skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is more than a little tongue-in-cheekedness about this document. The fact that it's a humourous slight against Americans (that is, citizens and residents of the United States of America) doesn't mean it isn't true.

More importantly, it's making the point that all communications are fraught with lack of clarity and misunderstanding.

As this very subthread is evidence.
Cool localization idea, but major cold start barrier. How to advertise the board to people on the same subnet?
> Either way, they're forcing his hand.

Which I think is good. Long overdue, maybe even.

It's good something like Markdown exists, and it shouldn't have had to flourish despite not having an unambiguous formalized spec.

> If we wants to litigate, cool too; bring it on.

He's got nothing to litigate about. The trademark claim on "Markdown" had no place in his copyright license, nor does that copyright license affect this specifications project in any meaningful way (because they don't use the copyrighted work).

That's why the only valid argument so far has been over the implications of the word "Standard" in "Standard Markdown" being a "dick move" (which is a personal POV, which is fine, which I also happen to disagree with).
From 9.1 section in the paper,

> Each student watched one video, took the corresponding quiz, watched the second video, and took the second quiz. About half of the participants did the Paxos portion first and the other half did the Raft portion first in order to
account for both individual differences in performance
and experience gained from the first portion of the study.
We compared participants’ scores on each quiz to deter-
mine whether participants showed a better understanding
of Raft.
Are.na is blocked on my work network as malicious software... Are you sure it is clean?
Who is paying for the roads, sewer, fire protection, police protection, etc.?

Those services aren't free. Normally the burden is shared by all, by with these special deals, they're shared by those who didn't get the special deal.
This sounds similar to Spain. I would like try out a few (small scale) business ideas, but the taxation system means that I will have to be fairly sure of a profit before I can start working, otherwise it could be a lot of wasted money just to see if things work or not.
Many very smart people today believe in time travel. Many top scientists believe P = NP, etc. It's not abnormal to believe things that are not yet proven to be false. It's quite reasonable.
I accidentally clicked twice on "Continue" and there wasn't any mean to go back to read the missed comment. This slide-show player wants to be clean and simple and ends up with holes in functionality.
Failing to Forget
> There is no evidence of personal financial gain for the officials who got this deal to be made.

I don't think people are alleging personal financial gain, but rather more of a political kind of corruption: buying votes with high-profile projects. The allegation is that politicians are mainly driven by short- to medium-term reelection concerns, and therefore are buying a current positive headline ("Tesla relocates to Nevada!"), and perhaps a near-term employment boost. And that they are doing this without consideration of whether in the long-term it's actually a good allocation of tax breaks. It's possible that it is, but I don't believe that Nevada politicians either know that that's true, or care whether it's true.
I thought you were a troll, but your several earlier posts look relatively normal. If you really believe what you just typed, your school (in good old Texas, perhaps?) failed to give you even the most basic understanding of evolution.

I haven't watched very much of these, but I suspect they're pretty good throughout: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/evolution-and-na...
A conference for polyglot programmers – Last ticket batch on sale
It's kinda the rich man's version of growing cress and bean-sprouts in a plastic tray on the counter top.

Perhaps what one needs to do is use the hydroponics to grow an environment for insects to live in and feed off the insects instead?
Google Authorship Cancellation and How It Affects You
C/C++ are like Formula 1 racing cars: indispensable if you need to go really, really fast; wildly impractical in all other situations.
"The fact that they're involving him at all is a courtesy, a well-intentioned mistake. A mistake I definitely would have made too."

These are necessary mistakes. Better to have tried to get John Gruber on board and failed, than to not have tried.

That way they can always point at the conversation to show that they did try, but Gruber was not interested in collaborating. Otherwise, John Gruber always have the "they stole Markdown from me. They didn't even ask me. I was willing to collaborate." excuse.

It's an open source thing, try to work within the community before forking. Forking is a last resort. This might get to the point where forking is now a reasonable course of action.
Councils routinely abuse powers under RIPA. Such abuses include spying on families the check whether they live in catchment areas for schools; whether they live in an area where they're claiming parking permits; checking whether people are throwing non-recyclables into recycling bins; etc etc.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8868757/Council...

(That article kind of misses the point of RIPA - councils always did that kind of snooping, but now they're required to work so a standard and are somewhat accountable.)
The square interface on the round watch is pretty weird. I didn't expect to see square interface elements being lopped off the sides. The software seems to be almost a complete afterthought, I would have expected at least some innovative ways of making rounder interfaces.
I have great ideas, which are actually terrible ideas, that's why I stick to coding.
Barclays' Finger Vein Scanner
(I am the author of the website)

No idea really. I wanted it mainly because in my office we have very high email volume, that it repels people automatically (Outlook "threading" sucks too).

That and, a lot of people feel shy replying/talking about things knowing it would be liked to them (eg higher-up devs).

Not sure how well it will fare in the real-world tho. If I find no one is using it will just pull the plug and keep it local for my office only.
> If you write crappy code and expect the compiler to fix it for you, you should maybe consider another language.

This seems rather to be a case of writing good code and having the compiler break it for you.
Go to the demonstration labeling interface here: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/ilsvrc/

Hit the "Use hard course".

On the left hit "Show google prediction" consider the answers for a few seconds, then hit "Show answer".

My reaction to the Google predictions is "yeah, that's reasonable". Often my reaction to the actual true label is "wtf, that's not obvious at all."

I get the feeling the Google image net produces better tags than the validation set labels :)
Sigh, another disposable phone with the planned obsolesce due to kick in at around 700 charges.

You'd think if they bothered to let you have a dozen designer backplates they might got the extra mile and let you change the battery.
Schneier gives a nod to JackPair
Thank you! author here :)

in the next few days I hope to add more constraints. My main concern about react-bootstrap is the massive use of `transferPropsTo`, from what I understand is a deprecated method
New iTunes Connect available, accepts Prerelease builds
ISRO’s Journey to Space. Turning Miles into Milestones
This article reinforces my theory that baseball is just a beard for people who love statistics, but don't want the stigma of being called a math nerd.

It's the only explanation for how a sport this dull could survive outside the British Empire.
XAd Secures $50M in Funding Round Led by Institutional Venture Partners
The patent was drafted very generally, but seems to focus on the volume (rather than elasticity) of the internal components. OTOH, it would be great if it were even more generally drafted, since its priority date is in 1995. 1995+17 = 2012, so the world is now wide open for innovation in this area, unimpeded by patents (IANAL).
Is NTP handled differently when Android is wearable? If not, I can imagine some will find the accuracy of the time lacking.
It's not the same technology and I wouldn't recommend tearing a lithium battery apart to look inside. Actually, I wouldn't recommend tearing apart any kind of batteries, lots of nasty stuff inside.

You can find plenty of videos on youtube showing you the process, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BliWUHSOalU
Not really my type, but I love the UI.
Any informations about technos behind ? Cheers !
Horrible presentation - the enforced pauses (even hiding the continue button during them!) cause frustration after every single sentence.

Why can't I read at a normal pace instead of being interrupted all the time and having to wait while the next sentence is shown?

[edit] This behavior would be very suitable if I was making a presentation to an audience with this content - but it's quite contrary to what's needed for the audience to view the content themselves at their own pacing.
FBX is the closest thing to a standard right now. It's getting increasingly usable, particularly since Autodesk (the people who control FBX) more or less owns the pro 3D market.

There's also Collada (which I have very rarely pursuaded to work) and Alembic (which works very well, and is used in high-end 3D houses, but only stores vertex data - no bones).

And then there are older formats. Probably the closest equivalent to a universal 3D standard is .obj, but again, it doesn't store skeletal data at all, just vertexes, normals, and materials.
Free Access to All Nexus Devices
Pebble lasts 5 days. I like the look better too. Plus it seems simple, and I like the screen in sunlight better.

Plus it works with iOS AND Android - which is good, since I'm a multiplatform kind of person.
I think there are interesting concepts in that UI (+ in the URL / split screen), but my overall feeling is that it's a bit hard to navigate and it misses some core idea, core theme. I think UI's should evoke a feeling of ease and simplicity and familiarity for a user to feel comfortable using them.
In what way is SSL a "security joke"?
What exactly would be wrong with Android time accuracy?
Yes, in my reply to tgflynn in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8272923 there's an attempt to argue about the numbers.

Also, another factor which will kick in as more and more folks get IPv6 is that maintaining both IPv4 and IPv6 is a bit of a pain.

Considering that you can pack the entire IPv4 internet into a single /96 IPv6 prefix (that's 4 billion times less than the address space available for a single subnet), getting your infra IPv6-only and frontending it with a stateless IPv4->IPv6 translator (or an SLB64 boxes) becomes a more and more interesting option.

More info on this: https://ripe64.ripe.net/presentations/67-20120417-RIPE64-The...

Another company which might be more familiar, moving in a similar direction: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/case-stud...

This is the content side. On the eyeball side, there are also wins to be made by simplifying the infrastructure by running IPv6-only, and running IPv4 atop that as a service.

See https://ripe67.ripe.net/presentations/131-ripe2-2.pdf for a good and public example of this being done.

These are the leaders, but they give the impression of what can and will be done by more and more folks.

Thus, it makes sense to start talking about when the IPv4 will be turned off. Some anecdata:
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2168165/tech-primershen-...

And a couple more links with an economic/game theory angle on turning off IPv4:

https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/wed.general.howard...

www.asgard.org/images/pricing_v1.3.docx

So, indeed quite an interesting time ahead!

(Sorry for offtopic, BTW, given the thread was about the NDN :-)
This seems to be a good strategy but it is difficult to factor out the quality of the explanations.

The reason I'm so picky about this claim is that before you know it, you have mythical pseudo-statistical claims like "some programmers are more than 10 times as good as others"
that will live a life of their own. CS has way too many of those.
Or you can just bring it to a service station and have it replaced in 45 minutes after three years or so.
I think the problem might be that strikeouts will be a percentage - I don't know baseball, so I'm making up numbers - say it's 30%.

Now if you say "Strikeouts are up about 20%." what are you saying, are you saying that strikeouts are now at 50% of batter-innings [again, not sure on terminology] or are you saying that strikeouts are up 20% of the 30%, ie are now at 36% of batter-innings?

If you say it's up "a fifth" then it seems more clear to me that it's up on what it was before, ie 30% + (30/5)% = 36% [using my made up 30% figure].

?
I'd rather program in C# in Unity than C++ for UE4.
Are you sure the battery isn't serviceable?
I thought Android Wear devices had some sort of gesture detection so that the screen only turns on when you move it towards your face?
There's a documentation called "Master of the universe" by Marc Bauder, which really shows the insides of how finance works nowadays. I don't know if it's available in english yet, :/.

Trailer with english subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIUPWWwEclc

From IMDB [0]:
"A former banker in Germany, who entered the business with the advent of modern computer systems reminisces of his working years in some of the world-leading banking corporations."

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3129484/
We are working on "get your favorite celebrity look" section.

This is our new mockup - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18011058/Mockup%2015.jpg

Current site is http://www.JanjuaClothing.com

Please let me know where to find VCs in India who would throw eight figure sum on us.

You glorified it way beyond it is. I am from India and there is nothing like this :-)
I would just like to dump tons of stuff into it. Scraps of thought, sketches, images, archived web pages, pdfs etc... then have it organise itself, finding links and connections between things, perhaps with some way of shaping and guiding it. I just don't have the patience to tag things or organise things into a hierarchy. I inevitably end up with a huge blob of 'uncategorised' stuff.

I wouldn't mind if the algorithm for making connections made some mistakes - the important thing would be helping you connect things together in novel and unexpected ways, based on your curated collection of stuff. Serendipity is super important.
> Gruber really should put on his big-boy pants though, IMO, and thank those who've picked up his ball and run it further down-field from where he'd abandoned it quite some time back.

Yes. Very much so. Personally I'd have been honoured if something I came up with gets big with sites like these, picked up and carried on by smart people like these. Especially if it kept the same name, because Gruber will always[0] get to say: "Markdown? I invented that". That's the big-boy pants part of it: Gruber has that claim. Being "the inventor of Markdown" is pretty much the biggest claim of value Gruber has anyway, not that perl-script his copyright-license pertains to. And it's that value which only gets bigger thanks to this project. IMO it doesn't even make sense to complain about somebody else running with an idea that you haven't touched in years, yet has grown huge on the Internet in the mean time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_%28copyright_law%... (in large parts of the world, anyway)
People reading this strictly as an indictment of government work are utterly missing the point. My own career spans decades, large companies and small, old and new, and a few stints of government work as well.

The thing this reminds me most of all is a very time-worn copy of Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law: and other reasons things go ƃuoɹʍ. You can find most them here: http://www.murphyslaws.net/edition.htm

It was at a highway rest stop on one of the long Interstate routes favored by aerospace engineers in the late 1970s, and I still think I've learned more practical knowledge from it than just about any other book I've ever read, though realizing the import of some of the apparently humorous laws (many of which were actually said with all seriousness in their original expression) has taken a long time to register.

Rule 24 from the Nasa piece should register with many here:

One must pay close attention to workaholics - if they get going in the wrong direction, they can do a lot of damage in a short time. It is possible to overload them and cause premature burnout but hard to determine if the load is too much, since much of it is self generated. It is important to make sure such people take enough time off and that the workload does not exceed 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 times what is normal.

Another huge lesson, particularly for the younger people on HN, is that if you find yourself working at an organization in which the rules here are being consistently violated, you are working at a sick organization and/or have a grossly incompetent manager.

I've had management all over the map. One of the best had a great deal of government (and military) experience. He wasn't overtly technical (though he knew more than he let on), but saw when goals were and weren't being met, and would ensure that resources were made available and barriers removed, often without asking. Two specific instances come to mind: I required additional systems permissions for a specific task, told him, he was on the phone to the responsible person and I had the privileges within ten minutes (I've worked at shops where this is a 24-48 hour, or longer, task). Where my workflow made heavy use of multiple terminals and screenspace, and secondary large monitors were a rarity, when one freed up it was on my desk the next day without my asking for it.

And when business conditions went south (there were a lot of people hit), our parting conversation was direct, to the point, and personal. What I didn't have to deal with was weeks or months of anxiety leading up to that point.

The gig following that one, with a young manager in start-up space, was a polar opposite, and, at least from a management perspective, a strongly negative contrast (though not the worst I've had).
Big thank you for this. Great shots.
Maybe we're just too immersed in our own terminology, but to me, "Standard X" (e.g., Standard ML) refers not necessarily to the notion that "our version owns the concept of X" but that "our version of X is standarized". Common Lisp took a slightly different term, but that really reflected their goal with building the language spec -- they weren't after any old standard, they specifically wanted to incorporate common features from the bunches of different Lisp implementations. Calling this "Common Markdown" doesn't quite capture the right meaning, I think.

The thing that makes this weird in that context is that I can't think offhand of any examples where the inventor of "X" has been opposed to the idea of doing anything about the mass of incompatible versions floating around. Usually, you have a language, there are a few implementations, and then everyone gets together to nail down what an "official" version should do. My gut is that at some point, if after a decade of pleading, the maintainer of an "official" version is not stepping up, the community is OK to go on without them, but clearly there are arguments on both sides there.
I don't think that the display is the biggest energy draw here. It will be the CPU which is drawing most power compared to the quartz crystal in a simple $10 LCD watch.
So according to https://www.sven.de/dpi/ it will be 217.57 PPI.. similar to the Mac Book Pro retina 15 which is 220 PPI. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_Display for the list.
""Github Flavored Markdown" is a thing, has been for a very long time. Not a peep from Gruber about it."

In the podcast John Gruber did with Marco Arment ( https://overcast.fm/podcasts/episode/344902019595#t=4527 ), John Gruber notes "Github Flavoured Markdown" is a good product name.

He also says that they should standardise using a different name.
There's also the recently announced Samsung Alpha (released later this year).
In Dutch, we switch those words, and call it "suikerspin", which could be translated as "Sugar Spider" or "Spun Sugar", I suppose.
Why don't you use referrals where possible (i.e. Amazon)? I think it will convert a lot!
The fact they're ubiquitous hasn't stopped them from being used as evidence that people are terrorists, unfortunately.
The new moto G is also 5"
If it does mean something then the Sony Z3 Compact and Samsung Alpha should be the best selling high-end Android phones of this release cycle. We'll see in 6-9 month if that turns out to be the case.
Interesting sidenote: The gaussian blur filter is pretty special in the sense that it has the same shape in both fourier-space (multiplication mask) as it does in pixel-space (convolution kernel).
What a great idea, give violent and dangerous people a pecuniary interest in gaining control of a piece of your body.
That's why they don't even need to call it Markdown. It can be a markdown derivative with a different name and it would still be as successful because they have the mindshare and the beginnings of a collaborative community.
This is not true. The Hobbit demonstration showed why 24fps is superior for Hollywood storytelling and movies will likely stay that way, possibly for decades.
What would happen if nodes were to be added to each side of a network partition (unknown to the other side), so that each side believed they had a majority? Or is the "writing" side of the partition determined at partition time, and not changed until they are restored?
It's not JUST about the strike zone being enforced so heavily. The number of pitchers a batter sees per game is higher than it has ever been. Many teams are opting for a shorter bench and deeper bullpen. Toronto this year carried an 8-man bullpen for most of the season.
Here is an intersting infographic about stories related to ISRO's journey to the red planet.
For anyone else who hadn't heard of it: this is what the (never-defined) "MST" refers to in the article. I'd never heard of it: it's basically daisy-chaining, or using a USB-like hub, for DisplayPort.
You could provide a presence indicator when someone connects from the same subnet, like joining an IRC channel. That way, people could leave a browser window until someone arrives.

Try promoting the site on local communities where there is already a critical mass of people on the same subnets, e.g. http://blog.bloglocal.net/everyblock-alternatives/

Could be popular in other offices, but would need to be opensource.
A blank, black screen on Chrome mobile.
I feel so opposite to this entire thread. I have everything on my computer neatly organized, indexed, and tagged properly. For quick input of ideas, I learned cursive and I learned to write it quickly and legibly, and I use this system: personally its flawless - http://bulletjournal.com/

I have a few filled up notebooks and anytime I need some information I look it up in the index, and flip to it. I even write down URL's and descriptions to videos I liked. If I'm watching a video, I write down the timestamp, url, and title, thats how I index media. Maybe if the contents are important like dialogue or lyrics to a song, I'll jot down an excerpt.

It's really cool looking back on old notebooks. Can't wait to virtually go through every day of my life on paper when I get older, show my kids too.

I have a master list document on my computer that has every entry in the table of contents categorized as well, so that makes finding stuff easier too.
Asteroid 2014 DC – Close Approach to Earth – On Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014
I've seen it drift more than 30 seconds over a few weeks. (Not sure if this is true of 4.4, say.)