skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love your phrasing in this comment, specifically "stuff the whole satellite into the Shuttle's payload bay and haul it back down the gravity well".
After a lifetime of considering myself a "civil libertarian" liberal, I've also recently come to identify as left libertarian, although I'm pretty sympathetic any thinking libertarian (cue the insults...3 2 1).

Anyway, do you know of any good Internet communities for left libertarians? IRC, message boards, blogs, etc?
The article I saw copied and pasted everywhere was a blogpost from someone who went through the bootcamp process (whether this person made it through or not, I'm not sure).

And actually, I specifically remembered the "counseled out of the organization" line as a sign that FB -- unlike many tech companies -- is actually tactful and respectful when it comes to letting people go for performance reasons (at least that stage in the process.
> He joined Microsoft 22 years ago because he saw how clearly Microsoft empowers people to do magical things and ultimately make the world a better place.

Bad start.
Microsoft is back being led by a tech guy. This is awesome.
Why is this vehicle still referenced as X-37? The mission appears to be reconnaissance and no longer aerospace vehicle research.
here's another good intro to CPU design, floating point math, linear algebra, PDE solvers etc http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/~eijkhout/Articles/EijkhoutIntroT...
Man, a fully functional supported bash-like terminal on Windows would be heaven sent.
Checkout this article "Diamonds, Advertising, DeBeers and Sex" for a alternative on some parts of the story.

http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.ch/2013/08/diamonds-advertisi...
He reads Russian literature, loves poetry, and watches test cricket. Seems like a pretty diverse bunch on interests to me.
The SnapPiCam | A Raspberry Pi Camera
Its a hydrazine monopropellent, or so they say, so an Isp of 250 or so would be impressive. Someone with a lot more time on their hands can tell you the mass fraction required to get 23 KM/s outta a 250 second Isp and its going to have about as many 9's as reliability marketing material. So yeah, thats not happening.
I'm not sure there is a point worth debating. Hygiene is left to the programmer and the facilities exist to write "safe" macros (gensym). Debugging isn't terribly difficult with macro-expansion facilities. The only "problem" with them, if you can call it that, is that newbies like to over-use them once they learn them. However that problem goes away with time.

Macros in the hands of an intermediate-to-experienced programmer are powerful tools. They remove patterns from your code. They allow you to modify the compiler to efficiently run your program. And all sorts of good things.

People arguing that X "is too powerful" are saying that nobody needs a combine harvester when a team of farmers with scythes will do.
The so-called "first rule of policing" has absolutely nothing to do with citizens or the constitution. Its simply "Make sure when your shift is over you go home alive".

Believing this reliably turns men who could be (and want to be considered) heroes into cowardly thugs.
I sometimes find the smart and lazy in charge, because their laziness forces them to be charismatic.

In reality this seems like a false classification. People of all types make it to the top, and it's hard to find some simple metric that says what will do it.

At a prior large consulting firm that I worked for, they did a huge analysis and found the only predictors of success as a senior consultant were "Did they get a 3.0 in a tech degree or a 3.2 in a non-tech degree?" and "Did they have any kind of job while in college?" That seems to suggest smart enough and diligent enough for entry level. The same firm did an analysis to see which managers made good partners, and they couldn't find any predictors. The entry level predictors no longer mattered. School didn't matter. Competency (process, technology, etc) didn't matter. Industry didn't matter. Length of time to get promoted to manager didn't matter.

Net - it's hard to predict winners!
ScreenCast: Speed up image spriting with Compass
Ha ha ha! Because he doesn't look different enough! Get it? Cause he's basically a white guy with darker colored skin, get it? Because being born in a different country and moving here basically makes you white, get it?
One world – one frontend or first flight instrument built with HTML
Good day colleagues! One more good day which will ends quickly become past and will present one more step forward for us. How will front end development we are all passionate of look like tomorrow?
We all have accents whether we were born in America or not. Have you ever been in the South? Just because we talk slow doesn't mean we think slow ;)

Typically, it just requires spending time around the person and interacting with them. It doesn't matter where they are from or what sort of accent they have. After a few days, you'll understand them.

And also, an accent has no bearing on intelligence.
No, they are taking cutting-edge findings in neuroscience (which studies an actual intelligence that is actually already "implemented") and applying them to computer science. At least this "shying away" will not unleash the 'AI winter' that "hard AI problem" "solvers" have caused.
I think the real case should be against anti-piracy. The music and movie industries punish people because they don't like their business model or their product. Copyright laws were created when books were the medium. This is the fundamental key: I can not create 300,000 physical books with three mouse gestures.

Think about how common piracy is. They demand what? 250k for each song downloaded. Multiplied by the number of songs downloaded illegally per day... they feel they are entitled to 600 trillion dollars per year. Does that sound right to you?

Piracy is our new eighteenth amendment.
Avaliação do Estado de Pontes: Passado, Presente e Futuro
Yeah, not much content; I delete almost every post since they are just dummy posts made with the API.

I just checked again and I know have that page on my test account but no video:

Thank you, { firstname }

10 years ago people started using Facebook to share their biggest moments. Here are some of yours.

And then just 6 photos, though that account has 7-8 photos anyway.
> I, personally, want Microsoft to succeed. Not so I can go back to a Windows computer (neverrrr) but so I can buy whatever they create after Windows.

Not to mention, (solid) competition drives innovation. To me, that's the most important reason to root for Microsoft's success.
Sincerely I feel like buying some MSFT stock, first time in a decade.

Replacing Steve Jobs would be much tougher assignment.

Don't forget to deactivate Ballmer's badge and get some fresh air into the boardrooms :)
Probably refundable within 24/48h of the purchase. Many companies do that. Normal penalties apply from then on. So unless you buy your ticket in the last moment, no, it wouldn't work.
I'd take PowerShell over bash any day. If you mean the console window, that's completely independent of the applicating running inside both on Unix-likes and Windows and admittedly there are things to improve. However, there are ConEmu, Console2 and others which by now work really, really well.
Doesn't have to be an ICBM or some type of rocket - a kinetic energy weapon (giant lawn darts from space) could be effective, but without nasty radioactivity afterwards.
"Creators" of bitcoin can disappear with all people's money
w/ all these requirements, how much will u pay? guys like u described can go to anywhere and make half million dollars a year easily.
You could do that, but then you'd be paying extra under the new driving tax that gets bundled with V2V devices. :)
LiveRebel 3.0 is here – and it’s up for even the weirdest environments
Sync licenses (eg to sync a song with video) require the songwriter's explicit consent in every case, but while a license fee is required to re-record a particular song, explicit consent is not required. That's why one-hit wonders' songs are often hard to find on places like iTunes or Amazon MP3 Store if you don't know the performing artist's name, because anyone can cover it, and there are entire operations who make a business out of producing terrible covers of popular songs to get some accidental purchases.

Any artists who haven't allowed their recordings to make it to electronic distribution are also drowned in poor covers online. AC/DC was a great example of this problem until they finally gave in and released their stuff digitally. There's still a ton of AC/DC cover recordings on iTunes.
Xenesys is a Japanese company that specialises in building these type of systems. http://www.xenesys.com/english/products/dtec.html
It will be very interesting to see what this means. When he dropped the CEO title, the goal was to be more of a visionary too.

An open question... What's the big thing he brings to the table? Strategic thinking? Vision? Competitiveness? Respect in the Company? All of the above? What's the best way to harness this? (Ok, that's open questionS)
Very cool! Looking forward to trying this out today.
Am I missing something? It's just 6 photos that I've uploaded, 4 of which are from the past month. It looks like people here are talking about music, but the page is not playing music in Chrome.
That may be, but most of that markup is probably in the part it self, if you compare to a steel tube of the same dimension you'll see an indication of that. I was going by the current price the metal trades for, that is, a ballpark figure as something to "begin to imagine" what it could cost based on the material alone.
a thick accent

Do you mean Nadella's in particular? I didn't think it was that bad. Anyway it's only racist if you think less of a person just because you can't understand them. Remember there are lots of people who can't understand you, either.
Careful, the video has photos that might be restricted.
Although his email is filled with "corporate BS" and buzzwords it's surprisingly humane.

He introduces himself, explains about his way of thinking, tells about his family, for example

It's something MS needs. A fresh departure from Ray Ozzie, who looked like said Good Morning to his wife with a Corporate Memo, or from Ballmer, who, although energetic, didn't have a good aim for things (well, to be fair it's difficult to throw chairs with precision)
In any airport I frequent, this would not be worth the money. Some garages offer free parking for 30 minutes for pick-ups, but by the time you park, go through security, eat, and return you would owe at least $4. Then there's the time/gas cost of getting to/from the airport. Even if you used public transport it could be expensive, it's like $16 round-trip on BART from SFO to downtown San Francisco.
Is there any way to join a chat for a public repository which you are not a contributor to?
Not sure how I feel about this. I think we need to move away from the idea of "let's write this in PHP because it's easy." Best of luck to you though...
The R package sqldf together with backend packages RSQLite (the default), RH2, RMySQL and RPostgreSQL can be used in a somewhat similar manner automatically generating create statements, uploading referenced tables to a database and performing the specified SQL. Tables referenced in the SQL statement are assumed to be R data frames or external files depending on whether an R data frame or file description object of the same name exists in the R work space. The result is returned as an R data frame. See http://sqldf.googlecode.com
TNW BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft names Satya Nadella as CEO
I agree and had the same experience. Was very impressed, this is one of the more personalized and emotional experiences a company has created for me.
the problem is, we've been waiting and seeing for a while now. It's starting to get kind of hard to breath.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8JwNZBJ_wI

Interesting that they chose a walk and talk kind of thing, in a completely vacant office. What where they hurrying towards that they couldn't take the time to sit down?
I hope that this is just doublespeak to reassure people who think Gates is important to Microsoft's future success. Personally, I think both Microsoft and the world would be better off if Gates stepped away completely and focussed all of his efforts on the Gates Foundation's work.
No one said he was the worst in the department.
He is probably a professional who understands how business works and doesn't think anything about it.
Refundable within X hours usually doesn't apply if you book within Y hours of the flight. The US DOT rule is refundable within 24 hours if booked at least 7 days in advance.
Probably but that's moot.

They're pissing away profit and investor's cash in private companies.

In public organisations, taxpayers don't get to choose if that money is spent or not.
This is somewhat irrational critique, clojure was an opportunity to start fresh and graft a concurrency-focused lisp onto a pervasive runtime, not to reimplement ABCL. It fills a need.

I was always somewhat halfway interested in learning common lisp, but when clojure came along I actually got excited enough to do something about it.

You even say you're 'very happy' to be working in it, but I think 'an experiment in STM' is too reductionist and shallow to address the numerous use-cases that are improved by persistent data structures and the other features that clojure provides.
Ethics questions arise as Genetic testing of embryos increases
Let me give you a perspective on this. I moved to the US from India when I was about 17 and I am almost 33 now. My accent has definitely evolved over the years and it sounds a little more American-ish even though I can never be a native speaker. I actually prefer that people can understand me when I talk to them. If someone thinks that I sound American-ish, good for me because they will feel comfortable striking a conversation with me. If someone thinks that I am faking it, they can choose whether they want to interact with me or not and I respect that.

So the point is that accents can evolve naturally over a period if the person makes an attempt. Yes it gets harder as you get older. Just because someone sounds American-ish doesn't mean that they are not speaking it naturally.

A lot of people do not realize that their accent can actually be a hindrance in communication. They might have near perfect grammar but accents do cause a problem. I know this is a controversial topic and even pg got some flak for saying this but a "neutralized" (notice the American spelling) accent is important for communication. If you are a leader/CEO, even more important.
I think there was definitely a time when Apple made the best hardware to run Windows on.

It's a compromise though. MacBook keyboards are weird to use in Windows and the hardware drivers were never optimal. I ran Windows 7 on my MacBook Air, off and on for years, but could never get it to run as well as it did on the similarly-spec'd Dell m1330 that I had before.

Now that there's Apple-quality (better in some aspects, I'd argue) Wintel hardware readily available, it doesn't make sense to deal with those drawbacks if all you want to run is Windows.
Microsoft goes internal for its next CEO with Satya Nadella
This is not always the case, for instance I've worked with a great guy from China, after almost a year I still have a hard time understanding him and often have to ask him to repeat himself. It makes working collaborating difficult face to face.
Kara Swisher was totally on the ball on this, both about Bill Gates stepping down as well as playing a more active role: http://recode.net/2014/01/31/heres-why-bill-gates-would-step...
Yeah, basically. I mean, I'd prefer nothing but...
If that chat has already been created, then going to gitter.im/[org]/[repo] should be enough.
Hey,
I was one of the movies.io guys. We did remove the torrenting part of the website more than a year ago.

Before that, you could indeed pick a film, download the torrent in the cloud and directly stream it from our web interface.

Good old days but we all moved on to new challenges.
But we have to jump through some hoops to convert expressions into statements/expressions (I work a bit on Hy[0] which does exactly this).

[0] https://github.com/hylang/hy
The further question might be does having Bill around reduce the freedom of the actual CEO?

MS clearly need a rethink, but I'm of the view it's time for Bill to walk away to give more space to the others.
This seems strange, as it's a little removed from the folks doing most of the complaining, no?

This case is striking on many levels, the most obvious being the effective theft of large amounts of money by some of the richest people on the planet from their employees.
I'd take bash over PowerShell any day. The whole Windows philosophy makes building stuff out of disconnected smaller parts harder than it needs to be.
As much as it was oddly enjoyable to see my life as a 1990's British chick-flick movie trailer, I did not relish all of the details. Like my most liked post in 7 years having 18 likes. Or digging up photographic memories of things long repressed.

How are they rendering these so quickly? There was no noticeable delay in the page load. The HD version is a 4.15MB mp4, with 1.19billion active monthly users that's 4.939PB of video to prerender. I thought perhaps they were rendering it either in the browser and passing a bytestream to the SWF (they're not), or starting the render on the server and streaming it down before it completed (unlikely as the video is coming from akamai). Anyone know?
Do people here understand what Test Cricket is? #justchecking
Are there materials dense enough to be useful for this, and thermally non-conductive/stable enough to withstand the heat of reentry?
MS is going down. No doubt. Look at Motorola and Adobe.
I think the sentiment is more "let's write this in PHP because it runs on every $7 shared web host on the planet". Sadly, no other language can claim this except maybe Perl.
Firefox 27 Released
The problem with inaccurate bragging is that the loop ends up unclosed; the advocate says "This language is so fast!", the earliest of the early adopters try it and it isn't fast, and so they slag your language on their blog. And in this case, there is a such thing as bad publicity.

Even when I disagree with the propaganda of a language community (lookin' right at you, Node), there is enough truth that it made it through that gauntlet. In that case I'd argue it isn't that they lie about Node, it's that they lie about all the other languages they putatively compare themselves to. Apparently that strategy does work....
That's an arbitrary and useless guideline, using made up numbers. If losing 1% of your potential users costs $100k in lost sales a year, and 20% of my time costs $20k, then spending that 20% time seems like a pretty good idea.
I guess the problem is that many cheap hosting plans (such as Dreamhost) don't run Node but they do run PHP.
That's not the same. It doesn't sneakily enable Google Analytics to monitor your visitors.

You also forgot to make it a clickable link to advertise the service.
No problem - I will wait for your response. Thanks in advance.
Good point. It's very hard to be partially committed to either technology or running a huge firm. Mastering the internals of a huge company is a full time job. So is staying on top of technology in the marketplace. Hiring an insider does help on the first point.
I'm a WordPress user and haven't tried Ghost...but it seems the impetus of the OP is to port over the "hundreds of beautifully designed themes for Ghost"..I know themes consist of front-end logic and backend code...but isn't the "beauty" of these themes portable independent of scripting code?
"Microsoft’s new CEO finds relaxation by reading poetry, in all forms and by poets who are both Indian and American."

Wonder if he has read Vikram Seth's Golden Gate. Looks to be an interesting person despite the corpspeak.
No, Nadella is easy for me to understand. I was responding to the parent implying that he was somehow pressured to conform.
> Look at the 2002 Nobel Price by V. Smith for this one.

Can you please elaborate? I don't know enough of the details to understand the link you're making.

> The existence of market failure is no position. Just for the fact that there is market failure does not have any implication on what to do about it.

The first sentence is incorrect, and is not implied by the second sentence, which is correct. The 'position' is that, in order to have an efficient market, one should not do things that cause market failure. It is a negative position rather than a positive one (DON'T do X rather than DO X), but it is still a position. It informs you about what sort of things you shouldn't do if you want a market to operate efficiently.

> That is simply something that is often assert because it makes for good propaganda

Saying that collusion can lead to market failure, and thus must be proscribed if one wishes to have an efficient market, is not propaganda. It is the kind of thing that must be said, seemingly repeatedly, to illustrate the point that markets are not a magical solution to the allocation problem.

The argument you subsequently make, that "we don't know better", is both completely standard and completely wrong. We may well not know better than an efficient market - I'm not sure but it seems very reasonable. However, moving from that to suggest that imposing controls such as anti-collusion regulations (along with a whole host of other measures to avoid market failure), is unnecessary, is unsubstantiated.

If you examine your own argument, it is based by your own admission on an assertion. The foundation for why one might think that what you are saying is true (market theory) explicitly lays out the assumptions required for it to work, and you ignore these on a purely ideological basis.
Well I can't speak about Motorola but the stock price of ADBE of late suggests pretty strongly otherwise for a dying company.
It's not just the payload - the entire airframe comes back and lands...
Maybe you (and your friends) used Facebook a lot more 6 years ago. I'm sure that's a big part of the algorithm: picking out the posts that got the most interaction.
merge with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7177388
No, fully refundable fares are fully refundable at any time up to the flight. That's the whole point of a "fully-refundable" fare; it has no penalties for refunds. This is made pretty clear in the fare rules, and is the basic reason to buy full-fare tickets rather than discount fares (apart from the mileage bonus, I guess).

The 24 hour limit is for refunds on non-refundable fares. Most airlines will still let you cancel any ticket within the first 24 hours, even a discount fare (in the US, the DOT requires this for tickets booked at least 7 days in advance).
Further coverage:

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/?s=dominic+holden

I'm posting that link mostly for the name of the blog, to demonstrate that this kind of incident is common enough in the US to have its own blog. Personally I'm hoping this becomes moot when police officers are required to wear their own cameras while on duty.
From the article it appears the screen's 'distraction' is not their only concern. Also of concern is the layered interface which requires one to navigate down several levels of menus to do things such as 'turn the fog lights on'.
I've seen this in action at some large telecom companies. Beat the smallest issues to death, and never get to the bigger ones. I assumed that this was a way to avoid the bigger issues, as opposed to fixating on that which is easier understood. I think I was wrong. :-)
the practical difference between lists and seqs is laziness (details like chunking, too).
> measuring over 29 feet (8.8 m) in length
Could they potentially use it to grab other countries satellites in a time of war? Such as taking down GLONASS or something else.

Why would the Air force need a "space truck" and not NASA?

Its easy to point the conspiracy theory finger when the military is involved. Especially when they are staying silent about what the plane's purpose is.