skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just following orders, right? If you willingly take a job to annoy people, you aren't going to get much sympathy from me.
First Twitter, and now Linked In.
I've called unicorns and specially those without business model a bubble.

What we are looking is a shift...

-Happened from real state to oil
-Oil to IT unicorns

Now the question is where is the money being transferred to?
I'm still wondering how has Facebook done to avoid all this happening to them.
5-10 ? When it comes to infrastructure Tesla is no way ahead by 5 years. Auto-pilot perhaps they may have deployment advantage given that they have only 2 models and (pre 2014 models of S wont get auto-pilot too). Greatly exaggerated, TSLA is a wonderful company and vision but their market cap is way way off, for what they do.
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> The Java/JVM bias is a deficiency of open source Big Data, not bioinformatics!!!

I agree.

> Bioinformatics is built on Unix tools and Unix composition AFAICT

That is true for most bioinformatics tools with a few important exceptions. CummeRbund, e.g., is a must for RNA-Seq and you need to drive it from R. It's hard to tell whether supporting only command line would actually be enough to conveniently describe workflows. For Cuneiform, we assume that it isn't.

> what's wrong with what they're doing?

It's not that moving to Big Data stacks is the ultimate answer to everything. If your workflow runs fast enough on one machine, probably it's best to change nothing. Nevertheless, we're observing a dramatic drop in sequencing costs right now. And the more this trend continues, the bigger will be the demand for scalable infrastructures in Next Generation Sequencing.
"it's that some of these paths have been preserved as modern roads and highways, and today we can still walk in the footsteps of the civilizations that came before us."

Well, yeah, they were probably trails for a reason. Happened with a lot of old trails which often have some funny names because of the Englishizing Native American names, evolution of language, misspellings, and people not getting the old words right.
Yeah, I wish the language syntax in Sonic Pi was less Ruby, more Python. But, seriously disliking Ruby is just a personal hangup. ;)
Can you point me to another auto manufacturer's free charging network?

> 595 Supercharger stations with 3,465 Superchargers

https://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger

This doesn't include destination chargers at hotels, restaurants, and other establishments.
What's are some of the biggest things missing in Power BI compared to Tableau?
Accurate title, and it's funny.

I'm Done with the iPhone (Only iPhone+).
Why do you say that? I mean every single review I saw of the Model S was fairly deliberate about praising the performance of the car. What's the counter point to that?
Right except this isn't the usual case. and most likely isn't the case for most of the people in this threads that are brandishing pitchforks.
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HN is in the same cluster as 2ch, not Techcrunch, on Twitter
I'm expecting a 30-40% decline in S&P 500, 30% decline in bay area real estate values, 30% of bay area "well-funded" startups going bust, and 25% reduction in market rate pay for software engineers over the next 2 years

And by expecting, you mean investing accordingly?

Hopefully that will turn out to be a gloomy forecast, but it's best to prepare for the worst.

Actually, it's not. Being right at the wrong time is arguably the worst kind of "wrong" you can be. It doesn't pay to be the only sane guy in the asylum.
Sweet, thanks. :-)
To me, the NSA confirming Snowden voiced concerns is confirmation that he didn't decide to just leak documents haphazardly - now, we can conjecture about what NSA response he would have considered to be enough, but he at least voiced concern before taking matters into his own hands.

The NSA will never acknowledge that they left him no avenue other than leaking - that would place him squarely as a noble whistleblower, who only went rogue when left no other choice (and, not at all a traitor).

Edit: since I can't reply to ikeboy below, I'll do it here - as others have pointed out, it doesn't matter that he leaked more than you think was appropriate, since everyone has a different measure for that. He also gave it to people far more qualified than himself to parse through - their choice to publish is not within his control. I'm sure you would have done differently, but this is what it is - we're better off for his actions, full stop. The rest is background noise.
It's basically the same; you're right - Keybase are doing all the heavy lifting.

The idea was more one of subtraction than addition: take everything away and display just .txt and (rendered) .md blog posts.

I thought I might use it just for myself (i.e. instead of the user search, just fix it to 'ojford') but seeing as I didn't have any content, and I just wanted to try something out, I did it like this first.
Over-engineering the Model X is in my view clearly a mistake. Not a huge mistake though.

The big problem for Tesla is scaling up. Producing the model 3 at scale at a 40k price tag is much harder than anything they have done so far. It has taken competing car companies decades to get to the point where cheap reliable cars just roll of the factory line. Just quality control alone is a huge problem at scale. Sourcing all materials at scale is enormously difficult. In manufacturing scale is everything.

In terms of interior design and finish Tesla is way behind BMW. They don't have the factories BMW does or any of the infrastructure and operational expertise. Tesla won't be able to compete in more the price sensitive "3" segment.

Perhaps Tesla would have been better if they only produced fast luxury cars. Too late for that now, though. The stock is priced based on promises of a mass adoption of the Model 3. A promise that they can't possibly deliver on. Unless Elon pulls another rabbit out of his hat. Wouldn't be the first time.
>It is too ostentatious for most people - especially in its biggest market- the bay area. You can hide a gold iphone or Rolex watch but you can't hide when you open the falcon door while dropping off your kids to school.

For a lot of people the whole point of paying $130k for a car is that other people know you can pay $130k for a car.

Also, is the SF bay area really Tesla's biggest market? There aren't that many people in SF compared to, say, Los Angeles.
Assuming a limited number of design and engineering resources I think the article makes a sensible argument (though, really poorly written) that it would have made more business sense to prioritize those resources on getting a more mass market offering out to consumers, capturing that revenue stream and cash before prioritizing the X.

Without knowing many of the details of Tesla this argument makes sense on it face. That being said there's a hefty amount of hindsight going into this analysis and I'd respect it more if the author made this call about 2-3 years ago.
Because everything you mentioned requires a capital investment and the Tesla batteries don't.

There are many things which are more cost-effective long-term, which lose to something which costs less short term.
Have you ridden in one? The performance is ridiculous, to the point of being scary.
The company makes batteries. Partnerned with one of biggest battery suppliers on giant new battery factory.

That it's batteries currently go into cars, and home/industrial storage systems is happenstance of the moment.
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No. It is vastly less expensive to have a central authority reverse a transaction by flipping some bits vs. guaranteeing it via escrow or insurance.

Additionally the oft-repeated claim that credit card fees lead to higher prices has two problems:

1. When Australia regulated away CC fees, prices did not decline.

2. In the U.S., which has higher interchange rates, most of that is refunded back to the consumer via reward programs (1-2% cashback).
How about a revision of the Turing test that specifies rational, mature human beings.

Yes, but then how many people would fail the Turing test? A non-trivial amount, I would guess.
I didn't say that telemarketers are waiters -- just that you have the option to also treat them like shit for making a mistake, but most people more readily view that for what it is: you being unkind.

Also, you choose to have phone service. One of the things that comes with that is the possibility you will be called by someone you do not know.

You CAN also complain to people in charge of telemarketers.

You also CAN prevent them from calling you again. There is relevant legislation, there is precedent, you have technological options (another user mentioned these, with links), you're just not exercising them, and choosing to be rude instead, hoping (possibly rightfully so) that that will deter them.
The person who sets the tone for the discussion about Tesla is Morgan Stanley analyst, Adam Jonas. You have to bank at Morgan Stanley to get his reports. All the news outlets requote his material. This is not "overblown" but it is old, second hand news and it is part of why the stock is down.

"On Monday, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas slashed his target price on Tesla stock to 333 from 450, reports noted, citing concerns about extra costs tied to the Model X launch delay."

http://www.investors.com/news/technology/tesla-stock-turns-l...
Phase 1 : Collect underpants

Phase 2 : ?

Phase 3 : Expand downmarket
To be fair, it's not the original SGI anymore. In 2009 Rackable Systems (a cheap commodity server company) bought what was left of SGI and renamed their company SGI.

So, it's not quite the same lineage.

The new SGI does seem to have some nice gear, but I don't know how much secret sauce there is. I've never used it, but it looks pretty commodity to me. (Not that there's anything wrong with that).
I've already made $60k on $20k investment. Not recently though.
Spoken like a true autocrat.
Yeah, that's what I wasn't sure about. Shorting is fine but it's also difficult to time right. And yeah guessing when it's the actual bottom is also not that self evident (at least for me).

So I'm kind of curious to hear any anecdotes from users here profiting in 2008...
Inthe end, it's all about money - and wasting the time of the person being paid to call you is wasting the money of the person paying them.

Turning off spam filters will have no effect on the time of the person writing them. Thanks to the magic of computers, when the message is written once, it can be sent as many times as necessary, with a much smaller incremental cost than a human on a phone. The cost to a spammer to send a message that bounces off a spam filter is actually higher (due to the need to buy/find open/vulnerable STMP relays when their reputation falls or they're blacklisted) than to send mail that is delivered, so keep those spam filters on!
Roads require maintainance and solar panels require maintenance -- couldn't innovation (conceivably) produce a maintenance schedule that can maintain both these things under one process at less cost than maintaining each separately?
> In about a month.

"Slated for commissioning in 2016, ViZn's ZnFe redox flow battery system will be the largest of its type in North America and Europe."

"The first of these projects is expected to be brought online by the end of Q316."
My motorcycle is way faster than my car, but it's snowing out so I can't ride my motorcycle. I'm just done with my car.

This guy must be FASCINATING at parties. Holy cow what a privileged existence. If this is seriously the biggest beef on his trip I'll trade problems with him any day of the week.
Robert Frank, Valuing the Image Over the Object
One caveat here: the pay at VFX shops tends to be lower than the industry in general.
On the topic of Lenny, "who" is great, if you want to just listen to one recorded Lenny call to get a sense for how it plays out (and have a laugh too), in this particular one a car crashes into the building where the telemarketer is working, adding to the strangeness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lL870ixdsY
The Bath County Hydro Station was built in 1970. I'm comparing TSLA technology to literally 40 year old technology here.

The 40-year old technology is cheaper, more well known, widely deployed, 100% green, non-toxic and extremely reliable. Its both a short-term and long-term solution.

TSLA batteries don't even beat the status-quo in the energy field, let alone the new technologies that are coming (Supercapacitors, Redox Flow, Compressed Air...)
> 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.

The funny thing is that the Model S has more cargo space than many small/medium SUVs. The Model X doesn't really allow a decent rooftop cargo carrier.
FYI, I found this one, which cites more recent data from Adobe themselves: http://prodesigntools.com/creative-cloud-one-million-paid-me...

Given this one links to data straight from the source, I'm going to assume it's reliable and therefore the previous report I mentioned with lots of caveats was actually off by about a factor of 2-3.

The most interesting detail here might be that while they've been steadily increasing their subscriber base for CC so far, they're also still only at around half of their previous installed base for Creative Suite even today, around 3.5 years after launch. To put that in perspective, a little under half of that previous installed base was on CS6, while a modest majority were still on CS3-CS5.5. That suggests it may become harder for them to continue growing their CC subscriber base at the same rate if they approach a saturation point within the industry or at least within those parts of it willing to keep spending money on regular updates.

The other thing we should probably consider is that Adobe had almost a free ride in the early days of CC, as there was relatively little serious competition left in the industry. Now they're starting to face credible threats, albeit mostly on a small scale or in specific niches for now, and if they lose mind share and eventually the critical mass that means everyone has to use CC because everyone uses CC, that could cause them some problems.

The next couple of years will be interesting for them. Presumably time will tell whether they can find ways to drive significantly more people to regular subscriptions than they used to get upgrading anyway, and whether they'll be able to hold off any emerging competition.
> It contains a gene regulatory network more complex than the entire network topology of Amazon's entire web services stack...

Maybe it's not a fair comparison but I decided to look it up:

Human genome has about 3.2 billion base pairs, which is about 6.4Gbits = 800MB. The size of linux-4.4.1.tar.gz is about 83MB. So, in a sense, the human genome is only about ten times the compressed size of Linux kernel, never mind everything on top of that.
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Awesome. There are a ton of problems that could use software. These guys are used to working for it, and I suspect do not need the problem to be sexy to be worth doing.

On a more basic level, I really value people and when we can open doors for them, the world gets a little better. Worth it. Not all of them will take the steps, nor will all of them enjoy success.

It's not about that. It is all about the ones that do, and the number of doors we have for people to attempt to walk through and improve.
Yes. And TSLA doesn't have any utility scale projects except the hypothetical 1MW plant in Ireland until sometime later this year.

Small-scale deployments of Lithium Ion are not going to be as efficient as large-scale deployments of Redox Flow. Period. I don't think TSLA has bet on the right technology at the utility scale. Lithium Ion is great for cars, but better technologies simply exist in other niches.

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Look, Redox Flow batteries are ahead of TSLA. They exist right now at the "small scale" of 2.2MWhr.

http://www.uetechnologies.com/product.htm

These are the numbers for a utility-scale level company... currently mass producing Redox Flow batteries. TSLA power wall just doesn't compete. Not by a long shot.
I think it is amazing that after a decade in the mainstream spotlight, journalists still don't seem to do their homework.

Simpleminded twaddle.
Yes. But then most of the monetization opportunity is gone for the makers. Here is an opportunity for kickstarter and open source things to shine.
I have the same problem, my domain name from 1994 or something -- they make it unbelievably hard to transfer, and have charged me a little fortune in 'fees' for 'late renewals' and other completely bogus claims.

Bunch of crooks. Scrapping the barrel -- with me.

The twitter trick is a good one, I'm going to try to escape from their grasp using it...
Do both
>The point is that Tesla doesn't move anywhere near enough volume or generate anywhere near enough sales to justify its market cap.

Buying TSLA right now is making a big bet on the Model 3. If Tesla comes out with a popular car (likely) and can make enough of them to turn a profit (little more skeptical on that one), it may end up justifying valuations. I wouldn't put my money on it, but I'm not surprised other people do.
In terms of property, I wonder how much is being sold to foreign investors. This article came up recently about London

http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2016/02/04/opinion-is-th...

I give it more credence than the usual "property market correction incoming" because certain fundamentals have actually changed, oil is dirt cheap, China as you say is volatile having blown multiple bubbles and now dealing with the consequences.

Perhaps those who previously bought for investment purposes may need to liquidate?
Ask HN: Thoughts on Market America/Shop.com?
Throw-away since I don’t want to be a target if MA finds this post.

A bunch of my friends have been trying to recruit me for some pseudo-MLM business called Shop.com, owned by Market America which seems to have roots in Amway.

They have a conference going on now and I’m just surprised how many people are attending given the scammy, cultish feeling I get from it (almost everyone I know has bought more product/conference tickets through MA for themselves than earning actual money after a couple of years). They seem to advocate talking down on vaguely-similar businesses like Amazon and Shopify.

Am I missing something here?
Even better, rather than an AI you outsource the talking to someone who has nothing better to do with their time and a mobile phone. Pay them a graduated scale depending on how long they kept the caller on the phone.
Hi Artem,

I notice that IP addresses changes each time the client is started. How are the addresses allocated? Is it possible to use static addresses?

Very cool project. I've been waiting for something like this to replace tinc. I love the simplicity!
Instabug's other cofounder here.

Wow, that does sound frustrating and I'm sorry we let you down. I thought we did enough to communicate those changes, but obviously that wasn't the case. This is a learning experience for us and we'll definitely do better next time. But let me explain the things we did do, because I'm not sure yet how the information didn't reach you.

We've been reacting very quickly (as fast as we could) to this. And we've even applied some of the changes that you've asked for on the same launch day. And this is the way we treat our users in general. We do our best to react fast their requests.

We've made sure to document all the changes (even the statuses) in our blog post. We've sent it to all our users and placed it inside the dashboard to make sure everyone knows what changed and why it changed. What do you think would have been a better way to notify you?

Also, we didn't mean to be protective! On the contrary, we'd love to get your feedback. What would you like to know?

We got the crash reporting disable question more than once and we've added it to our SDK FAQs a few months ago (https://instabug.com/developers).

Anyways, we're truly sorry to disappoint you. And I'd be more than happy to explore a solution for the statuses changes issue, and also let me know if there's anything else we can do to make it up to you.
Elon took a risk, it didn't pay off, and maybe hurt Tesla in the short term. They learned a lot of lessons from it and survived, so this should help them in the long term.
Made me think of http://bitcoinmegaphone.com/
To me this (somewhat) passes the Turing test no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test ... if only it had prerecorded context bits that could be recognized ...
Sure, if the candidate asks, I'll give a range. Of course, it's still a negotiation so my range may be a bit lower than I could actually go but I expect the same of whatever numbers candidates offer up. If I say 120k is my top and he needs 175k, there's no reason to move forward. If the numbers aren't that far apart we can go forward and see what happens.
Most of this work, and much more, including compatibility with the MongoDB protocol (including replication) is already done in ToroDB (https://github.com/torodb/torodb).

Hope that this self-plug is hopeful :)
Using this is not treating them like shit, it's wasting their time, which is exactly what they do to others.
I yet didn't check the proposal for C++17 concepts, it seems to constantly change since C++11. Does it includes anything related to variadic templates? Anyway, you must have had a lot of fun with Jaakko Järvi as a teacher!
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A long shot, but just in case...

Even shady 1990s warez CDs need to be preserved :)
I couldn't disagree more. They have only gotten better every single year for me. Undeniably better every year.
I object to calling out Craigslist on this basis. Sure I am a web developer and designer and can quickly eviscerate the usability of Craigslist just as anyone else here can.

However... Craigslist for all its fault is driven by an egalitarian vision. The ideology which prevents Craigslist from improving their UI and providing an API (or supporting scraping) is the same ideology which prevents them from taking massive investment, becoming beholden to investors, monetizing at any cost, and selling out the users in the process.

It's very easy to sit here and split that hair and so, "but no, I want them to just improve the UI, but also not sell out." It's very easy to create a laundry list of the way we wish others would behave, but it's also childish and unrealistic to expect the world to conform to our ideals, especially when we are distant and ignorant of the actual choices in front of the stakeholders.

Given the nature of what is going on in the Valley right now—eg. Twitter considered a failure because they only have 1/5th the userbase of Facebook, and nary a drop of ink spilled on its contribution to global conversation, all because we need to see how many dollars this thing can actually generate before we decide on whether its successful despite whatever world-changing qualities it may have—I think Craigslist is a wonderful company that more should take as an example.
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