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Maybe it should become standard Telsa practice to provide all of this information to the journalists within 24hrs of the end of their test drive.

That way there will be no confusion, and the facts are plain for the journalist to see, and use in their article.
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Photoshop 1 is old enough that any such patents should have expired.
Indeed. My enthusiasm at the idea led me to say "for everyone" when in fact you are correct.

I should have said "for non-idiot drivers"
It'll be difficult even for China.

"Give us X million tons of food before X date or we will launch an artillery strike against Seoul".
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the difference is a state publishing model codes is different than a non profit publishing copyrighted material

I think it's more of the state saying it's ok compared to a non profit.
Are there other people here with heavy corrections that have undergone LASIK surgery?

I was always told that heavier corrections (I have about -10 dioptrics) were tricky because they would have to laser away to much of your eyes' "back wall". This would make the eye structure weaker which could result in eye deformation (bulging eyes?).
Truth to be told: that sounded possible and scary enough so I didn't investigate further. I'm ready to be proven wrong :)
I think the aggressive tone is warranted. Electric cars are still very much looked upon as an oddity, and Tesla has a lot to prove before they can achieve mass-market appeal. One of the most respected newspapers in the country doing a hit piece on their product deserves to be addressed hard and fast - to do any less would be a disservice to his company and to his shareholders.

It's arguable that this article could have done Tesla significant financial harm. If I was Musk, I'd go for the kill and demand Broder's head on a platter alongside a published apology from the editor disavowing the review. There's no room for a lukewarm response here - the response needs to be loud, obnoxious, and the fallout needs to be messy to ensure that the rebuttal gets the same coverage as the initial damaging review.
Do it using a dichotomic approach. Remove 50% of the CSS. If the bug is still there do it again. Etc. Do the same for HTML and javascript and you will have your minimal test case.
Check.

NYT - your move.
A diamond! This shouldn't be limited to iOS though, take it to the web and Android.
Sounds reasonable. Just a personal point of view, but if I were to start a start-up right now it kind of feels easier, or better less scarry, to do with YC backing than without.

Not that it actually is easy but the mere fact that you have been approved to a certain degree by someone who knows better than you boosts selfconfidence a lot.
> His conclusion of "two servers and 100 TBT for $200" seems unlikely to last long either.

A site I'm involved with ended up on Leaseweb rather than a big-name CDN for much the same reason - we have 3 x 100mbit unlimited traffic servers, and all 3 have been pushing an average of 90mbps 24/7 for the past year or so.

It's not quite as smooth and reliable as a proper CDN, but it's an order of magnitude cheaper, and they've never given us any trouble about using too much of their "unlimited" bandwidth.
So there's one damning thing in Broder's review: the confirmation of his range anxiety as the Model S sits on a flatbed.

Tesla explicitly refutes that point by saying Broder ignored warnings against leaving Norwich. Also, I mean, come on: range says 30 and you have to go 60 miles so...you...disconnect the power? Interesting, especially since it's not the first time he tried to kill the car (see "driving around parking lot for 5 minutes with zero range").

But then again...look at the battery chart just before the Norwich charge. You see zero increase in distance, and a large (=60-70 miles) drop in range. That's the evening where he lost a bunch of power. That's a problem for Tesla.

Anyway, Broder has a rebuttal to Musk's initial claims here [0]. I'm curious to see how he responds to this blog post, especially what seems to be a deliberate attempt to kill the car's power before recharging at Milford the second time.

[0] http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/the-charges-are-f...
They can't go to court in the US, because America protects this type of speech as free speech

Citation needed.

http://journalism.about.com/od/ethicsprofessionalism/a/libel... (and many, many other references) disagree with you.
You might want to have a look at what Wirth designed afterwards.

I specially like the Native Oberon and Active Oberon operating systems.
Thanks -- as to the remote logging, I looked into this and it seems to be so. I edited my original post.
> I just can't get past my belief that EVs make no sense without a standardized battery-exchange infrastructure.
I tend to keep cars for a long time

So, you just need enough infrastructure to allow for leasing the battery while owning the vehicle. That would mean battery swaps would have to be the equivalent of engine overhauls. Sounds good to me.
Indeed, one of its finest defeats. Vietnam was extremely complicated, both on the battlefield and off, and it's not my area of expertise; that being said, a lot of modern maneuvers planted their seeds in that soil.

Americans grew tired of Iraq when insurgents kept picking off a soldier every other day and there was little to show for their loss. Similar themes presented in the latter years of Vietnam, combined with a complicated political picture stateside. That's the success of an insurgency: attrition not of materiel, but the minds, resolve, and fortitude of a belligerent. That was certainly evident in Vietnam, as well, and it's a great parallel.
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The reporter was blatantly trying to drain the battery to get a story. They were, in no way, behaving like any half-ways rational person would, and they were absolutely not behaving the way anybody driving a Tesla would

Zero doubt in my mind this was a pre-scripted hatchet job. The only question in my mind was whether the deception rises to the level of termination.
Are the doctors older? LASIK doesn't help if your eyesight gets worse due to old age. Your eye muscles will get worse and then you cannot focus as well on near objects. That is the reason many "old" (it may start as early as 45 or not until well into the 60s) people need to wear glasses.

Just an idea, but a better alternative would be to ask them why they still wear glasses.
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Why are you so eager to finance J.K. Rowlings second book? The new Airbnb is always the first book.
You're free to use a different homepage or override the dashboard (new tab) page.

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/override.html
On the other hand, the supposed advice from the employee doesn't sound right either, if that is what she actually said.
Elon Musk PR extraordinaire! I thought offering to help Boeing with their battery fiasco was an amazing PR coup! He's showing to be a true PR Master with this move. Check mate NYTimes?
In the absence of a way to transmit information faster than light, we will always have network latency issues.
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Yeh...I agree. Right now, Broder's job (and perhaps career) and NYT's credibility are mutually exclusive.
Americans can see the same effect just from being out of the country for a while. A few years, months, or weeks of not being subjected to the psychological burden of following 'the news' and its gradual narrative, whether that's NYT or otherwise, can have quite effective results on how ably you judge things in the future.
Broder actually had an ok story to begin with, with a number of facts that are review-worthy. The cold weather energy loss is certainly one of them. Also, the Supercharger stations are not close enough together, admitted by Musk. Their customer support gave them incorrect instructions to use cruise control to preserve energy, which raises questions about how knowledgable their staff really is if it could leave you stranded. And electric cars use electric heaters, and you might be forced to pick some combo of heat and miles on freezing days. Most importantly, you still need to constantly be thinking about range.

But Broder pushed it. Trying to get the battery to die in his first Milford stop is an obvious one. But when he failed to do that, he got a second chance by leaving Norwich without possibly being able to make it back to Milford. Both Broder and Musk agree that the car showed 32 miles of range, and that the car had made it 51 miles. But he would have known, before he left Norwich, that the distance to Milford was 61 miles. How Broder reasonably expect he would get there?

As a result, he gets his dramatic photo of the Motor Trend Car of the Year, helpless on a flatbed truck.
IMO Afghanistan is a lost cause (it is fundamentally unwinnable at any price worth paying for a win; any victory will be at best Pyrrhic. You can pretty readily destroy AQ's ability to operate (completed in early 2002), but you can't turn Afghanistan into anything but a basketcase.)

Iraq, however, was obviously maneuver early on, on the part of the US (who kicked ass; the war in a conventional sense really was won in a few weeks/months -- a reasonable person could have pulled out at that point, and we might have had some stupidity at the Presidential and State Department levels not happened). It then turned into maneuver warfare by the insurgents -- striking the weak link of the US, the large logistics convoys, largely operated by KBR under LOGCAP, needed to supply the logistics-heavy US force. (and arguably the same thing has happened in Afghanistan, aided by the terrain and Pakistan.)

The relative victory post-2007 was primarily due to the old British Empire tactic of dividing your enemies (i.e. buying off both the Shia militias by putting US forces in small posts in their territory to keep them safe from the Sunnis, and by bribing the Sunnis as "Sons of Iraq" to join the US as well) -- with FREs largely destroyed by this time, it meant leaving only AQ, straight-up criminal gangs, and some seriously hardline Shia (Iran-linked) enemies.

Those guys essentially got defeated by the "task force with many names" (6-26, 121, 88, assorted colors, etc.); essentially JSOC. It was pretty much the same as you'd roll up organized crime in the US (i.e. watch The Wire) -- identify high value targets, "human" focal points, and then go kill/capture them. By removing the bulk of non-hardline opposition, the US was left with thousands of enemies, of which only tens or hundreds were key -- and they ended up dying pretty fast.

Small JSOC units operating from the air, from civilian vehicles, etc. were highly mobile, so it was essentially maneuver warfare at the small scale. Essentially all "raid" type SOF missions depend on speed and mobility; there is no way for even a 10x better trained/equipped force to stand and fight against a much larger conventional force for a long period of time, outside of a video game.
THIS: "Another way to think of it: Our society as a whole doesn't have the epistemological foundation needed for the level of technical sophistication it has."

Perfect.
Thanks for the link, but that's not exactly what I wanted. The chess problem you are showing are some composition problem: someone creating a position where it is possible to checkmate in two moves, but the moves are very unintuitive and the position is completely unnatural, which is very hard for a human player to find the solution. A computer, on the other hand, will have no problem to find it by brute force.

What I want is something different: mining tons of games to learn new stuff about positional strength in chess. For example, assume that we don't know that a queen is stronger than a knight, and instead think that the two pieces have the same value. We would trade those two pieces more or less indifferently, resulting in lots of games where one side has a queen and the other side has a knight. Now, the program I would like to do will mine all those games and say "99% of the cases where one side had a queen and the other side had a knight were a win for the side with the queen". And we would be able to learn that a queen is stronger to a knight... Now obviously this example is too simple, but I would like to see if it is possible to learn some more subtle things.
Exposing John Broder's Anti-Tesla Bias
I was in contact with Heroku support a couple of weeks ago since we experienced some timeout on our production app. Got a detailed explanation how the routing on heroku works by a Heroku engineer, and thought I could share:

"I am a bit confused by what you mean by an "available" dyno. Requests get queued at the application level, rather than at the router level. Basically, as soon as a request comes in, it gets fired off randomly to any one of your web dynos.

Say your request that takes 2 seconds to be handled by the dyno was dispatched to a dyno that was running a long running request. Eventually, after 29 seconds, it completed serving the response, and started working on the new, faster 2 second request. Now, at this point it had already been waiting in the queue for 29 seconds, so after 1 second, it'll get dropped, and after another 1 second, the dyno will be done processing it, but the router is no longer waiting for the response as it has already returned an H12.

That's how a fast request can be dropped. Now, the one long 29 second request could also be a series of not-that-long-but-still-long requests. Say you had 8 requests dispatched to that dyno at the same time, and they all took 4 seconds to process. The last one would have been waiting for 28 second, and so would be dropped before completion and result in an H12."
I have been hating Quora all along for this, and wondered whether this constitutes cloaking (because they serve different content to Googlebot and the user), which is against Google's TOS.

The following are excerpts from Google's First Click Free (FCF) program page[1]:

If you offer subscription-based access to your website content, or if
users must register to access your content, then search engines
cannot access some of your site's most relevant, valuable content.

Implementing Google's First Click Free (FCF) for your content allows
you to include your restricted content in Google's main search index.

Apparently Quora's answer to this is: "Wrong! We don't need to implement FCF to get our restricted content into Google, we simply cloak!"

To implement First Click Free, you need to allow all users who find
a document on your site via Google search to see the full text of
that document, even if they have not registered or subscribed to see
that content. The user's first click to your content area is free.

So clearly the program applies in Quora's situation, yet Quora doesn't follow the program's guidelines to show "the full text of that document". I see this as strong evidence that Quora's actions violate Google's TOS, because otherwise what's the point of the FCF program?

[1]: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
login form. bam, you are being followed around the web. maybe Quora will even decide to tell your friends what articles you clicked on. who knows what new "feature" they've added today
Irrelevant. He doesn't say that's what she said. He says that's how he interpreted it.
What are the reasons that made you decide on Play+Scala instead of Play+Java?

I'm going through a similar decision so would love to hear your thoughts on this.
`win psql` in Acme window is my choice: you get per-session history for free, easy copy-paste (with a real 3-button mouse of course) and even multiline SQL queries are very comfortable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law#De...

>Defamation law in the United States is much less plaintiff-friendly than its counterparts in European and the Commonwealth countries, due to the enforcement of the First Amendment. One very important distinction today is that European and Commonwealth jurisdictions adhere to a theory that every publication of a defamation gives rise to a separate claim, so that a defamation on the Internet could be sued on in any country in which it was read, while American law only allows one claim for the primary publication.
If they are using it to advertise to you, then it isn't "free" in my book.
Discovery Insurance in South Africa has a car insurance policy that lowers your premiums based on the data from a logger they install in your car. Drive below the speed limit, avoid hard acceleration from traffic lights and avoid cornering at high speeds and they lower your premiums by something like 50%.

Of course it's still an optional policy for now and easy to implement because most insurance companies insist that new vehicles in SA are fitted with a GPS car tracking system anyway, but it's an indication as to where things are heading.
> EVs that have to be charged in real time at arbitrary leaf nodes on the power grid are a really, really stupid idea.

Maybe. But Tesla has proven that they can build a product that people will buy. Isn't that what matters?
What about FreePascal?

I do recognize that Pascal sadly was never strong on UNIX/Mainframe systems, which I imagine is your case.

My move from Turbo Pascal/Delphi to C and C++ happened around the time I needed to target UNIX systems. Given the choice I always take C++ over C, because I can achieve a Pascal like safety.

But I do miss coding Delphi.

If Sun hadn't pushed Java so hard and Borland didn't went schizophrenic with what to do with their products, Delphi would probably still be quite strong nowadays.

Still the best way to code native applications on Windows though.
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...or trying to find the charging point, since it was potentially his first visit there? While we're speculating on rationale, why don't we include possibilities fair to both sides?
Likely rewriting the assembly sections.

The Pascal parts ought work, if you have a compiler for the same pascal dialect.
> They put the arrow where it was increased for a short duration, but then immediately after this the temperature is lowered considerably.

I don't think ~80 miles could be considered a "short duration".
That makes more efficient use of the nodes, because otherwise idle cpu time and memory allocation within a node has a chance of getting used, but it doesn't stop the queueing problem (it mearly gives you more virtual nodes to hand tasks to unintelligently).

Also as the nodes are virtual machines anyway and may be contending with each other for IO, and for most apps these days you spend more time waiting for IO than you do spinning the CPU (unless you have a lot of static content so don't need to hit the db for many requests - but such requests are better handled by a caching layer above that which handles the fancier stuff), so the benefit of running multiple processes per node is going to be a lot less noticable than if you are talking about the nodes being physical machines with dedicated storage channels.
Thanks, I understand your first and second paragraphs completely, but the last sentence is a bit confusing— I'm not sure what is meant by "no physical contact to the eye." Do you mean that no instrument touched your eye during the operation, just the laser?
Driving back and forth in front of the damn charger speaks for itself.

Straws. You maybe holding some.

EDIT: Two words. Occam's Razor. Your explanation is so tangled that an entire battalion of Viet Cong could hide in it.
For anyone who's interested, I recommend watching the film 'Race to Nowhere' - it documents the current education system's focus on standardized tests and questions what 'success' looks like.

Personally I think we should be gearing curriculums towards what are being defined as the 21st Century Set of Literacies: how well we can find information, validate it, synthesize it, leverage it, communicate it, collaborate with it and problem solve with it.

What's education really for? I'd like to see the focus move from a focus on test scores towards producing future generations who are creative, empathetic, resilient, driven and entrepreneurial.
I don't think GPS would show anything substantial if his claim of a "100-space parking lot" where Broder drove in circles is true. I'd be impressed if the GPS was that accurate.

Regardless, I don't think that's a huge sticking point to this story. Broder was at the charging station - it's possible he wanted to see just how long it would take until the battery shut down.
> I'm not sure what a reviewer driving in circles at a charging station proves?

Perhaps that he couldn't find it, since it was his first visit?

Based on the rest of this thread, though, Occam is not going to be making an appearance and we're going to be questioning the journalistic integrity of someone who's worked at the New York Times since most commenters here were in diapers. It totally makes sense that he'd write a completely false story at the behest of big oil. That's the logical explanation.
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Driving in circles doesn't prove anything. But, he didn't mention it in his original article or the follow-up blog post. In fact, he took great pains to write about all the hardships he endured to maximize the car's range, and how he still ran out of battery. So, one wonders why he would do it. It seems like an awfully odd thing to do, unless you are deliberately trying to run out of charge.

Broder's defense to accusations that he should have charged overnight in Groton is that he was just acting like a regular driver. When you drive a conventional car from DC to Boston, do you pull up to the gas pumps and drive around in circles until you run out of gas? Do you add a few gallons and take off, or do you wait until the automatic shutoff on the pump trips? I think a "regular" driver would charge fully (at least a full "standard" charge) at each Super Charger and then drive directly to the next way-point, not unplug at 75% and pointlessly drive in circles.
Musk doesn't address the big drop in estimated range overnight, which actually seems confirmed (at mile 400) in his charge/range graphs. I'm curious if temperature alone can explain this, or some other bug or drain-left-on overnight must be at play.

It does appear the reviewer wanted to trigger a car-stop scenario. Curiosity about what happens when a driver messes up, or perhaps range estimates fail because of unpredictable terrain/traffic is legitimate. So, I don't blame the reviewer for the circles near the charging station. But ignoring the range estimate and recharge opportunities, in order to require a tow and then report it as if it were a car failure, seems indefensible.