skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of that livery, car #, driver info, etc is security theatre. So are background checks. If you get in a taxi with serious malicious intent, you're in trouble, full stop. Whatever limited protection they do yield is basically redundant with the license plate number.

You're confusing correlation with causation in declaring that unregulated taxi service leads to dangerous taxi service.
The real question is "which way is the lens pointed?" It's not a profile shot of the officer, twirling his nightstick, that is being recorded. The camera is pointed towards us with the master files being left with the 5-0. But NPYD are sqeaky clean moralists so no bother (1)

Stream them public is a nice idea - but I think we can safely assume that will never happen.

(1) Adrian Schoolcraft secretly recorded his NYPD bretheren who were manipulating crime stats for illegal arrests. 20mins but fascinating
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/r...
FlyWheel is the main "official cab app" player in SF; it's advertised on most cabs.
Note they can be turned off at will and have a delete button too.

So mostly useless, they are there to show what the cop wants to show.
It actually weathered the bubble collapse and was sold later, in 2003, after it was profitable.

I think it's hard to put a percentage on any single employee's contribution to a company's success, but I also think it's ludicrous to say that the combined value of every employee's contribution is worth less than a single founder's contribution. It's just dishonest.
Kyoto Common Lisp was available in the late-80s, CMUCL on x86 in 1996.
looks like tiddlywiki got a refresh from the classic version, so that it now is able to run on node.js
Add a beat lock and this thing would be perfectttt
How Apple-like of him.
I agree, there was never any doubt that Gruber felt this way.

I just thought it was interesting that the OP's quote was in direct contradiction to a quote Gruber Tweeted yesterday, and thought the Tweet and its context was worth including here, considering it wasn't cited in the blog.
I believe it was TTL chips and not transistors proper.
It goes both ways. Average citizens tend to behave a little better when they know they're being filmed, and sometimes spurious complaints about officers are dropped when people watch the video of their interaction.
Yeah and I already forgot what the new name is.
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Templating for Nimble CRM outbound emails
> However, Standard Markdown does violate MD’s BSD license:

> Neither the name “Markdown” nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

> So does MultiMarkdown. So does Github Flavored Markdown.

This is what I don't understand about this uproar. The word "markdown" has been used in multiple products and offshoots from Markdown, and no one has said a peep. What makes "Standard Markdown" different from the existing products?

"Comment Markdown"? "Code flavored Markdown"? "Startup Flavored Markdown"? "Startup Markdown"? "Standard Flavored Markdown"? "A Standardized Implementation of Markdown"? "Specced Markdown"? "The Standard Dialect of Markdown"? Are any of these acceptable?

Why do these folks, alone, need to remove the word "markdown" from their name? And is it specifically the word "Standard", or perhaps the lack of a "flavored"-type word, that is grinding gears?
Lessons learned from helping my wife grow her food blog: month three
Thank you for your input. Will try to make the about page more clearer.
You can't just write whatever you want in a license and bind people who aren't using/modifying/distributing your software.
From what I've gathered, the only thing Gruber is upset about is the name "Standard" Markdown. I don't think he cares if there is some kind of body that has some kind of standards thing. I'd bet that if the "Standard Markdown" people called it something else and even kept the exact same syntax, he'd be fine with it.
That's a gross exaggeration. If you own 0.1% of the company, you're likely to be diluted to around 0.02% at the very worst, and most likely 0.04% or so assuming 3 rounds of funding.

That's assuming a positive outcome that clears preferences of course - if the company goes in a fire sale you're not going to make anything at all. But assuming a billion dollar exit means you're assuming not a fire sale.
> that a project is abandonned because it doesn't evolve

While I wouldn't say that a project is abandoned, I would say that a project is broken if it's a file format that has many ambiguities in the spec, and bug reports to the author/maintainer are all marked as WONTFIX. I really wouldn't describe that situation as "doesn't evolve" either.
I like the concept - most of these kinds of posts are done completely ad hoc and are distributed across all of the various men's fashion forums - but the URL made me think this was going to be a breakdown of famous outfits worn by characters in TV and movies (e.g. The Driver's outfit from Drive).

Also, most of the outfits you picked are pretty stale. Go for one that are more exciting or with pieces that would be more difficult to figure out.
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Popularity has no relationship with being generic. The classic case, Kleenex, has the entire first page of Google hits referring to the product of the same name, but it's still a generic mark now. Even if popularity did matter, Google isn't necessarily the best way of measuring that, and if forced to guess, I'd say the percentage of markdown files processed by Gruber's perl implementation is very small.

Also, if the problem with "Standard Markdown" is the use of the term "Markdown", then the license is relevant. But that means that everyone else (Multi-markdown, Markdown Extra, Github-flavored Markdown, Python-flavored Markdown, Markdown Python, Markdown PHP, etc. are all equally guilty of a "dick move". I don't see anyone arguing that calling it "XXX Markdown" is a problem. It's calling it Standard Markdown that they have a problem with, and the license doesn't really address that without also addressing everything else.

I do get the reaction to some degree. I would stop short of calling it a "dick move", but maybe it's a bit tone-deaf admittedly. I just think that the horse has left the barn on taking offense that someone implemented something sort of like what you called "Markdown" and called their version some form of "Markdown".
In the process of building one, documenting it out http://discoverflask.com.

Cheers!
It could be much better if the tax system was sane.

Let's say you want to do some freelance work for someone.
In Portugal you have to register your service ("abrir actividade") and use an oficial invoice booklet provided by the government ("recibos verdes") to invoice your customers.
You need to pay a substantial amount of social security and income tax ( a designer friend was making around €1000 a month and paying almost €500 per month in taxes ), and if you stop trading and forget to tell the government, even if you have zero income you need to pay the minimum social security ( around €60 per month ) just to be registered as a service provider.

Basically, you are taxed pre-emptively wether you make any money or not.
This stops a lot people from even trying to sell their services as freelancers, let alone start a company ( can't imagine the tax labyrinth that must be ).
Sometimes I want to hire a friend for a small gig and they refuse because they can't afford the social security bill incurred in being a registered service provider.

This is killing the formal economy, stifling entrepreneurship, and it's also driving more and more people to informal contracts with cash transactions that deprive the state of needed income.
I won't even talk about the crazy income tax band system we have...
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I don't think Knuth would be happy with "Standard TeX".

In my mind, the problematic part is of "Standard Markdown" is "Standard", not the composition of "X Markdown". "Standard Markdown" makes it the real Markdown for most people, and that is the problem, that it feels like you're trying to steal the work from the original author, not build on it.
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Minimal Explanation of the CAP Theorem
Exactly.

People forget, that even Bill Gates, intelligent as he is, got where he was primarily because he could get Dad to write a $50,000 check, in 1980, on short notice.

The valley isn't the engine of opportunity people think it is.
> oderous

I assume you mean odious not odorous? (P.s. Shakespeare made this pun in 'comparisons are odorous')
Wow, Jesus. I think I'm going to delete the work history section from my resume and start looking around--I could double my salary.
Untangling the God Object
I'm pretty sure that the alts! block is absolutely necessary otherwise you will deadlock after 10 files (your channel buffer size) because nothing else is taking from upload-chan or signing-chan.

Wouldn't a pipeline be a better solution to this? Taking and throwing away the values from a channel just to trigger a transducer that puts the value in another channel as a side effect is a strange way to do things.

Also a simple println test will show that the transducer function is triggered when you put on the channel rather than when you take.
Thanks for the feedback. I definitely appreciate it. The reason for these outfits being more "normal" is because our goal is for most people to actually be able to wear these outfits.

But we do plan on doing some crazy outfits in the future. Thanks again!
I think the best answer there is "it depends". Facebook has an open job posting which states that "Our goal over the next few years is for the Linux kernel network stack to rival or exceed that of FreeBSD" [1], so clearly there's at least one place in Facebook where Linux does not provide the best performance...

[1] https://www.facebook.com/careers/department?req=a0IA000000Cz...
Yep. I'll take my 10% ;)

Best of luck! And I really hope that works out for you.
I watched the video and will try it out on a new and small project as a test.
Peter Thiel disagrees with you
Median household income in Alaska is $61,000/year, so there are definitely lots of Alaskans who can scrimp by on $72k.

https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/statemedian/
Serious question ...

What do you do when the founder of a project becomes an impediment to its progress? Gruber is clearly the creator and popularizer of Markdown. OTOH, he's been uninvolved in anything related to it for years (AFAICT).

The corollary to this question is to what degree the founder of a project "owns" aspects of the project (code, name, etc.) after they drop out. I'm not asking about legal ownership but rather moral ownership.
> Dependence means completely reliant on - no substitutions would do.

I disagree with that. Package managers have concepts like optional dependencies or alternatives (only 1 of multiple options required). Anyway, you seem to be speaking of dependencies in a technical sense - build dependencies, package dependencies, etc. In a more general sense it is quite normal to say something like "I depend on my bike to get to work" even if I could take the subway or use Uber, or "I depend on YouTube for my daily dose of cat videos" even though you wouldn't really die without them.
When I allocate the key on the heap, the memset is carried (heavily optimized and inlined). When I allocate key on the stack, it disappears. Using gcc -03:

#include <string.h>

void doSecure(void)
{
/*char key[32];*/
char *key = (char*) malloc(sizeof(char)*32);

memset(key,sizeof(char),32);
}

int main(void)
{
doSecure();

return 0;
}

-- key on stack

main:
.LFB13:
.cfi_startproc
xorl	%eax, %eax
ret
.cfi_endproc

-- key on heap

main:
.LFB13:
.cfi_startproc
subq	$8, %rsp
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
movl	$32, %edi
call	malloc
movabsq	$72340172838076673, %rdx
movq	%rdx, (%rax)
movq	%rdx, 8(%rax)
movq	%rdx, 16(%rax)
movq	%rdx, 24(%rax)
xorl	%eax, %eax
addq	$8, %rsp
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 8
ret
.cfi_endproc
Stand, of course, but manufacturers produce a number of seats or stools designed to make it easy to transition from standing to seated to standing.

Makes sense. For some tasks standing all day at one spot would be too tiring. This furniture is not cheap, obviously designed and sold for serious purposes. There is a market, so I imagine there's reason for it.
While it doesn't really matter how in the end, after all he has the money and neither of us do, [1] however what got him to be "Bill Gates" was that his mother was on the board of the Red Cross with the Chairman of IBM [2] which opened that door for him. Remove that and he would still have done well no doubt but he wouldn't have become anywhere near as well known as he is.

[1] That said in all honesty in no way would I want to ever be that public or that rich personally.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates
> And is it specifically the word "Standard", or perhaps the lack of a "flavored"-type word, that is grinding gears?

I think this is it. I think Gruber sees "Standard" as implying ownership or original or universal [1]. I think naming it another "flavor" would have been completely fine with him [2] [3].

[1] https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507562824311508992

[2] https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507556483559858176

[3] https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507566934746226688
They also want to use the name because their project directly comes from Markdown. And is a fully fleshed-out spec for Markdown that does not currently exist. And because it makes their project easily recognizable for what it is: a standard for Gruber's Markdown.

They may very well end up changing the name, but that doesn't change the fact that this project is basically Markdown++.
Yes, it's in production by some banks and financial institutions in Europe. Most banks are still using SWIFT though.

I think the main reason why BankAPI has been accepted, is actually the lack of innovation. Banks are in general very skeptic to new "unproven" technology, but as BankAPI relies on old standards like TCP/IP, OpenPGP, RSA, SHA512 and HTTPS, there is nothing "unproven" in it to be afraid of.
That's nice.

When I first encountered Markdown, almost a decade ago, I loved it. To say that I now hate it would be going a little bit far, but only a little; I'm awfully close to that.

This change in opinion has occurred almost entirely because, every single time I encounter something that "accepts Markdown", I have to spend some time investigating its documentation to find out what ill-specified sui generis variation of Markdown it supports, and then, usually, also poke at the implementation in order to find out where it differs from the docs. Every single time.

This would not happen if Markdown were well enough specified that developers could just drop in a parser library and be done.

Gruber's currency? Everyone knows he invented Markdown. Everyone loves him for it. And everyone who has ever dealt with Markdown more than once knows that Gruber didn't take it far enough. He's had ten years in which to do so, and he hasn't done it. Now the community, led by Atwood et al., is acting to redress the lack.

That Gruber should be upset by their calling their standardized Markdown "Standard Markdown", when he's had and squandered a decade in which to address the plainly evident need for that very thing, leaves me utterly unmoved. If it bothers him badly enough, let him sue! And we'll all see how well that works out for him. Otherwise, his "currency" would I think gain more from almost any other course of action than further prolonging the exercise in sour grapes which his Twitter appears to have become.
Artificial Snowflakes
https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507570504279293953
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I'm going to turn you in for selling crack. I'm also going to blame you for me getting fired. Thanks for making the next flappy bird. At least for me.
At the time, Twitter gave specific guidance that ecosystem applications with the term "tweet" in it would not be allowed, but twit was OK. That was specifically covered. I know for a fact because I ran a site with "twit" in the title, and cleared it with Twitter. Dozens of modestly popular sites (around data, retweets, images, etc) were using "twit" at the time.
The connection between movement and the brain has recently been scientifically established . A good breakdown can be found in the book "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain Paperback – January 1, 2013
by John J. Ratey"

Basically movement, especially aerobic (walk, run, etc.) but also complex movement (sports, music playing , martial arts) as explained in the book

1 causes neurogenesis (release of brain stem cells )
2 increases the size of your hippocampus and and improves memory
3 creates new brain circuits for the movement but these circuits are able to be recruited by different tasks
4 increases the production and balance of neurotransmitters and other hormones
5 increases and regulates executive function
And a lot more complex processes in the brain. This occurs immediately but increases with more exercise . It's interesting stuff and ratey explains well.
I would love for markdown to be in more places, and work the same everywhere. Standard Markdown is a darn good name to use for that, and while Gruber is sometimes right, he is definitely hit and miss (and with gathering together all the ways to add tables to Markdown, and picking one and adding it to the "spec" on his site, he missed.)
By the way, looking for feedback on design, content, functionality, and overall idea. Feel free to ask me any questions. Thanks!
Why is this post downvoted to grey? It is not offensive and states something with which many founders will agree. Just to chip in a personal anecdote, I tried giving away equity to employees twice as part of a package, and it didn't work out either time. I do not blame the other parties , but parent poster's comments on the risk-averse nature of most workers are not wrong. Most people want cash, and it is your responsibility as an employer to pay them regardless of whether you make money.

Anyone who believes the HN community is biased towards founders can see evidence here to the contrary.
On the bright side, Noah earned millions in profit with TwitPic over the years (by his own admission). If he has played it smart at all, he's not going to have to ever worry about money. On to the next.
The proof is constructive, so actually you can. Just create a few neurons for the "tower function" and the correct output weight at every point you want to map.

If you mean learn functions efficiently with few parameters, or in ways that generalize well, the article makes no claims about that at all. There are two "no free lunch" theorems. One of which says that it's impossible to guarantee any method will generalize well on all problems, and the other that says it's impossible to guarantee any optimization method will work well on all problems. You just have to make strong assumptions like "my function can be modeled by a neural net" or "the error function is convex."

However neural networks are agnostic to the optimization algorithm you use to set their weights. There are many different ones.
You just made a great argument for why you aren't dependent on Chick-fil-A.
He was infamous for not bathing, and hence bad body order.
Google to Refund Parents $19M for Kids' In-App Purchases
I've spent much of my professional career at NASA Goddard and I'd have to agree with this for the most part. My former group worked well with a group at Ames, but my current group pissed off JPL by taking some work they wanted. So it goes...
I've been using Seahorse about a year ago and it has been really useful for our friends and family cause it's finally a place where we can share without all the exposure of personal pics on social media! UI is great as well! Love Seahorse!
I think it's only natural because software development is an intrinsically creative endeavour.
At the very least it should tell you that the success of a product does not necessarily depend on your experience with the products code-base.
Is 0.1% realistic (or average) for an employee? What are typical equity ranges for employees?
I used to love my kneeling chair. Then I gained about 20 pounds. After that my knees couldn't take the weight anymore.
(Just a short note on an irksome phrase in that piece:)

"This is because in Portugal owning your own house or apartment has always been such a matter of pride that it is the first choice of most people, even young adults."

That's if "always" means "as far as I can remember", written by a fairly young writer. Fifty years ago renting was the most common mechanism in Portuguese cities, until rent-control (first instituted before 1970's inflation) nearly killed it, and state-subsidized bank mortgages became the norm. Unsurprisingly, forty years of that contributed to the economy crash.
Apparently (at least some) people are claiming that it's the "Standard" that is 'offensive,' and not "Markdown." It just seems like a case-study in splitting hairs though. The real issue boils down to:

1. This is a project designed to become the new Markdown spec, thereby wrestling control of "Markdown" from Gruber.

2. This project was developed in-concert with most of the big sites that use Markdown (StackExchange, Reddit, Github), and therefore has enough weight behind it to push it as the defacto standard.

3. The name "Standard Markdown" is generic enough to possibly cause brand-confusion whereas "MultiMarkdown" and "Github Flavored Markdown" come off as offshoots of The Original Markdown(tm).

Personally, I think that Gruber's mostly upset that this has the potential to become the defacto Markdown while still using Markdown in the name. If (e.g.) MultiMarkdown was in a similar position, he would probably be pitching the same fit.

[ I really don't like the name "Standard Markdown" in general. I prefer a suggestion I saw elsewhere, "Common Markdown." ]
This would be the main attraction for me as well.
What kills me at larger places (and even smaller soul-less companies) is the amount of dead weight and inefficiency.

Bullshit work created by people with bullshit titles for bullshit reasons.
> I have a full time job and have a growing side business that I am going to be transitioning to my full time job in December.

Are you allowed to do that? Every full time job offer I've read forbids outside work.
Dumb question: Why is this considered a major new version? I don't see any significant overhauls on the frontend, just some improvements to existing UIs. Is there a major backend refactor that goes along with this?
My mind keeps seeing DreadDONUTs. Am I alone in that?
So, if we take the above poster at their word that it would have to be a billion dollar exit to be worth their while (and net them a million dollars for X years at below market salary) and assume your dilution numbers are accurate, they'd only get 200 to 400k. There would have to be a 2.5 to 5 billion dollar exit for their diluted tenth of a percent to net them a million.
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This is exactly the question I have. And I almost think Gruber acknowledges this, and would possibly otherwise be tolerant (maybe even supportive) of this initiative had it been given another name.

However, I also question the success of this initiative had it been given another "flavor" name.

Edit: Not sure if this is the case after seeing this: https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507570504279293953
I really expected clicking on the down button to scroll me downwards. I was disappointed.

That said, after watching the tutorial video I noticed that the narrator was able to accomplish quite a bit, with relatively low technical knowledge. It makes me wonder why building real apps isn't this easy.