skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Here's the relevant bit:

"[Quoting Elon]'The final leg of his trip was 61 miles and yet he disconnected the charge cable when the range display stated 32 miles. He did so expressly against the advice of Tesla personnel and in obvious violation of common sense.'

"The Tesla personnel whom I consulted over the phone – Ms. Ra and Mr. Merendino – told me to leave it connected for an hour, and after that the lost range would be restored. I did not ignore their advice."

If I had to guess, I'd bet they talked to him on the phone, saying "Try plugging it in for an hour, that should fix it", figuring after an hour he would call them back if it needed more charge. He didn't call them back, and instead set out knowing he was about to be stranded and have a great story, since he could always claim "Well I followed their advice to the letter! It's their fault!"
What Bang With Friends teaches about anonymity in tech
This is pretty fricking amazing! Like most Indians of that generation, I got my first personal computer in 1985~86, with a preloaded pirated copy of Windows 3.1, pirated copy of Autocad, pirated copy of Prince of Persia, pirated copy of QBasic, pirated copy of COBOL, CLIPPER, a pirated database dBaseIII, another pirated database FoxBase, a pirated spreadsheet called Lotus 1-2-3, a pirated wordprocessing thingy called Wordperfect, and several other pirated goodies. I figure in today's environment that's enough to keep me behind bars for a million years :) But in those days, there was no other way to buy a PC. You bought a PC & you got all that pirated stuff, like it or not. So Prince of Persia was like THE game that everybody in India played at that point in time.

My first 1000+ LOC program was a Qbasic routine to draw a pumping heart saying "I love you" mostly using PUTPIXEL(..) :) After laboring over that pumping heart dot qbas program, I finally worked up the courage on Valentine's Day to show it to this girl who I thought would fall in love with me after seeing it. Instead, she ran away & told her mom I was a freak messing with "the electronic compoooter" , so her mom got her married off to a proper MBA. She had me send "electronic mail" as email was called those days, to her rich friends using an AOL account.
I don't doubt it.

I was in a position where I did not have resources for anything else. (Yes, ironic, given the dollar amounts I was handling. But then, welcome to "big business"...)

And, with the changing shit raining down from on high, as well as the need to adapt processes for my own sake and survival, it ended up being for the best, anyway.

Within a limited value of "best". In retrospect, better would have been, ultimately, to be working somewhere else. (Though for a time, the relative autonomy and one very decent direct manager were rather nice.)

Some of the improvement I provided was correcting the outputs of a longstanding legacy system that routinely borked a "random" subset of its data. People had ostensibly looked and been unable to correct this in the original code, and at the time management felt it had no budget to work on this further, at the mainframe level.

So, I guess.... to some extent, it's not the system, it's what you do with it! Old, big dollar legacy project fucked up, and we ended up fixing it on the PC. LOL's aplenty.
Really wish they provided a hook for Linkinus (mac IRC app).

Too bad grove.io didn't work out. That was a pretty solid service.
I'm fairly confident that we're all from Milwaukee or Madison, with one or two in Green Bay.
The battery's heating system likely drained the power overnight. The battery pack must be kept above a certain temperature or it will become irreparably damaged.
> The Roswell incident predates Angel/Blackbird by decades.

Ugh, I've made a huge number of mistakes in my comment. Should have looked it up first.

Angel is the U-2, not the A-12 like I thought, U-2 flew from 1955, already too late, A-12 even later obviously.

Thanks for the info on project mogul!
Given that "conservation" in this case is driven by the rate of usage, minus the rate of recovery - the recharge - from the regen brakes, is it really materially different?
HP is Creating Handheld Devices Powered by Android, Dropping webOS
> Maybe you aren't so hot either.

So, grade school geometry refresher. When you increase the diameter of a circle, what happens to its circumference?

Thanks for playing: "Do I think I am clever but just accidentally revealed I'm the level of dolt that needs basic geometry spelled out and assumes everyone else is as clueless as me?"
The car did show a sharp drop in mileage estimate (which turned out to be correct), but he still believed the display was wrong; that's the opposite.

In Elon's post, he states they have strong sales in nordic countries, we haven't seen any reports of failure from there. Just because they use the same underlying technology (Li-Ion) doesn't mean all battery packs are the same, Tesla's has a very different design.
This is what bugs me the most about this whole thing.

If the Tesla people on the phone with the reporter had just erred on the side of caution with their advice, the whole debacle would have been avoided.

Broder complaining about a couple of extra hours charging would have just come across as a nitpick.
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I guess the problem I have is with the word 'love' itself. It's such a strong feeling for something that's just a tool that can in some situations make you turn around bits more efficiently. Can't we just look at that stuff rationally and reserve that kind of feelings for family and friends?
"As Android and iOS go to become the #1 and #2 platforms in the future"

+1

And not only that: there's a massive shit to webapps and more and more people are using GMail. The day a (basic) Excel user discovers Google Docs spreadsheet and realize he can share a spreadsheet either read-only or read-write with another GMail user is the day he stops using Excel.

I do certainly see Google spreadsheets gaining lots of traction against SMEs and independent contractors and, horror, I do even know people making very very good looking documents using non-Excel and non-Google spreadsheets on Mac! (heresy for anyone on HN apparently).

Zero Excel spreadsheets here. Tens (if not hundreds) of Google Docs spreadsheets and most weren't created by me but shared with me.
This always strikes me as great advice that runs slap bang into (her husbands) Blub Paradox. How can you tell someone is better or smarter than you?

I have worked out its about openness - in most modern corporate worlds fudging it till you get it is common and fear tends to rule - if they find out I don't know I will be fired.

But allow or force openness and suddenly there is an explosion of "we'll I don't know either let's experiment"

Take off the pressure of delivering arbitrary tasks and instead allow a coder to sculpt - cut away the bits not needed to reveal the hidden statue as it were and you have the makings of a team of A performers - even if thy looked b style before
That's where I want to be.
I don't see what you're saying. No one credible would say that people don't deserve to be paid for their work. However, there's a proper way to go about getting that payment. Defacing their website is not the answer. Without even getting into the legalities, do you really want to send the message "I'm a vindictive asshole" to potential clients?
This is not my area of expertise at all, but that sounds backwards.

As I understand it a given number of molecules' bonds can be broken at any point to generate current. In colder ambient temperature the propensity to generate current decreases. However, the quantity does not. In other words, the apparatus for measuring what "charge" is available will incorrectly judge how much is left, but an intelligent system on the other hand may also take into account what the ambient temperature is doing to the sensor of how much current flows given a certain test circuit.

I'd guess that there is not an objective way to measure the charge left. I'd also guess that at a colder temperature it might not have as much power or as much torque, but that it would not affect the range, especially if the battery if artificially (or intrinsically) warmed once it gets toward the "bottom" of its capacity.

What the support people could have been talking about is how to game the system so that the sensors report a more reasonable gauge of the true range. That means that the supposed decrease overnight was not that the potential energy dissipated, but that the colder temperature lead to less accurate readings. Causing a current draw through driving slowly in the parking lot and running the heater might cause the battery to heat up, and thereby affect the current available to a test circuit, something that matters to the sensors' test circuits.

I'd like to hear from someone who actually knows something about electrical engineering, but without being informed on the field, it looks like a failure of imagination in assuming good faith and imaging possible scenarios.

gratuitous analogy:

Let's say it is a fictitious 1975 where Porsche has remote telemetry, and a NYT reviewer is skeptical about oil-cooled engines, because he states that you may run a little low on oil then also be low on coolant or vice versa. In the early morning of a freezing day, he looks at the dipstick. It says he is a three or four quarts low! He calls support, and they tell him that he will have more oil if he warms up the engine, and he'll be able to go for a drive without hurting the engine. (They should have said that he would get a more accurate measurement rather than get more oil) So, he starts the car, revs the engine, drives in circles, etc. Maybe he checks the oil again, maybe not. He takes off, and a couple hours later the engine seizes up. Apparently, it was both looking like it was extremely low on oil and was also actually very low on oil. The telemetry shows the reviewer appearing foolish, and possibly trying to ruin the engine. You could say that he is a professional and should have been able to parse the statements from support more intelligently. Yet they both look bad, but it may not be an inaccurate depiction of what end users would experience.
I've always been puzzled as to where the margins were in this. Any indication now of whether they are profitable or just downing on customer acquisition?
Sorry I've looked it up and it appears I was mistaken about the source of the infamous 1947 crash. The OXCART project did operate out of Area 51 though, and there were a number of crashes and cover ups - they were working on spy planes after all!
A bit of context:

http://success.heroku.com/rapgenius
Can we talk about push notifications?
Videos don't "go viral" anymore and there aren't any "leaks" and there's no "breaking news."

This isn't 2002.
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As someone who's just recently read The Dispossessed, I would be remiss if I did not correct your characterization of it. The lunar society in that book is quite clearly anarcho-syndicalist. Much of the conflict early in the story stems from the syndicate structure of that society.

This should not be confused with Soviet-style centrally planned, state-capitalist, 'Communism' if that's what your acquaintances called it. It should also not be confused with actual communism, i.e. a classless, moneyless, stateless social order.

>Capitalism is inevitable.

Spoken like a true capitalist. Fukuyama would be so proud.

>the farms and kibbutzim themselves are still participants in a larger capitalist system

If the revolutionaries had their way, they wouldn't have to be.
>PS. IMO there is not much reason to worry. Python has so many friends. Google should buy the company and close it.

I think they should go to court. I somehow miss the SCO guy and his suitcase.
Is it safe to assume that if I'm a paying customer I don't have to worry about ads / promoted discovery showing up on my site, or is it on (opt-out) by default?
Team Fortress 2 is released for Linux
There were jokes made in that thread, but can you point to any of Peter Kasting's actual comments that would qualify as immature and childish? I only know Peter's work on chrome/webkit bug reports and occasional sites where "pkasting" shows up (he has a single comment as an hn user), but I've only known him to be communicative and supportive, and this is more than a small overreaction to paint him like this when all his post amounts to is "this doesn't sound right. anyone know more?" and his additional comments are specific and not emotionally charged. Hopefully the irony in your post isn't lost on you.

As for the patent, it doesn't seem all that chromeos specific, actually. For instance, the claims are very focused on an OS that is or can be stored server-side, with the client fetching an image from the server (that includes the user's preferences?) on startup and dumping it again at shutdown. The patent process tends to make ideas more generic as they are recorded, but even a generous interpretation of this doesn't really cover chromeos or the OS he described in the blog post (at least the part he most emphasized, the idea of keeping everything in RAM). ChromeOS doesn't get OS updates that differently than other operating systems (and certainly not as new images every time it connects to the update server), and the preferences sync system stands totally separate from the rest. This doesn't invalidate the blog post, but I don't really think the patent backs up the specific claim of "inventing chromebook".
It's quite possible to derive that he was at the rest station in Milford simply by looking at the graphs. There is another possible explanation as well, in that Tesla specifically tracks more data for media drives.
Don't worry, I'm sure Musk has the phone calls recorded as well. We'll hear soon.
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Orlando is in Florida, but I wouldn't call it "Florida". ;)

That's like Austin is in Texas, but it ain't "Texas".
I also have read about people being charged/sued over this but Google hasn't helped me remember the case. It was a delivery company from memory.

But in general if you are putting things into the product outside of the contract you must see how this as a legal issue?

Also see why no Easter Eggs -http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/10/21/483...
Aha, that's what I was missing. I didn't realize from the app description that it was a randomized message, and I thought it was one device's user sending a message to the other.
Here's what the data says - Elon Musk is generating a ton of hype by calling these guys out. Right or wrong it's a savvy move.
"Ohioans got the auto bailout"

And Michigan? I think it borders on conspiracy theory to suggest that, on the precipice of a large depression, no bailout would have been issued to save a 3 million job industry had those jobs been centered in red states.

"family farmers in all the deep red states"

There are no family farmers anymore. Let me rephrase that, there are almost no family farmers anymore. This has nothing to do with them being from red states (trust me, farmers in Hawaii get screwed by Monsanto just like everywhere else) and everything to do with there not being many of them.
"3. Serial numbers that have leading 0's" and "9. The Jet database driver's "type guess rows" registry entry."

One word: UPC

I still have nightmares....
Yes, because his actions are most consistent with someone seeking the lowest quality advice available to them. Despite having multiple sources of information for both the estimated range, as well as the nearest charging stations, he happened to not only choose the least reasonable, but the one with the worst outcome.
Ask HN: How do you start a startup?
I've seen a lot of writing on HN about how to manage and make startups and succeed, and lots of writing about minimum viable product, but nothing about the legal aspects of startups.

I know its more than just registering an LLC and selling a product, otherwise everyone would be doing it and the kind of people who get HN love is a select crowd.

Are there any tips or tricks that I should know about? Also, how do LLCs accept investment funding? Is there anything required in an LLC's articles/operating agreement for this? How do you negotiate investment contracts fairly?

I know a lot of you will say "talk to a lawyer", but I'd like to know what I'm getting into before I do; also, how does someone shop for a lawyer?
Musk is a business man and is concerned about marketing as much as anyone else. Here are his comments aimed toward the Volt:

"Yet the state of the electric car is dismal, the victim of hyped expectations, technological flops, high costs and a hostile political climate.”

Not exactly and objective view, or totally fair.
Opera is (was?) pretty good about supporting all the latest cool toys. Demos/PoC's normally worked well, productionalized products not so much.
Actually a far bigger issue is that the electoral college amplifies the leanings of states that are well balanced. That's why your vote is worth far more if you live in a state like florida or ohio than if you live in new york or texas.
My summary:

1) We need more EV infrastructure, a point that seems to be getting lost and that I think should have been the thesis of the original article.

2) Broder was irresponsible for not taking seriously enough what the car was telling him and trusting too much the judgment of people 3,000 miles away.

3) Musk is on the defensive and perhaps overreacting because he feels he's doing good in the world and has produced a solid product that is now being unjustly (he feels) attacked.

4) External factors affect mileage, no matter what kind of car you're driving.

5) The attention this spat is receiving suggests to me people understand we can do a much smarter, better job of hauling our asses around.
Well, at least the farmer didn't just shoot him and invoke the castle doctrine.
And why would they want to be?

I've worked with a lot of farmers on cutting edge R&D tech, in their experience the internet is just another point of failure that's more than likely to "down" at exactly the time you need it most. It follows that relying on anything that relies on internet access is lunacy, the same attitude that results in farms having on site power generation, on site water tanks, on site fuel & gas tanks, etc.

Now, a system that functions standalone and can get by with occasional internet access ... now you're talking.
I agree, that's the key to the whole thing right there. It says to me that, if I had to guess, I'd bet he didn't call them and headed out despite the range being short, because he knew he was about to be stranded and have a tantalizing story. And when asked, he could always say he followed their recommendations to the letter.

Also, the amount of weasel words he manages to use on a lot of his other explanations doesn't exactly help his credibility...
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just fired up the Ubuntu Software Center and searched... i can't install it.

it show a button "buy..." instead of "install" and it's disabled.
That second one, from a basic analysis... it isn't really much different to a helicopter in its principle, given the size and spacing of the outer turbine blades. An obvious concern given the similarities to a helicopter is how well can something with a rotor the same size and an even larger jet engine stay in the air if it has a smaller fuel tank?

As for the design they actually constructed, it seems like it would be a lot more feasible with modern technology. It's not clear to me that there's any actual advantage to building a flying saucer though, other than novelty.
Thanks very much! I'll definitely look into these.
Can't say I'd call starting out on a 61 mile journey with 32 miles of charge reasonable.
Hosted mongo/celery/other infrastructure.

I want to write code, not maintain services
Am I the only one annoyed by the whole A player, B player, C player mini-meme?

It's really, really hard to tell the difference between an A player and a B player unless you've worked with them or have known them a long-time. Even then, their contribution can be highly distorted by situation, perception, and personal bias (e.g. Moneyball).

So the advice only works in those few situations where you know someone is a B-player... in which case the advice really reduces down to the obvious: don't hire shitty people.
The Tesla in-car dash only shows Superchargers, not regular chargers.
Nice article, the bit about casting is pretty spot on. If you want to make a number of things currently casting is a lot more efficient. Which is not to say you can't 3D print an exemplar, use that to make a mold, and then cast copies, very doable, But just that then you're making parts with casting resin not 3D printing.

I really like my Replicator but have yet to do anything significant with it (which makes me sad, so many projects so little time).

I can say this though as more of this stuff gets going (see the article I submitted on printing in metal (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5220032)) the difference between the RepRap and the Cupcake printer, the Cupcake and the Replicator, things are progressing along nicely. People joked about my my 2K of RAM in my Digital Group z80 system but 10 years after that point in time enterprise business was using PC's in their day to day operations.

Guess I'm mostly saying "Patience, its coming along nicely."
Bose sues iHome manufacturer over iPhone docking patent
Ferris wheels make me so happy. In related news, I think I shall watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off with My Beloved Husband today.
One thing I just noticed is that the native app uses a LOT less memory than the AIR client: 43 MB native vs 100-150 MB air. It definitely feels snappier too, from startup time to normal usage. Even with the limitations (no local Find functionality?!) I'm still very happy with this beta. I'm sure they will continue to improve.
ubuntu is trying to not be 'just another linux'. sadly they are using a lot of lock-in tactics similar to Sony since the 80's or apple more recently.

that said, they are the distro with the best live-usb installer by far.
I do like the game :)

The overall diameter of the wheel is determined by the diameter of the rim + 2 times the thickness of the tire(!). Cars with larger rims usually have far thinner tires on them so the overall diameter stays almost the same. Whatever the case, the speedometer will need to be checked and adjusted. Human error in this case can swing either way.
Using an IPS to identify users accessing information inconsistent with their role in the organization is better than doing nothing, I guess, by why did those credentials access network shares or databases the intended user wasn't supposed to access in the first place?

If their detection system is useful at all, then the principle of least privilege is definitely not being followed.
>> Good thing Musk is willing to "stand up to them" given that he's the truly unbiased one in this situation, right?

Fair enough, but let's not pretend that now that this reporter is in the spot light for possibly fabricating a story, his career isn't on the line. He (also) has every incentive to be extremely unbiased in his own defense.
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It could just be a joke, for all we know. People screw up Wikipedia for humor as well.

My reasoning is that he wants to add a big achievement to his credentials and he's using the Chrome OS fiasco as leverage. He's trying everything to get recognized, even illegitimate means (such as defacing Wikipedia).

Why he posted that on the Star Wars page, I haven't the slightest clue. But it's safe to say he does want to get recognized. Some people are egoistical (speaking hypothetically here) and even if they've failed at something, they want to get recognized for it regardless of others who may even have contributed exponentially more to a project. It's a form of psychological catharsis for failure. It's happened to me before.