skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla seems to have a pretty well-established track record in which criticism is dealt with by going full-on attack mode. One can argue about how fair or unfair the criticism was in individual cases--running out of juice, ruining batteries by letting them de-charge, etc--and those cases have been debated at great length with nothing to be gained by rehashing them. Nonetheless, for better or worse, more sane PR would typically acknowledge any valid criticisms/lack of education/etc. and move on. Tesla's mode is to essentially universally go on the offensive.

[EDIT: To just add, as someone who is not "in" PR but deals with PR in various ways regularly, sometimes an aggressive response is indeed called for. But it shouldn't be the default response.]
He can't do illegal things. It's perfectly within his rights to deny someone service beforehand.
> But Charles II was not keen. He had Knight arrested for suggesting that the king might benefit financially from such a calamity.

..aaand this kind of thing reminds me why democracy, for all its imperfections, ain't so bad...
'Actually this is a really smart move by Elon' (everyone here seems to be on first-name terms with him)

Except the majority of the comments so far imply that's it's actually not a good move. Also, no one in the thread has yet mentioned him by first name (there are only 3 occurrences of 'Elon' in this thread with 2 being by full name, and then your hypothetical HN commenter being the only that uses it alone)
> the most innovative area in tech today seems to be consumer-hostile but potentially more profitable business models: privacy-invasive and ad-driven systems

Google, Facebook and Android seem to be quite popular with consumers.

It certainly seems that consumers don't want to pay for either software or content.

In fact, the old idea of paying programmers to write good software is evil, isn't it? Everything must be free ;-)
It's pretty far out. Currently we can't even freeze and thaw organs. As that would be quite useful for transplantation, there are people working on it. Depending on how you define "aggressive", this might not be aggressive though.
Howso?

Just like the new macbook pro's, which are thermalthrottling as soon as you look at pictures of cats. You could say they never going to perform well, but then you could always throw it in a cold bath.
No car for you!
But tesla would still be the manufacturer? How would a dealership benefit in any way? If there were others that didn't use the silly dealership model, you could go to them and buy an electric car on the internet.
But tesla is first to market with an electric car at this scale, sure it can be seen as bad press to decline a pre-order, but introducing additional hands in the mix in no way would fix this situation. The problem lies with a lack of competition on this one- If tesla had any real competition, and supply constrains, do you honestly think a pre-order would be canceled?
I'm sorry. I have it too, it is called BOUND mode.
What I don't have is VISUAL BLOCK mode.
three points was enough to laugh for at least an hour. Good enough :-) No?
Why is there a "women who go" and not a "men who go"?

EDIT: Just to be clear, I don't have nothing against women. I just think that treating them "differently" is not the solution. The moment you treat them differently you are discriminating.
I'm sorry. My comment was intended as a joke.
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It does not require constant attention, but in fact it is addictng for users and people do sit and refresh their feeds for extended periods of time, watch the live activity stream on the side, or engage in chat, etc. Facebook wants you to spend a lot of time on Facebook and optimizes for this. They do not expect people to quickly check the site and leave and I would suggest most people don't do that. Or they they do, but they do it so repeatedly (continuous partial attention) it's even worse.

Edit: I would just add that in an environment where every site action has some kind of real time notification tied to it, the async nature/expectation is greatly diminished. Especially in a work context. And so now you have to add 'good job!' and water cooler type notifications to that cognitive overhead too.
All I got from the reference blog post is "I'm rich and important. I'm not paying for safety here, I'm paying to be rich and important![1] Also, you gave us food, but not billionaire food. I want your attention and a reference to me."

[1] the referenced blog post ACTUALLY says that! direct quote : "you shuffle out on stage and start with a slide show — an amateur slide show at that — all about how safe the Model X is.\p Yup, you lead with safety, like that’s why we’re all spending $130,000 or more on this car"
The B complex changed my life too -- relieved the fatigue I was feeling daily despite plenty of sleep, and gave me the energy to start better habits that pulled me out of a depressive episode.
> You can't update the medium and not lose the essence of the piece.

I don't find this argument compelling at all. If the director at the time had color film and sound, he certainly would have used them. After all, how many silent films have been made after 1930? 2? B+W persisted for a while because it was so much cheaper than color film, but now that that differential has gone away, how many movies are released in B+W? 1 every 5 years? Even film noir is done in color today.
Wow. Just wow. Now a $100K+ car is just a buggy beta product--because Elon Musk? And, if they didn't get that memo, fire them as customers?
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You're assuming that Facebook internal is the same, feature by feature, as commercial Facebook. I promise you it isn't.
Text analytics, for one.
Seems to be great for texture already. I wonder how you can integrate it into the typical VR setting. I'm envisioning some sort of bubble around the person. Or at least I guess you'd need to be surrounded by the ultrasound speakers in some way.

Stopping movement is of course also very tricky/tough. Picking up a mug of coffee is a killer app. If that ever works with the right feedback the future is here.
let's not let the facts get in the way of a good rant
You could say exactly the same thing about pg
This will solve many problems and help make things easier for scientists and programmers. I don't want to say this negatively - just for constructive criticism - that the syntax of Cuneiform is quite ugly to look at. Many of the syntax design choices feel arbitrary such as the \{ and \} encapsulating functions, the need to write deftask to define a function and the really ugly function signature syntax. I mean it is almost as ugly as Perl.

Please consider this issue.
> pansy

This is a homophobic term of abuse. Please reconsider attacking people by saying that they are gay.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pansy
'Ant Simulator' Cancelled After Devs Blow Crowdfunding Money
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Going Towards the Light
Businesses Owned by Women Less Likely to Win U.S. Contracts, Study Shows
TSLA is down 14% today, coincidence?
The saying goes back to 1887, so (whether or not it's a fallacy) it's not all that modern.

[EDITED to add:] It occurs to me that the original saying runs as follows: "All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" -- which is amusing, at least if you're as easily amused as I am, because your objection is precisely that it's only relative power that corrupts :-).
> Shouldn't happen just at the whim of the PM. A sane environment would work by a developer asking for help first, and it actually sounds odd that you have capacity for a PM to throw someone to just 'hurry up' tasks

The problem is that if the PM decides to do that, the developer has no authority to refuse that.

> Any PM who says features are set in stone isn't doing their job. A PM's role is to handle change and execute the plan. Sounds like weak management.

Most PMs are just proxies for business, they manage up and out but not down. They will not risk their jobs by refusing requests from business, in the long term that would put them in an unsustainable position.
This is one great presentation. An accomplished fusion of form and contents. And, among all web pages with black background, this is the rare one that _doesn't_ peel your retina off while you're looking at it. My respects to the author.
Police aren't a good example for talking about civilian handgun marksmanship:

They are under an obligation to use their guns in many situations a civilian wouldn't, or could trivially avoid (either by not being in that sort of place, or safely retreating).

Few get much training or practice, and this is particular true for ant-gun Blue cities, with NYC being the extreme case of having extinguished its gun culture and the force being run by hoplophobes at critical times (details on request, but that includes police who care about marksmanship having a difficult time practicing on their own).

They simply don't pay any serious penalty beyond maybe their city paying a civil settlement for such examples, usually of contagious fire, which also simply can't be a problem in the usual civilian self-defense case where only one good guy has a gun. If we civilians were to pull those sort of stunts, we'd rightfully end up in prison.

They seem to be more prone to completely lose their shit like with Chris Dorner, which caused one of those cases against two total innocents in a pickup truck that bore little resemblance to Dorner's, except it being a pickup truck. And, again in a Blue part of the country.

7 meters is way too long as a general metric for this domain, as of ... the '70s or '80s the average distance for police use of handguns was 7 feet. 7 meters is 23 feet, which is close to the Tueller Drill 21 feet metric, and is a distance you'll find in home defense, but it still generally works out for civilians defending themselves in their homes. And weapons retention doesn't become an issue until an adversary closes the distance, which per the Tueller drill gives you an opportunity to fire a shot or three if you've already got your gun out and pointed.
I'm not saying i believe it but the counterargument i've heard to this is that the US also funds the most medical research.

I havent seen anyone clearly explain how more expensive bandaids trickle down into the pockets of researchers, but nevertheless it is a common counterargument to the US spending much more than other countries on healthcare
There's the field of cryonics, aimed at preserving people who can't be helped by contemporary medicine, in hopes that the future technology will be able to save their lives. While the goal is slightly different, it seems to be pretty much the same research that's needed for space travel cryopreservation.
And we have another good example of private companies in commercial airspace avoiding crashes as much as possible. By all means, risk is not zero, but look how far we have come in 60 years.
so it's not really exponential - if ridiculous amounts of memory somehow became very cheap and available, then it would break it? this is quite different from the exponential properties most encryption has. I would expect "ridiculous amounts of memory" to mean "more bytes than the number of atoms on Earth", that sort of thing. It sounds like rather than these kinds of theoretical limits, they chose much more practical limits - which seems a lot more dangerous and less future-proof, but I guess I'm not an expert.
When a child throws a temper tantrum you don't give them what they want. You also don't slap them or lock them in the closet.

You ignore them, which is what Tesla should have done.
What's corrupt about choosing not to sell somebody something of yours? dickish perhaps, but not corrupt.
Musk is cool and doing some amazing shit for the world, so I'm happy for an occasional pass.

> Dear @ElonMusk: Thank you for reaching out to me. I heard from our phone conversation that you feel that my post...

Did he personally ring and say fuck off to a potential customer/medium blogger? Cause that's a CEO I'd support.

Willing to get dirty with customers... I'll give that a shitload more cred than most CEO's who just hand it over to hitmen or cowardly marketing.
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6 months seems to be the outer extremes of medically induced comas (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-a-medicall...) and that's nowhere near long enough to get anywhere useful.

Although I guess you could wake people up every 3 months for some muscle replenishment exercise and mission updates.
Google engineer finds USB Type-C cable that’s so bad it fried his Chromebook
Established industries have spent long, long periods of time getting to know their customer

.. and then forgetting about it while wringing the customer for all they are worth. Or failing to notice that their customers are aging and not being replaced by new customers with different tastes.
this is gold ;)
TL;DR buy the book it's great!

I'll second that, can't recommended the book enough. It will tell you exactly why and when you should go down the microservice rabbit hole (at this point). I'm saying at this point because there are still many angles to this (actually by paradigm) and lots of tooling surrounding it which are not quite there yet (including most prominently docker & co).

Don't fall for the admittedly great modern devops/open-source marketing.

I've been doing both application development as well as good-old systems administration (xen, jails, openvz) for many years and believe me this stuff is still very resource intensive even with the help of other similarly experienced peers readily available. We are literally talking google-level infrastructure architecture, which of course is both bad (setup time) and good (much more flexible and often "simpler" to grasp when the whole flow is established).

While I'm still not at the product stage with my two microservice projects started in August and September (both explicit microservice customer requests, mind you) a friend of mine meanwhile has single-handedly been building two monoliths over the last couple of months. He's been leveraging the still undeniable king-of-web-app-productivity-combo of rails/heroku and is about to move on to his next project while his customers are down the "let's polish some more" beta publishing-angst.

Microservices are fun and they are an important development in our field for many use-cases but be an engineer and pick the right tool for the right job, already - educate your boss, peers or customers about the importance of seeing things more objectively!

Also, don't succumb to the macho "You must be this tall to use microservices. OK, challenge accepted!" like I have to admit to have fallen for myself (I readily obliged to going forward with the tasks at hand) - the cards are largely stacked against you, most certainly when you are alone or not well connected!

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MicroservicePrerequisites.html
The familiar/first name thing bothers me more when people refer to "Zuck", like they're old pals who go way back.
All of the examples shown in the video demo look so painfully unrealistic and impractical: every situation seems to beg for an actual, you know, button.

Using two fingers to air swipe a virtual knob to bring up the heat when you're cooking? Really? How does that make anything any easier?

Even worse: trying to do so while driving. Good luck with that!

The technology seems promising but I just don't see it happening for any of the demo'ed use cases.
Handily, PZ Myers wrote about cryogenics recently -
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/01/29/how-can-yo...

TL;DR: "No chance"
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Rich guy complains about richer guy. Where's the news?
> ... shows it offers (illegally) directly in their browser ...

Why making such assumptions? Just to make it look bad? Using such a service is fully legal for me, i don't want to feel criminalized for legal things.
> I honestly hadn't realized that he had such thin skin.

Just few weeks back there was this Blue Origin pissing contest about nothing.
You can, but see https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

Are digitised copies of older images protected by copyright?

Simply creating a copy of an image won’t result in a new copyright in the new item. However, there is a degree
of uncertainty regarding whether copyright can exist in
digitised copies of older images for which copyright has
expired. Some people argue that a new copyright may
arise in such copies if specialist skills have been used
to optimise detail, and/or the original image has been
touched up to remove blemishes, stains or creases.

However, according to the Court of Justice of the
European Union which has effect in UK law, copyright
can only subsist in subject matter that is original in the
sense that it is the author’s own ‘intellectual creation’.
Given this criteria, it seems unlikely that what is merely
a retouched, digitised image of an older work can
be considered as ‘original’.
I don't know about you, but my FB is a free speech zone. I don't think that overlaps well with FB at Work in terms of usage and social patterns.
lol, i can't believe they are guy looking for HN reputation. And being jealous for such a virtual score, it's so childish that's funny :D
I use the Firefox version. You /can/ convert back to Markdown. Should be Control + Alt + M (or whatever the toggle key combination is)
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They would also fit on an economy-seat airline seat, and I didn't have to worry about the douche (no offense) in front of me breaking it by slamming his seat into recline mode. Was awesome.
Well, the USB 2.0 pins are mirrored so there is no negotiation needed to orient the plug. The others can be mirrored or not, depending on how it is operating. Negotiation can change the job of several sets of pins.
Was thinking about it yesterday!! Really cool stuff that you got something working!
from the follow up post[0]:

"I heard from our phone conversation that you feel that my post, “Dear @ElonMusk: You should be ashamed of yourself”, was a personal attack on you. I also hear that you are not comfortable having me own a Tesla car and have cancelled my order for a Tesla Model X."

The thing that jumps out at me is "you are not comfortable having me own a Tesla". There certainly is no concrete indication on whether that's a lifetime ban or what since it's a paraphrase of a conversation we didn't get to hear.

"Find devoted customers and work with them to build a great product for them."

It's clear from his posts that he was a devoted customer (his recent post even praises Telsa the company). That doesn't make the disappointment in the how the event was run any less. They invited those devoted customers to an event, and then ran it poorly. Someone calling Tesla out on that, and pointing out that Tesla is treating those devoted customers in a negative way could be handled in a less heavy handed fashion.

[0] - https://medium.com/@salsop/banned-by-tesla-8d1f3249b9fb
Using species known to survive outside Earth’s atmosphere like the Tardigrades, especially given their size, for space based efforts might be worth considering.
I think pretty far. Since I wrote that comment, I got a PS3 Eye camera for $5 (can you believe they're so cheap?) and it has a four microphone array! I'm going to try to write some code to do echo cancellation using the array, hopefully it will make for much clearer sound.
Private companies have a long record of killing their employees and causing huge amounts of environmental damage, as long as they think it will be profitable and that they won't suffer awful repercussions.

http://www.msha.gov/stats/centurystats/mnmstats.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Labor_Wars

"all the bad PR and losses in revenue that brings" is insufficient.
Facebook’s fear of nipples is outdated
There's no mention of exploring Europa or Enceladus. I think sending probes there will have far more important consequences than sending orbiters to Uranus.
Have you read the spec on what it actually allows though? The fact that it can do USB 2.0 + USB 3.0/3.1 SS + AltMode + 100W Power (bi-directional) all at the same time is... impressive.
Musk's seemingly consistently-bad attitude will only be 'cool' for so long. I've seen many complaints from disillusioned employees, several reports of tantrums, and several reports from customers who've been fucked over.

If I was an investor, I'd very much like to know what his suppliers think of him and how much seller's power they have in that supply chain. As the company grows he may start to become a liability.
He's using the last of the definitions you linked to: "one that is generally unmanly." No homophobia anywhere to be seen.
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If Musk gets irritated by that, then he does have a problem... I mean. A problem.
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Competence is Overrated
That's painting with a fairly broad brush. A tiny minority party - UKIP - have made it their main objective. Only small factions within party in power - the Conservatives - have been vocally in favour of leaving the EU.

There's pockets of the people who seem to want to leave the EU, but I suspect that's more driven by xenophobia/racism than privacy legislation.
To onerous to post on Forbes, but it wasn't the "Devs" that blew the money.
Sounds strange. AFAIK USB shouldn't get fried without external power source. So the Chromebook was bad, not the cable?
Down votes? Did I misunderstand something? Just comment with reference that I'm wrong and I'm very happy.
Why bother building 'USB Killer' if simple paper clip would fry the motherboard?
I almost spit out my coffee laughing at this!
Council and Commission are textbook cases of what happens when power cannot be held accountable. They are a cesspool of murky establishment interests and rarely, if ever, act in the interests of EU citizens. Their structure is inherently tribal and ethnic-based, which should be seen as an abomination in 2016.

They are a relic of the pre-Parliament structure, when stuff got done with treaties and agreements, and should simply be dropped in favour of simple Parliamentary rule. The problem is that turkeys don't vote for Christmas, so national-government apparatchiks will never willingly renounce their power.

It's one of the many states of empasse the current EU structure finds itself stuck into, and it won't be solved by this or that state leaving.
No, they don't on average. This has been discussed many times on HN. Apps like this are outsourced to UK offices to keep budgets low. I routinely get offers and recruiter calls from the UK, I usually don't respond to them because I know they can't match US salaries because none of them ever have for the comparable US job.

Then there's moving to England, and the EU-related red tape. I love visiting the UK, but I'd never want to live there. And I'm a total anglophile.
I can see money. But how does it give you power or confidence independent of money ?
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