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You've got think about all of the specifics though...

Here's apache tuned to serve static files of 50kb in length, with 20 requests per client, 500 uniques per hour...

vs.

Here's apache tuned to serve a wordpress blog that gets 500 uniques per hour and each client makes 50 requests (average time on site is 5 minutes)...

and then...

apache serving wordpress on a VPS vs apache serving wordpress on a single core vs apache serving wordpress on a quad-core..

and oh-wait... if we're talking php then let's consider prefork/FastCGI/yada yada yada

The "problem" (or as I prefer to look at it: feature) with Apache, is that it's been around for so long, that it can accommodate all of the above specific issues.
It never ceases to amaze me what information we can glean about things so far away from us.

Zach Berta in the article is my friend, so it's neat to see this article here on HN. :-) When the article was accepted for publication we all watched Waterworld and he gave a high level overview of the research to me (as a non-astrophysicist).

How I understood it is: When the orbiting planet crosses between its star and us, it blocks some of the light, and the decrease in brightness can be used to calculate the diameter of the planet. In addition, the planet orbiting the star makes it wobble a bit, and from that you can calculate its mass. These two things limit the possibilities of the planet's composition, and a watergiant is the most likely scenario. In the papers on the Arxiv[1], it looks like there's finer grained observations than those, though, so maybe that was just what caused them to give it a closer look.

[1] http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+AND+berta+gj1214b/0/1/0/all...
I had a very, very similar idea (but with more facebook integration) less than two weeks ago. I'm glad it's already built. Now we just need some girls to join...
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Could this really not be prevented by a $10 microcontroller and a big-ass relay to just disconnect the battery if it reaches a certain discharge state?

Not necessarily. This might help, but the battery will also have self-discharge, meaning that it can lose charge without being connected to any load at all. If you get the charge down low enough, and then wait long enough, then even a full disconnect from the system won't help.
Whether or not internet access really is a human right isn’t really all that important. Human rights can be and are frequently limited or taken away. Prisoner have no freedom of movement, for example.

When two human rights conflict, one or the other has to give. That’s just normal and exactly what judges are there for to decide.

What we are talking about here is someone who used to be in jail. That is a much more severe limitation of his human rights than merely no being allowed to access the internet. People who are prosecuted end up in jail because they might flee, but also because they might otherwise be able to manipulate or destroy evidence.

That is in no way automatically a violation of human rights, at least not on balance. You would have to know how exactly the judge justified the decision.
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OS X ring notifier for iPhone?
How are your conversions?

I'm looking at implementing this for a new site...
It requires Java so I still can't use it from my phone (not that I would expect to be able to show anything outside my web browser anyways).
The entire "attention economy" of the Internet is the problem, and this is another symptom.
"The article indicates that a 100 foot cord connected to a standard outlet does not provide enough power to prevent a Tesla car from discharging..."

Pretty sure they say that to make sure people don't just use any old cord. A 24 AWG cord with 66% voltage drop as the low end would change your cost analysis radically.
Did you try measuring the power at the wall end of the cord while the heater was running? Most space heaters aren't very smart, and it wouldn't surprise me if the draw varied wildly depending on the power supply and how warmed up the heater is (I know mine will go between 1 and 1.5kW plugged straight into the wall as it warms up).

I'd be surprised if a 100-foot extension always consumed 850 watts.
Reminds me of this from 2011 http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/motorola-atrix-4g-hd-mult....

Which I think is awesome.
The funny thing is, kids already do this without special glasses...
I'm pretty sure they have been open about this. At least I remember reading this somewhere on their website. I think it was part of their 'product testing' program or something, where you would allow Tesla to track everything to gather data for their purposes to make the car better.
Worked impressively with IE 9 in my Windows phone. I usually am used to new services not working with Win phone browser. That was a nice surprise.
I don't understand why you're so determined to hide my friends. I like my friends. I might conceivably want to date some of them, and in any case, I'd like to show them my profile for con-crit. Is there a way to turn the "feature" off?
I know, but for all intents and purposes OAuth ended up being a super set of OpenID.

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Whatever happened to good old parking brakes? Sometimes, low-tech is better.
Their authentication API randomly fails sometime. Try the alternative method.
"... One Google employee said the glasses would tap into a number of Google software products that are currently available and in use today, but will display the information in an augmented reality view ..."

wonder how many Steve Mann patents they are using? ~ http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann/
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This is just such a hilariously classic geek forum entry I couldn't resist! Has it all: mystery, hope, humor, wonder, passion, aspiration, disappointment...
Since Greece accepted the new bailout they will have to cut government employment, and employee salaries. And since a large number of Greeks are government employees, the result will be less spending. Less spending leads to a weaker economy.

If they choose to o back to their old currency, the drachma, their currency would be weak. A weak currency would lead to less spending, which leads to a weaker economy.

It's almost laughable, either way they would be, well you know. I feel sorry for the politicians right now.
Unlike a laptop, the Tesla was never designed to be run while plugged in.

Which is actually an amusing thought. Perhaps they could ship them with really long extension chords, just enough for a city-commute...
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I don't think you have been that clear, but I don't want to see this discussion turn personal. I have nothing against you, and your opinion is just as valid as my own.

On the question of if the internet is a human right, I think it's quite obvious the answer is no. It has never been viewed as one in the past as far as I know, I've yet to see a judge rule that to be the case.

A better question is, should it be? I'd like to see that happen, though I think it will take time to get there.
The male/female ratio on major dating sites is much closer to 50/50 than the message ratio would have you believe. The fact that men send the vast majority of the messages is the inevitable result of a positive feedback loop stemming from men being slightly more aggressive in the dating arena.

For the "unfortunate" women who tragically receive too many messages, just implement something like LinkedIn's brilliant "InMail" system. Make it cost money to send a premium message. Now these women can focus on premium messages if they don't have time for the spammers. Even better, let the women choose how much it costs to send them a message. There, real-life dating boiled down to its essence.
yes, i know (and also browser fingerprinting if they really wanted to), but do they do that? as far as i know, they do not (likely for various reasons - bad press, confusion of people behind NATs, etc).

[i mean, more exactly, that i have heard nothing about them updating personal information with data from searches when not logged in; i am not talking aggregate info like typical searches from geoip locations]
If you have printf, then "printf("long string")" where the string might be modified should give a good bound, say Omega(200^S). If you don't have it, what is the program allowed to do? Only return from main, without checking arguments? Then you have as many extensionally distinct programs as integers.
Kind of crazy that for the price of just a new battery, you could get a lower class Audi or BMW. Really put the overall "electric" technology in perspective for me.
I wonder when it will be "Right Now" (tied also to Google's policy of "real names" on G+ maybe).
Moon station: Undisturbed astronomical observation (minimize earth's interference, take advantage of moon's almost non existent atmosphere)? A robotic station on the other side of the moon with a transmission station on our side?
Not sure why you got downvoted, but I agree. I've been trying out each new upgrade of Ubuntu for about 6 years now. They've come a LONG way. Say what you want about Ubuntu but it has improved ten fold since the beginning.

I apologize in advanced for my negative, probably incorrect, generalized opinions about linux and perticularly Ubuntu but I just can't help but feel this way.

After all these years of messing with linux, I think I finally understand what linux is all about. Behind the sugar coated philanthropic message of "free software (with bad UIs) for the world" to give the open source community a feeling of vision and humane pride, it's really about giving people the freedom to dick around with their computers. That's it. That's all. It's an OS for people who like to dick around and try new things and feel like they've customized their own machine and their own experience. Same as the custom PC crowd (me). That's just the way we are.

As soon as Canonical tried to actually fulfill linux's goal of bringing Ubuntu to the masses the older linux community got upset. I too got upset. Where the hell where my options?! Almost as if to say, "how dare you design for those heathens and not us hard core tweakers". Now it's getting apparent that Mark Shuttleworth has Steve Jobs envy but the guy is trying to take linux in the right direction. Easy to use, easy to maintain, and well designed. Unfortunately the majority of open source software (software without a company or sponsor that oversees developement) does NOT have this same goal. For them it's about being free and wild and raw and "who cares about the shitty UI, just use commands" So what we're going to end up with is a well designed OS with atrocious software. Thus an experience with a split personality.

Also, in the world of linux, success is not measured by "market share", it's measured by "ability to dick around with the code" aka freedom. Installing what you want, using it how you want, whenever and however you want. Which is the exact opposite of what 95% of what consumers want, for things to just "work". So I think Ubuntu on phones is going to be really awesome for people like me who like to just mess around and try out new things, but I honestly don't see it going anywhere. 10 years from now Ubuntu on the phone is going to be like Ubuntu on the desktop: It's just there and you know, maybe 1 or 2 people, that actually use it.

That's my $0.02. Sorry for being an ass but as an average person that's the vibe I'm getting from Ubuntu and Linux (Gos, Debian, Mint) in general.
Boiling water doesn't give you electricity. A temperature gradient gives you electricity. Having a hot, steamy planet won't help you if the air is just as hot as the water.
no you still missing his point. people were convinced to created their profile because other users were already in the network. your idea does not solve chicken-egg problem. I will not sign up for profile or download your software UNLESS you have a database of couple thousands men/women to go through. Unless you have a 25,000 single friends that you can eblast and beg to fill out the form or pay each a dollar for their time, you will fail. it wont matter whether it is profile registration or software download the value is in network.
What? The article is saying that Tesla isn't paying for it.
The Not Now button is definitely presented as a secondary action, though, which I think could definitely confuse people into thinking credit card information is required, or that something will be missing if they don't enter their information.

In any case, it seems like a great way to end up with a bunch of users who aren't really aware of or interested in your product, and who signed up merely because you told them to.
Make sure you don't infringe on any IP's or violate any non-competes. =)
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i find this very hard to believe. it seems obvious to me that smartphones and tablets have completely filled the niche invented by the HUD glasses of yesteryear's science fiction. they will never be popular, because they are too invasive. people like to be able to put the internet in their pocket and take it out again when they need it.

i wouldn't be surprised if google has a bunch of engineers working on the technology that could be used in HUD glasses, but i would be very, very surprised to see anything ever come to market. google will not enter the hardware market with such a risky product.
The Internet is part of the equation. It makes it much easier to get away with this sort of behavior, and there are virtually no consequences. You're right: trolling still happens outside of the Internet, but we have more social norms in place to deal with it in real life. If there was a way to have more consequences to what people said online, then we might see more civility.

But, we're human, and we can't have nice things.
We'd be far better off if government weren't subsidizing the automobile at all. Subsidizing mass transit to ameliorate the effects of subsidizing the automobile makes no sense.

I don't think it needs to promote walking either. Most people are perfectly capable of understanding their own situations if we don't hide the costs and if they are allowed to learn from their own mistakes.

It would be proper to tax things that have negative effects that aren't paid for, such as pollution.
i thought the same of hands free cell phones... and I found people all day long with headphones, sometimes listening music, sometimes just in case the phione rings.

On a second thought. Some people already use glasses all day long. It would be great for most of them to have a little display with the current time, mail status, incoming calls, and along... At least, for me sounds nice.
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Sure reads like a competitor isn't too pleased with their model s plans.
Does anyone know if there is a mirror of namebase.org up somewhere?
What games? Most of them tend to get difficulty wrong: "this guy requires 3 headshots instead of 1!" It's better when the difficulty shows itself as more enemies, or stronger enemies, etc.
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> developers are strongly encouraged to spend 20% of their time
> working on whatever they want, as long as it's not their main
> project.

Did the 20%-whatever-you-want benefit survive the "more wood behind
fewer arrows" policy?
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The real solution to this problem would be for tesla to setup "anti-brick" charging stations, install google's self-drive system on their cars, and program them to drive themselves to the nearest station and charge themselves if there is a risk of bricking ;P
A lot of people have picked at the "it won't charge through a 100-foot extension cord" statement. While I have no idea if this particular statement is true or not, it certainly wouldn't be unexpected behavior for a power management system.

Modern charging and power conversion systems are designed to operate under specific use cases. When the Tesla charger first sees line voltage, it likely does some quick testing to see what kind of supply it's hooked up to, for example by trying to take 15 Amps and monitoring the line voltage. If the voltage sags too much, then it might back off to 12 Amps; after that, it probably just shuts off. The reason is that all of the AC/DC conversion circuitry is designed to operate with maximum efficiency at a certain input power; if the system can't deliver that power, then it's just going to shut down and assume that there's something wrong with the line.

Note, this does not mean that the battery requires 1kW continuous power to stay charged. In plugged mode, the car will switch the charger on and off every few minutes (if it's at all like a laptop or phone) and draw down the battery ever so slightly in between. This is the most efficient way to operate, and is much better for the battery than constantly stuffing it with a trickle of current.

If you want to see this in action on a consumer electronics scale, try plugging your iPad into the USB extension port on an iMac keyboard -- it will kindly let you know that it's not charging, and it will happily sit there and run its battery down to the cut-off point while plugged in.
Theoretically it doesn't NEED a backlight, and it only needs to display on the (presumably) LED display.

Something along the lines of http://croakies.com/ might be reasonable.

With no wires, it's going to be a battery that also has glass on the front. What IS the feasible distance for induction? Even the copin displays require 5v.
On the other hand, someone has to make a start. We might see more such products, even if it is only moderately successful.
This is based on a wrong premise, that 900 watts is needed to keep the thing from losing charge, derived from vague anecdotal evidence and not supported in any way by technical fundamentals. If it was true, the 85 kwhr battery pack would last less than 3 days when the car was unplugged.

The actual number is probably more than an order of magnitude smaller.
I apologise. I was explaining that I did not like being misrepresented by others. I would have been less defensive to a request to clarify my posts.

As for it being a human right from precedent, it's already recognised in some European countries (some of it even includes minimal Internet transfer rates) and discussed at UN. Unfortunately for UN, I believe certain influences do not want it to happen, eg USA based on ACTA's proposal that had included demands for three strikes among other Internet access restrictions.

There's a lot of information from this article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_access
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access

No hard feelings, mate!
StackOverflow vs the legacy of Expertsexchange is a great example of this.

Those guys understood the user well and built a great user experience around what had previously been lacklustre at best.
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In any case, it seems like a great way to end up with a bunch of users who aren't really aware of or interested in your product, and who signed up merely because you told them to.

Eh, I really don't believe anyone would enter their info because the Not Now button isn't clear enough. I do think they'll get a lot of people backing out and deciding not to go through with making an account for that reason though, and if the A/B testing reveals anything it will be that.
At the end of the day, it's whatever works best for you. I've been using tmux for a year and a half and it's just as important to my workflow as vim. I've had people complain to me that I'm too fast with vim + tmux (either people I'm pairing with, giving a workshop to, or just demoing some code). It works for me. Vim looks great for me. I'm able to think less about what program I'm working in and more about how I get things done faster and with less context-switching.

If you're using GVim or MacVim or some other GUI and it works, wonderful! If you're content with the speed that you're able to code, that's awesome. That said, back when I was using TextMate and Terminal, I thought I was really fast; and I'm probably 30-40% faster in vim than I ever was (or could be) in TextMate.

Clipboard usage is a bit odd; that said, how often do you spend using the clipboard every day? If the time spent mucking with clipboard is less than the time you save doing everything else... then you have your answer as to whether switching will be worth it to you. It absolutely, positively, with out a shred of doubt, is worth it to me.
Really? It reads to me like if the battery of a Tesla fully drains, you need to pay $40K to replace it.
If you leave a gasoline engine car unattended for a while, it becomes a brick, too -- you need to flush the fuel, replace the seals, etc. True, it takes more than 11 weeks, and you can usually put the transmission in neutral to tow it.

This is a big problem, though. If anyone has a spare Tesla and would like someone to take care of it, I'd be happy to keep your car garaged and energized, and will only drive it 200 miles a week. :)
does the language allow something like the following?:

yes, exactly. The problem is you see stuff like this:

var obj = new SomeType();
obj = GetSomeType();

Basically creating 2 objects, the first of which is immediately garbage since it no longer has any roots. Anyone who understands pointers/references and memory allocation should understand that "new" is actually creating a new live object on the heap, rather than just initializing a pointer to null (or a stack-based value type to zero).

These days C# is actually a decent language to code in, it has a nice functional aspect to it with linq/lambdas, and you can still go down to C style pointers/"unsafe" code if necessary (with lots of restrictions of course). It's really the Microsoft dependency that kills it more than anything else.
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So Google is an engineer's dream and everyone is so nice and there are huge incentives and all that, ok... but if that works so well, why have they failed to come out with another product that is unquestionably as successful/profitable as their advertising platform has been? (the core of which they didn't invent, they stole it from Overture)

Just saying, if you take Google and you remove that particular aspect of their business, there would be no business. So like, 90% of the engineers' efforts account for what, like 5% of the profits? Hardly an approach worth emulating unless your startup happens to have a golden egg laying goose like Google.
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That's understandable. There was a bail and thus, the charged person has limited freedom again. However, by attempting to order someone with an Internet proficiency to avoid the Internet is impossible due to electronics, wirless, government services, postal, etc. Some people even live off the Internet.

You can enforce restriction of freedom of movement. However, as I said, it's too impractical to restrict Internet access and would only serve to restrict honest people.

The greater concern is that other people to see the judge as incompetent since it's an unenforceable order. It then raises questions on whether the judge can understand the technical issues with the trial, whether Dotcom will get a fair trial.