skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm intrigued with the idea of the government just delivering a bucket of money to every household once a year.

An advantage is that you place some sort of floor under everyone's income, that would mitigate against basic poverty issues like homelessness, no money for food or health care, etc. Another advantage is that everyone still has the same incentives to work

Hmmm. That sounds like what I just wrote. Here is the link again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

I know there are lots of potential problems with this idea

Actually, there are not any problems with it. A capitalist society cannot function on a healthy level without universal no-strings-attached trickle-capital. However, I am interested in finding out what you find wrong with the idea.
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Submissions like this do not belong on Hacker News. The reason why is left as an exercise for the reader.
Write up a greasemonkey script? It cant be too hard.
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I'm not sure if they qualified as monopolies per the true definition, but what about TWA and PanAm for international air travel during the regulated airfare days? They each had respective monopolies on huge numbers of routes on separate coasts.
And also, don't forget that Firefox has also been around for a long time now... and it still has only barely scratched that surface.
"Whether due to pride or stubbornness, Microsoft's refusal to create a more accessible migration path from XP to Windows 7 is simply inexcusable."

I'm amazed that industry mouthpieces still don't get this. It has nothing to do with pride or stubbornness, and has everything to do with helping pc manufacturers sell new plastic. OS upgrades don't sell new plastic.
No lawsuits yet, but this is apparently because strong-arm tactics are more cost-effective. Here's an article suggesting that IV is hitting up companies for stuff they were already doing:

Myhrvold told the WSJ that he acknowledges facing resistance from companies he targets for licenses. But his patent inventory gives him leverage to extract settlements without litigation. "I say, 'I can't afford to sue you on all of these, and you can’t afford to defend on all these,'" he said.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/09/17/invention-capitalism-the...

It sounds like IV's general strategy is a carpet-bombing approach -- coming up with so many tangentially related patents that it doesn't matter how many are invalid, because proving it would cost too much in legal fees, lost sales, or investor confidence.

If you assume IV is legitimately innovating, then all these companies must have been willfully violating multiple patents (directly implementing them from the patent documents)... because otherwise these companies have all come up with the same innovations independently, and the frequency with which this occurs implies that the innovations are actually "obvious to someone skilled in the field" and hence not patentable.
The people buying the T-Bills are well above the $100k FDIC limit

dude, it is an utter triviality to spread your money in cash-equivalent 100k increment accounts, brokerages do this all the time. no one takes a loss on treasuries because they have $100k + n in their account. the eight people who upmodded you have simply never had to perform this trivial transaction
I wonder whether there will be also https support. That was one main reason why cachefly didn't work for me.
I hate it when people downmod me without a reason, so here goes:

1. First sentence: Cookie-cutter bitch about On-topicness.

2. Second sentence: Two incorrect assumptions. a) They "all" could learn programming, and b) that they would then make closer to 130K/year.

3. Second sentence (part 2): Another cookie-cutter bitch about On-topicness.
To go with the notion that a drink isn't purchased on its taste: Take note that Coke does taste different in certain countries, not the least of which because they often substitute sugars, particularly in Diet Coke. Also note that they even change the name of Diet Coke in many countries; a common one being Coke Light.
Once your regexes are getting that complicated, though, you're probably better off specifying things in terms of a BNF-based parser (or a recursive-descent parser, depending on the grammar).
>> Time agrees that using this un-archived email system is indeed a crime.

When I asked for a legal reference, I was hoping for a bit more than a former journalism school student putting a two-word parenthetical remark in an article that reads like one of The Messiah's press releases.

The CC'ing of her husband was for matters relating to her brother-in-law, who was a State Trooper who has publically admitted to:
1) tasering a child with his service taser (the kid was curious about what it would feel like);
2) drinking in a patrol car;
3) (most importantly) has publically admitted that he told Sarah Palin's father that he would "eat a bullet".

This man was a state police officer. Not only should he have been fired the moment ANY one of these was determined, bit charges should have been pressed against him. I would have fired anyone who didn't get rid of him too.

A prediction: this is going to backfire on Obama badly. Palin was a reformer who pissed off a lot of people in power. Very few Americans want police officers walking around who have done any of those things. This is one smear I hope you keep pushing. It helps cement her reputation as the reformer that she truly was.
Oh I know, I lived through the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.

And I lived through the painful transition to market democracy... which is still on going, going, going, towards fascism.
Should I assume that most of the people who want this have opted to hide the scroll bar that's normally on right hand side of their browser? Because for the other 99% of HN users, adding an orange footer would be visually redundant and only make the page uglier.
don't worry, the htmls are ads pages where people deliberately put phone and email to contact to (public info)

the correct regex can indeed produce noise, consider this string in an ads where the poster uses '+' to join info:
"please contact the owner, her info: 4041234567+owner@gmail.com ... thx!"

the correct 'boilerplate' regex will happily take 4041234567+owner@gmail.com ... which is not what i want; thus, noise

the less pedantic regex i use will just take owner@gmail.com, which is what i want

similarly with "?" char (legal for local part), the correct regex will catch "sendIM?owner@gmail.com"; which again, not what i want ...

the 'busted' regex will only take 'owner@gmail.com' ... which is what i want

that's the main reason the omissions of +,? and other legal chars in local part of my email regex, the second reason is speed

for email validation where what u get is just a string of less than 100 chars, it's fine to use complete email validation regex; however, for email scrapping of close to 1gb data, boilerplate won't cut it

i'm willing to sacrifice completeness for speed

my regex doesn't allow empty string, there's metachar '\s' for spaces, equivalent to [^ \t\n]

and i was wrong, '\w' is [^a-zA-Z0-9_] ... i forgot '^' and '_' are included in metachar '\w'

thx, your criticism forced me to reopen my regex book
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The quoted post is also pretty insightful, all things considered:

"Anonymous is not a group of hackers. Anonymous is more like gremlins. They are hyperactive adolescents in search of amusement and joy, which they often get by upsetting people and making messes. That’s what was happening here."

Which applies to script kiddies in general, really. (Maybe some day the media will understand this.) I think "gremlins" is a good term - they're not necessarily kids (or using scripts, these days), and it doesn't imply competence: they're just acting destructive because they're bored.
I dunno, they don't give me warm fuzzy feelings towards Microsoft.

At the most, they give me warm fuzzy feeling towards Bill Gates, but simultaneously reminds me that Bill Gates is no longer in charge of Microsoft -- he's just a doddering old billionaire who in my imagination now spends his whole life wandering around shopping malls and chatting to other semi-retired figures who used to be important back in the 1990s.
Obviously you have a definition of smeared that does not include the "Swift Boat (not actually)Veterans for (not anything like)Truth".

You make hyperbolic claims as though Mrs. Palin were some sort of sanctified Joan of Arc riding out to defeat the heretics; when in fact she's nothing more than another corrupt local politician who's gotten lucky in her choice of alignments and is being pushed forward by the fact that she will make a tractable puppet if elected.

This election does not matter, the American people are Fucked no matter which party takes office. And people like you deserve to have their homes taken away, their jobs automated or outsourced, their communications monitored, and to be subject to intrusive social controls.

I will be doing the automating, have a nice day.
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Burwsting? You might want to fix that...
Or reading on a wide-screen display, when somebody decided to put 500 characters of fixed-width text in a comment.
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>> ... and to be subject to intrusive social controls.

Such as having our email accounts broken into and displayed to the whole world, along with the email addresses and personal photos of friends and family.

Swiftboating: http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017385.php

I would encourage you to explore alternative media (such as the above) rather than just following the conventional "wisdom" of the mainstream media. Just because one group owns all the microphones doesn't mean everything they say is the truth.
You don't need to buy server hardware: Use something like Slicehost. You don't need to run an ad campaign.

The way to get a customer interested in a long-term relationship is to do a tiny short-term project for them, and do it well. Web sites are like engines for generating work. They will have more work for you sooner or later.

Don't compete on price unless you absolutely have to. That's a sucker bet. Your pricing sends a signal. Charging $10 tells me that you're either absolutely desperate, that you're located someplace very far away from my time zone -- possibly an uncharted backwater with pigeon-based internet connections and a really low cost of living -- that you're a student who has almost no time to spare and no business experience, or that you are such a neophyte that you can't be trusted to touch my website without breaking it. Possibly all four.

Undercharging your competitors will bring you business, all right -- you'll get deluged by offers from the kind of delusional people who think that Youtube should cost a couple thousand dollars to design and build. If you hate bottom-feeders, why are you aiming at the bottom of the market? Learn enough skills to justify a higher rate, and sell your quality, not your low cost.

Yes, if you charge $40 an hour or more (top developers with experience charge rather more than that) you'll have to actually convince people that you know what you're doing. To do that, you let them sign you up for a very tiny project that only takes 1 hour, then demonstrate competence on that. And you build a portfolio. Setting up a single website doesn't take long. You should build some site for yourself right away just to demonstrate that you know the basics -- or as a way to learn the basics.

Read: http://eikonoklastes.org/articles/2007/09/26/how-i-can-charg...
HTTPS and CDN's don't really mix too well because a CDN is by definition a man in the middle.
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I appreciate the civility of your reply

The feeling is mutual. I don't agree, however, that Palin's been smeared worse than, say, Barack Obama. From using the dog-whistle politics of racial and religious innuendo to smearing Obama by lying about the nature of his anti-predator legislation in Illinois to connecting him to terror attacks that happened in the 60's, the same good ol' boys club that smeared McCain in 2000 is running his campaign now, using every dirty trick in the book, and acting shocked, shocked that people have the audacity to scrutinize Sarah Palin's record.

The fact is, they're using the sort of up-is-down doublespeak I haven't seen in a First World country outside of 1984. The GOP represents change, but they've been running the country for 8 years. The governor who requested and received more earmarks per capita than any other governor is now an anti-pork reformer. The Obama tax plan will hurt middle class pocketbooks, but his plan cuts taxes more than McCain's does.

This isn't to say that Obama's campaign is perfect, not by a long shot. But even if you prefer McCain's policy positions to Obama's, I don't see how you can deny McCain's running a dirtier campaign. It's not just lying; it's divisive, petty politics. If you disagree with their agenda, you're anti-American. If you criticize Sarah Palin's record, you're a sexist. Never mind that she is on record criticizing Hillary Clinton's accusations of sexism as whining. It's the highest -- or, better, lowest -- form of political cynicism.

The fact is, Sarah Palin deserves scrutiny, just like any other relative unknown selected to be on the presidential ticket of a major national political party. I mean, before a few months ago she didn't know what the VP even did. That's not a smear, that's directly from this interview with her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4gkPXSDtGQ Watch it, it's scary.

Sure, you can argue that the average American doesn't know what the VP does. Sure, just like Sarah Palin, the average American hasn't been out of the country much. The problem is, I don't want the average American to be the VP. I want someone who's solidly grounded in the issues that the president will deal with, someone who can be trusted to represent the best of our country, not the mediocre. If she's a serious candidate, her ticket ought to let her get vetted like one.

That's all I'm going to say in the thread. I'm trying not to fully engage in this discussion much because once I start, it'll be difficult to stop. It's off-topic for Hacker News anyway. :)
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Interesting timing..first the Quality Score update and now this. Yahoo's quality/bid algorithms are completely broken- I wonder if Google's QS will now apply to all Yahoo ads.
Hack of Palin e-mail makes case for sticking with .gov account
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> I've heard many times that it is best to minimize the
> amount of Python code that executes in the critical
> paths of a program; instead, we will get better
> performance by using native libraries (like the re
> module).

Keep in mind that, while the 're' module itself may be written in C, it is in effect an interpreter for another language (regexps). You can easily build a regular expression that will happily backtrack and capture its way into a performance black hole, esp. since you can't trace the individual sub-patterns using normal Python profiling tools.

Benchmarking the two implementations, as you suggest, is of course the only way to be sure in your case.
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is it really that hard to guess the answer?

america values improving things and innovating more. asian cultures value obedience and going with the flow more. americans question stuff more.

plus america has more programmers and more education, and making mods requires writing lua code. if you count up the number of WoW players who are programmers good enough to make mods, in each country, it'll come out more even than just looking at population.

also look at how many of the players have their own computer vs play in a cyber cafe. mods are more convenient to use for people with their own computer, and it's hard to imagine people writing them who don't have their own computer. having your own computer is more common in america.

can i have the 100k now?
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My favorite utopian moment from the Manna story:

"Live Your Life means that you are able get the most out of your life, as opposed to the least. Instead of dying in Terrafoam, or dying in some job that you hate, you live your life in the Australia Project in freedom and prosperity. Live Your Life means that you are in control -- again, the emphasis on freedom of choice. You decide what you want to do, and then you are able to do it. You reach your full potential. Live Your Life is the idea of thinking about your life as a whole, as something that you get to design and control. Does that make sense?"
For comparisons sake, the Harris County Toll Road Authority (Houston, TX) paid new toll collectors $8/hour in 2002, when I briefly worked there. My supervisor's supervisor made about $11 or $12.
It's different because Coke is chemically addictive, albeit much less than the drugs we commonly think of as addictive.

Even though the caffeine is the same chemical in Coke or other drinks, when you become addicted you also feel a compulsion towards the other circumstances around your consumption, like the exact taste of the drink. It's similar to why people prefer particular brands of cigarettes or beer - the preference gets stronger over time as it's chemically reinforced.
I'm not trying to perpetuate a stereotype, by any means. My family has a long history of military service, and while I may have overstated the potential social ossification that could arise from only veterans being able to vote, I very much stand by the assertion that military service affects your thinking in fundamental and powerful ways.

There are of course other obvious problems with making voting rights dependent upon military service. Specifically, I doubt that same-sex marriage and civil unions laws would have passed in even the smattering of states where they did, if only because few of those most directly affected (i.e., homosexuals) would have been allowed into the military, and therefore, allowed to vote.
Sometimes they get free fruit, too:

http://www.zug.com/gab/index.cgi?func=view_thread&thread...
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Since the feature's "accuracy" depends on data from many other iTunes users, it may take (a little) time before we see just how good it can be.

So I'm not surprised if it seems dumb right now, it would be fair to review it again in a month.
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Is it just me that thinks it a bit wrong that they don't know/care how many db servers they run? If I was running something like that I'd want to know that number.
1 - Python parser generators often are a bunch of .py files, so you won't get anything external

2 - With PLY ( and some others) you can use any non-terminal as the start in the test mode, and it won't make any impact on the performance

4 - in case of python based parser generators - lexer is a weak part. Take PLY - it's lexer is based on re module, so you wont gain much here, you can write manual lexer and boost your performance.
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tons of stuff, but my favorite are bytecode, modules, classes and type hinting
at their level, it's like you worrying how many meg your apache server is taking. I understood in the post that they have an auto-scaling tool that starts, mounts and ends (when appropriate) databases servers
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Food and energy are a pretty small proportion of my expenditures, compared to discretionary stuff like books, movies, etc. One would expect energy to increase in price over time, per Hotelling's research (the return from investing in energy assets can only beat the return from savings if these assets go up in value over time).

It's no longer as clear as it once seemed that steady increases in the standard of living for the common man can be taken as a given.

Well, that depends. If we have overestimated the availability of finite resources, that is true. But just saying so isn't enough -- to be taken seriously, you should rephrase your belief as something like "As my long energy, long basic materials, and short consumer discretionaries portfolio demonstrates, I believe that higher prices for energy and basic materials, coupled with lower average wages, will reduce the standard of living and thus reduce consumption of non-essential goods." And there's a catch-22, here: if you and all the other people who talk that way are also investing that way, energy and basic materials prices will rise, to the point that balance is restored.
Human history has always been a struggle between those who want to limit the freedom of the individual and those who want to preserve it.

I don't think either side has ever got the upper hand, and I doubt either side ever will.
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Interesting talk.

But he makes it sound so easy. ;)
It makes tons of sense if you consider it a "revenue-enhancing device."
I was assuming others would immediately find problems with the idea that I hadn't thought of. I really don't know what the downsides are.

Thanks for the link! Interesting to see Alaska mentioned as an example of this idea, especially given current political discussions.
most of IE policy control seems shallow except for permission to modify settings...
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Sure, I guess if money isn't an issue and you just want the job done, that's what you do to scale.
As long as the fully optimized to start with, and continually monitor that...
Even a line or two of css-margin whitespace at the bottom would be an improvement.
The article seems like a good tutorial for learning regex constructions, with the examples chosen good motivation for learning.
I'm concerned that this is the by-product of politicians "creating jobs". We should be focused on improving our global quality of life, not providing employment. Unfortunately this would imply lots of unemployed less skilled workers (e.g. said toll booth folks).
It would be safer to assume that most people, when reading/focusing on the text in the middle of page, don't actually SEE the scroll bar.

I have a scroll bar but have this is an issue for me as well. When I'm reading a thread of comments my visual focus ignores the periphery of the window.
If anyone is wondering, Tom of Ticketstumbler is one of the wisest, most hardcore developers from the Summer YC 08 batch. He doesn't talk trash all day like cough fallentimes cough ;-), so when he opens his mouth, it's usually something coolly profound.
That's very good advice, thanks!
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