skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for reading it. That's exactly what it is meant to be. I don't feel like making every single contributor sign a CLA and manage the signed CLAs... I'd rather have that built into the licensing. And since I haven't found a license that does this, I decided to write one up. However, if such a license already exists, I'd love to see it. Would you know of any?
I assume the baseball thing was his requirement to sign off on this, or an attempt to placate him...
I'm not sure about the data source, but my query on my situation seems to be accurate (base salary was roughly matching).
Is this the same group of people he brought up on the recent episode of The Talk Show? The group that wanted to essentially take away the original credits (or something to that effect) from him?
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Mike, my friend John is quoted in a previous copy of your book and I think it is the coolest thing in the world. Is there any way I can give you a testimonial or something? Being in this book would mean the world for me.

Sorry for the ridiculous request but thought I would give it a shot! You never know unless you try.
So, CLR and Mono would be better?

PS: at least not the V8/Node.
We did -- no response to the current spec after a week of waiting for a reply.

A much earlier lengthy email response from Gruber around 11/2012 evaluated each of the changes Stack Overflow and GitHub made to Markdown one by one (there were some he agreed with) and essentially said "ambiguity is a feature" at the end.

We disagree about that.
If you sign up for NFL Replay, you can watch "the full 22" videos during the week. It's inexpensive. I hate that they don't show this view on regular broadcasts. It's such a big part of the game, to know what type of coverage the DBs are in when a play starts. To know whether the QB made a good read, you'd have to see the coverage on all of the receivers.
The dashboard isn't working for me
"if Google started abusing your information, people would stream away from them in droves and Google is more than aware of that"

I, like you, also get a daily email notice of what google is actually doing and planning, every morning. Larry also, sometimes, attaches sexy pics of himself. /sarc
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> I'm a "believer" in TGITP as you say it. It is not based on "blatant self-interest" but on moral principles (don't harm people, don't take their stuff, etc).

So how does that work when the government is the one preventing people from hurting people and taking their stuff?

How does that square with the fact you can hurt people and deprive them of things without doing the kind of stuff NAP fundamentalists rail against, if you've rigged the game in your favor? If I own the only employer in town, and I don't like your face, you're going to be pretty damned deprived unless you magically work up the wherewithal to move.

> You're distracting and not helping the discussion.

There is no discussion with the people I'm describing. They're utterly dogmatic and will ignore or twist anything you tell them so their worldview isn't challenged.
Since this seems to be happening to a lot of people in US, since the base stations attack everyone in range, I would think it's a pretty high security priority for both Google and Apple, and they should implement protections against this sort of attacks in their operating systems.
When was it ever in the news that something encrypted was compromised?
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It looks like the two-factor authentication email template is incomplete:

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Two Factor Authentication Added

Your account is protected by a second form of authentication. TFA tokens can be added to Authy or Google Authenticator app.

You will be asked for a token when logging in, [something], [something else too].
Thanks, this has been long coming and sorely needed.
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pure garbage
That's true, may be a slightly confusing way to interpret it, given that C = A∪B. In context I think it's better to read it as P(A|B), in the case that C occurs.
You could write properly encrypted data on a billboard in Times Square and it would still be secure.
Is there a formal grammar defined? I don't see one here. They mention peg-markdown which does use a formal grammar - or at least, multimarkdown does, which is the one I've looked at.

Here's the link to MultiMarkdown's grammar:

https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-4/blob/master/pars...

It's littered with implementation code, but with this stripped out it would make a good basis from which people can write parser generators from (that don't depend on the specific implementation details of MultiMarkdown's internal representation).

As far as I'm concerned, a formal definition should be an absolute requirement for any official spec. The "spec" as presented simply looks like a large collection of examples, informally specified in prose.

What's really needed is a grammar you can use for parser generators, corresponding to a schema for an object model.

It's late here, I may have missed something, so feel free to correct me if if this is the case ;)
Go for it. Time will prove which side is correct.
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I find the linked blog post more informative, personally.
If you can use the mobile's back camera like Structure Sensor does, it could even choose between VR and AR based on the app :)

Also if you later can use Google Tango with it, you'd even have both depth + color feeds for AR, not just color, which helps realism when you add 3D elements in it, or even simply to sneak parts of the real world into VR (like in youtu.be/fEiyzJDFiJI).

Natural interactions, realistic rendering, latency (and battery life :) are definitely the next big battlefields.
What makes you think this is a Cardboard partnership? Because you can put the phone inside? That's hardly been a first for Google. Also, you have to buy this phone to get the VR experience. Others allow you to use pretty much any ~5" phone.
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http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Reference/Dictionarie... Interesting comparison to other large volume reference websites.
How much luck plays into traction? Since the majority of IT landscape is controlled by few platforms (companies), a BD deal with the dominant player (tier 1 player) is all you need for the big pay day. This is where your connections, network and Influential VC investors can play a big role.

Remember, every decent startup has a good product. But not every one of them has the influential connections to make it as a success. Getting traction is not a fair game. In most scenarios it is a hustle.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=darpa+open+catalog#!/story/forever...
Actually, in practice I've seen totally opposite of what you mentioned. Companies do not want to reveal real salaries so they apply and report LOWER salaries than what it actually is and then when person joins they adjust it to be higher. This way company still complies with law but does not disclose real salary.
the codinghorror one is more interesting imho
The PERM_FY* excel files seem to include this data: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_...
I recently started a new job with a new language and did a few of these steps. The only one that has really helped me learn this codebase is "make something".

Making unit tests can be great if you already understand the language (and the IDE), but when you're new to xcode, dont expect a unit test to make any more sense than the code.

Pairing can be a great tool, if you are pairing with the right person. You can't always find the right programmer (with the time or care) to sit down and work with you like that.

I was certainly humbled by this process, whether by choice or not, and asked my share of dumb questions, but I don't think you can really understand a codebase until you work on it
People are lining up for an iPhone 6 that doesn't exist yet
I think this is great, I'm all for extending markdown for specific situations but I think the base h1, li, and p tags should be clearly defined. It appears that most parsers could adopt most of the spec without breaking backwards compatibility. (I'm probably wrong.)

There's an obvious annoyance with markdown like this, where a lack of a blank line after the headlines causes problems but only in a few parsers. I'm glad to see most of them do the right thing.

http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&text=%23+I...!
This would possibly be the perfect simulator. The player-created narrative hook - something the Sims had, for example, while SimCity didn't (as much) - is the secret sauce.

I'd buy it. I'll write for it, if anyone here makes it.
We've found great developers on oDesk.
"One can't live ones live today driven by an assumption that they'll be ruled by a totalitarian government in the future."

You may have heard it, but humans have this shit called "intelligence". It's some times used to predict future outcomes. (Yeah, I didn't believe this shit neither, the first time I heard about it. But please, do look it up online.)
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This works out to ~$4 per affected customer.

The issue is that they advertised other Verizon services to customers without giving them an option to opt-out. They effectively paid $4 per sales lead, and for leads to customers they already did business with, that's a pretty phenomenal deal considering the breadth of services they could then try to sell.

Figure 1/10 of those customers got a $10 monthly service and kept it for a year. That's $24m in revenue on a conservative estimate.
But why use basically the same name? If you want to make a fully specified version why not give a slightly different name instead of just "Standard X"?

Using (basically) the same name strikes me as somewhat hostile given the views Gruber has expressed, and likely to cause confusion to end users.
Agreed on every count. I love my Note II's size, flip cover, and battery life, and the Note 4 looks incredibly tempting. That said... a word of caution. I absolutely loved my Note II when I first upgraded from my iPhone 4 two years ago, and now I'm starting to despise it.

I rather suspect that Samsung is deliberately hobbling my Note II with Touchwiz iterations. The phone is drastically slower than it was when I bought it, despite reformats and careful management of open apps. The camera is no longer accessible from the lock screen and takes eons to open after unlocking. Once the camera app is loaded, I have to manually turn on HDR EVERY SINGLE TIME. And the pictures it takes are pretty terrible -- there seems to be terrible shutter lag, nearly all photos are now grainy and blurry, and many of the pictures I take are never saved to memory.

It's inexplicable. I love the phone's display and battery life, and it's still PERFECT for reading books and articles. But the camera and Touchwiz have just gotten crappier and crappier.

I'd love to upgrade to CyanogenMod, but unfortunately this is the international version of the Note II with a proprietary Exynos processor -- Samsung never released sufficient information for CyanogenMod to work properly. So I'm stuck with Touchwiz and a deliberately crippled phone.

For this reason alone, I think I'm switching back to Apple this fall. The iPhone camera is still best-in-class, and the camera app is SO fast to open and use. I just feel stupid paying a price premium for Apple when all Samsung needed to do was not cripple my camera.

Haha whoops. I started this post with the intention of praising the Note. My Note II WAS a perfect phablet for its era, but Samsung has deliberately or negligently crippled my once-beloved phone. Once the phablet iPhone is released and I find an iOS reader that compares to Android's Moon+ Reader, I have strong incentive to switch back to Apple.
What possible value can be derived from following 300K people in an hour? Well, beyond the technologically "cool" effect.
As a citizen the salaries are almost double my rate for same position/same company.
Using a geofence for LBT permissions ignores the fact that BLE is being used for its low power properties. If a LBT needs to trigger a GPS lookup, we're going backwards.
this web site ( http://visadoor.com/ ) has been blocked because it has been determined by Web Reputation Filters to be a security threat to your computer or the corporate network.

Indeed!
Author here: Awesome, let me know how it works for you and what would you improve.
Did you even read the article or is this just tolling? Or a bot?
Yeah, it was really jarring when I scrolled down. This one was a LOT worse than others that I've seen.
is there a similar web service for Canadian results, or even the raw data from the Government?
Yeah it is a beta :P.

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I vote for this one and not for the horror one.
You have mistake in translation to Polish. "Latency" should be translated as "Opóźnienie" not "Latencja", which means incubation period of viruses.
I remember listening, but wish I could find the episode again. Do you remember which one it was?
Paste this into your address bar, and press Ctrl-F5 to make it loop again.

data:text/html,<img src="http://d37rcl8t6g8sj5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/NO_GC.gif" /> <img src="http://d37rcl8t6g8sj5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/REF_COUNT_GC.gif" /> <img src="http://d37rcl8t6g8sj5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/MARK_SWEEP_GC.gif" /> <img src="http://d37rcl8t6g8sj5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/MARK_COMPACT_GC.gif" /> <img src="http://d37rcl8t6g8sj5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/COPY_GC.gif" />
vs. foldables, iteratees (assuming you know haskell:

http://conscientiousprogrammer.com/blog/2014/08/07/understan...

vs lens:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2cv6l4/clojures_tra...
I vote for using a different name.
TripleSec symmetric encryption library now in Python
Collecting data as a bot for some advertising scheme?
it feels more like being a cathedral or a ship builder from the 15th century. A mix of art and technique following requirement and plan much more loosely that today's precise construction of ship and bridges.
Full Disclosure: I am the 'Michael Bernstein' referenced in the OP.
I'm super excited that JGM (of Pandoc) is heading this and has some cooperation from Github and Reddit (both the largest users of Markdown that I'm familiar with). This is something I've hoped to happen for a long time.
It kind of sounds like you have disagreed over the same things for five years now, and finally got enough names on your side that you decided you didn't need to get agreement and could just take over the name.

Not cool.
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we use https://github.com/ahoward/sekrets at dojo4. love it.
The problem is that once Gruber embraced ambiguity and encouraged lots of people to make whatever they want and call it "Markdown," it's hard to say "no, no, you can't call this one specific thing Markdown."

IANAL.
I assumed it had something to do with not providing that information to the currently playing teams while they are currently playing, are teams allowed to have "spotters" up in the stands to get an overhead view?
down for me as well, messenger included
The closest Standard Markdown provides is the re2c "source" that gets converted: https://github.com/jgm/stmd/blob/master/src/scanners.re

I agree that a universal PEG would be great, perhaps this is the project to base that grammar on.
definitely raise that on http://talk.standardmarkdown.com
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Panic.
I believe it was the 2 parter with Marco Arment. Either this one: https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2014/07/19/ep-088 or this: https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2014/07/19/ep-089

Just several hours to sift through :)
Perhaps if you had finished with "sedentary lifestyle" or "consumption lifestyle" you wouldn't have been modded down so far? What do I know, I'm just another un-diagnosed aberrant.
Actually there is massive community in Twitter which follow back your requests very fast.

When you obtain their id's, this bug let you grown an account very fast.

Actually in this post, i want to point out the Twitter's kind move and how it leads really big bug.
Creating an account that now has 40k followers. Not sure what value there is in that... but someone might care.
Agreed completely, they're a mess.

Adafruit is working on a library for the SIM800, which they put on a board they call the "FONA": https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_FONA_Library https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-fona-mini-gsm-gprs-cellu...

Right now I think it just supports SMS and phone calls, but I'm hoping it eventually handles all the AT command nastiness for TCP/UDP connections and such.
Down for me, in the UK.
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It's the episode of The Talk Show with Marco Arment as a guest.
How about a minimal set of asciidoc markup that gives people whatever warm feeling they get out of markdown, but has the benefit of being pretty consistently specified, allowing you to set variables (like multimarkdown), and allowing you to create finished documents in the same style in which you created your scratch documents?

http://powerman.name/doc/asciidoc-compact.html

I'm probably tone-deaf on something here, because I simply don't understand the appeal of the format.

edit - asciidoc talk: https://plus.google.com/114112334290393746697/posts/CdXJt6hV...
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Down for me, in austria.
SVG performance degrades based on the amount of data that you are drawing. If you are rendering basic charts you will never run into any issues, if you are doing scatterplots with thousands of points or some other visualization with lots of separate nodes then you run into performance issues.

Canvas performance is limited by the size of the canvas, the larger the canvas, the more time it takes to redraw it.

SVG lets you tie into the DOM and DOM manipulation methods allowing for simple event interactions. Interactive canvas can be done but is more time consuming and difficult, though there are now canvas charting libraries that provide you with some basic "click" or even "hover" functionality.
But isn't the ambiguity what allows you to make your own version?

Edit: In case what I am writing is misunderstood, I am not trying to be snarky or negative. I am just curious.
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Markdown has outgrown Gruber's stewardship, "ambiguity is a feature" is not an opinion I can get behind. Calling this something other than markdown would be more confusing for end users. It is markdown, standardised.
Why? Crime always paid more to compensate the added risk.
A few years ago, my company was setting up a second office a few hours drive away. They wanted a replicated file share between the two offices. For the initial sync, they drove a NAS from the main office to the satellite. Then they had (openvpn-encrypted) rsyncs on a nightly basis.

But the ITAR directory on the NAS was never rsynced. Instead, they drove the files out there every week using a flash drive.

Seemed like a crazy policy to me, but after Heartbleed, who knows?
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+1. I hope that book publishing tools (leanpub for one) also subscribe to the standard once it's been formalized/ported.
It could be an add-on for Business class (where you have more space to move), similar to how it's standard to get audio headphones in planes. It could even have the additional position tracking camera embedded in the front seat to make tracking more accurate.

It wouldn't have to be wireless (because you're meant to stay in your seat anyway) so that would solve the battery issue, or even simpler to implement: the headset could just have an opening for the power coord and let the user use his own phone coord with the regular power outlet (that way he can choose between wireless or wired based on his battery level & expected usage duration, without having to replace the seats, so that save implementation costs).

As for being brought back to reality, this could be a solution: http://youtu.be/fEiyzJDFiJI
A fascinating thing about Highcharts is that they are located in a supertiny, remote town in Norway called Vik. Only 2900 live there. Highcharts employ 10 people + a few remote workers.

You can read about this tiny remote place on the founder's personal webpage here: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=no&sl=no&tl=en&u=h...
Not quite. BEAM implements a cooperative multitasking environment using reductions that are checked at function calls. In practice you will rarely write code that runs forever without calling a function or returning, but it's possible, especially if you use NIFs.

This will generally cause scheduler collapse and result in all sorts of weird problems, so in the most recent version of the BEAM, there's 'dirty scheduler' support so that you can work around that problem if you have native code that runs for a long time (> 1 ms).

A good primer on all of this is http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-erlang-does-....
Looks like it's down for everyone: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=facebook%20down&src=...
Down in the US as well.
When you're going to grandstand, you should have more content/paragraph ratio. What is this?
He's not telling them they can't — he's saying they shouldn't. Those are very different things.
Same thing here. I knew it that someone posted it already.
Lucky for these guys, they seem to have some pretty powerful names behind the project. I think this will go pretty far towards becoming the single standard that everyone references.
> But why use basically the same name?

Because it communicates the right thing to users >90% of the time. If you learn the language specified here and then go write some reddit comments or file a GitHub issue using that language, it will do what you expect.

The few places where it doesn't you probably don't have an intuition about anyway.

If you treat "markdown" as an improper word describing the language and not some sort of proper "brand name" that describes provenance, then what they describe here is "markdown".
facebook is down - probably the reason
if you want to read about 0.25 mg kg^-1, see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988577/
I don't doubt that the switching is quicker, but it's not that much quicker, and considering the frequency that the switch is needed whilst it's a nice feature it's not much of an advantage. How often are you going to be typing on a tablet and a PC at roughly the same time? Perhaps it's for people to get around the Internet firewalls in their workplace, but if the workplace rules are super draconian I doubt you'll be allowed your own gear anyway.

I am glad that Logitech are thinking of new features to add to their devices, but I resent such small improvements being seen as innovative and worthy of the HN front page. Is that really what innovation has come to, a bluetooth toggle switch? Are we really prepared to set the bar that low?
> During that podcast, Gruber encouraged that group to consider not calling what they were doing Markdown.

John Gruber's stance was a little stronger than this - he currently has a reasonable claim to the trademark Markdown, as a term he coined and popularized for this use. This group's use of the brand "Standard Markdown" to describe something the owner of "Markdown" disagrees with seems ill-advised. He's now forced to either try to push them off the name or effectively abandon the trademark to genericization.
I wonder if this has anything to do with it:

https://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown/issues/28
They are - in fact they can take photographs of it and bring it down to the benches: http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/football/0-t...

Apparently they have started replacing the physical photographs with Surface tablets as part of a sponsorship deal with Microsoft as well: http://blog.surface.com/2014/08/surface-ready-nfl-sidelines/
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