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I second this... users rarely read anything & remember even less. If you let them in, then they expect it to work. Its unfortunate for Opera, but we're doing the same for our beta launch.
" I also noticed that he had a bit of a tummy"

Well, the book he wrote, is titled, "Why WE get fat." It's not, "How did we get so thin."
Elon Musk is installing free, solar-powered, charging stations throughout the US. Truly an amazing innovator! Just put in my reservation.
I code about 8hrs / day.

Weekends are mine.
If our penal system was able to rehabilitate, I would 100% agree with you. Unfortunately, given the incredibly high recidivism of convicts, I don't think that is true. Worse yet, prison appears to be a criminal training ground. As a result, I, personally, would be hesitant to throw somebody into that environment if I felt another option that could lead to rehabilitation existed.

The important piece is "another option". If it were my kid, you can bet he wouldn't he getting off easy, but I would hope for an opportunity to rehabilitate. On the other hand, if it were my kid, I would be he first to call the cops if that's what was necessary.

It's unfortunate that our zeal for "justice" has put us in a situation that we say "to hell with the people".
> Do you think you are in MySpace's target market?

Why do you think advertisers like snark?
And Java programs with Guide and AOP and magical JUnit are hard to understand. You can either not use the weird stuff, or you can learn it.
It's much harder than it looks. "Forms that auto change fields" are all I want when I'm filling in payment details using my phone; instead I have to leave the keyboard and attempt to hit a tiny input every now and then.
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They don't ask your permission, but they do respect robots.txt files as well as noindex, nofollow.
Of course, the flip side of this are all the terrible stories that keep flooding out of 4chan, where 'random' people HAVE been targetted.

Granted, they've usually done SOMETHING to piss off the hivemind, usually something involving posting a picture with something that ends up being identifiable (gps co-ords, school name on something in the background, etc.).

But even in those cases, though you may know where the attack is coming from, there's usually not much to help you figure out exactly who is behind it. At least in the news stories etc. that I've read, it's been a collection of bored 4chan denizens with not much else to connect them.
> If you want the straight dope

Yes, I want it, and I think most readers want it too.

> We have a pretty wildly different culture than most companies

I think you have a pre-convinced audience here, but maybe you might agree that the OP was not the best proof of this very different culture, and was on the side of diluted and PR-tampered dope full of "nice", "mostly", and other marks.

Note that I would not even notice this PR speak if it was not Github. High expectations.
You trolling? It never ceases to amaze me that people who read a blog post suddenly form hard lined opinions about a real world situation.

To me, it's a bit sociopath-like to be so vindictive about a situation that you know next to nothing about. What's the relationship between the poster and the kid? He most likely knows the boy's past, he knows the family, and yet it's all too easy to forget all that and condemn someone.

If only there were more people in the world like the OP, and less knee jerkers.
not really offsetting, (according to this car review site anyway http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/alternative/1208_2012_te...) at the end it has a little breakdown...

"During our drive, we used 78.2 kW-hrs of electricity (93 percent of the battery's rated capacity). What does that mean? It's the energy equivalent of 2.32 gasoline gallons, or 100.7 mpg-e before charging losses. That BMW 528i following us (powered by a very fuel-efficient, turbocharged, direct-injected 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine) consumed 7.9 gallons of gas for a rate of 30.1 mpg. The Tesla's electrical energy cost for the trip was $10.17 (at California's average electrical rate); the BMW's drive cost $34.55. The 528i emitted 152 lbs of CO2; the Model S, 52 -- from the state's power plants."
Looks pretty harmless to me. I dunno why people are getting so worked up over it.
That was exactly the turning point for me too. I was uneasy about handing them so much control but was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt given their history and their roots in BSD.

But this decision showed they were willing to make heavy-handed and capricious decisions at users' and developers' expense and revealed the dark side of Apple's policy of total control of their platform.
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CircleCI is an application, a tool, not a collection of documents. It has no use being crawled, since there isn't much content, and what you have is not for sharing. This applies to 90% of web apps.
Now if only I could convince the wheelchair industry to do the same.
Interesting... It works just fine in IE 10...
By "unsafe tagged unions" you mean "untagged unions" (or ad hoc runtime-tagged unions)?
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I guess Apple must have changed things recently. My Apple password is a 6-letter dictionary word with a '1' at the end (the same insecure password I use for all sites I don't really give a shit about). They haven't asked me to change it yet.

I basically have 2 passwords: secure (for bank accounts) and insecure (for everything else) that I use for all sites except the root password of my server (which I have a set of random chars that I have memorized). I agree it's ridiculous forcing people to have a convoluted password, as they'll need to write it down to remember it. And if your site is properly designed, having a dictionary/short word as a password shouldn't matter. Apple seem to have gone from ridulously lax security to ridiculously over-the-top after their recent gongshow.

And before anyone flames me I do know wtf I'm talking about. I wrote brute force passwd file crackers 20 years ago, and got all the root passwords at school/university by writing packet sniffers.
Good luck with that. Solar equipment still isn't cheap, and while I wish it was otherwise, the voting public is incredibly averse to anything with the word "nuclear".

Smart phones have 1000mAh batteries. A Nissan Leaf can mostly charge in a 12 hour period, and get 80 miles on that charge. What about if you want 200 miles, or if you've got an SUV? The grid is not prepared for that kind of power draw.

Agreed, but there is no clean solution yet for that remaining 5%, which will keep many people from buying one.
What is your employment history like? Being on Skype with a potential employer sounds incredibly unusual. And getting airfare, limo, and a hotel? What are you, a celebrity?
Judging by displayed design, it definitely feels more fresh than Facebook and Twitter. I see strong influence of Microsoft's metro design language as well...
I suspect it is much harder to retrofit such a culture to an existing organisation than to have it that way from the outset.

With Valve, GitHub et al we see organisations that are trying to encourage novelty and creativity in their workforce. Many organisations are more interested in repeatability in their workforce. By which I mean many of their workers are basically following a workflow of some sort that requires just enough human judgement so as they cannot yet be replaced by a robot.

So I think you're right, not all organisations can work this way and some probably don't even want to. But I entertain myself sometimes wondering how they could. My personal favourite is thinking about how one might manage to get a government department to work like Valve/GitHub.
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Yes, I have a Keogh profit sharing plan http://money.cnn.com/retirement/guide/selfemployment_keoghs.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keogh_Plan -- admittedly, I'm not a wizard in the financial stuff. My wife is a CPA/CFP, so she manages it. That's where a good accountant can help :)
Sadly it is not. If any of your business / startup plans revolve around advertising know that the one thing that makes or breaks it are analytics. This was Google's strange gift to the world, you could advertise and know exactly how many times it was 'clicked on.' The history of advertising is filled with ways in which advertising is 'scored' so magazines have "number of subscribers" and TV shows have "number of viewers" and radio "number of listeners", the internet has "number of clicks" (or sometimes "impressions"). But the challenge is that the advertiser wants to know "How much business did I generate spending this much money?" that feedback loop which so much more precise in a digital world than in the analog world is like a heroin drip. Disruptions in the advertising space are lucrative, to swing the trough of advertising dollars away from Google and into your pocket, you need a way to provide some sort of verifiable metric of effectiveness, give the advertisers something to feed into their A/B test harnesses, the closer to 'real' it is the more you can sell it for.

Stores don't answer phones, you get pre-recorded messages of their hours and a voice menu. Perhaps you get to a human eventually but the store doesn't know if you're price shopping around or serious about coming in. They try, they do things like "We'll hold it for you but you have to come in in the next hour or so." Or "We can't guarantee that price very long will you be coming in today?" etc. They have no idea how much money they make or lose from phone support, its "unknowable" because its not technically feasible to connect a phone call to a purchase. No analytics.

So having a voice recognition system that you could use to tag potential customers and match them with actual customers would close the loop. It would give them analytics on something that was invisible to them today. They would pay your company to give them that capability because they would use it to increase sales far more than they paid you for the system.

I just thought another way they could use it is to 'tag' people at the store and then when you called in if you were a known customer it might put you right to a real person. You would see a more positive experience, they would invest in that experience because they already know you are a customer.

There is money on that table. I assure you that someone will reach out and pick it up.
One of my favorite of his stories. I'd strongly recommend his novel 'Makers' as well, if you're into this sort of thing.
No, not completely offset- partially. I don't mean I expect it will cost an electric car just as much to drive as a gas car; I mean that the falling costs of electricity storage cannot be taken in isolation against the rising cost of gasoline. Let's not forget as well that if everyone is suddenly driving electric cars, electricity demand will explode and prices will rise. I expect the result is simply that it will draw out the "crossing point".

Really, that's all I'm arguing, is that we are not twenty-four months away from the electric car takeover. It's probably more than a decade out.
Great. Now I have Kriss Kross running through my head. Thanks a lot.
The other thing about Perl 5 and Perl 6, is the backwards incompatibility gap is way large. And Perl 6 is designed such that Perl 16 shouldn't be necessary.

You can't really say the same thing about Python. If Python wants to remain in the game, I don't see how they can do it unless they are OK breaking backwards compatibility in another 6 years.

Python broke backwards compatibility for as simple a thing like a print statement. Nobody like to play stupid expensive migration games just because your language designer decided that print statement must be written a different way.
We shouldn't let sociopaths define the language we use to describe them. That's how "hacker" came to mean "criminal."
Ask PG: Can you show the fully qualified domain of submitted links?
The links on hacker news are often hosted on subdomains -- for instance, heroku or amazon hostnames, but plenty of other anecdotes come to mind. Would you consider showing the fully qualified domain name so it's clear that these links aren't hosted from the base domain?
So long as you're younger than 35 har har ...
I won't pretend to be an expert on internal combustion engines, but I don't think the demands are that bad. Electric engines have 100% torque all the time, which isn't true of gas engines. I believe that essentially implies a fast take off speed isn't that difficult for an electric car, and would have very little affect on it's overall distance per charge.
So painful that the actual article was buried because they used a different link:

http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger
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Long time listener, first time caller. I am coming up to the eight-month mark in my "Heads Down, Learn Programming" experiment. This is my first app, an open source Magic the Gathering sealed deck generator. At the moment it is severely limited in scope, but I've worked on it for ~ six hours and I figure this is a good time to stop and let it breathe for a while.

It's on github (https://github.com/alxjrvs/Sealed-Deck-Generator), as are a number of other half-completed project. Each was started with a goal in mind ("Mess around with Bootstrap", "Get off your ass and TDD", "Kick around complex associations for a while") and a few are not made to be finished. At any rate, this is the first thing I can safely consider "shipped". Cheers, folks!
So you prefer to have some corporation dictating what tools you can use, even if other tools are equally or even more productive for your work? Even if this policy has as much to do with their business agenda as it does with any technical concerns?
We agree then - that's what I said - one decade to mainstream.
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I was looking forward to this announcement and watched the live announcement. The most interesting/surprising parts of the announcement to me was:

1. Superchargers are already deployed in California. Nice work, Tesla, for building it out and proving it works.

2. The whole U.S. will be covered in a few years. Great for traveling cross country.

3. It's solar-powered. I wonder if they have a electricity backup... probably, my guess. But still impressive.

4. It will be FREE for Tesla owners. I don't know how they're pulling this off. To me, this was the most shocking part. How are they going to pay for construction, rent, etc, and still afford this? It's a great extra benefit for Tesla owners... to travel around the country for free (of course you need to buy the car and maintain the car, but still).

I wonder if the extra electricity generated from the solar panels will go into paying the rent for the spaces.
Ask HN: What does it gain a founder if he gains 100M/revenue and loses his soul?
Was thinking on the words of Jesus Christ and how it relates to young guys/girls pursuing a startup in order to "make it big". Is it worth the sacrifice in health (both physical and spiritual), family relations, true friendships, etc etc if in the end, he gains a fat paycheck and the respect of others trying to do the same? The answer to "what does it gain" seems to point to "nothing"
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It's this kind of hybrid (paid/free) model that solves the chicken and egg problem; the more common the fuel pumps, the easier it is for people to switch to electric.
Exactly. For years I did not see the point in "GNU/Linux" as a term. I understood why he wanted it called that, and sympathised with him, but I lacked a reason to actually care.

Now though the distraction is useful. I use GNU/Linux on my servers, desktops, and laptops, and I use Android/Linux on my phone. The terminology now makes conversation easier, instead of more cumbersome.
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Seems more of a blogvertisement for GitHub
That's not a troll. And that's not harassment. That's a stalker. I'm shocked Twitter did nothing about this kind of repeated targeted abuse. And I'm very surprised that the police did nothing for someone who was receiving death threats at his front door.
hypothetically speaking, 100M.
A little local focused, but do you have plans to include real time information in Vancouver, like NextBus does?

I'm avoiding upgrading to iOS6 until I know there is a usable transit option.
I was thinking the same thing. Gonna go print me a Ferrari on my Replicator :-)
30 minutes to charge...still puzzled why Tesla has gone with the recharge model rather than the battery swap model ala Better Place.
I always felt the Wildcats 3.0 comic was cancelled way too early. Now I get to see it played out in real life by Elon Musk.
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I love the idea of day rate, it means so much less stress as consultant. But what if, the client can afford only lets say 20 hours per week of time?

I am having somewhat of hard time working with clients who do not want fulltime though because:

a. Even though they pay only 20 hours of my time, they assume 100% availability.
b. It gets awkward with them when they suddenly want to increase the hours but I have already committed my remaining hours elsewhere.
I am sure the orignal author does as well. This is more a question of "fair use", not robots.txt
I challenge your assumption that the average person knows how to spoof user agents.
Don't worry about the future of a tool. They just come and go. As a developer worry about the problems, quality problems you would like to solve. Think about 'whats in it for you'.

The inevitable nature of changing requirements in programming mean, there is always going to be demands for new changes and new features in a programming language. Changes in Syntax and excess syntactical sugar many times come only at the expense of breaking backwards compatibility. What you are seeing now is a saturation with Python. Python is good, but people now want more. I bet you unless Python is ready for major backwards incompatible changes in another 5-6 years they are going to lose this battle against other languages. NodeJS, Go they are all going to eat Python's lunch. What you will see now is cool stuff getting built in some language like Go and will go viral every 15 days. People who had originally no interest will learn just because its getting famous. Architects who just want to sound different and distinct will use it, Slowly but sooner or later there will be job demands for Go. This is inevitable and going to happen. Suddenly people will find every reason under the sun to hate python and love go.

Python will increasingly find itself in the same situation Perl was some years back. And its fans will have to face the same trolling.

Its just your usual technology cycles. By the way I guess its time to start learning Go.
It won't be free forever, but it's one less barrier to buying buying a Tesla.
I found that equally baffling. I threw together a page that displays the best (according to Adobe[1]) webfonts of the bunch: http://jsbin.com/itayep

[1] http://html.adobe.com/edge/webfonts/#edgeWebFonts
Opera excludes itself, by making its software difficult for developers to support. Most people have never even heard of Opera. So why should developers bother? Where's the value?
You are 100% wrong. The ad copy on craigslist IS copyright protected so it doesn't matter where you scraped it from. TOSs do govern the data whether or not you are viewing a cached copy or not. By your logic all TOSs are rendered useless if you browse the net via proxy servers.

You can scrape anything off the internet you like and do as you please...but you can't create a business out of it.
Because the battery swap model doesn't exist. It's a cool idea, but it's not right here right now.
Let's do it! Which department?
I really want to want to buy a X1 Carbon, but it seems they aren't selling one with an i7 and 8GB. It seems to be a "choose one" situation, which is incredibly annoying.
Ha this is cool - my wife and I love to play MTG.

Question - how would you use this? I imagine you could import these cards into a booster-pack tournament?

Obviously the display of the cards could be spruced up.
Maybe add in the number of booster packs opened on the left hand side as well.
Ugh, tech reporting. Is there a original source for this somewhere? Theres some limited info at http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger.

100 kilowatts good for three hours of driving

From the announcement video, it seems they are charging at 370V with a maximum of 225 amps = 83.25kW. So that 30 minute figure for half a charge is pretty real. The cost for one such charge would be approximately 3$ with industrial prices for electricity. Given that you can feed solar power back into the grid at rates above or equal to what normal customers pay for their electricity, I could see them making break-even on this when discounting the initial investment (which will pay back hundred-fold in adoption rate for their cars).
3. It's solar-powered. I wonder if they have a electricity backup...

It's grid electric powered. The canopy doesn't do much.

Let's calculate:

Guess that the canopy for each bay is 7 by 4 meters, 28m^2

Sunny spots receive about 4kWhr of solar power per square meter per day.

Solar panels might be 25% efficient.

Total daily power: 28m^2 * 4kWhr/m^2/day * 0.25 = 28kWhr/day

Model S has an 85kWhr battery, half charge is 42kWhr.

It is going to take about two days to charge off the solar.
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That is true, but makes the assumption that all scripts along the way will return the correct values on errors etc. Not always true for rushed in-house scripts.

You may also have to consider warning conditions which might be more catastrophic to your "pipe" that the original program would believe.
Don't forget that when the IPhone happened Apple intended any "applications" to be web applications which is why they spent so much time on getting mobile Safari right. It was the developers who demanded local apps and settled for the closed garden.
should have read "co-worker" thanks auto correct.