be worst if they stop DST. How much difference makes 4 hours of dark before sleeping vs 5 hours of dark? It also changes constantly. Over year there is hours of difference for when sun goes away, with sun being available longest in summer.
lots of red flags - the founders are supposed have exited nivio (the 'first cloud computing company') at $100m - but the company seems to have disappeared.
This is true in general, but deep learning with lots of hyperparameters gives an advantage to organizations with clusters that can run a huge hyperparameter search quickly.
380,000 employees at IBM, you're sure your 3 categories encompass everyone?
Direct link: https://www.am-nat.org/site/law-of-information-non-growth/
So right! It's been a career-long joke to me to contrast the language in the merger press release about immediate “synergies” and “efficiencies” with the “com.oldcompanyname.foo.bar” in the code 15 years later.

Basically the “immediate efficiencies” are laying off the recruiting and payroll people…
Yeah, I think Microsoft has changed its mind a couple times too many. With .NET Core's original announcement it sounded like .NET Framework was legacy and in mostly maintenance mode. With .NET Standard < 2.0 it seemed clear that .NET Core might move way too fast for .NET Framework to catch up, but maybe it was possible for it to catch up eventually, though there was some question there because there were some APIs it wasn't clear if .NET Framework would adopt at all for a bit there. I think .NET Standard 2.0 gave some at Microsoft a calm sense of ".NET Framework can keep up surely" as .NET Core paused to catch up with Mono/Xamarin's API footprints, but .NET Standard 2.1 here seems to make it clear that Microsoft realized again it can't keep up with .NET Framework. Definitely not in the short term, and probably not ever.

It would be great if they better articulated that "probably not ever", but I can't blame them for not doing that when we all know that a bunch of enterprise devs and HN/Reddit/Slashdot randoms would be out in force with pitchforks and torches if they did.
Blazor Part 1 – WebAssembly framework
why not? Someone valued your creation quite a bit. You're RICH. You can start the next thing 4 years from now, or never.
I whole heartedly agree, and if newer computer programmers don't believe that's how the sausage is made they could either start working as a consultant or ask their consultant friends about the inevitably awful software they use to log their hours. The reason it's awful is because at no point has a consultant's work flow ever been considered during development. At no point has a consultant ever been present while the software was sold. The consultant isn't the customer, or even the end user in mind, it's the financial departments who get to turn all those hours logged into nifty charts.

Imagine that's not a consultant anymore but a doctor, and he or she is not entering hours worked but medical stats. Sleep well tonight.
Mods: maybe replace this source with a better article from the Chronicle:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/SF-fines-Airbnb...
I feel that companies selling B2B think of high-level executives as having incentives to deliver "something that wins", but they won't be around years later when it stinks. The company structures themselves accordingly by delivering fast productivity now, but skeleton crew later.
I really appreciate this advice--I will look in to doing this and ensuring I have the right toolkit. It does seem like a good intermediate step that could be taken without completely starting over on a jump to essentially a new developer role. Thanks again!
Backblaze and Tarsnap allow you to ship off your files to remote filesystems for relatively cheap.
I personally have Syncthing on all my machines sharing a large directory. My HTPC also keeps staggered backups of the data in case of data corruption, deletion or encrypting-malware. Used to have Spideroak, but it failed to sync files several times, so I left it.
MemSQL CEO here. There are a few:

- MemSQL is transactional and writes transactions on disk

- MemSQL has an excellent implementation of SQL with mature query optimization and query execution. And it get better every release. This is from 6.5
https://www.memsql.com/blog/6.5-performance/

- MemSQL has in-memory and on-disk data storage so you can use MemSQL to store petabytes

- MemSQL has columnstores and vectorized query processing:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16617098

- MemSQL supports geospatial, fulltext search, and json

- MemSQL allows you to stream data from kafka in one command: https://docs.memsql.com/sql-reference/v6.5/create-pipeline/
You can't put a TL;DR at the end as it is pointless after somebody has read that far.
Daylight ends hours before teens go to sleep either way.
This is only possible when the customer isn't completely disconnected from the user, there is real competition, and that competition is based on the product itself... Not the contract to buy/develop said product.

These reasons are also why so much defense-industry software is also a completely unusable mess. (that's an industry I used to work in) The software is written to satisfy a requirements checklist, nothing more, nothing less.
Sure, but how many servers are running to ensure that Big Tech can maintain 24/7 surveillance through those phones?
Maybe "name and shame" is a lousy way to describe it. But, I think it makes sense to talk about the offer more openly with people in the same startup community.

As a successful startup, there will be future rounds of funding. Any follow-on investor will eventually find out about problems on a cap table. They will probably fight to reverse it before an investment, or worse - it will sink the deal and the company. If OP's VC is a novice, maybe they don't know about liquidation preference. If they are not new, then perhaps the community should know about such divergent investment terms.

I agree about talking to a lawyer. But, in my experience, lawyers can find a way to make things work - and they won't stop a deal because of non-standard round terms. The non-standard terms hurt the company as they try to bring on additional investors. Any experienced founder or investor can provide guidance about how trying to "reinvent the wheel" for fundraising will cause problems down the line.

To OP, I suggest reading section 3 in this article by Roy Bahat: https://also.roybahat.com/dear-first-time-angel-investor-c6a...
Airbnb also needs to face punishment. It's crazy that they can actively support people breaking laws. Silk Road gets shut down because they helped people buy illegal drugs but when Airbnb helps sell illegal hotel rooms, nothing happens.

Uber, Airbnb, and many of these other 3rd wave tech companies are more legally inventive than technologically innovative. They all make money because they lower costs by circumventing laws. Hotels have to be ADA-compliant and their fire systems are tested.