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This isn't a spam post (I've been on HN for 4+ years and have good karma, see my profile)...

But for those who want to keep up with Tesla in a simple and easy way, I recently started a weekly email newsletter (http://teslaweekly.com) that highlights the most notable Tesla news along with additional commentary. You can see the 1st edition at http://teslaweekly.com/issues/1 .
Gamer’s Revanche
The author, Ta-Nehisi ("Tah-Nuh-Hah-See") Coates, has been just killing it at the Atlantic for the last couple of years.

He has an amazing approach. It's simultaneously cerebral and heart-felt, and very grounded in his identity as a black man who grew up in an intellectual home in a black neighborhood in Baltimore during the crack era.

Coates never excelled in formal schooling, but he has really driven hard in his blog writings to deeply understand some topics, in particular how they relate to slavery. No matter how much you think you know about the black experience, slavery, and the Civil War, I guarantee you that you'll have a lot of aha moments reading his work.

For example, I did not know about the value of slaves on the eve of the Civil War -- the slaves were worth more than all the manufacturing base in the country. Thinking about that makes the stakes for the South in the Civil War so evident.
Developer: If it's for a "commodity" programming position (follow instructions, crank out kloc) then maybe it'd be relevant, but those kind of "code monkey" positions are actually pretty rare.

In the vast majority of jobs (IMHO), the speed at which they can write a given function/whatever has almost no bearing on their overall productivity. Most coders only program a few hours a day anyway (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131116) ...it's what they're doing the rest of the time that matters most.

If you have a need to do a timed test, at least do it in pseudocode. That way you're just testing the applicant's logic, instead of how much [php/js/ruby/whatever] they happened to memorize over the years.
From my experience, there's always a company willing to pay you more. If they see some company paying you X, they think your skills are worth at least X.

So your explanation doesn't really answer the question.
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I think we're in agreement here. I don't have any better way to categorize lots of people than an IQ test or equivalent.

But people selected by success in life tend to on average have decent but not outstanding IQ scores. And people selected for their outstanding IQ tend to have decent but not outstanding success in life.
http://jgm.github.io/stmd/spec.html#html-block-tag

See example #87. Personally I think it is absurd to try and include HTML(5?) in this standard and I would much prefer the tables in github markdown:

https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown#ta...
People are definitely aware of the name. It would be a complete non-starter to have a name that didn't reference "markdown" in some way when the project is an effort to standardise markdown.
What I can't figure out is why major companies, big enough to hire across the country and even the world, don't make more of a point of hiring staff virtually anywhere other than the Valley.

If you're in software, you need a presence in the Valley. The Valley attracts the exceptionally talented and ambitious, you want to hire some of them, and most of them won't leave. Even Microsoft eventually caved and opened an office there. OK, I get that.

But surely those who aren't wild talents -- and really, even at elite shops, most aren't -- are cheaper elsewhere?
Great article on the skills to look for in a technical co-founder. Dispels the myth that you need a rockstar machine learning expert from Stanford/Google to build your consumer app idea.
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> The methodology's way to assign numeric values to things doesn't relate to intrinsic things about the objects under study

Keep reading. They explain the intrinsic things that make up the numbers they assign to the objects. Eg:

"Each country’s property rights score is assessed according to the following criteria:

100—Private property is guaranteed by the government. The court system enforces contracts efficiently and quickly. The justice system punishes those who unlawfully confiscate private property. There is no corruption or expropriation.

90—Private property is guaranteed by the government. The court system enforces contracts efficiently. The justice system punishes those who unlawfully confiscate private property. Corruption is nearly nonexistent, and expropriation is highly unlikely."
> 1. Uses the Apache License (Pandoc is GPL). The code for this project is part of a commercial, closed-source project (and needs to continue to remain part of this project)

You can release code as GPL and still use it in your own proprietary projects, because you retain copyright. You just need to ensure you have a contribution agreement that assigns copyright to you. The risk is that somebody will fork your work and then you couldn't switch to the forked version.
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Here's a reply he made to a twitter conversation about it: https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507305771265454080

It definitely seems shitty to take the name of his project without his permission, regardless of how righteous they think the cause.
in the words of my charmingly southern step-grandma, "I just stick 'em in the microwave for ten minutes. Best way."
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Rumors and Speculation on the iPhone 6 Release Date
If you create an open format without any standardization, what do you expect? Does every implementation of markdown need Gruber's blessing? They're not stealing his idea or anything. He's given proper credit for inventing markdown in the first place.

Another way to look at it is this is just another implementation of markdown -- one that some of the bigger names in the markdown-business are going to support moving forward.
>>I miss my palm pre...

I don't. Mine had a nifty "feature" whereby one times out of five, sliding it shut would actually turn off the phone itself. As in, it would lose power completely and die.

I went through probably a hundred power-on sequences on that thing during the two weeks I owned it. I finally returned it to the store and bought an iPhone. Haven't looked back since.
Very interesting, I wanted some more info on the "Florence Sheet", but Google turned up nothing but this article (or references to it). That seems strange.
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Why not? Why would you want to? Computers exist to make things easier, not harder.
I went to law school, passed the patent bar, and worked at the patent office. Even I wouldn't want to write my own claims. There are too many technicalities to deal with in the process. At the very least find a patent agent to do it (agents can draft and manage an application; attorneys can do that plus opine on validity etc.).
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Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?
No, but in the case where there are two posts covering the same story on the front page, it's certainly a factor.

If one url had been obviously better than the other, we would have kept it and (if necessary) assigned it to the thread with more comments. In this case, neither url was obviously better. That's why I asked, and also why the responses were contradictory.
> 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.

I had a similar thought; seems that he should bucket at least by remaining yards to get the first down as well as field position. Imagine an 8-yard pass completion after a 1st and ten: many teams will attempt a deep pass, hoping to pick up the first down with a short play in case of an incompletion. That deep pass is a very different play and probably has a different completion likelihood.

Likewise, consider passes from your own 20 vs their 20 (that is, 80 yards of field left before the end zone vs 20): my intuition says that the latter pass has lower likelihood of completion, because the field is shorter and the defenders have less ground to cover.

So, it might actually be that "rhythm" exists, but only in long field positions or only on long drives.
Good idea!

See: http://talk.standardmarkdown.com/t/create-a-page-or-subdomai...
It is a beautifully written and interesting article.
Sure. I was just trying to get the number from the article. Not arguing its validity.
I recently picked up Tim Geithner's book 'Stress Test' (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IN73B9E)

...but in the first few pages he referenced that HE was recently reading a different book, which sounded more interesting, so now I'm reading that:

Liaquat Ahamed - Lords of Finance (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001QIGZEK)

...so far so good; if you're into historical stuff.
I think you make an excellent and valid point.

On the flip side, developing a spec---for something as popular and accessible as Markdown---out in the open is an extraordinarily difficult task. I think one can definitely make a case for it being the right thing to do (and I mean that in more than just the ethical sense), but I also think one can make a reasonable case for not wanting to travel down that road either. I think it can be so difficult that there would be a very real possibility that it would never get completed.

(I'm sincerely not trying to be combative. I know I'm not really addressing your point---that they didn't even provide a status update---but I just wanted to provide a tiny perspective on the other side of the coin.)
So, Gruber is fine with people implementing their own markdown processors without his permission, and still call it markdown, and he even likes it when they do that, he likes the flexibility and multiple flavors of markdown.

But if people implementing their own markdown processors try to write a spec or grammar for what they are implementing... he is not fine with it, and considers legal action? It's okay to write a markdown parser, as long as you don't write a spec for it?

There may be a way to justify that position rationally, but I doubt there is legally. He's already abandoned any claims to trademark, by making it clear he's okay with people making their own markdown parsers and describing them as 'markdown parsers', without his permission.
I've corrected the tag line. Thanks for pointing that out!

Ironically Blackbox was originally for a Puppet repo that used Mercurial and only supported Git as a skunkswork project. Now it is devoid of any Puppet dependencies and is mostly used for Git, but the Mercurial support is solid. In fact, you could easily extend it to support other systems. CVS support, anyone?
Yeah I didn't notice that, let me fix!

Also: PRs welcome!

http://talk.standardmarkdown.com/t/improvements-fixes-to-the...
One of the charges sounds completely ridiculous.
"unlawful use of secret scientific material"
Since when Markdown was just about ASCII text ? then we can't write French, Arabic, Chinese using markdown ?

my whole point is to define a syntax indication in the specs on how RTL elements should be identified when converted to say HTML. when converted, THAT element (or the whole document) would contains dir="RTL" attribute in its tag.

for example, something like this:

<-rtl--

Foo

Bar

would convert to:

<p dir="rtl">Foo

Bar

</p>

Prettifying won't help... RTL elements/document should be indicated in markdown
Uber Continues to Operate in Germany, Despite Court Ruling
They will if the standard is supported! Also:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250157/could-stack-o...
The problem is entirely cultural. As long as Americans continue to equate hard work with strength of character, work hours will continue to go up.
I'm fine with this one being the lead article.

p.s. my blog is awesome
Here's a link to a patent on Google Patents for example: https://www.google.com/patents/US5255452

You can see how Google emphasizes the independent claims on the right.
There are certainly a large number of people that are aware of the name, I'm not disputing that.

My point is that there are tens of millions of redditors that aren't. I would also guess most light users of Stack Exchange sites are not very aware of the name.

For all those people, I don't think the name matters. Also, the heavier, more interested users will likely not be disrupted much by a different name.
Living in LA, one of the hardest parts of 'going out' is avoiding the crowds and finding places where people AREN'T. Everything is packed, every street has traffic, every line is out the door. If there was an app that tracked cool/chill areas and establishments to hang out/ go out in, I'd love that.
We're still very much in the early stages here in the States but definitely would love to be able to support Europe and elsewhere eventually!
Gruber has been okay with people writing and distributing their own markdown processors, with whatever variations they want.

The difference here is that they wrote a spec for the variation they plan to implement? That somehow makes it not cool?

Or just that they're calling it "Standard Markdown"? Could the dispute be avoided if they called it "A Standardized Markdown", or "Standardized Flavor of Markdown" instead?

There are many markdowns, and Gruber likes that, fine. Other people would like to standardize and make compatible implementations. Nothing's stopping people who disagree from continuing to ignore the standardized spec. But where' the logic in saying "you can release whatever markdown variations you like, as long as you don't try to make different implementations compatible with each other."
Remote sysadmin service.

Percona has a remote DBA service that gives us 24/7 access to a team of proficient DBAs for a fraction of the cost of hiring one.

I'd like to see the same product for cloud sysadmins.
Where I live, tax rate (and income bracket!) is determined month to month, so bonuses are problematic but the company will spread them around to avoid fluctuation.
I don't know much of these things.

I was thinking more that maybe some aspect of markdown was not easily expressed using a PEG (it's the same implementer behind both the parser in Pandoc and this project) .
It would be helpful if you could tell me where you got the impression that I was encouraging use on cloud-storage services. Was it in the README? the code? a post I made on my blog? I ask because I'd like to correct that doc/post/etc. so that others don't get the same impression.

Tom Limoncelli
http://the-cloud-book.com
http://everythingsysadmin.com

P.S. Blackbox was written to safely store the occasional secret file (SSL certs, mostly) in a Puppet repo stored on an in-company source code server.

Even though I personally knew everyone with access to the repo, root access to the repo server, or access to where the backup tapes are stored... it became essential to encrypt those secrets. Honest, I don't trust the people who handle our backup tapes... one of them is me and I'm the least trustworthy person I know.

Even more importantly, now that I could open up the repo to all my coworkers, it enabled me to collaborate across the company. They could read my code, even submit pull requests, and I didn't have to worry that they had access to SSL certs.
You're right - most organizations reward managers who ship. Hopefully they're tying the incentive not to the act of shipping, but the outcome of shipping. Revenue, users, really fun launch parties, etc.
I've felt that way a number of times. Sometimes a break is a good thing. I've bartended, done dog-walking, tutored kids, personal training, bike messengering, etc...anything to get a mental break.

These days, if I had a decent car I would absolutely drive for Lyft / Uber. Seems like the perfect "I don't wanna solve tech problems right now, just clear my head and meet people" kind of job.
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> should the owner of a spec really be expected to continuously hunt down and test/validate every implementation of their specification?

I'm pretty sure thats exactly what trademark law says you have to do. You have to defend your trademark. You can't go ten years letting everyone use the Markdown brand where ever they want, and then suddenly decide one day you want to start controlling it.
Is anybody working on the Semantic Desktop/Interface?
Hi All,

Just wondering - is anybody aware of interesting movement in the semantic desktop area? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_desktop

Maybe it's pie in the sky, but I think not. The essential nature of the Windows interface hasn't hugely evolved since the early days - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows#mediaviewer/File:Windows1.0.png

I'm not sure what it'll look like, but my gut is that the right implementation of a semantic interface could be a sea change. I think the term desktop however is kind of defunct, since it will need to be ubiquitous across a user's/organisation's devices. Love to hear any thoughts.

Cheers,
Andrew.
> Overall, I just don't understand why salary is negotiable in a job, but time off isn't.

Salary is fungible, they can give you more or less of it and have it not appreciably affect company goals. Time off often is not.
Slow is better then not at all in my books.
Consult. If you're valuable to your employer they'll want to keep you on-- esp since you know the understaffed teams so well and can fit in seamlessly (read: they don't have to train someone else). You should be able to charge more (50-100%) to cover health insurance et al. and will have more control over your schedule.

I don't know your industry though so it would behoove you to make friends with someone else who consults for your company and figure out what arrangement they have. If the company has done it once they'll do it again.
Take your pick: http://startjumper.com

It's kind of like a parking lot for business opportunities I didn't go through with.
If you came here to find any sort of valuable information, don't waste your time reading this article. From indiscriminately putting a whole generation in the same basket to calling weak gadgetry "innovation", I find this article somewhat condescending, but mostly irrelevant. It addresses the wrong problems with the wrong solutions, fails to provide any kind of substantial information and just feels like the writer wanted to "hear himself".
Haha, I got an S3 prototype card from a friend's dad who worked there once, it was pretty awful. I think it was supposed to be around the performance level of a Radeon 9600 but it really wasn't, and it was pretty crashy too (though to be fair, he did say it was a prototype).
I personally have always wanted to own an HTC phone. The One looks really cool.
thank you; when I looked at your site it didn't seem like mail had gmail conversations
Japanese firm showcases ‘touchable’ 3-D technology
Probably one of:

- a "Rap Genius" for crowd-translating doujin manga (kind of exists on danbooru but not quite)

- A collaborative gaming site for pen-and-paper RPG and boardgame players which would let you design and run your games as a virtual representation of the physical game (probably exists or else is a bad idea)
So a friend of mine who knows more about this technology says this is all BS, and the company has not in fact demonstrated that rogue cell towers trying to intercept your calls is what is being identified, rather than normal functioning of the cell network.

I don't know enough about the tech to judge.

But I bet someone here does. Anyone have a comment?
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I understand why criminals would need to be paid more, I'm just surprised that spamming is lucrative enough to hire skilled engineers.
> It's fairly hard to hide when your entire purpose is to transmit a signal.

I wonder if this would be possible to solve by going "the GPS way". As far as I understand how the system works, GPS signal as received on the ground is 20dB below thermal noise. We can still find and amplify it because we know the seeds and algorithms of random number generators on the satellites. But if you were an alien that just came to Earth, you wouldn't be able to find those transmissions. To read them, you need to know that they are there and what to look for (i.e. have a synced RNG).
Definitely any interesting read. I've been looking for a technical co-founder for the last few months and haven't had much luck so far. From those who have had success finding one, what advice do you have?
This is correct. But the belief in Aristotle's philosophy was even more powerful:

"The medieval followers of Aristotle, first in the Islamic world and then in Christian Europe, tried to make sense of the lunar spots in Aristotelian terms. Various possibilities were entertained. It had been suggested already in Antiquity that the Moon was a perfect mirror and that its markings were reflections of earthly features, but this explanation was easily dismissed because the face of the Moon never changes as it moves about the Earth. Perhaps there were vapors between the Sun and the Moon, so that the images were actually contained in the Sun's incident light and thus reflected to the Earth. The explanation that finally became standard was that there were variations of "density" in the Moon that caused this otherwise perfectly spherical body to appear the way it does. The perfection of the Moon, and therefore the heavens, was thus preserved."

http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observations/moon.html
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As always Red Hat is hiring, we have hundreds of open positions

http://jobs.redhat.com/

just the technical positions by major grouping:

http://jobs.redhat.com/job-categories/technology/

200+ listed in cloud alone to put this in perspective.
> > These days, if you have a portable project that builds on both Windows and Linux, it's fairly easy to set up a MinGW-based cross-compiler and do all your builds on Linux.

> That isn't very useful if part of what you are testing are builds on OSX.

That's probably why the next sentence in the post you are responding to was the following question:

> > Does anyone have a useful cross-compilation environment for OS X?
Millennials’ Promotions Stall as New Firms’ Hiring Eases
This was fascinating to me. It feels like a major failing that I could register routes for address space I don't control. Kudos to the authors for explaining things in a way that a novice networking guy like myself could understand.
There's always room for boutique manufacturers. I would just focus on providing the kind of value that large companies cannot. Namely: being handmade, offering customization, exceptional customer support, dynamic product lines. Use your size to your advantage.