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Am I the only one that hates markdown? HTML just seems so much more intuitive to me. I can never remember how to make text bold or italic in Markdown. Is it 3 quotes? 2 quotes? Single quotes? Double quotes? Asterisks? Wait, is astersks for bold or asterisks italic? Try all the combinations and see what happens?

Compare that to <b> -- b for bold! <i> -- i for italic! Super intuitive!

And what about headings? Is it stars? pound signs? random rows of dashes? or is it equals signs? Does more pound signs make it bigger or smaller? What happens if the number of dashes or equals signs is different from the number of characters above it -- will my PC blow up? What if one of the characters is a Chinese character -- does it still count as 1 equals sign? Or 2? Or 3? Is it based on the number of bytes after UTF-8 encoding or the number of multibyte characters? Should I just screw it and use bold text as a heading instead of googling for markdown cheat sheets?

Compare that to <h1>, <h2>, ... same syntax as the bold and italic tags so you don't have to memorize a new syntax to do headings once you've learned how to do bold and italics. Isn't that revolutionary?

As a bonus, cleanly-written semantically-meaningful HTML you write can be styled to perfection with CSS in any old web browser without any clunky interpreters or middleware. You don't even have to install anything. Isn't that even more amazing?

Am I the only one that actually wrote a script to convert HTML to Markdown just so I can create those silly README.md files without having to remember some awfully inconsistent syntax?
There is a big difference between being a UNIX and just supporting POSIX syscalls, regarding OS architecture.
>How to Avoid Going to Jail Under 18 U.S.C. For Lying to Government Agents

Step 1: Belong to the political elite.
> There is no reliable evidence of people in the Bay Area being smarter or more capable on average than other major metropolitan areas.

There may not be conclusive evidence, but there is fairly suggestive evidence given known correlates of intelligence.

> The average Bay Area resident may be slightly more educated but that doesn't necessarily prove anything about their level of heritable intelligence.

It doesn't necessarily prove that, but both access to and success in higher education is gated by selective filters for, among other factors, intelligence, so a region with higher average level of education would, itself, suggest (though not necessarily prove) higher average intelligence.
It may not be common sense, but it's very much ingrained into the American culture. Some examples:

1. In The Three Little Pigs, the two pigs that built houses out of straw and hay were eaten by the wolf, but the pig that worked hard and built its house out of brick and mortar lived.

2. From 2nd Thessalonians 3:10, "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat."

3. In the spring of 1609, John Smith cited the aphorism to the colonists of Jamestown:

> Countrymen, the long experience of our late miseries I hope is sufficient to persuade everyone to a present correction of himself, And think not that either my pains nor the adventurers' purses will ever maintain you in idleness and sloth...

> ...the greater part must be more industrious, or starve...

> You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.

4. The sheer number of Ayn Rand followers in political office [1] when the aim of Ayn Rand's writing is justify why one ought not give a damn about anyone else (much less the poor).

It makes sense for someone in a scarcity economy like John Smith to hold such a viewpoint, because otherwise everyone would starve to death. I lament the fact that even though the US can provide enough housing and food to feed everyone, we do not have the political will to do so. Even though Bertrand Russell was no economist, it seems we have arrived at his most insane dystopia [2] where "half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked" even though we could produce everything anyone ever wanted with a 20-hour work week and everyone working.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/10/new-age-ayn-ra...

[2] http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
If package unsafe doesn't "count", anything that C compilers allow beyond what ANSI C specifies don't count as C, thus many of its system programming features just vanish.
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I hope you made clear that "don't talk to" ≠ "ignore or evade"...
Maybe, maybe not. Your opinion is based on assumptions, just like mine and everybody else's. Or at least I assume so :-/

When somebody comes up with a reasonable, detailed model of how my memories are stored (just to name an example), I shall once again start paying close attention to the whole AI field.
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Funny he didn't mention a command line tool that gives compile time per function ( explained here http://irace.me/swift-profiling ). That proved to be the greatest help in my case to reduce compile times drastically.

He did mention running a tool to add explicit types everywhere, but it's very often a matter of just writing the most generic ones. Maybe not in uber case, but for everybody else you should try it.
CxOs generally aren't contractors either, I think.
That would provide the largest deterrent, since the lion's share of today's suits are without merit

Doesn't this depend on what "without merit" means? It seems unlikely they are "without merit" in the legal sense, since then they would be thrown out at the first hearing.

If you mean they are from patent trolls aka non-practicing entities, then it seems wrong too. I see coverage of tens of cases by NPEs per year, but the entire patent law-suite field must be much bigger than that.

There are probably better sources than this PWC report[1], but it identifies 477 out of 2281 (ie, 21%) cases since 1996 in the districts where NPEs file cases involving NPEs. Their definition of NPE includes universities though, which I don't think is what people generally think of when they think of "patent trolls".

If "without merit" means that they almost always lose, then this doesn't seem right either. The success rate for patent cases varies, but seems around 25-35%. That's far from "lion's share without merit"

[1] https://www.pwc.com/us/en/forensic-services/publications/ass...
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If you simulate a brain you get an intelligent computer program

That sounds like a really interesting experiment. Have you published your data?
Because the Republicans control all three branches of the government, and they're extremely well bought^H^H^H^H^H^H organized. In the rare case that a non-Republican has the power
to do anything, they'll be removed with or without cause if they try (see: Sally Yates).
Why this reflex to mention gays no matter what context?

Fyi they earn more than straight people: http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/06/pf/gay-money/
Again, how is this anyone else's problem? It'd be rewarding bad behaviour and poor technical solutions. These companies will find a way to workaround it.

A suitable compromise could be an override switch that can only be activated via Group Policy. That'd at least be a reasonable suggestion from Symantec. Not their current offer of nothing.

As far as "updating" my point was that they described a routine mobile app update as "recoding" as if it'd be lots of actual code to rewrite. And again, the fact a large company has no way to easily update in face of a security problem really is their problem, not ours.
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Those things mentioned are not "great truths" but one person's opinions.
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Great points. I do not disagree that a super human AI could explain stuff to humans, just like I could explain explain stuff to a six year old. However, a group of six year olds would be hard pressed to constrain your actions that you really wanted to do. In addition, first grade teachers are experts at manipulating six year olds, and a super human AI would also be very good at manipulating humans and working around any constraints the humans tried to impose on it.

With super human AI, we would be in much the situation as the great apes - their survival depends far more on what we do than on what they do. Just like the great apes cannot constrain our actions, we would not be able to constrain the super human AI's actions.

On a darker note, as Homo sapiens wiped out all the other hominids, there is a good chance that super human AI would try to wipe out humanity, as we are probably the greatest threat to their independence and well being.
I am fascinated by the somewhat Darwinian trajectory that this might take. Let's project forward ten or twenty year to when that smart lighbulb has the computing power of 1990s era supercomputer. Might all the lighbulbs in my neighborhood form an intelligent swarm? Will the be engaged in inter-swarm battles? It's not like there's an "off" button. Has any good sci-fi explored this topic?
If you were my roommate you'd get a talking to about answering the door at all. That's what the peephole is for.
I agree that most managers aren't very bright. It's like in the movie "idiocracy" except with the added frustration that being intelligent doesn't get you noticed or promoted.
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Add a markdown file to your repo and get a presentation. Very nice!
Why can't competitors produce Bitcoin mining chips as good as Bitmain's?

The problem is far more daunting than just creating a chip. You need to rigidly hit a schedule or it's immediate game-over. Most of the people who created and worked at HashFast are friends of mine; I got an up-close view of how that fiasco played out.

Hardware depreciates rapidly as the difficulty goes up. If you slip by a few months, it may cut the expected value each box will generate in half. How many hardware kickstarters deliver on time? When you have a delay, you're not facing some yuppie whining about having to wait for their toy - it's a commercial buyer watching their ROI diminish with every passing day. They'll sue, dox you personally, and generally act like the least mature elements of 4chan.

Bitcoin hardware is a shitty business with shitty customers and zero brand loyalty. Whoever has slightly more hashes per second per dollar gets all the sales. Every product is obsolete when it ships, so there's zero tolerance for mistakes in the learning curve. I'm not surprised at all that a single company dominates. You'd be a fool to get into this business.
I find they still fail a lot of the time. Some issue's I've come across recently:

* no UI scaling for hi res. Sure you can change it manually, but you have to be able to read the login screen to get that far.

* Can't change login screen resolution (haven't seen a way to do this on any distro I've tried).

* Default is to max resolution available (I'd say 1080p is a more sensible default, especially if there is no automatic scaling).

* Secondary drives require manual mounting (or doing it yourself at the command line).
Spot on. A variation of this happens about browsers as well.

How hard is it to run some version of Chrome or Firefox that is within the last 5 major releases?

I don't care how big your organisation is, it's not that hard.

Yet they want to off-load the costs to the rest of the world to keep sites compatible with their IE8.
Angry people with explosives will find ways to deliver them to their targets alas; think of it as the 21st century version of "the bomber will always get through".

In fact, drones are actually pretty shitty in terms of capacity compared to the alternatives (like lorries and improvised mortars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrack_buster).
The best outcome for any insurance company is if their contractural obligations never make them do anything. What's your point?
Easy, just apply the block to new devices -- the only thing the OEMs care about. They can easily write the contract to that effect.
Jesus. Brutal but probably true.

It is true though; the number of comments I see on HN directly responding to just the title of an article - even when their response has been rebutted by the article itself - is very high.
How so? I don't see reference to sampling with replacement or a suggestion to re-use the unsupervised results to further improve the model. Seems like I'm missing something...
Yeah but stabilisation doesn't change over time, for the most part it still remains PID based. 8-bit MCUs are so under-utilised & 32-bit processors are simply an overkill & barrier to people getting started.
Crc checksums can be wrong if you have multiple bit errors like runs of zeros. (This resets the polynomial computation) http://noahdavids.org/self_published/CRC_and_checksum.html

but crc is good to check against single bit errors.
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AI is undergoing exponential growth. As it gets better it becomes more profitable and feeds investments into itself. It may not make everyone redundant, but it will make most.
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First of all, thanks for your work!

I'm not trying to change your mind, but I'm curious about your bad experiences.
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> Why go on working?

Money isn't everything.
History is written by the winners. Court battles are dragged out by the losers.

My point is that, IMO, these kind of "IP" cases, never impede an actually successful business. And that if a business fails, and also has IP suits against it, it is for other business reasons that it failed.

I'm no IP lawyer ( that's probably helpful here ), but looking at Oracle vs Google, Samsung v Apple, IIRC, that actually more legitimate business didn't get impeded and just kept going.

My prediction is that if Uber falls it won't be IP suits that deal the fatal blow.

I think this is generally because courts move slower than the world, and both sides are, usually, "essentially matched" since they can both afford solid legal teams.

All this sort of leads to the conclusion that IP has mostly defensive, and capital benefits ( owning IP can deter people entering market or suing, and IP can add to value of transactions ), but it doesn't have the power to prevent other people using your invention ( as I think the intent of patents originally was, exclusive use ).
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adjective 1. aggressively confident and self-assertive.

E.g. "my way is da best, you should do WHAT I SAY"
You can't seriously think that the current Congress would do better?
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Vendors, even ones as large as Microsoft, do not have infinite resources available to evaluate vulnerabilities. There are only so many of the issues you can work on at once. They have to evaluate each issue and prioritize the fix. In this case, they merely did not recognize the potential scope of the problem at hand.
It helps a lot if you have syntax highlighting for markdown in your editor.

I've written my share of bare HTML... I did it that for 10+ years somewhat infrequently. I started a blog and used markdown and now I'm happy. HTML would have been worse for writing frequently IMO. It's annoying to type and annoying to read.

One thing that is annoying is that hyperlinks tend to take up a really long line, more than 80 characters. You can't have a space after <a href=""> or before </a>, because that affects the appearance.
There were versions of windows, 2000 if not XP, that could and would get infected in-between the time the network stack initialized and the local software firewall initialized a second or two later. This was actually addressed and fixed, because it was not a unique experience. That's how pervasive and wild the exploit network traffic was before MS got their act together.

Edit: My google-fu is failing me, and I can't find the right keywords to find a reference to this, but I distinctly remember it. Back in the days when firewalls weren't quite as pervasive, and especially not for small colo deployments.
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You seem to miss the idea of Markdown.

In its original form it was simply an aid to get static html from human readable text (<- that there is the basis for md).

For better or worse, it's been forked a few times, adding new abilities or even in efforts to make it stricter. The main idea of readability still applies. I could hand over a markdown formatted txt file to someone and they'd probably read it just fine, whether they could code or not. Html in plain-text form, though? Not sure that would work.

It has quirks, but the whole I really like it. I've used it for writing guides, taking notes... Maybe even for web content at some point.
Personal assistant bot, Yes. Another useless chatbot, big NO. Nice and clean app, good luck.
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And that's why you can't help people unless they are ready to be helped. Because if you do it before, they will hate you or even fire you (only in US?).
>It's going to be interesting when companies don't even have to pretend to be subservient to the government anymore.

There are many places where that has been happening for over a century...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
It's weird to see all the people here complaining about how the article is about the market cap, when that's not only what the article is about.

Sure, the market cap is interesting, but this is an interesting article because it makes a compelling case that a $400B company is cheap even when Walmart outsells it and FedEx out delivers.

It was only a few years ago people complained about how Amazon didn't make any profits because they would reinvest them all in growth, and how that was impossible to sustain that.

They were right, but not in the way they thought. It does seem to be impossible to keep investing all the profits in growth - they are just making too much!

So, it's the combination of this growth AND the market cap that is unprecedented. No one can tell if it is overvalued, but complaining about talking about the Cap is missing a pretty amazing story.
Will they leave later, just like in China?
Hi @tsumnia you can't use GitPitch to create animated graphics. There are lots of other tools for that. However you can use animated gifs within a GitPitch presentation, read about background images on the Image Slides page in the Wiki:

https://github.com/gitpitch/gitpitch/wiki/Image-Slides

Or if you have a series of images that combined present some kind of animation or workflow you can use those images as an animation sequence as described by Image Animation in the Wiki:

https://github.com/gitpitch/gitpitch/wiki/Image-Animations-W...

Here is a link to a sample presentation that makes use of this feature:

https://gitpitch.com/gitpitch/microservices-architecture

Do keep in mind, GitPitch is not trying to offer everything PowerPoint is capable of. Far from it. But it is trying to offer just enough, in a lot of use cases. But perhaps not yours.
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The problem is in your algorithm/code not the computer.
This is probably the single best way to reduce rape in India as well. I remember in one Indian tv serial episode, the plot was a woman who refused to marry a man (in a village) until he got indoor plumbing in the house so she didn't have to go to a field at night to use the bathroom.

India was one of the first countries in the world to emphasize regular bathing -- this was thousands of years ago, even the kings among the Europeans started bathing daily fewer than 300 years ago. We need to get hygiene country-wide to the world standards it created.
https://www.objc.io/issues/22-scale/ has some nice articles.
Is this another cloud based assistant or one I can install and run locally?
>In my experience, the quality of Amazon is average at best.

Compared to what?

What e-shop has at least same level web experience, same level delivery, same level customer service, same breadth, same trust, etc, all together?

And don't mention some niche web store that sells like 1 item to enthusiasts, where the owner personally mails the products...
We will never know the answer to your assertion until more than 1% of the OS market is open source.
Looks like the vaginal canal is no longer a limiting factor. C-Sections are having a measurable impact on this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38210837
I recently did a test with a huge ( 200M MAU ) consumer company for a developer role ( back-end ), and the first test was extremely challenging. It wasn't algorithms per se, but maths. To solve this, you had to understand counting ( N choose K ) but to a level such that the way to solve these particular problems really only emerged in a paper a decade or so ago. So you had to go look up a paper, and implement. None of this was specified, I just had to figure it out. Another question also involved looking up a paper ( tho it probably could have been done another way as well ), and the easiest question was a relatively basic programming question. It was hard to see a rationale that linked the questions together, and linked the test to the role, but at least you could be sure that if people got through they were pretty clever and capable.
>Amazon does have brick and mortar stores - both bookstores and Amazon Go.

And both are totally irrelevant to their operation, and a decimal point in their revenue. They could close them tomorrow and nobody would care.

Whereas for Walmart their stores are essential to their operation.
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The irony is, for an industry based on trust, if this abuse is not penalized, then the industry as a whole is pointless.
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> United Airlines will offer up to $10,000 when a traveler voluntarily gives up a seat on an oversold flight

> Stop forcing passengers already seated to give up their seats, except for safety or security reasons.

It is extremely frustrating to see people keep conflating removal from an aircraft one has legitimately boarded and denial of boarding, especially given that there's a significant legal distinction between the two, both in governing law and in contracts of carriage.