skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That Arianespace, a French rival of SpaceX, announced on the same day that two satellites it had tried to launch to join the European Space Agency’s Galileo constellation (intended to rival America’s Global Positioning System), had entered a “non-nominal injection orbit”—in other words, gone wrong—shows just how difficult the commercialisation of space can be.

>If spacecraft are so precarious, then perhaps investors should lower their sights. But not in terms of innovation; rather in altitude.

As if constraining ourselves to low-earth orbit were too ambitious. It is absolutely disgusting to suggest that, after we gutted NASA in order to make opportunities for private enterprise, we should just stop sending stuff to space altogether. We need to face it: we're never going to become a interplanetary, space-faring civilization under this current economic system.
I've decided that due to company policies I shouldn't really say much more.
> whatever warm feeling they get out of markdown

The warm feeling I get is that it's the syntax I use all day on reddit and GitHub. The syntax could be a mixture of Perl, non-printing characters, Emoji, and a Turing-complete sublanguage, and I'd still use it.

Familiarity trumps all other merits. The easiest language to learn and use is the one I've already learned.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryp...
If you're a millionaire, a $50 speeding ticket is barely a deterrent. If you're poor, the same $50 speeding ticket can completely break you. That doesn't feel right.

As much as I personally would dislike it, Finland's model for traffic fines is probably a more "fair" strategy.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/multimillionaire-faces...

(edited for clarity)
> The "spec" as presented simply looks like a large collection of examples, informally specified in prose.

Which is exactly what Markdown's spec consisted of:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
>And when I’m late, I speed.

How the poor are treated in our country is a crime, yes, but if you can't afford a speeding ticket, you can avoid getting a speeding ticket by not speeding. Going faster than the speed limit doesn't really get you there appreciably faster, but it does increase your chances of being in an accident substantially and greatly increases your chances of getting a speeding ticket.

Stealing food to support your family is one thing. That literally means you can eat that night. Speeding is completely avoidable. It doesn't mean a corrupt officer won't still pull you over for something, but it surely would reduce the odds that they would look your way.
Some Cool Stats on the Coolest Cooler
I agree. The S-Pen isn't quite paper, but after the original Note Samsung got it close enough. On that front, I'm just waiting for Samsung to finish polishing the Note Pro so I can finally get the magic electronic notebook I started dreaming about in the previous millennium.
Very good advice, thanks for adding it, as I totally agree with all of it.

If you are friendly with any managers, it's good to find out the company's policy on competing offers. (I had a friend who was a manager in a different department, so I could find out company and HR policy on this kind of thing). Competing -offers is definitely something you only want to do if you are seriously about switching companies.

Different side story:
My last job I was working out of a satellite office that was closed down as the company slimmed down to be bought out. We have around 50 people in the office. There was a 2nd and 3rd line manager that were cut when it all went down, so we were able to talk a bit more openly with them about it after the fact.

These managers were newer to the company and stunned at how low the salaries were for most of the individual contributors. They were doing the best they could to get salaries up-to-snuff, but when they were only given 3% (of the salaries of all their employees) to use to give raises, it was really hard to get people properly compensated.

Most lower-tier managers really do care for their employees, they just tend to be limited by corporate direction and what HR tells them they can and can't do.
I really just want to have some lined paper to write on and the ability to keep adding more pages, then bundle up the notes and email/dropbox them when I'm done so I can refer to them on my computer.

I'm going to give Papyrus a go, it looks focused and basic enough on that kind of workflow to keep me happy.
This is what I use:

* Search engine: http://www.seeks-project.info/, https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

* Maps: https://github.com/MapBBCode/share.mapbbcode.org/, https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/ (routing, hard to setup)

* Mail: https://roundcube.net, http://rainloop.net, https://www.mailpile.is/ (the hard part is getting the mail server right)

* Media: https://github.com/sebsauvage/minigalnano (FTP/SSH upload only), http://mediagoblin.org/

See something missing?
Storing things of value in the cloud, without inspecting and validating that the underlying tech is secure enough is the essence of stupidity.
You store your money in the bank, rather than in your closet right? And they just put that money as a bit in your computerized account on their mainframe, right? How is that any different than a properly secured 'cloud'?
I don't know about Google Fiber, but running a Tor exit node has some serious risks. It isn't something that should be done without doing some research.
No, I don't think that Uber will solve poverty, the actual cause of these issues.
Yes, they’re part of Markdown Extra[0], written by Michel Fortin.

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20140830092621/https://michelf.ca...
An observation which changes the observed.
Oh, I run into a bunch of fb employees in #mercurial. It never ocurred to me that they had their own channel in Freenode.
There is a C11 threads implementation, in Musl libc[1]. It is not committed yet, but looks like it will be in the next release - there are patches on the mailing list.

[1] http://www.musl-libc.org/
Why not hook up a software PBX (such as Asterisk) to your phone line that's configured to only ring phones in the house if someone from a whitelisted number is calling?
How much does it cost to incarcerate people for this long? Does it outweigh the cost of the fines in the first place? If not, why even bother?
Nicely done, and needed! But pretty much everyone I know who has used markdown has wandered into the swamp that is known as 'tables of despair'.

Michael Fortin's syntax is pretty useful and quite close to the spirit of Gruber's original efforts. (who hasn't done ascii tables with | and - right?) Until tables are 'standard' I do not hold out a lot of hope for widespread adoption.

That said, I really love taking it Markdown to this next level. And am moderately amused by the recurrence of the themes over time. I'm a old RUNOFF user from back in the day.
This is not true. You are only underpaid if you compensation is below market rate compensation. If I got paid $1 plus a $1 million bonus I would not be underpaid.

You should consider how much risk you are willing to take and how likely it is that you will get a smaller (or larger) than expected bonus.
And this is the root cause of all the ambiguities that have resulted in incompatibilities in different implementations.

This project seems to be repeating the same mistakes, albeit with more clarity in the description and a more extensive set of examples.
With Vim and Emacs you can get this if you have a plugin that autogenerates a ctags/etags file. Then (in Vim) just <C-]> to an identifiers definition and <C-o> back.
Why does the HN title say "in git"? This tool seems to be specifically built to handle hg as well. A pleasant surprise for hg users like me. :-)
That may be true about an iWatch. But the lead time on big screen phones has been long enough that Apple is definitely trailing the market there.

But to be honest, it doesn't really matter. Time to market is important. Real companies ship.
People do image stabilization manually on reddit and the results are amazing.

Ex: http://gfycat.com/CriminalAromaticEsok or http://i.imgur.com/ErQRMrV.gif

http://www.reddit.com/r/ImageStabilization/
I agree in principle with the idea that the fine should always be more than the potential profit, but I think it would be really hard to implement such a rule.

Anyway, I don't agree with your math. Surely many/most of the affected customers would not have bothered opting out even if they had been given proper notice. Opting out is kind of a hassle. And a 10% sales conversion is ridiculously generous by like three orders magnitude. I'd be surprised if 10% of people even open their messages.
Ah selinux, the NSAs contribution to the linux kernel.
Did you read the article? It's much more than just complaining about speeding tickets... Speeding tickets and other small, petty tickets are turning into weeks in jail and thousands in fines, mostly for poor blacks, because of ridiculous city zoning and fragmented court systems.
Atwood hasn't been associated with StackOverflow for over 2 years: http://blog.codinghorror.com/farewell-stack-exchange/

That said I'm sure he has valuable experience with Markdown and is almost certainly using it again in his latest venture.
For the previous three generations (Via C3, C7 and Nano), I was always impressed with what the underdog did - on paper. They never seemed to get out there in the consumer market space.

I'm hoping - but not hopeful - this time will be different.
> It is absolutely disgusting to suggest that, after we gutted NASA in order to make opportunities for private enterprise, we should just stop sending stuff to space altogether.

I do not think that was the point of the article. Some things do not absolutely need to be beyond the atmosphere, they only need to be up high. In the past, the technology to keep things at what might be termed "moderate" altitudes has not been available, so we pushed things above the atmosphere. But when you have technology to do the job better, it does not make sense to continue sending things up to space simply because that is what has been done in the past.

Not to mention, retrievable technology means it can be upgraded, rather than junked (as many satellites are). So this could very well reduce space junk (or at least reduce its rate of increase) and result in more rapid technology development.

There are certainly there are things which will still be easier or better served by the use of satellites up, and so that technology will continue to be developed.
Yeah, the eBay drop centers aren't a very good deal. As you mentioned, you have to take your stuff to them, and then they might not accept it. Most won't take anything under $50 in value, or anything over a certain size. Then they do very little effort in determining the right price, instead opting for no reserve auctions with really low starting bids. Then they keep 50% commission on average. So their value prop is essentially: bring us your stuff, we'll take some of it, sell it for less than it's worth, and then keep half of that.

I think creating a business that resold on Amazon would be smarter. It's less work, easier to price, and the customers there are willing to pay more than on eBay. You would be limited to only taking items that Amazon has in their system though. I was going to work on this (actually selling on a combo of Amazon/Craigslist/eBay), but I had the most hellacious back and forth string of emails and phone calls with Amazon's tech support only to confirm that they require $500/year developer fees for the privilege of developing software that works with their marketplace web services api. And unlike Apple where you only have to start paying once you wish to deploy an app into their app store, with Amazon you have to pay while developing the app too.
You have to meet or exceed prevailing wages for the area/position. The reason is to make sure you're not underpaying foreign workers at the expense of local US candidates.

We sponsored H1B applicants in the past, and the numbers were reviewed by the lawyer who took care of the application. We also had to post the opening notice internally, with the salary offered. And finally, as others have stated, the number is known by the sponsored employee, so there's really no incentive to inflate that number.
C does not semantically separate arrays from pointers, Pascal does this.

C uses indexes starting from 0, Pascal does not.

Pascal usually does not come with strong memory layout guarantees that one knows from C (packing of structs, unions, etc.)

Typecasting in Pascal is a matter of dialect.

There are probably more but I cannot remember them because I have not used Pascal in a very long while.
Finally. Took them long enough. The unified view was always confusing.
Mysterious Fake Mobile Phone Towers Discovered
It's not just government funding. It seems that even most scientists and fans of science are hostile to research projects that seem to contradict known facts or trusted theories.

For example, consider the recent report from NASA's Advanced Propulsion lab on a weird microwave resonance chamber that supposedly produces an anomalous thrust when powered up. In their initial test, they found a force that they could not explain as error, and recommended a more rigorous set of testing.

Keep in mind that this is a respected institution (NASA), that is funding a small team of people to check out ideas that seem crazy. It's exactly what this article says we need more of.

Yet, the reaction was visceral mockery and rejection, even from other professional scientists. Not even a "hmm, that's really weird, we should keep checking this out." It was more like, "you stupid idiots, don't you know that's impossible??"

It's a cultural problem in the U.S. that seems to go well beyond funding. The public supporters of science have become so focused on fighting culture wars against "bad science" that their default reaction to anything surprising is to attack attack attack.

When in fact the whole point of science is to find things that seem unexplainable, and then try to find an explanation.
Yea, usually out of respect and general human decency, the inventor of a technology gets to retain rights to the name and the names usage. Very disappointed.
> "I don't like his position so he should lose his ownership"

That's certainly an unbiased translation :rolls eyes:. If you want to have a good-faith debate, you should avoid tendentious re-writes of your interlocutor's arguments.
For HTML to Markdown this works in Pandoc, because HTML elements are valid Markdown. Haven't tried with other target formats.

One option if you can run Haskell code somewhere is to use the Pandoc library, which will produce an in-memory structure that you can manipulate as the user makes edits.
It's an issue of "loading gauge".

If caltrain adopted higher platforms, they would interfere with the size of freight trains passing through.

There are ways around this: If all the high platforms were on 4-tracked sections, the freight could use the express tracks only. Mixing high and low boarding might be more painful though.

Not to mention the current train stock doesn't support level boarding, so Caltrain would be restricted to use them as express trains and only have high platforms at local stations, for example.

Or the platforms could be far away from the trains and they use extending platforms: That is potentially unreliable and costly.

There is a somewhat reasonable blog about this type of issues at http://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/ which is mostly reasonable though it tends to be written as if it is the only reasonable choice.
Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual, Early Access
My general guideline for comment threads is that when somebody starts pulling out individual sentences by themselves to quote and then argue with them, they're no longer contributing and can be ignored.

I didn't think it would apply to articles too, but here we are.

The article goes over a huge number of factors and details about life in this area. Why did you think this one piece was worth pulling out and making an obvious comment on? "If you can't afford a ticket, don't speed." Well duh. Who are you talking to? That woman isn't reading your comment, and I'm sure she already knows what you're trying to tell her anyway.
for many languages ctags doesn't come close unfortunately, for code exploration a good IDE is essential. Even if you don't use it for actual editing.
The problem is that it is not possible to drive (or do much of anything) without breaking the law. There are more laws than any single person has ever read and ignorance is not excuse.
HTTPS is not just TLS
John Carmack goes into nerd overdrive about VR on the Note 4
It got a bit better when they added the ability to expand context, but that always felt like a way to avoid committing to split diffs all the way. Glad they're here!
The article discusses this very point in some detail (see especially point 7 about iCloud email testing).
http://caniuse.com/#search=hyphens

With no version of chrome supporting it it seems like a bad idea to rely on it.
Good point. I doubt Notepad caches anything on a different drive, but Excel would if auto-save is enabled.
Never is a really long time. Even if we make 0 investment in space travel, we will almost certainly be better equipped for space travel than we are today. The only possible exceptions to this that I can think of are: modern civilization collapsing (or some less extreme variant) or us having depleted some critical resource.
Well helping people has a price tag. If they don't care for the money, they could still accept it and donate it to cancer research or food donations for starving children.

It still seems selfish...

In any case what is the point of the discussion if I say "if they pay accordingly" and you say "but they won't"?

Money as a measure for everything - it is just a convenient proxy for talking about the value of things. What is so bad about that? Should these people be paid off in other things? Like what?
Funded EdTech Startup is hiring full stack developers in Boston, MA

#ABOUT
Chalk Talk Solutions is an Ed-Tech startup that specializes in creating adaptive learning solutions for the world with a focus on the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Our web application individualizes the learning experience for students and helps them achieve higher grades on standardized exams.

#WHYUS
We successfully closed a large round of angel investment with no need to raise further funds. We have several clients lined up for our first major release this fall in several countries from Jordan to India. Our management and investment team possesses a strong network and has successfully started and operated many businesses, including international education franchises. Our technical team enjoys solving difficult problems and building end-to-end software solutions. Our US engineering office is located at Exponential Techspace, in the heart of Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. We're still a small team so when you join us you're not just joining a great company, but you’re also helping create one.

#TECHNOLOGY
Django, Python, Javascript, HTML5/CSS, AngularJS, Postgres. Knowledge in any of these items is not required but is a plus: Data Science, Data Visualization, and Machine Learning.

#DESCRIPTION
Looking for: Software Engineer – Full Time, Part Time, Intern. Needs to show examples of past work; work on web applications (both frontend & backend) is encouraged.

Competitive Compensation: Salary + Equity.

Interested candidates should contact us at info@chalktalkinternational.com
Looks pretty cool but why are you running Web Brick?
Is reddit the secret here? I didn't know that reddit took markdown input (not a reddit user.)

Asciidoc works on github, too: http://asciidoctor.org/news/2013/01/30/asciidoc-returns-to-g...

edit: Thanks Titanous - I assumed it was an optional text filter or something for general use.
To be clear, "Standard Markdown" is only trying to address the ambiguity of the syntax. Sites are still going to implement Standard Markdown plus some ad hoc extensions, so it will still be the same practically in that regard.
Notice the power specs are missing from the table...
I agree with Gruber. Ambiguity is a feature. It allows every implementer (leanpub, github et al) to add their own idiocentricities while staying true to Gruber's "spirit" of Markdown.
And they need a way to avoid cyclic leaks among Dart and JS via the DOM. That adds a tax in the form of write barrier overhead, which caused Apple to reject the WebKit patch.

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...
Complaining that it refers to the "wrong" football adds nothing to the discussion.
"Split diff" is absolutely essential to performing code review; after having used it in Phabricator [0] I was severely disappointed whenever I had to use Github's vertical view. Great to see Github finally play catchup, congrats to the team that shipped it.

[0]: http://phabricator.org/
I totally agree. But what you say does not jive with what the system encourages.
Free Pascal – Open Source Compiler for Pascal and Object Pascal
I very, very dearly wish my employer would let me take unpaid leave or purchase vacation... Supposedly we can take two weeks unpaid once every three years, but I've never heard of anyone who was allowed to do it.

Honestly, it would be a _huge_ perk. I don't understand why a reasonable work-life balance is such a taboo. Money is useless. Give me my weekends back and the occasional day off and I'll happily take a 50% pay cut.

First world problems, I know... (Most of my family is semi-unemployed and barely scraping by. I really shouldn't be complaining...)
"a href" isn't intuitive, but it's memorable.
The website a weekend project, not something I care for whether people use it. On average it has five to ten visitors a day unless linked to from somewhere big which only happens like twice a year.
Does stackoverflow allow ```ruby now? I thought their thing was different. There is a stackexchange person on this, so does that mean we will be able to ````mylanguage on stackoverflow sites?
Yes, I obviously read it since I said "the way they're treated is criminal" and also quoted the article itself. The million little cuts is terrible. But one of the little cuts, which the article makes out to be a very common one, is easily avoided. Don't shrug it off with a "I have a lead foot, it's no big deal". It obviously is a big deal because it's leading to people going to prison. How many people would never find themselves in this horrible spiral if they just obeyed the speed limit?

I was driving on the Illinois tollway over the weekend, which is under construction and at a 45mph speed limit. I was in a hurry to meet a client, but I'm at a point in my life where I can't afford the $375 ticket for speeding in a construction zone. So, with people flying around me at 70mph, I set my cruise control to 45.

Because the $375 ticket would cripple me financially right now. It's not a hard concept.
Do you have to trust that the password manager doesn't upload the passwords? I trust TrueCrypt since it isn't specifically for passwords.
From my impression, I don't think it's any kind of for-profit service he's running where people are paying for and expecting uptime. He's taken a public data source and make it very easy for people to peruse it, and sees that as his reward.
Not always.

My company offers market rate adjustments (outside of the usual review/salary adjustment periods) to retain experienced developers.
If you have a cell phone, it is constantly pinging nearby cell towers. If it has wifi, it is pinging nearby wireless networks. That information is out there, waiting to be collected. If you want to go without the benefits of a cell phone to avoid whatever threat is posed by somebody knowing where you were at some point in time, go for it. I think it's a waste of time.
Private and Secure Picture Messaging
None of those points are "closer to the metal".

Only ANSI/ISO C11 does provide strong memory guarantees. Back then there wasn't even a C standard.