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Wait, what? Chrome is not Apple's product. It's Google's.

And being already set up for testing does not make it free. Hardware dies, and you have to replace it. More and more developers move on to newer OSs, and it becomes harder for them to get all of their development environment working in the older OS to find and fix bugs.

Have you ever tried developing a product with backwards compatibility across 4 different OS releases? It is by no means easy, it limits what you can do, and it makes your software more complicated and bug prone.

Don't think of it as having to make a conscious decision to stop. It's more that you have to make a conscious effort, that gets greater as time goes on, to continue supporting the older release. More libraries that you use start dropping compatibility. More new features have to be ifdef'd out, leading to divergence in what your software supports on different systems. More effort has to be put into keeping the build system running. And more manual testing needs to be done.
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The kid in this case needed help. Maybe he'll turn out as a bad adult, but its not too late for this behavior to be corrected so he can lead a normal life. Now, if you think the best way to do that is through the legal system, I'm not sure, especially if the legal system is more interested in punishing vs. reforming. The author did the right thing, I think.
World changing. Hats off to Elon Musk and his team.
They're presumably assuming that the station will not constantly be charging a car. ChuckMcM (your sibling) explains in greater detail.
It's the opposite. Obama, the chief enforcer of laws in our country, said "Our law is by definition a codification of morality." Lying is legal when society deems the lies to be acceptable or not wrong enough. Tax evasion, however, is considered to be morally wrong by society, hence it's illegal.
I don't think so. I'm basically asking for them to sell me an all electric replacement for a V-6 accord with the absolute minimum trim level (which runs around $25-27k) But with the inconvenience of having to spend several hours charging it instead of a few minutes refueling it.
Ah. Well, I suppose that makes a certain amount of sense. But it does leave me wondering how hard it can be to shorten the wheel base. The battery pack already comes in different sizes so they must have that figured out. There's no drive shaft or transmission. It's hard for me to imagine that making the platform shorter is that much harder than designing a whole new body.
Site looks decent, but they should either hide the pricing link or make it do something useful: getting the cats error page when I click on pricing isn't at all reassuring.
That is actually pretty insightful — pretty easy to get back the $3 that it costs. I can definitely see "free charge with purchase".
Go Bloviations
Why not? Jobs don't require uniform levels of creativity, and we aren't waiting for a singularity before we start. We already have GPS-guided tractors replacing farmhands and self-checkout registers starting to replace retail clerks, while white-collar fields like engineering and software have merely shed some rote work (drafting and data entry) and medicine and law have changed even less.

I think the jobs most likely to disappear are terrible wastes of human minds; I just wish we weren't so vicious towards people we can't find a need for right now.
Tesla had a 250 million dollar operating loss in 2011 and 106 million last quarter. Add 700 million of debt onto that, and... I wonder how long they can keep up this kind of expansion.

This however, is really cool.
I don't see what your point is. This conversation was never about phone calls in the first place. It was about VOIP to VOIP calls, which are of course completely free and unlimited to anywhere in the world if you use Google Talk.
People with the pitchforks seem to be forgetting something..

3Taps is not scraping Craigslist. Google is scraping Craigslist, and 3Taps is scraping Google. As far as common sense is concerned, Craigslist has no say concerning 3Taps data.
All very interesting, thanks for the detailed response. I'm pretty interested in setting up a fully-automated custom brewery/distillery so I've been looking into making a lot of custom fittings for piping and heat-exchanging. Thanks again
I am a Hong Kong native and lived in Beijing, and traveled for work in Shenzhen and Shanghai extensively. I agree that the population that can afford an iphone in China is still a small portion. However, I believe a cheaper iPhone with TD-SCDMA may not be a viable solution for Apple to the Chinese market for two reasons.

a) The amount of craze and worship to Apple products in key cities surpasses any reasonable level. People are willing to pay, a mark up of 58% - 98% markup in the grey market in Shenzhen. In fact, there are businesses in Hong Kong that built around hiring cheap labor to line up in Apple Store and carrying the iPhones across the border for a quick turnaround of arbitraging prices. [1]

It took little more than five hours for the first Apple iPhone 5s to go on sale in China after being smuggled across the border from Hong Kong, but supplies were short and prices high.

For anyone able to secure one, the new phone cost HK$5,588 ($720), or the equivalent of around 4,545 yuan, at the Hong Kong Apple store, while they were selling for between 7,500 yuan [$1140] and 9,000 yuan [$1427] in the litter-strewn building in Shenzhen where fake and smuggled phones are often hawked. [2]

b) It is always been Apple's strategy to price high and capture a customer segment with high willingness to pay. The app store revenue has significantly higher share of revenue for fewer app downloads versus android. "..the App Store leads with a revenue share of 71% (compared to 29% for Android) even though total downloads through Google Play accounts for 35% of the total, versus 28% for iOS. * [3]

[1] http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/09/smuggled...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/iphone-5-in-china_n...

[3] http://www.imore.com/ios-app-store-generates-double-google-p...
Googling did not help, so can anyone please provide a link to the other announcement?
You credibly describe the flaws of the prison system, but you don't offer any alternatives.

Frankly, given the choice of a rock and a hard place, it is better to have a criminal in jail half his life and terrorizing society half his life, then terrorizing society for his entire life.

We aren't looking at Jean Valjeans here.
The batteries are part of the frame. They add stiffness and strength. They're not removable. Not easily anyway.
That is why the government gave telcos billions every year to subsidize fiber to the home roll-outs. The telcos laughed out loud while pocketing the money and transferring into overseas assets. For their terrible actions, the gov would give them more money in order to be laughed at again.
To play devil's advocate, can anyone provide a clear, concrete example of how it hurts science if the man in the street believes in creationism?

This doesn't seem like an issue that it makes rational sense to get up in arms about. It seems emotion-driven to me, ironically.
Ask HN: Missing functionalities in social network sites
Are you happy with existing social network sites?
What is functionality of social sites that you would like to add or remove?
I take it for granted that banks to stupid things. Just look at their password policies, for example. Many US banks basically prevent you from setting a strong password. Or my Austrian bank (http://www.easybank.at/) which includes Javascript code from typekit.com to use some Adobe fonts. Makes me feel much safer knowing that the security of my online banking interface does not only depend on my bank's site, but also on the security of Adobe's site.
Personally, I get annoyed when a company takes an existing term with a defined definition, and then decides to change the meaning.

A supercharger is a mechanically driven air compressor which forces air into an engine. For a car company to take that name and redefine it into a marketing effort, well, it's annoying. Kind of like those 'turbo' buttons that used to be on the front of a PC.
I agree. 30 minutes is too long to charge for any practical purpose. They're going to have to improve the wait time if they're going to break out of the uber EV geek community. The Better Place battery switching model, while it may not be feasible for current models it has to be the goal for future models.

It also seems as thought there should be more partnerships involved in reaching the type of scale there going to to want to achieve. It seems like there would be a perfect opportunity to team up with Better Place to scale there infrastructure. Tesla should focus on building the best cars possible while letting Better Place handle the charging and/or battery switching infrastructure. I love the idea of Solar City getting involved as well. Those three companies are on my list of the few companies to watch in clean tech.
Get back to me when you can point out a single successful country in the entire history of the world that actually operated on "Libertarian" or "Objectivist" principles.
generate as much energy over the course of the year as the
vehicles consume

Yeah right. At what utilization rate? A single charge is ~90KWh, and takes half an hour. Two charges back to back are 180KWh.

jws guesses that each slot generates 28KWh/day. A ten slot charging station would only be able to charge three cars without going into the red. Tesla would have to build a lot of very oversized installations in a lot of sunny, rural locations to hit breakeven.
Drivers are already using battery swap stations in Israel and a few other test areas. Swap for a full battery takes less than 5 minutes. The cars built to work with this system are Renault and Nissan I believe. Check out the standardized batteries (drivers subscribe to a 'battery plan' so any full battery is works the same).

video: Drive Switch Go - Better Place

short video http://youtu.be/VR3oLV4fdcE
longer video http://youtu.be/S3Os25gP4yA

//edited to add video links
As much as I loathe being the guy defending trolls, the level of judgement expressed in this thread is a bit troubling.

Labeling this kid a 'pyschopath' might feel nice, but it's rather inaccurate. [1]. Specifically when he saw the damage he'd caused, a very human emotional response of remorse and regret kicked in. We have no reason to believe it's fake, especially given we weren't the one's there, and the author believed it to be genuine.

That said, I found this to be a really touching story, and am amazed at the kindness and wisdom of the victim.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
> quicker/better

Quicker may be true, but "better"? Swap stations are more expensive, they constrain vehicle design, battery shape, and battery technology upgradeability. This makes the vehicle some combination of heavier, less safe, or more expensive (pick your poison).

People don't seem to realize that the limiting factor for charge rate isn't current. It's cooling. A far simpler solution would just pump coolant through the charging port so that a large off-board cooler can be used. The cells in the Leaf and Volt could be fully charged in 20 minutes with adequate cooling. Independent (though amateur) tests by RC hobbyists have demonstrated hundreds of cycles at that charge rate with little loss in capacity.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=672512
I've always been curious about how we date things so far back. It's one of those things which I wish I could understand better. Does anyone have a good resource on carbon dating or other modern techniques that are used today?

Also, has anyone ever scientifically argued that perhaps our dating techniques are incorrect? Could there be natural ways for the system to be thrown off?
3D printing is exciting, but it's easy to get carried away. Paper printers exist, yet people still purchase books and magazines. By the same token, even if everyone had a 3D printer, they wouldn't necessarily print every object they own instead of purchasing it.

In addition, our culture has slowly eroded the usefulness of printing parts. Parts are great if you fix things, but consumers don't fix things. They break them and buy a new one!

IMO 3D printing will provide a huge boon to 1-2 person commando hardware startups more than consumers, in the same way that access to free development tools and cloud services have been a huge boon to 1-2 person commando software startups. In that way, consumers lives will certainly be changed by 3D printing because of being provided more products, but not necessarily by actually owning them and printing things with the printers.
Because that man's taxes fund scientific research.
They could have solar only at some locations and excess capacity to make up for the locations without solar.
I had the pleasure of meeting Bill Nye about three years ago, where I told him that as a kid, he was my scientific inspiration. I never imagined at that point, that he'd still be fighting my battles, even now.
Again just curious, but I'd still like to know how. Someone there asks the mod how it could be O(1), the mod replies it's a "hash table lookup". But Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation suggests that such lookup is no faster than O(log log n). I think the redis info is incorrect.

O(1) implies that the location of the member in the list is already known, with no search required. I don't see how that could be the case when it's a key lookup. The key could be anywhere in the list, even if the list is sorted. They key would have to be searched for, it seems.
Perhaps the idea that God gave us the planet to exploit for its resources and animals to treat however we want, thus we shouldn't care about overtaxing the oceans and gas supply, granting animals rights, or concern ourselves with global warming, which God wouldn't let happen.
Sorry for the naive question but how do you advertise on HN ? is it through your own blog posts ?
Indeed - and i believe scraping data off a publically accessible webpage (e.g., one where you do not require registration and login/password) falls under fair use, provided you do not take up more bandwidth/resources than the average user of that site.

I recall there being some precedent for this sort of fair use - something like a phone directory - the information is not copyrighted, but the arrangement and layout is. So hence, you can't just iframe a site and present it, but obtaining the data, and deriving a new work from it should fall under fair use.
The problem for the scammers is the response rate is too high. The scammer has to invest time into writing back to the target, so they don't want to spend all day writing letters back.

By peppering the letters with bad spelling, punctuation and case mistakes, they eliminate 99.5% of the population who correctly detect it as a scam. Thus, when they do get a response, the person is much more likely to convert.

It applies to startups if signing up the customer requires cost on the part of the startup. If, for whatever reason, you had to sign up a limited number of people and invest time in each of those people, then reducing your response rate by, say, making the signup process complicated, would allow you to pre-qualify your audience by those actually able to navigate their way through it.

It would have real applicability if you wanted to get a limited market for beta testing.
The "man on the street" has a kid, a potential scientist. But instead of fostering curiosity about the way things work, instead of promoting the use of logic to understand his surroundings, the parent teaches the child "the Bible says so, and that's enough." Now we have one less potential scientist.
The connector on the vehicle is proprietary, but there's an OEM adapter to use SAE J1772 connectors. (like the charging station near Google Kirkland: http://tmblr.co/ZStnmwKlXAF8 )
Also, that man has some say in the direction of science policy through his (congressman? representative? What is the correct US term?).
No, Elon said free for life on the the announcement.
Isn't that sort of information confidential between the counsellor and the patient? Even if it's not legally protected I don't think many counsellors would be happy telling you that sort of thing
What I would prefer is to have creationism taught in a religion class. I do not care if my kid knows about it.

I just do not want him to think that any real scientist even comes close to believing in it. And I know some people do not believe in carbon dating and that is fine too. But the facts as we know it point to us not being plopped down on the earth instantly as the bible suggests.

Teach the facts, let the other stuff be taught in a class on religions or mythology.
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If these become as popular as they seem like they should, I foresee long lines at the supercharging stations. I'm sure that 1. Tesla have thought of it and 2. They will milk the positive publicity from such an occurrence, but it could still be a PITA for, eg., folks who want to get home from Vegas.
You'll only collect the total insolation if you use two-axis solar panel pointing. Fixed panels are less efficient. Depending on latitude, sometimes much less efficient:

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/08/solar-data-treas...
It hurts science because it's wrong. I'm not trying to be a jackass here, but believing in creationism is the same as saying "I believe acceleration at the Earth's surface is exactly 10 km/s^2 because it says so in the Bible." (it doesn't... I hope)

It discourages scientific criticism of ideas. When you are taught a scientific fact or theory, you are always welcomed to, and often encouraged to question it. "Why is acceleration 9.81m/s^2? How do I know that it is true as of right now? If I carry out my own experiment, will I see this?" When you listen to the "word of god", this is no longer the case. You know it's right because someone, thousands of years ago, apparently said it is.

Yes, it can waste tax dollars - but we can always make more dollars. An innovative generation that can carry on mankind's survival? That's a little more important.
Emotions are not in conflict with rational behavior; they cause rational behavior.

It hurts because it is not just one man out there who is willfully ignorant about reality. There are a very large number of people in the US who believe that the world is only 6,000 years old, that everything is going to end any day now, that the environment isn't really worth protecting because of that, and by extension that it's not really worth doing anything meaningful. The religious people still vote, and their votes shape our policy. If their churches tell them to vote one way, and they do, the authority of the religiously fueled motivations highly define the results.
If printer cartridges were cheaper and if home printers bound books, people might not buy as many books.

To me, the key is going to be the cost of the feed stock. Get it low enough and people will 3D print everything.

A side note, this weekend my 74 year old stepdad was asking me about the state of 3D printing. He has a mechanical engineering degree, so a bit atypical of his age group I guess, but he was really excited about the possibilities.

I also told him about HN so he's probably reading this now. Hi!
I'd love to have an update in a few years. Do things end up better for having let him off, or does he cause even more damage?

I think it's unlikely that the author was the only person threatened, and also unlikely that a "talking to" will prevent others from being victims as well. While I'd like to think that people can make a full turn around from evil to good, in this case I'd bet against it. If things are as described, the kid is not a wayward youth but a psychopath.

Certainly from the child's perspective it's better not to involve the authorities. But my greater concern is for the rest of society. No, there is nothing magic the authorities can do that will help this individual, but unlike a counsellor they might be able to restrict his ability to further harm others.
The Creation Museum's response is laughable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-AyDtD6sPA
It probably requires re-tooling their assembly line. One of the main purposes of the Model S is to scale the assembly system.
I've never understood why out of all the things broken in the US and in education specifically people get so worked up over this one issue. Evolution is one of the easiest concepts to understand in all of science. Literally all it takes is a ten minute YouTube video to explain it to a fourth grader.

As such, while clearly evolution should be taught in schools, I fail to see how students are significantly harmed if it isn't. The fact that these kids come communities where most of the parents are really dumb has to be hundreds of times more damaging than not getting a day or two worth of lecture.

(And as an aside, I would bet money that the percentage of religious folks who have a good understanding of the main arguments in favor of evolution is about 10x as high as the percentage of 'science-oriented' folks who have a good understanding of all the philosophical concepts referenced in the wiki article on intelligent design.)
Good point! I'll add that in, didn't really consider that, even though it's the whole point of the site haha.
lots of indains on HN. are you paul graham?
Because sometimes the man in the street has an effect on others. Consider textbooks. Sometimes (like in Kansas 1999), creationists can control enough of the governing body for state textbooks that they can eliminate core ideas of evolution. I don't care what someone believes, but they shouldn't push unverifiable beliefs on impressionable kids.
If it was safe and quick, I would prefer the battery swap model because as it is now, I am terrified (maybe ignorance) of getting a bum set of batteries or mis-charging them, and ending up with a $5 - $10K bill for new batteries for my car. It would seem the swap model would most likely spread the cost and maintenance to many users and leave charging to the experts.
A lot of Christian churches actually support a type of environmentalism under the idea that God gave man stewardship over the earth, which comes with the responsibility to keep it up. It's His creation, after all (under this belief).
Just off the top of my head:

* One manufacturer and one manufacturer only of the parts for my particular wheelchair (A Quickie GTX by Sunrise Medical)

* High prices as customers often don't have any other options

* Occasionally the company won't deal with me as I'm only ordering 1 or 2 parts at a time, not hundreds

* Proprietary parts requiring complicated installation - unfortunately I can't direct link but have a look at any of the front brace/fork assemblies on http://www.sunparts.us/

* Slow shipping times from the US to Australia, requiring me to plan ahead for any future damage/repairs!
"Small country" is a bit of an overstatement. If Israel was a US state, it'd be the 47th largest.
I wonder why they used CGI renders if there's supposed to be actual stations already in operation.
Thanks in particular for this! A perspective from Japan can be hard to come by and (as others will observe) tends to be different than elsewhere.
I'm fairly certain that Shuttleworth is coming to realize he'll never recoup his investment in Canonical, and his goal is to drive Ubuntu into the ground so he can close up shop and stop hemorrhaging funds.
The purpose of the masking is to prevent malicious applications from being able to send arbitrary bytes over the wire, for fear that they may be able to screw with buggy proxies.
Ok, but prob with solar is it does you no good if its not connected to anything. And if they are just putting it into the grid what is the point other than PR?