skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JWTs are a pretty great solution for various authentication and authorization related problems, like OAuth tokens, password reset tokens and the like. Using an information-bearing (and signed) token like a JWT tends to make your web apps less stateful and simpler, by offloading the problems of determining authorizations to a single, central location.

The main downside is that the representation (base64-encoded json) is pretty bulky for something that might be used in HTTP headers and URLs, but it does make them easy to debug.
Shameless plug, but just gave a JWT talk at DjangoCon this week.

https://speakerdeck.com/jpadilla/djangocon-json-web-tokens
I think you meant Ars, not Anandtech.

As for the comparison, I'm sure that was a bit tongue and cheek. No one buys a > $1k watch for functionality. Anyways, if you ever get a chance to attend Basel World, I highly recommend it.
Thanks. This is a great find.
Your post is full of logical fallacies and assumptions.

I have explained my actions adequately and will not respond to you anymore.
OMG – that gamegame triggered weird after-images reminiscent of visual migraines: the white background of my monitor is pulsating in many colours.
Playboy "read it for the articles" was probably the originator.
Reminiscence Therapy
as with all of these: google the link + access the page that way.
Just do what works for you (use Gruber's spec if it solves your problem, use Common Markdown if it solves your problem, use your own hand rolled solution if it solves your problem), and ignore the noise. Natural selection will do its thing.
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It seemed to me like the watches were in there for size comparison. Even on the costs are wildly different, they show that the Motorola isn't outlandishly large or heavy compared to other fashion watches.
That's what I thought, too, but I asked an electrical engineer friend of mine, and he said they would increase power. I just looked it up now, using the term "die shrink" (couldn't think of it earlier), and, sure enough, you're right. Not sure why he said otherwise...
> Please comment if you downvote. Or even better; just comment.

Someone who doesn't like his own advice. Yes, it is better to quit this conversation right now.
In addition to The Art of Electronics, as mentioned, it might also be worth trying LTSpice, which is a free circuit simulator. It's a Windows program, but I've had it running just fine on a Linux box under Wine emulation.
i'm curious. why don't people pick up a sport? badminton, table tennis, soccer, basketball, whatever... why keep reinventing the gym when its plain not fun?
Intercom c0-founder here. We've had that since 2012
http://insideintercom.io/automated-emails-customer-respect/
You're telling me they worked on this back when the OG Droid was on Verizon shelves? They they didn't look at cpu roadmaps and evolved the device, even to 2013 hardware let alone 2010?
How long do I run an experiment for?
I'm always reading about "failing fast" and validating an idea, but I can't wrap my mind around how long it takes to validate a concept.

It seems like most startup post-mortems include an element of "incorrect validation" or not asking the right question or not asking that question for long enough.

Are there any good mental frameworks to read about picking the length of a study/experiment?
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We've been using them for a zendesk SSO integration, it was pretty painless.
How does this not lead to a situation where you are trusting the client for authentication/authorization information?
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I ended up a CenturyLink customer with the Qwest merger.
It looks to me like the data is cryptographically signed
hippie == live and let live, fuck the man, and peace love and harmony, oh, and lots of drugs and sex, music and drum circles.

Sounds like fun, until you hit real adulthood and real responsibilities.
To use strokes so broad that any historian would like to harm me... what happened was basically that the Islamic world came up against the Crusades, and with Catholics murdering them with terrible savagery, they decided to seal themselves off from the world. And in that seclusion they missed out on the most important development in human history - The Enlightenment. Possible the greatest achievement of The Enlightenment was driving a wedge between religion belief and beliefs about the material world. Prior to The Enlightenment, these two things were the same thing - a concept which is VERY difficult for people from post-Enlightenment cultures to understand. Seeing gravity as an expression of a gods will? Thinking it sensible to look for religious explanations to solve mechanical problems? No belief in an afterlife, but belief that the material world was a thing skin over the supernatural world which actually controlled everything? These things just don't make sense to post-Enlightenment folks.

Those ideas are absolutely and totally required to support the idea of coexistence of peoples of different faiths. Otherwise, religious ideas about eternity and salvation trump any concerns. There is nothing which can outweigh the importance of eternity. And in their isolation, concerns for eternity (and self preservation) consumed the Islamic world. The division between modern 'moderate' Islamists and 'fundamentalist' Islamists is this exact divide solved by The Enlightenment.

And the outcome is by no means a foregone conclusion. People are going to have to choose to believe that their religious beliefs are "just religious" and have no serious relevance to the material world (the exact notion their religion decries as the ultimate heresy) and join the modern world... or cling to their pre-Enlightenment system and be exterminated through violence by the rest of the world. Coexistence with pre-Enlightenment people in a world where technology gives individuals so much power of different kinds simply is not possible.
Is there anywhere to file a pull request for the commonmark.org website? The "Discuss" button still links to talk.standardmarkdown.com.
It's funny how some people think those exquisite models are real internal combustion engines.
That may be true, but I find it hard to assign any of the meanings of 'hipster' to the word hippie in the article. That and 'hipster' as we know it today wasn't that popular a epithet in 1995.

Also, while the whole freedom-from-The-Man thing is common among Libertarians, it is by no means exclusive to them. The ideas espoused in the story could just as well be hippy. With people like Steve Jobs (does not shower, eats only fruits, visits gurus in India) and John Barlow (with the Grateful Dead - commonly related with the hippie movement), we can see that he's aware of what he's talking about. And really, cyberlibertarianism isn't all that far from a hippie version of a world primarily occupied with technology.
What if the coin had the best odds compared to all other games?
That's still the main discussion area for this project
I was taught the same way. I was originally pretty confused by the symbol for a diode, more so because I was dealing with free wheeling diodes at the time.
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The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoactv smart watch that was ceased in 2013 has a OMAP3 CPU and with that, can see why they went down that path for a initial product that may of very well been ready much earlier than now for release. Though why not released with the other two upon launch does go against that.

I do find the whole battery issue somewhat concerning and watch wise I'd be expecting a weeks usage and until then and for many this is another device to add to the charging schedule if acquired.
Really? You're serious?

- Vegetarians aren't denied fundamental human rights.
- Vegetarians have never been denied a security clearance.
- Vegetarians were never thrown out of the military for being a vegetarian.
- Vegetarians can marry whomever they want (assuming that person wants to put up with a vegetarian).
- Noone ever beat a vegetarian to death for being in a bar and being a vegetarian.
- The police have never raided a place vegetarians hang out and made a public display of humiliating people for being vegetarian.
- No vegetarian has ever been blackmailed for being a vegetarian.
- No law has ever been passed making vegetarianism punishable by jail, or death.

I could go on for quite a while. So you get all butthurt because someone said "LOL veggie", and suddenly your righteous indignation makes you morally equivalent to people who have had to fight just to be treated as human for decades. For future reference, that's what a "false equivalence" is. Stop it.
The old http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoactv smartwatch by Motorola also had a OMAP3 CPU and somewhat surprised that was not mentioned as a possible reason for the company's over-comfort with such a dated part in contrast to the alternatives.
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Opening in a private window also works for me.
Very true, but whenever that is the case, there are typically some who decide their way is the "right" way for various reasons.
"naming things and cache invalidation"
I'll be happy to provide my name in the against column. I used to subscribe to an ADSL service starting about a decade ago through a local ISP, but I was required to lease the copper connection through Qwest which was acquired by CenturyLink. I could always tell when someone new moved into the neighborhood and signed up with CenturyLink because the technician would always climb up the pole and disconnect me in order to hook up their line. That's not to say that my speeds weren't great (was paying for 7/1, which is what I received), but the cost on the leased line was extraordinary. By the time I canceled the monthly bill for a dead phone line to my ISP climbed from about $25 to $60, still for 7/1 service.

I only switched to Comcast at home last year because it was 2013 and 1Mbit upload speeds for the price I was paying was ridiculous. At least with Comcast I know how to play the "the cost is too high, do you have any special offers this month?" game. They've been just as consistent, without the physical disconnects.
And yet here I sit in my apartment, in downtown Portland, OR, on a symmetrical 1gbit/s Internet connection, provided by Centurylink.

They're not backwards / old in every market. Particularly in the markets they took over from Qwest.
Needs either "Markdown" in it or go away with something completely different. This is confusing and the worst of the name choices.

Edit: Suggestion: BetterGruber
The trouble is that you can't reliably distinguish random data (or data determined by factors you're not considering) from patterned data.
He's asking about the symbols against the diagram itself, not the preface.
See also http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3773600...
Tokens can be either signed (using JWS [0]) or encrypted (JWE [1]), which means that you're just trusting that your encryption/signing key hasn't been leaked.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signatu...

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encrypti...
Are they no longer able to have "markdown" in the name? The name isn't rubygems-bad, but it's not exactly intuitive.
Kudos to Auth0 for creating this site. The education, awareness and graphical debugger are great. Thank you!

We (Firebase) use JWTs to integrate with an existing app's userbase[1].

[1] https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/guide/simple-login/custom....
Dat wrist tho....
Also to be fair, a large reason for OkTrends was PR. I'm pretty sure we stopped paying for a PR agency around the same time OkTrends started since money was better spent on widely read blog posts than getting Sam on early morning talk shows.

After getting acquired I think the general need for that type of PR was less (in addition to the manpower issues you mentioned).
I don't think it's entirely true that you can only connect the dots looking backward... certainly it is an order of magnitude more difficult to be objective about ones own time, but it can be done if approached correctly. For instance, we can look back at the past and realize that choices were made in certain situations that were flat out in opposition to reality, and in such a way that the people of the time KNEW (or had the tools to know) that it was the wrong choice. Looking at present society through this kind of lens, ignoring social convention and analyzing things objectively, is, I think, helpful. For instance, it would not surprise me if within 100 years our current culture is looked down upon for being extremely oppressive and prejudiced against adolescents, harming them tremendously by denigrating them during a very formative period of their lives. It follows the pattern of every form of prejudice we have overthrown in the past. We view ourselves as superior, construct very poor scientific arguments for that superiority, and go about enacting great oppression, controlling the group 'for their own good' while expecting the worst of them (humans react poorly to oppression, so this expectation will be met).

Similarly, it is very likely that we will find many of the general ideas we have about sexuality will be shown to be very destructive and unhealthy. Our research already shows that increasing sexual activity by any amount results in real measurable health benefits. And history can show us that we exist in the most non-sexually-active period in human history. We'll certainly correct that at some point, history pretty much guarantees it. Wherever our society is a freakish unique outlier on something as basic as that, I think it's safe to expect it to be shown to be folly later.
Nothing you listed, in moderation, precludes addressing real responsibilities as a 'real' adult.
>Well, then, since now the audience for TV news is comparatively old, we can expect that watching TV news has positive correlation with heart disease. Still watching TV news does not cause heart disease.

Well, I'm not so sure. All this sitting to watch TV news, plus all the stress from bad news and fear-mongering...
Ooh. The guy has "white friends". He must be such a bad person.

/sigh
As far as quotients go, I have used setoids before for that purpose. Maybe HoTT makes quotients even more convenient.

http://coq.inria.fr/V8.2pl1/refman/Reference-Manual030.html
Knocking down the HACIENDA
https://www.quora.com/Application-Programming-Interfaces-API...

http://www.postalmethods.com/postal-api
Atwood has been working on the issues with markdown since the early days of StackOverflow [2008]. He began looking at a new parser as early as 2010. The folks at Github have been likewise working around the problems inherent in Gruber's definition. Many of these are due to his definition not being based on a context free grammar and become important at the scale of sites like StackOverflow and Github.

Is the world fragmented? Hardly. There's less difference between CommonMark Markdown and Gruber's Classic Markdown than between the 31 flavors of regular expressions that programmers deal with every day.

Why didn't Gruber just set Markdown free? Well you'd have to ask him. My suspicion is that Github drives traffic to his web properties by linking to his documentation as the canonical source. Atwood being a Microsoft developer probably doesn't sit well either.

But in the long run, it won't matter any more than Larry Wall not getting Ken Thompson's blessing when he wrote Perl's regular expression engine. People will use what works, and if CommonMark Markdown works better than Gruber Markdown, then that's what will stick.
So it's an exclusive we.
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I kind of hope that Mark Pilgrim (of diveintomark.com fame of days past) now complains that this dilutes his brand.
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Jeff Atwood's Discourse is Ruby On Rails - I don't think he's committed to Microsoft exclusively.
wonder what new tantrum from gruber brought this on
All else being equal, it drops consumption. But generally when you go down in process, you increase what you pack on the die, bringing the power back up.
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They were denied (by Gruber) the choice to use anything with "Markdown" in the title.

EDIT: source: http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common...
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I'm guessing they just used things that they had around, they easily could have compared it to this http://www.amazon.com/Seiko-SKS399-Stainless-Steel-Watch/dp/... which is < $100
"GrubDown" and "WoodDown" perhaps? Or "DownGrub" and "DownWood"?
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There's a point in the posted video where they demo the V12 and you see drops of condensation forming at the ends of the exhaust pipes. Some kind of combustion is going on. Maybe it's running on propane instead of gasoline, but it's internally combusting. In the video of the guy with the model Ferrari, he mentions it is fuel-injected, and when he revs it, it sure sounds like it is an IC engine.
A reliable source [1] tells me that instead of writing entire articles on what may happen, we could wait 1 and a half days for the facts.

[1]: http://www.apple.com/live/
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Atwood said he'd shut it down (point 3, near the end):

http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common...
The original license says:

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.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/license

The name change may have been done as a courtesy rather than for legal reasons, but apparently Gruber doesn't wish to endorse any forks.

There was even a kerfuffle on Twitter.
An addendum to this post:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common...

Edit: after a long and thoughtful email from John Gruber – which is greatly appreciated – he indicated that no form of the word "Markdown" is acceptable to him in this case. We are now using the name CommonMark.

It doesn't sound sarcastic to me.
>Sounds like fun, until you hit real adulthood and real responsibilities.

The whole idea is that it isn't something just for 20-year olds. So the "sounds like fun, until you hit real adulthood and real responsibilities" part is a total misunderstanding of the thing.

What did hippie-ism in is mostly human relations and psychology (feuds, jealoushy, power plays, etc) than people reaching some imaginary "real adulthood" that prevents it, and the fact that for a lot of people it was a temporary fad.

There have been very active hippies well into their forties and even seventies, and of course there have been older people, and people who spent their whole lives, in lots of similar "outsider" movements who didn't give up.
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Plenty of people with drinking problems don't drink every day - alcoholics, which I would define as people addicted to alcohol do. If a person is addicted to alcohol they will have pretty immediate adverse affects, i.e. the DTs, which include shaking, hallucinations and seizures pretty rapidly with no alcohol in their system.
Wow, this is like when kaifu left Microsoft for google.
3D print the molds and make one yourself.
A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity:

http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/915.htm...

By Cosma Shalizi
Hello!

Proscenium Journal is a startup literary journal -- the first literary journal exclusively dedicated to publishing plays. Proscenium publications are free of charge and readily accessible online, allowing playwrights to share their work with a large audience. With Proscenium, we hope to revolutionize the current system of play publication. We just released our first issue today. We hope you like what you see! We're happy to hear any feedback!

Thanks!

-The Proscenium Team
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I have CenturyLink in Salt Lake City.
I get 60Mbps down 20mbps up for 35$ a month. My SNR is great and my line attentuation is great. I haven't had a single issue with CL.
Perhaps the service is good as Google Fiber is coming.
Lacking even a basic keyword search, I'm afraid this product falls well short of its tagline. Can you call it a search engine without a search feature? I do appreciate the ability to see jobs in a given category across all regions, but I was quickly frustrated by not being able to search.
Sure, it's plenty likely they're still "regularly collected"; my intent was simply to add some interesting tangential details, not to assert that they were relevant to the case at hand.
Or you can actually ask a bunch of people in your target market what OS their current device runs. The answer is Android, in this case. In much if Africa, cheap and long life is the way to go, and local variations on worldwide tech reflect that.
Not sure what Turkey has to do with him. But it makes sense to attribute someone to country/empire at the time he lived in. Which is the Islamic Empire. So saying he was Muslim, is as much as saying a scientist today residing in the US is American.

Contrary to popular western belief, Islam is one of the main enablers for these great scientists... as many were "influenced by the Quranic injunctions and hadiths, such as "the ink of a scholar is more holy than the blood of a martyr," that stressed the value of knowledge.'" But more than that, is the amount of government funding and salaries these guys would get (in some cases, what would amount to today's pro athletes').
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
I tried. I was hoping for something more like:
"a field is something you can add, subtract, multiply, & divide in"
and less like:
"a field is a set that is a commutative group with respect to two different operations (excepting 0), linked by the distributive law".

I need something to hold on to when reading the more formal treatment.
But I wonder if computer hacking (which this likely would fall under) can be "lawfully authorized" outside the confines of a search warrant. The Attorney General could order the FBI to break into the computers of a hedge fund suspected of insider trading, but that clearly wouldn't be lawful unless authorized via search warrant. This is very similar.
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I think it's using 'Muslim' as an ethnicity, which is of course incorrect. This would explain why his religious stuff isn't noted anywhere else. I encourage you to amend the article :-)
Intellectual property strikes again.
There seems to be a lot of hostility from both sides now.

"Are the Yankees the best team in baseball?
We used to think so."
These companies are already resellers for the most part. Why not just buy the products directly and compete with them?
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This must have been done out of politeness and not out of legal reasons. I don't think Gruber has any legal foothold with respect to the name here.

The license you quote is essentially based on copyright. But copyright deals with creative works, not names; names are the domain of trademark. In the US at least, copyright is automatic; trademarks are not. You must explicitly register trademarks in order to have any legal enforcement power over a name.

Has Gruber registered for trademark in the US? I kind of doubt it.

I am not a lawyer, but this smells like something he just wrote in the contract because he could, not because it actually can be enforced as such.

(Note: This is separate from the discussion of whether it was polite for them to use the name Markdown. I generally agree that it is more polite for this project to distance themselves from the original markdown given that Gruber doesn't want to work with them.)
How do you think random number generators are tested?