skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 45 mph isn't slow to you?

Yes, it's slow. You don't have to drive that slowly in a Tesla as you just claimed.

> Huh? Elon is saying "Look! He turned the heat up!". So what? He wanted it warmer. This is not a problem in an ICE vehicle.

It's not a problem in the Tesla either. Elon's calling him out because it appears the journalist lied.

> Yeah, because the machinery required to dig all those precious metals out of the ground to make these batteries aren't burning a ton of diesel in unstable countries around the planet. Nor are the machines that need to build the charging stations in close succession, because you have to charge these cars far more often than you have to fill up with gasoline (and gas stations are already too prominent on the landscape). Glad you'd like to see more. Nor is the electric grid that most people will charge from "dirty".

Better not make any progress then, or try anything new. You're right, let's keep polluting the atmosphere.

> You seem really angry that people aren't as impressed with this thing.

On the contrary, you're the one who seems angry.

> he drove too fast

First, no that's not Elon's argument. Elon's argument is that the journalist lied. Second, didn't he drive too fast? Did he break the speed limit and drive illegally while reviewing a product? That seems like a bad idea.

> he set the temperature too high

No, that's not Elon's argument. His argument is that the journalist lied.

> and didn't charge long enough.

He didn't, but he claimed he did. Again, it appears the journalist lied.

> As a guy who puts 30k miles per year on my car, those are things that would annoy me and I wouldn't expect from a car approaching six figures.

So don't buy a Tesla yet.

Edit: Approaching six figures? Where I live, a Tesla Model S costs about $48,000. That's hardly approaching six figures.
A London Golang Meetup?
Would folks be interested in a Go meetup in London? I'm interested in organizing it if there are enough people working with the language (or wanting to know more).
I have definitely done things to batteries, in devices with poor protection circuitry, that have lopped off a good portion of the time that the battery would hold a charge. Since the ultimate complaint was how short a time the battery held a charge, it doesn't seem irrelevant at all. If I'm complaining about a leaky bucket, the fact that I did something that may have added holes is highly relevant. Looking at the data Musk posted, it doesn't seem to have likely been the cause here, but that data wasn't available when the article was written.
I've been out of the security space for a while but what I would love to see (and perhaps it already exists) is a threat "counter" for every authenticated user on my network. Data could be fed from various sources IDS and audit logs and actions like simultaneous logins, port scans or attempts to access files and apps that the user doesn't have access to would increase their threat counter. You could add weight to events e.g someone from marketing tryign to access a SQL server, router, or RDP to an accounting server, etc. Unauthenticated hits could be associated with an anonymous user. Once the entity has reached a certain threshold an analyst is alerted to investigate. You could even tie this to the support center - "Hello Mr. Rogers, I see you're having trouble logging on to the reporting site, would you like us to reset your password?"
I think it's much more likely that we'll see tech become more ingrained, yet less apparent, in our culture. There seems to be some truth to this post that we're (somewhat) fed up with tech controlling our lives and our devices/services being so needy/attention-hungry at the same time. It gets old.

But things like Pebble, Google Glass, and Nest are fixing this. Tech will be less in-our-face, more useful, and less annoying than ever.
If European policies seem Schizophrenic it's because Europeans don't have one policy maker.

Don't all democracies have legislation that point in one direction and legislation that points in the other direction?

"Public choice" is messy. Laws come into being at different times, influenced by different interest groups etc.
Yeah. We're now in a sad he-said-she-said situation, unless someone was recording phone calls.

. . . hey, most customer services lines tell you that the call may be recorded? So maybe we do have that call.
The OP was very clear, just in case some missed the point:
OP does not like ad's and is unhappy with bait and switch. This is clear bait and switch, no denying that. As for the companies business and how they need to make money - that is another subject for another thread.
Hyper-consumerism: Apple Stores Get Almost as Many Visitors as Disney
Secure Boot, TPM, etc. are all good if the user wants them on. I'd like my laptop to be as tamper-resistant as possible. With a TPM, I know you can't just pop a USB key in or change my BIOS settings or otherwise intercept the boot process. (At least not easily; and I'm aware of TrueCrypt's (IMO misplaced) disdain for TPM.)

With Secure Boot, I have a higher level of confidence that even if I mess up while using my computer, software cannot have me unknowingly running something other than the OS.

It's not a magic cure-all, and there's potential use for evil. But being able to lock down a machine to the configuration I want is a positive.
You may want to read through this -
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/image-...

Not loading remote images is a norm for email clients.
Google has removed the link to the "best" version of Google Scholar
I have used Google Scholar for the past 3 years to do free and quick legal research. My school gives us access to very expensive alternatives like WestLaw and Lexis Nexis but that doesn't help much except people who then go on to work at firms that can afford unlimited subscriptions to these services.<p>In that same period, I have watched Google Scholar actually regress in it's usefulness. I understand that it is not called Google Legal Research but the updates to the search format since I started using it have actually made it harder to do the type of research I need as I have learned to get better. The only "improvement" I've seen is to literally remove old improvements.<p>Up until at least last week, they allowed you to revert back to the old look with a link on the main Scholar page. That link now appears to be gone and I hope that they will not remove the feature completely since the old link location itself still works.<p>Google needs to, at a minimum, put the option of using the "old" version and, optimally, should reinstate the "old" version as the "new new" version plus some actual improvements.
I Want My Cheese
Nobody disputes that you must be searched to get on a plane. The question is whether or not anyone is in jail for coming to the airport, getting in line, being selected for an extra search, and saying "you know what, fuck this, I'm going home".

The FUD is that "yes, you will go to jail forever if you do that", but I don't think that has any basis in reality.
I agree--->Bye Bye Disqus

Anyone suggest replacement SaaS comment solutions?
This NYTimes article has been used as evidence against Tesla's claim that you can leave the car at an airport for a week and come back without having lost (much) charge, regardless of weather conditions. I merely intend to point out that due to an inaccuracy in interpreting the drop in range, this is not evidence against that claim.
Oh, no, I would never believe that but then again they are as free to lie and/or make changes in their service as I am to leave them when I please and get angry at their shamefacedness.
"Normal use" being "I forgot to get gas last night, I wonder if I have enough to make it to work and stop on the way home". Less likely for a car that gets plugged in every night and has enough range for 3-4 days, but more severe since you'd be at least 30 minutes late instead of 5 minutes.
Or the driver left the lights on overnight.
Feedback on webrtc prototype: persistent (and anonymous) group audio in chrome 
What it is: www.gabberly.com .... Free group audio prototype that requires no sign up, user ID or software -- other than Chrome. It's mostly built on WebRTC.

My question: Is this useful to anyone but our dev team?

How to use: Click Create Conference button on www.gabberly.com. Share resulting unique link with 1 or a 100+ friends. Anyone who clicks is instantly joined to live audio conference. Group members drop in/out of conference through the day, stay all day, use for a quick together, etc...

Requirements: Chrome + computer with mic/speaker. (No registration, sign up, personal data...)

Why we made it: Keep our team connected on a particular issue, without having to worry about Sykpe, Google IDs, or setting up bridges
I have used Google Scholar for the past 3 years to do free and quick legal research. My school gives us access to very expensive alternatives like WestLaw and Lexis Nexis but that doesn't help much except people who then go on to work at firms that can afford unlimited subscriptions to these services.

In that same period, I have watched Google Scholar actually regress in it's usefulness. I understand that it is not called Google Legal Research but the updates to the search format since I started using it have actually made it harder to do the type of research I need as I have learned to get better. The only "improvement" I've seen is to literally remove old improvements.

Up until at least last week, they allowed you to revert back to the old look with a link on the main Scholar page. That link now appears to be gone and I hope that they will not remove the feature completely since the old link location itself still works.

Google needs to, at a minimum, put the option of using the "old" version and, optimally, should reinstate the "old" version as the "new new" version plus some actual improvements.
Well, yeah; "Shut up, do as you're told, and we'll succeed in exterminating those other people" is a lesson the military takes in a somewhat different light from the general public.
> It's a free service and they're at the point where monetization is becoming a necessity.

Monetization is not an optional thing that you tack on afterwards, unless you are willing to re-negotiate your relationships. If you do that on an auto-opt-in basis you are breaching the trust with your users.

> I don't know about you, but I can live with a couple of non-obtrusive links that go other places—especially since, like a lot of people, I got emails about it ahead of time. If you can't, you can turn it off.

Sure and if it had not been 'opt-in' and if I had actually received their messages I would have exported my comments and called it a day. But defaulting it to 'on' is not opt-in, that's forcing me in with the option to opt-out afterwards. And I absolutely do not want advertising on my website unless I know exactly who benefits from it and what the arrangement is. I ran a google tag for a while to help someone out, other than that my blog has always been ad free. Now I find I'm endorsing products and services that I would never endorse in a lifetime.

> You act as if the ads are putting ugly pictures of fat people are flooding your site or ads for e-Cigarettes or other skeevy things.

No, I'm acting this way because (1) there are ads at all and (2) especially exxon is very high on my shit-list for bad companies. Just about between Monsanto and McDonalds. Whether a company is bottom shelf or not has nothing to do with whether or not I want their advertising on my site. What's the point of having a comment moderation system to keep out unwanted links to advertisers if they sneak in the back door anyway?

> The reason why you probably didn't notice them is because they're so unobtrusive that they were designed so you wouldn't notice them.

Apparently that's only one part of the story, I don't know what the conditions are that make them switch on and off.

> Now whatever philosophical issues that raises, I think, from what I've seen in my own experience, Disqus handled this the right way.

Strong disagree, they could have simply left the feature to be switched off for existing accounts and switch it to default to 'on' for new accounts.

Accounts should be left in the state of the terms-of-service at the time of sign-up, any changes to a users setting that materially alter the relationship between service and user should be avoided at all cost because they breach trust.
I'd be leery of this.

Once someone sends me an email, barring any prior agreement, it's mine. I may not own the ideas therein, but I certainly can claim enough ownership that the sender destroying the email irrevocably, without my consent, should raise some flags.

I'm seeing parallels with those useless "this email is confidential, private property, etc." footers that people stick on their emails.
Why isn't HTML the standard file format for today's word processors?
Yay for using government to blast competition to little bits!
I understand that this is an art project, not a real proposal, and think it is incredibly interesting. But the idea of states being redistributed after a census seems crazy to me. How would you reorganize state governments?
There's a lot of information about Lockheed's implementation (search for Lockheed Kill Chain presentation), but here's a specific presentation they gave at black hat:

https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-12/Briefings/Flynn/bh-us-12...

The high-level takeaway is that they developed a response methodology (modeled after a military killchain) that breaks up an attack into different phases, and they then have protection (and more importantly, detection) processes in place for each phase.

The idea is that for an attack to be successful (ie: data is exfiltrated, which is predominantly the type of attack they are concerned with) that doesn't just magically happen. Each phase of the kill chain has to be bypassed, so you have multiple places to detect (and hopefully prevent) it.

You also have the benefit of asymmetrical information, which is to say, that when you stop an attack inside the kill chain, you have all the information that got them to that point, whereas they don't necessarily know why the attack was unsuccessful. That allows you to build a knowledge base specific to the attacker so that future attacks can be stopped earlier on in the process.

Lockheed's kill chain implementation (and ours as well) is lacking the last phase of response that is present in the military one (mainly: they can launch a missile strike or send tanks, whereas we are obviously slightly more limited in our response).

Basically, this process came about as a reaction to reality of the defense situation (which is that for all intents and purposes you can't actually stop them from getting into the network, you have to have a response plan to mitigate attack success that includes your systems getting compromised).
Regenerative braking just lowers the loss -- it does not eliminate it.

It's not that simple. Regen does more than lower the loss; it also allows the energy captured during braking to be re-used on the next acceleration. Regen basically means your effective range is based on your average speed, even if you are doing stop and go driving instead of cruising; you can actually get better range in city driving with regen because your average speed is lower, and lower average speeds are more efficient (because there is less loss from drag and friction). This is why hybrids typically have a higher EPA rated mileage for city driving than for highway driving.
Rumor: HP cooking up a Tegra 4-powered tablet
Mozilla Firefox Windows 8 style browser preview released
Side-effects need to be explicit. When he registered did the ToS say this would be the behavior? There is no logic in your argument.
Does anyone have a link to a larger version where the New York/LA/Chicago areas are zoomed in?
"For example, Facebook has considerably altered how we interact with our friends. In some ways, it has benefited us — for example, I wouldn’t have been able to have the conversation with Max that prompted this discussion if he hadn’t seen my Facebook status and chatted with me after noticing I was online."

I'm a LiveJournaler, and have been since like 2003, and while the community is less busy than it was, I've been having a much higher quality of interactions on there, long before facebook was around doing anything. For me, facebook is just the latest chapter in helping people around the world connect, with more cute pictures of cats however that what came before.
I find the US Air Force's Nuclear Flying Saucer much more interesting.
It was originally published in November of 2000 by Popular Mechanics, but I am unable to locate the article on their site, so here's google's scan of the magazine in which it appeared:

http://books.google.com/books?id=MxXlKb9wIe0C&lpg=PA68&#...
Probably true as far as growing your own goes, but bulk dry food like pasta and beans lasts long enough that you can buy in bulk even for one person.

Of course, you can't amortise the labour of cooking over as many people, so it may still make sense to get the ready meals from that perspective.
now you are just being arrogant... they have opt-out ads... so you can opt out now... and it's an awesome free plugin... cut 'em some slack
The computer that never crashes
A revolutionary new computer based on the apparent chaos of nature can reprogram itself if it finds a fault
I think this should be highlighted: disqus is, at least, until now, quite upfront about telling you that the data is yours and you can take it away, if you don't want to use them anymore.
Of course you are right, and that is exactly why I was wrong not to see it coming. How often does one have to admit being wrong about something? Apparently it is wrong to trust any service that embeds itself on your webpage over the longer term, lesson learned. 3rd party javascript is now on my list of 'things to avoid', now I have to wonder whether I want those social media bits & pieces on there and what could be the impact of leaving them there.

I'd be very surprised if a twitter button suddenly turned into an advertisement but apparently that would be business as usual.
Only in a pedantic sense. Facebook is a use of technology, not really a technology in its own rite.
Squarespace Commerce is Here
At first I was thinking the article was a parody, but it seems not.

This is sad, and disturbing, how far people are willing to constrain freedom "for the children"
I don't know why you keep calling this stealthy or a bait and switch, I've received emails on this. Also at one point, Disqus was showing me that I was not using the latest "theme/style" and that I should upgrade. And in doing so, it would enable features such as recommended and related content.

Everything I did last year fulfills the requirements of 'opt-in'. I could have left the old style and never received the new features.

Based on my experience with this exact feature, I think the OP mis-read/didn't read the information provided by Disqus.
I would also look at http://testling.com/ and https://saucelabs.com/. Not sure which is best for this kind of testing, but those are two more I'm aware of.
The coming anti-tech counterculture?

My girlfriend is adamant about keeping her old crusty flip phone with a broken hinge that doesn't have a real keyboard on it, or even the internet!

The majority of my friends almost refuse to own televisions.

I own a kindle, but almost never use it in favor of paper.

I also own several prosumer digital SLRs, but favor my old vivitar 35mm camera from high school.

etc. etc. The list goes on.

(For reference, my girlfriend and I are both programmers)

Look even here on HN, how many people are actually anti facebook, or how common "I'm staying off the internet for 6 months!" posts are.

The anti-tech counterculture is already here.
How we grew out of Bootstrap
I wrote about my LASIK surgery and the risk tradeoff here: Plastic Surgery To Make Other People Look Better : http://kybernetikos.com/2007/06/08/plastic-surgery-to-make-o....
Depressingly, HN, or large chunks thereof, seem to lack that foundation.

Here we have an institution, the NY Times, cherished by progressive as authoritative, in conflict with a technology, cherished by progressives as environmentally crucial. The ensuing debate looks like something out of Orwell. Over an analysis of logs!

The problem isn't technological knowledge. It is "liberal" knowledge, knowledge of how we and others form opinions and deal with argument. People underestimate the impact of their political convictions on others' opinions, and their own. That impact goes really, really deep, it actually takes a lot of thought and reading and observation to see how this works.

And yet we're routinely treated to debates where people simply state whatever seems obvious to them as "fact" and then respond incoherently to any contradiction. It's truly depressing.
@jacquesm I felt the same way and got mad at disqus when I saw they did that without my consent. I turned off the "feature" and started looking for alternatives.

Vanilla Forums looked like it provides a neat option to serve the same purpose (embedded comments hosted elsewhere)

http://vanillaforums.com/tour/turn-drive-by-blog-commenters-...

I didn't end up setting it up and have just had the disqus nonsense turned off.
As someone who can manipulate charts to say what you want, I assume you are familiar with what manipulated charts look like. Does anything stand out to you?
don't you know you can just opt-out..
It might be a win for you because it's "free", but it's not a win for others.

Disqus is sneaky. I don't like sneaky people and more importantly I don't like sneaky companies.
Language matters
This has been done several times.
The first that I can remember was "Disappearing Inc"
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/02/34171
IIRC they were shut down by the feds/spooks.
How would you feel if twitter decided to include (for your benefit, of course) a bunch of advertising next to their button after sending you an email about it and defaulting to 'on'. Would that be ok for you or would you feel that that was not what you signed up for when you decided to embed their button tag?

I signed up for a 'comment tag', not for an 'advertising tag'. There is a world of a difference between those two, it changes my blog from a non-commercial one into a commercial one and that is - to me at least - a major shift. On top of that they make it look as if I endorse these links.

To see that happen without my explicit consent is something that is enough to turn me off from that particular service provider because I can apparently not trust them with the responsibility of not altering our relationship in a material way relative to the terms of service of the moment when I signed up for their service.