skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a.k.a. Mechanical Turk

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
Good luck tracking them down, though.

If we want spammy telemarketing to stop, we have to make it unprofitable. The way to make it unprofitable is to ensure it results in less sales. Decreasing call volume decreases sales. Etc.

There are legal avenues, but it's incredibly difficult to follow through. Literally every time I've asked who was calling me - the name of the company, anything - I've been hung up on, instantly.
The Macan is one ridiculously good looking vehicle, especially in person. Small SUVs just aren't my type.

I'm really looking forward to the 2017 Porsche Panamera, they are finally fixing the butt to make it look amazing, not awkward!
That's rather depressing to hear. I think it is a question of how you rate yourself (objectively). If you're good, you can go on to found the biggest hedge fund of all time (Bridgewater). If not, then yea, I think yours is the way to go.
In general, large/luxury SUV sales has been outpacing large/luxury sedan sales for a while. Perhaps this was an artefact of a distorted market rather than true preferences. Either way, platform engineering the model s in to the model x will pay off with increased sales once it gets underway.

It's the same strategy as 5 series/x5 that bmw has, and has been exceedingly successful at.
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I feel like you are willfully ignoring the points GP made...

Past arrests of Assange have resulted in violations of his inalienable rights. Thus, given the threat of more arrests he is warranted to ask for amnesty since it can very easily be assumed he will face more unjust treatment (especially given he has not been charged with anything).

At that point all of your other objections are moot, in that asylum was legally granted by Ecuador but is not being recognized by the UK authorities who are thus in violation of international law.

>>> Asylum is not a get out of jail free card

You're correct, it's a "don't go to jail in the first place free card", which is the whole point of asylum.

>>> It is debatable whether a nation may grant asylum through its embassy on foreign soil.

No it's not

>>> One's right to asylum does not protect one from prosecution outside of the country granting asylum.

Again, he hasn't been charged with anything
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Yup, it's improving quite continuously, I find it great for designing 3D printed parts.
I'm genuinely interested in what you think is a counterexample. Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious or we're just considering different definitions.
Just a little poc, nothing interesting, r1.0.2 released
Okay, so TSLA can go ahead and capture the Hawaii and Alaska energy storage market.

Virtually everywhere else has dams they can take advantage of. The places that don't have abandoned mines for Compressed-Air energy storage. Continental US has a ton of natural resources at its disposal that can be built up to significantly cheaper solutions than Lithium Ion.
One sentence in that article made me do a double take: "He was learning to code." Past tense, but it's about what Bostrom was doing at the time of the interview (last year, well after the publication of "Superintelligence").

So the most influential AI doomsayer on the planet has been writing about artificial minds for a couple of decades, without even knowing enough to get a computer to say "Hello, world"? OK...
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> Also people complain about telemarketers so much, but how many calls are you really getting a day from them?

In one of the interviews, this guy says he was getting 4-5 telemarketing calls a day, some of them asking for someone who had the number many years ago.
> Yeah, you COULD treat your waiter like shit (angry customers are just an occupational hazard)

What waiter? A telemarketer is not a waiter. I choose to go to a restaurant. And if my waiter's service is bad, I can always leave, or complain to their manager. If the service is bad enough - like, oh, for instance, the waiter wastes my time by taking my order and telling me an hour later that they ran out of the thing I ordered - I might even be entitled to some compensation (a discount on my next meal, etc.)

I can't complain to a telemarketer's manager, and while I can hang up, I can't prevent them from calling me again, and I'm sure as shit not going to get compensated.
PG is doing the smart thing; it's optimizing for the common case of short IN/NOT IN literals in SQL queries. Simple arrays have much better constant factors.

If the clause is a subselect (like yours) and is also an actual table (unlike yours), it will be smart and rewrite it as a JOIN, which will generally have better complexity if the indexes are correct.
I will pay $20 for this iPhone app. Take my damned money.
Telemarketers are intrusive, and most do not respect the do not call lists, or they find creative ways around it.

If they want to waste my time, I see no reason not to waste theirs.
Seems similar to the 2000 dot-com bubble. Not good.
> Okay, so TSLA can go ahead and capture the Hawaii and Alaska energy storage market.

And Australia. And Europe. And anywhere that is placing a premium on renewable energy. Tesla's market for batteries increases each time they're able to lower their price as volume increases.

> Virtually everywhere else has dams they can take advantage of. The places that don't have abandoned mines for Compressed-Air energy storage. Continental US has a ton of natural resources at its disposal that can be built up to significantly cheaper solutions than Lithium Ion.

There is no point in us arguing further when you don't base your argument on reality. You can't put dams anywhere. You can't build salt caverns anywhere. You can put batteries anywhere.
Consider that recruiters also have to justify their own existence. From a business perspective, their position is a sunk cost. If they can't signal to their employer that their work is gaining the business something above and beyond just doing their day-to-day job then there's no chance of advancement.

They also dislike candidates that show proficiency in business for a few reasons.

First, the candidate is more likely to move on for a better opportunity.

Second, people with a business background like to 'shake things up' and head in new directions looking to maximize the potential of a company. Considering that HR's other primary responsibility is protecting the business from legal action, it's in their best interest to choose candidates who will stay on the straight and narrow and not shake things up.

Third, business types ignore the 'gatekeepers' and take action on their own. They may make a groundbreaking decision that takes the business in a new and more profitable direction. Unfortunately for HR, it's hard to ride on the back of an accomplishment that they weren't aware of to begin with. Worse yet, that same type of personality may have the potential to climb up the chain to a level where they're the boss of the HR person one day.

They aggressively select for 'code monkeys' because code monkeys do what their told, don't have enough soft skills to be a threat, suck at negotiation, and are too busy nerding out to look for something better.
The map is slightly deceptive when it comes to Virginia; here the cities are independent of the counties that often completely surround them, and so "city or county" is an equivalent-level government. So you see all the darkest-red dots running up the western part of Virginia? If the population in those cities were shared with the surrounding county and the density recalculated, you'd get a lot more of the middle-reds you see in western NC and SC.

So the "Atlanta-Greenville-Charlotte-RTP" band that you see really continues all the way up to DC (where it becomes even denser and turns in to the Northeast Corridor Metroplex).
I am stuck with SAP Business Objects (Crystal Reports) at my company. It is ok, but the features of Tableau look like they blow it out of the water. I've tried to get discovery projects started up to look at other options for due diligence. However no one seems to go for it. Oh well :/
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The Porsche Cayenne has been around for a long time though, and is in need of a refresh. The Macan is sparkling new.
Eh, you exaggerate. Me and my girlfriend make about $160k together and we can afford[1] a $3.5k apartment in SF.

If we made $200k+ each, or if even just one of us did, $4k wouldn't even be worth thinking about.

[1] by "afford" I mean that there is money left at the end of the month.
We lost the word "AI" literally decades ago. Everything from search algorithms to machine learning to genetic algorithms to video game bots are called AI. The cool kids use the word "AGI" now.

There is a common expression that "AI is whatever computers can't do yet." At one time computers couldn't play board games or do vision, so those things were called AI.
> 30% returns per month

Care to share how you did that?
Hmm, not sure I get the article. I recently ditched OsX on an iMac and in the past I used Solaris on an apple laptop. In general, I would say that while not cheap for a general intel machine, the core hardware is pretty good and Apple's lack of interest in making a lot of drivers should make them an easy platform for other OSes to prioritize.

The results on linux have remained a little less than ideal. It is a shame to see that graphics card makers still think they can afford to bully us around and I still don't get what apple is thinking with wireless HID. Do a lot of users type from 50 meters away?
I noticed them doing that as well, and did what I usually do with companies that get too chatty: First, turn off the notifications, unsubscribe, etc. Then, if they ignore my preferences or keep adding new categories of notification that are enabled by default, I add a client-side rule to throw away everything they send. This way they get to keep thinking that I receive their spam, and I don't have to see it, which is a win-win (though a sad loss for email in general as an obsessively reliable communication system).

This worked out fine for Facebook: I visit their webpage when I want to know what's going on over there, and they never send me email.
Wall Street isn't responsible for the bubble. It's the company leadership misrepresenting the company's road map. A stock won't become overpriced if the CEO blatantly says that sales will probably only go up 5% this year.
I think it's more about company margins/culture than it is about them not dismissing you.

Some companies are willing to pay top dollar, others are more interested in getting someone in their range, so name your price and move on if they blink.
Can't prioritize the 3 until the gigafactory comes online. Not point to making lots of cheap chassis if you don't have the batteries to put in them.
> Have some empathy.

You can't have actual empathy for anyone outside of your Dunbar number.

Even if you could, I would choose not to.

Have empathy for prostitutes, not for telemarketers.
After hearing Apple's explanation, it sounds like a good idea (in theory) that they're disabling access to the phone and data. Otherwise, LEOs could confiscate your phone, have the home button / TouchID sensor replaced and potentially gain access to your data (let's assume you refused to unlock it for them).

However, Apple (and AASPs) should, upon request, replace the parts with "official" ones and restore access to the phone/data. I'm not saying they should do it for free but it should be offered.

The people affected by this error are getting screwed and it's not even their fault -- that's the worst part. Apple just saying "sorry, buy a new phone" will just have the effect of turning these customers away from Apple products.
Tesla in general looks like a big mistake to me. Whatever good things Tesla has seen so far is probably because Musk's own personality and PR rather than the actual performance of the car itself.
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In a somewhat misspent youth, I was a grad student of Jaakko Järvi when he and the rest of the Indiana folk were pitching variadic templates and concepts. I was browbeat into attempting to add concept constrained variadic templates to GCC. So... it turns out, for this problem, for precise constraints, the number of constraints is strongly exponential (factorial of factorials). I think we ended up going with the intersection of all the concepts, instead; which totally sucked & made constrained variadic templates pretty useless.

I suppose it doesn't matter since the concepts proposal was torpedoed. (But that's another story.)
Right. Because Lithium Ion is the only battery technology out there.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/new-type-flow-battery...

Good luck competing against Redox Flow. Its a miracle that Elon Musk has been able to get so much done with Laptop-batteries (18650 Cells). But the new chemistries actually designed for grid-storage are coming, and they crush laptop-batteries in cost and capacity.

The Gigafactory is designed to make Electric car batteries, and the 26650 (successor to the 18650 laptop cells) aren't even being produced yet. How long before TSLA / Panasonic can tweak the gigafactory to make a cell optimized for grid energy-storage?
The entire Apollo 14 crew is has now passed away. Mitchell was the fifth of the twelve moonwalkers to go. I wonder how many are left when we return.
From my experience at small medium startups, some dev gets higher pay because he/she is attractive and socially well adjusted and not nerdy. Not necessarily better coder.
I look forward to Tesla releasing self-driving ridesharing in the next few years. Can't afford a Tesla? Pay per ride!
Nope, valid Let's Encrypt cert for me (on the linked page)
I agree that it's a cool project. I find it a bit disturbing that it's being billed as a "friend replacement."

From the article:
> "Human friends have a glaring disadvantage: They’re not always available."

By her inability to respond predictably, it seems to me Xiaoice is not particularly available either, although in a different sense.
The assumption is that you render dynamic web pages in the server side.
I do think the X is making them way more money than the 3 could for quite some time, as the margins for the 3 are probably much less than those of the X. Only when they hit the 500k/year it might be the main moneymaker for Tesla.
If someone thinks East Coast guys are stupid they are free to buy the stock and make windfall profits here.

East coast guys are more often known for being over optimistic (just like any human beings) rather than under optimisitic.
This would be perfect for the "This is Microsoft Windows calling" scams.

You know the one - a dude with a very thick Indian accent who wants you to install some program to "fix" your PC.
Everything for *.serve.swifton.me is signed using our own certificate. The root CA is available on serve.swifton.me.

All other endpoints are secured by Let's Encrypt certificates.
It is expensive if you have a lot of people. Paying $2k for a license may be for two or three analysts is a good deal. Compare this to a start up like Looker which costs substantially more to get your foot in the door (last I checked, correct me if I'm wrong.)

IBM has chosen to display "Analytics" as a major piece of their company. Presumably they want investors to think this could generate billions of dollars in revenue yearly. Worst case scenario for me would be IBM to buy Tableau, but clearly for those of us who use it, Tableau is one of the best tools out there for what it does. Will it be able to keep its marketshare 5 years out? Who knows.
I believe they still receive an hourly wage. Their bills get as paid as they ever did.
The biggest risk is actually China devaluing the yuan. They are reporting their forex reserves on Sunday. If the yuan gets devalued this year this means China starts to export deflation. One or 10 stocks losing 50% in value is not a big deal. The Fed needing to cut rates in the face of slowing growth would be an issue.
Nope, we went for jqplot (http://www.jqplot.com/), it is GPL. The client initially wanted to go with Highcharts, but when we found about its licensing, I started looking for a FOSS alternative and this was what I found.
The balance of power is tilted in the employer's favour, and therefore additional regulation is required to restore balance.

The US employer has powers that businesses only dream of in other developed countries. It's time that US employment law was harmonised with the rest of the world and not the other way around.

Demographics are shifting. We will end up electing representatives to government who will eventually harmonise labour law.
Except that there's apparently a lot of bespoke engineering in the X that isn't in the S. And the X5 was built on the 7 chassis, at least initially. I don't think it shares much with the 5.
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I first heard of Tom Mabe on the radio when the morning show ("Kirk, Mark and Lopez") out of Baltimore played some of his bits on the air. He would prank the telemarketers ("Hey, I'm glad you called. (Darkly:) You wouldn't know how to get blood out of a carpet, would you? I've got a lot of blood here..."). He had some of them going quite a while- in a really quite funny way.
I looked at Bitbucket Connect, but it looks like everything is done via iframe for obvious security reasons. This doesn't appear to be the case with Bitbucket server.

Somebody from Atlassian has reached out to me and I'll get back to them next week to see what can be done to get this working with the Connect framework.
Wait, how are prostitutes in your Dunbar number but telemarketers aren't?
This is very similar to 'Lenny', a script someone developed for Asterisk systems. It looks like the original website is down, but there's still a FreePBX module[1], a youtube channel with many, many call recordings[2], as well as several other forums posts/etc I won't bother to link. There used to be a hosted service you could forward calls to as well.

The Lenny script's brilliance was its simplicity. Basically, it just waited for silence, then played back one of several clever lines recorded by a confusing-sounding old man. He'd ask the caller to repeat because he couldn't hear, divert questions by asking "Sorry, who did you say you were calling from again?" and tell long stories about his daughters then say "oh sorry, what was your question again?".

Note, I appreciate the cleverness and social engineering aspect of this, but I don't use it myself. I do have a blacklist on my home phone, but it only goes to a 'not in service' tone, and I've only ever added 4 numbers to it (one in particular was some guy that told me wife to "f* off" when she said she wasn't interested).

[1] https://github.com/lgaetz/freepbx-Its_Lenny
[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduL71_GKzHHk4hLga0nO...
I recently had to perform updates, and the biggest aggravation was having to start and stop the server for every config change.

Also, lack of Sharepoint integration / ability to handle federated login services with OData connectors.

Minor issues though, I'm a huge Tableau fan.
I managed to find the prerelease packages in the build scripts, and got it working through that. Make sure you restart the keybase service, as it doesn't happen automatically

https://s3.amazonaws.com/prerelease.keybase.io/index.html
It doesn't seem like a myth at all - tesla could be the Apple in that its vertically integrated w/ a tightly controlled supply chain and an ecosystem producing lock-in (superchargers), capturing the high end of the market and most of the profit in the industry.

GM and BWM would be the android device manufacturers - assembling 3rd party components, poorly differentiated, initially not competitive on quality but eventually catching up, while competition w/ each other prevents any of them from achieving profits comparable to Tesla.
I own my recruiting agency, and I don't care what your last salary was. I do care about what you are looking for so I don't waste your time, my time, or the client's time. I also realize that any target range you give me before even meeting the client may increase or even decrease after you learn all about the company, team, benefits, etc.

All that said, a candidate that knows their market value should never have to fear talking about salary history or expectations. If you know your market rate, and you stick to that as your expectation, you never have to worry about being underpaid. Market rate can be hard to define sometimes, and there are clearly companies that are willing to pay above market rate in certain scenarios, but candidates who do their research (or trust the knowledge of others) never have to worry about talking compensation.
Tesla PowerWalls and PowerPacks are already being installed. When are redox flow batteries going to be built? Put into production?
On Ubuntu, mine wasn't auto-updated to get KBFS, but I found pre-releases that work:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/prerelease.keybase.io/index.html
What part didn't work well for you? It's intentionally designed to work with all modern browsers.
Your SQL Server database just failed, can you restore the backup?
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In about a month.

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2015/08/hecate-...

Your turn. Show me a 1MegaWatt-hr or larger TSLA installation. kw-installations (Power Wall) are small money, I don't care about that. I care about hundreds-of-million $$ installations.

The only things I see for TSLA are planned projects and/or demos.

Redox Flow is a bit newer technology than Lithium Ion, but small-scale installations already exist all over the world.

http://www.energy-storage-online.com/cipp/md_energy/custom/p...
>> no one treats sales people this shitty in person.

We have "door knockers" where I live (Ontario, Canada) who present themselves as representatives of gas and energy companies (and some have even gone so far as to say they work for the government) who try and get you to show them your energy bill and/or try to get into your basement to give you a "free inspection" and then get you to sign up for something you don't want.

In my experience, saying "no thanks, not interested" (in person) just makes them more aggressive in their claims with the same scripted retorts- i.e. they're there in an official capacity (they're not), all the other neighbors let them sign up (probably not), they have a photo id (that anyone with computer skills can reproduce) and that they're there to save you money (doubtful).

They show up in my neighborhood every couple of months, and after a while, you sorta get worn out by the routine and find that being rude/abrupt is the easiest (and sometimes only) way to get rid of them.
The rest is true, but it's pretty easy to block individual telemarketers:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201229

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-block-phone-calls...

They always seem to call from the same number for me, day after day, then they go away when I block that number.
They might still be liable for the damages if they knew it would cause said damages, but did nothing to prevent it.
Tesla should get Model 3 out quickly. That's where the meat of the market is at ~30K USD. That's where Tesla will learn what real customer service is.
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High stock prices does not mean a company is doing well.

It just means that people used to think the stock of the company would go up.

Following that: low stock prices does not mean a company is not doing well.
In a recent estimate of the bits per synapse they found it to be an order of magnitude higher than previous estimates: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/si-mco012016....
All of those responses sound like something that could come out of an AIML[1] bot and those have been around for almost 15 years. I fail to see how any of this is revolutionary.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIML