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But they are saying that with a comparison to fossil fuel powered vehicles in mind aren't they? With a comparative framing it is a perfectly valid statement.

There is an actual head smacking quote in the article where he says he took a country road instead of the highway in hopes of getting more range by taking advantage of regenerative braking... How can an EV car reviewer for Consumer Reports be so ignorant?
Yet another apples to oranges comparison:

Broder: "the temperature was still in the 30s"

Consumer Reports: "45° F"
I doubt I'm the only one here who can honestly claim that his parents don't really have any problems at all.
It sort of flies in the face of all of common wisdom. The fact that this person advertises as a Thiel Fellow makes the argument a little more hilarious to me.

Why is that the common wisdom is to be in the Bay Area for startups? Is it because paying obscene taxes, obscene living expenses, etc, etc is actually beneficial to your business? No, so what is it then .... Oh. Exactly.
Amazing, glad you plugged it here. Gonna test it for a project in the galleries here at the Met Museum, as our wifi is a bit flaky at times :)
https://github.com/dexteryy/OzJS a microkernel for modular javascript. Disc.: writen by a friend and colleague.
Not really. There's an education bubble: too many applicants; not enough resources. Coursera/Udacity...etc may change that significantly over time. This may significantly impact the very people this article talks about. I think it's good for HN to perceive from time to time the tangential impact of technology on everyday life.
Lack of basic physics knowledge. Shameful really.
This is offtopic. I've noticed several websites with this theme. Is there a standard template available somewhere? I'm referring to the kudos widget, the static left sidebar.
I was surprised at the number of people casually accusing Broder of a conspiracy. Usually, it's the big company representative who gets the vitriol and the journalist is the underdog good guy, but for some reason, much of the reaction was opposite from the expected.
The slowest speed in the highest gear will give you the most bang for your buck. I'm not sure what kind of gearing the tesla has though since electric motors are very different beasts to standard combustion engines.
I doubt we'll see any claims of Tesla having logs to disprove the article. CR bought the car and probably didn't sign the waiver giving Tesla access to the car's data.
>I exited the freeway, hoping that the lower-speed rural road driving would allow more regenerative braking and would extend the range.

This is two articles now where the authors, or technicians they're talking to, seem to think the model S has found away around the laws of thermodynamics. It has not. Regenerative breaking will not charge your battery any more than you drained it getting up to that speed in the first place. In fact, by definition, it will charge the battery less. So anyone who thinks the key to getting more range out of an electric vehicle is to abandon smooth and steady driving and find a way to slam on the brakes is in for a rude surprise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster#Transmission

It's a fixed gear, so this is actually plausible.
Yes, slower speeds are substantially more efficient. It's obviously not linear all the way to zero, but if there's no parasitic load from heat/ac/etc., I think 15-20mph would be more efficient than 55.
It could also be misleading information from dealers. I've never tried to buy an electric but I can tell you about the astronomical amount of bullshit I've heard from dealers when trying to purchase a normal car.
Elon Musk is idolized by many people here, to a great extent because of Tesla, and when they see Musk make accusations they fall in line. It's more Musk-worshipping than anti-NYT sentiment.
I had also have a slightly unresponsive home button, on an iPhone 4.

Try running the Apple Calc app, then hold the power button until the 'slide to power off' prompt appears and then let go and hold the home button gently until the calculator app force-closes.

A previous reddit thread advised that procedure, apparently to trigger some 'recalibration'. It's possible it's placebo effect, but it appears to have slightly helped for my home button.
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-recalibrate-iphone-home-but...
You're the one comparing them.
I'm getting kind of tired of Elon Musk. Last month his crusade was reaming Boeing for their 787 battery problems. This month, someone wrote a bad review of his car (which turned out to be largely factual). Both times, he's on Twitter to talk about himself to anyone who will listen (which is a lot of people, for some reason).

I'm getting a tub of popcorn so I can be adequately prepared for his next crusade. I'm sure that this time it will paint him in a positive light...
It was completely expected. Elon Musk is basically a cult figure for a lot of wannabe "entrepreneurs", so criticism of him or his company is taken very personally and responded to very harshly.

(lest you doubt this, go dig up some of the Boeing 787 threads and see what people were saying about him there -- the level of outright worship of him in the HN comments was more than a little bit scary)
I can definitely say that my gas-powered SUV got 19mpg at 55mph for long distance. (Several hours on a rural highway in Wisconsin, using cruise control) It normally gets between 12 and 16 mpg driving around highway and city.
That's because Elon Musk is some sort of superhero genius to the many of the types that lurk here. The Jason Calicanises of the world have all but declared this guy automobile Jesus.
I think the source of this is that going at slower speeds is more efficient in the Tesla. It has a fixed gear[1], so you don't gain anything by going faster, you just lose more energy to air friction. If the regenerative breaking performs well enough, it's possible that driving off the highway will be more efficient.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster#Transmission
http://famo.us/c/ loved their demo at forbes. Haven't had a moment to do a hands-on with it yet but looks fun.
I have yet to meet one worthy of the moniker.
I'm not surprised. Don't know if this happens on a global scale, but here in Romania there's a trend of journalists and other media people starting to abuse their power like Broder (supposedly?) did, so for me (not sure about others), a journalist having a strong opinion quickly triggers a bullshit bell.
I thought that the issue last time was that Broder was tight with the oil people. I didn't pay that much attention, but it seemed a criticism specific to Broder rather than the NYT at large.
The issue wasn't with the battery having less capacity when cold. The issue was with Broder's lies.
The difference is that this article seems to be an accurate account of events whereas Broder's was at best sloppy journalism and more likely outright journalistic malpractice (an attempt to juice up a story to conform to a preconceived plot, little better than tabloid journalism).

No real-world fault of the Tesla justifies a reporter trying to bend the facts or going out of the way to manufacture a story. Broder clearly set out to drain the Tesla and get it on a tow truck, and he tried his damnedest to make that happen.
There was no mob. Just some angry posts on the internet. Please realize most people don't care about random internet comments, or take them seriously. Just something to argue about when we're focused on a story, it's no big deal.

The outrage seemed normal: Broder and Consumer Reports seem to think that leaving the car unplugged overnight is normal or should ever be done. Or they combine 2 days+1 overnight unplugged, and call that a day, knowing that the cold overnight storage sapped the battery.

So either they are acting stupid, or don't really know how to test battery-powered vehicles. Sure, you don't have to follow instructions, but if you don't, you will have problems, no matter what excuse you have about 'testing something'.

If Broder can't remember what happened, farting around for details, he should have been a professional and videotaped at intervals so he could check the facts.
The reputation is typically assigned to outbound IPs or signing keys, so new domain names wouldn't do much. (Even then, a simple "dig mx your-email-domain.com" would reveal who hosts your email.)
Every so often, someone writes a tool that makes you (or me, at least) super excited about web development. In 2006, that was jQuery. In 2013, that tool for me is Backbone.

http://backbonejs.org/

Just instantiate a model with an endpoint and an ID and Backbone will do all your syncing for you. You can have views listen for changes to the models and update automatically. You can add easy support for client-side navigation via push state.

Backbone takes tedious tasks and makes them fun. Highly, highly recommended.
Laziness is the default state of users on the Internet. Developers should work to support users' habits, not the other way around.
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Best video editor
You can download it,and you can make a video with almost any video, audio and photo.
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d3 is an amazing library, both for the beauty of the framework API itself, and for how it can be used not just for SVG manipulation, but for general DOM manipulation itself. The power of d3.js is just beautiful.
The selection pressures on women and retards are quite different.

That said the probability point is a good one.
The answer to your first question would seem to be a clear "yes":

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/Feg/bymodel/2012_Toyota_Prius.sht...
"Youths from poor and rural families consistently end up paying much higher tuition in China than children from affluent and urban families. Yet they attend considerably worse institutions, education finance specialists say...The reason is that few children from poor families earn top marks on the national exams. So they are shunted to lower-quality schools that receive the smallest government subsidies. The result is that higher education is rapidly losing its role as a social leveler in China and as a safety valve for talented but poor youths to escape poverty."

So that's certainly true in America, and perhaps even more so in China. I think platforms like Coursera/Udacity can start leveling the playing field again for two reasons: first, if the technology is good enough (from personal experience, I would say so) and remains free, the studying-resources gap between rich and poor shrinks; second, even if you can't squeeze your way into a top school, you can still get a top-notch education for free. At the end of the day, i'm grossly oversimplifying things (i.e. the weight of credentials in Chinese society probably still far outweight actual demonstrated skill-set; or consider for a moment whether a family that lives on rice and a few vegetables a day can realistically afford a computer+internet-connection for their kids...), but i still think there's a sizable impact in here somewhere.
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"If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things." Larry Page
for some strange reason

Singapore is a thriving metropolis with negligible crime and essentially no graffiti, has the third-highest per-capita income in the world, and manages to govern four major ethnic groups without devolving into pogroms or race riots. Is it really so strange to idolize such a place?

Singapore does have the death penalty for a few too many things, I'll admit, but you're not likely to get the ax for carrying a little weed. (You might get caned, though.) It's also true that it has laws against homosexuality, but (as with the many US states that have anti-sodomy laws on the books) they're essentially never enforced. Singapore also has no meaningful democracy, but this is a feature, not a bug. (I'll fear the worst if the quasi-communist Workers' Party ever wrests control from the ruling People's Action Party.)

like a yuppie latte-sipping upscale version of North Korea

North Korea is a prison state with the 197th highest income per capita. Singapore lets you leave any time and allows you to become a permanent resident by paying a small fee (~$150) to start a corporation, which then hires you.

Singapore and North Korea are alike the way 18th century Prussia and 1930s Germany were alike: ruled, in effect, by a single individual. But Frederick the Great was no Hitler, and the Yews are no Kims. Do you really not see the difference between Lee Kuan Yew and Kim Il Sung, just because neither is Barack Obama?

I personally see it

Have you personally seen it? Spend an evening strolling around Marina Bay some time (don't miss the Hooters!) and see if it fills you with longing for ghettoes and dirt and bums—or for the famines and death marches of its putative Korean doppelgänger.
So all these journalists are practically correct, just not being precise about the mechanism. Off highway driving is more efficient, and it is more efficient (relative to a conventional car) due to regenerative breaking. They really should mention that it's more efficient relative to highway driving due to wind resistance.
I believe most of the point is not in installing such packages into system libraries. The point is easy and fast installation into a virtualenv, avoiding the whole recompilation of exctensions phase.
Shameless plug time: I built Rekapi, which is a context-agnostic keyframe animation library. That means it works with DOM, Canvas, or whatever you need: http://rekapi.com/

It also supports exporting JavaScript keyframes to CSS3 @keyframes, as demonstrated with Stylie: http://jeremyckahn.github.com/stylie/
> As the range indicator sank to 20 remaining miles on the way to work, I exited the freeway, hoping that the lower-speed rural road driving would allow more regenerative braking and would extend the range. I got a little "credit" by coasting and hovering on the brake pedal, which was soon expended on the hills that followed.

Why do people actually think braking more would conserve energy?! I remember this being referenced in the NYT article as well...
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I think the peak is actually closer to 45 for most gasoline-driven cars. It depends on aerodynamics, though. For a big SUV it might be 35. I suppose it could be as high as 55 for a small, highly aerodynamic car.
I honestly apologize for that. My post grew out of a thought I had that if someone wrote a sim-type game about the Browser Wars, then it would be a lot easier to demonstrate to people the ramifications of the forces at play. The only way to figure out a winning strategy would be to analyze the incentive structure, and from that predict the other players' moves. Sadly, I omitted that background from the post, leaving only the title behind as a hint. I agree that an actual game would be cooler and relevant to a different audience (namely, you and the others I suckered in to reading my post due to the title).
> "Just something to argue about when we're focused on a story, it's no big deal."

It's a big deal when it labels someone as a liar and a fraudster. It's a big deal when tens of thousands of knee-jerk readers are calling for someone's immediate firing. It's a big deal when someone's entire career is threatened by a bunch of people "not taking things seriously" on the internet.

Not taking things seriously is the problem. People in internet-mob-outrage-mode are flippant, quick to judge, and unreasoned, believing that just because it's a bunch of electrons that there are no consequences.

Hell, this situation in specific is lighter than it could be. On Reddit we've seen in the past vigilantes who turned internet-angry-comments into real-life threats against lives, we've even seen one case where someone committed suicide after being hounded by thousands of "random internet comments" that are (according to you) "no big deal" - the accusation was molestation, btw.

Accusations of fraud are Serious Business(tm) for a journalist - there are real consequences for real people when that is tossed around. Just because you don't take your own words seriously doesn't mean other people don't.

Yours is the worst kind of defense - akin to a bully saying "gosh, I was just horsin' around" when called on the awful things that have been coming out of his mouth.
I'd say jQuery is pretty sexy for what it does. That's one of the main (if not the main) reasons it took off.
"To be clear, cold temperatures, need for cabin heat, and a high portion of freeway driving, which minimizes the opportunity for regenerative braking, are the most adverse conditions for any electric vehicle."

usage of "regenerative braking" makes me doubt his tech credentials, not braking is always more efficient than braking and storing that energy back into the battery.

I strongly feel this is a proxy article to give a saving grace to New York Times bungled review.

follow the https://twitter.com/TeslaRoadTrip to see how different owners are driving their Tesla to prove New York times lied
Why has no one made a practical diesel/electric hybrid car yet? This technology has been around for /over a century/ ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel-electric_transmission#Sh... )and I still have not seen a single diesel/electric hybrid.

Along these same lines, diesel cars aren't popular in America even though they get better mileage with less-refined fuel. I'm confident that if US auto mfgs wanted to, they could throw enough money at changing the perception of diesel as "dirty" in America to really help diesel take off. Why are we ignoring this perfectly viable, proven, reliable, and ancient technology in favor of battery packs which create tons of hazardous waste to produce and dispose of?!
In respectable newspapers there is a strict separation between the editorial department and the classifieds and display advertising departments.

In fact, even in less respectable newspapers this is generally true. I worked at a less respectable newspaper for several years; whenever I wandered into the editorial area I was treated as being slightly below toenail clippings in the order of creation.

It's best to think of a newspaper as a device that multiplexes two totally independent feeds. One feed is ads and classifieds, the other is editorial material.

Conspiracy theories to the contrary are just embarrassing. Really. Journalists are tremendously and fiercely proud of themselves (to a fault). Suggesting to a journalist at a serious newspaper that their writing is biased based on what the display department did last week is going to get a mix of reactions from laughter to a punch on the nose for uttering such inflammatory fighting words.
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Users will get pushed into native apps. Normal users don't know or care what DRM is. They click on a link to some video they want to watch from ABC, and if they are on a mobile device they are told they have to download the free app to watch it. They do, cause they want to want to watch, and we just helped push users off the open web!
Pretty much every "lie" Broder has been accused of making can easily be chalked up to the imperfect nature of human memory. His article has problems and certainly could have done with a bit more accuracy especially given that Musk/Tesla were known to be proactive about reviewers' truthfulness, but I am not comfortable characterizing any of it as a "lie". I'd love to hear any concrete example of him lying though.
Consumer Reports are in the pockets of major oil companies. They gave good ratings to cars using gasoline, so they clearly have a bias toward others.

They drove the car on the cold on purpose instead of waiting for summer to come.

Tesla has data showing that consumer reports was lying, the temperature wasn't 45 degrees but 44 at least for a three minute period. Would you trust a liar?

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I'd love to see an exposition of your third example, 'the rationals can be listed in full exactly once each'. The standard proof of their countability demonstrates that Z2 (the set of ordered pairs of integers; markup got me here) is countable, and then says the rationals are a subset of Z2 so must be countable, somehow, as well. I've always wondered about a function to enumerate the rationals without duplicates.
Netscape used a similar release cycle too, and so did Firefox before version 4.
So it is possible to say something similar while maintaining journalistic integrity. Surprise surprise.

This is journalism.

Broder's sloppy crap was not.

Note the real issue, not that Mr. NYT's exaggerations and lies were 'close enough.'

This was never about defending Mr. Hyperbole, AKA Mr. Musk.

It was about a NYT reporter feeling free to take license because it encapsulated the spirit of the truth or some other lukewarm embrace of poor reporting.
Yeah; this misconception manifesting as "taking the rural roads [will save power]" bothered me too.
Would asm.js reduce JS memory usage?

Would non computational scripts benefits from this? Things that are widely used like jQuery.
Une smartwatch avec le Samsung Galaxy S4?
Wow. Very very nice job there. I had project a while back and couldn't find too many options when it came to Javascript diagramming and had to settle with jsPlumb. I wish this was around at the time [edit] or at least more visible from my quick searching.
You could just take the obvious shortcut and rate them all as 'D's or 'F's, because you know they pretty much all will be 'D's or 'F's.
On the topic of quotes, here's one of my favorites: "While programming, you can write fast programs, and you can write programs fast, but you can't write fast programs fast." Guess who said it?

No clue, but I'll throw in a guess of "Fred Brooks".
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Good point, and I should probably update the article to include something. Servo is one way, though I fear it's a bit too far out still to make much of a dent in the mobile web for quite some time. Still, it may be a good choice depending on your skills and inclinations.

There are other options too. My main ask for web devs would be to test on mobile Firefox and/or the Windows phone browser in addition to whatever webkit browsers you normally would. Actually, for now testing on Opera would probably be better than either of those; the general consensus seems to be that they're the best wrt standards.

It won't prevent the monoculture, but it will mitigate its effects and help keep the field open for competition.
whoa, this is interesting. makes one think it's now the time to write a middleware syncing library.
I wonder how effective either MOOCs or peer to peer (Chinese person chatting online with a native English speaker) could be for language skills.
I can attest that using denatured alcohol, which I use for cleaning lenses and scanners, will destroy your ipod.
That's a really useful plugin you made. Thanks for sharing.
Software developers are not Grunts. They are hardworking creatives and certainly not grunts who lay bricks.

Also no where in the article did it say or imply that "those who know how to write software don't (generalism) do his job is because we're "blind to those opportunities.""

You obviously didn't read the article before writing this comment
htpp://momentjs.com

A 5.5kb javascript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates
Nice work. Don't have a use for it right now but I'll keep an eye on it.