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Converting HTML to Markdown with Upmark

  • Written by Josh Bassett, Data Platform Technical Lead, The Conversation
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Here at The Conversation we run a Job Board that requires parsing a whole bunch of job descriptions in HTML and converting them to Markdown. When we originally built the Job Board we looked around for a HTML to Markdown converter library written in Ruby but unfortunately we couldn’t find one, so we built our own: Upmark.

Upmark allows you to...

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Full response from Jacqui Lambie

  • Written by Sunanda Creagh, Editor, The Conversation

In relation to this FactCheck on pensioners and poverty, Senator Jacqui Lambie told The Conversation:

A well known and widely reported OECD Study - Pensions at a Glance 2015 - found that more than one-third of Australian pensioners are living below the poverty line.

Parliamentary Library research I conducted when that report was released confirms...

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The off-topic Conversation #108

  • Written by Cory Zanoni, Community Manager, The Conversation

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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FactCheck Q A: are one in three age pensioners living under the poverty line?

  • Written by Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, UNSW, UNSW Australia
imageSenator Jacqui Lambie, speaking on Q&A.Q&A

The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by email.

Excerpt from Q&A, September 19, 2016.

We’ve got one-third of...

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