skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Org-mode is awesome.

- supported in GitHub: README.org

- ipython integration allows full code execution to generate inline plots by executing the code in the document.

- many other features too numerous to mention; it’s the truly ancient granddaddy of markup, developed over decades.
Org mode handles footnotes:

some text [fn:1]

[fn:1] this is where the footnote text goes

The one thing that I find weird is that if you convert to HTML using pandoc, those appear after an <hr>, but in the org mode itself, they'll appear as children of the previous sub-heading.
Sorry, forgot the '/s'. :)
Heh, exactly the opposite here - In Markdown I can never remember which one one gets square brackets and which one gets parens.
Really? My recollection is that Gmail was substantially different in the extent to which it was an in-browser Javascript app built around server-side data requests. That's in contrast to something where applications were a series of mostly-static pages.

At the time this change was known as AJAX, and GMail is listed as a pioneer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)

Squirrelmail, by contrast, rendered a new page for most user actions. Especially the viewing of messages.
No, I donated the Casper to a friend when I moved.
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/dp2008-03.pdf

Picture's still the same.
That doesn't really fix any security issues, though, it just makes it easier to express who should have permission to access your data. Any system is still vulnerable with, say, a server configured with the credentials admin:admin.
Yes, so it's pointless for the author to say that a problem with Web Apps is that they're slower than native apps. It's redundant now days and a well designed web app using modern techniques should not feel any slower to an end user than a desktop app, in fact with the advanced rendering engines within modern web browsers they can feel more responsive and more usable than native.
Thank you, that was a shallow article.
The way I remember [] before () is that [] is "basic" and square and () is "refined" and curvy. Seems silly but it helps me.
Third paragraph, scraping, not scrubbing.
> The security gain comes from replacing the full capability of the database ("run code on your local machine") with the smaller, whitelisted set of capabilities defined in the stored procedure.

The security gain is that it you are only able to run queries that the DBA allows you to. If you can't write arbitrary queries, you won't get arbitrary results. If you can only run a stored procedure, you are abstracted away from those side effects. Another way of saying this -- the security risk is shifted from the app developer to the DBA. Someone is still writing a query (or procedure code), so there will always be some risk.
> a link directly to the page that would let me make changes to the reservation, with no security barrier at all.

This is most likely intentional.

Most business travel gets booked by assistants / travel agencies / client reps / etc. They are going to use their own account when booking tickets, and then forward reservations or boarding passes to the actual passenger. That passenger then wants to for example reschedule in a hurry when a meeting overruns, or change seats or meal choice without having to explain their seating preferences over the phone (is 25C still available? No? Then get 27A).

Security wise it would be better to have some sort of delegated permissions system, where the travel agent can add email addresses who are allowed to access the booking, you then have to create an account with the airline and prove that you own that email... but I don't see the airlines pissing off their most profitable customer segment with extra hassle to add protection against misforwarded emails.
You shouldn't need to manually deal with links anyway. In Emacs you should be able to use C-c C-l (org-insert-link) to get a prompt for the link and the description which will then be converted to org-format for you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15321438
<And to be clear, based on this work alone, AI can’t tell whether someone is gay or straight from a photo.>

What can i say?
What's the state of the art with library implementations of org-mode? I feel like I looked into this years ago, but I don't have my notes in front of me.

The only way I've used org-mode is the canonical Emacs implementation, which (at the time) was reason enough for some people to take up learning Emacs.
It doesn't sound like we disagree?
>create a business that makes 5k usd per month

Ok, cool. How many people who legitimately set out to do that, actually accomplish that?

>save 3k per month and invest it in ETFs, and you will have 1.5m by age 38

Ok, so if i'm making 5k USD per month, 1k goes to tax, and 1k as you say goes to living, now I'm just barely at 3k. 20 years ago, the market was at a relative nadir. Today it is at an apex, so you will need to time it correctly to achieve 7% yearly gains (!), of which 2% will be lost to inflation.

Given that 0.7% of the world are millionaires, and just 4-5% of the USA are millionaires, I have a sneaking suspicion that it is not so easy to just set up this business and invest everything for 20 years, willy nilly, hey ho presto I'm a millionaire.

Thesd numbers are further compounded by the fact that most money in this country is "old money", which means that those who are rich currently inherited their wealth rather than built a business that generated this wealth for them.

So forgive me if I am a bit skeptical, but I really don't like to see business advice overly simplified so that people will risk their time effort and money to succeed, when failure rates are actually extremely high.

Day trading has a 95% chance of failure. A business has 90%.

If you don't have a product, a team, a funding runway, and aloof competition... then you are going to lose all of your money as an 18 year old startup founder.
Thanks for the details.

> The conception of the idea was Tuesday. The next thing I knew it was Saturday.

That's amazing! You turned your idea into an MVP in 5 days. Very impressive.
BEST LIGHTING FOR YOUTUBE VIDEOS – Xit Lighting Kit Review
The purpose of the written word is to help you think the concept.

You can read faster if can see the wordand think the concept rather than mentally sounding it out:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

did you really vocalize each letter, or did you just think the concept, "alphabet"?

alphabetically

rather than "al-fu-beh-ti-cully" just the concept of "a-z order".

You can also see groups of words at a time:

The end of the road

and think the concept instead of thinking each syllable.
"We show how third-party web trackers can deanonymize users of cryptocurrencies. We present two distinct but complementary attacks."

- "When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies", https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04748
> warns that facial recognition will soon be able to identify not only someone’s sexual orientation, but their political views, criminality, and even their IQ. With statements like these, some worry we’re reviving an old belief with a bad history: that you can intuit character from appearance. This pseudoscience, physiognomy, was fuel for the scientific racism of the 19th and 20th centuries, and gave moral cover to some of humanity’s worst impulses: to demonize, condemn, and exterminate fellow humans.
I like Org-mode, but I thought the criticism against Markdown for having so many different versions was short-sighted. I'm very much reminded of this famous XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/

The reason Markdown has so many versions is because it's been so successful and is used by so many different tools and in many different contexts. I guarantee if Org-mode became a "standard" markup language outside of Emacs that it, too, would sprout different versions.
I bought a Nest, and the “return” process was anything but painless. You have to donate the mattress to a charity on your own, except the vast majority of charities don’t want used mattresses for public health reasons. Most of the ones that do accept mattresses won’t pick them up. So if you don’t have a truck then you have to figure that part out as well.

Nest finally sent out a guy to pick the mattress up, but after going over it with a Maglite he declared that the side that was touching the bed frame was dirty, and thus the mattress was unreturnable. Complete scam. I eventually wound up paying someone else to take it to a charity, and the charity had no problem with it.

In comparison, my return with Purple was easy and hassle-free. I didn’t like their product, but at least I have faith in the company.
Thinking in TypeScript
org-mode has all the features you mentioned. Following gives you fenced code blocks:

#+begin_src c
printf("%d", 1);
#+end_src

it has both named and unnamed footnotes [1]. You can use '::' in a list item to create a description list, like so:

+ coffee :: a dark, bitter, stimulating beverage
+ tea :: a beverage with effects similar to but milder than coffee
+ beer :: an alcoholic drink made from grains

[1]: http://orgmode.org/manual/Footnotes.html
Only those of very limited imagination would assume that any of three different Homo species are “inferior” to any of the other. Tigers, lions and leopards are all different species of the genus Panthera [0], but nobody says that one is inferior to the other.

Just like the Homo species, different Pathera species can interbreed [1]. The most interesting observation is that it appears that Neanderthals and ancient Africans (we don’t seem to have a good short name for the Homo species that arose in sub-Saharan Africa) follow Haldane’s Rule [2], where only male Neanderthals and female ancient Africans were able to produce fertile offspring [3].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldane%27s_rule

3. http://www.hypothesisjournal.com/?p=932
> If you're not laughing then you need to admit you have a problem)

Recognizing the most repeated joke on HN?
God this is all so ridiculous..

Just license Uber drivers and normal taxi drivers requiring police check, and psych test, refund all taxi plate fees with proceeds of new driver license fees and be done with it.
There's no crediable evedence they had art.
That wasn't my comment..
I'm pretty sure I knew about that at one point, but then forgot -- possibly more than once.

Perhaps a public shaming will help me remember this time.
It's illogical that the Verge article takes it as fact that it's impossible to infer someone's character from photos or videos. If that's true, then the only concerning outcome is that we build and operate software that falsely purports to provide insight.

To me, the worrying outcome is that it is feasible. Before you know it, SAT tests are replaced by photos.

Of course I can think of good applications, such as scanning for terrorists by identifying abnormal signs of stress.
Yeah to echo what zaroth has said, definitely see if you can get on SSDI. It is complex to get a calculated amount, but you deserve the money and I really hope it helps you out.

Additionally I can't remember if I hallucinated it, but a lot of lenders have stopped looking at medical debt! Seriously! I read it in a few different places but I don't have official info for you. Lenders would have nobody to lend to if they considered medical debt.

I once had a psycho hospital misbill me using fake insurance codes and etc for routine work. My insurance company refused to pay because of the codes the hospital billed me for. So I said lol I'm not giving you $800 for a free physical. They screamed and shouted that they'll see me at collections.

Three years later and it never showed up on any of my credit reports. Get you some of that!!
Top security exec made big mistakes--studying music wasn't one of them/
> It's the ideal place for the left to accomplish things.

It's actually an example of the aftermath of decades of government by the left.
Let me introduce you to the Occipital bun [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_bun
Erm, "Mozilla usually pulls such NIH moves to sabotage the introduction or use of languages (even DSLs) other than JS on the web." maybe it is also because their ressources are limited and implementing a new language like dart is somewhat expensive. And NaCL even more I think.

But I actually have some anger as well on them for enforcing indexedDB and killing everything else. So now we have to use f indexedDB for storing things locally. You apparently would have prefered WebSQL, I would have liked FileAPI.

Still, I don't believe it is out of evil attempt, just limited ressources mixed with stubbornness.
"You're not really gay, you're just acting gay for attention - look the AI says you're not gay!"

"I can't believe you're still seeing John! You know he's gay, right? I tested his profile picture - it came back 98%!"

The whole point of the LGBTQ movement was to let people decide for themselves what they are, not to label them based off what society says they ought to be.
The power of a 'not-to-do' list
A hardware wallet like the Ledger Nano S only costs $50 so I would recommend that for people with as little as a fe hundred bucks.

How you choose to protect your back-up seed really depends on the amount of value you are protecting. Writing it on paper and storing it in a fire proof safe or safe deposit box might be good enough.
To clarify, do you mean some subset of TeX, or the same but with some convenient methods from LaTeX, or full TeX, or the same but with some LaTeX, or just full blown LaTeX?

Note that all of these were designed for stand-alone static documents.
> With statements like these, some worry we’re reviving an old belief with a bad history: that you can intuit character from appearance. This pseudoscience, physiognomy

If it actually works, it's not pseudoscience, it's just science. (Assuming you don't understate the variance in generated intelligence/sexuality/whatever distributions.)
They may not be your ancestors (if you are solely of sub-saharan decent), but they are most definitely the ancestors of most people on the planet including mine.

Racism only enters the picture if we assume one Homo species is “superior” to any of the others, something for which we have no evidence. Different !== worse.
Markdown/org-mode is a poor man WYSIWYG I would say.

You can easily say "this line is kind of header" but it is not human readable as it all happens inside source code editor having monospaced fonts like in this very widget I am typing the message on HN site.

Plain text blocks is plain pain in markdowns. Web platform has no concept of tabs - counting whitespaces for each line... And tables ... like 20 years ago we were doing with pseudo-graphic symbols - formatting nightmare.

That's why I've introduced "magic sequences" : https://notes.sciter.com/2017/09/09/magic-sequences-a-la-mar... - the best of two worlds - WYSIWYG but with Markdown typing twist.
I'm male. Next time at the gym showers I'll identify as a female, for about an hour. No problem, right.
I don't see a transcript anywhere, but here is the full hearing (I just googled the quote and found a link in another article)

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/9/comm...
People forget how much more free time and freedom there is at college. Yes, there are deadlines and schedules but you’re given opportunities that the usual 40 hr/wk job won’t afford. You could take student loans out to buy yourself dumb things, for sure, but you can also take student loans out for really good things, too. The rest of your life that won’t so easily be the case. I would love to have the time flexibility I had at college now that I’m “in the industry”.
Why would you want to own a movie? Does it change your viewing experience?
So weird. I also learned C in college, but Python I love and use exclusively from the command line; I'd choose to write GUI code in almost anything else.

But your central argument is right, that UI stuff is ignored in non-web languages at the expense of "core" concepts, and that in turn probably does lead to insecurity.

The reality is, it's historically been hard enough to find decent coders without worrying about myriad security concerns too.
Address reuse is optional. But a paper wallet is normally just a receiver.
I think having separate browsers for web documents and web apps could solve half of the issues.
To expand on that, LaTeX is to TeX what Unix is to shells scripts.

Oh and if you don't include at least some LaTeX then anyone used to LaTeX (which is pretty much everyone using TeX) will be annoyed.
It's a major can of worms. If any of these classifiers work well on intelligence, orientation, character, capabilities, it might give scientific backing to some horrible practices like eugenics, abortions/extermination of undesirables etc. This is a truly horrifying scenario, an ultimate black pill and humanity will need to confront it soon it seems.
It is a triumph of programming ingenuity that programmers have been able to accomplish almost anything via a "web browser".

Anyone can argue the benefits. If if there were few benefits the novelty alone might be enough.

But does anyone ever consider the costs?

The analysis I have in mind is: costs versus benefits of using a web browser to do x, where x is anything and everything, no matter how important.

The "costs" are not costs to the programmer to implement but costs to users, e.g., risk of having their personal data stolen.

To give an example, weigh the benefit to Equifax customers in having their data accessible through a web browser versus the cost of having their data exfiltrated without their consent.

Or, weigh the "cost" of having to dial a toll-free number to order a credit report and not have one's data stolen online versus the "benefit" of being able to order a credit report with a web browser and having that data stolen online.

Websites can be used to effectively disseminate public information, with relatively little security risk. For example, djb's tcpserver and httpd to serve static web pages. In continuous use since the 1990's, these have never had any security issues to my knowledge. IMO, this level of software is qualitatively different than software which is released with security flaws, which may or may not be later fixed (sometimes decades later).

IMO, using the web to distribute public information is a benefit that outweighs the costs. I am not worried about static websites, assuming the right software choices are made.

The blog post acknowledges this: "The web has issues as a way of distributing documents too, but not severe enough to worry about."

If Equifax had a static page served by djb's httpd showing number to call to order a credit report, I would be far more impressed than if they were running a "web app" to take orders online that connected to some backend database of user data. Because for that specific use case, a very limited use of the web is the smart thing to do.

I would like to see more people opining that, for "serious uses" i.e., where the risks to the user are potentially serious, the web has limited utility.

The current thinking seems to be that the web has unlimited utility. For everything. We all know that with enough effort the "web browser" can be used to accomplish almost anything.

I remember an RFC many years ago from Marshall Rose that said something like "the web is the new waist". I also remember in the early 1990's, people were afraid to send credit card information via web forms.

"Unlimited utility". Today, many young people, including many programmers, see no difference between internet and web. They are synonymous.

"Unlimited utility". Maybe utility should be weighed against costs such as security risks.

IMO, the web has limited utility.

Would you sacrafice a little convenience, e.g. option to order a credit report online, if it meant your data was not part of the data stolen from Equifax? I would.
Is this somewhat of a tautology, though? I mean, it's not particularly uncommon for a patient to be undetectable on HAART and then have their treatment regimen "fail" at a later date (often because of lack of strict compliance by the patient - not sure if this is much less common today with easier-to-follow regimens).

Thus, if someone is undetectable but then their treatment fails, they would become detectable and able to transmit the virus. But they could still infect someone else before they discovered their treatment failed.
DC has funny issues likely shared with some other locales. The traffic is so bad people do not want to show up. People move 30 miles away for square foot dreams appropriate to where they grew up and then hate getting to work. Then many dimmer lights here enjoy well paid, easy and even secure event planning or influence peddling jobs. DC political giveaway and pecking order jobs are attractive temptations for entrepreneurs comparing notes and dating. Then add limelight fears vs. friends working well behind walls.

I tried to explain during onboarding that we were not providing public school teacher security and summers off with "tech industry" upside. It did not matter. Expectations were driven by friends and family narratives. Everyone borrowed like consumers, even dabbled in tech day trading and panicked at every industry downturn.

Entrepreneurs must have the operative networks to "front run and flip businesses" or be money savers with real wills to endure as an operational team. Sony failed first making ironing board covers. The team kept going together. I learned enough working for Bill Wynn and Mark Pincus. People not so lucky must read some business case history and biographies. Those are not long or hard reads. Otherwise people are infected with the wrong expectations.

Student debt is a giant depressing obstacle. I am considering registering a religion so "friars" can defer their student loans operating small scale operations together, rotating roles, cost accounting, scheduling, writing contracts for fulfillment and finding sound counsel advisors. Business formation must put process refinement, team building and network growing front and center. It has to be functional, information rich and mostly fun all by itself.

No waves of pens solve these problems deep within motivational structures and widely disparate comparisons between possible futures.
Probably not a helpful tangent of the debate.
I didn’t even make it that far. He lost me at telling people to skip college and go to a coding boot camp. You might know how to code, but someone with a degree will have a little more analytical breadth and depth from math, CS, and even writing/communication courses.
And can anyone still read all that Perl? I used to speak Perl but I know I'd be far better able to understand some C I'd written 20 years ago than any of the Perl I did back then.
The old implementations are going away a lot faster than any greenfield environment can totally replace the browser.
I just recently bought a Purple pillow. Good god, I love this thing! I've tried every kind of pillow to help alleviate my neck pain and sweating and while some got pretty good at eliminating the sweatiness, none did squat for my constant neck pain...until the Purple pillow.

The only issue (and it's a very slight one at that) is the weight of this pillow. I think the shipment said it was just shy of 10lbs. The best way I can think of to describe this pillow is that it's like a sack full of ass fat.
How do you assign the trust level?

The ease in duplicating a wallet beforehand (or even having a computer setup to dump it) points towards high trust for me.
It’s time to kill t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶e̶b̶ rants with little substance on medium platform.
> First of all, men's access to vasectomy procedures was a key tenet of your argument as to why it's unfair to women.

No, it was not. I mentioned it in passing. There is no analogue in male health care.

> but you ignore that men have no government subsidized reproductive health care either.

This isn't even about subsidization. The defunding of Planned Parenthood is just insult to he injury of making affordable women's clinics essentially impossible to operate in many places in the US.