skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "no trespassing sign" doesn't cary any force on its own. Were there no laws against trespassing on private property, then yes, you'd have a point. Whether someone has a sign or not, the law is the same, and if the police show up and then point their guns at you (whether real or metaphorical), it's more or less the same situation.

You have a choice in the case of the gun toting property owner as well. The choice is to leave, or be risk being shot and killed. As you say, not all choices are between equally desirable outcomes...
Clash of the Titans 2013
If nothing else, it gives you an understanding of what regular expressions are doing, and a basis for understanding about the Chomsky hierarchy.
I agree with the author of TFA that Krugman is wrong. Just as every single Keynesians out there: they have never predicted anything more than short term (and what really hurts them is that there are economists from other school of thought who can repeatedly predict correctly over the long term. Ouch.).

And I also agree that we should not fear deflation.

However hoping that deflation will happen would be like waiting for some pink unicorn to show up: both the U.S. and the Japan have announced "unlimited QEs".

In order words: endless money printing to prevent the utter failure of the Keynesian system.

We'll not discuss the fact that if money is free to print this is not true capitalism at work (because the amount of new money in circulation doesn't correspond to the new wealth created)... But hey, this is a Keynes' world right, so what do you expect.

Could anyone explain me how we'll anything other than inflation (and possibly a very severe inflation) when, worldwide, the biggest economies are doing "unlimited QEs"?

If deflation takes place I'd be very surprised (and very happy too, because I'm a "saver"). I did hedge myself against inflation/hyper-inflation but I still do have lots of cash/savings.

I'd love deflation to take place but with unlimited QEs it's never going to happen.
Consider me extremely jealous that you are studying under Prof. Aho, he's one of the greats.

Statemachines are an incredibly useful tool. I've spent the better part of last year untangling a huge pile of code and the solution in the end was to split it all up into statemachines that communicate with each other using simple synchronous messages.

That and that alone made the problem tractable. (Tractable to me, that is, quite possibly some genius would be able to solve it in many different ways, but this to me only underscores the value of statemachines as a tool).
> I would have already upgraded to Win8 if it had a real desktop with a real start menu for my dual 27-inchers instead of a friggin touch interface designed for a tablet.

Walking into Best Buy today, I noticed that almost all the computers had touchscreens. Even the few that also had keyboards in front of them lacked mice.

They're clearly betting on the hypothesis that computers in 2/5/10 years won't have mice, those having been replaced altogether by all-in-one monitors.

In other words, I don't think the intent is to get Windows 8 installed on existing hardware. I think the intent is to get Windows 8[1] to dominate (and perhaps even drive) new sales.

[1] Or, more likely, the successor to Windows 8 - Microsoft customers have always had a pattern of 'skip one, upgrade one', and even without the redesign, Windows 8 falls on one of the 'off' cycles as it is.
Tata is an Indian company, so they probably intend to sell these houses there, not in the U.S.
It is true that acquisition is unlikely, but licensing is different. I think Netflix has to choose their deals carefully and in the right order. Disney is their biggest deal yet. HBO would be bigger, but next year, it might be manageable. They already did the StarzPlay deal which brought shows to Netflix the day after airing on Starz, and Starz is a poorer version of HBO. Starz didn't renew, which makes the value of the arrangement look low, but it's possible HBO intends to learn from that in their future deal.

Amazon's Prime Instant is a direct Netflix competitor and they pursue licenses just as aggressively. They are even publiahing original content, which is not their core competency but certainly is HBO's.
Thank you for taking time to provide a meaningful example in a commonly used language as it makes it pretty clear why monads could be considered useful in certain scenarios. You have managed to explain monads more clearly to me with a single post than any other article I've ever read.
It's people actually peacefully protesting injustice and corruption that scare the powers that be. A bunch of rowdies can be arrested or shot easily and to the relief of many. Old and young people singing songs and what not, that's much trickier.

Ever read War Is a Racket? What makes you think Wall Street has peaceful intentions? What makes you think Wall Street doesn't cause a lot of death? What makes you think it's reasonably to project that evil on those who protest it? No wait; do you think, at all? Your bit about "the highest risks for terrorism" makes me wonder. Also, why bring up PETA? Why not bring up all the wonderful people who protest a lot of evil shit and make the world better; there is no day without that happening. You make it seem like all protest groups are out to destroy, which makes it rather obvious you wish they were. Would make it seem less crappy to, you know, not be out there protesting. Since protesters are potential terrorists (not my words, that's what you basically said), people who just sit at home are basically like the firefighters of 9/11 and the armed forces combined, but with a healthier lifestyle and pets 'n shit.

Yes, I'm at the border of flamebaiting, mod me down. This self-righteous stating if BS ("are usually considered some of the highest risks for terrorism" -- by whom? that's like "some people say", the staple of any hit piece) really really ticks me off. And I'm not even American, I'd be breathing fire otherwise.
This XKCD[0] explains the issue with Hurd perfectly, more-or-less echoing the ideas rogerbinns expressed. Note the mouseover text, which makes the observation that the Hurd loop is the loop in which you "code right" and the Android loop is the loop in which you "code fast".

[0] https://xkcd.com/844/
But why POSIX? There's only so much lipstick any one pig can take.
so use presenters... easy.
You are right, at least, regarding the monitor. I tried two monitors (other factors being equal), got 28, 4, 68 with Dell IPS LCD, and 31, 11, 78 with Samsung TN LCD (paired t-test p-value=0.08). It might be that amount of light or time of day is another factor introducing variance.
Does he have an original take on the correspondence theory of truth or is he rehashing things from early 20th century philosophy?
Why I'll never use WP Engine
As a grad student in chemical engineering, I'm not sure I entirely get the joke. I can answer both "How is your research going?" and "How long until you finish your thesis?" At least at my school, there's a general plan that most students are expected to follow to get their degree.

Progress must be reported to receive additional funding, so I can certainly explain the same to anyone that asks.
why not use an observer to send the emails?
I have a few premium one word domain names available, contact info inside my profile.
interesting quotes from article:
Amazon now sells ads that show up to the side of product search results on its website..

Now, Amazon is pushing its online ad efforts, threatening to siphon revenue and users from Google's main search website..
Thanks so much. Would love to hear more of your thoughts about potential uses, I've been struggling to think of examples to make.
Just a heads up: this isn't the latest template according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4953872

If you're looking to do a LxTHW, you should contact Zed to get the latest base structure.

Edit: Also, if you want to write a Learn X The Hard Way you should read this post about how to do it (http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1288945508.html)
I bought Start8 for about $5. Works brilliantly. It also disables most of the full-screening crap Windows 8 tries to shove down your throat.

I understand full screen on a tablet, but on a 27" monitor with no 'touch'? WTF?
Are you saying there were desktop PCs without keyboards? How does that even work?
Ringtones were important in the previous era of cell phones, but I think in an era of smart phones actually using your phone as a phone seems secondary to other activities like texting, facebook and facetime in terms of actually connecting to people. And it might actually be the case at this point that talking on a phone is what old people do (example: mom calls up worried about daughter staying out too late).
Good idea. Deleting this for later...
When I bought my new laptop, the store was 95% Window 8. And ZERO had a touch screen. I don't get why laptops don't come with a touch screen by default these days.
'Dajiudianwang' hotel reservation, ~2007-2009. We reached the same property network size as CTrip and ELong (3300+ individual property contracts across China), but also provided services in (non-broken) English, Japanese Korean, Thai and Vietnamese. We were highly automated, running a call center and paperless, digital fax workflow on a custom diskless Linux and asterisk on an E1 over private fibre.

I gave up on it because, despite basically winning Europe's largest travel-industry VC event in London in 2009, I didn't find a viable source of venture capital to expand our marketing, once the system was proven and almost break-even on self-funded capital. Basically locals wanted to take over, and foreigners didn't trust the Chinese legal system. I write it off as my 'Chinese MBA' now, and happily take a salary and less stress instead.

I'd be interested to pick it up again, if I found the right backers.

PS. Oh! David! Hey .. I think we corresponded once before. :)
The desktop is the same, and the start menu acts the same: Press the winkey, and start typing. Are you really saying as an advanced user, you spend a lot of time using the mouse and clicking around the start menu? Really?

The only time the new UI really sucks is when using remote servers via RDP. Someone should be sacked for the decision to metro-ize Windows Server. It just makes you do complicated mouse movements, as the winkey gets sent to the host box except in fullscreen.

The part I'm hesitant about is the ugly "flat" look. In Win7 and Vista, Aero was a premium feature you had to pay extra for. Now they just stripped that, and we're left with window chrome that looks like your palette just took a bit depth reduction.
Keep your head up! Exercise and proper nutrition helps! Surround yourself with positive people :)
Guh. Just guh.
Bitcoin "solves" the problem of anonymous payments, but with copyright and other liability, never mind asymmetrical connections, would probably make this unappealing to providers.
exactly - there's none. that number isn't used in the equation - it's used only to tell how much you're 'saving' each month, but doesn't add that surplus to the savings.
That is an unnecessarily aggressive comment. What makes you think you're racing against me? "Practice makes perfect" is a platitude, not something obvious. Like another commenter said, I could practice infinitely and never be any good at basketball. I just don't have the body type. On the other hand, I was a pretty good programmer at 13, one year after discovering computers (1983). I could tell you that what made me "great" (I'm rich thanks to software) was practice and studying. In reality, it was mostly luck. Think what you want.
"Deflation is a wet dream of survivalist "gold..."

Say what!? Gold's price goes down too if there's deflation.

Someone holding on gold hopes there's inflation, not deflation.

Deflation is the dream of people who hoarded truckloads of bills, not gold.

"My income is someone else's expenditure, my credit is someone else's debt. Money can obscure this fact, not alter it. In order for me to save, someone else must spend."

OK, so I produce 100 tons of lithium-ion in my backyard. I just created wealth. There's supposed to be money created corresponding to that wealth created. How does this money correspond to someone else's debt? Isn't money supposed to correspond to wealth and new wealth to be constantly created? You make it sound like it's a zero-sum game in the non-gold backed scenario too...
You can do a lot more than that in Google Flights, just hit the plus sign on the right side of the departure box and you can add as many airports as you want, ditto for the arrival airport. Also, for the plus or minus 2 days just click on the little bar graph at the top right of the page instead of map view and it will show you months on either side. That feature is probably one of the best, there is a huge difference in prices depending on the date.
There are actually 2 usable ringtones. Xylophone is very good too, and is the ring tone I use. However, I think it is in Apple's best interest to only have one popular iPhone ring tone as it extends the brand. Every time you hear Marimba, you think iPhone which is powerful marketing.
Given my wife is a German national and we are married, the whole work permit process is easier. It does require registering with the local municipality and some paperwork, but nothing near other situations.

As I mentioned, our situation would likely allow for mutually transferring to the EU under our current employers. That said, in both cases you are away from the mothership and the options are a little less appealing.

The main point of the question really is trying to understand how one approaches the job market in the EU. My wife's experience is slightly dated from the last time she looked.

Thanks all for the input.
This post is very long and probably not worth the time of HN's readership. On this thread[1], there's an explanation of why it is like this:

"The Simple Truth" was generated by an exercise of this discipline to describe "truth" on a lower level of organization, without invoking terms like "accurate", "correct", "represent", "reflect", "semantic", "believe", "knowledge", "map", or "real".

And a summary:

The only way you can be sure your mental map accurately represents reality is by allowing a reality-controlled process to draw your mental map.

A sheep-activated pebble-tosser is a reality-controlled process that makes accurate bucket numbers.

The human eye is a reality-controlled process that makes accurate visual cortex images.

Natural human patterns of thought like essentialism and magical thinking are NOT reality-controlled processes and they don't draw accurate mental maps.

Each part of your mental map is called a "belief". The parts of your mental map that portray reality accurately are called "true beliefs".

Q: How do you know there is such a thing as "reality", and your mental map isn't all there is? A: Because sometimes your mental map leads you to make confident predictions, and they still get violated, and the prediction-violating thingy deserves its own name: reality.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/66u/rewriting_the_sequences/4cj6
This DIY Mini-TARDIS Is Bigger On The Inside
Hint: the case at hand is specifically asking the Supreme Court to overrule the first sale doctrine.
+1...

And seen that unlimited QEs have been announced one can only conclude that our current system is deeply broken.

The probability that it ends up in a really ugly way is far from zero.

I could tell that I'd take the "gold-backed, 5% inflation per year max no matter what" anytime over the unlimited QEs we have now.

We're sitting on a time bomb and it has the potential to change the western world as we know it.
As long as people don't abuse that power and don't write C++ code, full of statefull functors (intellegent fools they are, the worst kind), I'm happy.
I have bought two windows 8 laptops in the past month and have returned both of them. Windows 8 works nicely, is quick and once you get over the hump of figuring out the unintuitive UI is mostly nice to use. The hardware simply was not up to the task of everyday use as a student. Trackpad, screen quality, keyboard, and battery life were the deal breakers for me.
The answers given are great, especially the first.

It's also nice to be able to express solutions as clearly and succinctly as you can with libraries like this:

https://github.com/cdorrat/reduce-fsm

Not enlightenment, just bliss...
For compatibility (see my other comment). I'm certainly not arguing that POSIX should be the "native" or only API.
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Hmm... That's bad. What terminology was difficult?
As someone who likes to understand potential security issues, and who has just embarked upon a project which is using PostgreSQL, what is the subtext of your comment?
It doesn't have a start menu at all from what I've seen, unless you are referring to that full screen abomination called metro.

I use the start menu fairly often, and the mouse constantly i guess. I'm not sure I've ever seen a windows user who doesn't do the same.
Wouldn't you want to own a Roombamower that could automatically mow your lawn after a few times around manually?

If a Roomba vacuum can vacuum the house without training, why would I have to bother training a lawn mower? Shouldn't it work without training?

Or a microwave that could recognize types of food with an internal camera, and suggest optimal cooking times based on total times you've done in the past?

"I see you're trying to make popcorn! I notice you always somehow always have the same brain fart when it comes to microwave popcorn and burn the ever-loving bejesus out of it, shall I set that up for you again?"

Every "self-adapting" interface that I can recall using was a disaster. Then again, the ones I can think of were Windows Start Menu and Microsoft Office features. They were really terrible, though.
Should definitely add Primer to the list. I've never seen another movie that uses scientific language that is not dumbed down -at all- for the audience.
thanks kyro, rly good stuff to learn.
Yeah how did I miss that one! Just put a solid Geordi centric episode up there. Him and Data are my favorite STNG characters.
This is why I love Emacs--if there's a trivial feature missing, adding it myself is almost always easier than even thinking about installing something else. 90% of the time, somebody else has a code snippet on StackOverflow or Emacs Wiki. 9% of the time, I can code it up myself with essentially no hassle--Emacs is self-documenting and makes developing Emacs in Emacs a pleasure. The remaining 1% of problems I usually just ignore: no program is going to be perfect, and Emacs is already more than close enough.
When you understand a subject well enough, the true basics become fascinating. Without the full round trip from introduction to complexity to revealed simplicity, the basics are nigh unto incomprehensible - yet giving new students an intro thereto at least shows them where they are going. Quantum mechanics is simple, but baffling to beginners; give them a taste and the "aha" moment will come in time.

A = {0|1,...}

A[x] = !(A[y]•A[z])

That's all there is to computing, near as I've been able to simplify it. Cellular automata may do a better job.
I've found the best way of equalizing heights/widths is just using display:table/table-row/table-cell. It handles resizing (responsiveness) and doesn't require any JavaScript.
Okay, I made one where it is used: http://abielinski.com/fumoney/
No kidding. I decided to fix it: http://abielinski.com/fumoney/
Pirates of the silicon valley, a must add..
The page is taking a little too long to load on iOS, maybe images should have better compression or be smaller.
Ultrafast-laser driven plasma for space propulsion ("mars in weeks")
The last time I was on a project where we found ourselves facing that problem, we solved it by going to a Javascript-based thick client (aka, a Single Page App). The server's responsibility was to do nothing but supply a JSON API to the thick client written in Javascript.

It solved the problem nicely -- in fact, so much so that it uncovers the fact that there's a flaw in the concept of using MVC to build a server-driven web app. (Not an insurmountable flaw, obviously, because we've all done it for years. Maybe I should call it an "awkwardness" or something like an "impedance mismatch").
"So...Your saying there's a chance." Sorry I had to throw in the Dumb&Dumber quote, but the excitement is sincere. Thanks for taking the time to answer PG.
Android Screen Sizes Still on the Rise – Huawei 6.1" Monster Phone Incomming
As someone who's in his 20s and first got interested in programming as a kid by trying[1] to install Linux on his 386... I don't know how to react to this.

On the other hand, it's ridiculous to think of how far things have come since then... people who complain about Linux usability and driver issues in 2012 really don't know what they missed!

[1] and failing!
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MDN also has pretty good documentation for map/filter/reduce:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...

What's with the space shuttle / F22 hovering beneath the text right in the middle of the screen? :/
Great code is not required to make money and does not neccessarily help increase revenue. Customers cares more about issues being addressed now than how well it is designed underneath.
Why Crowdsource? Crowsource.
Isn't the faster booting thing just exactly the same as only using hibernate on Windows 7?

Granted I haven't looked into it fully but I doubt the actual cold boot speeds vary wildly between the two.
Apparently if you understand finite automata, you'll be more enlightened than Stack Overflow moderators.

My bitter example for this is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11314077/algorithm-for-ex... which question was deleted by moderators, then undeleted by HN members. See http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/138678/can-we-please... for the discussion on meta about the question, and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4203350 for the HN discussion at the time.

Incidentally the answer to that question provides a concrete example of something you can easily do if you understand finite automata, that you couldn't do without it, and that knowing how to use pre-built interfaces with finite automata behind them (like regular expressions) would not help you solve.
Iron Man is by definition what a heroic engineer is (with a lot of sex and addiction issues along the way).
Kodak was exploring future options too. The actual future arrived a lot sooner than they expected.
F. U. money calculator
Haha, I've been playing with different background images... maybe that one isn't optimum for reading :-|
Interesting. Going through the 4clojure problems gave me a taste of this.. And the ->/->> operators make it even simpler.
I don't think that "this is bad software because I am not yet the target audience" is a good metric for measuring the worth of a product.