skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the fairest of comparisons. It'd be like saying only 7% of jet crashes happen because of a malfunction in the vicinity of the cockpit but 100% of hot air balloon crashes happen because of a malfunction in the vicinity of the cockpit. Just because the concentration of failures is on one component doesn't mean the component if generally defective; in this case it just (potentially) means there's fewer components.
Thanks Chuck for the thoughtful reply. If anything, I think I need to direct my negativity towards the public stocks and shares system as whole (i.e. it just appears to boil down to a numbers and sentiment game that doesn't seem to be a rational way to determine a company's "real" value at any given point in time) rather than looking for cynical players ripping people off.

Looking at it another way: the whole thing is intrinsically speculative. Starting a company is speculative, investing in a company early on is speculative, IPOing is speculative, buying publicly traded shares is speculative. It's all speculation in a never ending quest to divine what a company's (or idea's) true value is.

The more I go down the rabbit hole trying to think about and understand all of this, the more I find myself ending up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy :D
This is one of the better "non-technical" explanations I've seen. I especially like his summary of the costs of Bitcoin: unique wallet identifiers impede anonymity, and blockchain verification delays transactions by ten minutes.

Has anyone thought of making a service to eliminate the ten minute delay? You would operate as a sort of Bitcoin credit agency, temporarily lending funds to credible buyers. You could market this on the merchant side (receive money instantly) or the purchaser side (send money instantly). Take a transaction fee to cover the risk.
These are some great points and I would say they apply to general management as much as they do to technology and product management. Sounds like a great person to work with - trust, empathy, and transparency tend to make everything smoother and more productive.
Sometimes I get a nagging suspicion that there's a secret cabal of short-investors hyping and egging on these stories through PR chains in the media. On the plus side, I missed out on buying TSLA when it was cheap, maybe I'll get the chance again!
This app is great! Now you can finally break the ice and talk to your neighbors!

(as my tweet suggested)
https://twitter.com/nivo0o0/status/398515586453340161
Agreed, which is a shame, because I like the idea and he seems to be truly delivering value. The title, however, is over-promising rather than over-delivering.
Rare New Microbe Found in Two Distant Clean Rooms
>Float32 operations often require less CPU cycles as they need less precision.

I guess that's true on mobile platforms? My understanding is that on modern desktop CPUs, the only time double precision takes more CPU cycles is if you're doing SSE (since you can't fit as many doubles into an SSE register).

And I suppose in some contexts where you have to compute a value iteratively, you'd have to do more iterations to get full precision out of a double. But the situations where you really care about having an actual float32 instead of simply letting the trailing bits of the float64 be incorrect are relatively rare.
An intriguing experiment! But the taxonomic filters could use a little refinement. The application allows me to select incompatible filters, such as "Genus: gorilla" and "Species: sapiens".
In the "How to build..." document it says I need Eclipse exactly 3.3.0

I am not going to install this, even if I would find it somewhere, hence ....
I think it's more like a case of selection bias, like after a plane crash when suddenly there seem to be a few more in quick succession.

In the time between these three Tesla fires, there have been hundreds of conventional car fires.

Even per capita, conventional vehicle fires are much higher.

The difference here is every single Tesla fire is newsworthy.
Pic of 3rd fire:
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3...

CNet is showing the first fire. Keep in mind the model s has a 12 volt battery right behind the nose. It is in a much more vulnerable spot then the main battery pack.
Uh, and didn't that lead to a global recall?

My point is that I don't think it's anti-electric bias that is causing to people to take their vehicle catching on fire pretty seriously.
That's one additional data point. I would hardly call it perspective. Yes, 3 fires is less than 10, but is 10 an outlier? More statistics are needed.
about 80% involve cars in parking lots, at rest, in repair shops, etc. So, you need to adjust the data. of the 152k, only a subset [~26k] were on public highways. Once you do this, a tsla now has 3x (300%) the chance of a normal car in catching fire in a highway accident, when corrected for miles driven, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6499111
> I have yet to see one that was genuine.

Because you don't want to, it's as simple as that. If you were actually looking there's plenty of stories to find.
Nice. Looking forward to seeing how this and all the other Docker based PAAS ecosystems like Flynn, Deis, Tsuru, Shipbuilder, CoreOS etc pan out.
>The driver safely pulled over to the side of the road and yet the car is in the middle of an intersection with the hood engulfed in flames. Check for accelerant.

Per the caption that's a picture of a difference car...
So why not un-tie it from the OS? If Chrome, FF, & Safari can do all that they do without deep os integration, why not IE? someone said "One of the core reasons is that new IEs uses security support from the OS, like low privileges, that didn't exist in old Windows OSES" well I don't believe IE11 is any more secure than chrome or firefox, and they don't need that so why does IE?

I know the business model used to be "release a new version of IE, make compatible for only the new version of windows, force everyone to buy a new windows license." and that worked back when there was no competition. but trying to do that in todays market means most savvy users will just use a browser that updates without needing an OS update (or any user action, for that matter).

Really, why doesn't IE just start doing an iterative auto-release cycle like ff or chrome?
The solution is code meta-review! Just have reviewers review the quality of reviews until review quality is up.
Moss: a Modular Robotics Toy for All Ages
Regardless of how you feel about Tesla, or whether you believe these articles are PR pieces written by oil shills, this is just bad journalism.

Good journalism would give us any piece of the following information:

- The number of fires in Tesla vehicles compared to:
- other gas-powered cars in the same vehicle class
- other electric cars in the same vehicle class
- overall vehicle fire statistics in the country
- A possible explanation as to what mechanism in Tesla vehicles causes fires like
this.
- Some brief exploration of how concerns about Tesla's safety standards might affect
its broader offering, brand, and stock price.

Instead, we get:

Whether the latest news will have any lasting effect on public perceptions is doubtful. But it offered more fodder for bears who have been dumping Tesla shares since the company reported third-quarter earnings earlier this week. Tesla's stock has been on a tear most of the year but in the last month has lost more than 20 percent of its value.

Wait, sorry, was I trying to be impartial at the beginning of this comment? This is pure shill journalism. The big three are scared. Ignore them.
I'll keep my life savings at Chase bank any day of the week over a Bitcoin wallet thank you very much.

If my credit card is stolen or even used in a strange manner I get a phonecall and a hold put on my account. How many people have recovered money from their stolen Bitcoin wallets?
Tesla is now 3x more likely than a petrol car to have fire on the fwy.
Has anyone done something similar with a focus on software freelancing/consulting opportunities?
I dont think that word means what you think it means
I have seen two car fires since July commuting from my new job. They didnt make it to HN or even on my local news.

This isnt like the Ford Explorer fiasco from years ago. 3 cars burnt, how many burn from gas everyday. Those cars dont have a warning system to tell the driver to get out, thats what the smoke is for.
Could a lightweight TCP server/client running on localhost work? Just wondering.
I'm confused as to how javascript is a good middle ground. What does it give you that Clojure doesn't? You do mention the fact that it encourages imperative code and loses immutability. How does it improve refactoring or debugging?
I think I can counter that in two words: specificity hierarchy.
Google to block local Chrome extensions on Windows starting in January
What do you mean by that?

I would say compiled Scala runs well on the Dalvik VM.

All languages that do not need to generate (or load) class files at runtime should work well on Android. And that is because Dalvik does not run class files.
I tend to have strict unit testing with near 100% coverage for libraries. For application code, I use primarily sloppy integration tests. This seems to be the right balance for me anyway. That being said, I try to extract as much app code into libraries as possible.
Ostensibly the goal of all government intervention in financial systems is to make them more transparent and secure.

Whether or not they accomplish those goals is obviously a matter of serious debate, but Velde's reasoning there is consistent with all other arguments for government intervention.

There's no point in trying to spin that statement into him giving the traditional banking system a pass.
Maybe that's only true of the spies you hear about.
Your point is currently technically correct for the public dataset but it's not significant unless the two browser populations have highly variable usage patterns, which is only going to be true for something like a Chrome fan site. As an example, Google Analytics shows visits, unique visitors or page-views all placing Chrome at 85% relative to IE in China within 0.5%.

Again, I'm not saying that NetMarketShare is lying – simply that it's critical that you make decisions based on data which is relevant to your particular site and that you have multiple data sources to compare and make sure that what you're seeing is a real trend and not an artifact of your analysis.
The best plataform ever.
Good grief, if the element to be centered has a fixed height and width, then there's nothing to this. I've been using the negative margin method for years:

http://jsfiddle.net/mBBJM/2155/

Not that it's any less Stockholm-Syndrome-y than the linked article's solution, but still, I have no clue why this is on the front page of HN.
I believe he's trying to criticize Java for being owned by Oracle. The implication appears to be that alternative implementations are just compatibility layers for Oracle's technology like WINE is for Windows.

(For the record, I don't particularly agree with this. It seems like you could level the same criticism at nearly any language that has one person or stable group controlling it — for example, you could just as validly call Rubinius "WINE for Ruby".)
Startups will get money if they do this...
Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers
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Good point but I do remember Elon stating it was because they had such large cells without sufficient spacing in between the cells.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/elon-musk-boeing-7...
For CPU instructions yes, but for derived operations that are usually running a few steps of a newton methor or taylor series, those probably converge faster to Float32 precision than Float64 precision
The problem is dependency on DirectWrite/Direct2D etc that any app can depend on.
That's an interesting idea, and not without truth.

I'm strong left in the UK, and would gladly contribute more taxes to go towards social policy for helping with healthcare, welfare and similar. I still contribute to charity now and then, but more random acts than regular contributions.

Interestingly in the UK with the double dip recession we've seen a great many people fall into severe poverty where they cannot feed, heat or home themselves. With this we've seen an explosion of Foodbanks, places you can donate foodstuffs to which are then redistributed to those too poor to be able to afford to feed themselves.

Some on the Right have said that the growth of foodbanks are evidence that everything is working as it should be, with the needy being provided for by private donations. People like myself on the left say instead that this is evidence of failure of policy by the government, which is not helping people in desperate need of even the most basic things.

Who knows who's right, perhaps a little of both.
Performance Comparison for Scaling Session Cache at Southwest Airlines
This book? http://www.amazon.com/Great-Boss-Dead-Ray-Immelman/dp/097403...
But how many updates will it get before it's not supported any more? I got a Galaxy Nexus last year (from Google at I/O, in fact), and it's already unsupported in that it isn't getting KitKat.
FP64 is more expensive on GPUs than FP32 (the cost gap depends on the particular architecture, but I've seen 1/8 and 1/4 ratios listed for recent parts) - so even if all modern desktop CPUs don't pay an extra cost for FP64, it's still worth thinking about the size of your floats for GPU compute.

Also, it's important to keep in mind that even if the cycle count is the same, you're using twice as much memory which means you're occupying twice as much space in cache. If your buffers suddenly get twice as large to represent the same data, that's going to negatively impact performance, just like how 64-bit pointers result in a perf penalty vs 32-bit pointers. If everything stays in registers you're probably fine, since those are all fixed-size and usually have more than enough space for a few 64-bit floats.
It's passive in the sense that I can make more and my income is not tied to the amount of hours I work.
Presumably these people have insurance on their 100k cars. Running over scrap metal isn't exactly good for other cars either.
Health insurance is weird in the US. In World War II we had wage controls which kept wages tight. When the War Labor Board declared that fringe benefits, such as sick leave and health insurance, did not count as wages for the purpose of wage controls, employers responded with significantly increased offers of fringe benefits, especially health care coverage, to attract workers. As a result it became the defacto standard to get your insurance through your employer and your employer picks a company and group plan that spreads the risks over everyone and pays most or all of the premiums with before tax dollars. Employees can usually pick from a few plans (individual or family, maybe two levels of coverage) For example, my employer pays 2/3rds of my premiums and I pay 1/3rd. They would rather give me health insurance than money for my own health insurance because they don't have to pay taxes on the health insurance premiums they pay for me. Nobody gets a choice in what your employer picks as a health insurance. If I wanted my own insurance of my choice I would have to opt out my that extra money my employer kicks into my health insurance (I would lose it, I couldn't apply it to my own plan, and it is a substantial amount of money)
The brazilian one is pretty nice :)
Alcohol is legal and allowed everywhere (especially at peoples' homes), but it doesn't in any way preclude you from telling your daughter that she's not allowed to visit mr.X because he's an alcoholic, or he's a pothead, or because you simply distrust him.

But "I don't want my daughter to meet X" is something that you need to handle within your family, not by asking armed men to forcibly remove X from the community. In your given example (daughter visits friend whose parent is high) you can punish cases if your underage daughter gets offered drugs, as currently would happen if she'd get offered alcohol or sex; but saying that your neighbor should be imprisoned for what he's doing in his own home simply because "my daughter might visit..." seems a bit ridiculous reason.

It's perfectly okay for your neighbors (and parents of your daughters classmates) to do all kinds of wierd sh*t that you wouldn't allow your underage daughter to do - they can practice crazy religions, have freaky sex including blood and bondage, do near-suicidal acts for thrills, implant horns in their foreheads, whatever. If you don't like that, then that is a valid reason for you to avoid them, but it's not a valid reason for requiring them to stop.
"It seems like the media is trying to find anything to publicly put them down."

The media will put anyone or anything down even if they love them. Just ask any of the Kennedys.

And when they are done doing that (after they have milked all they can) they will then progress to analysis and stories on "the story" - why it was done - was it fair to do so. Etc. In other words coverage on the coverage. And if there was no coverage there will be stories on why there is no coverage and how the issue should but wasn't covered.
IE back in the game... boggles the mind a bit. For many years I haven't allowed IE to run on any machines I've managed. There have been a few WTFs in my time in the industry, this is one of them. Like when Apple started selling risc/unix workstations and then intel/unix workstations, no?
If "Github/Google/Amazon is Down" isn't bad enough on HN, it's "How I got 1000 followers/subscribers/lemmings in 24 hours".

Seriously.
I'm amazed how much they're spending. What are they paying for?
Python's Import Lock in less than 5 minutes
no, you are missing the point. the battery is not defective. the battery system is just more likely to catch fire when compromised. petrol fuel systems are not only more protected from damage (typically, behind the second axle) but also just less likely to catch fire (on the hwy)[1]. You generally need both a puncture and a spark. A battery shorts with Just a puncture by something metal (usually), so there is one less logical step.

[1] High-pressure fuel lines are well protected outside of the battery, also (they are small) en route to the intake manifold. Here, the EFI rail is also behind the engine block and not likely to take a direct impact. Even then, they are flexible and not likly to break (they would bend).
Let's do a "back of the envelope" calculation:

Between 2006 and 2010 there were on average 152,300 automobile fires per year [1] so a reasonable estimate for 2 months would be 25,383. There are approximately 19,000 Tesla Model S sedans on the road [2]. If we assume most of those vehicles are in the US, then the Tesla model S represents 0.007469% of the 254.4 million passenger vehicles in the US [3]. One would expect 1.8 Tesla Model S fires in a 2 month period if the chances of a fire are no different for the Model S than other vehicles. But, this calculation doesn't take into account several other mitigating factors, for example if fires are more common in older cars than new cars.

[1] http://www.nfpa.org/safety-information/for-consumers/vehicle...

[2] http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/05/tesla-q3-2013-earnings/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unite...
One look at that and I was sure theres on way that's a modern human skull. For reference, here's a reconstruction: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Homo_erec...
downvote away humorless nerds.
Q: Do people have root on the containers?
Native iOS 7 Styling with CSS - Pixate 2.0 Released
Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons Start Tomorrow in 17 Locations Worldwide
I don't see any contradiction here? Both systems are opaque and vulnerable, and both may need government regulation. Some people would have it that the repeal of Glass-Steagall is what indirectly lead to the '07 crisis.
Yes, but unless the government becomes significantly more tyrannical than they are at present, bitcoin is a useful tool for dodging asset forfeiture. For example, your private keys could be distributed amongst n of m gangsters/wife/sons/lawyers/whatever including foreigners.

Implemented correctly, it's much much more difficult to steal or seize than cash while at the same time being much much easier to smuggle to places with no extradition where money trumps the rule of law.
CSS grid is the future.
> My concern is that I'd be 1 of 3 people who'd be using it.

This concern is probably well founded. :)

And yet. Remember, you get Java source code from the Frege compiler, and once you pack up your JAR with Proguard, say, nobody will be able to tell you didn't write it in Java. (Well, slightly exaggerated, but you could have used some obscure library, who knows?)

So, if you have a small project, or some Haskell project without too many GHC extensions you want for some reason on the JVM, give it a try.
The Power of the Follow-Up Message
What do you suppose we do about it? Like it or not, people use web browsers to access the Internet, and as long as web browsers render HTML and CSS, we have to use the tools we have.
Won't that leak metadata like crazy? Most pages are not contained to a single domain, and all 3-rd party traffic pertaining to a certain VPN'd web site will still go around unencrypted...

So this might be marginally useful for things like watching US streaming services from overseas or using it with point to point protocols, like SMTP/IMAP, etc...

But not for anything that requires any degree of operational security.
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That's an amazing non-sequitur.

ETA: just because I'm opposed to one program doesn't mean I favor others. I'm just as opposed to "NSA, TSA, wars on terrorism and drugs and a thousand other programs" as I am to Obamacare. I'm not sure how you conclude that by opposing wasteful oppression in one area somehow means I'd be more tolerant of wasteful oppression in other areas.
Great, but how do I change the font?
Millionaires, sure, but definitely not billionaires.
Hmm, yes perhaps after verifying a buyer's credibility, you could issue him a card with a number on it and a magnetic strip. He could then use this card to draw upon his purchasing credit. I'm not sure what to call this system, though...
I expect in the time between now and the BlueStar, Nissan will have a PHV priced in the same range as a subcompact. The Leaf is very cost-effective given its current charge range.
I actually did this just last week, wound up having to use a table cell with valign='middle' and felt both ashamed and proud at the same time.
Over the past month and a half, I've built a glorified to-do list that keeps me on track. It automatically updates today's tasks, etc.
There are about 150,000 car fires in the US per year [1]. Tesla is on pace for about 12 fires per year (1 per month, as one of these three fires happened in Mexico). There are probably ~15,000 total Teslas on the Road in the US, out of about 200 million cars.

On the surface, Tesla has .8 fires per 1000 vehicles, where as .75 fires per 1000 vehicles is the US average.

[1] http://www.nfpa.org/safety-information/for-consumers/vehicle...
Yes I am referring to Authentication via Social Auth like Facebook and normal email/pass auth as well. But I am using Django as the backend, not node like most of these tutorials are using.
Great app! Can't put it down! :-)