skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could always rent a vehicle for your remaining driving needs. For 10% of total driving that might be somewhat impractical, but 10% sounds like a pretty high estimate for trips that would challenge the Model S's range. That's one long-range trip every week and a half. Yes, there are people who drive like that, but they are very much in the minority.

If you drive to grandma's/the in-laws/"up to the cabin" three or four times a year, that's only 1% of trips (assuming you commute every day and run local errands on the weekends). Most families in the US already have multiple vehicles. Why can't one be an electric?
Have you tried downloading back your files? Is it as seamless as Dropbox?

The other day I signed up with SpiderOak (over the recent buzz about security and all) and luckily I had to share a folder with a friend in another country. He has the fastest bandwidth available but complained that his connection would drop during the downloads out of SpiderOak. I switched the content to Dropbox and he downloaded trouble free in one go.
Google Summer of Code 2013 announced
The unique role that sports teams play in their communities makes it all the more sad when they sell their fans out to advertisers, by doing things like selling naming rights to a stadium or plastering ads on players' uniforms.
The one thing I left out of the article is tackling the problem head on. This may not make sense with every manager, but it could be worth trying:

Adding an intentional flaw is not addressing the core problem. Consider talking to them directly, pointing out their behavior, and try to get them to only make valid changes. Not just to leave their mark on the design.

Like I said, this may not always work, but it is better for your long term relationship with your manager.
Sure, but an idiomatic translation of the genitive expression would probably drop prepositions entirely and say "Latin language course".
Just to make the point more clear, solutions to the N-rook problem are in bijection with permutations of n. The bijection is that each element of the permutation tells you what column that rook should go in (and it'd fairly easy to see why this works). E.g. the "trivial" solution given with rooks on the diagonal corresponds to the identity permutation (1 2 3 ... n) since that permutation puts rook i in column i.
Trovebox lets you supply your own storage accounts, including Box. Proper photo management and sharing... https://trovebox.com/for/box
Sorry, I was too rash.

What do you think about the assymetry of, for example, the classic "[A], [B], [C] walk into a bar" jokes, where an ethnic /racial/profession/etc group C is crudely belittled and made fun of?

In practice, such jokes are seen as acceptable if C is a major/nonthreatened group, but the exact same joke would be offensive if C is swapped to a smaller/more vulnerable faction - does that match what you feel?
I don't think you actually read my comment. I think you skimmed it, determined "this guy supports executive orders", and started yelling.

Even if the executive order had been a recapitulation of CISPA, CISPA has nothing at all to do with PIPA and SOPA.

But it most probably isn't a recapitulation of CISPA; it is simply a series of directives on how the federal government should secure their own networks.
Oracle’s MySQL misses the NoSQL mark
Bill Budge posts Pinball Construction Set source code on GitHub
One of the problems is that Excel is used for tasks that it isn't designed for.

I'm currently plotting a lot of graphs in Excel (2007) and the experience is just dead awful, wanting to quickly change parameters and ranges and sheets to plot is a nightmare. So naturally, I went to find a good specialized tool for this but haven't come up with any. Is Excel cannibalizing the market for such tools despite it being so bad at it?
> The only way to prevent people from running important systems with giant Excel spreadsheets is to present a better alternative.

I think the spreadsheet can still be improved. Macros can help a lot with this, but there are a myriad of other ways you could improve upon excel that gives a smooth transition from "casual user" to "power user". Read "A Small Matter of Programming"[0] for more!

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Small-Matter-Programming-Perspectives-...
Not only can you waste time over-analyzing the number of choices, you can waste time discussing the choices. Like this thread. Back to work!
On the contrary, perhaps you should Google the North Korean regime. The difference in scale is not as big as you are implying.
"WI-FI" is a bit ambiguous for a comparison like this. If your intention was to compare land lines to cellular then it should be called out as such. It would also be important to note that the land line performance in areas with LTE coverage may be significantly better than the national average used.
visual cleanliness is not just about whitespace. There are other considerations like how well the clauses stand out:

If x > 0 Then
y = 3
Else
y = 4
End If

is much easier to scan than

if x > 0:
y = 3
else:
y = 4

Even though there are more characters in the vb side, the fact that the blocks are explicitly ended give you a much better mental cue than merely shifting the whitespace indentation
Since you are an Excel power user who also knows SQL, I would highly recommend that you check out the O'Reilly book "Python for Data Analysis." Pretty much the first chapter just has you very quickly run through examples of using a library of Python called PANDAS. Python is an intuitive enough coding language that you can focus on using it first, understanding it later, since large segments of it will make sense to you off the bat.

I could go on and on, but the short order is this: Pandas has an object called a DataFrame which maps 1 to 1 with a sheet from an Excel file. You can pull in two sheets of data from Excel, do merges, joins, iterations, you name it. I am a professional who also "has a job to do", and after two 1 hour sessions in the evening with Pandas, I immediately began using it at work to manage the huge quantity of spreadsheets my team is generating, combined with output from various databases. Anyone who knows SQL will love Pandas, because it allows you to very simply and easily conduct SQL style set logic on data without having any of it in a database.
Yeah, it’s called an “overfull h-box” and occurs when TeX can’t find an acceptable way to justify the paragraph without stretching or shrinking the “glue” between words more than an acceptable amount. This happens more often in shorter lines, e.g. in narrow columns, because linebreaks are more frequent and there’s less glue to play with. Sometimes you can fix it by telling it how to hyphenate words it doesn’t know how to hyphenate by default. The rules are kind of complicated; one important consideration is that you need to be able to figure out how the part of the word before the hyphenation break is pronounced before reading the second part. I think “financially” could probably have been hyphenated on the first page to eliminate the overfull h-box, but it’s already part of a hyphenated word pair, so there’s probably a rule against that.
Story is probably 100% true. Won't argue with any of the substance, which will likely be discussed in other threads.

But this writing reeks of Microsoft astroturfing. Especially the "I got #googleplayed" dig which sounds just like their "Don't get scroogled" campaign and failed #droidrage stunt. It's not like Mark Penn would have any trouble bringing back their famous astroturfing policies to earn his keep at MS.
This seems like a slightly gussied-up version of "Ruby developers smell bad." It's just a bunch of ad hominem against the Ruby community with no substance to justify it. If you had accused the Ruby community of valuing cool new tricks over solid engineering seven years ago, it might have been a little bit realistic, because the Ruby community was small and starry-eyed back then and there wasn't a whole lot of battle-hardened code.

But nowadays? Rails is actually quite mature and a lot of work has gone into its engineering. It has a security team and they take these things very seriously. You might not feel they're doing well enough, but accusing them (based on no evidence whatsoever) of being obsessed with "shiny" things is not the way to express that concern.

This is not to say that you can't use whatever you want, obviously. Just that you seem to be throwing around dated stereotypes in service of a language pissing match rather than critically analyzing the merits of the framework.
Not much is 'technically impossible' when it comes to businesses and software these days.

Try doing IP multicast on the public Internet.

What, you can't, because the ISPs have disabled it?

Next time try not talking out of your ass.
Amex Launches Pay By Tweet, Turns Purchases Into Adverts
Make it transparent. It keeps me honest and let's you verify. Also using tons of data. I've got somewhere near ~130,000 reviews in my database. Once it's setup, it runs itself, the costs are quite low. The marketing is honest reviews. Something nobody else can really claim, if I cheat, I lose my only advantage. Take a look at the linode page and tell me what you think http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/24/linode

I will be clear, I am not profit maximizing at all. The amount of companies trying to buy placement is staggering. It's very easy to understand why my competitors would do it. I could probably make 10x the money if I accepted their offers. But I don't plan on just doing web hosting forever, my goal is to scale the technology and review lots of things. If I sell out my brand now, who would ever use it later?
The Bitcoin protocol has features (contracts) to deal with that, but I don't think it's really implemented/used yet. And I'm not sure how it would work in the context of pizza or other physical goods delivery.
I enjoy cartoons more than regular TV shows because they can be wild with the imagination. A lot of people think this is childish. They rather watch "Reality TV" shows.
ahem. what you have described, is Yammer...
Ah, but it is a currency.
You could bypass restrictions (not sure if it affects your grade though or count having a database) by using some existing external APIs and build a web-software on top of them.
Support emails do not go to the support@ mailing list, they're handled through a helpdesk management tool that allows us to see full contact history, etc.
Uh, the first line of CISPA is probably is big reason why EFF is critical and involved that 4th Amendment issue I mentioned (which is a direct concern about CISPA... where's your hostility coming from?). The Act is only 10 pages, I and many others read it.

"IN GENERAL.—The Director of National Intelligence shall establish procedures to allow elements of the intelligence community to share cyber threat intelligence with private-sector entities and to encourage the sharing of such intelligence."

In case it's vague which direction the sharing is allowed (it's both):

"[Private sector may] share such cyber threat information with any other entity designated by such protected entity, including, if specifically designated, the Federal Government."

Sharing is secret:

"shall be exempt from disclosure
under section 552 of title 5, United States Code"

No recourse for sharing:

"No civil or criminal cause of action shall lie or be maintained in Federal or State court against a protected entity, self-protected entity, cybersecurity provider, or an officer, employee, or agent of a protected entity, self- protected entity, or cybersecurity provider, acting in good faith"

Also, quotes by everyone opposed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_...

Edit: to reply to your next comment, you frame this as centered on "attacks" but it's more generally characterized as "threats" and also includes any intellectual property theft (which broadens this by several orders of magnitude). And it also includes efforts to degrade a network. Pretty sure my cell phone provider thinks I've made efforts to degrade their network and steal IP since Android was released.
I've been playing with the lively kernel lately and noticed that it serializes everything to a web page that includes CSS and javascript. My first reaction was "how horrible", but then I realized that you never actually have to edit the page itself -- whenever you change anything or need to debug, you load the page first into the lively kernel (deserialize it).

So, there could be an addendum here -- the HTML/CSS/Javascript trio doesn't need to remain fixed. It is totally possible (maybe tedious and slow) to build a browser development environment where you write SASS and coffeescript in the browser and execute it there. It would be interpreted and compiled on-the-fly, and errors caught in that process, rather than in the browser's normal execution. That way you could provide feedback about the sass and coffeescript, rather than whatever it gets compiled into.

The lively-kernel (and squeak before it) does this quite well already. It even provides readable tracebacks for javascript errors, rather than just a script and line number like most web inspectors.
Haha, I am most assuredly a real person, not a paid actor. My girlfriend got tired of me venting about it and actually being angry, so I turned my anger into humorous flourish.

My goal in this is to get some kind of human being at Google to respond. #googleplayed - what do you think? Could it catch on?
If the quotes are winding you up, give the videos a go..
You think the government should be enjoined from sharing attack information with private companies?

You think private companies should be enjoined from sharing attack information with the government?

You thought maybe attack information for ongoing investigations should be shared with the public?

Exactly what was it that you thought was happening when banks called in the FBI after compromises?

I read the article that Berners-Lee's quote appears on and I stand by my previous statement. I think it is reasonable to ask whether he read the bill, or whether he got it summarized for him by EFF. I do not think EFF was intellectually honest about CISPA. That's a problem, because EFF opposition to a bill is a quick way to generate opposing quotes from a laundry list of Internet luminaries.

Believe it or not, I am probably just as opposed to Internet power grabs by the government as you are. I just I think I'm required to read and think carefully about measures before I stridently condemn them; I did that here and came to different conclusions than you did.
I disagree. I think the vast majority of sports fans don't really care that their stadium is the SunLife Stadium, or that their uniforms have a Microsoft logo plastered on.
Right. Perhaps jamesjguthrie isn't seeing the difference between engine noise (mechanical strain), and engine load. "Engine load" is the additional force requested, which will be negative when the wheels are driving the engine. He's also including rev matching in a conversation that is not about clutch or torque converter wear, so there's definitely some confusion.
it has a limit of 40.000 files (and "works best" for 10.000)
Perhaps but despite being nominally open source interference by Sun (and later Oracle) have crippled the OpenOffice project. Back in 2010 most of the developers left for LibreOffice. Currently it seems to have become an IBM sponsored project after being spun out of Oracle to Apache. Not sure if this history has made it impossible for OpenOffice to succeed.

However you are right OpenOffice does deserve another close look as does LibreOffice. I wish there were alternatives with less baggage.
Like I said, this may not always work, but it is better for your long term relationship with your manager.

Is it? I think you're making a pretty big logical jump here. It's just as easy -- maybe easier! -- to argue that letting your manager retain his Feeling of Importance (a la Dale Carnegie) is the better way to maintain a good working relationship.

Only you can know whether your husband or wife would be happy if you answered "How does this make me look?" with "Fat." Same principal applies to telling your manager you're faking things to soothe his ego and need to tweak… regardless of how diplomatically you put it.
> NLP is a whole different beast.

The very same patterns that define "packrat-like" parsers (which share a strong relationship to the monadic and "arrow-adic" parsers) can be extended to define things like DFAs and semantic pattern matching. And languages with support for rich, somewhat lazy pattern matching like Haskell and Prolog wipe the floor with eager languages without (e.g., C), which is ideal for semantic analysis.

While not an "authority" in the subject, I've spent a lot of time working with some very skilled folks in the field of NLP, Linguistics. Most tools they used (in our case licensed from X/PARC) had C underpinnings for performance, but ultimately consumed specifications that were very much like Prolog or Haskell in character. Talking to some of the linguists who wrote those tools suggested that had GHC existed (or Allegro or a fast prolog been cheaper) then they would have been much easier to write in those languages.
Yahoo Acquires Mobile “Nearby Recommendation” iPhone and Web App Alike
My theory is that most people have been brainwashed to think that people who know everything (or at least appear to) are somehow superior to those who don't...poor suckers
Yeah I suspect this is it. The density is inversely proportional to temperature and drag is proportional to to density. Even if the engine is more efficient (in a steady state) with denser air, the relationship is probably sub-linear.
How risky is flying? It depends.
I just downloaded a windows sync agent and started syncing 20+GB from an external disk (symlinked a folder there with junction). Works like a charm
This is configurable. You can enable recursion and set a max for the number of iterations. You can implement relaxation-based differential equation solvers that way :).

Edit: You can also solve Sudoku this way: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/microsoft-excel...
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Could a ban on plastic bags be fatal?
Miniature Theater made of Paper and Light
I'm curious about your thoughts on mailing lists vs. private newsgroups. I think of email and news as just two different ways of sharing MIME messages, with the difference that email is sent to specific people and newsgroups are stored on a server and can be archived and made (semi-)public.

I realize that newsgroups have received much, much less attention than email recently, and it may just be that there isn't enough software support for news to make it worth bothering with, but it does seem like a mailing list with archives is a lot like what news was trying to accomplish. (The only other big difference I can think of is push vs. pull notifications. But newsgroup readers can fetch all new messages, so I don't think that's a big deal.)
The college professors I know would laugh bitterly at the suggestion that underprepared college freshmen was a relatively new phenomenon.
Agreed. And contrary to what the OP said, it is entirely possible to educate oneself about a specific medical condition, given only some basic knowledge about biology and biochemistry. There are plenty of resources out there. Coming up with possible alternative diagnoses for one's symptoms is a bit harder -- that's really what you're relying on the doctor's expertise for -- but even that can be done.
Has anyone pondered what it could mean if Google hypothetically partnered with Tesla for it's initial rollout of driverless cars? Just some fun speculation on my part.

The advantages (in my opinion):

- Going driverless means a threat to existing, big car companies since there would likely be less cars needed on the road. Partnering with Tesla would sidestep that - it would allow Tesla to ramp up production of it's electric cars, and would fit nicely with Elon Musk's stated life goal of making energy consumption sustainable (along with sustainable energy generation - SolarCity, and making humanity a multi-planetary species - SpaceX).

- Google would get a partner that would be likely to enthusiastically embrace driverless.

- An investment in Tesla by Google would provide a huge cash boost to open new factories, expand it's existing factory, re-tool for new Tesla models. It would greatly aid Tesla's goal of mass producing the electric vehicle.

- Driverless technology gets around the initial range issues for EV batteries while the technology is new - a driverless, electric car would bring you to the office door, drop you off, and drive down to the basement to recharge itself until summoned via smartphone for the commute home.

- Simpler, cheaper servicing and running costs since EVs have less parts - no oil filters, radiators, gearboxes, drive trains, heavy engines (and potentially pedals, steering wheels etc if driverless). The twin technologies of electric and driverless means the cars are more reliable, as there's less parts to break, cheaper (once initial technology costs drop), lighter and greener (as the bill of materials for a driverless electric is a fraction of that of a regular 4 cylinder gasoline car). If every car on the road was electric and driverless, most/all vehicle safety equipment could be eliminated along with accidents - less weight, hence more range for lithium-ion batteries, and cheaper vehicles as less parts are needed to manufacture them.

- For re-fueling, EVs don't need to drive to a dedicated re-fueling spot, they can charge up in the same house/workplace/shopping center that a passenger is going to anyway.

Thoughts?
Another thing that Excel does for the user is actively show what is being pointed to. If you open the formula [F2], Excel will highlight all the data references within the formula, making for an intuitive programming language within a data sheet.
I really dislike the anti-intellectualism in fallacious quips like that. People discussing haskell and clojure are not magically prevented from writing code as a result of their intellectual curiosity and desire to explore better tools and methods. The implication that people who are smart and use quality tools never accomplish anything or do any work is quite insidious, as newcomers start taking pride in ignorance because they are "shipping product" while falsely believing those other people aren't. It becomes used as a way to dismiss opportunities to learn because they've equated learning and being educated with not accomplishing anything.
> etc and/or folks who think they need to smash the (shared) resources out of server to get their moneys worth.

Wouldn't this be more likely on a higher-priced VPS (like Linode) than a lower-priced VPS (like DigitalOcean)?
Weird that washingtonpost includes kber's email address, with a handy mailto: link.

I've recently watched the UK Channel 4 programmes "Educating Essex". They might be interesting to people interested in English education. The official site is (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/educating-essex/4od).

It's interesting that a few pupils can take up so much time. (all that 80:20 stuff), and it's a shame there's no money available for similar high-intensity interventions for the students who work hard.
Different parts of the world have allocated spectrum that's in use for other purposes, so the operators have to deploy LTE in the parts of spectrum that are available and they have a license for.
All these(700/800, 1700/1900, 2500, 2600) are standarized bands as of today, though different bands have been standarized at different points in time.

This will be less of an issue as time goes on, newer phone models will support the various frequency bands.
The AWS templating mechanism is called CloudFormation. Here's a snippet of a Route 53 template:

( http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuid... ).