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I think something like web-based SVG editor is pushing browser limits too far (some folks reported it crashed Chrome for them). CSS is not "just styling" here. It has functional meaning. For example invalid z-ordering, visibility or cursors can pretty much ruin the experience.
I really tried to be as clear as possible regarding the contents of the link, not sure how I could have made it clearer... maybe if I wrote "goatse/parody" instead of "goatse parody"? I think it's definitely relevant considering the technology behind it and the comic it's lampooning.
No, I specifically mean "cached phrases": http://lesswrong.com/lw/749/cached_phrases/
Until the logs are released to the public, it is a case of "he said, she said."
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True, but we don't ask the customer/user to actually build the software.
The site in question, UnCollege: http://www.uncollege.org/

Three of the top four headlines have the word 'hack' in their name.

His bio reads:

"He founded UnCollege in January 2011 because we are paying too much for university and learning too little."

Ugh.
Oh, blast it all! They've learned that my agent 1PvJ8Ncwk9KQjGEDti8uBFpDR1gLgZ8QYn gave 0.92 BTC to 1Nhaw787YjYMjGCzCc9H6jsrxiWFCGzJfK! Now it's only hours until our whole operation is unraveled!
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What if Apple Were to Return to Conferences Like Macworld?
I went to Mavs vs. Trail Blazers last Wednesday and only received a simple wanding after removing items from my pocket. I don't know anyone who is deterred by the police presence.
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Either way, the core idea seems sound IMO.
This is a valuable lesson for all startups. Tesla's in a dust up around a use case that they don't really need to address for a while longer and can still be very successful. Imagine how many people today fall into the category of i) Being able to afford this car ii) Owning only this car vs having a gasoline car and iii) Caring about traveling such long distances in the extreme cold?

Some, for sure, but not many and not enough to dampen demand. The majority of electric car owners aren't going to undertake this trip at all (vs fly) or would use a second car to do so. Better to have said "We're still 18 months away from having enough charging stations and batter life to tackle this type of trip" and shrugging as you cash checks from people who'll do a 13 mile commute on the 101 or 95.
This will probably be the first to be targeted, under money laundering laws.
> they may be calling those things difficult when comparing them to using an installation wizard

The Windows MSI package and the OS X .dmg have wizards.
If you read the article carefully you'll see that the author is sort of trying to weasel his way out of a bind.

From what I can tell the author 1) only partially charged the battery 2) didn't plug it in overnight 3) pushed the car to it's limit for a bit 4) took a detour through the city

Probably through the combination of all those factors he essentially sabotaged the test and then wrote a damaging review in the New York Times.

I also understand the author in that he was 'just pretending to be your average Joe' but given that this is a special car that needs to be handled with special care that comparison just doesn't hold up.

edit: Could whomever is downvoting these comments please explain me what part of this is not constructive discussion?
I'd suggest that your problem might not so much be the tool itself, but the wrong tool for what you want.

I'd be interested to see what "normal" CSS/HTML you would use to achieve a fluid, responsive grid in a relatively cross-browser fashion, that maintained all of this semantic magic. As much as the "content/layout separation" ideal is lauded, it's pretty difficult to achieve in reality - and just because something is in HTML, I don't believe that makes it "content".

Addressing your two examples: first, you shouldn't have to rewrite "all" of your HTML to add a banner to the top of the page. There aren't any "row1", "row2" etc classes in Bootstrap. If that was a requirement, I think someone's done something funky with your layout.

Second, part of the appeal of Bootstrap is that it changes the global defaults of HTML elements. Such resets are commonplace and give you a consistent look and feel across browsers. If you're looking to "undo" Bootstrap's styles, then you probably shouldn't be using it in the first place.
Your battery is for some reason low on energy. You must charge it or call a tow truck. There's no tech that will charge your battery faster than replacing it.
Say you buy the phone for $650, and then sign up for service at $80/month or whatever AT&T charges.

Meanwhile, your friend Susan buys $200 for the phone, and signs up for the same service at the same $80/month.

The only difference is that she promised to pay a fee if she decides to switch carriers in the next two years.

Do you still think the phone is really priced at $650? To me, it seems like some fairly trivial market segmentation. The phone's regular price is $200, but they're making some extra money from people who place an abnormally high value on being able to switch providers on a whim.
> And consider the consequences if Musk reported something different than the records show -- and Musk knows this. Why would he knowingly sabotage his own company?

Wouldn't a privileged DBA be able to make the data look like just about anything? Also, the location logging system as a whole isn't necessarily infallible.
I agree it has some great upsides. I love the idea of localization, and version control is nice to easily revert changes, etc. Having a scalable comic that can change text on the fly is something that I've been hoping for for a long time.

But I think you're strongest element is the WYSIWYG editor, as most people aren't going to be coding from only the HTML view (unless they know what pose="-11,9|-5,117|-11,99" will look like in their heads). But the WYSIWIG interface is still pretty anemic, meaning I'm going to run into roadblocks faster (such as -- how do I create something like a tree? How can I add a hat to the man?).
EDIT: I misinterpreted what you said. Yes, I do think it's freaky now that you put it that way. However it's not the act of making transactions over $10,000 that's illegal, it just brings increased scrutiny on you. IANAL though, and I don't know how they can determine that your transactions shouldn't be "just under the limit" that they decided arbitrarily was the amount that they should watch for.

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That's not what I thought was freaky. It's that it's actually called 'smurfing.'

You can't disagree that money laundering is a nebulous term! My understanding is that if you're not doing anything illegal in the first place, then it's not illegal, or money laundering, to attempt to remain anonymous and make your transactions anonymous, however, if you are attempting to make your money less traceable because you want to cover up your illegal activities (say tax evasion), then it's an extra charge for the district attorney to get you with.

Have you ever heard of being charged with conspiracy after the fact, when you've already been exonerated of the charge that you supposedly conspired to commit? It happens.
Tim Cook on Innovation, Retail and Whether We’ll See a Cheap iPhone
If you read the blog post, at the end he decides to call, and does reach a person, who helps by getting his purchase refunded. It is not clear why he waited so long to call Google Support.
Those are a great set of links. I'm not a web designer but I do appreciate good design/UX when I see it. These links will help a lot with inspiration for learning.

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he did add some gratuitous miles

Two miles is "gratuitous"? That's a rounding error, even on my bicycle!

and he exceeded the speed limit as Musk claimed

Does Tesla expect drivers to adhere to posted speed limits even when prevailing speeds are much higher (as they are on I-95)?

edit: CamperBob2 wrote "Apparently the reporter was averaging 81 MPH, going by an earlier comment."

As far as I can tell, that figure is based on a Reddit post from yesterday (http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/18c15x/tesla_ceo...) which in turn is assuming that the times and mileage on the travel map were exact. It could be. But then again, those times could be estimates (note that 7 out of 9 time stamps appear rounded to the nearest 5 minute mark). I guess we'll know when Tesla releases the logs.
I apologize for posting "This.", but I must: Customer support is by far the most commonly criticized facet of Google. It is very widely known to be a debacle, and the truth is that many of us refuse to recommend that less tolerant people do anything with Google that demands customer service (I have never recommended anyone buy devices from the Google Play store after my own debacles with their system).
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facebook chat stop working, new feature or a person pressed wrong key?! :)
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update: after about half hour chat start working again.
They probably expected to get more mileage out of it than they ended up with.
That makes more sense. I disagree with the general principle of defining javascript actions by using properties like "form-submitter" or "validate()". I think that there is more than enough room in html5 to define an entire application without writing attributes specifically for binding, but that's the point of Angular- being able to easily bind to a view, which you can't do easily otherwise.

Thanks for the explanation! That helped shed some light.
I can't help but doubt that you have spoken to all the drivers.
Why do I also get a Windows Media Player extension warning? Surely, JS + CSS doesn't need WMP help?
Well, in fairness, my Prius lists the City/Hwy mileage as 60/53. In reality, it's more like 40/52. There certainly seems to be some disconnect between the EPA calculations for city driving and actual reality.
Do we have good data on this, that no one who set out on their first long distance drive on the east coast in cold weather came up short in power between stations? A quick search of their forums turned up at least anecdotal evidence of owners running out of juice in their Tesla Roadsters.
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On the other hand, eBay insist you call them and won't rpovide an email address. So tough luck if you want to keep a written record of your communications.
Yes, he has the logs. So lets see them. This has now been going on for longer than the drive itself. How much time do they need to review the logs ?
Does the downloads number include people who pulled it out of the Ubuntu repo? People who got it preinstalled with their distro? What about people upgrading from one version to the next?
Interesting, the manual says: "Tesla strongly recommends leaving Model S plugged in when not in use" and "The most important way to preserve the Battery is to LEAVE YOUR MODEL S PLUGGED IN when you’re not using it" and "Tesla recommends charging Model S each night or when convenient to maintain optimum driving range and battery health. If you go on vacation, plug in your Model S before you leave."*

But this also doesn't say that you can expect to lose 65 mile range in the cold if it's not plugged in. This is very good information to know and not at all what's implied by the link you provide, but it would have been good if the article had discussed all this in full context.

* http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachme...
Case in point: Cowboys are worth as much as the Yankees, and are worth more than the Patriots and NY Giants.

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-valuable-sports-teams-ma...
That might be feasible if you had ten people using it with 100 addresses (where you know one of the public keys of each of them). The problem difficulty almost certainly scales up too quickly to work with a thousand people and a million addresses.
My node in London DC has 2 years uptime.
How is that a fatal flaw (or a flaw at all). By clicking on all of your friends, you are signalling that you want to have sex with any/all of your friends. At this point, if any of your friends signal a want to have sex with you, the service will see that two people want to have sex with each other and tell them.

If you clicked through all of your friends to see which ones clicked on you (even if you do not want to have sex with them), then you simply lied. People who lie this way will inconvience those who the service paired them with once, after which point none of his friends would click on him again because they do not trust his genuine use of the system. This leaves you with the people using the service as intended.
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Well compare oranges to oranges then. Nexus 4 is $50 on contract on T-Mobile, and is definitely cheaper than iPhone 5 on any of the three networks.

Also, no law dictates that you have to sign a contract to get cell service in America. One can as well choose from few of the cheaper prepaid services.
The premise is predictably arrogant and self-serving. It simply means that YOU lack the intellectual capacity, emotional intelligence, and command of language to produce a coherent explanation for that person. IOW - it's YOUR failure, NOT THEIR'S.
Don't you know that HN is srsbusiness.
My long comment includes stuff on rote learning.

Basically, rote learning is undervalued by a lot of education experts. It's a great foundation for higher-order learning. The problem is, when you learn by rote you don't really learn why. It's a good hack to build a foundation, but it isn't worth much by itself.

If No Child was getting kids up to a baseline, which created a foundation for later learning, it would be OK. They'd be able to read, write, and do arithmetic, which would let them tackle the big questions later on. Unfortunately, it's just a stepping stone for more rote learning. Most of them are never going to learn to use their knowledge in a flexible way (solving difficult unseen problems with it), they are just going to memorise the basic steps required to pass the test.

It's like trying to build a house out of nothing but a foundation.
The problem is not its size but the lack of easily replacing it at the charging station with a fully charged one. Also you could make it modular and increase its size. Maybe that kind of design would help replacing it faster.
How does adding Python to the spreadsheet paradigm improve the fragility problem at all? The major problem with spreadsheets is a dangerous mix of ad-hoc model definition and data. An author can build ad-hoc structure, but has no easy or default way to ensure that the structure is consistent or valid, and it's incredibly to accidentally change both data and model with bad keystrokes.

What really needs to replace spreadsheets is new ways to define models that are as easy-to-use as ad-hoc spreadsheets. For instance:

* A single table should only contain one set of data adhering to the same schema.
* Formulas, formatting and validation should be defined per-column, not per-cell.
* Typing and pasting into ranges should be disabled by default.
* Auto-import from other sources into a table needs to be much easier.

Excel actually contains some of these features, but until it removes or disables the ad-hoc nature it'll still be dangerous. Maybe it should add a "safe mode" so that financial institutions can have an easy migration path from such high risk.

I've spent a lot of time migrating financial apps away from spreadsheets. Some of the errors I've seen could have caused many millions in unnecessary losses, maybe did before I got there. It's insane, but this doesn't seem to fix it in any meaningful way.
For assembly, comments are more like the audio track for a drama, rather than directors' commentary. Sure, without them, you can see when entities are happy/sad/angry, but you have no idea why those things happen.
Another Thiel fellow (2012) here.

I've had largely the opposite experience from Dale; I'm currently on leave from Harvard, but still maintain strong ties with faculty members and other members of the Harvard community. They are excited about what I'm working on, and provide guidance and assistance as they can.

I've also maintained contact with the administration of the university, and had a great conversation with its president last year. On the whole, I find that Harvard's been quite supportive.

Frankly, I find Dale's comments here rather unhelpful and frustrating. Some of the fellows maintain good relations with their universities, and some intend to return when the time is appropriate. I very much dislike the idea of burning bridges with universities, and this article seems to taunt to them.
The pdf continues "The problem is not the patent system per se, but all the popular mythology that has built up around what patents are and how they are supposed to work. That quarter you mailed in for your classified ad "inventor's idea kit" in the seventh grade has done more damage in more ways to more people more often than you could possibly ever imagine."

I read that to suggest the "popular mythology" of patents as small inventors making millions from patents as completely wrong. Not sure what to make of the inventor's idea kit sentence.
There are certainly issues with this article. As a student, who's been in this setting for the past dozen years, I've got some thoughts on the matter:

1. If you want to measure how much is taught, make sure you're measuring how much is taught.
The emphasis on AP scores and ERBs makes for a teaching environment where you're taught not the actual things you need to know, but the particular phrasings that the College Board agrees get you full credit. I'm taking AP Stat, and all of my classmates can parrot off dozens of phrases regarding interpreting distributions, but most of them don't understand a word of it. From there...

2. You need to teach tools that can be used to solve problems, not recipes to solve specific kinds of problems. Otherwise, you're not learning.

3. You absolutely must reward creativity and unorthodox questions. Grading based on adherance to a specific methodology rather than having a reasonable answer (EG, you're being told that atoms are the smallest elements of matter, and you say that Quarks are smaller? You get points off. You ask about that, and are told not to question the Word of Teacher? That's what I'm talking about), and similarly, punishment for students who are too curious are due for the course

4. You need teachers who know what they're talking about. In sixth grade, a science teacher insisted that yes, Dinosaurs did eat humans. This is in a high-income neighborhood, in a solidly blue state. When I called her on it, and she looked it up and found that no, there is a gap of hundreds of millions of years, she closed the lesson by referencing young-earth creationist ideas about layers of soil in Texas.

5. You need to destroy the hierarchy of teachers being superior to students. Hierarchy is good for producing mass laborers who won't question authority, and dropouts. It's not good for helping people learn, or fostering curiosity. Worried about your safety without absolute power? Well, I'd be more worried about your safety when you're playing the role of prison guard. It seems incredible, but at, say, Quaker schools, students call teachers by their first name, they're very friendly with eachother, and the result is vibrant intellectual discourse, not knifings.

6. So you're an administrator/the President/ETC, and you want to measure if students understand material? Ask them. They'll be able to tell you a lot more than sitting in on a class and gauging metrics or Value Added Teaching ever will.

Above all, what amazes me most is that while following this debate for years, not once has anyone ever asked students what they think. If you haven't been a student in one of these schools within the last ten years, your opinions on what the real problems in education aren't valid.
(I am currently reading "Positioning: .." and I have already read Seth Godin's "All marketers .." .)

I think the million dollar question is how do you determine if a lie or a position will stick in the prospective customers minds? Regardless of what position you choose, you will be assessed against an incumbent. If your are going for Blue Ocean Strategy, even then you will be compared to alternatives and substitutes.

When you are on the whiteboard deciding which way to go, I am assuming you will be having set of positioning options; how do you pick the best one ? How do you make it more compelling or sticky.
Coinbase charges only 1% !!

I do not know of any credit card that charges the merchant less, when monthly account fees are added in.
> Sure there would be, but it would be a positive discussion.

Not at all, I could start a conversation with any tone I wished.

I'm not trying to nitpick words, I just don't think that you can make any conclusions about reality just by noting that people are discussing something, in a positive manner or otherwise. There just isn't any relationship between reality and what people discuss.
Would you like to enlighten us by explaining a little more all the ways exactly in which it is 'retarded'?
It's an interesting situation. I think I'd rather bank robbers had a stick than an RPG. Of course, ideally there would be no bank robbers.
Beware of local maxima
The author of the book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lancaster
You could not do that without also raising the center of gravity of the car. That thing is massively heavy, putting it under the car is the only place that makes sense for it.
So why hasn't Musk or Tesla made an official response yet?

If Musk really did reach out to Broder on Friday, then Tesla should have had a skeleton press release ready to go on Monday, pointing out the major mistakes that Broder made, and pointing out that they're planning on getting out more supercharging stations, so this experience won't be repeated. It should have been a neutral response to the criticism, and it would have highlighted the infrastructure work that Tesla is doing.

Instead, Musk has claimed that the Times' account was "fake", which is a huge accusation to make, because that's a personal attack on Broder and the Times, and, let's face it, the NYT is probably much better at CYA and public perception management than Tesla or Musk are.
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Meanwhile, in Brazil, spiders have taken over an entire town
The last paragraph is the guilty admission by Tesla, "He said that the East Coast charging stations should be 140 miles apart, not 200 miles, to take into account the traffic and temperature extremes in this part of the country."

As I commented here on the prior article on HN, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5203654

Musk is trying to get ahead of the story. Instead of the headlines being, "driver stranded in the cold" it was "NYT faked article".

Musk/Tesla is yet to show any data, the jury is still out. But given, it's taken them this long, it seems to me, Tesla got the effect they wanted and will most likely not publish anything that will drastically contradict NYT's reporter.
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Clojure has [] and {} and #{} and '() and #() and : and ^ and @ and Foo. and .foo and ->, ... you still have to learn them to understand Clojure code.
can you expand on why sole proprietorship or partnership is not "right"? IRS requirements?
These teachers also had some of the highest average standardized test scores in the county. How does that fit in with your personal worldview?
Very pretty. I like how you can host it/hack it. I will definitely give it a try. We have a 70" I try and display real-time metrics on, and praise from customers, winning A/B tests, etc.

For a hosted alternative, I've been using https://www.leftronic.com/ for a project at work and have been really impressed with their built-in widgets and their support is A+. When I had trouble uploading spreadsheets of data they fixed me right up.
I didn't see a link. Could you include it ?