skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think beyond hitting targets on earth, and even in orbit. Something like the X-37 allows the Air Force to go up and capture another satellite, perform modifications to it, or even bring it back down to Earth for analysis.

No need to blast enemy satellites out of orbit, just rocket up and snatch it.
The author writes his own experiences, and they are directly opposite of the "Compiler Construction using Flex and Bison." And he explains why. I also remember Stroustrup's story where once he wanted to develop C++ he got well meant advices to use lex and yacc, and he claims that he much later realized that much better approach for him would have been to code both things by hand.

This matches Walter's experiences, and not only his.
Interesting. Maybe they just generate it for the active users. You mention it was a tst account, so I assume it's not that active and not a lot of content.
But is it actually against Spanish law?

If an officer arrests you for breaking a bad law, that's not on the officer, that's on the legislators.

The UK it's a grey area. In theory it's fine unless the officer has reason to believe that the photos will be used to aid in an act of terrorism but that wiggle room could potentially be enough for an officer wishing to abuse their power.

Interestingly the Met actually have a page on photographers rights in this (and other) regards: http://content.met.police.uk/Site/photographyadvice
In that system, could you not buy a ticket, do 5 changes, then cancel the ticket and rebuy, repeat?
It would be a lot harder to make back the cost of the ticket though.
It's a shrewd political move by the sheriff to fire the officer for this particular offense. It sends a signal to the other officers while remaining completely safe from any legitimate internal criticism or controversy. If you were a leader in the police who wanted to set the record straight on the legalities of filming police officers, this would be the way to do it.
I'll be more interested when he unleashes his "arse kicking" on the company and starts pushing roadmaps out. That's a make or break moment for a lot of us involved in Microsoft's ecosystem.
Steve Ballmer email to employees on new CEO
Automatically wait for AJAX with Capybara
This is the stuff of conspiracy theories. The German constitution is pretty specific when it comes to whether and how the government can limit fundamental rights.

Article 10 of the Basic Law says that "telecommunications privacy shall be inviolable" and that "restrictions may be ordered only pursuant to a law". Secret agreements are no laws, so they cannot give the government the right to enact restrictions on telecommunications privacy. This requires a law passed by the German parliament following normal procedures (such as the G10 Act).

Prior to 1991, there might have been a (weak) international law argument based on Germany's limited sovereignty, but since 1991, this doesn't work, either.

The links you give rely entirely on the assumption that secret agreements can have the force of law; they do not.
Yes, but: nuclear weapons in space are prohibited by at least two treaties to which the US is a signatory; any point on the globe worth hitting with conventional weapons would be far easier and cheaper to hit with, say, a cruise missile or a drone-launched Hellfire; last but not least, you'd first have to build a weapon to fit in this thing's cargo bay, which almost certainly has not been done because, given the first two mentioned points, it's not worth anyone's time or money to bother.

To understand the X-37, you need a reasonable knowledge of the origins of the Space Shuttle program. The only reason that program came to even the bastardized fruition it did was because the Air Force signed on, and they did so only because they needed a means of servicing and maintaining their orbital equipment. In theory, and occasionally in practice, this means involved actual human astronauts going up and doing spanner work on satellites in orbit, but this was expensive and fraught with undue difficulty; cheaper and easier was simply to stuff the whole satellite into the Shuttle's payload bay and haul it back down the gravity well for repair, refit, and relaunch, and indeed many Space Shuttle missions involved precisely this evolution. (It's probable, if uncertain due to the Air Force's bent for secrecy with regard to their payloads, that the Shuttle was used to return some or most of these satellites to orbit; on the other hand, a Titan-IV's probably cheaper, and the Air Force has used plenty of those, too. I don't know much about what goes into that sort of decision.)

The X-37, then, far from being some kind of conspiracy-theory FOBS, is just a Space-Shuttle-style "space truck". The major difference is that technology has now reached a point where it's possible for such a vehicle to satisfy the Air Force's mission parameters without having to involve all the complex, costly, and potentially disastrous encumbrances required to carry living humans into space.

Edit! I've finally just recalled the name of the book from which I gained my understanding of the politicking which took the Space Shuttle program from initial conception to final operational "Space Transportation System". That book is The Space Shuttle Decision, published by NASA as part of the NASA History Series, and you can read it online at http://www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttledecision/ and, oh, probably lots of other places as well. A bit dry, but marvelously detailed and surprisingly objective given its origins; I recommend it unreservedly to anyone with an interest in the history of its subject matter.
It looks like Microsoft is starting to head in a better direction given their backtracking on "metro" style for desktop applications. I hope they develop more software for non-Windows devices. I really wouldn't mind using Microsoft software on non-Windows. I only use Windows for testing and gaming.

I wish Nadella and Microsoft luck, and hope they make a real turn around.

As a side note it is also exciting to see some more diversity in the top ranks of one of our biggest technology companies. If I were a young aspiring engineer from India, or anywhere in the world really, I'd feel pretty good about the future right now.

Also amazing is that they're publishing and embedding Google YouTube videos on that page.
You've never been camping with 30 members of your family before huh.
The email on his first day is an interesting read:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/feb14/02-04ma...
But in offering a bug bounty you will effectively give the okay for anyone anywhere to attack your assets. This would remove the ability to detect or easily prosecute attackers as up to a point the bounty hunters and bad guys will look exactly the same.
Amazing app! Bought and added to my tumblr! :) http://nclx.tumblr.com/
So something a little more formal than chat?
Since the ticket would be fully refundable, it would just increase the time and hassle involved, not the monetary outlay.
Ghost is really beautiful. I created Ospari just because it is written in PHP and therefore it is easy to install.
The materials are released under CC licences.
He's been in the U.S since his masters, an accent change over that many years is quite natural, and hardly has anything do with the fact that he's in a high powered position in the company.
I've written a log file viewer (http://lnav.org) that exports log messages as SQLite virtual tables. I was hoping this project also leveraged virtual tables since they're one of the coolest features in SQLite.

lnav tries to push things a little further and extract data from unstructured log messages. For example, given the following message:

"Registering new address record for 10.1.10.62 on eth0."

It will create a virtual table with two columns that capture the IP address (10.1.10.62) and the device name (eth0). Queries against this table will return the values from all messages with the same format (Registering new address record for COL_0 on COL_1). See http://lnav.readthedocs.org/en/latest/data.html for more info.
Theoretically, assuming that the mixer is perfectly implemented and law enforcement never uses their legal authority to compromise it, and that your records are never acquired by law enforcement.

There's no reason to believe any of those assumptions are true – and once any of them fail, you've helpfully given the prosecutor a detailed, hard-to-deny log of your every transaction.
Well Congrats to their new CEO, there is a lot of work to do to put MSFT on the right path for the future. The industry has changed, consumers have changed, MSFT needs to evolve too.
Will he be able to unify the entire Microsoft experience into something amazing? I'm excited!

New blood will surely bring in fresh ideas and approaches - I hope Microsoft manages to raise the bar even higher and make me an MS evangelist again.
I can't see how what you are asking is related to what I wrote.

I am not looking for a pointless, chaotic debate. I made a very clear point - assuming none of the people who downloaded the song will buy it, if the first link wasn't to megaupload or w/e is equally stupid to assuming everyone who downloaded the song will buy it.

Even if 0.1% of the downloaders (one in a thousand!) would have otherwise bought what they pirated, that is 8 or 9 figures in lost revenue.
I'd just like to point out that s-expressions are not the same as Lisp. Rather, they are orthogonal. Using s-expressions for concrete syntax does not say anything at all about the semantics of your language.

This also means that there can be multiple concrete syntaxes for a language: e.g. for Python, you can use the standard syntax, but you could also use s-expressions, without changing the semantics one bit.
Another interesting color fact: many birds have four independent color channels instead of our three [1]. Which means they can see a whole additional dimension of colors we cannot even imagine. I like to think how it would be to wake up one day and suddenly being able to see all those additional colors...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
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Well let me give you the simplest market argument I know. Look at corrulation between economic freedom and economic size and growth.

http://www.freetheworld.com/2013/EFW2013-complete.pdf (Page 22)
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Microsoft announces new CEO – Satya Nadella
> I was under the impression that, to be allocatively efficient, market participants have to be 'price takers' (along with a bunch of other assumptions) - anything other than this creates an inefficient market.

You should update your economic belives. Look at the 2002 Nobel Price by V. Smith for this one.

> In short, market theory absolutely does have a position on collusion - it leads to market failure.

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.

No (almsot no) free market economys belvies that there is no market failure (however you want to define it). That is simply something that is often assert because it makes for good propaganda (makes it possible to laught at the idiot free market people without really listening to them).

The question is not if the market is perfect, it is clearly not. The question is (a) can we do something about it, do we know enougth (b) given the power to do something about it, will the goverment actually do it, or will it use that power to do the oppiste.

Now I would assert (hince my free market views) that both (a) and (b) have to be answer with 'most likly no'. We often do things because we think we can and it turns out that it also has tons of other effects that we did not wish for (law of unintended consequenses). Next even assuming that understand everything about some action, given the power is it not more likly that something else will be done. A quick glance at history clearly shows this, how often is a given regulation used to help buissnesses instead of people workers.

Why do you think you coke is made out of mais sirup instead of cain sugar.
I'm not an expert but I will state that x-37 in orbit doesn't have 23km/s delta-v. I think wiki for similar vehicles can confirm that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget
I found the handwritten Mark Zuckerberg signature a little pretentious. Maybe that's because of The Social Network, but I don't feel like other CEO's are using their own brand like that. It's like a fashion designer or even an artist signing their work... My video was not THAT good.
Technically, if it's already ticketed it's a refund, not a cancel (at GDS level at least), but airlines use both the same at marketing level.

You can try that but full refunds are unusual, normally there's a penalty fee. More than for preventing ripping off lounges, it's to prevent third parties from playing tricks on the seats' availability. Maybe it still pays off, have a look!
I'm originally from Saskatoon, and remember a day around 2004 or 2005 where it was in the -40s, -62 with the windchill. Once was enough - I can't imagine "more often than not"!
Seriously, Securing a SoC is Not Easy
I would imagine that being written in PHP is the main selling point for end users who don't have the knowledge to set up a Node.js based website.
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Microsoft names Satya Nadella to replace Steve Ballmer
Didn't think of that. In that case a specialized icbm would be better. As space-x shows you don't need wings to be accurate from orbit.

Nasa should really drop this winged approach. They can't because they have experience and scientists on that field, and change is hard.
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> The obvious and huge difference then would be that KeePass requires a password or key file to open but an HTML page requires only a browser or text editor. Major, major difference to me.

Did you spend even two seconds looking at OneShallPass? Literally the second thing on the page is a field asking for a passphrase, and yet you came here to complain that it doesn't require a passphrase.

The passwords are encrypted. The fact you can read the decryption algorithm in your text editor doesn't let anyone know your passwords, any more than you being able to download and read the source of KeePass lets you read other people's KeePass passwords.
"Major Tracy Bunko — then posted at the Pentagon's Air Force press desk"

Now who can we get to really blow some smoke on these classified projects? Well, there's Major Bunko, sir. They say he can really sling some major... uh... bunko.
Is it racist to not understand half of what is said through a thick accent? if it is I'm a big jerk.

edit: why the down votes? Honest question, parent seems to be implying that its a bad thing that he adjusted to his environment, an environment where clear communication is paramount,.
John W. Thompson was once general manager of the division of IBM that produced OS/2[1], which was soundly defeated by Microsoft. I wonder how he feels about being chairman of Microsoft now given that previous experience.

[1] Around this time, he reported to an executive named John M. Thompson, hence the use of middle initials.
What is a good change here is simplicity of language & clarity - Who Am I?, Why am I here, Why are you here and What do we do next.
A good departure from corporate bs that is spewed when there is a change of guard.
That said Satya Nadella has a task like none other in the business. Good Luck to Satya and MSFT.
Does your mobile app feel ancient after Paper?
Heartening? I wish:

> Saulet has long history of misconduct, with approximately 120 allegations against him and 21 cases of sustained misconduct (more than any other officer in the department).

It isn't exactly progress if the worst officer in de the department is fired after sustained abusive behavior. And the union immediately attempted to overturn the dismissal as well. This is pretty much as bad as it gets.

So I see no reason for optimism, given the circumstances. There are no signs of structural improvement. Not so heartening.
> As a side note it is also exciting to see some more diversity in the top ranks of one of our biggest technology companies.

Because true diversity is people who look different!
Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO
I dont care if there are unions, the problem I have is that when unions start to not allow other peoples to work for the employer. That has happen very often in history.

Also the should be allowed to strik, but the employer should also be allowed to fire people who dont show up to work.
A step down from chairman, but a step up in involvement. Gates says he will be "substantially increasing the time that I spend at the company."
You should also have a look on fartscroll: http://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/
His tone sounds like a project manager, well, maybe CEO as a role in big corps like MSFT is a glorified PM on a larger scale.
So his visions are "mobile and cloud-first" and "enable" customers to "do more."

Still a bit less buzzwordy than Ballmer.
Happy not to see Big Buck Bunny though.
shrug He's been in the US for 22 years.

He still sounds Indian - eg 'more meaning', 'unbounded' has the emphasis on the vowels which is quite Indian. He also pronounces 'perseverance' differently from an American. I don't think he's putting anything on.
i canceled my account today.
Very good question. I have a feeling it's the latter, because what's in it for them?
Good luck, commander!

Scrap Ballmer's toys and go after the big enterprise boys.

That's where the money is :)
Do you think that private companies that use bug bounties are being inefficient then?
That would be about Mach 10 weapon launch. I don't think that's been seriously studied or tried in practice. That would be quite a technological achievement all by itself, aside from everything else the thing can do.

Of course the vehicle is going to be destroyed anyway, so just carry the payload all the way down till it goes boom or whatever, unless you were hoping to launch multiple warheads. The problem is the whole vehicle is very light, so you're not going to fit a B-52 worth of payloads in a vehicle who's launch weight is, I believe, lighter than a GBU-43. My point being that if vehicle plus payload at launch is lighter than a GBU-43, there's not much point in being concerned with how many GBU-43 it can be dropped if it can only carry a fraction of one anyway.

The main problem is its hard to think up a mission profile where a cruise missile wouldn't be cheaper and more effective.
I don't know a lot about Nadella, but he seems like a huge leap away from Ballmer. Indian cricketeer who hustles but at least looks like a nice guy...Could be hugely positive for them. Pretty cool.

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.
Don't forget aerobraking which can knock a big chunk off that delta-v.
Microsoft names Nadella as CEO
I disagree, when you understand the way UK government works, any compromises will be cheaper in nearly every case along with requiring no action on their part in the first place which is even better. Planning the creation of a team to handle this will likely run in to the millions before you've even begun, that is the way it works. And noone resigns they just go in to hiding for a while ;)
It is interesting how devoid of content it is. I think that much better way to motivate the troops is to give tangible goals and be brief.

Anyway good luck be with him - from what I read in his bio he was heading the only part of MS recently that managed to not alienate its customer and developer base.
I'm not sure what you mean by your reply.
In my experience, when you encounter VLIW cores, there is almost no tooling for it as they tend be application specific DSP-ish cores. In that case hand optimized assembly is the way to go as there is no budget to produce optimizing compiler of anything.
Yes it is. You don't have to setup PHP. It comes preinstalled and preconfigured on most hosting products. You can copy Ospari and start to blog. No step and no configuration needed.
From PHP to Node and now back to PHP. The circle of code.
> full refunds are unusual, normally there's a penalty fee.

At least on United (not too familiar with other airlines' policies), full-fare tickets (Y, J, F) are refundable without a fee. If it was paid on a credit card, they'll typically just reverse the charge.
He sounds more Dutch kind of German actually.^^
Mobile and cloud first could be emphasizing being where customers want Microsoft to be, rather than Windows, which has a tiny portion of mobile and cloud.

Microsoft already produce some apps for the web, iOS and Android, and Azure can run Linux VMs.

Hopefully they just go wherever people want to pay them, eg, to access MS Office where they need it, even if it isn't via a Windows device.
The most interesting thing on this page is that the videos are hosted on YouTube.
I was as well on the $5/month plan, I suspended my account for a little while due to exams, and tried re-activating it just to notice the $5 plan was gone. A few mails with support later they provided me a link to re-activate my 5$ plan. I didn't use it that much though, merely for shows in combination with showRSS.

I have had contact with the support of put.io more than once, and they were always very friendly and helpful. (even if some of the request were things such as "add play.fm support").

The big advantage over anything else I've seen with putio is that populair torrents are downloaded in a matter of seconds (due to someone else already having downloaded it) and the mp4-conversion. Btw, a small tip, instead of using the site itself for watching media which is downloaded, you can stream it directly into VLC or MPlayerX (the later also support streaming youtube video's I believe) which is very very handy!

Just noticed, there is an option for the legacy 10G $5/month account:
http://lry.be/WRxO
I'm sure his diversity is only skin deep, and that being born in Hyderabad to an Indian civil servant and migrating to America as an adult had no effect on his personality, experience, or opinions.
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Thanks, I accept your apology, though in improvement, I would focus on your writing. Habits are hard to change, but what you write is public and read by others. A careful eye (try not to post before going to bed) and use of the Edit button on HN can go a long way. Remember that not everyone has the same life and interests as you -- all we can assume is shared here is technology and business, so anything outside those realms spoken here is ... uncomfortable. I'd feel the same way if you'd talked about changes in filmmaking or fabric. Admittedly this was offensive, but it was more the bait-and-switch unexpected nature of it. I'm agreeing with what you wrote, everything's great, then paragraphs get longer and suddenly--Bam! It's not about technology but how the world is changing too fast. That's where you lost me. ;-)
I find it particularly interesting that they highlighted his work with *Nix systems in his early career.

I don't want to draw any conclusions, but I have a good feeling about that.
No it is not a circle of product. Ghost and Ospari is by no wary comparable to Wordpress.
The idea of having to go through security everyday for free meals sounds unpalatable.
You know for the first time in a very long time I actually want to make Windows software. It's not really Microsoft's fault though. I really like twitch.tv, and streaming games from Windows is really easy thanks to OBS. I want to build stuff that makes user and streamer interaction easier via OBS on Windows. I wouldn't put it in the Windows store though. Heh.
Satya Nadella 'made in INDIA'. Proud moments.
Once again, it's the people who don't know how, or don't even know it can be done, who suffer.

Those people are the customers Adobe wants, and they're the only ones being hurt by this.
Deregulation didn't cause the false ratings.