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Hi Martin! Thanks for dropping by.

> I personally don't think that a fork is viable, things are already hard enough as it is.

I don't think so either. Scholdoc as a fork was always intended to be a stop-gap measure to quickly test out ideas. Pandoc's use of relatively standard Parsec is easier to hack, and lots of other subsystems like citeproc remain crucial. Scholdoc changes Pandoc's AST, so any discussion of re-integration is going to be a non-starter until at least 2.0

For this kind of workflow to be viable, 95% of the required effort is not going to be on the syntax/converter anyways. The real hard work is still ahead.

> Scholarly markdown is a solution for 80% of use cases, people writing math-heavy texts are probably better of sticking with Latex.

I agree, except I also think that there can be a 80% situation for math. I work with a lot of applied mathematicians/electrical engineers, and the math system in Scholdoc is designed with them in mind.

I really think that the ultimate goal is to arrive at many good ways (of which this may be one) to produce semantically-relavant open interchange format such as JATS. I assume this is what PLOS is trying to achieve as well? I do know that several people at PLOS is vehemently opposed to Markdown and what it stands for.

> Scholarly markdown needs to be a community effort, I don't see any other way on how this can succeed

Definitely. The best we can hope for is to occasionally stir this pot once in a while and hopefully something will spontaneously nucleate once the time is right.
Like secure boot, it ultimately comes down to who has the keys.

If you generated the signing key and loaded it onto the hardware (or generated on-chip but it's signed by nothing else), then I don't see the problem.

If the hardware has a factory-generated private key that you cannot get at and the corresponding public key can be verified through some well known trust root, then a third party can ask you to attest to what software is running on your hardware and you cannot lie. This custom hasn't materialized yet, but it's not too hard to imagine it catching on after support winds its way up the software stack.

What are the specifics of your setup?
As government organisations typically do not compete with other organisations and are not driven by profits, the motivation for improvement is very unclear.
OP has managed to create a circular reference by guessing the next id.
Why not? Every luxury carmaker has had this level of highway autonomy for quite some time now - here's an example of an Infiniti where the (completely reckless) driver literally gets into the passenger's seat while the car is driving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY_zqEmKV1k

Most European automakers have systems with similar capability (Audi and Mercedes have systems that even work down to 0mph in traffic) but maintain a "one hand on the wheel" sensor to prevent stunts like this.

The purported "parking lot to parking lot" capability is what's really interesting, but it sounds like Tesla have no timeline to actually deploy it yet.
Note that I'm mostly talking about the five-star chefs who do global competitions, as far as "cooking alike" goes. Like the best singers have a "vocal range" so wide that it overlaps with a lot of the other best singers, the best chefs have a "culinary range" so wide that it overlaps with a lot of the other best chefs. Basically, a thousand-dollar meal in America doesn't look a lot different than a thousand-dollar meal in Pakistan or one in Norway, because if you're paying a thousand dollars for your meal, you're getting a chef who could make anything, and who has ordered their ingredients from everywhere.

That doesn't seem to be a very widely-applicable point, I admit. But my real argument is that this a point on a spectrum. Hole-in-the-wall short-order cooks are on one end, inventing new ethnic foods out of necessity. "Globally-ranked" chefs are on the other end, synthesizing together every style in the world and thus ending up with their own "cosmopolitan fusion cuisine" culture that doesn't really belong anywhere except within the space of a fancy lounge.

Between those points, most real chefs lie—not quite constrained to only cook with what's grown locally, but not quite free enough to bring together fresh ingredients from opposite ends of the earth on a whim. Western "home cooking" is precisely in the middle, in fact: a cuisine that sits on one end of the incentive-structure of the global shipping industry, cooking with whatever can cheaply be brought from wherever it was grown to a local chain grocery store.
This is truly beautiful! I have also been experimenting with building HTML pages that load all content from a BaaS provider. I can host a single static HTML page on S3 and include a login view and content editor view in the same file to let authenticated users make changes to the content that loads into the page for public users.

I was so impressed by your dashboard earlier, to read that you built it using the same techniques (empty page,populated by JSON) makes me really happy!
The idealist in me would like to think that this industry would allow a playful homage.
You can never have too many HN apps.
My understanding of economic inequality is not feeling upended by this wsj piece.
You don't really understand the distributed part of DDoS. I've had services taken down my attacks and when doing a post mortem we could see the increase in traffic, but when accounting for frequency, our office was still the main user.
I used to use this some years ago: http://smartertools.com/smarterstats/web-analytics-seo-softw... if you're on windows servers.
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Personally I'll take the 5 edge case crashes a (insert time period) over the 10,000 any day. Not know anything about autonomous vehicles, though, I wonder if the edge case wrecks tend to be less serious simply because the safest choice will always be made in time of doubt I would think.
Moreover, I'm not sure their argument makes sense even on its face. When they say they "comply with the law", which law do they mean? There are many thousands of lawmaking bodies. What if a small-town mayor passes a law outlawing the word "webinar"? What if China passes a law saying that DDOS protection is illegal worldwide? Or websites not properly registered with the Central Propaganda Department may not be carried by any network provider?

Cloudflare, I'm sure, will happily ignore any laws like that. The question is: why not ignore this too?
And this is why I generally avoid these discussions. Someone will ALWAYS find a way to say you are wrong even when you are making an error in their favor. And for the very very few people that do know the difference, when you explain why you do it the way you do, and they will get more money for it, they tend to appreciate it. Not all, but most.
Only cars made since late 2014: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/dual-motor-model-s-and-autop... , so most current Tesla owners would have to upgrade.

This announcement is quite bubbly, IMO. Many luxury automakers have had the capability for "highway autonomy" in the way Tesla seem to describe for several years now: see this reckless Infiniti driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY_zqEmKV1k .

The "parking lot to parking lot" capability would be truly interesting (as city driving presents a lot of interesting problems that aren't just "follow lines and traffic") but as there's no announced timeline for it, there's no sign Tesla are actually ahead of the numerous other automakers working on the same capability.
In my town someone has gone up and down the main road selling variously-colored LED light strips, and many businesses have used them to outline their windows, doors, trees, fences, etc. In many places, the LEDs are so bright you can barely see the name of the business at night -- which often is non-illuminated.
There’s no “they” here, the “US Government” isn’t “concerned” about anything, and the Comcast/TWC merger is at the mercy of an enormously complex political process/system, not some singularly acting Feds who can “see fit” to do one thing or another. Anthropomorphizing an institution as big as the US Federal Government is dangerous, because it easily leads to reasoning about institutions as if they were individual people, but such entities behave in entirely different ways than individuals.

Anyway, with that digression out of the way, if you want to understand the relationship between government regulators and telecommunications companies, I highly recommend Tim Wu’s book The Master Switch. Government regulation of telecommunications industries has often been contingent, contradictory, and somewhat chaotic (in the sense that small nudges lead to dramatic unpredictable changes).
> If it's possible for someone to be subscribed to your "newsletter" without having explicitly consented to doing so (and in the process proving ownership of the subscribing email address), you are sending spam.

A problem with this attitude is that most people have no idea whether or not they consented. Perhaps they consented in 2003 but don't remember. Perhaps they consented yesterday but want to revoke consent because they're too busy right now to read your newsletter. There's a reason why Gmail silently converts your spam report into an unsubscribe if the correct headers are set. Too many PEBCAK false positives.
> P.S. Considering the forum, I got a chuckle out of "rewrite DNS using viruses" -- I assume it's supposed to say DNA.

Damn it, I mistyped :) Yeah, DNA. Curse you HN and your short lived edit/delete window!
Ask HN: What kind of legal precautions I should take when doing freelance work?
I am working on a freelance project for a client and it is my first time doing it in a professional setting.
I want to invoice the client via my registered corp.

I was thinking if anyone can share any best practices for putting together contract, invoices, and any other legalese. Should I have a contract signed before beginning the work? I put together a list of milestones and had the client signed off on them via email. But should I put them in a contract of some sort?

This client and I agreed that half of the payment will be delivered after a certain number of milestones are met. And the other half of payment will be delivered after project completion. Should this be part of the contract?

Would appreciate if anyone can share some thoughts from their experience and perhaps any templates you have used before! My email is in my profile. Thanks!
Are video games dangerous?
mobile phones and apps, > 50% of which run an operating system, browser, and app store made by Google?
I've been looking for work for a while, but I won't even respond to solicitations or job board posts that so much as mention the cloud, agile or scrum.
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That is quite illegal.

Typically sidewalks are not uninterrupted planes of concrete, but are divided into squares so that in case there is sidewalk buckling, they have some give and don't break up the whole thing, plus repair is made easier.

So, usually the first two squares' width belong to the municipality, any others are property of the residence.

Here is a decent FAQ on parking in SF: http://www.excelsiorsf.org/district/parking_summit/summit_st...
Hate to rain on the parade, but the government should maybe deal with basic record retention before we look for it to enter the Information Age. We can't get at Lois Lerner's email, we can't get at the Secretary of State's? We're supposed to believe the White House didn't wonder why email to the Secretary of State wasn't going to a .gov address?

Information and the flow of information is power. So far I don't see much sign that this Administration is actually interested in handling that power in an accountable fashion.

Until we get that priority squared away, I'm not very interested in the bells and whistles.
Reminds me a lot of Pyongyang. Empty, wide roads, few people on the streets, and a whole lot of luxery facilities for the few well-connected.
I tried rust on this. https://github.com/tuxychandru/golang-challenge-rust/tree/ma...

It was shorter in LOC than my go version, mainly due to try!, but the lines themselves were longer. The one difference in correctness was that I forgot to close the files in Go, but RAII took care of it automatically in Rust.
Not to sound short but isn't this basically what nutrisystems has done for the last few decades?
I don't think it's too good to be true. They have over 2Tbps of unused inbound capacity (or at least they did in 2013, and probably more now), and their routers mitigate attacks at the boundary of their network.
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+1. A socialist solution for this is to get a group of friends together and take it in turns to cook a container of food for everyone in the group. Cheap, reduces cooking, and ensures not only healthy food but exactly what you want e.g. low GI, Gluten free, or whatever else floats your boat.
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A professional acknowledges the limitations of their expertise and recognizes when their part in a project is done. Good manners are to be admired. Interfering with a person hired to do a job out of ego is not necessarily good manners. Passive aggression is still aggression.
I regard video games as bad, because children who play video games are not playing outside, building fortresses out of the couch cushions, nor in many cases playing with other children.

It's important for children to play. Not so much to have fun, it's how they learn what they need to be adults someday. Watch the way kittens play with each other - they are learning how to hunt.
>nobody innovates because, without IP, you pay for the cost of R&D but "copycats" can steal the idea without paying.

This just isn't true. It's human nature to innovate, just as it is human nature to sing, play music and dance.

There are many times when the IP system is not only absent, but actively working against the creator, yet it doesn't stop the process of innovation. It just slows it down.

The government also innovates and foots the bill for R&D, and there is a good case to be made that the most valuable technological innovations in our society do actually come from them.
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Self-driving cars should come with insurance included, since accidents aren't the owners fault.
yes the milestones should definitely be part of the contract. It's usually spelled out in an attachment to the contract, but an attorney once explained to me that the entire contract includes all those exhibits.

If it's a big contract I recommend getting more than two paychecks. If it's small then that's OK. Consider what would happen to you if it took three extra months to satisfy that first deliverable; you might wind up on the street. But with more and smaller milestones, you at least have some money, even if you still underbid by three months.

Most of my experience has mostly been that a verbal agreement is completely cool, but I did get screwed a couple of times as a result. Note that a verbal agreement is still a contract, you could sue your client for failing to abide by it. The real problem with verbal agreements comes when you and your client don't agree as to what you verbal agreement actually was.

Don't ever sign a contract someone has just put in front of you. There are all manner of little ways you can get screwed. If someone just hands you a contract with the expectation that you're going to sign it on the spot, tell them that you're going to run it by your attorney - even if you don't really intend to - and that you'll make the decision later whether to sign it, or to offer an alternative.

If you disagree with specific portions of a contract, draw a rectangle around them, cross them out with a big "X" then initial next to the portion that you just crossed out. If you want to exhibit real bravado, if you are then satisfied, sign the contract then ask your client to sign as well.

Quite commonly they will sign without noticing what you just struck out.
The great firewall does already block this site, and I cannot view it now without turning on my VPN. Therefore this site is pretty useless to me currently, but someone has to fight the censorship. Maybe one day it will actually succeed?
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Can you be more specific about what you mean by "kerfuffle"? This is the same healthcare.gov that was/is sending PHI data to 3rd parties analytics and ad services (doubleclick, etc)?
Thanks :)

Actually, this lib needs root access in the computer. It is intended to be used as a module in MIG (Mozilla InvestiGator), which is an agent that lives in servers and can receive commands.. So it is mostly the same, I think, except that the commands shouldn't return detailed information to the main server, but just yes/no answers, for example: "Is any of my servers running a vulnerable OpenSSL Version?"

Link to Mozilla Blog Post: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/03/12/introducing-mas...

There's still a lot of work to do!
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Experienced embedded developer here as well.

For some reason I haven't had any trouble with the Beaglebone at all. A kernel driver is a kernel driver, and I2C bus is an I2C bus.

What specs on the BBB do you need, specifically, that are causing you trouble?
That's truly right, but I think most app I have used were too much complex, I don't need so many features when I reade hacker news on my phone, just with top/best news is ok :)
Could we block this in ISP?
> I'd argue that if an employer cares about...

I see this argument a lot and it does have some merit, but it ignores the fact there might be an idiot hiring manager standing between you and the job you want. Just because a company might hire a few bad apples doesn't mean they aren't worth working for, for pretty much the same reason a person can still be worth hiring, even if they make a lot of commits for something simple, etc.
Cable and fiber ISPs as they exist now, with the same company owning the wires and providing the service, are inevitably going to be natural monopolies, because of the massive start-up costs of entering the market combined with the trivial (near-zero) costs to the incumbent ISPs to add one more customer.

In that case, new companies have to lay new cables and provision new data centers and hire new people, whereas TWC only has to ship out a cable modem and allow access to pre-existing capacity.

One way around this would be to force TWC and Comcast and so on to divest themselves of the physical infrastructure up to their in-plant demarcation points, spin off new natural monopolies to only own the cables, and force those new companies to lease to all comers at the same low rate, with a managed X% profit spelled out in regulations. That way, an upstart would only have to provision new data centers and hire new people; that's still more than Comcast has to do, but it's a lot less than the current state of affairs.

This is related to Net Neutrality, in that the neutrality rules are more urgently needed as long as ISPs have unshakeable monopolies on a regional basis, but even if competition were more robust it would still make sense to ensure no ISP could become that predatory.
My point isn't that sugar is good. My point is that people are reasonable to be concerned about the health consequences of artificial sweeteners.
https://github.com/soajs
There are already a ruby client for ROS: http://wiki.ros.org/rosruby

However, I'm not aware of any significant ecosystem software written in it, so it's definitely of the experimental flavour.

That said, the ROS 2.0 plan is to build generic header interface to the standard client library so that the language support is a matter of generating bindings rather than reimplementing serialization code and so-on.
Interesting—thanks for the tip!
SpaceX takes that concept and turns it up to 11, expecting people to eat, breathe, and live their jobs. The last thing I would want is a firm dedicated to propagating these ideals.

On the other hand, if that's what you love it starts to not feel like work. In my experience getting that the match right is super difficult but perhaps that's what SpaceX is aiming for - not really looking for employees but members.
Opt-out, really? We shouldn't have to opt-out of something that shouldn't be happening in the first place.

The government shouldn't be inserting a 3rd-party -- Google -- into my communications with them!

As for this:

> ... and good analytics typically help save money through better decisions and focusing effort on what's actually being used.

Pffft. That's only true for startups whose sole goal is maximizing traffic/retention/whatever while absolutely minimizing the amount of creativity they expend on moving those "key performance metrics".
Mesosphere Announces HDFS on Mesos, Ready for Beta Testing
The xylitol doesn't taste good? Because I've considered doing that too.
Wow beautiful site, nice work to all involved! I found there's a good blog post about how it all works too: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-go... It's all static pages with JSON data pulled in from reporting services that use Node. Very cool!
Really the best thing to do is buy a used car from a private seller. You'll save the bulk of the depreciation which happens in the first couple of years. A contemporary used car that's two or three years or even 5 years old is still going to be very reliable and have a lot of life left. Insurance and probably registration will be much cheaper as well. I own three cars, the newest is is a 2004 and they are all extremely dependable.
Basically they're processes within the VM that the VM manipulate the native threads?

Are there any good books on this subject?

Thanks.
> Every time Elon Musk makes this kind of announcement

... he does it not because it is easy, but because it is hard!

For his engineers.

Not so much for him.
The scientist (or team) in question who creates the drug is almost never the one collecting the rents.

A researcher working for Pfizer is essentially getting the same deal as a researcher working for the government or a publicly funded university.

The main difference is that the government and publicly funded universities do not have a marketing line item on their budget that is ~120% of their R&D budget.
Yep, you're right. I didn't get that far in the article.
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"out the door" typically means bottom line... including all taxes, fees, etc.
I just noticed that the calligraphy responsively changes from vertical right-to-left to horizontal left-to-right even though it's an image. If you're reading on an iPad, you can check just by changing the orientation. Very cool attention to detail.
How reliable are Teslas compared to Mercedes S class?

Not that being more reliable than a luxury automobile is a huge achievement:

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2015/01/makes-expensive-car...