skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a particularly shortsighted gambit, too, since native applications still beat the pants off of any JS web-based implementation for all but the most trivial of applications. Even very popular web apps these days are less efficient than the (native) applications and servers that back them, where the majority of real work by the computer is done, and arguably are less efficient and more clunky (to both use and maintain) than corresponding native front-ends would be. Until/unless browsers actually have capabilities that rival VMs in some sense and are used as such, it will remain that way.
Thanks for the replies.

Did you ask for 50/50 or what? how did that discussion go for you?
Typical cynical Internet bullshit. This article is right at home on Hacker News, where everybody rushes to uncover the negative points hiding in every positive story.

Your life is what you make of it! Maybe travel does expand your horizons, your mind, your sense of the world in general. Maybe it's just an excuse to take lots of drugs and get laid.

Who the fuck cares? The vast majority of people I know who have travelled are not narcissists. And if some of them were, well, the world's a big place. That's kind of the point.
> There's John Gruber's original syntax, and there are dozens if not hundreds of variants.

All of the variants exist due to the many undefined edge cases in the original syntax, and not further development by Gruber to 'officially' resolve ambiguities. Some of them became their own standards (e.g. MultiMarkdown) others just became undocumented behaviours of certain Markdown parsers and/or generators when handling edge-cases with no defined 'official' way to handle them.

> When some enterprising people declared they had created "Standard Markdown" the original author got very upset:

This seems to have more to do with the name being 'Standard Markdown' and seeing it as an attempt to usurp 'ownership' of the 'Markdown' name. Said author didn't flip out over variants like MultiMarkdown.

> Markdown does not have standards, it's just a collection of base formatting conventions a lot of people like.

The efforts of people to standardize it are efforts to resolve this idea, and make Markdown more formal.
Pensions were underfunded. If you underfund your own 401k, that's on you. The pensioned people were told they didn't need to save for retirement because they had a pension, and so many of them didn't.
I don't think the implication that a reasonable person cannot often (not always) speak with high confidence about people we "know nothing about" is fair. Sometimes those reasonable conclusions will concur with the rabid mob, other times it won't.

It's not right when people unjustifiably get socially lynched by the mob and it happens often. However, many successful people really are sociopaths --- which might be expected from a person who puts success before anything else --- and I don't think anyone ought to give up forming opinions on anyone else just because the mob often gets it wrong or because we don't know every detail of the lives of the accused. If that weren't the case then we couldn't pass judgement on many of the people we "obviously" want to (despots, etc).

(And disagreement, in particular defending tech executives, is not socially indefensible, defending sexism is).
Not really. Had the colonists had better representation in parliament then the case for separation would have been non-existent, but as it stood even Burke, who famously opposed the French Revolution, thought they had a point.
You'll probably end up with each guy trying to find the best girl he can, and each girl trying to find the best guy she can... Evolution proved it to work :) We should concentrate instead on removing impediments to this, such as arranged marriages, rapes and accidental pregnancies... Contraception is helpful on the latter...
Maybe "mean people fail".... within the YC ecosystem, because it is so dependent on networking and relationships.

Not so true in the wider software world.
I do have a Facebook account, but I'm not interested in using it here just to save. So, another vote for a cookie.
You have to act nice when you’re the underdog.

But being mean sometimes pays when you’re the big dog, and that’s when people show their true colors.
Going to resorts and fancy hotels is expensive. Traveling is not. Most people I meet traveling including myself are spending way less money than they do at home.
Andromeda Strain is the greatest Debugging tutorial
> most big users (who wrote the spec!) aren't actually using CommonMark anyway.

I'd say this is partially due to inertial. Reddit and StackExchange for example, have communities that have been writing in their variants of Markdown for years at this point.
I think the U.S. was also founded on the idea that revolutions are exceptional events.
Was going to say the same thing. :) With a perfect illustration: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmjowqmCYAEgFFX.png
That's fair, but it's not just about whether people are doing it. It's about how they present what they are doing.
Putting other people down in order for you to feel better or above them is also narcissism.

I am Spanish, learned Mandarin, Japanese, German , a little Russian and lived in other countries so much that I feel like at home in lots of places, have friends there too.

When you travel, you change your way of thinking about others and about you. It is not only beautiful, it also makes you feel bad when you see the web of interest that rule the world, when you see corruption, or extreme poverty, or people dying.

When something happens, like Ukraine, or Japan defaulting on their debt or whatever I could talk to someone in Skype and get a better picture from there that just any mass media that has a completely different set of interest than the people living there.

There is no way you could understand the world just speaking your native language.

But it is not for everybody, if someone wants to spend their money to see Great Pyramid of Giza and return to home, good for them.
It could be related to this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworld...
The very short answer is that they of course didn't. It's utter nonsense. I was around in those days, worked on Mozilla and Nutscrape etc. Back in the day there were many browsers, all spun off the Spyglass original code, the internet was pre javascript and it was a very different place. Then the browser wars started, there was Netscape and IE and others, back then it was viable for individuals to actually make a competitive browser, but over time they got to be big complex pieces of code, basically a VM. Security became a big deal and the open source movement built the best browsers, Mozilla, Phoenix and Firefox ten years ago. Microsoft tried to get the Internet to come to it rather than the other way round, just as companies like AOL did. They tried to add proprietary technology to lock in the internet to their Windows platform. Can't really blame them for that, but meanwhile every user on the planet was free to install any other browser they wanted. Just because they didn't isn't Microsoft's fault. They didn't prevent you doing so.

These days the internet has shifted from the desktop to laptops to mobile phones and tablets where Apple and Google have the lock in as Microsoft did. Apple allow other browsers provided they don't want fast javascript. Yet nobody's accusing Apple of holding up the internet.

The main things that really did hold back the internet was bandwidth, it was/is the phone and cable companies because they really do have a stranglehold on their customers.

Others here have suggested microsoft tried to stop others from innovating. Again, total bullshit, they forced exactly nobody to use their software.

I am no fan of MSFT, I haven't used their products in years, but someone who was around then really needs to set the story straight.
Mailing lists.

I subscribe to the Debian security advisory mailing list, and when new updates are released I ensure all that are appropriate are updated upon my systems.

I also use an RSS to XMPP gateway so that that the RSS feeds of Debian, Ubuntu, *BSD, etc are posted to an internal chatroom. Generally automated updates are applied every day, but sometimes it is nice to do them immediately.

(I also pay attention to oss-security, full-disclosure, etc, etc, but these tend to be less useful.)
I understand your point of view, but given the city is not a corporation but an entity that is supposed to provide basic municipal services to all of its citizens, services which it has struggled to provide due to a disastrous financial situation, I can't really agree with it. Detroit has struggled to provide such services for years now and just recently emerged from bankruptcy proceedings. It's not really in a position to just take what it can get when police, fire, and EMS response times are well above the national average and public transit can't meet its posted schedules.

From what I read in the article, at the very least Detroit needs to do a lot better job at communicating what is owed by property owners and working with them on payment plans. If the property owner can't pay, then Detroit should get whatever it can out of the property however the government sees fit.
Easy Listening
Which they could have taken to the auction. Who knows? Maybe they could have paid it off for only $5k.
401ks put the burden of investing wisely- and tightening your belt during recessions- on the pensioner and not the employer. This is bad in many ways, but, they are at least immune from the problem of crooked and moronic administrators investing in rare coins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coingate_scandal) and sticking taxpayers with the fallout forever. It would be funnier if it wasn't so regular an occurrence.
This is oft-repeated but wrong. Sure, there was no innovation in IE, but innovation elsewhere on the web never slowed down. Even when IE dominated the browser market, browsers like Opera kept developing new features. Opera in the late 90s had features that I still don't see in most browsers today.

Now, those other browsers were less popular for a while, but let's not conflate "widespread use" with "innovation".
The problem with that is these people planned for what was promised to them.

As a younger person in a skilled occupation, like most HNers I expect, I have no expectation on the state to provide for me and consequently have my own provisions for retirement savings. I've been placing a percentage of my income aside for a while now to fund me later in life.

My grandparent's generation (in the UK) however were promised state pensions. They paid higher taxes than I currently do for this, secure in the knowledge that when they retired the state would cover them. They don't have any retirement savings.

You can't just pull out the cover for these people, because they have no backup. They were told they'd be covered and they planned for that.
I think it's absolutely appropriate for people to complain about free riders on CC licenses. It's pretty clear that most people who use CC licenses mean to promote creative reuse of their works by the broader creative community. An implicit, if not legally mandated, requirement for reuse in many cases is that you add something to the work.

Clearly, just selling prints en mass is mechanical enough that it fails to meet many people's personal threshold for what constitutes a creative addition. But practically speaking, it's impossible to add a legal definition of "creative addition" without just creating an explicit list of creative augmentations. Such a formulation would necessarily defeat any novel creative forms, and so such a formulation is antithetical to the ideals behind Creative Commons. So, enforcement must be relegated to the realm of social norms.

That's what's going on here. Creators are saying Yahoo are being jerks for using using their works in a way that meet the letter of the license, but not the spirit.
Not trying to get all hippie dippie or existential but I think your personality is strongly influenced by your environment so 'being yourself' you're talking about is just one 'version' of yourself.

There's a genetic component for sure... but environment is huge I think.

Indeed the definition of human growth is built upon changing yourself and exposing yourself to novel situations/environments and stress-ors where you have to become a 'new version' of yourself..whether more competent, more wary, more upbeat, more physically capable, etc. in order to overcome the challenges.

However, I don't think you have to travel to Costa Rica and stay in a eco-friendly yurt in a rainforest for this.

Just somewhere significantly far away where you don't have to maintain any sort of status quo. Pittsburg is as good as Paris in this regard.
It's worth remembering that a lot of people in the tech community are also evil.
Ruby Symbols Are Not Lisp Symbols
What makes you think there's such thing as a single "yourself"?
> bringing down companies like Netscape

To be fair, Netscape Navigator could be a real POS, and IE 5/6 were actually leaps forward at the time. The real problem was Microsoft killing off all competition and then, having won the Browser Wars, disbanding the IE development team, leaving IE to stagnate.

Other issues:

- Killing off competition made it so that the browser landscape on other platforms was barren.

- MS having a separate version of IE for Mac that was a completely separate codebase with it's own set of bugs/quirks also didn't help with the browser as an OS agnostic platform.

- IE's lack of standards compliance paired with it's "still work even with HTML horribly broken" also had a hand in things. E.g. for years a good portion of the Internet was delivered as broken HTML because it "worked in IE" and other browsers were "broken" because they were more strict about the standards.
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Your first sentence doesn't exactly make your case more believable.
Building RocksDB for IBM's Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer
That's why creative commons share-alike exists. [1] Basically, you can use this freely as long as it's not for commercial purposes, and if you remix it in any way, then the result must be shared under the same license.

It solves the dilemma pretty well I think.

[1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
The price list is great, thanks! Can you add the cost of the domain with whois protection included?
Live Q&A with the Creator of Google Glass Tom Chi
So you think there is no value?
Why would that be in any way good? If someone can't manage to pull together $500 to buy the house they already live in, they also can't pull together $500 to fix anything that breaks in the house. Giving these houses to the people living in them is EXACTLY the same as encouraging people to live in houses that we know are not going to be maintained, and have them evicted in a few years, leaving the city with the cost of condemning and tearing down the house.
The problem with the last two proofs is that they move the question to "the demon must be able to predict the future, then say the prediction, and then have that prediction be true".

The demon might see that you will watch TV, but if it says that you will listen to the radio. If it sees both of those, even if it says something that becomes false, that doesn't mean the demon couldn't see the future or doesn't see the future. It merely means that the demon cannot accurately manifest the information.

Similarly, in the paradoxical question before, it makes the assumption that demon is honest; that it answering the question incorrectly is tantamount to it having predicted incorrectly. To me it seems clear that the constraint that the demon must be only honest and must transfer the knowledge into the system it is predicting the state of without changing the state is utterly silly.
Body language, the power is in the palm of your hands
The upside for a flipped home in Detroit is about zero. There's a reason these homes are (barely) selling for $500. And buying a home for that and booting granny is a lot cheaper than building granny a new apartment. Not sure where the eight figure upside is going to come from.
I would say that they get bored, and where they were willing to put in effort (which all relationships require) at the beginning, they aren't now.

Which again, isn't surprising. Even people who get married and think they'll be together for the rest of their life get bored and leave about half the time.

I think that the trend is towards shorter, less emotional relationships, because nobody wants to get serious; everyone wants to have fun. Nothing that's not fun is worth doing.

Who knows, maybe the next Tinder will be more like Uber.
Are you kidding me? Why isn't this a thing:

He had made a previous purchase in the yearly tax foreclosure auction.
His coup turned less appealing as he was confronted with the reality of
removing the owner and then-occupant from her home. Goldenberg sold the
house back to its occupant for the bargain price of $7,000 – twice what
he had paid for it, but half what she had owed in property taxes.

Meaning why isn't there a protection agency or service that buys houses from these foreclosure auctions and sells them back to their owners at a bargain???
Hacked up a chart of the locations - http://goo.gl/f8cVWO

Unsurprisingly, San francisco has a lot of Githubbers.
Yea, I remember it also affecting Opera.
Microsoft tied browser development to OS development. After Windows XP (Oct 2001) they didn't release an OS until Vista (Jan 2007). Things far, far more important to Microsoft's overall strategy than HTML parsing stalled during that gap.
Setting aside the specific ethics or lack of ethics of Uber, any successful "disruptive" business (as most successful startups are, and what many members of this forum seem to be aspiring to be) by definition destroys or at least diminishes the status-quo. It is very rare for a business to tap a truly green field market, where if successful they will not be diverting market share from established players. That is not being "mean." Uber is not primarily motivated to put traditional taxi companies out of business, or to put taxi drivers on the unemployment roles, though that may be a side effect of what they are trying to accomplish. Uber did not set out with an objective of destroying traditional taxi companies, they set out to provide a better implementation of that service. Calling this "mean" is like calling the winning team in a football game "mean" because they won. Well. That's the point. They set out to win the game. And it's very unlikely that those on the winning team don't have empathy for their counterparts on the losing team, because they have all been there from time to time. The goal is to win. That this means the other team loses is not the goal. It's a fine distinction in some cases, but an important one if you are going to start throwing around words like "mean." Being better than a competitor is not being "mean."
People often criticize "defined benefit plans" like pensions, where the employee is guaranteed a certain pension payment by the employer. This guarantee means that the employer, rather than the the employee, takes on most of the market risk. Employees (via e.g. unions) often push for pension guarantees that are likely to exceed realistic market returns, further increasing risk to the employer (as has happened in many municipalities in the US). Politicians who are here today, gone in 20 years, are sometimes incentivized to provide expanded pension guarantees (to make employees happy today) without adjusting funding (to keep taxpayers happy today).

Defined contribution plans like 401(k)s, which have become much more popular in the past 20 or 30 years, move the risk to the employee -- nobody is guaranteeing anything, and your fortunes move with the market. Obviously there are downsides, but one of the big upsides is that it keeps everyone honest by forcing employers to fund plans today as needed (e.g. 401(k) matching is not a hypothetical cost to be faced in 20 years, it's something that must be paid out today).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defined_benefit_pension_plan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defined_contribution_plan
What happens when I add a new value that's "much longer"?
Okay thanks Detaro!
I like this one
http://sonetin.com/humans.txt
The "I" can't be "T" because the regex on the bottom (.(\sSAI).*) forces it to be "I".
Rarely a 'remake' feels adding details without compromising the original groove.
Haha, the psychology of the 'self' is very very interesting and a little scary.

Do you think all of your thoughts are 'completely original' and created by you?

Or do you think that most of your thoughts stem from things you have experienced in the direct environment of your life and your overall personality,goals,likes and dislikes are built upon these thoughts and experiences? And therefore by changing your environment and experiences you would be a completely different version of yourself?

What if you were born to a Saudi Arabian family? What are the chances you would be a Muslim, possibly signifigantly conservative, you wouldn't like the TV shows and music you currently like, your goals would be drastically different because the culture has different socially sanctioned versions of success, etc.....

How much of you is really 'you'? Where does the idea of 'you' begin and where does the surrounding world stop?
Alternatives: asciidoc.

Maps easily to docbook, and has a heap of extra features.
The problem is not having a job when you return from South America. Most people can't simply expect to get a decent job in a reasonable amount of time.
What do all the controls in an aeroplane cockpit do?
It wasn't short sighted. It very effectively hobbled a competing ecosystem. They did hold the web back by 6 or 7 years and if they hadn't done their best to kill it in its crib then web apps would be 6 or 7 years better than they are now. (Look at the progress since Mozilla broke their stranglehold, it led directly to the iPhone amongst other things)

Its very hard for people to contemplate hypotheticals though (Taleb discusses this in Fooled by Randomness) so they got way with it.
Url changed from http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ebola-vaccine-..., which quotes from it without referencing it.
Exactly. The post is full of contradictions and the "Narcissism" he rails against is reeking throughout it.

And that word narcissism has become such an overused, cliche word for everything that ails society. It's used for all sorts of regular, predictable human behaviour when it's meant to be describing a much severe display of self importance and extreme selfishness. Simply talking about trips and posting pictures on facebook isn't narcissism. Technology has just enabled a form sharing to a wider audience that's been occurring for a very long time, the equivalent of sharing a photo album, is that narcissism?
Since when does something have to have a standard syntax to be a language? I mean, if you said "it's not a programming language" because it's not really executable in even a limited sense, I'd get that, but to say it's not a language -- a means of communicating information -- is just absurd. There's no standard BASIC, and there are almost certainly hundreds if not thousands of variants of it, but no one would say it's not a language because of that.
Forget Uber driver, what about a code monkey at some YC startup? I've seen the cable show "Undercover Boss" a handful of times and they manage to sneak in company founders with some minimal, reasonable makeup techniques.

Imagine pg entering some RoR shop (or better, Clojure) and getting his code reviewed by a CTO who's a few years out of college.
Nice job! I'm actually in the middle of adding domains to techendo! (shameless plug: https://www.techendo.com/)

I'm so happy to see other people adding reviews to figure out the best tools/services/software to use. Hit me up if I can help out in any way. :)