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What does "the batteries are too heavy" even mean? Too heavy for what?

Tesla just released a really big car with a heavy battery that goes 265 miles on a charge (under the very strict new EPA rating; at older methods of measuring range this number would be much higher). So I ask the batteries are too heavy for what exactly?

Also, if you are paying attention, you know that Tesla has just opened to the public a number of Supercharger stations that will charge the Model S battery 50% of the way in about 20 minutes. So your complaint of "wait hours for a charge" is already solved, today, in 2012, at least if you live in California (and Tesla plans to expand the Supercharger network rapidly).

There have been anti-EV arguments for years, but the arguments keep changing, which is how you know that EVs have won. The main argument used to be that EVs would never go far enough, that people would have too much range anxiety. That has been solved. Then the argument was that the cars are too expensive. That is in the process of being solved right now, as you see from Roadster->Model S. There are other problems but they are much smaller. "I park on the street so I don't have a place to charge my car" is not very hard to solve: it is obviously just a matter of will.
I have a hard time supporting any position that argues that the dissemination of information should be illegal. The U.S. government tried a variation of that through export restrictions of cryptography.

I'm not a particularly big fan of firms that sell vulnerabilities (full disclosure: I've never sold any vulnerabilities I've discovered), but I would be incredibly uncomfortable with the idea that there should be a litmus test for what information is safe to trade, and what isn't.
"photo's"?
this is pretty neat! one quick thing --
40th and 8th ave -> grand central: suggests S
grand central -> 53rd and park: suggests 6
40th and 8th -> 53rd and park: some crazy sequence of bus routes.

http://sandytransit.alastair.is/opentripplanner-webapp/index... Nov 01 2012 21:26:37 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)&arriveBy=false&itinID=1&wheelchair=false&preferredRoutes=&unpreferredRoutes=
This article seems very narrow and at least a bit wrong. I talk with a Gorilla on occasion (yeah, literally,) and she talks back. Her name is Koko. She understands much spoken English and uses a variant of ASL to speak back. She talks about her life and what's going on with her on that particular day. She wants to know about my life and what's going on with me. She talks about other people and her mate Ndume. She's self conscious at times and gregarious and fun at times. She enjoys watching television and even has favorite movies.

And Koko isn't the only one. There are other apes that speak with humans regularly and richly. But beyond that, we also know from decades of research on gorillas in their native habitat that they have a very rich gestural language that they depend on for survival. It's that native gestural language, it's thought, which makes it so easy for apes to pick up sign language as a means to talk with humans.
I'm amused by the idea that Chomsky is somehow some kind of dunce when it comes to science but a brilliant thinker when it comes to politics. At least with either claim individually, I can conceive of who might say that, even while thinking they're radically wrong (no pun intended).

But the idea that Chomsky's political "contributions" somehow dwarf his contributions to science? That seriously floors me.
My electric bill has increased by about $15 a month, depending on how much I drive. It is way cheaper than gas. (But the car is so expensive that you won't break even via cheaper fuel!)
Scientists “humanise” Foxp2 gene in mice to probe origins of human language
Bump CEO Talks About Background / Passive Mobile Apps
Just imagine if people in 80's had a similar attitude about internet, where would we be now?

If we were to wait for things to get perfectly ready. 90% of the things in this world would never get ready at all.
The Unicorn Manifesto
DevOps changed that. At my first few software engineering jobs, if I didn't write any config files, they wouldn't have got written.
> His hatred of U.S. foreign policy

Sadly enough for (U.S. foreign policy and its supporters) he actually supports his claims very well with sources and footnotes, and if you read through this works, you might find that perhaps there is a reason others (who don't just watch Fox News) don't agree with said policy, and also that somehow Americans in certain parts of the world are not "hated because of our freedoms". There are other reasons.
Let's see: Windows, Icons, Menu, Pointer. Which of those were Apple's invention?
The Model S solves the issue via the ability to charge at Tesla's "supercharger" stations (much faster recharge than any other EV), and via the supercharger network that Tesla is currently building (some stations in California are currently open, and they recently presented their expansion plan for this network).
I am a diehard HN fanboy, love the community, love getting my daily tech news here; but... anytime I want a good laugh I like to crack open the source code of Ycombinator's home page

I mean... c'mon

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RMS is an idealist, not a pragmatist. He must believe this is the ideal solution.

Or maybe he's had a change in opinion recently. I have to say, this is the only cogent, practical argument I've heard out of him over the last few years. I really dislike his dogma on the free software issue.
If you restart while I'm in the middle of describing how my start-up simultaneously solves every problem from your frighteningly ambitious post, know now that I will NOT be retyping it.
My friends and I nicknamed that gun the "mow-down machine."
It wasn't at all clear that that is what he was asking you. And you need to qualify the sense in which you "don't believe" in qualia. You don't believe that consciousness has phenomenal properties? Qualia certainly exist in some sense.

From what it sounds like, you are just dismissing compelling philosophical issues because it frustrates your beliefs.
Good but still the site needs a backend upgrade seeing that we are sitting in 22nd Century, there must be a major backend upgrade so you guys can work easily.
I think it would be comparable to most of their peers. Many companies e.g. Google, Samsung, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, HP are routinely involved in legal issues.

Google will likely top that list over the next few years as they take over from Microsoft as favourite government whipping boy. Especially now that the FTC just recommended anti-trust investigations over FRAND abuse.
After having a "sales" (read: 95% telemarketing, 5% Misc tasks) job this past summer I can agree with much of what your saying. I gave it a couple months, then I quit (for various reasons, not really worth listing).

The thing is, as much I as absolutely hate saying this completely over-used phrase: the economy is shit. I am personally familiar with 100% commission based telemarketing, which amounts to complete shit, for those of you keeping score at home. Though, supposedly some telemarketers get paid hourly. Either way, its a crappy job but one that people are going to line up to fill so long as its the only job in town.

That's my take.
The important thing is that those who believe that electric cars are viable be able to finance the enterprise. The sooner the taxpayer is no longer forced to subsidize them, the better.
I've been looking forward to an e-ink laptop as well. I was truly excited years ago by the "noteslate" project, but it never amounted to anything. There's clearly a place for simple, low-power devices. The ever-blurring line between e-readers and phones and tablets and laptops is exciting. With the trend towards minimalism -- distraction free writing applications -- an e-ink unitasker with git-annex syncing could be an amazing item.
It could be argued that the Industrial Revolution was making the system of mass human labor obsolete. One moneyed elite against another does not a popular struggle make.

A better example, one that was purely social, was when Prohibition was enacted in the United States (alcohol being about as old as humanity). Preachers were calling for prisons to be torn down as they would no longer be necessary with the passing of the Demon Rum.

Then again, perhaps that's not the best example either. How about we just settle on someone noncontroversial like Gandhi?
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true but I believe there must be a major upgrade or a CMS developed for YC only so their founders can operate from any device and more efficiently.
The fact is, it's just bad business not to patent software as a defensive measure against competition, at least when you make enough money for the people with patents to sue you first. This doesn't mean anyone likes being in that position: I think some of them, at least, would appreciate being able to implement competing technologies without licensing them.
That game was in the top 5 N64 games sold, routinely hitting the top spot for roughly 3 years [and perhaps a little change]. It was an incredible run, I remember following it in EGM.
Yes. My response was of course to clarify that "ordinary" type systems are Turing equivalent and incorporate classical logic.

Dependent types correspond to first-order logic in the Curry-Howard interpretation. I don't know much of anything about Shen, so I can't comment further on it specifically.

By the way, limited dependent types can also be implemented in Haskell through type-level programming. The paper that introduced this idea [0] is a good read, and doing some type-level programming is a great way to get to grips with the ins and outs of Haskell's type system. If you're interested in type-level hackery, also be sure to read the HList paper [1].

0. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.2...

1. http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/HList/paper.pdf
We're curating the items to make sure that the quality is high and to ensure that we only work with great sellers.
Want To Unionize Developers? Focus On Workplace Democracy
Yep, no sarcasm meant. :) Now I just can't wait to actually have a touchscreen and have all my software work flawlessly with it!
I would pick the person who would broaden my
team's perspective and not reinforce our biases.
I believe in the vision that these guys have. I contacted Drew and before ordering and he was very pleasant to deal with, so I went for it.

I would be lying if I say that I'm not curious about the quality of the content, which is exactly why I decided to jump the gun. Worst case scenario, I'm out $29. Best case scenario, I improve my execution abilities.

Will keep you posted.
What time are the applications due? It just says Nov 2. Should I assume just after 11:59 Nov 1st?
Breaking News A man doesn't understand why women do/think something that he doesn't, but still has some thoughts about why those women are wrong!

Here's a tip: if someone says "this is hard for me" don't respond with "no it's not." In fact, even if they get a little presumptive and forget to add the "for me," give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they are describing the world as it exists for them and not necessarily making an empirical claim.
Not a bad example, considering many android users fiddle with CPU scheduling/overclocking, performance tweaks, controller input and mappings, etc.

I'm not much of a gamer, but it would be interesting to see this analogy taken further, to see where Android can build on these strengths to be the preferred gaming platform.

Maybe OUYA will improve things as well.
Good thing Romney keeps wanting to throw Tesla under the bus, way to support innovation, way to cheer for jobs n0t.
> Why has all the practical progress come from the engineers?

I see what you are saying and actually it is a good point. Where are the robots built on Chomsky's theory? A very valid question. I don't know the answer to it, Chomsky doesn't either. But I think what you mean by practical progress isn't what he mean progress. That is his point.

You have to see where he is coming from. He is an academic his ultimate goal is to understand how things work. Training a set of neurons with input data and ending up perhaps with millions activation weights in the end is not helping that goal even if this new machine can play chess, make coffee and drive you to work. I think that is his take on it.

I say we need both. There is no reason to not strive for both. There is not reason to turn all radical and start burning books and claim one approach should completely replace the other. I hope we one day find (or find that we can't find) a good explanatory model for meaning, language, learning, personality, or conscience, but in the meantime I enjoy playing chess with my computer, and I hope pretty soon I'll have my car drive me to work by itself.
Maybe for a single woman who wants to profit in a personal non-business way.
Yet the JS still uses getElementById!
Do most functions of most software require precision clicking? Why not just have mouse-specific UI for the particular tasks that benefit from it, and common UI for the rest? This would be similar to how some advanced programs that are basically mouse-driven still have keyboard shortcuts and sometimes even command line consoles, etc., for more advanced usage. I don't think you need an entirely separate UI to achieve this, you can just have certain special widgets, views, "power tools" etc. that act as "mouse shortcuts".
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, but pledging for a better gaming experience is almost an indication that it's not currently a good gaming platform. Would people have pledged that much if their phone had all the gaming support and streaming to televisions that people wanted? I don't think so.
I think it just became a mainstream language. Many shops use ruby now, but nobody really talks how they're "using" ruby because it isn't cool anymore. Kinda like in the 2000's when everyone was talking about how they were using Java and VCs would throw money in their face. It's rare to see a company these days to evangelize their use of Java.

These days people prefer talking about how they're using node.js or Go.
What's holding me back from gaming is battery life. I struggle to get through the day as-is on my Galaxy S, with low screen brightness and underclocked processor.

I don't know if this applies to a lot of other people, but I personally think that once phone batteries are increased, we'll see more people gaming on their phones.
Ask HN: What happens when a startup is acquired?
So, I realize that this is a very vague, nebulous question. Every startup is different, every acquiring company is different, and every deal is different. I would like to learn more about people's experiences with the process as it applied to them.

Particular questions of interest:

- Was the process open and transparent along the way, or was it a surprise?
- Were you hired by the acquiring company? If so, was it conditional? i.e. interviewed for the position
- After the acquisition, how much autonomy remained within your startup team?
- Culturally, was the acquiring company welcoming?
- Did your product/service perform well or languish?

Thanks!
Qless (Redis-based Job Queue)
If I understand correctly, this is kind of like woot.com with auctions?
> Sounds like an alternate reality.

I have a hunch that part of this is related to the fact that nerdess is German. Or at least, she's based in Germany per the site.

I'm from Denmark (and a guy), and I can say from firsthand experience that attitudes towards women in Europe are still very old-school. Not everywhere, certainly, and Europeans are open-minded liberal socialists etc, but behind the scenes the old attitude of "women and technology don't mix" is very much alive.

For example, many guys in Europe I've spoken to will make jokes about girls not really being fit to work on cars, working with computers, or doing anything "technically hard".

Even some years ago, there was an advertising campaign for a lotto (or something similar) with the tagline "so simple even a woman could understand it". The advertisement featured a pretty blond woman standing in her kitchen, listening to the boys hoot and holler about their winnings next door with a vacant expression on her face. This was plastered all over the main train station in Copenhagen.

So, while I agree it probably seems like an alternate reality in the US (assuming that's where you're from), it's not so far-fetched in other parts of the world. Just my $0.02.
"Code-crackers are now frantically trying to decipher the message, which never reached its intended recipient"

The picture of the message says "Copies Sent: 2" right there at the bottom. Wouldn't it make sense to send a second bird to increase the probability of delivery?
Browser? Steps to repro?
Wait, now you are comparing a luxury car to a Toyota truck. That doesn't make any sense at all, so your question "Which one makes more economic sense?" doesn't make sense.

By your logic, everyone who buys a BMW M3 or a Porsche Boxster ... or whatever ... is dumb because they should have bought a Toyota truck because it is only $19,000 over 5 years.
But you can't actually simulate a TM on any machine with a fixed amount of memory. And any "special purpose" computing hardware would have at least a little memory. So I don't think that distinction works. Unless it only applies to machines with expandable memory? Technically, if it were hot swappable, the memory would be unbounded. But nowadays, the SD slot on phones is often under the battery, if it exists at all.
I wonder what (# of expired links clicked each year * 8 seconds / link) amounts to.
Sandy’s Toll on Medical Research
Alexis Ohanian Defends Internet Freedom of Speech
You're probably right. Better Home Depot (node w/ express) than IKEA (RoR). In my defense, my full time positions labeled me an engineer. On that note, I don't use any prebuilt front-end libraries.
PayPal security holes expose customer card data, personal details
I. Software is mathematics.
II. Mathematics are not patentable.
>> Software is not patentable.

Pick a premise and argue against it. Or, don't bother: you and the US legal system are in an argument against reality. It's not a winnable argument, but sense can take a long time to percolate through obstinate stupidity.
I think your facts are a bit off. The "superdrive" in macbooks require significantly more power than a SSD. When you burn a dvd using the superdrive, it requires between 40-50W of power. Even the most power hungry SSDs during heavy sequential write mode use less than 5W of power. If anything, the optical drive bay needs to provide more power than the HDD side of things.

It's more likely that the ebay-knockoff adapters were poorly made than it having anything to do with power requirements.
The War on Objectivity
I have my own philosophy for information processing. After thinking about it, it boils down to these 5 steps.

1. Consume liberally.
2. Process rigorously.
3. Store cautiously.
4. Modify frequently.
5. Express freely.

Step 5 feeds back into Step 1, and is the step that puts me at odds with Buffett's statement. I think it is an important one though, even if the expressed ideas are incorrect or incomplete, because it keeps the information cycle flowing. Bullshit of some form will always exist until everyone is an omniscient deity and all truth in the Universe is known.

To me, the much more worrisome issue is the lack of emphasis on Steps 2, 3, 4: asking questions, questioning answers, answering questions. Encouraging people to try Steps 2, 3, and 4 is a more widely beneficial solution than telling them to just avoid Step 5 unless they are God.
All someone needs to do to crack a password these days is spin up some servers or a botnet. Thousands of accounts getting bruteforced and abused could harm and even destroy a website.

Use lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and symbol(s). It's the only way to prevent a password from being cracked in minutes.

It's the unfortunate consequence of having powerful computers at a low cost. Password restrictions WILL continue to get more strict. It has to be that way to protect the users, the biz, and the infrastructure.
Good catch. Edited it. Thanks for the feedback
I'd hoped that BetterPlace might have an answer to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place But considering their difficulties in the last few weeks - perhaps not them. The Battery-Switch concept is potentially sound though.
Ask HN: Social curation shopping web site
Socially curated shopping platform where you can buy like amazon. Is this space crowded with potential or a bubble.

Is this space good to venture into?
I don't think Apple is going down at present. I'm sure that they already have a couple of product ideas that they are working on. However 5 years down the line, this might change and we will know if they can continue to innovate and come up with something new which the industry hasn't capitalized on.
In fact, many of the technologies that Apple has purchased, such as Siri, would not exist without lots of funding into solving the harder problems.

That doesn't mean they wouldn't like to take all the credit for it ;)
Thanks for the feedback! Just cleaned things up a bit to make it less jarring and easier to find the sign-up page.
OK, nobody commented this up to now but I think is important: Among the many posts about this subject I've read on HN recently this was absolutely the best: Not only it approached the matter in a no-nonsense, practical matter without preaching from "the height of an unwritten book" or an axe to grind but it also gives excellent advice to young girls who want to venture into the field.

With posts like this I wish there was a mega-upvote option on HN, e.g. for 500 points of karma you upvote 10 points.
This is not /r9k/, please take your misogyny there.
> The field is now called AGI.

No it's not.
Progress is being made, but there is still a long way to go.

This happened in a talk at a programming/web/tech event two weeks ago: http://i.imgur.com/4hL6X.jpg
Isn't the 250 miles a max range, assuming ideal driving conditions? Also, as the car ages, will the battery range erode significantly? If its similar to consumer rechargeable battery technology, should we expect that the 250 mile range will be closer to 150 miles with "typical" driving behavior and after the car has been driven for 50K miles?
Do you have any reason to suspect this isn't how the brain works? Maybe language isn't a small set of high level rules. Why should we suspect it to be? The probablistic models seem to be very similar to how real people actually learn informal language. Formal languages of course have high-level rules, and these are well modelled algorithmically.
I (100% female) work as a web developer and are not sure if the lack of female colleagues bothers me or not. Political correctness dictates that it should

Political correctness isn't really about groupthink or how you should feel. It's about not making other people feel shitty because you're too lazy to use inclusive language. It's simply an extension of 'manners', and gets demonised when it shouldn't be.
If Stallman's modification of "implementations using special-purpose hardware" was in place and Apple was filing that application today, I could see how they would reduce the slide-to-unlock to "slide-to-unlock on a multitouch surface".
This quote should go to the top of the page!
Looks like it (like the j-20) still has traditional nozzles in back. Not so stealthy from behind.

Good way to sneak up on an AWACS over the strait though. Who cares if you get whacked by escorts on the way back?
It really just depends, doesn't it? We all regret some things, and we probably fail to appreciate some things we've done right.
Have we learned nothing from Twitter. FB's ad revenue model is still in its infancy, so I wouldn't assume any part of their ecosystem is safe.