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This article should really be titled "The Street Kids Of Hippy Hill." By going to one place in order to get a feeling for "street kids," they've gotten an extremely myopic view of that scene.

The full picture is much more varied. Traveler kids who go to hobo gatherings would never be caught dead at a rainbow gathering. Rainbow family kids don't drink, and alcohol is even forbidden at gatherings (where nothing else is forbidden). Gutter punks live to spange for 40s. Anarcho punks would rather starve than fly a sign.

Each has its own music scene, its own values, its own social norms. For this article to suggest that most street kids don't have a political analysis might be true for hippy hill, but isn't true at all for the squatter scene (see 'homes not jails' and 'food not bombs' for instance).
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All of his other articles for the NYT are about the oil and gas industry - that might explain his motivation for publishing a fraudulent negative review.
Woah. That's cool.
> Most farmers are not that tech savvy.

This is just not true, or, at least, it's only true where inefficient farming practises are propped up by subsidies and protectionism.

A modern farm is a hot-bed of innovation and my initial thoughts about FarmLog is that they're far far too late to the game. This was already discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5118984 but I'll duplicate my comment here:

"So, the problem with the SaaS model is that selling to farmers is a lot like selling to a demanding enterprise customer. They know what they want, they have specific requirements and the benefits of a well-matched solution will pay for itself. That isn't, generally, where you want to be if you're looking to scale out a SaaS platform."
I suppose you also feel we should reconfigure the Senate? It is certainly not evenly apportioned.
The message being labeled with "Promotions" is as the result of a filter you created, right?
Do you have any old offers of employment that you could share? The more and the older the better.
SWIFT or wire transfers are international and next-day at worst and intra-day at best, but it's really freakin' expensive—$15 vs. the 25¢ that Balanced charges.

The worst part of SWIFT though is that the recipient also gets charged on the order of $15.
It's not short memory, Apple blogs have been waging a campaign against netbooks since their heyday, just like they wage campaigns against phones bigger than 4 inches and tablets smaller than 10", TV boxes with support for keyboards, styluses, royalty-free video codecs etc. etc. Basically if Apple isn't in the market (yet) then it needs to be torn down, otherwise Apple looks bad.
I may have a use for this. Link to your ops provider?
How so @iends? You can do both, why would you have to release on the app store?
This article doesn't back itself up. Claims are labelled as 'False' and the evidence presented is 'Google Maps says so'.

Maybe Musk's data doesn't add up (I doubt it). If that's the case, present something other than 'I plotted a route in Google Maps and it said 500. QED.'
The indirect relationships I posit doesn't even require anyone to remember Nelson's name, just for the chain-of-organizational-learning to exist.

I don't know anything about the Google org chart. But when Google OS was a project -- and Google financed the Nelson patent application -- who was he describing his work to? Did any of those people, or even people they passed ideas to, later help make the decision to prioritize/fund Chrome OS? If so, that's more than "absolutely no connection".

Did Brin/Page/Schmidt take interest in and see presentations about Nelson's 'Google OS'? And then later on 'Chrome OS'? That would also be more than "absolutely no connection".

Even if the 'Google OS' project was a mess and the main lesson that percolated down from it was, "don't do it this way", it could have been an important precedent... even if Nelson's name is forgotten. That "there are few people left" who might have personal recollections cuts both ways.

Note that these are all general arguments about evaluating why people's impressions differ, and how in founding disputes everyone may have a reasonable basis for their claims based on their own limited perspectives. I don't have specific knowledge of Nelson or these Google projects, and on the internet, exaggerations, hoaxes, and identity-games are always a possibility.
But if I'm writing for NYT, known for their accuracy and integrity, I tripple check every number and make copious notes. Mixing up and 5 and 9? Seems like something a journalist wouldn't do casually.
It's not at all - that means you're ceding many rights to the authors of the software. Suppose I want to use open source X from Company Y, and they had that provision. Then I find that Company Y is pirating my software, slandering, hacking our servers - if I sue them, I now lose my license?

Why would I build on something that lets the owner act against me with relative impunity (assuming the software is something critical)?
Well, for starters, one of the guys who commented has been there since the beginning.
As for the rest, this is very unlikely. Think about this for a second. They'd already started a project called ChromeOS, and they then decide to have a meeting with this guy about the idea of a web browsing laptop (or whatever)?

That doesn't make sense.

I have my own recollections of when/how the ChromeOS project started (since they asked for legal and open source advice ), and it pretty much matches other folks in that thread. I never heard from this guy, and I had heard from now-executives (they were just regular folks back then :P) about the idea/plan.

So, while theoretically possible still, it's pretty unlikely.
I expect this is simply a case where a guy thinks what he did got used elsewhere, and it wasn't.

There were a lot of independently developed projects that did kinda-the-same thing back in 2006-2007.
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"Sorry?" It is wonderful. People make great things and run their businesses on Excel. It has its faults and people are not programmers, but it makes an incredible percentage of businesses run.
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Trust issues abound in published reviews (with the possible exception of Consumer Reports), whether by respected journalists, real buyers on Amazon, or anonymous online posts. What I find of most interest about this story are the possibilities it suggests:

Logging data published right along with reviews would be a terrific way to add credibility.

Of course, then you need to set up a system to ensure logging data can't be faked, and that the logging data is for the review in question. Something along the lines of the black box in airplanes seems like a possibility.
> On the other hand, they're in denial about capitalism.

Could you expand on the flaws in their disdain of capitalism? Or, if that's too broad a question, perhaps direct us to some reading material on the subject?

I don't mean this in a snarky or side-taking manner... in fact I'm struggling with my own views on capitalism and would love to expand my knowledge on the issue.
Our focus has been on support for the mobile platforms - iOS and Android. As such, the deployment tooling is really focused on releasing games to the app store.

This may change in the future - for the time being, if you're interested in releasing a game on the web, send me an email:

fairfieldt@gameclosure.com
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Uhm … what do you expect?

I thought this was all pretty convincing. What are your complaints?! I really don’t get it. How would you suggest measuring distance? Is Google Maps really not a good tool for doing so? Plus, Google Maps wasn’t really the centerpiece here, for any argument.
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I believe I ran into the same problem about a year ago using Office 2010 (on Windows).
Where I grew up the farmers were the wealthiest and most tech savvy people in the area.
Google's cached image for this website shows this:
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Funny story, actually.

Was drinking one night hanging out with some hippy friends (who I'd met in some computer science courses back at university, doing a software rasterization project). They mentioned a great place with a bunch of different folks, and said I should go. A few nights later I showed up with another friend, and that was that.

It was an amazingly chill party--young folks up through old hippies, people smoking out in the garage at the back of the lot, tech folks chatting about different projects in a kitchen, some other really far out stuff happening elsewhere.

I'd suggest that the big thing to do is to be relaxed, chill, and ask a lot of questions. Don't bore people with your own life if it doesn't enhance what they're talking about or if they don't ask, and keep your mind open to the idea that there is not one fixed path to happiness in life.

Don't brag or be condescending, do be friendly, and be helpful--basically, just be a decent person and doors will open.

EDIT: Addendum. I saw a few things happening that were probably not legal, and I certainly was a bit out of my element. That said, being okay with politely refusing offers that weren't my thing and not making trouble for other folks helped me fit in.
Reddit has a thread by Bill Gates (thisisbillgates). Why not write him, he is a humanitarian who will surely help you.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_c...
Editing on a phone is quirky, so further detail: the AdWeek profile lists him as being in Germany. Also, of all the cities in the USA, Fitness SF was unable to find a designer they liked in San Francisco? Please.
Siblings capture much of what I mean by corruption. When the state creates new privileges and hands them out, incumbents with hundreds of lobbyists will get the lion's share. Do we really want to place e.g. Tesla at a disadvantage to BP? (You can see this at work in wireless spectrum allocation, as ATT and VZN get basically all new desirable spectrum.) Maybe society is indifferent to smaller competitors' plight in general, but this won't be good for innovation.

Another aspect, perhaps more serious, is that it would be very difficult to audit incumbent carbon producers' use of carbon credits. These aren't physical items for which you can count inventory, nor are they currency which enters and leaves the corporation via double-entry bookkeeping; they are numbers on a spreadsheet that are credited and debited based on circumstances that have yet to be defined. Corporate executives may not be perfect stewards of shareholder interest, but they've never even thought of the stakeholders for carbon credits. Europe might not have had such problems, but my feeling is that our accountants aren't as honest or diligent as theirs are, and our corporations are governed differently.

Also, for years before the introduction of cap'n'trade, large polluters will have the incentive to remain large polluters, so they get the most credits they possibly can. This is why energy lobbyists love to promote cap'n'trade, and they won't complain about a decade of lead time for it.
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wow....they are using GETs for everything ! :)
The article doesn't mention one important historical factor. For years, Amazon was fighting to not collect taxes until more and more states started passing laws saying online retailers must collect sales tax at the behest of B&M merchants. Rather than fight a losing battle, they decided to beat those merchants at their own game: "Fine, you want us to collect sales tax? We'll build warehouses everywhere and have same day delivery instead of having warehouses in only a couple of states."

I live in NY where Amazon already collects sales tax so it doesn't really matter to me.
I rephrased it. They are not internet tech savvy, in my experience.
As mentioned below, I rephrased it. They are not internet tech savvy, in my experience.
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I think we can safely say that we never "flush" the CPU cache within our programs.

Perhaps true, but not for lack of trying!

For benchmarking compression algorithms from a cold cache, I've been trying to intentionally flush the CPU caches using WBINVD (Write Back and Invalidate Cache) and CLFLUSH (Cache Line Flush). I'm finding this difficult to do, at least under Linux for Intel Core i7.

1) WBINVD needs to be called from Ring 0, which is the kernel. The only way I've found call this instruction from user space is with a custom kernel module and an ioctl(). This works, but feels overly complicated. Is there some built in way to do this?

2) CLFLUSH is straightforward to call, but I'm not sure it's working for me. I stride through the area I want uncached at 64 byte intervals calling __mm_clflush(), but I'm not getting consistent results. Is there more that I need to do? Do I need MFENCE both before and after, or in the loop?
I have not put words in your mouth.

Go back to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5218597 and look at the quote you were criticizing Broder for. Here it is. Based on that advice, I was under the impression that stop-and-go driving at low speeds in the city would help, not hurt, my mileage.

You considered this proof that he didn't know basic physics, because obviously stop-and-go driving is inefficient. My point is that your criticism is wrong because this is actually a question of empirical fact that can - and does - go either way. (In fact in published mpg figures, the Toyota Prius does better in stop and go city traffic than on the highway. If you go significantly over 55 mph on the highway, you're probably getting worse highway mileage than the published figures.)

...imply that I don't know a different basic bit of physics.

I make no claims on whether you understand how wind resistance works. I do claim that your initial comment showed no understanding for how important wind resistance is IN THIS CASE. But now I pointed it out, and then explained it with reference to actual energy loss for a popular model of car, and you have been pointed to the fact that published mpg figures for the Prius demonstrate that it leads to the very pattern that you thought Broder was an idiot for thinking possible. At this point if you believe in science and measurement, you've got to admit that your analysis missed something important, and you were wrong. If you're a mature person, you'd then apologize for some of the same things.

Alternately you can demonstrate a willful denial of basic physics by continuing to insult me for having pointed out your mistake. But if you continue that path, I won't bother to respond because I trust that interested third parties can draw the correct conclusion.
I am from the UK and been programming in Python since before that domain was registered and happy to help.

Am I missing something, if you go to Amazon.co.uk and search for "python" (not just in books, but a top level saerch) - (e.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%...) the top results are all books about the Python programming language published in the UK.

Similarly search for "Python" on any Uk based jobs site

http://jobsearch.monster.co.uk/jobs/?q=Python&cy=uk
http://www.technojobs.co.uk/search.phtml/Python/searchfield/...

(can provide many more such links if you need)

There is no doubt about what Python means.
I see this as a very big "win" for Linux. I can't wait to game tonight, thanks Steam.
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Head over to Amazon, buy a bluetooth OBD2 dongle. Plug it into the port in your car, typically under the steering wheel. Load up the Torque app on your smartphone. You now have real-time direct access to all the diagnostics, fault codes, and can clear your own Check Engine light. With the app you can create your own dashboards of gauges, monitor all your car's sensors while driving, and log everything for export.
The most interesting point on the range graph isn't mentioned in Tesla's repsonse (or anyone else's), which is the huge drop in range overnight at mile 400, fron 80 miles of range to approximately 20. That is the Achilles' heel of the Tesla that caused the car to run out of juice in this (possibly contrived) example.
This is a different kind of sleezy. Adding travel insurance to a flight happens before the user has agreed to the deal. In this case Disqus has hundreds of thousands of people signed up for a commenting system and then changed the product fundamentally without asking them if they want this new product. That's exactly why it is (correctly) described as a bait-and-switch.
Speaking as a googler from that era:
It's much more likely Jeff did something independently, and it never ever got reused elsewhere.
In fact, it's very likely nobody working on chrome/chromeos ever knew about it.
I've read this three times, and isn't that the way the EC works now?
Similar thing happened with the Perl trademark in Japan back in 2010 - http://blogs.perl.org/users/lestrrat/2011/09/perl-trademark-...

Fortunately it was resolved. Don't know if contacting someone at TPF or Japan Perl Association might be helpful here?

TPF - http://www.perlfoundation.org

JPA - http://japan.perlassociation.org

Lestrrat (Daisuke Maki, author of the trademark blog post) contact details can be found on his MetaCPAN page - https://metacpan.org/author/DMAKI
According to his profile:

Member, Technical Staff
Google, Inc.
January 2006 – January 2008 (2 years 1 month)
That's a poor analogy and even you have pointed it out. So using it only creates an unnecessary and invalid connection between stealing and what disqus did.

To be fair, "I can do whatever I want" was actually the condition GP pointed out. As other users have pointed out, this was not a surprise to most of them as they were notified about it.

> they still have every right to be unhappy

Yes They do. But they don't have the right to call the other party malicious.
Depends on what you're outsourcing.
Wow, this won't suffice?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=python

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=python+software
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Being a controls engineer, this behavior always drives me crazy. I love to observe the temperature controller do its job. But it does depend on the car.

A good controller will blast the heat at max until the temperature gets close to the setpoint, then back it down. Turning it up to 90 does exactly nothing extra for you, but does end up overheating you.

However, not all cars have good temperature controllers. My wife owned a Honda Accord a while back, that was simply awesome at this job. We never, ever changed the setpoint in that car because it just worked great.

The Subaru Forester we have now is much, much worse, and we do end up fiddling with the setpoint because the controller's not doing its job well.
"That sounds like a flush to me. Modified data is written back (or flushed) to main memory."

That's one possible meaning of "flush"; however it's common to use it to mean not just "push dirty stuff out" but also "all your data is stale so drop it on the floor and refetch from the level below if anybody asks for it later". On x86 the "CLFLUSH" instruction does both "write modified data out to the level below" and "forget about the possibly stale cached copy you have". ARM generally avoids the term "flush" altogether and talks about "Invalidate" and "Clean" operations (where "Clean and Invalidate" does roughly the same as the x86 "CLFLUSH").

I guess this sounds a bit like nitpicking, except that in my experience if you're down at the level where you need to really care about what the cache is doing you probably also need to be precise in discussion of exactly what (possibly architecture specific) operations you're doing to your cache.
The writer was duped. There is quite a chasm between the flower child from Novato coming down for the weekend to trade peace patches for shrooms and the addict gutter punk types who live there permanently.
Probably "vendors".
Also, the numbers of farmers are dwindling. The cost of entry is millions. So farmers are corporate and farms are large. Limited market.
Back when I owned one of the original Honda Insights, it became very obvious that I would need to adjust my driving habits to fully take advantage of the car's enormous driving range.

If I drove like a typical New Jersey-ian then my range would have been somewhere around 450 miles. With some adjustments (namely going around 65mph at most), I could regularly attain 700+ range. This is an adjustment many people absolutely refuse to make. Once I really learned how to get the most out of my car the milage numbers were unbelievable. When I sold the car my lifetime milage was 68 mpg over 130,000 miles (in nj climate).

I can see why Musk is so frustrated... he gets a reviewer that has no interest whatsoever in understanding the vehicle's prime operating conditions and instead is driving the car like a Hertz rental. When going on a long range trip, it should be obvious that you need to drive conservatively. Use the car's incredible performance for shorter trips so that you are not at risk.

I have no problems with these limitations, and I think they are acceptable. I was quite impressed that the range numbers for Tesla were over 500 miles... my current kia rio can't touch that despite getting nearly 50mpg. I have a feeling the media is never going to "get" electric cars because they don't get conservation.
Few and far between. Actually only one that makes any big money: IBM, and they sell services on top of OSS as they did on top of proprietary stuff. Nothing very OSS about them.

On the other side, the road is paved with failed OSS companies that were praised as "really getting it", starting with the archetypal one: VA Linux.

(btw, is my typo that amusing to you? Wait till you find out about cat videos then...)
I annotated the chart in Photoshop: http://i.imgur.com/DW7SQQe.png

As you can see, there is nothing special about his night stop. The night before, it predicted 79 miles. He ended up going 60 miles before it was out of juice. That's 25% shorter than the prediction, so the car must have lost charge during the night or due to cold weather, right? Well, if you look at the day before, the full charge predicted a range of 242 miles, but he only got 196 miles, which is 20% less than the prediction.

In other words: The predicted range is consistently higher than the actual range.
As Android and iOS go to become the #1 and #2 platforms in the future, I don't see Office remaining that relevant in the future, even if they port it to those platforms.
BTW, running out of range and bricking are not the same thing. One requires recharging and the other requires $40,000.
This "defense" basically amounts to: See, Broder didn't lie, he exaggerated. That, and the things Broder did to try and get stranded were fair game.

In that, they are making valid points, supported by facts. That it's the best they can do is telling. I look forward to replication attempts.
Came to the comments page to make sure this sentiment got mentioned.

Excel is one of the nicest, best pieces of Microsoft software that I'm aware of. Well, Excel on Windows, that is. From what I've heard, on Mac it's always been kind of crappy.
We use Flowdock, they are very helpful to startups. Their OSX client (based on MacGap) also has great integration with the OS.
But when someone sends you a CSV file (a very common format for database exports and EDI), Excel does the type conversions automatically when you open it. You don't get a chance to change the cell format to Text beforehand. The ' workaround is a huge time-waster if you are dealing with a large amount of data, plus it screws up the file for use outside of Excel.

There really needs to be an option to turn off all type conversion globally for all files in Excel.