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Reading all these reviews (and the occasional response from Musk), I'm surprised by how complicated the accounts seem to be. Just once, I want to hear "the car predicted x miles remaining, and it turned out to have y miles remaining." But instead, everything is complicated by multiple readouts ("rated" and "projected"?!), ambient temperature, inside temperature, rate of speed, terrain, amount of regenerative breaking (by the way, it sounded like this is another reviewer under the mistaken impression that regenerative breaking yields a net positive on the battery, which is preposterous), etc. The cynic in me is tempted to think that Tesla purposefully made the range estimations complicated to make it difficult to say for sure whether the car fell short of its estimated range.
What will happen when countries will start producing tons of graduates but not enough white collar jobs? I fear it will create very unhealthy dynamics in the society.
Most ideas presented to 'coders' are half-baked. "I have this awesome idea! Let's build a building! With four bedrooms that will sleep a family!" "That's quite the well thought out blueprint there! Where do I start building?!"

Does that make it justifiable to respond with insults?
> or consider for a moment whether a family that lives on rice and a few vegetables a day can realistically afford a computer+internet-connection for their kids...

Only the absolute poorest Chinese won't be able to get internet access and a computer. The computer might cost ~1000 RMB (2 month's salary, for an extremely poor household). Maybe less, if they can put up with an old P4 getting tossed out by an internet cafe, which is now the color of a smoker's lungs. Internet will be ~50 to 100 RMB a month, and that's entertainment (and information) for the whole family. Getting access to online courses (which might rely on YouTube, which is blocked) might be tricky, as is the language barrier, but I'm sure China will have localised versions of the course. It's a major cost, but Chinese aren't starving, just poor. Once you have more than $2 a day, food isn't the only priority; healthcare and education is.

Migrant workers might be worse off than the poorest peasants, though, as they may not have a stable abode. You can't get your kid a computer if you're sharing a shanty-town room with 2 other families. Plus, getting a connection might not be possible. That's probably why migrant workers often leave their kids with grandma.

And yes, credentialism is an issue.
I was referring to the underlying code in jquery.js and all the hacks required to make it work in most browsers.

You do have a good point though
The comparison is unfair unless you take into account the amount of braking done when driving slowly.
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Sometimes you have to leave a Tesla unplugged overnight: on a ski trip, in a cold airport parking lot, when traveling and a charger is unavailable, etc.

In addition, the Tesla can lose range even when not parked overnight; it can simply be driven when it is very cold outside.

You can "instruct" people not to do these things, just like Steve Jobs "instructed" people not to hold their iPhones "like that", but you will be ignored.
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Rumours tell what's what happened in Cambodia before Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge.

Too many liberal arts & french classical literature graduates, no viable agriculture to feed the country without external help, help being cut.
There is a psychological label which is useful here: "Naïve Realism"[0].

Basically, everybody assumes that they are correct and that all fair rational people would draw the same conclusions as them given the same information.

When that doesn't happen, it can't be because the person is wrong; their interlocutor must be wrong. If the interlocutor continues to deny that they're wrong, they must be intellectually or morally defective.

That's what's happening here: people are assuming that since Broder doesn't agree with them, he must be deliberately deceitful. You can search any Tesla thread on the net and find the word "liar" or "lies".

Personally I think that Broder made some factual errors but that the big picture -- the battery ran flat in spite of the advice given -- is what matters. Maybe there's an RTFM problem here, maybe there isn't. I don't really care at this point because I happen to know that all new technologies ever have had embarrassing teething problems. When Musk's rockets blow up nobody seems to blame the journalists.

Musk overreacted because it's his baby and because surely anyone who disagrees with the wonderfulness of Tesla must, by the reasoning of Naïve Realism, be intellectually and morally defective.

Sprinkle in the way that humans love to form themselves into tribes, the "hostile media effect" and attitude polarisation and basically we're just hearing the same tunes that are hummed about Microsoft / Google / Obama / Bush / Rails / node.js / whatever.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism_(psychology)
> more likely outright journalistic malpractice

That is a heavy charge and the evidence just doesn't support throwing it around so haphazardly. Musk's jumping to that conclusion did this entire discussion a disservice.

Remember, Musk stated as fact that Broder "drove around in circles" for 0.6 miles trying to run the batteries out. His casual accusation on just that point alone makes it hard to take the rest of his analysis (of his company-provided data) without a grain of salt.
Doh! You are absolutely right, which is sad since I was using a mental model of invasive species when I wrote the post, and even pondered how some plant species do great, smothering and outcompeting the natives, until a fire comes through during their dry season and wipes them and their seeds out.
Well, obviously the only reasonable explanation here must be that Consumer Reports is in the pocket of big oil, right, right?
Ask HN: How did your startup get its first 1,000 users?
I'll give up bottom posting (and inline posting) when I die. Well, that's what I want my position to be anyway. But, truth be told, it's a lot of work to re-jigger things for bottom posting with many modern email clients. And so I do find myself sometimes falling back to top-posting out of laziness - especially when emailing from my phone using GMail.

Most of the time, however, I bottom post. Maybe I'm just showing my age, but top-posting kinda annoys me. Now you kids get off of my lawn.
I recognize that your litmus test was rhetorical, but it's a question that does seem answerable, so I'll try to answer it.

I would imagine there are a number of genes that are associated with lowered intelligence. For example, one might start by looking at genes such as the Dopamine D4 receptor gene, for which the 7-repeat allele seems to be a pretty good indicator of ADHD [1][2], which in turn is associated with significantly lower IQ. Of course, chains of correlation don't always work, and that is why it would be important to have tens or preferably hundreds to thousand of things like that to look for. While it would be nice and easy to look for an "intelligence gene", that may not be feasible. However, my guess is that looking for "mild cognitive impairment" genes and then selecting the pair with the lowest number of those genes could give a rate of successful guessing well above random.

So this study, alone, would not be likely to allow you to make a prediction that's much better than random, and resumes are going to be hard to beat period (though with the resumes and the genetic data, you might be able to make better predictions). And if Zhao and his team do find a gene that correlates with increased intelligence, that will be big news (though I would not give good odds on that actually happening).

In any case, I agree that IQ is complex, but I don't think that either the "intelligence gene" hypothesis or Dickens and Flynn's hypothesis is the whole story, because identical twins raised apart still have a significant and fairly high correlation in IQ scores [2].

[1] http://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateSer...

[2]http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1966....
(unfortunately paywalled, though I'm sure someone will accidentally drop it if you need it).
When I hear stories about how someone successfully broke into the highly competitive <insert name> industry without any previous experience the quote from IT Crowd comes to mind: "When i started Renholm Industries I had just 2 things in my possession. A dream and 6 million pounds."
Indeed, Facebook is probably the worst example ever for illustrating his point! I'm not denying the technical skills of MZ, but really, it was 99% about the right time, the right place, the need for it being already there, people being already primed and wormed for the whole social networking concept, the US college environment being good enough for spreading the meme... any "a little bit better than myspace" execution would have been enough to attract people, then the large enough user base would have been enough to attract funding.

Actually I think Facebook was neither about who knew who (serendipity), nor about the skills of the people involved (preparation) - I consider it like the fuel being already piled up and all that was needed was the right temperature and a spark ...or more like life appearing on a planet with the right chemicals and conditions: it just fucking happens by simple laws of probability governing chemical reactions (to develop this analogy further, giving MZ credit for Facebook is just like inventing the concept of god and giving him credit for life appearing on Earth!)
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Ledger is beautiful. I actually wrote a web frontend (Django) for our company. It downloads the transaction history using aqbanking which implements the HBCI protocol (a german standard for accessing banks). My colleague then assigns accounts to each transaction.

It's given us a much better and more current view of where we are financially. We can actually display our runway on our Geckoboard dashboard in the office!

Next step: use D3.js to create monthly reports you can really drill down through.
You have made a very great point, and i certainly was not aware that this "idea guy" problem is this bad in game development.

Maybe a different approach would be appropriate, starting things off on "the right foot" by focusing on what they can bring to the table first, rather than the business opportunity. Resumes may get binned too, but not at the 100% rate. Focusing on the person rather than the idea also lets you focus on if you'd be a good fit for any project, rather than tossing one idea at a time their way... or if they're such a great fit you'd be willing to find a different business opportunity that suits both of you.

I think if this is the common response the "clueless kids" get, there will much less clueless kids in the world. This response is infinitely more valuable than insults and rants.
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The vast majority of people don't look at that info or know what it means though.
Sure, Facebook was technically simple for something that would turn into a Billion dollar business. You can certainly argue that the valuable intellectual property of Facebook wasn't in the actual lines of code. I don't think even the author would try to refute that statement.

But what the author is trying to say is that Facebook WAS actually built. It wasn't just something someone would talk or think about, and that's a crucial step.

Take it from a business co-founder; that's a step a lot of people who read HackerNews can dismiss as time behind a screen, but if someone doesn't have the ability to build something it could become an insurmountable obstacle. Someone who has all of the skill sets necessary to build a business is very rare, as different personality types and years of experience lend themselves more to certain skills at the expense of others (it's a huge struggle for me to learn to program, although we're getting there).

So the point of the author was, "Making connections, selling things, understanding a vision, that's great... but somehow, some way, you still have to build it."
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The Japanese don't switch to electronic document systems because of their great respect for precedent and established procedure. A whole administrative and legal culture has grown up around the paper document, and the Japanese are too attached to the old ways to give that up.

The Japanese mindset loves technology and innovation, but only if it fits into the established scheme of things. Disruptive innovation -- or, indeed, ANY kind of disruption -- is anathema.

For example, the iPhone could not have been developed in Japan. It was too much of a break from the past. If left to themselves, the Japanese might have got there in the end, but only through a decades long process of incremental steps.
I'm pretty sure that violates the entire point of having corporations whatsoever.
I am talking about enough skills to be able to execute on my ideas at least at the MVP level.

Definitely not comparing myself to a computer scientist, neither do I want to be one; I chose a Mechanical Engineering degree for good reasons.
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"........that have an "interesting" result that aren't "really" interesting, or perhaps rather, are only interesting because of the selection function being used ("looks interesting to a human").

No sir, you are mistaken. My linux netbook's perl regex's determined this is interesting. I myself, a human, merely scan a move-to-front list that suit's this week's curious fancy.
I wouldn't be surprised if Musk were sued for libel on this point. Were he a journalist, I suppose what he had done could be called journalistic malpractice.
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I am just curious what the general entrepreneur, hacker, designer's favorite foods/drinks are. Me personally, I freaking love Texas BBQ. Also I don't know about most college campuses, but a lot of people on my campus said pizza.
> language barrier [for online courses]

Well, not really, there is a huge part of online courses translated/subtitled to Chinese. That's my wife's job actually.
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Thanks a ton! Combined with the recent peepcode, I think im good to go!
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Personally I like the ATD - WSJ connection, Mossberg has an inside take on thigns and often doesn pieces for the WSJ which I read, I feel like I would loose that if there was a split... Plus AOL is kinda dying look what they did to engadget.

Though I do understand the need to separate news venues from cable companies, so as to avoid a CBS, CNET situation.
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Sorry for the anon uid.

Pitching in a week or so.

Forecast is for $60MM to $187MM earnings on $300MM to $800MM potential gross revenue in 5 years with fairly solid justification.

Internet startup.
Not generating any revenue today.
Six months away from being live with first product.

What would be a sensible way to value this startup for its very first investment round?
Interesting.

The wikipedia article discussing the topic claims that "However, there is no evidence that horned helmets were ever worn in battle at any point during the Viking Age"

...

and it cites the very economist article that is the OP
Very cool, and there's lots more at the source: https://www.inventables.com/
Would you consider open sourcing the frontend?
I really like Henrik Brink's "advanced IPython notebook" Ipython notebook:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/github.com/profjsb/python-b...

Some quick demos of R, Octave, etc. integration. And parallelization.
I just want to voice some token support. What little you've said here makes me want to encourage it. Even if you never manage to escape the time constraints, find some people who can get in on the vision and start the ball rolling. Hell, you might be able to get Stewart or Colbert to angel you.
Put up a good landing page about your startup and start promoting it using social media and/or ads.

Try using http://betali.st/. It's a good way to get the first 100 users or more. It's not the first 1000 but its a start.

Kissmetrics had put up a good article on how to go about doing this.

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/landing-page-design-infographic/
I see also what you mean, but this might apply more to programming or physics than to math. Being completely "useless" is a feature, not a bug, for math (and poetry, music, metaphysics, astronomy). Pure speculation or useless braingames is a thing many humans enjoy, see Rubix-cube or Sudoku.
Am I the only who feels like the parents mostly only care about themselves than their daughter? It sounded like that to me.
Actually, It's not just a library, or it's a library for anti-library (shift away from traditional All-in-One JS library or framework)...
You mean like in Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia etc?

* http://www.imf.org/external/np/vc/2012/061312.htm

* http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2011021...
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I would be interested to see some analysis as far as what these students are studying, not just in this article, but in all articles that attempt to account for career placement of college students in any way. Studying electrical engineering will provide a completely different likelihood of graduate employment than will studying humanities.

In this particular article these statistics I assume, would move the needle. I hope it's not considered "racist" of me to say so, but from my experience living in China and cross-studying in the humanities and computer science, Chinese students tend to study the hard sciences (engineering, science, accounting), whereas I never even saw a Chinese student in any of my humanities classes.
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And associated broadcast of that lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg35Paxy-Gw
Installed Synthesia yesterday, and today i can play two simple songs :)

Previously my keyboard was just collecting dust for years (it wasn't fun for me to move slowly through music notation).
Bottom posts often send up the hairs on the back of my neck for this reason
not just Japan, the German-speaking countries in EU are the same. A signature on a fax is legally binding, a sig on a scanned and emailed doc is not. Tax authorities 'prefer' paper trails as well, going fully electronic is not allowed - and you need to keep stuff for at least 7 years.

e-mail to fax gateways still are very popular in b2b solutions.

not all technology moves on in parallel.
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I don't know how they are even that popular. They are just a reseller, rode the anti-godaddy circlejerk campaign, and just try to go with whatever internet "freedom" circlejerk they can find to add customers. There are much better domain registrars out there.
I don't think rapid fluctuation is a problem.

I think Bitcoin has a future as a transfer medium. Person A converts their money into BTC and sends it to Person B, who immediately converts it back into "real" money. As long as the conversions are close enough together, the actual value of the bitcoins doesn't matter.

Sure, some hardcore users will continue to hoard and speculate. But in my opinion, the real value of Bitcoin is as a secure, anonymous, digital means to send money.
Living in New England, 45 degrees is not "chilly", it's (at this time of the year) very nice. Will this car run at, say, 5 below? Cold, as a rule, is not kind to batteries. Though the tests are enlightening, they show this car is not destined for cold climates. And that's okay; cold + batteries != good, we understand that.

That said, if we ever want EVs to "take over" the gas-powered engine industry, there's a lot of work to do, and we're a far, far, far cry from running long-range trucks on EV (granted, no one's talking about that now, but that's the obvious ultimate conclusion).
My problem is that I don't have any problems. All the software I need is already available in most Linux distributions. The only software I pay for is Games and Windows(which I need to play games).
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Allowing ourselves to be ruled by the fear of objective facts is the ultimate level of stupidity.
In traditional Chinese society each generation cares for the one before it. This assumes many forms - from mere social expectation to actual tithes of your income to your parents.

There is some incentive to maximize a child's success in order to ensure your own retirement - after all, if they can't make ends meet, you're even worse off.

This may seem strange by western standards, but I'd caution against extrapolating this to mean that the parents don't care for their child. The parent-child relationship in Chinese society is different than it is modern American society, but parents universally care deeply about the well-being of their children.

A big caveat to all of the above is that modern, urban Chinese society is very rapidly shedding this model. There remains a sticky issue of there being a massive "lost generation" who suffered financially caring for their own parents, but due to shifting societal mores, cannot expect the same from their own children.
The fact that science has scared off a sufficient amount of idiots in the past doesn't make it a bad thing.
People who use browser add-ons like NoScript may also have JavaScript disabled for untrusted sites. They're not lazy or anti-technology, they're just concerned about malware, or your animated ads are too annoying for them, or they don't want to be tracked by Facebook and Google wherever they go.
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This is really well done. Nice job!

Another direction you can go with this is to make a series of Git puzzles. Basically, starting with this diagram A, convert to diagram B in the least number of moves. To be extra useful, these could revolve around common Git pitfalls.
Yup me too, I was expecting some sorta HTML5 game featuring a MOZ - WEBKIT showdown, I was okay with the article (it reflects for the most part the issues with have a company like google create things -- they're really good at it and they just destroy competition with their awesomeness, within 5-10 years we'll be using our Gglasses while being driven by our Gcars to our Ghouses and ordering from the G(restaurant).) but it would be nice if someone could whip up a game just for some closure!

PS I just hope Brin likes Gyros as much as me!
"I cannot account for the discrepancy, nor for a later stretch in Connecticut where I recall driving about 45 m.p.h., but it may be the result of the car being delivered with 19-inch wheels and all-season tires, not the specified 21-inch wheels and summer tires."

Sure he can.
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I think it was because of the lack of documentation. Back then prototype had none and jQuery had a lot. They had a rich site and prototype had a single spartan page.
The amount of sites I have to use View Source to get to the content is slowly, slowly creeping up...

But then I also get to paste it in vim or gedit and don't have to deal with all the visual spam...
Alright, that helps me look at it from a different perspective. Thanks.
Note that very few people (percentage of total population) are interested in a business. When people are reluctant, it may be that they simply do not take to the idea. My wife does not like businesses at all. She is married to a marketing consultant/software engineer. :)
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