skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not spreadsheet risk, it's business process risk. You address risk by applying controls.

My old boss was a former labor statistician. His job 40 years ago was basically producing reports by having sets of data tabulated (aka "sending a job to a pool of people with big mechanical calculators") analyzing the data, and sending it somewhere else to be compiled into some report that was shipped to various places. They had people randomly sampling calculations for key or other errors. Other people were sampling the quality of his analysis and yet others were proofreading and double-checking the material prepared for print for typographical errors. The problem there was that building that process required thousands of people and a very rigid procedural setup to ensure consistency.

Computers changed all of that, and ultimately, all of that checking and re-checking was replaced by Excel. But that doesn't mean that you don't but a process around financial activities. You still need checks and balances.

All of these banks made decisions that speed to market for trading was worth the "risk" -- in this case that incompetent or malevolent traders can potentially put the bank out of business. The management accepts this risk because they don't bear ANY downside risk, as the bank is ineffectively regulated corporation. In the days when investment houses were partnerships, there were much tighter controls, as failure of the firm would bankrupt the partners.

Blaming Excel for this is absurd.
ugh, consumer... cpms are too low! :-)
I'll second this...

If he was in death valley, or the arctic with no cell reception, and it was 61 miles to the next station and the car said 32 no sane person would ever begin that journey.
Aaww, that is adorable, even if it is advertised by sickeningly youthful models who shouldn't even be holding hands without a chaperone. Good luck with it.

Please let us know if your sales figures are ever an odd number.
Aha, it's because IE on WinXP doesn't support SNI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Support). Unfortunately, there's no way for servers to work around this other than putting different domains on different IP addresses.
Can you live on 60%? That is, how hard is it if a large customer decides to ignore that last payment?
Beau, everyone certainly agrees with you. This same comment appears any time someone mentions REST. The phrase has indeed been repurposed to describe HTTP APIs, generally, despite the hard work of Fielding to give REST a proper meaning.

It would be better if people just said "HTTP" when they mean "REST," but that's a long shot.
I saw Paul Graham on there once, but I don't use Twitter so I don't follow anyone.
On the main picture: She's holding him but looking at me.
"If only I could get something to shut my mom up, y'know? har har har"

Yeah, not many useful things in there. Laundry was recurring theme though, and one that I wish I had a solution for. I'm sure laundry services are popular in large cities but in mid-sized cities it's harder. I would pay decent money to have a respectable place wash/dry/fold my laundry for a flat fee. I'm aware places do it, but they look shady for the most part.
> I, personally, would NOT want a car that is so specific about the speed, cabin temperature and so on

If you fill a ICE car up with less gas you need to get to your destination and attempt to make it anyway, you are going to need to be just as particular about your technique.

This should not be a news flash to anybody who has ever driven.
We started out as a collection of states that wanted to present a united front, and smaller states didn't want to have no say (so we get the senate and electoral college) while larger states didn't want their individual voters to have no say (so we get the house of representatives). I'd compare the early structure to the EU, but I haven't looked much at history since highschool.
I'll see your date range (I didn't know about that), and raise you "site:.uk"
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=python&hl=en&sa=X&#...
Note: I think we have different referents for "OP" here; bombax's is, I think, the whining customer; while shabble's is the pompous CEO.

Me, I'm the swarthy pirate. Arrrh.
Huh? Bernie Sanders and Pat Leahy? The Rhode Island and Delaware delegations? I think you have a narrative in your head that is detached from reality.
Would that work with traffic police?

who cares, but usually yes, at least in US (you go fast, you slow, fast...and police are looking for the worst offender) . My point is: a car that has to be driven with a gazillion, million, billion specific instructions or else it's a brick, maybe it isn't for me or many others. "Your car died and you're in the middle of nowhere because you went 5mph over the recommended by Tesla speed," isn't for me. Isn't this an expensive car too?
did he think he added 32 more miles? I wonder if this is still a problem of UI and such...

still its a 100k car and Musk is quibbling over temperature settings... really?
I applaud the NYT attempt to come out and acknowledge what happened and ask for a "fair fight" from both parties. This is much stronger than a lame PR statement. Also the links to Reddit conversations off-site are a great testament to just how much journalism has changed in the past decade. Can't wait to see who wins this heavyweight fight.

slowly reaches for popcorn
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The spirit of the requirement is to encourage contributions back to the GPL version. You can fix or modify the GCFL version as needed - the only requirement is that you contribute back any changes to the SDK itself back to the GPL version.

This way we can ensure that everyone benefits from having the latest and most bug-free code.
The 'Program for International Student Assessment' is an international testing system of 15-year-old students undertaken every three years by the OECD - Finland repeatedly ranks amongst the top of these international rankings based on science, mathematics and literacy.

Education's a random passion of mine so I've read a lot about it - the Finnish system is just so cool as it focuses on non-cognitive skills more than most systems - growing emotional intelligence and resilience - so it's pretty cool that despite no national testing program (apart from the OECD) they come out really well :)
We can't even be sure that Python-the-company is using Python-the software, so ...

Furthermore, I think the problem is not here, the PSF clearly made a mistake by not registering the name (it's not a matter of 'bad law'). If we apply your solution, then it would mean that a company which does not use Python can still ask to register a global trademark named on the term.
Really? That's actually amazing! Thanks for mentioning it, I'm going to look into this.
A little late to the party, but I want more Users!
>I suggest that you begin testing the boundaries of freelancing rather than trusting your own assumptions or the common beliefs of others.

That's exactly what I plan to do, hence my question, but I hoped to get better tips than 'try it'.... Sharing your experience would have been interesting.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3610577943.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3601988013.html
Somewhat off-topic, but that Kudos thingy is pretty cool.
Hang on.

You're saying they are tech savvy, but not internet savvy. If you are right (and I disagree that they're 'not internet savvy') then you've identified an opportunity, not a blocker.
Input and Output (or Why Functional Reactive Programming Matters)
Problem is the ready meals taste like shit and as recently discovered, you have no idea what mammal they've chopped up in it (even the high end M&S and Waitrose ones).

You can cook well for one using the same method as I use. You just need a freezer :)

growing your own is a form of therapy as well - a context switch from technology and fast paced lifestyle.
Yes yoru spot on, just looked into it more and it is TLS 1.0 on chrome and I disabled that upon my IE browser, so may be the issue and explains why. Though as different certificate my initial thoughts are still with some anti IE script of some form - IE gets cert for differnt site and also from same issuing authority.

No panic.
I thought the most convincing part of Elon's post was his 3rd bullet point, which relies on no data outside of the article, and which this Atlantic Wire journalist ignores entirely:

"In his article, Broder claims that “the car fell short of its projected range on the final leg.” Then he bizarrely states that the screen showed “Est. remaining range: 32 miles” and the car traveled “51 miles," contradicting his own statement (see images below). The car actually did an admirable job exceeding its projected range. Had he not insisted on doing a nonstop 61-mile trip while staring at a screen that estimated half that range, all would have been well. He constructed a no-win scenario for any vehicle, electric or gasoline."

The car said it would go 32. It went 51. Broder claimed this "fell short". Clearly it didn't.
I hear this argument often; is there any verifiable backing of this claim?

What are the important sciences that are unlikely to get funding that way?

In my experience, people fund the weirdest, most mundane things that you'd never consider yourself. That's the beauty of it.

I can think of it in terms of an analogy: in ZOOs, yes, the elephants and lions do indeed get loads of voluntary donations. But I'm always amazed when I see the plaques filled with donors next to completely random birds, rodents and insects (apologies to the respective enthusiasts -- I'm sure these are fascinating in their own right!).
The Evolution of the Mac, Pt 1: Siri
A List Apart 5.01
> 45 mph or 52mph, it's the same crap to me.

In Australia, you'll get a $100 speeding ticket for going 7MPH over the limit. You need to drive more carefully.

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/usingroads/penalties/speeding.html
Go to a BMW dealership, take an M5 for a test drive, when the car says it was 32 miles left try to drive it 60.

It's a 100k car and it won't make that feat either.
A contract is kind of like a speed limit sign. It may specify behaviors that are in violation, but it has no power on its own to enforce itself. About all it's really good for is to describe for a third party--a judge--the agreement between the signatories at the time they executed the contract.

Even if one party to a legally binding contract sues another for failure to discharge his contractual responsibilities, and convinces a judge that a remedy is in order, there's still no guarantee that they'll ever see the responsibility discharged or the remedy paid.

In other words, getting a judgment in your favor is easy; getting a collection from the offender is a whole 'nother thing.
File reading performance on smartphones: internal storage vs. SD card
Ah thank you. I live next to Germany (Holland) and know the German developers to be very stict, precise and 'grundlich' and to have an insurance against legal costs. Looks like the one thing they forgot was to stop working after they didn't get paid the first time. They trusted the client and got taken to the cleaners. I understand why they took the website / domain down. At least now everyone knows about it and it's the only thing left... Not professional no, but understandable.
> I have not put words in your mouth

And then, you proceed to talk about an entirely different set of comments. Perhaps we've been misunderstanding referents. In my reading, it seems like you've been painting me as a rube who might think that warmer water freezing faster than cold is impossible. I find that highly annoying, because that's false.

I see your point about slower driving, regen, and range. Imagine you're the manager of a group of delivery truck drivers, and a driver comes to you after having stranded himself on a trip, and gives you that same sentence. Most people are going to look at him like he's an idiot, or have to try not to. Even knowing how regen braking works, I would still probably give him that look.

> If you're a mature person, you'd then apologize for some of the same things.

I'll apologize. The motivation for my objection was to how you seemed to be trying to paint my knowledge. From my reading, you were willfully trying to paint a picture of my knowledge or lack of it. From you POV, you were trying to make a point about the capabilities of regen braking, and saw my continued objection as a denial of that, which misconstrues of my position. (Heh, you could get the referents wrong on that last sentence too, prolonging this as well, hopefully not.)
I think that speaks more on your dormant racism than anyone elses.
the "evil" bit is not that they have a paywall, it's that they both want to have a paywall and use the organic google search results for free advertising.
Ask HN: "Too many new accounts" on signup
I'm working in a shared workspace and recommended that a fellow startup apply yesterday. However, they were unable to make an account and had the same results today when trying again. I didn't see anything on the site mentioning this so I figured other people were not having this problem, so I had them successfully try with their phone via cell service.

Is signup limited by IP? I can see how it combats fake accounts but it can be a pain in shared locations / getting the team to sign up for the application.
> the fuel gauge ramps rapidly up to Full

That's funny! Does it also fluctuate when you take sharp turns?
> So I am a bit leery of young hip geeks with soft hands telling honest sons of toil how to improve their businesses...

It doesn't really matter if the software provides savings and greater yields for the farmers though. Any farmer that refuses to use it will either continue getting the same results as the past years or go out of business due to the majority of farmers using FarmLogs to squeeze out inefficiencies.
If you fill a ICE car up with less gas you need to get to your destination and attempt to make it anyway, you are going to need to be just as particular about your technique.

Bad analogy, this http://www.statisticbrain.com/gas-station-statistics/ says that they are 121,446 gas stations in USA. It takes 5 minutes to add fuel for another 300 or so miles and they accept credit cards :)
Yeah, I've seen journalists trying to defend Broder, acting as if he had zero incentive to have the car die on him. Funny how they say that, yet the article went to the front page of virtually ever link aggreagator out there, while glowing reviews are old news and are thus ignored.

Broder knew it, and he wanted the car to die. We all know that. What is in debate here is to what degree he went to make the vehicle die that differs from what an average driver who wants to get to point B would have done.
> someone who has no education in comprehending quantitative

You need to a degree to understand a pretty basic line graph ? Give me a break.

People on here (and in the article's comments) need to stop acting like sanctimonious assholes. Electric cars are not some advanced technology that only the precious genius of Musk and IT nerds can comprehend.

The fact is that the truth seems to lie somewhere in the middle here. Big surprise.
I'm sure that's not what csixty4 meant but....

Changing the programming language of Excel from VBA to Python will not do anything except increase the number of articles with Python coding on http://thedailywtf.com
It's running great on my Arch Linux + AMD setup.
Came across this proxy which is really fast
Box in question has Vista, and did have TLS disabled. Still I'll blame microsoft.
Who was the adversary that broke into their network?
Wikipedia is like the biggest modded community, though. What alternatives are there for inspiration? Open source communities? Reddit? Usenet?
Toyota is partnering with them for tech.

So Tesla is protecting their ongoing consulting relationship/tech share with this as well.
I really want to buy an electric car, but range anxiety keeps me from doing so. Unfortunately, the NYT article doesn't help.

The particular facts may be "peculiar," even fabricated, but the overall experience rings true. There are going to be trips that you can do easily today on petrol that would be difficult to do with the state of the art electric car from Tesla.

It's time for Tesla and Better Place (betterplace.com) to join forces.
According to Elon Musk, it only sends data if you explicitly enable it.
It's in the works. Vote on this and you'll receive updates: http://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-suggestions/suggestion...
that's what I'm saying! of course we're not actually locked in, but it's a pervasive illusion, especially if you are of a particular age/social group.
> Where Google thinks it's located—we don't know the charging station's exact location

No, we do. The photo here is of the northbound charging spots: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/tesla-begins-east...

Assuming he took the car lane, even if he drove past every single parking spot all the way back out to the road to the highway, he would only cover 0.4 miles. http://goo.gl/maps/VzRjc
It's the new smart labels feature. It's automatic.
that's one j I don't mind. I actually love javascript but that is very different than java & jvm
Exaggerations have no purpose in this type of journalism. This wasn't an opinion piece...

Yes, the author can write whatever the author pleases, but it is unethical to not print the truth and it is not unreasonable for readers (and Tesla) to expect the truth (and not exaggeration).
You get a tux if you play TF2 between now and a month: http://www.teamfortress.com/linux/
I can imagine that at that point the company owning the Python trademark would be able to go after other companies offering Python services for trademark infringement, and various other legal threats related to it...
AMD can fix their drivers whenever they want.
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You're assuming those components are cleanly separated from the rest of the codebase. Especially if they were modified, this is not necessarily easy to determine.
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Why only Nvidia? Intel improved their open source drivers thanks to Valve, and AMD pushed some updates related to Steam as well.

And, while Steam officially support only Ubuntu (at least for now), Valve doesn't do anything for stopping it to run on other distro. They even modified the license to explicitly allow repacking, so that others could put the client in their repo.

They host on their site a .tar.gz with the Steam installer for distro that don't support .deb too.
Great post!

I lived right next to the park for the better part of a year. I feel like there are two more aspects to the street kids lives that deserve more attention:

(1) Their pets: Most of these kids have a dog (or sometimes a cat), love their pets and for the most part seem to treat them well. One night, after finding a dog with a collar roaming alone in the park, I helped her find a temporary home. The next day I saw some really worried street kids posting hand written signs with a photo of the dog and reunited them. It was a sight to behold. Homeless with pets are controversial but at least amongst the street kids, the pets seem to have a net positive effect on them.

(2) Mental illness: OP alluded to this, but mentally ill homeless who live in the same area are a huge issue for people who associate them with the street kids. There is no easy fix for this problem and I have always wondered what the street kids think about the mentally ill amongst them and what should be done to help them.
Thanks for clarifying! So, in a nutshell, if you choose the commercial license, you are going to be helping market GC. Are you planning on offering a paid commercial license at any point?

"2 You may not modify or enhance the GC DevKit or Engine whatsoever. The only
exception is to perform bug fixes if you contribute your changes back to Game
Closure. (See Exhibit A). You must incorporate a Game Closure splash screen logo
into your game. (See Exhibit B)"

"3 You must allow Game Closure to use your company and game name and logo for
marketing purposes"
I think most people are excited about Steam on Linux because of gaming, but I've actually been excited because of better driver support. If this makes Nvidia put more effort into their Linux drivers and tools, it will make life a lot better for CUDA programming too. (I haven't tried OpenCL or AMD GPGPU stuff yet.)
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Also, that's the heater setting, not the cabin temperature. I can set my car's internal heat setting to 50 degrees after getting it nice and toasty, and as long as I don't turn the A/C on it's going to stay warm for quite some time.
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Oh no, it is a perfect analogy. He stopped filling it up, and he and you act stunned when the car doesn't move as far as he wills it. Hell, is this even an analogy? It's just the same fucking thing.

If you want to make the point that charging takes to long, or that there are not enough chargers, go right ahead. It is pretty easy to make that point convincingly without resorting to intellectually dishonest bullshit about the car requiring hypermiling techniques.
Well, even in the current scientific funding system, translational research (ie, research that produces drugs or other direct human health benefits) tends to crowd out basic science (ie, science that's focused on explaining how things work, regardless of its application). However, translational science depends on basic science for many discoveries and techniques.

A classical example of important basic science was the discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP). The researchers who worked on it were just curious why jellyfish glowed. However, the result of their discovery led to the widespread use of GFP as a way to tag proteins of interest, making them directly observable and easily quantifiable. It has had a huge impact on the biological sciences, gets used in all sorts of research - both translational and basic. The folks who figured it all out won a Nobel.

Unfortunately, none of these impacts could really have been forecasted by the researchers doing the work, and it wouldn't have been in the "elevator pitch". Instead, the best they probably could have done was to explain that they were trying to see what made jellyfish glow.
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The New York Times is not some Murdoch trashy paper that deals with gossip and controversy.

The integrity of their work is important because that is what is keeping the paper alive
whilst the others are falling by the way side. Maybe you should actually try reading it sometime.
Having a common implementation is extremely important, for instance a common implementation of HTML.

The problem arises with regards specifically to control and who has it. As others have mentioned if one entity has complete control then standards committees will be beholden to the controlling organization, effectively making them meaningless.
> Elon might have been better off concentrating on this point more, rather than some of the smaller inaccuracies.

I agree. Often when you're arguing, you have a really strong argument and a few weaker ones. You'd think that making both the strong argument and the weaker ones would be the best case, (ie, that the strength of your case equals the sum of the strength of its components). In fact, in public discourse often the opposite is true. People will knock down your weaker arguments, making you and your case look bad. So I think the strength of your case might actually be closer to the minimum of the strength of its components.

For this reason, Elon would likely have been better off to emphasize and shore up his strongest argument--that Broder knowingly did not charge enough at Norwich--rather than try and nickle and dime Broder on a lot of smaller issues.