skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what about teams that aren't technical? Are you saying there still isn't a need for this type of software?

Besides, HipChat gives you a lot of nice features that you'd have to spend a lot of time trying to do yourself. Paying a small amount of money a month so that my whole team can chat far outweighs the pain of rolling my own solution and making sure everyone can use it.
A nice turnaround, but in the story, the land wasn't a vacant waste, it was acquired by force. The story isn't "Oh, you moved into emptiness and created something, so I'll fight you", it was "you fought the people here before, so I'll continue with your method of ownership".

Similarly, the wobbly wasn't demanding an apple, but enjoying the shade. Was the farmer selling shade? Lowering the cost of shade to all?

The idea of a one-sided "fuck off, this is MY land" seems to be a new-world Anglo thing - back in Europe a lot of countries have a form of right to roam that sits in conflict with property rights. While there is certainly a 'my land!' aspect, there's also the competing philosophical idea that people are free to travel over it or use it recreationally

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#Right_to_roam_i...
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Hey guys, I made a small reminder tool using backbone.js, hope you like it.
Broder didn't charge long enough, but there are compensating factors:

1. the car showed enough range on the previous night
2. he didn't have any convenient place to hang out while the car was charging
3. there was possibly some misunderstanding between Broder and Tesla support

In the end the obvious happened. He started on the journey with too little battery and it died.

What I don't understand, if he had just a few miles left, why not stop again at some convenient place before running out of energy...
There appears to be some goofy stuff in there, but giving them somewhere to defecate so they don't do it where I'd like to walk would be worth every penny. This is basic public health stuff.
That'll be an extra $20
So, disregarding the fact that an MSA includes an urban center and its non-urban surrounds... You're saying that a candidate is going to just pander to every voter in, say, the Indianapolis-Carmel, IN Metropolitan Statistical Area (#35, population 1.7 million) and ignore the rest of Indiana (population 4.8 million).

> Given a limited amount of time to get in front of the voters, where do you think the candidates are going to go? Do this thing, and the days of candidates getting outside an urban area are pretty much over.

I don't really care where they go; re-enfranchising the majority of the country will mean that personal visits by candidates to a handful of geographic areas will be much less important than, for example, their policies. I'm sorry if that sounds like a bad thing to you, I guess we just have to agree to disagree on that.
For what it's worth, my car's fuel gauge appears to do exactly this—no change from full for the first 60-100 miles, and about 2.5 gallons left on "empty." The first quarter tank lasts a good deal longer than the third, at least according to the gauge.

You'd think you wouldn't want to do this with a range estimation because the error's more obvious, but I'm also sure they don't want to sandbag its estimate from a full charge because people will be wondering why they're not seeing the advertised range. I'm sure they do want the car to be able to keep going a little past empty, though, and those spare miles have to come from somewhere.
I got many other offers but rejected them. The payment is really good that is why I am staying.
Excel is still used because it has High Operating Range with a Low Barrier to Entry. Someone can learn how to do simple tasks in 5 minutes, while advanced users can write macros. You can build a simple calculator or a complicated model without going through a programmers learning curve; where, you've traditionally had to learn multiple concepts before you can print "Hello World".
Ouch - this seems like an overly emotional approach to an obviously worrying problem, and I do sympathise with the guy - I imagine if I were in the same position then this would make me feel good, for about 6 hours.

Then I'd realise that I was possibly being a dick and just a blank page with "Please contact accounts@host" as kibibu said would have done (and not pissed anyone off too bad).
Is there any legal concept of "nationwide popular vote"? The media reports it, but isn't it something they decided to make up on their own?
I am well aware of Judy Miller and the many other occasions where their work has been dreadful. But we are talking about a paper that has been around 150+ years.

My point was that they aren't the type of paper who writes flamebait articles just to get more online hits.
I'd just like to add that they enabled it by default for cars they lend to media outlets for reviews after the Top Gun thing. Some people in the other thread were freaking out about how much Tesla knows about your car but a regular customer can just opt out.
Basic to intermediate bash scripts: HOWTO
What browser/OS/gpu are you using?
Regarding withdrawl: most of what you're quoting assumes I'm talking about changing the process after election day. I'm not. I'm talking about the entire electoral process being subject to one state deciding on July 19 to leave the coalition. So yes as said earlier it's possible without a constitutional amendment but I don't have great hopes for such a system. help

"MYTH: A national popular vote would undermine a partisan advantage in favor of the Republican Party in the small states.

... In the last six presidential elections (1988 through 2008), six of the 13 least populous states."

Obviously they're cherry picking here and framing their argument and "myth" around the statistic that looks the closest. What if we look at the biggest states? What if we look at the smallest 8 or 16 or 22 instead of 13?

What if we did something simple and honest and looked at the percentage of votes (or possible voters) of all states vs the percentage of electoral votes of all states? Going back to 2000 for a basically tied election we find that 31 states gain via the electoral college, 6 of them are purplish (<10%), 7 are blue and 19 are red states. If we weight by eligible voting population I suspect it's even worse.
Or allowing \0 in X.509 fields.
Well, if Broder's headline was "Tesla Employee Let My Car Run Down", he'd have been telling the story you can extract out of the text.

However, "Stalled Out on Tesla’s Electric Highway" somehow tells a story where blame is a lot more fuzzy.

Broder told a complicated story and put a poetically negative spin on it. It is entirely understandable that Musk would want to simplify this down to negative claims he could refute. This might seem unfair but I don't think it is because the New York Time reader isn't going say "well, either the driver, the Tesla employee or the car made some mistakes or just couldn't understand each other, what does this prove?", a reader in these days of simplification will just get "Tesla doesn't work in the cold" and so Musk is correct to refute this arguably false claim.
Elon's argument should have probably been more focused. That doesn't change the fact, though, that there are numerous pieces of evidence showing that Broder expected unreasonable things out of the car, and then blamed the car when it failed.
I imagine the wobbly will quite happily let the farmer go and get a representative of the US government for him to fight. Likely he will have naturally moved on before such a representative responds to 'someone is enjoying my shade against my will!'
Here's what it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/xnvaTiK.png
It's very difficult to get work there, but it is possible, and easier if you don't fall into the trap of trying to game the system (treating proposals like actual proposals will help you stand out more.) Don't bother with their BS about "verifying your identity" either.

But yeah, if you can get real work then run far far away. It is the proverbial shallow money trench where good developers die like dogs (only without money or that many good developers)
7 Phases of a Project
Whassup my fellow Portlanders ? (go Oregon).
We have two use cases I'm currently looking at ACH solutions for. For the first, judging by past experience in our target market, we would probably average around $250 per transaction, with most being regular recurring transactions.

The other would be one off payments in the $10k-20k range.
The Tesla Nightmare Shows Why All-Electric Cars Are (Basically) Dead On Arrival
There's a big difference between cities and MSAs, which the parent referred to. Using city populations like that is, IMO, almost always misleading. For the given example: hit the DFW metroplex, you're hitting Arlington. Another instance of the misleading aspect of looking just at city size: Atlanta has a city population of a bit over 400k. That makes it the biggest city in Georgia, and yet isn't even a tenth of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which has about 5.4 million people.

Top 10 US cities by population ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by... ):

NYC
LA
Chicago
Houston
Philadelphia
Phoenix
San Antonio
San Diego
Dallas
San Jose

Top ten MSAs by population ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area ):

NYC
LA
Chicago
Dallas
Houston
Philadelphia
Washington, DC
Miami
Atlanta
Boston

The 10th-largest MSA is four and a half million people, the 10th-largest city is just under a million.

The 10 largest MSAs contain over 80 million people. That's already over a quarter of the country -- more than the 50 largest cities put together. Taking it out to the top 20 MSAs brings that up to almost 117 million. The top 50 MSAs cover more than half the country's population.

Edit: restricting it down to "urban areas" instead of MSAs brings the numbers down a bit, but the top 10 and 20 still make up a huge amount of it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_are... 2010 instead of 2011 numbers here ):

Top 10: 73.4M
Top 20: 101.8M
Top 50: 143.1M

(And as a resident of one of the largest urban areas, I would absolutely prefer more of a popular vote. But the country is much more urbanly clustered than the "top 50 cities" stat would suggest. But IMO that's a reason for a popular vote, not against one.)
If they mess with Python, anonymous should rape them.
Of course, PG/RTM could generate a fairly accurate heatmap by running analysis on the webserver logs. I'd be curious to see the "official" results, if they were willing to release them.
Also see http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/agency-replaces-clients-websit...
Broder responds again: "That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn’t"
Note: I'm the OP and I'm posting this here for discussion, not because I agree with what is said in the article (I basically think it's a bunch of strawmen).
I suggest you petition Linus. Its the kernel devs which don't want to allow nVidia access to needed APIs for Optimus due to GPL pissing contest.
I'm confused how you can argue that a national majority vote leads to a 2-party system when we have a 2-party system and we don't have a national majority vote.
Did you try using official Nvidia drivers [1] (as opposed to notebook creator supplied ones)?

I have been using Quadros for long time (multiple generations, currently on Thinkpad with Quadro 2000M) and I never had any issue with games. Both compatibility and performance wise for me Quadros have been more or less equivalent to corresponding GeForce cards.

I do however always try to use the latest drivers from Nvidia and I turned off Optimus in BIOS.

[1] http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx
Since their business all revolves around data, Anons shouldn't have too much trouble destructing their business to pieces.
The really sad part? Even if you used lesser-god-like powers to actually deliver, they'd find a way not to pay you the $1000 anyway.
GCHQ / CESG probably aren't going to say anything that's not in their published literature.

Maybe one of the recruitment leaflets talks about Python, but the one I saw didn't mention it.

(http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/media/21423/gchq_technical.pdf)

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> Thank you for starting to apologize...it is a good start.

It would help if you understood my position.

> I shouldn't have assumed ignorance as strongly as I did, and I apologize for having done so.

That's a good start.

> A large part of the reason that I did is irritation with you for saying that anyone who could think that slow stop and go could possibly be more efficient than highway driving is an idiot who doesn't know basic physics.

No, what I'm saying is that (despite the fact that someone who knows basic physics could figure out that it could possibly be more efficient) someone who knows basic physics who goes and makes a bet against being stranded without more info than Broder had is an idiot or is willfully acting like one.

> You may not be giving truck drivers enough credit. Truck drivers make their living trying to beat operational costs while driving something with the aerodynamics of a brick. I have a couple of relatives who have been long-distance truck drivers, and they are keenly aware of the value of driving slowly, drafting off of other trucks, making no unnecessary maneuvers, etc.

Wow, you really don't do it on purpose, do you? Feel free to read my sentence from the POV that truck drivers are very good at what they do.
Wargaming steps up to buy troubled Gas Powered Games
It's definitely XMPP compatible. We have an outside dev firm that does some work for us and they connected their own chat system via XMPP. It works fine for them as far as I can tell. Their help docs [1] [2] have all the details you need.

[1] http://help.hipchat.com/knowledgebase/articles/64377-xmpp-ja...
[2] http://help.hipchat.com/knowledgebase/articles/64436-how-to-... (I love Adium!)
Colorado housing prices are down, great time to move. And IT is picking up :)
The Mathematician's Valentine
This is fantasy. Slap a $20/ton or $50/ton carbon tax (highest non-crackpot estimate) on oil and people will still gladly pay it. The idea that oil use would severely diminished by such a cost internalization is pure wishful thinking.
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If you like (or must use :)) Excel and like Python, we built a little two way, live bridge between Visual Studio & Excel. Free/OSS. Short video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3QKuFugWk&hd=1 ; download at http://pytools.codeplex.com
I am really sick of people talking about the multitrillion markets they want to conquer.
So many startups calling that card.It's ridiculous!
"We will be successful because it is a 1000 trillion market".How about being realistic.It's just stupid.We all know nobody will get even close to a damn trillion.

I would rather divide 7 mil.$ between 10 good startups instead of 1 like this.
At least its not parsing 01033 as octal..
http://mathprospects.com/node/5
Hey. Don't see your email anywhere. I just arrived in SF as well.
Swedish book
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Python in course name
https://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/BB3110

Python in job ad
http://www.arbetsformedlingen.se/4.38a41afd11d99fbdb65800016...
> Imagine that no one 'fought the natives for it'. Instead the land was a vacant waste with no one living there and nothing growing there.

Dear Randian,
These statements imply that you consider the native people "no one" and native vegetation rather than industrial crops "a vacant waste". I think those are rude presumptions.
The browser/installer frontend runs fine for me - TF2 doesn't even start though, I'm on Ubuntu 12.10 (with KDE).

I've an older Nvidia card and the game installer can't tell your system doesn't meet the opengl requirements before you download [for TF2 12GB of] game files [FWIW that took a couple of days].

Is there some way to tell the minimum requirements or a HCL or something? My issue is the glColorMaskIndexedEXT one; looking at fixes now. There's a ½GB upgrade downloading now. If that doesn't work then it looks like one can compile a shim, http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/846938351...).
That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn’t
How I got the Bug Bounty for Mega.co.nz XSS
This is my favorite answer... I am building a SAAS, so I think the available gems and options make me lean towards rails for this project... I will chew on it for a little... How is rails on windows? I have a macbook but I prefer working in windows.
This is consistent with other quotes from Broder:

"When I parked the car for the night at a hotel, the range meter showed 90 miles remaining, and I was about 45 miles from the Milford Supercharger. As I recounted in the article, when I awoke the next morning the indicated range was 25 miles. The rest of that story is told in the article, including a Tesla official’s counsel, which I followed, that an hour of charging at the Norwich, Conn., utility would restore much of the range lost overnight, which had disappeared because of what he called a “software glitch.”"
OpenOffice?
For Uber users, to track the ETA of your ride by dot on a map. But I don't think Uber lets that model car join, so maybe not.
There are quite a few mills priced comparably to 3D printers, e.g.:

http://www.rolanddga.com/products/milling/imodela/

https://sites.google.com/site/cncdiyorg/2520

https://probotix.com/FireBall_v90_cnc_router_kit/
The thing about Harry Potter is he makes mistakes, he has setbacks. It's not just win after win after improbable win.
Ask HN: What is the most impressive thing "other than this startup" you've done?
I'm not asking to start a posturing or bragging contest. I'm actually curious to see some kind of sample of impressive things. I've already submitted my own answer on the application, I wonder what variety of things people have answered on their own.

pg - If this amounts to some sort of cheating, please let me know. That's not intended. On another thread I saw someone talk about their interest in other people's answers and realized I am as well.
I agree that people can commit crimes without getting caught much of the time?

I'm not sure if you have a point.
If he'd charged enough for his final trip, he would have arrived without problems. Why do you think Elon would be blaming anyone in that situation?
> Why? Even individual cars produced in assembly lines can have problems.

So? If there's some conflicting results, we can then turn around and test the same car as well. If there's a problem, those are measurable.

> When I worked at Toyota, there was a problem with a Lexus model that was so hard to isolate. Eventually, after a long data collection period, they found that the problem was only existent in cars painted in a certain color.

Color and whatever other factors were measurable. Empiricism is possible. Your example supports my point.
VIDEO: Reconstructing 3D Scenes from a Camera [wait for the green car]
Can you find cryptanalytic results on any passphrase-based KDF? PBKDF2 is a standard; find results on it from before say 2 years ago.
Those were round 1 submissions, not even close to being "standard implementations". Which proves my point that the standardization process works to minimize implementation bugs in implementations of the standard.
University Of Glasgow as well, and this (rather incomplete) list from your own website, http://wiki.python.org/moin/SchoolsUsingPython#United_Kingdo....
I'm sure there are tons of small nuances and subtle details here, but at the end of the day I'm not sure they matter. The ultimate question is whether or not the NYTimes reporter presented an honest story, and that appears to be far from true. it certainly looks like he went out of his way to try to manufacture a story that isn't reflective of actual experience. But even if that's not the case there's more than enough evidence that he twisted the account and left out crucial details in the service of titilation and excitement rather than factual accuracy.

Musk's job is to sell his cars, we accept that he might present things in a manner that is most flattering to his products. That's ok as long as he doesn't outright lie or mislead, we wouldn't expect anything else from any other company. But the reporter's job is to present the truth to his readers, and if he not only fails at that job but goes out of the way to present falsehoods what faith can his readers have in him? At this point, what makes him better than a reporter for a tabloid? Why should anyone believe anything he writes? If a reporter doesn't have a reputation for factual accuracy what good are they?

P.S. I'm reminded of Dateline NBC's "investigation" of the GM C/K series pickup trucks. The trucks were fundamentally of an unsafe design, with side mounted external gas tanks. But Dateline's crash tests included adding model rocket engines to ensure that the rupture of the gas tank caused an explosion, without revealing that to the viewers. And that, I think, is the problem here where the reporter was not content to let the facts stand on their own and went to every effort to juice up the story (although not the car). Investigative journalism is a hard job, but when you make that leap and start adding embelishments you are no longer doing journalism you are entertaining.
I'm trying to get out of Wisconsin. I've tried moving to California twice in the past two years, but I just can't handle the high cost of living, so I defaulted back here.

Actually, this second time boomeranging back, I realized Wisconsin isn't so bad of a place, after all. Gas prices are $0.50-0.60 cheaper, food is WAY cheaper, and the cold winters make spring and summer so much more meaningful; we actually have weather.
It's interesting that one of the results of Musk's reaction might be for the next journalist to bring a camera crew. It wouldn't have to be a Top Gear-style hit piece: just record all the phone conversations with Tesla personnel trying to figure out why things are not reading consistently. It's not going to leave a favorable impression.
I agree. I really winced at that bizarre syntax. I find it strange to read and painfully unintuitive to write. It's not just "un-Pythonic"; it's unlike almost any other library.

I would also imagine the strange structure and all those nested accessors makes debugging and developing for the library itself unnecessarily complicated, thereby impeding contributions to the project itself.
... in Orlando. That's not really fair to call all of Florida Orlando. Orlando and Tampa have theme parks, college towns, and are much more active than most of Florida from what I gather
"Sure, they're babies! But they're babies with POWER!"

I guess you live in the movie The Incredibles?
How I moved my Quora answers to the (open) Web