skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had several requests for MultiMarkdown support (http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/features/), is PHP Markdown Extra similar to that? I believe MMD supports tables.

Either way, yes, I plan on adding more rendering options for sure.
Ah... that does work! Thanks.

It also led me to my other issue with Spotlight - it can and will update it's list of found items, even changing which item is selected.

I've experienced this race condition quite frequently, and it's very annoying to have the right thing selected, then Spotlight swaps it out from under you and you've just opened something else.

QS doesn't have this problem, as it only changes the search results after receiving user input.
That's basically challenging your boss to find you more work.
Is he.net bad for just a colo'd rack, rather than VPSs?
Kubuntu - been using it since I moved to GNU/Linux - but on my netbooks still can't decide between Lubuntu, Xubuntu, or the big K - I'm running lubuntu as a trial, its still young and stroppy but hey I get to edit its text config files.

I earn my beer vouchers from what I do with the apps running in VM's (VirutalBox 4 me), when working full on I'll have 3 VM's running chatting to each other and out to the networks, but normally just have one or two up. Using VM's had been the biggest boost - I can shag around with the various OS's - a clean install, install vbox hook up to my existing disk images and I'm up and working - can be up and running in 30 mins from a clean install.

I keep saying it - many thanks to all the fine folk that put together the various distributions - u add the spice to working life.
"On a small scale, a classic yields significantly different meanings when read in different circumstances and moods; on a larger scale, a classic conveys wholly different worlds when read in different times of life, at different stages of experience, feeling, and understanding of life. Classics may be interesting and even entertaining, but people always find they are not like books used for diversion, which give up all of their content at once - the classics seem to grow wiser as we grow wiser, more useful the more we use them." - Thomas Cleary
Yep and sites like this get the back button treatment if they're public sites, but you don't know about it until you start working there when it's intranet crud.
My point is that it's very easy to do this, but that no real users of Debian want it enough to begin doing it.
I like silent bans. They seem like the appropriate response to real spam. If you give spammers a clear indication that they are blocked then they can immediately start trying a different attack. By removing that indicator then the spammers even know they need to start trying something new. It makes the whole process muddy for them and generally slows down the whole spam "cold war arms race".

It does suck more to be hit with a false positive since you might not notice it right away. But I think overall the system is good. It speaks to my inner passive aggressive. :-)
I support the idea!
Buz please change the name. Being proud of what you do and giving an appropriate name is underrated.
It is about pushing limits with a home computer. The processor itself was a 12 core Xeon processor, but all of the storage required - both RAM and disk is quite impressive.

I am working on a similar brute-force analysis, but I have access to a datacenter with many machines. Not so impressive.
I find it easier to get into the zone after morning exercise.
Because having an options menu is "clutter".
Pretty much sums it up.

(for non-Brit HNers not aware of the NHS-IT project reference, the not-so-thrift previous Government launched various IT projects to 'improve' the NHS, such as http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15014288 which cost £11bn, took 9+ years and was a big failure overall... mind you, they did create IT projects since they thought they sounded 'sexy' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12905303 - so I guess it's little wonder the main NHS-IT project failed)
If you are MIT/Stanford/UCB and you are worried that you have to teach an industrially useful language because the students need it to get jobs - then you should close down and send them to Pheonix or ITT-Tech

My understanding was that MIT switched to python because in later courses they could actually use it to get things done (robotics, image proc, etc).
While if they taught scheme they had to at the end of the course pretty much say: well that was fun, now we have to teach you something useful to get the rest of the course done.
I get what you're saying and I'm sorry if I was snarky. On the subject of politeness, I myself don't enjoy reading posts titled "Facebook privacy fuckup" at 5am on a Sunday.

Please also remember that not every report actually pans out. I can't say we should have prevented this because I don't yet know if there is something to prevent. It now appears that the behavior the OP is calling a "fuckup" happened after he confirmed ownership of the phone number. This might change things a bit.

Preventing harm is our responsibility. But if you happen to find an open door, or what might look like an open door, it's more helpful to get all the facts first, report to the vendor, and disclose later if you think the reporting process is unsatisfactory.

For instance, if you have not heard a response from /whitehat, please email me and I will see what I can find out. Or disclose it. I can't stop you.

When it comes to the rules of disclosure, I'm well aware that where you stand depends on where you sit, but I personally think these kinds of firedrills aren't the right way to do it.
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"You seem to be arguing against something I didn't say. I'm not arguing whether paying 5 guys to dig 5 holes is a good or bad way to create jobs; only that it does,"

No, I explained why that doesn't produce jobs. It wastes money. A real job is a net value to society. It is a pervasive error that many people make to focus on jobs; it is a terrible, terrible way to understand how an economy works.

"if the government goes and decides to redistribute wealth from rich to poor"

And fundamentally, I explained why this doesn't work either, though there's a bit of logic still needed. Money isn't the problem. The government can just print as much money as it wants anyhow. You need to deeply understand why that doesn't actually do anything positive, and then you'll understand why the whole "just take it from the rich" won't work either. It's exactly the same move in the end.

"where, exactly, should a person who spent their life as a cashier at Safeway, is now in their 40s or 50s and has no real skills look to find work today"

They need to work out how to do things that people want. If that sounds glib, it's only glib in the sense that most truths sound glib when phrased sufficiently succinctly. As long as people want things and there is a differential advantage to be found, there's something you can do to make some sort of money.

As for the possibility they may be paid less, yes, that's true. It's not me you should be turning to for an explanation (or an implicit charge that if I can't come up with a perfect solution it's somehow my fault), I didn't create this situation. You're going to have to talk to reality about that. But this doesn't create joblessness, it creates lower-paid jobs, and I don't think that the situation is either permanent, or the explanation for today's unemployment rate. This is indeed a problem, but it's the future's problem. Today's unemployment problem is bad policy, not excessive efficiency.

What the "efficiency is killing jobs today!" argument really comes down to is that it is a dodge by those who promoted the bad policies to blame something other than their bad policies for the unemployment, and by those who have flawed ideas about how jobs create the economy rather than the economy creating jobs. It's false, and we would all be better served by seeing the relevant policies as bad and correcting our understanding of how economies work, not be accepting excuses.
"no, designers don't need engineers. a project needs engineers just as a project needs designers."

This.
Terrific initiative. I'm glad that there are technologists out there who commit to actual social change.
This book will never get dated. There are fundamental lessons here to be learned through these stories that will affect all facets of life.

I am a believer that startups don't have to be hard or life consuming, and that organization and understanding of common pitfalls in the development cycle can really reduce stress. Kayak is an example of such success, a startups with strict 9-5 philosophy.

I highly recommend this book to anyone serious about developing software or working on any sort of projects.
I said they were similar in "mindset and outlook". Would Silicon Valley hesitate to cause humanitarian crises in the name of profit? What if those crises were very only indirectly linked to their behaviour?

What if Silicon Valley discovered today that they were putting millions of low-skill Americans irreparably out of work. Would this motivate them to modify their libertarian ideology, or lobby for free educations for the poor?
Lots of colleges have early admission. I met all the qualifications to go to college after my junior year of high school, without a HS diploma, but I didn't find that out until my Senior year.

Was pretty pissed off at my guidance counselor for not telling me!
OP should look at this thread. Relevant and very interesting about CS/EE salaries.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141716
Hey Arkitaip, thanks for that review!
So, in order:
* yes thanks, we had "keep it simple" in mind ;)

* 2 and * 3: the left side shows your different matchs' ratings (what they've liked, what they haven't). The right side shows a reorganized summary of all the movies liked by the 30 people whose tastes best match yours. It's all explained when you hover your cursor over the top of that column ;)

* Yes, we've thought about that. I can't tell yet if we're going to work on that soon or not; it would be pretty easy since we've crawled the profiles already, but that's kind of unfair to the other websites, it feels like we'd be stealing profiles - whereas right now, we only reference them.

* 'You both rated' helps you have a quick glance at how well you and the person in question have in common. We've tried without it, and quite frankly, it's better with; juste to know on what kind of movies you both match. The number in parenthesis is the total number of movies in common with similar ratings.

* ^^

* Woopsie! We'll fix that asap!

* Yeah, it's not the first time we're told the Recommendation Summary shows some mainstream movies. Well that's because they've liked a lot, so pragmatically, we HAVE to recommend them; and if you liked/hated them, rate them away!

HOWEVER please note, we're only weeks away from an update that will allow you to hide Mainstream recommendation in a single click, so please be patient!

Thanks again for that full review! And don't forget: the more you rate, the better the accuracy.
> lighter than air objects tend to have more wind resistance than heavier than air objects.

They have a larger cross-section relative to their mass than heavier than air vehicles. The larger the cross-section, the larger the force wind exerts on it.
Well to be clear, this post is examining Budget VPS's (aka "Low End Boxes"), ie <$10/m.

You can use LEB's to get a good geo-spread if you need to do network topography examination, ping/traceroute/looking-glass from multiple nodes, etc.

If you are hosting media, not sure a LEB is the right choice for you.
Jon Wiley, lead designer for Google Search, made an interesting talk about the recent Google redesign: http://vimeo.com/29965463 ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146709 ).

I found out about the other UX Week 2011 videos by following a link to this talk on twitter :)
I think "Don't be evil" is a slogan of tech employees, not tech entrepreneurs.

I single out Hacker News as being psychologically different from normal software engineers. The focus on Hacker News is money, and many people here see profit as inherently virtuous. Social darwinism, eugenics, authoritarianism, and other extreme right political views are overrepresented on Hacker News, and given surprising amounts of leeway considering the swiftness with which other views are scrubbed away here.
> We need the governments from around the world to intervene in the global economy and make things more inefficient.

What. The. Fuck? Is he seriously proposing we reduce the efficiency of human work? That would be one of the worst solution ever suggested, pure Luddism.

OK, efficiency currently is vastly misused. But at the core, efficiency mostly reduce the need for mandatory work. Even slavers wouldn't relinquish that (they would have to manage more slaves).

Now, if we drive this to the point where no work is mandatory any more, then why should we refuse "communism"? Just split the wealth and be done with it! You don't have to work for it! Want to work anyway? As you wish, but don't think it will entitle you to more wealth (or at least, to deprive others of any wealth).

This is really obvious in hindsight. Just remember that most human labour is a source of suffering that we should get rid of if we can, and that work is a moral obligation only to the extent that it is a need.
When great design depends on great engineering to work its magic, as you see with Apple products like their touch interfaces or, heck, even their lovely lovely desktop keyboards, then design needs technology, or, put another way, designers need engineers. It's English, don't read more into it than it says :-)
Just speculating, but silence seems like the right behavior for dealing with spam submissions. If you tell spammers when you reject their posts, they'll just start working on spams that are harder to filter.
Wow ? Why so much anger ?

Anyway, I think you're wrong. I do know the law in France and Europe. And since I live in France, I have a contract with Facebook Ireland. Not Facebook US. So it's the Irish law that is the appropriate law. I don't know the details of Irish law in that matter. So your Argumentum ad nauseam saying I should know the law could have been correct... (if not excessive and irrespective) but since Ireland is part of the European Union... I do not need to go seek the exact Irish law. Directive 95/46/CE is there to unify the European law on that subject.

See by yourself :

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...

"SECTION I
PRINCIPLES RELATING TO DATA QUALITY
Article 6
1. Member States shall provide that personal data must be:
(a) processed fairly and lawfully;
(b) collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a way incompatible with those purposes. Further processing of data for historical, statistical or scientific purposes shall not be considered as incompatible provided that Member States provide appropriate safeguards;
(c) adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which they are collected and/or further processed;
(d) accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that data which are inaccurate or incomplete, having regard to the purposes for which they were collected or for which they are further processed, are erased or rectified;
(e) kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the data were collected or for which they are further processed. Member States shall lay down appropriate safeguards for personal data stored for longer periods for historical, statistical or scientific use."

Do you think what Facebook Ireland is doing, yes because Facebook Ireland offers the EXACT same service than Facebook US, respects the law in Ireland ?

Then you should know that it's the everyone's right to ponder about the due respect of law without having to file a formal complaint and start a trial. Otherwise, journalists would have to sue half the world. By the way suing costs money that I don't have. So if the only ones that can complain about some problems in a company policy, are the ones that have the money to sue the company... we're in a sad society. I think that's the moment when an American starts complaining about socialism in Europe.
Social Security and friends in the US are approximately 7.5% deduction from an employees "advertised" income, plus about the same on top of (called the "employer's portion") that is not advertised as part of the salary. It is a bizarre format.
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Funny, I call what I drink "rocket fuel" too, but it consists of acceptable coffee, muscle milk (it could be whey protein), and dextrose. It's part of a pro-brain diet.
Seems like a lot of industries are like this. They're too focused on things people don't care about, and haven't woken up to the fact that consumers now have much stronger voices when it comes to poor UX. With increased transparency and faster feedback loops comes a greater emphasis on features people actually care about.

Banking is another example, hence BankSimple. A decent web UI/experience will get them more brand loyalty than a TV ad with ponies. This logic applies across all traditional industry verticals.
There is also nothing for Google in such a move. They already have GTalk, complete with audio & video.
I'm remembering this thread, for what it's worth:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2021547
Increasing the money supply devalues the currency even if that's not the intended goal; that is basic economics.
Heh, the performance comparison linked to in that article is kinda worthless since it leaves out RapidXen, one of the largest bare bones VPS providers.
Another +1 for Linode. I especially enjoy their DNS management which is included in the price (many providers don't offer/charge more for). They use each of their datacenter presences to redundantly host the DNS zones, so my domains have 5 name servers to fall back on across USA + Europe.

Shh, don't tell them, but given the'll host unlimited domain zone files I even use it to manage a few extra domains that have no zone entries pointing to a linode VPS. They don't seem to check/mind.
Software Defined Networking comes of age
I used to develop on a mac at work, and started using ubuntu after I had to give it back. Ubuntu is still very buggy (atleast for the HP HDX I have). Wireless and sound drivers are randomly not recognized and the battery indicator has issues. During a hackathon once, Ubuntu completely just gave up (refused to connect to the internet even though all the cards were recognized and I had to reinstall the entire OS to make it work).

This whole 6 week experience left me running back to windows.
No, if the value of the move to Apple would be at best non-existent and at worst negative, which you've just agreed is a strong possibility, there's little to nothing for Apple in such a move.

Apple does not care about metcalfe's law in fine, their goal is not to convert the world to Facetime and iMessage but to use those to drive users to iOS. Network effects play a role in this, but by letting Google build iMessages and Facetime into Android (if Google was even interested in doing such a thing, which they probably wouldn't) they'd only lower the value proposition of iOS: now you can chat with your facetime-enabled iOS-sporting friends without buying and iOS device, meaning you have one less reason to buy an iOS device.
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I've been using Linode for a couple of years now and I love 'em.
When I was a kid, I'd heard of the "Mythical Man Month", but I thought it was some kind of dodecannual periodical about (or for) mythical men.
The very first iPod was sort of stupid though.

Firewire only.
First generation did not sync with Windows, though a later revision made it work using Music Match, which was an awful program to use.

Eventually we get a USB cable, but it cannot be used for charging, data transfer only.

It wasn't until 2003-2004 that the iPod actually became something most people could use.
Yes, that is the whole point of markdown. However, a good markdown editor will provide syntax highlighting, keyboard shortcuts, time stamps, etc.

The split view is nice because you can visualize the final product, but it is the least of the features offered by a good markdown editor. I personally use Aptana (since I use it for other stuff), but I have Markdown installed on my computer too. It is an excellent markdown editor.
Surprised to find no mention of Caffeine !!
I skipped class in college to watch the iPod introduction. I first thought all Apple did was make me want an MP3 player for the first time: I asked for and got some Rio player for Christmas because it was cheaper than the iPod and really, what could the difference really be? The Rio was terrible in so many ways and the next year I got a real iPod and haven't made the same mistake again. Turned out that I didn't want an MP3 player, I wanted an iPod. Later, I didn't want a Smartphone, I wanted an iPhone.

I still have an iPod Classic to hold my whole music library and most of my audiobook collection. There's still something to be said for being able to hear any song I own at any time[1], which still requires a hard drive for me.

[1]I suppose if I signed up for iTunes Match I could do this with my iPhone today without a hard drive.
Actually, if someone is an "at-will" employee in the U.S. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment), you don't need any reason at all to fire him. Certainly gross insubordination (such as refusing to do a job when asked) is something that people are fired for all the time. Paper trails are useful when the employee is a member of a protected class and could allege in a law suit that they were fired because they were a minority, pregnant, over 40, etc. But that doesn't seem to apply to the original poster's situation.
Well the VPS's are running on colo'd racks (and thus you're probably 2 or 3 steps of escalation further away from the DC operator).

Hurricane Electric in Fremont has had issues with power and previously with wide-scale IP block blacklisting due to widespread illegality (bot nets, etc) running on equipment in their Datacenter.

It might be fine now, I'm not sure, but there's a ton of DC's out there where this has NEVER been a problem, so I fail to see why I'd want to stick my assets there.
After a few rates I saw "Rate NaN movies". Not good. Then it wasn't clear that I had to click on "deegr circle" to find others that matched me. Finally, I don't think that half stars add any value. Keep it simple.
I like it!

I actually found a new movie that related to the ratings I supplied, nor have I seen it before, good stuff.

Here are some thoughts:

1. I've feed Netflix a lot of my data over the years. A link from each movie to a Netflix result would show how Netflix rates it related to me. Maybe you don't want to push people to Netflix, but it's useful information to me.

2. I don't really care about the "people" I care about the movies. As I click through the results I see a lot of duplicate movies under different people. Remove or leave the people category, I don't care, but strip away the duplicate results...

All in all I find it useful.
This is great, but in spending about 10 minutes on it I only see movies I've already seen - almost every film I came across in those 10 minutes is not new to me and I lost interest. With 100 years of film history to watch, thousands of indie films, foreign films - I want to know what is highly recommended of something more obscure that is worth my time to find. I guess this is just a start for you, it works well otherwise and I'll check back a later time to see if it works well for books also (I know less about good books than movies so maybe this will be more interesting for me).
No mention of the chair? Heresy. I'd say it was easily the most important thing I bought (after the laptop). I can live with cheap headphones.