skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Case in point: the markup in your final link is terrible"

To be fair to Redactor, I was using an older version before its license change. It was something I quickly integrated a while back and it does introduce <BR> and some other weird things. At the moment moment of writing the tutorial, I just needed it to "Look Right" and not technically be "Right" or "Pretty". My core product doesn't revolve around document management.

"I could never sanction the use of an editor that produces that kind of garbage."

The thing is, I'm willing to bet a lot of people couldn't care less about the HTML produced. In my case, I just needed to get the document out ASAP so that I could move on to the other hundred things on my to do list. I probably used redactor to put a square into a circle, but it got the job done for me.

"Don't get me wrong, Markdown is not the solution either"

I agree and who ever comes up with the solution, will probably do quite well. My reason for posting was to point out the Markdown isn't the final solution. For now, I'm willing to bet a lot of people just want to be able to type away and have things look right, with out it being right.
Anyone know of anything similar going the other way around?
I run http://www.fantasysp.com/, which provides tools and services to help people manage their fantasy sports teams.

I started it because I wanted a faster way to get my player news... fast forward 7 years later and its a full fledged business.
I recently heard that The Beatles paid a 95% income tax.

That seems pretty crazy to us today, but maybe back then they would wonder how we could have the < 40% taxes we have now and properly maintain the roads and bridges and various societal institutions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxman
Except that actually does apply to X86.

As an example with AVX instructions you can process 8 floats at the same time, compared to 4 doubles. So if float is enough for you you can expect double performance in either memory transfer bound or ideally vectorizable algorithms.

And in mobile computer graphics 16bit values are common.
It may be universal, but as you yourself suggest, it is highly dependent on cultural constraints. To talk of bullying in India without understanding communal tensions is ignorant and takes away from the rest of your valid points.
The website is miserable. I recommend using the iOS app if you can.
Yeah I can see that being confusing. Will change the label and add a little blurb with information where to get the details. Thanks!
well that ain't the fault of the bbc now is it?
I'm not sure about negativity and disinterest being "most" of the reaction to Dart. From people who actually take the time to learn a bit about the language, the reaction is mostly positive in my experience. Dart is growing, but unfortunately at this time that growth seems to be linear rather than exponential. It will likely take a major (non-Google) app being built in Dart, inclusion in Chrome, or inclusion in Android for it to really take off.
Ah my mistake. I forgot to check all the guides were completable within the page limit. Will increase the count to 10 or something. Were there any other issues with the guide? Thanks!
Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
Getting Started page. Will put a more visible link in the home page. Thanks
The problem with Spritz and reading comprehension
There is one for Apple.

http://www.folklore.org/index.py
This is really cool and a great promotional idea for Amtrak. There used to be a universally romantic notion about long-distance travel by trains that I'm sure Amtrak is trying to bring back to the forefront of Americans' minds. Check out this article by a freelance writer about her cross country trip by rail: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/riding-an-amt.... I'm sure that's the type of promotion that they're looking for.
Feedja – new reading service is emerging
I run http://www.graduatetutor.com/ myself. It is technically not one man because there are other independent tutors working with me too!
Yeah I'm having a hard to explaining it rather than showing it. Would you take a look at the getting started video and tell me what you think? https://getsproute.com/getting-started . Thanks!
Thank you sir, something else to go through on a quiet Sunday :).
In my opinion the 3DO was a great idea, but the execution was poor. Valve are attempting something very similar with the Steam Machines, perhaps this is the time it'll succeed (Oculus Rift being a 'killer app' of sorts).

Interesting that both the 3DO and Atari Lynx were designed by ex Amiga engineers.
I worked several shit jobs. Late nite gas stations, food delivery to gang riddled neighborhoods, two factories, and a china warehouse. Not to mention retail, which is even worse because you have to deal with idiot customers on top of idiot managers. It can be an eye opening experience for sure.
Also the planes always have at least 30 minutes delay before take-off (here in China),and yes, airports are usually far from the Downtown. Anyway, Trains are much more comfortable, less stressing, you can take more luggage, you can sit at the restaurant, have internet with a 3G stick, play cards and make friends, many trains have a smoking area (in China). I prefer trains over planes every time.
How about making the paying Amtrak experience nice instead of making a Potemkin ride? (see: http://reason.com/archives/2005/12/01/amtrak-sucks )
Nice, a slide show using a bleeding edge layout/display framework that doesn't work on mobile. Way to spread your ideas.
>Punish the offender, not the group.

You are punished with 3 weeks paid leave!
How does 30% of 488 million = 278 million?

In any case XP is way past it's lifetime. I can only imagine how the developers must feel working on a code base that is 13 years old.
I completly agree with this: When Tuenti (the Facebook of Spain) was sold it was very very covered in the press (in Spain and in all Europe) although it was “only” a 70MM adquisition, as you say, is not how big is the sucesss or how much money is done, is how boring or how popular the startup is what makes how much cover the news get.
I doubt people would really blame getting hit by security flaws exploits on Microsoft. Many people are already getting hit by malwares, and they couldn't tell the difference between a malware that they installed themselves and one that exploited a security flaw.
typical work boredom becomes a crippling, anxiety-inducing disability

There is a secret for overcoming this boredom: podcasts. Ticket-munching isn't actually that bad if you have a bunch of queued up podcasts and audiobooks that you can listen to. I recommend bloggingheads.tv, C-Span AfterWords, C-Span Q&A, and if you like sports, the B.S. Report. Though if you listen to podcasts, you must be quick to pause when your work actually requires all 145+ IQ points, otherwise quality will suffer.
Tidbit: Monetize without ads.
Okay, let's go!

"Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western Post–World War II baby boom. Demographers, historians and commentators use beginning birth dates from the early 1960s to the early 1980s."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

"Millennials, or the Millennial Generation,[1] also known as Generation Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates when the generation starts and ends. Commentators use beginning birth years from the early 1980s to the early 2000s."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

"Generation Z is one name used for the cohort of people born after the Millennial Generation. There is no agreement on the exact dates of the generation with some sources starting it at the mid or late 1990s [1] or from the mid 2000s [2] to the present day. This is the generation that is currently being born."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z

Alright so what have we learned?

Gen X: early 1960s to early 1980s

Gen Y: early 1980s to early 2000s

Gen Z: mid 1990s/early 2000s to today and further

You can't really have a clear start and end date to broad generalizations because the nature of a generalization prevents it.
no explanation whatsoever, my guess is a RSS service.
"taken most seriously by those JavaScript programmers who have absolutely no experience whatsoever"

You mean like those at Google (dart), Microsoft (typescript), Mozilla (asm.js) and the developers of dozens of other languages that compile to javascript, I guess: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
When Tuenti (the Facebook of Spain) was sold it was very very covered in the press (in Spain and in all Europe) although it was “only” a 70MM adquisition, is not how big is the sucesss or how much money is done, is how boring or how popular the startup is what makes how much cover the news get.
This thing is a weight on the entire technology world. Stop bitching and move on.
Do you really need a machine to add yeast to grape juice and seal it up to ferment and make wine? I remember a kid doing this in my high school science class.
Doge planet
Centralisation of doge news websites. Don't hisetate to submit new sources.
In 1970s when South Korea was still relatively poor, its government undertook national transportation infrastructure project connecting key cities. For years, there were hardly any cars on these new highways, and they became butt of people's joke. Considering SK's GDP was $300-$400/year back then, it was an understandable reaction. But after 10-15 years, no one was laughing.
Most of the HSR is built on stilts precisely so the Chinese government doesn't have to seize land, and most of the (agricultural) land it goes over is still being used in exactly the same way that it was before.
I own and operate http://www.radioreference.com and http://www.broadcastify.com. I do all the development, business management, and support.

I have a team of community volunteers that do a lot of day to day moderation and member management.

I got started simply building a set of community resources for the radio communications and hobbyist market.

We're very profitable and these businesses provide the majority of my family's income.
You're kidding. Microsoft has always been blamed for Windows being an insecure operating system that "gets viruses". The fact that there's a multi-billion dollar anti-virus industry for Windows, because people pay for it because they know they are vulnerable on Windows, should confirm that.
As someone who has no idea about the SSL certificate business, how does your business work? Are you a reseller or do you make money on affiliate commissions? Just genuinely curious.
Great Thread....

I live entirely in the consulting space working on SEO/SEM and content marketing, and have done so alone since 1997. After a few pivots in web design, hosting and domaining, I've ended up in a place where I can be picky with clients and charge good fees. I hit the website development market on its first big wave, and moved into search before 99% of other SEOs even knew the discipline existed (and before some were even out of elementary school!)

I make much more than a full-time employee would, but there is a lot of bosses and stress comes in waves. I have learned how to fire clients (hard to do) and how to size up opportunities. But the company is me. It's not saleable - no intellectual asset exists beyond what I bring to the table. So it's never going to have an "exit." This is my main gripe.

Also, I relocated to Kentucky after writing tons of code in The Valley and ended up in Lexington, KY - a great university town with a highly educated population (and a Google eCity.) This has offered me a nice lifestyle, plenty of time to raise my kids and material rewards for probably 60% of Santa Clara's cost. My company is at http://www.buzzmaven.com. Good luck!
Implementing one high-level language (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) via translation to another high-level language (JavaScript) does not make the target language an "assembly language" in any sense.
How exactly? They've already kept it for 13 years. What's the argument for not continuing to fix its bugs for another 5 years, from a security point of view, and not a "Microsoft's profits" point of view? It's not about keeping selling it, but about supporting the people who already use it.
by the way, thanks for maintaining that fantastic resource!

-bowerbird
Awesome! Email me if you have any questions or need any help.
"The thing is, I'm willing to bet a lot of people couldn't care less about the HTML produced."

People with disabilities, especially visual ones, rely on technologies that extract semantic meaning from your site's HTML in order to convert it to another form. If your HTML is garbage then your site is inaccessible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility
The XP OS is old, really really old. XP was annouced EOL years ago. Move on people.
President Obama is expected to introduce the series!

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-ms...

Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about his redux of the famous Carl Sagan series and why science and science literacy matter in a democracy, with Bill Moyers on Moyers & Company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da3G2ezt9R0
What billing model are you on? Hourly? Retainer? Fixed?
488-300+300*.3
I find I have to comment quite a bit with JS because so much can be left up to interpretation, even in the code. It's the only time I wish there was some manner of type safety in JS, even if only in expression -- it sucks when an out-of-date comment gives the wrong type of an incoming param, and it's not until you actually step through that you see that.
> A considerable amount has been written by the european experience of america and an almost ubquitious theme in the accounts is "the feeling of unlimited possibility", an ostentatiousness and pre-occupation with wealth, etc.

You say "etc." there like those two things are related in some way and a reader could figure out how to extrapolate. Surely the feeling of unlimited possibility does not entail ostentatiousness and preoccupation with wealth? They're just two things that you ascribe to Americans without much argument.

The "American Dream" is an idea about the distribution of money in a society, not about money itself. If it were just about money, lottery winners would be considered realizations of the American Dream. If it were even about success in business, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies would be heroes in American society. (From political debates to popular media, they're decidedly not.) If there were some government policy by which all Americans could be made filthy rich (ignoring the intrinsic impossibility of that), I don't think anyone would consider that a realization of the American Dream either. The dream assumes that money is a central value in society, of course, but maybe that's because things like inner peace, being a good person, and deeper notions of happiness haven't historically been explicitly constrained in so many human societies the way the ability to accumulate money has.

Out of curiosity: if Americans are prototypically self-motivated and desire to make money, push the frontier, explore, and invent, and that Europeans don't (as a culture) dream of those things, do Europeans have widely shared dreams? What are they?
BBC is not blocked, at least here in Beijing or other big cities. Are you in the countryside of Northern China? I advice to try www.myssh.cc , very fast and very cheap (2 USD a month), it unblocks everything, but then you have to turn it off when you want to watch all the free streaming movies, TV series, and music easy available inside the great wall.
> "I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."

-Audrey Hepburn
I will grant you your first point if you can point me to a specific Indian law that says cartelization fines are a function of a multinational's global sales?

As to your link on EU fines, it very clearly states that fines are a percentage of "relevant sales", defined as "usually the sales of the products covered by the infringement". I don't know how you came to the conclusion that means global sales?
The company will only recover if new management/owners step in and go in a new direction.

I've been in your situation and ended up quitting 2 years too late.
The likely roll-out of self-driving cars in the United States over the same time frame[1] is one reason not to expect high-speed train lines in the United States. The United States already has the infrastructure in place (the Interstate Highway system) to make self-driving cars a quite feasible means of long-distance, point-to-point transportation. The United States cities and towns in the central part of the United States are largely where they are because they are along historic railroad lines, but the railroad lines in my region of the country are increasingly being turned into rails-to-trails dedicated biking and walking paths, which I can take on very long trips from my immediate neighborhood, and except for the parts of the United States where there are already a lot of train users (notably the Northeast Corridor), there is not likely to be much increase in consumer demand for train rides, no matter how great the government subsidies supporting them.

China has rushed ahead in high-speed rail development, at the cost of human life[2] and corruption,[3] but the United States has no need to follow this example. We will mostly be taking long-distance trips here by plane (as we already do) or by car (as we also already do, except with self-driving becoming more and more commonplace). There isn't any particular need in the United States to build new high-speed train lines.

[1] http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_autonomouscars/

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732380820...

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/01/safety-self-driving-car...

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230442800...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/world/asia/design-flaws-ci...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/22/121022fa_fact_...

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/08/liu-zhijun-sent...
Wow, did Amtrak knock up that guy's teenage sister or what?

As someone who has taken train/plane/bus/car between NYC and DC the last couple of years, I can say without a doubt that Amtrak is the most civilized way to get between those two places. If I didn't have family in Oregon I'd never get on a plane again.
Apparently Obama is giving an introduction.

As a scientist, I completely reject this politicization of science.

I do not agree that the Democrats are a pro-science, pro-reason party and I reject their attempt to portray themselves as such by latching on to scientists.

I will not be tuning in. I don't know who is producing this, but involving the President is a breach of integrity.
I think that might depend on whether or not you use ACAS to resolve the dispute, I don't believe there is an obligation to go through ACAS unless both parties agree.
If DOS is single-tasking, how was multitasking possible in Windows 95?
It's important to refine your process so that you can replace yourself. I know this first hand.. Tough. Good luck!
Can the faux news veiwership handle that the earth is not 6000 years old? Or is this the work of the devil?
There must be a nice niche finding the software that prevents people from upgrading and then providing data liberation tools or better new software.

Because that is the only rational reason to not upgrade, right?
I really hope this isn't an overproduced mess. I look at how Fox makes Gordon Ramsey look like the ultimate asshole, and hope it doesn't happen to Tyson.
> drugs can act like a kind of superfood to produce cheap meat

> Trash, it turned out, could be transformed into meat.

> pumping them with food and antibiotics. And yes, this did make the pigs fatter

> particularly in female mice: They gained about twice as much body fat as the control-group mice

This article is infuriating sloppy, as it starts out talking about meat (muscle), and then slides into talking about fat, as if they were the same thing, and it's not clear at all that the author is talking about the same things, using the wrong words, or talking about things that can be connected at all.
What I know is, India is the most corrupt country. If you want to do business in the best ethical way, this is not the place.
Try something else, or learn dirty politics and exploit peoples before you enter.....
I am Indian..
thanks for the heads up - I haven't been able to reproduce it myself but have received a couple other reports of that happening.

if you inspect element, is there no text as well?
It seems those are slides for a live presentation, so I guess you might also complain about the lack of sound or about how pointless it is to post slides on the internet. Or you might make a constructive comment. Or no comment at all.

Still I was curious to find out what "doen't work" means in the context of your comment. I tried on my Nexus 4 and everything was nice. So maybe you should complain about how a slack the original author is to not try his intended-for-a-live-presentation slides on all possible devices a careful reader like you could see them.
If you find any cost savings in this, I'm guessing you're an alcoholic and should probably avoid a make-it-at-home device.
Target Accelerator's first batch
I attended this talk and it was very well done.
Most intro to $LANGUAGE talks try to share a few very simple examples of the language. Something most people could read about and absorb on their own in 10-15 minutes.
Bob's slides and presentation went for breadth, acknowledging that this was not a tutorial but a way to present listeners with a great sense of what the language does, how it contrasts with Erlang, and [what I found the most useful] a good explanation of how to approach some of the more difficult to explain concepts.
Now when I sit down to actually learn Haskell, I have a useful mental model on a bunch of the not so obvious concepts.

I think video of the talk that goes with these slides will eventually be uploaded at: http://www.youtube.com/user/ErlangSolutions

Some of the presentations from just a couple days ago are already up, so I hope to see the rest soon.
You're confusing institutions with partisanship.
Ask HN: Do you get work offers via your StackOverflow profile/activity?
We all know the power of SO and its relevance to hackers. For those of you who are very active and possibly leaders in certain areas, do you get contacted often for work based on your SO profile/activity ? I mean it should make sense that SO should generate a lot of leads even if you are not really looking.
The short answer is, after 13 years, it's the customers' fault for not planning upgrades.

The longer answer is about the mismatch between PCs and mission critical enterprise computing. There is blame to spread around for that one.
The point of "JavaScript as the assembly language of the web" isn't that Javascript is exactly like Assembly was/is.

The point is that Javascript is as low-level as web-programming gets, and you can craft Javascript manually or let a compiler create it for you (with CoffeeScript, etc.).

Of course, the analogy isn't perfect, but that doesn't mean it doesn't fit.
This is even a shorter tl;dr: use MIT or Apache. Who would choose other licenses, more complicated, if they didn't mean to screw you later.
Well let's not forget cost. Most of the world treats XP as freeware.