skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be great if the batteries were hot-swappable in a user-serviceable fashion and accessible via opening the front and rear car doors to reveal a panel at the bottom with battery bays. The batteries could be approximately the width of a hard drive with the depth of the battery being half the width of the vehicle. You would have perhaps 8 such battery bays accessible from behind each door, for 32 hot-swappable bays in total. A quick search shows that the batteries in a Tesla S weigh about 600 pounds, meaning each one would be 20 pounds; easy for just about anybody to change.
That's a totally fair assessment. We are trying to find the perfect mix between enough browsing space vs being able to see the poster fully.
The title of this should be "Most business plans are completely useless."
This is awesome! I am surprised it didn't get on the front page.
Those of us who own electric cars know that electric cars have already won. They are just too good compared to regular somewhat-junky gasoline cars. The benefits are too numerous to list.

The only problem that I have with my Roadster is that if I want to take a long road trip, there has to be a big stopover in the middle, which makes trips much longer. The Model S solves that. Therefore, EVs have won. They are here now, they are real, and they work. All that needs to happen is for the cost to come down, but there is nothing preventing that.

If you have parking at home, an EV is way better than gas or hydrogen because you never need to take your car somewhere to fuel it, ever (unless on a very long road trip). You just come home, park, and plug it in. It is hard to communicate how good this feels until you've had an EV for a few weeks and you're driving past all these gas stations and kind of laughing because you don't need them.
Disasters are not a corner condition. Limited resources and unlimited wants is a permanent condition. Disasters just tweak the relative values of these parameters, which are reflected in prices. As always, the system adapts and re-routes the resources to where they're needed most.
Like 'a black rectangle with rounded corners'?
The 'E' in EC2 is the major benefit you get using EC2 over a more traditional hosting provider. If you're just using static instances and don't use other AWS features, you're probably better off just not using EC2. In my opinion, it's priced with the elasticity in mind.

(Yes, there's the option of reserved instances, but they still may or may not be the most cost-effective option for what you want to do in that case.)
Also, Xcode 4.5.2 has been released to go along with it:

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/
> Once the courts have determined that Samsung didn't copy Apple, Apple can't keep advertising publicly that Samsung copied them.

Devil's Advocate -- Can they mention decisions in other jurisdictions and the fact that they don't agree with the court?
... and on the battery chemistry issue, Teslas use Lithium-Ion batteries, just like we have been using in laptops for forever. They are not exotic.
SF is very fascinated with Yosemite, but there are other areas that also push the sport. Obviously, the Europeans have done alot. Bouldering is itself a pretty hardcore activity, and one that has pioneered at times certain techniques that have had broader impact. Some of the best in also in the USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hueco_Tanks
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When I worked with the Politico, the Editor-in-Chief who had helped head up the WashingtonPost always would send these follow-up e-mails after our meetings and it was really effective. It would sit in my e-mail and I would get stuff done. More importantly for these folks who live in a world where there network is their bread and butter, the masters of their own CRM always won.
> Why can't they let their products sell and speak for themselves?

Because of Android.

The rise of Android is clearly showing that Apple products can no longer "speak for themselves" and Apple is feeling the pressure on all fronts, some that they used to have a 90% monopoly on (phones and 10' tablets) and some that they are joining late (7' tablets).

I see the proactive litigation as a move to delay the inevitable (iOS devices being relegated to sub 15% market share across the board, which they are on their way to).
Building an API by hand is only impossible if literally no one in the organization understands their data. If that is the case, an API is the least of their concerns.
Re: "Your brain finishes forming in your 20′s"
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity

Specifically: "During most of the 20th century, the general consensus among neuroscientists was that brain structure is relatively immutable after a critical period during early childhood. This belief has been challenged by findings revealing that many aspects of the brain remain plastic even into adulthood."
Pretty cool to see so many fellow hackers with similar positive memories of this game. It's pretty indicative of the age group here on HN. For reference, I'm 23.

This was one of the greatest games ever made, no doubt. I've actually never been able to relate to a lot of my buddies who can game for hours on end. Starcraft, WoW, etc.. bore me after 30 minutes.

Goldeneye on the other hand ... I could have easily died from starvation without the parental supervision.

Anyhow, back to the original post. It's interesting to me that the original team had no idea what they were doing. I still look back on apps or things I built years ago, lacking absolutely any idea of what I was doing, and being amazed at how successful or great they ended up. Inversely, sometimes the product or thing I spent the most time agonizing over ended up being a total flop. More and more I am learning that you just gotta side with the majority of the 80/20, stick to your gut feelings, and jam jam jam to get that puppy out the door.

It's always tricky to find that perfect place between being a bootstrapped/scaffolded/barebones MVP product and a well-thought out, carefully designed product. I'm glad the Rare team managed to hit it with Goldeneye, they're an inspiration.
I enjoyed reading this until I reached the end: "I still have nightmares about playing Temple and not being able to find the proximity mines. If you like James Bond, lattes, startups and design, you'd enjoy my tweets."

Talk about a non sequitur.
I can't speak to the OP, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; we are yet to observe anything in the natural world where "something magical [really turned out to be] going on", so this really is an extraordinary claim. It has been several years since I was current with the linguistics literature, but as far as I know no extraordinary evidence has been produced.

I don't think that requires that we view language solely as a probabilistic map between sounds and objects. All sorts of emergent behavior appear to be "magical" at first glance.
If you can make a resource by yourself, outsource- in this case, adopt.

It will make some of the exhaustion go away, since it seems to be due to diverging circadian rythms between a newborn and an adult.

A say 4 years old kid would logically be less exhausting to raise.

Also, if the kid is adopted, it also removes fertility issues concerns.

Strike 2 birds with 1 stone!
What I Learned Building Medium (So Far)
It looks a lot nicer and less ambitious than the prototype that they showed at CES earlier this year.

http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/crop/200903/tesla-model-s--...
So charging more for a temporarily scarce resource is what 'ruins societies'?

How much gas do you think someone needs to transport themselves to another city? Imagine gas prices doubled so that someone had to spend $120 instead of $60 to fill their tank. Are you really trying to tell me that $60 is all that separates a functioning society from 'ruin'?

During a shortage, the high prices don't last forever, they only last as long as the shortage persists. Arguing as if the high prices are an ongoing problem for the poor or the rich doesn't make sense. In any case, it would be much better for the government to give the poor person $60 to purchase the more expensive gas (or the ice, or the food, or whatever was most critical for that person) rather than artificially manipulate market prices.
How I Wrote a Book in 3 Days
Endless (no-limits) pickup and delivery of laundry. Scheduled weekly, on-demand pickups as requested.

Weekly visits to do the dishes in my sink (max 1 hr visit?)

Bi-weekly group activity schedule (volleyball this saturday at #neartoyou, baseball on sunday!)
I am not well acquainted with Noam Chomsky and his work, but the dichotomy you refer to I'd like to call "design vs evolution".

If the extreme "design" part the spectrum is what Chomsky talks about: "develop a theory of how something happens and use it to find evidence that supports or refutes that theory", then the extreme end of the "evolution" part of the spectrum must be this:

Choose a set of rules, use genetic programming techniques to rearrange those rules. Evidence you require will be acquired and utilised by the algorithm itself. The only crux is the set of rules to choose from and implementation of the technique. IMO, the more complicated the rules and the more they interact with each other, the better.

...only then can you get results like this: "...Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest– with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output– yet when the researcher disabled any one of them the chip lost its ability to discriminate the tones."

http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

While we don't know whether the design approach will work, we have examples of evolution creating working intelligence[1].

[1] You.
Aren't EVs totally unusable if you live in an apartment? That was my impression when I looked into them. Like, how would I charge a car in my parking stall?
I'm confused about something.

OpenBSD is supposedly one of the most secure OSs in existence. So how is it possible that I cannot find any digital signatures for the downloadable ISOs? I've been searching all over Google and the mirrors, but nothing has come up.

One person has suggested to just order a CD set from them, but I don't think that's a good solution. Having a secure verified copy of an OS should not require ordering a physical "gold master" set of discs to compare against.

I mean, we have all the necessary crypto, and anyone can use it. Generate a GPG/PGP signature of the install ISO and that's it, you're done. A lot of people do it - Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, all the big names... I mean seriously, even Arch Linux people do it, and until recently they didn't have package signing (now they do).

I'm not complaining or criticising OpenBSD, I'm just wondering about their attitude to this aspect of security. I would be very happy if anyone could elaborate on the topic.
"Gorilla arm" is how your arm will feel after reaching up to touch a screen/device. http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html

Touching my desktop screens would involve moving my hands to around eye level. I hold my phone/tablet a lot lower.

My real problem in the new world order is that tablets seem to have topped out at 10 inches. While that may be comfortable for many, my hand span is the same width as the screen and I'd prefer something a lot larger.
I would disagree. I think the personal commuter vehicle will move to an electric power system if Tesla (or their competition) manages to scale down price and ramp up production. I think heavy work and utility vehicles, however, will remain fuel powered.

I, for one, am happy that we finally have a choice other than gasoline or diesel. Given enough money I'd love for my family to have both an electric and gasoline (or diesel) vehicle.
Apple seems to disagree with you since in the past year, all the new products that they have introduced have pretty much been spec upgrades with no innovation (and sometimes, regressions, e.g. maps).
God forbid people be allowed to voluntarily exchange their money for essential supplies!

Snark aside, whether it made economic sense or not was up to those people to decide. Clearly, it didn't make economic sense for people to drive 1000 miles to sell generators at cost, because people stopped doing it once they weren't allowed to profit.

Posters upstream discuss rationing, which never works well either. It still ends up in an inefficient distribution of resources. This is logical. How can the person doing the rationing possibly know how much water each of 300,000 individuals needs? Maybe I have a bunch at home and don't need any, whereas my neighbor needs extra because he's severely dehydrated. Whenever rationing occurs, there is always increased corruption and graft, and a market for the coupons (or whatever tally method is chosen) always arises anyway.
Great send. That crux looks very fun!
quoting from Wikipedia:

According to a 2011 study conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley, the currently estimated reserve base of lithium should not be a limiting factor for large-scale battery production for electric vehicles, as the study estimated that on the order of 1 billion 40 kWh Li-based batteries could be built with current reserves.[71] Another 2011 study by researchers from the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company found that there are sufficient lithium resources to support global demand until 2100, including the lithium required for the potential widespread use of hybrid electric, plug-in hybrid electric and battery electric vehicles. The study estimated global lithium reserves at 39 million tons, and total demand for lithium during the 90-year period analyzed at 12–20 million tons, depending on the scenarios regarding economic growth and recycling rates.[72]

[71]: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/06/albertus-20110617.ht...

[72]: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/08/lithium-20110803.htm...
It is blasphemous to capture Command+L in a webapp.
Outside Zynga HQ
Anyone interested in putting together a game in SF?
IMHO electric cars will survive batteries and move toward other storage mechanisms e.g. supercapacitors
Really? Demanding an apology be published (in the spirit of an apology) is 'compelling speech' and therefore against 'our freedoms'?

Do you also admonish American parents who tell their child to say they are sorry for an infraction?
You may not need it anymore but my startup is trying to get people to where you've gotten. In the case of NaNoWriMo, the idea is to force yourself to spread out the writing over the whole month: http://blog.beeminder.com/nanowrimo
Its not an argument, its true physiologically, or so its been reported. Certain types of reasoning peak (in terms of horse-power or raw CPU type performance) in your 20's, similar to raw athleticism. But there are a whole host of factors, around plasticity, memory management, and actual memory (ie, empirical data) that allow more real-world performance at a later age/stage. To continue the computer analogy, the fastest chip doesnt always win, if you have GPU, L1/L2 cach, improved bus-speed, SSD storage, and better written software....etc. Similary, in certain sports world-class athletes improve well beyond their peak physiology. Himilayan mountain climbing is the classic example of peak perfomance <not> being in your 20's.
Concepts like this seem very specific to obtain a certain desired lifestyle rather than advice on how to live.

1) Don't put off your career: While I agree it mainly correlates to two things.
a. Spend as much time as you can doing what you have a drive to do. (e.g: setting yourself to be financially above or where you were when you grew up, trying to start a band, or trying to create the next major startup).
c. Make sure to live below your means. (i.e: Ensure if you make 100 dollars after tax regardless of pay 25 of it is being saved. This gets harder and harder as there is a asymptote decided by the market (cost of living) and situation (whether or not your parents basement is available) you live in).

2) Children: There is a lot of qualifications here that were taken in place in the article. While the clock is ticking and I agree, people look at children as a chore taken to ensure a certain lifestyle later in life; or just want them and are willing to sacrifice whatever else to enjoy having children. Both are generally the case but I feel the set of things that people choose to give up is too large. You should ensure that your finances should be in place to support them but the amount in which you should support them should vary based off of your financial situation (by this I do not limit it to the children's wants (less toys) but rather also the child's needs (why pay for a private school if you can't afford it? because it's worth the difference in learning experiences? What about no private school and finding other means of educating the child?))

3) Brain Finishes Forming: Fight it if you think that this is going to be the case (and care; I know a very large set of people who enjoy being close minded. It means that their life is less complicated by relatively asinine decision making, when they would prefer the action portion of the work (I can't understand this but have debated it with individuals)).
When good answers go bad on Quora
i think the comment is about the archaic interface to the disk partitioning that openbsd uses in the installer. it confuses a lot of people.

(former openbsd user, committer, and book author. no, i don't use it any more.)
>This is a version one device from a company that has never built a computer before

Why do people keep saying this? Microsoft has been making the Xbox and tons of other hardware for years. They know how to make things.
I don't agree that it stops the language from advancing. What is your definition of advancement here, exactly? Lots of successful, productive languages pay attention to tooling as well. I see it as just weighing the costs and benefits of various trade-offs.
I see you've watched the same Alan Kay talk as I have. It certainly changed my opinions about plenty of things.

Many of my colleagues leer at me when I suggest that Computer Science is not so much a field today as it is a pop-culture. We continue to experience novel technology not because it is new but because we continue to forget our past achievements. Innovation has been slow in this culture (I would go so far as to say painfully slow). Worse, it dates me when I gather amongst my younger colleagues and I cannot stand it any longer! I'm not a dinosaur. Not even close!

And still it moves at a lightning pace!
There are certainly tons of free resources out there, but I'm busy enough that $1/day for 20 days of emails with directed tutorials is more than worth it. Those howto's look like a great resource for more detailed (and varied) info, but I just need someone to guide me (and gently prod me) through the basics.
That's not it. This is an entirely different bug, the wifi 'enable' slider is grayed out and stays grayed out. Several iPhones in my vicinity (all 4s) have the exact same problem and so far I haven't found a way to fix it.
There's no one path.

It's good that our poets still keep things in perspective:

http://www.panhala.net/Archive/The_Ball.html
Game titles have always intrigued children in addition to grown ups mainly due to their interaction and graphics. Batman, a fascinating character from the Electricity comics of youth, is a favorite among many. The 1939 comic character has crept into television screens and films, with more than 100s of animated series and also over five movie versions. The heroic disposition of batman combined with exclusive forces has brought to the development of Batman Games.

Source: http://gamingcomputersinfo.blogspot.com/2012/11/batman-games...
I understand what you mean, and you are basically correct. But nevertheless I see this project as a milestone as it helps to focus on selfmade FPGAs instead of soldering TTL chips to copy some hard wired retro systems.

If we someday will be able to print our own chips then they will surely be FPGAs because debugging and reprinting hardwired chips would be likely too expensive.
It's interesting just how quickly Apple's style of simplicity and minimalism can be thrown out the window. If the ruling were in their interest, I can't ever see them leading off with that first paragraph, for example.
Sorting the Real Hurricane Sandy Photos From the Fakes
Tuvalu - not only have they only gotten their money from the .tv domain, but they'll be gone once climate change wreaks its havoc. The dollar goes a long way and it'll be a very unique experience and you'll likely work hard too.
> Can they mention decisions in other jurisdictions

No, because those jurisdictions aren't relevant once the court has already made a ruling for its own jurisdiction.

> the fact that they don't agree with the court?

There's nothing to 'disagree' about. As far as the court is concerned, once it's made a ruling, it's determined the facts, and you can't disagree with their facts. There's nothing to appeal in an acquittal (because of double-jeopardy), so the courts have had their final word on the matter.

This is a civil case, but to use the analogy in a criminal case: once the defendant in a murder trail has been acquitted, the prosecutor can't continue to say, "The court has determined the facts, but I have a different opinion."
Proximity Mines under the ammo spawns.
Invisible room in facility, entrance in Temple.
Race to choose oddjob.
I wish I could agree but a) 4 years old are just as exhausting (the first year is actually the easiest in terms of time you have available) and b) adoption is increasingly more difficult. I have friends who just adopted a baby after 5 years of tests and checks and more checks.

Foster care is another option, it's easier to 'sign up' and you can get school-age kids, who need just as much help as an adopted kid.
What could 'meaning' possibly be other than probabilistic associations of sounds and concepts?
To be fair, the majority of men are pretty barbaric and do physically abuse women after marriage. They totally deserve a law like that. I have heard so many stories of brides getting physically and emotionally abused by their in-laws and husband that I pretty much consider it a part of our culture.
Did you have to write your compiler in C? (I wonder, because OCaml or Haskell seem like much better choices. Or even Java, just for the GC.)
Huh? Your entire post was dismissing one of the features iOS introduced in the same breath as you talked about Android "outspec[cing]" iPhone. And yet you're claiming I'm trying to focus on specs, but you're trying to focus on "features", as if that's any different and better.

Every time someone has tried to hype an Android phone in a discussion I've been a part of, all they do is throw out a bunch of buzzwords and acronyms made up by companies like Samsung to try and market their phone. They don't even try and explain what these damn things are, much less why I should care about them. It seems the goal is to try and overwhelm me with the quantity of "features", even though, were I to actually buy this phone, I wouldn't even use most of the things they hyped.

So please, keep talking about spec lists. Just don't be surprised when not everyone buys into your hype.