skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is Tesla's statement on the issue:

"On March 29 2011, Tesla filed a lawsuit to stop Top Gear’s continued rebroadcasts of an episode containing malicious falsehoods about the Tesla Roadster. Top Gear’s Executive Producer, Andy Wilman, has drafted a blog to present their side of the story. Like the episode itself, however, his proclamations do more to confound than enlighten.

Mr. Wilman admits that Top Gear wrote the script before filming the testing of the Roadsters. The script in question, concluding with the line "in the real world, it absolutely doesn’t work" was lying around on set while Top Gear was allegedly "testing" the Roadsters. It seems actual test results don’t matter when the verdict has already been given -- even if it means staging tests to meet those predetermined conclusions.

Now Mr. Wilman wants us to believe that when Top Gear concluded that the Roadster "doesn't work," it "had nothing to do with how the Tesla performed." Are we to take this seriously? According to Mr. Wilman, when Top Gear said the car "doesn't work," they "primarily" meant that it was too expensive. Surely they could have come to that conclusion without staging misleading scenes that made the car look like it didn’t work.

Mr. Wilman's other contentions are just as disingenuous. He states that they never said the Roadster "ran out of charge." If not, why were four men shown pushing it into the hangar?

Mr. Wilman states that "We never said that the Tesla was completely immobilized as a result of the motor overheating." If not, why is the Roadster depicted coming to a stop with the fabricated sound effect of a motor dying?

Mr. Wilman also objects to Tesla explaining our case, and the virtues of the Roadster. Top Gear has been re-broadcasting lies about the Roadster for years, yet are uncomfortable with Tesla helping journalists set the record straight about the Roadster’s revolutionary technology.

Mr. Wilman seems to want Top Gear to be judged neither by what it says, nor by what it does. Top Gear needs to provide its viewers, and Tesla, straightforward answers to these questions."

I hadn't heard that Tesla calculated that range, the direct quote from the show used the pronoun 'we' and I thought part of the suit was because the 55 mile range statement from top gear defamed Tesla and made them look as if they were lying about the range.
I think it's a bit of backlash against what some see as using HN to advertise a website. Nevertheless, I for one, appreciate the link and the comment!
It would be great if there was a separate tab or feed for Show/Ask HN - that way people actually building stuff and looking for feedback would not see their posts disappear into the void...like this one is about to!
iBurn unlikely to be available for Burning Man
The problem is the law of leaky abstractions:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...

I agree with you on most counts, but when you traverse your 2d array one way versus the other and are left scratching your head as to why one of them is slower, it's usually because something is going on in there that you don't know about, that the abstraction didn't make clear.

We need those low level programmers. We also need high level programmers to know a little about this stuff. However, we don't need everyone to be a low level programmer, and that's why the current state is an improvement over the past.
Parkour is not intentionally flashy for the mere sake of being flashy. However if the fastest way to go from point A to point B is to leap over an obstacle, a lot of people are going to be impressed with the leap regardless of why it was made.
The trouble with means testing is that you drain support for the program from the parts of the population with the most political clout. In other words, how long does SS last when rich people get nothing for what they put into it?
Worldwide Debt Crisis Unravels: Doomsday Scenario for the Markets
Looks like it: http://yfrog.com/kizp5xqj
China Gains On Google in Driverless Car Race With 177 Mile Road Trip
I work on Google Voice. I put my email address in my profile. Send me your info, and I'll do what I can.
Very common setup in side-sticked airplanes (compared to center-stick or yoke).
First ever documented case of a homosexual necrophiliac duck
No kidding. And it seems to be a very private beta. I'd love to write something for a Kindle, I'd run out and buy one in an instant if I could, but they've been dragging their heels for a very long time. Heck, I wouldn't even mind if the entire system changed every couple months, breaking API changes and all - something is better than nothing.
Extended stay hotels allows pets. I was able to find some month long deals on craigslist in my area (central nj) for about $1100

You might have to negotiate a monthly stay discount.
Navis of ASD who wrote the winning demo is ex-games industry: http://www.hugi.scene.org/online/hugi34/hugi%2034%20-%20demo...

Smash of Fairlight who wrote the 2nd placed demo is in the games industry (at Sony Europe IIRC): http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/about/
Settle down, Ayn Rand. Of course investors share some "blame." But unlike Alan Greenspan - who notoriously didn't think "fraud" should be regulated - most of us understand that gimmicky accounting tricks are misleading to even the most savvy investors.

It should be noted that pump & dump scams are nothing new. Likewise, they are not relegated to microcaps traded on Pink Sheets and OTC. After all, Enron operated in much the same manner - trumping up and falsifying their reporting while their Board and upper management took flight.

At the end of the day they are scams. Just because the SEC has been so gutted since Reagan that they can't possibly catch these people every time they do shady things doesn't mean they aren't defrauding investors. Is Groupon doing this? Nobody can say for certain, but they have given reason to speculate...

Furthermore, Mr. "Blame the Investors", what about the ratings agencies? LEH and BSC had AAA ratings up til the day they were insolvent. How does an investor do their "due diligence" when trusted sources like these are compromised by "pay to play" schemes themselves?

It's worth discussing. Isn't it?
I don't know when they are looking at launching, but if you aren't aware:

> [StartupBus founder] Bizannes has now turned his attention to Startup House, which is tipped to become one of the largest co-working spaces in Silicon Valley.

> According to Bizannes, the Startup House will be “like [start-up funding firm] Y Combinator and American Idol in a blender”.

> “It’s a 36,000-square-foot space in the heart of the start-up district of San Francisco’s SoMa [district] that is to be transformed into a hub for technology entrepreneurs encompassing a co-working space, cafe and start-up house – a hostel for entrepreneurs where they will live, breath and eat start-ups for the duration of their stay,” Bizannes has said.

http://www.startupsmart.com.au/growth/young-entrepreneurs/20...

Though the possibility of getting voted off the island wouldn't necessarily offer to you the security you might be looking for.
"Innovated in China" to replace "Made in China"
Innovation Chinese Style: Thriving on Uncertainty
>And San Francisco applies its city payroll tax to income from self-employment. [1]

>[1] http://taxes.about.com/od/income/a/Self-Employment-Income.ht...
It's only fair that you protect your sources. As a law enforcement agent, would you be comfortable if you recklessly exposed your sources to harm? If, for no other reason, you protect your informants so they continue to inform you.
> 2. This is a terrible, terrible idea. If you've got a smartphone, you'd just shop online. Maybe while you're riding the train.

Well not really. The billboards serve as advertisements, that you just happent to also be able to shop from.
The first design is much better in terms of usability and clarity. The header immediately catches my attention and brings me into a sentence that describes your service. The second design just directs me to put in my email, why should I? What is the value proposition, I don't even know what this thing does. The first design uses white space and contrast very well, exposing the call to action button. It also contains a mobile phone picture running the app to give the visitor a preview of what the device would look like on their phone. It's like the 'test drive effect' car dealerships have when they let you try out the car; there is less mystery to what you are getting.

The second design did make some good changes, particularly larger pictures of food, however it comes off as too design heavy and lacking clarity in several areas.

Overall I feel there is more clarity with what you want me to do in the first design.

Edit: You have to view the work as a whole when comparing the designs side by side. There were several important parts of Mike's design that were cut out to fit the blog post that actually bring a ton more clarity.
Wendy Seltzer: Internet Providers Will Now Be Copyright Cops
I agree. This new design is undoubtedly stylish, but it also submerges the entire app in a kind of style-over-substance magazine look, and worse, a look that is even now getting a bit tired.

As a user I quickly get suspicious when there is a lot of style. I quickly pick up the difference between the veneer and the inner wood, so to speak, and as a user, the first thing I look for, perhaps subconsciously, is the way through the veneer. I need to use buttons and fields and read the important stuff, all the way trying to ignore the style -- the baroque embellishments, the clever icons, the careful colour balance -- which is functionally superfluous.

The main problem with style is that it obscures and dimishes the value of information. Good UI design is functional and elegant and avoids stylistic embellishments. The old design was simple and to the point. The new design is very busy and unsimple. It reminds me of the kind of excessively flowery, explosive embellishments typical of indie festival poster designs that was in vogue the last 2-3 years, but has been going out of fashion, like this one: http://bit.ly/nzJaR3. Another problem with style is that it's easy to seem derivative and as though you are trying too hard. Nobody could fault the simple, apparently genuinely sincere ambitions of your old design. Now your design is ambitious in a kind of pompus way, and easier to shoot down.

Yet another problem with style is that it can seem to imply a level of information quality. It's difficult to articulate, but look at the third section of your article, the way restaurants are presented. Instead of the old, close-to-the-database look, we now have something out of a coffee table book. The level of polish seems to imply that the information itself has been carefully harvested, edited, quality-checked and polished. But in your case (I'm presuming), some entries are probably more rougher than others, and the surface polish is not representative of the actual content.

Just my few humble cents.
Hmm, the patent wars and debates remind me that certain technologies need not patents but sharing.

Bitcoin is in mind. Suppose if Satoshi patent his non-obvious invention and try to earn money off of it in patent fees. He would need to sue people and unmask his identity. That would impede the growth and usefulness of bitcoin, no many how non-obvious bitcoin is and in spite of the fact that it was not simultaneously invented by anybody else. If we assumed Satoshi is a greedy self-interested individual, he would have realized that patents do not help him become wealthy.

The fatal assumption of the patent system today is that patents are the unnecessary incentives or the correct incentives for the vast majority of inventions, if not for all the cases of inventions.

We are used to the idea of discrete innovation and invention of technologies, but perhaps technological progress is more like a stream rather than a series of isolated incidents. By placing a patent in front of a stream, we built a dam that slow down the flow of progress.
No, you still don't understand me. Or, you want people to be endangered for the sake of... what, running out of electricity a few miles further down the road?

They didn't mislead the viewer about anything. Did you watch the show? They were very clear about how many miles were left. I fail to see what your problem is, beyond, "they did not promote the things I like, and they focused on issues which I want to ignore."

Edit: upon re-reading what you wrote, it's clear to me that you really don't understand what I'm saying. This isn't about freedom to do whatever they want to prove some point. This is about how a television show is made. Television is produced, deal with it.
Well, user interface is full of short-cuts, which makes sense considering pilot would not have time to flip through pages to execute a command.

The seats look awfully uncomfortable, though.
I'm not sure why everyone keeps saying that Honeycomb tablets aren't there yet. Where are they supposed to be? I've owned a Xoom WiFi for a while now and it has quickly replaced my laptop as my "just surfing the net" tool. I still switch to type out e-mails, but my Xoom is always what I reach for when I'm sitting on the sofa and want to google something real quick.
I think the jury is still out on netflix. They are king of the hill today, but there's lots of companies with deep pockets that want to change that.
I had no idea there was a word for that. I briefly did gymnastics when I was real young and I think Parkour is amazing. I also love the visual metaphor of navigating the urban landscape like this -- men in suits with briefcases doing this -- and the comparisons. Very spot on in my opinion. I would only add that you clearly need to be in good shape to do this and I think the same applies to business or any other "creative" endeavor (defining "creative" as "something you make up as you go). You can overcome a lot if you are starting out from a basic level of strength, flexibility, know-how and so on. But some people will need to do a lot just to get to that starting place.
Please have my upvote (like you need one). I will definitely include "the shock doctrine" into my "To read" list.

I wonder if there's an opportunity for "open source" credit ratings. Numbers like GDP, trade deficit or proficit, exchange rates, national debt etc are available and someone could creates a method that software or website could use to calculate all that into credit rating.
They simply declare them worth zero for the year, and pay nothing. They still own the copyright. And if 5 years down the line, they realize someone else is making a profit of it, they declare a reasonable value at the end of that year, pay the tax, and collect their fees (through court or otherwise).
So, anybody set up the Auto-Reload yet ;-)?
> Issuing currency is identically equal to inflation

That simply isn't true, not even close to true.
Why did Japan Surrender?
Interesting, thanks for the link.

I guess this is similar to what non-programmers see when looking at source code: An impenetrable mess of gobbledygook where it would require months or years of dedicated effort to figure out what the different commands actually do.
Well, the candy sold at Japanese groceries in the US is no different from what's available in Japan (it's all imported from there, after all).

His service would only make sense for you if you're not within driving distance of such a store yourself.
You can find the low-hanging of the Japanese pop snacks (Pocky, Yan-yan, Koala's March) at any Asian market in a top 100 major US city; but you won't find, for example, limited edition Soda flavored Kit Kats or Meiji Wintertime Fuwafuwa chocolate or anything crazy cool like that.

That's where a service like this would shine, I reckon.
https://www.facecash.com
Of the two, I think Minecraft is more accessible, but both of them have their charm. Minecraft, I think, is the better sandbox, because you have more exact control over everything that goes on.

But I love DF, too, in spite of the incredibly steep learning curve. It has, indirectly, caused me to learn about the soil triangle, material densities, farming, geology, bee keeping, soap making and quite a few other strange things. I think I've posted on that before, but there are a lot of interesting things in that game.

It's weird seeing yourself go from wondering what on earth you're doing to getting to the point where you barely have to think about designating all the goblinite for melting or smelting limonite into iron or setting up an auto-locking magma death chamber with an easy reset switch.
this is an interesting concept. Retweet people, who added money to the card, with an advertisement or announcement of their choice. Only issue I see is people loading the card and just spending it on themselves.

Maybe they have to tweet you the advertisement, and then you can retweet, so you get more exposure in their twitter stream as well.
First off, I wouldn't even click the link because it's a *.in link. Sorry - you aren't going to get taken seriously by me with a .in domain name. I lump .in with .ru, .cn, etc in terms of "Is this a domain I would use? No way - I don't trust them." Whether you agree with my opinion or not, it's a scenario you'll encounter.
I love my Unicomp. I have a cheap membrane keyboard though, for when the wife is trying to sleep.
Correct. Our iOS app is at its core a vector for generating and installing such profiles -- but with some niceties so you don't have to enter your credentials multiple times, etc.
The problem is that credibility is somehow bestowed upon the ramblings of 2nd rate tech pundits, they articulate baseless hypotheses on subjects they know very little about (patents in this case) yet they are taken seriously by many readers.

Experts on the other hand aren't getting the attention they should and negative PR thrives in this environment.
I like how they say they haven't even disclosed the worst of the flaws, because they want the company to have a chance to fix this stuff.

And how the company is trying to tell us that these flaws can only be exploited in the lab. I can just imagine the security bulletins banning rubber mallets from the facility.
"It becomes quite frightening when a country's debt level is reaching or surpassing its GDP."

This sentence and the accompanying graph told me as much as I needed to know about the author. Debt is total and GDP is annual. If having a debt greater than your GDP is an intrinsic problem, imagine how much worse off we'd be if the earth went around the sun twice as fast. (And yes, I realize that would be a problem for other reasons.)
Are there candies sold only in Japan that I can't find here?

Last time I visited Tokyo I couldn't really see a difference (then again, I'm not exactly a candy coinesseur).
Actually that is not the assumption at all. The assumption in both the space shuttle and most other (fixed-wing) aircraft is that the pilot is right handed. However, what you don't expect is that actually most of the really fiddly work happens with the right hand, changing settings, pressing buttons, tuning radio's and writing down notes. The left hand has to be taught to fly but thats actually less demanding that teaching the left hand to do that other stuff. This is even true of aircraft which have yokes rather than side-sticks, as the throttles are controlled by the right hand and during the take-off and landing the right hand is stationed on the throttles.

Interestingly for a helicopter this pattern is reversed, the control inputs required to control a helicopter are so much more demanding that the pilot sits on the right hand side so that he uses his right hand for the primary control and has to either make do with his left or temporarily switch hands to do the other stuff described above.
A lot of people seem to have said/thought this whenever this particular business comes up. What about a "premium" level for a higher price that allows for a better profit -- show the customer a list and allow them to pick two or three things from that list? It's a bit more hassle, but that's what the customer is paying for.
@Socialize just loaded $100 on the card: http://twitter.com/#!/Socialize/status/100347389134643200

Here's the conf: http://drod.io/2R3o0I2a3R3n3S2L1J2N
My wife works at a Starbucks with a drive-thru and says that the chain reaction frequently persists until the line is emptied; the longest such chain was around twenty cars.
I actually don't think that's a fair summary. The original article pointed out at least two other problems:

- the size of the commit made it difficult to review it for potential errors, and
- the feature, once committed, was not fully exercised, or as the article puts it, completely followed-through.
Potentially abusive use shown in these tweets.

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10034749918897766...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10034674284272844...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10034195955777536...

Edit: Any ideas?

Edit: It just happened again...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10035604975584460...

Edit: More...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10036286052539596...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10036486417377689...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10036536246547660...
It wasn't FUD for me. I bought a computer for my wife, with no special whiz-bangs on it; she does quickbooks, and IE, and that's about it.

It had OEM Vista on it. It was the least stable windows box I've ever had to manage, and that's been a few. It wasn't particularly quick, but that wasn't a huge issue for me since it was a bare bones box, and I didn't expect it to be, but keeping it going for a whole week was difficult.
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The article says that certain other techniques weren't demonstrated because they were "too sensitive to show to the Defcon audience before giving Kaba a chance to fix the problems." What is worse than a whack on the top opening it?
Only problem with the LD_PRELOAD method is that it doesn't work for all (many) apps. I believe one case it breaks for is non blocking connect()s, not sure if there are others. Although the iptables setup is a lot more complicated it pretty much works for everything.
I think the use of eval is thought of as cheating. Also I seem to remember writing to files is also cheating?
You deserve upvotes (and I upvoted you) but someone just nabbed that entire $100 off the card within a few moments of it being there...
It looks like someone has figured out how to empty the card, in 2 minutes: https://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/1003474991889776...
(I am one of the authors of Crane)
The thing that happened with Crane is that it grew a lot of Twitter-specific cruft and separating that from the generally-useful bits is a serious undertaking -- and I'm not sure how much useful stuff would be left once we cut the twittery bits out. Now and then I chat with the Sqoop folks about how we can merge the two but that path isn't clear either.. so it's in a bit of a limbo, as far as being open-sourced. Sorry about that.
Actually I was reading an article (I can't find it now) about that Qantas A380 engine explosion, and it said that this was a genuine problem in that situation. Once the engine blew up, there were dozens and dozens of different errors popping up, and the first thing the pilots had to do was to page through all the error codes and prioritize them to figure out what the real problems were.

In many ways, better to have a single giant control panel which lights up a different light for each error that can occur.
Used iBurn last year, super useful. Sad. But relatedly, this site http://burnermap.com is pretty awesome; it lets you figure out what camp your friends are staying at on the playa. (They should have a lot of the camp geodata that iBurn needs, too, there's like 10K Burners who've FB connected.)

Separately, for finding/offering rides to Burning Man, a few of us have been working on http://burningmanrides.com, so if you've got feedback, let me know! email in profile.