skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
our current president lived as an expat in Indonesia for 4 years as a child

Yup, it sure is atrocious that he did so without paying his taxes. As a child.
Google Analytics has a filter system that allow one to use regular expressions of length at most 255.

Sometimes, people have long list of strings that have total length more than 255 characters. frak would be a nice tool for compression.
It could have a massive impact if the ones renouncing are top earners, "Meanwhile, Americans in the highest 0.1 percent of all income-earners — these are the very rich, with incomes of at least $1.974 million — paid 16.4 percent of the total federal tax burden.". ( source: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/top-01-percent-pays-more... )

Anecdotally this is happening, ex. Eduardo Saverin. ( source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2012/05/11/eduardo-... )
Deck prisms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_prism

The main difference here is that deck prisms are flat on top, which limits the amount of light entering the prism. The water in the bottles is filled to the top, creating a dome shaped concentrator. Since water has a refractive index close to glass (~1.3 vs ~1.5) the bottom of the bottle has a similar effect to the deck prism, except with slightly more light.
DEFCON: The Documentary [video]
If his mother had been encouraged to renounce her citizenship through these atrocious tax laws he might never have returned to the US, even if he retained his citizenship.
So where did the 200K come from? Or did the sales just remain at status quo, while the affiliate claimed an increase in sales? In which case, why didn't the alarm bells ho off right that second?
Sure, but to the extent they're imperfect radiation absorbers, they're also imperfectly black. It's like how we can discuss pi and circles even though the real world has no perfect circles.
It's great more & more people are waking up.
Sounds like the bigger problem is showing the user a discount code field when not utilizing discount codes.

Remove the field, not the affiliates
Actually if you look at the Nokia example, quite the opposite can happen. A large, prominent, "national champion" company absorbs a huge amount of talent. As Nokia has downsized thousands of workers, they released thousands of entrepreneurs and engineers into the Finnish startup ecosystem. It's exciting times in Helsinki nowadays. The same could happen in Waterloo, and in Canada as a whole.
There are over 600 sites purporting to offer "Improvely coupon codes" despite there never being any kind of coupon code box on my signup form. It's a bit ridiculous, especially since none of these sites are being paid an affiliate commission for their fake coupons.
it's funny. The place i'm at now, in the valley and a successful post IPO SaaS company, management believes that open space and engineers running around, yelling and waving hands is sign or productivity.
I have to escape to the kitchen to get anything requiring the tiniest level of concentration.
This would be amazing, especially if it one day supported Linux natively.
>Any legitimate business accepting payment in bitcoins can only receive bitcoins from other registered addresses, else they are black flagged and no longer a registered address.

This particular implementation wouldn't actually work. Anyone can send BTC to any address, so it would be easy to poison the well.

(But I suspect some similar scheme could be feasible. You might be able to enforce the rule on BTC->$ withdrawls? I wonder about mixers, though.)
3 months ago, none of my non-tech friends knew who Elon Musk was. In the past month or so, I would say 50% of my friends now not only know who he is, but praise him and his work. I think that by the end of this year, you will be hard-pressed to find someone that doesn't know who he is.
Texas would be an ideal place for this.

Seeing something like the Hyperloop built between Dallas and Houston (so much empty space between sides on I-45) or Houston and Austin would be amazing. The sheer number of pipefitters and folks that do orbital welding (learned in oil & gas work) would make finding people to do this a cinch.

Then again, look at how much bullshit Southwest Airlines went through with Love Field and DFW, and there is a good hint that something like this would be lobbied against by Greyhound, Southwest, and everybody else.
> Haskell having a high barrier to entry likely helps that along a great deal though.

> The subreddit is also very polite.

Yes, it is very refreshing: it is a complex language, but the community has not become elitist, and is instead polite, considerate and mature.
Building an open-source HTML5 TV
> No toilet, and no way to get off, or even really stand up?

Seriously? It's like laying in a not quite horizontal bed for 30 minutes. If you can't plan your bathroom usage 30 minutes ahead of time, then don't use this transportation system (or wear a diaper). I can almost always hold it for 30 minutes after I am really feeling the urge to go. With 12-14 million trips per year, will there be accidents? Certainly. So that capsule gets diverted to be cleaned. Big deal.

> At least on BART you can move away from the crazy

It looks like those spaces are small enough that only 1 person could easily interact with you. If that's a problem, they could probably build in plastic dividers. Or you could just buy two tickets. If you can't tolerate that level of risk, then again, don't ride this thing.

I can assure you that there are plenty of people who are not bothered by these issues.
Western governments would sooner nationalize BlackBerry than have it sold to a PRC company.
> A few years into my career the idea of cubicles caught on and quickly became the norm, and now of course we're stuck with these horrible open offices that are, in my experience, just absolutely dreadful for productivity; but since everyone is doing it nobody really notices anymore.

You can largely thank Jim McCarthy of Microsoft fame for that, who in the mid 90s coined the concept, "beware of a guy in a room":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY6BCHqEbyc

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/david_gristwood/archive/2004/06/24/...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/dont-go-dark.html
The submerging economies
Google ups ante to $5,000 for Chrome browser bug bounties
Autism's Unexpected Link to Cancer Genes
As opposed to aircraft sitting on the tarmac, which are not subject to such problems?
You have a discount code at your checkout? So basically instead of capturing the sale you're ASKING the buyer to google for discount codes.

Think of a sneakier way to give people discount codes that doesn't show it RIGHT THERE ON THE FORM. It makes me feel like I'm getting ripped off when I see discount code and I don't have one.
Isn't the pod going to be extremely loud?
That is not correct. It is still your data (that's why you need to grant a license to these companies to show your pictures even just back to you), and the third party doctrine is not settled law.

It has backing in precedent, but as ghayes cites above, the supreme court has given some strong signals that they would not agree with it today (e.g. in US v Jones). In addition, the incredibly important US v Warshak had the sixth circuit ruling that email in long term storage on a third party's server had just as much expectation of privacy for the owner as any personally held document. There are several companies now using that as a legal basis for requiring a warrant (which requires demonstrating probable cause) for account content requests (apparently outside of those coming from the FBI/NSA, unfortunately...), so it's likely this will come up before too long, either in Congress (I'd love to see the ECPA reformed but don't have high hopes) or in the Supreme Court, especially if another court of appeals rules differently.

I also have no idea why you cite Katz v US, as that's where the "reasonable expectation of privacy" test itself comes from, which runs directly counter to the later legal theory of the third party doctrine (in e.g. Smith v Maryland), which takes little account for reasonable expectations so long as you're handing off your communications to a third party.
Is there a better way of doing it? There needs to be a way to distribute the first bitcoins fairly and anonymously, and it's also a great way to get people to start using the currency. It would be ideal if the bitcoin mining stopped sooner than it does, but it seems to have been enough to jump start the currency to where it is now.
I'd be legitimately surprised if Satoshi was not a U.S. government project.
> It would be fiscally impossible to go any further.

We'll try.
With 2030-grade brainwave gear and 3D printing, why not?
To be expected really when the IRS seems to think that, even if you live outside the US for a full tax-year, you are taxable as a US citizen just because you hold a passport/green card.

It was a long time dream/plan of mine to try get sponsored and on to the green card system (because I think the US is a beautiful country - and I would love to live there for multiple years) until I discovered these taxation laws.
I was responding to this -

>> Each EU country for instance is obliged to have such an agency.

> This sounds like a good way to create a centralized clearinghouse for abuse and corruption via regulatory capture.

The EU has these agencies.

You said

> The bureaucratic solution will inevitably end in anyone you send any data to being required by law to transfer the data itself to a central government-run data store

Which hasn't happened in the EU.
People are finally starting to understand. Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity.
Well, PCRE, the most widely used regex lib in my experience, has a "DFA" mode (scare quotes because it's actually an NFA mode. See [1]). So the option is there, even if most people use PCRE in standard recursive kablooey mode.

I was working on a drop-in managed wrapper around re2[2] so .NET developers would have access to a good regex library, but damned if starting a company hasn't gotten in the way of finishing it. Still, re2 bindings are available for most other common platforms.

(Also I don't believe Java's regex engine is automata-based, which would explain the performance gains.)

1. http://fanf.livejournal.com/37166.html
2. http://code.google.com/p/re2/
You mean Chernobyl and nuclear, or Three Mile Island and nuclear? Both of those had already soundly killed the prospect for large-scale nuclear power in the US long before the earthquake in Japan.
Btw, the whole "I renounce b/c I'm just losing cash" problem also applies to Green Card holders abroad who either haven't "moved in" yet or have temporarily "moved out". AFAIK they also pay US taxes abroad.
Went through? It's 2013 and I still can't fly direct to Love.
Everyone is invited to contribute to F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/How_to_Help
Cáncer junto a las torres de telefonia móvil en Yemen
The gravity light produces a shamefully small amount of power - about 100 mW ("one deciwatt") by the manufacturer's own measurement. Even given the increased efficiency of LEDs, the illumination provided by one of these "bottle lights" is still about 100x greater, it's basically free, and it doesn't require you to tend to it every 15 - 30 minutes.
Thanks for the reply. I was really drunk when posting this, sorry :) I know how things are done in different languages. The thing that stumped "drunk me" was how much harder it would be to explain them. "sober me" realizes that my premise was wrong. I was answering a beginner imperative question. There is no good functional answer. A beginner functional question would be different and have a different answer. In reading my post it is kind of funny to see my own weird tunnel thinking - don't drink and think :).
In my dreams, I have a vision that Blackberry will be sold to some major company that will continue to use the great engineers of Blackberry to create a truly magnificant QWERTY smartphone that will have the durability, usability of the previous Blackberries but will use a not-so-obnoxiously money greedy (read: BES) platform.

The market really lacks a proper QWERTY phone with Android.

In the meanwhile, I'll just keep on using my BB9700, I guess...
Excuse me, but I am not one to simply say "thank you" when some of the suggestions therein don't make sense.

The video IS all I could manage to do. I don't have the equipment or the skills to make a professional looking video.

The second point does make sense, I'm acting on this.

As for the third... he acts like I'm supposed to ask for $10,000 for such a goal. GNUstep is an very large project. Getting it to 10.6 compatibility is going to take time and I can't take the time off of work unless I haver the money I need to make it happen. Asking me to do this for anything less than what I projected is ludicrous beyond belief.

So, yes, I realize where the input comes from and I respect that. I will, however, not simply take those comments and act on them when some of them are unsupportable and untenable.

All of that being said I am planning on adding a video in the next couple of days (most likely tomorrow) of me talking about the project so that people have a face to put to it.

I seriously do thank all of you for your input and I apologize if my responses seem combative. It was my understanding or impression, however, that this was not simply a case of me taking input and mindlessly acting on it, but, instead, a discussion of what's best to help the project succeed and that does include my responses to your feedback.

GC
This headline is offensive. Nowhere in the article does he indicate that he is proud to be poor. Not that there would be anything wrong with that — quite the opposite, in fact, however, this headline reeks of elitism.
Prequalifying clients
3D Printed Bug Robot Can Squeeze Under Your Door
> What happens if a brawl erupts inside a capsule?

Put plastic dividers between all the seats like they have in police cars. Problem solved.
A high-quality headset, maybe even with some noise-canceling features should work okay, too. It wouldn't be that much different from a call center, and those don't usually get their own offices, either.

Sure, not the ideal, distraction-free environment, but neither is a cubicle farm.
"Why do Erlang and Elixir have the same 'semantics'? The reason has to do with the underlying machine. The garbage collection behavior, the non-shared concurrency model, the underlying error handling and code loading mechanism are identical. They must be identical: they run on the same VM. This is also why things like Scala and Akka will never be like Erlang. Scala and Akka run on the JVM so under the covers, things like garbage collection and code loading are fundamentally different." [0]

It goes without being said, but the choices the VM make will ultimately impact what is or is not possible for the languages on top of it. I have never taken the time to investigate JRuby or IronPython, but I have imagined this is a reason why few people love the original and VM-ported editions: one must assume Ruby code becomes less Ruby, Python less Pythonic, once moved to different VM architecture.

[0] http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
Especially considering that there are incremental algorithms for constructing the minimized DFA. For instance, I use one such algorithm in my library that (among other things) uses a minimized DFA to store String sets in Java:

https://github.com/danieldk/dictomaton

(It also supports perfect hashing automata and Levenshtein automata.)
What benefits do you think we're getting when we live overseas? Having to fill out a lot more tax forms? Getting charged $50/document you need notarized at the embassy because they're the only option available if you're not in the US? And if you do decide to renounce your citizenship, they charge you $450 just to do that!

Trust me, unless you're very well connected, you're not getting any benefits of US citizenship when you live overseas.
I would see why it's so expensive as it's specs are quite great for that kind of a thing. But are that kind of specs (1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage) really needed for it when it could basically just do most of the work in the smartphone it's connected to?
And my implementation in Java :):

https://github.com/danieldk/dictomaton
Exactly. Best case, you'll kill 28 people. The other capsules will stop, and the hyperloop will be out of commission for awhile. Definitely not spectacular. They'd be better off attacking a more densely populated area. Much more hysteria...
AOL boss fires worker in front of 1,000
According to Moz's website:

The lower-level "operating system" of b2g. Gonk consists of a linux kernel and userspace hardware abstraction layer (HAL). The kernel and several userspace libraries are common open-source projects: linux, libusb, bluez, etc. Some other parts of the HAL are shared with the android project: GPS, camera, among others. You could say that Gonk is an extremely simple linux distribution.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Architecture
The really terrible part of all of this is that the administration's response has been to put James Clapper, the guy who lied under oath to congress about the scope of these very programs, in charge of reviewing the policies that created them.

He should be facing charges, and instead he's promoted to an oversight role.

http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/12/this-technical-review-g...
Seems like some cool, clean code, and I understand without having examined Elixir too much, less than two or three hours of doc scanning. But I guess familiarity with Ruby does make a difference.

Out of curiosity: if you are doing DB migrations, what are you running on Elixir that requires it? You building web apps or just utilities running on top of a DB?
"NSA surveillance has damaged foreign relations. Millions are protesting worldwide and European businesses are abandoning U.S. tech companies. Total losses could reach $35 billion."

I'm not sure where WaPo got that $35bn number, but it seems quite low to me.
Mashable's Crowdsourced Digital Bill of Rights
I think the idea that you can trust any country that is not your own to be up to no good on the internet should be the default state of mind, even the countries that are, in other aspects, considered allies. This should be the mindset for every country and this should be communicated to their users frequently and explicitly: "If you store your data outside our borders, you probably will get screwed in some way."

NOTE: Where I said "foreigners" I probably should have written "foreign countries". The term "foreigners" reads a bit offensively on review.

As for the "stolen financial/personal information" bit, that's part of the information gathering (and technically, it's not stolen - see the whole argument on copyright). As long as the data is being used for analysis, that's a fair use for a government organization dedicated to spying. If it's being used for financial gain, that's a very grey area dependent on current laws, and if it's being turned over to or collected by private entities operating without oversight, that's just out-of-bounds.

Ultimately, the point was that one should be able to trust one's own government to be operating in one's own best interest, but never assume that another government or it's framework of laws will ever be of any help to you. If it is, then you got lucky.
Yes, I have considered mentioning "No Americans Please" on couchsurfing profile on some days, but eventually decided against it when I felt that an individual traveller may not be responsible for the atrocity that his/her government is.
One problem is that the land needed to build it belongs to the state. Admittedly another is that a massive amount of R&D remains to be done and is not factored into the cost.
"Try typing backquote followed by another character."

Sorry, I don't follow?

"It's 0-origin indexing."

Oops. Then I'm ecstatic rather than appalled. :-)
It depends on what the grandparent means with 'not exactly'. If it means 'within a certain edit distance', it is very doable. You can store your dictionary in an automaton and construct a Levenshtein[1] automaton in linear time. The intersection of the dictionary and Levenshtein automaton gives all words within the given edit distance. My library (Dictomaton) that I mention in another comment implements this. There is a different implementation in recent Lucene versions, that is used for finding documents with keywords that approximately match the query.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.16.6...
My guess is that they auto-generate pages based on keyword scraping from Google trends, news sites and so on.
For their fake coupons to your site, that is. If someone ultimately clicks through to another site, the affiliate may still get their commission.
Well, the facetious answer would be that we can break the 1st world's hold on the fart app and tip calculator market.
Which is exactly what Kogan did and it's now the #2 result when you search for Kogan coupons

www.kogan.com/au/kogan-discount-codes/‎

> Regular customers of Kogan know that our products are ALWAYS discounted. Very rarely do we release a Kogan Discount Code or a Kogan Discount Coupon

The #1 result? A scammy looking site but don't worry because "59 people have used this today!" (unsuccessfully of course)
I find the GitHub project but can find nothing explaining how to install and use it. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
well, maybe not the Asha 501. It's like some baby N9.
I thought this list was an interesting outcome compared to the original document found at http://mashable.com/2013/07/01/digital-bill-of-rights/
We recently launched (http://www.robotoatmeal.com/pages/about/) to address this. We're addressing the scam coupon issue by surfacing real time usage data. We also try to validate the coupon before it's published on the site.

While I think we can definitely do better (the data is pretty sparse in some areas), I believe the collaborative / real time validation approach will lead to a better experience for shoppers.
Don't Put All Your Eggs in Someone Else's Basket
I wonder what her income was? Last I heard, citizens living outside the USA making under ~$90k pay no taxes at all.
Nope, no Windows. Screens. The documentation talks to the fact the tube is made of steel, and I'm guessing it's not transparent aluminum.
Exactly. The customers are clearly feeling cheated when they don't have a coupon code. Enough to leave the site and start googling around in the hope of not being a sucker. As it is now, even when customers do come back and place a sale, they will never know if they paid a premium because they couldn't find that coupon. Not a good way to treat a customer, I think.
I'd call it “accidental” when, for example, a selfmade TV antenna with amplifier starts to oscillate and thereby blocks GPS reception in a harbor:

http://gpsworld.com/the-hunt-rfi/

But the jamming device owned by the grossly negligent truck driver performed even better than designed (if one would call these brute-force wideband jammers “designed.”). And the fine imposed on the guy for operating those deliberately is well earned.

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