skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some decisions taken when designing the X might have been a mistake. But it would be too simple to blame all onto them. While initially, the X was planned as a minor bodywork modification of the Model S, the crazy success of the S gave Tesla the money and the time to make it a larger refinement of the S platform. In the meantime, the S also kept being updated.

So the X is rather still part of the S platform and the real cheaper car will still be the Model 3. In that sense the Tesla plans did not change much. While not many X were delivered in 2015, they seemed to have started mass production literally in the last weeks of the year. They should be building several hundred of them per week now.

That the X is even more expensive than the S is not a bad thing, considering that they have about 20k orders backlog. As long as they can sell any S or X they make, there is no hurry for the "cheap" model. Revenue per car is more important that total car number sold.
Stop scaring the kiddos with your ghost stories. At least let them enjoy their weekend.

The problem is shrinking global liquidity. Losses in the Chinese financial system and in the global energy sector are forcing governments, central banks and sovereign wealth funds to sell assets around the world. These are some of the biggest asset managers in the world.

It is unclear to me how this will end. When the mortgage market melted down and destroyed the balance sheets of banks, the Federal Reserve liquified their illiquid assets using QE. For better or worse, QE restarted the jammed shut credit engine.

At the moment, outside of wholly energy dependent countries (Middle East, Latin America, Nigeria, etc.), there does not appear to me a 2008-like financial system shutdown.

Coming back to tech. IMHO, big tech companies with inflated multiples (as benchmarked against the FCF generating engines at GOOG and AAPL) now have a target on their backs. Unicorns that aren't cashflow positive are going to learn how to negotiate down rounds. Real estate values are sticky and will hold up longer than people think. Engineer salaries are not going to drop a whole lot. The number of people employed might.
Is there any truth to the 'you can't lose something you never actually had' idea?

When LI's stock price dropped, it's not like somebody showed up and plundered the shareholders' bank accounts. It's never safe to treat stocks like money.
> understand informal discourse for what it is, and stop projecting your own harsh views of other people onto other people.

I don't think it's overly harsh to expect people, when talking about their own actions (and obviously when understanding the topic and terminology), and when in a discussion which is not a light hearted banter, to expect someone to put enough thought into that statement to make it true, at least to the degree it requires additional information to make them reconsider.

This theoretical exchange in a discussion regarding the merits of Chicken illustrates my point of view:
Person 1: I don't eat chicken.
Person 2: Are you sure?
Person 1: Okay, yes, I eat chicken.

Person 1 has, at this point, proven themselves unreliable in their statements. Whether that is from a lie or mistake is both unprovable,and to me, irrelevant, because the end result is the same. I may or may not converse with them further, depending on other cues, but functionally, what's the difference to Person 2 or observers. I don't think that's overly harsh, just stating the realities of the situation. Sometimes people tell small lies, sometimes they make mistakes, but every occurrence affects your view of them slightly unless you expected that statement to be untrue.

So, to bring this full circle, the original commenter that asserted they didn't use default Apple apps may have lied, but it's far more likely they were mistaken, but in the end, I'll view their statements with a bit more skepticism now, as they've proven themselves capable of making a simple, assertive blanket statements about their behavior that they will recant at the slightest question.

Even so, I still feel the original reply carried an implied accusation of deception, for the reasons we've covered in depth. Regardless of whether the replying commenter was eventually correct, I don't think they had cause to use the wording they did at the time they did. We don't agree, which is fine, but that's why I felt compelled to make the statement I did, and while my wording may have been overly harsh (which I've already admitted), I don't believe my message was.

I assume we're done here, since your last statement was a single sentence whose purpose was to call into question my attitude, understanding, and actions, and offered little additional to discuss? In truth, I found that somewhat belittling, but am trying to ignore that aspect, as I may be misinterpreting it (and I try to be more forgiving of speech directed towards myself than to others). I've tried to be civil, and while this discussion wasn't light hearted, I did find it informative.
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Does this Semi-Automatic 3D printed gun feed a hungry one semi-automatically?
Sticky for people already employed, perhaps, but probably not for new hires, I'd guess.

Also, anecdotally, in 2008 some of those fired were expensive new hires. "The bottom 25%" might be defined as those fired but otherwise I don't think there is a definition of "bottom" those who get fired all fit. Say, if a project or a department is terminated, often everyone is let go, instead of trying to keep "the best" and replacing "worse" people elsewhere with them, etc.
It's also lack of understanding the problem you're trying to solve.

For example at my previous job we had a dedicated data store for performing lookups such as ip -> zip code and latitude/longitude -> zip code.

The company decided to use Oracle Coherence and store all data in memory, because it'll be fast. To store all of that information they needed 16 m3.medium machines.

Last year they had a great success optimizing it, because they managed to replace 16 x m3.medium machines to just 3 x c3.2xlarge machines running MongoDB (the data was ~12GB).

I did a POC and put the data in PostgreSQL with proper columns and indices (I just needed to install ip4range and PostGIS), the whole data fit in 600MB! the queries took under at most 2ms on cold cache but generally were under miliseconds, because all the data fit in RAM.
Oh, please bring the VR/augmented surfaces revolution. I'd happily switch over my career to that. As it is, my next hobby game is probably going to have VR support.
I think it's almost time to revamp boards but for different reasons.

Now a days boards rarely function well.

They are usually a first step for "corporate raiders" or "shareholder activists" depending on what sude you are on, to leverage a company To force it down whatever path they want.

I don't see long board terms as a problem for someone like summer assuming he still has his mental faculties.

He helped build Viacom and cbs. He presumably knows more about those companies than any other person on the earth.

Why would you force him off the board?

Just ensure that the board only has one master to serve. They can't simultaneously serve employees, shareholders and the ceo.
Man, I so miss XSI. It was such a great piece of 3d software.
What's the actual issue with restarts? Is the downtime due to a restart unacceptable? Is it that users lose application state when a restart happens?

Just trying to understand since I've written software with the same restart to config workflow and would like to understand what causes it to be problematic.
Ouch, good question. Although the building they want to lease in is part of a major development happening in Kirkland over the next few years. It will be full of other businesses and retail, so not just Tableau. It's also right across the street from their current Kirkland office I believe.
jump ship to the new opportunity (meaning a high number), or jump ship on the conversation (meaning his bare minimum number)?
BMWs still suffer from Chris Bangle's legacy of flame surfacing.

Personally, I think the Macan is a much sharper interpretation than the Cayenne.

Tessa's design is blander and doesn't really have a brand specific cue other than that horrendous nose. That large piece of plastic over what would be traditionally the inlet just doesn't do it for me.
I believe that some call center forbid, or heavily penalize, the workers for hanging up on a potential lead.
The article claims that there is a file named LXCore.sys in C:\windows\system32\drivers which contains the following strings

initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 rw androidboot.hardware=hyperv console=tty0 console=ttyS0 video=hyperv_fb:1024×768 BOOT_IMAGE=/kernel
Linux version 3.4.0-Microsoft (Microsoft@Microsoft.com) (gcc version 4.7 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 31 14:42:53 PST 2014
How is this so fast?
He's had enough interest in the project that he decided to run a Kickstarter for it : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/202664225/the-jolly-rog...

Unfortunately a self-hosted option doesn't appear to be in the works, but maybe with enough feedback he'll add that.
Ask HN: How do you hire Sales people?
For the last several we've hired only devs and PMs. We need to hire sales people and need some suggestion on where to begin. We've tried LNKD, CL but response was so so. Would love to hear more on how you built your sales team.
Or a sip endpoint so that we can use a little cheap net bandwidth rather than expensive minutes.
It seems like economies of scale have steamrolled quality. If one company can sell 1000x the volume to people who don't know better, then even those who do know better will often find the high-volume choice more practical due to cost and industry support just being too good to ignore.
It's just not a software company and too many people don't get that.

They're building their brand and developing their technology and supply chain with elite vehicles developing the potential for profit explosions when they're ready to release a commodity vehicle to the masses.
It's an artifact of The War on Drugs.
I'm immediately reminded of Bret Victors work: http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming

I hope this is really the future
There are so many issues here I hardly know where to begin. I've made similar arguments myself in the past and you have to be very careful to compartmentalize what you hope to say and accomplish when debating someone directly affected by these issues.

What do you want to accomplish? Do you believe that all the world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations?

Do you believe that the complexity of modern science and the scale of the problems inherently requires increasing specialization and an inherent detachment for modern scientists from the impact of the work in a cultural context? Does that lead us toward a specialization in being a spokesperson for science? Should large institutions feel obligated to create such positions?

Because if you're simply pining for the days of natural philosophers who were statesmen, lawyers, political figures, and leading minds embodied in one person you're at a dead end.

Whatever you do, don't bring up ethics. A required college course wraps up any and all debate on that front!
The insane thing here is that Spotify could just change the incentive structure and then it wouldn't have to take drastic action.

"You will gain 0.00x cents per listen, up to a maximum of 100 listens/day for any individual user" and "Your songs must all sound like distinct pieces, as judged by our testing team" seem jointly sufficient to rule out the two biggest forms of abuse here: sure, let someone stream 30-second clips of silence; after 50 minutes stop paying for it. Multiple silent clips are a violation only because they both sound the same.
he means he shorts the stock market... although it can be difficult to get the borrow when everything is tanking.
There are RSS feeds for releases too, quite handy as I use them to get release notifications / notes on things like uBlock to find out what's new.

Eg. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tags.atom

Also good for smaller things like npm components that might not have a blog you can subscribe to for updates
What's a homocide?
When cloud == SaaS, sometimes.
When cloud == IaaS, nope.

But that doesn't stop the misconception.
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Of course we are far from reaching human level yet, but generalised Moore’s Law means the number of years until we reach human level is not that far away.

There is of course the issue that since brains evolved rather than being designed that they can be inefficient in their processing. Look at how poor humans are at arithmetic - we need to divert a huge fraction of our processing power to do what a computer designed for arithmetic can do very efficiently.
It is a sensible thing to do. Company clients are profitable, but B2C bussiness is very tough.
what about japan
I never argued in favor high rent prices. I merely pointed out that they are more affordable, to more people, than you think they are.

Your misplaced moral outrage is clouding your reading comprehension.
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You can add to this, the gigantic misuse of the term "AI" when journalists really want to say "robotics". I don't mind clever shortcuts when you need to explain something abstract or invisible to non-technical people, but, at some point, somebody will have to tell them they're two completely different fields.
http://poloniex.com is a US based alt coin trading system.
An Intranet of Things?
Fixing Hiring through RSS
Tableau is definitely a useful tool. Tried getting folks with Tableau skills in previous whoishiring post. The other positions I posted got a lot of response but not the Tableau-oriented ones. Looks like plenty of enthusiasts in this thread through. Where were you all? Hey, in the off chance you are Iinterested in working in Tableau at a think tank (RAND) send me (Chris) a note at dev.hiring@rand.org.
Looks more like activist investors threatening the board if they don't slash and burn to increase short term profits.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autodesk-restructuring-idU...
Stock price isn't low at all. TSLA is still considered a bigger company than Fiat / Chrysler... by a significant margin... at its current price.

East Coast guys are thinking "wtf? How can Fiat / Crysler / Dodge / Jeep / Ram / Ferrari COMBINED" be worth less than a company who currently only makes two cars?
Last couple of laptops I have had were not able to click left and right together. Another one for aesthetics versus usability.
Gopher Gala was a very well run world wide event, with lots of great projects that resulted. I hope everyone had a fun time participating and learned more about Golang.

I had the privilege of judging Gopher Gala this year.

Congrats to Goad. I ranked it highly too.

I've really enjoyed how benchmarking is handled in Go. The testing library comes with tools out of the box [1], and boom is one of the first programs where I saw the true elegance of the language [2].

Goad continues this tradition by putting a sharp benchmark utility "in the cloud" which is incredibly useful for distributed testing.

The AWS Lambda bit is a really interesting backend choice. Lambda only supports NodeJS, Python and Java out of the box. But thanks to the awesome toolchain, it's trivial to compile a golang binary and stuff it in the Lambda execution environment.

It's architecture is simple and extremely powerful [3].

[1] https://golang.org/pkg/testing/#B
[2] https://github.com/rakyll/boom
[3] https://goad.io/assets/diagram.2205b67cd43c5d0b9cb9698b88436...
Zcash runs it's own blockchain.

The original zerocash team approached the bitcoin developers over a year ago asking to integrate some of their ideas into the bitcoin blockchain and were turned down entirely. So they went underground and developed zcash.

Zcash still seems to share quite a bit in common with bitcoin, however. For example, they are sticking with the 21,000,000 coin market cap.
How about Emoji?

http://www.windytan.com/2014/10/visualizing-hex-bytes-with-u...
I agree with most of this analysis.

I think the reason they did the X was that when Model S was brand new they expected the market to 'max out' at ~20k vehicles a year (which wasn't unreasonable looking at other, similarly priced, niche premium brands).

So, they wanted a SUV to sell more cars. Now, as everyone (especially Tesla) knows, Model S has been selling very well. So in hindsight it was a big waste of time/resources. But I can see why the mistake was made.
So, what is to stop someone from forking the code and removing the percentages that go to the Zcash company and devs? Similar to how Monero was forked from Bytecoin due to some odd shadiness (not that I think Zcash and co. are shady!) [0].

[0]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740112.0
Determining why a particular neuron in a large model fired or did not fire is still a guessing game, as far as I know. Kind of fun to look at patterns of when certain neurons activate a few layers deep in image classification convnets https://youtu.be/ta5fdaqDT3M?t=27m42s
If they keep doing well then they're getting positive reinforcement that their shitty practises work.

So, either way they keep acting shittily, at least this way other companies might learn a lesson not to.
Worse:

Bake sales to raise funds for diabetes research.
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Anyone else getting "Your connection is not private" on Chrome?

>Attackers might be trying to steal your information from serve.swifton.me (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID"
There is a tendency among non-technical admirers of ML to regard deep learning methods as beyond their creators: independent entities that will one day, given refined enough algorithms and enough energy, out-comprehend their human creators and overwhelm humanity with their artificial consciousnesses. The term “neural networks” is itself a misnomer that doesn’t at all reflect the complexity of how human neurons represent and acquire information; it’s simply a term for nonlinear classification algorithms that began catching on once the computing power to run them emerged.

The question of whether or not deep neural networks are capable of “understanding” is largely a theoretical concern for the ML practitioner, who spends the bulk of his or her time undertaking the hard work of curating manually labeled data, fine-tuning his or her neural classifier with methods (or hacks) such as dropout, stochastic gradient descent, convolution and recursion, to increase its accuracy by a few fractions of a percentage point. Ten or twenty years from now, I imagine we’ll be dealing with a novel set of ML tools that will evolve with the rise of quantum computing (the term “machine learning” will probably be ancient history, too), but the essence of these methods will probably remain: to train a mathematical model to perform task X while generalizing its performance to the real world.

As fascinating and exciting as this era of artificial intelligence is, we should also remember that these algorithms are ultimately sophisticated classifiers that don't "understand" anything at all.
It seemed to work reasonably well since the typical user was only needing it an hour or two each week. All of those users needed some authoring ability so Reader wasn't a solution in this case.
I am afraid, if you record your readers voices for further experiments. ;)
Zen and the Art of Email Design
Why was it a waste of time/resources? From all we know, the X might even sell better than the S, the preorders are crazy. Which would make Tesla a much larger company than selling the S only.
Buy from a quality manufacturer?
Probably not, because people don't ask. In 2008 when I was living in NYC, I asked and received 10-15% year over year decreases in rent (3 years). Long time NYers thought I was crazy to even ask. Incredulous I got it. And this was in Manhattan, doorman building, a few blocks from Lehman Bros.

So yeah ask. And be prepared to move. If you aren't prepared to move, you're not ready to save.
$1,118.00 USD, apparently. [0]

[0] https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results.aspx?...
I always assumed pg would be smart and use something with a constant lookup time. This[1] is a query plan 9.5 made with a table containing 10,000,000 sequential rows, executing "DELETE WHERE id IN (select * from generate_series(1, 1000000));". Maybe your right, it spends 5.8 seconds on the nested loop. I've only used this for smaller volumes where an extra table might be overkill, but I guess with loads more rows a temporary table is better.

1. http://tatiyants.com/pev/#/plans/plan_1454709615696
Good question. In 2013 they hit 0.5 pflops (0.5*10^15) by putting together 26,496 cores in one of their data centers. So I expect they have scaled proportionally and would be around 1-1.5 pflops. That would put them at #50-80 on top500.org. Bandwidth wise they are probably at 10-50 gigabit/s which is where 10G ethernet is and Infiniband FDR starts -- a lot of systems in that range use those technologies for communications (with custom and higher bandwidth options in the top 10).

Current Top500: http://top500.org/list/2015/11/

Amazon 2013: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/amazon...

EDIT: As far as a whole data center is concerned, i'm not sure it would be a direct comparison as bandwidth would not be as high between cabinets. Amazon using their off the shelf tech to make a supercomputer is probably a better indication of how they compare. Of course at 26,496 cores that may be a data center!
I took it as waiting for the bottom and investing his cash, and seeing a big upswing. The real trick is starting at the bottom.
If I understood it correctly it would be an alternative to OpenVPN but without central server or configuration, you run meshbird on every node setting it up with a one liner.
This is neat. It reminds me a lot of WebCode for the Mac, which has a real-time SVG mode.

http://www.webcodeapp.com/
It could be even easier: don't count every listen the same; split each user's subscription fees among the songs they listen to each month.
How about a service that uses a Siri-like voice recognition service to do one very limited context task: Screen your calls against telemarketers?

A lot of telemarketer outfits with trashy setups are already at a disadvantage: Their predictive dialers leave a huge gap of silence at the beginning of an answered call because they don't properly time their dialing with available operators. Such a service could learn the vocal characteristics of your family and friends and would probably do a great job with recognizing cues telemarketers produce unconsciously.
> 1. No ability to use a 3rd party auth provider AFAIK, which means either keeping tableau passwords in a database or having users remember two different passwords

The answer is SAML/ADFS. You should look to enable this integration. If you are not using AD/LDAP, that's a whole different story. But SAML/ADFS is pretty much the standard way since Tableau is a Windows service, it is very natural to just use AD/LDAP/SAML.
Is anyone arguing that machine learning is not AI? The gist of the article is that Google is leaning toward ML/DL and away from the rules engines/Knowledge Graph. The headline is a shorthand, which, although it could be more precise, is not inaccurate.
Congrats guys!!