skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even travelling through a lot of small towns in rural areas I don't think I've run into a magstripe-only reader in the past couple years at least.

There was a period where it was a guessing game every time you paid for something whether it was magstripe or chip (some locations even had a chip-capable machine, but didn't have the service enabled with their payment processor, so you still used the magstripe...).

It's pretty consistent now.
Preference is the thing that fucks you, not dilution directly. Dilution, assuming no down-rounds, is likely to be no more than 50% in total, because it's iterated -- all the early people get diluted in the first financing, but the first investors also get diluted in the next rounds, so rounds after A, unless something is very wrong, are usually more like 10-20% dilution each time, tops.

It's preference which turns a $200mm exit on a company which has raised $150mm into essentially a non-event for common stockholders (i.e. employees).
Already prepping groundwork for the next CEO in the 2015, no worries. I know I'm not fit for this. 4 months to go.

"He who tells the truth will be chased out of nine villages."
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How do I find that band I've never heard of?
> It's set in stone on the license.

Markdown-related projects have been using "Markdown" in the name for years (in violation of the license). Gruber has yet to get upset at "Github flavored Markdown" or "MultiMarkdown" for example. Methinks that it has less to do with the name, and more to do with their motive of becoming the new de facto Markdown spec that has Gruber up-in-arms.
Simple way of storing your app's settings in Node.js
assuming that the video storage and the stream itself are secure, sure.
> Then you have never used CLOS or any CLOS-based libraries.

Does using DEFGENERIC/DEFMETHOD make it CLOS based? If so, then I have used CLOS and CLOS based libraries; they just weren't particularly object-oriented. I know that there is more strongly object-oriented lisp code out there, but I personally haven't run into it.

I'll agree that "Deep class hierarchies are quite common in object-oriented Lisp." since that is very nearly tautological. I'm not certain, however, how common object-oriented lisp is. Even within common-lisp there really isn't a single idiomatic style that is used.

Care to share some examples of more heavily object-oriented lisp projects?
great idea. not all sunglasses are wayfarers though...

would be cool if you had mechanisms for swapping out similar items. so you could "fork" a look, if you will.
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I always love these. But, why won't it randomly generate the board on each load? As it stands, it is somewhat unlikely that we will be able to get Bingo...
> racist

What?
This has happened a few times. Usually, someone ends up forking the project. The funny thing about forks is that it can go either way. Either the founder gets kicked out and forks the project or someone within the project gets angry and forks the project.

The canonical example would probably be the NetBSD/OpenBSD split (by Theo de Raadt) or the emacs/xemacs split. Or the vim/neovim split.
Excellent fun, but when playing with the keyboard, only one of simultaneous keystrokes is recorded.
I feel the same way. I think that "CelebrityOutfits" as a domain would suit the content of your site a bit better. Because when you say "FamousOutfits" It makes it sound like the outfit is famous not the person wearing it. "Oufits Of the Famous" would work too I suppose but it's not as catchy. "FamousX" will probably remind a lot of people of "Famous Footwear" which you may or may not want to be associated with.

I was expecting memorable/recognizable outfits instead of "clothes that famous people wear".

For example:

Pinstripe Suit with hat = Mobster

Red plaid shirt suspenders Jeans and boots = lumberjack

Khaki shirt and shorts = Crocodile hunter

studded leather jacket + jeans/camo fatigues = Punk rocker

matching tracksuit shoes and hat = Slavic youth

Good news is the domain is probably the easiest part to change!
Basic meaning: doing a thing to send a message about yourself to others. Like wearing expensive brands to signal that you're rich.

But good signalling involves some additional factors. Signalling is usually used when you want to say something about yourself, but it's something that people would want to say about themselves whether it was true or not, so you have to say it in a way that is difficult or impossible to fake. A good signal is one that is highly visible (in the context where it matters; clothes are good for in-person signaling, profiles or photos are good for online signaling), and either cannot be sent without having the quality they're supposed to signify (you can't afford expensive things to show off if you don't have money), or are much easier to send if you have that quality than if you don't (it's easier to get a high StackOverflow score if you're good at programming and communicating than if you're not).

If you're giving employees extra stock to signal loyalty and trustworthiness, it's "cheaper" to do that if you actually value being loyal and trustworthy (rather than just wanting others to think that of you), because then you get value from being the sort of person you want to be and being thought well of by others. At least, that's the theory; you could just want other people to think you're a loyal person really, really badly.
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> As a white male, I've experienced nothing but respect from police officers

> NYPD is far from a force of racist assholes

i don't think the first statement adds any sort of confirmation to the second (i.e. you literally can tell nothing about how racist nypd are based solely on your interactions with them).
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Read the TNW link above.
What if we called it ANSI Markdown instead?

Read the foreword to http://flash-gordon.me.uk/ansi.c.txt , and it sounds very similar to the Markdown issue. C is still called C, regardless of what ANSI (and later ISO) did to it.
graze a much wider radius of ground vegetation without moving a step

How does that work? I've seen suggestions that the bones of the neck lock together to form a rigid structure, so that the whole thing is cantilevered off the shoulders and chest without muscles needing to do work to support it. But if that's the case it doesn't seem like it would be flexible, which means the animal could only graze along the circumference of a circle without moving, not the whole area in front of itself.

Were their necks flexible and muscular so that they could graze a large area without moving, or rigid and self-supporting so that they didn't need to do as much work, but had to move more to graze?
This is a good point -- between a camera in every public place and a camera on every cop, the latter is far the better option, and can be empowering to the public interacting with the police.

Just about everything it records is in the context of "member of the public knowingly interacting with a police officer", not "member of the public going about their everyday life" (which is much more ripe for abuse, and rather less likely to benefit the public in any way).
The idea that expertise matters is fine.

Where meritocracy gets bad isn't the "merit" part, it's the "-ocracy" bit - the idea that people who have the most merit get to call the shots.

It's problematic in all sorts of ways. First, who gets to define merit? Well, probably the meritocrats. If we assume they're rational agents (which we must, by definition), then they will choose to define merit in the most self-serving manner possible, in order to consolidate their own position, status, and power. And even if we don't assume they're perfectly rational agents (which is more likely, if contradictory to the basic idea behind meritocracy) we should still expect to see self-serving definitions of merit that grow organically out of everyone's bias for their own perspective. Consider the history of racial bias in IQ testing, for example.

Second, by the people who merit the highest in a meritocracy have different backgrounds, and therefore slightly different interests, from everyone who's lumped together in the lumpy part of the bell curve. This is inevitable - in a world where education costs money, you'll have a hard time getting to be the most educated at anything without coming from a position of relatively greater economic privilege than others. Pythagoras was no peasant, nor was Galileio or Newton or Einstein or Feynman. Therefore, we should not assume that they will make decisions in accord with the best interests of society as a whole. And their current circumstances are probably sharply different from most others' too. Probably the person who knows more than anyone else about investment banking is himself (I think we can safely assume it's a he - see below) an investment banker. That by no circumstances means that this person is the most fit to dictate investment banking regulation. It's true that he's got the expertise to draw up a set of rules that will encourage almost any outcome, but the outcome we should all be most worried about is the one where investment bankers get outlandishly wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

Finally, it's impressive how effectively people can use their pre-existing merit to influence others' ability to acquire merit. Often their ability to do so is so well-honed that they can wield it almost constantly without even realizing they're doing so. See: White men in academia, white men in fraternities, white men in software development, etc.
Lol, gonna have to mix it up then. That's what those products are :)

Hmmm... Great thoughts. Thanks. Will definitely keep that in mind as we scale.
Very nicely done. If you did this for Indian celebrities, VCs in India would throw eight figure sums to buy you out.
As an immigrant, I'd say Americans are relatively more rational ie. not so celeb-crazy as to completely remodel themselves after a celebrity, though teens, especially teen girls tend to be an the outlier in this aspect. But if you look at celeb-crazy countries like India, you have grown men & women in their 20s,30s,40s...who will ape celeb dresses, celeb haircuts, celeb behavior even. I have had the unfortunate experience of sitting through entire 3-hour Bollywood films where all the audience did was take notes on what the lead heroine was wearing so they could go home & purchase those exact outfits.
Vanilla Markdown last versioned in December of 2004. He has moved on; it's just that, now that someone wants to pick up the baton he discarded so long ago, he's fussed about someone else getting the benefit of what has heretofore served him as a neat, low-effort little generator of social-marketing capital.

I might even have some sympathy for that perspective, if not for the fact that his disinterest in doing anything with Markdown has resulted in such a broad range of subtly incompatible forks, thus complicating many people's lives, mine included, for what strikes me as frankly no good reason at all.

Let him sue, if he likes, or let him keep unfavorably impressing people with public bitching and moaning -- or let him do the sensible thing, if he hasn't yet entirely foreclosed that possibility, and try to walk back his recent bitter outbursts in favor of a public opinion on the lines of "I sure wish I'd had the time to do this sort of thing before now! But I'm glad to see such a strong community carrying forward the idea I came up with so long ago." But to leave Markdown in the dust for a decade, then get all grabby again all of a sudden for what look more and more like the most transparently shallow of reasons, is just churlish.
Odd, I literally just saw one that did exactly that. It even forbade "outside activity" and I had to ask WTH that meant.
You know what would make this a lot better? Packaging it up so that one wouldn't have to go to 10 different stores to pick the items up.

I'd order straight away and pay a premium to save the hazzle. A logistics challenge for sure, but you'd have at least one customer right here.
Thanks :)

The idea is that you make your board and save the link, share with friends and then compare it to what actually happens on the event.
> That's a little scary.

It is.

> Any reason you aren't put focus on Drupal 8?

Clients in Australia love WordPress, and love the backend. It's a shame, to be honest, as I personally am loving what Drupal are doing[0] lately. In the future I hope to move that direction, as I'm a big fan of the Symfony components, but honestly I'm more looking forward to PageKit[1].

[0] http://jgirvin.com/2013/10/14/drupals-casual-audience/

[1] http://www.pagekit.com/
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The fact that this whole charade is over one word "standard" because it seemingly takes control away from Gruber rubs me the wrong way.

Jeff Atwood and co have done nothing but praise Markdown. They've worked really hard to flesh out a starting point for a standardized Markdown implementation. I think the word they chose, "Standard" makes perfect sense here.

Instead, both John Gruber and Marco Arment are acting super immature about the whole situation. Reading their Tweets today I keep imagining them stomping their feet on the ground because someone did something they didn't approve of.

I don't mean to add fuel to any fire, but I really think we shouldn't be validating their overly-dramatic behavior. I'm sure that Gruber could have politely sent Atwood an email or even public tweet asking that his project reconsider a better name, maybe even calling it something like "Rockdown." From everything I've read so far, Atwood seemed to want Gruber on board but got crickets instead.
The valley isn't the engine of opportunity people think it is.

Opportunity compound, people. The poor have the least luck/opportunity. The rich have the best.

It's just the way it is, and it has nothing to do with whoever deserves it.
> It's certainly true that my school did not emphasize résumé-padding, and the end result was that none of my friends who majored in STEM related fields got into top graduate programs,

In my experience (currently a PhD student at a top 10 STEM program) graduate programs only care at about ability to do research. There may be a few non-research activities that demonstrate this, e.g. scoring well on Putnam, but no one scores points for activism or running a club or excelling athletically, or any of the others activities I associate with the phrase resume-padding.
As a white male, I've routinely been disrespected and stopped extraneously in California, Massachusetts, and New York, without further ticketing or incident, just merely as a form of harassment.

I'm inclined to believe that gender and race have little to do with the dealings of a power-hungry organization, and even more inclined to believe that personal (anecdotal) race/age/gender has even less to do with understanding the power-grab that's going on between military groups and the rapidly growing 'paramilitary' that people seem to believe various PDs are growing into.
Eight years ago a 64bit x86 version of OpenMCL (aka CCL) appeared for Linux.
Are you joking? Look at the developer community in OS X and iOS that are constantly tinkering and learning.

Jobs was absolutely an asshole, but to say he "set us all back" is preposterous.
Has Gruber opined on Seibel's (IMHO good) idea? If he claims he'd be OK with "Common Markdown", I'll have to revise my opinion of him in a much more favorable direction. (And, amusingly, Common Lisp is itself a standard, so perhaps "Common Markdown" would be enough to satisfy everyone.)

If they called it "Syntaxx, [twenty more words that no one cares about]", no one will hear of it, and no one will use it. The words around "Markdown" might be negotiable; the presence of "Markdown" itself makes or breaks the viability of the project as a whole -- without that, Atwood et al. might as well not bother.
Reminds me of http://www.polyvore.com/
What is a grant? Familiar with the term in an academic setting, but not that much in a work setting.
All this fuss over a name. A name that the purported owner hasn't enforced before. A name that's been used by hundreds of other projects. A name that's been thoroughly genericized, and is descriptive of the project.

I can see why Gruber is upset, but why does anybody else feel the need to be upset for him?
Because Standard Markdown implies something that MultiMarkdown and Github Flavored Markdown don't: That it is the One True Markdown.

People are acting like Atwood and company are just trying to bring a little sanity to the project when it seems pretty clear (to me anyway) that it's really much closer to usurping the project entirely away from Gruber.
They floated the name "RockDown" back then. Whatever happened to that?
With the new ways people come up with to attack computers... I just would never be that confident. Sure, don't open attachments and execute stuff from unknowns that look phishy. Don't click links from emails. Don't download sketchy software.

But what about something like malware attacking you from an adserver that didn't happen to get blocked by AdBlock or Ghostery and you're not running NoScript or you whitelisted the domain (perhaps supporting a company you were happy to help support from ads).
I subscribed. The RSS feed is here http://famousoutfits.com/feed/ BTW.
http://famousoutfits.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/zac-efro...

come on, these look nothing like wayfarers. you're pushing it with that jacket, too. i realize you have to match on a budget, but details matter here. that will help build credibility and authority in fashion.

i didn't mean to nitpick or sound too cynical, i think it's a great idea. good luck.
This is awesome. I have a feeling Instagram is going to be your biggest growth lever.

No affiliate links?
Hmm... love the idea, and it'll probably make money, but the problem with anything like this (even magazine ads) is that cut is paramount and people come in different shapes and sizes. Clothes fitting properly matters much more than what they look like on the rack, and more often than not, cuts at discount stores are either atrocious, or they are designed for fit models (those lucky jerks).

I can go to uniqlo, i can buy a shirt that fits my sholders great, at target? Forget it. Back at the uniqlo, i may try going to their jeans section, but nothing fits me, nothing. I have to get levi's because i have odd hip/leg ratio and they are the only firm that can sell me that cut for under $100. I am limited excessively by this... and we are only talking about basic blue jeans.

The celebs look good because they have the time and money to buy stuff that fits, and looks great together. Imitation may be a great way to same the time, discounted imitation may be a way to save the time and money, but i think that in neither case you'll look good.

The best thing to do is to get into looks as a whole, and once you have decent taste, buy thing that work for your body. It's not easy, and it may not be as cheap as these places try and get you to believe you can do it for, but at the end of the day, you'll look good, instead of a crappy version of Zac Efron.
Great article - short, concise and clearly articulated the differences between the roles and responsibilities of the Product Mgr. verses the Product Marketing Mgr.
Agreed. The other big news here is that they're leveling the playing field a bit, by moving away from LP (or LP-like) relationships with a collection of VC firms.

Smart and classy move.
There are plenty of objects in CLIM.
These are great changes. How does an investor get onto the email list (assuming that the investor satisfies the membership criteria)?
> When you make something, and publish it with the intent that it is used by others, then you can't turn around and decide that any/all criticism is unfair.

He doesn't say that, I don't say that, he says that it doesn't fit with his vision.

> Take the Linux kernel for example. If Linus Torvalds decides to abandon all support for architectures other than MIPS in the Linux kernel, would you not consider it fair game to criticize his stewardship of the Linux kernel? Or is all criticism silenced by, "well, it's my project so I can do whatever I want to do?"

Non sequitur. He didn't remove nothing, he created a syntax, he said that he is more attached to it than to its eventual ambiguities and therefore consider his job done. That's not bad stewardship it's simply having an opinion, a vision. And I repeat if people disagree they fork and use their own name as long it doesn't bother Gruber. And to keep your example of Linus Torvalds, you can check, he owns the name Linux because it originally was his project so he might enforce his rights as he sees fit.
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I'm with Gruber and Arment on this. It's really simple. Markdown is Gruber's name. So he's the only one with the authority to say what "standard Markdown" is. Atwood and company should just rename their spec and be done with it.

EDIT: To be really classy, after the rename, redirect standardmarkdown.com to Gruber's Markdown home page.
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> The words "Standard Markdown" sound like it is the standard from the owners of the Markdown.

"Standard X" sounds a lot more to me to be "what a an interested committee did to X after it became popular and multiple different implementations of X existed, quite likely with only a distant, if any, connection to the creator of X".

I mean, if someone says "Standard Pascal" or "Standard SQL", or "Standard HTML", I don't assume it came from the inventors of those technologies.
http://famousoutfits.com/dress-like-david-beckham/
top, 5: it's next to the jeans;
bottom, 5: "High Fidelity Lace-Up Boot" (jeans is 6)

similar problem on http://famousoutfits.com/dress-like-blake-griffin/
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I figured the article would be about how you have to write random data to the buffer to truly "zero" it, otherwise the ghost of the data can still be read using some trick.
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We are trying to make things better and I think that police wearing cameras does in fact make things better. We are trying to consider both the negative and positive consequences of new technology.

Also the problem these cameras are trying to solve is police brutality/abuse. Surveillance is not what caused that problem in the first place.
In GNU C one can add the statement

asm ("" : : "m" (&key));

just before or after the memset, effectively telling the compiler that the address of "key" escapes the scope of the function.
In his previous article (http://spinhalf.net/typos/), he rails against typos and about how horrible they are for our comprehension. Not surprisingly, he messes up himself:

“I immediately loose my train of thought.”

Me too, man. Me too.
FWIW - I’ve always thought these guys were close to something (but not there yet) - https://gingkoapp.com/p/future-of-text - the idea of a quick dive-down/up through knowledge with potentially tagging/linking thrown in would seem pretty stellar from a knowledge management system.
I've seen those. And ignored them. The worst I've had happen was an uncomfortable conversation. Nothing changed.
How well-off you look probably factors in.