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> I'd want to know what happens if you push it for a little bit more.

Well, that should be obvious: the car stops. But even if that's what he wanted to do, he should have acknowledged it. At the end of the day, there's lots of reasons to not buy a Tesla or an EV in general. But this is a question of integrity, and when it starts to sound like the reviewer didn't provide a fair review, it brings a lot of collateral damage to the entire organization.

> Well there is a lot of wiggle room for both those statements to be true.

Agree. I went back and read that portion again. It's possible that he was falsely told that the range would be greater than indicated. Or he was told that a few minutes of charging would help the range, and simply assumed that what he did was enough, while ignoring the actual displayed range.

Clarification on this point is important because that's the headline and lead photo of this article -- that he was completely stranded.
I suspect the probem is not the gps positional accuracy, but rather the data loggers recording frequency - for 99.9% of what you'd want from a gps log on a vehicle, recording the position and speed every 10 or 20 seconds would be more than enough. To generate useful plots of a car driving in circles round a small parking lot would need a much higher recording rate. Even slow old-school gps chipsets output 1Hz position data, but logging all that would needlessly produce 10 or 20 ties more data than youd need for anything except showing up lying journalists. I'd put good money on Musk getting 1Hz or better gps logs of the _next_ bunch of test drivers...
Personally I found the RST documentation quite inaccessible for doing simple things.
I was at this event (the 'freelancer' in the front row getting picked on by Sanderson), it was brilliant. Big thank you to yourself and Steve for putting on such a good show.
Afaik ears also do not heal; once your hearing is gone, then it's gone. Of course that probably is crude generalization, but I believe it to be true for noise-induced hearing loss at least. So take care of your ears, and use ear plugs when necessary.
A web browser allows access to all websites (broad reach). HN is just one website on the web (narrow reach). Pretty clear to me why this is a bad comparison, just interested to know why the OP thought otherwise.
Sorry, but I didn't know how to react when the second question the interviewer asked was: did you know america existed?

What kind of question is that considering this man's story?
your friends are obviously not wasting their time keeping their grades up.

Yes, the theory/practice divide can be strong, but you really will need both.

And I say this as some one on the practice side ('I can do it!') who's working very hard to get the theory side up to scratch ('but I can't articulate why as well as I should!').
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> It certainly feels somewhat disingenuous to mention nothing, of what arguably should be, the central discussion point: The Model S (more specifically the car's Li-Ion battery pack) performs unusually poorly in frigid conditions.

If you listen to the interviews Musk gave with the likes of Bloomberg about this, he explains how they have taken care to make the car perform well in the cold. Things such as moving heat from the motor into the battery-pack and, when it detects cold temperatures, closing shutters at the front of the car to insulate it.
Why? The second is idling until the first fails, then the second takes over. Unless both fail simultaneously of course, for example due to power outage, but then your 40 servers will also fail simultaneously. Not to mention that with just one running server there are a lot fewer failure scenarios.
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> Did the NYT reporter add a little journalistic embellish to the story? Probably.

Agree that it's not a total work of fiction and there are clearly issues that EV shoppers should consider.

But how much embellishment should we expect and allow in future reviews from the NYT? Integrity in journalism is pretty much everything, and it looks like enough questions are being raised that some readers will wonder what the NYT is mischaracterizing.
Out of interest, how many people from outside London go to these meetups?

I'm in Bristol, so a bit far to travel.
You'd also need the MacApp framework, which I don't think was ever ported to OSX.
> Open source shouldn't be considered free either. People put in countless man hours working on open source projects, and giving something back in return should be common etiquette.

I have an open source project. I don't advertise on it. I give it away freely and happily, knowing I gain no revenue from it.

> My point is, you always pay for something. In the case of Chrome, surely you don't believe that Google has no self-interest in building Chrome?

It's clear that they have a self interest.
Its a story, not a technical blog post.
We're still working on automated transcription for VideoView so I'm afraid I can't search for key phrases like I would normally do ;)

For the Dutchies who might be able to help; it was from a show at least 5 years old but maybe even 10 about 'liefdadigheidswerkers' who travelled to other countries. I think it was on SBS6, but definitely one of the commercial stations.
I don't think testing as a way of tracking progress should be stopped completely (what gets measured gets done, right?) But the focus on testing is too strong.

In systems geared around testing, it creates a culture of scarcity in which teachers and schools are competing against each other. This compares with a system such as Finland, where they have no standardized tests (and hence have a more collaborative approach to education) and yet they rate among the world's best for educational outcomes.
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With that much log data, simply perform the same trip again at the same time.

Temperature wouldn't be the same but I bet you could get close.
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We use it mainly for the CDN, we have estimated a similar service using CloudFront would cost over $1500 / month (750% more - I acknowledge AWS is are not the cheapest)
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A simple solution, to a simple problem: 'Paste-bins'.
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I also thought this at first, but it was his second time visiting that station: there are two stops by Milford's supercharger in the vehicle logs and the claims are about the second, so he is potentially familiar with the area at the time.
> In the case of the cars, without looking it up it is not obvious to me which is worse

I wouldn't hire you either.

> About the water

Your example digs your hole deeper. There's a fundamental difference between applying thermodynamics in this case, and the regenerative braking one. That you don't know that is what's damning.
I don't get it. How cold was outside? Lowering the temp in a cold weather means less drain on the battery. It seems he increased the temp from 72 to 74 for a short time before lowering it below 66.

"Putting the temp on low" means different things depending on where you look from. The blog may be articulate on some issues but it's not very clear at least on this one.
I don't see what reach has to do with making HN "free" and Chrome "not free" if they both use space in their interfaces to deliver advertisements. Arguably, Chrome would be more "free" since HN displays its advertisements more prominently than Chrome's and they masquerade as user-generated content. Is there more to your metric?
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~$20,000 sounds like a lot of money, they would need at least $100M a year in revenue to justify this number. This will be a major challenge if they want to grow profitable after the $15M VC money runs out. I'd assume they'd get the same for $5000 in rented servers which would free up enough money - outside of the valley - to have an DevOps and another developer.
Story 1: Tesla shows NYT review does not reflect what actually happened with the car.

Story 2: Tesla, your mechanic, your insurance company, your spouse, the government, and anybody else with access to the box can tell exactly how you've been driving.

I'm a big Tesla and Musk fan. I have nothing but hope that Tesla rocks on. But #2 is the way larger story here.

I continue to be amazed at how in 20 years or so suddenly the world is full of people who don't mind detailed logs of their every movement and action being kept.
I tried pelican several times, but I always found it to be too complicated to what I want. I went through setup, generated some pages and when I started to tinker around with it I had a feeling it would be easier to write something from scratch.

Do you know any other static page generators, simpler and preferably in Python as well? Or should I just get over the first impression and go with the pelican?
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Just looking at the stack docs put me more in mind of Engine Yard than Heroku: HAProxy, nginx, passenger, DB options etc.

And that's a good thing. I realise Heroku is devsexy but having compared the two for a serious production app for bigco (a contest that EY won hands down) this architecture is long-term more resilient and adaptable.

So to me it's a sort of Engine Yard, BYO VMs. Ok. What is that, Devops as a Service? Nice look, btw.
Musk didn't disprove a thing. He's trying to manipulate the facts.

The estimated range that Broder is referring to is the 90 mile estimate that the car displayed at the end of the first day, not the 32 miles it displayed the next morning. That is what he means when he says the car fell short of its range estimate by 2/3rds.

He also states that the reason he proceeded in the morning with just a 32 mile range is that "Tesla’s experts said that pumping in a little energy would help restore the power lost overnight as a result of the cold weather, and after an hour they cleared me to resume the trip to Milford." In other words, Tesla TOLD HIM TO. Musk does not refute this.

Tesla flunked the test due to cold weather energy loss. It's that simple. Superchargers alone cannot compensate for that. You still have to plug in overnight and take conservation measures on the road, or you may end up stranded. Musk can't change that no matter how hard he tries to distract you from the facts with "facts".

(BTW, has anyone realized that Musk's "driving around in circles in front of the charging station" conspiracy theory doesn't even make any kind of sense? If the writer wanted to intentionally strand the car he'd do it on the road.)
I thought there was a legal requirement to have unsubscribe links that work? I was charitably assuming the unsubscribe function was broken by accident rather than by design. Furthermore, this tactic only works if the site has content interesting enough to overcome the extreme irritation that ignoring my attempts to unsubscribe: this is not only rare, but the site is shooting itself in the foot. There's no way I'd ever let a Quora app have access to my phone after pulling that kind of stunt.
Not sure numbers but there's definitely people who travel a couple of hours from outside London to get to it.

Alternatively why not setup a local HN meetup for Bristol and the south west ?
No, it could even mean fewer fixes, because coopetition is a delicate balance. Every man-hour you put into the common project helps your competition as much as yourself (outside competition like Mozilla and Microsoft excluded).

So if you remove some coders from the common codebase and shift them towards other parts of the browser that have more to do with your specific brand (JSC in Apple's example, V8 or cloud integration in Google's), up to a certain point you gain a net benefit - your brand develops faster and your partners invest more.

Of course, if each party acts like that, the common project gets stale - the tragedy of the commons.

From my completely unfair outsider view, it seems to me that Apple, for example, has more or less lost interest in WebKit and tries to stifle progress to defend their lackluster Safari against Chrome and MobileChrome.
Prescription and acuity are not the same thing. Many people do not get "perfect" acuity even with optimal prescription.

Ie prescription tells what kind of corrections you need to get the best possible vision, but doesn't tell how good your best possible vision is. Acuity on the other hand tells you what's the smallest detail you can distinguish over some distance (such as 20 feet in the normal 20/xx expression).
> "I am not going to shrink from saying that people in backward, poorly governed countries that could never have invented the Internet have no right to kill and destroy just because someone in a free country laughs or scorns at their delusions."

You have no clue what you are talking about. You think you live in a black and white world where the terrorists simply hate Americans by default, and because they are envious of what USA have they just start sending suicide bombers and hijacking planes? Out of envy? Stop reading Mickey Mouse and get some actual information. The terrorists hate USA because USA did something (well, a lot of things actually) that generated the terrorist acts in response.

Here, you can start reading about how Iran ended up a few years ago on the "axis of evil" alongside North Korea:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax

Ex nihilo nihil fit, ok? Obviously USA has an external policy and they can't just abandon it, so the risk of terrorist attacks will remain a fact of life. But don't assume that things happen for no reason.
Looks like it does some weird things with unicode chars: http://p.fbeans.of.je/6ac08194

No charset in the content type, that could be it.

Also, it's most useful if you can edit a pastebin to generate a new one, so you can "collaborate"
There's absolutely no-way to run a tech/startup event in London without clashes now. There's multiple events running pretty much every single day.
I never claimed that HN was free. I simply said that comparing it to Chrome was invalid.
Have none of you seen the spike in cabin temperature at the exact 400 mile mark? Instead of turning the heat down he set it higher.

I'm not arguing that the log data shows the complete story in enough detail as to contradict every statement made in the NYT. And one another is susceptible to suggestion.I find it odd however that the few persons above me seem to completely ignore the cabin temperature chart for the sake of their argument.
This is part of the reason I made https://starthq.com - a new tab replacement service.
Talk about counting your chickens before they hatch ... and not just about the part where they moved or added a board member before the money hit the bank account, but even the little "celebration" in Vegas. How is raising money a reason to celebrate in Vegas... especially when it hasn't even hit the bank yet?

While I feel bad for the founders here and the VC behavior is deplorable, a little cautiousness and common sense would have really saved the day here. "Let's not move until the money is in the bank, ok? Hey board member -- just step back for a few minutes until the wire clears. Once it does, we're all yours."

... All that being said ..... BIG KUDOS to the team for getting the investors their money back:

"We sold the assets for what our original investors had put in to the company, about $1.5 million, so we were able to give them their money back."

That's great -- I know very few entrepreneurs who have gotten well past the point of raising capital who can claim to have returned investor money.

So, while you might have gotten the Big Screw by VCs, in part due to their shadyness and in part due to your own over-enthusiasm and lack of diligence, I think you saved the day for your investors. They may not invest with you again, but they can't say they lost money with you either.
> But, following your own standards, there should be a little voice of doubt in your mind about this narrative as well.

That was written before Tesla's response. You're saying, that for the interest on impartiality, I should have doubted Tesla's side before I even read it? Huh?!? Does that make sense?

As I stated elsewhere, someone can replicate both Tesla's side and Broder's side by redoing the trip both ways.
I think you are right, pursuing big name exclusives is often a fool's errand, and also that temporary hardware advantages like Kinect can cause exclusives to just happen, at least for a while.

But I also think that a thriving indie dev culture, as the OP is calling for (or rather, chastising MS for thwarting) can do the same thing: it can give a platform exclusive titles (games, but the same could be said of non-game apps) at least for a while, just because small indie devs can often only target one platform, at least until their indie title is a hit bringing in the cash to target other platforms.

(Had a little bit more but will have to leave it there as my laptop's reserve battery power warning is getting very insistent.)
There are typically quite a few people from Brighton and Cambridge who come along. We usually finish at around 10pm so there is scope for getting the train home after.

The furthest that people have traveled just for the event (that I am aware of) is from Paris.
Don't all new cars have black boxes now? I seem to recall reading something about it and how cops are using the information.
Nice idea! I guess it works on any browser?
> I gave up looking for an accuracy figure on wikipedia, but knew I had seen 1.5 metres in the past, and that 10 metres is too inaccurate.

It all has to do with the statistical error bound. For a specified accuracy, one must also state the deviation for which that error is true. My point is that GPS doesn't have a specific accuracy, always true, with a probability cliff on each side. For a given accuracy specification, one must always include the probability for that accuracy.
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I am currently reading this due to another post about this same guy a couple of weeks back. I would highly recommend it, though it is truly upsetting, I have to keep reminding myself that what this man went through was/is real.

OP link does seem to gloss over some of the finer details explained in the book.
Musk said previously in a tweet that logging is always on for media but only on for customers with their written permission.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/301053361157988352
What does his being a veteran have anything to do with his affinity to lie?

The main factor that affects someone's likelihood of lying is whether they think they can get away with it. Broder most likely knew that the car was logging data. However, he probably didn't know just how detailed the logging was, and assumed it was too rudimentary to refute the kind of story he was cooking up in his head before he even started the drive.
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Not Heroku's fault in this case, Rails (and any other single-threaded environment) can handle a single request at a time.
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Hey Stevie. Thanks! I'm writing right now.
I know this sounds like an item more suited to Reddit, but given the Mountain Dew and Red Bull diets of some, this might be relevant.
I see first hand how much time and effort Dmitri puts into organising this event, and I can't imagine how he (or anyone) would be able to make this event sustainable without getting an income from it.

When you consider transaction fees, tax and expenses, Dmitri is being generous with his time.
I'm always surprised at the amount of interest TSA receives on HN. Can someone explain why this is such a hot topic?
I use speed dial 2. works like a charm.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-dial-2/jpfpe...
I enjoyed the last one of these I went to, but it's not much of a networking event. You can get a bit of meet-and-greet in between the speaker talks, but everyone pretty much left after the last one, as the venue closed down. Anyone who wanted to network had to move on to a nearby pub, and few people made the effort, or knew where to go.
And to think, during an hour of high drama, the driver could have simply reached over, switched off the ignition key and ended the drama.
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"Despite this aggregation of martial thought, the best book on maneuver warfare is in fact a 30 year old science fiction novel. Although incomplete in addressing all aspects of theory, Ender’s Game is one of the best books on maneuver warfare ever written."

I think the OA is very much and very ludicrously claiming that.
Logging is off by default except when the car is being driven by a member of the media. The reason they have it turned on under these circumstances is mentioned in the article: they were treated unfairly by the car show Top Gun.
Not following. Why do you say they need $100 million a year in revenue to justify $240K (00.25% of revenue) in hosting expenses?

For an online biz, 10% - 50% isn't uncommon for profitable businesses. Many "virtual" companies (online only) do fine at 80%.
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Pardon my ignorance but does WebRTC allow "true peer-to-peer" as in "nothing more than the 2 peers necessary"? I noticed a "PeerServer" is mentioned. Is it possible to have peer-to-peer without a third server?
You are totally welcome :)
I'm working on a similar extension that stores your settings on a server (see my other comment to this post) and was wondering: what are the main Spped Dial 2 features that you use?
Really - my contacts in recruitment world say the contract market is dead in London ? Perm work is five times the volume and teams are all in house now? Am I wrong?
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In the present case, it's a massive layoff and the decision seems to have staid secret internally (https://twitter.com/tom_forsyth/status/301586785899782144), so I'd guess it's a hierarchical decision, with no internal consultation.
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I don’t get that.

There is an obvious explanation for driving around the parking lot in circles: He was curious what the reserves are and how the car would react. Simple as that. He didn’t write about it in his review anyway and it’s completely irrelevant for his review.
Sure, but as a site you should either depend on 3rd-party auth and deal with the possibility of downtime, or be up-front about wanting your own credentials. To pretend like FB or Google login will work and then demanding a user/pass is deceptive and really, really annoying.
That's exactly what I'd suspect a clueless person would do if he were trying to intentionally damage the li-ion battery. (You should drain the cells directly, circumventing the charge controller, if you want to be sure.)
How do you need $100M a year in revenue to cover $20k/mo or $240k/year?
Startups should print out those last three bullets, frame it, and put it on the wall. It would save a lot of heartache.
To the village that lost 50 people to the omnipresent invaders, it may just be morally identical. "Oh, hey, we thought you were terrorists - our bad" probably won't cut it as 'understandable', given that 40 of the victims were women and children, which aren't generally part of the insurgent personnel in Afghanistan. Keep in mind that this wasn't a wayward bomb - the innocent bystander in your story - but a target hit three times across several minutes.
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The idea here, is that it's simple, it has one single feature. The code is there, if anyone wants to use it, or add to it, then I would encourage them to do so. However its so simple, that there's almost no point.

At the end of the day, once you have created the file, you have to send it to some one through some medium. You could probably collaborate through that medium.