skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever read "The Millionaire Next Door"? You might be surprised at people around you who have more money than you think, though the challenge is getting them to admit it and harder still to get them to invest. I have several people close to me who could easily write a cheque for $1MM+, but you'd never know it to look at or talk to them - totally normal people who worked completely boring careers, didn't receive a huge inheritance, but simply worked hard, saved their money, invested well (often in real estate), and have lived long enough to see those investments grow.

But, trying to get those kinds of people to invest $1MM+ would be a serious chore - they got their by saving their money and via extreme frugality, so any investment they would make would come with serious strings attached.
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But who escalated it? Gruber spent a few hours many years ago, and hasn't bothered to incorporate changes in open source tradition, leaving Markdown a half implemented mess.

These people picked it up, and rather renaming it (which they should have done, but which also would have resulted in a tirade from gruber) they kept his name.

Que tirade from gruber.

That's where the quick escalation happened.
What a show!

I have to say that this sounds a little bit like a non-apology ("I'm sorry the name is so infuriating") and I do think John Gruber is right that the name chosen was a bit rude.

However, Gruber's response or lack thereof comes off as really arrogant to me. I wonder if there is some personal history that we are not aware of? The "you say jump, I say how high?" tweet struck me as an overly aggressive response to what seemed to me a reasonable request back in the day.
My pleasure -- I'm glad it helped!
I think most Stanford alums/Stanford Law alums and Sullivan & Cromwell lawyers could raise $1M for a hedge fund.
It's very do-able. I work 30-40 hours a week at a Law Firm (weekdays) + Target retail store (weekends). My little mini business is selling my inventions and products at http://ChrisNorstrom.com/shop . Only 5 are up right now with 4 new ones being added for the Holiday Season and another 2 for Spring next year.

A day job allowed me to experiment and survive failures. I've had 7 products fail in the prototyping phase (costing me at least a grand) and 5 were successful. The simple ones are the ones that succeeded. What people don't realize is that it can take hundreds of dollars of experimenting with materials and suppliers to get even the simplest product just right. Selling my calendar alone took $7,000 in materials/packing/shipping/bulk orders. If it's defective you can lose thousands on the refund costs to all your customers.

● 1.5 years ago = I had 1 sale every month from ebay.

● Today = I have orders from Amazon, Etsy, Ebay, and my website come in 2-10 times a day, every day.

● I started with simple products and am expanding to Glass lamps, pebble imbedded rubber mats for showers and tubs, glass cube wall planters, and a "20" tall Leaning Tower of Piza Lamp". (I'm starting to take more risks with more profitable but harder to make products)

It's growing slowly but growing none-the-less. The more money I make at my day jobs the more risk I can afford to take with my prototypes.

(DO NOT underestimate the amount of space a small etsy/ebay/estore business will take up in your home. Our entire basement is dedicated to boxes, stock, and shipping supplies)
One big difference is that the CTO role is not as regulator, so you don't have the large concerns you have with putting a cable company exec in charge of the FCC, or an RIAA lawyer in charge of the DOJ's copyright enforcement policy.

There may be some instances when a conflict of interest comes up, but as others point out, that's virtually impossible to avoid for anyone with expertise. Many here might not object to an academic being appointed to the role who specializes in open source and advocating for the limitations of copyright, but of course there's a huge conflict of interest there, too.
Reddit gets mentioned a lot, but I barely ever see Markdown there beyond the very basics. Link syntax is probably the only distinctive "Markdown" thing.
Copyright law doesn't apply, and Gruber has probably lost any trademark rights when he failed to shut down the various Markdown flavours.

I'm not a lawyer and also not especially familiar with the laws in the US, but my guess would be that legally, he might not have a case.

Of course there are also questions of morality, but who cares about that ;)
Bring on the Music
What's weak about [link text](http://example.com/foobar.html)? It's succinct to type and store, and human-readable as plain text to boot.

Markdown's kind of taking over from BBCode as a standard for non-html markup, especially as used in comment boxes. [Gruber's original post](http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-flavored-markdown/) notes that the working group for Markdown II: The Markdownening included people from Github, StackExchange, and Reddit, which all use Markdown for formatting their comments.

So, would you rather standardize what's emerged as the standard, and have umpty-million comment boxes keep on working pretty much the same, or make Yet Another Standard that may indeed be superior but is used nowhere?

(Admittedly if the sites involved in this decided to switch to New Lightweight Markup Language at once they'd probably change the habits of a ton of people pretty quicky.)
Not to mention the fact that the perceived lack of action in one particular case does not accurately predict what happens when it turns into hundreds of cases.
Gruber isn't an astronomer. Or did you mean "alcoholic"?

BHB doesn't have quite the right ring to it, and he's not much of a blogger either.

He's the Paris Hilton of the tech world. Well, that's not fair to Paris Hilton whose much more of an entrepreneur. But what would you have called her profession when she was merely famous for being famous?
The jacket Ryan Gosling is wearing has a front pocket. I don't think it's the Perry Ellis Bomber Jacket.

His boots also don't look like Steve Madden boots.

This is a great concept, but it would be a lot more meaningful to me if I knew I could trust the product listings.
People love emoji! Also - we can send emoji in push notifications.
I think their biggest mistake was assuming Gruber would react professionally/maturely.
There's a lot more to fit than BMI - body shape, for example.

And in fact matching the right Colours to your skin tone and style will have a greater impact on how you look (and feel) than the right fit, although both are important.
Many languages zero every allocation unless they can prove that you immediately write over that memory without reading it.
A private email "tirade" which is showing some restraint when you have as big a blog audience as Daring Fireball.
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Awesome idea! Adding a forum or some type of community/social aspect might be even more fun for visitors. I noticed the comments at the bottom of the pages and it looks like some visitors are already posting some things and that's great. Maybe with some more social features you can build a community and bring in more traffic.
Pretty similar to what you see in lots of magazines:
http://www.instyle.co.uk/fashion/get-the-look

And the celeb style guide:
http://www.celebritystyleguide.com/
Good commentary, but renaming it entirely seems a bit strong to me. It is, or intends to be, a better spec'ced version of Markdown.
The use of police testimony as sacrosanct needs to disappear. Bits or it didn't happen.
To be fair, any name that doesn't imply somehow that it is indeed a better Markdown wouldn't do: Atwood and co are trying to make this new version the default.

"Hello, your project FooBar is cool, but it is badly specified, and your reference implementation is buggy. Because of that, we see many flavours of FooBar, each incompatible in some subtle way.

"We would like to make another flavour, with a tighter specification, and a less buggy reference implementation. Ideally, this would become the default flavour.

"What name would be acceptable for this?"

I have a strong feeling that Gruber just want his version of Markdown to stay the default, because he's the original author, dammit! He's probably not okay with the project itself, and would stop it if he could. I think the real reason why he finds "standard" so infuriating, is because he knows that with such a name, this flavour may actually catch on. Which may be a bad thing for http://daringfireball.net/ I don't know.
this is great, had a look at webhook recently and it looked pretty sweet. How much effort would be required to have it completely self-hosted, without Firebase?
OOP design practices often consider NounVerber classes as a design smell that should be avoided at all costs; this article introduces them as the solution for everything.

How does it go together?
You're right -- I very much doubt that even a tiny percentage of reddit's users know that they're using Markdown (it's mentioned as an aside in the "formatting help" section). Plus, of course, it's only a limited subset of Markdown allowed there.

Nonetheless, a tiny percentage of reddit users who know how to use the formatting still likely represents a majority of the set of people who know about Markdown formatting.
Why aren't these parties using the telephone (or similar) to communicate? It seems like when things get to this level, talking makes the most sense.

No reply to my important email. That warrants a phone call in my book?

Email is convenient, but it may not be optimum all the time.
The data from previous programs contradicts what you're saying. If that was the case, we would expect the number of complaints to rise while the number of officers punished would drop. This is not what has happened.[1][2][3]

It's possible these reports are mis-representing the situation in some way, so I would love to see how this squares with your claim.

[1] http://voiceofsandiego.org/2014/03/28/fact-check-do-police-c...
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/business/wearable-video-ca...
[3] http://www.wkrn.com/story/23033687/use-of-body-cameras-decre...
I am fairly certain the idea of this website isn't "wear exactly what celebs are wearing".

Rather, the idea is "you can look like a celeb without buying designer clothing!"

Indeed, the former can be found in a plethora of style magazines.
Indeed, you can use plugins like http://varinode.com/ that allows customers to make purchase on the site itself.
I use acme on a daily basis for Real Work™. Previously, I was an Emacs junkie, but upgrading el-get caused me grief for the last time.

I haven't heard of anything about "modern" acme clones, but I've actually found acme as-is from p9p to be palatable on a MacBook Pro. There's one chord that I've found to be nigh on impossible to sort out (for those keeping track at home, the 2-1 "execute with argument" chord), but I find that I don't really use that one a whole lot anyway.

On Linux, YMMV, but I've noticed that it's more than usable on a ThinkPad with the standard fare TrackPoint pointing device, at least once you disable, e.g., Canonical's emulation of middle-button scrolling as you'd find it on Windows. Once you get past that, it's swell, and all of the chords are accessible.

As far as some of the "unfeatures" concerns go, taking note that I'm not a Plan 9 zealot but a disciple of the Unix way of small, composable programs that all do one thing and one thing well, I can understand why something like syntax highlighting would be labeled an unfeature. Acme only provides an editing surface and a way to make text active; the rest of the functionality is provided by the myriad little programs that you likely already have installed.

Syntax highlighting would have to be provided in some form by an external program, and if such a feature were to be implemented, the community would want it done right and in the spirit of Plan 9 and Unix.

To play devil's advocate for a moment: ANSI (or some other encoding for this information) would be a suggestion, but then the concerns would likely arise about hiding information behind the text, which has been given some degree of meaning outside of merely being something painted to the display. Or, perhaps, someone would ask why there's a half-cocked reimplementation of drawterm suggested being embedded in acme.

I'm sure you'll find that a lot of people would not be opposed to seeing syntax highlighting and on-the-fly indenting and similar enhancements make their way into acme. The detractors will likely oppose the additions on the grounds that it may make acme more monolithic, depending on how each embellishment is written into the editor.
How do you know what socks they were/are wearing?
Community Markdown would imply some kind of community governance, which does not seem to be the case. Common Markdown seems to be the creation of self-selected, let's-do-something kind of people. I'm fine with that. So, "Mutiny Markdown" might be better.
I found some shoes to buy from your site, great job! This also works for interior design, most people just want to find out where to buy the items they are looking at. Houzz is starting to do this, but on a limited basis.
I wonder how they know what socks the celebrities were wearing? They are nice socks, I just can't see them in the actual photos.
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I find similarity with W3C/WHATWG striking:

• The top implementors were frustrated with an old, vague spec that doesn't specify error handling.

• The original owner had stopped developing the spec, and the spec fails to describe new extensions and de-facto standards that have emerged since.

• The implementors wrote a new, much more complete spec from scratch under a name that implies taking ownership.

• And then there's a childish fight about forking.
"And I had argued for it a long time. I wrote so many of these multi-page emails about how important it was. But once we had it so people could see and see that it really does work, then Samsung went and wrote a proper interface for it."

Wow, I really have to admire his patience. While reading this I was even thinking "They are arguing with John Carmack about what he needs to get the graphics right? Who do they think they are?!" and I am not him. I would never have the patience for this. That must be like my grandma arguing with me about programming.
The question is not whether any one lapel cam video might result in action where various random cell phone cam videos have not, but rather, how many such videos in how short a time frame will result in action? If the evening news had a 20 minute montage every night of the days police abuses, people would be calling for Bratton's head on a pike.
I guess if you have to ask you probably haven't invested in 5 YC companies yet...
There isn't. User submitted is horrible. Most of the sites visitors are people uploading/sharing images normally via direct linking.
I'd have gone with something more whimsical, like perhaps:

"Maarkdown: the extra 'a' is for 'actively maintained'."

"Marrkdown: the extra 'r' is for 're-specified'."

"Mnarkdown: the silent 'n' is a mnemonic for 'non-ambiguous'."
I don't know. It seems like "Standard Markdown" was created out of love for Markdown (2 years of work..) and wanting to create a solid, standardized foundation for it for the future. No matter what they called it, I bet it would have been called out as an ownership grab because the core of what they're doing: formalizing Markdown, something not created by them and something that the creator clearly doesn't want formalized.

But it's pretty clear that there's a need for it at this point.. the amount of work and coordination that went into it almost proves the point. The fact that it's used everywhere certainly does.

It can be pretty hard to do the right thing in a lot of cases without ruffling some feathers. That's how I see this whole situation.
Reddit can live without imgur, and has lived without imgur. Its imgur who still needs reddit.
The IT industry is full of crotchety neckbeards with chips on their shoulders who need to be tiptoed around, generally with good reason because when others participate in the work they have created, they feel devalued and lash out. An apology would never serve to satisfy because there is an inherent criticism underneath all this implying that Grubers initial work was less than perfect. That's what he's probably actually angry about, not the mecanics of the process for coming up with a less inconsistent and better defined standard.

Failing to reply to Jeff's emails is standard passive-aggressive behavior for people like this. It puts him in a position to shout about how he has been wronged.
In the light of recent events, I have some name idea suggestions:

* Showdown Markdown
* Mutiny Markdown
* Post Markdown
Gruber knew this was coming for years (http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-future-of-markdown/) and had repeatedly made it clear he dislikes the idea and won't approve. Waiting for Gruber to do something regarding Markdown is an exercise in futility.
Within the past couple of months, I believe. Speculation at the time was that this was fallout from Facebook devops trying to port Whatsapp to run on Facebook's systems.
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I think those are two different issues. Gruber has a legal and moral right to ask the Common Markdown maintainers to change names. The easiest thing is just to not have a name with Markdown in it.

I don't disagree that it is still mostly Markdown. I do understand the Gruber complaint about it not being a strict superset. I see it as similar to C/C++. Not all C code is valid C++ code--they have diverged. No one would deny that they have a very closely shared heritage.
This article hits on some good points, but it conflates two separate issues:

1. The quality of education at Ivy League schools isn't living up to the hype (and cost) of their "brand".

2. Fraternities are a destructive force in the lives of college students.

I actually agree with both points, but they are, in fact, unrelated to each other.
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Couldn't you just compile these functions with optimization turned off, in a separate binary or something?
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Thanks for the reference. It looks like SequenceMatch is "cubic time in the worst case and quadratic time in the expected case". Did you notice any performance issues as kouio scaled?
The CommonMarkdown team say they've been working on this for 2 years, but only sent the current name to Gruber two weeks ago - When he didn't reply, they pushed forward anyway.

That's a bit misleading. Jeff has been known to rant about Markdown since at least 2009 [1] and decided to do something about it in 2012 [2].

John was contacted at that time. The idea was the following:

I'd really prefer not to fork the language; I'd much rather collectively help carry the banner of Markdown forward into the future, with the blessing of John Gruber and in collaboration with other popular sites that use Markdown.

That did not happen, so they went ahead on their own. Of course I have no idea what John's private reactions were and if that discussion involved naming issues, but this did not come out of the blue.

[1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/responsible-open-source-code-pa...

[2] http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-future-of-markdown/
Can't you just cast it to a `volatile uint8_t *` at some later point when you need to ensure that we've zeroed the memory?
Great question. I didn't come across any explanation for this, but I did dig up some other names for cotton candy around the world:

France: Barbe a papa ("Papa's beard")

Greece: μαλλιά γριά του ("old lady's hair")

Great Britain: Candy floss
If you are involved in startups, you should have other friends and acquaintances who are running startups. Some of them will be funded and you will at most be one or two steps away from a billionaire like Thiel. You should have these friends not because of money but because you need people who have similar struggles as you.

As for the $1m thing. $1m today will barely allow someone to retire above the poverty line. You may be surprised how much money exists in just a few blocks of a non-descript town. $1m was also the number Warren Buffet started investing with, raised from other friends and neighbors.
I've seen this in iOS code. I think it's partly because MVC gets pushed so hard. For a new programmer, it seems as if the code has to fall in to one of those three buckets. Views and view controllers change pretty frequently so there's only one place left.
I do find it mildly interesting that both the CTO and National Coordinator for Health IT roles recently went to females for the first time. Both are incredibly deserving on their own merit, and I can't wait for the time when this isn't the first thing to be mentioned.
Thanks for pointing out Gingko - it looks like it could have the right mix of features that I miss in Workflowy, i.e. going beyond lists/outlines and having richer content in leaf nodes. Excited to try it out!
Python is installed by default on most linux distros, from my experience it is rare if ruby is pre-installed.

Python in my opinion is easier to write, and reading it is usually like reading plain english.

Python has a much larger community/ecosystem than ruby outside of web frameworks (rails kills django in popularity).
Which does nothing for memory which has been freed but not reallocated.
My startup, stool.io, provides on-demand stool for these types of transplants. We hope to become Instacart for fecal material.

A lot of investors initially told me that stool.io was a crappy idea, but thanks to growing acceptance of fecal transplants, we recently raised a small seed round.
Like a contemporary version of:
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I don't mean to derail these comments further from the OP, but I'm glad you brought this up. I really wish Houzz would find a way to make money off product placements and start pumping it. 99% of the time when I see a room of interest the first question I have is "what is that?" (material/colour/brand) and "where can I find it?".
Perhaps it was more a case of accuracy for what we were looking at at the time then :-)

It's something we run out of band on a subset of our data, so it's never been performance critical.
I don't think there was much. There were a couple grumpy tweets exchanged and blog posts written. But from reading Atwood's own posts on the subject, the timeline appears to run: complain Markdown needs a standard; learn Gruber isn't enthusiastic about that; work on a standard in secret for two years anyway; at the end of the two years let him know that you plan to release it (and I'm really curious what was said here, because if he'd said no after they'd put in two years, what was the plan, exactly?); take his failure to respond to your (apparently single) email in two weeks as implicit permission; go ahead and do it anyway; propose a new slightly-changed name when a shitstorm erupts; take Gruber's failure to respond to email about the name change in a single day as implicit approval.

I'm down with the idea of developers getting together and forming a common standard for Markdown implementations if they want to do so, but Atwood & Company have consciously and deliberately thumbed their nose at Gruber through this whole process. They could have just called it "Plain Text Markup" and explained in the first paragraph that yes, it's Markdown with all the ambiguities taken out. Hell, they could have called it "PTM: The Standardized Markdown Specification." They could have even called it "Pandoc-Flavored Markdown," which AFAICT is (mostly) what it is. But "Standard Markdown" came across as we are taking control of Markdown over your objections and the way they developed and announced it greatly amplifies that reading. I'm not convinced "Common Markdown" is much of an improvement, and the "Well, we're pretty sure this will make John happy even though we didn't actually wait for his response" definitely doesn't help.