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They didn't clear him to go, as he suggests. They told him that it would be ready in an hour.

This is exactly the point of contention, and presumably, there should be a call to Tesla after the hour of charging if Broder's version is correct, and not if Tesla's is.

We'll see.
However, they don't necessarily need to be that competent to provide their own childcare. It's not like the kid is going to fire the parent is the parenting isn't above average. A stay at home parent caring for kids is as likely to play on reddit while the kid watches tv as interacting with the kid all the time and teaching them information, good values and good habits.
> The ad money I might have to spend in Nebraska to get a thousand eyeballs might get me closer to ten thousand eyeballs in California or New York.

What market force are you imagining makes ad space cheaper in wealthier states?
So I have read a bit about Bitcoin, including actively trying to read primers and so on, but I think my utter lack of education around economics^ is really hindering my understanding.

Plainly: Why do I care about bitcoin? What does it have that other currencies (US, EU, my own NZD) doesn't have? Why should I put my money into it, and how do we know it will not collapse and make your fake wealth even more fake?

^To help calibrate your measurements, the part of The Economist that actually talked about the economy utterly confounds me.
Edit: As another calibration, I had to google 'fiat currency' when someone brought it up below ;-)
Confirmed on BTs customer help site:

http://btbusiness.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23418...

I wonder if this is related to the recent implosion of 2e2?
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Wow, how much does Singapore's Persian Gulf fleet cost?
>I wonder if we can change that lack of understand, or if the general public will always be at a loss to understand the complexities of software ?

Considering that one of the base tenets of software engineering is to create abstractions, those abstractions work against communicating complexity because they are meant to hide/control/abstract the complexity. It's easier to see and explore the complexity of a physical object.

In some sense, software is more like the useful abstraction of the model of the atom (with the electron levels, etc) which help explain the nature and interaction of it even if it's not physically like that. A car doesn't have abstract abstractions like that, what abstractions it has are easily exposed and physical entities.
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there is a good chance that most of HN did not in fact read the NYT article before commenting on it

== yikes
We don't need to know what was said, just that a call was made.

Broder claims that he was "cleared to drive" after an hour of charging with 32 miles of range on the car for a 61 mile trip.

But I don't think that actually happened (note how delicately Broder discusses this now). Tesla certainly denies it. And this is the reason the review was "bad", so this gets to the crux of the issue.

What at least happened, according to Broder, is that they told him to "plug it in for an hour, and then it should be good to go". Note the "should". Broder never actually says that he called Tesla back when the hour was up, explained there was only 32 miles of range left on a 61 mile trip, and that Tesla said "go for it, you are cleared for takeoff".

So Broder found his angle, thinking: I'll plug it in for an hour, then just leave, no matter what the range says. Hopefully it'll die on me this time. [Ed: I made up that last part, for flavor.]

Unfortunately, Broder wrote that Tesla "cleared him to leave", which doesn't seem to be the case, and according to Tesla, was not the case, and that's why he's in the hot water that he's in. If instead he simply quoted the reps and said he didn't call back, despite the data, he'd be in the clear (although the story would be far less compelling, since it'd be clear to everyone that Broder is either an idiot, or has an agenda -- or both).

Either way, all we need to do is see if Broder made a call to Tesla when the hour was up. His cell phone log is sufficient, and Tesla might have similar data on their side. We don't need to know what was said, we just need to confirm that Broder even had the opportunity to be "cleared" to drive by Tesla. Once we confirm that, then the tapes would be helpful. Otherwise, Tesla's version is the accurate one.
I remember this episode too. It looks like he misspoke judging by what I can find online: the eLance forums have people correcting $200-$300 estimates saying that Kevin Rose actually spent more like $2k (as the parent of my comment claimed, sorry).
The Congressional Budget Office has recommended a pilot program of mandating GPS tracking of electric vehicles in order to tax them per mile driven.

Since they don't consume fuel they don't pay fuel taxes and don't contribute to surface maintenance of roadways.
But Tesla is at least consistent in their approach, see e.g. battery "bricking." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/automobiles/Tesla-Battery-... (This is an NYT story although it wasn't originally reported there.)

I'm generally rooting for Tesla and EVs (where they make sense). But I didn't think much of their PR handling of a situation where they were at least somewhat in the wrong was good then and I don't think it's good now.
I don't think Musk has the time to do background checks on every media person who wants to test-drive a vehicle. And the supposedly credible reputation of NYTimes may also have led him to trust Broder. In his blog post however he admits that he made a mistake there.
Absolutely. Every change picks winners and losers.

That's the story of politics. The electioneering never stops.

The last 16 years (to pick a time frame) Republicans have been masterful at moving the needle to favor them. And it's worked. They punch way above their weight. But a correction is inevitable. And it'll hurt.

Just like how the left peaked in the mid 70s, kept power for a while longer than the country supported them, and then had their teeth kicked in.

But what rubs me about all the electioneering is the emphasis on the mechanics. There is a third player: the voters. Fair redistricting, publicly financed campaigns, universal voter registration, etc. would all favor voters and piss of the political parties. Because the candidates would have to focus more on platform and policy, less on GOTV.
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I'm guessing it's being used as an exchanged medium to do in within seconds.

(Currency->Bitcoin)->(Bitcoin->USD)->(Reddit Bank Account).
Yes, we have farms all around the world using FarmLogs. I actually had a video chat with some farmers in India today! We are working on making it even better for our international customers by learning their specific needs.
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It's not clear why a candidate should have to go court rural and small town voters in e.g. a place like Illinois, where two thirds of the whole state lives in the Chicago urban area.
5 minutes with Excel - take it for what its worth ;)
From an sysadmin POV, Wordpress is awful.

Please don't give the Wordpress project new ideas for ooh-shiny. Please. Just don't do that. Because they already do that incessantly instead of fixing bugs and cleaning up the festering rats nest of code it all staggers forward on.
> http://opengameart.org/ seems to be a neat effort to provide that kind of public domain art.

I like OpenGameArt and I hope to see it really prosper but right now it's still relatively small, at the industry scale.

I wonder if something like OpenGameArt could disrupt how smaller/indie games are made if it grew to a critical mass of art assets. Certainly, a clever developer can do a lot with what's already there, but imagine if there were dozens upon dozens of complete, consistent sets of art covering everything you might need to make a game of a given genre there. Perhaps we'd get a lot of identical-looking games competing on mechanics alone for the right to be the "definitive" game to use this or that tileset, sprite set, etc. I wouldn't mind seeing that.

>They helped create and grow a market that the developers of RPG Maker now successfully sell to via Steam and other audiences with the latest versions of their product

Looks like it's played out like a Microsoft-type strategy for them, whether deliberately or not. A lot of kids from who cut their teeth on doing horrible things to pirated copies of Windows 9x, NT 4.0 or 2000 are now Microsoft's paying customers. I think Gates talks about this in an interview somewhere.

>A Blurred Line's developer was snapped up by Turbine to work on games like LOTRO

That's good to hear. Although it probably means that the rumors of him secretly developing a remake/continuation of A Blurred Line are not to materialize.

>I look back on the year or two I spent helping run rpgmaker.net pretty fondly, even if they were a harsh introduction to the real nature of the internet (remember eFront?)

I participated in smaller, "local" RPG Maker communities and was mostly read-only in the larger ones but they were a constant source of discussion, art assets, tips and, of course, new games. With that in mind I have to thank you for contributing your part. It was certainly an interesting environment for a young aspiring game developer to be in.

On a sad note, too bad all such communities (and I don't just mean individual website or forums) eventually peter out. I feel that a lot of game development expertise disappears with them. Maybe a constantly evolving (free and open source?) game making tool could gather a similar community around it that would then last longer.

Edit: expanded last paragraph.
I'm also a long time resident of the neighborhood, and agree with my neighbors sentiments - the article is interesting and informative, but in no way speaks to the day to day (or more importantly, night to night) life of interactions between the local homeless and the rest of the community. As an example, the sit/lie measure was in part prompted by a violent attack on a local resident. And if you've every walked down Haight with a woman (or are one yourself), the obscenities and outright harassment that the less flowery members of the homeless community will offer will shock you.
In a world and country that is becoming increasingly urbanized, it's about time we removed the thumb on the scale in favor of non-urban voters.
To me, Musk comes across as an out-of-touch engineer who keeps trying to argue the technical case and insists it's the customer's fault.

I interpreted the blog post very differently. He says that the article is an outright premeditated lie, and presents an overwhelming amount of technical data to back up his claim.
I think you probably mean Crafty, not Crafy.

I found I enjoyed working with it the most -- it handled exactly the parts I didn't want to think about (drawing sprites, collision detection) and left the interesting stuff with me.

That said, in the end I did end up looking into their drawing/collision code to tweak the performance some! :D
HN has a deeper problem. I don't think the entire crowd is biased, but due to the karma system a few people have louder voices (their posts show up at the top and stay there for a long time, even when they aren't the best responses). Some of those people are very opinionated and their opinions happen to be sticky. The algorithm should change.
Maybe this: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die...
> Certainly, and as Tesla’s logs clearly show, much of my driving was at or well below the 65 m.p.h. speed limit, with only a single momentary spike above 80. Most drivers are aware that cars can speed up, even sometimes when cruise control is engaged, on downhill stretches.

Why not just admit that he pushed the car to 80mph? If he bothers giving a really bad excuse for something benign, what's the rest of the article worth?
Farmers are not exactly afraid of technology, and, in my experience, are often on the forefront. As far as the internet goes, you can buy tractors today that come with mobile internet radios built right in. Many farmhouses in my area even have fibre installed to the home. I don't think you'll find many farms that aren't online.

I would, however, suggest that farmers tend to not care about implementations. The fact that FarmLogs uses the internet is irrelevant. As long as it solves the problem, whatever dependencies come along with that solution are just a fact of doing business.
You might if your only task that day were to assess and report on the current state of charging that car.
Do you have any plans to integrate with grain elevators? That is the biggest pain point on my farm. Being able to sell and manage inventory stored on someone else's site would make this worth every penny.
Agreed, this is not what I expected and this is not the Linux way. I guess I'll make a Ubuntu account so I can give Steam a once over, but if I wanted to be abused I'd just get a MAC.
While the battery does have internal coolant (heat-exchange) loops, it's position on the bottom of the car (it's the entire floorpan) means that it has a large surface area exposed to the weather, and wind-chill would rapidly draw any internal heat away. The question that I don't know the answer to is: how rapidly?
This article barely explains anything about the "Kill Chain" which to me sounds like part firewall, part network monitoring software and part credit card fraud detection algorithm. From what I know and took from the article, the "Kill Chain" is nothing more than a software perhaps even hardware layer that can detect suspicious activity and throw up restrictions without actually alerting the user they're detected but rather make them leave out of frustration once they work out they're not getting anything.

One part of the article in which they reveal that the system can detect attackers using legitimate authentication details basically only when they are trying to access data that they're not entitled too makes me wonder if an attacker were to get the credentials of someone higher up with more access to a wider set of data than a regular employee, would they be able to detect that? Seems like the chink in the armour if you ask me.

Interesting, but I would have loved a bit more detail and explanation about this heavily over-glorified firewall and humanised monitoring network.
A great opportunity for someone to visit the rest stop at 5:45pm, during rush hour, and put up a YouTube video of the location.

Perhaps it was hard to find. Perhaps it was easy. It'll be obvious with a video, no?
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I take exception to that! I think everything should be free and I'll take Posgres over Mongo, but I'm still most definitely not cool.
It wasn't acquired by force by the farmer, it was acquired by force by the great grandfather.

Either way, you disprove your own point. The farmer has a more legitimate claim because he worked for it, he didn't attack someone for it like the guy who showed up wants to.
Good timing - this just came up at my work over the last few days. Being from an OLAP background makes it hard to wrap my head around this approach.
personally productive, yes. not necessarily producing anything in the traditional sense.
As a merchant, it could hypothetically be easier or cheaper to deal with Bitcoin than other currencies online. (For example, note how aggravating/risky PayPal is.)

As a person who wants to hedge against inflation or hyperinflation, it has a fixed total supply and can't be directly manipulated by the government (nor does its value depend on the government's credibility).

As a speculator, there is the _possibility_ of making huge profits if you go ahead and get in early.

As a person who is afraid of government power, it _could_ take away a lot of the government's power if widely adopted. (If everything is "cash," they can't really tax you accurately; and with Bitcoin, they can't just print more money.) It would be really nice if the US government had to choose between, say, multiple decade+ occupations in the Middle East vs. spending on other things.

As a regular spender, there is the _possibility_ of easy digital transactions with less overhead expense (e.g. swipe your smartphone to pay for something, _without_, say, VISA taking off the top... though probably it would be some bitcoin processor taking (less) off the top).

A different way of looking at it is: it's basically analogous to gold, except easy to transmit, but not impervious to apocalypse or regulatory action that would take down the Internet. Basically everything I said above is an implication of this way to look at it. People who are slightly bullish on gold ought to be extremely bullish about Bitcoin, IMO, if they have the technical understanding to believe that it works (I do, and it does).
I'm in the Fox Valley.
Bitcoin is crypto-currency rather than fiat currency. It requires no central issuer, which means no entity can create swings in the total supply. It's based on computational limits which gradually increase the supply of Bitcoin at a predictable rate. With government-issued currencies, there is a pressure with USD to inflate the currency steadily over time, so your dollars lose value as you save them.

Right now, most people don't advocate investing significant amounts in Bitcoin. One use case is just to buy Bitcoin when you need it to complete a transaction.

You don't know that Bitcoin won't collapse. If you keep your Bitcoin on a service, you don't know that service won't get hacked. These are risks you should take into account.

But you also don't know how much demand for Bitcoin will grow. If if becomes widely used, people who saved them early should make quite a bit of money.
Yes that's exactly the type of the conservative I was suggesting. Farmers aren't stupid, and it's very very difficult to earn their respect.
A pretty fair price I am more than willing to pay for what helps me do my day job quite well. Sublime is an amazingly simple and powerful text editor, I'll pay the #30 upgrade few when 3.0 is released shortly, it's nothing considering the amount of money it's helping me to make for freelance work and my day job.
1. Have an actual job.

2. Don't pay for anything unless you absolutely cannot do without it.

3. Don't pay for things that you can acquire or make with some schlep. The equation of "I shouldn't be doing X because my time is worth Y" only works if your time is actually worth Y.
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Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-efficient_driving#Burn_a... ?
... too many options.

I wish it was easier to see what's abandonware vs what's being maintined.

Perhaps show github stars and last commit date?

I'd look at ruby toolbox for a good model to follow.

(mentioned in case you work/contribute to the project)
TLDR.

Excel is a tool.
The major problem is the dimwits (mainly in suits) that use Excel instead of thinking.
Anyone can make a decision if $A$1 > $B$1 + $C$1.

When an Excel formula is doing the thinking for you, this is a bad sign.
For you as a person.
And for your job that will be shipped some day.
To India (no offense to the nice chaps over there).
Or to some ERP module (no offense to SAP).

Please be a nice human being : be smart.
how old are you? thanks for sharing.
Yep. I think we can go farther than that and say that it's been historically screwed up by protocol designers and/or implementers more often than not (with predictable IVs, timing and length oracles, MAC-then-encrypt, etc)
This is what the website of a multi-million dollar business looks like.
"To the oncologist who told me I couldn't survive: fuck you."

Goddamn I am so sick of people talking shit like this; "_They_ said I only had 3 months to live! I sure showed _them_".

What, you think they get fucking pleasure out of telling people they are going to die? They're just doing their job, and 95% of the time, they are right. You think they're rooting for cancer to beat you? Would you prefer your doctor didn't give you an honest opinion?
Cryptography to the rescue! Years of research and expenditure on DRM says it should darn well be possible. It might also be possible to break it, but just imagine the irony of someone who refused to pay bills for contracted software dev work from one company, trying to hire a team to crack the DRM from the previous contractor?
quite a few CA-ers are moving to TX
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> there is a pressure with USD to inflate the currency steadily over time, so your dollars lose value as you save them.

Why does that pressure exist? Simply because they print more money because it makes their lives easier?
Honestly, as an Australian who has been in the design/development industry for sometime now I am not surprised. Adobe software might be the industry standard, but their customer support and ripping off Australian companies without reason is anything but first class. A quote from Jesse Pinkman a character in the TV show Breaking Bad sums up Adobe ripping off us Australians quite well:

"Getting the shit kicked out of you — not that you get used to it — but you do kind of get used to it." ~ Jesse Pinkman.
You save up before you start. You shouldn't try to start a business if you don't have a warchest to last you some time.
JetBrains might be able to help, their HQ is in the Czech Republic and they sell PyCharm an IDE for Python development:

http://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/index.jsp#Local
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You'd only receive a fraction of the amount owed by selling the debt to a collections agency.
Nonetheless it confirms my experience of journalists also: as a class, they often play fast and loose with the truth and frequently misattribute statements, misinterpret facts and quote misleadingly out of context.

Take everything you read in the press with a huge grain of salt.