skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these "sharing economy" companies are going to lose out to the software that makes them possible. There's no reason that a local cab company, co-op, or simple non-profit listing service can't offer the same UX as Uber and Lyft if the software were available to them - which leads me to believe that it eventually will.

Then the question really becomes one of whether or not we're going to allow a hoard of unregulated, unlicensed, and possibly, uninsured cab drivers on our city streets. In the process of figuring that out, we might decide that existing cabbies are over-regulated, or maybe not. But in any case, the unequal playing field will not last long.
The Specter of Snapchat
Right. Happened in the Boston Marathon Murders.
> The fact that this whole charade is over one word "standard"

There are only two words and you picked the wrong one. The issue is about the word (and apparently, trademark) "Markdown". They can call it "Standard Rockdown" if they want.

> I'm sure that Gruber could have politely sent

Come on. Gruber said he didn't want people to use the name and instead they should create their own flavor with their own name.
The funniest thing about it is that if you're doing it and notice an actual cab approaching, you quickly put your hand down. People prefer hacks.
> he's the only one with the authority to say what "standard Markdown" is

And he utterly refuses to do anything to actually improve the clarity of the original document and make it easier and more obvious to determine how parsers should behave.

> Atwood and company should just rename their spec and be done with it.

It's kind of upsetting that they didn't. If they'd chosen another name, there'd have been no controversy.
How would you like it if someone else decided to take your Project/creation's name without your permission (and explicitly against your license), make extensions to it and call it the new "Standard"?

> From everything I've read so far, Atwood seemed to want Gruber on board but got crickets instead.

Also don't see how an invitation to the original Author to join your new initiative should legitimize it in anyway.
In the public equities markets, a lot of amateurs lose money making assumptions based on lazy analyses of Form 4 filings. There are a variety of reasons insiders sell which have absolutely nothing to do with the health of their companies. Trying to glean meaningful and profitable insight from these filings is a lot more difficult than you suggest.

The same dynamic applies to startup investments, particularly in the early stages. There are any number of reasons why an investor may not make a follow-on investment. These range from the personal finances of the investor to conflicts that have emerged in the investor's portfolio. More importantly, at the seed stage, even the most successful angel investors (if they're honest) will readily admit that it's damn near impossible to tell the future winners from the losers, and anybody who has been investing actively can tell stories about ones that got away, so there's limited value in playing follow the leader.

Signaling is a bigger issue in later stage financings, but there too, if you make assumptions without digging deeper (something any good investor does), you're bound to draw the wrong conclusions.
Remember when your desk was cluttered with stuff you actually used?
This. By trying to remove this one specific video and not all the others, it shows the propaganda machine is in full swing.
Yep. I've had a side business (consulting, small software projects, some mobile apps) ever since I've started full time work about 15 years ago. I considered it normal.
Not that I really care, and sure I don't think that discussing licenses and stuff can be valid or meaningful whatsoever, but I understand why somebody can think of it as a problem and why they can tell a difference between "Github flavored Markdown" and "Standard Markdown". First off, I'm quite sure that if you own some rights on something called "Markdown" and you wan't to abuse somebody, who uses name of your product as part of their own product, then in a battle of lawyers and all these nasty things you can do so, because ultimately it's your right to do so. You invented this stuff and in the license you chose for it it's clearly stated that you don't want somebody else to use its name. So the reason nobody tries to sue somebody for it is that nobody really cares. We are all normal people, not some lawyers after all. If somebody uses name of my product without my written permission, but I don't think it's done with bad intentions and it doesn't hurt me — why should I care? It's like we are living in a slightly more friendly world than all these people in corporations.

So both product names derived from "Markdown" may break some permissions, but only one of them makes somebody care of it. So what's the difference between them? I find it pretty understandable. Say you invented ice-cream and you have the same careless approach to use of its name. It's "Open source product". It becomes popular. So when some guy starts making "cherry ice-cream" you don't think it's bad — it's not the same product that you make, but it clearly resembles it, so people understand what they are going to consume. And you don't mind it, such a nice guy you are. Some other guy living in Hampshire starts selling stuff that he names "Hampshire ice-cream", which you can think is also ok. After all it's pretty natural, to call "ice-cream" something, that very much resembles that very stuff widely known as "ice-cream", but his ice-cream might be somewhat different from yours so it's fine to give it distinctive name.

But then somebody starts making one of his own, which he calls "Real Ice-cream". It's also "Open Source" but its recipe is very detailed and everything that doesn't comply it cannot be called "Real Ice-cream". But "real" isn't only name of his product, it's some natural word and from now on it's implying that every other ice-cream recipe in the world — including your own, the original one — isn't "real".

With "Standard Markdown" it's even worse, as "standard" is pretty clear word in the tech-world. And now when some bunch of guys try to "standartize" something that isn't ultimately their it's only natural that somebody doesn't like it. It's not like markdown is born yesterday, it's widely known thing and it has nothing to do with all these ambitious guys like codinghorror. If you wrote your own markdown compiler it was just some markdown compiler. You like how it works, maybe somebody likes it too, you don't really want to change anything. But from now on it's some non-standard markdown compiler. Must be pretty offensive for somebody.
The bitching is because I have to support their crap. Along with the wordpress security hole of the day lottery, I have to deal with php (and it's cruft and security holes), plus wordpress constantly spamming you with "new version" with zero indication of whether it's just another code dump likely to break plugins or if it fixes zero days, yet still likely to break plugins.

Happiness skyrocketed with octopress.

edit: competent devs would issue long term releases with only security fixes backported. As it is, getting a set of plugins plus a theme working is fine, but it then requires ongoing maintenance because wordpress constantly internally churns and breakage regularly occurs, partly due to their apparently ill-specced internal api. I presume they don't do this either because of lack of engineering ability or because they want to drive people to their hosted product. Either way, it's not a good product.
Questions to those of you who have done this: how do you deal with exhaustion keeping you from working on side projects after work? I have a bunch of ideas I want to try to work on, but I never seem to have the will to do them when I get home.
I would note that if I had some indication that it were true.
Thanks! Will fix this ASAP.
> I know this is a kind of shitty riposte but if you don't like the code-base or some feature it is open-source you know

I'm aware. Which is why we've developed many in-house and open-source plugins, and the like. But, fixing Wordpress' API and developer interface is impossible.

To do so, would require breaking backwards compatibility (or building a compatibility layer, that still won't be 100% due to how many plugins do nasty nasty stuff and rely on implicit behaviour) with the ecosystem of plugins; which are the entire point of Wordpress.

So, we've been building a way to wrap Wordpress' back-end in Laravel. To have proper Composer and Packagist and PSR support, to be able to follow proper development practices, hell, to be able to unit test our code properly: these are things that Wordpress makes far more painful in 2014 than they should be.

PHP may have a reputation for being a nasty hacky language, and Wordpress may have contributed a lot to that reputation, but in this day and age we can do better.
I think the fitness landscape is too complicated to justify that kind of assessment. Even with the non-universal qualifier "usually". I think a more correct statement would be to replace "usually" with "can be", and mention the possibility of it also being disadventageous or disasterous. At this point the entire statement becomes somewhat meaningless, though. Maybe it should just be "too complex to assess without a study per-ecosystem; it depends".

I'm sure someone more familiar with the research can express all of this mathematically and and confirm of deny the existance of an overall, cross-cutting model. It may even be common knowledge in evo bio/ecology/etc.

All I can mention on my phone right now is "keystone species", "s curve", and "wolf/rabbit populations". (or was it elk?) anyway, the latter search term leads to info on cyclical and highly dynamic ecologies. Check it out.
I agree they should rename, and after they rename, no one will give a crap about Markdown anymore.

Remember Hudson? Maybe you've heard of Jenkins? Exactly.

All the big players who make use of Markdown are on board with this. If they all adopt this "standard" whatever it's called, it will effectively spell the end of mass usage of "Markdown" as it stands now.

That's why this keruffle is so stupid. Then again, renaming will take away the attention from the stupid yelling over the name, so maybe they should just do it and deprive them of it. Call it Sparkdown or Harkdown or something so the connection is still apparent and move on.
Thanks for the feedback. AS you notice, we want to keep it afforable. Same overall look, but different because of price. Will work on being more accurate though. Thanks!
If you're a dev and a smoker you could help me (also if you don't smoke)
If you made this as a commercial venture you are probably infringing on these celebrities personality rights.
Click bait title with generic/meh advice. I thought HN was anti these kind of articles?
This looks pretty neat and you did a great job with your Pin It buttons. You may wish to consider adding this META:

<meta name="pinterest" content="nohover"></meta>

... to the HEAD of any page that already has a Pin It button aboard. This will tell the Pinterest browser extension not to bother showing hoverbuttons on this page.
Through a co-op, not a middleman: http://noisetrade.com/info/about
As I finished reading his piece on Markdown (with which I agreed wholeheartedly), my eyes glanced down through the next heading, "Typos", through the date, and landed on "efficeint".
Not successful at it but I find if you work on a project not related to your day-to-day it helps relieve some of the tension.
While this completely subverts our intention, it is perfectly legal: The observable behaviour of the program is unchanged by the optimization.

This begs the question of what is "observable behaviour" - execution time, which is definitely "observable" and the basis of timing-based attacks, can certainly change depending on what the optimiser decides to do.

I think this and similar cases of "fighting the optimiser" should really be solved with per-function (or even per-statement) optimisation settings; both GCC and MSVC support #pragma's to do this, although it's nonstandard.
I use a hybrid of Omnifocus, mediawiki, and pen and paper.
Living in South Brooklyn, maybe 10% of my interactions with police have been pleasant. FFS, me and my boss got pulled over by undercover police just last month on a bullshit pretense that we didn't signal the turn, which he did 100%. He was wearing a suit and I was dressed casual.

We were pulled out of the car, his car was searched without consent and I was searched without consent. I got into an argument with the cop because they violated our rights and the Sergeant kept on going on and on about how an unsignaled left turn is probable cause. Fuck that shit, we weren't doing anything wrong and are far from looking like drug dealers or gang bangers. What were we doing before the stop? Boss stopped by a bank, then we got in the car, stopped a few blocks away at a cell phone store where I bought something, I got back in the car and we got pulled over on the first turn.

I for one can't wait for police to have body cameras, because then it stops being your word against the cops. And that changes everything, it gives leeway for people that want to fight these kind of daily infringements on our rights.
> but it proved non-trivial and I didn't have the time to see it through.

It is rather non-trivial, and we're not sure how far we'll be able to take it, but I'm very happy that my work is happy to finance this sort of hacking. We've got a "LaravelInjector" plugin for Wordpress, that allows you to have Laravel and Wordpress answering to the same url (a Laravel route is tried first, then Wordpress' "routing" system kicks in). We'll be open sourcing both of these systems in the very near future[0]. I hang around #wordpress on Freenode, so you'll see me in there if you're interested in chatting about it :)

[0] https://github.com/JuniorCru
Nevada Selected as Official Site for Tesla Battery Gigafactory
Has it occurred to you he hasn't touched the spec because he believes it doesn't NEED to be touched?

That others disagree is not an argument for his having abandoned his ownership or rights to the name.
What the Second Time SaaS CEOs Are All Doing
Are you releasing any parts, pieces, components, libraries, etc., as open source?
Jitneys (aka Jeepneys[1]) are alive and well in the Philippines. The Philippines have probably one the best privately owned "public" transportation systems in the world. Jeepneys really vary from nice little minivans to motorcycles with side cars. It was in one of these motorcycles that I saw ~12 children going home from school in clown car style. I still have the picture of this on traditional film somewhere.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepney
Plugins, plugins, plugins.

And client familiarity, which can't be discounted (and is a two-edge sword in and of itself). I'm no fan of Wordpress and would rather use something else, but at this point there are few systems that can truly challenge it. I hope that changes soon, however.
The revolution of the upper middle class
I am interested. After looking up SWIFT I can't really get a grasp on what kind of things you can do with it if you're not a financial institution. Do you have any examples?
> Markdown is Gruber's name. So he's the only one with the authority to say what "standard Markdown" is.

Except when "X" is legally a trademark, its not uncommon for "Standard X" to be defined by an entity independent of the creator "X" without needing approval from the creator of "X".

Where "X" is a trademark (e.g., "JavaScript"), things are a little different, but I don't see a convincing argument that Markdown is Gruber's trademark.
Rangel: Congressman from New York
Thiel was a derivatives trader, not an investment banker.
Introduction to Docker at the Azure Meet-up in New York
That seems like a much, much bigger threat in this case.
And if it's any good, people will move on. Gruber's "Markdown" will disappear and everyone will talk about the "Markdown-influenced Textmarks."

Everyone knows Linux was inspired heavily by UNIX, and yet, it's called Linux instead of "Standard UNIX".
A Case Study in Price Discrimination: Burning Man Car Washes
The information Google doesn't want you to organize
How a Dentist Popularized Cotton Candy
Coredumps?
What happens when your friends start leaving Facebook
And not one mention of superstition?
Great, now ship it to me.
Not sure what school you went to (or even in what country - what the heck is "Bing-Bang-Bongo"?) but you only need one teacher that doesn't like your alleged independent methods to put a fly into your perfect score. You must be very fortunate to somehow have avoided this your entire high school career. Bravo.
Step-by-step: exploiting SQL injection(s) in Oculus' website
Social network for trading enthusiasts.
The term "observable behaviour" is defined in the standard: Essentially, I/O to files and interactive devices, plus accesses to volatile objects.
Bookmarks++ a Chrome extension that helps you to better manage your bookmarks
Well, if you read the article, you would have read about two students, 1 went to Dartmouth and the other went to Yale. The former worked at a bar, if I remember correctly and the latter worked at the airport. Neither graduated with economic degrees. ;)

All jokes aside, indeed when you live in a country that hands our very severe punishments(just look up the murder rate in less expensive neighborhoods etc) for having less money than someone else. Real estate is directly tied to the amount of money you have compared to others so could explain how that analogy is that far off?

If someone lived in New York City, they might have to trade quite a bit of safety in neighborhood for having a less profitable degree than someone who graduated with an economics degree. So indeed US society hands out a weighted lottery about getting murdered based upon how much money you make, even at middle class levels.
I agree with timr here. You guys are missing the point. It's not math. It's trust.

There's no way to predict the outcomes. Options are little more than signals of intention. At point of exit, everything is in the air and you are not part of the negotiation. What's it worth? Do you have to move? Do you report the Chief VP of Total and Complete Meanness?

You get paid because someone is looking out for you.

The way to evaluate the deal you're getting from a founder is to ask yourself whether they would pay you out of their own pockets. There will be a moment when, in effect, they make that choice. The good ones won't be able to enjoy the money unless their team shares in the wealth. The bad ones will cobble together a rationalization about risk or how smart or deserving they are. You don't assess the offer, you assess the people. I know because I'm not very good at assessing the people ;)
20 years ago, people were still paying for their compilers.

Heck, we still are in some areas nowadays, outside what usually gets HN attention.

In the 90's SmaltalkWorks price wasn't much different from other tooling. Actually the enterprise was already starting to use Smalltalk.

But then Java came out, and everyone jumped ship.

Did you know Eclipse started out as Visual Age for Smalltalk?
> It's crazy that this is even an issue.

Agreed.

"Investors fighting over YC companies" also shows that there is insufficient high-quality deal flow (real or perceived). Stated another way, there is a supply/demand imbalance for high-quality deal flow. While hard to tap, there's an opportunity for creating/finding/aggregating high-quality startups.

Obviously, replicating YC has been tried, so a real solution likely requires some innovative approach that I can't currently think of. But, if I'd bet on a company that creates a solution because there is clearly high demand from willing and able buyers.
My roommate works at RewardStyle, you should look into their platform for monetization. It's pretty awesome.
I was going to respond in a snarky tone about the absurdity of there being such a thing as personality rights. Fortunately, I googled it first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
For my home desk I've been very happy with the herman miller setu: http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/multi-use-guest...

If you get it without the arm rests, it just tucks away, and its very comfortable.
Arguably, Twitpic isn't dependent on Twitter per se, just a large microblogging website.

Twitpic can possibly open up a Chinese branch that runs on Weibo instead of Twitter, for example.
The section on mathematical jargon is quite a good summary of generic mathematical linguistic conventions.

http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~mfleck/building-blocks/version...
Is the solution as simple as changing the name to "Interoperable Markdown"?

Markdown interoperability is not now and has never been a goal of Gruber's -- indeed he seems to celebrate the lack of it. Use of the name "<adjective> Markdown" for incompatible derivatives has been accepted for many years. So replacing the word "Standard" with an explicit description of the difference ("Interoperable") between plain old Markdown (whatever that is, since it's not well-defined) and this must be OK, right?
And here's an IFTTT recipe to go with it: https://ifttt.com/recipes/201372-email-subscription-to-famou...
Yup, in Manila Uber and similar services like grab taxi are becoming really popular because of the dangers in riding regular cabs.
> And to keep your example of Linus Torvalds, you can check, he owns the name Linux because it originally was his project.

There are many long-standing forks of the Linux kernel that don't change all of the source code to remove the name "Linux". I don't see Linus pitching a fit over them.

> And I repeat if people disagree they fork and use their own name.

People have forked it (e.g. MultiMarkdown, Github flavored Markdown), and Gruber hasn't complained about them (at least not publicly).
If Standard Markdown doesn't use a single line of code from the original Markdown, how are the license terms being violated?

I didn't see any mention of Standard Markdown being an modification to the original Markdown code base.
LispWorks has a class browser. Its class library has several deep hierarchies with lots of classes. For example the class for a UI button is called CAPI:BUTTON. It has 11 CAPI superclasses and its depth for CAPI classes is six. It also has five subclasses adding more depth.

The minute you write a GUI application in LispWorks, you'll use a macro called DEFINE-INTERFACE. What does it do? It creates a CLOS class for your application, which inherits from CAPI:INTERFACE.

You want a new window pane type? Define a subclass of CAPI:OUTPUT-PANE.

For another example: check the class hierarchy of stream classes in Clozure Common Lisp.
I started with a very elaborate mediawiki solution, but over time I've moved to org-mode.

It's has two distinct advantages: the filesystem is the database (plus a plain-text one!), and everything is scriptable using Emacs Lisp.
Why put David Beckham's socks on here when you can clearly not see them in the picture?

http://famousoutfits.com/dress-like-david-beckham/
I've created a site just like this as a side project. Especially relevant with Halloween right around the corner:

http://carboncostume.com/

And since you mentioned it, the Driver:

http://carboncostume.com/driver/
> Common Lisp was unpopular between 90s and 2000. A new generation of developers had to rediscover it to revive some of it: SBCL, ECL, ...

And they miss so much, because they only get part of what a Common Lisp dev env used to be.

Since the good alternatives are the commercial ones, that most nowadays aren't willing to pay for.

> If you look at Pharo Smalltalk, it's nice, but it has the same limitations like Squeak and other implementations: it looks and feels non-native. That's because the UI is non-native.

Yeah, there is this goal of trying to replicate Smalltalk, the OS, experience, instead of just being another programming language.

I think Pharo is moving into the direction of better native integration, though.
One year later, Hyperloop remains a fantasy