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Good point about Schneier, although with a caveat: he's actually an expert in cryptography, and he has opinions about more generalized subjects in security. Quite often he's right, but I don't consider him to be an actual "security expert" in any general sense. I don't think it's actually possible; "security" is a blanket term.

Bruce is dead-on right in this case. Fighting the previous war won't prevent the next one.
Seems pretty awkward, especially for a country that prides itself on innovation and starting companies.

So can "normal" people invest in startups?
There're probably less than 50 polls, it's overkill for a small hobby project like this. Plus people can add/update future polls manually.
Then you end the line in two spaces.
What's the "problem" here? The bugs Atwood is talking about are minor, and their solutions don't require drastic incompatible changes to Markdown-the-language.

The issue here is that Gruber seems to be satisfied with Markdown-the-language, and Atwood (and many others) aren't.

Obviously, Atwood could just create a new markup language derived from Markdown (like MultiMarkdown). But then he can't call it Markdown. He wants the best of both worlds, and he's not going to get it. And that's his problem, not ours.
Thanks for this. I'm going to start paying attention to times when I want to change the API but feel inhibited by the tests. I haven't noticed it happening in the past, but it's possible I dismissed the idea of changing the API quickly enough that it just flew past me.
I think it's more 'by definition' than 'by coincidence': the world has always been run by idiots, scumbags and criminals and it falls to pieces every decade or two like clockwork.

Youthful angst is just a condition where you think no-one else notices and that the problem is solvable.

Maturity is when you realize that anyone paying attention has always known and simply decided that playing along leaves more time to get on with life than railing against the game.
Not for me. Safari 4.0.4, OS X 10.6.2.
My friend on H1B makes $80/hr, so not all of them are "cheap".
The elephant in the room here is campaign financing. As long as a person* with great wealth can outweigh the desires of the majority of people we will get the government that we deserve.

*By person I mean a legal person http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person
If Gruber had released markdown and explicitly walked away from it, then yes, we would only be justified in appreciating his gift.

(And I think anyone seriously using markdown has to conclude he did essentially release and walk away from the perl implementation. Aside from it being 6 to 12 times faster, there is no reason now to use it rather than the Text::MarkDown in CPAN -- which fixes its many, many, crippling bugs and maintains perfect compatability.)

However, somehow or other, we've gotten the idea that Gruber is responsible for at least the ongoing development of the spec. Atwood excerpts a recent mail from Gruber where he's clearly still trying to do that. I sorta get the impression Gruber wants to keep the markdown spec exactly as it is, although the last time he surfaced on mailing list it was to say that a proposed addition looked like a (rare) good idea.

At least the internal underlines issue makes markdown a real PITA to use for any technical writing, and really needs to be fixed in the spec. The URL thing is debatable; while Atwood's newline suggestion misses the point of markdown. The risk is clearly that markdown will fragment with different sites handling these issues differently. There are many better ways to manage specs than what Gruber is doing.
something is wrong there, isn't it? http://hackerpolls.heroku.com/polls/4
(I mean, the %)
The sooner people realize that there is no such thing* as extremist terrorism, the better. (* statistically speaking) The only success of modern terrorism has been the media terrorizing us into spending money on expensive, needless security equipment, government programs (TSA, DHS), and baseless wars abroad. Obviously the reward structure is complicated as the media does not make these devices, run these programs, or wage these wars, but none of these expenses would be plausible without the constant yelling that emanates from every media device I encounter.

I mean, think about this: the poor terrorists-that-we-call-terrorists blow themselves up ... and we don't even listen to their message. (Which is usually "hey, leave us alone pls, kthnxboom") Then some yokel gets his 15 minutes to tell us how we need to spend billions on something he's getting kickbacks for. Who here is using terror more effectively?

Once the public has realized that there is (statistically) no root-cause terrorism, we can have appropriately relaxed security once again. And more money.
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It seems that the current Bazaar was never a fork of arch. There was an old fork of arch that was once also called "Bazaar", but it was renamed to "Baz" and is no longer maintained. The current implementation is a new codebase. The only thing it appears to have in common with the old fork of arch is the name, which they must have carried forward for the sake of maximal confusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_(software)#History
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It's kind of scary that a website can be shut down just like that. I'm sure they will find hosting out of US jurisdiction anyway, but still, it almost seems like violation of freedom of speech. (p.s. I don't oppose H1B program)
>I think it's more 'by definition' than 'by coincidence': the world has always been run by idiots

Maybe so, but it's certainly not run by idiots "by definition", if you have the normal meaning of the phrase in mind.
A couple interesting related posts from Overcoming Bias

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/smoking-followup.html

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/animal-smoking-studies...

Robin's conclusion:

"Bottom line: a randomized trial suggests a large smoking harm on bad lungs, which can explain the entire apparently average smoking harm seen elsewhere. My best guess: smokers die ~10-30% more on average, living about 2-6 months less, but there’s much less net harm to strong lung folks."
When a startup issues stock to investors, it is critical to keep the offering within the limits of recognized securities law exemptions. Otherwise, it is an illegal offering and any investor who purchased stock can rescind and demand his money back from the issuer or its promoters. Thus, securities laws are not to be taken lightly.

That said, it is an extremely simple proposition to structure early-stage offerings in a way that meets exemption requirements and this can and does very often involve stock sold to relatives and friends. In California, for example, there is something known as the "limited offering exemption" (Cal. Corp. Code section 25102(f)) that permits issuances of stock to up to 35 non-accredited investors who have a pre-existing relationship with the company or its founders and who represent that they are purchasing for bona-fide investment purposes and not for immediate resale. The disclosure requirements for this, and the accompanying paperwork, are very easy to comply with.

Most states have something comparable, as do the federal rules as interpreted under Section 4(2) of the 1933 securities act and under Regulation D (which sets out "safe harbor" provisions for private placements).

The main advantage of using accredited investors lies in the tremendous reduction in compliance risk when issuers are doing more complex offerings. In the early-stage context, I recommend to my startups that they attempt if possible to limit their offerings to accredited investors simply because this keeps things things safest for compliance purposes but I also tell them that limited sales to non-accredited investors are usually fine. I have done a brief write-up on this at http://grellas.com/faq_business_startup_012.html.
+1 for the double entendre.
I think we're in agreement. My distinction is:

Beautiful vs Nice - taste.

Beautiful vs Ugly - not taste.

So, since it's obvious this DSL isn't ugly, being less than beautiful doesn't really merit HN's negative response.

In any case, the negative comments seem to be doing great, which is sad for HN. My experience is that people who actually produce stuff (in any field) aren't usually publicly critical of other people's work, since they can appreciate the effort involved, and don't want to be at the same spot when they release their own work.
Actually, looking at the Regional Interest section, it looks like a much tighter cluster in the US than most other countries (with Python in the lead.) It's possible that PHP is just far more popular outside the US, and you can learn that from Google Trends.
I'm with you, but people asked for it. Until Americans come to terms with the fact that the world is a dangerous place, this will continue. Every lawsuit that pins liability on someone else for someone's actions that they should have realized could have an adverse outcome reinforces this mentality.

It seems the only deaths Americans are willing to accept as part of life are car crashes. All other causes are unacceptable and should be sued or enforced out of existence, even if they constitute a small fraction of that number.
That certainly is surprising. I know some research has suggested that a stressed mother is less likely to conceive in the first place. This is the first I had heard of stress leading to spontaneous abortion.
By the way, one of the creators of DabbleDB is hn. His nick is avybryant.
At this point I think it is well known that quitting smoking doesn't have much health benefit. I think it is exaggeration to call this a "scandal". I recall this was talked about on television a lot back when Peter Jennings died - he had quit smoking many decades earlier, but he still died of lung cancer.

However, here is the important fact: smokers die of lung cancer at a higher rate than non-smokers. The above essay makes a big deal about the fact that quitting seems to have no benefit. That does seem to be true. But never, ever smoking does clearly have a health benefit. This should not be forgotten.
Carpe Diem? Maybe Tomorrow.
What can the TSA do? Nothing short of measures that would normally be considered draconian would be any sort of reasonable solution.

Screen everyone carefully. Careful tests of everything brought aboard, if any is allowed at all. Require background checks upon passport application (or application for plane tickets). Also, have a security officer on board, with orders to shoot to kill if anyone tries any funny stuff.

Of course, organizations like local police forces are in a far better position to make a difference. Better detective work, with the goal of breaking up terrorist rings and locating individuals, would certainly be an effective step to combat terrorism. As this article points out - these people are often already suspects.

A reasonable solution would be to give up on complete security. Put in the obvious deterrents - a security officer on board the plane, and reinforced cabin doors that don't open for the duration of the flight. Other than that, don't worry about it. When you look at other threats like drunk driving or heart disease you should realize that our panic is misplaced.
Actually, I think the real problem is that H1Bs are given out via a queue rather than an auction.

With a queue, there is no incentive to note apply for H1B's. Do the paperwork, you get someone to fill some position (often cheaper than a recruiter). With an auction, H1Bs will be given out to the employers who value the employee most highly rather than simply a random selection of whoever got their application in by Jan 1.

As for job mobility, I think requiring the new company to pay off the pro-rated auction cost to the old company is fair (i.e., 1.5 years into a 3 year visa, new company pays old company for half the visa cost).
I think perhaps in my quest for concision I failed to communicate. I certainly didn't mean to imply that TDD could provide certainty for the entire system.

But I have to differ with you in one key point. TDD specifically proves that the code does not pass your test before you made the change. The red bar is, in my mind, the most important part of the practice.

Given that you have a failing test, you make a change, and then you have a passing test, what more do you feel is required for proof that the change did what you expect? It's possible that "proof" is too strong a word, but I find that process gives me sufficient confidence.

(Side note: I'm honestly trying to figure out the best way to write code. I don't think TDD is the silver bullet, but I think it's a useful tool in the mechanical part of development.)
Interesting interview with Bruce Schneier here: http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/bruc...

FTA: "A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage."
There is already a filter on the search that limits the results to programming queries, but I don't know the algorithm.

I tested by comparing the results for "ruby" and "rails". The curves were virtually identical, which would be impossible if there were very much noise in the results for either term.
No, and I'll give you an example. Take a simple relational table with some kind of constraint. Begin a transaction and insert some data into this table that violates the constraint. What happens? Guess what, it depends on the db. Some databases/drivers will throw an exception immediately upon insert. Some will wait until the commit has occurred to throw the exception.

Subtle differences like these exist all across the various relational db world. Not to mention that they all do locking and concurrency differently, which is probably the biggest problem.
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That first percentage is for the general population. The original poster included them with the option names
There is no problem on my version of Safari. I'm running Safari Version 4.0.4 (6531.21.10) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Libel doesn't have to be false, just damaging.
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Thanks for confirming on the Selenium thing.

I guess it just comes down to personal taste, then. I feel that I can't understand how the coding should be laid out until after I've designed how it will be used.
I think the cleaner way to describe that in functional terms is "giving a symbolic name to sub-expressions". There's nothing "stopping" or "starting" about the communication, you're just splitting out some part and labelling it. Obviously "A1" doesn't convey much, but somethign like "successFraction" does. I do this in imperative languages too.
Correction: Text::MarkDown differs in compatability in that it _seems_ to fix the internal underline issue. Although possibly not completly.
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I propose the "Corporate We" as a grammatical construct. Like the Royal We (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we) which refers both to the human being who sits on the throne, and the political office of the king/queen, the Corporate We refers to both the person who runs the company, and the legal entity that is the company itself.

At least, that's the justification I'm going with for using "we" all over the website of my one-person company.
Whether the 2000s feel like a lost decade depends a lot on where you lived. I don't think they were particularly bad for Canada - we had a strong economy and currency, decent government, and Quebec separatism is almost a non-issue now. We shared in the US recessions, but neither has been anywhere near as severe in Canada. We enjoyed the commodities bubble without suffering from a housing bust. All told, I don't have many complaints.

Similarly, I doubt it would be easy to find many eastern Europeans, Indians, or Asians that felt the 2000s were worse than the 1990s.
To me, those results are kind of obvious to anyone who understands garbage collection, array lookups, and method call overhead.
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Well hang on a second, we absolutely are the people who have to deal with the aftermath as we are the flying public. I'd say I personally am more highly motivated on real airline security than some dude at a desk in Washington or throwing bags in the airport who might not even have a passport. I am the target. If you're with me on the plane, you are too.

Question for you, what's the airline with best security record in the world? El Al, who have been under constant terrorist threat for 40 years. Yet no-one mocks them for their boneheaded ideas (e.g. let's confiscate everyone's liquids based on volume alone and toss them all into a big bin right near the checkpoint) because they really do know what they're doing. No bullshit, no security theatre, just a track record.

TSA and Homeland Security are amateurs. Both the shoebomber and now the pantsbomber (both of whom were utterly incompetent themselves) breezed through all their security measures. Ordinary passengers dealt with it, the old fashioned way. There's a lesson there.
Why should Gruber pass on "ownership" in the absence of a prospective owner who's work on the project he likes?

What "problem" would be solved here other than the problem that Atwood is bad-mouthing Gruber, apparently to force him to pass on "ownership" or at least to make Gruber into a negative example for others?

Isn't the better solution to that "problem" for the rest of the libre software community to disapprove of Atwood's defamatory statements about Gruber?
I think the first part of your hypothesis is correct, but not quite the second. Most imperative languages support deep recursion and reentrancy, which means that they're a proper superset of (most of) functional languages. You may need to create a "closure" by hand and pass it around, but there's nothing that's fundamentally impossible. The example in the article about adding a side effect and cross-dependency to a deep function really isn't possible in functional terms without changing the design (i.e. adding the state to the function's interface).
The TSA leadership consists of bright, passionate, dedicated individuals. I doubt any of us, given the information and resources at their command, could make significantly better decisions than they have.

I read Bruce Schneir's interview with Kip Hawley back in 2007, and came away with the belief that we have a team in place that has some significant knowledge of managing aviation security:

http://www.schneier.com/interview-hawley.html

As for what happened on Christmas, Bruce concisely describes a fairly common mantra about aviation security:

"Basically, there are three broad ways of defending airplanes: preventing bad people from getting on them (ID checks), preventing bad objects from getting on them (passenger screening, baggage screening), and preventing bad things from happening on them (reinforcing the cockpit door, sky marshals)."

And, with the exception of not getting millimeter-wave/back-scatter technology in place for full body scanning (which would have trivially caught the Christmas underwear bomber - and the lack of this technology at security checkpoints is perhaps the one real-failure of the TSA), I think the TSA has done an admirable job.

Note - one thing most people don't understand, is that by creating a rule which states "You must sit down in the last hour of flight" - the goal isn't to prevent mad-bombers from standing up, it's to make it very clear which ones the mad bombers are for the Sky Marshals and Airline crew - it's for a week, and the rule (hopefully) is given a pass for those who clearly need to go to the washroom, need a blanket, etc...
FYI for people who may be confused by terminology: in the biological sciences, the word "abortion" refers to any termination of pregnancy, natural or otherwise, displacing the non-technical term "miscarriage." The medical procedure is usually qualified with adjectives such as "induced," or occasionally "elective." I don't want anyone to skim the article and think that women are getting elective abortions on male embryos. The article is saying that the natural miscarriage of male embryos & fetuses (feti?) is more sensitive to environmental stress than that of females.
That's easy. Terrorists seize/destroy planes with weapons or explosives.

So to the extent that the TSA can efficiently and effectively scan for weapons, explosives and known terrorists, they should. To the extent that they can't detect certain explosives (the theoretical binary liquid concern), it's reasonable to take measures to mitigate risk. (E.g. limit quantities when feasible)

Beyond that? Nothing.
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Well to be a contrarian, nicotine is a mood stabilizer in people with depression and bipolar disorder. Consider it a cheap SSRI.

It also makes you look cool which can score you dates which can lead to sex, and that's a healthy cardiovascular exercise. sarcasm
Remember that the "FP approach" can be used in so-called "imperative" languages too. The reverse isn't as true.
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Ah. Interesting.

Databases have always been one of my weaker points, and lately, ORMs have allowed me to be pretty lazy on that front. Thanks for walking me through that.
I only skimmed after this paragraph.

The internationally most successful film of the decade was "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." Harry Potter was the most successful literary character. Both are children's stories that are also enjoyed by adults. We are withdrawing into an infantile world, in which attractive heroes conquer evil. The modern fairy tale is our response to a harsh world.

Harry Potter, yes. But he thinks that The Lord of the Rings is a children's tale?? Sorry, but no. Fairy tales started as stories for grownups, and were made into children's stories when grownups stopped believing in them. However Tolkien was aware that the structure of the fairy tale lends itself to darker themes that aren't for children, and the LotR is a deliberate exploration of that dynamic.

Judging by my quick skim of the rest, he recited a lot of things I already knew without any real attempt at analysis, then called it perspective.
The way that Atwood quotes the mailing list is irresponsible.

Please read this message:
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-Marc...

1) Gruber states that he doesn't have time to update Markdown.
2) Gruber states that any fork of Markdown should be clearly stated as such.

End of story.

Gruber could respond with a post titled "Responsible Forking". Hopefully, Gruber just ignores Atwood and spends his time and attention on stuff that actually matters.
Probably because their diets are vastly superior to everyone else's. So people predisposed to live longer are going to live longer, even if smoking takes a few years off their lives.
In that case you're not providing "other content not obtained from YouTube" at all, so you're violating the TOS.