skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ambiguity of Markdown formats has been nothing but a minor pain to me. It makes it harder to search for syntax advice, that's for sure, and 99% of us casual users are doing just that.

I am excited for a well-documented, standard Markdown format to be the top link on Google.
See, there you go again. Making shit complicated for no reason.
Note that (if I'm not mistaken), PERM is the program for green card applicants. I would imagine that GC applicants are on average more senior and better paid than H1Bs applicants.

To answer your question below, you can get the H1B data through http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm -> disclosure -> LCA.
From #facebook @ freenode:

<StephenS> ninjahamstah We're working hard to fix all the issues, we're going to be up in a second.
This one seems to have one, there are no comments at the other HN story.

The link it references is: http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-flavored-markdown
Compared a friend's Note 3 to my OnePlus One recently.

I gotta say I found the Note quite nice, I was surprised how good the stylus worked. I'm not a fan of Android skins (the 1+ wins by a large margin with official CyanogenMod support here) though, even if some of the additions looked nice and sensible.

At the moment I'd say both are a little too big for me, but I understand that this isn't a factor for lots of guys and - well - the phablet features (split screen, stylus) wouldn't make a lot of sense with a tiny display.
Good way to overload Twitter... :) Surprised it can handle that amount of extra tweetage.
They seem to be making 500 (server error).
Why Moleskine, Fieldnotes, and most other notebooks fall short
But then you only get to use this with people who make substantial open source contributions. There are lots and lots of good developers who don't spend time on open source work.
FB Messenger is down too...
And that image is returning a 404 :)
Continue reading HN and Reddit.
Don't post these messages. Not intellectually interesting.

And we have at least 20 of them so far.
At the moment it looks like most of the attacks are originating from China.
And it's up again.
Down in Turkey
Why not both? Both provide value.

It is not the first time this happens. It might be a good idea to merge the comment trees and let both links show at the top of the page for these cases.
Free markets don't exist in the United States.

Well hey now there's always the crystal meth market.

Crystal meth being the vile stuff that no true Scotsman would ever use.
Works now (from NJ)
Something good happened for a change.
I got a 500 - Server error.
How did you find the h1b quarterly data you posted below?
back up in UK (20140903T20:57 BST)
So it seems like this spec covers a minimum implementation, "basic" markdown. I think extensions to (footnotes, tables, definition lists etc.) should also be standardized, even if their implementation remains optional.
This supposition is only correct if you have visibility into the product development timelines of each company.

Just because Apple releases a watch 6 months after Samsung, that does not mean that they started working on it 6 months after Samsung did. It's possible that Apple has been working on a watch concept for years, and Samsung rushed theirs out the door when the rumors got louder.

That's probably why you're getting downvoted. You're drawing conclusions solely from the public launch date of things, which actually don't tell us much about who is copying whom.
Fix it or people may die from boredom!
I’m in Love with YO – Why I changed my mind about YO in few weeks
A friend of mine is also complaining that Tinder isn't working. I guess this is what happens if you built an app on top of Facebook.
Hi, Got it on Kindle. Going through it. I will definitely be reading it with great interest. I have a question: What would you say are your top 3 learning/'key insight' from writing this book? [These need not be just top 3 things to do to get traction. But anything that you realized/gained from the whole experience/time that you spent researching/writing/thinking this book.]
Edit: corrected typo
> a project started to convert between various file formats typically used for writing/word processing (https://github.com/uxproductivity/DocFormats).

sounds bit like Pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Ah, the joy is shortlived.
In Bulgaria too. But now it works.
https://developers.facebook.com/status/ isn't showing any trouble. Wonder what kind of problem it is.
Google Analyst: Bitcoin Could Be ‘The Internet of Money’
720×2 != 1080
If you scale this to an average person making $50K a year, it would like a $5 fine.
I'm hoping that new, more effective and cost effective educational methods like Khan Academy and the like at least help keep that door open. Gotta get everyone internet access though.
Alive in New Zealand and Australia.
And productivity soars.
Yeah it's tricky because in most programming languages, '|' has precedence over ',', but in math sometimes it's the opposite. That tripped me up too.
I understand the herd effect - so I put it in user-facing projects that I'm working on - but I don't understand what's driving the herd. Specifically, I don't see any advantages over asciidoc and find it awful to work with.

edit: I do understand this project, though. It'll get rid of the horribleness in implementing markdown, at least.
And the upcoming version (which is overdue--I've been busy) will support encrypting with GPG with multiple recipients, like BlackBox.
Not exactly a dupe; while both describe the tech in question, the Venture Beat story is more focused on wondering who's running these "rogue" towers. Both articles are quite informative.
It's up again, not sure what happened - I also just noticed there are other posts from the same time describing this (that didn't exist when I posted) so it's probably better to have discussion there.
The API errors/call spiked a few minutes ago. But yes, no events which is strange.
Is it a large or small company? How long have you been there? Are you looking only at the base salary part? (e.g. for the reference my total compensation is almost double than my base salary)...
Is there a live implementation where I can paste or upload files to see how they are rendered?

EDIT: Nevermind I found it http://jgm.github.io/stmd/js/
The way I remember it is that it looks like function call. so () is at the end thus [] must be first :)

[this links looks like function in most languages](link function argument)
Yes. A mailing list or something should totally be created.
Appreciate your input. Sounds like I am better off sticking with python for the time being.
Stinger.next: Enterprise SQL at Hadoop Scale with Apache Hive
And productivity crashes.
It seems like an obviously missing thing is a page that describes how users should write markdown, in a few sentences. Otherwise you are just going to get incorrect summaries of the spec.

You certainly can't point users to the spec, which is incredibly lengthy.
I haven't experienced any data loss with S Note yet. But I'll be on the lookout for it to happen. My wife just attended a major conference and used her Note as her sole notetaking tool and it worked flawlessly, even sending herself copies of her notes via email at the end of each session.

But I have to admit, even then the S Note software is weird and funky. Too many mystery icons I can't remember what they do, and basic features like "delete this page" are buried in menus. It's definitely sub-optimal software. If somebody else came out with a good S-Pen enabled notepad app, I'd switch tommorrow.

Samsung software is definitely poor.

I'm not in the market for a Gear, but everything I've heard about it is that it's a dud. I'm definitely in the wait and see w/r to the wearables market.
One-day Wonders: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
6 Free Sales Tools for the Scrappy Startup
Funny, but posted 3, 7, 8 months ago.
https://github.com/highslide-software/highcharts.com/issues/...
"a language you can parse without feeling like you just walked through a sewer"

Classy!
Samsung engineers employ the Russia-pioneered methodology TRIZ to identify parameters for innovation, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ

It's no different than a VC funding a portfolio of startups. Note that their wildly successful phablet form factor was only one of many in-market variations. Keep what the crowd/sales identifies as good, discard the rest. If executive leadership supports research, manufacturing and distribution in lego/modular fashion, this approach can become embedded in the culture. It's a statistical approach to creativity.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2013/03/07/why-...
>> "I guess this is what happens if you built an app on top of Facebook."

True but overall I'm sure Tinder's up time would be lower if they built their own infrastructure. Not to mention the app probably would have been flop without being able to pull in all the Facebook data.
Mostly impossible. There is a fairly useful book - the USPTO's "Manual of Patent Examining Procedure" (or MPEP).
Official - http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/
My copy - http://adlervermillion.com/MPEP/

Its a huge book though, and not worth reading it unless you want to work with patents every day (as a patent agent, patent examiner, patent lawyer).

Also, its a reference book, not really something you can read start-to-finish.
Yes, this is certainly a state you would desire to avoid. However, you didn't answer any of my questions.
Let's migrate to decentralized social networks!

http://newebe.org/
Matrox Chooses AMD GPU for Next Generation Multi-display Graphics Cards
The UW research is actually using a device from enocean, it seems.
Just purchased the audio book.

Thanks for putting out an audio book. I really wish all books were in audio form. There's so much free time where audio is possible but reading is not (driving, walking, running...).
Just to clarify- we will never charge you for the monthly service, only if you order and send a registered letter (which you can always print and send yourself)
The Importance of Internal Knowledge Sharing
Does anyone know if there is such a thing as a Galaxy Note that can run a near-vanilla version of Android without losing S-pen support? The only thing that ever keeps me from getting one is TouchWiz.
What a fascinating read! It's kind of sad in some ways - the contrast between Galileo doing his work here in Padova, and modern Italy, with the guy spending a few months in jail and then being sentenced to house arrest in his villa after having put all that time and energy into deceit and theft.
Scientists discover how to ‘switch off’ autoimmune diseases
Thanks, wasn't aware of that, quit mysql habits pre 5.6 :)
Right now there aren't competing standards, there are competing ad-hoc implementations.
Just because you don't find any utility in Facebook doesn't mean it has no value.
Gruber should make a question and answer site called Standard StackOverflow.
Going to be honest, I'm not cool with this, and will not support it under this name. I'm probably a minority, I almost always am, but it will impact how I view and support the products built by this team. Not cool with me gentlemen, not cool by half.
Thanks Conrad. Appreciate your enthusiasm. We'd like to make it great for folks like you. And profitable enough to keep it going...
I'm actually running CyanogenMod on my N7105 (international Note 2 with Exynos processor and LTE) and it is a big upgrade from TouchWiz. From what I remember, CM11 M6 (my first attempt) had a some painful rough edges, but things got a lot better starting with M8. It's not bug-free (and, in particular, the camera is still more temperamental than I'd like), but neither is TouchWiz (where, for example, GPS is more temperamental). The last time I checked neither felt clearly buggier than the other in my daily use (and CM has the bonus of not requiring some apps to paper over TouchWiz API "quirks").

Ironically, I'm also unhappy with my Note 2, but for a very different reason: It turns out the Nexus 7 LTE is just barely portable enough for me to carry around almost all the time, so it has become my goto device for ebooks, video and browsing. So I'm perfectly happy with my Note 2's software, but it has lost its size advantage and I want smaller hardware (maybe the Xperia Z3 Compact?).
I think most people would prefer there wasn't any ambiguity in the first place.

No ambiguity, no 500 different things called XMarkdownY
> Github and Reddit (both the largest users of Markdown that I'm familiar with).

StackOverflow? (who're also on board via Atwood)
VIA Readying New Processor to Take on Intel Bay Trail and AMD Kabini
Prestashop Shipping, Zones and Countries – Prestashop 101 Series Day 7
I recently tried Tinder, and naturally I wanted to see what was being sent through from my phone - they seem to query their own server (which in turn likely queries Facebook) every two seconds or less, so if they're constantly in need of new data then caching won't help much. That said, I was unable to see anything and had been signed out - not sure why they didn't persist my auth token.
Salary is very misleading. Total compensation is ultimately what matters.
This thread has been pretty good.

Disclaimer: I run the cerowrt project as part of bufferbloat.net's efforts to reduce latency across the internet. The hardware it runs on is getting long in the tooth (netgear wndr3800), and we've been trying to find new hardware as a base for a while.

I LIKE ubnt's gear, however their default firmware for their APs did not do ipv6 when last I looked, which makes it a non-starter. Most of their gear takes a load of openwrt barrier breaker quite well (or dd-wrt), and that's what I do to most of it.

Openwrt has excellent features, gui, firewalling and security, and runs on a huge variety of platforms so if you can find an off-the-shelf platform you like that it runs on, goferit.

The edgerouter lite (vyatta based) is ok (does do ipv6), but the hardware forwarding engine is not featureful enough on the edge gateway side to do everything I need it to do, and when disabled to use software rate limiting, we are only getting forwarding rates in the 70-90Mbit range. The edgerouter pro is better...

Work is in progress on that front, see the ubnt edgerouter beta forums for more details. I keep hoping cavium will put more effort into their forwarding engine firmware...

Nearly no platform out there today is terribly good at doing forwarding rates > 100mbits with QoS/AQM/packet scheduling enabled, certainly nothing in the below 150 dollar range that i know of.

The APU box mentioned here barely forwards at greater than 500mbit without qos. You CAN do pretty well with e1000e based boxes today, but the ivy bridge/rangeley stuff is WAY better than the atom is for packet processing. In either case you are getting well above the 200 dollar range and into potential heat and cooling issues.

Lastly, most of the first and second generations of 802.11ac gear are pretty terrible at getting anywhere close to the peak rates of the medium, partially due to hardware limitations, and partially due to terrible queue management.

Obviously I'm pretty focused on delivering a low latency network experience using the algorithms developed by the bufferbloat.net project... YMMV.

At the moment what I'm leaning towards at the > 100mbit level is dedicated hardware for each of the gateway and wifi functions, and that steers towards rangeley gateway (running openwrt) and ubiquiti (or at least atheros based) wifi (also running openwrt).
Obesity isn't confined to the lower class. Go to any Olive Garden and watch someone eat an "Endless Pasta" bowl (all you can eat if you are not an Olive Garden fan), white bread sticks, and diet coke. Low sugar, but still horrible. It is a trap to think of sugar differently than other simple carbohydrates in your diet.
I had a similar problem with my Galaxy Nexus. It just got slower and slower almost to the point of unusability. I think it's a TRIM issue that I'm hoping is resolved with the Note 3. We'll see.

I don't use my phone camera almost at all, just a personal thing. But the few times I've used the phone app on the Note 3 I definitely didn't really like it. The default Google one on the Nexus was definitely better. However, the image quality is awesome. I'll probably just get a better camera app and use that instead.

The s-pen has such a potential to be a killer feature, being able to store it in the phone body itself is enough of a feature to make it useful. Paint apps are amazing and now I'm no longer finger painting like I'm in kindergarten. If Samsung could just get their software game together they'd be unstoppable.

I'm very interested in what Apple is going to bring to the phablet market. If history is any guide, it'll definitely force vendors like Samsung to up their game. This is a very good thing IMHO. The phablet market has been Android only for too long and Apple does a much better job picking and setting trends.
It'd be interesting to figure out where their money is coming from. A guess (completely speculative) is that these aren't pure spamming operations, but rather sending spam as one piece of a spam/botnet/phishing mess.
Drawing Insights from the Internet of Things with Streaming Analytics
Out of curiosity why do you recommend this?
In the demo http://jgm.github.io/stmd/js/

Why do <h3> tags have font-size: 100%?
It has been an evolution- I got into debt during a life crisis and was shocked by how I was treated. I was hounded and devastated.

I researched the industry and saw how broken it was, and how many people didn't know their rights so I created something which could help them.
Out of curiosity does the S-Pen still work at all under CyanogenMod?
Static Lambdas: Initializing lambdas at compile time
Because tables are implementation-specific extensions.
Pedantry, but I believe the term is the "All-22".

Edit: I don't know if they offer the All-22 but NBC's Sunday Night Football is always streamed online for free and they offer multiple camera angles. It's pretty nice compared to what other broadcasts offer.
The way to remember it is just that you're parenthesizing the URL. Naturally, you might write it "look at this thing (http://example.com)" - in Markdown, you do the same, but with brackets to indicate where you want the link to show up. "look at [this thing](http://example.com)"

I don't buy for a second that <a href="http://example.com">this thing</a> is more intuitive than that, even if you disagree about the specific brackets used.
How much would you pay for this service? It's exactly one of the ideas I've been toying around with, but not one of the ones I'm currently working on.
Try making a compliant parser without an unambiguous spec--these things are "complicated" for a reason.
If a project to build it crystalizes, I'd try to contribute what I can; if not, I'll look into moddable city-building games to see what I can make on my own.
Personally the first time I used markdown was when I signed up for SO.I used to be a BBCode guy. But there are other formats, like rst.Strangely they are not as popular,despite the fact that they have a spec.
Look forward to watching this Horizon episode.
Flares is the Yo of real-time location sharing for iOS users in the US
The other post has the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264733.
There is still a small lag with the S-Pen, I have no idea what it is, feels like ~30ms. But if you try to write with your finger or one of those iPad stylii (with the rubber tip) there's definitely more lag as compared to the S-Pen which I think is more on the order of ~70-90ms.

I'd say it's comparable to a Watcom device in terms of latency. It's not paper, but it's near enough that you can get used to it much more quickly than trying to deal with the longer latency of the finger input.

And yes, there's no friction feedback, so it feels like you're writing on slippery oil. It's off putting at first, but you also get used to it.

Is a moleskine and decent pen a better writing experience? Yeah sure. Have I stopped carrying one around with me in addition to my phone? Absolutely.
How can it possibly be profitable to courier packages like this? That is, without adding on $10+ in fees?
Apple App store developer review guidelines
Why Tech Struggles to Close the Gender Gap
It's because of this line: https://github.com/jgm/stmd/blob/e47d698c2cf1d24606bd2f708fe...

But seriously, who cares?
Docker private registry authentication
And Atlassian, sort of. When they feel like it. BB uses Markdown, but most of their other stuff is something else entirely.
They're using a very odd font stack.

font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, serif;

I've never seen serif used as the fallback for Helvetica/Arial.
It does not take an unbounded amount of time to simply not give information to an unbounded set. In fact that takes no time at all.

The point is not that the world will end if we give away our location data, only that doing so has a non-zero cost.
wouldn't that be P((A|B)|C) ?

or even more precedence dubious: P(A|B|C) ?
I'd like to find out more about your brother's program. How does he find work for them? What are the key barriers to their finding and keeping effective employment? What are the important factors that contribute to the 0% recidivism he sees?
He's already lost it to genericization. Trademarks distinguish vendors in a market place; plenty of different people operate services that provide "Markdown" formatting that are not the original vendor and are incompatible. Without having taken any steps to license other people's uses of the term, it's not operating as a trademark in any normal sense (unregistered or not).
Hi, I'm working on a jobs board website project. Do you have any pain point to share?

edit: better question.
Cool, was wondering if John MacFarlane was part of it (and he is). The standard implementation is in C[0]. I guess this is a good middle ground (from a social perspective, not from a technical one). This is a very nice initiative. In particular we can hope that all those markdown editors will be perfectly compatible with each others, or that any deviation from the standard will be very well approachable.

[0]: https://github.com/jgm/stmd
It's very much like Pandoc, but with two (three?) major differences:

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) so sadly this rules out Pandoc on legal grounds. I've also had interest from others in seeing such a library unencumbered with the GPL restrictions.

2. It's written in C, not Haskell. The commercial product (UX Write) runs on iOS, and I'm not aware of any Haskell compilers for iOS. I think there are some efforts underway, but at least when I began this two years ago C seemed the natural way to go.

3. It does non-destrctuctive updates, meaning you can make a change to the target file, and then update the source based on the modifications. Doing so will leave any elements in the source document which were unable to survive the translation intact. I'm not sure if Pandoc does this.
Soooo submit a pull request, then?
So basically follow the example of pre-standards browser-specific HTML features?
Generally Congress does not act until there is an overwhelming impetus to push them over the threshold: They have limited time to deal with the whole nation's and world's problems; and they are responsive to a body, the public, which is uninformed, has a short attention span, and is highly reactive and rarely proactive.

Therefore it is not surprising that shocking events lead to controversial laws. Shocking events arguably lead to most laws; it's hard to get something done unless something shocking gets the public's (and members of congress') attention and causes a reaction.

Of course, people in power are aware of this phenomenon and plan their tactics to take advantage of it. I remember reading that many provisions of the Patriot Act were written long before 9/11 and its authors had been awaiting an opportunity. Or as the Obama administration said early in its tenure (IIRC), 'never waste a crisis'.