skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favorite hacks: DreamHost sold 1 year of domain + hosting for $60, and you could use coupons to get it down to $10. Then you could cancel everything and use the "redeemed" $60 to buy a domain for six years.
How Perl-compatible is pcre nowadays? Does it implement all the regular expression features in Perl?
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probably because 1.5 was the first release that didn't block master branch during the feature freeze period, so work targetting 1.6 was already progressing on master during the 1.5 bugfixing schedule.
OK, great. Didn't know about that. I'm about as new to this as new gets. I'll ask there.
I voiced my criticism of Vices QC in another post, but I actually enjoyed that particular documentary. I can appreciate Hamilton as pure oddball fun (despite a vocal fry that can make heads explode). What's actually problematic are things like this[0]. Not to mention the sometimes-ok, most-times-(well, the few times I checked to be sure)-god-awful "oh look at us rascal cooks being all alternative, cool and hip with our outlandish exploits" Munchies.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmk3kSvxBEQ
Dietmar Hopp[0] and Hasso Plattner[1] prove that this was possible in the 1970s. Just found another SAP.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietmar_Hopp

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasso_Plattner
When put in context, this is hardly surprising. His wife was recently the CEO and vice chairman of Aegis, LLC, and is now a high-powered lobbyist for Manatt [1].

Straight from her biography:
...she focused on business development and new-market-entry relationship building for Aegis LLC and the worldwide Aegis Group, drawing on her established global network of relationships with key stakeholders in U.S. federal civilian, defense and intelligence agencies, foreign governments and leading private sector companies to pursue and secure new business opportunities in Latin and South America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa, and to land U.S. defense and intelligence contracts. [Ibid] (emphasis mine).

She presumably still has equity in Aegis Group.

Playing up the Chinese espionage threat plays well with her key stakeholder relationships, and making everyone less secure certainly opens up new market opportunities and brings more visibility to defense services.

Rogers' agenda is just to influence the legislative process to line his own pockets. Business as usual in Washington.

[1]: http://www.manatt.com/KristiRogers.aspx
How about a list of greatest problems in computer science that have been solved? Would make a nice list to study and to gain general knowledge!
finding a good freelancer takes some time and you have to learn first how to deal with freelancers. usually, especially when you are hiring low-priced freelancers, you have to define the tasks very much in detail, which sometimes takes more time than doing it yourself.

try odesk.com - i made the best experience there until now.
Is there an easy way to download this video for later?
I'm 30, I have 4 kids (the youngest one only being 1 month old) and my startup, Codeable (https://codeable.io), is only a couple of months from profitability (my gut feeling according to current growth). I still get the stuff done, get to play with my kids and even have some time for hobbies and friends. I think it's all about balance (and an understanding spouse to remind you of priorities every once in a while).

I have many friends who don't have kids and always say "the time isn't right for kids". Well guess what, if you keep thinking this way, the time will never be right, it's all about going out of your comfort zone, as you are with being a successful entrepreneur. They also think kids somehow limit you in some way, but to me, it's quite the opposite, they give me new perspective, more determination and of course a ton of laughs!
I have no inside knowledge of YC, but I get the impression that "PG essentially IS YC" is just not true. He is the public face, communicator and prime founder; but the other partners, the people who support them, and the YC alumni network, at this point, I would wager, together contribute more value than he does.

However, as the public face of YC, the public perception of YC would be greatly affected if he left that role. And this could potentially have an adverse effect on attracting the best startups, and thus over time weaken the whole structure.
The material in this piece appears to have been part of a BBC panorama documentary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21547542 - the BBC refer to Ben Anderson as a "BBC panorama reporter". On the other hand, in his AMA he refers to himself as a "filmmaker for VICE."

Regardless on who produced the documentary, Vice should still get credit for curating and hosting it like this.
I knew it was fine from early 1900s until around 1971-1973. I guess it was ok for 30-40'years before that, not just the 1960s (which is what I thought)
Well, I'd suggest looking no further than oDesk.

Assemble your profile profesionally, check the new deals daily (first comers to deal have some advantage, in my experience), and be generous with tags.

Helps being specific about work what you do.

I did sort of a "hack" of oDesk when I was only starting - I've requested few tags to be added that were non-existant, but demanded by clients ("augmented-reality", in particular), in which I was good, and that lead some clients to me without me browsing. I'd bet my profile was only search result for many queries during that short period of time.

EDIT: Ah, you're on the "other side of the fence". Sorry, misunderstood you.
Interesting to see bitly stats on the link https://bitly.com/retweetdeals+
It read to me like those were rules for the retweet to qualify (and the follow @namecheap seems like an ask rather than a requirement, possibly not allowed to require this by Twitter TOS).
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There is this recurring rumour that USA helps to deliver heroin from Afghanistan (and whereever) to Europe via their military bases. Particularly in Albania.

I don't know where it is coming from, but little doubt that USA intervention in Afghanistan leads to an increase of Heroin production there which then gets smuggled out.

Taliban needs to wage war and guns don't buy themselves.
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That's very helpful. Since I am just starting out, I often find myself trying to use the wrong tool for a job, because I simply don't know what the hell I'm doing. I can use a dictionary as you describe to correct the spelling issues, then I suppose regex can be used on certain formatting problems (if need be)?

Since I am just getting started, can you tell me how I would go about building such a dictionary? For instance, should I create a text file with the word pairs (American, British), or two different files for each?

Thanks for the direction, and apologies if these questions seem foolish. As I indicated, I made something that works, but is slow and buggy. Getting direction on how to move forward really is a big help. Cheers.
The only thing which explains things like this is that, somewhere in the entertainment industry hierarchy, people feel that they are being severely underpaid for their work. Which level do you think it is?
An extra cone may not necessarily allow you extra colour resolution.

For example it might mean that there is less over all resolution (cones might not fit together properly) also the brain might not be using them, as there is no need. (optical nerve atrophy happens when you have a squint. This means that if the squint is not corrected at a young age the nerve will decay to the point where significant resolution is lost in that eye.)

You have to be aware of a skill to really take advantage of it. I work in the VFX industry, which means I can see orthogonal light sources a mile off (two clips shot at different locations could mean that objects are lit from subtly different angles.) Most people don't notice, as its not something they'd ever have to look for in real life.

As for colour, I wasn't that great (I have top 10% visual accuracy, or resolution) I took a hue matching test and came out just below average. After 6 years in VFX I'm top 1%

Seeing subtle changes in colour require a surprisingly large amount of practice.
> There is this idea among hackers that you should be able to trust Google, etc, to keep information private from the government. But that's not what privacy means in the context of the 4th amendment.

Do you think it's appropriate to evaluate the meaning of "privacy" through what a 200-year-old document says? Or do you think we might need to take the Internet into account too? Does privacy have anything to do with what laws say?
One is hard. Two is four times as hard. Be wary of two...
I don't know, I consider them more unsolved mathematics problems in the non academic world.

I know tomato tomato, but to me in computer science it's more important to know if they have been solved for most cases (Or alternatively considered probably to hard in RL)

Getting to caught up in perfect solutions can be more a hindrance.
At a past address, neighbors would leave a bundle of fresh green coconuts, and a few DVDs to back up, at my front stairs. This worked well; They'd get their DVDs backed up (hey, I didn't ask questions), I'd get my coconut water fix.

At my current address, I have access to my own coconut bundles by the dozen, but I still have to wonder, if this came to pass, imagine how many coconuts would I get for 'unlocking' and recovering the computers they would leave at my door due to MPAA 'stabilizing' their situations!

Put another way, like DVDCSS, this is just another minor annoyance to the technically inclined, and only serves to penalize the less-computer-literate, and enrich the people who do favors for them.
Happy to do so. I'll drop you a line there.
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May not like hearing it, but the argument is usually a backhanded slap against (radical?) Islam.

Consider if you give a religious exception to "widespread violation of human rights" at least as we'd describe human rights, or consider ethnic cleansing and purifying the faith as a feature not a bug. You pretty quickly start running out of reasons to consider the country a failed state, so I guess a lack of checked checkboxes means it must not be a member of the group.

The backhanded part is assuming Islamic country = Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia aka failed state. Carefully ignoring Muslim majority, or at least lots of Muslims, such as, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, UAE, France, UK, Indonesia, none of which are paradise on earth but then again not anywhere near societal collapse, at least not right now.

Maybe one way to phrase it is the vast majority of currently failed states are Islamic, but that doesn't necessarily prove anything because the vast majority of Islamic states (and/or states with lots of Muslims) are not currently failed states. Carefully ignoring the previous line is how to get in a backhanded slap against Islam.
> Vice is nothing but quality.

There are exceptions. This video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcIMuoUcc1s ) was ridiculously bad. Like one commenter on Reddit put it;

> That was like watching ignorant children play with fire indoors.
> In a place like Somalia or Afghanistan, foreign organizations should run important infrastructure and logistics services for the local government and population[...]

That's what I thought as well - The documentary left a pretty bleak picture of the Afghans ability to build, extend or even maintain basic infrastructure, but it's desperately needed if they want to get anywhere with education. The country needs at least a good dozen generations to heal the most serious wounds so it can find its own interest in the kind of social development that makes it resistant to terrorism taking root over and over again.

Hand-holding throughout that time is what is required. But that's probably the most costly thing, I would guess. Then again, those drones and all that ammunition sure don't come cheap either. But the US has sunk far too much money into that failed path to turn around and do the other one now.

And even then - the problem is that the citizens are already tired of conflict and both sides, the international troops and the taliban, are trying to exploit that. Just giving them great infrastructure might make it easier for the international troops, but it would probably do the same for the taliban.

Whatever the solution, it sure won't be a quick one. My best bet would be to exploit the countries natural resources and push all the money made from that into infrastructure and security. But that's just the kind of "socialism" that nobody in the west wants to pick up.
Just wait for the accidents to happen and you shall see how insurance skyrockets...

"My son died at .... because there was a defective socket."

Too bad, indeed.
You have to think of it in terms of the nightmare that is unfolding in Mexico rather than recreational use of drugs by people who are otherwise able to support themselves with jobs.
Relying on people to do things consistently is not a good strategy. I'm sitting in front of a machine that I'd like to do that for me. Having to document this information manually is a disadvantage of Go when compared to other languages.
Google have spent years building a brand out of how """open""" they are; a lot of their marketing/fud is based around it.

Basically they co-opted the language of open source to rube nerds, while nobody is under any illusions re: Microsoft & Apple.
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If I understand the promo correctly, that's a whole lot of twitter spam that needs to go out to unlock this deal.
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Although I agree updating the site would be good, that's not really to the point of the post, which is about click-throughs _to_ the site.
It is part of our plan... :-)
Any idea why the prerendering fails?

http://i.imgur.com/pxijNnq.png

http://i.imgur.com/QxcNIeO.png

Thanks for the help, by the way. :)
You're not splitting hairs because you're not being pedantic!

How might I be exaggerating?
Wow... apologies for the above ramble. As an editor, I probably should have proofed this before making it public. This is what learning regex can do to an otherwise thorough and comprehensible writer.
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So why did I get downvoted? Are people honestly comfortable with companies strong-arming them into crowd-sourced social media advertising? I was under the impression from numerous posts on this website this is exactly the demographic that is repulsed by this type of activity.

I also have a Namecheap account. I am a happy customer. But this, in conjunction with their attempt at FB/Twitter anti-CISPA campaigned, left a bitter taste in my mouth.
It doesn't make sense to me, why did the bodies only have wounds on the head and shoulders ?

It seems intuitive that you protect your head with your hands and arms, as sudden as the hailstorm may have been, and once they collapsed to the ground their whole bodies should have been hit (although I guess their clothes could have protected them a bit) ?
Ha,
If bitcoin has 10% chance of succeeding it is worth 13k?
No,politely just no.
Read the following and reassess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
I'm not sure which side you're trying to discredit.
"Updating the site would be his best investment."

Makes sense. Take a look at one of his directly competitors.

http://weddingtableplans.com/
Legally? Not sure.

Illegally, a search for [panorama mission accomplished] probably returns relevant results.
Ever hear of Bill Gates? Or Jack Ma? Jeff Bezos ring a bell?
I'm working as a freelance, my current going rate is 120€/hour (ex VAT); those projects belong to mid-size companies and startups, companies not much seen on TechCrunch or HackerNews.
Every month there is a post on HN with the opportunity to post that you're seeking a freelancer, and likewise freelancers will advertise themselves. You might have more luck finding good freelancers on there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637667
Slightly OT but what is the real cost of storing an entry in a database ? Domain names always seemed very expensive to me.
In the case of Afghanistan, even if you were a Muslim, it would be pretty self-evident that Afghanistan is fucked.

(I certainly don't consider Kuwait, UAE, Qatar Oman, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, etc. to be failed; I'd say SA, Malaysia and Bahrain have some serious problems but are otherwise fine, etc. Pakistan is dangerously close to failed, and Sudan has some serious issues; Syria is pretty clearly over the line, along with Somalia and Afghanistan.)

Islam didn't have a whole lot to do with why Yemen is or has been a failed state, despite being Islamic. The rise in Islamic violence there is pretty recent; it was mainly a cold war thing combined with a country where everyone is a drug addict (khat).

Congo - not so Islamic. Or Angola during the Cold War. I'd argue that the cold war was a much bigger factor than Islam; Islam and Islamism only became an issue due to the cold war (where Muslim Brotherhood was somewhat Soviet allied in Egypt, and US/Pakistan/ISI funded the Taliban/Muj/etc. in Afghanistan due to the cold war. Before that, we had "Arab Nationalism" which was also co-opted by socialists/communists (mainly because the initial guys were themselves socialists, so it was pretty natural; same thing happened in India until the 1990s)

"Bad leadership" seems like an important factor in countries where neither the Cold War nor Islam were big factors (Haiti seems pretty close to failed...)

As Foreign Policy measures it, it seems like being in Africa is a bigger predictor than being Islamic, actually, too.
I m actually quite curious to see how far can you go without Rule #2
Probably keep the pairs together. Not sure what Applescript uses for hashmaps, but you probably want to load your dictionary into a hashmap or something like that, and lookup in that (much faster than on-disk access).
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"Just as within other bases the corresponding number would be significant."

Numbers are independent from any base. You may mean the numeral in another base, which would have a different number of digits.

But what is more important, note that not necessarily the two ratios from the quote will have the same number of digits in another base.
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You left out one important point:

6. Convenience.

I believe that the content industry is relying on a sufficient number of people still finding it easier to buy a DVD/Bluray rather than pirate. For technical people, pirating is already sometimes more convenient for reasons that you stated.

There is also a

7. Ethics

Some people do not find pirating ethical under any circumstances, and will inconvenience themselves to avoid it.
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You're not getting strong-armed.
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More data usually beats better algorithms [2008]
Time for a game of spot the differences!

"Even with the hectic work demands that I face on a daily basis, I’m still able to be very involved in the lives of my wife and two young daughters."

"Each week, my daughters and I have a “daddy-daughter” night where the three of us go to dinner." (whoah, a whole evening per week?)

"For me, this means setting aside time to relax with my family and give them my full, undivided attention."

"I’m online 24/7 and always checking email."

So I guess the answer to the headline is, if I'm to follow the article, either "no" or "for some definitions of 'daddy'"?
Do they deliver fresh or perishable items? Amazon has had non perishable items for a while now (in the US); I think the article is referring to fresh items, such as produce.
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Thanks for the link!

You have bad programmers everywhere of course. The thing is that when the prices per hour go up you expect the quality to go up. I know that when I pay $50/hour in parts of Europe, Russia, Ukraine I'm getting high quality professionals (depends on the region; it goes anywhere from E40-E300/hr). When I pay $50/hr in India, this has not been my experience at all; price seems to be quite unrelated to quality. The prices rose from $5 to $50 in some cases, but the quality remains quite bad. But don't get me wrong; i'm not trying to say that all coders in India are bad (I know this would be a very stupid remark indeed); i'm only talking about the mass outsourcing factories I worked with in India (for clients, paid by clients) compared to the EU/East EU ones. I was trying to make the mass out sourcing link argument which i'm seeing; price/quality are (starting to) be off compared to the EU so people looking to hire are more prone to hire locally.
I've been using elance exclusively for years. I usually ask for a very specific job with detailed requirements. For instance, I'd manage the overall project but could hire someone to transform the psd to html, one to tweak that html and adding missing pages, etc. But that's because I'm a programmer myself, I could do all these parts and thus write very specific specs/requirements/realistic-expectation.. I wouldn't recommend that approach to a friend without technical background.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Here is a good article on the web app vs downloadable: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-a...

I don't have an stats but from watching regular people use computers I absolutely believe that people are much more willing to give something a go if it involves clicking a button on a web page rather then downloads and installers etc.
Getting a job in Paris is like a getting a job anywhere else - there are stupid aspects of the system and there are meritocratic aspects. If you're looking to hear "why is it so hard for me to find a job in paris?" You will certainly find enough excuses - though I think the same can be said of almost anywhere.

That being said, here are a few things to know:

1) France's unemployment rate is north of 10% (closer to 25% if you're under 25) and it's not for lack of companies. It's because large companies are essentially on a hiring freeze until the economy balances out, because employment comes with a lot of string attached (hard to fire, expensive to fire, high social taxes on top of employees).

2) Startup employees don't work 35 hours a week - I've never once seen this, and I'd be curious to meet teams who did. If you want to work at a public tech company, or Google France, you may work 35hours/week, just like you would at EA or Oracle in the US. The fact is that the 35 hour work week is a law to protect employees, but the 6-month trail period that precedes your 'protection' usually sets the tempo for work life. Those who can't handle working 45-50 hours a week, or at the pace set by the company, are usually kicked out with 24 hour noticed within the first 6 months.

3) Getting a job in Paris is easy, especially for an American. Your CV is "I'm an American" and any startup who's raised 1Million+ will be a fool not to take you. So, if you're looking for a job in Paris, just tweet it, and you'll have a job offer by the end of the day. If you're a little less technical, Law/accountign firms hire international people with VISAs all the time to cover their intl. clients.

More news about French Tech at @RudeBaguette - http://rudebaguette.com
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