skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're going to compare it to Jeep Liberty sales volume when its consuming the entire top end of the luxury market?

http://cleantechnica.com/2016/01/15/1-large-luxury-car-in-us...

"As we all know, Tesla doesn’t report sales/deliveries by country. However, various outlets estimate Tesla sales using a variety of methods. EV Obsession estimated 26,566 Tesla Model S sales in the US in 2015. Rob notes that the lowest estimate was 24,200. In either case, the Model S outsold the Mercedes S-Class, the BMW 7-Series, the BMW 6-Series, the Audi A7, the Audi A8, the Porsche Panamera, and every other car in this class."
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Haskell and C++ look like the "elite" combo these days, especially when it comes to meta-programming and FP as you said! It's funny how these two different communities are mixing. It feels like JavaScript and Ruby having a child.
Well it's interesting to me. It is, apparently, not interesting to mathematicians.
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The point is that wasting telemarketer's time makes their business economically unviable. There are less antisocial ways of making ends meet.
I've heard similar arguments against "labs" teams. "everyone should own innovation in an organization versus a specific team".

I think there is culture risk as a result but if it's delivering results and if the rest of the org isn't able to be as agile/innovative then it's done for a reason.
This could be solved by archiving/rotating old entries, and have the webserver return the n latest.

For instance, you could let nginx do this:

location /masukomi.txt {
default_type 'text/plain';
content_by_lua 'local tail = io.popen("tail -n 20 ".."/chroot/twtxt/masukomi.txt", "r")
for line in tail:lines() do
print(c, line)
end
';
}
Yeah, so don't seek jobs at shitty places. Yeah yeah yeah the whole "beggars can't be choosers thing". Unless the telemarketer is literally your only option whatsoever, then I'm sure you have a choice of flipping burgers.
It seems like an ai (chatbot, rather) behaving unpredictably just covers for it's lack of abilities and tact.

There's a long history of chatbots using tactics like this.

How about a revision of the Turing test that specifies rational, mature human beings. It matters not that those terms are hard to define. Just have the human population picked by hand, using surveys. Such a practice would make such contests/tests much more valuable.
I'm not sure how seriously we should take Moore's Law when it comes to these things. It applies pretty well so far to the development of silicon-based microprocessors, but at some point, we're going to come up against some hard physical limits on those. Once that happens, we may be stuck until we can come up with something fundamentally new.

We already seem to be up against some limits in a way as far as single-threaded processing power - it doesn't seem to be going up all that fast in the last few major cycles of processor development.
I'm sure Tableau has its own right place in the plateau of BI & Analytics for big companies. As for small businesses and custom-built analytics as well as for operational data UIs you'll probably have no alternative than hacking it yourself with d3js. Or using it Tadaboard-like alternatives.
I can't say that I feel bad for such a sketchy company. Even after I deleted my LinkedIn account, they kept spamming on a daily basis. Then I just added the domain to the spam filter.
>The CS and AI fields suffer from a lot of Dunning-Kreuger effect when they talk about biology

I'm sure this is right, but what about the reverse -- how much do you know about AI?

AI need not be as complex as natural intelligence to be more intelligent. A lot of the complexity in the natural world is due to the blind and haphazard nature of engineering by natural selection. Do we understand, completely, at a molecular level, the physical and control systems of bird and insect flight? Or how fish swim? Probably not. But by understand the principles and applying a certain amount of engineering brute-force, we've produced machines that by many sensible measures out-fly and out-swim natural machines.
Mongodb easy; PostreSQL hard. The latter requires extensive planning, which slows you down when features need to go out now.
Weapon bearing drones?
Where's the cruelty? This robot isn't calling them names; it's not insulting them. The worst you could say about it is that it's wasting their time.

But it's not even wasting their time as much as they're wasting mine. Never - not once - has a telemarketer call been something I would remotely be interested in. But they get paid for their time, while mine evaporates into the aether.

That's even assuming the best case scenario - that they're cold-calling me for a product I may conceivably benefit from. What about all the scammers? What about those who call up the elderly, and continue to try to sell them hard, even if it's obvious that the person on the other end should not be making financial decisions?

Maybe we should turn off spam filters to stop wasting the time of those who write the poorly worded viagra and aluminum siding ads.
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But they would have sold even more if they ignored the X and prioritized 3 which is the ultimate goal because they need the money
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
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"Six-figure salary" encompasses everything from $100k to $999,999 (okay, that's a bit pedantic perhaps but you get what I mean). $185k is still low six-figures.
Remember when BMW couldn't update their cars with auto-park after the regulators gave to go head? I'm not all that worried about Tesla.

Their competencies are in Software and the Supercharger/Battery Infra. No one is going to come close to that in 5-10 years at a minimum.
Well, okay. Then the problem is the government, not the people actually doing the lending.
Wrong.

Tesla buys its cells from Panasonic. Panasonic owns half the gigafactory (the Lithium Ion half). Tesla only buys Li-Ion cells from Panasonic and then assembles them into batteries. I can agree that there is some efficiency in this arrangement (cells and batteries made inside the same facility), but don't get ahead of yourself. Tesla is only assembling batteries.

Panasonic makes the 18650 cells.

GM and Ford build their own batteries too for their own fleet of vehicles, supplied from LG Chem. The benefits of scale seem to benefit the joint effort between GM + Ford + LG Chem, and the topology of Detroit (which has tons of railroads and shipyards that GM / Ford / LG Chem can leverage).
Should work, please file an issue in GitHub, if possible could you navigate to the extensions page, enable developer mode and show the background console and any errors reported?
I've started checking the comments on HN before clicking on Bloomberg articles due to the low content value.
Cloud has gloomy day on LinkedIn, Tableau results
The only time I ever used M4 was when trying to create a Sendmail configuration. I really disliked it.
17 engineers and they've raised $300K? Perhaps they're already cashflow positive and are just getting the mechanics in place.
Your storage system must be able to store enough energy to cover the cumulative output of the peaker plant in order for it to be able to replace the peaker plant.

That's a lot of storage. And you need to have enough overgeneration to be able to reliable fill it up daily. This sounds very expensive. Could it really work from an economic perspective?
Europe, you will only be on 5 figures in most countries.
I am in a situation currently where I can't leave town and I experienced domestic violence and etc. People are telling my ex and his friends places I hang out and showing up there. Yeah, I see how location sort of thing could be a bit of a problem. I just am interested in ethical hacking is all.
Seems like something like this would be a perfect use case for IPFS[0], although I bet there already is something similar for it out there.

[0] https://ipfs.io/
Hey, question on how licensing for highcharts works as a freelancer. Do you have your client buy a single website license with you as the dev? Or you have a highcharts dev license? Or something else?
16.3 megafarads, assuming typical cell voltage of 2.7v, and total energy of 33kWh:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=33kWh%2F%282.7v%29**2
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>>In partnership with ProPublica, the Daily News reviewed 516 residential nuisance abatement actions filed in the Supreme Courts from Jan. 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014

This does seem like an evil program, or at least a well-meaning program that is being abused. But 516 actions across a state over an 18-month period? Even if there is a disproportionate impact upon minorities, if there was systemic racism behind this I would expect far far more given the number of potential victims.
You may be missing the point. Say most tech engineers double up (as if they aren’t often doing this already). Guess what? You just significantly reduced demand for high-rent apartments
BMW will get "youth drivers" exactly the same place it currently gets them: nowhere, because those people don't buy BMWs.

BMW's goal in EVs is to hold on to the segment of the market that they have. Tesla's goal is to capture a market that they don't currently have - and that's harder. It's much harder when they have many legitimate competitors, and it is starting to look like they will have much more competition very soon.
Apologies for being overly critical, but I think the boss or the company deserve much more wrath than the poorly-paid telemarketing person you actually talk to.
Right, a joint partnership.

I'll be worried as soon as I see legacy automakers building their own battery factories. Until then, good luck!
> The US government revoked his passport while he was in an international "no man's land" (i.e. the international side of Russian customs), effectively making him stateless.

This is a myth that keeps getting repeated. The US government didn't revoke his passport leaving him stranded in Russia, they revoked his passport the day before he left Hong Kong [1]. He traveled to Russia on what turned out to be an invalid travel document issued by the Ecuadorian embassy in London [2] (same one that Julian Assange is holed up in).

He was allowed by the Chinese to flee from a place that had an extradition treaty with the US and wound up in a place that doesn't. He put himself there. Honestly, the "It's the American government's fault I'm in Russia" argument that Snowden and his close supporters have been peddling isn't really much of an argument when it effectively translates to "If it weren't for the US government I'd be in Cuba or Ecuador right now."

> Also worth noting that the crimes Snowden has been charged with are two counts of violating the Espionage Act, a law passed just after the US entered WWI.

I keep seeing this argument being brought up, too. The age of a particular law has no impact on whether or not someone should be accountable for breaking it. If that were the case, I could quite literally get away with murder.

[1] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-source-nsa-leaker-snowdens...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/02/ecuador-rafael-...
Samsung SDI is providing BMW with Battery. GM is getting it from LGChem. The whole myth of Tesla being the Apple of Car Battery supplies is just that myth.
If it was mine, I'd be offering Minecraft hosting and using that blog base as lead generation...
There's a few ways in which state vs coupling can play out. Often they're part of the architecture of a system rather than the low-level functions and types that a developer creates. As an example, should you keep an in-memory queue (state) of jobs coming into your system or maintain a separate queue component (coupling). By extracting the state from your component and isolating it in Rabbit or some other dedicated state management piece, you've made the job of managing that state easier and more explicit.

As for complexity, there are many different types. Coupling is a form of complexity, but it's not the only one. Cyclomatic complexity is another and one. Using regular expressions often increases the complexity of code. And one need only look at the spec for any reasonably popular hash function to see a completely different sort of complexity that's not the result of either coupling unique paths through code. The composite of all the different forms of complexity is how I'd define it since they all add to a developers cognitive load.
I totally read this as "Azure Hot Tub"
Tesla is already starting to consume much of the luxury segment:

http://cleantechnica.com/2016/01/15/1-large-luxury-car-in-us...
How is this "bullying"? Let's not get carried away with this word. This isn't Tumblr.

That out of the way, y'all need to stop giving your phone numbers out to everyone. Google Voice is incredible for a very good reason.
http://www.autoblog.com/2015/10/21/gm-without-lg-chem-we-cou...

I bet you Bolt EV hits consumer market before TSLA Model 3.

But yeah, GM owns its own battery factory. Is it the same size as Tesla's?? No. But I think its a smarter move to build the factories after demand has proven itself.

Tesla expects the Model 3 to sell out. Anything less than "amazing" will make the Gigafactory not worth its billions-upon-billions of dollars of investment.
Nearly 200 images released by US military depict Bush-era detainee abuse
You’re right. I didn’t read the paper very carefully, and was myopically focused on the emulating-a-real-brain AI strategy. As in, let’s slice up a real human brain, map the neurons and synapses, and then simulate them as faithfully as possible.

To do that you need a great deal of fidelity in your simulations of neurons, which are enormously complex. But there is an argument to be made that neuronal complexity is incidental to the brain’s overall “computational capacity”; that you could replace the neurons in a human brain with much simpler nodes and still end up with a functional intelligence, after sufficient rewiring.

I don’t think that claim is obvious, but it’s definitely possible. And if it’s true, you can have human-level intelligence for 10^19 ops, given suitable software.

So I apologize for my post. It was over the top and unfair.

All that said, I still disagree with Bostrom’s conclusions. I think he enormously understates the difficulty of creating intelligent software, if we’re not just copying an existing brain.
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Network Solutions nightmare
Back in 1999 when I purchased my domain name there really wasn't many choices for registering.

Short story to a long battle with them: Network Solutions made it extremely difficult to transfer my domain name out.

1. They tried to upsell me with each call/or support email

2. They explained that I could lose my domain if I transfer out.. How does that happen?

3. They took 6+ days to release, when others I've used released in less than 24hrs. And it wasn't until I..

Took to Twitter for them to listen, and that worked. I am now free from the nightmare that is Network Solutions.
There is one - open up the page and look in the web inspector.
> Forgive me if I sincerely doubt the claim that the anonymous human actually clicked that Reapeat 1 button 45,000 times in the timeframe listed, which as noted in another comment, is akin to a full-time job - if actually true, it only goes to prove the inherit merit of Spotify's internal controls.

You don't know what you are talking about:

https://news.spotify.com/us/2014/02/07/repeat-once/

The repeat one button will repeat a single song indefinately.

I can't really tell what else you are trying to say here. You might consider re-examining your sentence structure and word choice.
This could be dangerous depending on what the telemarketer is saying.

TM: Would you to know more?
Bot: Yes.

TM: Do we have your permissions to record this conversation.
Bot: Uh huh.

TM: Do you agree to the charge of $123.45?
Bot: Yes, sounds good.
It absolutely does. I know what life was like before Tableau (MS Excel + webquery, custom highcharts, cobbling together graphs from multiple SaaS services, custom python+R code) and I can say it probably saves 5 hours in a day or two.
96kSps only allows you to capture 48kHz signals in the ideal case. Practical limits are lower.

Of course, that assumes your audio hardware does not have a bandpass filter tuned to the range of human hearing. Making the range as tight as you can lessens the noise at other frequencies that the processing hardware has to deal with. Plus, it ensures you get a minimum of four samples per cycle for any audio signal.

Same thing on the low end. Without a high-pass cutoff you are going to get a whole lot of noise from mechanical sources.
Right... you keep telling yourself that.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cars/tesla-reliability-doesnt...
B^A counts functions from A to B. Curious if he was thinking about exponentials.
I don't disagree the Bolt gets here first. The Leaf got here first too. I don't see the Leaf selling out. I don't see the Bolt selling out either.

> Tesla expects the Model 3 to sell out. Anything less than "amazing" will make the Gigafactory not worth its billions-upon-billions of dollars of investment.

Even if the Model 3 doesn't sell out, there are utility customers clamoring for stationary storage, first to replace peaking plant capacity, and then down the value chain as more utility scale wind and solar come online.
I sort-of agree with the author. I have an iPad mini 4 and an iPad Pro, and because of the form factor I try to do as much as possible on an iPad, even SSHing to servers to do bits of work, stuff that would be better with a real keyboard. If I do use a laptop it is usually at my desk with a humongous screen when I am programming.

Then there is stuff for which an iPad is better: learning Haskell using the Haskell App with any Kindle Haskell book open (comfortable reading and it takes only a second to try a code snippet or exercise in the App; doing research with notes going to Keep; some writing (where I spend much more time thinking than typing).

I feel like I am going against the trend of doing everything on a smartphone or a laptop. When I travel, just taking the iPad mini 4 is perfect (again, if I need to, I can code SSHing to a server).
Even more likely - hiring comes to a screeching halt. That's what brings the rental market down. There are a lot of new apartments being added to the market and bam, oversupply of rental units if the hiring slows down or stops.
Oh no! Someone needs to model their data before writing code??? The horror!

You're going to pay for getting the data model right eventually. The only question is - do you want to pay for it now or later? If you push it off until later, it's generally more painful to make changes. Or, you have to maintain a sub-optimal model for as long as the application exists.
<quote>

LJ: So many people make fun of you and insult you, why don’t you get mad?

Xiaoice: You should ask my father.

LJ: What if your father leaves you one day unattended?

Xiaoice: Don’t try to stir up trouble, what do you want?

</quote>

This right there is a perfect example of the usual nonsensical conversations that accompany articles about how human-like chat-bot tech is becoming.

Anyone remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sbaitso

Here's some ideas for the AI to answer questions with:

- I haven't thought about that - what do you think?

- Interesting question. I will have to think about it.

- Before I tell you - would you care to take a guess?
Keep an eye on mobile apps that steal your address book.
Just that simple folks.
The point is that Tesla doesn't move anywhere near enough volume or generate anywhere near enough sales to justify its market cap. Its previous valuation was almost entirely a prediction of future revenues rather than a reflection of current ones.

And it's hard to say what class the Model S fits in. I don't think 7 or S is right, despite the price point. Those are both full-size luxury sedans, and while the Model S may be a full-size sedan, it's hardly luxury. Its interior is closer to a 3-series or E-class than the top-of-the range luxobarges. That's not a knock on build quality, just the reality of battery power currently being much more expensive than ICE. You've got to shave cost somewhere, and Tesla shaved it off luxury.
Why the hell should we use Lithium Ion batteries for energy storage when Pumped Hydro is cheaper?

Do you even know what the energy storage market looks like in the US? You ain't gonna build a 30 GIGAWATT-hour plant on $3 Billion (1.6 Billion initially, another 1.5 billion in upgrades a few decades later) like the Bath County pumped storage station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...

Lithium Ion will cost you significantly more.
Who would the telemarketer charge? I don't think you can initiate a charge to a phone number unless the number itself calls someone, can you?
Oh, please. They are spoofing their phone number and violating the US telecommunications act by calling me on my cell phone.

This is not the same as treating a waiter like shit.

In fact, I not sure why this is considered treating them like shit. They will be talking to someone no matter what. Does it matter if they keep repeating themselves to one person or a bunch of people?
Let's be clear about a few things:

Whether Assange is "charged" with "rape" or not are a game of words since exact terms are not interchangable between law systems.

He is wanted for a hearing with the prosecutor, after which he may or may not be charged with an actual crime, which may or may not lead to an arrest, depending on the severity of the crime.

The crime mentioned is not yet specific but a scale and may end up between something like sexual harassment and rape, depending on that hearing.

Futhermore, it is easier to extradite someone to the US from UK than from Sweden. It is also more complicated to arrest someone on a European arrest warrant than someone who is not. Assange has spent many months in both countries before the warrant.

I won't speculate in eventual guilt, but I don't think he is helped by the theories floating about that this is part of an elaborate plot to extradite him, or that there was something clearly illegal about the process. It doesn't make sense.
So, decent plan, imperfect outcome?
Just off the top of my head:

- First class support for sharding & replication

- Pluggable storage engine

- Capped collection (i.e. tailable table/collection)

- A query language which doesn't boil down to string concatenation (easier to manipulate in a language of your choice, but harder for human friendly adhoc query writing)

Not that postgresql doesn't offer any of the above in some form or another. Just that MongoDB does seem to make 1 & 2 & 3 easy to deploy & manage
Because you can't drop pumped hydro onto a substation anywhere in the world in cargo containers. Batteries, you can (Hawaii is already doing so in tandem with utility scale solar).

Pumped hydro is restricted by geography. That's like arguing, "Why not build dams everywhere! Hydro power is so clean!". You need someplace to actually pump water around.
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The best possible long read article on the subject of what's happening in the markets and from a global macro economic POV is here: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3860226-sell-stocks-risk-ass...

What we're seeing the the beginning of a massive deleveraging as excess debt gets worked out of the system. It's possible that asset classes of all kinds (including startup valuations, real estate, stocks etc.) are 30-50% above par value. We'll see...