skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main social benefit you're probably going to miss outside the EU is subsidised healthcare. You can probably get help from your company with health insurance. Likewise they probably should be able to advise on tax issues (chances are that taxes will be lower than in Germany). I had the good fortune to be offered a rather shorter overseas stint (~3 months) with my company and they paid all these costs for me; with a permanent relocation they may or may not be inclined to cover the costs but certainly ought to be able to offer advice if they already have a presence in your destination country.

The other, possibly bigger question is who you're going to socialise with. This can actually be easier in a foreign country than moving to another part of Germany - other people are more likely to find the new German guy interesting and more likely to want to help. It is worth finding out if the locals outside your company are generally regarded as foreigner-friendly and reasonably competent in English or German. If not, are there plenty of expats to keep you company? Are there significant cultural differences (especially noting the number of fairly conservative Muslim countries ~2000km from Germany), and would they matter to you?
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The relevant RFCs make it clear what is a correct eMail address. Why should we have to put with lazy or incompetent coders who can't be bothered to meet the standard?
Yeah exactly. It's more to catch wrong stuff entered in wrong field.
Not being able to read the messages in plaintext would be a step up. It would still be very useful for coordination in a situation like Tahir square.

"We cannot read the messages right now, because they are encrypted with 64 bit Blowfish. It will take some time to crack the passwords. But we have traced their location."

"Where are they?"

"Tahir square."

"...Get back to me when you actually have useful information."
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all information is equal,
nothing is more precious than the other

I am glad Google disagrees.

Not all information is equal. But all information deserves to exist.
Hey, come on. I thought in many cases my nominations DID make sense -- most of the languages I nominated had neighborhood-of-zero information available about them on the web, and some of them were blatant advertising. Alice ML and Nemerle were more borderline than I thought, but a lot of people (less so on this site than on reddit) seem to think that I singlehandedly deleted the articles in question, when I instead just nominated them for deletion. If these languages were as important as one would be lead to believe from this whole fiasco, you'd think that the discussion on the AfDs would be more than strawmans and personal attacks. It appears to me that the biggest (constructive) complaint was of my personal threshold for citations. This is precisely the kind of defense I would have expected to receive in the AfD, but unfortunately, the root of the issue was only brought out after the deletions.

Regardless, I misunderstood Wikipedia policy and I apologize to those I have offended. I honestly didn't think a couple of deletion discussions was so grave, and I ask that those who abhor me so try to imagine what it's like to make a mistake and have it go viral.
I recall reading a comment from Graham somewhere that one of the goals of the experiment with news.arc was to show that a "slow" language can serve a high-traffic website directly, with appropriate optimization and caching in its design, without having to be "protected" by something like Varnish or Squid in front of it.
The title is a bit too much in my opinion. I regularly come across couples where expenses are taken note of, and the wife has to pay back the half of it in case she doesn't have money. (Not necessarily the women owes money, but men tend to be more money-centric in my observations.)

And when I say half, I really mean it. If a bread cost $1.4 3 weeks ago (in Middle Europe at least, converted to USD), she is in debt of $0.7. This situation is supposed to be rare, but who knows.

I also heard another story, where the husband earned some decent amount of cash, the wife was at home with the child getting national aid only. The man told her to get back to work or he won't pay the bills.

I don't know where this twisted way of thinking comes from, but it's really depressing. And there are more and more people who wouldn't enter marriage without a written contract.

I just can't understand.
I like the idea of having validation but when the email doesn't match your pattern, give the user a warning that says "sorry, we don't think this is correct" but allow them to continue if they think it's legit, then have them click a link to validate so an incorrect email serves 0 purpose for them.
>In the real world, there's a bound on the amount of money that should be funneled into research. That bound should probably less than the amount of money it would take to bankrupt the supporting country

More to the point, it should realistically take into account the real capabilities of the scientific community at large. If president Obama decided tomorrow, "hey, we're going to sink $10T into creating warp drive by the end of the decade": how many charlatans do you think would start scurrying toward the money? How many legitimate physicsts would shrug their shoulders knowing they'd just lost out on their collider grants and cobble together proposals for a piece of their action, scientific integrity be damned? How many startup companies would be formed as R&D rent-seekers to develop "next-gen metallurgy and materials science for the project"? And do you think that we would really have warp drive at the outset of 10 years?

Why is it so hard to consider that maybe, just maybe, we are already overinvested in science now, just as we would be if we sunk $10T into warp drive today? All the hallmarks are there. Record levels of fraud (see retractionwatch if you want your soul to sink a bit), severe PhD employment pipeline problems...
Can here to say all 3 of these.

The first feeling I got from the design is that the site was kind of shady. I felt hard-pressed to put a password in the box.

The idea is really cool though. You'd need to integrate some kind of social login for it to get any traction I think.
It's worth pointing out that even football referees have a good amount of discretion when making a call. They don't change the rules, but they selectively apply them.
Intel. I think you're exaggerating MeeGo a bit.
my code to interface with this for a major financial exchange went live today too. So far its been working perfectly!
There are a lot of <strike>talented</strike> PhDs who were willing to work for very little money ($30k), and these people will reluctantly leave.

There, fixed that for you.
Too loose for what though? To make it more useful as a communication format or to make it easier for developers to validate it? It's hard to believe that a tighter spec could have improved the former.
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My weekend hacking project: a Facebook friend meme generator
It's obviously still beta, functionality is still missing and updating an app gives problems (it takes a while and your site is offline for a bit). The guys are super helpful though, and it's very stable and fast. So yes, I would recommend it!
The problem with matching against the fully fledged RFC compliant regex is that not all email addresses are RFC compliant. As I indicated in my comment above, I've abondoned trying to "correctly" or "completely" validate email addresses. There's onyl one thing certain in an email address: it contains the "@" character.
I agree with you. This is simple substitution. (If we're going to call this a regex mechanism, so is Find/Replace in Word.)
Nope, but this would be a purely client-only visual thing (so, editing the local chat buffer), primarily just to have done it.
15 Problems with old school Technical Support
your flawed assumption is that private companies are the only funding source. What about non-profit researcher foundations, such as HHMI? What you haven't seen is that in the past decade or two these foundations have been whittled away by the growing government behemoth. It used to be that every other graduate student was on some private grant or another, but now they are all written on RO1 NIH grants. With inflation eroding away at research endowments and faster-than-inflation growth in most laboratory equipment prices, a private research grant supplies maybe $100k a year, which is now insufficient to pay for even a research associate $50k + benefits, plus equipment. Plus, NIH gives research institutes "overhead" which is negotiated on a per-unit basis with each institute. So greedy-ass research institutes are not inclined to even allow their researchers to apply for grants which don't permit overhead.

When you have a line to an apparently unlimited line of credit, the practices are going to be wasteful because of perverse incentives (at the NIH they have glassware-breaking parties at the end of spending cycles to use up their budget because if they come underbudget they are at risk of having it reduced) and you are going squeeze out private (non-profit) competition.
This article is mostly aimed at people trying to earn an income via blogging, but it should still be useful to people here who are trying to bootstrap a more traditional "web 2.0" startup.
I'll confess - I'm not a design guy. I wanted to get the site functional and then worry about it. I really think the design is the site's only weakness.

How can I improve it? What would you add? What would you take away?
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Thanks for those equivalents, Sam! Informative.

That first `(map #...)` is particularly interesting. Looks like you're applying the item lookup operation across the list of indices. Neat.
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Nice set, number 1 is really really true !
I think that recaptcha is just a better idea in regards to this. Yes, it's an extra step, but it does two things: a. verify that the person is in fact a person and b. cancel out spam bots, because of the need for the spam bots to be able to read the image, which is almost usually impossible to fake.

This way, email validation is not even important anymore to avoid spam.

Using part of what was suggested in your post, if we do both, use recaptcha and send an email validation link before sending any emails, we avoid spam to our servers and to the people from us and we save everybody a little bit of time. :)

The next issue arises with email delivery. How do we then ensure that our validation emails don't get filed as spam? Because if the user never sees it, then it becomes a hassle for them and chances are, unless they really, really wanted access to our site, they're not going to spend time contact us to help them with validation so that they can login or otherwise...
Important man: I am the head of my household! I make all the important decisions such as our family's position on the world's important political, economic, and cultural issues.

My wife makes all the little decisions. Like where we'll live, how we'll spend our money, what we'll eat, and where our kids go to school.
iPad version please!!!
Yeah but not all email addresses are RFC compliant. Plenty of mail servers accept, or can be configured to accept, non-compliant addresses.
Thanks! You learn something new from Hacker News everyday. Never thought it'd be such a long regex for emails though. I just got really confused trying to parse that in my head.
Well, it certainly seems to lack sufficient guards against people who are on a power trip.
That's astounding--the UE page says they provide up to 32db of sound reduction; and that wasn't enough to reduce the ambient sound from the speakers and other monitors to non-hearing-damaging levels?

I feel sorry for the patrons of the venues you played in. I do care about my own hearing, and I hate it when I forget to bring non-distorting attenuators of some sort to a place which makes a goal of preventing conversation even in shouts.
It's a chicken/egg problem in that developers are saying I'm not porting because no one is using Python 3.x and users are saying I'm not moving to Python 3.x because none of my packages are available.

I can't just move to Python 3.x and abandon 2.x. And I have not been able to find a way to have boto support both with the same code base. So, then it becomes a matter of maintaining multiple versions of boto. Just shoot me now. If the barriers weren't so high, more packages would be running in Python3.x.
Hahaha this is so awesome. Well done dude.
Cheesy HTML5 Valentines
This is totally true. Compatibility wasn't high on the list for this quick little project.

Thinking about it now, the kids who may love this are probably using IE 7/8. I'll wip up a little dialog for them.
Please stop... to collect email addresses you don't really need.

When I participate in some kind of online community, I want to chose if I receive emails from them at all. And if not, it should be my choice if I provide any email address at all.

I have a small site where you can participate anonymously or log in, and when you create an account it's your choice if you provide an email address at all. If not, and you lose your password, you're out of luck.
Yes, my article on this states: "t's important to note the difference between MPEG, the standardization body, and MPEG LA, the licensing agency. MPEG defines standards, and those can be royalty-free or royalty-bearing, depending on what the owners of the essential patents agree upon in each case. MPEG LA manages patent pools related to royalty-bearing standards, serving right holders and licensees as a one-stop solution by way of aggregation."
I think this is far too harsh.

>"you're a drain on wikipedia, a source of negative knowledge."

Notability requirements are there for a reason. If you think it's notable then there are clear methods on Wikipedia to press your case and establish the notability without stooping to direct personal criticism.

I've not looked in detail but from the couple of posts here it seems the languages in question are esoteric and not especially notable in themselves. Wikipedia is not intended to be a dumping ground for every last bit of trivia.

Unless Alice, for example, has made some profound contribution to CS then it doesn't deserve it's own entry based on the limited number of papers available - even then it may not, the contribution could be listed elsewhere, perhaps on a general page about similar contribution or on the page for the language that has been most impacted.

Wikipedia isn't supposed to be a replacement for use of a search engine.

IMO adding millions of articles which are not going to get beyond stub status and not going to be maintained and take resources (editors) away from other articles is not a wise move.

If you genuinely believe that this is worth effort then there is nothing stopping you from taking the removed articles and starting/contributing to a programming language wiki. http://esoteric.voxelperfect.net/wiki/Language_list appears to be a good place to put this stuff. Or, as I said at the start demonstrating the notability and having the articles reinstated in Wikipedia.
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Interestingly enough - I subscribe to a email list that has an email address that fails to validate at google. Most irritating.
Lessons Learned on Hiring Software Developers
What is mediocrity, in your world view?

I hazard a guess that it's failing to live up to what you imagine. And then you feel like a failure. Mediocre. And when you give up, you feel like it's a cop-out.

It seems that you interpreted what I wrote through a filter of that sort of thinking. When I suggested that you give up on your current pattern of thinking you tell me it feels like a cop-out. It's the same pattern, as far as I can tell.

What you're dreaming up are intangible, speculative things with no basis in reality. That's fine if you feel good about it. But I don't think you do. You seem to be rejecting it on various levels.

What I am saying is link your thinking to tangibles. Test your ideation against reality. Stop pondering monks on misty mountain tops for a while. If you could imagine those monks with any clarity, you would already have had the experience. Instead - go and talk to monks. Go and visit mountain tops. Fill your mind with new experience.

Don't ponder this any further. Just take the first steps to seeking out new experiences.

Hopefully that makes some sense.

Again - all the best.
Well first I don't think a computer (at least a deterministic one) will ever be powerful enough to "perfectly simulate the workings of the human brain". That would be a quantum N-body simulation with N > 10^23. There probably isn't enough matter/energy in the universe to do that.

When people talk of simulating the human brain they mean something along the lines of : if we assume that the function of the human brain is entirely determined by the transmission of electrophysiological signals between neurons then we will be able to simulate that behavior in the not too distant future.

Personally I think we'll have general AI's, machines which can pass the Turing test, well before such simulations have been developed.

In either case I can't see how a CPU could become sentient just because of the software it's running. Think about it. Do you worry that you're CPU might be suffering when you drive it hard ? If the simple fact of running the right software can allow a piece of silicon to feel pain then that's something that my model of physical reality can't account for.
When a graduate student, a researcher, spends so much effort in order to delete knowledge (or, more precisely, hide it), I find it mind-boggling. It goes against the very essence of science.
> Nokia's operating expenses might have been reduced even further if they'd gone with Android (free) instead of WP7 (which they are paying to use).

MS fee is what? $10 per phone, probably less for Nokia? But, do anyone actually think that Android is free? Sure, it can be free if you're some cheap Chinese factory that just slaps the latest commit from Android repository on their handset, but key Google applications aren't open sourced, and to get them you need to make a deal with Google ("Google experience" apps, support, etc), which I doubt is free.

On top of that, if Nokia wants to differentiate itself from said Chinese manufacturer, they need to build some custom UI on top of stock Android (which probably everyone will hate, but that's the way of doing things in Android world). And to support that UI on couple of future Android releases in timely fashion for each handset, to avoid angry mob with obsolete phones mere months after the purchase (SonyEricsson, I'm looking at you). Developers time aren't free, and Nokia is notoriously bad at making software, just look at their Symbian record.
The biggest lesson I learned was this : really consider the long term viability of a co-founder. You need someone to work with initially, but that may not be the same person who will last out in the long-term. So be very careful when collaborating with anyone. Also, I've found it very difficult to predict what will work well and what will not. Use intuition, but find out as quickly as possible if your ideas were correct.
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So what is the point in using py3 then? They either should keep using the version with the largest library base, in order to profit from other's momentum, or invest their own ressources (money/time/skill) into making a py3-only library attractive enough to pull everybody else against their will.

What they're doing right now, is not investing anything at all to make py3 more attractive, but simply being loud and vocal and trying to coerce the majority through social pressure to do work to support their version of choice, even if there is no actually noticeable benefit in for them to do so.
Flippa is not a one-sized fits all solution. It works OK if you're looking to sell quickly, at a price for less than your website is worth, but it's not a place to sell serious businesses IMO.
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Hah, fair enough. I'm actually not sure I can tell the difference between the SR60s and 80s, but the price difference was small enough (US$20) that I didn't spend a lot of effort trying to tell. The SR-125s were another $50 above that, which was worth some effort, and at least in my listening I wasn't sure I could tell the difference, so I stuck with the 80s. Possibly I could've just stuck with the 60s!
Oh, no argument there, though being "highly annoyed" may point to some grumpiness.

It is clearly not a regex engine, but it operates like a very very naive one, and uses the Perl syntax for them.

Ultimately Regex just seemed like the easiest / clearest way of describing the functionality. IE, if I say "Skype supports the Perl Regex syntax for simple word substitution" you probably instantly think of s/a/b/.

Maybe I should have used that as the headline, but it seemed a bit long.
Exactly 0 cents!
However the owner probably makes some money.
This is a really good list for people who want to get involved in a Python project. I only wish it were bigger and it would contain smaller projects as well.

DecoratorTools shouldn't really be on that list though, since it doesn't make any sense for py3.
Pretty cute, I emailed a finished one to my girlfriend.
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No, but some clients such as linkinus will apply the regex on the client-side. Less capable clients just display it like any other message.
A Microsoft-level monopoly is impossible in the phone market. Why? Not enough lock-in. People bought Microsoft because it was cheap, but also because buying a mac would make you that guy, whose powerpoint presentation never worked, whose Word files always looked funky, who always had trouble getting on the intranet. No matter how much embracing and extending a phone OS does, an Android phone can call a WP7 phone can call an iOS phone can call a Symbian phone can call a ...

"You can only call your friends (or 911) if they've got a Samsung"? I don't see that working too well. (Especially because, in the US, a call that sounds bad or doesn't go through on Samsung to X will be blamed on the Network, so the carriers will just leave Samsung (or whomever) out in the cold.)
What is Wikipedia's policy on personal offsite URLs on user pages? I think it's just people editing his profile out of spite due to this issue. I agree that it's not done with good intentions.
There were lots of good games from around then,
which I've recently enjoyed playing on dosbox.

You can see screenshots and videos of lemmings et. al. here:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/misc/dosbox/
Where the "Oh fuck, the internet is here" came from
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215878
Learning that my guess as to what might work or not is just as accurate as anybody else's, that is, not very accurate.

I used to think that somehow kicking around ideas on places like HN made the ideas better, when in fact all they did was create ideas that hackers thought were cool. Different thing entirely.

You only know an idea is good or bad once you start executing. The market is always different from what you imagine (or want it to be)