skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ruby's regex engine is Onigmo which is very similar to Perl 5.10. Perl was one of Ruby's main influences, along with Smalltalk and Lisp, whereas Python's BDFL was never a fan of Perl. However, Perl's implementation of regular expressions (PCRE) has been widely adopted hence the similarity you refer to. If you compare with Javascript and PHP you'll find they're all similar.
Why do you think that Facebook decided to patent it now?
What a bunch of pandering nonsense.
Flexibly-Structured Model for Task-Oriented Dialogues
If you tests are lightweight and fast you could even trigger this automatically
I remember trying to use Taxis in LA on a few occasions (never mind the ride back from the airport to WeHo was always a nightmare) and it being a non-starter most of the time.
Can't help but feel schadenfreude after a rather nasty interviewing experience at Uber earlier this year. In the eyes of their recruiter, preferring competing offers that are > $100k higher than Uber's makes you a despicable person who only cares about money, apparently. Coming from a nonprofit I would have felt bad for a second but Uber? Come on.
I have this trick where I just pay for high quality, well researched news because I'm an adult and I realize that not everything should be free and maybe we should pay for some things.

People on HN like to complain about paying in data to use Google and Facebook and yet also consider it an affront that they have to pay money to journalists.
That's of course not true, and breaks at least two of the site guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>But they also pushed up the price in black market

isn't that the point? sure, it makes selling on the black market more valuable for the hackers willing to do that, but it also makes purchasing an iPhone exploit less accessible for anybody else. that's a good thing.
I just want something proportional to my contributions. If I contribute 10% and receive 0.5, isn't it a shit deal even if it is in millions?
You're conflating an exploit for a narrow bug target class with a malware package which likely contains one or more exploits and probably a payload. The act of exploiting requires much more than an exploit alone to have the desired effect.
They do have to pay tax; that they choose not to is a crime in most countries.
Yes it is pretty standard in container environment (which is what borg is too) so that example kind of proved the opposite point.
Pro Publica: Know more about your doctor
The main difference is not in techniques, but in goals. The primary goal of statistics is to help a human make an informed decision by quantifying uncertainty. That quantification of uncertainty can be used to explain to other humans why the decision was made.

The primary goal of machine learning is to help a machine make better decisions. As long as it gets the "right" answer, the explanations to humans are not as important.
On the site proper, I think flagged stories that have lots of comments are still shown in the Active list (follow the link to Lists at the bottom). But easier may be to view outside sites such as http://hnrankings.info (look for sharp drops in position and lines that end before the right side of the graph) or http://hckrnews.com (look for DEAD in the title or a blank in the number of comments).
it's cultural, too - there are many super popular apps for obscuring your kids face in Japan (or amongst japanese baseball players in the US, if you want to find some easy examples)
Open Payments: What drug and medical device companies pay to doctors
Large tech companies try to patent anything they can do they can have a large portfolio to offer for cross licensing when they get sued.

Also they filed in 2012, it just took seven years to grant.
Yeah but that cost has to be passed on at some point to an end consumer.

This move from Apple makes people like me, working with human rights defenders and journalists, happy.

Why?

Because it drives up the costs for the NSO Groups, Hacking Teams and Gammas of this world. They either pass on (and take a hit reducing their revenue/internal capacity) or drive up their costs (making it harder for crappier regimes to afford
/ reducing the frequency that high end exploits will be used.
Hi Matt, the product they developed over 1.5 years is a proof of concept and far from MvP. Further, they did not work on it full time over the last 1.5 years, they had their other jobs.
It’s news when hiring stats come out, e.g. Stanford students are no longer accepting Palantir. For example, one report found that Facebook’s new grad acceptance rate has fallen below 50% this year:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/new...

These stats are important for disseminating competitive information about the job market to job seekers and small companies. If Google et al own all the salary and resume data, then they have an unfairly outsized effect on the market.
The rest of you folks make me feel dumb - but nice posts, I'm doing a lot of Googling now...
This isn't just a fine, it's compensation.
all of this makes me wonder when - not if - there's going to be House of Cards style blackmail + intrigue when it comes to leveraging data leaks like these over politicians or influential people.

"vote for this or we expose your $recent_embarrassing_breach data" is quite a powerful ultimatum, no? and the only way to win is not to play (e.g. never download + use a potentially embarrassing app), and we know that many aren't so digitally savvy, so this seems like a gold mine for nefarious uses.

i dunno, maybe it's too tin foily but it feels inevitable.
Rising Profits, Rising Injuries: The Safety Crisis at Georgia-Pacific
There's only one party, the Property party, with two wings: Democratic and Republican. - Gore Vidal

(And that's my limit of political commentary on HN.)
In the situation where you're buying a used phone, it's better for some fine batteries to show a bad status than for some bad batteries to show a good status.
At least the last time I checked, most Clash Royale and Clash of Clans players don't play with the best game pieces, because too much grinding or money is required for it to be worthwhile. In contrast, a much larger fraction of M:tG players (though still small in absolute terms) play with all the game pieces they want, and are only idea- and skill-limited.

Yes, in some sense the difference between M:tG's "~$50-500 for the best game pieces, or to enter major Limited tourneys where everyone is forced to start from scratch, for a year; only skill matters from there" and Clash Royale's "~$5000, or an amount of time and attention worth >$5000, for the best game pieces, otherwise you're strictly behind someone with higher-level versions of your pieces" is only one of degree. But again, a far larger fraction of M:tG games involve both players playing with what they consider the best pieces. I don't believe I'm the only one who sees this as amounting in practice to a difference in kind.
Considering CircleCI has many more years in operation, are there features and use cases it supports that GitHub Actions doesn't? Are there ones that GitHub Actions already supports that CircleCI doesn't?
For every politically woke CS student there are two dozen completely apolitical ones (and a sprinkling of wrongthinkers). I don't think Palantir is really desperate for applicants.
NPM package with-redux was abused. reported, but NPM team didn't care. ️
I think they’re using an interesting legal strategy here. They can use shareholder fraud to have legal standing to pull them into court, but the case prema facie rests on the acceptance of climate change.
Their prediction was wrong for me. I think identity politics is more about societal pressure, to conform to your race, gender, sexuality, etc.
Yeah, I was told 5%+ is what senior execs get post series B~. Isn't that like claiming the nanny to be more important that the amniotic fluid lol
Roger Federer as Religious Experience (2006)
Fwiw the 66% like it was legit. When a post got popular it attracted downvotes from other submitters who thought downvoting everything else would boost their submission. If you looked at posts in niche subreddits they regularly had 90%+.
This seems really useful, especially in an age where there's food insecurity.
The Los Alamos mirror seems to have a certificate problem:

https://lanl.arxiv.org/
I'm not sure that this satisfies the general agreed upon definition of exploits.
A related effort is restricting what state and local gov can do with facial recognition. The cities of San Francisco, CA and Somerville, MA have passed ordinances, and NYC is considering it (as if the NYPD cares) but city bans obviously have major limitations.

It looks to me like momentum on facial recognition is building now. Call your state reps, tell your friends, find folks who feel the same way and make some noise.
Indeed that's the post I meant. Thank you for reviewing it today, and giving your thoughts.
Yes! I listened to a good bit of that audiobook, but it was such a pain having to puzzle out who was doing/saying things. I eventually gave up.

I mean... it was an interesting idea, writing a book that way because the characters sexes shouldn’t really matter. But in practice, it was a mess.
> why is it exactly that I should owe a massive amount of my economic output to those who aren't outputting anything? At what point do I simply say "fuck it" and stop working too, because some ridiculous percentage of my income has to be applied towards feeding those who won't/can't/don't do anything productive?

There's no easy way of attributing value to invention. Does the inventor / automator really deserve all of the profit that would come from such automation for all of eternity?

What if another person was only 2 months behind in making the same invention? And 2 months after that, a 3rd person was destined to, and within 2 years, the idea would be so obvious that the top 5 percentile of that profession would have been able to come up with the same thing? Why should the first person / company to automate something deserve an eternal monopoly on the output of said automation?
GitLab will automatically detect where in your codebase that vulnerability exists, update the dependency, and deliver it to your production environment.

Auto patching and deploying to production in an automated fashion sounds like a terrible idea. Do people actually do this?
Does it work for them?
To be clear, I'm talking about what the law specifies, not what actually happens. I know a great many patents are issued for things that are obvious, for which there is prior art, or that do not adequately describe a how.

They should not be, and somebody should probably be lobbying congress to address the patent office not being sufficiently strict.
It’s All Greek to You and Me, So What Is It to the Greeks?
Wait for Google's game division to do something about it they have their AMD online gaming app coming up they must do something about it and hopefully will open source it.
What's the context for them firing off their Linux platform devs in ~2013?
I can imagine the convenience for most people. For me, not being a big phone user, it's not difficult. I did it recently when porting to a new provider failed to work (despite only needing my phone number and date of birth as input). Perhaps a few organisations didn't get the new number and can no longer contact me for marketing etc., but that's a bonus.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure that this serves as an effective deterrent.
Hilariously wrong for me.

I had to think pretty hard about if i think i’m a protestant or not. (i think they mean “not-catholic”, which is a much bigger
tent than the binary choice makes obvious.)
Eleven Ordinary Twenty-Somethings With $250B Riding on Their Lives
The suit alleges that the investors were defrauded - not the public, or some such. (That would also be absurd, but it isn't relevant anyway, so no point arguing about it.)

But the investors made lots of money. It doesn't make sense.

The idea that anything Exxon did had a major influence on the debate about the effect of CO2 on climate is ridiculous. Many billions of dollars have been spent on climate research by governments. Are we to believe that a few scientists at Exxon had it all figured out 40 years ago? And then because Exxon executives didn't decide their product was evil and therefore exit the industry, nobody else realized the truth, even though the reports by the Exxon scientists were published...?

It doesn't make sense.
Penetration testing a group sex app.

I'm surprised it hasn't been done before.
I’ve reported a bug like this in an application that deals with a similarly sensitive topic— They managed to call me back in 30 minutes (I never gave them my number) and had it fixed in a few hours.

I did contact them via every medium I could find, not just email. Obviously, the response these folks got from the company should have told them they were talking to the wrong person, and they should have been more vigilant in attempting to contact the right person.
It's entirely possible that this has already happened but no one knows other than the blackmailer and victim know.
I think you're overreacting. The Sohn quote is referring specifically to oversight by relevant government agencies. Lawsuits are not relevant to the statement. The article implies that the FCC investigation into location data sharing was, at best, proceeding slowly.
The Apple Maps 'street view' equivalent (coming in iOS 13) has a transition animation (for moving down the street) that absolutely knocks the socks off Google's. It was surprising to see just how strikingly better it is. I don't think Google changed it in that time.
After this latest spiral down in the degradation of politics I feel like that kind of information would nearly be a badge of honor. When your highest seat of the government does pr0n stars, well, the bar is pretty low.
I don't even understand why anyone is driving down a road like that in the first place. Where are they coming from and where are they going? Where are they planning to park when they get there? They surely aren't parking outside individual shops?

I can understand taxis, delivery vans, busses, chauffeur cars, disabled people, but when I see a private individual in a small cheap car driving through the very centre of somewhere like London I can't think of any explanation for that whatsoever. I wouldn't attempt to drive through a major city unless my life depended on it. Even if you were radically pro-car there doesn't seem to be any logical explanation as for what these people are doing.
Most countries (including Switzerland) have some form of investor's visa which is basically an official way to pay for a visa.
Jubilee is pretty fun.
>I'd say also, I currently perceive Google/Facebook as a place to "slow down". They're big enough and have enough resources to do anything they want, so it seems like there's gonna be a lot of people just hanging out and going the slow route.

Having worked in a startup and midsize environment and now at Google my experience has been the opposite. Getting to focus intensely on one or two projects at a time allowed me to push the needle on velocity. I don't push as many LOC, sure, but that isn't how I measure impact or progress. At Google I can make measurable, verifiable impact using a development cycle the loops over a few days. It's very hard to do that even at midsize companies.
> An important item here, as well as in the future, is to deal on a CASH basis. You MUST NOT borrow to pay later. I don’t want to give all the reasons for everything I’m recommending — you will have to trust them. Pay as you go, EXCEPT for a SINGLE exception (later stated) is the best.

A farm is a business. Starting a business on a cash-only basis is possible and arguably safer than borrowing, but it's very slow going.

The way most farmers get started is they take out a great stonkin' loan from the bank ($10mil+) and buy land, stock, machinery etc. They then run their newly established farm and try to turn enough of a profit to pay the interest plus a bit of capital.

That's why farmers tend to be "asset rich and cash poor" for the first 20-30 years and then (if they're both diligent and lucky) are suddenly super wealthy once they've paid their loans off.

(Source: dairy-farming relatives)
Peoples right to reproduce is constrained by all sorts of things already.
I lost my tech altruism after the Snowden revelations. I'd been in the business professionally since the mid 90s and as a hobbyist since the mid 80s. I still do it for a living because I gotta pay bills, but SV doesn't impress me as world changing, for the better anyway.
Computation for Hands, Systems for Humans by Vi Hart
I don't think you're far off. Plus, who knows how long the bad guys had to harvest this stuff prior to the good guys finding it. Or I wouldn't put it past some foreign hacker agency or even the NSA from scooping it up for a rainy day.
The law says that the aggrieved party can sue for $1000 to $5000 per violation, and Facebook violated the law millions of times.

Move over, mesothelioma TV commercials. We have a new target for the bottom-feeding lawyers.
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I grew up in farm country. Notably, it was mostly small family farms or co-operative farms that I lived around[0]

The observation I made about farming that always made it difficult (financially) was that all the wealth was tied up in things. Your acres, your livestock/crops, your home(s) and other property. High value equipment as well (tractors aren't cheap, neither are their accessories).

The issue was always turning these things into cash. So mortgages were one way (though if I'm being honest any one who has run a large scale farming operation probably doesn't lean on the mortgage. You can get agribusiness loans with much better terms and crop/livestock insurance[1]).

Contrary to popular belief though, the land that is actually farmed is mostly leased/rented, but its typically a long term deal, so you don't have to borrow millions of dollars just to increase acreage [2]

This was something that large corporations don't have such trouble with (not to mention, most large agriculture companies have a portfolio of assets that they make money from, not just their production). I also noted that those in good co-operatives didn't have as much of an issue with this either (co-ops are good market makers and can help small farmers with buying power if they need to change crops quickly in response to market demand.

See all the bankruptcies and delinquencies hitting wheat farmers right now [3] some of which is in part to the trade issues we're having with China. They're a huge net importer of certain cash crops. Most of these guys were all in on their cash crop, without a good way to get ahead of market demand to re-calibrate their crops. Livestock is much harder in this sense, but its still doable)

This is the common reason why older farmers tend to sell (beyond simply crushing debt. It does happen for a lot of reasons. I'm not trying to under sell this. its just hard to write up a lengthy post here without it becoming an article). So they can actually cash out

[0]https://www.ufcmn.com/About-Us
[1]https://www.farmermac.com/
[2]https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/land-use-land-v...
[3]https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-one-here-is-gonna-kick-my-...

EDIT: if the people of HN will it, I could do a long write about about Agriculture economics. I've got a strong background here.
Of course they found multiple ways in.
They don't mean not catholic, the tree shows not-protestant not-catholic as a pathway. It's a weirdly phrased question since it doesn't implicitly assume you are christian, but it sounds like it does. And it doesn't clarify if it is asking about beliefs, or is a backdoor ethnic group classification, i.e. are you "culturally" protestant or catholic. I went to a protestant church as a child even though my one parent was an outspoken atheist and my other parent has now become atheist.
Maybe for the type of person that ‘rises’ to political office, but regular people probably still care quite a bit.
It also speaks highly of the level of engineering and testing required to determine the limitations of each an every part that must be maintained for safe flight.
Some details I missed out:

My current salary is way below market rate for this type of a job - market rate would be 6k+, I drew 3.3k for the last 5 months
I love the article illustration. It's really stellar work. Good job, Scott Gelber!

[Explaining more is difficult, and vague praise can seem insincere. I am serious, not sarcastic]
I've had 2 battery replacements and both times they only replaced the battery.
Although this is getting downvoted because it is somewhat inflammatory (stops just short of using "winblowz" and "M$"), there is some truth to it. Visual Studio does have a package manager but its not widely used, and in practice can't be used in a lot of environments that C\C++ Windows developers (often game developers) are using. That said, I've seen stb_image used widely in environments that are not Windows because even if you have package manager and a build system that manages dependencies better than vanilla MSBuild it's still lower friction to include a single header file library. Last time I used xcode, dependency management was about as painful as visual studio but I might have been doing it wrong.
Do regular people care with their words or with their votes? Because if it just words then how much care is there? As Mitch McConnell's office has stated recently, "Boys will be boys."

Isn't that an informal assessment of American culture?
is this a joke? it didn't just completely misidentified me. it is the collection of worst cliches and misconceptions. took a screenshot to share with friends - it is hilarious! ny times lives in its own one-dimensional world.
You're rehashing a couple of the most tired arguments Lispers always hear:

1. Parentheses are inconvenient.

2. Everything you can do in Lisp you can do in $other_turing_complete_language.

What you're missing in (1) is that as much as you wish you were stating an objective truth of the universe, you're really just stating your own subjective impression. If parentheses were objectively, universally inconvenient, nobody would ever program in Lisp. And yet many do. So what's the explanation for that?

What you're missing in (2) is that although (2) is certainly true, it's irrelevant. If (2) were relevant, nobody would ever prefer any Turing-equivalent language over another. And yet objectively, people certainly do. So what's the explanation for that?

The other thing you're missing in (2) is Greenspun's tenth rule, but I'll let you look that up.
You're right to highlight the point about the UK's former lack of wealth (as it's not obvious), but I was amused by the reference to "workers areas" - presumably "working class areas" as people have worked in pretty much all populated areas of the country since time immemorial.
What a lovely team member to have. Everything should be questioned. This is how we get smarter. This is how we learn. Vocalizing your arguments helps convince yourself and others and validates (or invalidates) an idea.

Arguments put forth should be criticized and challenged. However this becomes difficult when egos come into the picture. There are stubborn engineers that will never accept that the possibility that they might be wrong. With this in mind, the "no man" cannot be the decision-maker, the "no man" should be playing the role of a lawyer.