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All the hard data from the Tesla logs except for the 'shutdown' is contradicted by words apparently spoken (and probably unverifiable except for 'he said/she said' style debate) rather than actually refuting the data.

Is it? The Tesla temperature chart makes a big thing about temperatures at a very specific point, ignoring that not much further in the journey the temperature dropped to the minimum for 50 miles. The infamous "32 mile" charge also shows that when the car was parked for the night it has 90 miles of range, disappearing overnight. Or complaining that he didn't know about a charge station that the car itself didn't know about.

Further, "hard data" is a bit of a stretch. No one but Tesla has the raw data, and they've carefully presented selective bits of it for maximum impact, which is naturally given that they're incredibly biased. Such as the "drove around a parking lot trying to kill the car" bit, when it was actually just five minutes looking for a unlit, unmarked charge station. It's also humorous that they take their telemetric speeds as gospel, when vehicle speedometers are notoriously unreliable.
If you manually add the Valve repo at http://repo.steampowered.com then "apt-get steam" will do exactly what you expect. Or you can download the .deb from http://store.steampowered.com and install it.
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Because the minimum wage in brazil is 25x higher than the chinese...
Well, the premise of The Dispossessed is that the anarcho-syndicalist society actually becomes an oppressive monolithic power. As a result, the protagonist is unable to find an outlet for his special talents, and has to turn to other means of success.

I thought The Dispossessed did a very good job of showing the problems with centralization of planning - it's an attempt at an anarcho-syndicalist commune that self-defeats through strict social mores. I do think that syndicalism is probably the best vision I've seen for an anarchist future - but ultimately, either those syndicates would have to participate in capitalist trade, or they would have to be controlled by some governing body, or they would have to be totally self-sustaining. Just think about how difficult-to-produce drugs would be distributed between communities. There can't be a producer in each one. So are the producers of that drug going to just gift it? How can they sustain themselves if they are making something difficult to produce that they are only consuming a tiny portion of? Well maybe because they are so generous they will get many gifts. This is starting to sound a lot like something that either has to be a market or centrally planned to me.
Interesting -- he seems to be saying that they'll explain all about the problem, but not do anything about it.
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> Yes, Facebook is a company. But Facebook is also the name of the product that is offered by this company.

So your plan is to refuse to draw a distinction between the company and a tool used by that company?

> It's certainly possible to have a company without a a product, but it certainly won't be a terribly successful company.

That's a different topic. We're discussing whether Facebook is a company or a software application. It's a company that uses applications -- software -- to accomplish its purposes.

> My point was just because something is built on top of a technology does not mean it's not a technology itself.

So, by your argument, Ford Motor Company is actually a car, not a company that builds cars? Corporations and technologies are distinct and operate by different rules.

> If you follow that all the way back, you find yourself defining the universe.

No, actually, if you follow that all the way back, you find yourself defining the universe in an absurd way. Companies and software applications aren't the same thing -- unless you think a chestnut horse is the same as a horse chestnut. And why not? They're described using the same words.
The line "I did not ignore their advice" seems particularly ambiguous. An example of not telling the whole truth.
> This comes off as straight negative to me, especially considering the last I saw of them was winning the car of the year award.

If a bunch of people end up triumphantly tweeting about their successful road trips as they replicate the trip, Tesla will come out ahead.
(Wonders what this response would look like if Elon Musk was running Heroku.)
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If you haven't already seen Michal Zalewski's "Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting" [1] check it out!! He talks about how to design and make the molds from scratch. There is also the "The making of Omnibot mkII (work in progress)" [2] listed in the article.

[1] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/

[2] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/omni2/
Check out the source code on Github. https://github.com/moovweb/harlem_shaker
To be fair, programming games like this on an 80's computer would be much harder since you couldn't just do everything in a scripting language and not have to worry about CPU cycles.
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This is a silly argument. Science is the pursuit of knowledge. All of the negatives you list could be counteracted by giving those involved more knowledge.

I'd bet that scientifically literate people are less susceptible to "neuromarketing". Or, at least, if the general populace were more well-educated they could create legislation to limit the efficacy of such techniques.

The nuclear disasters you mention could all have been averted through a better understanding of risk, materials, procedures, and psychology. These are all scientific fields.
We're rivaling some sub-continental regions in open defecation densities.

The Mission comes a close third to the Haight and the Tenderloin.

Perhaps Mr. Dorsey is attending to the wrong neighborhoods.

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I realize this response is a bit late. However, it's worth mentioning that there's been quite a bit of movement here from the Python community in the past two weeks. No doubt this is a response to what happened with Ruby. A proper cert for pypi.python.org is being rolled out this week and pip should shortly have cert checking.

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/425
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I don't think it's that people are "mean" or less friendly than in the South--it's just harder to break through with strangers. People in general are a little less outgoing towards strangers (not sure if that's the right word, but can't think of one better) and a little more focused on their own things. That may be because the work culture is so focused--free time is a little more valuable when you're working long hours and people just may not be as willing to stop in a grocery store and chat for half an hour on the best way to cook zucchini.

I guess another way to put it would be that everyone is headed somewhere (and not always a place), whereas living in the South I remember the culture being a lot more about relaxing and waiting for things to come to you. It's not as bad as New York, where everyone is literally headed somewhere, but more like a state of mind--like everyone here is working on a difficult puzzle in their head, even when they're not at the office.

Take a trip out to Tahoe or Yosemite and that mostly shuts off--people you meet on hiking trails and in restaurants/hotels are warm, friendly, and usually pretty chatty.
Two things that would improve it immensely.

1) Gamepad support , playing arcade style games on a keyboard is a second class experience at best.

2) Fullscreen mode.

Brings back memories of playing old DOS driving games like the Lotus series.
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So the issue only affects Bamboo? that's what it seems to be saying
If you're going to downvote this, at least have the courtesy to respond.
I don't think they are right 95% of the time. Unless they just say "you are going to die because of cacncer" but if they said it to random person on the street they would be already right one time out of four.

How much can patient with treated cancer live varies greatly. Each cancer is at least few new species of life. Personal predictions are not possible, especially not before trying some treatments.

Even giving average survival is bullshit because you can't factor in all the things you know about given patient (or his cancer) into the average. Often there is very little to know about the particular cancer you have. Looking at cancer cells taken from the point of biopsy doesn't reveal much. Even sequencing DNA doesn't say much because 3 centimeter off the site of the biopsy, cancer cells can have different genome.

If you have cancer you don't know how long you are going to live. Same way as nobody does. And even if you beat cancer you'll still have more than 1 chance in 1000 of dying next year for whatever reasons like the rest of us.
Most people are going to come here and mention how they are not planning on fixing the problem.

Put it into context. Heroku made this change 3 years ago, and also has had no issues admitting the change to users. Their documentation has lagged far behind and I believe they will be more transparent in the future. This is an engineering decision they made a long time ago that happened to get a lot of PR in the past 24 hours. Until there is a business reason (losing customers), I don't see them "fixing" the problem.
This does need to be in relation to Python being used prior to the acquisition of python.co.uk, presumably, which means all of those are insufficient.

The exception is Google's USENET cache.
Wait, so those guys were on Bamboo, and complaining?
Fuck, that is so not cool.

We've been on cedar ever since it launched, and been running puma threads or unicorn workers.
The idea of one dyno per request is bullshit, and I wasn't sure if they were on cedar or not. A dyno is an allocated resource (512mb, not counting db, k/v store etc)

How ballsy of them to complain when they are doing it wrong.
I don't think you can really conclude that from this statement, this section could be read to mean they plan on making changes:

"Working closely with our customers to develop long-term solutions"

At this point I imagine they're in damage control mode; I'm not surprised they'd be reluctant to make new promises before everyone's on the same page about the technical issues.
I'm sure he doesn't want to commit to anything too soon. This was one of the bullet points:

"Working closely with our customers to develop long-term solutions"
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As the article mentions, there are very few tutorials on racing games on the web especially ones that use real 3D geometry calculations and not tricks like Mode 7.

A big thanks to the author for the tutorial and an extremely enjoyable racing game on the browser!
That's actually a pretty impressive response as far as it goes. Obviously there's no details at this point, but he absolutely takes responsibility, doesn't try to deflect or sugar coat it, and manages to find a tone that is both professional/serious, yet also down-to-earth and earnest. I guess the real impact will be how they go about "making it right" but in terms of a first response to the situation the tone is near perfect.
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I definitely had this issue with Office 2007 during my internship a few years ago.
Bamboo is no longer running now.
The above is linked to directly from http://pypi.python.org/pypi. Also, PyPI sent an evening a little while ago with the same content.
Working closely with our customers to develop long-term solutions

Of the five action items they listed, it seems that only the last of them is about actually solving the problem. I hope they are committed to it - better visibility of the problem can help, but I'd rather not have the problem in the first place.
Point 4 of this article suggests that accelerating in short bursts with long coasts in between works best for gas-powered cars. I can see how turning off cruise control could be more efficient in this case too, although I agree braking would be silly. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/07/26/hypermiling-expert...
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For a proper evaluation, the tested alternatives should be (a) stop-and-go driving with an average velocity of V, versus (b) driving at a constant velocity of V. In that comparison, a constant velocity is much more efficient.

I completely agree, if you are trying to run a scientific experiment. But if you're driving on real-world roads, you're faced with a different set of choices. As I said, you can't expect to drive 400 miles at a steady speed of 25 mph in the real world.

Adding a given amount of energy E to a moving object requires the same expenditure of energy regardless of how quickly or slowly it's done

I wasn't saying that accelerating/decelerating more gently saves energy. I was saying that it probably prevented the regen system on the car from activating at all, meaning that none of the vehicle's kinetic energy was recaptured. Since he could not avoid stopping and starting again (since you can't drive 400 miles at a steady 25 mph on real-world roads), if it had been possible to reclaim some energy through regen during deceleration, it would have increased his range compared to stopping and starting again with zero regen. That's all I was saying, and it's completely consistent with what you're saying.

It's not clear at this point whether Broder was actually told by someone at Tesla that stop-and-go driving was more efficient or not, but if so, that person needs an education.

Not necessarily, because Broder's choice was not between stop and go driving at an average speed of 25 mph, or driving at a steady 25 mph. It was between stop and go driving in Manhattan (you are not, I trust, claiming that it's possible to drive through Manhattan at a steady 25 mph without stopping), at an average speed of 25 mph or so, and driving on freeways at an average speed of, say, 60 mph. Given that choice, it's entirely possible that the stop and go driving would give more range; the exact tradeoff would depend on details like the vehicle's drag coefficient, rolling friction, efficiency of regen, etc.
Ha, if that's what you put on the application that's pretty funny. I like it.
Very cool! Thanks for responding.
That's not fair. What do you think "tools to understand and improve the performance of your apps" and "develop long-term solutions" from his bullets mean?

But, I'm surprised they didn't wait until the "in-depth technical review" was available to apologize. And the idea that they were informed of a problem "yesterday" doesn't quite match the impression RapGenius gave, that they'd been discussing this with Heroku support for a while.
Also. As you advance in your career working at a larger company can provide unique challenges that a smaller company cannot.

For example, Amazon's suggestion feature is a brilliant implementation of K-means (or something like it). The small group of developers that implemented it probably got to face unique and intellectually difficult challenges that not many other people have had to face. Sure, I can imagine how they did it, but I didn't do it.

One person's small company is another's large.
Does Cedar solve the problem? Random routing can still end up overloading a dyno. What's the solution?
It's so refreshing to see this kind of communication. I don't use Heroku, and don't know much about this specific issue, but they're responses to downtime and complaints have been so direct and BS-free that I'll definitely consider them when I need a PaaS.
I feel like there is an answer for this, but why are two companies in the "YC family" at odds so publicly? If RapGenius is "starting beef" like is done in the music industry, I find it odd that it would happen with someone on their own "label".

Perhaps this is ignorance on my behalf of how companies who have already been sold (Heroku) fit into the picture, but some explanation would be appreciated.
The first couple bullet points are about increasing transparency into how it works and what it is doing in an app. The last point is about fixing it.

| Working closely with our customers to develop long-term solutions

I cannot imagine this will be simple to fix. I don't know what Heroku's deployment is like^, but I figure it is very massive and complex and solving performance issues at that scale are not done overnight.

^That is the deployment and configuration of the Heroku platform, not how we as devs deploy to Heroku.
Am I the only one who feels like Musk is doing more to soil the reputation of electric cars than to advance it? It totally sucks that the media is being a bunch of meanies about this stuff, but in many ways, Teslas still aren't practical for unwashed masses.

Also, their target market here will probably research this enough that the negative PR won't matter that much. It'll ruin public perception...just like they've done with diesel over the past decades. Now where's my diesel/electric car? Diesel/electric hybrid technology has been around since the first few years of the 1900s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel-electric_transmission#Sh...

I am not impressed with our "progress".
I grew up in the South too (Memphis, TN) and I live in Silicon Valley. It's kind of hard to elaborate on this, but I would say that Californians keep to themselves more than Southeasterners (people in Texas are a totally different story than SEC states), but when you get to actually know CA folks, they're far nicer people who genuinely care more for their friends and do more for them. Basically, Californians are maybe harder to befriend, but worth way more than you do. That's my anecdotal experience anyway, and some of my favorite people in the world live in Southern states. Really there are great people and terrible people everywhere in the world.
Wow. How long did that take you?
I work remotely from Louisville and visit Columbus every other week or so. Email is in my profile if anyone wants to meetup.
Oh so the server process hosting rails is itself queueing? Is that what they refer to as "dyno queueing"? I thought perhaps there was another server between the router and your apps server process.
The problem with 3D printers is that, it is not a profitable market at all, hence not a single mainstream vendor would apply it commercially.

With a full fledged 3D printer, you can essentially print another 3D printer. Just like how everyone uses windows, a large sum of potential customers would be freeloading. The exception would be that, they wouldn't have a huge market that would keep the cash flowing. Heck, electric cars weren't commercial until someone found a better way to monetize it else than charging it only for the electric bill.

The current technology and budgets for technology allows an affordable 3D printer to be at your home. But it is specifically left out of plans. Think of a blueprint for a pcb, chair or car that has been developed open source. Unless they stranglehold all the resources needed you wouldn't have to rely on any manufacturers or or middle men, which would start to drown the market.

We will see our first commercial 3D printers when they find a way to enforce a solid(er) DRM on it. Until then, it will be a geek hobby and left esotheric.
Is what you're trying to do related to firefighting?
This is seriously making me want to move to SF, because events as artfully crazy as these simply can't happen with any regularity in Singapore. There's just no cultural history for them to - no support or interest from the very pragmatic, have-to-be-up-early-tomorrow society over here. Sames goes for the very chill party mentioned by angersock: it just couldn't happen.

When I lived in Philadelphia I don't think there were regular events of that nature, so I guess it's mostly a Bay Area/SF thing? Manhattan certainly seemed more lively in that regard.
Uh, the name is Play Store.

It used to be called Market, but they changed it to Store.
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Better than none, and you don't have to put any further unpaid time into pursuing payment, so your loss doesn't increase.
So I agree with him 100% which is why I made a site that plays the music video of the song on the radio. I got about 90% done and lost interest (it's functional though). http://www.radiobat.com
Depends on the person. I'm sure many people deal with it and get personal enjoyment out of (what they perceive to be) saving lives.
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Very much related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124170 "We don't know why lithium batteries work"

Measuring usable capacity left in a battery is much more art than science still. You can model the drain rate and change your estimates based on historic usage and do all kinds of fancy FFT and other signal processing, but in the end it's still an estimate, batteries are not immune to physics, and li-ion batteries won't save the world (but they will create lots of hazardous waste in creation and disposal).
I have a hard time replacing or adding another layer of data input on top of (insert accounting software i.e. quickbooks) especially with an established system in place.

Farm accounting is not something I would delineate across more than one system, and it seems the remake is far more profit focused, which is good, but it still does not support a disconnected workflow afaik.

Still think the real money to be made is in the weekend gardener/farmer not the big guys, for a project like this. There is no way to have a partial farm management tool that does not go from nut to bolt, and still convince someone to break an incumbent process.
Some rebuttals:

1) CAD is genuinely difficult

True, but this barrier is lowering rapidly. Anyone can make simple items using programs like Autodesk 123D with no training. Low-cost 3D scanners will also lower this barrier (see projects like http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/621838643/desktop-3d-sca...).

2) There is a lot more to industrial design than meets the eye

Good design is hard, and the supply of designers is very limited. But most of the population has no reason to learn 3D design. Providing fiscal incentives to designers of novel products is crucial for expanding this base. More importantly, empowering more people to have ideas translated into physical objects will greatly increase the supply of casual designers. Have you ever shown a friend an object that you designed and 3D printed? It's magical in a way that photoshop is not. Don't underestimate the in-person viral factor for inspiring designers!

3) Mechanical engineering is a real science

As in open-source software, 3D designs often build off of each other. Both in terms of remixing existing designs, as well as sharing printing profiles for different slicers. The 3D printing community is much more collaborative than traditional manufacturing institutions. Software in 3D printing is 'eating' the mechanical engineering world slowly but surely: no longer do you need massive amounts of capital to design and start selling a new product. The barrier to entry for product designers has lowered!

4) Manufacturing processes are not perfect – and won’t be any time soon

Hence the need for curation and an easy way to find quality designers and printers....
This guy could run for Government. Pro-fessional!
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