skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not entirely true about no mobile app, there is always https://github.com/MobileOrg/mobileorg but it hasn't been updated since Febuary and there doesn't seem to be anyone actively involved with the project anymore.
I agree that redirecting should have been okay. But really StackExchange and Github have massive google juice and influence, they can push up any domain in Google rankings they want -- so it won't actually hurt.
True, but he offered two possible options, both of which used "Markdown." So it apparently wasn't the word "Markdown" that was the issue.
Apologies if my reply came off as glib - I'm surprised (though only through my ignorance) to learn a personal connection may not be present despite a number of mutual connections. I guess the volume of YC companies has had that effect over the years.
Intel reveals MICA, its first luxury smart bracelet
ok - so I think we actually agree mostly. The system I grew up in had daycare available at the school, starting around 8am and going to 6pm. School itself only went from 9am to 3.30pm - so kids who had supervision available at home, or friends houses, etc, only had to be there at those hours. It sounds like you'd agree that system would meet parents needs without putting excessive restrictions on families that didn't need the care?
Colgan 3407 crashed because of a profound and astounding lack of basic airmanship and knowledge of the effects of icing on aircraft performance.

Yes, the autopilot helped mask the knowledge problem and presented them with a situation where that demonstrated lack of knowledge (that it takes more power to fly an airplane with ice on the wings) contributed to a stick shaker event (a warning of impending aerodynamic stall due to excessive angle of attack) whereupon the captain (and it's hard to use that term given the airmanship circus that ensued) decided to hold the stick back, exacerbating the stall condition rather than doing what every 5-hour pilot is taught to do upon a stall warning: level the wings, lower the nose, and add power.

The autopilot is a minuscule contributor to that accident, IMO. At most, the presence of autopilots allowed unqualified airman to not wash out of airline jobs, but to blame that crash on the autopilot is to misunderstand how non-complex that situation was that swallowed the crew and all aboard.
I love this idea!

I don't think you need to use celebrities at all. If you had well dressed men with different styles with links to the stores where one can purchase the items, I think men will like it more. I don't think a lot of men feel comfortable with "dressing like a celebrity" but most don't mind getting ideas for a wardrobe. It will also solve the issue of rights infringements.

The only thing I didn't like is the links to the socks that are not visible in the picture.
Never [politely] arguing with police officers is a surefire way to reinforce their belief that they can get away with anything. I wish more people had that courage, but I understand why most people don't most of the time.
yep. ok. so. thanks. for making me waste my time at work. this was. just. too much fun. :)
> Gruber has a legal and moral right to ask the Common Markdown maintainers to change names.

Gruber has a registered trademark or has he used the "TM" designator to denote a non-registered but protected trademark? My understanding is that if he has done neither, he doesn't have a legal claim to the name.
As a Texan, I'm now suddenly glad Tesla didn't build here. I love Tesla more than the average human, but I'm not sure I want to give them a billion-dollar tax break at my expense.
I don't see how targeted tax breaks could be equitable.
So, for context: we ended up writing Matrix after literally 10 years of building SIP infrastructure, so we have some experience in SIP (and XMPP's) shortcomings :) The short answer to "why not extend SIP" is that SIP stacks are fairly fiddly to write and get right; and SIP/SIMPLE/MSRP is typically a lot more verbose and convoluted than HTTP (and hugely more verbose than SPDY and HTTP/2.0). There's no support in SIP for distributed storage of state, and there's no support for paginating and storing conversation history at all. In fact, some of the SIP community has even ended up bolting on IMAP(!) for storing conversation and call history :S Meanwhile, given HTTP is pretty simple and completely ubiquitous, so why bother with an alternative stack at all?

In terms of "jesus, not another protocol I have to support" - I completely sympathise, hence quoting http://xkcd.com/927/ in my blog post... We didn't do this lightly :)

One way of thinking of this is that right now you have LOADS of HTTP APIs out there for messaging - Twitter, FB, http://api.ihackernews.com, Reddit... they're sufficiently easy to implement that every new site goes and builds a new one, and developers have to go and learn each new one every time. Meanwhile, none of them will ever federate or interoperate - the whole thing's totally fragmented.

So whilst Matrix is indeed yet another API to support - hopefully it's one that might actually help solve this problem... so that the next time that someone wants to add a messaging HTTP API to their site, they can follow an interoperable pattern rather than reinvent the wheel again. Perhaps a better way of describing Matrix is "two-way RSS for arbitrary data, with distributed history"

Does this help justify things at all? (Disclaimer: Matrix is all my fault)
totally. the author needs tw5 http://tiddlywiki.com/
Apple Push Notifications 256B to 2KB limit increase is live
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I can't tell if it's intentional or not, but it seems to me this drama is artificial in its nature. A PR move, a good PR move. People now know about 'dialect formerly known as standard markdown' due to drama involved (mostly) and have taken note of it. Just by taking a glance you can tell it's a better option to use if you use md in any capacity. They could've called it blarblargh or whatever and it would still have a good reach and growth, but not an initial exposition as it has with drama. Good move, a bit manipulative, but good move.
If Uniqlo fits you well, try any of the Mossimo shirts at Target, v-necks or crew necks. Cheap and good enough quality. (Gleaned that from /r/malefashionadvice.)

Otherwise, for the shirts and pants that almost fit, find yourself a good tailor and have them adjusted to your body. It's not expensive at all for basic adjustments.
Mutation of breast cancer gene can be patented, says Federal Court
Don't forget about Clarium Capital - at it's peak $8b under management - but then he made a series of bad bets on hyper-inflation in the dollar and got crushed. Anyone know if it is still open? I think he's clearly better at the private investing side than the public investing side.
If you can tax gasoline to reduce the amount used in your state, you can untax battery manufacturers to get more of them.
MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis Steps Down
I'm asking so I can do web analysis on a 55mil homepage corpus we have to see the distribution of styling templates/plugins/tools. I might do a heatmap after and show where these companies are that use the technologies mentioned. Just a for-fun project. I happen to love Bootstrap as a nice V1 for a site's design.
if markdown.pl had been written by some less famous person there'd have been none of this walking on eggshells, this whole thing is ridiculous.
You guys should consider donating to the International Anti-Poaching Foundation[0][1] which fights these poachers. The founder, Damien Mander[2], is an Australian ex spec-ops sniper who is using his military experience to train the park rangers since they, unlike the poachers, tend to be poorly equipped and trained as well as understaffed.

There is also the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust[3][4] which takes care of elephant and rhino orphans (most of them are orphans due to poaching). For $50 a year, you can become a sponsor of a particular animal and they'll send you photos and updates about how your sponsored animal is doing. You can for example sponsor this little fella [5][6].

[0] http://www.iapf.org/en/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Anti-Poaching_Fou...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Mander

[3] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sheldrick_Wildlife_Trust

[5] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphan_profile.asp...

[6] http://instagram.com/p/sigT3IAUKb
when you listen to him the linked podcast, you will understand why they went ahead after 2 weeks of no contact.
He has an established tendency to do that.

Even in the podcast he mentions an (serious and lucrative) offer for his @markdown twitter account, instead of answering he actively chooses not to.

He mentions the ongoing discussion on HIS mailing list which he read has a opinion about, but chooses not to respond.
I don't know if it was mentioned in the article, but after the stick shaker there was also an automatic "stick pusher" event whereby the aircraft tried to automatically recover from an impending stall, when the pilots don't. The pilot overode it by pulling back on the stick thereby putting it into a stall.
Why is it, that if Tesla is such a great and noble company doing great and noble things, that it can't operate without cheating on its taxes? Every person in Nevada now gets to pay for Tesla's selfishness.

And no, there won't be any massive influx of good jobs or any 0.0% unemployment rate. Tesla's factory will be run by robots and temporary foreign workers being paid half the local wage, because "they just can't get good workers". And no, there won't be any taxes collected in 10 or 20 years when these deals expire, because Tesla will simply threaten to move to another state unless the deals are extended.

Shameful all the way around. Crony capitalism at its finest.
Exactly. I'm just curious to find the distribution of styling tools. I want to show how much of the web IS bootstrap so I can tell some designers I know to pound sand when they complain about it all.
It's not like it's much better in court. In court it's often your word against theirs (and they have much more sympathy from the judges, prosecutors etc, because, essentially, they are working all together).

Plus, this notion leads to a servant mindset. Why should "arguing with a police officer" be a "surefire way to get arrested" (and worse, tasered, beaten up, etc).

Arguing should be totally normal and accepted -- and it is that way in most western countries -- cops don't just bark orders and except mindless obedience "or else". Of course I'm talking about plain arguing (as in talking, proposing arguments, etc, related to what they tell you). Not swearing, or fighting them (which could justifiable get you arrested).

Heck, even the "don't try to get out of the car when you are stopped by a traffic cop or you'll get shot" is a complete BS, that only happens in the US.

No cop in Germany, Sweden, Holland, Britain, Italy etc would even think to shot you for getting out of your car to check why you were stopped. That's what they do at bank robbers in hot pursuit, not traffic offenders...
A good post including practical advice and tips. Can you comment on on-boarding and including a free trial (say 30 days) and if the aha moment is achieved within wizard set up (user up and running in less than 30 min) do you collect payment at beginning (say after wizard and user if off and running w app), or through drip marketing through remainder of trial so they convert to paid to "keep it going" once trial ends?
Semi-ignorant :) I knew of org-mode as emacs only, but the grandparent post mentioned mobile & browser snippets. Just found two apps which edit & sync org-mode files, and templates for bookmarks.

Android app uses ssh, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matburt.mo...

iOS app uses dropbox, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobileorg/id634225528?mt=8

Blog post on replacing other svcs/apps with org-mode, http://www.swaroopch.com/2013/01/16/orgmode/

Web bookmark sync on mobile, http://karl-voit.at/2014/08/10/bookmarks-with-orgmode/
> they dish out the tax breaks equitably

A tax break by definition is something that's not dished out equitably. :) ("Favorable tax treatment of any class of persons" is how Wikipedia describes a tax break, which sounds about right.)

What you're describing is the opposite of a tax break. One example would be across-the-board tax relief such as lowering income taxes or property taxes for everyone, whether they're in an industry favored by the current politicians in office or not.
I’ll grant you that if this were named Something Markdown it would be much, much more subtle. But it’s Standard Markdown FFS. That’s definitely not ok.
No worries. I think many investors know at least one YC partner, but many do not. YC is so big these days =). Last demo day was probably ~150 founders and maybe ~500 investors.
Your comparing production of something with it's use. There giving incentives to a factory so the equivalent would be subsidizing a refinery which as you might imagine would have little impact on gas usage in a state.
Great tip thanks. It's added now.
California adopts first smartphone kill switch law in U.S
How is a negotiated tax incentive, one that the other party has just as much say in as Tesla, cheating on taxes?

I'm not sure why a company has to pay 100% taxes to be considered noble.
I've noticed that Java's tedium with millions of little files creates an instinctive knee-jerk resistance to creating new classes in new developers. Alternately, newbie C++ developers who don't have a good toolset develop a similar fear of adding classes because of concerns they'll miss something in their delicate language.

Never, ever, ever be afraid to add a class. If you've chosen an OOP language, then you have to make classes, and make them willy-nilly. Always better to create a class and then consolidate its commonalities with another class into a common base than to try and shoehorn too much logic into a single class where all its uses are intertwingled together.
Since when does Twitter care what you tweeted last year, or even last month? Faithfully archiving your online history has never been a priority for them. The entire platform is focused on showing you what's happening right now, and they deliberately make it difficult to find older tweets without knowing the exact ID or running some sort of crawler.

We could go on a long rant about whether or not we should trust our data to cloud-based third-party services, and so on and so forth; but in the case of Twitter, they're not even trying. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they went ahead and announced that they would delete every tweet that is over X months or Y years old.
I have a solution for this: Anki. Over the past few months I've created decks for topics ranging from electronics to mechanics to convex optimization.

They're simple Q&A format and have tags, making them searchable. Best part? Export it all to the Android app. So when I'm on the bus reading a paper and I forget how to transform a second order cone program into a semidefinite program, it's a 5 second process: search "socp,sdp,transform" boom, done.

The catch, of course, is you need to take the extraordinary amount of time to sit and digitize it all. And I'm barely 10% done what I've wanted to. Still, a bit everyday pays dividends.
I dislike using mixins for one off -able features...I mean, I do it, but not often. Where mixins really shine is when used in "layers" to modularize system functionality that otherwise cross cuts class boundaries. So you can take one aspect of your system...say syntax in a compiler, and separate parsing from type checking in its own layer. This an easy solution to the expression problem and compares favorably with the giant case statements favored in the functional programming community. And its quite nice: you know where functionality X of class C is, its in the C section of file X (i.e. a grid!).

Also, see virtual classes, though very few languages have first-class support for those these days.

Scala mixins (traits) are basically classes that undergo liearized multiple inheritance; they are designed to work well in a statically typed language (they can be used as constraints for type members, and they can refer to those type members themselves, leading to some nice constructions).
I too admire his patience, but outside of the games and graphics industries and PC gaming community he is a relative obscurity. The other people involved are from other worlds with different idols.
Well everything is security theater then. We can always come up with some absurd scenario where no amount of safety precautions will keep you safe. The difference with a regulated service is that if you do disappear into some warehouse somewhere to be sold off for parts. There's at least a chance somebody in dispatch, or your relatives, or a witness can provide a lead. Jump in a random beater and you're gone forever.

So I guess go on being proud of assuming idiotic risks the next time you hop in a beat up Toyota Tercel in Mexico City or wherever because some random guy offers to give you ride for cheap. You don't really need both of your kidneys.

I won't argue statistics with you, but the incidents of people disappearing into some Central American jungle are far higher when morons on holiday jump in the back of unmarked "taxis" vs. taking a regulated service.

I mean, it was only the #2 method for the FARC to finance their operations for a few decades, and they weren't doing it with vehicles from the regulated taxi system. Which is one of the reasons it was so hard to put a stop to. But we'll just discount that.

When James Watson was killed in Bogota, you know what brilliant method was used to track down the perpetrators? Video showing the livery on the cab he took.

But no, go on. Prove me wrong. Please. Go ahead. You show me. Run with those scissors. Play with that fire. Drink that sewer water. Spin that revolver barrel.

There's absolutely no reason the state department issues explicit guidelines on taxi usage for certain countries, and those guidelines are almost always "use a taxi from a well regulated taxi service"

It's all just theater.
It is regrettable that such an effective and relatively safe treatment has received so much opposition due primarily to social stigma. Instead the healthcare system has chosen to trap patients into a cycle of using antibiotics to treat antibiotic associated infections and risk disease recurrence...
I think we are using the same definition: an amount of money added to wages on a seasonal basis, especially as a reward for good performance. (definition according to google)

Being "extra" does not make it somehow not compensation.
Even if it's not completely equitable it doesn't have to be 0 or negative sum.

If I were making 15 an hour at the local casino, I'd be pretty happy to pay more taxes and take a 25 dollar an hour job at Tesla. Sure, Tesla isn't paying its full share but we're both better off.
How about naming this new spec Content Markup Language (CML) and say it was "inspired by Markdown"

The group has heavy backing, they could whip up parsers fairly quickly, and Markdown can be left in the dust where it's "creator" seems to want to leave it.
People have reached out to Gruber about fixing the ambiguities and making a better spec many times, and his response has consistently been that he has no intention of ever fixing any of the bugs in markdown.pl and that he views the ambiguous syntax as a feature.
This is exactly how things went down, thanks.
Zeroing out an array or struct field is not a C-specific feature.
> Gear VR's been in development for around 1.5 years now

Wow. That puts it not too long after the Oculus Rift kickstarter, which was in October 2012. I wonder how the Gear project came to start. Were there some graphics enthusiasts with moving power at Samsung that went "this. we need to get on this"?
I'd guess it's not really about the batteries, although it is cool. It's about the 6,500 jobs Tesla plans to create. Over the 20 years this tax break runs, that $1.25B is about $9,600 per employee per year. They might make that up in payroll, sales, and property taxes from the employees alone.
My personal experience, which will very likely differ from others since that's just how it seems to be with substances like cannabis:

In small to moderate quantities, it can definitely increase creativity and generally speeds up the flow of ideas. Now, many of those ideas are bad ideas, but some end up being good ones that may not have occurred to you otherwise. Consume too much at once though and it may be harder to differentiate between the good and the bad ideas, which is why it's often wise to write down what you're thinking and read it the next day when you're sober. I've done this and sometimes thought "oh wow, that's a good idea" and sometimes thought "what in the hell does this even mean / this is a terrible idea".

You will definitely lose short term attention span though, and temporarily gain symptoms similar to ADD/ADHD. You might become hyperfocused on something for a minute or 2, but your mind will quickly wander off afterwards. In small quantities this can actually work well for programming, but even moderate amounts often make it impossible for me to be productive when programming.
SIP+SIMPLE/MRSP's overheads are just as bad as HTTP/1.x, if not worse. We decided to build Matrix after 10 years of fun doing commercial SIP and XMPP work; we have some experience. For instance, the worst scenario we've seen in a real-life SIP/MSRP user-agent in the wild was 50KB of SIP/MSRP nego to send the word "Heh" between two contacts (with a delivery report) :) Meanwhile SPDY and HTTP/2.x improve the overhead situation and pipelining situation enormously - although frankly we haven't seen any real-life problems using HTTP/1.1 yet at all...

The "simplicity" of HTTP I mentioned in the Matrix blurb refers to the fact that RFC2616 is relatively compact and self-contained, whereas SIP/SIMPLE/MSRP involves a huge number of RFCs, different protocols (SIP,SDP,MSRP...) and really is a lot more complicated to implement than just doing GETs and PUTs.

Now, the irony is that rather than being "designed by someone who doesn't know much more than how to build web apps" - it's more the other way round. Our experience is mainly with SIP/RTP/STUN/ICE/TURN etc; genuinely RESTful APIs are relatively new territory for us.

I would genuinely love to know what aspects of the Matrix client-server (or server-server) API is 'not anything like RESTful' - it's not too late for us to change the APIs (they've already been rewritten several times, oscillating between more or less RESTful purity), and half the point of releasing Matrix in its current early proto-form is to get detailed feedback from folks on whether we've Got It All Wrong :)

(disclaimer: Matrix is all my fault)
yeah, but he's talking about automated indexing by a database. not really relevant.
While there is a placebo effect, when it comes to substances like cannabis you can experience serious temporary mind alteration if you consume enough, to a degree that is far more than a placebo ever could. Just like alcohol if you drink enough of it.

So, I disagree with you quite a bit here. Your mind will pump out ideas at a much faster rate when you consume a sufficient quantity of cannabis. Many of these ideas may be awful, but it's an experience shared by millions of people. Your mind begins to freely associate things haphazardly.
After some quick searching I could not find any trustworthy numbers on how long satellites stay up in higher LEO. My impression is that it's decades at most, but I could be way off.