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> Code just requires "pre." at the start of the first line of code,

The last time I tried Textile, the "pre." prefix didn't produce the desired effect. But maybe that was a problem with that particular website's CSS. Thanks for correcting me there.

> Markdown can feel limited in its access to readable HTML style indicators.

Fair point. Textile seems to be optimized for producing styled HTML, whereas Markdown tries very hard to make the user forget about the fact that they're using a markup language at all. Even its name suggests that it's meant to be an anti-markup-language markup language.

For example, if you use "pre." in Textile, you're saying that the text should appear exactly as entered (because HTML ignores whitespace by default). Similarly, class attributes are only meaningful in HTML+CSS. On the other hand, when you indent a code block in Markdown, you're not saying anything about presentation, you're just making the code block look nice in plain text while also making a semantic point that the indented block is computer code. Gruber has consistently vetoed any feature that would make Markdown look less like plain text and more like HTML. You would think it odd if a plain text document contained things like "pre." and "(class)".

This makes it easy to compile Markdown to non-HTML formats like LaTeX and even ODF, which MultiMarkdown does. But I can see how Markdown's obsession with plain-text purity can be a limitation if you're trying to add style to a document that you know will be compiled to HTML.
I have found that people are far more responsive on twitter, but the follow up email (after you have their attention) really needs to be special and RELEVANT.

Often this is a numbers game. Try lots of investors as each are at different stages (some have the readies, some may not be interested in your sector, etc)
Ask HN: Idea for improving email threading
I believe we can all agree that grouping email by thread (à la Gmail, apple mail, etc.) is a great usability improvement; however, I find that all too often a single thread becomes very long, and (due to human laziness) the topic of discussion veers greatly from the subject line. I believe all threaded email readers should implement a command that 'breaks' a thread at any desired point within the thread, so that the emails prior to your 'break' command fall back into their original timeline order and your current topic of discussion can be separated from its full history. Thoughts?
Difficulty in creating an algorithm.

There are ways to get it done algorithmically, however, the challenge is in getting enough data. 30,000 images is too low. you would need a few million, then just simple machine learning algorithms would work.

The latest machine learning techniques such as unsupervised deep learning might work, with millions of unlabeled images and the 30,000 labelled.
Well, without regulation it won't necessarily be the _FUTURE_ interest in selling an organ. As I said, desperation can make a person do crazy things, and there's more to consent whether there's a contract involved and no guns pointed to anyone's head.

And while it creates an incentive to donate organs, it also allows wealthier people to hoard them. Remember that the circumstances which allow the organs of a person to be successfully extracted for transplant are pretty rare[1], they essentially have to die in a hospital of brain death with their organs intact, so even if more people are willing and legally bound, offer may still fail to satisfy demand, only this time it will be mostly a matter of who has more money. And that's not exactly fair.

1. http://www.organtransplants.org/understanding/death/
On the commission thing. one thing that's easy to overlook is that once an author has written the book, there's nothing more to do, in an ongoing day-to-day sense. Sit back and enjoy the royalties for years. Someone else does the selling, and the author's efforts don't scale with the number of sales. The salesperson has to sink effort into each sale, has to work it, or at the very least do the paperwork.

Similarly the author gets royalties on all copies, but the salesperson only gets commission on the books they sell. A thousand books sold by four sales staff is 1000 books for royalty purposes, but only 250 books on average for commission purposes.

There is some slight irony in assuming something is wrong with the number just because they don't appear superficially linearly correct, when criticising the quality of maths books...
IE is doing something stupid?
definitely apio.lo.gy :) i'm picturing a bee themed site with trending APIs
"RadioShack" was "Radio Shack" from 1921 to 1995.
Bandwidth and general cumbersomeness of dealing with larger amounts of data with starving-startup resources. I actually spent about a decade of my career focused on image processing, and while I love it's power, I knew how much of an engineering challenge it can be at massive scale. I need to do a blog post about this, since I know my choice is a bit surprising and needs explanation.
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> * Different resolutions mean having to support different image assets etc (same as Android)

Far's I know, it only requires having different image asserts (@2x, and even that is optional), what's the etc?

> * SDK doesn't have built in support for fluid layouts or as good (but complicated) asset support as Android has

On the other hand, the need is nowhere as dire as on Android given all devices have the same aspect ratio, and there are only two physical sizes (for two well-defined classes of devices)

> * New high resolution/different aspect ratio iOS devices are just around the corner

There's pretty much no way iOS devices with different aspect ratios will be released (or they'll be a completely different line e.g. AppleTV which will not run iPhone/iPad applications).
On the flipside, this also tends to promote group-think and echo-chamber symptoms. It's an interesting thought experiment how to best balance things.
One way I have solved this issue is to look for the Accept header. If no valid formatting options are available in the Accept header look for a query string parameter.

To me this is vital. Being able to explore an api within an browser makes it exponentially easier to understand and use.
Obviously you could write anything on a Twitter feed. People embellish the hell out of their LinkedIn profiles, just like they might a resume.

I don't believe Twitter qualifies as a valuable form of due diligence for an investor. Should Zuckerberg be worried about what Wall Street thinks of his Twitter account? One post in three years probably implies he just isn't with the times.

https://twitter.com/#!/finkd

It's not looking good for Zuck.

You know what's a lot more reliable than me tweeting about Whitney Houston's death? The product I create and show you. Brass tacks. The rest is a superficial sideshow.
Yes, this seems like the angel-investing version of "RTFM", which is reasonable in some situations.
Out of curiosity, why is it that you would prioritize differential and integral calculus? I studied calculus very early myself, but outside of later classwork, I've only found it useful on rare occasions. I surely would have used it more if I had gone into a research job or into material sciences, but I estimate that very, very few careers are like that.

What would have been much more useful for me would have been a stronger grounding in statistics.
All those pesky point versions:

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I'd like to know more about your thoughts on this. In this case the error was simply reputational, which is to say Steve had a high opinion of Holt which was in part based on something that wasn't true.

Now if you were a co-worker's of Holt and passed over for promotion I could see how this would bug you.

If you were an engineer (like Ken the author of this point) you might say "I don't think that is true" and quickly discover that the 'boss' was wrong on this particular point. Depending on how much you cared you might share it with your boss you might not.

If this mistaken belief got out of hand and Steve had directed Apple to sue say Delta Electronics for patent infringement. It wouldn't because the lawyers would have done their diligence and they would have realized the outcome would be the invalidation of Holt's patent.

People who are mislead by the charismatic person become disillusioned when they discover the truth is not as it was told to them. That is 'bad' for the charismatic person and potentially embarrassing for the person who didn't check their facts. But I'm still not getting the source of wrath.

Disclaimer I'll be the first to admit I'm a bit clueless when it comes to these sorts of emotional battles, they don't make a lot of sense to me.
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I had the same experience. My little sister just finished HS a year or two ago, and I helped her with her homework quite a few times.

The books were useless. It was nearly impossible to find concepts in it, and when you did the description was often relatively short, relying on an example that was often poorly constructed.

In the end, if the book didn't jog my memory I would have to Google the concept to find a better page. The book might as well have been nothing but problem sets.

I never met any of her teachers. I got the impression that at least one of them wasn't qualified to teach math, but that was 2nd hand information through the lens of my sister, so I can't be sure how accurate it was.
A general project wiki would be nice. I might be missing where the equivalent feature is because I am not a very heavy github user.
Exploring the Best Web Apps with Founder of ProductiveWebApps - Scott Purcell.
The Dyson ones basically sluice the water off. They're excellent and so much quicker than traditional driers.
But raising the minimum wage would affect the entire wage structure the whole way up, and $20/hr is enough to eat up lots of more-than-minimum-wage jobs as well.
Demonstration of Diebold voting machine hacked using balancing negative votes
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I think his point is that there is no scientific evidence linking ergonomics to RSI. So it's possible that your belief that improved ergonomics improved your RSI is the placebo effect in action (which is remarkably powerful!).
Unfortunately the opposite is a much, much bigger problem right now: people running around telling people with chronic pain that they must have physical issues that must be corrected, and that pain that is not caused by physical issues is somehow not "real".

There is a lot of science about this. Look up David Butler and Lorimer Moseley if you're interested.
There even is a FUSE adapter for it: http://code.google.com/p/boxfs/
Your #1 is possibly the most ridiculous thing I have read today. So by eliminating even the possibility of scurvy from ~100% of society, that will somehow increase the potential?

No. There would be no increase. We would not have to worry about these kids. Why? BECAUSE VITAMIN C IN FOOD WOULD BE UNAFFECTED. What, in this bizarro world does the addition of vitamin C magically cause vitamin C to disappear from all meats and plants? Of course not! These oh so unfortunate kids that we have an 'ethical obligation' to will be in exactly the same situation the entire current global population is in: getting vitamin C as normal from their diet. Screen every baby? Absurd. This sort of intervention is fire and forget: it's insurance against the rare scurvy-circumstances.

Point 2, on the other hand, is a good point. You should have solely responded with that - that because scurvy is so rare, the benefit is small, and even small risks of the intervention going wrong outweigh the benefit.
GH has wiki pages but having not used them myself I'm not sure if you can have them open for public edits.
On Richard Branson and the Musical Cabbie
No, it's all done via MathJax/JavaScript. That should be cross-browser without any issues, I thought.
The title is misleading, since only one of thousands of BOA's branches will do this.

Also, here's a tip: :%s/\([a-z]\)\.\([A-Z]\)/\1. \2/g
Why We Need To Shift Our Focus Of The Open Web
Always a culprit isn't it ? But IE10 so far looks pretty promising...
I know its a fundamental part of web browsing but the inability to use tabs in a text area such as this gets to me.
Yes, the function keys suck, but I don't use them all that much, so it's not so bad. Also, I mapped Esc onto one of the thumb keys.

My bigger gripe is that it sometimes misses up-key events, so a key will start repeating, or the Alt or Shift key will be virtually stuck down. All it takes to fix this is to press the key in question, but that's a pain in the butt. I've complained to Kinesis, but they claim to have never heard of the issue. This despite the fact that it happens on all of my Kinesis keyboards, and all my friends with Kinesis keyboards complain about the very same issue.

On the other hand, these issues are a minuscule price to pay for how good the Kinesis keyboard has been for my hands. More than anything, I credit this keyboard for allowing me to continue to be gainfully employed.

I've recommended this Keyboard to a number of my friends when they've started to have RSI problems. At first they always call me back in a couple of weeks and tell me that they can't believe I recommended this terrible keyboard to them. Then a year later they call me back and thank me profusely for having saved their hands!

Where I work, half the people in my group use them, and they all came to the Kinesis keyboard independently. Everyone who uses one loves them.
> I think the best thing that I can say is that this experiment flies in the face of everything that pg, Steve Blank and the other leaders of Lean Startup methodology are teaching

The OP is advocating the installation of a terminal to see if the 'urban poor' use it. That sounds pretty lean to me.
The Trouble with Local-Mobile-Social Search
So it seems, but perhaps after a while they would get used to it and new constellations could evolve :-)

Likewise I wonder if the ISS was designed with specific sides for up and down in mind of if all sides are created equal. In the video some signs are visible which seem to be all aligned in the same direction, but what about tools and furniture?
Fluoride in Childrens Milk P5
There is the factor that a lot of the code scientists write is hacky, one-off, and fragile. The kinds of people who care about releasing their code also feel at least a little embarassed about the code quality. There's at least one license that recognizes and embraces this fact: http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/
Once every five years definitely falls in the realm of "download this library again". :)
How frequently do you think restful apis move to a new version?

Typically you don't release a new version until you need to do significant changes to the entire layout of your api. In which case the old version is not even relevant. With this in mind, you would not want to promote using a new version of the api for one resource with an old version of the api for another resource.

Just thinking about it sounds dirty. Your migration strategy should include sufficient time for you to assist your clients to move to your newer versions.
The Problem with TV in India
This is patently absurd. People who say such things could not be more wrong on this issue.

I have a number of very significant chronic ailments, and there are many putative treatments that I should have liked to work. Almost none of them every do. If the placebo affect were that strong on me, I'd be a much happier person.

Furthermore, it's a repeatable experiment: everyone I know who has switched to a Kinesis Contour keyboard has had their RSI problems massively helped. Sure, you can try to explain it away saying that it's all "placebo effect", but this doesn't address the issue that many of these people, including me, tried other things first to no avail.
A more serious problem with that than embarrassment is that such code sometimes really shouldn't be uncritically reused, if we care about reproducibility. An independent reimplementation that reaches the same results is more convincing to me than a 2nd scientist getting the same results when they re-run the 1st scientist's hacky code. It's even more of a problem in the case of code that gets passed around and slowly accumulates ad-hoc additions because nobody wants to reimplement it.
Social media in 2012 elections will make 2008 look like the digital dark ages
> Taking pride in your work while not being too concerned with the clock sounds to me like a perfectly balanced life to pursue.

Indeed. That is exactly how I felt. But it does lead to prioritizing the journey at the expense of the destination i.e. outcome. Hence my realization that I need to pay more attention to the outcome.
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You're a Sucker if your APP Landing Page does not have these 3 things
Oh nice, but then I do not understand how it works. In a mail it could check the mail addresses to see which keys to use. How does it work for any text?

i always wanted something like that.
iPads have different ratio to iPhones/iPod right ? New iPad 3 is rumoured to have Retina display...

Totally agree that iOS did not need complexity of the Android SDK due to consistency in Apple product line up but I think they may have dug a bit of a hole for themselves if they want to shake things up in the future.
And btw, the point I am making is not against high level constructs. Once you have sockets you can build whatever you like. The problem is HTTP is the bottom level of the web. If you had proper facilities at the bottom you could have your HTTP as a library and I can have my real-time protocols. The web constrains engineers based on some academic's rationalistic ideas about optimisation.
This article lists all the tired arguments that have been brought forward since the beginning of time (or at least since the 1990ies). As someone who is coding in PHP every single day, I don't care about some of the ugly things. But I do care about the things I can create and I care about about my customers who enjoy those things.

Yes, PHP has some quirks. Get over it.
marketing trumps innovation

I think more importantly is that in business marketing and innovation go hand in hand. I could be making the most amazing innovations the world has ever seen, but if no one knows about it who cares. Long term business is about innovating and getting the product in front of people.

With respect to Apple, I get tired of people who say they are all marketing. Marketing may work for a single pump and dump product, but that is not Apple. There has to be some innovation behind the marketing to keep consumers coming back. Of course Apple markets themselves very well, but they also have stylish products that for a majority of consumers do just work and work well. For all the articles I read about how SJ straddled the world of technology and the humanities, I think Apple the company was just an extension of how he viewed himself.
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I agree with everything you're saying (except the part about hording) perhaps....

My expectation is that donors would be paid based on expected value, which is how (I believe), the issue is being framed in debates.

ie assume there's a 1% probability that potential donor will be a.) young enough
b.) die under right circumstances.

Then we should offer that potential donor 1% of the expected value of his/her organs (ie if organs are worth $100k then we should offer $1k).

Obviously these are all made up numbers. But the idea of paying up front based on expected value makes sense to me in theory.
A Github for scientific code doesn't go nearly far enough. The transition from paper journals to electronic publications has only converted dead-paper into "electronic" paper. With some exceptions, e.g. video recordings, animations and supplementary figures/documents/spreadsheets/code, the document that you download from any major science publisher is a PDF that looks almost exactly like the printed publication. Most don't even include links to referenced publications[1]!

Today, we know a lot about how to make documents that have complex formatting (think micro formats, links) and even more about making abstract document formats that can be presented and styled in different ways (think XML and stylesheet type separation of data and presentation). Having a standardized scientific publication format (with open-source user or publisher generated extensions as needed) would completely change the way we produce and consume the literature. Imagine the possibilities for meta-analysis!

Yes, code should (in most cases) be released together with a paper. But even better would be if the code were released as part of a standardized data format that would allow you to, for instance, selectively download raw data and re-run the computational experiments on your own computer (think: re-running simulations in Mekentosj's Papers as you read the paper).

Even simpler (and possibly more useful): provide both low and original (high) resolution versions of figures that can be examined separately from the main document. I can't tell you how many times I've been annoyed by the low quality of the published images and wished I could zoom in to the level of detail I know was in the original image. Even more frustrating: why should I have to take screenshots of images in Preview to add to a figure in my lab meeting. Separate the presentation and the data!

[1]although some now include intra-document links from a citation in the text to the reference in the coda
erm as an ex technical programmer and research assistant for a world leading rnd organization not sure I buy this for all experiments - an experiment needs to be reproducible yes but…

Most science is based on physical observation of the experiment the code is just a offshoot of the test equipment.

In the case where you are modelling some thing you do experiments to prove your mathematical model. I once spent a sweltering afternoon in a bunny suit and rubber gloves and mask helping prepare a dummy fuel rod from a Breeder Reactor so that we would do experiments to see if our model of two-phase flow was valid.

And surly saying you can reproduce my experiment but only using my code can everyone not see the danger here - you would want to repeat the experiment and implement ones own version of the maths behind it.