skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roughly 900 people have their cars already and they're up to about 200 per week going on the road. 400 per week by the end of the month.

I've only riden in it, but it's a blast. The full torque at any speed is crazy powerful. The amenities are way above any other luxury car on the market. It's in another class, really. Check teslamotorsclub.com for some other reviews.
FWIW, Anveo is pretty cheap for this sort of thing. You could even do your workflow without much custom work: http://anveo.com/consumer/features.asp?code=personalize_call

(Unaffiliated, just a customer.)
Browsers Need An Effective Update Process
Yea - great job! Hack 'n Jill was a fun time.
Luger isn't a brand, but rather the casing sizing.
It would do Microsoft a lot of good if the replacement for Ballmer wasn't a "lifer" at Microsoft.

If Sinofsky worked (successfully) somewhere else for a few years it should make him a stronger choice as CEO.
Elon Musk said some other versions of the Model S will debut next year. There is a lot of speculation that one of those versions is AWD.
The only thing ambiguous about it is most of it?
The OS is the new browser, Apps are the tabs
Is it really the smell of space, or the smell of a spacesuit surface after exposure to space?
Yeah people are trying to port clojure on LuaJIT..
It is possible.
I handle a lot of guns and that is a great analogy. We know that all we have to do is look for a ".php". But how many average people notice that type of stuff?

You're right that there are imprints on all rounds but seeing and remembering that is like getting a database error and remembering if it was Microsoft or MYSQL...You have to have a lot of experience and a keen memory.

So pretty much impossible.
I can't help but wonder if Forstall (Apple) and Sinofsky (MS) are two men who would have been strong, maybe even visionary leaders had they been allowed to reach the position of CEO at either company. I tend to feel that Jobs only made CEO because he had also been founder and ex-CEO, and had a certain cachet from that.
I guess Windows 8 is not selling that well. And it hasn't received very good reviews either.
There are too many layers in all doomed software, whether written in JS or AS3.

Subtle differences in implementations, you say? That is called the open web. Come on in, the water's fine. Pay no attention to the drowning plugins over in that cold corner...

/be
You may want to read "The Mythical Man Month".
tl;dr - This comment is worth reading in its entirety.
I actually wrote up a module a while ago, what it did was in ways similar to path:

>>> print SimpleFS('a').b.c

a/b/c

The bigger thing (and original purpose) was uses like this:

>>> root = SimpleFS("/")

>>> sda_size = root.sys.block.sda.size

>>> for fd in root.proc.self.fd:

... os.close(int(fd))

>>> root.var.log[sys.argv[0] + ".log"] += "Size of disk: %d" % sda_size
I'm surprised nobody has pointed this out, but the title really should be changed - he has not been charged, and is merely a 'person of interest', which is very different from saying that he is wanted.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/11/12/mcafee-be...
Fantastic! And totally in line with a TEDx talk I gave last month[1].

I wish you guys immense success!

1. http://christian.gen.co/2012/09/21/tedxsmu-hilltop-you-shoul...
Definition of a BigCo ...
I doubt if he will go to apple. He must be bound by non-compete agreements.
This is something we didn't get to at the hackathon. I agree that this is a feature that needs to be there. We plan on implementing a user system where people can save their poems and choose whether they're private or public. We don't really want to add more features than necessary though. Less is more and whatnot.
Many of the people I work with use Beyond Compare (http://www.scootersoftware.com/)

I use Meld, because it's available through my package manager (http://meldmerge.org/)
When you properly encrypt server passwords, they are not supposed to be decrypt-able. Whereas, this is supposed to be a two-way encryption as you need to access the raw data. Ergo, any form of encryption you can do can be easily undone and thus rendering your efforts moot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
Someone bring web crypto to WebRTC apps as soon as it's done.
It's not just Unicode either. I just mentioned EBCDIC because that particular regex has bit me before when I was translating perl scripts from Linux to zOS USS. Take a look at the code page for EBCDIC, you'll see quickly why it's a massive pain to sort through regexes like that.
I wish J Allard returns..
This is a pretty important cause.
We talked about doing this at my last job, and never did. When I read "...gives a small group of employees 2 weeks or ‘a limited amount of time’ to work on a project outside of their normal responsibilities at Apple", it made me think of the same attitude- the inability to commit to full-on innovation and creativity. Tim Cook, you are a great CEO, but you don't know how to take sufficient risk to get the reward. Everyone should get the 20% time. Don't do anything half-assed, ever. Even better would be to 1-up Google and say that you don't give a flying fuck what your employees do as long as they are innovating for the company and doing what they love to make people's lives better.
Interesting. They eye tracking stuff is especially fascinating.
Seems early to deem Surface a failure.
Facebook silencing a women’s uprising?
If it is anything like the C300, it would be one reason not to buy the car. One can only speculate what Crysler thought while trying to make a working interface (especially voice). Sometimes it displays way too much information and on other times almost no information at all (3 songs at a time when going through a playlist/album?).

Also the diming feature is mostly manual (with a dial, in hardware), but works fine.

I hope it is nothing like the Chrysler 300 or any other crappy car "OS" we've seen before ;-)
Abolish Debt - Rolling Jubilee
I happened to be in New York a little over a year ago. Going down to check out Occupy Wall Street, I took a wrong turn and wandered into a high-level organizational meeting.

They struck me as very similar to a startup in culture. Smart people with mutual respect and a shared mission dealing adaptively with complicated issues. Rapid delegation, low on hierarchy, experimental, collaborative, supportive. I was impressed as hell. It was very different than the culture in an established hierarchical organization.

I agree that startups are up to something fundamentally different, but that doesn't mean that they don't have a ton in common.
I'd be surprised if it were easier than LLVM, which is pretty easy.

But if you want to make a language you should absolutely not get hung up on technology. Even though it's very dated, Crenshaw's "Let's Build a Compiler" can teach you everything you need to get started building languages from scratch and by hand, and it moves pretty fast too:

http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

There are other tutorials out there which will get you places. The first thing to do, really, is make a sketch of the language as you'd like to use it, and get excited about that, and then sit down and implement bits of it at a time. Compiler/interpreter writing is extremely rewarding—you get a lot of payback for your investment. Good luck!
Very nice! Inviting and obvious UI, immediate feedback, this is great stuff. Any plans for this project?

And to top it all off, I can't stop reading that placeholder poem in Yoda's voice.
This guy has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons.
They do. Many Googlers don't use it. I've had many 20% projects over the years (and still do.)
Who is Julie Larson-Green? Meet the new head of Windows
Great point... I've been thinking lately how it must be possible to hack the systems now. E.g. there must be machine analysis of press coverage on equities, and the machines must deduce, quickly, "positive" or "negative". This means fake stories have a lot of power. Now this was always true, of course... but traditionally you had humans vet what seemed legit. Now I bet you can keyword stuff articles, among other things, to shift the market... etc who knows but sky's the limit.

Total BS mess is what this has become
Sweaty palmed, I click submit
and reeled in fatal terror;
My MVP, I thought I'd shipped...
Internal Server Error

Edit: This is a wonderful thing. Thank you. Make a (cheap) mobile app with sharing & I'll buy it!
Whether or not he is innocent/guilty/crazy/sane is to be determined but one thing about the dogs - the first thing police do is kill any dog that looks like it could attack them, they don't have to justify it so it's fun target practice for them. Special ops that don't want any alert by gunfire or barking would definitely poison the dogs with tainted meat, etc.

So that part is not hard to believe. There are other aspects though that are worse. It's a series of poor, dramatic choices.
I'm sure you've thought of it, but one could actually get this to do scansion too -- the CMU dictionary here http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict has stress and syllable breakdowns.
That's awesome, Chris. Our code base is already on Github: https://github.com/bilalq/Tranquillity-Editor
My high school AP CS course I took as a senior (good ol' apstring.h and friends...) scared me off programming for four years due to an underqualified teacher, a lack of feedback, and a total lack of any sort of big picture approach, so I really like attempts like this to make it more accessible (and more personal than just something totally automated).
Passwords are not included in iPhone backups. When you restore from a backup, you are prompted for wireless network passwords, for example, that the phone would have just connected to before the backup/restore.
I'm nowhere near that level but extrapolating from my experience and that of people I know: such abrupt departures are never amiable and are the tip of quite complex political junctures. As a human being, someone like Sinofsky is no longer hurt by lost income, but that's a blessing in disguise because his motivations were for a long time not of financial nature, which means he is hurting in other dimensions. Feelings such as hurt pride, poetic justice/revenge (they're worse off without me), rejection, are not uncommon. Given the abrupt departure, a general loss of meaning and occupation is quite likely (from the mornings of a busy executive to the long silence of the mornings to follow).

(As an aside, the reciprocal "good job" messaging is irrelevant - quitting in style is professional courtesy, costs nothing, and leaves bridges in place and doors open.)

In particular at Microsoft (drawing from discussions with friends), one common theme I gathered is "complex". Life at Microsoft is complex, rich in context, structured, full of details that employees consider important but find it very difficult to explain to the uninitiated. Even the vocabulary has additions and some words have unusually stronger semantics. I have friends who have been enormously stressed, lost sleep, literally developed clinical cases of depression - on stakes that, when explained to an outsider, appear as immensely petty. This is twice as bizarre in an industry that has a high inflation of jobs, which makes it very easy to leave Microsoft. But that's difficult because the nature of these conflicts and challenges makes the employees who are part of them feel they're losing self worth if they quit.

So I could speculate that leaving Microsoft has Sinofsky experience the most complex of emotions. However, it's likely he'll rebound and be off to other conquests soon.
The Stellaris tops out at 96KB SRAM (and the part on the Launchpad is 32KB). I'd be interested to know what parts you're looking at, as right now I'm looking into building an SPI-based RAM expander for the Stellaris board.

Regardless, I believe Torne was saying that Python ends up needing a few megabytes to work. So you still pretty much end up needing something with external RAM.
Lessig to Graceland: You don't own all of Elvis. The filmmaker can make the film
Skyfall Filmmakers 3D-Printed This Rare Aston Martin
Team Player in this sense probably means something along the lines of, 'plays well with others'.

The article is suggesting that Sinofsky is the kind of person who did not, and that a less contentious person could have done an equally good job without alienating other senior leadership.
Google's 20% time was great while I was there. Not everyone takes advantage of it (which is a good thing in many cases - you shouldn't force someone to). But it won't be very beneficial at a company as internally locked down as Apple. It only works when there is open communication of ideas internally. Google, for instance, has internal career fairs where you can check out less-well-known projects for 20% or full time opportunities.
> "addSome" button should be removed and replaced with drag and drop

Please, no. Some of us don't use desktops and don't want drag-n-drop dependencies. (I know this is currently built for Cocoa, but the project's goal is cross-platform.)
On top of that, luajit is very small/compact, and easily embeddable. FFI alone stands out as a huge win overall!
I'm an occasional poet and this is something I've always wanted to build/find. Thanks for putting this together!
Yeah, that sounds similar to a lot of stories we've heard. We've spent a ton of time making sure it's fun and really accessible, so it doesn't scare people off. If you try it out, let us know what your thoughts are.

http://codehs.com
Fairy-Wren Babies Need Password for Food
This remarkable example of prenatal learning is an adaptation that apparently allows fairy-wren parents to discriminate between their own babies and those of parasitic cuckoos who have invaded their nests. Females also teach their mate and any helpers the password by singing it to them in a "solicitation song" performed away from the nest.
Ohh,its Diwali in India,so had bought extra crackers for the result...wud save them for 15th :)
too late =)
>It seems like successful people would be able to recognize their faults and mistakes.

Based on what evidence do you say this? Not trolling, really curious. I seem to recall (but don't have references on hand, so fell free to discard this) that people tend to be WORSE at honest self-evaluation the greater their success. They tend to get wrapped up in their own 'press' and surrounded by people constantly telling them how awesome they are, how much smarter than everyone else, etc..
I would love if someone starts a project - "Reading & Understanding LuaJIT". I've seen a similar project for PostgreSQL.
That's a poor analogy. The situation of using so many tabs is about making the browser work harder, not in an incorrect manner. So if I was to compare that to riding a bike it would be like pedaling as fast as I could. If the bike couldn't handle it then yes, I would say it was the manufacturers fault.
The demo errors out in Safari, apparently due to some weird issue with defineProperty and read-only properties. As big as a HTML5 fan as I am, considering Flash's cross-platform consistency, it's a bit ironic...
Sounds like Rubin is in a very good position to renegotiate his contract.
They substantially changed the discourse. Few were calling Wall Street on their role in the financial crash and their heads-I-win-tails-you-lose games with taxpayer money.

It also gave a lot of people a taste for direct action. There was a great interview on NPR recently with an author of a book on the Occupy movement. He had a number of examples of organizations that had grown out of the Occupy movement in the same way that Occupy Sandy and the debt jubilee folks did.
An article at The Verge[1] suggests your right. In fact, that article suggests that he may have been fired earlier if things hadn't gone as well as they had during the Windows 8 and Surface launches.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3638340/microsoft-steven-...
There's not enough "hummm"
Facebook Is Free Therefore It Is You Getting Sold
They should team up and do something great
You print the bitcoin hash. That's offline to me.
Believe it or not, it was relentlessly pruned before publishing. Made me sad that I had remove the explicit Hayek-isms and a Mandelbrot reference, of all things...
It's not very hard to crash a browser or browser tab. There's a certain point where all situations can't be reasonably handled by the browser, and it makes more sense to crash when something unexpected happens.

Here's an example I posted a while back of how to crash most major browsers with a link: http://blog.doteight.com/blog/2011/08/24/this-link-will-cras...

* Just checked, it only seems to work with Chrome these days. I guess the other browsers have figured that one out.
Launched in 54 Hours
That just means a six month vacation. Plenty of folks bounce around between the big cos.
Wingman is a friend you take to the bar, not an airplane. But props on your app/startup - pretty damn slick UI.
What would make more money: Paul Graham lunches everyday for a month at a lower price or limiting supply to 1 Paul Graham lunch at the coming auction price?
And the honcho who got fired over the Vista catastrophe waltzed into a SVP job at Amazon.
Tales of Science Fiction Bugs: The Thing That Killed Talos
It honestly didn't seem that bad (I sat in one, but didn't drive it).

The best solution IMO would be gesture based, vs. buttons, but since it's Android, one could conceivably write a better gesture-based UI on your own and distribute it to other owners.

(and, a better audio UI -- if you worked on the microphone vs. most production cars, you could probably feed google or siri with a clean enough feed to be accurate, especially in a constrained domain, even at 110mph)
In the legal sense, the third party doctrine is as inherent to the 4th amendment as anything can be--it's the Supreme Court's binding interpretation of the contours of the phrase "reasonable expectation of privacy."

In the practical sense, I strain to see how someone can have a reasonable expectation of privacy in say their e-mail when Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc, data-mine those communications in order to show targeted advertisements...
Tough decisions, I'm sure. Looking forward to it!
Is Microsoft getting greedy?
Parsec is a measurement of distance not time.
So your experience in OSD translates across a company of 90k+ people? Seems legit. I have met some PMs that probably couldn't write a line of shipping code too, I have also met some highly competent ones. I guess, like all things involving large numbers, there is a distribution, not all fall in the tail.
> having opportunities for growth is probably much more important than having two fewer people between you and the top

What a silly antiquated notion. You want a promotion? Start a company. Poof: You're CEO. Just like that. The only growth going on in an organization which uses titles and head counts to signify career progress is a cancerous growth.

Sinofski's approach to organizational design pissed off underperforming people at the top and talented people at the bottom. As a (I'd like to think) talented employee, I quit. As an investor, I'd have backed a Sinofski run Microsoft. His model kept middle tier people making middle tier products. That's what Microsoft has become and it's going to be far easier and more successful to embrace than, than it would be to try to please everybody.
Any Hans Reiser comparison write ups yet?
This mirrors my experience with MS. The DOJ case had long-lived and wide-ranging effects.
In this case, the entire post was the comment.

You are right anyway.
Anyone's game for something like this in the NYC area? Contact info in profile.
Twitter Experiment: How to Gain Followers Without Following Anyone
There is an "X-ISO4217-A3" IANA registry proposal (a parallel and superset namespace) being released today... should appear at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-stanish-x-iso4217-a3-00 shortly.
A great initiative from a great team.
All I can do is echo potatolicious (for the second time today).
First Full Smartphone Commuter Rail Ticketing System in U.S. Launched
Thanks for pointing us to that link. I was surprised & pleased to learn that two women were promoted as a result of Sinofsky's departure: Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller. Good for them, and all of us who enjoy seeing a little more gender balance.

Any MSFT'ers here who can comment on their backgrounds?
There are Japanese and Indians who work for CERN, so I think hes just trolling.
Maybe Apple just needs to screen push notifications sent by apps better? Or maybe just a way for users to report spam push notifications to Apple?
Frankly, I'm just going on intuition. I don't see how you can actually achieve anything in life if you're constantly blaming everyone else for your problems and shortcomings. Note that I'm not just talking about material success, but rather about having skills or achievements that others recognize you for. I'm also not saying I expect high-achieving people to be particularly humble or admit their failings very publicly. I think successful people can become skilled about expressing their failings or shortcomings in terms of the opportunities available.

Compare: "Product A was terrible and we are embarrassed to have released it" vs "Product A was a good start and proved that there's a market, and we've learned a lot that's going to get you really excited for Product B."

One last thing that I'm adding after posting this is that I also don't think this means successful people don't succumb to feelings of anger, hurt pride, revenge fantansies and all the other normal human stuff. Just that eventually you get past that and learn from it.
Anyone else had to pause when reading that line in the letter?

Julie has been a stalwart leader of building compelling “experiences” from her time on Internet Explorer
you appear to be confusing him with a person thinking rationally.
Alternative Flash players seem to come along every year or two, but none of them have ever got beyond an experiment. Is this likely to be any different?
Assuming it wasn't for something genuinely disgraceful (Sandusky), a lot of people who are fired from high-profile competitive jobs at the apex of their career, if they don't go to a competitor, end up going into non-profits, government/academic advisory roles, or other less competitive positions.

I'm personally curious where General David Petraeus ends up.
Mandelbrot is sooooo last century. It's all about the Mandelbulb these days ^w^

Seriously though, it's beyond enchanting to realise I'm in the company of such enlightened souls here on HN.

Eyes open. No fear.

Let's do this.
This is more about meth/meth derivatives than any work on some replacement for antibiotics or whatever. Research chemicals are bad fucking news and for every one discovery of something like LSD there are hundreds of newly-discovered chemicals that will happily get you high or keep you awake, while scrambling your brain and turning you into a literal crazy person who: thinks the government is poisoning his dogs; blacks out and kills his neighbor.
My first thought "whoa: this is an IDE for songwriters"

I'll use the shit out of it!
The correct way for them to handle this was to defer to AccountManager and allow Android to handle the Google authentication.

Similarly, users should not give credentials to 3rd party applications. I would not give Samsung my Gmail login, nor would I give it to Facebook to let them scrape contacts.
Thanks! That's sound advice. We don't plan on adding more features than necessary. A user system with sharing and persistence of poems should be sufficient.
Steven Sinofsky's letter to employees on his departure
Typical Microsoft of late. Apple makes a tablet, then Microsoft makes a tablet. Apple fires some executives, then Microsoft fires some executives.