skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same quote Gruber himself used here: http://daringfireball.net/2004/03/dive_into_markdown

The title of the section, Dive into Markdown, is the same too.
What’s Next for the App Economy 2017
I tried it out on Office 2016/365/15.25 whatever on OS X. It works when writing data out. That's great news! And they also put it high up in the possible formats to output.

Unfortunately, to open the UTF-8 file again, it doesn't work ("åŒ—äº¬å¸‚"). You have to make a new workbook and then import the csv in, specifying UTF-8 csv. It's pretty messed up but at least it's possible now.
I really wasn't a fan either. I found that the first two sections contained very little useful information/ideas/instructions, and then the third section started talking about muses and angels and it totally lost me. But it's talked about a lot here so maybe I'm missing something too.
I have been saying this since the mid-90s (when I became a programmer).

My father trained / apprenticed as a tool & die maker in Germany. When he moved to North America (Alberta, Canada) this was not really a thing he could do where he moved. So he became a machinist.

Machining where we lived was/is all about the oil and gas sector and by and large not large unionized shops and not great pay. Mostly sweat shops intense work, lots of underpaid immigrant labour, and my father suffered long bouts of unemployment or unstable work through the 80s and early 90s. So yeah, formerly a 'skilled trade' and then very working class.

In the end things turned out well for him as he ended up landing into a great job teaching machining at a technical school.

He applied for a shop-assistant position at the school, after years of soul crushing unemployment or marginal employment.

They interviewed him and said he wasn't qualified to be the shop assistant -- but they wanted to offer him a position... as a teacher.

He got a full teaching job with benefits, a pension, summers off. A very happy ending.
Thank you for sharing this. I was interested to know if this was a fork of gitql by cloudson. It is not. The following issue clarifies the relationship:

https://github.com/gitql/gitql/issues/83

"The relation is its purpose: SQL + Git, written in Go. There is no relation other than that."

I thought this might help anyone else who was similarly interested.
Agreed though I'm coming from the opposite perspective. Despite the traffic, I'm willing to put up with it in DC because the caliber of people is entirely different and far superior to any experience I've had in SFBay.
There's also (possibly) the Axiom open source camera, if it ever sees the light of day.
Loving the work done.. now we just need a more complete VIM mode implementation!
An important insight here is that if you and your friends already don't own cars, then moving from drivered-rides-for-hire to driverless-rides-for-hire for you and your friends won't reduce car ownership.

Clearly, in every world, the modern one and the future driverless one, childless adults in dense urban areas are the people most likely to benefit from a rides-for-hire approach. Families with children and people who live in suburban, exurban, and rural areas will be the people least likely to rely on rides-for-hire.

One interesting (though not, I think, probably overall very likely) scenario is where total car stock increases in a driverless car world because:

1. Childless urban adults use rides-for-hire, but they already used rides-for-hire and already didn't have cars. Meanwhile, they start substituting some amount of their former public transit travel for the new-cheaper rides-for-hire (so more vehicles are needed to serve them).

2. Families with children and suburban, exurban, and rural families purchase driverless cars instead of signing up for rides-for-hire, because rides-for-hire still don't work very well for them. In fact, they purchase more cars, because the driverless cars offer them more utility than their old cars did.

3. Meanwhile, a smaller number of people in relatively dense suburb do go to rides-for-hire and abandon ownership, but there are relatively few of them and the cars in their localities are relatively poorly utilized, so they don't offset the increases in vehicle stock driven by people in groups 1 and 2.

As I said, I don't think that's overall a likely scenario, but I don't think it's an insane one. I'd say 10% chance of coming about.
How do you take your shoes off without untying the knot?
New England weather is way better. No moody fog and light drizzle bullshit. Glorious sunny days, brutal winter storms, etc. To each their own =)
Not on freeways
I learned as a kid that moving the mess into the closet doesn't count as cleaning.
Xamarin as a platform has made great advancements in the latest 1.5 years. I have been using it for 2.5 years. Haven't had a chance to play with React yet, which HN seems to leans towards. When I stared my app building platform startup, I had to pick between React and Xamarin. Ultimately picked Xamarin because we already knew the platform and Forms was mature enough, whereas React wasn't that mature imo (few apps outside the facebook dev team were big in scale). Xamarin Forms has its issues but now that it is open source the community can tackle those issues together. Happy with my choice so far, Xamarin has a great community.
Sorry, meant the suburbs I guess. Some friends in the military and government definitely complain about how long it takes to drive a short distance.

I've only ridden the Metro once, yeah.
Like the IoT, self-driving cars are premature and poorly thought out. They're more about fueling investor enthusiasm than actually delivering a viable service.
The State of Wordpress Security
Is this similar to Xamarin Workbooks?

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/workbook...
Or cars, or even Apple products. People love defending Austin, Boston, etc. Cost of living only applies to food and housing, more of less. After that $20-50K is paid, cost of living does not apply to anything you spend past $50K.
Trump Meets Tech Industry Leaders with Effusive Greeting
Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring Senior Back-End and Full-Stack Engineers
> It’s easy to hear data and stories like these and conclude that programmers moving to the Bay Area are suckers. After all, salaries have not risen by 70% in the past four years. But what this analysis misses is the extent to which this place and time is exceptional.

The author lost me right there, even though I did make an honest effort to read the article to the end.

(1) There are plenty of "brain centers" in the world. The fact that they don't tout it day and night makes them no worse than the Bay Area. In fact, as an European, I am more likely to move to Gothenburg, Oslo or even Reykjavik than the Bay Area -- on this basis alone. Most of us Europeans strongly dislike touting. In fact it says a lot to me and many others how the Bay Area gets the most press coverage of being the "tech innovation center of the world". Center of what? The 99% of failed startups that want to disrupt markets that didn't exist yesterday? Center of "work 16 hours a day for the measly promise of 1% equity if we ever take off"?

(2) "Amazing place and era to live in" is a good inspirational motto... and it only works until you get your first burnout and wish to just make good money and be at peace, and have time for your other hobbies, significant other or whatever else. I feel sorry for all the tryhard after-teens who are about to find that out the hard way.

(3) Company valuations in billions rarely mean anything. I am too lazy to dig around but I clearly remember there were cases of several companies being valued close to 1 billion, only to be sold for ~30 millions several months later. This is hype, it's produced by the investors and VCs themselves, they profit from it, and it has almost zero real-world credibility. I might be oversimplifying this; but I am convinced I am not that far off.

(4) The historical flashbacks only make the author want to desperately justify how cool is it to live in the Bay Arean. No, sorry; I'd honestly prefer 14th century Venice compared to San Francisco. There were tangible things to see there, for example Michelangelo's art. What can SF show you? Zombified devs hurrying for their commute, hellbent on zombifying themselves even more in the name of a cause that's 99% likely to fail?
Hardly. Betteridge's Law requires the answer to be a definite "no". E.g. "Is SpaceX planning to put a dog on Pluto?"
3k for just a single test? wow glad I am in the UK
Also, at the time, Mark Pilgrim had a blog called "Dive into Mark".
Google’s new “Android Things” OS hopes to solve awful IoT security
I haven't been to Ithaca in 20 years but I used to visit twice a month for a few years. I always thought it was a cool little town. I have great memories from there and agree that people were cool there. I still have a soft spot in my heart when I think of my time there. It also had a great little music scene, decent bars, coffee shops, and housing was reasonable. It's got the lake right there and easy access to hiking and biking trails. Ithaca College really balances out Cornell's presence well and creates a good mix of people. Not sure what it's like now but I can see how the quality of life would be high there.
That's true, but depending on the local driving culture, this may just lead to many vehicles cutting in front of you and making the gap vanish. In metro NY/NJ, at stop-and-go speeds on freeways, 1 to 2 car lengths seems to be about as much as you can safely leave without it quickly being snatched away. Too bad.
Newly Uncovered Site Suggests NSA Exploits for Direct Sale
Paycheck calculator shows me that $120K [1] in CA leaves you with $6,220 after-tax monthly income. If you really made about as much, and managed to save ~$5.5K a month, then you spent only ~$660 a month, which is just impossible, sorry. Even if you're sharing a 1BR with several roommates, which, by the way, is not really an option for many.

[1] Googling "average software engineer salary california" shows figures ranging from 107k to 135k, 120k seems to be more or less the median of Google's figures.

Edit: added footnote
Er, how does that 'clarification' change anything? They tried to end their life, and this armchair psychologist is only too keen to assume that they're overreacting to minor workplace hardships. Shamefully disrespectful, attempting suicide is not a joke.
You shouldn't conflate deductibles and co-pays.

For example, if the deductible was $6700, a 6 day hospital stay would cost $6700 out of pocket. Because it is a $290 per day co-pay, it will cost $1740 out of pocket. There is a tidy difference there.
Finding mentors in science
Donald Trump Meets with Silicon Valley Executives, Bill Gates in New York
Have you tried Markdown Here ?
http://markdown-here.com/

I use it on almost every email. It is really great.
Stripe: Atlas Guide
You mean mini map?
It feels like Microsoft is starting to get more vocal about pushing F#. Worth noting that Visual Studio/Xamarin for Mac is prominently offering F# for Android and iOS out of the box now as well.
Ask HN: Good Open Source Web API Examples (Code)
Today, after reading the HN post KickStarter open sourcing their apps I came across this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13178269

Recently, I've been trying to learn more about developing REST APIs in .NET. I would say I am past the beginner phase but I am having a hard time learning much more. Most examples and tutorials only cover the basics, and also they aren't following best practices (understandable so they can be quicker/shorter). I would love to have an example as extensive as KickStarters but I have not been able to find any.

I would be really impressed if there was a good example using a few of the technologies/frameworks I am interested in using to develop this API:
- ASP.NET Web API 2
- some authentication service (so can call it from mobile app as well as web app)
- JSONAPI specification
- MongoDB (1st choice) or EntityFramework

Also for this to be helpful for all developers I would love to see good examples in different languages as well.
If you want to circumvent the adblock blocker, just disable js for their webpage. uMatrix is a useful extension for that.
Amazing pace and progress between each minor version
Techshop is a hacker space, not a commercial machine shop. A machinist with a few hours training could bankrupt the average manufacturer within a matter of days, if not hours.

Based on my experience, equipment at Techshop is, on average, an order of magnitude or two cheaper and a decade or two older than what you'd see at a commercial manufacturer.
Unfortunately I have no cool story to tell. Most people who lose a spleen are in a motorbike or car accident.

Me? I fell onto the wooden edging of a playground with just the right angle, and just the right force to rupture it. Somehow, it was cleanly torn in half.
My contention is that you are confusing yourself, and they don't really provide P(default|black, 620) and P(default|white,620) in the paper. The only number I could find is P(default|620)=82% which is not enough for my calculation.

I choose not to couch my facts in language meant to obscure the point, or avoid choosing factually correct examples that again hide the unpleasant bits of reality. We won't figure out the right way to deal with reality if we pretend the ugly bits aren't really there.

I don't think you're a racist, by the way. I think something else is going on with you.

It's very simple. On values I'm mainly an old school left wing individualist - I view ethnicity as holding no moral weight and groups as having no inherent rights that they don't inherit from their individual members.

Unfortunately, on racial issues, the white supremacists seem to be factually correct (mostly). The current left wing approach to this is to shame and ostracize anyone who dares to point out the emperor has no clothes. I originally interpreted your comments to be an attempt in that direction.

Meanwhile, UKIP/scary Hungarians/etc are pointing out the lies and people are following them.

I.e. I favor intellectualism and analytical philosophy over dogma and (secularized) religion.
Fearing new administration, Penn scholars move to preserve climate-change data
IANAL, but the last time I checked The 'C' in DMCA didn't come from it being the 'Digital Millennium Trademark Act'.

Also, I fail to see the likely misidentification of this merchandise in the market, especially considering it wasn't for offer in the market.
Anybody know how many people are on the VSCode team? They're moving so fast in adding useful stuff with very few hiccups...I'm lovin' it.
It's in progress, see [0] this issue. Scroll to the bottom for an update from a few days ago.

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/4865
Thank you for suggesting git-map. I tried it and intend to include it into my workflow. I thought your suggestion was a good one so I tested it. It did not work for me due to: "dyld: Library not loaded: libgit2.21.dylib". I assume this is something about my setup (mac, zsh, other stuff) but if you got this working I'd like to know so I can keep trying my with my setup. To clarify: both git-map and gitql work for me, I just can't seem to combine them.
Are you basing this from base or total compensation? Equity payments in the bay area are quite high
Oh hell yes! Thanks for this!

I know we're all excited with how popular our websites are in Moscow but it gets annoying very fast.
The rule of thumb is a thousand dollars per square inch.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/21/game-of-thrones
Wow. We need fewer people like you on HN. You are awful.
> Doesn't make sense. The big 4 have campuses across the country.

Yes, but a disproportionate number of their positions are in the bay area. Also, it's much easier to job hop between high-paying companies in the bay area, and this is particularly true if you have a specialization more specific/less common than "web dev" or "iOS dev".
I've done well without a degree in Cambridge, MA of all places. The problem solves itself in any market with a lot of tech companies. If some companies are leaving good talent on the table, others are going to pounce on it.
Your argument does not account for the widespread deference to closed source electronic voting which already exists, and fails to account for any of the value of open sourcing to assuage the very fear you are identifying as the problem.
Eventually, for perplexing cases, doctors will just input all the symptoms and the AI will diagnose/plan course of treatment.
In Minnesota, the Somali immigrants allegedly never saw autism until they came here, and they get a lot of it now.

They call it the "Minnesota Disease".

I also once read that Cable television penetration rates were correlated with autism as well...
Blue sky basic income thinking is bollocks
> but I wonder what the hell people do with 4200sqft houses.

tools & supplies for a variety of hobbies that involve the physical world. guest bedroom(s) for visitors. a decent kitchen so two can do real cooking at the same time. book cases. a laundry room that doesn't involve limboing under ducting.
Looking at this, I wonder if the real plan is to be acquired by Autodesk for the software. Autodesk Inventor is good, but its most available back ends for CAM are not that great. InventorCam is too manual, and SprutCam is smarter but too buggy. (I've used both.) HyperMill is supposed to be really good, but it's over $20K per seat, and unless you're doing 5-axis sculptured surfaces with a tool changer, overkill. Autodesk could use an entry-level fully automatic CAM package that did the whole job from model to machine tool for simple jobs and helped the user avoid fabrication problems at the design stage.

(Here's an example of Hypermill at work.[1] This is what the high end can do.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADqDMwQOc2w
Changing my schedule so that my 7 hours of free time is before work rather than after work. Previously I was burnt out from work and when I got home I would do nothing but browse the internet. Also turning off the cell phone during my free time and only using a computer for productive purposes rather than website consumption. In the past couple of months on this schedule, I have read 13 books, practiced 150 Mandarin characters 200 times each, learned how to play guitar from sheet music in the first and second position, learned the major scales/chords on piano, practiced drawing every day, painted 4 paintings, journaled every day, and am taking an improv class.
Good point!

And if you are into oil/gas, Houston. Marijuana, Colorado or Washington. Cars, Detroit (maybe?). Commodities, Chicago. Ag, Kansas City (maybe?). Outdoor experiences, SLC. Building something for Latin America, Miami. Ets, etc.

I imagine there are many other cities that dominate in niches that I'm missing.
About 10.

From one member: "VSCode has a relatively small team compared to the size of the product" - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/13138#issuecommen...
Every health plan has been doing this for years.

I processed insurance claims for over five years and that was not my observation. Granted, it was one company, I processed accident claims and it was supplemental coverage. But when I was there, I was initially encouraged by the trend towards adding "wellness benefits" because I had naïve fantasies this meant they were working towards getting people healthier.

Nope. It was entirely about "If we offer specific tests and call them wellness benefits, we have higher retention."

That was it. There was zero interest in actually making customers healthier. And I was horrified and I am pretty cynical these days.

So, I guess, I am wondering if you have supporting evidence? (Links to articles, stats, etc?)
I had a friend who moved from start-up to start-up every 12 months after his initial tranche of options vested. He knew how much cash he required to live (with a little buffer for emergencies) and then traded cash for more equity in his salary negotiations with a view to building a diversified portfolio via sweat equity. He did this for 5-6 years, and one of the companies has already exited with another looking likely within the next 12 months. He obviously left a lot of (potential) money on the table by walking away at the one year mark, but he figured having a handful of smaller bets was better than going all in on one company and it looks like that strategy is going to work out pretty well for him!
Can't upvote this enough. One dev mentioned in a GitHub issue that the blue color is for branding reasons [1]. This is so absurd, it hurts. That status bar is the most distracting and annoying thing ever.

See link for suggestions how to mitigate. I use the tip from the person named sysrpl. VSCode is unusable with that blue color for me.

1: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1884
Yes because the bay area doesn't have earthquakes... Honestly, you are much less likely to die in Seattle's only real weather threat, then the myriad of unsafe conditions in other parts of the country.
You're right, I mistook the Oculus number for his wealth. Nevertheless I think he's still probably in the realms of what they call "fuck-off money".
+1

Now I only hope they add in hot-disk support.

Sublime Text 3 checks to see if the currently opened version differs from the file system. If it does, it prompts the user to keep the current version or replace it with the disk version. VS Code just replaces the current version with the disk version and doesn't retain history so you can't undo this.

I lost about an hour of work yesterday because I had a file open in both VS Code and Sublime Text. Pressing save in Sublime Text wiped out all changes. :(
I wasn't disagreeing with anything was just saying how I handle it with generated csv's. I do not disagree in the slightest that Byte order marks are wrong and not part of clean utf 8-bit handling. BUT, when you have a client and you need to generate a csv for them with characters that are only valid in utf-8 and that client's program will only open the file correctly if you add the Byte order mark, then you add the byte order mark.
Today, the internet can't compete with face to face communication. Even with Skype etc. I think this is the reason rather than keeping tabs on the work you are doing. This may change in the future of course if we can get VR to a real level of fidelity.

> If you have to have people in the office to make sure they're working, you already have a fundamental hiring problem.

It is possible to be remote and have your screen recorded to make sure you are typing for 8 hours, vs. being local and just being trusted to get on with it.
Google was never attractive to me, it just seems like an real-live walled garden combined with an digital walled garden.
Ask HN: How to store and query Drip campaign data
I was looking at http://drip.co and tried their journey designer. I was curious to know how they store and query these rules and triggers. I guess they store it in a no-sql database. But how does the querying on the data is done in order to send the email
What happens when a drone fleet like this gets hacked?
Yahoo Discloses New Breach of 1B User Accounts
7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It's one of the best selling books of all time for good reason. It's much more than tips and tricks for getting work done.
Totally agree, I think pen and paper makes me think more about what I'm writing. I still use digital note taking (recently ditched Evernote for Notion – which is wonderful), but only as a sort of "overflow". In my original post I mentioned I don't move everything over each week if it's not relevant at the moment, that usually means I add it to a digital document with some longer term tasks or ideas.
I did not know that. I'm on Linux and the client is on windows so only had experience with it on those 2 OS's. Good to know.