skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This submission, which suggests forking or standardizing Markdown, has currently over 400 points. My guess is that "just use a better implementation and get on with your day" is not a good enough answer for many of us, including Jeff Atwood and David Greenspan.
>>Paying public servants so little makes it relatively easy to either buy their favour or have their favor bestowed upon you with insignificant sums of money.

I don't think there is any evidence whatsoever that paying the politicians well will take care of the problem of corruption. If nothing it may just remain same or even worsen. Politicians are corrupt because they can steal and get away, they have a lot of power in their hand and they use it.

Think of it this way, if you have means to make $100 billion and you could easily hide that through safe way- What will stop you from doing that? A big fat pay check? I don't think so. So as you can make money easily and get away with it, you will do it. Regardless of what your paycheck actually is.

To give you an example Insider trading scandals are happening despite fat CEO compensations.
Apple’s revenue for the year exceeded Microsoft, Google and Facebook combined
You're talking about the deficit, not the debt. You can hardly read what I wrote as saying that no major country has ever run a budget surplus for a year or two. Australia continues to have some AU$200+B in outstanding treasury securities. (http://www.aofm.gov.au/content/borrowing/commonwealth/Monthl...)
2 hours? I recently had to install a Server 2008 R2 machine. It required a solid working day of applying updates and rebooting to get it up to date. I was astonished.
I still have the original box for my PS3, it has "Linux support" and screenshots plastered all over it.

Makes me weep a bit
It is just a matter of convenience. Your identity will remain hidden from other users.
Somebody please make a web-usable of Org Mode the language; it's like Markdown, but older, richer in features (while being as simple as Markdown) and is in daily use by many hackers for note taking, outlining, TODOs, organizing your life, etc.

I'm very happy that GitHub has an Org Mode renderer, even if rudimentary - I don't have to rewrite my notes and READMEs to Markdown.
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Dialysis is a life-saving treatment for people with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). It is a replacement therapy which discharges accumulated toxins from bloodstream. However, both peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis could possibly cause certain side effects. This is due to the way in which dialysis is carried out and the fact that dialysis can only decompensate part of renal functions to a certain degree.
Why are you surprised? communist/socialists/welfare state nations have always tended more towards dynasty type dictatorships. Eg: North Korea, Gulf Countries etc.

Freebies, pocket change welfare schemes launched by the government is basically a token bribe given to the public to just shut up, while the leaders are busy in their corrupt practices.
Yes, ROR people talked a lot, on web, that also counts.
Even though this almost certainly isn't it, this is the coolest "Telematic Art Demo" idea I've heard in weeks.
Poe's law. [0]

I'm pretty sure he was being ironic.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
Would somebody really care for the library of Alexandria these days? Im not through reading the internet yet.
Milatary grade electronics are EMP sheilded in general and that is down to the cold war and the fear that a nuke would as a side effect kill all the electronics. This fear with army's in general has been a area already planned for and with that this type of offencive whilst has niche uses. It is still nice and against less ofganised unofficial army's of the World then this is something that can be used. It certainly is a nice reusable design.

Sadly though medical equipment and hospitals from my knowledge tend to not be as well protected against sich devices. I would also wonder that the effects upon pacemakers would not bode well either.

Still it will be less life impacting than alternatives in the situations which it lends itself towards. So good on boing for finaly making the EMP miltary grade market justified after all these years.
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Licensing fees. Most copies of Windows never play a single DVD, so why let everyone pay?
How does it apparently break Flash? It's working fine for me in Chrome and Internet Explorer.
I'm not sure what point you're referring to that I'm missing. Here's my point:

People don't need to wait for Gruber to make a standard; Gruber doesn't hold enough power to prevent the adoption of a Markdown-like standard. The adoption of the standard will correlate with the value that it brings.

I am not saying the rest of the stuff you think that I am saying; I was just responding to your argument.

This initiative is obviously the right thing to do, or at least try to do.

I completely agree with this statement.

Feel free to impugn me. It is your right to; actually, it is your obligation to if the situation calls for it.
Apple posts its UK apology to Samsung
I still think a desktop Linux will be big in the enterprise, especially for computer professionals. You need a powerful machine for certain things.
Well here's my forward looking projection - Groupon, Zynga and Pandora will go bankrupt within the next 3 years.

It really isn't that bloody hard to see shit for what it was - if you aren't making any money, if you are buying revenue, and if your service is commodity then you will be both a bad investment and eventually go bankrupt. Enron, WorldCom, MCI, Zynga, Groupon, Pandora fit these cases and hence will fail.

It irritates me saying "Ohh who could've predicted the GFC, or Enron or WorldCom or the DotCom bubble or whatever". Just because you don't see the asteroid coming before it crashes - it does not follow that it was a black swan. Grab a telescope and you'd have seen it coming 30 years out.

If you aren't making money and your business model is neither defensible nor proprietary - you will go out of business.
I was just as excited by MGS4 and Little Big Planet as I was disappointed when I had them. Reviews, hype and marketing did their job very well and I believed all of that. Luckily I was able to resell these turds.
I have no words.

The internet is flooded with pop culture bullshit. The Library contained precious works from some of the greatest geniuses in history--works that we know exist but were forever lost.
I think it does everything but apologise.
E.g., Surface ships with Office 2013 preview, they'll son ship out the gold version as an update.
There is a mirror of the Wayback Machine (which isn't all of archive.org's content, but still): http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.asp...

Ironically enough, it is hosted at the New Library of Alexandria, Egypt. :)
>That's what's known as a false choice.

No it isn't. The fact that some officers abuse their equipment doesn't mean the choice doesn't come up. It comes up all the time.

>Note that in for example the UK regular police don't even carry a gun, so there really doesn't have to be any choice between getting shot or tased.

Oh yes, it was probably just harsh language going through Jean Charles de Menezes's brain pan. You say the wrong thing and splat. Brains everywhere.

>By the same token I don't think the same situations will call for an EMP or a smart bomb.

In the first gulf war the US dropped bombs that contained graphite filaments in an effort to take power plants offline without destroying them. Didn't work too well, so a few days later conventional bombs were used.

In another instance the Iraqis put a command and control installation in a bunker full of civilians. We took that bunker out with a smart bomb. An EMP device sure would have come in handy.
> Worked pretty well in (...) Poland.

I don't know. Members of the generation of my mother and my grandmother tend to blame privatization for all the downfall of Polish economy. There is something to that if you look at how railoads are managed right now - it's a stinking pile of corruption and theft, and the surprising thing is that it works at all.
While perhaps technically true, as a user you really don't notice any of that. When you log in to Windows 8, it automatically shows the Start screen. While this is Metro, all you have to do is start any desktop application, and the desktop appears.

This is no different in Windows 7. After logging in, surely you would start any application, either by opening the Start menu, or by clicking a application pinned to the task bar, or by double-clicking a shortcut on the desktop. You can put anything onto the Windows 8 Start screen (just right click a file or directory and select Pin to Start), so it's functionally identical -- just with bigger buttons.

And if you really don't like it, you can always move the Desktop tile to the top left, so you can enter the desktop by pressing Enter.
https://www.foldable.me/ appear to be doing quite well for themselves.
Yeah, its just an attempt to smear non-anonymous people with the acts of anonymous people. Its quite in keeping with the rest of it.
Overtone also uses multimethods in a number of places. They're crazy powerful and useful.
Is selling such information even illegal? Is it against Facebook's terms?

By using an app you are giving them access to a whole bunch of your personal information. I always assumed that many were scraping data from my profile. This is why I have never use Facebook for authentication.

When I read the original post I figured Facebook would want the data so they could narrow down who the probable culprit is. I would have thought finding a common app among a million users probably wouldn't be too difficult.

That said the nature of this conversation is ridiculous.
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Does anyone have a link to the actual order? If this is compliant, then the order is a joke.
Perhaps it will wear off, but Windows 8 feels quite refreshing compared to other interfaces.
The problem is that this is a discussion about standardising the Markdown syntax, not changing it.
Here you go: http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgment...

[Edit: sorry, that's the initial judgement. This, I believe, is the order regarding the apology: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2012/2049.html]
Ask HN: Why is HP still recommending windows 7?
I checked Samsung's site earlier and it is recommending windows 8 but HP's site is stuck with windows 7.
Maybe it's an oversight?
"A judge said we must apology because we are cooler and so Samsung didn't copy because they aren't cool. But other judges said that we are cooler and Samsung still copied us! So we must be right!" Sincerely: a 6 year old.
Whilst testing PowerShell for an employer I write a bf implementation in it. I was stumped for a while when I couldn't get one of the examples from wikipedia to run until I noticed that the code in the wiki article was broken. Correcting the article was probably my greatest contribution to computer science.
A Windows 8 SDK with .NET and JS... but no C++? :(
To play the devil's advocate here, since there are already laws against assault and homicide, would you say that there should be no regulation of weapons?

And before you argue that weapons have no purpose except to break other laws, like jailbreaking there are many lawful or sporting uses of swords, firearms, explosives, etc.
Trekking in Nepal, Nepal Trekking
We are responsible Trekking Tour Company base in Nepal, specialize for Trekking , Tour Travel in Nepal, Nepal Hiking and others Outdoor Activities including, Peak Climbing, Expedition, Adventure Trekking, Rafting, Tibet and Bhutan Tour by Ecologically, Culturally & Socio- economically way", throughout life time experience professional Sherpa Guide, potter and other staff.
Why would you put a swastika on your business in any situation?

Ayn Rand is for Glengary Glen Ross wannabes. Not for your typical creative writer.
Aside from food (and beer§),

Maid service, perhaps just on the one-room level. (Much easier to justify the high price if you're paranoid and busy and can't be sure when you'll be home to supervise).

Repair/handyman service, auto detailing, yard service, waste removal.

Massage and acupuncture.

Also, definitely, medical services including phlebotomy.

Finding the sort of business where the current providers are already in the area working and can drop everything and high-tail it over to the impatient client's place on an infrequent basis is what you want here.

Success of another taskrabbit or iamexec with a really short timetable would be easier if it had an easy automated system to predict availability without interrupting the service providers' other tasks (i.e. where is their smartphone, is it jostling, and are they ready to work).

§ This is probably constrained by a patchwork of antiquated laws enough to make it a loser financially. Still, I bet you could even find volunteers who'd rather enable alcoholics by getting them another case of Steel Reserve, Mickey's, or Bud Light when they run out, given that they'd probably get behind the wheel to perform the task themselves. The life you save could be mine.
There's a like button on that page. I was logged in to facebook. Now facebook knows I read that page!!!
What I love here is that not just satisfied with running down Gruber, you also feel the need to get in a little swipe at Jeff ("as much as [he] leaps at every chance to play the fool"), a man who seems broadly in agreement with you (though is far more constructive in his approach).

Stay classy.
using Markdown you can:
- track versions with tools like git
- using pandoc, you can transform it in html, pdf, latex, beamer, rtf, slidy
- you are sure you are separating style from content
- it can be used everywhere: using console editors like vim (or the simple nano, that I love), text editors like notepad+, gedit. I found out a very nice android app, Epstile, that uses markdown and syncs the data using dropbox.
- just this morning, in the office where I'm working, there was a discussion like "this doc was saved using office 2010 or office 2007?". Using markdown, you can avoid such a mess.
It's not that people haven't picked up on this "bold move". It's that they want an operating system, not an ecosystem.
And we're only speaking of Samsung Electronics here.

The entire conglomerate is on another level and approx. double the size of Samsung Electronics.
It works for his usage, but all the ambiguities and undefined behaviors affect a huge number of people, and his only response he's made for eight years has been to retain sole moral authority and refuse to use it.

You gain moral authority by actually doing something. If you use markdown, and wish to propose a better markdown than markdown, go for it, I'm sure lots of people will be pleased, but bear in mind that lots of people will whine about any bugs as well, and expect you to work for them for free and spend significant resources and time fixing edge cases which don't matter to you personally, just because you released the source.

If you're ready for that though, of course go ahead and create a better markdown, or help with this proposed spec, Gruber certainly can't stop you. It doesn't really matter what Gruber says, what trolls on a mailing list say, or what you say on this forum about his responsibilities, whether he is self-appointed dictator for life etc (though I'd dispute that), what counts is putting the work in, which is often surprisingly difficult - far more difficult than criticism.
I find it more comfortable to write Markdown than to use a WYSIWYG text editor. That the WYSIWYG editors tends to produce really shitty output doesn't make things better.

Markdown and similar formats can also easily be used to produce other output than HTML.

And Markdown is plain text, and that's another appealing factor: Even if you read it somewhere that won't render the Markdown, it is still readable. The same can't be said about HTML.
Safety.

If you exclude HTML tags, Markdown is safe. People can't inject code.

I know this can be done for HTML as well, but it's harder.
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CommonCrawl also has a fairly large ("The crawl currently covers 5 billion pages") dataset of this sort, which unlike the one from archive.org is already available to everyone on S3 under the requester-pays model.

http://commoncrawl.org/data/accessing-the-data/
Ask HN: Geek-friendly communal living in Colorado?
For mental health reasons, my parents and I are considering a communal home instead of living alone, but I would rather live someplace geek friendly. Are there any such places? Thank you for your time and consideration.
Amen, when the tech press talks about Samsung it usually talks about Samsung Electronics. I find it somewhat aggravating.

Samsung builds ships, skyscrapers, it owns departments stores and provides life insurances. The conglomerate is a complex maze of interconnected companies. The ownership structure is very complicated. There is an excellent article about it in The Economist.
You're probably right - but that wasn't the goal of the Desktop - which was mainstream adoption.
Whether desktop linux has been successful or not must be judged by its goal.

Its goal was not reaching mass market (hence, its not a company selling a product). Its goal was creating a usable free desktop. We have more than one usable desktop. We have been successful by definition.

But the fact that you say "we should've just given up" or "Desktop linux was always completely stupid idea" tells me that you do not share the concern of people who are working (mostly as volunteers) on desktop linux.
They are not even remotely deprecated.
Apple complies with UK judgment, acknowledges Samsung didn't copy iPad design
There is a lot of that eg see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse
Many users like their WYSIWYG text editors (even though they are often problematic between older browser versions or with "paste-from-word" or conflicts with other JS-includes). And the expectations are rising - one customer of ours would like a WYSIWYG-editor "with Apple style interface" in the browser, with all the bell's and whistles of a full blown publishing solution including complete layout control, input validation, CMS support and so on. The old TinyMCE fields of his legacy app will no longer cut it.

Meanwhile, I write the documentation for my software in Markdown, because it is the fastest way for me to get structured text from my mind to my machine. And with the help of pandoc, it's convertible into all other text formats, from HTML to PDF and LaTeX etc. (Although the html-with-images to PDF support of wkhtmltopdf is even better, so it's Markdown => pandoc[for HTML] + wkthmltopdf [for HTML to PDF]).
>This isn't change for the sake of being different, it's a radical (and risky) attempt at change such that the mobile and desktop environments become merged.

How does this benefit the actual customer? I don't have a tablet, and I'm not planning to buy one. It's great that Microsoft will only have one code base for the two platforms, but that's great for them, not for me.
I think there are two seperate issues we shouldn't mix up: On the one hand Apple is moving at such a quick pace, that there is less time for quality control, and many bugs stay even between major releases.

On the other hand Apple has never been good with networking software. For example, File Sharing is slow and used to be very unreliable. The built-in FTP support in OS X was a joke. Sending files with iChat on AIM often failed. Mobile Me was never really successful. More recently there is FaceTime, where my Mac just randomly fails to connect. Every time I synced bookmarks with iTunes between Safari on the Mac and on my iPhone I ended up with duplicates on both devices. And now we have iCloud syncing, which is incredibly unreliable.
A Node.js speed dilemma: AJAX or Socket.IO?
I have no problems remembering the Markdown link format, but I never remember the expected order in what you describe as "Wiki style" (which is really a style employed by some wiki software - there are plenty of wiki software that uses other syntaxes, including Markdown)
A safe bet
Agreed. Lol. Aren't they [Apple] supposed to prominently display the judge's order on the homepage?!
You also need to add that the parser of Pandoc is not regular expression based. It is a very robust parser, parsing the document in an internal abstract tree you can easily modify. You can also adapt the parser to your needs with simple extensions. You can then get very nice outputs in HTML or PDF[1]. As it is a nice command line tool, it is easy to generate everything with a simple Makefile too.

[1]: http://notes.ceondo.com/mongrel2-zmq-paas/
I thought they were required to in some way make the apology visible on their home page?
One of the biggest dangers with software is that vulnerabilities, once discovered, can be exploited remotely or by persons without the necessary knowledge and talent to actually build the exploit themselves.

Nearly all locks can be picked. However, unless you are the target of a major criminal organization or government agency, it is reasonable to expect that your lock will not have to withstand someone who has invested thousands of hours into learning how to pick the most sophisticated locks. With a network-connected device, it only takes one clever fellow to discover the vulnerability and all of a sudden script kiddies everywhere can be deploying it against your lock.
You miss my point. Cronyism is being hired for who you are, not what you know.

In answer to your question I would call up the people I know but I would expect them to only hire me if I brought the right skills.
I've read about their opaque structure before, and the relationship between big business and the South Korean government. Dark and murky. It's rather fascinating. Wish I could remember the article source.
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It's in the footer… on the homepage, but only scarcely. http://www.apple.com/uk/
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IDC: Nokia loses top 5 spot to RIM in smartphones
If you visit Apple's UK website at www.apple.co.uk, there's a link in the footer.
They do have the link on the homepage.. but I wouldn't call it prominently. :)
> basic personal finance

I fully understand the arguments for diversification. Just like I fully understand CAPM, modern portfolio theory and the assumption that var=risk.

But it's all bullshit. Why are you investing in companies that have that risk? If you understand which companies return higher returns - why aren't you all in on them?

It's bloody hard to find good companies and when you do - why on earth would you diversify into their worse off counterparts? You need to have heavy concentration in great companies where you are perfectly fine having a 10 year hold on at the right price.
The judgement does not mention an apology, only a statement.
There is actually a minuscule link to the document at the very bottom of the http://apple.co.uk/ homepage, as "Samsung/Apple UK judgement" next to "Privacy Policy" and "Use of Cookies".
Oops, yes got them mixed up, thanks.
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It is on the Apple UK homepage - right at the bottom: http://www.apple.com/uk/ ("Samsung/Apple UK judgement" link). Wonderfully its in a 'div' with a class 'sosumi'.
Exactly (I think people might assume I was disagreeing), the skill sets are wildly different in many ways.
I can't be bothered to learn LaTeX to mark up my Haskell assignments, so I've been using Markdown + LHS
Apple is a scam. :)
Pirate Party falling out of favor across Germany
JaguarPC left us in the dark. 12+ hours downtime