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I found it extremely hard to believe that is the case based on 3 things:

1. I've seen many comments suggesting that the parking lot is well lit in the night and the Supercharger is especially easy to spot and hard to miss, which directly contradicts to what Broader claims: "dark, unlighted, not marked". [1](http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/that-tesla-data-w...)

2. Here is a video of how well-lit and easy to spot: [2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3fO_OHpyYw)

3. Here is the Google map: [3](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Milford,+Conn.,+supercharger&#...) If Google's data is to be trusted, each loop is less than 100m, and 0.6miles is roughly 10 laps.

Realistic scenario for driving around and lost? I think not.
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Is this legal outside of the US? I remember there was a case in China in which a restaurant would charge a different price for tourists.
What a ridiculous post! Why would Broder be looking for a new job? And who cares if his actions were seen as damaging to the Tesla brand? Tesla is not Walmart, they're no one to fear in the slightest.
Also, Terminology. Faster than xterm or rxvt.
I like the idea. But what happens with all that plastic after it's been drawn.

Can you reuse it somehow?
Otherwise this looks like a huge source of waste?
Since this seems to be a meta discussion about the goings on of HN now, I just wanted to thank you, a month or so ago you gave me some positive criticism on the entropy behind my companies password protection scheme - since then it has been completely rehashed.
You are probably misusing DOM text methods
I don't mind that generalization. I feel that modal realism[1] is the only sensible way to explain why anything exists at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_realism
Are you kidding? This was probably great for Broder's career. For sure he has more followers as a result of this.

And you're right, most car companies wouldn't ever let themselves look so petty and unprofessional. If they did, you can bet that a lot more journalists would line up hoping to stir some major controversy!
But minecraft dosen't look photorealastic; I mean, the engines like luminous, unreal engine 4, id tech 5.

Can C# or Java be optimised to run these kinds of codebases with near similar efficiency?
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What I don't like about the title is that it assumes that the reader is not already a hacker, and that the reader aspires to become a hacker. (Not in a strong way, but presumably if I have no desire to transition from non-hacker to hacker, there's no reason for me to read something called "How to Become a Hacker".)

I think it relates to your point, because another way to say this is that it's presented in an obnoxiously (to me) self-help-book-esque fashion. If it was called "The Workings of a Hacker's World" or some such, I'd find it less grating.

I assume this is the Dabblers and Blowhards post to which you refer: http://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm ... thanks, I'll give it a read.
No proof, so it kinda looks like you are just advertising your app through this blog post with no "real" information.
I own volumes 1, 2 and the PC version. I can vouch for the quality and understandability of the code. I've read a number of operating systems books, and I've found volume 1 to be one of the most straightforward - if you can get past the fact it's written with the PDP-11 in mind. I bought the PC version on a whim after reading volume 1, and found it to be lacking in a number of ways, using BIOS for many system services and glossing over memory protection (not surprising as it targeted the 8086).

One of the more interesting things about Xinu is that its security model is ring based, and if I remember right, it takes advantage of rings 0-3, unlike many modern operating systems. I can't actually remember if the PDP-11's hardware supported this, or if it was emulated by the kernel.

One of my rainy day projects has always been to get Xinu up and running on a PDP-11 emulator - too many operating systems, too little time.
Yep, one of the developers mentioned that everything is verified server side, but the temporary offline mode indicates that its not that important.
Academia has managed to function just fine without this prize for a long time. What's the sudden need for this, aren't academics supposed to be intrinsically motivated people, rather than extrinsically motivated? I've always disliked the Nobel prize as a concept too. Is this prize really going to cause anyone to become an academic? If not then its just rewarding persistence and good luck, which just re-enforces the staus quo.
The idea behind pinpioneer didn't come from the 16yo. The 16yo is apparently a good programmer and was hired to do the development of this product.

Did you write the Chairman of McDonald's to ask the same question because they have employed millions of teenagers in their business?
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Actually, no, the bubble is supposed to expand at the speed of light.
Please don't upvote blogspam.
Do awards like this lead to more research being done? It's easy to throw large sums of money at problems, it's harder to hand out lot's of smaller amounts. I suspect that if this money was awarded as smaller grants to many researchers it would have a much bigger impact.
Wonder if this will help incentive invention, in the same way that prize money for security vulnerability incentive security researchers to vulnerabilities in software.
Looks like you took care of a real problem some companies have. Just one question: Where do the origional photo's come from? From other pinterest users? Because I think you said you add a watermark to the images, right? Won't that cause copyright issues?
I concur, having worked in customer-facing roles for 2 of the 3 cited organizations in the 80s.
For the record - don't do this.
The system doesn't seem to like it at the moment
Awesome product, but ridiculous product description.

Also; "I'd like to see you try to make one..." is a silly counterpoint. If we applied that line of thought to everything we wouldn't be able to critically analyse anything. There would be very little discussion in HN comments.

I'm sure you've made criticism of products or services in the past that you personally would be unable to produce or deliver.
I thought everyone said that researched was extrinsically motivated thanks to patents, and without those no one would ever do any medical research.

Prize money and intrinsically motivations sounds as a nice alternative.
Apple releases malware removal tool after being hit by computer hackers
I take issue with you, Sir. This post has changed my life. I'm so happy I read it. Before reading it I had a fancy idea from "Hollywood" as to what a hacker was, coupled with a strong interest in computers. I could never understand just "how" people did things with computers that actually made them work -- commanded them. This essay gave me a view into that world.

Sure, you can argue that if a person gives an opinion of what it means to be "X", then he superimposes his own idea of "X" upon the abstract "X", as it were. But I believe that that abstract "X" doesn't exist (in and of itself), and all we have are labels ("hacker") which lend a solidity to something that is inherently fluid. Even if there is such a concrete abstract that we all understand and agree on (Plato's 'perfect form', if you will), in the bottom of your heart (and logically, for that matter), you must acknowledge that the abstract "hacker" is far superior than any of the forms you and I can conceive (name drop here if you wish). All we can manage are ghosts and reflections of that, sometimes beautiful, but inherently incomplete. I thank Mr Raymond for this gem in particular:

The Hacker Attitude

1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.

2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.

3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.

4. Freedom is good.

5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.

Which enlightened my twelve year old mind in a manner that I fear is no longer possible.

I read this back when I was 12 in 2000. It got me into programming, made me learn to use Linux. That Zen Koan at the beginning is something that has grown with me over the years, it took me a long time to see how loaded those six lines are; therein truly lies the means to mastery of any path.

I will never forget the feeling of realising that my partitioning command had failed and now I had no access to my windows machine (and thus, the internet and anybody that could help me). Luckily, I had printed out the Gentoo manual (I was obsessed with apparent speed increases that could be achieved by compiling everything for your own arch) and I managed to get a dial up connection (yes, we still had dial-up in South Africa in 2000 :) working and some basic text-based browsing to continue the mission. ah.
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In compliance with my "educate, don't ridicule" rule:

"In linguistics, an idiolect is a variety of language that is unique to a person, as manifested by the patterns of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation that he or she uses."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiolect
In that case one could argue that the service is tailored to the meet the precise requirements of the client and it explains the price variation (and why the price isn't displayed).
you should take a look at https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime , very handy for sending code from vim sessions to other tmux panes
I'm impressed and anything that promotes and furthers fundamental science gets a thumbs-up from me.

However, I do find the process a little odd. Specific things irk me like the ability to win multiple times and all winners also being on the selection committee. "Dr. Levinson [CEO of Genentech], in consultation with his colleagues, helped Mr. Milner select the first Breakthrough winners. These winners will form a committee that will select future winners, Mr. Milner said," I also dislike this [1], but I guess you have to start somewhere. The Nobel Committee's aren't without controversy [2]. The prize money seems unnecessarily large but that's an easy way to 'compete' for recognition with more established prizes. It also helps since more research is collaborative in nature so a split of the prize is still meaningful.

It'll be interesting to see whether these prizes succeed in putting science more in the public eye. I'm not convinced they will unless the foundations involved also do the extra work of marketing and promoting the winners (rather than marketing the prize itself, as this article does).

[1] I was a research scientist so this 'industry influence' in the selection process immediately rubbed me the wrong way (industry promoting it's own interests etc etc). Though those feelings may not be warranted in this case.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies
Good luck beaming your vim registers from a remote vim into the local clipboard.
OS/2 was another one using multiple rings.

Interestingly VirtualBox takes advantage of x86's multiple rings: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html#idp12629776 (which contains other interessting details about VirtualBox, like the disassembles and patches code running in the VM in certain cases)
C#/Java are more forgiving than C++.
For a visually demanding game you're going to need all the performance you can get, and unless you're coming from a background of managing memory yourself, that's unlikely to happen with a managed langauge.
Just learn C++/CUDA and you'll be grand ;)
Sweet ram o' the rod, a name from the mists emerges.. It has been a long time since I played with Xinu, at least before Linux came to rule the roost .. someone remind me, though, doesn't Xinu have its own compiler onboard, i.e. why do we need two machines, just to bootstrap? Once booted, does a Xinu machine have all it needs to build an image for another Xinu machine?

I guess its a matter of taste, but this dusty beard reckons its not Unix if you're not building another Unix with it. ;P]
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The "you can move" is questionable.
Exactly right. We had a previous discussion of this topic which is worth reading as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3998813

Right now, it's a Bachelor's. In 10 years, perhaps less, it'll be a Masters. This has nothing to do with required skills or knowledge, and everything to do with the fact that we simply require fewer and fewer people to actually do work, and have got to get through that ever-growing pile of resumes somehow.
There is a pedestrian only road, but at the moment its tied to the university as a plopable. But a developer mentioned that he would have a look at it.
Python is more powerful than Ruby. You have more meta-programming options available to you and a far, far wider scope of tools (scipy, etc). Python also naturally can lead you to c/c++ through cython as well as idiomatically functional programming (partials, function passing, decorators) far easier than Ruby (since in ruby parans are optional).
Except there's no assumption here that the 1 million connections are between just two computers. Clients are spread over 50 different EC2 instances (which each have a unique address). The host does not need more ports in this scenario and the clients are using 20,000 ports (possible without altering port allocation).
These mods seem too much like bots lately. Maybe they are?
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I am excited about ec2-fleet tool. How expensive is the tests in your case?
How do people find reputable online pharmacies that sell real meds?
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Is that really accurate? I had perceived things as the other way around, as Hadapt has a mixed storage model and CitusDB uses external tables for everything...
We are in a bit coin bubble at the moment that will crash in the next couple of months, it should reach $30.
> Did you write the Chairman of McDonald's to ask the same question because they have employed millions of teenagers in their business?

Whoever reports great profit and employs people while underpaying them, has to expect the same reaction from me. McDonald's in general is not a company, I have a lot of respect for.

If the author would have reported, that he turned his cheap idea into profit by implementing it by himself, or by paying reasonable wages, I would definitely show more respect.
Wait, so that's not what HN's for?
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Unreal Engine uses UnrealScript. No idea about id tech. Unity is c#.

There are speed differences, but this is greatly dependent on what you are doing and unless you are Epic or iD, I doubt it will matter. And if you are asking this question, I really doubt you will be able to use C++ to get the optimisations those engines have.

You can take a look at http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org to get an idea, c# in the mono runtime is about 3-4 times slower than C (from other benchmarks, the mono runtime is slower than the microsoft one)
Even if you say it's not, it really, really looks like spam.
I do understand your viewpoint. I doubt anyone will become an academic because of the prize but perhaps some school students out there will consider science/academia because they hear about the work of one of the winners of the prize. Public exposure of important works (and the labs that did them) is still a good thing.

Academia would function fine without such prizes but even then, people within the research community would still want to recognise and celebrate important work/advances somehow.
His point was more regarding those who have made silly criticisms for the sake of making criticisms rather than those who have found genuine faults with the product.

To use a practical example, in the New Scientist link for this product (which also made the front page), one commenter stated how the structures drooped a little and then commented that perhaps some kind of magnetic field could be used to hold the plastic in place while it cooled (he was more specific than that, but I can't recall the details).

That guy spotted a flaw and offered some of his own insights which subsequently sparked an interesting discussion based off that. Where as "this isn't 3D printing" and "this is just a glue gun" are unconstructive and, quite frankly, just nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking. The latter comments are as if people want to be seen as knowing better than the designers of the "3D pen" yet without risking their own reputation, money nor time.

And that's why some of us get annoyed when we see some pessimistic comments (not all pessimistic comments as you do also need constructive negative feedback to improve) and just wish those guys would focus their own frustrations into something constructive instead of knocking everyone else down.
"Drunk driving" is nonsensical; the people doing it aren't driving drunks, they're driving cars. It's almost as if "drink driving" and "drunk driving" aren't actually meant to be literal descriptions of an act but are a linguistic shorthand commonly used to refer to a situation.
No need to be snarky. Have you been on any freelance sites recently? I've seen grown men bid less than $10/hour - I can't attest to the quality of said bidders, but they're out there in amass. All things considered, $12/hr as a 16 year old is not that bad. When I was 16, I made $5.9/hr working at a gas station.
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Glad to have more power back in the carriers hands, RIM should embrace this OS as it looks much better than BB10.
The performance would drop like a brick when data received actually needed some sort of processing - priceless!

This reminds me another post from a guy who measured and graphed JVM performance in adding (or multiplying, can't remember) numbers. And he concluded, that, well, JVM is fast at doing dumb arithmetic in a loop.)
> That's not bad code, it's just WordPress

Contradiction.
dumb question I thought the GC tunings, e.g. RUBY_HEAP_MIN_SLOTS, were only available in REE, rather than MRI?
I wonder if the New York Times and other high profile News papers could be more easy on such allegations. This only improves the Cold War atmosphere some political analysts predict since years.

It is also naive to assume that there is a G8 nation without a cyber warfare unit in the Army. Or to assume that other nations don't do covert operations.

FUD has finally arrived in the mainstream.
Three-value logic in Perl
There already seems to be an informal policy of a permanent IamA PG AMA.
interesting experiment!
If, by "10s" of terabytes, they mean at least 20 terabytes, then, in 2000, a "Large" hard drive was 20 Gigabytes. That comes to 1,000 Hard drives. If they had some sneaky way of getting onto a GigE connection, then perhaps this might have made sense...
Stop worrying about Firefox and make apps for Chrome.
Correct me if I am wrong, but this is what it seems like you are implying: It's okay for someone of his stature (from the NYT) to take "shoddy notes and [rely] on human memory", since he wasn't told that "the data was on".
it would be nice to compare the different ruby implementations with this test.
> as well as idiomatically functional programming

Intuitive as this may seem, it ends up being the opposite: you'll see more "functional-like" code in Ruby codebases. A simple think like Guido considering multi-line lambdas "a Rube Goldberg language feature" [1] and rejecting them was sort of a butterfly effect that pushed real-world ruby codebases away from functional programming. Same as the nice-looking block passing syntax pushed Ruby in the opposite direction! And makes Ruby DSLs easy as pie (though I find DSLs a bit against the "hacker spirit" - any tool that's less "general purposes" ends up "limiting your mind" - take Rails which is a giant "meta-DSL for web apps" imho).

...though I still recommend Python to wannabe "hackers" for the same reasons you said above, I find myself, as a "real-world hacker", enjoying Ruby more.

[1] http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358
> The bottom line is that the Model S combined with Supercharging works well for a long road trip, even in a cold, snowy winter.

No. The bottom line is you can't drive the Model S in winter even if you have the time or inclination to call a dedicated Tesla support line a total of twelve times during a two-day trip.

The bottom line is Tesla's advice is worthless.

The bottom line is you should plug the car in every instant it's not running (which is exactly what the user manual says).

- - -

I used to be a heavy smoker. What made me stop is, everywhere I went, the only thing I could think about was "where can I get cigarettes if I run out?"

I would not like to drive a car that would put me in the same state of mind.
Interesting to see Homakov having a pretty solid run with some very interesting exploits after the GitHub exploit, I thought that he may have been burned by the experience and put off from active research. Apparently you can't keep a good security researcher down.

Definitely interesting with OAuth2 having a 'huge attack surface', I'd love to hear some more about that given how many companies have started using it for securing API access amongst other things.
Isn't the promise of HTML apps that they will run regardless of environment? :-)
>Is Twitter an advertising company? Is Facebook?

Are these serious questions? Of course they are. What else?
On localbitcoins.com, the price of 30 Dollars is already exceeded, at least if you convert between Euro and Dollars.

Doesn't mean that trading in Bitcoins isn't simply money laundering. And no, the standard argument "cash is used for ml too", doesn't hold. The illegal uses of BC seem more visible and more voluminous than the legal ones, so yes, when trading bitcoins, you are helping the illegal part of the economy a lot more than the legal part of the bitcoin economy.

The ECB clearly said so, officially, on the record. This might be the year of the bitcoin: Die or prosper.
I too upgraded and everything went smooth except got a "Bad magic number" error[1] while running south migrations. The fix is to delete all .pyc files (even those inside the virtualenv)

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514371/whats-the-bad-magi...
starting with 1.9.3 they are also available on MRI, though not sure about 2.0.0 as there GC are highly refactored/optimized.

> Starting with Ruby 1.9.3, the GC in mainstream ruby can also be tuned

http://www.web-l.nl/posts/15-tuning-ruby-s-garbage-collector...
Magazine article on Chinese online takedown services gets taken down
It really made me question the integrity of the data logs. He could have cherry picked that too.
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a micro instance costs 2 cents per hour, so $1 per hour for 50 instances.
Where can I find an example of using it in Node for precompiling templates to html or use it instead of jade?
All the colos I've looked at use the 95th percentile. Our bandwidth is 100Mbps but our capacity is 10Mbps. This would be about 26Tb/month. Our contracts are also in the UK so it might be a regional thing.
YouCompleteMe claims to work with omnifunc-based completion engine, but I couldn't get that to work. Can't tell if it's YCM or foreplay that's dropping the ball, but they don't seem to work together (i.e. I get foreplay completions when I trigger omni completion, but not dynamically via YCM).

EDIT: disregard me, it was a stupid configuration error (both plugins mapped the same key for completion, and foreplay won)
Also, there was a bug (feature?) in the win 3.1 version where if you sat yourself under a seat, and then held the up arrow to slowly go up at the same time as the lift, and your score would rocket up by the 1000s.

We used it to increase the high score on our primary school computers from a measly 11 to several tens of thousands in a couple of minutes.

Otherwise, pretty darn faithful recreation, great job!