skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Tesla, I love Elon Musk, but this unsettles me. It is unusual for a company so young to start pushing sales via financing. More so when the package includes a 3y repurchase obligation.

Start with Elon Musk personally backing the repurchase agreement. Was the bank unwilling to to take this risk? Why could they believe they can't securitise the risk? Granted this is U.S. Bancorp and Wells Fargo we're talking about. Will the risk live on Tesla's balance sheet? The silver lining would be the clarity investors will get into the assumptions that went into pricing the put.

Why we are already talking about financing? Wasn't the plan to improve accessibility by driving down prices through increasingly mass market models? Who is the marginal customer who balked at the cash price but is shifted by this? The one who doesn't have the cash? Or couldn't get a bank loan? These customers are probably less credit-worthy than Tesla's cash customers. The repurchase agreement is a callable loan to borrowers willing to fund a large discretionary purchase with debt. This will come home to roost if U.S. growth and thus incomes tank and erstwhile enthusiastic greenies start seeing their vroom vrooms as piggie banks.

We know that part of what pushed Tesla into profitability was its re-working of its DoE loan. Is this a way to pull forward sales? How are these "leases" accounted for when they're made? I'm keeping an eye open for if they recognise the full value of the sale, less an ignomiously small loss reserve, upon signing.

Comparatively minor but still irking me: why is Elon Musk implying his credit is better than Tesla's? Tesla has more loss-absorbing capital. Given the amount of Musk's net worth tied up in Tesla, his credit has a high correlation with Tesla's. I get that this is more a marketing stunt, but the emptiness is disappointing. Then again, I would have probably railed at Steve Jobs in 1998, too.
Been using it for over two months now during private beta and pretty much just gave up last week.

The main reason is because one of my linked computers is a Linux computer. I've tried on both Ubuntu, through the deb package, and Arch, through AUR, and the synching either never happens or happens after a few hours. For the former, restarting the service a few times somehow fixes it, but it's never clear why.
Clickable: https://apps.facebook.com/degreesapp/
Even in a normal economy, we will have about 4 million job openings. People naturally leave their jobs for various reasons creating job openings. Similarly, even in normal economy we will have about 4 million people getting a new job each month.
I think the problem isn't with the published paper - it looks like they used a trained human interviewer and recorded both humans to evaluate their descriptors. The real problem is with the PR video, which looks really impressive, but seriously oversells the capabilities of the system. Not that the problem is unique to this situation - I think a lot of the videos in AI oversell the research. It's a pity, because the research is usually very good, but by itself isn't "exciting enough for general consumption," so they add bells and whistles that have nothing to do with the science.
Mobile carriers do this too. I see the exact same feature being provided on my Sprint line.
super slick. Are there any keyboard shortcuts though? I need my 'n' key
I believe I know the study you are referring to and you are sort of right. on a scale of accuracy, slightly depressed people are pretty accurate in self assessments, happy people tend to over exaggerate their abilities, and moderately-severely depressed individuals rate their abilities lower than their actual level. So if the person's average ability was a 5/10, happy people tended to rate themselves a 6/10 and moderately depressed people a 4/10 on average iirc.

Edit: My favorite example of Dunning-Kruger happens to be found in religion. The people that know God the most tend to talk about how little they know God, where as the proselytizers that claim the most to know God, really have no clue about the teachings of christ, mohammed, etc.
I hate to split hairs, but $974 is a very low lease payment for a 7-series. You could get there if you ordered a zero-option car and got the highest discount you can (around 7%). More realistically, the Tesla S payment compares favorably to a well equipped 5-series, which is the car they targeted.

I also agree that it's non-sensical to pitch this as a $500 car. The numbers required by their calculator to reach that level are absurd. For example, a 535i gets 20/24/30 mpg (city/combined/hwy). Tesla's calculator starts at 19 MPH. That's silly.
Are there any plans to put this package on CRAN?
Of course the alternative is for comcast users to get together and sue the company for running malicious code on their machines.
True. It also doesn't factor in the fact that one may have the drive to work only for a certain number of hours per day.

Let's say this number is 8 hours. One will work for 8 hours no matter what. Just because you saved 15 minutes, doesn't mean you will work extra for those 15 minutes.

I am sure there is a name for this kind of a fallacy in this purportedly logical argument.
Can you explain the lease trick?
http://cando-ent.com
You're right that it's not OP's job to fix broken people.

If the broken person wishes to change, he can. He can ask for help. I hope this wasn't a cry for help because it got lost.

However, signalling that his behavior is not OK is important for everyone else at the table. Maybe there is some naive young guy sitting there who didn't think the jerk's comment was okay, but without seeing any kind of sanction he may start thinking "oh, that's how I'm supposed to talk to be respected." Make sure that he doesn't end up thinking that. It's also important for the person who was insulted, of course.
"telling them that we had a problem"

A very short period of hosting downtime isn't deadly. What would be a "big red flag" is if you didn't learn anything. You should be able to answer:

- How did customers react to this (assuming, of course, you already have customers)?

- how are you going to prevent this in the future? What is your backup plan?
Incrementing undefined gives NaN. You're going to want to initialize that i to 0.
Sometimes double negatives do cancel or change meaning though - "I can't do that" and "I can't not do that" have distinct meanings.
"If AAEV truly is a language then I'll come around eventually with the right explanation."

I wish this were true, but it doesn't seem to be. Several posters have given you well-thought-out, factual explanations for your misunderstanding of AAVE, but you seem to sweep them all under the rug because you think that "one AAVE speaker would not be able to point out the grammatical errors of another" - an assertion not based in fact at all.

Let's say I told you I didn't believe the earth was round, but that I'm keeping an open mind. You would, of course, bring up scientific data and expert opinions. To which I reply, "Well it still seems flat to me. Look!" stomp stomp "See, pretty darn flat! This round-earth theory of yours seems like just a result of PC politics. But keep trying - if the earth really is round, I just need the right explanation to win me over." Am I really being open-minded?
I should have clarified, the link was to an online presentation of the company. It's mostly front end which is why I used shared hosting.
Is even that a mistake? I mistakingly trusted that a well known hosting company wouldn't have this problem.
Also, from my conversation with the company it's not like server went down, they somehow screwed up all of the DNS settings.
Cloud Provider DigitalOcean Exposes Users' VM Data
I did read the article and was expounding upon footnote #1: "These are sometimes pidgins or creoles, such as the Chinook Jargon of the Pacific Northwest, and sometimes fully realized natively spoken languages, like Swahili or French, that become the de facto tool for commerce or diplomacy in larger areas."
This ain't got nothin to do with bigotry and actually I don't got nothing against no "Ebonics"/AAVE.
Art isn't created on a commercial scale by big corporate entities for exactly that reason unless it drives some other corporate interest (i.e. advertising, graphic design etc.). There is a subset of people who would continue to write code for themselves given no financial compensation, because they enjoy writing code. Similarly, there are people who create art purely for the joy of making art. Much as Google abandoned Reader and Alerts, don't expect Exxon to make an entry to the Turner prize.

Music has a large corporate aspect, but then a lot of music is done as art for the love of creation or the love of playing.

Healing the impoverished, for many people, is part of ones responsibilities as a human being. Everyone has the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", right? A lot of people consider health to fall under life and therefore much like the maintainance of civil liberties (wouldn't it be so much more profitable if you could own your staff?) it shouldn't be left to the whims of the market.[1]

[1] I'm a) british and b) practically a communist so your mileage may vary on that one.
As I should have clarified, it wasn't the user side of the company they were looking at, but rather the online presentation of it.

But I get the feeling I should email them regardless and explain our hosting problems. I really appreciate your guidance!
Who's the "you" in your sentence?

The original poster? I really don't understand the point of your comment. Bars have bouncers for a reason.
The difference is that many occupations basically are zero sum games. No matter how many doctors you have, there won't be more sick patients. But, the more engineers you have, the bigger the pie becomes, unless there are no more innovations to be made. Many of the people behind SV success stories are immigrants.
This was ONLY a comment on what I think it takes for a language to grab hold and not a comment on the people who speak it.
As usual, vague terms like "90% accuracy" are thrown around without specifying what exactly they mean. Is that a 10% false positive rate? A 10% false negative rate? 90% accuracy over a representative sample of the general population?

Because the last one is what would seem to be implied, but I have a much simpler program, written in pure JavaScript, that is also 90% accurate at diagnosing Americans with depression: https://gist.github.com/osuushi/5297823

Since, according to the CDC[1], about 10% of Americans are depressed, my script will be accurate 90% of the time.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/features/dsdepression/
My badly (un)explained point is that you benefit from free software indirectly, through cheaper software built on top that you later buy or use, or in my extreme example, not being killed because the guy who killed you couldn't run your iMurder app, so you can no longer make money.
I would assume they've already seen it. I'm no VC but as a general matter I'd prefer an up-front explanation than the possibility of being kept in the dark. If they have seen it and there's no follow-up from you then you look like an idiot. If not then you just look awkward.
Let me know how we can help.
The below press release says they will be integrating RST's products into LM's platform but this seems odd. LM runs on Harper Collins curriculum so I imagine the only thing they're integrating is the social network. RST hired Stringfellow last year so this is supposed to be his big splash. We'll see...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2013/04/02/rosett...
Litecoin Sees Huge Price Jump After Launch Of 'Atlantis'
Hey, this is Drew from AeroFS. Sorry to hear you've been having trouble syncing. If you want to report an issue (AeroFS -> Help -> Report a Problem in the GUI, or aerofs-sh report "Description of your issue" from your terminal of choice), we will be happy to take a look at your issues and see what's going wrong.
NES/Famicom Dual-Tile Encoding algorithm
If you can pull it off, something like "Really? I thought you were smarter than that…" works pretty well. You kinda need to be able to dominate the conversation with the comment though (which is often pretty easy if it's just one jerk speaking out of place, but can be much harder if they've got an audience-of-idiots laughing along with them).

One thing to keep on mind - the "offender" has given up any expectation or right of politeness or manners extended towards them - there's no need to craft a response that doesn't hurt their feelings, since they've already gone down that path. (I suspect if I were just the right amount of uninhibitedly drunk, I'd quite enjoy responding to "She only got the tickets 'cause of her tits" with "Yeah, that's what everyone with a tiny dick says…")
Can I upvote you twice?

More than once I have found about a new technique in language A and thought: "Wow, this is clever". Then sometime later I learnt language B where that technique is not only common place, but has some nice syntax sugar and is used throughout the whole standard library. And that makes a huge difference in the perceived cleverness of the code.
SMAZ - compression for very small strings
Another option (Although much more complicated) would be to make the used data attributes configurable in the script.

Maximum flexibility for the end-user but a bit of a PITA for library developers.
Have you reported this to them?

Perhaps it's best not to wait for them to go into public beta in order to report it publicly.
You're right, posting the paper and not that blog-post would have led to a much more interesting discussion.

One of the strangest things in that SimSensei is the automated interviewer - when I talk to a recorded voice instead of a real person, I behave enormously different! Why should I fidget around in answering when no-one really listens anyway? Why should I give proper answers? Why should I exhibit signs of shame when I talk to no-one about myself?

This doesn't work like described in the paper.
JUNK HACK
I know it's been asked before, but what's stopping the creation of more of these 'currencies', effectively devaluing the rest?
Jake is brilliant, but this isn't always the case: What about Google's acquisition of Android? What about Apple's acquisition of NeXT? What about Microsoft buying 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products? What about Lenovo's acquisition of the ThinkPad?
Problems worth solving: There's hardly any geo data on Asthma
I AM NOT A CPA so please please please please please talk with your accountant or tax advisor. Rules are explained in publication 463 "Travel, Entertainment, Gift, and Car Expenses". There's probably a PDF on the IRS site.
Tesla could do the same as DriveNow so that you can find a Tesla car any place and pay 29c/minute. That's what I'd call innovation. :)
I can think examples of any combination of "has army/not", "is language/dialect". Mutual intelligibility doesn't even matter either way.

has army, is dialect: Schweizerdeutch, American English, Brazilian Portuguese

has army, is language: Norwegian (v. Danish)

no army, is language: Yiddish, Afrikaans

no army, is dialect: Frisian
But now you have to hire a Rails trainer as well as a Rails dev!
There was a post by someone who seems to have worked there claiming the mistake was when they were querying for the users to send the email to. Basically 71 of us were not included in the results of that query so the email was never actually sent to us.
I'm always surprised when others don't know about it. To me, using escape defeats the purpose of Vim. It's almost like having to reach for your mouse.
Solid electrolyte may end the catastrophic failures of lithium batteries
I'm glad I'm not on Comcast anymore. Terrible customer service combined with anti-customer practices like this, in addition to the lowest cost/service value on the planet and I'm glad to be done.

We switched to CenturyLink and we're really happy. I'm regularly getting 35-40 Mbps for half the price of 6 Mbps on Comcast. It is a little unnerving to know that 40 is literally the limit of their DSL technology though.
OP has learned the wrong lesson from some bad experiences. When you lose your keys, your wallet, your cellphone: the right lesson to learn is to evaluate how you can change your personal procedures to avoid this loss in the future. I've lost my keys, my wallet, and my cellphone-- but after deciding I never want to do it again and taking steps, I haven't lost any of them in many years.
It was an observation and clearly not a rule, same could be said for other dialects like Cockney in England.
Hey man, this thread really took off! Nice writeup here, if I saw that, I would have submitted that instead. I submitted this right before I left work, after noticing the requests on my server and a quick Google search (on the UUID) turned up your gist and not much else. As a web server, I was kind of trying to start some discussion to see if I was alone in seeing this and didn't expect it to get to #2.
We've been using AeroFS to share multi-GB folders and files for the last year. It's perfect for video and images...no size caps!
It's a pretty effective tool for recruiting, especially in SF.
qt works superbly. i wish it had more language bindings, but other than that it's an excellent cross-platform toolkit.
This is just the kind of creativity Detroit is lacking.
Interesting to see Bit coin getting this level of press.
Soundcloud's April Fool prank backfires badly
As I understand it (IANAL), software patents are usually written with a number of claims, each claim is individually defensible and infringeable.

You draft it so even the broken version of the design is covered, because the first step at evasion is broken design + marketing.
It's because WP is an encyclopedia, not a bulletin board.

If people aren't literate enough to understand text well-enough to restate it in their own words, do you really want them adding that text to WP? It may be obviously wrong, it may be misleading, it may be off-topic or not fit logically into the surrounding text, etc. A copy-pasted "encyclopedia" would be an ugly mess. I frequently find a sentence or paragraph just tipped in somewhere that's in the wrong place. That's a collage, not an article.
To add to the old news litany: Saw this on Vodafone over in Germany a few years back.
To add to the security litany: SSL. EVERYWHERE. Firesheep ends up useful again :)

That said, this was probably only noticed as quickly as it was due to its stupidity and intrusiveness.

IMO what should be championed for is good decentralized end-to-end security, something like opportunistic IPSEC / anonymous SSL everywhere by default.

Sure, there are holes in it you can fly planes through, but it's a world better than it being cost effective for whoever to inject and MITM everything.

I'm not even going to touch on the pros/cons of over-subscription and business models which rely on it. (IMO most do, at least implicitly, and I'm not sure how to normalize analysis of that.)
Some sort of data attribute namespace, which is uniquely identified by a URI, and aliased within the document to shorter version? Might look something like this?

dans:chardin="http://heelhook.github.com/chardin.js/

I have a feeling that web community is not ready for something like this, maybe in a few years.
Great advice! should I just send a quick email saying that: They may have experienced some problems accessing our presentation. Our hosting had some difficulties that they took responsibility for and we're currently reevaluating our hosting options. I apologize for any inconvenience it might have caused them in learning more about the company?

(by the way you're amazing for putting up with me, I am so grateful)
Has anyone other than OP actually seen this in the wild? None of the systems I know about on Comcast here in Chicago have had HTTP manipulated at all today. Maybe they're not doing it here because the 250GB bandwidth cap is "temporarily suspended"?
I still think this is the best intro I've ever gotten on Kerberos

Designing an Authentication System: a Dialogue in Four Scenes
http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/dialogue.html

"This dialogue provides a fictitious account of the design of an open-network authentication system called "Charon." As the dialogue progresses, the characters Athena and Euripides discover the problems of security inherent in an open network environment. Each problem must be addressed in the design of Charon, and the design evolves accordingly. Athena and Euripides don't complete their work until the dialogue's close.

When they finish designing the system, Athena changes the system's name to "Kerberos," the name, coincidentally enough, of the authentication system that was designed and implemented at MIT's Project Athena. The dialogue's "Kerberos" system bears a striking resemblence to the system described in Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems presented at the Winter USENIX 1988, at Dallas, Texas."
This is the js my ISP (VodafoneFJ) injects into all web pages: https://gist.github.com/mark-up/5297830

It basically optimizes images and replaces all image alt text with text saying to hit CTRL+R to load full-versions of images.

I know that VodafoneUK and VodafoneAU do the same.

On the bright side, at least they respect the no-transform cache-control header directive.
Strangely, Sublime Text seems to win hearts on every platform...
Oh boy.

Since you're a comcast employee, maybe go ask the guys running your SMTP/POP3/IMAP servers. I have faith that you guys can come up with some way to communicate with the people using them.
Thanks for the clarification. Is there a recording of your full speech? I like your basic premise, although I would certainly say that Costco is a much better corporation when it comes to serving the working class (in employment and in services rendered to consumers) than WalMart.
Your example is great, but it would be even more convincing if it used list comprehension syntax such as

totals = [order.total for order in orders]

(like some other poster in this thread did)

Then you don't even need to know what "map" means, you only need to know "for" (well, maybe you would need an insight that "order" is defined after its use, but I digress)
Prior art has to be published.

For some strange reason, Her Majesty's cryptographers at GCHQ were loathe to give up all their classified goodies during the cold war. :)
Ask HN: What is the best resource to learn python data structures?
While I agree that you are right and most people work a set numbers of hours I find that it is always important to have a value associated with your time and when you set out to do something just take a second and think about the opportunity cost of said activity.
Not really, I just prefer using lldb/gdb or just simple printf/couts for debugging purposes.

For Java, you really can't get decent code checking with vim unless you use a the eclim plugin and that just feels like a hack.
Does this specifically cater to iOS or can it act as a more general-purpose backend service like Parse.com?
> Governments are the source of all wealth.

I have to disagree on that. Governments are the arbiter of most wealth, via taxation, subsidies, spending, the court system, etc. "Wealth" comes from production, transformation, and trade. I've taken a tree and nurtured it so that it produces fruit. The world is now one fruit-producing tree wealthier. I trade fruit with my neighbor for wool, because I value some quantity of wool higher than I value some quantity of fruit, and my neighbor values the fruit more than the wool. We are now each wealthier for trading something we have in excess for something we do not have.

The government then takes some of my fruit to feed the soldiers defending my land. Government's role in the economy is mandatory trade for the benefit of the society as a whole. I must provide fruit to the soldiers whether I want to or not. Sometimes there is a net gain through these trades (see space exploration, for example). Other times the gain from this trade is disputed (see California's high speed rail project).