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Fanboys and haters flagging this HN article is more priceless to me.

Grow up guys, you can upvote your Apple and Google posts all you want, you don't need to go out of your way to flag this post out of spite and abuse your moderator privileges.
> "on any occasion"..."not universally true"

It sounds like you are basing a sweeping assertion on your personal experience. I certainly empathize, but you simply can't paint the entire profession with that brush Even with the "not universally" half-caveat, you are still implying journalists lie and fabricate more often than not.
And that's with the UK libel laws, which wikipedia describes as:

"English defamation law puts the burden of proof on the defendant, rather than the plaintiff, and is considered an impediment to free speech in much of the developed world. "
For those interested, here's an interview with Elon Musk on CNBC this morning. He explains his reasoning pretty clearly.

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000147320

I'm sure Elon Musk and Tesla are glad that they have the data logs for the trip. In my view, this is going to be key. All you need to do is compare the account by the journalist with the actual data and see where the discrepancies are.

It might be too earlier to tell w/o looking at the data ourselves, by if I had to bet I'd bet on Elon/Tesla for this one.
It's easy to write off Elon Musk's attacks on Top Gear and the NYT as an overzealous founder defending his company or as a savvy PR strategy against bad press, but you also have to keep in mind the number of parties that want to to see Tesla fail and the huge amount of influence they have, namely the oil and traditional auto industries. Most "revolutionary" companies come under similar resistance. I'm interested to see what facts Musk lays out.

Also, it's interesting to note the archive of the article's author: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b.... Seems like he's a climate/energy specialist rather than an automobile specialist as I had assumed.
You miss three important factors.

The first is that few are in a position to prove journalistic lies.

The second is that journalists do not like pushing reporting on other journalists lying because they are outing people they know, and they may get the same treatment some day.

The third (and in some ways most important) is that since the rise of the "blogosphere" in recent years, facts have become much less important. (Why? Because if you report something wrong you get clicks, then you publish a retraction and get clicks, then you can do a puff piece about "how could this happen" and get more clicks. Bingo, you earned ad dollars 3x when fact checking would have earned you nothing. What incentive, then, is there to fact check?) Therefore there is an erosion of standards which means that we should expect lying to go up over time.

My sister was famous back in "the good old days" of the 80s, back when media actually cared about its reputation. Even then it was a good idea to assume journalists were lying slime. Today I firmly believe that it is much worse.

If you are a blogger and disagree, then tell me this. How much of a fact check did your last 5 stories get beyond, "Can I find someone else saying this?"
This is, of course, if Musk is correct and the NYT is indeed lying.

If he can't prove it, I'd agree with TylerE.
Hmm... I like IdeaVIM (though I don't use any particularly complicated VIM commands). How does IdeaVIM lack?
I used Ubuntu for a few years off and on. I got fed up with Ubuntu One and some of the goings on with Ubuntu. I switched to Debian Wheezy.

Ubuntu is a bit easier to setup, for example, most printers are plug and play on Ubuntu. It takes several extra steps with CUPS to get Debian printing.

I think you'd have to weight your questions to come out with an answer. The above seem to cause a dead even decision when I go through your questions in my head.
Searched the page for "standard deviation". Didn't find it. Hit the back button.
Good explanation, but it sounds like there is a second component to the issue that this doesn't address: the fact that user input can be converted to symbols, which will ultimately eat memory as new symbols are created.
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how do you know it was flagged?
Cool idea, I believe aeorspike uses ssd's for key value store like this. Check out http://www.aerospike.com/performance/architecture/ .
"What motive would the author have to fake the review?"

No one is saying he faked the whole review just that he omitted a couple heavily mitigating details. Since there were multiple legs where the car was claimed to come up short it will be interesting to see if all of those are refuted by the data or not.
Jalopnik has a response from the Times:

"The Times's February 10 article recounting a reporter's test drive in a Tesla Model S was completely factual, describing the trip in detail exactly as it occurred. Any suggestion that the account was "fake" is, of course, flatly untrue. Our reporter followed the instructions he was given in multiple conversations with Tesla personnel. He described the entire drive in the story; there was no unreported detour. And he was never told to plug the car in overnight in cold weather, despite repeated contact with Tesla."

http://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-super-pissed-about-new-york-ti...
Yup, I totally agree. To make matters worse, the off-contract rates on the invoices are often astronomical compared to what they actually get from your insurance - like 10x or more.

Normally you're good if you stay in-network, but an ER visit to an in-network hospital can result in a separate bill for say $600 directly from a doctor who might've seen you for five minutes but doesn't work as an employee of the hospital. Unless you just can't pay or want to white knuckle it and play poker negotiating you can't get a lower rate because that doctor's "not on your insurance." I've seen this virtually every time someone's gone to the ER.
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memcache without the "mem". So, a database?
I agree, I would be surprised if the reporter did make it up completely. His description is quite detailed, and it would be a bizarre thing to do, especially for someone writing for the NY Times. But such bizarre things have happened.

I will be interested to see the purported data. It may in fact turn out to be a relatively minor omission. I hope we'll see.
I'm all for Tesla defending itself, but is a barrage of tweets really the best way for Musk to address reviewers (and competitors)? Maybe it's the nature of the medium, but it just seems a little silly to defend your business in fractured, abbreviated little snippets.
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I get a little chuckle when I tell people I am building some app and they ask "Why aren't you using RoR and MongoDB?" Maybe I am not comfortable with them in production?
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Redirection, call a link a link
The other way to look at is intimidation by Musk. If you are going to get called a liar if you print a negative story about Tesla, because the product is so great it can't possibly have flaws, maybe you just spike a story that has a negative slant. Are we really well served by that?
Actually, modern SSDs have lower latency than 70 microseconds:

26 microseconds for OCZ Vertex 4 (reads)

http://thessdreview.com/our-reviews/ocz-vertex-4-128gb-ssd-r...

No more than 20 microseconds for Corsair Neutron GTX and Vertex 4 (writes):

http://www.storagereview.com/samsung_ssd_840_pro_review
"that journalistic lying is news indicates that it rarely happens or rarely is caught."

Of all the times that I've been interviewed, I've been misquoted more often than not. Many others have noticed the same thing.

Scott Adams: "I've been interviewed several hundred times in my career. When I see my quotes taken out of context it is often horrifying. Your jaw would drop if you saw how often quotes are literally manufactured by writers to make a point. " http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/quote_approval/

Marco Arment: "I’ve learned the hard way, over and over again, that it’s most wise to talk to journalists the way you’d talk to the police: ideally, don’t. You have everything to lose and almost nothing to gain." http://www.marco.org/2012/09/19/quote-approval
The NY Times is standing behind the review. https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/301071288326307840
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/301071386141667329

Let's see that car data Mr. Musk.
Me too. Thx for the comment
The first thing I wondered upon seeing this story was whether or not the author was on the take with the oil or automotive industry.

Is he paid to give talks at conferences? Or to speak at insider company events?
Wow. That was amazingly insightful. However, comparing Microsoft to Linux or Macintoshes is like comparing Sushi to French Fries or Pork. Each one has its draws and vehement opponents. So yes, they are all different, even Microsoft today and Microsoft circa 1994.
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It might not be the best way, but it does seem plenty trendy.

Also, assuming a more 'official' response is in the works, a tweet is still faster so both are probably a decent idea during a time-sensitive event like bad publicity.
I also don't believe in "one size fits all" counter-arguments.

Sometimes an ad-hominen is the proper thing to say. And in particular cases any of the so-called "logical fallacies" can be very much true and useful.

For example, we use the "argument by authority" every-time we trust our doctor instead of our friend's intuition, and I'm perfectly fine with that.

An "argument by authority" might not be a perfect tool in 100% of the cases, but it's a perfectly good guideline when we don't have time to go through the details of the matter ourselves.

The old-wives-tales on "logical fallacies" point at their less than 100% accuracy and come to the wrong conclusion that they are bad and thus useless.
So apparently inventing your own SSD caching system is all the rage? We already had flashcache from Facebook : https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/
And bcache : http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/

However this one isn't kernel-based, so it won't help your NFS server or your postgresql engine. On the other hand it's much easier to build.
The idea for his post was nothing special, but the post itself was very well written and deserves a lot of credit.
I am guessing you might be conflating parsing natural language with parsing something that has a rigid and well defined grammar (like a programming language). NLP is a whole different beast.
It has 222 points and is at #17, far below other posts posted longer ago and with less points. This is an indication of heavy flagging.

http://i.imgur.com/hFFueFf.png

This isn't the first time anyway. Pretty much any post mentioning Microsoft in a not bad light seems to get flagged by people with good karma abusing it.

Edit: It's at 325 points(posted 4 hours ago) right now and stuck at #14. Has to break some record for the most upvoted and flagged story.
The review gave me the impression that the vehicle did not provide accurate (over a period of time) predictions of how much mileage was left. If that is the case, why should the vehicle logs be more accurate? If the car measures something wrong, the logs would reflect that.
Only if you're planning to flip it for a short term gain and are willing to gamble on earnings being good.

You'll be able to get it for $25 to $30 / share within the next 18 months. Save your money, bide your time. If we're just talking historical analysis (assuming you have no special knowledge of Tesla earnings etc), it's rarely a good idea to buy near the 52 week high, on top of being at its all time high, much less on top of a stock market near all time highs.

Tesla is so volatile it's almost guaranteed to fall back to earth and provide a far cheaper buying entry point. The stock price is completely unsupported by earnings, meaning it's completely driven - without a buffer - by the typically manic mood swings of investors.

Let the investors running Tesla up, swing to depressed and buy it far cheaper. Or to put it another way, wait until the herd is fearful and then be greedy.
They mean as opposed to within the borders of Afghanistan. As you may recall, drones have been heavily employed in Pakistan, and to a lesser extent in Yemen.
You're still going to need to recompile, because Go programs are all statically linked.

Replacing the imports is pretty easy, though - because Go is so draconian about certain elements of formatting and style (including restrictions on imports), it's relatively straightforward to migrate code like this.

(The 'go fix' tool is an even better example of the power that such an opinionated compiler provides as its tradeoff)
If logs in the car indisputably show that the journalist's article did not match the experience, then he should be called a liar and we would be well served by it.
So which True Lisp do you prefer that lacks analogues to the types used above (String, Keyword, List, Map, Vector) in which such a function wouldn't be applicable?

I know it's not a Common Lisp implementation. Most modern Schemes have equivalents. The only difference between Clojure and most Lisps in this case is that its collections are immutable. So how has Clojure sinned in this regard?
Standard deviation isn't the problem, skew is. Yes, skew will increase the standard deviation, but the heart of the issue here is how fat the right tail of the distribution is.

Standard deviation is often a useful metric, but it's at least as flawed as mean in skewed distributions because it doesn't treat either direction around the (already flawed) mean any differently.
Sure, fair enough, he's a good writer.
How do you batch writes to mmap-ed region?
I wish I took this advice in highschool and college but I'm still young (23). I was completely focused on getting my Bachelor's degree and eventually getting a good job (succeeded btw) over having much of a social life so the cons that come with that is a bit obvious...But yeah, maintain balance.
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Python - everything is public, so a convention is required to make developers distinguish between public and intended-private-but-still-public (e.g. do not touch).

C# - I don't really know what's common practice in C#, but without a really good reason placing underscore in front of private properties would be really, really stupid.

On Python again - I used Python everyday for the last 3 years and I hate the whitespace convention. It's not because I have to use significant whitespace, but this syntax is the number one reason for why the language never got anonymous code-blocks. And I love the lightweight syntax, but looking at other lightweight languages, working with significant whitespace is just not worth it if it disallows such a useful and common feature.
I am of the same opinion. Having trialled both extensively, we stuck with asp.net MVC and SQL server. Expensive but well engineered.
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I'm not particularly optimistic about modern journalistic integrity, but the New York Times is a far cry from being a 'TMZ'.

They're an organization I respect and trust, and I suspect I'm not alone. I'll be very upset if the data clearly supports Musk's claims.
FTA:

> "the tested Tesla was filmed being pushed into the shed in order to show what would happen if the Roadster had run out of charge."

Is this true? Is there no "emergency portable charge kit" that one could haul to anyplace with electricity and get a quick charge, possibly good for ~15 miles? If not then I smell a business opportunity.
As a Norwegian and Tesla investor, I must admit I'm a bit worried by this story. Isn't range also affected by the batteries performing worse in cold weather? If this effect is worse than Tesla had anticipated (weather this cold is routine where I live, Norway, and this is slated to become the second biggest Model S market after the US), I am worried that they might have missed other things as well.

Tesla is located in California. It's a really hot and really dry climate. How about cabin fogging and moisture? How about the #1 killer of cars in wet and icy climates, rust? It seems elementary, and it should be. But like I said, I must admit I'm a bit worried.
ptr = mmap(..., len, ..)
/* do stuff with ptr */
msync(ptr, len)

No sane OS will pay attention to an mmapped region while it isn't under memory pressure, so dirty pages are effectively buffered until you explicitly tell the OS to start writeback.
No, I just believe that this is an attack on personal responsibility. No need to demonize.
shadowmint asked: "How do we get from this broken UX experience story of right now, into the magical compelling 'mobile web app' future that OP talks about?"

How about: by paying for content?

Right now, websites are so messed up (and not just for mobile) because of ads essentially. The content providers want you to look at them, and you'd prefer not to. Unfortunately, 99% of the time, there is not even a way to pay and get a good experience instead.

Look at it this way, the only people making money off of my internet usage is my ISP. Actually, I also pay yahoo $20 a year for ad-free mail, but that's the only one. Until that changes, the ads will continue. The industry needs to figure out some sort of micro-payment for content, because nothing else works.
He neglected to fully charge when he had the chance (chances actually) or to plug it in overnight. He had a story to write and made sure it ended up like he wanted.
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I think you're right, but cell phones aren't collateral for anything. You can drop your phone into a vat of acid and your carrier won't care except to ask if you'd like to pay them $$$ for a new one.

Cell phone subsidies are not loans and they are not partial transfers of property. I buy a phone outright, and I get a cheap price on it because I simultaneously sign up for a service contract. That service contract doesn't change the fact that I now own my phone outright.
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Well, actually Google did this first, because they started using links as "votes". Then everyone started hunting for links instead of trying build do good content.
> The Firefox OS app market is controlled by Mozilla

One clarification here: Mozilla's marketplace code is entirely public (though confusingly named):

https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni

Any corporate or individual entity could take this code and set up their own entirely compatible platform.
Even with the "not universally" half-caveat, you are still implying journalists lie and fabricate more often than not.

It would be an extraordinary claim to suggest that's not the case. Journalists are basically people who would rather be writing fiction, but who haven't figured out a way to get paid for it.

It's a terrible-sounding generalization to make, but I will stand by it.
Listen, I don't mean to be rude, but this isn't really the place to hash it out with moderators, or draw parallels with any part of Germany's less reputable history.

You should email them if you're convinced it's flagged and you have an issue with it.
That's good to know actually; I think that'll probably be a good approach for my application.

For what it's worth, it was seeing a video of you giving a talk about Titan that made me start looking into it. It seems super neat.
emacs was just my example, but there are tens of IRC clients, from web clients to GUIs to android apps. Everyone can find a client they can easily used.
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A lot of the time, using absolutes is pointless and irritating.
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What is it about Elon Musk's companies constantly suing people? Tesla sued Top Gear for libel. SpaceX sued a safety consultant asking clarification about a rumor [1]. Now this tiff may well end in a lawsuit.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/20/spacex_sues_consulta...
Looks like even mentioning the flagging is taboo. My top level comment on this story[1] calling out the flagging is sitting at the bottom of the comment pile, very grayed out.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5203191
> Plus the real negative part of the article that Musk is glossing over is, having to turn off heat in a vehicle just to get somewhere, got to be loads of fun in the summer too.

You "have" to do the same thing in a gas powered car if you don't fill up the tank when given the chance.
I almost completely agree with you. I often tell people that statistics is the study of compressing information in useful ways. That said, scalar statistics can be very useful if the compression is 'correct'. For example, if you have an a priori reason to believe a distribution will be gaussian (a very common situation, and an assumption that basically allowed statistics to be grow to where it is today), mean and variance will fully describe the distribution. Many other common distributions can be fully described by a small number of parameters.
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One big difference is that heat (and thus warm air) is a by-product of internal combustion, so a typical car's heater will ALWAYS work, which turns out to be critical for survival in certain climates. Having the A/C go down in extremely hot weather will leave you uncomfortable; having the heater go down in extremely cold weather can kill you.
Well said: "if you had a gas vehicle, filled the tank halfway, meandered through downtown manhattan, and then expected to reach your previous destination people would just think you're a fool"
Modern SSDs simply don't work like this, they all internally use some variant of log-structured storage, such that regardless of the user's write pattern a single continuous stream is generated and only one method is needed to distribute modified pages across available flash. This means an infinite loop that rewrites the first 128kb of the device with random data will eventually fill (most of) the underlying flash with random data (128kb because that's a common erase block size).
It's a good idea. How big is your team?
Your hypothesis is playing out already. I just saw a piece on CNBC a few minutes ago talking about the negative NYT Tesla review where they mostly talked about how glowing the reviews have been for the Tesla S and how as a company they are really doing well. My overall impression is that people were taking the NYT review with a grain of salt even before Musk called BS. But NYT also called BS on him, so let's see whose numbers add up.
> Why didn't he use the mobile charger overnight, or at a public charging station while he stopped in NYC?

Because then his expose would have been, "Great road trip, no problems."
I pretty much always right click -> "open link in new tab". I do it on logos a lot since it's common practise to link your logo to your homepage.

That said, for this case, this right click implementation seems smart.
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