skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will caution optimism based on tone. The reporter also filed a complaint on the officer in charge of this very incident. The SPD review concluded that "The officer took a normal contact with a member of the public and turned it into a confrontation and escalated it to a point where he was acting in a completely unprofessional and inappropriate manner". The punishment for completely unprofessional behavior by the officer in charge was "one unpaid day off of work" which was "an appropriate measure" in the "middle of the range of possible disciplinary actions". That doesn't strike me as taking it seriously. The sounds to me like a slap on the wrist for being unlucky and causing a PR issue for the police by doing this to a real journalist.
An Alternative to LaunchRock
Does anyone know of an alternative to LaunchRock, where the email addresses obtained are validated, there is an API, and a way to migrate the data out?
I'm not sure this is a helpful diagnosis - Microsoft didn't have a short attention when it came to tablets (as you say, they pioneered them, and they haven't abandoned them), they just didn't get the form factor right, and many of the Live services have just been rebranded. Likewise, Apple has also demonstrated a short attention span at times. Remember Ping?
The unions ought to have their own internal committee that reviews each case and determines if one of their own has earned the merit of being represented. The fact that they have an agreement to represent a member no matter how wrong that member is is a sign that they need to review the assumptions of the social contract between the members and the union.
Just who is Microsoft's Satya Nadella
I didn't see anything, either. There is my cover photo and a placeholder for profile picture. At first, I thought it was an adblocking extension in Chrome, so I tried it in vanilla firefox and saw the same thing.

Unlike others in the thread who delete everything they put on facebook, I do not.
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That leapt out at me, too! The image used on his Wikipedia page is very Jobsian, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satya_Nadella.jpg
Why console.log(window) works but JSON.stringify(window) doesn't,can I beat that
I would say more like $2
Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte.
It's true that governments are much more efficient at delivering funds than charities. It's an economy of scale. Also governments have a lot more oversight than charities do.
Deletes is referring to the rocket to put it into space also.
What if you believed the work in question unfairly demonized your product? What would you do then?

Note that the EPA reviewed all the data in question and still determined that the risk did not outweigh the benefit. The article implies that industry owns the EPA, which I find a little surprising due to the power they can (and do) wield.

Anyone else shocked at the number of studies the EPA reviewed and found didn't fit their definition of quality work? Wow, kind makes you wonder!
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If you want to understand John Boyd you should read one of the many good biographies about him, one of which was named in this thread already. I don't think just one Internet article will suffice to give you enough of a picture to be able to really grasp the significance of the things he said.
The upside of IRC is not having to have so many different applications to chat with all the different people.

If I can use XChat for this, that would be bad-ass. Also, one important feature I think would be crucial is integrating with Google Chat (if you can). All developers use IRC or HipChat or Kato but then I have to deal with the buggers in the rest of my company that like to use GChat!
"Mail order" seems like the tip of the iceberg of what these guys could do. I shouldn't have to use a pharmacy for my prescriptions or the supplements/vitamins I take.

Love the design as well.
I've settled on Neo-Feudalism
The API Performance Contract
I was adressing everybody in the discussion.

Like I said, its just the thing that I start with, just this statistic would not convince me either.
Would seem that way for the 'enhanced interrogation' doctors at the very least.
First Interview with the new CEO of Microsoft
Ants Playing Chess Find New Solutions To Old Problem
> I can't even remember when I last used any MS product

> Microsoft has a massive foothold in enterprise

> You must not work in the corporate world

You said you never interact with MS products, those products have a massive foothold in the corporate world, therefore you probably do not work in the corporate world.

If you are doing corporate work, not just software development (though even that too) in a corporate setting but business analysis, etc., and you do not use powerpoint/excel/visio then you are very much outside the norm.

>On a meta note, I've been getting these "corrections" a lot here on HN lately, I'm just not sure why that's happening.

The "corrections" as above, are an attempt to offer a different opinion that counteracts yours because it is seen as outside the normal expirience people are having and since you are getting them often I would think that is because there are many aspects of your comments that are outside the norm.

>Am I just too sensitive? Should I be more explicit in my comments?

I don't think so, your comment seems to add a valuable perspective from someone who does not use MS products in their daily activities, pointing that it is possible when surrounded by the right work culture.
How close are you to these guys? When you say "I've watched them build their own stack", are you referring to having read some blog posts, or do you know them personally?

The money that the fairly small team are spending is a drop in the ocean compared to many government funded projects. If you want to get angry about misspent public funds, I can think of countless other areas that are orders of magnitude worse. The reality is that a small team of people directly employed by the government working fairly effectively can build and discard their stack as many times as they want and still be significantly cheaper than getting a big company to do it.
I think you'd have better luck in making ways of supporting drag-and-drop deployment for your preferred languages. I can't find it now but there was such a tool for Python that allowed you to run Python scripts in the same way as PHP (no app server as such).
Honest answer: because in many states, the law is that a certain vote can force that contract into place, not merely deprivation of labor by the pro-union segment.

The reason for this is simple: government has power because it can use violence. Even democracy works because the majority uses threat of violence to get minority submission to law. (Otherwise, all we have is anarchy/consensus). When a non-near-100% majority of the labor force wants to unionize, it only works if had the power to use force-- its own, or the local/state/federal government. Otherwise, scabs will quite often undermine the union's bargaining position.

Nowhere have I said that anyone's use of force is wrong! In the union debates, people often forget to ask: WHY is the use of force legitimate for the federal govt, but not for the labor pool for a factory? The answer is not obvious, the claim might not be true! "Because George Washington and Thomas Jefferson" is not a valid answer!
That is the primary example I'm referring to recently.

There are many more. I'll write them up at some point.
In theory what you say makes sense, but then why is there still DRM? There's been strong evidence that it's useless for a long time already, and companies are still implementing it. What do you think will actually convince people to stop that hasn't happened already? I say it weakens the case because more piracy just inspires the knee-jerk reaction of "we have to do something to protect the children from pirated software!" It's like the TSA. Is it actually effective? I don't think so. But the more attacks we perceive the more the average joe and politicians think we need more TSA.
I've been using put.io for 3 or 4 years now, it truly hassle free and I literally can not understand why it wasn't featured in HN before.

I have upgraded and downgraded my plan many times, depending on my own needs, it's been years I don't use a torrent client.

This is how you download torrents blazingly fast:

Download firefox + DownThemAll! extension, configure downthemall enabling all the maximum of speeds

go to http://put.io, add a torrent in the download queue, it will probably be done within minutes, if not seconds (no exaggeration), then download them straight to your computer through downthemall
That could explain why on my last few flights boarding was done according to random-seeming letters. At least you can't guess them that easily.
https://gist.github.com/AndrewRose/8805629

Considering you are storing only millions of rows I figured a mysql implementation using blobs should do the trick .. but it all depends on the load you expect .. worth playing around with the idea I think.
Can we please have -tab instead of -dlm="\t"? Because really.

Also, without support for multiple tables & joins this is not very useful.
I think they did get some iPads at one point :-) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/07/ipad_theft_microsoft...
That is not PS problem but community problem. PowerShell is years ahead of bash. Bash community is decades ahead.
Docs: http://doc.meshmoon.com/index.html

WebRocket API for developers: http://doc.meshmoon.com/doxygen/webrocket/
I'd be reasonably happy with the Moravec Procedure where I would be much less happy with most other ways of uploading (the whole thing is based on my irrational but hard to shake belief in my own persistence over time).

Of course, the question then of who to trust to be your cloud provider running your conciousness-as-a-service process becomes a very serious one. I don't think there's a single company around today that I would trust to run me.
This is very common. After graduating, I spent the last six years doing consulting for various Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies, working in some 20 countries with routine interaction with C-level execs and board members.

These activities usually fall under the banner of 'change management and corporate communications', for which an entire army of specialists are brought in to 'manage' perceptions and ensure 'alignment' both inside & outside the organization.

Specifically within the pharmaceutical industry, it's not at all unusual for clinical trial data to be misrepresented.

Even worse, in second and third world countries with lax regulations, drug testing is conducted on a massive scale - often sickening and sometimes killing the most vulnerable. Just Google 'third world drug testing'.

So I'm often a little surprised at the anti-regulatory tone on this board. I agree that some regulations are detrimental to innovation (e.g. the resistance to Uber). But the real world is far less rosy and idealistic than our beloved startups.

I couldn't in good conscience be associated with this type of unethical behavior. So I decided to leave that world behind.

Ever since, I've been diligently diving into various programming languages, design patters, and frameworks. Best decision ever. I can't wait to get back into the software development world!
Here's a test for you: dry your hands, then take a pair of dry latex gloves, then dunk your hands in a soapy sink for three seconds. Take off the gloves.

Your hands will be at least a little damp and soapy. How did that happen, if latex is waterproof? It's because your hand doesn't make a perfect seal with the glove.

Also, dish soap and other detergents are surfactants, which reduce the surface tension of water. That makes it easier for it to get into tight spaces, like the space between the glove's edge and your hand.

Finally, latex is soluble in many kinds of oil/petroleum-containing product (many waxes, some heavy-duty cleaners, etc.), so if you're wearing latex gloves, you'll literally be dissolving latex onto your skin and degrading the gloves. Gross.

If that's what a three-second test will do, imagine how it'd feel to wash clothes for thirty minutes. Not pleasant.
A Tumbleweed Robot to Stop the Spread of Deserts
In theory I think so, but it seems that they can only integrate a relatively small number of transistors on a chip at the moment. If each transistor only has a 90% chance of working, then you'll have to do a lot of to even get a single 3000 gate 8-bit micro controller that works. But the process will probably improve with time.
I doubt there is any sort of line.

Consider that someone accused of a crime gets to be represented in court, no matter how bad the accusation is (in the U.S.). The reasoning behind this is (1) they might not be guilty of the crime, and until the court decides they are, they should be treated as if they are not; (2) they need someone to ensure they are treated fairly.

I think similar reasoning can be applied here. Thus it would not be unreasonable that a union always defends a member who is accused/disciplined/fired.
The programming language users might want to apply transformations
to source code written in the language -- which now means they need to
write brand new parsers from scratch to do these transformations.

That would be Doing It Wrong. Tools like clang-format (source formatting) and clang-modernize (source transformation to use new language features) use exactly the same parser library — among other things — as the compiler proper.
so where do we go from here?
Exactly. At first, it seems simple, but a lot of complexity behind the curtain and huge potential. Pharma and pharma distribution is a massive industry and provided they're able to scale and prove the model, they could go on to do a lot of other really interesting things.
28 km/s? It would be more than escape velocity (11.2 km/s), where did you get that? Low earth orbit is around 8 km/s. Still not totally the same as and ICBM, but could be done.

But why would you stuff the rods in an X-37B? You could just launch a light satellite without all this re-entry stuff and you'd get many more rods for the same mass... or then you could use a smaller launcher.

The X-37B is basically a reusable payload fairing, a very heavy one at that. Oh well, it isn't even that because the rocket requires another outer expendable payload fairing.
I did not know Alcohol was such a cancer-causer. Maybe I should drink a little less? :/
I don't want to jump to conclusions, but after watching the video I have a really good feeling about Satya. He doesn't strike me as a neurotic Microsoft evangelist salesman like Steve Ballmer.

I would love to see Nadella's Microsoft get more involved in open source projects, and win back some developer love that has become lost in darker years.
Also, without support for multiple tables & joins this is not very useful.

Not even slightly true. Can we stop crapping on v1 releases? I'd rather a developer release early and often than hold their code back until it has every possible feature.
Stack ranking is largely attributed to Lisa Brummel, Executive VP at MSFT. And it's been stated in many articles that stack ranking caters to the top 10% and nobody else.
Young product company learning from UX mistakes
The problem is they were all Rails Brogrammers, then they wanted to be Scala Brogrammers, and they were not good at either.

Waste of tax pounds!
I'm pretty sure any sort of practical space based radiator system would not use circulating coolant but would probably use heat pipes. No moving parts and for large systems you generally use many small pipes in parallel. Combine these and you get an extremely reliable system that fails gracefully. Which sounds like a good idea for any sort of nuclear reactor safety system.

The Shuttle used a combination of heat pipes and circulating freon (and dumped the waste heat during ascent into the cargo bay, poor cargo!), but also did not have a nuclear reactor on board.
I agree, I find it difficult to see how Gates lurking around would be productive for Microsoft. A new CEO needs to establish their own direction and rapport among employees, but the mere presence of Gates could prove too much in the way of politics there.

I think Bill Gates is brilliant, but if I was a major shareholder in MSFT, I would have him focus all his efforts on his foundation.
Yeah. Multiple known issues is listed, which is unfortunate despite having known workarounds.

Most users will never get around to finding them and trying them out.
Then we just happen to work for different customers, I think :-)

But these companies definitely exist out of SV (your previous point): apart from working for startups, I also do enterprise data integration consulting using Ruby alone or together with Rails. I also use JRuby in that setup, to interface with existing Java apps etc.
I'm strongly in favor of public (and private) unions, for what it's worth. The current system is pretty dysfunctional, though. I think unions and the employers should be mostly cooperative, not adversarial in nature. When it becomes Team Employer versus Team Employee and people defend people in their team no matter the circumstances you tend to get dysfunctional and inflexible bureaucracies.
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The Koch brothers are Libertarian and Republican. Judging by their political spending.

These labels are entirely useless. Word games are stupid. To have a useful conversation, just agree on words, then argue ideas.
Google ordered to move barge
Not well known in the US, but I've read some history on the Norwegian petroleum industry.

There was a big political tug-of-war here in the 1980s when it became evident that current procedures for deep sea diving caused delibitating long-term injuries to the nervous system of the divers. This was very inconvenient for the oil companies and national authorities, because building a deep-sea pipeline was necessary if the nation was to have control over its petroleum exports.

There was a very intense campaign (however not necessarily a conspiracy; thousands of people had economic incentives to ignore these findings) of discrediting the scientist who made the findings. The research was initially the result of the single Ph.D. at the Department of Medicine at the University of Bergen. Lawsuits concerning reparations to divers who kept working after these findings were made, are in fact still ongoing. But the science was quite clear at the time, and it has become clearer still afterwards.

I wouldn't be surprised if similar controversies happened over this in the US. But it hasn't become a public debate to the same degree.
There's actually already an open source blogging platform called Wardrobe: http://wardrobecms.com using the Laravel PHP framework, it has support for plugins, and is actively under development.

https://github.com/wardrobecms

https://github.com/wardrobecms/wardrobe
I watch github, I watch their blog, I read interviews, I get the picture.

It's my job to look at dysfunctional teams both from a technology and a process perspective. I've seen teams like this many times before. They are expensive, inefficient and the return is considerably lower than the investment has promised.

Just because the historic approaches are worse doesn't exclude these guys from scrutiny. They'll quite happily piss £40k of dev cost up the wall while other departments are arguing over £200 ultrasounds for cancer patients. Scrutiny must be universal and unforgiving.
Node.js in Hungary – a community in the making
Aka compound interest / exponential function.
It is too early to answer this question. The first version would have all basic features needed for blogging. Future features would be based feedback provided by our users.
I don't understand the apparent desire for early boarding. Almost every airport lounge I've been in has been more comfortable than the aircraft. The plane's not going to leave without you. I much prefer sitting in the lounge and wandering on last.
Police work attracts both the good and bad elements of society. Saulet appears to be one of the bad ones. It's a shame it took this long to remove him from the force.
I think that's valid, even desirable. Others have said lexing/parsing are a fraction of the language implementation problem. So, when using s-expression like syntax (xml as some have done) you are basically writing code in the AST. Then you can concentrate on interpretating the AST, or translating it to bytecode for some vm (maybe of your own design) or performing passes on the AST to do things like type checking, up casting values in expressions, optimizations, etc. There is really a lot more to language implementation than lexing parsing.
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> Running away from the police
> with a self-driving car
Go, Java, C#, ... => controlled by a large corp.

C/C++, Python, Ruby, D, Haskell, (Rust,) ... => controlled by a community.

I think this "large corp" control is not beneficent in the long run.
Microsoft's new boss: From cloud to clout
Really want to start using KeePass on Android with an NFC token, but it looks like the YubiKey Neo might get a new version soon to support U2F. Anyone know if the U2F thing is worth waiting for? Don't want to spend $50 (probably £50) to find it's obsolete next week.
The recent “How Quantum is the D-Wave Machine?” Shin et.al. paper
The concept isn't new -- it's called kinetic bombardment[1].

Generally speaking, the amount of damage for a tungsten rod the size of a telephone pole would match low-yield atomic detonations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
It's not that they didn't get the form factor right, it's that they didn't align as a company to make sure it was a success. To my knowledge, in-fighting between different divisions in Microsoft lead to the Tablet PC's ultimate demise and as an early adopter myself I definitely felt the pain of it. Tablet pen functionality in Office was a pathetic, tacked-on afterthought, for instance.
How do you make the link that;

'Smaller, difficult to read and use interfaces that require more attention are better for operating heavy machinery. '

Sounds like a fear of change, which would be the sort of thing that needs to be backed up with research and evidence.
Ok, now I feel that you are just being racist. This is like clutching at the thinnest of straws.
As I read that email, I wondered - would the typical MS employee read this with skepticism...or truly be inspired, hopeful, and ready to take action?
Thank you for this link!!
Anyone remember SB ads with "AOL keyword: Pepsi" ?
That's what the devil on my shoulder said to me but they're just really too inexperienced to make a call on half of the stuff they do.

Ultimately this is probably because experienced people got better offers elsewhere.
Great video that will give a glimpse into how sugar and dietary carbohydrate contributes to the development of cancer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlE1VHGA40
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something like this http://ost.io/?

More than year ago I had idea of creating mailing list hosted in Git itself. Made some prototype - https://github.com/communities/gitcommunities.com.
Thanks for responding.

What you say makes sense as well, I guess we're really talking about two different arguments. One logical/reasoned (look, DRM has basically failed) and the other emotional (OMG piracy! We must have more DRM!). They're kind of orthogonal to my mind.

>> In theory what you say makes sense, but then why is there still DRM?

For a whole complex of reasons, some of which boil down to exactly what you say. Maybe if nobody ever pirated anything it would go away, but I doubt it. It's too useful for other purposes - market segmentation, multiple resales for new formats or devices, preventing reasonable backups etc etc.
I wasn't thinking it was his idea, but he obviously did very well in the stack ranking ecosystem, which implies (among other things) looking at your own success in terms of a peer's failure.