skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bilateral keratoconus. It's been stable for the last 10 years but it rules out any form of LASIK as my corneas are already thin enough thankyouverymuch.

I've worn glasses since I was 11 so I don't mind. I'm 20/60 in one eye and 20/200+ in the other but with glasses (no special expensive lenses) I can get 20/15 overall vision.

I have prescription sunglasses for cycling and skiing (or I just use glasses under goggles for adverse skiing conditions). I have prescription swimming goggles but I've no problem swimming without. I play 5-a-side football in glasses with no problems.

Toric lenses would be best for me but I just didn't get on with them. Soft lenses can't cope with the keratoconus and I really didn't get on with hard/gas-permeable lenses.
A significant portion of this reminds me of Sir Ken Robinson's TED talks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LelXa3U_I
Do you have anything real to cite for a statement like this?

You sound more like someone bitter than someone who actually has a clear head and some level evidence to leverage a negative point about Y Combinator's selection process.
I had LASEK surgery. I had gone in for LASIK, but was told I wasn't suitable due to the shape of my eyes. Instead of cutting a flap and burning underneath, in LASEK they just melt off the front bit of the cornea, burn the exposed eyeball flesh, then let the cornea grow back after the operation.

LASEK has a longer recovery time, because you have to wait for the cells to grow back across the front of the eye - I was in agony for the first few days, mostly because they gave me the anaesthetic drops to take home with the words "You can take this if it hurts, but it'll probably slow your recovery", so I just left them in the fridge. Helpful. But after a week I had no pain, better than 20/20 eyesight, no noticeable halo effects and only very mild starbursts - noticeably better than the ones I had with glasses or contacts. The only thing that really suffered was my wallet.

I had this done about 3 or 4 years ago, and regret nothing. For the first year I did occasionally wake up with dry eyes - well, ok... without the sugar coating: I did occasionally wake up screaming and writhing in agony when the vulnerable tender cells on the front of my eyes had dried out and stuck to the inside of my eyelids, which I'd then brushed against a pillow and torn the cells off my eyeball. Yeah, I've got to admit, that wasn't pleasant. The problem was that my eyes never really had a chance to heal after the operation, because I needed to use the celluvisc drops for longer than they had initially recommended - once we realised that and I used it every evening for a couple of months, my eyes were able to heal fully, and it has been fine since.

Ultimately it's not going to be for everyone - it's expensive, and at times can be painful. But I hated wearing glasses (I was -6, so could only focus on things if they were touching my nose), I didn't get on with contacts, and I love being able to now do things that normal-sighted people take for granted - being able to walk into a warm shop in winter without needing to de-fog yourself, walking around in the rain without needing windscreen wipers, or slipping sunglasses on when you step into the sun. The novelty still hasn't worn off, and I can't recommend it enough.
> if you did switch from smart to naive routing, what was the rationale behind it?

Most probable cause: smart routing is hard to scale. Multiple routers, with each one doing random distribution independently of others will still produce a globally random distribution. No need for inter-router synchronization.

If multiple routers try smart routing, they must do quite a bit of state sharing to avoid situations where N routers try to schedule their tasks on a single dyno. And even if you split dynos between routers then you need to move requests between routers in order to balance them.
I was about -6.5.

I think the answer to the question is that it depends on how thick your cornea are, and how far the surgeon is willing to push it. Some surgeons are more comfortable working with thinner margins of error than others. You want a doctor that is conservative on this metric. I would go in and get a (free) scan to find out whether or not you're a good candidate.
Ah, somehow I wound up thinking that you were saying that they can't sue the NY Times here, rather than that they can't sue Top Gun.

I'd be quite surprised if they didn't have lawyers preparing a case right now against the NY Times.
I'm surprised Tesla is already popular in Norway. Do they offer any service outside of US? And do they sell cars in Europe or are these imported by customers on their own?
Not quite, you need 2 elements for evolution, (1) variation and (2) selection. Selection comes from anything in the environment, it can and often does come from climate, geology also, data suggest the rate of change through evolution increases when populations are lower as variation is more significant. Such analysis of natural selection can break down when applied to market forces as the continued existence of an intity is sometimes of secondary interest to the controlling party, which does not happen with species.
I don't know, consumers are told lots of wacky counter-intuitive things about "how to eke performance out of technology in practice". Think of the way that lots of people like to repeatedly run their laptop batteries down because they think that it helps preserve battery life, even though that hasn't been true for about a decade.

However I think that your comment about thermodynamics is revealing because it seems to me that the real point of this article is that driving an electric car requires consumers to learn a lot (about entropy!) and think very differently from driving a normal car. It sounds frankly stressful to drive, even if everything works perfectly. That's where I think the real damage is.
Or element hiding in adblockplus (on Firefox at least, I don't know about Chrome). And it's persistent, so it works again if you ever revisit the page.
Musk's own graphs show a precipitous drop in both battery charge and rated range at the mile 400 mark, correlating closely with the same 'overnight' range drop Broder reported. So there's something more happening there, as yet unexplained, than mistakenly misreading the range before going to bed.
Speaks for not being able to find the charging point in the parking lot, perhaps? Don't forget that Musk formulated his assertion of Broder's motivation based on a data log of the car traveling between 5mph and 15mph for 0.6 miles. That sounds almost exactly like my average journey to find a parking spot at the mall.

But no, you're right, let's assume a long-term New York Times veteran lied in the paper, intentionally. That's a safer explanation in the face of your call for Occam's Razor...
Yes, the choice was difficult. So many options. There are some metastudies like http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17074559 that helped ease my mind that LASIK was at least not a terrible choice.
I've always been curious if the "problem" from the popular-support perspective was the casualties (which, while high, were not THAT high for the total force -- in Iraq, most were due to IEDs/rockets and spread over a large number; in Afghanistan they're a bit more concentrated on actual combat troops), or the lack of progress, or some combination.

There really was ~zero progress (net; there were some wins and some losses) from late-2003 to early-2007 in Iraq, overall, and from ~2003 to ~2009 in Afghanistan (the 2009 end date is questionable; I'm reluctant to say Afghanistan overall is better right now than it was right after the CIA/ODA 555 operations in late 2001, as described in First In by Gary Schroen).

I was in Iraq watching this and was a lot more critical of the way the US was fighting from 2003-2006 than of the actual casualty numbers.

It's certainly more rational to be more willing to take a few hundred casualties if it brings a quick victory than to endure long slow bleeding of thousands, but I don't know if popular opinion is rational. I think casualties-per-second are much higher in offensive operations than in purely static defense, though.
I imagine the minor risks that are acceptable to most people could be career-ending for a surgeon.
"For almost two years they had been personally liable for what me and my friends were up to."

I don't understand this part. Shouldn't the investors have seen the insurance through themselves? It seems mad to rely on other people for that kind of thing. Sure it would have been nice for the startuppers to organize it, but really, it's a no-brainer that for such things you have to organize it yourself (because the people tasked with it have no real stake in it).
Yes, much. Thanks!
Sounds like a well elaborated excuse to me.
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Speaking as someone that has spent time working on a web browser, that would be a fantastic policy, both for browser developers and for web standards in general.
This quote from Broder is telling:

This evaluation was intended to demonstrate its practicality as a “normal use,” no-compromise car, as Tesla markets it. [1]

The problem is "normal use" for gasoline engines doesn't map to "normal use" for electrics. For instance, Broder left his Tesla parked overnight in the cold and lost ~60 miles of range. For a gas car that doesn't happen - you can park it in the cold for a week without losing any mileage.

An unbiased review would have pointed out the differences between gas ("old normal") and electric ("new normal"). Yes, with an electric you will need to charge more frequently (and possibly overnight) when operating in colder environments. Yes, filling up a gas tank takes a few minutes - and fully charging an electric can take 30 minutes to an hour. Yes, these are the tradeoffs involved, etc., etc.

Instead (as the Musk rebuttal shows) Broder mis-used the Tesla, didn't charge correctly, ignored advice and ended up blaming the technology. Broder's review is a PEBKAC error written in the first-person.

[1] http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/the-charges-are-f...
This is a fair point, but based on this photo [1] of the Supercharger station, and the layout of the service area, it seems unlikely he would have missed it. Google Maps even has the spot marked [2], but the photography has not been updated since December 2012, when they were installed.

That's a very prominent location. I'd have a hard time believing anyone would miss it repeatedly.

[1] http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/tesla-begins-east...
[2] http://goo.gl/maps/arrxP
Even if this were true (and I highly doubt it is), my response would be, "So?"

It's admirable that Y-Combinator doesn't do all those things, but I wouldn't blame them for it either. Yes, Paul Graham does this because it is his passion and because he's damn well good at it.

But these are also investors. There is more of a sense of community than you will get from any VC in the game, but they are still looking to profit. This isn't a charity. Paul has said himself that they turn away many "pretty good" applications each year simply because others are better.

If a cofounder of another startup applied to Y-Combinator, they'd be a very safe bet and a good candidate for admission (assuming they still needed some kind of guidance). Just because you're beat out by people with superior credentials doesn't mean there's a credential bias.

This is just like the argument that flew around for some time that there's a bias in favor of 20 something dropouts applying to Y-Combinator in Silicon Valley. No, there isn't. You hear about those cases more, but that's sampling bias.

Drew Houston is worth almost half a billion dollars now. He applied as a single founder with nothing to show for himself but a neat little poker bot and an SAT prep service. He was also rejected once, and made a better application the next time around. Determination is the single greatest indicator of success.
Top Gear didn't lose because they're entertainment and "obviously" not truthful.

Are you suggesting the NYT is not truthy?
The one I got turned out to be wavefront.

Yes, there would have been no sedatives. Seems to be normal here, also at dentist you get no sedatives (anesthetics though of course).
Supporting a rebel movement isn't terrorism.
yes, I know all the ins and outs.

But they will end up building a pull rather than push system in the end.
This is part of the reason that I loved the Saxon method for teaching mathematics when I was in school. Your nightly problem sets would almost always contain questions which referred to earlier chapters, forcing you to re-use the information you learned instead of just focusing on the current problems. It was a lot of homework, but well worth it.
I'm also very confused about going with meteor or derby (or angular maybe plus py/flask backend)? any advice?
Scenario 1:

Article: "The Tesla's range indicator is accurate but to drivers used to having a lot of range when the tank reads 'E' the Tesla's small amount of reserve range may catch them by surprise."

Reality: Author drove until the Tesla read "0 miles remaining" then continued to drive until the battery ran out.

Scenario 2:

Article: "A range estimate misses the mark... the car fell short of its projected range and had to be taken back ... on a flatbed truck."

Reality: Author short-charged the car then pulled off the road when the range meter read 0 and drove around trying to drain the battery.

One is fine, the other is journalistic malpractice.
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Adobe CEO dodges questions over international pricing like a boss
A good deal? From what I've heard, every single VC in Silicon Valley shares this unhealthy obsession over "the next Twitter" (Just read pg's definition of "startup").

And as long as Twitter, Google and Facebook keep paying 8 figure (or 10 figure) sums to acquire "startups" without a business model, VCs don't need to know anything about real business.
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I assume it is intended to keep the nods as simple as possible so easy to schedule.

A node dies? Just kill it and you lose at most the one active request.

Which is the least busy node to send th enext request to? That can be a lot harder to judge reliably than simply "any nodes doing nothing? I'll queue this request then".
Look at the x-axis, he doesn't lower the temperature immediately after. At 182 miles, he states he lowered temperature. Instead he increases it in small increments up to a bit more than 74 at around the 200 miles mark (18 miles after he says he lowered it). Then he decreases it in two increments, down to a little less than 70, around the 220 miles mark. He doesn't reduce it to 64/65 until around 250 miles.
Drone pilots to get medals?
For those considering it, just keep in mind that getting LASIK will prevent you from getting accepted as a NASA astronaut (due to the risk of explosive decompression of your corneas in the event of a sudden loss of pressure in a space vessel (last I checked)).
I have only one word for this: pwnage

Assuming this data is not fabricated (always a possibility!) - then the news reporter did some seriously shady reporting and should be fired immediately (this is THE New York Times).

The only questions I have about the hit piece are the following.

Is he getting paid by anyone to be against electric cars?

What is his past history with electric cars?

Where has he previously been employed?

And what ties does he have to the ICE industry?
Because the billions they make from search aren't enough. Of course they are free to do whatever they want, and you are even allowed to hide those ads (or use open source version), but I think there's a limit where it will get too much.
>Musk doesn't address the big drop in estimated range overnight, which actually seems confirmed (at mile 400) in his charge/range graphs.

That's true. It looks like the car lost about 5% of capacity overnight, and that could have been a problem if he had stayed two nights. It looks like he used about 40% of capacity to get to Groton from the Supercharger. If he had let the car finish a standard (not even max range) charge at Milford, he would have had 90%-40%-5%-40% = 5% of battery remaining when he returned to the Supercharger at Milford the next day. That's an uncomfortably thin margin, but quite different from needing a flatbed.
Though by that measure, HN isn't "free."
At what sort of scale do you really need to switch from php to hip hop?

Honestly, I think that's a bit of a "how long is a piece of string" question. First step is to do zero scaling. As users come on board and you start hitting performance issues, work out where your problems lie - the database or filesystem rather than your code - and optimize for that.

Let's not forget the classic one either: your server might just be underpowered or lacking in RAM.

Once you get into significant numbers of users or usage, it'll quickly become apparent where the bottlenecks lie, and you should optimize as appropriate.

So going back to your question: when PHP becomes the bottleneck.
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Detour would show up as part of the distance calculation (x-axis in the graph).
> Third party statistics sites like Alexa and Compete are horribly untrustworthy indicators of reality.

Alexa and Compete are bad sources.

Other third party sources like Quantcast, comScore, Nielsen, etc, do a better job of measurement, especially if they've been beaconed. You will never get complete agreement because of variations in implementation. A site's own "internal" analytics, like Google Analytics or Omniture, will never quite agree either.

Third party data is still ordinally and directionally correct most of the time. Google Trends and Quantcast both show a general trend upward, but it's not hypergrowth. What isn't mesaured here is engagement, and that's a much more interesting metric for Quora.

[1] http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=quora
[2] http://www.quantcast.com/quora.com
Quite a story, one of the best and most revealing ones I've ever read here, and I've been here since the beginning. Thanks for sharing, and letting us see "behind the curtain" a little.
I really like this product and would like to use it in the UK can pricing be set to GBP? Or is it just USD pricing?
Like a boss? Not at all. I was expecting something like a clever response and not a frustrating discourse about everything but the question at hand.
That could be a genuine mistake. If that was the only mistake - misreporting 80 miles when he lowered the temperature - then this would be no proof at all. He did still lower the temperate, after all, just gave the incorrect distance at which it was done. It doesn't actually affect the review.

As I said before though, this is hardly the only part of the puzzle that doesn't add up.
John Broder does have an affinity for writing articles about big oil. I don't exactly want to assume he was paid under the table to denounce electric cars, but it's odd for a writer to have 90% of their articles being related to oil: http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/peopl...

On Feb 8, 4 days before the controversial tesla article, he wrote one about how poorly the Chevrolet Volt & Ford Transit performed. I think he already decided on the tone of the article before he drove the Tesla.

His other articles about oil drilling claim that they help with job creation... you be the judge.
If you spent a few minutes to read RM's doc you'd have seen that RubyMotion runs on top of the Objective-C runtime. The only thing it "replaces" is the language, the syntax if you will. API, calls, parameters, ... all is native. This is not Adobe Air, it's Ruby on top of the Objective-C runtime. There's no translation involved, no interpretation.
Me too. I see this as a side-effect of Rails single-threaded craziness, our "modern" Node.js apps run faster than ever.
Firebase powers the realtime syncing in SlideScroll. I've also used it on several of my smaller project. It's easy to set up and way more stable than trying to roll you own socket implementation.
They do that already with their nuclear program.
Where are the Googlers qualifying for SNAP?
Top Gear wasn't dismissed because Tesla was wrong, it was dismissed as Top Gear presented their case that they were demonstrating the cars for entertainment and not as a factual review. The judge felt the distinction had merit and dismissed the case, Tesla felt differently of course.
Why don't you prepare something to say I love you
My solution would be to only use half the stated range. It would be perfect for me, even so.
Agree. Another benefit is that the capability of browsers is increasing daily e.g. flexbox layout
That's one of the reasons I like Xamarin's approach with MonoTouch. You can use it and target the Simulator for free, but if you want to run your app on the device, you need to pay for a license. Seems fair to me. I wish RubyMotion would offer this as well. I bet a lot of developers (myself included) would then try it out. But like purephase, I can't justify paying $200 just to try something out.
Here's a satellite view of the rest area with the charging stations:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=milford+travel+plaza&hl=e...

The street view here is outdated but I'm pretty sure you would see them immediately as you exit off the highway and, end to end, the rest area is about 0.25 miles. I don't think there's any other way to accumulate 0.6 miles in this rest stop without driving around in circles.
For this blog-post where the annotations aren't such a big deal the readability bookmarklet[1] works quite well.

[1] http://readability.com/bookmarklets
blasting somebody in this way generates more publicity, i'd wager.
Thanks for this explanation, my understanding was indeed flawed.
Without knowing the exact conversation it doesn't sound super off, regenerative braking technology has been used in F1 for a while to power the KERS system, but stop-start traffic is completely different to the occasional slow down on a motorway.
Signing up wasn't so simple back in the days. I still remember when I wanted to see the full text of an answer, Quora asked me to sign up, so I went to the signup page, and it said something like Quora is in closed beta, you need an invitation to sign up.
> Yes, it is, and it have nothing to do with our funding. The way we teach is extraordinary inefficient and outdated.

I don't disagree, but do you have anything to back this up?

I ask because my girlfriend is a teacher, and teaching is a lot harder than most people seem to believe.
Silent Circle releases source code to iOS application
I guess it's still not a bad heuristic for them in 80% of cases, so this attitude prevails. HN, however, is quite multinational, so one has to watch out ;).
Irregardless if it's an attack or not, CloudFlare's personell did not handle this well.

Yes, I know they did offer one hell of a starter/"sweet lolipop to sucker you in" pack - but that's still not what's being discussed.

It has been re-iterated many times in this thread - but CloudFlare had a sane person on the other end that was willing to open his wallet - that's something one should act on quickly.
Usually tyrannies have a way of collapsing in on themselves. They weaken social fabric, breeding dissent and allowing other states/factor to jump in and conquer them.
Getting into YC does not solve the problem cdixon outlined.

Most startups still fail. Sure if you spent 3 months at YC and then left you have credentials. What about the next 1-5 years you spent toiling away to make your startup work with possibly nothing to show for it except experience. At a certain point, the glow of YC fades and you will be judged on your company's merit.
And this kind of thing is why I prefer to have our own VPS. Linode is great, but we are slowly switching over to AWS and automating all the scaling up/down.
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