skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (and why complex regexes will inevitably hurt you)

This is a needless bash on Regex (which is not even mentioned in the article at all, except as a YAML footnote!). I have a tip, though- If you DO need to write a complex regex (hint: it will run much faster than doing the same thing in code), document it using things like the /x switch! Here is an example I wrote of a complex password validator- I don't think most developers would have a problem understanding what's going on:

https://gist.github.com/pmarreck/4c5f1076498da1a86062
Ask HN: What are the main differences between "ngrok.com" vs. "xip.io"?
Google to buy Skybox Imaging for at least $1B
UberX Training Video
lol is an odd response to your situation...
Quantum Computing Playground – Chrome Experiment
I'd get a tax attorney if at the least for the free one-hour consult most offer - preferably one that doesn't advertise on late night TV. I am not an attorney, just a guy on the internet so take my advice for what it's worth.

I think the last step for you is the Offer In Compromise - in simple form you'll show them how much your net worth is, and give it to them. In return they'll retire your tax debt. Obviously, it's going to depend on how much you are worth/vs owe, and if they think you operated in good faith or not.
You need to not be in bankruptcy, and current on all filings to offer it. They also will come down HARD on you if you miss any filings/payments for 5 years after.
The Second Sputnik Is a Heavily Censored Search Engine
(You're not improving your case!)
The World’s Bank: How Crowdfunding is Disrupting Old Banking
Getting planning permission is probably more of a problem than finding somewhere that this would fit in - plenty of empty space in Wales and Scotland.

e.g. In the case of Scotland we're mostly all crowded into the rift valley of the Central Belt:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/resources/chskeystatisticsscotland...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Belt
And yet, right now as we speak, they're out there buying up these homes for chump change, paying cash for foreclosed homes gone to auction, and then renting them back to you for what you'd have paid in mortgage, plus extra on top of that to cover expenses.

You'll always be a sharecropper, now that you've been taught to believe that anything else is foolish.

Once I can afford enough to do it, I'll buy another home myself and rent it out to someone like you. And I'll stand there with a sheepish grin while he laughs that he got one over on me, hoping that he never realizes otherwise.
Darpa Is Weaponizing Oculus Rift for Cyberwar
> the troll's strategy was so obvious they were required to put up a bond to cover at least part of our side's legal fees if they lost.

Yeah, how much money did you spend getting to that point?
$100K in back taxes means in income of a low multiple of that.

Where did the money go? Did you turn it into assets? If so then you may want to simply sell all or part of what you have.

If you did not turn your income into assets but it has all burned up see what you can do in terms of documenting your business related costs over that time. Conditional on the IRS agreeing with all this you could then make them a proposal on how much you'll pay month-to-month.

If you feel that that is not going to be a possibility you might end up having to declare bankruptcy. That's a real pain in the ass, but if you have no assets and no income that's probably where you're headed. If you have assets or income then likely you can make a deal. If you have assets that are somehow worth something to a bank you could possibly use these as collateral for a loan.

Best of luck!
Wash your hair with conditioner, not shampoo. See #5 and #6 here:

http://thecurlyhairproblems.tumblr.com/cgmethod
Can You Get A Patent On Being A Patent Troll? (2012)
GNU grep 2.19
> Also be careful with which registrar you check for availability as if you don't buy immediately you may find the domain on their premium list the next day at an inflated price.

I have always been scared of that kind of thing, though in the end it never happened to me. So it is a thing then?
EDIT: The downvotes are strong on this one :-) I have only posted the transcript from the court. Are we downvoting primary sources now?

I think it is important to provide the crux of the context which you have failed to do so -

[18]
(e) The Attorney General’s principal objection was not to the dissemination of allegations about the Security Service but to the fact that those allegations were made by one of its former employees, it being that particular fact which O.G. wished to publish.

There was credible evidence (in the shape of Sir Robert Armstrong’s affidavits; see paragraph 16 above) that the appearance of confidentiality was essential to the operation of the Security Service and that the efficient discharge of its duties would be impaired, with consequent danger to national security, if senior officers were known to be free to disclose what they had learned whilst employed by it.

Although this evidence remained to be tested at the substantive trial, the refusal of an interlocutory injunction would permit indirect publication and permanently deprive the Attorney General of his rights at the trial. Bearing in mind, inter alia, that the alleged unlawful activities had occurred some time in the past, there was, moreover, no compelling interest requiring publication immediately rather than after the trial.
This looks like a very neat project. I am tremendously curious how this will hold up with time. I have recently finished building a house (as an inexperienced general contractor). A ton of things deal with how things will behave over time as opposed to how they will work right after construction has finished. I am particularly curious about the fairly loosely-packed bales of hay and the plastic used to waterproof the roof.
I would agree with you ... there are many individuals who only see the city they're visiting through a lens. On the other hand, 30-60 seconds a day to capture a lifetime of changes doesn't seem overly arduous. I have lots of memories I wish I'd captured via a photograph or journal entry but it's a bit too late now. This is quite a keepsake.
... now I feel terrible at slacking off at my jogging. Little guy is like 4 inches tall and running 5.8km last night.
They are indirectly penalized for it. Bounce rate is a factor in google's organic search algorithm. If a lot of users click-through a given search result, find a bad experience, google has incentive (and makes an effort) to penalize those results.
If you feel someone is attacking you, hit the flag button, or message the mods. (I admit I'd have to google up how to message the mods.) Do not attack them back.
Working through some non-medicinal remedies first (changing habits, setting up routines, etc). Not quite having the effect I hope for, but we'll see.

The consensus of what I've read is that most pharmaceuticals are temporary fixes, at least for adults. But that's just heresay from the internet, so I might be wrong.

And for the record, since they are always so highly advised, yes, I already have good exercise, recreation and mental reflection routines in place. :)
So plant bushes or bamboo!
Responds to follow up 99% 1%

With a sample size of 16, that should be 94% and 6%
Wow, that's an impressive site, thanks for sharing.

I think I had seen the one on the future of interaction design, but I hadn't explored the site :) .
While I agree with the sentiment, I think having a centralised repository, such as Github, creates a more social environment for sharing projects. If everyone had their own "Github", I can imagine the sharing and collaboration of open source projects would become more difficult to manage.

Unless of course there was a service that, while didn't host Git repositories, did everything else that Github offers.

Unless there is?
Then you're asking for trouble. Some google flunkey will have to determine what 'value' is, come down on the wrong side of your imaginary line and boom gone is your adsense account.

It's a risk some are willing to take but I would be very careful with that strategy, especially if the pages are used in this combination right from day 1.
All cancers use similar mechanisms because of concept known as convergent evolution.

You have no idea what those words mean.
It doesnt need any firmware or storage to be dangerous. Remember TAO mail order spy gadgets catalog.

Keyboard controller can be made to leak RF. Same for touch.
Inverter is close to lvds signals, could probably be made to leak picture over FR.

If anything GCHQ targeted THEIR OWN assets.
Bitnami hosted on AWS? Or a Bitnami image hosted on your own server?
While I agree with you, he did start this project 18 years ago. 1996. Definitely way before the cellphone generation.
Being photographed every day just feels like any normal day as I have grown up with it my whole life

This is interesting since it feels like there's a clear and deep message in it about what will happen to privacy in the future.

"I will continue for next few months, Suman wants to continue, but once she has gone to university, it might be difficult for her, but let's see."

Selfies?
Email me. Contact info in profile. The IRS cannot waive interest. That's the law. They can waive penalties but not just because. There has to be a reason. The IRS has procedures to follow. It's a bureaucracy. See if you can fit yourself in the rules. (The rule book is the Internal Revenue Manual and it is online).

I will put you in touch with someone who is good at this.

Appeal to authority: I am a tax lawyer.
It's Technology vs. Creativity On This Episode of 'Mad Men'
That poor girl. I quickly get tired of posing for a photo every day.

And at the least, there could have been a gif/video similar to this[0].

[0]:http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/9/2/t...
Learn to write GOOD test suites. Once you realize that they are preserving your sanity, they will actually become fun to write.
Seeing a time-lapse version would be awesome.

Like Noah Kalina [1] did.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPzXlMdi7o
OK I'm with you, abolish patents! Legalize pot too while we're at it! Free love and sex any time anywhere!
Can't we use hybridoma to make immunoglobulin?
Just thought I'd try to give some background ...

This lives in the gray world between "popular science" and "real math." As such it's intended to be an easy read, but it's actually reasonably hard to get to the ideas involved. Since people on HN keep saying they want to learn more math, and it would be awesome to have some real math to study, I thought this would be a useful way to get a handle on some of the more interesting bits before deciding to dive into the degree level stuff. However, based on the lack of clicks, lack of upvotes, and lack of discussion, I'm no longer sure it's worth posting it here.

Call this my equivalent of the initial testing of a startup idea - really does look like it won't fly, despite what people say they want.
IOS 8 needs to better integrate it's services with geolocation
For that matter, I'd quite like it if eBay unfixed their search so that when I searched "worldwide" it did actually find all items worldwide that shipped to my country, rather than some random subset of them.
Academic paper: complex systems inherently incapable of subjective experience.
Not just somebody, but a self-proclaimed former spook.

A bit further down this thread you can see how one of his counter-arguments consisted of telling someone his Android book had terrible reviews. What's funny about this is that it fits neatly with one of JTRIG's purposes of destroying reputations.

Although he did such a hilariously bad job of trying to destroy someone's reputation, I doubt he's anything other than a troll.

But now that I think of it, he did succeed in derailing a big part of this thread, so maybe he knows what he's doing.
A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland
Google Panda Algoritma Güncellemesi
Phones at concerts aren't so they can re-watch them themselves, but so they can share the pictures / videos with friends.

> to see if people approve of what they're doing...

So completely disagree that that has anything to do with it. Its inherently social, and imho in a way its enhancing the moment.

> a sea of idiots holding up their phones, videoing an event, watching through their silly little phone. Enjoy the event!

A sea of critics, wasting their time passing judgement on people. Enjoy the show!
* Immunoglobulins (aka antibodies) are important for preventing infection and thus long term health but they would be difficult to impossible to produce synthetically.*

Even with hybridomas?
Google gets paid for the AdWords click and then if someone clicks the ad on eBay they will get paid again (splitting it with eBay). Win win.
Can Online Apps Change Real-Life Behavior?
You should change jobs. I know you are trying to support your BF's startup (do you have equity in it?) but if he really cares about you he'll understand that you are on the brink of utterly burning out and need a change.
14 Things You Can Tweet About When Attending or Exhibiting At A Trade Show
This is a problem in the US as well. There are numerous ecovillages way out in rural areas in counties with relatively lax regulations, places like Dancing Rabbit (http://www.dancingrabbit.org/) and Earthhaven (http://www.earthaven.org/), but there are many more communities where you can't even plant a garden. You have to maintain a perfect lawn or else.

I live in an ecovillage that is attempting this sort of building in a (small) city. It's a city that is generally friendly to our efforts, but city, county and state code still make it pretty much prohibitively expensive. We're still trying to find a way through it, at least to a happy medium.
Here's a link if anyone's interested: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=28417
Well, there's a catch with all of this. The wheel has some inertia, so running in it should be easier than running the same distance on the floor. The ran distance is still the same , regardless of this fact.

And I'm trying to keep up with my jogging as well :)
Would be interesting to see at which point face recognition software stops recognizing her, given a training set of present-time pictures...
A few other people on HN is not “the rest of the world”, particularly when most of the complaints either don't reproduce at all or are significantly less problematic than claimed.

It's dead certain that PDF.js has plenty of room to improve but that requires solid benchmarking, not anecdata. I would hope Mozilla is collecting telemetry data about common bottlenecks from millions of users and triaging to see which problems are core or artifacts from local system configuration, graphics drivers, etc.
Yes, in this case everyone who was under eBay on SERPs has gotten a rise. Every change makes winners and losers.
Well Paypal is owned by eBay so really it's just one really big, awful corporation.
ngrok.com is a tunnel service, letting you connect - via ngrok - to computers that are otherwise not reachable from outside.

xip.io is a DNS service, it simply resolves DNS names to IP addresses without handling any of the actual traffic.
Why lawmakers just voted against their own bill to reform the NSA
Thanks, I'll peek at it, too.
I figure with the first of those years it must have been hard (no digital yet, scanning them afterwards). I also think that the chances are quite large that the measurable fraction of all the kids born in the last 5 years or so will find that at least one picture taken of them every week will survive in digital form for a long time, whether they like it or not. And possibly more frequently than that.
I agree, this is primarily why I'm leaving my current position for a company with realistic expectations. I've had months without a single day off working 60 - 90 hour weeks every week because they refuse to compromise with deadlines or adding additional developers. I'm planning on taking a few weeks between jobs to just unwind so I'm not frazzled for the next position.
So hollywood hacker movies were right after all?
As a manager I've had to ask people to do work like this. I try to share it out as best as possible, so everyone's getting the least unpalatable tasks for them. I've also made myself available to talk through why it's required.

Those conversations have taken my team and I to interesting places. I've discussed brand positioning with developers, and shared spreadsheets of time-to-value models with designers, at times going far outside of people's skill sets and comfort zones. If someone insists a piece of work is a bad idea, I invite them to argue against it but insist that I need them to make their case rigorously. Sometime they'll convince me, sometimes they don't want to work through the reasoning, sometimes I'll try and develop their case and argue against myself. I want to reach a position where we either change the task, or we're both satisfied that the task should be done. If that's too hard, then I'm after a position where they at least have rational faith in my request and my reasoning, and are ok to do the work on trust.

I spend a lot of time on this, for a few reasons.

First, I don't want to ask anyone to do something meaningless. Burnout isn't caused by workload. Workload causes exhaustion. Burnout is caused by resentment. If my team resent their work, that's a deep and important problem. I'll tolerate a only very small amount of that, but I'll let everyone know I'm conscious of it, don't like it, and am working to get away from it. Burnout is toxic and damaging to people and the group as a whole.

And secondly, this kind of explanatory work strengthens everyone's investment in the team and the work. It strengthens the team's ability to think together. As people become better informed, all of our discussions become richer and more valuable. People enjoy the work more, and can relax and trust each other more, knowing that decisions are made in ways they can understand and agree with.

Finally this is also a litmus test for me. If a company won't let me in on it's decision making, dismisses my concerns as unimportant and tells me to just get on with something, they're indicating they don't value the team in the same way I do.
If you decide to move, you have to do something with the house. I'm not sure about Hong Kong, but in the US, even once you own the house free-and-clear, a house is still a major expense -- insurance, property taxes, etc.

You can sell it or rent it to cover those costs, but both of those options take time and effort. To sell it, you need to market it, negotiate with a buyer, etc. To rent it, you need to market it, pick a good tenant, collect rent, do maintenance and repairs, probably deal with legal matters like eviction, etc.

I guess you could just give it away (but doesn't that still involve a bunch of title transfer fees?) or just stop paying taxes and let it get repossessed (but doesn't that destroy your credit?).

If you rent, you can just pack up and leave -- the only limits are any terms stated in the lease.

All of that said, I'm doing exactly what you mentioned -- I bought a house instead of renting, even though I don't plan to stay here very long (I'm actually thinking of moving again in a few months, once I've been here for a year). But I did it with the explicit intention of renting the house to make a profit once I move -- and I plan to do that with my next place, as well.
What is an OpenStack superuser?
You're choosing one part of my comment in isolation and arguing against it without context.

My point was that there's more to the decision than the simple "Will I make more money by investing in stocks than in real estate?" equation that pro-renting people usually point to. Of course stocks are a better return on your investment than real estate from a pure investment perspective.

There's more to choosing to buy than simply the pure financial motivation. If your motivation is purely financial then you shouldn't buy a house to live in but buy a house to rent out.
I agree in hindsight it's an overly provocative title. If I could change it I would (I have changed the actual blog post title FWIW). Sorry if it offended you or regular expressions in general.
I see why you do, but that's such a shame. DKI a damn useful feature that could help both customers and businesses, but it's 'exploited' in a way that doesn't even help the people who are destroying it.
Most of the smiles look quite forced, there are one or two unposed ones in the series and they look like it is a completely different person.
When building a house into the side of a hill, I one should consider the durability of the hill as well as the house.

Even if it doesn't collapse under its own weight, it's not much of a hobbit house if you can't walk (or jump) on it.

[Bad things](http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/green-roof-collaps...) [can happen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolitūde_shopping_centre_roof_c...) when green roofs aren't properly constructed.
I wonder if he started out on film or digital from the beginning.
I'll agree with you, this is a bit obsessive an extreme.
I like what you are doing. Where are you from and how can I help you get one of these(it's very cheap, I am happy to buy a cool gadget for someone who does cool stuff). If you'd like, then send me an email to my nick at gmail.
Understanding Version Control with Diffs
Source?

(I don't disbelieve you, I ask for putting it on Facebook. Friday. :-) )

Edit: Ah of course, the subject was washing hands after the toilet -- not "haven't showered in years" :-)
So it seems the SDK has the basic plumbing to make a commandline tool out of it:
https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/master/fpdfsdk/src/...

Anyone interested?
Is that seriously the same woman?
> rent spare rooms out, or use part of their home for a business.

Renters do this too. they have strictly more options than owners.
The other point is that if this is your BF's project, you are in serious danger of building up a load of resentment for him and breaking up the relationship if things get any worse. It may actually be better to tell him that you're not getting on with the project and it'd be better for your relationship if you work in different places. There's nothing wrong with that.
Pretty disappointed in all the graphs that are just example graphs and don't use real data. Just take the axis' off like pg if you don't want to share that data.
Facebook flo – modify running apps without reloading
With all the products eBay moves and so many users it shouldn't be difficult for eBay to reward in some way (less paypal fees, more prominent listings etc) users for writing reviews of products, creating cheap and reasonably good content. But I mean, if they buy ads for "By X" where X is any search term...
When Songwriting Meets Search Engine Optimization
Uber Seeking $12 Billion Valuation In Latest Funding Round
It gets worse:

Black People!
New and used Black People!
Check out the deals now!

I'm fairly certain there is a filter of some kind because the first time I saw this circling the internet I wasn't able to replicate the "screenshot" of the ad. Still, it didn't take long to find a substitute phrase that was substantively identical but successfully triggered the dynamic keyword insertion ad.
The M-M theorem is one of those pretty void theorems that says "in the absence of all real world factors, two abstsct models are mathematically equivalent structures".
I agree. From the captions on the construction pictures:

> Lift logs, prop up, nail together and continue until no longer wobbly.

That's not very reassuring.
Aww :3
I used to work on buying keywords at eBay 10 years ago, and one of the first features we built was a suppression list to prevent exactly this, so I'm a little surprised to see this. These ads can be costly, embarrassing, or carry a legal liability. It's possible they dropped the ball with a big bug that no one noticed, but it's also possible an affiliate was buying these ads hoping to turn a conversion.
Hmm. $90,000 per year. Looks like people in developing world like India are out of luck.
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1314/