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We use TextPattern as a lightweight CMS from time to time, and it's Textile. Code just requires "pre." at the start of the first line of code, like so:

A *simple* example.

pre. 10 print "hello"
20 goto 10

And that's that, except for @inline@ code.

Paste that into http://textile.thresholdstate.com/ with no leading spaces. If one is fluent in Textile, Markdown can feel limited in its access to readable HTML style indicators. For example, I appreciate the %(class)this is a styled span% feature.

I find Markdown best for generating documents/documentation, and Textile best for generating styled web copy.
Yes. The only exception is if the door opens dangerously onto a sidewalk or similar.
The better solution is to use an open door design (often found in airports) and have hand dryers rather than paper towels. Less waste and associated mess, no garbage to change, no doorknobs to not touch.
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It's their market, they can ban whatever they want. Whether it would be an idiotic move or not is an entirely different discussion...
could add some semantic markup or rdfa or something, could be cool
When can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3
I think it's too easy to look at people in these positions and say they just don't get it. This is their industry, they're immersed in it every day. They may not have seen this coming, but it's been in their face for a while now, and even if a few can't see what's going on I simply can't believe that none of them do. At best I would say any "ignorance" could still be tied back to incentives: even if they know the truth, it's inconvenient and not worth acknowledging widely (or perhaps even to themselves). Better to keep on peddling the line that piracy is theft to preserve the status quo as long as possible.
While it's too early to say what will be in the final build, that is one que he seemed to have taken from the MSDN Windows 8 blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/23/improving-our-...

I also call foul on the mock-up you posted with the unreadable text. This is a problem commonly solved in all form of design work by putting a stroke on text that's not on a solid background color. Your mock-up there is more straw-man than informed counter-oint.

But I agree with your broader point that this would be given poor marks in a usability study. For one, the dozen shades of grey, seemingly a go-to favorite for designers, strikes me as quite un-functional.
Nate, I answered this on your blog, but here's copy-pasted response:

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Nate, design is not binary. I am a big fan of well designed sites, but at the same time I think design needs to serve a purpose.

First, In the case of DrudgeReport, people go there for hand-picked content, probably learning about the site through referrals. Although design would make things look prettier, it wouldn't attract more readers, in that case.

Second, good design doesn't mean pretty things. Imho, for most products, user-experience is more important than fancy graphics. People need to want to use your site, and then they need to be able to use your site!

Lastly, it all depends on your business. If you're building something where your content is judged by the looks of your site, then by all means go ahead and make something really sexy. However, if your site is judged by the content, make sure the usability is top-notch and you can apply a sexy skin later.

p.s. All that said, if you're releasing a new product that needs to capture attention from a wide audience or you need to stand out among competitors, then yes, you need to make sure your design (among other things) is the best on the market. After all, you want to be noticed!
Well, apparently pandoc can convert Markdown into groff. I don't know if it's troff compatible or if it has diverged, though.
tl;dr

"2. The current situation in developing countries is much worse than generally pictured on the basis just of school enrollment and attainment.

Because of the previous findings — that knowledge rather than just time in school is what counts — policies must pay more attention to the quality of schools. Particularly in terms of aggregate growth, school attainment has a positive impact only if it raises the cognitive skills of students—something that does not happen with sufficient regularity in many developing countries.

For developing countries, the sporadic or nonexistent assessment of student knowledge is an especially important issue — correcting this shortcoming should have the highest priority."
I'm curious what you guys think of this.

It very closely relates to something we see a lot here on HN, which is the call to leave the boring job at the "big company" and follow your entrepreneurship dreams.

The issue is that not everyone is cut out to be a successful entrepreneur, no matter how much effort they put into it. And I don't see this aspect discussed on HN much.
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Just like where I live a term saying I waive my right to a warranty is considered abusive and void, so would be such terms, in my opinion, even if legally valid.

What's next, the guy who sold me my house deciding who can I invite to it?
Actually, the main reason I want to do away with Matlab and Octave is that I can't stand the 1-indexing! When voicing that opinion among collegues, I have heard no-one disagree with me. If you are actually stuck with this in Julia as well, I don't think I will have anything more to do with it.
Ya know, the bathroom door swing problem has to do with the swing direction of the door + no one wants to touch a door knob.

If the door gets replaced with one that swings in both directions by push... problem solved.
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It wasn't always vegan. It was reformulated when they got Kosher certification, and incidentally the Rabbi who certifies it also knows what the ingredients are.

See: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Kasherin...
New "Cat deterrent" robot - video, source, and instructions on how to make one
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/populace noun

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/populous adjective
There's a reason why those are called 'panic doors'. When a mob is trying to escape a place you're gonna have a hard time trying swing the door inside rather than outside and usually people get trampled while trying to open it.
Ok, I have done that.
I thought we are not to alter the original titles.
Good to know...
nice "click me" title, but looks like neutrinos will not be superluminal in the end.

The second anomaly discovered is statistical in its nature. Scientists don't know precisely when the neutrino is generated: at the beginning or at the end of the pulse.

Scientists are going to reduce the lenght of the pulse because this will make measurements more reliable.

And even that, GPS receivers at OPERA are not considered that much reliable by many.
cletus, eta_carinae, and everyone else already gave great points, but I want to add one more to the pile: Google really cares about culture fit.

From the way I understand it, there are two main goals for hiring:

1. Always raising the bar by finding people who are better than the average Googler.

2. Find people who would fit in well and Googlers would want to work with.

This adds another dimension to the way you could perform in your interview. Keep in mind that not only the answer counts, but also how you answer, what kinds of questions you ask, what your attitude and personality is, etc. I have no idea if this was a factor in your outcome, but it's just another thing to consider.

Lastly: Don't be afraid to reapply after a year or so (I've interviewed at Google three times before joining)—prior results aren't held against you.

Disclaimer: I'm also a Google employee.
The article sounds like there aren't already torrent apps on the Android Marketplace.

https://market.android.com/search?q=torrent&c=apps

The first two are native clients.
That's an interesting thought, I hadn't even considered anything along those lines. After reading about it for a bit I find that I cannot disqualify it from being a possibility. I've also read studies about having other senses heightened due to the lack of strength in other senses; specifically, due to a nasal inflammation condition I have I've always had difficulties with my sense of scent. Maybe I have a heightened sense of taste to compensate? Either way it's something interesting to think about, so thanks. :)
It deals with renewable energy ( solar panels ) and a technology that can potentially revolutionize life in areas that are still stuck with primitive farming technologies.

There is even a start-up opportunity there or a non-for-profit start-up opportunity.

So I don't think the adjective totally completely applies.
There are lots of examples of this. Moralistic thinking simply isn't productive in this context. If you build an economic system that depends on everyone voluntarily cooperating rather than acting self-interestedly, self-interested people will ruin it; if your public health strategy for HIV is to discourage people from extramarital sex, lots of people will have extramarital sex and get HIV; if your strategy to compete with BitTorrent is to try and make people feel guilty about using BitTorrent, people will tune you out and use BitTorrent.

Of course, if you used those examples instead of a silly example about designing an office restroom, the HN thread gets derailed by people talking about economics or HIV. One could criticize the HN community for that kind of bikeshedding, but it's more pragmatic to just use a boring, contrived example to sell the point. Certainly, a HN thread won't end up filled with a side discussion about office restroom design.
Interestingly my personal taste-testing anecdote in this thread started because I stated that I could distinguish between American Coke and Mexican Coke (given that one is corn syrup and one is cane sugar) which led to the challenge to even be able to identify Coke over Pepsi.
Have you read the article?
One of his arguments is that math, due to its interface, is not about ideas but about abstract symbols and "symbol-pushing tricks". For example many people know how to use the chain rule when they derive a function, without even having the slightest grasp of what is going on.
How is this any different from "learning a mnemonic poem to remember the law of proportion"?
The are occupied from the point of view of the people living there. If your family lives there for hundreds of years then a new government comes in and takes over your house and evicts you, or demolishes your house under some "license" or "permit clause" and then evicts you, it is not unreasonable to call that an occupation.
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But it requires more floor space, which may not be available.

Also, in the vein of the lesson being taught, that may be the "right" solution, but in an existing building, it's certainly more pragmatic to add a wastebin (versus, say, rebuilding the bathrooms).
He does it right. Customers are not to be listened too much, they are to be taught to use the product the way the producer intend to.

Less support trouble, less costs, and the troublemakers go away.

Of course, I would never tell straight to my customers that if they don't like a feature they can go to h3ll, but guess what, thet are not going anywhere else.
That entire website seems to be made up of absolutely hilarious claims. Some highlights:
Existing software will be obsolete within 5-10 years!

An engineer, used to resolving problems qualified as “impossible” by all others, has developed a technology which outdoes everything else by several orders of magnitude, and has implemented it in the “most strategic software product of all”, the Application Server

RFC 2617 makes it obvious that its design (Verisign and Microsoft, 1999) was purposely flawed to sell (Verisign) SSL certificates that delegate the whole security chain to... Verisign (Certificate Authority) and Microsoft (the CA repository, in charge of CA queries and CA validation).

Why make your own KV store when so many others already exist?
– For the same reason that G-WAN was needed: they just do it wrong.

The FAQ also informs us that we need to run it on Ubuntu LTS, because all other releases are "beta".

It is an amusing read though. Love the "G-WAN RULEZ" badge too ;-)
These arguments on here are starting to feel like a broken record.

It's more like you lend your car to a friend under certain conditions (such as not relending) and find that they have in fact re-lent it to their friend who has in turn re-lent it to someone else who re-lent it to someone who decided to melt it down and sell it for scrap.
I'm assuming "wrong" means unRESTful.

Yes, because the clients have to know that for your service specifically, when they get an "application/json" response, they have to look for that property. That kind of information, unless defined in the standard - in this case, the HTTP or JSON specs - is considered out-of-band information, which breaks the Uniform Interface constraint.

To quote Roy Fielding:

A REST API should be entered with no prior knowledge beyond the initial
URI (bookmark) and set of standardized media types that are appropriate
for the intended audience

Anything besides (URL, mediatypes) is unRESTful.

Of course, I believe you could easily bypass that by making up a single new mediatype (e.g. application/vnd.my-service+json) and then use that for any JSON response with that type property.
Since the clients know knew how to distinguish your JSON responses from everybody else's just by their mediatype, it wouldn't break REST.

But on the other hand, if you're using a different mediatype, why not go all the way and just use different mediatypes instead of a type property?

EDIT: As an addendum, the point of this constraint is to reduce coupling and enable the REST clients to be as generic as possible, enabling code reuse and modularity.

Using your example, I could write an application where the core was composed of an HTTP client, with support for plugins that would register themselves as "mediatype handlers". This way, the core could fetch the representation for an URL and then dispatch it to the right handler using the mediatype.

If I wanted to process your API, now my core client would have to include a JSON parser and an hack in the middle of the dispatching code to process all 'application/json' responses looking for your type property. It'd be ugly, bloated (multiple JSON parsing instances), harder to maintain, etc.

Of course, right now we don't see this as a problem because everyone writes a client against a specific API anyway, but frankly I think that's a bug, not a feature. If the REST APIs out there were truly RESTful, I think we'd see much more interesting clients that could combine dozens of different APIs, which is now impossible due to the sheer manpower required.
Once you take money, the clock starts ticking
Probably not a tradeoff. Scurvy is devastating and Wikipedia says an animal like a 70 kg goat makes ~13 grams of Vitamin C a day (which isn't very much of anything).
As a curiosity, how many bits were gained (rather than lost) when the second and third characters obtaining a death note were entered? (female and male respectively)

Do the bits of entropy add on, or does it not matter at all?
"sudo sysctl -w ..." works as expected, but "sudo echo ...> /proc/..." doesn't, since only the echo and not the redirection happens as root.
Alright, let's do this thought experiment. Replace words like Israel and Palestine in the article with countries in Africa. Something like "Water pumps running off of solar power in Kenya, provided by a German start up are being removed by the local government". Would that be acceptable for HN? I am 80% confident, we wouldn't see all this discussion about how the story should have been flagged and or how it is totally unacceptable for HN.

So now ask yourselves, why is it different all of the sudden if we put "Palestine" and "Israel" back in the article.

Could it be that some here have an irrational and knee-jerk responses to that particular region of the world? If so, maybe that is an interesting discussion. How come a group that fancies itself more rational and straight thinking than others, has such strong biases one way or the other? Why is there so much discussion about this topic.

Are people driving an article down and flagging it as "inappropriate politically" not because they are trying to keep HN pure but because their own disguised biases are telling them to act that way.
Can anyone explain what is going on here? Edit: to clarify, I honestly have no idea what I'm reading: the title piqued my interest, but then it became... I'm really not sure.
(1) Why do you think Israel should be obliged to supply electricity to a hostile territory

Why do you think a newly found state (~65 years) has any right to claim the territory it occupies (except of the might makes right variety)?

ruled by a government that explicitly states it's desire to destroy it [1]

As opposed to a government that occupied the land from the previous inhabitants and has been steadily displacing them for decades?

backed up with routine rocket fire into Israeli population centers?

Backed up with routine genocide tactics...
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They might not but they might care about Solar panels. That is probably why it was submitted.
This has been done before at Nicolelis Lab at Duke. I did a rotation there during grad school:

http://touchlab.mit.edu/news/documents/ScinetificAmerican_20...

http://www.thinkartificial.org/machine-interfaces/monkey-bra...

Also other US universities have been working on this stuff for 5-10 years.
So now if criminals found only in widely available public sources begin dying of heart disease and cancer at correctly distributed but far-above-average rates, L will know that it's somebody who read this article - possibly Gwern himself! Even if this article hadn't been published, such clever use of the Death Note would certainly point to someone with high IQ and possibly involved in the cryptographic community...
Lend? No, it's a sale. RIAA and MPAA themselves say so, and so do my receipts.
All these is in our gene, called Selfish.
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The territories under question are not occupied, but disputed.

Really? Have you asked the UN?

If I come into your house, after living for 2,000 years away from the area, and claim some rooms mine, would you consider them "disputed"?
Cognitive bias when discussion certain political articles on HN but not others and how some political topics are acceptable but others are not, even in forums frequented by supposedly rather rational individuals, is also interesting.

At this point, this discussion is more interesting to me at the meta-level more than its original topic.
It surprises me that people are complaining this is irrelevant to HN. It fits well with the PG/HN narrative of technology decentralizing political power -- Israel is suppressing this technology because it doesn't want to give up its control of the electricity supply.
I hate to be pedantic, but mistake #1 misses the point a bit. While the serial killer doesn't want to be found, he certainly wants to be known.
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The switch to New Coke happened just as the HFCS transition was being made, which is part of a conspiracy theory all its own.
It's about an anime named Death Note where the main character(named Light) finds a notebook (dubbed death note), and has the ability to kill anyone if he writes their name in the book. Noone knows he has it, but someone names "L" is hired to find out, and eventually traces the deaths to Light.
I'm glad the author grasped that the show is entertainment, and actually has a few words of wisdom. But the idea behind this show is disgusting and disheartening.

This line bit me:

>"What do you care about the percentage?"

Only in Silicon Valley would you hear something like this. The ownership structure of your company isn't a joke or a game. It does matter. Why stop at 40%? Why not give up 99%? If you're out looking for financing for your company and "don't care" about how much equity you're giving up, you shouldn't be in business.
Having been on CBC's Dragons' Den to pitch Rejection Therapy: http://rejectiontherapy.com this current season, I think I can add some insights.

James nailed the essence of it, but there's a saying that goes a battle plan never survives the first shot fired, and that's true when stepping in front of the Dragons with cameras rolling.

You need to be super versatile with your pitch. It's a big mistake to go in with a memorized script. Too much pressure, and the Dragons don't have to let you finish your pitch if they don't want to.

In my case, Robert started making comments to me and the other Dragons at about three seconds into my pitch. Kind of threw me off (but then again, Robert is the wild card).

Just know your product and the numbers inside and out.

A few other surprises during the pitch. A Dragon made an agreement with me (not for investment though) then reneged. I'll leave it at that.

Something that became perfectly clear early into the pitch: the Dragons aren't risk takers. Not at all. They want proof of sales (and lots of sales) or a promising intellectual property. Or maybe you have a tonne of orders you can't fulfill until you get some manufacturing capital.

In most cases, those who land a deal are those who could get a deal elsewhere.

My most valuable takeaway from the experience? People's feelings get hurt on that show. On Shark Tank, I've seen Kevin call someone pitching a line of fashion belt buckles a "lying pig". On national television.

I should've sworn off the show after seeing that, but I underestimated how that can irreparably harm someone. I'm more sensitive of people's feelings now, even public figures.

Walk a mile in a man's shoes, as the saying goes.

For me, it was obvious I wasn't going to get investment from the Dragons. I was like a lamb to the slaughter and I knew it.

Thing is, one of the cards in the Rejection Therapy Entrepreneur Edition is to "apply for Shark's Tank or Dragons' Den" and I did. It was a failed rejection attempt! I got on!

The experience wasn't so bad though. I got along righteously with Bruce Coxom. He totally got it. He defended the idea all the way, and even stepped out of his chair to give me his glass of water (I got the dreaded cotton mouth). Arlene was a doll. Very polite and understanding.

P.S. I'm in bed with a raging flu, typing this out on an iPhone with a dirty screen. If this runaway comment doesn't make a lick of sense, that's why.
I apologize for my comments.
I've made some idiotic comments suggesting that the U.S. is not a civilized country because of some abuses by its law enforcement and homeland security. While I remain critical of the conduct of these government entities, generalizing upon an entire country was obviously uncalled for and just plain stupid.

I guess I cooled down and I feel ashamed.

My sincerest apologies.
Interview lottery winners.

I've been saying this for years.
Israel is not the West-Bank government. Well, we can argue on that. But that makes your comparison inadequate, at least in my opinion.

But I'm here questioning the value of the discussion. If the Kenyan gov. removed the solar plants then there should be some reason, and that's worth discussing. I don't think that any (sane) gov. would remove solar plants providing free energy?

The value/(probability to start a war) of the article is close to 0. That's why I flagged the article. It's still my opinion, and I gave my argument. Certainly, I'd respect the HN community choice of what to discuss and how to discuss it.
Piracy is not the reason there's a new-release window in which most titles make a plurality of the total return for the title.