skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't wish to be rude, but how can you call yourself a staunch proponent of something you admit two sentences later not to really understand? That seems like an odd position to me.

More on topic, XML is not even a type 2 language since you have to check for matching of tags, and the tags can come from an arbitrary set, so you can't write a context-free grammar that recognises well-formed XML.

You'd want rules like:

XML -> TAG
TAG -> "<" ([a-z]+) ">" (TAG|Text)* "<" "/" \1 ">"

but backreferences are not possible. However, sane parsers allow a lexing phase and semantic rules or post-processing, which is why I think any academic assertions about which level of grammar you need for a certain file format are essentially a waste of time.
The key issue is that the advance from the label is neither a gift nor an investment; it's a straight up loan (most likely with interest) that is expected to be paid back, but the loan terms are horrendous. I get the feeling you think that the band receives a $1M investment that the label will recover at a certain rate from the generated profit, but that's not the case. After selling for $1M, the artists are still at $0, and they still owe the record company $1M. If the record company brings in $1M in profit from an album, they have covered their expenses. That $1M wouldn't even begin to repay the loan the artist have, though, so now the label is UP $1M - the artist still owes them most of the advance.

At least, that's how I understood the situation, correct me if I'm wrong.
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Part 3 of the series
While it could bring new way of file sharing to iPhone & iPad, it will prevent it on competing devices. That's what patents do.
That is actually an awesome idea! Hierarchical third party cookies.

Not that disabling third party cookies actually brakes many sites but sometimes it does and then it would be convenient to have an automatic solution that still maintains your privacy.

You still loose the single login concept but i would rather be without that anyway. I don't want to use my facebook login to post on hackernews, or any other site.
Canadian bills get named, like in the recent case of C-51, also known as "Lawful Access". If that isn't an attempt to frame the conversation, I don't know what is. More about Lawful Access here:

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5885/125/
http://openmedia.ca/StopSpying
Django and PostgreSQL – improving the performance with no effort and no code.
"Small agile group of clever people produces results far superior to large, calcified, bureaucratic organization that ostensibly should be performing the task."

That narrative is usually an easy ticket to the front page of HN.
This is so sad. Are we betting on SpaceX to get us back into space now?
I was simply being annoyed at an unbacked statement like that, especially given the topic. We always seem to forget that being a woman is, in fact, bloody dangerous. Something like one in five American women experiences a rape. We aren't discussing some abstract edge case; half of the population lives in completely justifiable terror of something that actually happens.

I mention gender because that modifies the statistics. Women get raped much more often than men do, so the rapes/person stat is misleading; rapes/woman, the stat we care about here, is almost twice the number I quoted.
Or, for a more down-to-earth implementation, you might use a light-slowing material http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light
this place is getting closer to that by the day :o( just wait another few months.

more constructively, is there some way to split or segregate this site, so that people don't feel they need to comment on technical articles yet can still be involved (for motivating examples, see the html regexp thread)?

otherwise, no. although metafilter isn't so bad. i had hopes for quora, but when i was there last it was somehow managing to keep a focus on startups while sliding downhill on quality and encouraging cliques.
That only stops Google+ internal search from returning your profile given your name. Your page is still public (and linked to by, for example, your friends' pages) so any search engine can index it.
Definitely a good idea! A site where one can have intelligent and respectful discussions regarding news, publications, articles and essays would be great!
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I can say this for more than half of the people in this world that they are not really happy with their current jobs. When we are about to enter professional world, we all have a dream job in our mind and a dream workplace where we would want to land up. We, human beings spend more than half of our day at work so it is very important for us to be happy about what we do. In order to live a complete and happy life, a lot of things are required and getting a desirable job is one of them.
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If I'm understanding it correctly (which I'm not convinced of; this is much more advanced Perl than I'm used to seeing), neither is quite accurate.

The first option is easy to rule out: HTML is not a regular language. Evidence: S-Expressions are not a regular language. XML is isomorphic to S-expressions of the form (<tagname> ((<attr1> <value1>) (<attr2> <value2>) ...) <contents>). HTML is isomorphic to XHTML, which is XML.[1]

I can't (read: don't feel like trying to) rigorously disprove that Perl's "regular expression" facility could be an HTML parser all by itself, but it looks like what's going on here is closer to a regex-based tokenizer (certainly possible, and in fact this is a very common pattern). Then, regular Perl flow control constructs are used to interpret the tokens as tags and such.

[1] Edit: Looking at that, it's not as solid as it was in my head when I was writing it. HTML is still not a regular language, because regular languages cannot key on nesting with uncapped depth.
They rarely happen in the "stranger danger" sense, which is really the only way the physical strength is defining any difference between men and women, as opposed to the social power difference being the factor that makes women more at risk for these types of attack.
I don't get it - even if you use a mirror, the distance is still the same. Light needs to go to the mirror, reflect and come back to your eyes, there's no difference if you're n lightyears away or just n/2 and use a mirror.

me ------| <- mirror

me ---|--- me

Do I get it wrong?
This reminds me of some of the stuff shown in the Wii U E3 video. Throwing shurikens and playing golf with the new controller for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e3qaPg_keg
err.. the first sentence of the link:

From my understanding of light, you are always
looking into the past based on how much time
it takes the light to reach you from what you
are observing.
My suggestion:

1. Add a reddit account.
2. Unsubscribe from all subreddits.
3. Subscribe to the subreddits below:
/r/depthhub
/r/philosophy
/r/Foodforthought
/r/math
/r/TrueReddit
/r/Cerebral
/r/TrueTrueReddit
/r/MetaTrueReddit
/r/TRDump

4. Unsubscribe from ones that you find too spammy/off topic. Subscribe to ones that are also interesting.

Tip: Don't subscribe to ones that you think are funny. It's a slippery slope to crappy articles.
What are the odds of a collision? How many unique elements are there that can make up a robot?
Compared with other hazards of life, they don't.
Comparatively, some of these hypothetical slot machines are less likey to kill you than others. But no location is truly safe, thus I contend they all have three skulls waiting for someone.

If a used laptop is enough of a reward to wager your life, I admire your courage, but when I think of it in financial terms, the thought gives me the heebie jeebies.
Countdown timer here: http://countdown.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/cdt
Warnings are to be expected if your goal is to make your program as short as possible.
So because allegedly he is some "rock star", he should be allowed to violate their etiquette repeatedly?
No, using regexes for this is terrible. I could write you a program that will parse html employing GOTOs, but it's been recognized as a bad programming practice. I'm not going to do your research for you, but this is not opinion, it's the result of people studying large code bases and defect rates within them. Same goes for overly long functions, bad variable naming, poor commenting, and so on.
I think the best bit of the story is when she goes back to the police a second time, and _they_ try to keep the laptop:

> After filing the second police report, an officer told her he would have to keep the computer as
> evidence, and take prints that Nahwegahbow worried would wipe the computer contents. She
> grabbed the computer from his arms and told him "You can't have it. It's mine. I just got it
> back!" She got to keep it.

At least they saw reason and let her hold on to it!
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Didn't you already post this like a million times already?

Anyhow, I like that it now loads new stories as you scroll down the page, much better. Nice and visual too, although one thing someone else said is that the news market is pretty saturated.

good luck.
The 9x return is nonetheless unsourced and likely to be the results of some fuzzy accounting.
Thank you for posting them. I understand I've seen the Shuttle in the UK too. Difficult to know by now what I'm remembering and what I'm remembering being told / seeing photos; I'd have been four. But I'm still glad to know that I have.

The shuttle may well have been too expensive, too dangerous and too limited in capabilities. But to me as a simple enthusiast it's still a truly glorious machine that would be sad to see go even with a better replacement on the next pad. Without that....

One day, we will return.
Is Dropbox a privacy revolution?
Oddly, such stories are often held up as examples of why we should have less government and pay lower taxes, instead of suggesting that perhaps budget cutbacks are the reason the police have to prioritize and can't send investigators out to recover every laptop stolen from a car.

I'm not arguing the case either way, just suggesting that such stories are often interpreted through the filter of our existing bias.
I classify this as a parser using regular expressions rather than parsing using regular expressions. That is, his regular expressions don't parse the document. He wrote a parser, and uses regular expressions in that parser.
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just verified the time:

+/- 2 mins

EASTERN: 10:40 am
CENTRAL: 9:40 am
PACIFIC: 7:40 am
Large, reputable company which people already pay a monthly/annual fee to (such as an antivirus service) offers free no-script and ad-block install to customers; something continually updated and intelligently moderated to remove adverts except on sites the user green-lights. Animated and flash-based adverts are the primary targets, while text and static images are left alone. This encourages websites to use these forms of advertising. If a video requires an unskippable video longer than 5 seconds to play before the feature video, a pop-up box with a list of alternate links to the video is generated; again, to push advertisers into short or static advertising.

The average user knows they need an antivirus program, and one brand in particular is recommended above all others because it helps keep the internet 'clean', in a sense.
So just use cycles instead of degrees. Simple fractions or a circle. Fractions are already taught to young children as "how many pieces a circle[1] can be divided into." It would seem to kill two birds with one stone.

I think most kids who even study pre-Calc could handle applying a conversion of "2pi" from there.

[1] Where circle="cake","pie","pizza",etc.
Presumably malnutrition is not much of a concern after one has left poverty.

That's exactly the point!

The big win here is gaining one up on the basic necessities of survival.

The fact that ennui is unaffected well sure that's a downside, money is not the same as happiness, but it sure beats starving or freezing to death.

Basic necessities of life vs ennui. If you mention both in the same sentence in an attempt to even out the benefits from steady work, well then you're a dick.
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I found the comment quite difficult to parse. I'm guessing that is why.
The general outlook I hear from people who are signed to deals that pay advances is this: get as large an advance as you can, because you won't be getting anything else. Sure, if you go double platinum it might be worthwhile to audit the label and squeeze some more money out.

Although recoupment provisions make it technically a loan, just like a VC, the label won't come after you forever if you don't recoup. At a certain point, they'll write it off and let it go; they won't be after you forever like a collection agency.

As to how bands can earn a living, the answer is of course touring, merch (t-shirts, etc.) and for those with music with mass appeal, licensing to films, tv, and commercials. If you can self-produce, you can also do a licensing deal (P&D - pressing and distribution) for the record as well.

The way to stay in control, of course, is to bootstrap it and form your own record company.

Anyone curious about how these deals work in more detail should check out "Confessions of a Record Producer" by Moses Avalon (a pseudonym).
this is cute. if anyone is looking for a more abstract approach i threw some code together a year ago that generates colourful "mosaics" - http://www.acooke.org/hash-icons.html (i really need to improve the page and release the code...)
6 stages where you ought to be user testing
Be sure to read the part about Mitch Glazier, starting half-way down.
The Shuttle program is coming to a hard stop because the program was a failure. The Shuttle is monstrously complex, killed astronauts on routine low orbit missions, and its runaway costs enveloped NASA's budget, crowding out any alternative manned platforms. There is no next-generation Shuttle or iteration of the Shuttle because simply running the current version of the Shuttle consumed NASA.

After this last mission, the U.S. manned space program's capabilities will be back in the 1950s.
aka just about every government project ever.

Or at least in the last forty years.
When you buy the TLD, you're not just reserving it for your own use -- you're signing up to operate a registry which will allow anyone else to purchase domains under your TLD. ICANN wants verification that you have sufficient funds to run a registry, for one thing.

They're also a non-profit organization, and they seek the fees to support all the copyright arbitration and legal wrangling that will eventually ensue over the new TLDs.
The code isn't obfuscated; it's golfed. (http://codegolf.com/)

I assume the line-breaks are to allow the code to fit within 80 columns to display on most standard terminals. If you look closely, they occur at places you wouldn't expect them to. I'm guessing they were placed by cat and not the author.
just fyi, at least for me, Yahoo stream is about 20 seconds behind.
Any chance of open-sourcing this? :)
In financial terms, she could not afford to buy a new one, and I'd wager that she couldn't complete her studies without it.

I would have done the same thing, except I would bring more friends, at least some of whom would have professional photography rigs to get some nice snapshots of the thieves, as well as their car - assuming they arrived in one.
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Sniping at Charges for Swiping Debt Cards
Warren Buffett: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes.
I wonder how the people suggesting less government and lower taxes would advise you to deal with a crime that was more serious - for instance, what if instead of her laptop being stolen, someone torched her house.
Uhm, I was with you until:

> Some folks do have serious issues about their gender identity, but I think Google+ is a better place without them.

Come again? You can't socialize if you are unsure about your gender? What the hell...?

I bet most gender-confused people are a lot more fun to be around than I am, despite my well-defined gender.
Perhaps, but what's the cost of "fuck it, we'll just build a replacement Hubble" in Shuttle mission equivalents?
Who says they saw reason? They may not have had any legal alternative. Or perhaps they just didn't want to deal with it right before going on vacation.
Because you believe that the men of the internet are hostile towards women, you can't do anything to fix that, so it's best to hide?
Turns out they do actually think they can generate net power: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/fusion-energy-without-radio...

For a power plant they'd need a laser that doesn't exist yet, but it looks like commercially-available lasers could do the experiment.
did you read my comment? i'm using cookie monster.

blocking by default and only allowing the current domain breaks quite a few sites that refuse to work without an active session cookie. some break subtly and some throw you into a redirection loop. that is why i accept all by default, but firefox marks them as session cookies so they don't survive across browsing sessions, and using cookie monster i whitelist a few domains.
thank you for the feedback. it is self promotion. but that's not always bad. i hope you take a look anyway and find my book (i.e., experience) useful. thanks.
Ha! Natural language always expands into a horrible mess of weird cases. Humanity is a horrible mess of weird cases.
How to deal with a resentful former peer
Flip Clock Rendered Completely in CSS (No Images)
11:26am Eastern should be the correct time.
In defense of the bully, at least he is completely clear about his feelings, and it is obvious that he is just insulting.

I know from experience that is is extremly frustrating and deeply insulting when a developer marks a valid bug report as "NOTABUG" or "WONTFIX", no matter how friendly he is while doing so. When somebody closes a bug report without taking any action whatsoever, without even acknowledging the problem, this feels to me just as if he said: "Shut the fuck up, we developers have better things to do than care about stupid users." It doesn't matter if the developer uses polite wording, I'm still insulted.
And that's what I like Hacker News, even though I know nothing about about coding.
Context.IO Provides The Missing Email API
from what I understand, they type the url into google search
DHTMLX 3.0: JS Library with Visual Designer
Oft-times larger venues will not play you if you are not signed. Sometimes this isn't true, but it typically is.

Especially if the venue is owned by Clearchannel (most are).
In A/B Testing, how many conversions do you need?
>>No, I would have a problem with it from anyone if the attention was unwanted. It is the 'unwanted' aspect of things which is important.
>Disagree. It should be the 'being objectified' aspect of things which is most important as that's the topic we're dealing with. Even if your dream man approaches you and you want the attention, it shouldn't matter - objectifying women is still objectifying women whether it's from someone you're into or the fat, bald guy.

I disagree too. I think it is the "if" part that is most important. Sometimes it is being fun to be objectified, even if you had a hard day at work or are a lesbian (not sure why OP had to make this distinction)... or something.

The problem is there is no way for people to show "I'm here at this place where people normally go to look for dates, but I am not looking for a date this time." Some women are going to go on social networking sites, network socially and enjoy all the comments they get that others MIGHT find unwanted. This doesn't mean all women will, and it doesn't mean that all men are going make these types of comment.

Most importantly, this is a real life problem, not a G+ problem, but G+ gives us the option of a block button, while real life does not.
The only problem is that the sitting congress would need to pass the law making themselves ineligible for re-election.
Haha that is a good point. I guess it was more the look of total despair on his face.
If you use all three sets, and enable backgrounds, the collision chance is much lower.

Each Robot is made up of 6 sets of 10 choices each, plus backgrounds.

It's not perfect, but it's enough to give you a basic view into "Is this the same guy or not"
yeah, I guess the value returns are different than appbackr.
Serious companies that have lots of users and naturally exceed the free limits.
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There's no contact email. I am in a similar boat albeit slightly different. We should connect.
Have you tried http://www.metafilter.com/? It has lots of interesting new links posted every day on just about any topic, and the quality of the comments is quite high. New users have to pay for an account ($5) in order to comment, and that tends to keep people well-behaved.
That wouldn't end the deficit, that would just ensure the deficit was 0 the day before elections. Also there's a slippery slope. This same logic, if we allow it to be applied to the deficit, could be applied to other things. No congressmen could be reelected if gay marriage is legal, etc.
vladev- Sure. It's on Github; Written in Python + Tornado. If you're interested, email me.

I'd rather clean it up, but if you're a Python guy, you could help ;)
This is an excellent comment - we'll fix this next week.

We have been caught on the hop somewhat by how popular this has been.

I'm the point man on this - Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, http://about.me/mbrit, @mbrit and mabr@dotappapp.com.
I got dibs on a duckface (http://antiduckface.com/) detection and removal service for public websites like Facebook. :)
I love this, simply because http://robohash.org/mattbearman kinda looks like me :D

My one criticism is that it took me while to figure out (and I'm web dev) It wasn't clear until quite far down the page that you need to just put the text string after the URL.

I'd recommend having a text box into which pasted text can be robohashed prominent on the homepage, as well as clearer instructions.

Edit: just noticed there is a text box, was that there before? It could definitely be more noticeable :)