skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People hear "NY Times" and think it means something. It doesn't. There's simply no way (usually) for anyone to factcheck what happened on a reporter's solo trip. The editor is completely reliant on the author's word.

In this case the writer is busted, but you can be sure that plenty of NY Times articles are equally biased without anyone able to prove otherwise. I was fortunate to personally witness absolute yellow journalism out of the NY Times, so I know just low their reporting can go.

Trust individuals, ignore brands.
In iOS 5 that article was unreadable black on dark blue. Thankfully the "reader" mode worked and makes the text readable.
This would be great and I'm sure it will come to fruition sooner or later. I wonder what will happen to the auto insurance industry when self driving cars are prolific. Undoubtedly they'll be logging this kind of data constantly.
Its quite easy to get it out. Took me about 20 minutes on one.
> I think it's worth pointing out that Broder probably wasn't taking minute-to-minute notes as he drove (which, as a fellow driver I appreciate).

If Broder now said, "I must have forgotten a few things", it would instantly end his credibility as a journalist.
I'll keep aside the logic of whether I like what they are doing or not and ask if they have any other option.

The die has already been cast in Quora's case, from what it looks like from the outside (I'm speculating wildly here), it looks like the company realized a while ago (around the time of the Charlie Cheever ousting saga) that they're growing at a pace much slower than what is expected out of them.

A $11 million series A to $50 million series B usually fits the profile of a company in hyper growth stage.

Is Quora a company that fits such a profile? All pointers (admittedly imperfect) say 'no'. Even going by their latest feature, blogs, it would appear that they're also running out of tricks. Such a feature is often a clear indicator of the flattening of user growth, leading companies to chase down usage growth aggressively to make up for the decline in the former.

But a $50 million series B should fly in the face of such an assumption. Well, maybe not. Money can either help you unlock known avenues for growth or it can help you explore unknown avenues. Either option buys time, but with different ends in sight. DAngelo putting up some of his own money certainly points at the latter. It looks like an attempt to buy time to explore.

While it is hard to wager what their burn rate should be, it is probably not enough to burn $11 million in two years. Even with the really nutty assumption that they have actually burnt $11 million in 2-years, with the current round they should be good for another 2-3 years. That's enough time to focus purely on how to massively grow the product without having to worry about how will you pay the bills in the coming week.

With that perspective in mind, it is easy to see why they're less interested in being a warm-and-cosy small community with great answers that pushes all the right buttons with the power users.

Their road ahead is a choice that's already been made. Where they will get to on that road, I don't think anyone knows yet.

One thing is certain, though. They'll either win really big, or will flame out pretty badly. They've already boxed themselves into a place where there is little space in-between.
If indeed this is true, it is incredibly despicable behavior to try to bury with lies a technology that could bring so much good to the world.
Aren't most heroes in books impossible creatures impossible to be lived up to?

I still think there is a lot more content in Ender's Game than in Twilight. The message of Twilight is basically "be depressed and broody, and a shiny vampire with superpowers will fall eternally in love with you". In Ender's Game at least there are real problems and real solutions, even if perhaps it is unrealistic that a single guy could have come up with them. Then again, the book was written by a single person, so it is not completely unfeasible to have such thoughts and ideas.
> people of average or below average intelligence probably aren't served very well by the high school curriculum.

Explain. My experience has been that high school is little more than a legal straightjacket to prevent the archetypal hormone-addled teenager from going off and doing stupid shit or otherwise causing potential problems for themselves.

> The high school curriculum should have alternate vocational and tech skills tracks.

This doesn't happen already? What's the pipeline in your education system for someone who wants to become, say, a diesel mechanic? Can they leave school early and get an apprenticeship?
Mass media is show business.

Whenever I have known the facts in a story that happened to become a media story, the facts differed from how the story was presented in media. Sometimes a lot, sometimes a little. But always some. You can't trust mass media, not even NY Times.
> I don't really understand why reST is so unpopular compared to Markdown.

Markdown is so much simpler than Rest.
"Try fancy-schmancy maneuvers in the no-man's land of WW1 and you're done."

This happened. 1940, Germany (maneuver warfare style called "Blitzkrieg") vs. British Expeditionary Force and France using more traditional strategy and tactics, in roughly the same area as the world war 1 battles. BEF was routed, France forced to surrender.
Well, sort of--there's habits you should keep (looking at faraway objects and blinking more) while staring at the screen. But that's just because you're using your eyes in a very unnatural way.

LASIK is the equivalent of dental veneers in your example, or maybe using liposuction to "cure" obesity (while glasses/contacts would be just riding around on a rascal scooter).
"1. Third party statistics sites like Alexa and Compete are horribly untrustworthy indicators of reality."

They're always wrong. But, from what I can tell, they're usually wrong in ways that are still usefully predictive. If you compare two sites at Alexa.com, and there is a vast difference in popularity (as is the case between Quora and StackOverflow), you can probably assume StackOverflow is bigger and growing faster...even if you can't be sure how big the difference is. I wouldn't want to make business decisions on it, but it's good enough for me to feel comfortable making snarky comments about Quora.

"2. Growing traffic isn't the best way to foster a community. I believe pg has written about this a few times, with regards to communities in general and HN."

But, it is the way to justify $61 million of investment. HN doesn't have to ring the cash register. Quora does, at some point.

Anyway, I find Quora annoying. The community may be awesome, but I don't believe the curators of that community are deserving of my attention or my contribution to their walled garden.
Why on Earth any sane engineer would think that adding layers of "virtualized" crap in front of your application will be of any benefit?)

The only advantage of virtualization is on the developing stage and it is an ability to add quickly more slow and crappy resources you not own.)

Production is an entirely different realm, and the less layers of crap is in between of your TCP request and DB storage - the better. As for load balancing - it is Cisco level problem.)

Last question: why each web site must be represented as a hierarchy of some objects, instead of thinking in terms of what it is - a list of static files and some cached content generation on demand?)
The GPS logs probably don't update fast enough and aren't accurate enough to make for an interesting display. It'd probably look like a confused scribble, the speed data is more accurate.
"lets just just ignore this mud flinging contest and move on."

Let's not. Let's re-run the trip with an actual impartial (neither booster, nor someone out to perform a hatchet job) driver in similar conditions and see how it works out.
Actually, assuming they had your permission, they could record all of this data remotely, just as you can: http://docs.timdorr.apiary.io/
I agree but there is a difference between throwing out parts and assemblies to having to throw an entire unit out due to what could be a failure of a $1 part.
Ironically the post's font is extremely hard to read, at least on Windows.
It's in the graphic attached to the NYT article. It's also near the bottom of the Tesla post.
Who do you trust more - an engineering company with runs on the board, with multiple good reviews of their product, and a CEO known for attention to detail, or a journalist with a known previous bias against electrical cars?

Whilst we will never be 100% sure, I think that Tesla have proven their point beyond reasonable doubt.
It's good to see a dissenting point of view, but I disagree with your point about a collective sense of entitlement. It's more of a shared set of expectations about how the web works. In fact I'd argue that perhaps this point could be turned back on itself: it's the entrepreneurs who are guilty of a sense of entitlement because they want to build a closed system on top of an open one out of some perceived "right" to acquire signups.

If everybody on the web were using this tactic it would be a valueless platform. The only rational reaction, then, to those that use it, is rejection.
I just bought a new 981S, but would have preferred to buy a car from Tesla, for what it's worth. I just can't get past my belief that EVs make no sense without a standardized battery-exchange infrastructure.

I tend to keep cars for a long time, so hopefully the situation will be different next time around, and I can spend the money with Tesla. I'm very glad they were vindicated in this case. That said, I still agree with the discredited report in a qualitative sense: EVs that have to be charged in real time at arbitrary leaf nodes on the power grid are a really, really stupid idea.
Well, lets see if this goes to court.

Tesla were as robust in their attack on Top Gear, and a court threw them out. They still, regardless of the court decision, openly complain about Top Gear trying to drown out the court loss. So, to be honest, Tesla have form. They get criticised, loudly defend them selves, lose, but refuse to accept the loss. This could possible turn out the same.

I think people getting all excited about this evidence should wait and see it a) it goes to court and b) the out come of such a case.

I fully accept that their produce is likely under severe attack from their petrol (gas) competitors and frankly in their position I would be a bit foil hat about it, but equally they do seem hyper sensitive to criticism. There is a lot of instant Tesla supports here, but I would exercise caution and wait for both sides to be tested.

It is also interesting to me to see how opinion is divided. Here its all very pro-Tesla, but in motoring circles, opinion is far more sceptical. I suspect somewhere in the middle is where the truth lives.
Ah thanks, whoops. Should have finished the whole thing. :)
I don't know that this is quite the refutation that everyone is saying it is. I'm not sure what a reviewer driving in circles at a charging station proves? I imagine he wanted to find out what would happen - after all he was at the station anyway. Also he clearly does start to turn down the climate change about 20 miles or so after he claims - not sure why Tesla is really fighting on that one.

There is no denial of the Tesla losing 60 miles range overnight. There isn't a denial of Tesla telling him that the battery would regain its charge and range when it warmed up in the final leg. *Edit: Although it does certainly say they told him not to stop charging on that final charge.
All car manufacturers have this sort of logging enabled. It's used especially for testing and on-board equipment.

This isn't what I had in mind, but serves to demonstrate the capabilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics#Data_logge...
They're in the graphic linked to from the article:
"GRAPHIC: A Range Estimate That Misses The Mark":
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2013/02/10/automobiles/10t...
Uhm.. I'm pretty sure the Teslas don't actually let you completely deplete the packs, but rather take you to the safest discharge they can handle before shutting down. Of course they aren't going to let a stubborn driver destroy $10,000 of batteries.
There was an inset graphic in the original story, which lists miles driven and estimated range remaining at various way-points. I believe this is the url:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2013/02/10/automobiles/10t...
I had femtolasik in The Netherlands in 2012, which is like intralasik. Costs are around 3200 EUR total (~4300 USD), but with a healthcare insurance return of 500 EUR. Operation itself took about an hour (around noon), after which I could go home again under guidance. I could see a bit again the same afternoon, and got back to work two days after.

Annoying parts were the preparation (one week eyedrops) and the eyedrops after the operation for two months that take some time. And the fact that during the operation you realize that your eye is more attached to the huge laser machine than to your eye socket. Good thing that only lasted a minute.

No physical contact to the eye, just some checkups.
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You are being sarcastic right? There are some incredibly complex systems out there where a huge part of the business logic is handled by these boring "servers and databases and real-time technologies" and where it would be inconceivable to try to offload this work to the client/browser. If you really serious, then you are also extremely naive. If you're just building an online collaborative text editor, then yeah, you can safely do away with this boring backend stuff.

As a side note, I think that firebase is an amazing piece of technology and I can't wait to use it.
This is really damning.

I became way more suspicious when Mr. Broder started trying to weasel in lots of C.Y.A. wiggle room once Elon called his bluff: "Mr. Musk’s logs may show I hit 75 m.p.h. for a mile or two during my trip, although it was likely before, rather than after, the Newark stop..." [1] Suddenly he needed three conditionals in just one sentence: "may", "a mile or two" (now he's not so sure), and "likely".

Given all the hard data here that contradict the original story and show intentional shenanigans like laps around a parking lot, plus the evidence of Mr. Broder's stated a priori irrational bias against electric cars, it's hard to see how this might end up without a retraction from the Times.

And once again I think all the Times's griping about industry disruption is a secondary matter and a distraction from the fact that it's consistently not actually a very good news source.

1. http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/the-charges-are-f...
Check the 3rd image from the bottom. It shows the route, a timeline and both estimated and actual distances.
> I've never understood using round-robin or random algorithms for load-balancers...

LeastConns/FastestConn selection is very dangerous when a backend host fails. Imagine a host has a partial failure, allowing health checks to pass. This host now fast fails and returns a 500 faster than other hosts in the pool generate 200s. This poison host will have less active connections and your LB will route more requests to it. A single host failure just became a major outage.

I like WRR selection for back ends, then use a queue or fast fail when your max active conns is exceeded. Humans prefer latency to errors, so let the lb queue (to a limit) on human centric VIPs. Automated clients deal better with errors so have your lb throw a 500 directly, or RST, or direct to a pool that serves static content.
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The car park is described as a 100-lot area. Zooming in the map to show a tiny little circle wouldn't have conveyed the point - instead they showed the speed data logged instead.

As for data loggin: Elon states it's only for the media test drives unless written permission is given [1]

1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/301053361157988352
The most telling thing that jQuery (or any other library) could do would be to have a policy that any browser bug workaround has to be accompanied by both a) a bug report to the browser vendor and b) a corresponding test to the relevant W3C testsuite. That would put public pressure on browser vendors to fix the issue, and provide the jQuery team with a convenient way of telling when the workaround was no longer needed.
Great work guys.

Any chance of creating Java and .NET clients?
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Which book did you get? Curious to find out what's in it.

> ... so disadvantageous in an evolutionary sense? Environmental factors (such as staring at a computer screen...)

Well if you're arguing that it's a nurture thing, there are plenty of us who had bad vision at childhood, right from before the dawn of the computer age. You could say that it was not computer screens but books that caused it, but how far back can you make this argument? Any sources for this claim?
This guy needs to be fired.
>Perhaps other iOS developers can weigh in on this, but I feel like it's fair to say that the most qualified developers do everything programmatically.

No, not at all. Especially in iOS.
Oh, and BTW, it's not mentioned, but it would be quite interesting, and much more of a burn, if Elon is actually making some of the charges, like driving in loops, with a proof via GPS logs of the test drive.
Because much of what it tests isn't in HTML5. Some of what it tests isn't even standards track (e.g. WebSQL). The tests are also usually pretty superficial and test things like "does this property exist", not "does this feature work".
I would suggest inventing a new world - it is often a great fun for me to discover new worlds and the stories behind it. I think you don't need to reinvent the wheel, just take the best parts of the fantasy worlds you like and from those develop a new-ish thing. Maybe you can start creating a new franchise - who knows?
I guess it doesn't bother me that much. I think most of his twitter followers are probably fans and are likely to be taking his side in this anyway.

The status quo for car companies is to stay quiet or give vague denials of any kinds of reported issues. Tesla has always been a different kind of car company and this is the reaction that I'd expect.

Elon is heavily involved in his product in a way almost all other carmarkers (save for Christian von Koenigsegg) are not. If he wasn't responding to performance accusations passionately, I'd think something was wrong.
> Mac OS X should tailor its windowing system to Photoshop CS4

I think statements like these obscure away the very tight coupling Heroku has historically had with Rails. While certainly Heroku now perhaps envisions itself as a do-it-all PaaS, there's no denying Rails at one point (and, numerically, perhaps still) was their bread and butter.

While I don't have numbers to support or refute the assertion that "most Rails apps are primarily single threaded", my suspicion is that this is in fact still the case.
Pascal is modern.
> if the tesla doesn't shut down above some safe threshold it's a poor piece of engineering.

Such batteries have their charge scale as displayed to the user deliberately shifted, so that even a small negative capacity actually indicates that safety threshold. Do you actually know anything about making charge controllers? Your statements seem to be of the type crafted to deceive uninformed readers.

> elon musk also cherry picks a quote from a response to his tweets and attributes it to the original piece to further his argument

[Citation Needed]

> regardless of the new york time's behavior, elon musk is not acting in any more honest a manner and is harming his companies reputation

There's no concrete proof you've offered in this comment at all, only a willful misreading of Tesla's response.
Are there any modern militaries which don't consider maneuver warfare to be their primary strategy?

I can see most not being able to execute AirLand or anything involving long-distance strategic mobility, but outside of maybe NK (defending prepared positions with dug-in infantry and artillery), or non-state actors (but even there, it's more like the ultimate evolution of maneuver warfare than anything else), it would seem like the default tactic of most militaries. Certainly US, UK, etc.
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Which vision therapy are you referring to?

It's not the Bates Method,[1] is it?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method
What, gunpowder?
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I don't have a stake in the Ruby webserver wars, but the unicorn site has a very good discussion about how it works internally, why it's build as it is, pros & cons etc..

This seems to be missing from most of these project sites, which are often just marketing (look! It's better!!), and therefore not very trustworthy.

From the outside it looks like the biggest differentiator in each generation of ruby servers (and, I guess, db managment systems :) is not that the new is better or worse, but simply that has different trade-offs.
Or use a parameter that's effectively a nonce.
I suspect Google could get ahold of a block of non-Google AS addresses if it really wanted to.
This [1] (in German) article sums up some. While [2] is a huge list of German/EU/Int' platforms. Naturally both lists overlap.

[1] http://t3n.de/news/deutschsprachige-crowdfunding-plattformen...
[2] http://leanderwattig.de/index.php/2010/10/22/liste-mit-crowd...
I would say these too. And one more thing - picking good names require an experience itself, too - if you write more code, your names will get better and better. Don't overthink it - if you make a little mistake for picking a not-really-suitable name for something you still have option to refactor your code.

And before I forget - having the opportunity to see more experienced people's code (well, the Internet is perfect for this) can nicely develop this skill.
Yes, regardless of what C preachers like to spread, Pascal is also good for application development.

Although the original version lacked a few features, most dialects had them. Turbo Pascal and Mac Pascal were considered the dialects to achieve compatibility with.

Eventually in 1990 there was a revised version of the standard, Extended Pascal which contained such features. However by then the Pascal world searched for Turbo Pascal compatibility on most compilers.
Maybe some day. It couldn't happen without Tesla's cars being ubiquitous and we'll never get there without having these cars out now. With the sled system that Tesla is using, one day it may be possible to do easy battery-exchange.

If you live in an area where a Tesla is convenient and you don't need to do frequent long trips, it almost seems like a no-brainer to me though.
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Cultural Diffusion and SETI
There are answers sites that require registration. There are answers sites that don't. If one of those models outperforms the other -- say, by producing a more profitable company -- then that's that. It's not my job, or anyone else's job other than a business owner's, to make it easy to get paid customers.
I was told by an eye doctor that vision therapy is pseudo-science.

How credible are your sources? Could this be quackery, or do you have solid reason for believing it is legit? (No insult intended -- it is an important question for anyone looking into vision therapy).
Extremely insightful comment, thank you sir.