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If you can not trivially implement a parser, you probably shouldn't be implementing your own language. The problems only get worse from there.

I'm egalitarian inasmuch as I believe every serious programmer ought to implement some sort of toy language at some point, but I'm not so stupid as to think that this is a good idea at all phases of a programmer's development. Beginners should concentrate on other basic tasks, even low-intermediate really should too. I wouldn't reserve this task for "experts" though, because this is one of the big steps in moving from intermediate to expert. (Anyone who has assembled the skill set to implement a toy-but-nontrivial language has assembled the skill set to accomplish a very wide variety of programming tasks. If I were interviewing someone and they could demonstrate this, I would almost entirely cease to care what actual languages or frameworks they may have worked in.)
For further note though, they won't unless you buy dedicated instances. This also disables RDS.
Gartner MQ Validates Hybrid Cloud With OpenShift
Well then it's catch 22 isn't it? Unless we boycott PHP it will never go away and hosting providers won't have any incentive to change.
Every so often, there's an article on HN promoting the concept that everyone should learn to code. I feel the same way about programming languages, that every developer should write a language. It doesn't need to be a great language, or overly functional. For me, it has provided incredible insight into what is sugar, what is required, and why languages are syntaxed the way they are. The years I've spent writing languages has made me a far better developer.
> Also, I find it incredible that the people who swore to serve the citizens and protect the constitution of their country are so quick to completely disrespect the said constitution so often.

I think for a lot of people swearing an oath is just something you have to say before they give you a gun and money.
Why? You don't need to carry anything and the guards probably know you pretty well by the 100th visit or so.
It made me think of the logistics behind the video. "Hey everyone, the hallway is closed off for the next two hours because we want to show our new leader in an environment completely devoid of people."

Am I too cynical?
Unit testing framework, right?
You could buy a first class ticket and hold on to it for a year, then use the lounges whenever you actually do travel.

It doesn't look like this is possible in the US though. I don't see an airline that offers their lounge just for having a first class ticket. Alaska even requires a ticket for the day you're there.
I don't understand why that is still something people care about in the days of $5 VPS hosting.
It's called MinTTY and comes with Cygwin.

I'd never even consider using a Windows machine without it.

http://lifehacker.com/5185647/mintty-gives-cygwin-a-native-w...
MSN Controversy [2001]
Can people please stop using "hacking" about every little tweak, tip, or technique to gain something?
> what is really YOU

I think it's a wrong question. "You" is in the map, not in the territory. It's how algorithms in our brain factorize the world model.
Even better is LogParser, which lets you do SQL queries against just about any data format you'll find in a file on Windows. It's been around for a decade and continues to be improved.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd919274.asp...
There's something deeply symbolic about watching those enthusiastic people doing their Sorkin walks for the camera through the vast and completely empty halls of the Microsoft offices (or is it a museum, I can't tell).

By the numbers, Microsoft is still incredibly relevant. At the same time, I can't even remember when I last used any MS product. It's not a boycott, there are simply no points where their stuff intersects with my life. I can imagine I'm not the only one, and that's not a comfortable position to be in for them. However, it's also difficult to see how they could ever break out of that. From where I'm standing they look like a partly consumer-focused IBM: rich, powerful, calcified, eternal, but computing has largely moved on and left them behind.

As a former MS user, I wish them all the success in the world turning this around.
Very interesting links thank you.

I was very surprised about the "racial" statistics in the first link.

In my country (France) it's unlawful to make this kind of statistics.
Radar and lidar aren't foolproof. Radar's easy to jam and needs complicated processing to differentiate between clutter and things that might cause issues. Lidar breaks down in fog and dust and has fairly limited range.

There's a reason air traffic control have moved to active ADS-B transmitters rather than simply using ground based radar to track aircraft - reliability. There is definitely safety issues from spoofing of data, but if those issues can be dealt with (perhaps using the certificate based system that's discussed in the article), reliability compared to car-mounted radar or lidar is significantly greater.

The lidar mounted on Google's autonomous cars is a long way from being integrated into production vehicles. The V2V proposal draws on existing car sensors - all that's needed is the addition of a small chip. V2V is a manufacturer proposal, and it's almost ready for production. It's a cheap and easy method of vastly increasing car safety. Road traffic accidents kill and injure a huge number of people. We should embrace anything that makes them significantly safer.
From the FAQ:

Q: Why did you choose fusion based propulsion for Project Icarus?

A: Well, we thought about it and we realized that the only appropriate power source for an imaginary starship was a likewise imaginary one. And while there are certainly many options in the field of imaginary power generation, we rejected some of the main contenders for a variety of reasons.

"Maxwell's Demons" would have alienated both the new-agey spiritual sci-fi crowd and also the fundamentalists because it sounds medieval and just evil at the same time.

"Dilithium crystals" was taken. The zero-point people are bunch of wack jobs and we certainly didn't want to be tarred with that brush. "Fairy wings" just sounds too wussy for our tastes.

So, you see, there aren't all that many choices of power left for an imaginary starship. Fusion sounds just about right, especially if you say is slowly, with gravitas, like "fuuuuuuusion".
‘Electronic tongue’ identifies brands of beer with 81.9% accuracy
Adobe is the monopoly in the desktop graphics tool market. Not sure why no VC targets it at this moment, which does seem like a slow dinosaur to attack on.
Having a central body which sets government digital policy on how to provide information across departments is great.

That they're doing a fantastic job of providing content to users efficiently, using appropriate technology and without favouring commercial solutions, is incredible.

Compare the clusterfuck that is http://www.cyberstreetwise.com.
Contracted-out websites cannot match the quality and cost effectiveness.

I downvoted you because it's really very difficult to understand what you are actually complaining about: you are trolling.
I've actually seen more Scala adoption than Go. In my experience Scala is getting used in production whereas Go is something people play around with from time to time.
Having been at a company that recently underwent a CEO change, the first email is always fluffy. It's a greeting, gives their "big picture" strategy to give some idea of what's new with the new CEO, because that's every employee's concern right now.

In the next few weeks, the new CEO will be solidifying everything with Q&As, visiting the various campuses, and announce any new org changes. Org changes will be the big thing that impacts what individual contributors actually do in their jobs. Major changes to the 2014 strategy or goals would be announced soon, but seeing as how it's mid Q1 it's probably going to be changes for Q2 or 2H.
I'm not sure why have you decided to reply with that; if anything, by referring to Benjamin Tucker, I'm taking a position in the defense of free markets, not attacking them.

And in any case, if my position was opposed to yours, that argument wouldn't convince me anyway, since I find "economic size" and particularly "growth" to be little more than fetishes of mainstream ideologues. I'm much more easily convinced by what the economists call "consumer surplus", though I'd rather know the "worker surplus".
> Saulet underwent three performance-improvement plans, two training sessions, and two multi-visit sessions with a social psychologist, coaching sessions with supervisors, and 80 hours of time off without pay. Saulet was demoted from sergeant to deputy for another incident in August.

Like they were probably just waiting for anything to come along to fire this guy. Amazing he lasted so long.
> I wonder if I have rose tinted glasses for most of the "real world".

This depends on how you are defining the 'real world'. If you think of society as an ecosystem it should not surprise you that prey and predation occurs, as occurs in natural systems. In a natural system, if something is both possible and successful it is very likely to occur.

As for jobs that the whole purpose is to discredit people, have not paid attention U.S. politics? Mudslinging is a very popular method of securing political victory. Many of our intelligence agencies are built on collecting just this kind of information.
Just asking, how can a new CEO change Microsoft's directions.

Or

What suggestions would you give Satya, if you were to meet him today?
I do enterprise consulting across Europe.

The only Rails applications I saw so far, on the projects I am part of, was to report build status information.

It was written by an external startup company that disliked using the existing Java infrastructure.
Some airports have land-side lounges, which would cut down on the hassle.
By the 100th visit they'd get suspicious that you're scoping out the joint for a terrorist act.
I'm still waiting for a response on what sort of privacy analysis took place when they decided to use Google Analytics to track and analyse UK citizens interactions with UK government.

It still doesn't smell right.
This is one of those ideas that seems so obvious. The solution looks great and the interface is solid. By the way, I'm +1 on emillon's mailing list idea
Better stacktraces would be better, sure, but there are good arguments on both sides whether it's better to separate the language from the platform or not.

I prefer a thin, readable compiler and core library over such abstractions. I don't mind the stacktraces, but I could see how some people might.

The fact that clojure is host-centric makes clojure and clojurescript compelling to java or javascript programmers at the expense of some aesthetics, and it also has performance implications.
So googling for information about someone that I do business with is creepy? Pretty sure that I don't agree with that.
I think it's because there are lots of PHP programmers who don't have the first clue about setting up an actual server on the internet (and keeping it up).

On top of that there is the time investment in learning all that stuff and doing it on a regular basis.

To some that makes "here are your FTP credentials, have at it".

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It's simply one end of a spectrum with DevOps towards the other end.
I'd prefer to live in a society where things like this were a matter of research rather than pronouncements by bureaucrats:

> "The distraction of the giant screen in the Tesla is not tolerable. I am convinced that the deflection is so great by the picture and sound while driving that accidents were due to the increase markedly. "
If he focuses the entirety of MS on cloud and mobile, while offering some level of innovation, he will have done a good job. I think the real challenge is how do you make a company whose flagships are non-mobile and non-cloud products like Office and Windows go mobile and cloud? Those are massive institutional forces of inertia.
Yes. Read about Project Thor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment#Project_Tho...

A payload of slightly smaller than described tungsten rods would fit on a craft of this size, and according to the article this type of weapon is not prohibited by any current treaty. It could hit anywhere with practically no warning and no need to enter airspace. It's almost impossible to defend against.

Scary shit.
In Bill Gates' video, at 0:28, does he laugh just a little bit as he says "we took advantage of the internet" when listing their historical innovations?
I understood the Foundation's primary problem to be figuring out how to efficiently spend all of their money they are required to spend every year without accidentally funding Al Qaeda. Does Gates have to be around for that?
Ghost Theme do not use any scripst. They use handlebars (http://handlebarsjs.com/) syntax. We can parse this syntax with PHP.
> Considering how many engineers would gladly take a below market wage for an opportunity to work at Apple

Well, then Steve had nothing to worry about, did he? Then why the secret agreement??
Not if you tell them you're just going to eat. Seems like that's pretty easy to confirm. Why be sneaky about it? Obviously nobody at the airline lounge cared that this guy showed up every day, why would the guards care?
It depends on which stripe of libertarianism you're talking about, although I'd argue that it's the worst variants that would say "no". It's not a use of force in the strictest sense, but it is an attempt to subvert market pressures in order to maintain concentrations of power.
> All the colors the monitors show as are actually just a mix of red, blue, and green light. If you could magnify your screen, you’d see something like this, and you’ll notice that there are only three colors there.

The easiest way to do this is to get some water on the screen. Red, green, and blue pixels will be apparent under the water droplet.
Well, why couldn't it be? Turing machines exist in the mind, not in the real world. Reality is made of quarks and quantum fields, or whatever there is at the lowest level. Everything else we talk about are our own models we use to interpret reality. Planet Earth might be a Turing machine if we look from the right angle, albeit I doubt it is computing anything of use for us.
this might be a good sign.
Exactly - the beauty of bash is that it's accessible
Also taking in the global context, most hosting plans that are payed in the specific country currency run on PHP without any configuration, just put your PHP files there and puff...magic, a website is running
They seed automatically. Based on what subscription you have, they'll maintain a specific ratio. Minimum is 2.0 ratio but better accounts have a 20.0. https://put.io/plans?select=1.1
I found it interesting they didn't mention anything about his career at MS since being on the NT team in 92.
You're exaggerating somewhat, though not a ton. It's definitely not a lifestyle for everyone - I'm definitely not aiming for that. But a lot of the concepts can be applied to living a less Spartan lifestyle while still spending very little. Knowing how to make and maintain as many things as possible, live well in a small space by minimizing extraneous possessions, keep yourself in shape so you don't need medical care, cook tasty meals with inexpensive ingedients, that sort of thing.

And you have to admit, being financially independent at the age of 30 is worth a lot. Not having to work 2000+ hours a year makes up for a lot of little inconveniences.
Amazing, but probably not uncommon.
I think you're missing the point that Gates will be spending more time at Microsoft to lend gravitas to Nadella amongst the other Microsoft managers he beat out for the job. I imagine once they get the message and give the guy a chance to get his sea legs, Gates will back away.
I also gave Dan's "Now I Know" book [1] as holiday presents this year, which was quite a hit.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Now-Know-Revealing-Stories-Interesting...
This is a solution looking for a problem. Same with Ghost, though. At least Ghost is ironic: a super simple blogging platform that requires fairly sophisticated skills to setup and manage.
You must not work in the corporate world. Microsoft has a massive foothold in enterprise: email, instant messaging (lync), excel, word, visio, project, even sharepoint and those are just the pieces you can see not to mention whats going in the backend.

Being one of the only Mac users in my office I constantly have to find work arounds for everything. Sadly they will be relevant for a long time we have almost 30,000 people using windows and they wont be learning anything new for a long time if ever.

I do hope the changing of the guard will help microsoft to build better products that integrate with OS's beside windows.
It also is not a direct correlation with the number of times someone found or downloaded a song. It's just how many times a takedown notice was issued.
The reason for optimism IMO is the tone and content of the dismissal letter & statement.
I hope the new CEO has the courage and the power to set out a vision and stick to it for more than just a few years in a row.

Microsoft under Ballmer has been a study in short attention span. Changing themes, names, and directions every three to five years. When I was a Windows sysadmin back in the day, it was incredibly frustrating to build anything on the Microsoft platform because by the time you wrapped your brain around the new way of doing things, the next server OS release would change everything. From what I've seen since I moved on to a different career, that pattern hasn't changed.

Apple's success has come from a laser focus and constant improvement for the past 17 years. Microsoft used to be similarly focused. Remember the old adage that Microsoft would get it right by Version Three, and wipe out the competition? Well, they haven't stuck to any particular plan for long enough to come up with a version three of anything in 15 years.

Hell, Microsoft pioneered tablet computers, but after some promising early models and some decent push into the innovation required, they kind of just let that project wither on the vine until Apple came up with a workable model. Then MS desperately tried to pivot and turn everything, even the server OS, into a tablet-and-desktop-friendly mess.

Remember Zune? Remember Live? Remember the Kin??
That sounds completely legitimate, actually. Touchscreens have no business being used to operate a car, since you have to look at them to work them, whereas I can operate every control in my old Pontiac without taking my eyes off the road.
I was about to comment on that. We seem to be great at missing the forest for the trees.
Paper is a really common word. Feels a bit like Google complaining the Apple calls it's maps "Maps" as well.

And even if you're thinking "trademark", in this case, the Paper apps in question have very different purposes.

No one should have a monopolistic right to use the word "Paper" (or in my opinion any word).
Except for dog biscuits.
Seriously. Microsoft is close to figuring out who they're going to be for the next decade. I'm optimistic.
The second bullet is important, having up to date TLS is a big deal in today's security/spy conscience world. Its possible to currently get (if you monkey around in about:config), but default settings are powerful since the average user won't bother. And I mean average-user type average user, not average hackernews reader/poster.
I'm not trolling. I've watched them build their own stack, throw it away, build it again, throw it away. That's waste.
Or Brainfuck perhaps?
Racist comments about CEOs of Indian origin have no place on Hacker News.
>>Startup time alone doesn't prevent a system from being useful.

Well, it does not completely ... If I run a simulation that will take 10 hours, 2 seconds is not much at all.

However, it will severely reduce its usefullness in many other cases (quick&dirty scripting, testing)... Just for the record, on an i5 system:

$ time julia --version
julia version 0.3.0-prerelease

real 0m2.156s
user 0m2.119s
sys 0m0.030s

$time julia -e 'println("Hello, world.")'
Hello, world.

real 0m2.119s
user 0m2.074s
sys 0m0.036s

In comparison, starting an equivalent ipython script takes <0.1s on the same machine.
> I hate to be that guy. But this reminds me hysteria around DDT, now it is estimated that DDT ban is responsible for 20M deaths due to malaria.

You're inadvertently offering a GREAT example of the behaviour described in the article. DDT was known to be losing its effectiveness as early as the 1950s because heavy use was rapidly selecting for resistance in the mosquito population. The claim that the DDT ban lead to a large number of human deaths was created and marketed as part of an attack on Rachel Carson and the concept of public health programs in general:

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/rehabilitatingcar...
http://www.salon.com/2008/05/15/steve_milloy_and_rachel_cars...

Note that the DDT stories rely heavily on the same Steven Milloy mentioned in this article. One of the less immediately obvious sources of money was actually the tobacco companies, who are trying to discredit public health organizations whose anti-smoking campaigns are cutting into profits.
Is going to provide all Ghost features or just will look like it?
Ditch IRC for a proprietary web application? No thanks.
I'd say, from my armchair: take a long hard look at what's really happening out there, step out of your bubble. Stop this ridiculous attitude towards competitors and open source, at least long enough to see what they have to offer. Get your people some Macs, get your server people exposed to some Linux, get them some iPhones and iPads and Android devices, and make them see why you've been losing ground. Those competitors aren't perfect, they all have distinct and horrible weaknesses that you can exploit by making something better. Step out of your bubble and make something.
For those who want to record your driving data for personal use, as opposed to real-time dissemination, it's amazingly inexpensive.

Last week, I bought an ODB2 Bluetooth adapter on eBay for about $12. You plug it into your car's diagnostics port, below the steering wheel. (It's the same port that the DMV plugs into to check emissions stuff, or that Progressive Insurance uses to give a safe-driver discount.)

With the adapter plugged in, I synced it with Torque Lite, a free Android app on my phone. (There's a $5 paid version that offers more features, but the Lite version offers enough for me.)

In the app, I could see (and record) my speed, estimated MPG, fuel level, acceleration, ambient air temperature, engine coolant temperature, engine load, engine RPMs, fuel pressure, throttle position, and more.
Ah. Then we need not worry about the singularity coming from Google.

(Call me when Google measures up to IBM's Watson.)

At least this "shying away" will not unleash the 'AI winter' that "hard AI problem" "solvers" have caused.

Umm. Yeah...
Honest question, why is it bad if a union becomes powerful enough to convince an employer to sign a contract forbidding them to hire non-union employees or fire during a strike? I can think of some answers, but none that can't also be applied to, say, usury laws which makes the average internet libertarian's position on unions feel hypocritical to me.
right.

But barely no one likes Adobe flash.
Their software quality is getting lower and lower.
Too much bureaucracy always shown in these companies.
It states it is open source but I struggle to find the source. Can someone point me to the source?
Deep sea diving? what study are you referring to there?
If I remember rightly (it's been a while since I read up on them), they proposed using tungsten rods initially. Not sure if they'd still go down that route, or whether they'd use something a bit more exotic (carbon nanotubes is always the go to answer for exotic-scifi style things).
Ballmer is staying.