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I'm still using Textile. My blog engine (https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy) can cope with ReST, Markdown, Textile, raw HTML and iPython notebooks, and I still turn to Textile for complex tables and other niceties. Out of the 7000-odd pages on my site, most complex pieces are Textile (although most newer items are Markdown).

I find ReST incredibly awkward to use, really, because it's anything but intuitive - both Textile and Markdown are easier to write off the cuff.

More importantly, though, I really wish that Textile, Markdown, ReST, etc., were formally specified as PEG grammars or similar. There's just too much variation, and "standards" or specs defining them tend to be written in ambiguous English rather than something that could be formally validated and easily ported across to new languages (rather than the spaghetti messes of regexps that most parsers turn out to be when you look at the source).
No personal attacks on HN, please, even when someone else's comment is frustrating and/or wrong.
Looking at it from another way, CEO's can make a ton of money, regardless of what happens, including complete collapse of the company. While everyone else involved, loses tons of money, and their jobs. Maybe if there was more of an incentive, beyond guaranteed money. Like if after x amount of years, y goals have been met, then you get paid.
It may be damaged, but she leaves with a CEO title and a lot of money and connections. It would be easy for her to become a VC, Angel or other time of advisor. (Especially since she can pony up her own money, and does have legitimate advice to give.)
I think they would. If you can turn Yahoo around, you become legendary. CEOs are already risk takers, it makes sense.

Also it wasn't all that risky. Even though she failed she'll walk away with enough money for a lifetime (to add on top of the lifetime supply she already had).
Serious question: how is this legal? I can't imagine I could make someone sign a form that he waives his right to sue me and then shoot him, right? Assuming he doesn't die and it's him, not the government, that prosecutes/sues me.
"Own medicine?" Have you somehow missed China's bizarre and BLATANT copying and ripoffs of just about every single popular product on the planet for the last two decades?

I live in a third-world country, where it has become almost impossible to get basic stuff (tools, lights, everyday household items) that doesn't break down after a month thanks to cheap Chinese knockoffs shamelessly muscling every other company off the local market. Almost nobody wants to stock "genuine" brands.

Even if I wasn't an Apple fan I would be rooting for them here; they seem to be the only company big enough to fight back against China's crap.
It also converts investing into a negative-sum game.
Copy/paste the title into Google, and follow the link.
Virtual Reality: What Does Success Look Like?
This is good advice. I stopped trying to go above and beyond at work. Now, the rest of my time is spent doing projects I really care about. Since then, I:
- Self-published an art book
- Started a band
- Started building a few software projects I've been interested in for a while
- Spent more time with my kids goofing around, consciously trying to lighten up and have fun
I think it comes down to trust. We're part of nature, created by it and in it. The naturally created chemicals we deal with have been around for longer than we have. We have generations of people who have tested them for both short-term and long-term effects. When things previously thought safe start to harm us, it's usually because of changes in processing, like adding sugar to everything.

Human-created chemicals are much more of a risk. They might only have existed for a few years, and the amount of testing done is nothing compared to the history of evolution on Earth. We are creating them with an imperfect understanding of chemistry and biology. Many people simply prefer an imperfect but reliable solution over a potentially much better but also riskier option.

Not everyone is going to be able to personally vet the safety of new chemicals, so they have to trust the manufacturers who often prioritize profits over safety, confident that they will be able to pay for damages. Consumers need a better reason to trust the people pushing artificial chemicals in food because right now it's hard for them to see their interests as aligned with the companies that make them.
I think you have the buyer and seller backwards. :-)
It's difficult to understand how such clause is even legal to begin with. It basically sets up a "private" justice system for non criminal cases. That's insane. I get it, there are difference sort of tribunals. But it shouldn't be up to the corporations to decide where justice is supposed to be served.
See my other reply. Yes it is effective.

> What was the strangest part?

> How did you control for other things like mood, placebo effect etc.

Sometimes I would have bizarre thoughts about infecting other people against their will, as though the worms had migrated from my colon up through my body and into my brain and were controlling my thoughts in order to further spread their infection. But for all I know that could have just been a placebo effect. /s
How do you send the header first? Is that a feature of the http framework?
APIs and the Promise of 'Everyware'
It was a conversation at a party, and I fear I've even forgotten the author/teacher's name. She used the three "i"'s as a mnemonic. Thinking about it, I wonder if the sequence was actually "incident", "intent", then "inevitable".

The scheme is to write down what happened in the first pass. Then the second pass is to make things follow -- fix plot holes, clarify motivation, iron out chronology, etc. The third, "inevitable", pass is, of course, key. It is to hide the seams, to make the story/book appear as if it came whole cloth.

One (counter) example would be Faulkner's first novel, "Soldiers' Pay". In it you can see the hand of the author, self-conscious characterizations and manipulation of scene. It's educational to read, as it clarifies his technique in a way that his accomplished and inevitable-seeming books obscure.
That can't be the case anymore because I implemented a streaming function a few years back that sends an unlimited number of files as a zip, but builds the zip on the fly streaming it to the client. Maybe it works because I am not using compression (files in my case are all JPG and/or compressed video so there is little benefit). But my process definitely starts streaming the zip right away and has to pull URLs on the fly to create the zip file.
I'm on the fence on this one. Here's the logic of the anti-artificial crowd, as best I can put it...

Humans have evolved alongside natural systems. And if humans have been eating something for a very long time, it's probably alright to eat. If a new sugar-like substance came into existence, it would probably come into existence as incremental changes to an existing system. Let's say that existing system was a staple food source for humans. Humans would gradually change as their food source changed, and adapt to it... Or, that food source would gradually become toxic to humans, and we would stop eating it.

Now, take human-invented stuff. You have a sudden new thing which hasn't had generations of humans munching on it. Some lab tests show that it's great. But who really knows? Biology is super complex. And lab tests often have questionable funding and incentives.

Consider the day that wonder-bread was introduced to the world. Old-school fermented sourdough bread had been eaten for a very long time by healthy humans. Wonder-bread had various chemicals tested in isolation which had proved to be positive for health (iron, calcium, etc). But now that enough time has passed, I don't think anyone looking back would suggest that wonder-bread is preferable to traditional sourdough fermentation.

Asbestos is another good example. We thought the stuff was just the best thing ever. Turns out, in the very long run, it's pretty bad news.

So, there's a certain logic to trusting evolved-systems over human-designed systems.
Does anybody care about the Constitution anymore? It seems like every day I read an article about someone either going against the Constitution, or getting very close to denying its importance in the United States.
The assumption of this app already starts with a high level of unattachment.

"Curtsy is a mobile app that lets women rent dresses from other women in their neighborhood. Women can browse nearby closets and post their own dresses to make money"

With either model a person walking down the street in their neighborhood or near their workplace risks their friend saying to them, "Sarah, that's the same dress you have."
Yes, it will scare them into the arms of one of the many other ISPs in town offering reasonable service without the arbitration agreement.

OHWAIT.
Has any state attempted to ban arbitration clauses via popular vote/referendum? If so, would that even hold up in court and across state lines?

Seems like the only way to deal with this crap as there's no incentive for corporations not to force customers into binding arbitration. If I was still running a large consumer focused corporation I'd insist on it as well.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Abbey
Plus, often there is a decent and accepted answer given quickly and then a much more complete answer given later on that is really the one that should be considered in the archive.
The big picture is that there's a few compression algorithms.

Run Length Encoding

Huffman Encoding

Lempel Ziv (LZ77)

Burrows Wheeler Transform

The interesting part of all these specific implementations is their own specialized way of extending or combining these algorithms for their own niche (or tradeoff point).

Bzip2 is for example, compresses really well because BWT is expensive, but clever - rzip extends the LZ part of bzip2 to look further across the file (instead of a few hundred kb).

Zlib itself has enough of these flags exposed out, so all Zlib isn't really the same - Z_FILTERED, Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY, Z_FIXED, Z_RLE etc. Look at something like Zopfli to see how they can be remixed, provided the tradeoffs of CPU change from the historic positions of Zlib.
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Yes, but I think more important is the distinction that any harm they might do is outweighed by their benefits. Which is what I as alluding to regarding some parasites. We might find they provide a heretofore unknown benefit, and we might consider that parasite in a different light.
Thanks, that's the comment I wanted to write but I'm out of neurons right now...
A pound of sugar a month is only 15ish grams per day. You get more than twice that in a can of coke.
As an occasional investor if a company isn't growing then I'd say we want it to make profits in the old fashioned manner of sales exceeding expenses. Yahoo was struggling a bit there. If you look at the earnings of the previous years there was quite a lot of funny stuff relating to Yahoo Japan rather than straightforward profits from happy customers.
That's amazing, I had no idea. I hope other states get on board with this
None of this shit is good for you, period.

Anything that is derived from something else, distilled, converted or chemically altered is not good for you. Can't be.

It's been my experience that these companies don't care about your health and never will. They just want a compound that will make you addicted to it, so you can keep on buying and consuming it.
>I don't think that most CEOs/VPs would take such a job in the first place though

You don't? A job with a huge potential payoff while making oodles of money in the meantime? Yeah, sounds awful. You fail that job and, worst case, your family is set up for 3+ generations.
And then you tell them "well, thanks for the free ride" and you walk away. I've never had a cab driver balk when I use that and the machine immediately starts working again.
Apple and Microsoft pushed to remove the rifle emoji from Unicode 9.0
csv-table[1] is an available directive in rST for doing the same thing. It optionally supports an external file.

[1] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html...
The next step is to write a new Bash in that C, and write a C compiled inside that Bash and so on. (See Godel, Escher, Bach)
The complaint is that google took some kind of confidential or trade secret knowledge about these winds. It can't be the directions and speeds, because those are constantly changing, and this was years ago. It's not methods of calculation, or they would have said so, like they said about the other points. So the only thing left under 'knowledge' is the mere fact that winds exist there. Of course winds exist there. They didn't discover that. Google's not even calculating most of the wind data, they apparently get that from NOAA.
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The developers appear to be treating this as a dev environment - "We were starting a new team (welcome @hiddentao, @evertonfraga and @luclu) and I was pushing for weekly releases, without proper testing. Meanwhile the DAO happened, and we wanted to make a release that had support for events subscription without realizing the performance impact it would have..."

https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases/tag/0.7.5

I realize this is the wallet development but they are absolutely related and shows the culture of this software is not as professional or thought out as it should be.
I agree, but I usually get around it by going the URL from Google and the referral from Google will work. I really have no idea why this doesn't get them de-listed from Google.
Could he not remove the temp files and use process substitution instead? (looks cleaner in my opinion)

i.e:

cc -fPIC -o $sofile -shared <(cat <<'EOF'

...

EOF

)
How do you handle taxes? Did you incorporate?
And yet, we're completely serious.
Some of the early Church Fathers (e.g. Jerome) maintained that the married Apostles, including Peter, gave up marital relations with their wives after being called by Christ, i.e. they practiced perpetual (or "perfect") sexual continence from that time forward. Celibacy developed later, as a safeguard for those called to exercise the same "apostolic continence".
"Not sure where you're saying Gödel's incompleteness theorems come in, but I agree that DAO is a game of Nomic."

I know what he means - he's suggesting that you can't ever get a bulletproof or watertight set of rules or guidelines for a system because ... blah blah ... Gödel's incompleteness theorem.

This is a very tempting idea and I myself have given it a lot of thought over the years.

The problem is, Gödel's incompleteness theorem applies to a system that contains the complexity of the set of all real numbers. But there are plenty of systems that do not have that much complexity and there are plenty of rulesets we could create and implement that would also not have anywhere near that amount of complexity.

So the analogy sort of falls apart there. It's still worth thinking about, though - the more complex your system of rules/laws/regulations/etc. becomes, the closer you are to a system that is mathematically guaranteed not to be airtight.

Good luck explaining that to lawmakers.

EDIT: YES, CORRECT, SORRY - I did mean to say the set of natural numbers, not the set of real numbers. Mea culpa.
You can't put the header first. It is an intentional feature of .zip that the header is at the end so you can update a large zip file by just appending a new header to the end. That way the entire file does not have to be rewritten. Just read the old header, append new files, append new header. This was important back in floppy disk days
I disagree. Natural doesn't mean healthy, but all else being equal I would prefer to eat something that wasn't synthesized and consider a non-synthetic option to be "healthier" by my definition of what is healthy. And what makes something healthy is more than just the effects of consuming it.
I did try Diaspora, but the UI seemed awkward and buggy, and it was slow despite me being the only person on it (maybe Heroku would have been better than a generic VPS).
Plus his profile lists http://zlib.net as his personal page
This is fantastic in terms of quality and in terms of being unique as a format for conveying complex technical info. Thanks!
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned caching. The terminals are likely slow either way, but they can cache the swipe and appear faster.

This is not possible via the chip which requires synchronous communication with the terminal.
Raw WebSocket handling could be delegated to something like Pushpin [1] (disclaimer: author). This way, the backend doesn't have to maintain any long-lived connections of its own, but it retains a similar level of control over each connection that a full backend would have had.

As an experiment, we built a chat app like this (using Stamplay as the FaaS) and it actually worked.

[1] https://github.com/fanout/pushpin
Any effects, positive or negative (besides the possible GI side effect mentioned down thread) on any other aspect of your health besides helping your autoimmune condition?
This. The term "natural" when it comes to food doesn't even necessarily mean it's not synthetic! Just that it is "derived" from something natural. [1]

[1] http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrs...
> Of course these few seconds don't matter that much per transaction,

Yeah they do. To the point that both Visa and MasterCard opposed even introducing chips for years. For that sole reason.

It's one of the main causes of the incredibly long delay the US has seen to their card security.
The US needs to set some ground rules with our Chinese rivals...

Start with requiring occupancy of all homes held by foreign nationals, trusts or investment groups, or you pay enormous property tax increases.

Then you require all US businesses selling consumer products to staff at least 1 US resident inspector for each stage of the supply chain from raw goods to finished product. If the host country doesn't like it, then you can't do business with that host country. This inspector may be called before Congress to answer personally (with jail time) for any human rights abuses not reported in the supply chain.
I wonder if that would make it a good choice for something like Moxie, that already has a sort of licorice-y flavor from the gentian root it's flavored with.
> OK, but unless that company is paying out a dividend, why would you invest in it?

I feel that's the core problem with the stock market. It was supposed to be about investing in a company in exchange for the share of the profits (dividents). Instead, people got greedy and now it's gambling; nobody cares about the company they invest in, everyone plays meta-games.
Don't forget dropping, temperature sensitivity, bending and (for me) magnetic field sensitivity (which seems to be alarmingly bad but temporary).
It only takes one event to cost you close to $1000 (not sure of phone cost in US). That's a lot more than a new credit card costs.
Oh, ok. So we'll hand in all our guns, and when it's time for the militia to be called up again (forgetting the fact that all able bodied men are already members of the militia), our government is going to pass out AR-15s, then take them away again when we're done fending off the threat? The main threat that was intended by the Second Amendment, our own government?
Maybe it should be, but it isn't. Google probably doesn't care about losing the three tenths of one thousandth of a percent of customers who will 1) read the terms and 2) care enough about the arbitration clause to abandon ship.
You might find the SQRL system by Steve Gibson interesting.

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

Read the "What happened behind the scenes" box for the details. I think it's pretty clever.
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https://envoyer.io/
I think he's saying that, right now, both other companies would expect to be crushed in such a competition, so why would they not spare themselves the embarrassment?

And because we're doing silly memes, to accept the challenge, Microsoft and Facebook would probably have to go into the competition with this kind of attitude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZYg4ZbcOPQ
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Gary Brewer founded http://builtwith.com, earns over $1 million is sales. It's a one man band!!

http://www.startupdaily.net/2015/09/builtwith-is-perhaps-one...
https://medium.com/@andrewjrogers/the-story-of-builtwith-e3b...
We already have a pistol emoji. Now how does a rifle cause problems.

Now they should shutdown iPhone when someone types 'rifle' or 'gun' or 'porn' :/
Whenever i see a "shipping mistake" or "DOA" review i wish i could flag it as inappropiate content.
Worth reading answer about coolest kid on the block: xz compression algorithm (of lzma fame) plus tar.gz vs tar.xz scenarios/discussion.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6493270/why-is-tar-gz-sti...
It's in an early stage and doesn't do much ATM that can't be accomplished with something like "Tern". If you drop your e-mail in your profile, I'll send you a link when I got something to show.
>Few people took a stand against her when she made those bets

I'd like to know why you think that nobody wanted to call her out publicly. I'm not disagreeing with you, I just want to know your opinion in regards to why people kept quiet.
You can withdraw cash or transfer to your bank account from credit cards (at least in Canada).
> There are no US banks that implement Chip & PIN. Heck, it's nearly impossible to get a Chip & PIN capable card for travel if you have a US issuing bank.

Not entirely, but your last sentence is true. Some issuers do PIN credit cards. I have one from First Tech Federal Credit Union that uses PIN and touts it as a benefit. When I used it in Europe, it worked exactly as expected and prompted for my PIN just like in the States. There are a handful of smaller issuers that also do PIN primary (mostly credit unions but at least one Florida bank with a card catering to Cuban trade does) and a few more that have PINs but the PIN is secondary so it isn't asked for unless the terminal's configuration insists on it.
> blaming a slow system on the organization as a whole and the department responsible for the POS in particular is appropriate. It's not like it's impossible to create a fast system.

After readying your comment, I went through at least 5 different emotions.

I work in the QSR space and deal with the IT side. The idea that IT department can control the speed of the computer/internet/etc. is shared by both, staff and guests. Regardless if that's the case, your comment, in addition to the parent comment are fascinating.

It seems that regardless of the situation, someone has to take the fault and customers will just blame someone regardless. That's totally appropriate (even if its not, doesn't really matter as this is a perception > reality).

Just for that insight, I would up vote your comment twice, if I could.