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>Replace him with "an experienced early adopter." How would the article be different?

So, I've been reading the forums at teslamotorsclub.com recently, and there are a lot of questions (and answers) about the Model S's range. From what has been written over there, it sounds like the car's speed has the biggest impact on range. In the NYT piece, I notice that the only time he mentions his speed is after it started to look like he might not have enough range to make it to his destination--and then he only mentioned how slow he had to drive. I would submit, then, that an "experienced early adopter" would know that his driving speed matters and therefore not try to drive down the expressway "upside-down at mach 3 with his hair on fire."

I also notice that the author made no attempt to charge the car at his destination in Connecticut. Instead, he planed to rely exclusively upon Tesla's "Superchargers" for the entire trip. Again, an "experience early adopter" would know that the Model S can be plugged into a clothes dryer outlet and fully charged overnight (i.e., no waiting). He could have started his second day with a fully-charged battery, if he chose to. Actually, the author probably would have had enough range for the rest of his trip if he had even plugged into a standard 120V domestic outlet in Groton.

Frankly, it sounds like the author was trying to make his life difficult. Almost a third of the verbiage is devoted to range problems that were a direct result of his decision not to charge in Groton. When drivers choose not to fill up before driving across Death Valley, do we blame the driver or the car?

This isn't to say that the car is ready for prime-time. After all, the author may be representative of the general public. However, I think that anyone with even a modicum of curiosity about his new car--and more importantly, someone who, by purchasing one, had some sort of incentive to make things work instead of writing a diatribe in the NYT--would have no trouble figuring out these things, and avoiding the range problems described in the article.
I just drove by some dude who was running down a pitch-dark freeway with a small child at his side. They were carrying a can of gas to refill at the station a couple miles ahead.

Damn gasoline engines - so unreliable! You'd think after 100+ years of development they'd have sorted this stuff out.
Curiosity images strange metallic-looking object on Mars
People are inherently critical. Maybe it's some evolutionary effect for human survival, but either way we're all prey. No one is going to agree with you on 100% of the issues, 100% of the time. That's not how the world works. All of us have different influences from different lives and draw different conclusions. A majority may disagree with a minority, but that doesn't give the majority the right to silence opposition. Difference is fundamental to discourse.
Ideally, I'd expect hitting print on the linked page should produce the print version; instead, it produces something nearly unusable, and without 90% of the content.
Not ready for primetime is an understatement.
> A monoid is anything with an associative append and an identity operation.

It doesn't have to be an append, it can be any associative operation that is closed over its domain and the domain features an identitiy element.

> A monad is a form of monoid (in the category of endofunctors; what's the problem?),

A category theoretic monad may be a "monoid in the category of endofunctors". The Monad type is not, strictly speaking, a monoid (but looks like one if you squint a little).

> but monoids are not necessarily monads.

Who said they are? :)
I actually think the major thing missing here ia not swapping out the entire pack (although that would probably be more time efficient), but having some sort of emergency pack to get you that extra 5 or 10 miles you need to a charging station (or in the case of the article, release the parking brake to quicken the towing process).
CodeIgniter is severely outdated and a pain in the butt to work with. I would go with Laravel, it's got the best features and the best license.
Wow this position seems awesome. Do you know if they are specifically looking for someone with D3 experience? I guess it's time for a quick project...

edit: It says "This position is closed". Is this an error, or was this initially posted a while ago?
As a TSLA shareholder and as a general fan of the company, this is disappointing. TSLA's been doing everything right, which is what has given them so much momentum so early in the game, and if they are going to be the big disruptor that I'm betting on, they cannot afford to lose that momentum. If they start mis-stepping, they won't last long, and this is a misstep that many, many people at TSLA should have seen coming from many miles away.

Batteries suck in the cold. Did no one think to test the Model S in the east's freezing temperatures before they turned one over to a journalist?

What gives, Elon?
You should talk to a lawyer immediately. You should also read up on just what exactly your visa allows you to do. Assuming you have an F-1 visa, you are pretty much (with some small exceptions), not allowed to work. This includes self-employment, freelancing, anything.

What you should have done (and this is still a legal uncertainty) is have the funds tied to a Venezuelan bank account, your Venezuelan personal and tax identification. It's a little late for that, however.

Best of luck retrieving your funds. I wouldn't be surprised if you got PayPal to release them (they are not themselves a government, so just require enough information to cover their own ass). But expect to be asked some very serious questions by USCIS. For that reason you don't want a regular lawyer, you main issue here will be trying to convince the US you weren't breaking your visa terms.

You need an immigration lawyer.
To be honest, I was thinking about learning Python+Django, but then found out about Laravel!
While they lied in the sense that you are using here, there was clearly a game of intimidation going on: they upped the number of charges from four to 13 late in the game. And as a negotiating technique, the pressure was increased.

I am reminded of a quote attributed to Emanuel Lasker ‘A threat is more powerful than its execution’.
Electric cars are second cars - the commuter one, not the road trip one. They currently don't make sense for road trips, absolutely. But they make a ton of sense for commuting, most likely even in cold climates.

It's an interesting and broadly relevant article, but it feels like we're having the wrong discussion - we might be single males, but the target market for the time being is well off families considering a new second car... ;)
AFAIK it's designed to be replaceable without major surgery, but I don't think the replacement is meant to be quite as rapid as "stop at a gas station and they'll pop a new one in." I'm not an expert, but that was my impression.
If he stayed at a hotel there would be nothing to plug into.
Care to share technical implementation?
But even if there were, the batteries would continue to run down after delivery (unless supplied with a non-trivial amount of power).

My thinking is that they would be kept on trickle charge at the gas station after delivery. That wouldn't take a huge amount of power. The actual recharging process would happen at a depot that has high power connectivity to the grid with low distribution losses.

I suspect it would be more efficient to do that and have the charged batteries trucked to the service stations, than it would be to have each service station do their own primary recharging. Especially since, as you say, the service station owners aren't going to want to devote a huge amount of space to battery inventory.

I'm vaguely aware of Better Place but they certainly don't get Tesla's mindshare (good, bad, or otherwise.)
The problem really is the mindset (and infrastructure). People in gasoline cars regularly drive their cars to the point where they have 1/6th of fuel left and then refuel.

That is just not the modus operandi with an electric vehicle. You plug it in everywhere you can, and frankly thats almost everywhere theres main power.
I actually looking for a way to solve this future problem (located in Colombia). I wish I could use stripe or baintree. Opening a account in USA from my local bank requiere US 30.000 in the first deposit (!) and creating a US company (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5148581) I worry for the legal/financial repercussions of that. The local payment processors suck worse than paypal. I use fastspring, they support my country, but can't use it for mobile payments (my requeriments). How badly this sucks...
It seems like this would be domain specific. You have a more than respectable library (although that presumably cost more in effort/taste than in money). I have a huge collection of digital media, firearms, specific types of tools, etc. If I had >$1b, I can't imagine ever getting excited about spending money on clothes, and I'd rather have invested early into TSLA than owning 10 Ferraris, but I'd also be buying Freedom Group from Cerberus right now.
Why you didn't pull your money from PayPal once every week?
Hardly the same thing, unless the guy's gas gauge lied to him.
I think people would be very surprised what they are capable of doing. I have been working 80-100 hours per week since March of last year, and before I worked a pretty standard 45 and 'had no time'. I am actually more productive with my time, help my wife more, and still read business books and novels at a pretty good clip.

My biggest two tips are to wake up early and get things done before work, and truly love what you are working on. I wake up around 4 am and go to sleep around 9 pm most nights, and that is a pretty reasonable schedule for me now. It didn't start out that way, but you would be surprised what becomes normal when you push yourself. I would wager you are capable of a lot more then 8 hours a day, five days a week.
Fun. Some years ago I wrote a Processing hack with almost the same name and intent, but the effect is different (I rebuild a wireframe based on the points recognized in the image).

A demo: http://vimeo.com/8297993
Source code: https://github.com/hcarvalhoalves/processing-cammesh
A strange game.
No, PayPal would ask for your ssn to make sure you're paying the taxes on the 200k you just made. Yes, if you sell 200k in old toys on eBay, you owe the IRS a pile of money.
Wow! This remind me of "I have the problem of create a US company to use stripe. I know Double Irish arrangement. Now, I have two problems!".

This is a serious roadblock for me... anyway...
No, DC and Marvel are work for hire. You are allowed to keep original artwork to sell later if you want.
I've heard that awhile back, but based on the new designs I've seen for the "battery base" I don't see how that's possible?

Pic of the battery: (which is really the base of the whole car) http://www.cartype.com/pics/10143/full/tesla_model_s_battery...
"Should" is always a tough one -- from a product design standpoint.

The tradeoffs due to price point, available technologies, time to market, etc leave a lot of "should" on the cutting floor due to compromise. I don't think we're particularly close on hot swap batteries as a stand in for real time charging while they still weigh 1000lbs.

I'm betting that folks like Telsa will drive hard on the necessary advances in battery technology over time, or energy storage technique more broadly.

Personally, I think having to swap the battery is just as stone age inefficient. I want some sort of super-capacitor with instant charge capability and fine-grained control over the energy release --- not to mention avoiding the nasty chemical mix in traditional battery tech, waste energy in the form of heat, etc.

Maybe some amalgamation of materials science, nano-tech, etc will get us there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Cand%C3%A8s for one.
As pointed out by a commenter at the site, the simulation doesn't address mortality rates of disease outbreaks. Nor does it address the risks associated with vaccination. If taken seriously, it's likely to leave some with mistaken perceptions.
5 year old uses $150 prosthetic hand thanks to 3d printing
I have a couple of questions:

- How open is Ycom to applications if all you're coming with is an idea, and no proof of concept?

- Is it true that there's an age bias?
IANAL, and the OP should talk to one.

I'm working legally in the US (TN-1), but my wife is here without permission to work (TD-1) (and is not working). When I discussed her options with my immigration lawyer, like maybe should could remote-work for a company back home, my lawyer said (informally) that any work or any income, while in the US, was subject to immigration law. In fact, I was told US immigration's opinion is that when non-US citizens answer work email while on vacation in Hawai'i, it's technically illegal (although obviously everyone happily ignores that in practice).

What a surprise, countries are really no-fooling serious about protecting jobs for their own citizens.

So it's quite possible that in this case, Paypal had no legal alternative.
I do lots of typing, day and night, and have had near-crippling pain. I did two things that seriously helped.

First, I mapped keys at the OS level that reduced awkward movements, the most obvious of which is changing the caps lock to control.

The other major thing is acquiring a kinesis keyboard. After several weeks of using it, the pain gradually subsided, and now I have none.

The other thing i did in conjunction with this keyboard was to remap some of the keys unusually, like putting the escape key close to where my thumb could hit it.

There should be enough keyboard choices and key control to make the choice of language on criteria other than wrist or finger pain.
That is neither what I claimed nor an accurate statement about what Swartz's attorney said.
OT: Surprisingly, I was able to use this in the Opera Mini mobile proxy browser. The fact the server preserved page state and streamed page updates meant it actually worked surprisingly well, albeit with a low framerate.
There is no magic fix for this. It's like asking to turn off gravity and friction so you can have a more comfortable trip.

The reason for the big losses in the cold is the battery management system that is trying to keep the pack warm and has to expend energy to do so. You can opt not to do any battery management, but then you get thermal runaway and a life-threatening Boeing situation, or (in the cold) your battery pack is damaged.

They picked the best option there is under the circumstances.
Take a look at Wedding Snap https://www.weddingsnap.com/

I'm not affiliated nor have I used it just seen it around
Thanks, I had never heard of a 1099-K before.

In case others are curious, here's a description of what it is:

"Due to the rise of of people making money with the help of the Internet, the 1099-K has been introduced. For the most part, the 1099-K is meant to ensure that income made from power sellers on sites like eBay is properly reported. The 1099-K is issued by third party payment processors, including banks and non-bank services like PayPal. So, if you use eBay to earn money selling, your transactions, processed through PayPal, will be reflected on the 1099-K issued by PayPal."[1]

[1] http://cashmoneylife.com/1099-k-form-reporting-requirements
legal confidentiality means...

IANAL, but I don't believe you have attorney-client privilege until you formally hire the lawyer. So if you are calling ten lawyers and getting advice, there is no guarantee of privilege.
Yes, selling old clothes and toys on eBay makes you a business. If you do it under your own name, you are a sole proprietorship. In the US, your business (the sole proprietorship) will attach a Schedule C reporting its business income (the proceeds of those eBay sales) with your federal tax return. If you sold $200k worth of old toys, PayPal would ensure the IRS knows you owe taxes as it'd report the income on a Form 1099-K, as they're required to do for any account holder with over $20k in annual sales.
The (possible) immigration issue and the Paypal-locked-my-account issue are somewhat tangential. The money's (probably) not being held because of a visa issue. It's being held because it looks suspicious.

BUT, let's say OP gets a lawyer and starts exchanging nasty letters with Paypal. Any Paypal lawyer worth his salt is going to quickly say "Hmm, you're a student? Does your visa situation allow you to earn money in the US, or was this income generated illegally? Let's ask USCIS for their expert opinions. By the way, you do realize they can deport you, right? Are you SURE you want to continue down this road?"
My wife works as a pediatric nurse. It is sad to see the impacts as parents make idiotic decisions and more and more kids are gettings sick with potentially life-threatening diseases. I think we have dropped below the level of herd immunity.
This is why electric cars are not magical fairies and can't solve the structural problems around transportation in the USA. They suck for long-haul travel, but nobody should have to have their own car for long-haul travel. It should be possible to travel around by train, using a rented car for only the last short leg of the trip, if it happens to be rural, or local public transport otherwise. Electrics would be just perfect hired cars if you only needed to go ten miles and back or something like that.
A quick Google search turns up this page[1] that lists the donation as "18.5 million to establish the [MCC]". That figure would make much more sense compared to the other figures.

[1] http://www.wellsphere.com/men-s-health-article/bill-gates-do...

Edit:
Try this Google search. The real number is almost certainly 18.5 MILLION, which makes this table total up to about 18 billion dollars instead of 37 billion. It's amusing how people are jumping through hoops to force this 18.5 billion figure to make sense rather than looking for a citation. (But rest assured that lists assembled by Internet blogs are reliable sources of information.) I'm sure we'll start seeing this "fact" start turning up in research essays and other linkbait blogs.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bill+gates+donation+male+cir...
"he might have faced as many as 2 years, but that he also might have avoided a custodial sentence even if he was convicted."

This is in direct contradiction to what Aaron's lawyers have stated. Jail time was required, and if he did not plead guilty then the DOJ would push for a 7 year sentence.
I believe but cannot (due to crappy airplane wireless and the fact that I'm using my phone to read) confirm that there are elements missing from Swartz's offense that would have prevented a maximal sentence.

Either way, I assume we agree that the DOJ published the press release knowing full well Swartz would not actually be subject to 35 years.
I don't recall banks freezing your assets for 6+ months to make sure your business is legit.
Hourly fulfillment employees do work at marginal cost (linear relationship between revenue and labor) that doesn't have the multiplier effect that corporate office work has. Thus there is a hard ceiling on sustainable wage level. For a lawyer it is high. For packaging $5 books it is not.
Here you conflate the position of the prosecutors as related by Swartz's counsel with the actual opinion held by that counsel about the outcome of a conviction. The two are obviously not equivalent.
You're also not getting principal by letting that money sit with PayPal.
Possible valid fixes:

- Have the reporting system look at current temperature and change the reported range.

- More supercharger stations closer together. (200 miles apart for a reported range of 268?! Ballsy. Especially in the extreme cold of the northeast. Reckless when you are giving a car to a NYTimes reviewer.)

- Don't have the parking brake LOCK so you can't even move the car without a flatbed truck.

- Have the car warn/inform the driver when they park somewhere cold to keep it plugged in to warm the battery up

and that's off the top of my head.

Many things can be done. This isn't necessarily a 'physics problem.' It's communicating and setting expectations. When the car says "100 miles" and you are stuck at the side of the road after 50 miles, it doesn't matter that "the physics make sense". What matters is you were screwed by completely false information.

The fix is simple. In fact, it's so simple, I would be SHOCKED if the TSLA guys aren't already including it in a future firmware update.
This is probably the worst article I've ever seen on Hacker News. There is nothing to read into here or analyze.

Reminds me of that quote from Billy Madison, "...we are now dumber for having read it...and may god have mercy on your soul!"
Seems kind of crazy. How much would it cost to cure AIDS or develop affordable treatments? He is treating many of the symptoms from which people suffer in the world. However, accelerating the advancement of science and medicine might be a better goal. There's probably lots of redundant medical research for example. Take some of the money and help fund a new era of open medical research.
I'm not sure what that point has to do with mine or 'tzs'. In any case, we agree.
(or in the case of the article, release the parking brake to quicken the towing process).

Yes, that part of the article struck me as a real head-scratcher. This kind of "engineering" is becoming all too common in the auto industry, even among companies that have been around for decades and should know better.

For instance, the battery in the new-generation Porsche 911 is in the front trunk... which can only be opened electrically.

WTF, people? Are all the smart guys and gals working for Google these days, or something?
This is excellent. I'm going to add it to my little bag of arguments for those times I encounter anti-vaccine types.

Its futile to argue with them that vaccines aren't (statistically) harmful, they've already made up their minds. So I agree. All medical interventions are harmful in some cases. Instead, I simply ask them what makes them special that they should be allowed to avoid the small risk of the vaccine as opposed to everyone else. After all, if no one was vaccinated, there would be polio epidemics, which most will concede are worse than the risks posed by vaccines.

Asking them why they are exempt from preventing polio while everyone else must shoulder the burden often turns a mindless stream of conspiracy jargon into an almost stunned pause.

I'd pay for an app that runs this simulation just to make this point sharper.
There are a _lot_ of options between 13 episodes at once and 13 episodes over 13 weeks.
Enron was stable until it wasn't.
Before going too far down that road, it might also be a good idea to consider how he produced that much money. It's not entirely pretty.
I do, since it happened to me 9 years ago when I was as naive about the industry as you. First National Bank of Omaha, the largest privately held bank with $17bn in assets, if you're curious. The several thousand dollars of customer payments they had not yet disbursed was held for exactly 180 days before they released it to me.

Do you not recall because you haven't read your own agreement, or because you haven't actually opened a merchant account with a bank before? You don't have to take my word. Type ["merchant account agreement" 180] into Google to see some 40,000 examples of bank contracts with that same hold period written into them.
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PayPal also has over 100,000,000 users. Even if PayPal worked 99.999% of the time, you're talking thousands of problem cases.

Turn.js is awesome, I've been a fan of it for a while, and I hope and expect PayPal to resolve this.

But generalizing advice off this one data point is wrong. For the vast majority of people, PayPal is hands down the best choice.