skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an excellent piece of strategic PR inasmuch as it refocuses the debate on the email issue (as is evidenced by the below posts), and obfuscates the real issue, which is that Instacart changed the terms of service and proceeded to charge people, something to which they never consented. Whether or not Instacart bothered to inform their customers about this fact is irrelevant; they shouldn't have done it.

From a customer standpoint, their actions are appalling and the apology is obviously unfulfilling and fails to recognize or rectify the true issue. But, from a business standpoint, this post is very strategic and effective at mitigating public outrage. Although I'm still upset by the choices that Instacart made, I can't help but appreciate the effectiveness of their response tactics.
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Actually, I'm looking to do something like this in related applications. Just need to find time to go through the kinect capabilities....my own unit has been gathering dust on my shelf for a while. Anyone in southern california (LA area or within driving distance) want to talk about this?
This is what I call some creative marketing manipulation - there's really nothing new or amazing here.

The loan is a normal car loan with 10% down (in fact you may be able to get a better rate with a CU instead of US Bank / Wells Fargo at around 3%).

The residual on a S Class is actually on the lower end for luxury cars (~40% ish). So the risk in the buy-back option is minimal for Tesla.

Since the Model S is still relatively small in production numbers, it will likely have a much higher residual value (I'm guessing over 60% after 3 years) unless something goes horribly wrong.

It also doesn't combine the "best aspects" of leasing and buying. They show a $284 deduction for business use, which probably assumes 100% business usage.

If I were to do the same with a lease, I could write off 100% of my lease payments... but the lease vs. buy benefit certainly depends on your business situation and usage.

What I would like to see is a real lease that could compete with BMW/Audi. Good lease offers are typically a result of cars with high residuals (like reliable Hondas or brands like BMW/Audi). You wouldn't get the $7500 tax credit with the lease, but I believe the manufacturer might get it themselves and I've seen these incentives passed down to the consumer even in leases.

Maybe we'll see it in after the car has been on the market for a few years, but by that time those big tax credits will probably be gone.
The notice to the individual need not be overtly public-facing. It could just be a dialog between the conference committee (who should care about the quality of its attendees) and the person in question. I personally would also prefer less public vitriol everywhere.
As you pointed out, given how fast electric vehicle technology is changing, it seems unlikely the typical Tesla S owner would want to own one for more than three years.
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I read an intro to Yiddish when I was in the same position as you, and my immediate reaction was, "Wait, this is just German with some rough edges!"
There are some things that pop up on HN that just really call for a downvote button.
If you have an iPhone and "Find My iPhone" turned on you can send your phone messages, that will be available to read even if you phone is locked. Like if you find this phone please call me at ....
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Charlie Cleveland is the CEO and a programmer/designer at Unknown Worlds Entertainment. He gave this talk in 2011 about what it takes to make a successful indie game company. I thought the advice was applicable to non-game ventures too.
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"Cyprus banks are bankrupt & confiscating depositor's money, while EU officials say it's a template for rest of Europe's troubled banks."
2 things I don't need and 1 that Pocket already provides...all from a site that sucks on mobile...

Can't say I'm all that impressed.

Pocket has been Wonderful so far.
>You change the metric of succes. If I wanna the most spread, do it for free.

Not sure. Linux is free but has less spread than Windows (on the desktop at least).

In the same vain GIMP is free, but more people use Photoshop.

And Ardour is free but has an very small number of users, even compared to $1000 DAWs.

So it can vary.
The Facebook Phone or Facebook Home?
Hrm, I agree with what you said. I overreacted. Wiping my comment.
Did you check the who's hiring thread? When I was looking a few months ago, it was an excellent source of leads, many of them startups.
He most certainly did not speak modern English, which is the English we're talking about.

> Students of English language and literature will also know that, had you lived in England up to the 17th century, you’d also have been doubling your negatives with gay abandon and not incurring the wrath of the grammar police.

The key part here is "up to the 17th century". If you had bothered to continue reading, you would have seen

> After the 17th century, certain writers attempted to make English spelling and grammar more systematic, and relate the rules of language to those of logic.

followed by

> Double negatives, when used to express a negative idea, aren’t acceptable in standard English
Maybe a self-employed shop?

This isn't necessarily "firing offense." It is "fireable offense" and if you aren't sweating through your talk with HR you are messed up.

And if your company doesn't have an HR department: congratulations, now they need one.
Your browser, for one. What you describe is the very definition of a MITM attack, regardless of proxy structure.

Your bank, for another. Indeed there are far too many parties with an interest in keeping https secure, that you needn't worry about it.
"SimSensei can work out whether you’re exhibiting signs that indicate depression"

Im not sure I totally buy it - Im sure it can pick up the signs with 90% accuracy but how often do the signs actually correspond to a clinically depressed person. Just because your in a down mood at one moment does not mean you are depressed - depression is just a lot more complex than that. Im not sure that this would be of much use in accurate diagnosis although it seems like pretty interesting tech.
Dude it's rough as fuck round here. I lose my phone (it gets jacked) and all my contacts receive rape videos and death threats and only the gods know what else. I would love to live in your world.
Your reaction is understandable honestly (although perhaps not correct in the sense of what should be socially acceptable).

If somebody said that next to me in person, I'd probably punch them and apologize afterwards hehe.
>So should there be AAVE-English academic dictionaries with entries like "ain't: are not", etc.?

This is already the case in Standard English dictionaries: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aint

>What about l33tsp34k and txtng spk, u wnt 2gt dctnrz 4 it 2?

Actually, given how often I see it, I wouldn't be surprised if "U" was the standard English spelling for the second-person pronoun (or at least an acceptable variant), by the end of this century. It wouldn't be the first time an English pronoun's spelling collapsed down to a single letter ("I" was originally "Ic").
Do psychiatrists' diagnoses of depression even agree with that level of accuracy amongst themselves?
> I think the following would all be considered valid AAVE:

Here's an idea: Stop guessing about a language you don't speak, put your linguist hat on, and go out and find an actual attestation. I suspect you will be surprised.
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I have a lot of respect for Kenton and I'm sure this is high quality work.

The idea of a fixed-length encoding of a protobuf-like structure is a good idea, and something I have seen explored elsewhere. To me, though, it's unfortunate to create an entirely new schema language for it, instead of just making it an alternate encoding of the existing protobuf data model, which it closely resembles. To have two schema languages that are nearly, but not quite, isomorphic means that you get no interoperability benefits with any existing protobuf-based code or data.

The way I see it, the most important feature of protobufs is not the on-the-wire encoding, but rather the schema. If you start from a schema (and its associated data model), then you can create as many different encodings as you want, and convert between them losslessly at any time, while taking advantage of their different performance characteristics.

For example, Dremel (as described in this paper: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html) is an extremely fast SQL-based query engine at Google, which powers the Google cloud product BigQuery (which I work on). Because Dremel uses Protocol Buffers as its data model, any set of Protocol Buffers can be dumped into Dremel for fast querying, without any kind of data massaging or converting step. I think this is a really powerful idea.

I can see reasons why Kenton might have chosen not to use .proto schemas directly, but I hope that they can eventually converge, because having a shared schema language is a powerful idea.
Wow! That is so fucked up.

(the situation, not the reaction.. I would have asked him to leave (and have in similar situations), though I realise not everyone is as comfortable as with confrontation as I ;)

I would encourage people to name names in these situations. Group humiliation is a very good catalyst for change, if it comes to that.
Keep in mind that the discussion page was not designed to be consumed by outsiders and is only for internal discussions.

In fact, they mention near the end of the post that they should lock the discussion before media outlets pick this up and blow it out of proportion.

Too late now! lol
I just slid a business card between my phone and the case. If someone's inclined to return it, great, they'll find the card. If they aren't, they aren't perusing all my personal shit.
I was thinking a niche less about money and more about enjoying being on the road rather than cursing my commute.
I plan on having an option to output rem with px fallback code.
I had no idea about this. Thanks! Any thoughts on what to put in there? I just added ‘if found please email ...’ but it could perhaps be improved.
Work on increasing user engagement.

If you don't already have push notifications implemented its probably a good time to do so.

Focus on creating either 1.) Better monetization or 2.) Another relevant app to drive users to in order to monetize.
>I still don't understand why strictly separating ownership of the media company and the law firm wouldn't have been sufficient.

Lawyers are not allowed to knowingly misrepresent facts to the Court. So the Firm's interest would/should always be revealed.

Ownership can always be traced back, this generally is revealed during discovery, but if as alleged the true ownership was not revealed because the very Firm who both is attorney of record and actually owns the the Plantiff's Company and the Firm willfully misrepresented that to the Court - never-mind the allegation of identify theft to deceive the Court.
What browser/OS? I can't replicate the issue you seem to be having.
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Getting him kicked out is social pressure.
That's likely to happen even if Comcast are using DPI to intercept the requests due to users moving between Comcast and other internet connections.
Tesla has openly stated their end goal is to sell an EV in the mass-market price range. The Roadster and model S are steps towards that goal.
There is no reason why this structured financing entity would sell a put (taking on a liability) without an offsetting asset, the loan receivable. Nobody wants to be in the cash and carry downside vol business with an unhedgeable underlying.
I don't know, he or others could volunteer the name of the offender, who may want to make amends for the sake of his professional reputation.

On the other hand, I was kinda waiting for the twitpic to go with the story.
So?

Governments are the source of all wealth.

Subsidies, tax breaks, issuing debts, give aways (pork), purchases, loans, war profiteering, patents, etc.

Everything.

Government even protects people's property rights.

Without governments, there is no wealth.

Personally, I'm quite proud that the US Govt is funding alternate energy, electric transportation, and space exploration. Many of the past investments have worked out quite well. I'm bullish about these investments too.
This is the most salient point here. It seems like a ballsy move but is in fact much less so given you're benchmarked to a car with what is probably bottom-10% residual.
There's DSM.

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

Worth a look if you're interested in how mental disorders are diagnosed.
Thanks, that makes perfect sense. I didn't realize that the first lease also qualifies for the credit.
Yep. A buddy of mine and a DAMN good Android developer (and overall highly intelligent man) is not getting hired on at my job (a CS research arm of the University) because HR can't accept the fact he doesn't have a Bachelors. He's literally 2 months away from it, and his contract with Tek Systems is up in a couple weeks. It's absolutely fucking stupid.
Better late than never I guess. It has taken 11 versions, but Microsoft is finally starting to catch-up and adopt established web standard protocols and features. The fact they implemented silent auto-updating a while ago hopefully helps with the uptake.
OT, although it was mentioned in the article:

I've found that the ctrl+[ shortcut is much more effective than ESC for switching out of insert mode in vim. Is this shortcut not commonly known?
In plain English:

"We changed the name of a lease, so people leasing a 1500/month car can get a free $7000"

Also "we can say a $1500 lease only costs $500, because marketing and stuff"
Then all we'll need is a great cross-platform UI toolkit. People have been working on them for 20 years but I not sure if anything really works well.
> she gets rape threats every game release

seriously, the internet is a big rape threat. are there any smart people that treat random anon trolling seriously? (except opportunists and journalists that by occasion use such crap as a 'proof' of whatever)
>Boot into recovery mode with Esc-Refresh-Power, hold Ctrl-D at the right moment, confirm that you want to wipe the stateful partition, and away you go. Yes, switching to Developer Mode requires deleting all non-OS data on the Chromebook.

Why would you need to wipe the main partition in order to be able to dual boot? Also, I hear that this scary screen comes up every time you boot for 30 seconds unless you press Ctrl-D everytime.

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Because using Comcast using an HTTPS proxy to rewrite traffic means that your browser will expect data encrypted with Google's, Facebook's, Chase's, etc. certificate when it actually receives Comcast's proxy certificate. Every HTTPS site would prompt the user about an SSL certificate error.
This article actually reminded me a lot of iCouch.me, which is like virtual therapy.
I'm sorry, you're right. My bad. Thank you for noting this.

Low premium usually means high deductible. GP's premium is probably high because his he's buying as individual or small company. Meaning he has little negotiating power.
Thanks for the response. You know your metrics better than I do -- the ad just stood out to me because the tone conflicted with the message.
Depends on the kind of questions they're asking, really.

As someone with relatively mild depression, you'd never know it in normal conversation. But if you ask directly about symptoms and I give honest answers, both the answers themselves and my body language will probably give you a pretty good indication.
I'm not familiar. Do you have a link?
Their features page states otherwise: http://www.codeblocks.org/features -- Multiple compilers (Mingw, MSVC, Borland, and more).. Build in debugger, plugin support, etc. I haven't used it, so i'm just assuming their website is accurate
First of all, this is blog spam, and the OP has apparently never tried viewing their own site on a tablet.

Second, where's the methodology.

Third, it's not the Kinect doing the diagnosing, it's the computer vision algorithm
My google-fu isn't working, but I definitely remember hearing it from a book or interview. I think it was Microsoft, Apple, or Intel.
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I believe Comcast hijacked NXDOMAIN DNS replies and replaced them with their own IP address, causing every non-existant domain name to go to their search page you had to opt-out of.
Thanks, now everyone is looking at me because I am laughing with myself!
Diluting their future profits. And yes, they do need a way to compete with Google and try to gain revenues - understandably.

The model you mention is the same as Google, though Search came first, and Gmail was secondary - though just as valuable.

Re: Ad for Big Brother - I LOL'd. Unfortunately, Big Brother is controlled / manipulated by for profit businesses, who all have individual goals, and that don't care about the greater ecosystem.
No, but we who could stand up and confront those people do. And we can be encouraged to do so by this kind of post.
Really cool! I hated that website. Thanks
> Defenses and arguments tried to be brought up, but conversation quickly moved on with the men talking over the woman until she just sat there quietly and resigned.

Hmm. Why haven't I seen a single woman post an article about this issue? I'm tired of all the me-tooism from men about this subject. Yes, sexism is abhorrent fallacy, but inverse-sexism is still sorta sexism -- enough with the White Knights, already.

Not to defend the guy who made some joke about tits, but I look forward to the day when we can be more than humorless automatons regarding this issue. Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgqUQ17sYm0
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Great article, but WTF is wrong with this journalist? Why is the article titled 'the lonliest human being' when Worden says the exact opposite was true:

There’s a thing about being alone and there’s a thing about being lonely, and they’re two different things. I was alone but I was not lonely. My background was as a fighter pilot in the airforce, then as a test pilot – and that was mostly in fighter airplanes – so I was very used to being by myself. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn’t have to talk to Dave and Jim any more, except once they came around [when the orbiting command module was above the landing site) and I said “hi”. On the backside of the Moon, I didn’t even have to talk to Houston and that was the best part of the flight.

I was expecting to read an article about someone with crippling social anxiety or suchlike. Instead, I got a quite interesting picture of an astronaut being harassed by a journalist who just can't let go of his preconceived story angle, to the point of using his headline to contradict his interviewee.

Your colleagues Dave Scott and Jim Irwin left footprints on the Moon – which will be there for millions of years. Will you have left anything behind as a memorial to your mission? Your urine maybe?

Good grief. I feel like I'm reading The Sun.
Guyz Do we have something similar for Django ? Or maybe a template of pre-written code for Tastypie ??
Indeed, they will have to find balance, though fluidity of services and a cheaper price - potentially even 50% of what others offer - will offset whatever other concerns you have, and Google might be able to eventually have things structured so everyone is structured, and safe.
Almost every one of those vacant jobs has a offering price - a salary attached to it. so those jobs are only vacant at a price. That price may be unrealistically low.

There is almost no cost, in any negotiation, to making a lowball offer. So you have to question how many of those jobs actually exist. Just as low-ball offers in a distressed real estate market are unserious, a job that cannot be filled at an insufficient salary isn't really a job.
Shakespeare most certainly did speak, and write, Modern English. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_English . If your claim is that he did not speak an identical dialect to you, well, neither do many English speakers who use double negatives for emphasis (or because they are grammatically required) every day.
Sorry about the link, I just c+p'd without checking because I figured it hadn't changed since Dec. Here's an older blurb: http://www.ed.gov/technology/draft-netp-2010/FERPA

It's very strange, and there is a lot of mis-information perpetrated upon us in our annual FERPA training sessions. College Administration provide no useful guidance either, other than hiring a person to come and hyperventilate on stage for us at our annual faculty convocation. But, one thing that is pretty clear is that I may not reveal my class rolls to the public. Examples cited are abusive ex-spouses / intimates stalking students by learning their schedules and following them home to learn their new address, attack them, or both.
Hi awj, I'm the author of the blog post. As dangrossman said, Comcast only enforces the limit in 2 cities. I live in the Nashville area, so I'm affected. They just doubled my 50Mbps connection to 100Mbps so I will go over my limit this month as I have 2 more grace periods left. If it happens again I'll update my blog post.
90% isn't all that great of a result considering only about 6.7% of the US population suffers from depression each year[1] and the study was done in California. Just returning false would give you better accuracy.

Still Eliza on steroids is pretty cool. Can't wait till they integrate it into emacs.

[1] http://www.nimh.nih.gov/statistics/1MDD_ADULT.shtml
As others have pointed out, this can modelled with calc pretty handily.

I found agent-based modelling much more interesting. For example, mean-field models struggle with non-uniform spaces.

For the interest of persons here attending, I've uploaded my crappy code on this topic. It's 3 years old and not production suitable.

https://github.com/jchester/ruby-epidemic-model