skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about points 3 and 4. I'm willing to wait until the logs are published and the full facts are out before I pass judgement. But on points 1 and 2, I think the article clearly contradicts your claims.

With regards to only partially charging the battery:

When I first charged the car, which was equipped with
the highest-capacity battery available, of 85 kilowatt-
hours, at the Tesla Supercharger station in Newark,
Del., I left it connected to the cable for 49 minutes
until the dash display read “Charging Complete.” The
battery meter read 90 percent full, with a range of 242
miles.

This seems go pretty clearly against Tesla. When your cell phone tells you "charging complete", do you expect the battery to be only 90% full? When your put gas in your car, and the needle is on F, do you expect the tank to be 90% full, or full to (rated) capacity?

As for not plugging it in overnight, well, it's not always going to be possible to plug in the vehicle overnight, especially if you're out on a road trip. Sure, it'd be optimal if every owner could plug in their Model S every night, but the world isn't optimal and the Model S has to be robust enough to go a night without being plugged in if it has a hope of being a practical vehicle rather than a $101,000 toy.

I also understand the author in that he was 'just pretending to be your average Joe' but given that this is a special car that needs to be handled with special care that comparison just doesn't hold up.

Except that's not what Tesla's marketing claims. They claim that, unlike the Roadster, for example, the Model S is a practical car that can be used without owners paying obsessive attention to battery management and charging infrastructure.
What, so Musk couldn't just give out the raw logs for the nerds to digest with the message that a more consumable version was on its way? It takes less than 2 minutes to post the raw logs.

In any case, for Tesla to present an analysis without also giving the raw logs removes any ability for the public to fact check the analysis.
Wait, there is WYSIWYG editor for tweaking "t" and "pose" attributes visually.

Also quite frankly my target audience is myself (a developer). I think I can use this tool to write fine comixes without being an artist. xkcd-style helps to hide this inability pretty well :)
I'm not arguing Turing completeness here. I'm arguing trivial one to one mapping. Syntax sugar. Compare:

struct foo {
int bar;
float baz;
};
int get_bar(foo);
float get_baz(foo);

Which would emulate this:

class foo {
public:
int get_bar();
float get_baz();
private:
int bar;
float baz;
};

If you're interested, I wrote more about that here: http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/classes-as-syntactic-sugar
I just checked Hetzner out and their VPS is also cheaper than Linode. Are you satisfied with their services?
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OCZ compromises a lot to get high marks on AnandTech benchmarks and great Farcry 3 FPS reports on newegg.

You should be looking at companies like STEC or higher end Intel SSDs for server applications.
Seeing this post hit HN just a few days after Mathics gave me a paranoid feeling. Why now? Is Wolfram feeling the heat and looking for a new trademark to deny his competitors?
It feels like Exec is moving towards becoming a cleaning company.

Now when I log into my Exec account, the first thing I see is the booking page for their cleaning service. Errands are a menu item. I hope that doesn't go away. It's incredibly convenient to have them run errands for me, like grocery shopping.
Any known issue with Chromium?

I just get an error message saying that the page script was taking too much memory and was stopped.
I'm glad this got an update. I tried using it a few weeks ago and a few things seemed broken. Glad it's had new life breathed into it. The HTML5 stuff looks especially cool!
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Based on this post, I’m sure we can come up with some kind of function that he is maximizing.
There have been quite a few submissions about this project:
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=fnordmetric
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Question: is 21*365=7665 smaller or greater than MS Office revenue?
For the average person they are not in the same league due to the differences in the support ecosystems. OpenOffice and LibreOffice simply are not robust in that regard. And that's where the average person's needs are - not in a code repository.
Is there a book out there that describes how to run a limited liability company in various jurisdictions, effectively "open sourcing" the company process for small players? Even better if it's coupled with code that guides you though the process.
Because I was there early, my iCloud email/Apple ID is a fairly short but uncommon word, and I receive at least three of these emails every week. I also constantly get subscribed to newsletters I never requested, and receive many messages (both emails and through iMessage) from people who thought they were contacting someone else.

I have two theories on why is this:

1. There is at least one person out there in the world who is convinced they own my iCloud email address, but have "forgotten" their password, so they keep trying to reset it. Meanwhile they keep giving out the address as though it were theirs.

2. There's simply an astounding number of people using iCloud, many of them technically unsophisticated users, so data entry mistakes in login forms and other places will be more common.

I do reset my password every week or so, just to be safe.
> What he didn't say was whether or not the car can be normally "partially charged" after a "charging complete" status posted on the car (yes? no?)

The reporter actually touched on this in his rebuttal. He claims that no one ever told him to set the charge mode to max range, instead of "normal," so the car stopped charging when it got to 90%. However, he stops short of actually saying that he wasn't aware of the existence of "max charge" mode.

He also says that nobody told him to have the car charge while he was sleeping. Personally, I see this as complaining that your interior is wet because Ford didn't tell you roll the windows up before driving through the car wash--it ought to be common sense. Maybe it can be forgiven in a new and unfamiliar car, but it sure seems like the author didn't go out of his way to figure out how to operate it.

In the HN thread about the original story, someone noted that he only mentioned he speed after Tesla told him to slow down. It seems that that was a rather prescient comment in light of the recent claims by Musk that the author was driving well in excess of the speed limit and driving briskly.

You ask if the review is "faked." I don't think "faked" is quite the right word, but there were certainly some omissions in the original write-up. By omitting certain facts, I think the author presented the story in a way that isn't the shining pinnacle of honesty. The Model S may very well not be capable of successfully making the trip the author wanted to make. However, if that is the case, the author shouldn't need hide behind technicalities and loaded language in his review.
I'm just surprised that now, at this time, Elon is attempting to tackle the range issue head on. It really seems a bit early to do that. I agree that for the people who have a serious issue with range (even for only a small percentage of their trips) the current solution isn't going to be sufficient. I'm interested to see where this goes. But I'd like to have seen a different type of vehicle come after the roadster. Something more reasonable than the S in size, weight, performance and price.
> True. But I think the word has worked well until recently.

I just saw this: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Live-Programming

"Sam Aaron promotes the benefits of Live Programming using interactive editors, REPL sessions, real-time visuals and sound, live documentation and on-the-fly-compilation." :D

> One of Bret's examples in his IoP video is a correct sorting algorithm, actually, programmed with live feedback. I also mentioned a return to printf debugging on LtU before, and its basically the direction I'm taking right now

Yea, this interpretation of 'steady frame' is fully general I think: the ability to compare feedback of version n with feedback of version n+1 without getting lost. My interpretation was more specific because of the water hose vs bow and arrow analogy: continuously twiddling knobs until you get the result you want vs discrete aim-and-shoot. For example picking the color of a UI widget with a continuous slider vs entering the rgb value and reloading. Since a sorting algorithm is not a continuous quantity, aim-and-shoot is inevitable though you can still make it bit more "continuous" by making the aim-and-shoot cycle more rapid.

> which are based more on invalidate/recompute rather than computing exact repair functions

You can do this in their framework; you can specify at which granularity you want to have the 'repair functions' and at which granularity you just want to recompute. For example if you have a List<Changeable<T>> then each item in the list can be repaired independently, if you have Changeable<List<T>> the whole list will be recomputed. Although you probably want to automatically find the right granularity rather than force the user to specify it?
I think the question is:

Will it work for most people most of the time - I think that answer is yes. How often do you drive >200mi/day? Remember you start off every morning with a "full tank."
I think that's absolutely true. Many of the most highly compensated people I know are in the finance industry and work all day every day in excel. The rest of them are programmers.

If you had to hire people who had the domain talent and expertise of the former, and the programming skills of the later, you'd be looking at seven figures per in employee and there'd only be so many to go around at any price.

But that's what you'd need. A bespoke system that could only be effectively modified by programmers would be useless in short order no matter how great it was at launch.
"Fake" was probably a poor choice of words, and typical of the knee jerk commentary you see on social media.

That doesn't excuse it, but you'll notice in his subsequent interviews that the language he uses is much more tempered, probably because he got a few nervous phone calls from his legal team.
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You're assuming that it's appropriate for Musk to release the raw logs. I have no idea what's actually collected, but it's quite possible that the logs contain data that either should not, or cannot, be released.

As a simplistic example, just because the journalist agreed to let Tesla collect the logs from his trip doesn't mean that the journalist agreed to let the precise details about his driving habits get released to the public. And there could be more than just privacy concerns. Maybe the logs contain data related to Tesla trade secrets.
Is "Bing Sucks" a bat symbol for Google employees? ;)
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It'd be like MUDding but with pictures!
The problem with a fixed M0 is that broad money (credit and debt based on the money) can fluctuate, causing deflation. Deflation makes people delay on investments, which causes a recession, and more deflation. It's a vicious cycle. That's basically how the Great Depression happened.

The GFC was a similar crisis, but the Fed was able to quantitatively ease the US out of it. OK, things were still pretty dire, but given how much debt there was (as a result of the debt bubble which had kept the economy going gangbusters for so long) it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Austrians (Ron Paul) say things like "that's bad - the Fed shouldn't be able to rescue the economy, because that will force the bankers to act like grown-ups". Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. The bankers will still take massive risks, and crash the economy every now and then, and the Fed won't be able to help.

Of course, there's reasons to be concerned about the US economy. IIRC, real median wages haven't grown much since the 80s. Basically all the growth has been the rich getting richer. But I don't think that's because of inflation, so much as general policies which favor GPD growth over raising median wages. The US is not a country which cares about the poor, and outsourcing has weakened poor Americans' bargaining power. With the rise of China, that might change (Chinese wages are rising quite quickly, which will make US workers more competitive, which will allow them to demand higher wages). Whatever the case, I don't think it's all the fault of inflationary monetary policy.

And no, I don't blame robots. If robots were taking all the jobs, they wouldn't be going to China. Maybe they will take all the jobs one day, but currently more robots means cheaper products, which means more jobs. Also, before anyone says "the jobs will just go to Africa", they better consider the challenges in building infrastructure there, the fact that Africa is quite diverse (there won't be 200 million peasants all swarming to special economic zones within a decade), and the added demand from all the newly wealthy (or at least, not piss-poor) Chinese.
Well, I don't think you're really qualified to disagree, considering that you're revealing ignorance of the relevant domain (computational complexity theory) by arbitrarily equating different problems as "complex but still solvable".

Well, some problems are so hard (in the rigorous complexity-theoretic sense) that no amount of hardware is going to make a difference. For example, problems currently classed as NP-hard take, in the general case, an amount of time that increases exponentially in the problem size, so past a certain threshold, take too much time even given all the computers on earth.

The problem you'd have to solve here is basically the subset sum problem: given a set of transfers in an out of a mixer (let's say you already know which addresses it uses, which is not easy since it can make new ones for free) which subsets of the transfers out have the same totals as which subsets of transfers coming in? (From that point you identify one in/out set of addresses as belonging to the same person.)

That problem likewise takes exponential time to solve in the general case. And since the mixer chooses the transfers, they can pick it so that it's hard to find solution partitions (i.e. drive it to the part of the problem space where heuristics help the least).

Or they could go the opposite approach and add a random, time varying tolerance (i.e. charge a fee that varies between x and y % over time, or promise that you might get up to x% more or y% less than you put in) that makes the problems extremely underdetermined so that there are arbitrarily many constraint-satisfying solutions thus that the aggregate data is uninformative.

No, "Google solves complex problems" does not prove what you think it does.
I'd agree, but unfortunately "Leibniz" is not, nor does it rhyme with or even allude to "Wolfram" and is therefore out of the running.
I propose "Stephen"

I have found Mathematica to be super simple learn and use, so by calling it "Stephen" it shows how friendly and approachable the language is while maintaining the connection to the founder's ego.
The fact that someone has a web page devoted to this particular eggcorn doesn't change the fact that it is an eggcorn:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4566
Wolfie ?
...although it should be noted that the Model S has the second best drag coefficient on the market today (it was the first before a new Benz was released in 2013):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_drag_coefficient
In my opinion, many reddit-esque comments are genuinely funny. I love pun threads. I'm amused by self-referential hipsterish humour. Etc. This, it turns out, is not relevant.

It's not relevant because funny joke comments are worse (from the perspective of ideal HN behaviour) than unfunny joke comments; it's the funny ones that get more replies, and that means more off-topic noise hiding the on-topic signal (where topicality is defined in newsguidelines.html).
My December PLT Game's entry was actually called Wolf: https://github.com/JD557/Wolf

Thank god he didn't chose that name, then I would be the one that would need to think of a new language name.

Anyway, as stated in other comments, Tungsten seems like a nice choice.
Not sure why NCLB is being blamed here. I graduated high school in the late 80s, and in college writing classes had peers that could not write a coherent paragraph on basic subjects. This was more than a decade before NCLB.

We've always had poor students. And we've always had bright students. Perhaps we're measuring more of it now - we have more information, more metrics and more hand-wringing over it. However, I still run in to bright kids and high-school students, and I run in to people (young and old) who are not that bright or can't communicate, and I'm not convinced the numbers have shifted all that much over the past few decades. But the amount of money at stake in various industries has changed.
> Of all the debates we could possibly be having, playing the "We're professionals" card is least suitable here. We've all been school professionals.

It's entirely different on the other side of the podium. Shockingly different, actually. Horrifically, shockingly, terrifying different.

/former freshman-level TA
"Wolf"?
The Tesla dash runs Android, doesn't it? I wonder if it can use wifi & cellular data to help correct GPS like most mobile devices can.
I actually ignored your question because it seemed obvious (to me at least) that it would have virtually no effect. I cannot imagine a situation in which the motivation of the student would be in any way affected by the fact that the parent was paying the teacher. EXCEPT, as I mentioned, where that fact intersects with the parents having high expectations that the teaching is of value.

In my experience, public school teachers are paid "enough".

I worked out some numbers to that effect a few years ago [1]

However, that doesn't help bring qualified people into the discipline. I wrote about that, too. [2]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979976
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114403
...google searches for products also show prices...on demand.
It's worth pointing out that compared to ICE, electric engines are much more efficient with city-style start-stop driving.

When you're stopped with an ICE, it's still using fuel to keep the engine idling. When you're stopped with an electric car on a flat surface, the motor isn't using any energy at all. The only energy you're using in the electric car is the power for the radio and any climate control.

Regenerative breaking also helps the electric car, because it recaptures some of the energy lost in accelerating the car.

Playing around with this(scroll down a bit):

http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric#range

Shows that in most conditions, the difference between city and highway mileage is pretty slight.
Weird, that's the name of a language I worked on at a former job. It was seriously awesome, it was like a functional version of Python mixed with assembly, and was much clearer and also faster than C++. Shame that it will probably never see the light of day (though I have plans for a similar replacement).
Sweden is actually on my list of places I'd like to live over all, but being able to get adequate treatment for my ADHD is non-negotiable.
The fact that "cached phrase" has a similar pronunciation to "catchphrase" does not mean that they are related. In particular, this is not an instance of an eggcorn because substituting one for the other will result in a sentence that does not make sense. The quotes in the page you link to are instances of malapropism ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism ).
Inherently deflationary currencies are retarded. See Paul Krugman on deflation (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/why-is-deflation...) and the gold standard (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/golden-instabili...).

Moreover, there is a strong argument that deflationary currencies are morally wrong because of their effect on generational wealth inequality. In a society with a deflationary currency, nearly all wealth will be held by older people, simply because they got there first.

You don't even have to look very far to see what a society with deflationary currency would look like. There is a market that has many of the same properties as a deflationary currency, and that's real estate in places like SF and NYC. In Manhattan, there are a ton of older people who purchased real estate in say the UWS in the 1980's and 1990's. Property values have skyrocketed since then, to levels that these people never could have afforded at the time they bought their property. Their kids, now the same age/of the same relative financial standing as they were when they bought the property, are totally priced out of the market.
I would like to point out that 200 students per class in a public high school does not appear to be a worldwide phenomenon. High school classes in Europe appear to be much smaller.
I understand that this makes sense for Mathics. What I don't understand is why Wolfram has any interest in separating the language from the implementation.
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>> a use case that they don't really need to address for a while longer

Well, there's a Tesla store in Toronto.

Toronto gets pretty cold in the winter, and traffic is pretty nightmarish getting in and out of the city during rush hour. And there's no way you're going to sit in this traffic without a heater on.

There are lots of affluent people who live in the burbs outside of Toronto who make 120+km round trips (~75 miles) who will get stuck in really bad traffic to and from work, and probably leave their car parked in a spot that doesn't have access to an outlet during the work day.

If the battery charge is going to drop that significantly on a cold day, I think it would make some people think twice about a Tesla (for the homeward leg of a winter commute) if they didn't already have a winter car or backup plan.
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1. The review functionality goes to a very granular monitoring of changes in a spreadsheet. It is indispensable, especially when many people have access to the file. It can be circumvented, of course, but we are talking about unintentional errors.
2. In Excel you get very evident visual indicators when a formula is dissimilar to the formulas around it. Duplication is necessary at the most ad-hoc level. When you use Tables, things are more safe.

The major issues with Excel are not of functionality but of user training on the functionality available.
Please direct me to an American carrier that offers the same service for $80/month with contract and $45/month without.
One of the names he dismissed is actually a pretty good word to use to describe the blog post: Wolframble.
And Mathematica 9 just came out, so maybe it was Mathics feeling the heat! Despite the vacuum-like nature of our internal HN-eval-post loop, the rest of the world isn't standing still. It's actually a little surprising that they're only talking about this now, given how long Mathematica has been around.
RExcel is also very nice for the transition steps.
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Someone from a portuguese speaking country thinks that your email address is theirs and that their password is not working and is trying to reset it. That seems to be what's happening here.