skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The police here in the Zurich area can be pretty flexible with car safety. This guy got a permit to install a wood stove in his Volvo: http://metro.co.uk/2012/02/13/swiss-man-replaces-cars-broken...
Violet is in the rainbow. Like magenta, it is a combination of red and blue (#8F00FF). This is because there's a second hump in the frequency sensitivity of the red receptor. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space#Color_matc...

So there is a "between red and blue" in the spectrum. Just no place where there's more red than blue.
I wouldn't dismiss this as nonsense.

Swiss roads and driving rules are both safe and very sensible. People drive at limit, but limits actually make sense. There's plenty 1.5-lane two-way roads, but people are aware of others and it never causes any issues. Roundabouts are very widely used, but there are no right turns on red nor there are left turns without guaranteed right of way. You are assumed to be a good driver, but they also try and protect you from doing stupid things when you are on an "auto-pilot". And 17" multi-screen UI could easily be just the thing to put anyone into an auto-pilot mode.

That said, I don't think it's a big deal for Tesla. For one, they can auto shutoff the screen in Swiss models and, for two, they can easily redesign the whole thing as needed.
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I hope the fog lights thing isn't true since that would be absolutely mad. All the things a driver needs to toggle while the car is moving should be physical knobs with solid feedback for muscle memory.
Love the work on this! Congrats!
For me, the biggest positive is avoiding indexing errors between 0-indexed languages (Python) and 1-indexed data (almost everything I get). Patient IDs, simulation code, etc. hardly ever starts with "0" as the first ID unless it's been created by a computer scientist, and having to make sure everything is looking at ID-1 instead of ID is a pain. And makes code less useful to people who use the code instead of making it.
>more than any other officer in the department

It's in the writing.
Peppercorn, a startup which makes contracts for startups, opens landing for beta
Announcing the First White House Maker Faire
It would be even more wasteful to build a stack, then even if it didn't work / new features needed to be added / old cruft needed to be removed / new devices and services need to be supported, just keep using and developing that stack.

It's called agile development, and it lets them respond quickly and efficiently to changes in requirements / mission.

See also: Facebook, Twitter, most other tech companies.
With a password, of course it is.
Given the government so obviously keeps an eye on us, it only stands to reason that we are allowed to keep an eye on them. This is currently a point of contention, but with the current technological advances, I doubt it's one that will be able to stick and stay.
Hooray for stereotypes and prejudice based on weak correlations!
I'd just like to add it would be equally wrong regardless of the origin of the senior exec.
I'm not assuming anything, I'm reading what you wrote:

> there are simply no points where their stuff intersects with my life.

As to your other point: Microsoft is big. A "general trajectory" is very vague at their scale. Failure in one area (mobile, tablet) does not imply failure in another (enterprise), or indeed overall. I don't see what's wrong with trying to find a CEO who can turnaround that failure, and don't think it's really indicative of anything other than a missed opportunity.
It means he's one of those white racists who doesn't think he's racist.
Full screen streaming works beautifully for me, it's how my wife and I watch Amazon Prime movies. It's just like watching TV. I've read that the computer needs to encode the video it's streaming to the chromecast, so if your computer is slow, the streaming will be slow. That may be why you were getting poor results.
I work in the corporate world. Only thing I use a Microsoft product for is running games. I do have Excel installed on my Mac, but haven’t touched it in ages (though this is mostly because things I deal with polarized themselves between „I can just do it in Numbers” and „where’s my Matlab”).

EDIT: I don’t mean it’s irrelevant, I just mean your assumption wasn’t really legitimate. There’s now many big companies that only use Microsoft in limited ways, and probably even some that don’t use the software at all.
It's probably most accurate to say that American biscuits are one member of a family of baked goods called "scones" in the rest of the Anglo-sphere: http://www.seriouseats.com/talk/2011/01/biscuits-vs-scones.h... (see the comment by eaguk on 01/18/11). They are savory rather than sweet, bready rather than cakey, airy rather than dense. What Americans call "scones" are exactly the opposite: a sweet, cakey, dense item that is often glazed or fruit-filled: http://www.starbucks.com/menu/food/bakery/blueberry-scone.
Both are on the radar, but not sure on timing yet.
I agree, I'm not a Go lover but I'm learning it though because it will be prominent - like Javascript, no matter how much I hate that language.

Haskell on the other hand is incredible but the learning curve is pretty rough.

I haven't played with Rust much but I think that looks promising; also what about D? I played with it a bit and it's a wonderful language I think; none of these languages meet my desire for Haskell's type system though so I've mostly been writing software in that.
It's the same with taking the [Hippocratic Oath](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath) for doctors before they get the cash rolling in for them.
I use bluetile, as it is a middle-ground between the default GNOME window-manager and a full tiling experience.

As things stand I'm not likely to change any-time soon, because it does work the way I'd expect it to.
hmm. a steve jobs like photo and vibe there..
The easiest thing we did when we needed to scale was to work with a number of other web dev shops. Some were 1 man operations and others slightly larger. Not only did this help us grow, but we also made additional revenue when they passed us work they couldn't handle due to time/experience.
> Good luck to Bill in his new roll on the Board as "Founder and Technology Advisor".

Probably more of a honorary title than anything else. I doubt he'll be as active as Microsoft makes it seem. If anything, Microsoft would be smart to let the new CEO follow his own visions, not Gates's visions.
Sidenote: the videos are embedded from YouTube. I'm impressed and even a bit encouraged that Microsoft set aside NIH long enough to use a competitor's product.
What market is the mill aiming for? Servers, phones, desktop or all of the above?
I think that's what Rust is coming on to the stage for, no? It's going to be a while before it's ecosystem is mature enough but I think that's a promising language.
Because it has been done before at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in the early 90's

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.Syste...

Or at Xerox PARC in the early 80's

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/parc/techReport...
> (ahem: Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, Games Workshop)

Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast now, btw. Abandon hope all ye etc.
It's all well and good to recognize that he clearly hasn't let his personal feelings about his past project's destruction hinder his career. That's an admirable quality in him and worth noting.

It's another thing to pretend he's a robot and has no feelings on the matter, which is what you're implying. I think the original question is a valid one. Clearly he would have thoughts on the matter and they may be interesting to hear.
Yes. In South Korea you can't just put a SIM card in a device and use it like you can in the rest of the world. The phones have to be activated with the carrier.

I don't know of any other place where this happens.
I wish I had enough karma to upvote this (I tried). That's a brilliant idea and I plan to do the same. $17 sounds fair even for the paid version.
I laughed. At one of the song's dramatic points, it showed a picture of a fork that you can split in half to become chop sticks.
I also don't mean to put down the creators of this product, it probably has its use cases. But every time I see something like "SQL with the scalability of KV" (which happens a lot these days), it's like someone promising a perpetual energy source. In other words, there is usually some kind of catch involved.

In this case it's that JOINs are still expensive. Well, this is actually a pretty big deal, because JOINs are typically the reason I settle for either a NoSQL or a SQL store.

Again, I'm sure this has other merits that may distinguish itself from the rest of everyone and their grandma building a database these days.
Enjoyment >> freedom /s

Plus the artists who create the content get a miniscule part of your purchase money.
I rather like the look of lookback, actually. It seems pretty nifty.
Hurray! 10 years of getting people laid remotely!
Google and Cisco sign patent deal, blast ‘patent privateering’
Wouldn't magenta just be red mixed with white? That's how you do it with paint.
In terms of ecosystem and performance only .NET.
The second sentence you quoted appears to be backing up the assumption, or giving you a clue as to where it came from. I don't think he was "correcting" you
The key issue is the simplicity and the ease of use. Wordpress is not about blogging any more. It is complicated and has a terrible code base. Writing this in GO doesn’t make any sense, because GO is not simpler than Nodejs in terms of setup and installation.
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Because there are multiple mature web frameworks for Scala, I think. Go has yet to produce one (Revel? I think is coming close). I think web frameworks help drive adoption. I see that happening with Haskell too (as web frameworks mature more people get into it through that).
> I do hope the changing of the guard will help microsoft to build better products that integrate with OS's beside windows.

It's not about integration, for Microsoft it's about migration. Why give customers, who are already well and truly invested, any leeway to migrate part of their infrastructure to a competing product?

Interoperability only makes business sense to allow people to migrate to your product, not when there's a risk of allowing customers to ease moving away from it. Given that they've already taken over the corporate/office world, there's not much left out there to suck in. Most of their battles are now in mobile and in the server room. Both of which they're coming from a losing position.
New crazy TLDs going up for sale...
I've lived in part of the poorest region of Brazil in 2004. Most people I knew in middle class could afford at least a computer good enough to download things on emule or kazaa (BT was just starting to get popular but was still more geeky by then, where I lived) ... And I was impressed by the pirating knowledge... People who barely knew how to use Word and Excel, could download, or had a son who knew how to do it. Yet they couldn't afford to consume movies and music at the normal price. Because of extremly High tariffs, cultural goods where more expensive than in the US or Europe. And yet salary was much lower...

Broadband was expensive too, but 512k was something like 60$... And because internet access had so much more use than just consuming cultural information, people would prefer to get it and save on something else. Like the dvds that they would get by pirating.

Before 2002 when Broadband access was excessively rare... Most people would just buy pirated dvds from the flea market... For 5 $ or less. They where ready to pay for them... but at a lower price than what official goods where... You never bought dvd for youself except if you were wealthy or to give them as gifts.
Ok, but can one look at the quality of the code before decides to support the project? Is there a repo hosted somewhere?
That's nitpicking. But yes, technically you're correct, I didn't cover the cases where other people outside of my control are using MS software behind the scenes which has an influence on my life. However, we're getting very far away from the original point just for the sake of one-upmanship.

I'm not asserting MS is failing. We basically agree though that there are areas where a turnaround would be exceedingly beneficial or even actually needed. I was trying to illustrate something about those areas, namely that I'd like MS to come back and make contributions to things I care about. It's not selfish, it was merely a wish to make our ecosystem richer again. And I wouldn't have guessed this opinion to be that controversial, but here we go.
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"Too many parentheses" :-)

Oh for the damage I've seen C programs cause due to "not enough parentheses".

Not really the main point, but there is a certain amount of irony there.
Man, now I wish I hadn't deleted 2 years worth of posts/images/etc back when I first got on.
Yes and no. Some notes:

* Experimentation doesn't make it into production twice unless you're doing something wrong.

* There are proven solutions off the shelf both open source and commercial.

* They should be value driven rather than innovation driven. We aren't paying them to be a research agency.

* There is an ongoing maintenance cost and in-house only knowledge when you do an NIH job of something. That is not efficient.
That's not really true. Infix math definitely has its place, particularly for sequences of operations, like monadic chains. It's kind of nice having the input and output on the extremes of the expression, with the parameters attached to the operators, as opposed to prefix notation, which puts the input inside layers of nesting.
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I agree, and would also like to point out that these are not mutually exclusive. Lasers can help detect pedestrians that run in front of cars, while intercar communication can send information about cars "intentions" and additionally could send warnings back to other cars about obstacles they may not be able to detect for a ways out.
I am pro-Union BUT this is the type of things that get them in trouble all the time. People who perform poorly at work should be held accountable and not defended by the Union. It really is in the Union's benefit to weed out bad apples themselves and not protect them.
Microsoft names Nadella new CEO, Gates steps down as board chairman
I feel like we are misunderstanding each other.

With position I am talking about politcal position, witch is what it is all about.

> The 'position' is that, in order to have an efficient market, one should not do things that cause market failure.

"one should not" who is "one"? I dont understand what you mean. The goverment should defnetly not do things that cause market failure, and in my opinion the should do things against it either.

> Saying that collusion can lead to market failure, and thus must be proscribed if one wishes to have an efficient market, is not propaganda.

My point was to say that, its propaganda to say that free market people dont belive in market failure, nothing else.

> 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.

Again, nobody is arguing for "perfect markets". This is what seemingly repeatedly has to be said.

> 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

No it is not. Also you only addressed the first part of my argument. Its hard to argue the general case here, there is tons of litrature showing how for example anti-trust regulation was used to keep prices high. There are tons of cases where goverment was used to enforce cartels as well.

So if the goverment task of managing cartels would not exists then there might be less cartels overall.

> 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.

You might be surprised but there no just the walrasian standard model (or Arrow–Debreu). Also just because the make these assumition and the need to be true in there model does not mean that it is the same for the real world. You are assuming that the standard model used in econ 101 is reality.

Well it is not, and everybody who studied economics a bit knows this. You need to bring in transaction costs, theory of the firm, information economics, you need to bring in instiutional economics, there needs to be a explaition market ajustment and so on. Also you need to model politcal economy, are you really so naive to assume that the correction of market failure is also just like in these models. A completly costless third party that only ever does anything when the model goes out of balance, interduce politcal economy into the mix, try modeling 'goverment failure' as well.

Again, I feel I have to say this again, I do not make the argument that a market always is or always reaches generall equillibrum very fast(as in Arrow-Debreu). The simple idea that you seam to have is that any diffrence between Arrow-Debreu assumtions and the real world must be corrected is not woreable in practice, and I belive no economist would still try this.
There have always been individual police officers and sheriffs who take a stand against the abuse. The US such is a big country, how could it be otherwise? You can probably find a thousand similar examples if you look hard enough. I think it's already pretty comical that "Officer gets fired after long history of abuse" is news in the first place.

Optimism is only warranted when we have reason to believe things are getting better. One anecdote doesn't do much.
Yeap. My apologies, I was looking at the height.

Height: 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m)
The other important piece of missing information is anything from the tail of the server's error-log.
First Class ticket normally goes through an express and polite service... (maybe even in the US)
Actually, I'm not a minority, I know hardly anyone who behaves differently in my country. I also certainly am not in lower class. I hardly ever watch movies and when I do, I go to the cinema, because I don't like storing use-once junk in my apartment. Try to put it in perspective of 2% of income - in US most people can accept $85 broadband but hardly a $85 DVD, even if they are earning much more than average. I would be considered an idiot with too much money to spend if I bought them for myself. The only DVDs I have seen anywhere were gifts, as they are easy to pick and fit in boxes well.

The only reason why broadband may cost that much is because it's localized and one can't simply buy EU broadband in US. There are actually good reasons for broadband prices to be affected by local economy, since labour and materials may have different cost there. That's not the case with DVDs, which cost the same (pennies) to manufacture.

But maybe I should have put more emphasis on the problems with availability rather than money. Having a choice of spending my $20 on cinema tickets or a DVD, sometimes I would choose latter to watch something at home. But here DVDs are released only when the dubbing is ready, often after a year from the original release. I could get to this content earlier online, but I don't have Netflix here, nor Play Movies, Pandora and many others. There were problems with DVD releases that were solved in two ways: by VOD with reasonable monthly fee or by torrents. Saying torrents are for the greedy is just a good excuse to prosecute piracy instead of improving the market.
India Born Satya Nadella named new Microsoft CEO
A part of me was hoping for an outside technologist, as I'm almost instinctively suspicious of anyone who could grow and thrive in the dysfunctional stack rank regime, but this is so much better than the CEO of a soft drink company, for example.
Do they have to defend someone who is outside of the union's stated rules/expectations for a member? For instance if the Officer's Union stated that if a member was doing something illegal or grossly incompetent that they would not defend the actions? Not saying that this union does have that sort of stipulation, but curious as to where the line is drawn.

It does seem that the officer had a history of 'bad behavior' and was quite obviously in the wrong here. Do they have to defend 'hopeless cases' is really the question I have.

I would be much happier if the union stood back, and decided to let him try to bring suit, then shut him down in court for his own behavior... Rather than just trying to get someone who obviously has issues reinstated because "reasons".
That's fine but the first iterations were because they fucked the requirements up. Regardless of Agile/not, due diligence when selecting products or deciding to write them is required.
I have had my lens removed and I do experience this. To me its more annoying than exciting though. Those black light lamps used in things like club lighting are somewhat blinding to me. My glasses do filter it though.
Being able to communicate is extremely important for even mid-level executives. If the accent makes understanding continuous speech more difficult and lacking vocabulary prevent the creation of accurate metaphors, it's a big problem.

Nadella shows no sign of this. He may not sound "perfectly american" but he's understandable enough for me. In fact, he sounds vaguely European. Keep in mind I am a Hungarian, born in Brazil who learned Hungarian, Portuguese and English in that order. If I can understand him, I suppose Americans will have little trouble ;-)
Adminotech releases a WebGL webclient for Meshmoon scenes.
WebRocket Developer API: http://doc.meshmoon.com/doxygen/webrocket/
Many of them are now open source too:

* http://government.github.com/community/

For example:

* https://github.com/hmrc

Sure it's not everything yet, but it's progress. You can still reach the right people and get involved.
Satya Nadella: His first interview as CEO of Microsoft
The criticism that I've seen recently was due to their choice of Go to implement a router to pass requests to the right back end application. According to their blog post this replaced a previous router written in Scala which nobody really understood. I think they received some criticism for being too quick to pick up fashionable new technologies which then had to be replaced because they were unmaintanable (the scala router).

The poster you're replying to is being very vague though, and I think the downvotes are probably deserved in that case. Either give concrete examples of why you dislike the way someone's doing something, or don't post.
Why I avoid SDKs in production
I think the world has gotten a little weird. You have real life businesses today that have no Microsoft stuff in them at all. If you live in a corporate environment defined by your Windows XP desktop, it's difficult to imagine a world where grey, 9 lb laptops and horrible corporate Windows installs aren't the norm.
Exactly; any car UI that requires you to look at anything but the road is really bad UI. This, to me, is a much more legitimate and concrete argument than "it might be distracting."
Cloud Odyssey, a science fiction movie by Oracle ???
I have no problem with such a contract. I only have problem with state granted power of such a thing.
Windows support appears to be a bit broken it seems.
He is staying on the board apparently.
Could this thermal waste be focused and directed? If so couldn't it radiate out in a useful way, like maneuvering?
Another way you can read it is with a comparison with Stephen Elop and Rick Belluzzo. Could he have intentionally mis-managed OS/2 leaving the space open for Windows 3, being then rewarded by a position at Microsoft's board?

I know nothing about his career or his decisions WRT the OS/2 product, but, after having a closer look at the other two, a pattern of executive placement as an offensive weapon starts to form.

edit: minor clarifications