skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moreover the normal (gas) cars have the same behavior. ...
You get the best mpg at a constant speed of ~50mph

This isn't true of EVs.

The engine in a gasoline powered cars are around 15 to 25 percent efficient, and the hotter you put them, the more efficient they are.

However, air resistance increases as speed increases.

The peak efficiency depends on a few things, but most cars you'll find it around 40-60 mph.

EVs don't have engines, they have motors. They are about 90% efficient, regardless of your speed.

But they have the same air resistance issues.

So EVs really do perform better at lower speeds. Even the Prius will show better city mileage than highway mileage, and that's only with a little bit of battery+motor.
You can be the product whether you pay or not, and you can not pay and still not be the product (e.g. Wikipedia).

It's a thought-terminating cliché.
> you can stop using their service if you dont like it.

I just did.

> I dont understand this sense of entitlement regarding free services.

This free service just made it look as if I endorse a bunch of companies and decided to change my site from non-commercial to commercial. That's my prerogative.

> And it is not like disqus did not warn its users , they did. Dont like it ? use something else.

They may have warned, I definitely did not receive it, they changed the terms of service post the part where I signed up and defaulted me to behaviour under the new terms of service. That is 'bait-and-switch'.

> then stop using that service , what's the big deal ? did you pay for it ? no. So there is no binding contract between them and you.

Actually, their terms of service bind me and them, sure they can change the terms but those are not the terms that I agreed to when I signed up and I don't go around checking the terms of service every 3 days to see if someone is up to something sneaky.

Whether I paid for it or not is not material.
Here's the curl command that allows you to send funds to anyone's US-based bank account in one business day:

curl https://api.balancedpayments.com/v1/credits \
-d amount=10000 \
-d description="Math lesson" \
-d bank_account[name]="Johann Bernoulli" \
-d bank_account[account_number]=9900000001 \
-d bank_account[routing_number]=121000358 \
-d bank_account[type]=checking \
-u 7b7a51ccb10c11e19c0a026ba7e239a9:
Read it again: even with that ridiculous path it doesn't add up to 0.6 miles. Emphasis on ridiculous. The path drawn in red is "circling", it even goes through the McDonalds drive-through lanes and against the flow at the end.

You'd have to do it on purpose - or be really, really, comically stupid, which would be kind of surprising for a NYT reporter.

Look at the map you just posted in satellite view: http://cl.ly/image/233B400Z2T3w
That has nothing to do with anything. The point is that he appears to highlight the positive effects of oil drilling but not the negative effects (environmental degradation, etc.).
weren't some of the security holes found in the json & yaml libraries? Those weren't rails specific and could have just as easily happened in a Sinatra-like framework too.
Cool!! XD
Thats the tradeoff you have to deal with if you want to use a free service.
The real problem is the tech world's lack of an ability/strategy to come up with a sustainable revenue generating business model before hooking (crack-like) millions of users to their service.

Users get used to these free world-class services and when the companies inevitably have to come up with a way to stop flushing investor money down the toilet, users bristle at this.

The bigger problem is this, in a world of free services, how is a service with a sustainable business model supposed to compete? As a user I'd rather use them, but they simply can't exist in this kind of artificially created economic ecosystem (steel dumping comes to mind).

I'd say "buyer beware" but we're not exactly the buyer here are we?
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Why Apple Is Working on an iWatch and Not iGlasses
Based upon this list I might be a member of this future counter-culture. I fit 5 out of the 7 criteria, although I wouldn't characterise myself as being anti-technology.
DevOps is a very real concept. I think it started with small teams in small companies and has spread via agile development methodolgies into larger businesses. One of my developers once described a good developer as a swiss army knife of IT skills. I think that is very true.
I think Clayton Christensen covers this well when he discusses empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovation.

The following for a brief introduction http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765617333/The-new-church-...
And my terms of service read 'and if you change your terms of service in a way that I don't like I will disable your plug-in and I'll bitch about it'.
Two ideas: (1) Find a partner for each side project, or at least 1 target user (real person you know) you commit to serving by a hard date. It's an uphill battle to maintain accountability without another human. (2) I draw a box on my whiteboard and write in it the essence of the project and only the 2-3 deliverables essential to achieving it. When I take on a new activity, I challenge myself as to whether it goes in the box or represents a branch from it. Forces me to visually acknowledge how I am spending my time (and thus define and stay to the essence of the project).
The data doesn't show a significant loss of charge when he was in NYC, though(which, I believe, is around the 250 mile mark). His speed is all over the place, which would be consistent with stop and go city driving, but there isn't any significant drop in range or battery charge.

So the 2 mile detour didn't appear to do anything except add 2 miles to the total distance. As far as the data shows, highway driving is actually not more efficient than stop and go traffic.
I don't understand why people scream bloody murder when businesses attempt to make money off of something they give away for free.

Of course they have to run ads.

And while it's bit of a grey area to display ads as "recommended content"...Disqus hardly invented this practice. And based on the design and colour scheme, it's fairly obvious that the "recommended content" links are part of the Disqus widget (and generated, provided by Disqus).

On second thought, I can imagine the average user is not savvy enough to make see this distinction. But I honestly don't care. If you hate ads so much, open up your wallet and pay the "true" cost of your free lunch.
I'm somewhat confused. I'm not into the whole webdevelopment thing, but what is so terrible about all browsers sharing a common implementation of at least the basic features that pertain to the alignment, orientation and sizing etc. of elements on a page?

Browsers can still differentiate themselves through a faster JS interpreter or new fancy teleconferencing APIs all they want.
Bad from an environmental perspective: Mail delivery uses a fraction of the carbon of driving to the store.
magic is just a shorthand for "code executed automatically, behind the scenes, based on some reasonable assumptions". Rails does a whole lot of this type of magic, as does basically every framework.
There isn't really a big difference between a 'custom response' and any other kind - the reason you think so is because, generally, custom responses are handled by a slow scripting language with 'heavy' initial setup, while, non-custom is handled by the native web container code (apache, etc).

In this case, you're doing everything native, so custom response == normal response.

This isn't something specific to Go either, you'd get the same using C code, delphi, or almost the same using Java (Java being not quite the same in practice, as most Java devs will use a heavyweight container such as Tomcat).
Not that this is anything new. The government has granted a duopoly in almost all markets for cable/ internet services, and local governments are being sued for attempting to bring in their own networks.

As much as it sucks, money is power.
Rather than continue the debate, you're happy to start slinging the insults and call me a crazy zealot. I'm out.
Your complaint doesn't make any sense.

How much a person will pay for something determines its "value" to them. If a person will pay $10 for a bottle of ketchup, then it doesn't matter what the production cost was, the value they received was at least $10.
another friend had a similar complaint: graphics and how there isn't a fan.

these are not the things to focus on. add some hard drive space, better graphics, and a fan, and whatever else "stands in their way", and they could kill it. all of that's implied.
I came here to say the same thing. It seems to have the same functionality except your users have to signup either on your site or through some oauth I believe.
Instead of trying to fix the key system, or implement extra methods of authentication, they decided to distrust authenticated users if their accounts were acting suspiciously.
That's a shame, it was interesting.
How to say "I love you" in 100 languages
Google hits back against BT with patent lawsuits
Reminds me of an article I read (maybe here) that described how doctors are less likely to pursue aggressive treatments for themselves when faced with late term cancer or similar diseases.
How does the wording suggest that? All it implies is that an image identifier is maintained, and once viewed, it's marked as stale and never served again.
At least as far as I'm concerned, it's that that implementation is (a) written in a very unsafe language (C++); (b) is not particularly amenable to multicore CPUs without major rewriting.
JavaScript Cloud
Python bindings for the Model S REST API
>>> import pytesla
>>> mycar = pytesla.Connection('myemail', 'mypassword').vehicle('myvin')
>>> mycar.honk_horn()
True
The Challenges of In-App Mobile Affiliate Marketing
I'm very happy to see this. We've still been paying out a lot to our artists by ach by hand and it's miserable. There are apis out there provided by banks but they're god awful and require a lot of hand holding to set up. I'll be using this immediately.
Tech Insight: New CA Group Has Big Names, Small Impact
If you're not the customer you're the product. There's no longer any excuse to think otherwise.
There's Nothing Pink About Interviews at Etsy
What is NoSQL and is it pornography?
Adobe CEO Epic Fail In Answering Basic Questions (Vid)
I didn't post it to taunt you, I posted it as a response to the GP. I think that your point about the meme still stands fine, regardless of having to throw out some services that misuse your trust.

That said, I think you're overreacting. Fair enough that you feel screwed by Discus, but making the leap that you can never have any third party javascript because they might screw you in the future is a bit much, I think. At some point you'll have to trust someone.
I suspect people are downvoting you because they understand the saying perfectly, it's just so overused these days that it's to the point of cliche. I don't think anyone doesn't know this, the more interesting conversation is when we talk about what that means to us and what we do about it.
You can also not be the product as a free user (like on Weebly). The above quote implies that as a free user, you are always the product, and that's just not true.
Thanks. It's pretty cathartic to talk about it. I haven't thought much about it in a long time. I skipped a lot of the details around CarWoo! too...at some point we will get around to posting that.
Even if that's true, solving an environmental problem by applying different sales tax depending on how you buy something is wacky and undoubtedly fraught with inaccuracies and unintended consequences. A much better and more direct solution for the externality of carbon emissions is a carbon tax.
A great idea. Can you paste your list here? I'd like to add it to my hosts file.
Use case: when you don't want your email hanging around on the other guys server. Ex. sending credit card information to a hotel. You want them to get it, ie. you trust them enough, but you can't trust their email security for the next 4 years.

Think how someone like General Patreaus could have benefited! He trusted Broadwell (perhaps his main mistake), but unfortunately for him the email hung around long enough for the FBI. :))

Also, docs say email is destroyed as soon at is read. No 7 days (couldn't find that).
Well the alternative is to make it yourself. If there's no one else selling it for what you perceive the value to be, then you have to do it. The question is, how much will it cost you to make ketchup yourself, in both dollars and in time? And then ask yourself is it worth the time and money to make it yourself, or do you get more value from buying it at the store?

For 99% of consumers, $2 is a value because it's less expensive than making it themselves. It doesn't matter how much it cost Heinz to make.
I figured the artist just wanted to get in a dig at Chicago.
In order to display a non-fluctuating distance remaining number, Tesla would essentially have to either predict the future or vastly under-report the real number. The car doesn't know whether you are stopping for 5 minutes in 20 degree weather or 10 hours, and UX would be even stranger would it attempt to guess for you. It looks like they already under-report to some degree, but under-reporting by 1/2 the remaining distance would seem to me to be much less ideal than the current solution, which is to adapt the number to conditions currently observed.
>You'd have to do it on purpose - or be really, really, comically stupid, which would be kind of surprising for a NYT reporter.

Or just want a soda.
Interestingly, the work for engineering and manufacturing was billed out at a whopping $6 an hour: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/V...
Definitely love pelican as well. I've generated http://mahmoudimus.com/blog with it and it's just fantastic.

Plus, I can use ReST -- a lot of the other static site generators just focus on Markdown. If you use python, ReST is your bread and butter.
If he knew Tesla would have access to his driving logs (does anyone know?), I'd be very surprised if he was straight up lying.
Limiting technology to refer only to things not built on top of other technology is defining the term too narrowly.

Facebook is a tool designed and built to solve a set of problems. If that is not technology in a core sense, I don't know what is.
I, for one, get what you mean by "value".

Pedantics are not making a distinction between price and value.

To illustrate: how many eggs would you barter for a bottle of ketchup? Barter, as in there is no price signal.
> Musk didn't explain the biggest issue here, which was the drop in mileage overnight.

Sure he did, in the manual and in the instructions given to the driver -- when you stop overnight, plug it in.
For better or worse, every startup has an open plan office like this. The new breed of 22 year old software engineers do not appear to be negatively affected. Joel and Peopleware need to do a re-assessment using younger people who grew up with 24/7 internet.
I'm not sure if I'd be unhappy about paying sales tax on Amazon purchases if it meant free same-day shipping as a Prime member (or free next-day shipping for non-Prime), which is what I recall they're looking at switching to once their network of warehouses is ready.
Late in the war to solve the trench impasse the German's developed infiltration tactics which were winning the war (loss was due to blockades starving people). These tactics led to blitzkrieg which led to modern maneuver warfare.
"I wouldn’t have been able to have the conversation with Max that prompted this discussion if he hadn’t seen my Facebook status and chatted with me after noticing I was online."

Communication is not Facebook. Non-Facebook users have an equal interpersonal experience to that of a user. It is frustrating to see how much of the online English speaking world feels locked into Facebook. No one is locked in. We are free to spend our time seeking satisfaction any way we like, and it is nearly always more efficient to communicate using other tools.
I think you've misunderstood, and that you're actually in agreement with Aloha.

Aloha's statement is that even in the window from 10 Sept. 2001 to 10 years forward, worldwide air travel-based fatalities due to non-terrorist events is higher than due to terrorism.

In other words, even massaging the numbers to include the worst case, Aloha's statement "its statistically less likely to die from terrorism then it is from a normal plane crash" is true.

My own research shows that if the window is 3 years wide or wider then there's no way for Aloha's statement to be false. Further, I showed that even if restricted to the US commercial aviation, that statement is true if you talk about the last 40 years. (Include general aviation and it's about a 5-6 year window.)
Interesting, after it blew up I could swear I'd read that one of the arguments the TG legal team used was "It's all done for entertainment, the situations we place cars are in are completely unrealistic".
Unless you're doing it evade reporting requirements.

Taking out 100k in currency within a year will look very suspicious -- financial institutions run regular look-back reports designed to find this kind of thing.

Were a bank officer to ask, I don't think there's any problem with telling the truth, "I'm stockpiling currency, and am contributing to this stockpile on a regular basis to coincide with income."
So one circle would do it like, say, if he missed the first right turn and continued straight?
The direct impetus for this column is IBM’s internal plan to grow
earnings-per-share (EPS) to $20 by 2015. The primary method for
accomplishing this feat, according to the plan, will be by reducing
US employee head count by 78 percent in that time frame. [1]

I work a lot with software platform teams @ IBM and they are absolutely swamped because of a shrinking workforce. Their technology is a decade behind and there is no sign of anything improving. When we've engaged their support team for software and hardware issues, the outsourced engineer barely knows how to operate in TSO/MVS. It's horrible all around.

[1] http://www.cringely.com/2012/04/not-your-fathers-IBM/
Currently in their TOS under 'Advertisements':

You agree that Disqus may include advertisements and/or content provided by Disqus and/or a third party (collectively “Ads”) as part of the implementation of the Service.

Now I don't know if this language was there before the change you are speaking of, but if it wasn't I'm sure included in their TOS was that you agree to them being able to amend their TOS at any time to include something like this.
See also: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-09-01-Iran-forged-the-w...
Sure, there were external forces at play. There always are. That doesn't negate the fact that they made their own decisions on where to take their society and those decisions were poor ones. As a counter example, I'd say that those who fled or chose to fight the Communist forces made good decisions, at least at a societal level.

Let's put it this way. If the Koreans who fought for Communism in the Korean War could see the situation today. If they could see the thriving success of South Korea vs the tyrannical poverty of North Korea.

Do you think they would change their decisions made during the war? Do you think they'd fight against Communism? I think a lot of them would. They had a chance to do something. They had a chance to battle their leaders and those external forces before the door shut on their ability to do much of anything. Now it's mostly too late. A system has been set up that takes all choice from them.
>"But going from that to "absolutely terrible" reads as pretty hyperbolic, and I think that's what you're getting from "people"."

Maybe terrible is overstated. But if we're talking about average Joe making a commute between NY and Boston, how does the Tesla make any sense whatsoever? Between the low recommended speeds and charge times, you're looking at increasing the length of the trip by 50%, no? There's a huge loss in efficiency there. We're not even talking about the overnight loss of power, or the discomfort associated with guidelines on cabin temperature and gadgets.

I think it's pretty clear that the EV is still sort of niche. It's a grocery-getter/weekend driver. Definately a nice one, probably a fun one. But they have a ways to go.
You can look at it as a map of population density. Each state contains the same amount of people.

I think it's fairly interesting and nicely shows that most of the US is practically empty.
No, you're thinking of contrapositive. Converses are not equivalent. In this case, contrapositive would be "if you're not the product, then you are paying for it."
Using a flip phone, not watching television, reading paper documents, or taking photos in 35mm is not anti-technology, it's using old technology.

It's quite possible that smart phones, televisions, and kindles don't make your life any better. But MRI machines, efficient vehicles, green energy, plastic money, RFID toll booths, the GPS satellite constellation, and the internet probably do. Being anti technology means that you resist things that would improve your life for no other reason than that they are new. It's fine to use old things, as long as you keep an open mind.
Excellent job. I love seeing people step out of their comfort zone. :D
You can't act like you didn't see this coming.

This isn't 1998, where you can tell people that your product is going to be free forever and expect them to believe you.

ICQ pioneered this bait and switch tactic back in the mid 90s: You tell people your product is free as in hippy love for all eternity, then once they've become dependent on your product and can't go about their day without it you trollface.jpg.
I hadn't seen the TOS back whenever he registered, but I would be quite surprised if the TOS didn't give the service the right to choose the content it would deliver to those who use its service. In fact, if it didn't, they should fire whoever is running their legal department.

Perhaps you're confused to the purpose of a TOS. It is not a business plan where the company outlines their feature roadmap.
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I still don't see how this is the "trouble with ORMs". I haven't had any trouble with this, and we have a highly-relational, yet complex graph structure.

As a tool, it seems to work extremely well, despite academic objections to it.
and using the name Ogallala.......
I am considering moving from Jekyll to Pelical just because is python.
The Too Often Overlooked Aspect of App Development: Privacy
Do you know the original names of these tech companies?
To hazard a guess, removal of bulk purchasing rights? Force them to buy sealed bottles at retail pricing.
Apparently he was driving in circles looking for the charging station, which was difficult to see in a dark parking lot:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/02/elon-musk-new-y...

We'll just have to wait for this "detailed rebuttal" for more information. This is extremely entertaining.
I'm sure this is more a question about S3 than the gem itself, but can you provide any info about security risks, who can upload, where they can upload to, etc.? e.g.: what's to stop someone from uploading a ton of files to your bucket if they have direct access to it?
> "When I was younger dad would take us out for fish and chips. We'd walk along the canal and feed the ducks, even in the rain. Then I'd unwrap the bag, with the steam rising, and squirt on a dollop of ketchup. And, like always, it has to be Heinz."

Reminds me a great scene from Mad Men http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus
Did we not just read yesterday about a highly paid writer risking his livelihood by making up Dylan quotes? Clearly, it happens.

I know it's mentally exhausting, but when reading anything you have to ask, "what does the author want to be true?" Musk quoted Broder's earlier article:

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

so I think we know what it is that Broder wants to be true.