skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically it's a great solution except for the part where everybody else has misgivings about it. There are already standards covering almost everything from NaCl, and going by what it was supposedly for according to their original marketing campaign, 3D games, entirely supplanted already by current generation JS engines

It was a myopic stop-gap that's already starting to show its age, about the only thing it has left running for it is smaller distribution size and faster cold-start times, but they're implementation problems of current generation JS, rather than some fundamental benefit of NaCl
how does one buy tesla convertible notes? i'd have to imagine this is going to increase their yield dramatically so i wouldn't mind picking some up.
No, I don't propose we say that. I don't propose we start with "let's invent... now let's 'explore' if this makes sense". This is bad pedagogy: It is confusing, it gives no motivation for what is being invented, and ultimately it produces bad results and demotivated students.

What I do propose is that we start with an interpretation of multiplication as a geometric transformation of of the real line by scaling. Then think about equations such as 1xx=-1, and think what solving them means in terms of our new interpretation: is there a geometric transformation x that we can apply to 1 such that doing it twice results in -1? Yes there is: rotation by pi/2. Now we call this transformation i, and work out the rest of the details.

There is no "let's invent", no "believe me, it works", and no leaps of faith required. A simple problem is presented, and its solution naturally leads to to the definition of i. There is no mystery, there is no need to somehow force ourselves to accept this new symbol into our number systems without knowing why we are doing it or what it is, and most importantly: there are far less confused students.

Many non-geometric presentations are also good, but it should never start with "let's invent". It should start with a problem that people can relate to (just as it started historically), and the definition should arise from our attempt to solve this problem. More generally, it should come out of something we understand, not dropped on our heads by the teacher who "knows" math. Geometry is often slightly better because our intuition works better there (this is why VCA is so successful), but it is not necessary.

Exploring ideas is good. Presenting some hocus pocus definition out of the blue and expecting young students to then "explore" it because somebody said it's interesting - this is bad, and it's definitely not how math is done.
definitely sarcasm flavored
Except that it isn't a rapidly evolving marketplace.

People don't upgrade to a new car every year so Tesla's quicker ability to adapt is somewhat meaningless.
There are NO essential carbohydrates. Carbs are not the only source of energy.
Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries
French trains 'too wide' to fit in stations
Thanks for asking rather than just down-voting. I wanted others to know that this isn't isolated. We have been having issues with their service for a few months now. They never know when there is a problem with hardware, for instance. Joyent support will gladly tell you everything is fine. After you insist, and insist they will actually have someone look at the underlying infrastructure. Eventually they will acknowledge the problem and fix it (maybe). I believe the monitoring and reporting for their team is flawed or incomplete which leads to more downtime of affected systems. Just one observation, but we have had three incidents over the past month and a half. Two within a week of each other.
A couple that were quite entertaining for me were:

1) Hatching Twitter
2) The Everything Store (Amazon Story)
3) Mindset: The New Psychology of Success --This one was particularly interesting when thinking about employees and recruiting and what to look for in people that you are working with. After the author introduces the concept it gets a little dry for a chapter or two, but then really interesting after that.
4) The Hard Thing About Hard Things - this one was inspiring from a management/CEO perspective. When thinking about building a company that people enjoy working for (and all the tough stuff that comes with it) this is a great read.
> So I personally just don't see the benefit from a less generalised version of coreutil tools

Others have pointed out specific examples, but the general reason (which I don't think I've seen explicitly articulated) is that CSV isn't strictly line oriented -- for intsance, records can span multiple "physical" lines, because line breaks within quoted strings are part of the field value, not separate records -- so line-oriented tools don't work with CSV generally (they may if you happen to have CSV where nothing inconsistent with a line-oriented view happens to be done, but that's luck not something that is generally true of CSV.)
Definitely interested in seeing your notes, even though there are a staggering number of git tutorials around.
The lack of knowledge people have regarding the reals is different in kind from the confusion surrounding complex numbers, and has nothing to do with what is being discussed.
MA Legislative hearing on ending non-competes this Thursday in Boston
There's a few hundred thousand still in uniform. After all, it's not like he only leaked things he subjectively felt were instances of "domestic surveillance", in which case we might be able to have a different conversation about his actions.

Failing that, there's the people in a certain country whom Greenwald himself claimed would be put directly at risk if that country name were to be revealed. But WikiLeaks leaked it anyways.... which is directly attributable to Snowden.

But that's the beautiful things about things like what he does. It's like coal polluting the air... we know it kills people in the abstract, but you can't point to a slouched-over body directly attributable to any given lump of coal.
> We need to get that. Really, really grok that, if our half of the species ever going to be worth a damn.

I'll see you at the next male re-education meeting, then.
"Manual intervention" would have been better. The steps involved can be copying and pasting, selecting a range (very nasty if you miss and don't notice), and even typing data from another source. Compare that to something like R where you typically load the data (even from a URL) with command like "read.table()" and most operations are implicitly over the whole data frame (no copying of data from paper required).
You could try to do it programmatically, but I'd also let users tag/fix things as well.
I can't figure out how your comment that "understanding mistakes will happen" is compatible with 99.999% uptime.

I'm of the opinion that 99.999% for an individual instance isn't particularly achievable in a commodity hosting environment. That kind of uptime doesn't leave much room for the mistakes that you and I both anticipate.

I do think that 99.999% is doable for a properly distributed whole-system across multiple geographically-dispersed datacenters.

I think Joyent has gone wrong in promoting individual instance reliability.
Which is to say that almost nothing that most people would recognize as entrapment is actually prohibited by the current legal understanding of entrapment, right?...

... Yeah

Edit: Down votes - with no comments? I'm pretty sure the other responses actually agree with my claim.

What is the problem here, cowards?
Lots of naysaying in these comments....

The rating makes sense to me. Tesla faces a lot of risk. There are many ways the company could end up sinking without a trace, many of them completely outside of their control.

Battery technology and rare earth mining could take a turn for the worse and make their products impractically expensive. A subtle defect could end up requiring them to recall essentially all of their product (unlike any other automaker out there, 90+% of Teslas on the road right now are the exact same model). Their one factory could burn down and they could be unable to recover from it. GM could discover that they filed a critical patent that applies to Tesla's technology during their development of the EV-1, and decide that they'd rather destroy the company than work out a licensing agreement. I could go on.

Tesla is a small company right now, and they don't have the sort of depth that a large, established company has. Yes, they have a potentially huge upside. They could potentially end up the size of Toyota or GM, eventually.

But that huge upside doesn't matter here! When rating debt, all that matters is how likely you are to pay it back. You get no points for a 10% chance of striking it rich. Even a 75% chance of striking it rich, with a 25% chance of going broke, could easily justify "junk" status, because that means a 25% chance that creditors don't get paid back.

So what's the big deal, here? Are we going to criticize S&P for telling it like it is, just because we really like Tesla?
hey, the regex filter is great but if i hit control-F I'm trying to use the browser search function, you shouldn't be capturing and overriding that.
Until you realize that there is more to mathematics than discrete mathematics. For someone doing, let's say, Topology computers are so useless you could well spend your entire postgraduate life without using anything more complicated than Word.
no it's not. their new OSX client is native. the old version is Adobe Air.
I'm sorry, but I just don't understand where this argument is coming from. There's no mention of EME, DRM, or anything along those lines in that post, because those are the furthest possible things from a motivation to deprecate NPAPI. The reasons for deprecation are clearly stated and indisputable: NPAPI has a huge negative impact on security, stability, and performance; maintaining support places a very large burden on Chrome's development team; and NPAPI doesn't work on mobile, which is a giant and rapidly growing platform.
This is pretty lightweight. True, most people imagine that durable goods orders consist of consumer and business spending, and so a large government order like this skews the total slightly. On the other hand, that money isn't going into a void, or leaving the US economy, but will go out to General Dynamics' employees, suppliers, and shareholders over the lifetime of that contract - which is to say that it will mostly stay within the US and thus counts as much as any other kind of economic activity.
That's not irony, that's a big reason for giving the big US automakers a better credit rating than Tesla.

If Tesla finds itself in dire financial straits, they'll be wrapped up and shut down. If GM finds itself in dire financial straits (again), they'll be bailed out (again) or merge, or something. They won't go away.

Which one is more likely to pay back your bond? The one with a virtual guarantee from the government that they'll stay in business, or the tiny startup with a bright future?
(3) It's ubiquitous, because virtually every serious company with financials uses Office, so (4) employees are expected to know how to use them because their senior members have used them for decades. I know plenty of financial analysts with different companies in different positions and every single one of them spends time every day nose-deep in Excel.
I've got mixed feelings about this one. It's a great game and the remake is amazing. They did a really good job refreshing it to the new hardware/software capabilities.

On the other hand they don't seem to care about what was released. The game has some crashing bugs (not on specific action - it just dies sometimes) but I haven't seen any update on android yet. They don't seem to care that the game is still marked incompatible with nexus 7. (even though it works on nexus 5 just fine) It looks like they just want to release it for every platform possible, but don't care what happens next. Support forum is mostly just users. I hope I'm mistaken...
Heh, maybe they mean that the Roadster "only" sold 2,450 units, 2008-2012. That's small potatoes compared to the big automakers but the comparison is pointless.
Justice Department shuts down porn money: Column
We use a bunch of Atlassian products (Jira, Bitbucket, Tempo, Sourcetree, IDE Connector, Jira Agile, ) but while HipChat never caught on with us, Slack hit a home run.

That said, once someone includes video group chat (a la Skype) for free we will likely jump for whoever offers it.
What are the other problems with the data? We're keen to hear.
This is why I love open source. Amazing job, congratulations.
Hack has incompatibilities with some current PHP code too. Particularly the different syntax for generators (PHP 5.5) and the upcoming syntax for variadic functions (PHP 5.6).
You see a high chance of striking it rich and a small chance of losing your investment, and you think, this is great!

That's because you're buying stock. You'll share in the upside, if and when it comes.

This rating is abound bonds. The high chance of striking it rich doesn't do anything. And what's a small chance of losing your investment as a stock investor in a company that could become huge is a relatively big chance of losing your investment as a bond buyer who gets a fixed rate of return no matter how successful the company becomes.

I can see buying Tesla stock, but I'd be really hesitant at buying Tesla bonds.
Super-Eddington-scale Gamma-Ray Burst Detected In M31 by Swift Satellite
What will that do for non-firefox users though? asm.js is Firefox only, so it's another non-open platform really.
FFTs and Optical Lenses
"Lastly, some of Piketty's errors were transcription errors. In other words, GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out). Therefore, using Python while there were GIGO issues isn't going to solve the data problem."

More importantly the people claiming there are errors in hi work are making an even clearer error than Piketty in claiming that inequality hasn't risen. It has, and it is shown on dozens of measures. That they are trying to fight something as well established in main stream economics as evolution is in biology leads me to believe that in this case it is ideological windmill fighting more than honest critique.
> implementation problems of current generation JS

Wake me up when you get to be end of the rainbow and find the pot of JavaScript gold supposedly waiting there.
Not at all. I would only argue that iCloud is not a good fit for all apps, and Vesper is one of them.
I'm not too knowledgable about lisp, but what should I focus learning, Clojure or Steel Bank ? If I understand properly, SB Common lisp doesn't run on a VM ... ?
Just a default note that the whole "he got stuff wrong" claim itself might not stand up to scrutiny.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/is-piketty-all-w...

Edit:
Also regarding the Rogoff data. Sure, those findings really were crap but surprise, surprise, it was crap that policy makers were oh so eager to hear. One might blame the falsity on the dumb use of spreadsheet but it seems more likely it was a case of "let's fudge data in a crap fashion till we come up with what people want to hear". Then when someone points out how it's crap, we always blame the spreadsheets.
I tried out OpenRefine previously on the large CSV's I have to deal with at work largely on the recommendation of HN comments. On small stuff to medium size stuff, it's pretty nice. But for larger sets (+1GB) it starts to slow down and eventually will fail to commit changes when the set is big enough.

The only answer I've found to consistently work quickly, with the ability to explore the data, is the killer combo of iPython Notebook + pandas' read_csv[0] + a lot of RAM -- 10GB CSV on disk becomes ~20GB in memory (don't know why yet). When I say quick, I mean 10GB CSV un-cached disk to RAM in <5Min including fuzzy parsing on dates.

The nice part is, when you have things figured out, you can enable a chunked reading to get back in-core on machines of lesser specs. Further, you can dump the pandas DataFrame to HDF, thereafter having ludicrous-speed IO & 'where' queries.

Still though, OpenRefine is much more turn key and feature rich.

[0]http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.13.1/generate...
Amazon Is Killing My Sex Life
It's not repeating digits I'm talking about, though, it's termination. If it were exactly 22.7, that's 227/10. The question would be "Why is the denominator 10?"
If he knows their ticker symbol is "TSLA", he knows they're publicly traded.
It could just be S&P wanting Telsa to buy their services.
True as far as it goes. It's not common that a chips simply doesn't work, but because of the complexity of chips, even with those tools chips still have page after page of errata.
I don't understand your first argument.

If you knowingly give your details over to a phishing attempt, then yes, you bear the loss. Otherwise, any loss of monies from your bank account through hacking or identity fraud will be borne by your bank. Granted, it would still be a hassle, but I am not really at risk if a website which has my details gets hacked and my CC number gets stolen.
I've found using hipchat with coworkers to be much nicer than using XMPP with coworkers mostly for it being closer to IRC: there are rooms where most discussion takes place, so you can get to know people by lurking there, and when you need to 1:1 message someone, you probably have some context about who they are, which makes a world of difference to an introverted new hire. The realtime team-wide chat just makes everything feel much more friendly, imho.

I'm sure it's possible to get that setup with XMPP, and it's definitely possible to get an equivalent setup with IRC (which I have an external server running ZNC for), but it's not out of the box, and there is something to be said for having a good configuration set up and working for everyone out of the box.
> ...at some point I stopped thinking they were "doing it wrong" and started thinking, "whatever makes you happy."

The secret to success in contract software development.
you can press control-F twice to get the browsers search function.
> Anders Hejlsberg

Gosh I have such a nerd crush on him. Easily my favourite language designer, by far. I wish I could be him, and funnily enough am learning language design outside of work, but I highly doubt I'll ever be as good!
Then you represent the number in base 23 to a few billion decimal places and find the signatures of the creators of this version of the universe.
> I see is either outlawing any collection and aggregation of private data outside of that directly needed to provide service, not ads

That's close to what Germany does, if I understand their data privacy laws correctly.

On the other hand I can imagine how it would go in the libertarian-style U.S.: "If statistical data analysis is outlawed then only outlaws will be able to crunch numbers!"

Er, they'll probably think up a better catchphrase. But I think you see the point, it's hard to enforce laws which are inherently unenforceable without massive intrusion.
> That said, once someone includes video group chat (a la Skype) for free we will likely jump for whoever offers it.

Hangouts in G+?
For reference to the underlying securities (which people seem to have either questions/mis-conceptions on):

Tesla Announces $1.6 Billion Convertible Notes Offering
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-announ...

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/0001193125140...
When GM was bailed out, they declared bankruptcy. That means bondholders got close to nothing.
This reminded me I hadn't visited Radar in a while. I filed 73 bugs during my time working on Xcode/iOS, it looks like, spanning the period May 2011 to Jan 2013. That was one bad period in my life, looking back!

15 are still open.

33 are closed: 7 closed as "duplicate (closed)", 14 closed as "duplicate (open)", and the rest closed for various reasons (including being duplicates). The duplicate ones were always annoying because you have zero visibility on the progress of the other bug(s). I assume this is some NDA thing? - a bit annoying. Still, nobody ever says you should buy Apple for their user friendliness.

25 are archived. Some closed, some duplicates (I couldn't be bothered to count a second set). I don't know what that means, but I suspect nobody will be looking at them.

The other funny thing is that while composing this message the number of bugs shifted around - there are now 15 open, 37 closed, and 9 archived. So who knows what the real total is. Radar is so awful.
Flynn vs. Deis: The Tale of Two Docker Micro-PaaS Technologies
...or barely recognised at all?
Yes. I know NUMMI. We did a field trip there once. It's an old GM factory from the 60s that transitioned to Toyota co-ownership because they needed to built cars in the US to get around import taxes and GM needed to get their employees, who (according to your link were) At the time of its closure "considered the worst workforce in the automobile industry in the United States".
Still doesn't change the fact that when Tesla is the size of GM/Toyota etc, running tens of plants, I doubt any (besides maybe old NUMMI) will be based out of California.
I looked at salesforce and my understanding was "it has everything, at scale, and costly". The IBM or Oracle of sales was the impression I got. It seemed a bit too much for one person to use for themselves.
I'm sure you're right about Tesla being left to wither, where big auto would be bailed out again, but that doesn't address this at all:

> competitive and technological displacement risks
> c.add(10).value();

No, numbers aren't (shouldn't be) treated as objects.
Great will try it today, I've been looking for one, recently. But inside the browser.
For anyone else running into the same problem, I just copied my HipChat.app in /Applications, and ran the second hipchat next to the first hipchat (you can also change the second hipchat's icon for easy distinguishment). It's not perfect (upon logout/restart it still remembers the preferences for the other instance), but it solved 90% of my hassle.
Which (coupled with SQLite) is what I use for all my PHP development stuff. No futzing around with Nginx or Apache configs, and a Phing or Makefile to run `make server` loading my particular dev setup (setting temporary ENV variables and the like) for the project is priceless. That feature is one of my favourites :)
> Oh and it's not legal. It's a breach of contract if you do not inform your bank.

Not legal as in against the law, or just subject to whatever clauses are there in the contract to cover that particular outcome?
A simple hack is to run an A-A-B-B test instead of an A-B test. Rather than splitting 50-50, use 25-25-25-25 splits. When A1==A2 and B1==B2, then you know that you have statistically relevant data and you can compare A to B. Depending on the dataset, this could happen in minutes or weeks.
Both GM and Chrysler went through bankruptcy in 2009.
One common association of those digits with PI is the handy approximation of 22/7 accurate to three digits, off by just over .0004.

I stress that this is an approximation only! I had to explain about PI being irrational rather than exactly equal to the shortcut approximation to a couple co-workers, explaining some poor behaviors in their rotation function.
If you send money to a friend, they receive immediately.
Its possible (perhaps wishful thinking) that in the Venn diagram of smart lawyers and lawyers willing to be copyright trolls there is very little common area.
That's an odd thing to say. The only impact growth plans should have on bonds is the extent to which Tesla is risking bankruptcy (by either growing to fast, or not growing fast enough).
I've noticed that myself, but doubling a debt under $5,000 leaves you with a debt under $10,000; not really a big problem to pay off.