skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuck Gruber they should go with something totally different and Markdown will be forgotten. Win.
Depending on the context, your friend may be right.

Power dissipation in a CMOS gate is made up of two primary components: static leakage and dynamic losses. Dynamic losses are related to the "dissipation" capacitance (Cdiss or Cpd in CMOS datasheets) and the switching frequency. If you want to understand why, consider charging an RC circuit. How much energy is lost to the resistor and how much is stored in the capacitor at the end of charging? How does the selection of the resistor and capacitor value impact this ratio?

So for minimum dynamic loss you want to minimize Cdiss which involves making gates as small as possible. However, this makes the static leakage higher. So it may not be universally as simple as "a smaller process is lower power". For a system which spends most of it's time in sleep, or clocks slowly it may actually be better to eat the dynamic loss of a larger process in order to get the lower leakage, which is something I believe TI did with some of the FRAM '430 parts (but I can't find the link now).
Router Requirements RFC says thou shall only forward packets unmolested.
Was CommonMarkup considered?
At a previous place I worked we used to run a couple of DRBD'd databases. For every downtime they averted they seem to cause two. It's really tempting to just build simple monolithic apps on a single high performance server. For a lot of companies where tech isn't their core competency - they can more or less scale with moore's law and avoid the complexity of distributed systems altogether.
As before the recent brouhaha, AsciiDoc.
You can check https://www.openhub.net (ex Ohloh) that tracks open source projects. Go to the tools section and compare languages. Lisp has been in decline for a long time, based on number of contributors and projects updated. Scala is doing exceptionally well

https://www.openhub.net/languages/compare?measure=contributo...
How is this different from the fare quote in the uber app?
Yes, interesting point. I skimmed through this: http://www.writersweekly.com/print/the_latest_from_angelahoy...
Home Depot Hit by Same Malware as Target
oh how exciting! can't wait to get this as a low-power commodity single chip package with OTS sensors at a hand-held device form-factor with wide-scale production at consumer price ranges - like the S5 almost has - but with higher fidelity. You know, like the leap but lower cost with better sensors and a higher range.
Yeah, that's true. Then again, his reason is the priority he placed on open-source, and the licensing is more complex on the MicroSoft stack.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/
It's a brown metal bar.
I think that it would be appropriate to simply forget the "Mark" parlance and Gruber all together.

Everyone understands there is a Markdown ecosystem, but quite frankly this is the start of something new.

End-users also need an easy to follow name and site to learn the syntax.

I like the names SmartText or SimpleFormat or even perhaps CommonMarkup.
I see where you're coming from, but your conclusion is incorrect. Monotheistic religions, atleast the unfabricated, do not profess the idea that this material world is wholly bad. It professes balance, between the material and the spiritual, and that if you lose balance and become too materialistic (as what we see in today's 'depression' cases) you will fall astray.

I think this idea is very true, and we see that both religious people and non-religious have tipped the balance too far on either side.
I understand that hackers tend to be irascible often, especially online, but parting shots like these are in very poor form. Consideration and goodwill tend be diminished when you can't be graceful no matter what the other party said. Especially considering that other party was originally the impetus for this in the first place.
Maybe allow people to re-submit their own reviews to your site? They own the original copyright. In the meantime, you could quote an excerpt and link to the original.

Related: TrustYou is doing automated semantic analysis on travel reviews across multiple sites, then syndicating their assessment back to the vendors being reviewed, http://www.trustyou.com/press/travelers-now-read-hotel-revie...
The Wakie Alarm App Recruits Strangers to Help Get You Out of Bed
That would certainly be a very dire voire.
Lol, my wife and I are pounding 10mbps at our home and I'm wanting to upgrade it to 20mbps. We live in rural western Kansas.
Great to read through these for a brush up, thank you.
Per-chord is what I meant, not per-key. 3:2 means you can't have a coherent set for all tones in a key, full stop.

But you could slightly shift the frequencies of the notes in a given chord to make that chord perfectly tempered.

There'd be a million details; making sure the melodic voice, bass, or both avoided wolf intervals; figuring out what to when some voices are moving over a sustained chord in others; keeping the main anchor frequency from drifting "too far" from the original (and probably determining "too far" in the first place); figuring out whether the resulting sound was going to be anywhere near distinguishable enough to be worth all the effort of hacking through all this rigamarole.
The article is a little dense for me, and presumes knowledge about Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) and directed acyclic graphs / causal Bayesian networks (DAGs) without introducing the background knowledge - so, I expect my reading of it missed a lot of the details.

But the one thing I came out wondering, is if you do a proper randomized double-blinded study with a large population sample, say, taking 1000 people with a particular illness, completely randomizing them, and then giving 500 of the sample a particular treatment, and 500 of the sample a placebo that is indistinguishable from the treatment. If an unbiased third-party, then observes the groups (still without knowledge of which group had which treatment), and if one group shows markedly different results (say, 490/500 of the treatment group recover, and only 10/500 placebo group recover), is it fair to say that in this particular scenario, that correlation of recovery with the treatment implied that the treatment caused the recovery?
The First Sophisticated Domestic Robot
I used to read this stuff during my undergrad. Although, I haven't been doing electronics stuff lately, I'd want to go back to it in the near future. Thanks for sharing!
Most university undergrads now taught by poorly paid part-timers
On the first page of the book there is a cross above the M in the coauthor's name. What is that? I've seen similar markings in library books in college. Is it something librarians used before everything went digital?

Sorry for the off topic question.
how was I being sarcastic? Gruber could have skipped the butthurt party by replying to an email sent by the standard markdown team, instead of ignoring them for weeks. He refused communications, reading them to read tea leaves and guess what he might want. Like I said, tantrum. It's behavior expected from a child.
Incorrect -- there is a doctrine of common law trademark: http://www.uspto.gov/faq/trademarks.jsp#_Toc275426712
We did something similar about 3 and a half years ago where we detected online communities based on their follower network and text of tweets. Something you might be interested in - http://www.slideshare.net/akshayubhat/twitter-lda
Well, I don't think they broke into the computer. But I guess my point was more that the CFAA doesn't have any answers, you have to figure out the scope of the authority possessed by the Department of Justice.
Thanks, you're right. I've misused the word for ages.
http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2014/09/05/crested-but...

"Overall, Crested Butte is expecting to receive an impact boost of $2,000,000, according to Anheuser-Busch's estimations."
I also really enjoyed this book. I am a sucker for books about the "Arts and Crafts ethos" whether the author is Crawford, Morris, Ruskin or Stickley. I got really excited when I read "There are a number of other books" because it is so rare to find new books like this. I don't mean this in a snide way but please tell me the "number of books in this vein" that you mentioned is not equal to one?
Hawking: God particle could destroy universe – The Sunday Times
I remember it from back in the day as well. I was surprised to see it with a nice modern flat design; it certainly didn't look that way the last time I visited.
Convert any site into a rack application
This Amazon supplier sell cheap Chinese trinkets, he probably has his own ebay store too and is based in Taiwan/Shenzhen.
I wasn't talking about anything you wrote, Atwood's post does not sound sarcastic to me. He calls the email leading to the newest name "long and thoughtful". That doesn't sound like a tantrum.
I enjoyed and learned a lot from MITx 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics): https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/
Build Your Own Continuous Integration Pole
They've actually tried to make themselves much more visible recently. Search for NuPIC.
Post traumatic stress disorder from a three day party/commercial shoot. Oh the horror.
> That's not really a ringing endorsement here, at best it shows that if we change our estimates a little we can reverse our conclusions. That to me says that they were never able to come to very reliable conclusions in the first place on this issue.

And if you read the entire comment thread, you'll see that they removed the article precisely because they were unable to come to any real conclusions.

The original blog post stated that paid dating sites made one's odds worse. Real numbers demonstrated that paid sites were, at worst, a wash.
Not sure how much of an impact someone at that level leaving will have on the day-to-day operations and how the timing will work out. Any thoughts (in general terms)?
This comment should be higher. CommonMarkup gets rid of the naming hiccup by having no direct ties to the original spec except syntax, which is arguably a dialect anyway. Atwood gets to have One Syntax to Rule Them All - I sincerely doubt Atwood wanted Yet Another Markdown as he said - and the community benefits from having the syntax ambiguity resolved by comprehensive reform.
> While the outside is a good expression of what a smartwatch should be, the inside is fatally flawed. Motorola inexplicably chose an ancient 1GHz single-core Texas Instruments OMAP 3 SoC to power the 360. For some perspective, that's a 2010-era processor in the same league as the iPhone 4 or Nexus One. Smartwatch processors don't need to be as powerful as their smartphone companions, but there is no reason for them to be old. It's almost as if Motorola raided a dumpster outside the TI factory for parts.

Haha, this is a good joke. Why do you need to have so much CPU power for a smatchwatch anyway, that won't be driving tons of pixels every microsecond ? What's really the issue there? We still use MUCH older processors in calculators as well, for very specific reasons too and for battery life.
The OMAP3 is not THAT power hungry, and power consumption depends a lot on frequency anyway.
more about tribalism. "I share in the glory of every member of my tribe".
Why should the future of internet streaming be DRM free? If I purchase an ebook, I'm going to insist on DRM-free because it's my book and I want to be able to do whatever I like with it. But for streaming video I'm merely renting.
Its not that simple. Smaller transistors switch faster and consume less dynamic energy in the process. But the smaller the gate the worse the transistor is at being able to turn off the current and leakage current starts to become an issue. This is the main issue that is killing Moore's law as we are no longer able to ignore leakage current as it becomes more and more dominant to the entire power budget. This along with increased density of the circuits also cause risk of thermal runaway. These factors mean that as we shrink geometries the transistor architecture has to get more and more exotic (while still being manufacturable) to deal with these issues. So, yes the switching power is decreased but EVERYTHING else gets much more complicated.
You can also turn off line numbering _during_ the long "calculating line numbers" phase. Hit Ctrl-C and it says "line numbering off" or somesuch.
TI stopped developing OMAP chip 2 years ago. The natural assumption would be the project was started before that. Due to the complex, it should take more than 2 years for a large company to develop it (startup might do it faster). NOTE: iPhone => iPad also took roughly 2 years, and we all know iPad was started way earlier than that.
Thanks for spreading the word Adam!

We (Auth0) are heavy promoters of the usage of JWT. Here are some articles about using JWT instead of cookies on single page apps with APIs, and its pros/cons.

https://auth0.com/blog/2014/01/07/angularjs-authentication-w...

https://auth0.com/blog/2014/01/27/ten-things-you-should-know...
But I don't see that she did any engineering, which is why al-Jazari is potentially interesting.

Regarding al-Jazari, the question is only how significant he really was, compared to the centuries older Greek engineers like those that produced, for example, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
How about Bharkdown, where ARK = "Apple Rumor King"?

(cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#Libel_di...)
Nimrod has amazing performance, extremely clear syntax, and advanced metaprogramming features. That combination is unmatched in programming languages. It is a significant advance.

Yet, the Wikipedia editors continuously delete the Nimrod programming language article, claiming Nimrod is "not notable".

Wikipedia editors will say that there aren't enough third party articles or something, but that isn't true. And then they will say, yes, this is notable compared to quite a lot of other garbage or trivia that has articles on Wikipedia, but just because "other crap exists" isn't an excuse to allow this article.

I think that notability has to be a relative concept, and Nimrod is notable. At this point its just small-dick Wikipedia editors asserting their control. Either that or some editors are invested in other programming languages and are trying to stop this one from becoming mainstream.

This proves to me that Wikipedia is utter crap. But unfortunately, we are stuck with Wikipedia and it has quite a lot of influence. I wish someone who had pull on Wikipedia or knew how to make it work would fix this problem. I have tried. It seems like maybe it actually just made the editors band together more to try to continue to keep it off, just as sort of a reaction. Like its a group that works together to oppose anyone who isn't already an insider.
iWatch, You Watch, We Will All Watch
Because you can find things that are correlated, but have no practical relationship - many (frequently humorous) examples here:

http://tylervigen.com
He is using compressed air to run them.
> Monotheistic religions, atleast the unfabricated

Ummmm.

Are there any unfabricated religions?
Mental toughness
Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R
Ask HN: I love a girl and i cant help it
There is a girl sitting next to me. i am actually in love with her. i feel so helpless. what to do ...i wish for a lot of things. i know she has a boyfriend but i love her like anything.
Read "The Game"
Not paywalled for me. Running disconnect and ghostery?
How to make sense of several diets? (Ornish, Paleo, Atkins, etc)
'Markright' (adopting another direction other than 'up' or 'down) or 'Markwrite' (implying natural-language composition) would have been other interesting choices. Or even 'Markround' (completed/balanced like a circle).

Each is closer in spirit to the original – a "mark-up" with a different spin for ease or correctness – and close enough in sound/rhythm for drop-in replacement use. And, each is still different enough to avoid any unearned implication of official Gruber-ness.
someone guide him to setup a patreon account or kickstarter project pls!
Seems like an alchemical alphabet such as:

http://www.925-1000.com/alchemy.html

http://alchemylab.com/download_fonts.htm
I am pretty sure that Mr. Crawford's words are an accurate reflection of his opinion. The two big points you are glossing over are equipment and labor costs. Hobbyists do not have planers, joiners, cabinet work sized table saws, a festool domino and workshop space. Most importantly labor cost is not zero. Quality craftsmanship takes time as well as an investment in education. How many hours have you spent honing your woodworking skills?

As far as fingers go I really want a SawStop. If you compare the Workers Compensation tables to the cost of a sawstop it is a no brainer.
Personal data stores found leaking online
What is friendship?
People who make their living by their art need to treat their art as a business, and set deadlines like any other business.
>This proves to me that Wikipedia is utter crap.

The most it proves only that Wikipedia does not include some items that it should include. It says nothing about the quality of the articles that are included.
Scottish independence campaign ahead for the first time
Top 3 qualities of a REST API
Aye, that's the boat I'm in. They're expensive, around $80 a month, but they have better CS than the cable company and they also have the fastest service I can get where I live (40 down, 5 up, and most of the time I actually get it)
Cool, but terminfo and curses are another bunch of things I'd like to see go.. or at least delegated from the core of every fullscreen terminal application to a special compatibility layer (e.g. tmux or screen) for those using terminals which don't speak ANSI.

I've looked at it before, and I agree less is a mess.
International Space Station accidentally launches satellites on its own
I don't think there'd be an objection to creating a cited article. I took a brief look at the deleted version, and it didn't have any sources considered sufficient. It cited two things: 1) a random blog post by someone who tried Nimrod and liked it; and 2) an introductory Dr. Dobbs article written by the Nimrod author himself. Now #2 is useful as a supplemental source, but typically can't be the only source for a Wikipedia article. Had I run across it, I personally would've just tagged it "needs third-party references" rather than deleting, but which way things on the borderline go has a lot of variance.

A better place to start would probably be to find a description of Nimrod in some standard source—textbook, survey article, etc., and start from there, then flesh out with supplemental sources written by the Nimrod author himself for details. If Nimrod hasn't yet gotten solid third-party coverage despite deserving it, the root of the problem might lie elsewhere than Wikipedia—on scientific/technical/etc. topics, Wikipedia just summarizes the current state of the literature, leaving improving the literature as a job better done elsewhere.
> Catholics murdering them with terrible savagery

I see what you're trying to get at, but you make it sound as though the Islamic world was brutally traumatized by the Crusades. The savagery was no more terrible than any war of that time. And they didn't really "seal themselves off from the world". They did, however, seal themselves off from Europe culturally and intellectually. Politically and economically there was still plenty of engagement.

What the Crusades did do was to further hamper the adoption of European ideas in the Islamic World. While the Crusaders were happy to adopt both goods and knowledge from the Middle East, Arabs and Turks saw little reason to embrace any European customs and ways of thought. The Crusaders were invaders in their own lands and for that reason alone a typical Arab's perception of Europeans would've been much worse than a typical Frank's perception of "Saracens".

Amin Maalouf gives an example towards the end of "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes" (decent book, by the way, though I liked "Arab Historians of the Crusades" better). As the Crusades progressed and Europe entered the high middle ages peasants in the West started to gain more rights and privileges as the feudal system continued to weaken. However, none of this was seen in the Middle East, where local lords ruled their holdings with an iron grip and peasant rights barely improved.
some impressive shit here. just had them convert a bunch of pdf's and send me some LEGIT stock photos. good to use if u want to google anonymously, send to them and they'll respond.
Xbox One: la console sortie au Japon a du mal à décoller
This is more upsell for CB insights than analysis of YC data.
Christ I remember this from when I was a teenager. It inspired me to build a coilgun.

Really glad to see it's still going!
If there's one thing I enjoy from music (and music videos) from the 1980s, it is the unbounded optimism and bubbly nature. We were going to change the world, "with _science_!" And I often think of the early-to-mid 1990s Internet as a hangover of this mentality. We laughed off the Clinton Administration's Clipper chip, even as rumors abounded of the NSA peering at every NAP. We were, after all, unstoppable. We were going to change the world with science.

I don't want to sound too negative, because it's never too late for a comeback, but for the moment at least, this thing has been turned against us by corporate interests and the NSA. Were I a pessimist, I'd quote Easy Rider and say, "You know, man, we blew it."

That is, if I were a pessimist. I'm still pretty sure we can put this thing together like it was supposed to be.
Vulcan en Alberta veut construire le vaisseau de Star Trek, l’USS Enterprise
Agreed.

It's offensive they did this to any town. It's especially offensive they did it to crested butte, because it flies in the face of what the place is all about.

I was really close to moving there a couple years ago, and I still might one day, but an event like this would have made me furious.
Bluetooth is very finicky.

* The version of the OS running on the phone can impact BT stability

* What other BT devices you are paired to can impact BT stability

* The RF environment you are in can impact BT stability

Reliably replicating Bluetooth bugs is... interesting.
Why is the absence of garbage collection particularly important for a web browser engine? I've had good experiences with a few intensive games and programs that use GC'd environments such as the .NET runtime, so I don't think performance would be much of a reason that you can't have GC with a web browser. Is it security (old data left visible in ram)?
It has been deleted many times. There are plenty of references including the one to the Dr. Dobb's article, which is what comes up at the top of a Google search.

The fact that you looked into this and your actions (none) are siding with the other Wikipedia editors proves my point. You personally would have tagged it "needs third-party references"? Put your money where your mouth is, undelete it, and add that tag. Or prove my point. You actually do nothing, which is the same as standing behind the other Wikipedia editors. Like a little small-dick Mafia.

I have nothing but despise for Wikipedia editors.
Hi Joe,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I understand what you mean. While I'm going to still be loyal until given reason not to, the main thing this experience has taught me is that you can't wait too long for other people to help themselves.

Sometimes being loyal/being there is just enabling. I guess the art is in figuring out when you are supporting vs enabling :)
Also known as "Teamwork". The basic mechanisms of tribalism are the same whether the scale is a world religion, a country, a ship's crew, a basketball team or whatever.