skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ICEs are significantly less efficient at startup and until they get up to their normal operating temperatures. That's not so much a problem for long range trips, but taking multiple single-digit mile trips spaced apart in the time dimension.

EVs have no problem "starting" in low temperatures. You might not be able to draw as much power for the drive train as the pack is heating up, but it's not a primordial "fuel-air-mix won't explode" problem.

There is no "problem" to get around; you either risk your battery pack getting damaged or you have an active battery management system that regulates the packs temperature. That will consume power, no way around it.

Now there are some conflating issues we have to consider. Tesla recently disabled in a patch the sleeping modes of some onboard components, and this vampire load might be contributing greatly to the large loss of energy reported overnight. The other is the drivers mentality; you don't drive it to the point of 5% remaining and then fuel up, thats how you do it with ICEs. Instead, you just simply plug it in whereever you can. And frankly, if you are going to keep it outside overnight at very very low temperatures (thereby forcing the battery management system to expend energy for heating), plug it into a 120V. They can (contra to your statement) get enough power from even from a 120V to keep the battery pack (and your range) at least at the same level, if not adding range.

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A side remark: I very much think this is a complete non-issue. 90% of driving is commuting, it is decidedly not long-range trips. And then this is mostly an issue of infrastructure; if there were at least 120V plugs at every parking lot, you wouldn't ever have to worry about these vampire loads. Infrastructure, since we are at it, is of course a much much bigger problem for gasoline cars; think of all the steps necessary to refine oil into gasoline and make it available at gas stations. Driving an ICE across states at the time of their advent would not have been a particularly enjoyable experience due to the general unavailability of fuel.
Did you generate this automatically or did manually?. I've always wanted a better way to read AMA afterwards.
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Few that aren't running a charity use Python 3 in production web apps.

Rack <-> WSGI

Werkzeug is just an app server on top of WSGI that happens to be very nice, with features like the above described.
Seems to me like people are agonising over skeuomorphic details as basic as using drop shadows and gradients to make a button look 'real'.

In recent months I've come to realise that (excluding so-called 'flat' design) such processes have sublimated and that we have actually converged on a new visual language for communicating a control's affordance.

Let's look at the basic button: we no longer make a button look like a button, per se, so much as we simply add contrast to the control's edges (according to taste), and perhaps overlay a low frequency over the entire control (otherwise known as a 'gradient').

Then, when a user activates the control, we rotate the phase of the control's spatial frequencies through 180º to communicate its state (equivalent to reversing all shadows and flipping the gradient).

I think flat design sucks because it effectively excludes you from using visual frequencies this way - it's a bit like asking someone to record a song, but they have to run everything through an extreme high-pass filter, or a bitcrush, or something (I dunno, someone help me out with this metaphor here).
> Yes, the problem is not with the definition of the term, but with the term "live programming" itself!

True. But I think the word has worked well until recently.

> The notion of "steady frame" does seem oddly domain specific.

Not really, but please wait for a better explanation until my next paper. 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 (that the UI represented by the steady frame is probably not the GUI that is used be an end user).

> Probably you've seen that already, but have you looked at self adjusting computation? http://www.umut-acar.org/self-adjusting-computation

Their work doesn't seem to scale yet (all examples seem to be small algorithmic functions) while I'm already writing complete programs, compilers even, with my own methods, which are based more on invalidate/recompute rather than computing exact repair functions. I'll be able to relate to this work better when they start dealing with bigger programs and state.
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It will be very interesting to see the administration's response, which is, remember, all that's promised.

When they were in the early decision phase that resulted in the petitions website, they certainly would have realized that such a system would very quickly become overrun with pleas for Presidential Pardons, intercession in ongoing investigations/prosecutions, and, as in this case, for punishment of a government employee who is perceived to abuse their power. That's what the thresholds are for.

They knew this would happen; and they're already prepared. I predict the response will boil down to "we can't interfere with the machinery of Justice, etc." Their reply will give a lot of good points to support this, but will subtly rely on the people confusing prosecutors as being Judicial rather than Executive employees. Mr. Heymann and Ms. Ortiz will keep their jobs, though Heymann may no longer be put on "hacking" cases.
Honestly Apple and Windows are really complementary. All the weak points of one are the strongness of the other.
I dream to see the products that a love affair between these 2 companies would produce.
Let's not forget that downloading JSTOR articles was itself an act of civil disobedience.
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I live in a coop in Manhattan and I would guess at least 30% of the building doesn't live here full time or they are just holding on to the property until we surpass 2008 real estate values (from checking streeteasy and the previous sale price/ask price today). Also this isn't a super luxury place.
> Why can't it just look good and be easy to use? Does anyone actually care if an application is "speaking" as if it is a conscious entity?

I don't think it's fair to say that a UI shouldn't attempt to have some "personality". Whether it is ultimately effective (or not) is another argument entirely, but there is more to UX than just the style and "ease of use".

Copy, labeling and alerts are all part of the UX too.
Or her okcupid profile... :)
still, wouldn't it be better to confirm by either getting closer to it, or photographing it from another angle ? I know that they probably have every minute planned for Curiosity, but obviously if they saw something worth derailing for a few hours they should do it, no?
There is a subreddit for that - http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/
He is looking for book similar to that one.
Alternate title: How to self-XSS your Facebook account.
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IRC. Don't over complicate things it leads to confusion and less productivity. Plus, it's free.
Clean all those "Should" tests from Rspec tests
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Ready? This is going to blow your mind...

NEITHER.

Just say "Purchases" or "Bookmarks." Not yours, not mine, not his, not hers. Just "it."

Now, get back to writing code!
It depends on the application.

For a tool that you use as often as Gmail, you want something functional, but that doesn't mean it can't let the personality of Google shine through. Gmail's empty spam page says something like "No spam here, Hurray!" where as Outlook's says generic and bland like "There are no items in this view".

However, consider a shopping experience that you may use a couple of times per year at most. The application has a real opportunity to expose the user to your brand.

Also consider a new user experience that you only ever do once. These processes are boring, so maybe some personality helps conversions and reduces falloff.

There is no right answer here because there are so many different types of applications.
Any of them interested in space? I imagine SpaceX will be on their radar, but they should also check out the aRocket mailing list. Lots of new-space companies and lurkers there.
Why do you feel real estate in Manhattan (especially at the locations mentioned) isn't that safe? Some of those places have been premium properties for almost 100 years.
This reviewer went out of their way to fabricate a sub-optimal experience in the vehicle

Can we stop this? Until Musk posts data saying otherwise, it looks like the 90-mile range dropped to a 25-mile range while the car was parked overnight. Parking a car is not something crazy.
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That's a pretty specific edge case -- if your intended market was private pilots, you could just put a giant "WON'T WORK IN FIJI" sticker on it.
You know that nauseous feeling you used to get from reading a Daring Fireball post? That.
That's true, and there's something to be said for that, though I'm ambivalent about exactly what that something is. That's part of why I tried to make it clear that my point was "Don't knee-jerk on this" rather than "You must stick with Rails or you are a fool." I'm not going to preach security practices at people — there are people much better qualified to do that — I just want people to make sure they understand what tradeoffs they're making with whatever decision they make. A lot of people have drastic misconceptions about these sorts of things. If you're intending to have a little site that largely depends on security through obscurity not to get owned, you should at least know that.
Semi spoiler: Warm Bodies has a zombie that drives a car.
We were friends/roommates before we started our first startup. We also started dating at just about the same time (we're married now).
This is an interesting question, and the answer is not as obvious as you seem to think.

Given that absurd amounts of discretionary power have been placed in the hands of civil servants, and that this power is not likely to be removed anytime soon, the root of the matter is this:

Will future civil servants temper their actions because they don't want to find their names in the middle of another shitstorm like this?

It's a psychological question. It's personal.
If you reversed all shadows and gradients, wouldn't your active control's lighting become completely inconsistent with the rest of your interface? Or did I misunderstand?

But you're right that flat design takes away some of these tools. That's why it's important to look at each situation as its own thing.

For example, a big call-to-action button on a homepage cannot be toggled and lives by itself, so making it flat works. On the other hand, making an "on/off" toggle flat can potentially create a lot of ambiguity.

But even then, it's up to the designer to find workarounds and new solutions, such as http://drbl.in/giHY
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Out of those couple of hundred users you only need one of them to be a bored teenager who has read a bit about web security to bust your application.

It's not like this stuff is that hard in a lot of cases, it's often just "if I put a semicolon in the URL, how does it respond?" or "does this form have a CSRF token?".
Looks like the upper half of this: http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/images/war_worlds_pal_8_x....
> People like (eventual) change.

I would say that designers and early adopters like change, people only like improvements. My mom is still using her 10-year-old XP machine and would hate it if it did change just for the sake of change. My Mac running TextMate also looks pretty much the same as my iBook did in 2005. Or look at the public reaction to Windows 7 vs Windows 8, or the way Apple keeps basic designs the same (only geeks can tell an iPad 1 from an iPad 4 on the subway). Apple's only products that are still changed for the sake of change are cheap MP3 players that people buy on a whim.

I think the web is an outlier here...
Meh, that list is as lame as they come. Yelp? What did Yelp innovate in 2012? What's Nike's claim to the position of most innovative?

Complete fluff piece, 0 content.
Suitable Tech is one of the spinoffs trying to productize the work there.

https://www.suitabletech.com
"Governments have generally not recognized the legitimacy of civil disobedience or viewed political objectives as an excuse for breaking the law."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

I would like to believe we live in a time when there is some self-reflection and self-correction on the part of the machinery of justice.
Though I probably wont ever play the number one game on this list, the list itself is great!

very cool, but why do I need an account to read the stufF?
The analysis show several examples of eroded rocks on earth, but none of them look much like the object in question on Mars.

In particular, none of the examples look metallic, nor are they nearly as thin or protruding in just one place like the object in question.
...and they fail to start such dialogue, unless the issue is shallow and pedantic (yes, that is a nod to Seth MacFarlane). When people asked for a response to Chris Dodd's remarks following the SOPA protests, what did the administration say? "No comment!" The response to legalizing marijuana was an outright lie -- a claim that the administration's policy was "balanced," when in reality the Obama administration set a new record for paramilitary raids on medical marijuana dispensaries, having engaged in more raids in just two years than in all eight years under Bush.

If the administration wants to engage in dialogue with the people, they should do so -- without lying, without avoiding tough questions, without trying to divert our attention to irrelevant distractions.
Yes it is. But you don't actually have to deal with such things, results are given to you by the GPS receiver. (also, you don't really need to reinvent the wheel, those calculations already exists)

I think the major problem with most processing is making the NMEA 183 protocol parser work in a real time scenario, this is hard.
You can call any decision 'arbitrary,' I guess. I mean it has internal logic.

Notice was given, in the post spelling out which versions are still supported a few weeks ago.
This is great. I've had low-level stuff on my mind lately. I was thinking about where to start, either writing my own binary to the boot sector of a disk, or booting up MS-DOS and going from there, or from linux or windows and starting with machine code from there. So this would be perfect. (I was thinking of maybe implementing FORTH. Interesting that kragen mentions a "tiny quasi-Forth" that he made.)
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More to the point: the energy-intensive aspect of heating an ICE car, the heat itself, is a waste product of the engine and needs to be removed regardless. Even in cold weather.

In an EV, heat must be generated at a very high energy expense. You can play with the mileage range estimator on Tesla's website. For the largest capacity (85 kWh) batter, heat knocks range down by about 50 miles. Depending on conditions, at 55 MPH, you're talking 350 to 300 or so with heat at 32F. A gasoline powered ICE will likely actually get slightly higher performance due to greater thermal gas expansion at low temperatures, and lower overall cooling demand: while running the cab heater doesn't consume much power, spinning the radiator fan does, and can usually be avoided in cold weather.

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/autos/gasoline-faq/part3/
It's a problem of external effects. Now if we would make an effort to attribute the costs of these external effects to their originator, internal combustion engines would be wholly unavailable to anyone under 1M$ net worth almost instantly. We don't do so because a) it takes effort (and thereby generates costs all in itself) and b) we usually don't care about the plight of future generations and those around us and c) we want the economy not to crash.

And we don't even know about all the external effects that gasoline cars have; there was this article in Mother Jones [1] recently that correlated leaded gas to the crime rate, owing to the detrimental effects lead has on the human brain.

[1]: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
Yeah, actually even in that case, I'd prefer no pronouns. "Fetching email" is much better IMO, and possibly more accurate (Imagine my girlfriend logged into my email for instance).
And that's the kind of thinking that resulted in pretty much 100% of North American produced commercial mapping software just not working in the region of Fiji when it was mapped in 1997 [1].

Luckily some of us can write our own mapping and avionics software.

Are you comfortable with developing avionics software that just won't work in some parts of the world? That seems a little shortsighted and a little dangerous.

[1] http://www.mrd.gov.fj/gfiji/products/air_detl.html
It's a minor point but actually English has only the polite form. Stiff upper lip, and all that. "Thou" is the singular, but it isn't used much any more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou#History
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If the compiler deals with arithmetic in a very inefficient way, that will also show up.
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I heartily recommend becoming a foster parent through your state children/family services agency. It's an oft overlooked route to adoption and, despite a million frustrations of its own, has worked much better for us than private adoption seems to/would have.
Someone had built a web app to show IAMAs better, but I can't remember the url, does anyone know it?
Per Tesla's own charging estimates 110v/12A is good for about 5 miles/hour of charging. http://www.teslamotors.com/charging#/outlet

That's not particularly meaningful. 60 hours to a full 85kWh charge.
I did it manually. It would be easy to automate though, it was fairly methodical - Go through his posts in the AMA's timeframe, click through the Context link for each one and copy the immediate parent, make the whole parent a link to the same Context, copy his reply underneath. Put spacers between each Q/A and italicize the questions. Beyond that I just cleaned up a few tiny mistakes, linkified some raw URLs, and switched around just one of the questions from the chronological order (bet you can't guess which one).
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Reminds me a bit of the good ol' pre-Vista days of "My Documents" et cetera in the Windows world. :) But hey, even MS took a decade between 95 and Vista to decide to drop the prefix!
Now imagine if you'd written 10x as much code in Java and hit a Java vulnerability. The U.S. government told its citizens to uninstall Java recently. There have been a few other high profile Java vulnerabilities in the past few years. Does that mean Java is the wrong choice? Most jobs available in development are in Java (check indeed.com).

For years Microsoft was the butt of most security jokes. .Net dev jobs are #2 under Java in indeed.com.

Find me a well-used platform that hasn't had a massive security hole or a community that hasn't tended to write insecure code at some point.
Having gone through the adoption process successfully twice, I've thought a bit about what it might mean to create a product that could help here. One challenge is that adoption is very local and distributed. The homestudy and post placement processes don't seem like obvious areas where you could make incremental improvements to the current system.

There could be something in a service to help with adoption profiles. There's a lot of parts to that process that could be facilitated. I also wonder if parts of the education process (eg several of the mandatory parenting, etc. classes) could be put online.
Take a brief glance at the author's articles and you will see an extensive list of titles you could describe as anti-oil and pro-environment.
And ofcourse Larry will live to be 105.
FWIW, clicking on that link with Safari showed an unexpected popup: "WebProcess wants to sign using key "Apple ID Authentication [timestamp] in your keychain". Using some sort of client cert for SSL? I didn't find an obvious reason for the interaction.
Regarding surrogacy, do you have any links you can drop? Also, if I have some modified embryos will any of the services accept these?
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Eduardo, the results given to you by a GPS receiver (depending on what level of massaging it does to the data) are chains of [latitude, longitude] pairs. At some point that chain will cease to be trivially continuous and have a glaring jump from -179.9 to +179.9.

The question I pose, and it's one your software needs to handle, is how well do you deal with that and are your ongoing results correct?
4 Steps to the Ephiphany - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976470705

Entrepreneurs Guide to Customer Development - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982743602

Lean Analytics - http://leananalyticsbook.com

The Lean Entrepreneur - http://leanentrepreneur.co

Lean UX - http://www.jeffgothelf.com/blog/lean-ux/

The Lean Product Book - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449319955
You're probably right, I'm still trying to figure out how to express this idea properly.

I like the good old fashioned red and green on your example, but I feel any toggleable control should have two two-axis modes: unpressed/pressed, and on/off (e.g. in Cocoa Touch, UIButton can be highlighted, and/or selected), which is typically difficult to convey with flat shapes and colour alone. If you can do it, awesome.
http://www.topiama.com ? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148415)
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That looks correct to my native-English-speaking eyes.
http://www.topiama.com/
As many of you may remember, one of the earliest Apple forays into both skeumorphism and what the post terms "realist visual design" was QuickTime 4:

http://www.salon.com/1999/09/30/quicktime/

"QT4, in contrast, presents a “player” that mimics the appearance of a real-world object — a high-tech Sony Watchman, say."

It became notorious quickly, gaining the attention for example of Bruce Tognazzini[1] and of the Interface Hall of Shame[2]:

[1] http://www.asktog.com/readerMail/1999-06ReaderMail.html

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/19991012163338/http://iarchitect....

Most notoriously, one controlled the volume not with a slider element, but with a rotating dial that appeared to require a circular motion to operate, not an easy feat with a mouse; only with experimentation did one learn that a linear motion also worked.
Ohhh man I feel like I have been waiting years for this to exist
Can someone explain the part about cheap kids from the stork, please? I may have misunderstood that.
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How about superglue? Stores for a long time

Really? I find that mine has always turned into a solid block whenever I need it.
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I agree. It's there to explore. Well, we found something. Explore it a little further.
I believe the one in Connecticut is in a highway rest stop with a McDonald's in it.
Brilliantly stated!

"My..." implies the interface is an extension of the users brain.

"Your..." implies the interface is a tool to be mastered.

Both might be appropriate for certain use cases. Using github as an example interface with personality, perhaps "My Forks" but "Your SSH Keys"?