skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though in this particular case, just reloading the page restarted the animations just fine. Even so, I'll try C-F5 to see if that's better.
You mean this spec is violating the license of the software? I guess they won't be able to distribute that software anymore?

Did you even read the start of that license?

> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met...
Naruto Deutsche Folgen – Naruto Shippuuden Ger Dub Folgen 1/2
>What does national defense cost have to do with it?

Uh, more headroom for entitlement programs in general?

I see France at 10%, not 12%,http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_de_l'État_français
but even at the latter number, that 6% difference (280 bn) would pay for a quarter of Medicare+Medicaid. With Medicaid costs set to expand by 12% under Obamacare next year (by 50 bn) eventually leading to 50% reduction in uninsured by 2024, having that kind of room in the budget would easily allow for universal coverage.

I cede the point, made above, that dollar-for-dollar US healthcare spending is less effective, but dispute that health care reform is entirely about making it more efficient. Decreasing the amount of uninsured has been at least as important an issue in the debate.
> It seems a little questionable to me for John Gruber to have been ignored in this process.

No, it's the other way around. Gruber decided to ignore everyone who tried to improve the sad state of Markdown for the last 10 years.
Developer Notes:

We are ages 16 and 18 and have started programming since around 11 or so. You can find out more about us at http://www.cubegrinder.com/about. We’d love feedback and support on our farcical and hopefully quite enjoyable game.

It’d be great if you could spread the word amongst your friends :) and leave a nice review.

App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/turtle-totem/id907353786?ls=...

Behind the scenes screenies for those familiar with unity3D: http://imgur.com/a/7qpJD

If you have any questions feel free to ask away! We’ll do our best to answer them (there might be a slight delay due to school )
Location: Hong Kong

Remoate: Yes

WIlling to relocate: Yes

Technologies: HTML, CSS (SASS or LESS), JavaScript (Native, jQuery, Angular & Backbone), Grunt or Gulp, A/B testing

Resume: http://hk.linkedin.com/in/w0utr

Email: wouter@woutr.me

Interested in: Software development, split testing
There are even alternative syntaxes:

https://github.com/lantiga/react.hiccup

https://github.com/ForbesLindesay/react-jade
Wow, thanks for the handy link! I have always wanted a good explanation to provide for quick posts. I created a short URL for easy reference: tinyurl.com/colorassign
In the lab I worked in, we literally studied two neurons coupled together. Simplistic networks are good for learning certain things in isolation but some phenomena might only be the result of complex systems and studying small networks may never lead us towards understanding these complex phenomena. The obvious one is "consciousness" but even things like sensory perception which in part is the result of complex, distributed calculations would difficult if not impossible to understand from studying simple networks.
Interesting read, and the whole thread was shut down by moderators... as usual!
Thanks for pointer on antenna removal, will search for teardown examples of successful removal. Could be added to a future version of guides similar to https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardenin...
Eh what? It has been industry practice for the last ten years to implement a Markdown parser and call it "Something Markdown" or "Markdown Something".

Standard Markdown is just that, it's Markdown but standardized. It's exactly the right name given what it does.
Duologue – 3D study of mortality using photogrammetry techniques
I'd love to contribute in some way, I have experience with 3d modeling (tho very little with characters), music composition, and some python programming... not sure how much time I would be able to contribute to it, but it sure sounds like fun!
Cultural differences might also be in play here. East Asians tend to have a much higher tolerance for complex interfaces and lots of content to be seen on the same screen. I'm still not sure whether complexity is actually preferred over simplicity, but the fact is that people are very much used to it. It might have to do with how their newspapers tend to look like [1]. It's the look of something for the common people, the economical choice, while simple things are being seen as something for the nobility - well thought through but expensive, a luxury item. As an example, have a look at how suntory markets their normal [2] whisky versus their luxury brand [3].

[1] http://en.kiosko.net/jp/np/asahi_shimbun.html

[2] http://www.suntory.co.jp/whisky/?fromid=top_pr

[3] http://theyamazaki.jp/
Ansible handles this issue very cleanly with a feature called "vault": http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_vault.html

I think it probably works better integrated into the deployment system. The developer can still write {{ DBPASSWORD }} wherever they need and not have to worry that they don't know what the password on production or staging is.
"personal loan" does not mean "peer-to-peer loan"
I guess I think of it this way:

"fighting old age" - attempting to stop the aging process itself (i.e. longevity)

"fighting old age diseases" - looking to cure diseases associated with old age (i.e. treating a specific condition)

In the second example you could be treating a disease, but not having any impact on the aging process itself.
Up-to-date English-language Info on Icelandic Vulcanism/volcano by an Icelander
It's amazing how similar this is already to the RSS/Atom format wars:

Widely read blogger independently develops a simple file specification that addresses a real world problem. Simple file format becomes a de facto standard. Developers gripe about ambiguities in the specification. Effort to create a formal, standardized specification is launched. This new effort is publicly denounced by the original specification author.
From the article:

>At present, demand for electric vehicles is small. Through August, automakers have sold just over 40,000 fully electric cars this year, up 35 percent from a year ago.....

At present, the supply of the electrical vehicles is low, and Tesla for one cannot keep up with the demand - as evidenced by the 5-month waiting list for a new Tesla model S. The new factory will drastically increase the supply, and we can expect the demand to grow further as the prices for electrical vehicles are reduced.
While you could undoubtedly come up with some improvements, nerdfitness.com has a very friendly community.
The process is entirely different. Old-school drug companies have a very formulaic approach: 1) find lucrative disease, 2) find small molecule that abates disease, 3) get it through FDA, 4) market & sell.

A much more modern approach is to figure out what kills people (heart disease, atherosclerosis, muscular & neural degeneration, loss of immune system) and fix that. Build a new immune system, figure out how to 'plumb' one's blood vessels, or '3d-print' new ones. Stem-cell & regenerative medicine can make new, and sometimes even improved, organs.

The technologies of the second kind were only fanciful pipe-dreams 30 years ago when the old-school pharma companies came about. And a few still are today. But many are not. We can actually do meaningful research into designing these complex tissues today that would entirely obviate the old way pharma does business.

As someone who does tissue engineering & synthetic biology it's a bit telling to see big money come in from a different field and latch onto old-school 'names' rather than new-school 'ideas'. Calico really could be something truly spectacular - but it has to be careful who it sets at its helm...
As much as Facebook's efforts to fix the tools they are forced to use are valliant, this is a little bit ugly. Still, points for trying.
Harnessing the principles of neurogenisis may be the only scaleable way to build large comples ANNs. If so, it will be interesting to see what role evolutionary development (evolved genes encoding the developmental process).
We used something similar for Puppet: https://github.com/TomPoulton/hiera-eyaml

Really neat thing was that you could inline encrypt just the secretes making the rest of the Puppet module viewable and comprehensible.
Aside from some niche markets such as airport displays and kiosks, I think this is a bad bet on Microsoft's overall strategy. I don't see a demand for these systems anytime soon. Disclaimer: today I was in a meeting where the projector had a touch screen and we only used it twice in the meeting. Although I was 1200 miles away from the meeting room and thought it was cool, it really was a gimmick when it came down to it. We never used it. I can almost see how this went down in a VP meeting at Microsoft "We'll make bigger brighter display and corner the market!" Unless someone can point out a real problem they are solving here, I'm betting in two years we will see Microsoft abandon the platform and all of the developers who invested their time into this flawed vision.
I think they tried with Arizona. As far as I know, it didn't happen.
Bitcoin SDK for JavaScript
JSXHint exists[1] and works well, and highlighting libraries exist[2]. Have you actually tried the syntax? It makes sense when used with React.js (which is quite lovely), as almost all of the new syntax exists within a render() function. It's also leaner syntactically than EMCAScript for XML, without introducing additional weirdness like "object.@items" selectors.

Work with both JSX and regular JS in React and you'll see why they're doing this.

[1]: https://github.com/STRML/JSXHint

[2]: https://github.com/reactjs/sublime-react
Actually, as a C++11 user, it's a lot like a lambda declaration: [capture](parameters){…}. Certainly the brackets are in the same order. The similarity between lambdas and Markdown URL's is actually a nice feedback loop when I'm doing C++11 code.
Really surprised this doesn't mention my project that implements JSX as a sweet.js reader. It's a much better sweet integration than the one list that forces you to use a very different syntax to use JSX.

https://github.com/jlongster/jsx-reader

(Hey React guys... I know you know of my project, what's up with that?)
Episode 88. Just listened to it. Discussion starts around an hour and 15 minutes in. Some interesting points made but even Gruber admits some standardization may be necessary. I'd guess he's more upset that they're calling it "Standard Markdown" instead of something less authoritarian. Something more tongue-in-cheek like "Unofficial Official Markdown" may have gone over better.
It's amazingly easy to run into simple writing tasks that require tables. E.g. if I write a simple product review, I might want to produce a comparison table rather than describe differences in long-winded and opaque prose.
I've needed this for a while.
Tables only made sense if they were used collaboratively, which is why I think that is why early Classic Surface focused on that.

We have tables you can write on with a marker, I don't see why, if cheap enough, adding a digital layer would be unwelcome (but not yet, of course).

Using a mouse with a very large screen is a recipe for serious neck strain. Sure, you can move the cursor quickly, but your head still has to track it. I know, I've tried!
Instead of looping immediately, you could make the last frame last like 6 seconds, and perhaps have a couple seconds of all-black at the beginning.
In my opinion, those geometric shape covers are some of the ugliest things I've ever seen.
I mean, they're in Dallas and Austin now. They're definitely expanding quite a bit.
My screen is wider than it is tall. This is perfect.
I can see why.

Perhaps the most significant problem associated with aging is centered around our body's replication system. The way that cells duplicate and grow is not perfect. Hosts of environmental, biological, and "pure luck" factors all combine against us in a slow, but inevitable warping of our genetics.

In addition to genetic decay, our biological parts get "worn out" over time. Valves close with less force and vessels become inelastic. Our stretchy bits - tendons, ligaments - become scarred with micro-tears over time causing decreased flexibility. Our squishier bits - our inner organs and muscle - tend to become less efficient over time and decay sets in (a rule of thumb is past the age of 30, the average human loses 1% of muscle mass per year). Our squishy-stretchy bits - fascia - tend to lose the fight to gravity as the cells become less and less "sticky" and the skin on our faces droop.

As one ages, the mistakes in replication, the decay of our organic bodies begin to add up. As they pile on year after year, the likelihood of getting "sick" increases. Alzheimer's - thought to be brought about by tissue decay and subsequent scarring in the brain. Infarctions (a loss of blood supply, thus a loss of nutrients and oxygen) to a certain part of the body (heart attacks are a common result of cardiac-related infarctions) - can be caused by a stiffening of the walls of blood vessels which lets plaque build up and eventually, when some plaque is dislodged, that plaque might get trapped in a smaller vessel and cause a lethal blockage. Edema (excess fluid building up in tissue) - generally as a result of the weakening of the heart (the heart is a muscle which gets weaker over time) and the decay of the vessels and the muscles surrounding the vessels. And so on and so forth.

Fighting old age tends to be thought of as fighting the underlying physical and genetic decay the geriatric (or just aging in general) undergo. Reversing old age, in a similar manner, tends to focus around the prevention or the reversal of that decay. Fighting diseases associated with old age thus is far more limited in scope. While the end result of "fighting old age" might eliminate certain diseases, "fighting diseases associated with old age" will never prevent people from getting old.
Point taken on lower efficiency of US health care spending.

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/2/6089693/health-care-facts-whats-...

Worth noting, however, that Europe, Canada, and the ROW get to freeload on innovative on-patent medicines whose R&D is essentially supported by higher American drug prices.
You could implement almost all of this with OFX direct-connect. Good luck finding a bank which supports this though.
Plus it needs mechanical switches. Otherwise it is just a low-end device.
It is kind of a dick move, and sadly this sort of thing (specifically, not respecting existing name usage) appears to be becoming more and more common. And sadly outrage from the community seems to be ineffective at preventing this stuff. Look at Google pilfering the name "Go" for their new programming language[1].

Yeah, it was a slightly different situation, but still, there was a name collision and in the end nothing was ever done about it.

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9
Assassin’s Creed Unity: le jeu sortira en novembre et non en octobre
I don't disagree, but this is tangential to my original point. :)
Call by meaning programming language
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He owns an ambiguous text formatting system? He didn't invent the notion of simple ASCII-character based formatting, and he didn't write a spec. Plus this spec explicitly deviates from his implementation, so it's not the same obviously.

The reasons that he didn't write a spec after requests is very likely post-hoc rationalisation, behind the simple reason that writing a spec is not a fun task.
Lending Club will not have trouble raising capital or finding borrowers because it is a lower-cost operation than banks. As such, it can reduce the spread between the yield 'investors' earn and interest rates borrowers pay, making it more attractive to both. The growth of their total loan activity bears that out: 5 Billion in total loans over the last 5 years. 1 Billion of that in the last quarter.

The key to their business is in their ability to accurately forecast the default rate of borrowers. The more they can predict the performance of the loans, the more 'fixed' the income seems to investors and the more attractive it is. They do predict default rates for loans and inform investors what those rates are for each loan. Over time, I'd expect their statisticians and big-data analysts will be able to refine the models to be highly accurate.

I've been experimenting with LC as an investor for about a year and a half. So far, my loans are performing about 1% better than Lending Club forecast they would. I attribute that to an improving economy.
Convert DVD Title for iPad Mini
Eugh, I bought a Sony CT370H sound bar last week, great speakers but the remote has 36 buttons, including 7 EQ presets. It's bizarre.
Yes, I was a bit wrong with that statement. Just read http://blog.codinghorror.com/responsible-open-source-code-pa...
If the purpose of covers is to visually differentiate among the set of books which are visible in a skeumorphic "bookshelf", could pre-computed image similarity metrics be used to maximize the difference between neighboring titles?
I'm skeptical. I've been to McDonald's very few times in my life (never really my choice).

The first time, I asked for a burger without ketchup, and it came with ketchup. I took it back, and they replaced it for free, with another burger with ketchup. That repeated again then I gave up.

The next time, I asked for a chicken wrap thing, without the dressing/sauce. It came with sauce on it, but it was like 1 am and very slow and the cashier unusually considerate, and she noticed before it got to me, and manually supervised one being made without the sauce.

The final time I ended up at McDonald's, I got a container of apple slices (with a side container of caramel which I could avoid using).

So, uh, these are just my unlucky anecdotes. Perhaps as a result, I avoid all traditional fast food whenever possible. Chipotle and other non-traditional fast food are fine.
I'd have pain over my eyebrows and under my eyes near my nose. No runny nose -- I have nasal polyps so the stuff in there couldn't come out.
This seems like just background subtraction. I used this on soccer videos eight years ago using some robust optical flow code from Michael Black to estimate the background motion and suppress it, leaving the foreground (i.e. the player).
I'm a little surprised at the level of negativity in the majority of the comments here. I understand our cultural need for criticism here, but the critics here have touched almost everything (and note that the most insubstantial of claims have bubbled up to the top of the comments here):

Naming [2] [5]
Closed (initial) development [1]
Lack of formal grammar [3]
Lack of tables [4]
Just use another format (e.g. asciidoc) [6]
Ambiguity is a feature [7]

Can we please take a moment to appreciate the achievement here? As opposed to fulfilling our own sense entitlement?

Markdown is a popular language with an ambiguous, poorly specified spec and buggy default implementation (so buggy that the vast majority of Markdown users have probably never used it, if they even know it exists). Now, we have a much more well-specified English language spec that explicitly addresses the challenges of the grammar, with a test suite that does a much better job of covering the corner cases, and much better default implementations. These improvements are by no means perfect, but they are improvements.

Yes, we need a formal grammar. Yes, we need tables, and other features. Yes, the naming is unfortunate, though frankly I don't feel sorry for Gruber given that Atwood posted a public letter calling for change two years ago. Yes, these are all issues. But it is an achievement nevertheless, and let's celebrate that.

And then we can get back to work.

----

More generally, I think we have issues with entitlement here on HN. Frankly, we have no fundamental right to either the original Markdown or this new version. But when posts like this come up, we hack away at them as if we had a right for better, as if the authors should be working to please us personally. We need to stop acting like we have a right to sentence judgement over what others release as open source.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8265469

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8266370

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264828

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8265299

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8266073

[6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264895

[7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8266121
I think the problem is with the color relationship. The resulting shape is actually pretty cool.
I don't know about federal regulations, but state regulations have made things difficult. I can't use lending club here in Ohio, and a few other states don't allow it either.

Here is more about that: http://www.lendacademy.com/why-some-states-dont-allow-p2p-le...
Facebook has been doing a lot of work in this area, initially implemented in PHP by Marcel Laverdet in 2010, called XHP[1]. Not only does it permit you to embed conformant HTML into your PHP code without inadvertently introducing XSS vectors, but it also allows you to compose HTML primitives into high-level markup. Stefan Parker has been regularly blogging since 2011 about how Facebook uses XHP in its UI design; one of the best posts on the topic is here[2]. You may also recall the now-defunct "Facebook Lite" which was written completely in XHP.

Laverdet also implemented something similar for node.js called js-xml-literals[3], which I don't think has gained much traction. As for how it's different from E4X, refer to this page[4], which makes the argument that parsing and producing XML are two different tasks; E4X attempts to do both while all of these other approaches focus on producing XML.

(I don't think that this perspective on the history of react.js/jsx has been well-publicized before, hence the post.)

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/xhp-a-ne...

[2]: http://codebeforethehorse.tumblr.com/post/52824249342/buildi...

[3]: https://github.com/laverdet/js-xml-literal

[4]: https://github.com/laverdet/js-xml-literal/wiki/Differences-...
A customized MD389LL (2.6 Ghz i7, 16 GB RAM, 2 x 256 GB SSD) would be quite mean actually!
Ok so they are operating at lowest end of the prime range (at least, in your example) - assuming > 660 is prime, 620-660 Alt-A and below 620 as subprime. How do I reconcile the rate quoted by you with the parent comment that I replied to? (13% is comparable to a standard bank and does not appear much cheaper)
I specially liked the illustration ones. I wonder if perhaps some database of public art illustrations could be somehow consulted to generate covers for the books without illustrations?
Having actually gone through the pains of using Chef to provision a Windows box, I would say it was totally worth it.
Don't be too sure about that. I would much rather buy a touch tv than ultra HDTV for my livingroom.
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