skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Canada, on active construction sites superintendents/engineers are not even allowed to carry cellphones, so how does Plangrid get around that law? I guess it is for office use only, whenever super wants to compare some ISOs.Or do people use it on site/field too?

Blueprints are extremely large. CWPs, EWPs depending upon the job easily run into thousands of pages occupying precious shelf space and searching them is not easy.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=brief+incomplete+mostly+wrong#!/st...
Does everyone agree that Uber will make these problems a thing of the past?
I loved the line a manager at my previous employer gave us circa 2011 about our terrible raises:

"Well, the company is doing well, but since the economy sucks and unemployment is at 8% the company feels like we should be fortunate to have jobs and thus doesn't feel like they will lose anyone over salary."

It should be noted that, from 2006 until I finally got out in 2012 I saw two people leave for outside opportunities, out of a program that had over 300 people. More people retired than quit. Maybe management just had them that well pegged.
How I Beat a Computer at a Game of Chess
it seems weird to have HTML as a non-optional part of the spec in two separate locations, and then "Because we might be targeting a non-HTML format"

it would make more sense to just have some way to dedicate a block of text to not be parsed in any form.

regardless, I'm 99% sure I'm intentionally missing the point here, as I can imagine reddit's, github's, stackoverflow's, et al.'s implementations would not support html tags at all (and anything for a personal site would have less restrictions on usable html tags). So in practice, it is going to be optional to some degree for implementers. but it seems weird to have that implied, when the handling of info-lines for codeblocks is explicitly left ambiguous
EBay glitch blocks access for users on auction site
Instead of filling out forms over and over again with my name, address, phone number, etc, I could simply generate a one-time password that I give to the other person and they put my email and one-time password on their system, it sends me an email, fetches a JSON with the information that I've authorized access to, and bingo.

Of course we could do this today with other technologies, but the point of this is to leverage something that is already ubiquitous. Because of that I think it's a powerful idea.
Thanks for all who signed up today. Impressive response from the HN community. Some good feedback too here, via https://twitter.com/nodegear and through the feedback form at https://t.co/3EFROUUfiV

...Very much appreciated.
The only word that has tons of definitions...
Google 'discourages' users of old browsers with old versions of its search page
Cisco's firewall blocks it too. Funny stuff.
I guess some people don't really get sarcasm.
What dose of Ritalin did you take to have such side effects?
If it takes bonuses to get you to market rates, then you're still underpaid.
Upvoted and commented. Thanks for thinking good ideas.
Where in CT are you? I'm in New Haven
Worth noting that what you proposed with regards to presenting a competing offer to your current employer is typically a card you only play once. More than that and you tend to be viewed as a mercenary who causes problems. Plus, the people you are presenting this to will quite likely feel like they've had a gun put to their heads in a situation they may have very little direct control over, and nobody likes being put in that spot multiple times.

Not saying that is right or wrong, just know that doing this multiple times at the same company is often frowned upon.

Also, don't do it without being ready to make the switch--you never know when your company will call your bluff and say "ok, enjoy your new job, your last day is today."

I'd also like to present the flip side, which is what it is like to be on the receiving end of such a request. I had an employee I managed in a past job come to me with a reasonable raise/promotion request. Myself and my boss did everything we could to give it to him as he definitely deserved it in spades. We were blocked by the finance and HR departments. They did not want to do things "out of cycle" which isn't exactly fair to the employee if they started significantly outside the beginning of that cycle.

Ultimately I lost them to a competitor, and felt absolutely awful about it (even though this was in an industry where turnover is incredibly high and 1 year stints are very common). The worst part was that it was totally out of my control and I did everything I could to make it happen and failed.

When I had a similar situation in the future with someone else I managed, I flat out told them I would do my absolute best to fight for them (and they knew I meant it), but said that if the company wouldn't give them what they deserved, I would not hold it against them in the least for switching since they need to do what's best for them regardless of the headaches it would cause the team. They ultimately left for more money and the company lost another valuable employee because they couldn't part with a couple grand per year which was a pittance compared to the value this person added.

Long story short, it sucks just as bad to be on the receiving end of this, but a lot of times the direct manager may not actually be empowered to make the budget decision necessary to offer a raise. In those cases, please do your best not to hold it against them if they can't win that fight.
I really didn't like Pascal in high school, but this was ~1990 and we were using Apple IIe's, so no Turbo Pascal. I remember strings and printing being a nuisance. Later we got to use Logo and that was much more satisfying.
Tailspin: Reversible JavaScript Interpreter in JavaScript
The hardware works fine (including pressure sensitivity and the pen button), you just lose the proprietary Samsung apps. But, as noted in other comments, those apps have their own issues, so they're no great loss. You're probably better off with third-party replacements even if you're not using CyanogenMod (e.g. Papyrus instead of S Note).
I've no idea where the father is

She addresses this in a Guardian article:

> When I returned to work after maternity leave, my relationship broke down, and I found it impossible to cover the irregular night shifts 30 miles from home with any form of childcare. Childminders just don't work all night. Her son's father did and does look after him, but at the time it was impossible to match our work shifts up with friends, family and childcare to cover my working hours. Because he works too.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/01/richard...
That's the $64k question :) There seem to be a fair number of local people/shops that will do this for you (usually advertised as "we'll sell your stuff on eBay for you!"), but they take a really hefty cut, so much so that it usually isn't worth it for me to haul all my 'stuff' over to them... I'm hoping that a larger automated system like shyp would be able to reduce the seller cut to something more reasonable :)
The System Is Rigged Against the Student
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You are expected to leave the company. Raises are kept far, far below the rate at which employees actually accrue value in order to ensure that employees do not stay at a company for longer than 4 or 5 years. After 4 or 5 years, the gap between what you would make anywhere else and what you can make where you already are is enormous.

There is a quote from hundreds of years ago which applies. "Make game of that which makes as much of thee." They fully intend to game you and exploit your desire for stability and predictability in your life. Play them back.
Fantastic Blog, I run an online football game and try to use advanced analytics to generate proper games. Going to rummage through your archive and see if there's anything usable for me, trying to generate accurate games.

Thanks for the work.

Edit: Example, this blog post is amazing for my work.
http://phdfootball.blogspot.com/2014/03/classifying-wrs-tes-...

You provide the code you ran(!!!) so I can run it myself against the data I generate, and then validate that I am matching the actual data.

Incredible. Going to continue moving through the article, but that's at least one piece of data I can use to compare in a way I never have before.

Edit 2: http://phdfootball.blogspot.com/2013/10/qbs-dont-have-passin... is interesting, but you have to do any QB completion data with completion % based on distance thrown. QB completion is meaningless without incorporating distance.

Edit 3: http://phdfootball.blogspot.com/2013/09/not-all-fumbles-are-... is data I can incorporate today. Currently I have a simple random recovery generator that is 50/50 due to FO's essentially random remarks regarding fumbles.

Now I will change that to be a formula based on field position. That is direct improvement to my work, thank you!

Edit 4: http://phdfootball.blogspot.com/2013/08/quarterback-rating-i... is again plagued by completion %, which QB rating uses.

Many Qbs improve or decline their QB rating, while actually being better QBs or worse depending on the yardage thrown. I could give many examples of QBs with decent Completion %s that are horrible because they throw short passes.

Not bad, just another note that distance is the foundation of completion % and without that, it's essentially bad data.

One interesting analysis would be plotting the distance thrown on passes over careers, and see if this is a good indicator of improvement.

Edit 5: http://phdfootball.blogspot.com/2013/06/field-position-and-s... is interesting, I distinctly remember that Completion % per yardage drops significantly inside 20 yards. I don't have the data on hand, but that's an interesting wrinkle to consider. I think that may have been FO.
Behest is the key word there. We are not talking actions of actors within the market, but about government interfering with market forces. That does not cease to be the case just because someone asked them to do it.
The System Is Rigged Against the Student – Déjà Vu All Over Again
No, they're talking about an exploit for the phone's baseband software. All the radio signal processing and the lower layers of the cellular network stack in a cell phone happens on a dedicated chip, the baseband processor. Presumably, they deliver an exploit for its software, e.g. by exploiting a buffer overrun in the baseband processor's HSDPA stack, to install malware code of some kind on this processor.

Because it's not on the CPU, it's invisible to the phone's main operating system and bypasses all its security and process isolation. And, since these chips run real-time operating systems, a low-priority task is guaranteed to never interrupt a higher priority running on the chip, so the payload would not affect cellular communications (cellular protocols have tight timing constraints).

Because the baseband processor is also attached to the phone's system bus (that's how the CPU sends it commands), it can use it to control other devices on the bus, such as the camera.

This is a very devious attack because it's almost impossible to detect, and allows deep access to the phone's hardware.
So, to summarize, we have a new standard with the name "Standard" in it without a formal grammar definition. Oops.

Unit tests are not enough.
According to the Crypto Museum the Russians added a circuit to the Fialka in 1956 to fix the reflector problem and allow characters to be encrypted as themselves. Good read,

http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/fialka/magic.htm
He tweeted what his take was:

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/262287246953164800
Of course it's possible for anyone to write a patent claim. However, it's unlikely that the claim you write will be of any value.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. If ambiguity (and thus different implementations) is a feature, then a natural side effect is that another group of people can come along and say "this is ridiculous, let's define a new implementation we can all support".

And if you're doing that, it's pretty obvious to call the effort to produce a standard implementation Standard Markdown. Unless you think Github-StackOverflow-Reddit-flavored markdown is a better name :)
How do people get as hung up on browser features as much as they do anyway? I hardly use bookmarks anymore. I'm a web UI dev and I don't know half the shit Chrome does that's not development related.
The problem in the United States (where mit is based) is that a lot of benefits like health insurance and job security are tied to you working a full-time job with your employer.

It would be more interesting to look at more socialist countries, where benefits are provided more by the government instead of the employer. For example, France has experimented implementing 35 hour work weeks by giving extra days off in the month to white collar workers.
You can specify multiple gpg ids when using "pass init":

pass init [-p sub-folder] user1@example.com user2@example.com

This enables you to control access per subfolder. You can keep your personal passwords in one subfolder and then have various shared subfolders. "pass mv" and "pass cp" will reencrypt with the gpg ids for each subfolder as necessary. You can also "pass init" an existing subfolder to add or remove gpg ids for existing files. See the man page for details [1].

[1] http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/about/
Is there debug.exe equivalent for Windows7?
Listen to it on Overcast.fm

"Atwood's crusade"

https://overcast.fm/podcasts/episode/344902019595#t=4527
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Amazing resource. What are the licensing/usage terms? These should be highly visible on the website!
Can you clarify on why not? If you get interest and a big news hit, isn't it important to you to capitalize on that as much as possible and leave a good impression so people come back to use your service?

If you don't have the funds that's one thing and I get it, but seems like spikes are exactly the kind of thing worth spending on.
I believe this to be true. However, in some cases you can get a competing offer and have your current employer match it. My experience is that suggesting you are underpaid without a competing offer doesn't get you very far. Most employers will pay you as little as possible given the market and in the tech market you can jump ship.
Another comment says that it's about $4 per affected customer. Fines for this sort of thing are typically hundreds or thousands of dollars per incident.
I just finished this book the other day. Great book! As a developer, I'm usually deep in code so I'm not the best at sales and marketing. The book has great examples of what others have done to get traction. My biggest takeaway was that the book helped me get into the sales/marketing mindset which helped generate a few ideas of my own.
Thanks. So, according to Carmack, the IMU Sensor in the phone is not used but they have a separate on in the frame which is faster and more precise.
> I haven't experienced any data loss with S Note yet. But I'll be on the lookout for it to happen.

Best I can tell, Samsung's fix was to auto-save on a timed interval. I haven't timed the intervals, but there is still a (smaller) risk of data loss if my guess is correct. But at least you shouldn't come back to review a note and find a blank page.

> If somebody else came out with a good S-Pen enabled notepad app, I'd switch tomorrow.

Papyrus looks pretty good. It could use some more work, but if your note-taking needs aren't complicated (IOW, it's no OneNote), it seems to be well done. I tried a bunch, and that seemed to be the best of the bunch. Others had more features but confusing UI, or just weren't as polished. The one thing that S Note has going for it is Evernote integration. If S Note hasn't lost your note, the Evernote integration works well and to my recollection never failed.
>tomatoes are natively American

So are chillies (chili peppers). Yes, Shakshouka is good.
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> It is markdown, standardised.

I would avoid this wording. I would instead say:

It's a flavor of markdown. The flavor is heavily documented. The flavor's name is "Standard Markdown".
Also, don't do it without being ready to make the switch--you never know when your company will call your bluff and say "ok, enjoy your new job, your last day is today."

That heavily depends on your region. In places like the EU you cannot be fired on the spot for something like that.
I think if they were smart they would allow people to sign up without a facebook account.

Forcing people to sign up will just create more fake facebook accounts IMO.
I'm sure your coding skills are great. Thanks for the downvote.
> I'd still want a webmail interface though

A few ones to check:

* http://roundcube.net/

* http://rainloop.net

* https://www.mailpile.is/
Introducing split diffs
From what I remember, the TRIM bugs were finally completely squashed in Android 4.3 (they were particularly severe for the Nexus 7 2012 because it had relatively slow internal storage). Assuming Samsung didn't reintroduce them somehow, the Note 3 (which launched with 4.3, IIRC) and newer should never have had any TRIM problems. Any Note 2 TRIM issues should have been fixed with the 4.3 update (which has been completely rolled out for some time, I think).
I agree that Uber makes the problem of identifying sheltered sycophants a thing of the past.
Macafee removal tool
The initial fine is not always the biggest cost to the company. I am not a lawyer and have not read the consent decree in this case, but typically the cost of compliance to the consent decree is significantly larger than the initial fine.
Does the spec allow extensions?
Diversifying into WAFs
Clicking on this downloads an executable.
> If you learn the language specified here and then go write some reddit comments or file a GitHub issue using that language, it will do what you expect.

It would do the same thing if all those groups (since they seem to be onboard) had decided to call it TextMark or CommentAscii or some other new term. As long as they all use the same term it would be fine.

But instead they're basically trying to strong-arm redefine Gruber's name, and they'll win because they're bigger.

It's in terribly poor taste.

This will actually make things worse too, because they've invented another standard. People will see 'old' Markdown sites that don't work like 'new' Markdown sites ('Standard' is too subtle) and ascribe it to a bug in 'new' Markdown.

They haven't avoided confusion in the way a new name would have done very quickly.

Same confusion, acting like a jerk to take over someone else's creation. High class there.
So the voting buttons are just for decoration now? It's the number of comments that determines which stories get the front page and which are buried?
Any plans for an EPUB version? I have a Kobo ...
I knew nothing about construction until a business consulting gig got me very involved in a build-out of an office space that had once been a wet lab. I became acquainted with the giant rolls of blueprints that get passed around, often with minute annotations and special symbols (for instance, for the electricians) on different versions of the plans.

It seems to me that there are a number of parties that would have to be brought on board to make mobile software work -- besides the supervising construction engineer/company, certain subs (millwork, HVAC, electrical, etc.), furniture suppliers (who really need accurate plans), architects, and the clients. I would expect different learning curves for the different groups ... maybe architects are more used to working with blueprint software while some subs are more old-school.

Good luck!
I realize Facebook is not a trivial software, but seriously - this large? I heard this before and I just don't get it.
has there been any standardization efforts which didn't end up with implementation-specific changes everywhere?

admittedly the worst example for such a topic, but, we still don't have a situation where all browsers agree on all renderings, and all of them still don't follow the spec, and in some areas, they don't plan to.

I can see html requirement being a pain-point for anyone implementing standard markdown.
Eh, "Football" is a term that's ambiguous, and different dialects have it refering to different sports.

(Lest you think I'm a yank, I'm Irish, and there's people here who'd say "football" for a different sport (gaelic football)).
Uber will create world peace under the united government of silicon valley, led by our glorious leaders Paul Graham and Marc Andreessen.
The "given" symbol should only appear once in any probability statement.
As someone that's lived in STL for the past 3-4 months, I cannot believe how many different police cars there are on my 20 minute commute every single day. On one road (St. Charles Rock Road actually) I drive to work on, I pass at least 3 different jurisdictions that generally has at least 2 cops on it every day. After that road, I get onto the highway and about a few miles down, St.Ann Police Department sets up a speed trap about once a week on I-70. There are of course other cities that set up speed traps, but St.Ann is one of the most obnoxious and common because they are next to the airport and there's a curve that makes it ridiculously easy to catch speeders and there's always speeders near an airport. The entire time St.Louis County police are also within the same overall area also trying to catch people on their way to and from work. Everyone just trying to get their money so their useless department can stay open.
upvoted because the test implementation is called a "dingus"
> I'm not aware of any Haskell compilers for iOS

Use GHC. http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/04/ghc-7-8-1
"I don't like his position so he should lose his ownership". Lovely.

My problem with the name "Standard Markdown" is I don't think it's going to be clear enough, I think people will think it's the same thing as Markdown (which it's not), under the theory that "non-standard" would have an obviously different name such as "Lisp Markdown" or "Japanese Markdown".

If they had used a word other than "Markdown" I wouldn't have a single problem, I would cheer them on.

I don't see a real benefit in this name to anyone, but I see serious downsides.
That's when you should get another offer. Either you put yourself in a great negotiating position, or you realize that they were right and feel fortunate to have your current job.
> How many people build nuclear bombs? Or supercolliders?

How useful are those to individual people? Nuclear bombs are basically only useful as a deterrent (or as leverage, e.g. making demands in return for halting your nuclear program), and that only works for countries.

Supercolliders are also incredibly specialized and only useful to a small group of scientists, and there's zero incentive for an individual person to attempt to build one. What use would a private person have with a supercollider?

> Despite the fact that the principles behind nuclear weaponry are known, even few governments have (independently) built them and they are very strictly controlled.

Sure, because of how the world reacts to countries attempting to run their own nuclear bomb programs. And because of the actual low utility value in having nuclear bombs, as covered earlier.

> I can easily imagine the engineering required for time machines is even more complex, the materials as hard to acquire, the energy expenditures prohibitive, etc.

Ah, but the upside is so much higher! Not only is it vastly more useful than a nuclear bomb, but it's also useful to individual people, as opposed to just useful to countries.

> so if any were built, they would be kept top secret and time travelers would act with as much secrecy and delicacy as possible.

They only need to act with secrecy in their home time.
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