skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's on the homepage (http://azure.com) as "Launch Windows Server and Linux in minutes". Plus it has an entire section in their VMs page (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/).

Although yes, their advertising of Azure and Azure features isn't very huge. The ads that I have seen are for "Microsoft Cloud" (http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/microsoftcloud/default.a...) which is a combination of products and technologies.
related to company structure, I recently read "Turn the ship around!" and found it to be a great book on leadership (its Harvard business school meets the red october, if you're not familiar)

Anyone have any experience with Leader-Leader at a company? I feel like it would mostly work, but there are some variables I think that might need attention.
Cynical: only state actors have access to attack submarines.
Realistic: if you have reliable underwater access you may just want to siphon the gas.
Cubans enjoy greater economic and medical security under socialism than their counterparts in capitalist neighboring countries, even without subsidies from Russia and even with a strict embargo with the US.

The country is surprisingly politically free for a tiny nation facing an existential threat from a hostile super power that has invaded, attempted to assassinate it's leader, and funded militants dead set on violent revolution for decades.

American leadership immediately resorted to torture and illegal domestic surveillance when faced with the loss of two skyscrapers and 3,000 lives from an enemy that is more like an annoying gnat than an existential threat.

Cuba is a success story for socialism, and that is why US policy has sought to punish it, and to make it fail. The US did not want a successful socialist nation in it's sphere of influence, it gives the other nations subject to the Monroe doctrine ideas.
And it cost them forgiveness of 90% of Cuba's debts. I doubt the other 10% will cover hosting nuclear missiles, especially if Cuba's at the point where they're interested in better relations with the US.
It reminds me of the NTSB's crash investigations. Instead of looking for a scapegoat or someone to blame, they look for the cause, and then look even deeper to find the root cause.

For example they discover a pilot made a mistake. But they don't end it there, they then look at the airline's training materials, see if other pilots would repeat the same mistakes, and so on until they reach a point where they have a "this won't happen again" resolution (rather than simply discovering what happened).

I feel like with Microsoft's breakdown they did the "this is what happened" post-mortem but then went to the next level and said "here's why this happened, and here is why it won't happen again."
or a hostile takeover
What world searched for in 2014
For anyone confused: What Steve pronounces as Olé/Olay is OLE.
Here? Where is here? The blog mentions nothing about email specifically.
Some parts of it, like agriculture and medicine, have been relaxed, but most of it still stands. And what does it matter if the EU doesn't recognize it? E.g. Volkswagen better recognize it or Volkswagen will lose all sales in the US.

Is it plausible that Cubans would really be driving oldsmobiles if they had access to European or Asian cars? That's the only evidence you really need to understand that the embargo is, in practice, global.
Apple halts online sales in Russia due to rouble's volatility
Thomas Gold thought it would last a good bit longer. He hypothesized Earth's methane is primordial, dating to the origin of the planet (as with other planets in the solar system). There would be a virtually limitless supply. http://metaresearch.org/publications/bulletin/2007issues/091...
Apples and Oranges – A Comparison
She created a best-selling cookbook. How is this not doing the job?
Why now? – The economics of teaching online
Building MongoDB Apps with Binary Files Using GridFS
I gave up after 2 mins.
It's not nitpicking when it is what provides the legal foundation for Gitmo in the first place.
But it happens at that level. You can't seriously expect anyone to go through life mistake-free. Look at Google's mistakes, for instance. How much money have they thrown after Google Glass?
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From the Bacardi wikipedia:

"Ospina describes how the Bacardi family and Company left Cuba after the Castro regime confiscated the Company’s Cuban assets on 15 October 1960; in particular, in nationalizing and banning all private property on the island as well as all bank accounts. However, due to concerns over the previous Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista the company had started foreign branches a few years prior to the revolution; the Company moved the ownership of the Company's trademarks, assets and proprietary formulas out of the country to the Bahamas prior to the revolution as well as constructing plants in Puerto Rico and Mexico after Prohibition to save import taxes for rum being imported to the US. This helped the company survive after the communist government confiscated without compensation all Bacardi assets in the country."

"More recently, Bacardi lawyers were influential in the drafting of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act which sought to extend the scope of the United States embargo against Cuba. In 1999, Otto Reich, a lobbyist in Washington on behalf of Bacardi, drafted section 211 of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Appropriations Act, FY1999 (Pub.L. 105–277), a bill that became known as the Bacardi Act. Section 211 denied trademark protection to products of Cuban businesses expropriated after the Cuban revolution, a provision keenly sought by Bacardi. The act was aimed primarily at the Havana Club brand in the US. The brand was created by the José Arechabala company and confiscated without compensation in the Cuban revolution. The Havana Club trademark had been registered by the Cuban government in the United States without permission of the rightful owners. The new law invalidated the trademark registration. Section 211 has been challenged unsuccessfully by the Cuban government and the European Union in US courts; however, the act has been ruled illegal by the WTO (August 2001). The US Congress has yet to re-examine the matter."

Basically, Cuba stole some brands after the revolution, so the U.S. said "fuck you, you can't trademark a brand you stole from its rightful owners". The EU and WTO have a problem with that, but luckily the U.S. has never given a shit what the EU or WTO says.
I've been in 80 foot swells on a Nimitz class carrier - tossed it around like nothing. Dented the bow all in - and did some other damage. I realize this is quite a bit bigger but I think you underestimate what the ocean could do to it.
We do have an API that supports triggering builds with a POST request, passing in custom parameters, etc. The bigger issue is that we strive for a really rich integration between us and GitHub. For example, we support their status API, link back to PRs/commits from our build page, etc. It's a lot more than just triggering builds.

We do have support for other services planned, but we are focused on the GitHub experience for now.
Flux – Software considers site requirements to automatically generate buildings
Linux 3.18 list of changes
One of the article's premises is that Apple started to turn around with the iPod; I would argue that it turned around with the iMac.

In addition to the simpler product lines, there's also the design focus into that went into these fewer products, the iMac and iPod becoming iconic designs.
exactly. The Latin America is filled with countries there people are poor and powerless and oppressed by their government and non-government organizations (criminal and drug cartels, guerrillas, left and right paramilitaries, etc...) As Cuba was an ally of USSR such policies were reasonable back then. The USSR had disappeared 23 years ago though...
History is an amazing field to do research in, but its incredibly complex as well. It can be especially enlightening to delve into and imagine the true conditions under which our ancestors had operated in. There is a tendency of a lot of people to 'explain' history without much research and sometimes this view of history becomes very popular. The advent of the internet has allowed a lot of published material to be more easily available to either validate or debunk historical facts.

I hope a more rigorous and scientifically accurate view of history emerges in the future, where children will question the biased views of their parents and discover "the truth" for themselves. Maybe their children will then get a better opportunity to understand history.
Is it plausible that Cubans would really be driving oldsmobiles if they had access to European or Asian cars?

It sounds like the restrictions on cars comes from the Cuban gov't, not the embargo.

Until a few weeks ago, there was no way to legally transfer ownership of a vehicle like this. The only cars that could be freely bought and sold were those built before 1959, when Fidel Castro came to power. That's why there are still nearly 60,000 classic cars on Cuba's streets, but few late-model Hondas. Bringing in a new car requires special government permission and a 100 percent import tax...[1]

[1]http://www.npr.org/2011/10/31/141858419/in-cuba-a-used-car-i...
> I think it's very valuable if everybody on the team understands the big picture.

Completely agree. This will allow the person working on this component to make trade-offs as necessary. They may also catch things that you didn't think of when building the system ie: Separate individuals working on subcomponent A and subcomponent B may realize they can share a lot of logic/configuration - no need to duplicate it.
Will there be RubyMotion iOS & Android CI support?
Explaining programming to kids at great american teach-in – Rajasekar Elango
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good is a fantastic introduction to Haskell in particular and functional programming in general. Definitely a great place to start:

http://learnyouahaskell.com
> It's critical to not conflate Bitcoin with ChangeTip. The two are, in effect, separate currencies.

I might be missing something here but ChangeTip is not a currency.
What SaaS Companies Can Learn from Customers at the Mall
The timing of this debut is hilarious to me. So, they build the largest boat to increase the exportation of oil but, simultaneously the need for oil is diminishing. I don't care what forecasters have to say because, at the end of the day oil prices will definitely continue to sink. It may go up for a while, but it surely will sink. Renewable energies are taking their market by storm and destroying the need for the anti-green oil industry. For example, India, a country that in theory could add extremely large value to oil, is one of the fastest growing renewable energy markets in the world. Not to mention, other countries with a smaller potential demand are doing the same.
I love the idea of "the new biggest ship", but it's purpose humours me
Federal agents spoof an Instagram friend. Judge rules the photos admissible.
Source: Top Five Theater Circuits Drop 'The Interview' After Sony Hack
I think you will find US dollars (cash) accepted quite readily in Cuba.
I don't disagree. The Castros have been helped plenty by the embargo by keeping public distain focused on the US rather than their own government's policies.
From experience where there is jquery there is normally at least a dozen other js files cut n pasted at random along with a similar number of css files with no thought to efficiency - hell most sites I se they can't even optimised the godamm images using Photoshop properly.
Using Composer to Manage Your Wordpress Dependencies
They've suddenly grown a ton, and they recently raised a round.

EDIT: My point being, most people are just now hearing about them :)
Don't forget Plato
I believe the best contribution I can make is to never do business with a bank that is also a primary dealer (US Treasuries). The list is available at:

http://www.ny.frb.org/markets/pridealers_current.html
That's only true for small and medium business. If businesses become big enough, they practically speaking become part of the government except with private profits. Then there are monopolies and competitors who are a bit more coordinated than they should be. Big business' power is more limited but in return they get less oversight and a lot more independence. It evens out.

There are many situations where corporations can take your money without permission. A monopoly in a sector you can't do without or a company willing to work the government are obvious examples. Far more insidious are companies who own media, as shown by Berlusconi, Greek oligarchs, Fox News et. al.
I’m sorry you saw my posts that way. My intent was simply to challenge the specific post to which I responded, where you appeared to be claiming quite clearly but without any particular argument or evidence that projects today should be using Browserify, React and a bunch of NPM modules instead of jQuery. I stand by that challenge and my comments here, but please don’t read more into them than is there.

If you don't want to be misinterpreted you might want to limit the amount of sarcasm and hyperbole in your statements and instead focus on clearly defined criticism of these tools.

You can chalk all the issues that you've had to growing pains.

In the last 5 years the web browser has changed immensely. It is now capable of running incredibly complex applications. These kinds of applications need sane module and build systems. Once you're familiar with these tools they do not get in the way even when building simple weekend projects.

The jQuery way of handling DOM manipulation comes from an era where the majority of HTML was being processed on the back-end and Javascript was used for light-weight modification of state.

Using jQuery for building complex interactive web applications is a difficult task because state becomes incredibly hard to reason about.

There are a number of declarative front-end frameworks but I feel that React is the clear winner.

One big issue with Angular and Ember is when it comes to rendering HTML on the server. They're also very slow especially on mobile.

Yeah, the last 2 years have been a mess. We're not out of the clear yet. State and identity management is gearing up to have it's foundations rattled to the core by cryptographic systems that introduce PKI. Because React is just a view layer it'll remain agile enough to work with any sort of upside-down state and data management. Clients keep getting more and more power.

Within the node community the foundations for a decentralized package management system are being built. One that will be just as capable of publishing, loading and building modules from WebRTC as it is from a centralized server.

Yeoman, Bower, Gulp or Grunt don't really solve anything that isn't solved better by other tools.

I urge you to take another look at this stuff. I understand your frustrations but the solution should not be to give up and just go back to jQuery.
p2p Amazon?
I keep the prices in sync with Amazon. If the phone is not available from Amazon directly - as is the case for the Nexus 5 - I resort to the list price. I could resort to the lowest price from the Amazon marketplace but I have to check first if that makes sense in all cases.
Xephyr isn't a window manager. It's an X display server that runs inside a window on another host X server.
I was puzzled by this too. I'm not familiar with Angular, but am of course curious. My side project uses a fair bit of Jquery, but I wonder if some things would be better served in other ways.
I agree with you about centralized versus decentralized solutions, but ChangeTIp clearly does NOT want to supplant bitcoin- they do their best to keep wallets small, and aren't trying to be a "bitcoin bank" / replacement ala Coinbase. Instead, they're driving adoption. What is there to complain about?
Are there practical differences between ownership and indefinite lease? I mean can the lease be cancelled or terms changed unilaterally?
I thought OSX autosized everything. I have never used it personally.
> I applaud the transparency they have shown.

They have no choice. There's no regulation around this so companies are forced to be transparent and convince their users they're legit.

We're just not used to companies being transparent because contracts around regulated industry are enforced by the force of law (threats of fine, imprisonment or violence).

We could have many more companies being transparent if only we didn't give them a way to use the force of law to convince users they're covered (think Bank of America and FDIC for instance. I'd rather Bank of America had to prove to me their investments are sound etc)
exactly. Awesome opportunity to build a vocational school there to crank out quality devs. :))
On the other hand:

- average life expectancy in Cuba is almost the same as the USA (and higher than Mexico, Belize, Bahamas, Brazil, etc.).

- literacy rate in Cuba is higher than that in the USA

- Physicians per 10,000 people: Cuba has 67, USA has 24

In the Ebola crisis, Cuba has been leading from the front.
A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did with data in 2014
Nitpick: Crash investigations are done by the NTSB, not the FAA.

The NTSB has no authority to enforce its recommendations. That's up to the FAA. The idea behind that is the NTSB is more likely to be impartial.
Side note: the inversion of the map was really interesting, I spent about 10min look at all the countries South to North trying to see if I could identify them.
Argentina's Approach to Inflation: Ditch the Peso, Hoard U.S. Dollars
There was some weird 90s conversion of abbreviations to acronyms. One suck.com writer was called 'Duke of URL' pronounced like 'Duke of Earl'
Snapchat CEO on the future of Facebook and Tech bubble – leaked memo 2013
Huge title discrepency here:

"Here Are The Companies That Want To Charge You"

vs

"Companies to charge"

Very misleading IMO. What happened to sticking to the exact title of the post?
Cuba is a success story for socialism, and that is why US policy has sought to punish it, and to make it fail.

I don't think your argument is supported by any of the facts.[1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba#Contempora...
If you look at the git summary output you will see that one person Werner Koch was responsible for 82.4% of the work, NIIBE Yakuta was the next closest at 5.4% and it only goes straight off the cliff from there.
I think the "changes our DNA" is far fetched, but the link between exercise and the neurochemistry in the brain has been proved by multiple studies.

I've mentioned here before, but John J. Ratey recently wrote the excellent Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain[1], where he explains in colorful details what happens in (and to) the brain when you exercise.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-B...
Just purchased it, looking forward to going through it. Why did you choose an e-book over screencasts or other methods of teaching? Also, what are your thoughts on supersonic?
I've been using this workflow for a few months now. When you have a dev and production versions of your Wordpress sites it's become super useful. Let me know what you think.
Forever known as the guy who knocked Azure offline.
it seems to me that if this can be pulled off, it would be Nobel worthy. I mean, it would not be less cool than a blue LED, would it?
>Cuba is a success story for socialism

With that type of success who needs failure.
That a titan of human thought could in any way, shape or form be associated with that poor PTSD victim from Russia - is just proof that we indeed live in an imperfect sublunar realm, deprived of all genuine existence, mere shadows on the wall of the real, ideal forms up there.

In a manner of speaking. :)
Sortable – is a minimalist JavaScript library for reorderable drag-and-drop
They didn't really outline what dangers exactly it could prove to the ecosystem.... I'm sure there are some, but it's hardly obvious. It's not like the gene will stick around without human effort.
We Wrote the Best Holiday Poem Ever About Drupal 8
Man can Steve sell and make things look good. I used Webobjects for some projects back in the day.
A couple of tangentially related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8715128

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1968611
Intuitive Robot Programming
Keep reading Hacker News, cross your fingers and learn Haskell
Boring Little Story About My Windows Computer
The World's Most Complete List of $$$ Startup Signup Bonuses (Uber,Airbnb,etc.)
We should have all the pieces necessary to support it. Ping us at sayhi@circleci.com and we'll be happy to work with you to make sure it works smoothly.
>Lamarckism is dead

Lamarckism is more alive than ever before, it's just called epigenetics now. Portia spiders can even transfer hunting behaviors to their progeny (although it's unclear how that happens).
Yup, you can get up and running with a Linux VM in seconds. I've found Azure to be cheaper than AWS for micro VM instances. Running a twitter bot on AWS cost me ~ $10/month but after switching over to a CentOS VM on Azure I'm paying about $6/month. I also have dedicated Ubuntu and Windows Server VMs for personal projects and hosting.
You may want to consider condensing/minifiying your JS/CSS and using a CDN for images. After 10 minutes the website still isn't loaded and there are a huge number of blocking image transfers that are going very very slowly.

12+MB for a landing page is also probably a little on the heavy side of things.
Print text on sticky notes – For Scrum
Linux kernel: multiple x86_64 vulnerabilities
There's more to the Cuban embargo than meets the eye. It is true that the Southern Florida Cuban exile community wields a disproportional amount of influence. Florida is almost equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, and is a big state in terms of electoral votes; so when a sizeable block like the Cuban exiles votes a certain way, it can tip the balance.

However, that is not the entire story. If we (US) were really that concerned about the lost property of the Cubans expelled by Castro, we would also look inward and ponder the fate of the British supporters kicked out in 1776; the KMT supporters kicked out by Mao; etc.

If we can trade with China, Russia, etc. then there's no reason we can't trade with Cuba. In fact, the opening of the borders with USSR is often listed as one of the key factors in bringing it down; so why not do the same with Cuba?
apple is the new ibm. google is the new microsoft. and ironically, microsoft is the new apple (spining cool products that ultimately fail in the market). So it is no suprise google shoves it's weight around to shutdown (or buy, its the same) competitors.

just remember this and you should be fine with your unix beard in the XXI century. :)
Show HN: Slack Chats – A place to discover and share private Slack groups
ToyTalk Raises $15M in Series C Round Led by Khosla Ventures
>I've seen several companies where analysis like this would be for management only

I've found it to be pretty standard in the hosting world. I assume because if you have unexplained outages, customers leave.
"We love the Internet Explorer browser very much" - Steve (6:58 minutes)
TL;DR

>In summary, Microsoft Azure had clear operating guidelines but there was a gap in the deployment tooling that relied on human decisions and protocol.
I definitely agree he should factor in costs that he wouldn't have been paying before. I thought his including his entire car was a little disingenuous, that's all.
it is easy to abuse your power without consequences when you write laws to make everyone guilty.