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It doesn't seem likely the reporter lied intentionally - or at least, not consciously.

However, didn't we see that long apology yesterday about how easy it is to lie to yourself and others, even when truth is everything to you? This is why we have double blind medical trials etc. – because people are biased and can't help but lie to keep their preconceptions true.
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Yes, there is spending and then there is spending effectively. Something like half the money allocated for each student is siphoned at various points starting at the federal, state, county, district, and school. When teachers have to spend their own money to get basic schools supplies (like paper for the printer) and the school board is bragging how much they spend on each student* you know something is really wrong about where that money is going.

*My school board was require to print an annual report with the school performance and the average spent on each student. It was something like $6000/year; as a student I don't think they spent a tenth of that on me.
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There has been at least one space tourist with eye surgery (PRK, not LASIK though): Richard Garriott.

edit: found a actual reference for requirements: http://astronauts.nasa.gov/content/broch00.htm#bqr

The refractive surgical procedures of the eye, PRK and LASIK, are allowed, providing at least 1 year has passed since the date of the procedure with no permanent adverse after effects.

edit2: fixed, not a astronaut per se. thanks glurgh
I actually really like wearing glasses, but most people seem to hate it. I didn't start wearing them until quite late in my life though, so maybe I'll get sick of them in ~5 years. Mostly as well it's the healing process that puts me off, I know how long it took for a friend to feel like it was fully done and I'm not sure I have the patience.
I got LASIK in Thailand (TRSC) in 2006; went from 20/80 and 20/60 to 20/10.

It did increase dryness for a year or two (but, I was also in a desert), and caused "halos" around lights at night, but that went away after a year or two.

Probably the best $2500 (for two eyes; wavefront!) I ever spent. I had a huge ($60/night) hotel suite at the Royal Meridien for a week, and took the hotel limo to/from the center, since I didn't want to deal with navigating Bangkok or taxis while blind. I could read by the next day, by setting my laptop to 80x24 full-screen mode, but mostly just drank, ate, and slept in my room for a couple days.
Exactly. Assuming what GP wrote would be true about Quora going out of business, maybe it would be better to just let them die? At some point someone will come who will strike the right balance between providing quality, earning money and not being annoying. They will survive, and we'll be better off. StackExchange network proves that it is possible in this case.
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> It seems like an awfully odd thing to do, unless you are deliberately trying to run out of charge.

It's exactly what an insufficiently knowledgeable person would do if trying to deliberately damage the li-ion battery.
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The interviewer didn't do their job.
Maybe it doesn't need "managing", Oren might just want to talk with whoever was responsible for the change and see what the best way forward is. I don't think panicked, knee-jerk reactions like "OMG we were wrong and will revert that commit pronto!" are beneficial in situations as complex as this.
Can NY Times have an agenda to support traditional car business? Not possible, this might have only been an incompetence of a reporter that NY Times can not effectively prevent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AnB8MuQ6DU
"Our society as a whole doesn't have the epistemological foundation needed for the level of technical sophistication it has."

Thank you sir for reminding me why I am quitting my job to begin a Master's degree in Technology and Public Policy. Those in the know with regards to technology and its impact will forever be limited by those not in the know. Maybe we will never agree on the means used to determine Truth, but we should coalesce around empiricism. Not because we need all be scientists, but because empiricism and its methods provide the best means by which the powerless may confront the deceptive and calcified agents of power.
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They want to love it because the idea is great. They don't love it because it doesn't deliver. Sounds like you both agree.
Has anyone autistic had it done? I fear moving when I shouldn't, and know that general anaesthetic isn't an option. Do they offer anything special?
Did you visit Thailand specially to get the procedure?
Some thoughts in defense of Go's use of capitalization. First of all, public/private are used in languages with classes. It would be misleading in Go, since visibility is at the package level.

Second, if Go didn't use capitalization and wanted to keep package level visibility (which I will strongly argue is the Right Thing), there would be choice of having both private and public as keywords and requiring one of the pair to be put before before all constants, package level variables, type declarations, struct members, functions, and methods -- creating an immense amount of noise -- or to have one of the two and make the other one the default. Probably it would make more sense to have everything private by default and public only when prefixed with public… But it would be really ugly and inconsistent.

Now it might be possible to get around this with some other convention. Maybe it could be like Python, where everything is public by default but private if it starts with _. Or it could use a different, shorter keyword like 'p' so there's less noise overall…

But I think that once you make the decision to have package level visibility, case is the most efficient way of expressing it.
> As a result, he gets his dramatic photo of the Motor Trend Car of the Year, helpless on a flatbed truck.

As they say a picture is worth a thousand words. I can't help but think all the author wanted is that photo.
"Sometimes I want to give the people I’m with my undivided attention. That means the phone stays firmly in my pocket. And as long as no calls or notifications come in, that’s fine. But once my pocket starts buzzing, my mind can start to run wild with curiosity. Is someone in trouble, or did a dumb tweet get faved by someone? That game can erode attention after awhile. With the Pebble, I can discreetly glance at my wrist without breaking the flow of conversation."

In what way is this giving someone your undivided attention? You're just slightly modifying the division of your attention and making it easier to hide that you're thinking about something else.

Personally I find a better solution is to either be honest and put your phone on the desk and explain to people that you might be getting a call you need to take, or put it somewhere you can't see, hear or feel it and genuinely disengage.

Not saying I don't like the Pebble, I do, just that I don't think this is a great use case for it.
That is what I was saying. I was saying that it is harder for them to successfully sue the NYT in America because the courts have upheld protection of the press via the First Amendment.

Soo....I would be surprised if they did pursue legal action against NYT - given how easily they were shut down in Britain that has more lax libel laws.

My point was that they actually don't need to.

This one blog post does more good for their reputation and more damage for NYTs than a lawsuit could/would.
If you look at the google map link above the supercharger is at a rest stop. If you don't pull in to the rest stop your only option is to continue down the highway. The start-and-stop pattern in the logs is not possible on a highway.
Static sites are cool! I generate my blog with Tinkerer http://www.tinkerer.me which is also Python and ReStructuredText based. Although Pelican seems to be more generic, while Tinkerer is mainly for blogs.
But the majority of YC companies close their round, right? It wouldn't make much sense for you to leverage them into a great position, just to have them shot down.
GPS is only accurate to a certain amount (maybe 1.5 metres, maybe 10 metres) in an absolute sense, but in a relative sense they are much more accurate and would easily show circles being driven in a parking lot (it's just that the circle might be 10 metres away from the road).

This is also used in surverying to do something called differential GPS with two receivers: one GPS receiver fixed in a known location, and another to measure GPS locations relative to the first GPS in the known location - absolute error is completely removed by this process (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS claims 10cm accuracy). If you think about it, two receivers separated by a little space is more or less equivalent to two receivers separated by a little time, so you'd expect a similar relative accuracy of 10cm.
Technology has taken off in the past without Apples influences (netbooks, IPTV, I'd even argue that smartphones and MP3 players too - though Apple did lead the charge in their re-invention which further popularised them).

Plus it seems a little presumptuous to make such a definitive statement when given Apple's watch is only a rumour and how unreliable Apple rumours are at the best of times.
Actually HTML5 doesn't have almost anything to do with HTML4. You should start teaching HTML and CSS and when the base is built jump to javascript (HTML5)
Ha, didn't know Dylan. Seems like a fun little language. Thanks for sharing.
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Richard Garriot was a paid space tourist, not a NASA astronaut, regulations about eye surgery notwithstanding.
More immediately, the world's largest standing army and nuclear weapons also enter into the equation.
Basically. I was living in the Middle East and often going to HK, and the airline I used had a stopover in BKK.
A curious opening sentence: "Iceland could become the first Western democracy to attempt censorship of the internet under radical proposals to block online pornography."

The US has the 2003 Protect act, which has already been used against someone importing paper (not electronic or online) manga into the US.[1]

The UK has the Internet Watch Foundation which maintains a list of websites and Usenet forums which shouldn't be carried and which coordinates legal activities. We have several laws making some forms of pornography illegal.

Australia has (had?) their well known block list.

And I'm not some free-speech extremist - I see a clear difference in regular porn and images of abuse where the participants have not (and can not) consent.

> "We have to be able to discuss a ban on violent pornography, which we all agree has a very harmful effects on young people and can have a clear link to incidences of violent crime," he said.

I am disturbed by the rise of horrible porn, and the easy access to it. Even though I'm happy to ban some types of porn and some images of abuse I know that blocking porn is a wrong-headed approach.
This is also where the argument for different notification tones comes into its own.
It gets your mind off of the thing without getting your phone out of your pocket ... one glare at your watch and you know if it's worth interrupting your conversation or not. If not, it's just a 2 second interruption at max which should not interfere with your "undivided attention" to the person you are speaking with.

This is at least how my "attention" works :)
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This notation 20/* is very interesting: in Brazil they never tell you a number like that.

People tell you about how well they see by saying that they don't need glasses, or by giving their prescriptions, like "hyperopia, 2.5 on right eye, 1.0 on left, plus astigmatism of 1.0 on the right eye..."
> That one cannot escape an accident of birth is a huge blemish on humanity.

Succinctly summing up privilege, be it by skin colour, sex, disability, or inheriting wealth.
(Author here.) Actually, the remark was a complaint about "Learn You a Haskell," which I have been working through, on the grounds that it's NOT Lisp, so they shouldn't pretend like head/tail are the holy grail of data structure design.
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One particular surgeon was not too old, his glasses corrected mild myopia and a slight astigmatism. When I actually put him on the spot about the laser surgery question, his reply, which was reasonable and honest, was that surgery is a personal choice, and he personally appreciated the advances and refinements in the techniques employed, but still preferred to wait and see re: long term effects in patients.
(Author here.) I find it odd that everyone thinks the remark is a criticism of Lisp. It's a criticism of Haskell. Lisp had a good excuse for focusing on linked lists back in the day. Then Clojure improved on it by promoting hashes to first class constructs. But Haskell is stuck in the past, at least as far as first class syntax goes.
Does anyone have some experience with pelican (possibly liquidink) and rest2web?

There are many static website generators, but I'm looking into a python+ReST solution. I've been using rest2web a lot, and I really love it's simplicity compared to the other solutions. rest2web is really straightforward. In the end, it's the python-docutils module that does most of the work anyway, while rest2web simply collects the website structure.

The only downside is that rest2web lacks a bit of polish, and I really wished it would come with the ability to generate rss feeds for a particular tree or tag. I was thinking about writing a plugin, but I'm unsure.

pelican seem to be already be done for the purpose. Actually, pelican seem to target mostly blogs, while I actually just want "a feed of changes" for a particular directory tree. I don't want a blog-turned-into-a-website approach.

Does anybody had this problem? I'm really looking for feedback from people that used rest2web here and moved to pelican/liquidink, or back maybe. Figuring out the limitations of these tools require a long time investment and I cannot really decide by just trying it out on toy pages.
Also, they allow (really require) only once specific kind of corrective eye surgery for fighter pilots. On a bright side, Air Force will pay for your procedure if they accept you.
Oh god that "blinking cursor" in the socrates.io tab is annoying.
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Can be entirely harmless: The car displays 0 miles range, and he is at the charging station. Why not try to figure out how much reserve he still has before it shuts down? He didn't report negatively about this either.
In that case I have to go back to disagreeing with you.

It is harder to sue the NYT in America. However it is far from impossible, and in this case I believe that they have solid enough evidence to make a fair legal case for libel.

That said, they really would prefer to win this in the court of public opinion now, rather than in a lawsuit that finishes several years from now. (They probably want to do both.) And they would probably prefer to settle this out of court rather than having to go through courts.

As always, IANAL, TINLA.
My understanding is that the battery mustn't get too cold so a heating element is automatically turned on during cold nights (you can't leave your iPhone or laptop in your car during freezing weather either). This explains part of the loss in range. The second part is that the charge level is less accurate when the battery is cold, so only after driving for a bit you see your "real" range. Either way Tesla recommends you always plug in your car at night.
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The second war in Iraq was won?
If you had the power to edit it yourself,what would you change it to? And why?
Actually, not only have 'humans been fighting wars for a long time', the entire idea of maneuver warfare predates both Ender's game _and_ it making its way into US army literature.

And this you can surmise not by digging up some obscure work from a library but simply by reading the wikipedia page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare#Development_of...

The notion that Ender's game, whatever one might think of its merits, was somehow an early and unrecognized insight into maneuver warfare is ludicrous and silly.
Not having looked at this extensively I don't see what about it is more compelling then just using my own servers with git-deploy or a similar infrastructure. If i am going to run Ops i want to run Ops. If I am going to outsource it I want to outsource it. This seems like a middle ground that doesn't add too many compelling features to the party.
Where do you draw the line between necessity and greed?

Do I need a 40" TV? Not really, 14" is big enough to watch, it's just less enjoyable. But then TV is purely there for enjoyment anyway, so perhaps just owning one is jumping the shark when one could equally read the news online.

This watch might be excessive, but then so are the phones that this connects to (how many people actually need a smart phone? Even for corporate use, 'dumb' feature phones can send and receive e-mails). And it's greatest use is to check notifications when driving (I don't need to drive, I could get the train) or chatting to friends down the pub (I don't need to drink).

Plus lets not forget that progress and technology is generally invented for 1 of 3 reasons:

1) to kill each other

2) to cut costs in companies (usually resulting in job losses as technology replaces human beings)

3) to make our lives more luxurious.

Personally I'd rather see more 'pointless' smart watches than job losses and smart bombs.
The first call ever made by the main module (MPhotoshop.p) is

InitToolbox(8);

However, there is no other mention of InitToolbox in the sources. Is it part of the Mac OS API? Which compiler were these sources meant for?
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Same here, I only ever visit their site to read the articles they've picked for me in the email digest. I was thinking about this the other day, there's probably no other site where I interact with them like that.

But still, I click an email link and am automatically logged in, but they still insist on me downloading the fucking app! Thankfully in chrome on android I just click "request desktop site" and all that nonsense goes away.
It wasn't just his driving around in the parking lot - he was deliberately leaving charging locations prior to getting a full charge so as to increase the chances of a discharged battery. That was the entire point of this exercise, and he accomplished it on his first try.

I say, have someone not biased towards big-oil try this road-trip again in similar conditions, and report back with the results. I expect they will have absolutely zero difficulty.
If you create an account, they have another user which makes it easier for them to raise money and/or figure out a way to monetise in the future, which means they are less likely to die, which means you have contributed life to the community.

Of course, actually having a business model might be a better plan for them, but there have been plenty of QA sites that have not found a model that works, so that sounds harder than just getting more users.
Rails doesn't need to be treated specially. All that is needed is a "maximum number of simultaneous connections to pass to this backend" setting coupled with load balancing by available slots rather than purely randomly.

The issue here isn't that Rails needs to be treated specially - this problem applies to various extent in any type of backend where some types of requests might turn out to be computationally heavy or require lots of IO. You can't magic away that: A request that takes 8 CPU seconds will take 8 CPU seconds. If you start piling more requests onto that server, response times will increase, even if some will keep responding, and if another 8 CPU second request hits too soon, chances increase that a third one will, and a fourth, and before you know it you might have a pileup where available resources for new requests on a specific instance are rapidly diminishing and response times shoot through the roof.

Pure random distribution is horrible for that reason pretty much regardless.

Now, doing "intelligent" routing is a lot easier for servers with some concurrency, as you can "just" have check requests and measure latency for the response and pick servers based on current low latency and get 90% there and that will be enough for most applications. Sure, the lower the concurrency, the more you risk having multiple heavy queries hit the same server and slow things down, and this request grows dramatically with the number of load balancers randomly receiving inbound requests to pass on, but at least you escape the total pileup more often.

But that's also a clue to one possible approach for non-concurrent servers: group them into buckets handled by a single active load balancer at a time and have front ends that identifies the right second layer load balancers. Shared state is now reduced to having the front end load balancers know which second layer load balancers are the currently active ones for each type of backend. It costs you an extra load balancer layer with according overhead. But don't you think OP would prefer an extra 10ms per request over the behaviour he's seen?
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If I was a car reviewer and rocked up at a charging station with 0 miles range showing, I'd want to know what happens if you push it for a little bit more. It would definitely be an exaggeration for the story but we're talking about half a mile out of 200. He might have even been completely honest deliberately going the extra half mile if there had been some catastrophic result - a review isn't just a real drive, it has to be part simulation.

As for driving that final stretch with 30 miles range showing - his story is that Tesla told him it would be fine because it would be regained through the battery conditioning. Tesla says that they told him not to stop charging. Well there is a lot of wiggle room for both those statements to be true.
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