skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for that matter, you can control physical attractiveness. There's always something you could do if you really had to, right? Lose a little weight, gain a little weight, hide your flaws, accentuate your good points, dress a certain way. You know how sometimes on tabloid covers in the supermarket they have pictures of celebrities wearing sweats and no makeup? It's a petty thing to fixate on, but it illustrates a valuable point.
That doesn't have to be true. It's still quite possible to build a website that grows to be huge. Although I would agree it's unlikely someone will build a portal-style site that displaces a Facebook or Google.
https://raw.github.com/gist/3956665/d549ea53817335c868e750ca...

How can this be harder than creating table with Word? Word always gets in the way. Word appears to be easier but down the road, it always end up as a painful process.

For me just the benefit of being mergable and delegating styling at the end of the tool chain is just plain great.

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables

Edit: rendering issues!
A third party would dilute votes between the liberal candidates giving the Republican candidate a win. The Tea Party candidates ran as Republicans.
Do you know why Markdown was invented? Not for semantics.
Australian Win 8 launch fails to mention business
> Isn't it stupid to just to have one job, one car,

Indeed people who own a job, a car or a house are well advised to have insurance. And insurance is a form of diversification.

For countries the analogy is flimsy, but if you live in a country that has had any of: wars, dictators, property confiscation or high rate of violent crime in the recent past (which describes most of the non-developed world, including emerging countries), it's a good idea to have a passport and a way to move elsewhere.
No way. Markdown chooses simplicity over correctness. Fine for chat forums an Readmes, but in many cases correctness matters.
Religion major, music and philosophy minors, so yes, I instantly recognized it as well as it's philosophical context. We are here on HN too.
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That was a lot of years back. And then MS declared it will auto update and patch every XP, genuine or not.
One of my main UK clients has 1000 or so seats still running Win XP. I don't think I'll live to see them running Win 8.

What is going to happen when there is a disconnect between what the enterprise user uses at work (XP or 7 presumably) and the Modern UI the consumer gets at home?

I think this is going to be MS's Waterloo... we'll see.
It's not a matter of there being no work-around. MarkDown is meant to be as much for ease-of-use for the content creator/editor as it is to be a readable alternative text source. And HTML isn't always the desired output, so why should users have to know anything about HTML unless they're creating HTML?
In this particular case, keeping track of the similarity between posts might have helped. There's no legitimate reason to post the exact same content several times that I'm aware of.

Post quoting might end up being an issue though.
Sadly, the OWS focus on inclusion weakens it politically. It's really hard to rally around a movement that makes a point of attempting to reach across to people whose entire outlook on life you find toxic and appalling. There are people in the US, and they are probably overrepresented in the Tea Party, who harm the nation in direct proportion to their influence on national policy. They need to be defeated utterly, their ideology rendered nothing more than a curious historical footnote. Not parleyed and compromised with and OWS deliberately discourages this. They shot themselves in the foot.
Hi Paul, thanks for your reply, and congrats on the campaign! Forgive my scepticism around the product, instead take it as a sign of respect from someone in marketing ;-D

> As someone who lives with three adult roommates who all have S.O.'s we have people in and out all the time.

Do standard keys not work for this? Or do you often have bad breakups that would mean physical danger if someone didn't give their key back and the landlord couldn't replace the lock?

> As someone who lived by himself in college it was nice to know when the landlord came by.

Interesting .. it's illegal here in Australia for a landlord to enter a rented property without seven days notice and they can only do that (twice?) per year for an inspection. It's possible that it does happen to some people, but there's fairly clear laws about it.

> As someone who runs a startup, it provides more benefit than a typical modern access control system without the $3000 price tag.

Again .. keys aren't that expensive if you're not using serviced office space.

> For American locks, the deadbolt provides most of the security. The handle can usually be loided and is kind of only useful if you're stepping out for a minute to grab the mail and want to shut the door behind you.

Interesting .. is "loiding" really a common problem that causes most break-ins? Around here, nobody bothers with locked doors. They either find a window that's open (or can be forced) or they move to the next house. (Or they're meth heads who'll just break shit and nobody's lock would stop them). Basically, nobody breaks into anywhere via the front door.

> For letting someone in remotely, you usually have an idea that they're coming over first. If they were to show up unsolicited, you would likely call first.

I'd never let anyone into my house that I wasn't expecting and had therefore not provided a key for. If a friend arrived at my home unexpectedly I'd .. actually, that's never happened.

Thanks for your response and entertaining my scepticism!
If you were looking for a job, would you call up the people you know or dive into the classifieds? When you hire a contractor, would you go with someone you know or a stranger? Relationships and social proof make the world go round. There's certainly a spectrum here-- but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
No, it doesn't. Presumably the parent is describing a situation in which a temporary guest wouldn't receive a physical key at any time, but would have temporary access through the app.
This is extraordinarily accurate, based on my experience.
I like the basic idea; but don't quite understand what the Google Connect is needed for... ?
I completely agree. I read that first sentence and thought: what about people that don't care either way? Apparently, I don't exit.
Tell us more about how sexism was less rampant in the 1980s.
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"The real problem cannot be solved without some forward action on his part."

Sure it can - you write something better, then get everybody who's already using Gruber's version or one of it's presumably also-flawed reimplementations to switch to yours. Or, is "8 years of enragement" really just keyboard-warrior-hyperbole on your part and an excuse to criticize someone who's achieved widespread adoption of some code you claim is 2nd rate, but which haven't bothered to improve or replace?

Besides, it sounds to me like David Greenspan has come up with a fine solution.
Supplying Apple those components brings scale to the production process that is leveraged in supplying their own handheld devices, so I'd venture to conjecture that without this business with Apple, Samsung's overall profits will fall as well just in their mobile division, as costs rise.
If you think that users of StackOverflow and GitHub are “Normal People”, you need to adjust your personal RDF.

My wife is not a geek or a programmer. She will, if forced, learn the intricacies of an idiotic programmer‘s decision to make something easier for him (and it’s almost invariably a him) in order to participate in a particular forum. This is why people put up with crap like bbcode every single day. That doesn’t mean she enjoys it.

Markdown works because it makes plain text readable and formatted nicely. Markdown works because it works just as well in a plain text email as it does in an HTML-formatted email.

It doesn’t work because some geek says that the people who use heavily geek-oriented sites (StackOverflow & GitHub, to use your examples) are in fact ”Normal People”. (And, just for what it’s worth, I do find the fact that I have to join all my hard-wrapped lines back together in SO & GH comments to be immensely annoying. At least their markdown parser for .markdown files doesn’t do this.)

So, no I am not flat-out wrong. I hear geek whining that parsing is made harder because of a design feature that is present because most people don't think about or want to think about “correct” line-endings.

Before you decide that I’m full of hot air, understand that I am working with my wife’s novel that’s written in Markdown so that I can parse it (possibly using an existing well-written-and-maintained parser like peg-markdown or peg-multimarkdown as an intermediate mechanism) and then transform it into the LaTeX formatting required for making her PDF output and the HTML formatting required for making her EPUB (and thus MOBI) output.

I am well aware of how ugly some of it is…but it makes it easier for her to write her novel without falling back to proprietary formats like .docx. I’m willing to deal with some pain as an implementor in order to minimize what she has to deal with.

As such, I don’t really have a lot of patience for this type of geek whinging.
The reason Microsoft is dead to many developers (myself included) is that they used their massive corporate power to shut down good startups making cool stuff.

I didn't care that IE was terrible (until v3 or whenever), I cared that Microsoft went to all the major PC manufacturers and told them that their licensing deals were toast if they preloaded Netscape.

I didn't care that Word was a crappy word processor, I cared that they used their market position on office documents to make minor incompatibilities that prevented WordPerfect from interoperating.

I didn't care that Windows file sharing wasn't half as good as NFS, I care that they continually fucked with the SMB protocol so that no one could sell UNIX machines that could share with Windows networks.

It has been an absolute pleasure watching that Microsoft's power over device makers disappear. The world is better off for it, and Microsoft will always be an asshole in my book.
[lunamark](https://github.com/jgm/lunamark/tree/master/lunamark) is another PEG-based implementation.
Yeah it's not great that it's the only option- we'll hopefully add other logins soon.
Lots of people are with you.

I think this behavior is the better route because it accommodates both crowds. The line-wrap folks can just press enter twice; no biggie. But the console and vim users of the world can continue using line-breaks the way that work best for their environment.

On the flip side, making a single enter start a new paragraph wouldn't really help the GUI users (what's the difference between one line break and two, really?) but it would really hurt the console users of the world
It seriously pays to pay attention to the rates between banks.

I was doing a telegraphic transfer between my Australian bank account to my NZ account, transferring AUD -> NZD.

I hit "go", and shortly after noted I was getting the rate 1.201. After checking, I realised that if I just transferred AUD I would get 1.24 from my NZ bank. This was like a $200 NZD difference. Fortunately I was able to cancel, transfer AUD and convert on the other end.

Compare e.g. the following:

* http://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/services/fx-calcu...
* https://www.westpac.co.nz/international-migrant/foreign-exch...

Today, the difference between Westpac Australia and Westpac NZ is 1.21 versus 1.24 for telegraphic transfers...
I saw some foreign policy gurus on Twitter saying that the names of central party leaders are permanently blocked on Weibo, so as to prevent online discussion of them. Which is really interesting.
Navigation without electronics. With a compass, a map, and your wits. And maybe the Antikythera mechanism.
Put it this way, from the outside they looked a lot better than they really were. Looking as bad as Groupon and actually going as sour as Enron did are two wildly different things.
The software auto-kills duplicate posts.

You're probably seeing them because you've turned on showdead.
I just watched the video. It shows a few people typing with each other online (in this case working together on a collaborative story), a picture being dropped down near the end, and then it being posted to Facebook.

I understand that the product is the software that allows them to do this but it's not clear to me what unique features are being offered that make it superior to the IM programs and forums people have already been writing collaboratively on for years. What am I missing?
Good point about external api, thank you
Agreed, but I would put it slightly differently.

Every goal has a percentage likelihood of success, your job (as the goal-reacher) is to increase the likelihood of desired outcomes.

Ex: Moving to SF increases your luck-factor/success-percentage of meeting a VC at a coffee shop. (Assuming there are a lot of VCs at coffee shops in SF) Therefore you have become more "lucky". You have probably also reduced your luck-factor for seeing a cow in the morning.
Is Java making a comeback? Hell Yes and it is coming back big time
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I realize this is just one data point, but I implemented a full EHCI (USB 2.0) stack in 3 weekends. Then I implemented a simple mass storage driver in 2 more (that was the hardware I was targeting).

My HID implementation isn't worth talking about but it was helpful to test interrupt transfers.
Where I work we use Faraday cages [1] to stop radio emissions from leaking out and interacting with scientific experiments. The thing is about the size of an industrial freezer with a large door. I guess you could use the same idea but in reverse for very sensitive things.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
You have it absolutely correct

He enjoys the credit for being the creator of something used by millions every day, but is entirely unwilling to take the responsibility that comes with that creation being a very public mess.

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.
As a heavy LaTeX user (phd student; can't escape it), I'm convinced that there is a small enough subset of LaTeX that actually gets used day-to-day that someone could figure out a way to shim it into something like Markdown.

And then, for the LaTeX that you can't shim in, just have some escape hatch that sends fragments out to a renderer.
If I could only have:

* Math mode
* Citations and Bib files
* Labels and References

Then I'd be willing to go through a lot of extra pain to get all the weird tables and precise image placements that are inevitable in a 2-column ACM format.

EDIT: Having just investigated Pandoc, which many here are talking about, I realize this might be exactly what I've been looking for :)
You seem to be in violent agreement.
You're right, I did. My mistake then. Still a newb.
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Note that Samsung is a huge conglomerate. I suppose this is news is posted here because some many people on HN tend to view Samsung is an "Apple rival" (and for some odd reason a lot of people "root" for tech companies), but Samsung is more like a Korean version of what General Electric used to be.

According to Wikipedia, Samsung's revenue in 2011 was U$247 billion. That's about the nominal GDP of Hong Kong or Israel.
highly respected news organizations don't have access to the bowels of Old Main. Current and former trustees, current and former student government members, current and former campus activists, on the other hand, have been compiling things at least as long as my time at PSU in the 90s.
care to quantify your generalization?
Minors don't matter, per se, but it it basically illegal to facilitate collecting or sharing information from someone under 13 without enforcing parental control.
Yeah, the video was designed in a way to capture the experience rather than the tech. What isn't fully exposed:

- what you see is what you get. whenever you want, you can download the story in epub, mobi, or pdf format. while you might have to pay initially, you keep the story itself for any future download at each stage of its development in any format.

- writing is in realtime. you can see what others write, google doc style.

- content discovery is an enormous sell point here. you can write in gdocs all you want, but will just anyone be able to find and read and comment on it? we make stories accessible to the entire future pen.fm community to share and enjoy.

- we can update you on stories that you've subscribed to, to let you know anything from the fact that it's updated, or the section added itself.

- does anyone really enough shuffling back and forth between word/gdocs, chat, and forums?

- and more. hope that's good for now. :)
Alas, technology is destroying higher skilled, white collar jobs at a furious pace. At least that is the main thesis of the recent book by MIT business school faculty:

Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-Prod...

They give three explanations for the current slow job growth: (1) business cycle lack of demand, needing normal Keynsian stimulus, (2) technology running out of steam in improving productivity, and (3) the opposite, technology accelerating and destroying the need for highly profitable businesses to hire more workers. The authors think technology acceleration has been underappreciated for its effects on suppressing job growth.
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Single page view of the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of-...
Certainly if you are so sure about this you can at least point out some source on the web where this is explained in more detail? [The web is big]

I don't want to be rude, nor is it the case that i don't believe you.
I doubt it would amount to very much. They sold 58 million SmartPhones vs Apple's 26 million iPhones and 14 million iPads or so and Samsung is just one of many Apple suppliers.
Just tried, the keyword "温家宝" is now being blocked in China Weibo [1], and only limited search results from Baidu [2].

[1] 根據相關法律法規和政策，“溫家寶”搜索結果未予顯示。

[2] 根据相关法律法规和政策，部分搜索结果未予显示。
didn't they say the same about the Euro and the mighty strength of Europe that has a bigger GDP than that of the US, yet look where they are now..
http://www.pen.fm/read/A-Chance-Autumn-Encounter-PNefec68b4f...

Demo of our reading experience
Correct:

Try searching for Wen Jiabao ("温家宝" in Chinese)[0] on Sina Weibo Search[1], and you get:

> 根据相关法律法规和政策，“温家宝”搜索结果未予显示。

Google Translate for this gives:

> In accordance with the relevant laws, regulations and policies, "Wen Jiabao search results are not displayed.

Similar results can be observed with Mao Zedong (毛泽东), Jiang Zemin (江泽民), and Deng Xiaoping (邓小平), all past "Paramount Leaders"[5], as well as Hu Jintao (胡锦涛)[2], the current Paramount Leader, Xi Jinping (习近平)[6], rumored to be the next Paramount Leader. So is Wang Yang (汪洋)[4], the Guangdong Party Chief and likely a big shot in the next generation, alongside Xi Jinping.

Bo Xilai (薄熙来)[3] and Wang Lijun (王立军), recently disgraced officials, are acceptable. Oddly, so is Hua Guofeng (华国锋), a Paramount Leader from the 70s and 80s.

Edit: from Wikipedia[7]:

> because of his insistence on continuing the Maoist line, he was himself outmaneuvered in December 1978 by Deng Xiaoping, a pragmatic reformer, who forced Hua into early retirement. As Hua faded into political obscurity, he continued to insist on the correctness of Maoist principles. He is remembered as a largely benign transitional figure in modern Chinese political history.

Perhaps he is sort of seen as disgraced as well.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Jiabao

1: http://s.weibo.com/

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jintao

3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai

4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Yang_%28politician%29

5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Leader

6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping

7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_guofeng
His running mate was a self-identified libertarian... until he became the running mate, that is, and started fighting to be the one to pump the most money into Medicare.
I think your criticism is well founded.

That said, the author did put work into something, document it, and share it freely with the community - and for that reason, I'd rather not see someone hurt their feelings calling their work an 'abomination.'

I just think with a slightly different tone you could have made the same point in a way that would show the OP some brutal honesty but without discouraging them.
"People" includes major websites like Amazon and banks that send official email from phishy domain names.

I have mistakenly reported several Amazon security emails to their phishing team.
I second that, TokBox developer evangelists are really nice and helpful.
Yes I imagine that and "you" will be a very small (tiny) subset of the entire population that uses Google and it will be so inconvenient seeing the (growing) dependence.
So I guess the video they showed wasn't the test where they "took out the cameras"? It would have been cool if they needed to pick up some mechanical film camera to record the test.
Then buy insurance - put out a costless collar if you are that worried.

If you want to diversify you need to actually buy reverse correlated assets. So go ahead - hedge with options, hedge with futures, hedge with shorting the indices.

But don't think buying disparate companies protects you - it doesn't.
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Thoughts on a YC bubble
Have we entered another tech bubble of overzealous founders who are trying to build things which the world simply does not need?
Kinda reminds me of Dr. Theopolis... anyone remember him?
I fully expect Groupon to go bankrupt.
Related, from a little while ago, "Xi Jinping Millionaire Relations Reveal Fortunes of Elite": http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-29/xi-jinping-milliona...

For that article, our sites were blocked in China. I'm curious whether NYT will get the block as well.
just checked this, not very good
Programming isn't just about writing code, it's about solving problems.

In my opinion, once you've achieved competence in your domain, you're probably better served by branching out to new areas. You can always go deeper in your area if you later discover that you need to, but different domains lead to different perspectives, and different perspectives can give you ideas or solutions that you would never see otherwise.
Aside from the innovative product, the new Ableton site is pretty fantastic. Responsive, bold, very well done. Love to see this great company on HN.
Same reason handing your wallet to a stranger who calls himself Dr. Bankersmith is stupid.