skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, of course not. While Markdown is plain text, it is a markup language with its own syntax. This syntax is parsed by tools to transform Markdown into other formats. As it happens, this is analogous to code: encoded as text with a specific syntax.

As such, "markdown editors" are for the most part text editors with syntax highlighting. The syntax is important because it encodes the user's intent beyond the raw text bytes. Just as with code editor's highlighters, we use them because it provides an immediate and useful visualization of our intent. "Why isn't my link highlighted? OH, missed that paren." "Why is everything italic? OH, fat-fingered the closing asterisk."

So while well-formatted Markdown happens to also be well-formatted plain-text, but that doesn't mean that good authoring tools aren't needed or helpful.
Have the courts ever ruled that you can market a series of magazines/etc called "_____ sucks"?

It's an interesting legal question, essentially arguing that adding the magic word "sucks" allows using trademarks to promote their site (perhaps even to advertise competing products).

The law is fluid, and nominative use is a fairly new legal idea. We're not going to settle the question here, but it will be interesting to see what the courts decide.
It’s 10 times easier to get a job at Goldman Sachs than at Google
Breakfast with the FT: Ray Kurzweil
In Atlanta... Just got our rejection notice.
I've never seen this before and I got to say that is really good. It makes me want to learn about linguistics in general, specially the part about how language determines the way people thing.
Rejected.
Was very confidant about an interview so I'm pretty taken back.
I like the concept. It reminds me of city-wide scavenger hunts/challenges in college that helped me learn a new city. Maybe that's one activity where a local/focused version would come in handy.
If you don't have an FT subscription you might not be able to see more than the headline. In that case just google the title, "Breakfast with the FT: Ray Kurzweil", and click on the link, which will let you get around the paywall.
Convert MP4 to DVD
Ambiguity and the Art of Meaning
Just received email...didn't make it :(
this should not be a show HN.
Got rejected. Is there any way to change their decision?
If I understand the system correctly, you can find my email address (for now) in my profile. If you can't see it, you will need to guide me.
It seems to me that most of these services are focused on marketing needs before usability. Free the data and we will build the interface that suits our needs.
Currently working on Pulse (www.pulseapp.co). We're building an anonymous communication platform for enterprises and organizations. Our goal and vision is to help improve company culture through means of open communication and internal transparency.

Just recently wrapped up development on the initial version of our mobile application (iOS and Android) and are testing it out in an open beta. Would love people's feedback/thoughts! :)
i truly hope if they say a date, they can send it out first thing in that day's morning. it is more rational to do that instead of dragging this all day. Or instead say a specific time. There really seems no reason to drag this.
> For really intense graphical applications, like games, there is never a resting period where you can afford to spend a frame or more of time collecting garbage.

Yeah, it's really interesting to hear graphics programmer's opinions on garbage collection. I forget if it was Jon Blow or Casey Muratori who said something like (paraphrasing): "The bottom line is that GC advocates just have different standards for performance."

And while not a GC related thing, but more a performance related one. I find it absurd that when I use the Windows computers at school it takes me upwards of 30 seconds to open a document in Word.
Doing the conversions, they want to flush 651,702,863 gallons of water per fish. That's nearly 4 billion gallons of water for 6 fish.
What I want to see is something like Texts[0] on the web. It's WYSIWYM, I can write Markdown and see the result instantly, or if you don't know markdown use the built in toolbar to format your text. No preview mode needed!

[0] http://texts.io
Show HN: Geek Typer - Code like in the movies
Jobless Recoveries
Interesting project. Could we chat? My email is on my profile page.
Head up!
I'm curious to see how many negative comments are allowed on this thread.
Ask HN: YC rejection
Just got rejected with http://www.appodeal.com/, mobile ad revenue optimizer.

I applied with the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdR_2AODciE&feature=youtu.be

Even though we are very close to break even and have a verified business model and growing fast, it did not work out.

I guess single founder is one of the reasons.

"adtech" I imagine, could be another reason.

May be I just did not do well on the video.

Anyway, would love to hear feedback from the community and will continue to grow the company.
Awesome site! Really really well done.
Show HN: PutsMail – Test your HTML emails before sending them
What sucks most of all are the concept and execution of gTLDs.
Ask HN: Who's Interviewing for YC Summer 2015?
Quick impressions of the new stuff in the Apple Store
Or possibly to increase the uptake of their projects at other large corporates: thereby increasing mindshare/developer goodwill. Don't tell me that Fb doesn't want to put up IBMs logo on the "who uses React" page
There is no real argument against it. ICANN is doing us all a favor through inflation. Soon there will be proportionally less squatting simply because there will be more to squat.

They're making a quick buck on the side. I say: all the power to them. The only ones bleeding are squatters.

Embrace the new TLDs! Go wild! Devaluate contemporary domain names! This is how we really hurt the parasites.
Can someone put the amount of water into perspective?
Thank you. Just sent you an e-mail. Would love to chat.
RMS has been pretty cut-and-dry about proprietary software. For instance, he won't use document types that encourage proprietary software use (even when free alternatives exist).

So to answer your question, if RMS was a staunch anti-terrorist advocate, and it was guaranteed that a percentage of organic farmers were terrorists, then it would be perfectly reasonable to pose that question.
Awesome books on this topic:

http://www.amazon.com/Commissar-Vanishes-Falsification-Photo...

http://www.amazon.com/Photo-Fakery-History-Deception-Manipul...
Apparently, not well enough, haha.
Anyway, it might be a good thing after all.
I wouldn't be surprised if they are eventually replaced for a system that's more of a search than anything.

There's no need to replace anything. Nobody[1] uses domain names any more to browse the web. That's what Google, the default browser home page, and the omni-bar is for. I don't know a single non-web-developer who uses domain names. Everybody just drops "facebook" or "google"(?!) in the search box that shows up when the browser opens.

1. Well, nobody except for a rounding error number of people who hang out in places like HN.
Well, let's also not forget that a big factor in Go's success is Google.

Google has much deeper pockets than Mozilla to build a language and infrastructure.
4 billion gallons of water to save 6 actual fish.
And even besides that, shareholders' ultimate interests are not served if their companies behave in ways that are destructive to the societies in which they live.

Unless the destruction occurs outside of the realm (spatial or temporal) of the shareholders, in which case the destruction can rightfully be modeled as an externality and ignored.

I don't know where this idea that "companies are required or expected to make as much profit as legally possible" came from

Started with Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

This was somewhat superseded by Shlensky v. Wrigley:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlensky_v._Wrigley

This in turn is arguably superseded by eBay v. Newmark:

http://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/sp...

Please stop enabling this behavior by spreading this incorrect and just plain wrong idea.

It's more dangerous to assume that corporations can be held to task than it is to assume that they are amoral profit-seeking entities. Only in the former case are you unpleasantly surprised if you're wrong.
Rejection @ 20:23 PT.
One of the last things YC cares about is your landing page. Yours is pretty good, don't sweat it.

Edit: To clarify, a good landing page is important but the other things like team, demo, video, and well written answers are more important IMO.
The leasing rate fluctuates, and if drivers can go drive for Uber and not have to lease a medallion, it's not going to help leasing rates.

If he was leasing for enough to service the debt, he wouldn't be looking for a bailout.

He sure figured out the American way, take a big risk, if you succeed call yourself a successful entrepreneur and job creator, if you fail blame the government.

I don't think he has any leverage, maybe there's some chaos in the yellow cab industry if the medallions get tied up in litigation, but I kind of doubt it.
Frankly speaking, this is my second rejection to YC.
In 2013 we applied as a team of 4 with a secure mobile instant messenger.

We did get an invitation to the interview, however did not pass it. I guess last time we did not convince them, the our team could execute. Official response from Paul, however, stated, that we lacked a well-done marketing plan.
the kid's living in his own nutshell, thinking how everyone else are sheeple. the author is coming from the US of A, thinking his own country's political setup is the 1 true way. meanwhile, singaporeans may or may not be interested in talking about politics, and perhaps not on youtube; perhaps they're not interested in discussing it with non-singaporeans. they do, however, vote.
Hey i really like what your working on, lets chat.
If you're "close to break even" that implies you're getting revenue somewhere. But your site says your product is free. So where is the money coming from?
rejected with https://scribie.com - Mturk for audio/video transcription. Have been working on it for 5 years now, 3 of which were a side project.
The key difference between a Developer and a Programmer
The only feedback you need is from your customers--everything else is just bullshit and navel-gazing. Unless pg or sama is going to cut your company a check (and your rejection suggests that they won't), their approval or acceptance shouldn't matter to you one iota. That you didn't get into YC doesn't matter, and doesn't reflect poorly on you or your business.

Get back to work. :)
We don't charge publishers.

Appodeal makes money by selling to direct advertisers in bulk at a higher rate. Basically we charge advertisers, rather than publishers.
Surely that would be invalidated along with the claim? Can you sue to reclaim your money?
Wait, how is that a useful way to think about this at all? Right now we are talking about six fish. In what way are they not at issue?
unique_ptr transfers ownership. No 2 threads can be working on the same object unless you go out of our way to cheat unique_ptr behavior.

Statically or at runtime guarantees don't buy me much. Regarding mutations, const and copy/move constructors give you want u want. Generally, all you need to do is have 1 thread create an std::unique_ptr<Class> object and pass it to the channel for other thread to pick it up.
Memory protection is not silly. Not being able to bypass memory protection (and therefore prohibiting all manner of debugging tools) is silly, and that is the appropriate analogy.

If a user correctly has permission to do a thing via a series of ugly hacks then there is no reason not to just let the user do the thing directly.
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I'm by no means in a position of power, but if I saw a company "come across my desk" that applied and got rejected by YC, that would still stand out to me as a unique company, because they tried. Especially if that company acknowledged the reasons they were rejected and what they learned from the rejection and what they'd change next. Good luck on your next step!
6 fish or green lawns. I'll have to think about it...
Thank you, really glad to hear that. Inboxed.
Honestly I don't remember how I ended up here but it turned out to be a very interesting (technically speaking) read.
Thank you. Its not a matter of do we spend 4 Billion gallons of water to save 6 fish. The point is a deeper question about the human race's resource consumption in the larger picture of things. Another facet of this is 'flushing' as if flushing in it of itself is some natural phenomena. In reality, its also a compromise between our need for reliable water and a natural watershed. Given how much water is going into animal based agriculture in California (not Almonds like so many people like to scape goat), it will be interesting to see if there is any real change in behavior from humans. For instance, there is this big push to reduce lawn watering and car washing, both things that are wasteful in a desert - but if we eat beef at every sitting, it might be just as much water consumption. There needs to be a comprehensive breakdown of individual/household water consumption where you can put in what you do/eat/where you live etc. This should be compared to top down approaches that are more common and then there should be a campaign/effort to dessiminate statistically based information that suggests where and why you should cut down on your resource consumption. It needs to be data driven.
Depends, can we include whitespace in on the action too?
Well, it took like 3 months to make it look like this.
First version was much worse. Luckily we had enough time to polish it up before public launch.
I don't know, they might hold the cure to cancer... We destroy our ecosystem at our own peril.

In this time of drought, this seems like a no-brainer, but I would rather spend water on fish in an actual river (where tens of millions of other creatures live) than for cattle or almonds.
50:1 is an appalling ratio.

We really do need to encourage gender diversity in our field!
This is very similar to the mediation tool Heyzap (YC W09) https://www.heyzap.com has.
Do late applications get late rejection email?
Well, I believe it is worth it to stop talking to customers and coding for a moment and try to analyze, why the heck you did not get approved to YC.

I'm not upset, actually it's a good thing that I don't have to give out 7% of my company for $15k. But nevertheless, worth it to analyze.
For some reasons this reminds me of the somewhat common hack of soldered together resistors attached to the parallel port used as a simple DAC. Anyone else who burned their fingers doing this?
MSDN in the title kind of gives it away...
Thinking about these actions in aggregate, it can be about losing X gazillion gallons of water to save a species, instead of 4B for 6 fish. I think the point is that these actions add up.
I also dropped out of a Math grad school PhD program to work as a programmer.

Instead of being a 40 year old postdoc permadjunct, I'm a 40 year old programmer that almost nobody wants to hire because of age discrimination. At least I earn a good salary, and can semi-retire or try to bootstrap a business.
I'm fairly certain they all get sent together. It would give late applications an advantage if they spent more time reviewing them.
When you go to apply.ycombinator.com does it say anything?
Working on Snappning (snappning.com - private beta iOS app), it's a mobile app to share your digital life through screenshots. Share and discover the best mobile content by user, app, or trending status.

Think of it as something between Instagram+Imgur+Pinterest built and optimized for discovering mobile app content.

Thesis is that screenshots are becoming a really exciting medium in of themselves, but search and discovery of mobile app content is really lacking across existing image sharing platforms.

Lots of early interest from app developers because of potential to drive app installs straight from the app using app metadata (i.e. including link to app store page) injected into every screenshot.

I'm looking for a mobile developer to join the ride btw...super passionate about screenshots as the next big medium and looking for help.
Rejected folks: when you go to https://apply.ycombinator.com/ does it say anything?
Rejected with https://brotherportal.org/ - a fraternity/sorority/collegiate organization management software and social network
Just the standard:
You created a startup application.
You submitted your application.

with no additional information (just to clarify) or nothing at all?
?
As another poster mentioned, one could easily imagine other uses for human remains.

Were I to pass away during early colonization of Mars I do believe I'd enjoy being the guest and course of honor at a proper wake.

At least they'll be able to properly criticize my taste!
This had as much to do with the quality of the displays as it did with the adapter. White, black, cyan and magenta all have significant contrast between them, and many machines with CGA were still hooked up to B&W and greenscreen monitors. If you'd designed your graphics around Mode 0 (the yellow, green, red, black one), it would look really terrible on a greenscreen. Even full colour displays (often TVs) would look miserable in the other colour modes, as they'd bleed much more than displays do now. The white/cyan/magenta/black was also really easy to build as a secondary palette for 16-colour EGA games. I remember a lot of the Sierra adventure games at the time offered a CGA mode, and while it never looked nearly as good as the EGA mode, it was at least playable.
Is 4 billion a lot? that's like 1/2 a day's flow of the Mississippi.

edit:

Ah, it looks like water there is around $1000, per acre foot. 12,000 acre feet, so 1.2 million. 200k per fish sounds pretty steep, but it looks like there are other benefits.

edit 2:

looks like Nestle pays about 30 bucks per acre foot. So that's only 60k per fish.
Yes single founder is definitely an issue for them,
However I am surprised they didn't even invite you to the interview. Are you currently in US? Could be a reason.

Anyway looks like you are doing great, if you ever want to do something together - let me know, I'd love to know more about how many people you guys have and for how long have you been operating etc.

I am getting a sense that you either should have a strong founders team or a lot of traction\revenue with an opportunity to become very big. In your case maybe having a team of people also "too late for YC", and you can become successful on your own.

I also heard that they don't like video made of pieces, who knows what some alumni might not like when he sees your application.

Regards,Alexandr
Alex@reviyou.com
Why is it worth it to analyze?

Again, they're not your customers.

If your goal is to get into YC, analyze. If your goal is to build a successful business, don't analyze. Anything else is masturbation.
The question is if that truth transcends well from broadcast media (i.e. Radio) to packet based, routed networks such as the Internet. Esp long term effects.
it's no longer 15k for 7%, isn't it? it's 120k

no sane developer would trade his idea he spent several months working on for just 15k, even if it's YC. That's not how investor's market is right now.
True. Hard to object.
Just to double check, are you from YC?
Standard. Nothing changed.
I got the rejection email for PressureNet. http://pressurenet.io

5th attempt. No problem, we'll keep going.
Here's my video that I submitted to YC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdR_2AODciE&feature=youtu.be

Might be useful for someone in the future.
Plas.io – Point cloud rendering in the browser
How  to Work in the U.S. Even If Your H1-B Visa Application Was Too Late
We've used easydns for more than a decade (yes, my new marketing people are trying to move us away from then, I'll fix that).

My experience with easydns is that they are like us. They care about their customers, they care about doing the right thing, and they do that even when it hurts.

Great company. Very slightly more expensive than the cheapest but they are definitely in the you get what you pay for category.
I did not get to interview. God talks, though.
Crystal and Elixir both borrow heavily from Ruby's syntax but neither is Ruby compatible. The parent comment I think just wants a faster implementation.

Though... I think their problem (slow tests) could be easily fixed by dropping factory girl. Fixtures while irritating are much faster and nicer for rails testing (once the suite gets big enough).
not us , reviyou.com :( unfortunately. Something to think about and reconsider
The worlds first Social Operating System rejected.. We know not everyone will understand it, frankly we don't care about rejection (not different then the hot blonde bombshell telling you no at the dance ;). Break it down add the fuel to the fire, burn the whole forest down! Power to the believers who will still keep grinding because of their visions to change the world!

www.notospy.com
If you pay off a house, all the rent money you collect after that is profit. If you pay off a medallion, all the rent money you collect after is profit. They are exactly the same.

When the banks started finding themselves the new owner of thousands of vacant real estate properties, they failed to manage them because they're a bank not a property management company.

The same thing could happen with medallions. When the banks start finding themselves owning thousands of medallions what makes you think they'll suddenly be interested in running a taxi company? They won't. They'll just let the medallions rot like they did the houses. When a medallion goes unmanaged the taxi it belongs to rots in the garage or gets liquidated. The drivers will go find other work or collect unemployment. There will be fewer taxis on the street. Pretty simple logic.
Oh, is it hooking certain critical functions related to file I/O? Thanks for the info!
Also even if you have a cofounder - it really matters for YC what your guys accomplished, strong technical experience doesn't matter much, i believe they are looking for stanford\mit grads or somebody with a strong\successful business experience so that they can make a safe bet.
It makes me sad that Idris is (explicitly) never going to be an industrial language - so many nice things in it.
I was not aware of that :)
Linus only endorses the course, but he doesn't teach any of the content.
another very active keyboard forum: https://geekhack.org/
The classic Mac text to speech used to have an Easter egg that said something like "I sure like being inside this fancy computer".
What's corrupt about FIFA? Genuinely curious as I don't really watch soccer.
Great points. The short term effect was costly, but was handled. But now the world knows that the capability exist and will start taking long term countermeasures. Thus the cost of developing GC has now to some degree been wasted.

But more scarily, the deployment showed that the method used worked (to some degree) and others will learn to implement similar tech. Thus the long term side effect is that more MITM tools will be developed and deployed.

This is the premise of cyberweapons: fairly ineffective, esp on long term against the intended target. But long term side effects is big since once deployed you hand over the knowledge about the weapon tech to others when deployed. Just like Stuxnet.
rewatching sitcoms and catching the jokes I missed from the first viewing