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Well, it is the speeding part that is probably the issue.

It is true that if you want to drive to Mountain View at 85mph you probably can't do two round trips, You could certainly still do one round-trip without thinking about it, especially if you charged in range mode before heading down there. Actually from your figure of 200mi range, maybe you didn't know about charging in range mode? That gives you about 240mi range (maybe a little less with an older battery).

The issue about driving speed is just that, as with any car, wind resistance applies dramatically more force to your car as speed increases. If you are driving 60 (which is at or above the speed limit on 101 and 280), it is not bad since you are about at the efficiency the car's published numbers are based on, but if you are driving 70-75 range is very much decreased.

Here is a range vs. speed graph for the Roadster:

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1019610_2009-tesla-roads...

(There are more-detailed charts on the internet if you search for them). Notice that if you are driving 55, you get about 70 more miles of range than if driving 75!

On the other hand if you want to drive 45 and feel like a total ass then the car will go really far!

So this is definitely one thing that will improve as electric cars and infrastructure get better: less dependency on speed or weather conditions (driving through heavy rain will also decrease range by quite a bit). In a Model S with the supercharger network already in place, you could probably drive from SF to LA like a bat out of hell and not worry about it, which is cool.

But, I am just saying, I drive round-trip to the south bay all the time and do not think twice about it. That is the kind of range that is trivial for the Roadster. Unless you commute at 90mph and aren't using range mode and/or didn't charge the car all the way up.
That is extremely nice and useful site. I would love to see the other sections and encourage you to continue work on it.
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Bootcamp sells a lot of Macintoshes.
P.S. My car has about 18k miles on it, so I don't think I have a particularly youthful battery at this time!
Right now, no (it's running a very recent version). We plan to keep it updated with stable releases though. Thanks!
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What kind of sold off the sarcasm for me was this sentence: " Once you launch, then millions of people will know about you, including competitors,"
yea, right, they all wait in line, just one techcrunch article / hacker news front page and the millions will flow.
So being that obviously sarcastic, if someone reads it and doesn't get the sarcasm and follows the "suggestions", then, well, I guess, no harm done and they just deserve it.
This is an excellent anecdote and one that others should pay attention to, regardless of the technology.

Developers often have confirmation bias for their choices—it's a common human fault. We do it for purchases, life decisions, and software decisions alike. But it's important to watch out for it and be aware when you might be in the thick of your own bias.

A friend of mine (let's call him "me") used Adobe Flex for a relatively large computationally-expensive project, and advocated for it because of many small details and relatively quick learning curve, and ease of UI prototyping. After we got entrenched, we started running into many shortcomings which I (er, my friend) should have realized early on were due to the nature of the platform itself, but I continued to defend Flex because it was my decision and I had put so much time into making it work.

In the end, we realized it wasn't the right fit for this specific job and moved to a more capable platform with fewer issues (aka, "any other platform than Flex").

Before making big decisions, I try to remember that one mistake, and get out of my own way first to look at it from an outside perspective. I try to differentiate when I'm making decisions based on fact, or if I'm just trying to justify patching holes in the titanic. This "looking at the world through [insert technology]-colored glasses" idea is spot on, and everyone—not just those using or debating MongoDB—should be aware of.
PR firms get paid a lot to splatter the net with those sorts of reviews of books that aren't even for sale yet.
Exacly! Please let us by 'x number screens for $'. Subscription is hardly required for something like this. (Ps please add youtube/vimeo video instead of flash video, I'm on iOS and would love to see it).
Nice to see computer professionals practice what they preach, both in terms of writing systems that don't store plaintext passwords and using passwords that don't suck.'

</sarcasm>
100k IEEE site Plain-Text Passwords found on Public FTP
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It seems often now when I press Unsubscribe in an email that I am sick of receiving, I get prompted to follow/like on Facebook. How does this make any sense, and wouldn't it be encouraging the wrong behavior? I just went out of my way to never see any email from you ever again--why would I want to follow/like you?
In Russia we had so-called Dendy[1] (hardware clone of Famicom made in Zelenograd) which had that exact vertical slot. Guess what, we used to blow into our cartridges too when they didn't work.

[1] Actually, history of game consoles in Russia in early 1990s is quite curious. Nintendo themselves weren't interested in our market, so Russian-Chinese manufacturers promoted their clone quite freely. I believe it was even better than original famicom, since original controllers were detachable and easily replaced and also it came with a lightgun. Cartridges were cheap and abundant, about $2-4 each. Also there was a lot of 10-in-1 (100-in-1 even) catridges. After SEGA released their mega drive 2 console in Russia, dendy business started to decline. Look at this pic: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Dendy%27s... Ridiculous bottom-left cartridge with the picture of Morpheus from the Matrix and hilariously named FBI was clearly released in 1999 or later. Anyways, all our favorites were the same with the rest of the world: mario, contra, battle city (this one was a real hit! everyone had it). Ah, sweet times.
Hey man, the supreme court made the best choice they could when they chose bush.
This is horrible advice...

A startup will for the most part only be successful if...

1) You work 20 hours a day 7 days a week (give or take - the less sleep the better)

2) Release a product immediately (who cares if you end up pissing off early adopters - they'll see it through and be your biggest champions)

3) Ask people if they will pay for your imaginary product (if they tell you it looks great - its a guarantee they'll go right home and sign up for the monthly plan)
I third this. Also teaches the benefits of persistence and dedication.
We used responsive design for the library discovery interface we produce, our UX chap did a nice presentation about the process (and why we chose a responsive web app, rather than a native app): http://www.slideshare.net/Shuckle/retrofitting-adaptive-desi... http://www.slideshare.net/Shuckle/web-app-and-responsive-des...

Well received by customers and end users. We started bottom up, rather than top down, so decided what was important and hid or removed the rest.
I don't know if it's because I'm colorblind (red-green), but looking at this page gives me a headache... you might want to test it out with some other colorblind people.
It would be nice to have an explanation of what Keen.io does in the article. Actually, even after browsing your site I still don't have any idea what you guys do, besides collect data and visualize it. There also doesn't seem to be any indication of -how- you guys do visualization. It's hard for me to think about pricing for your service when I have no idea what you offer.
Bootstrapping (adj): a self-sustaining process that proceeds without external help.

Not bootstrapping: $5M in VC.

There is no "partially bootstrapped," you either are or aren't. Can somebody update the headline?
For the most part, rail travel is private industry in the US - that means it has to make a profit. Obviously if you make something very cheap or free you're going to have a lot more people willing to use it. It will also cease to exist as a private enterprise very quickly.

I don't want to make this solely a political point, but it's a hard sell to convince me that it's inherently good to incentivize mass transit in the first place, let alone that it should be nationalized by default and offered below cost or for free.
I am not a designer by trade, but I am routinely called by the friends/family niche to build stuff for them -- I love how amazed they are when I spend 2 hours putting together a WordPress site for them; they seem so blown away by my non-existent abilities
Not sure if this is true (and not sure if this counts as a big success), but from I've read [1], it appears that Android Inc was in stealth mode when it was acquired by Google in 2005. Would be great to hear more about the early history of Android Inc., if someone here has more insights.

[1] "Little was known about this company even within its own industry: in fact, all that was available in terms of description was it was 'it developed software for mobile phones.'", from http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobil...
It's also on the download page.

http://www.mongodb.org/downloads
Oh, yes; that would be awesome. It would be absolutely amazing if it would sync everything (including website credentials) between iOS and Mac also (I wasn't a MobileMe user, so I don't know if it synced data only between Macs or between all devices).

I've been struggling with a corrupt file system for the past couple days (some inodes are currpot, and anytime you want to access them, either through Finder or Terminal or Time Machine or even SuperDuper, the system crashes. Nasty, nasty bug) and there are basically two things that are keeping me from just erasing the whole fucked-up volume and install ML anew: I'm not sure if I mive ApplicationSupport/MobileSync folder to the new machine, it would still sync my iPhone and iPad, and that I can't export the entire keychain (I have to do it bits by bits, and most items are not exportable).
Please don't make comments like this. You haven't made any points about the post itself; you're just trying for a laugh. HN is not meant for that sort of thing; it's a slippery slope that leads to less intellectual discussion on the site.
That's a crazy idea...it just might work! I'll look into adding something like this quickly.
Because you might have some more pressing issues to fix than that -- it's not a good experience, but, unless you did something horrible (which newspapers often do, unfortunately), it's not that bad either. It is economy of time and attention, especially as there's always a risk that your "better" version won't be good enough anyway, and people like me will use the text extraction features of the browser anyway.

Edit: I don't mean to say that it's necessarily a bad idea to go responsive -- it's just that it's not a clear, universal win.
If this video gets the ball rolling in getting bb10 a chunk developer mindshare - and we are talking about it - then it's likely worth the cost.
Oddly enough, the first thing that comes to mind when I see the new `Outlook` is: "all text is actionable."

Everything on that Outlook screen seems to be clickable, with the possible exception of the logo (upper left) and copyright notice (bottom left).

It reminds me of the `acme`[0] editor a bit; not nearly as flexible, of course, because it is executing pre-programmed commands, not arbitrary shell commands.

I bring `acme` up for two reasons: (a) it gives you an interesting perspective on "text as actions" and (b) look at that menu system... no buttons, no distinguishing marker, the menu is just text! The buttons are just text!

The editor itself is fairly nice to work in; a big departure, yes. Intuitive? Kind of; it only becomes intuitive once you understand "mouse-chording", after that the UI makes plenty of sense, even when it's almost entirely "flat."

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So, if you assume everything is clickable by default (which is true, give or take a few very specific targets that have no obvious action anyways), why then does the user need skeuomorphic hints?

If 90% of the non-whitespace results in a "button press", that fact should become obvious fairly quickly, even to the uninitiated.

If you cut out all the cruft and only leave the functionality, the functionality will inherently "float" to the surface. And that seems to be the case in Microsoft's latest bout of UX.

[0]: http://acme.cat-v.org/readme
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What do you want to see in a public restroom?
You read it, then commented on it. So I think you answered your own question.
4) All you need is a .io or .ly domain
5) Don't hire a designer, just do bootstrap (with bootswatch)
The thing with LFS is that it would cause Linux users to learn. Not necessarily a bad thing. And I would predict it could lower their tolerance for the lots of the garbage that many ditributions force on them. (Like this brilliant move by Ubuntu!) Who knows, it could lead to a more DIY capable userbase.

They would not have to ask anyone how to remove things or plead with decision-makers to implement their desired changes, they'd just do it themselves.

But yeah, from what I know the Arch Linux distribution imposes a very minimal amount of "pre-configuration".

I've always found it easier to add stuff to a bare bones OS configuration than to remove it from a pre-configured one (you have to thoroughly understand what you're removing first; it's easy to break someone else's delicate Rube Goldberg contraption). But maybe that's just me.
Agreed. The fact that some data is not on par with current Google offering doesn't make the product a bad one. Data issues can be quickly solved, specially when there are so many users to report problems.
Properly hashing/salting passwords on the client (in JavaScript) is more or less a must now.

Client-side encryption is the next logical step. Although not perfect, it is better than storing plaintext data on the server.
He did say all that, which I agree with entirely, but he also said public transit fees should be "high enough to reduce overcrowding".
I am sure most people in New York do it too (read a book, play games, not worry about pickpockets). Most New York trains are not really crowded at rush hour, with the exception of Lexington avenue line.
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Sounds underpriced to me (and adding screen limits to price points complicates things). I'd rather something like $50 per month with no limits. Most people are making money from the websites they build so something that increases efficiency is worth more than $10/mo.
Too kind, man! Thanks :)
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Thank you for answering!

I been doing that for some time, and actually my current work comes from local companies with clients abroad.

Every one of that contracts includes NonCompete agreements so I cannot work directly for the final clients in USA/EU if I worked with them through my clients (they protect their business).

So what I'm trying to figure out is how to approach having my own clients from abroad. Knowing its not easy, I'm looking for some guidelines there.
My city, Warsaw (the capital of Poland), is being mentioned as the worst in the Europe. The commute here is really painful -- and we're only a ~2 million people city.

It's not unusual for a 10km bus trip to take over an hour. Commuting from the suburbs is even worse.
My guess, our greatest problem is the lack of carpooling culture. Rarely I see people sharing a car, usually it's just the driver.

I can only imagine how bad it is in Sao Paulo which is twice as densely populated.
I always found that if blowing no longer worked, that I could plug it into the Game Genie loader and it would usually work. I suspect because the fit into the Genie was much tighter and the pins were less worn or corroded.
Sorry but NOBODY is choosing MongoDB purely based on speed.

If they were they would go with something like MemSQL, Redis etc.
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The biggest sign is this sentence: "Once you launch, then millions of people will know about you, including competitors".
I wasn't referring only to long running transactions. Indexes are clearly a way of reducing the working set (at least in a practical sense) but also vital for workloads with many short transactions.

I was not criticizing mongo per se, I was criticizing this post and other misguided statements about the working set as it relates to database software.
One of the best real-time raytracers around is Brigade 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF2c1uHiYyY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdw1HvzKt1M

It could really use a 3rd GTX580 to run the reconstruction filter that blackhole linked. But, it's getting better at a steady rate.

Meanwhile, the voxel cone tracing technique mentioned in the article (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAsg_xNzhcQ) is a great hybrid. Rasterizers are great at primary visibility, but are terrible when the algorithm needs non-local information. By supplementing the rasterizer with a fast-but-blurry ray-tracer, you get most of the benefit of both techniques.
Hm, _does_ work on my GN, stock 4.0.4.
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Don't worry: I have nearly perfect vision. (I say nearly only because I haven't had a checkup in a while.)

And this site gives me a bit of a headache, too.

Just skimming it, it's a bit too dark and a bit of a strain to read; part of that may be the office lighting though.

The funny thing is: it's _very close_ to my terminal color scheme, just lacking a lighter shade of the background [which would differentiate content from the background], and a "brownish-orange" for highlights/accents [links and things].

The text in my terminal is also slightly "whiter" and a much bolder font-face.

So perhaps some of these suggestions would help make the site more readable in general, though I've never tested my terminal style with a color-blind audience so YMMV. :)
It's a horrible solution. Just store them hashed on the server end, and make a secure connection. I would argue that more browsers support SSL than JavaScript...
There's a balance to be struck between affordable and honest (not kitsch) design. To get it just right is where the devil is.

For examples look no further than Apple's iOS (borderline kitsch) and Microsoft's Metro (reduced affordance). I think one UI that gets this balance done very well is Facebook.
Good point. We're not released yet, and there are probably < 100 people who have a good enough idea of what we're doing to really dig in and give us feedback

We'll edit the blog post to add a bit more background

update:

here's the working copy:

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We make three kinds of APIs:

-data collection APIs
-data analysis APIs
-data visualization APIs

For instance, if you had a social-local-mobile shopping app for the iPhone, you'd probably want to insert a rich event into Keen every time a user does one of the following actions: opens the app, does Facebook connect, likes/comments/shares an item, adds an item to their shopping cart, and completes a checkout. You send us this data using the collection APIs (https://keen.io/static/docs/data_collection/data_collection....)

Once your app is sending us stuff, your product manager may ask you to make her a little analytics dashboard, so she can agonize over it every morning. For instance, this dashboard could have answers to questions like "How many people opened the app each day over the course of the last week?" That question (and many way more advanced ones) can be answered using one of our analysis APIs (in this case, the Series API https://keen.io/static/docs/data_analysis/series.html)

Finally, suppose a few weeks later she's tired of staring at numbers and wants to see this information graphed visually in a line graph. That can be done using our visualization APIs (not yet released).
A valid point. However, Microsoft is betting heavily on ARM too, with Win8 RT (if I'm not mistaken and RT is the ARM one). So, Win8 and a lot of Win8 apps are going to support ARM, and those who don't can be virtualized!

(Note that I'm not saying it's a good plan)
Even if all text is clickable, not everything should have such a similar visual weight.

In Gmail, there's a big ass red button that does exactly what you think it will do. (http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyrwjaXatd1qea4hso1_500.pn...) I bet I could use Gmail for the first time in Arabic if I had to. I'm not sure I could use Outlook.com.
It still should get those registered Democrat out of their seats and to their local party meetings.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/803242/understanding-even...
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I think you could easily tack on "Read more advice rather than execute and try to apply advice." Anecdotally, just about every combination of characteristics has survived / succeeded at least once. This leads to a wide range of maxims being spouted about startups. But, none of it is "worth much" until applied and put into action.
What about Rush'n'Attack? Did Cold War favorites cross over?
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We are looking for an intern to help develop a Node.js server for our iPad app, working closely with an IOS developer to design and implement both the client and server sides. We are in California and prefer someone in the same or nearby time zone.
I hope they can pull this off. They have a great product and solid engineering - hopefully the economics can follow. I think this is going to be a success regardless of the financial future of Tesla itself. The engineering innovations should pay great dividends down the road for all electric vehicles and transport systems.
Bear in mind what he actually did was write notes after 2 days, hold them unpublished for over a year, and then post them with updates and commentary.

Besides, it's ridiculous fish, his notes on two days of Haskell would probably be well worth reading too.
This technique hits the front page once every other week. With the same flaws. Use BrowserID. It's better than this and it paves the future towards actually being able to truly transition away from passwords.
We certainly didn’t invent the flat style but arriving at it was a violent process. We tore through hundreds of revisions (we have the LayerVault timelines to prove it) to potential interfaces before arriving at the answer that now makes us say “of course.” The desk at LayerVault’s original headquarters (my Manhattan apartment) still has the battle scars from objects being slammed down in anger. At one point, while working on a mockup, a MacBook was slammed shut so hard it was nearly unhinged.

It sounds like that MacBook isn't the only thing that's unhinged...
yea, we will be soon. I think the last thing I had up here had the opposite reaction (wanting oauth rather than yet another login) :)
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> I am sure most people in New York do it too (read a book, play games, not worry about pickpockets).

So you would sleep on an MTA train during rush hour with your bag just sitting on your lap? Most people I know wouldn't.

> Most New York trains are not really crowded at rush hour, with the exception of Lexington avenue line.

And neither are most lines in Tokyo. There are 2 or 3 trunk lines that are really crowded. The rest have only moderate occupancy. Each month, I was probably on a train where I didn't have room to move only once or twice a month.
Jon Friis (Co-Founder of www.kera.io) has also mastered this technique.