skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe Broder's review was nonsensical, which probably accounts for why I don't subscribe to the idea that this was a smart long-term strategy for Musk, but I understand why reasonable people think that. However, Musk can afford to play long games with PR. Most startups can't.

Regarding reviews in particular: I've done a bunch of them at previous companies, and I think the average first-time founder on HN would be very surprised to learn how subjective and relationship-based they are. I once "won" a bakeoff review for a product I was managing, only to "lose" it later in the week when the reviewer wrote a followup story about improvements in the runner-up. The net effect was negative; it turned us into the de facto runner up.

Most tech product reviews are much more subjective than this Tesla review. You have to have a lot of traction in the market for an important review to revolve around simple "speeds and feeds" issues like how much mileage your vehicle gets. Pissing off reviewers is almost always going to be a losing strategy, even when you're right.
This looks pretty great. We do something slightly similar at Chartbeat, but using puppet + ubuntu server VMs on our macs. Enables us to to develop on the same hardware we'll be using in production. Our CTO wrote a blog post about it here if anyone is interested:

http://engineering.chartbeat.com/2012/09/24/devvm/
So you get your mail and your packages in one piece, unopened and on time?
The Spy in Your Pocket: Mobile Journalism's Risk
>> Does porn really always make you happy?

Are you asking while I'm watching it, or after...;)
Rocks from space release their energy a bit more gradually, and higher.

Nukes go pop all at once, closer to ground (but depends on the nuke, I guess).
More likely it is a people who have had to depend on cars/people who have not had to depend on cars divide. There's very little practical argument to be found in these threads on that website, just shrill invective. The "journalist committing libel" angle is quite juicy if you have no horse in the race. Average auto consumers might think Musk's behavior off-putting, detached, etc. and see the journalist's concerns as legitimate: A car, especially at that price, should get you from point A to B predictably, preferably with a comfortable cabin.
Mr. Yiannopoulos himself is homosexual, which means I don't think he gets to make comments like that. (EDIT: I'm saying this as a gay guy; I would never call into question the honour or motivations of a man who stood up for women's rights)
I wouldn't say it makes you happy, but it can make you less sad.
A tool-chain like this is needed for Apple to move widely into the enterprise. As a sysadmin, it is a major pain to worry about unpatched, outdated, apple laptops that have to conform to a security policy. Without automated tools like this, you are left running around patching the latest java/flash/pdf issue!
I don't trust CNN as a news source just as I don't trust any car "journalist" (there shouldn't be such a job because they're just a bunch of liers).

But I'm tempted to say that "of course" that the replay went out flawlessly and the car still had close to 100 miles left.

Broder hates electric vehicles and want that technology to fail: he clearly just wanted soooooo badly to put that picture of the Tesla being towed. You could tell it was fishy from the split-second that picture happened.

Now, interestingly, the logs and Musk's response just show how much he knows about its technology and its cars and how well they've been conceived.

This one is going to end up being a major win for Tesla (and Musk).

I've got a Porsche 911 Carrera and, honestly, I've been tempted by the Tesla roadster. But now seeing what Musk wrote, all these logs and his explanation I just want to buy a Tesla sedan.
If "easy access to online porn increases the frequency and severity of sexual violence against women" is a "moral standard" that doesn't require evidence rather than a claim of fact that does, then coldtea's access to the internet through throwaway accounts is contributing to the intellectual decline of the Western world. Also, mice are born from a peculiar mix of sawdust and wet hay.
Oh, oh! Can I get some more details? What's bad about Cloud Sites? Does this mean you are using Cloud Server? Did you deploy the web and database on a single instance?
Aha... but it's not obvious. I thought the highlighted text were links to supporting articles.
Puppet/systemimager already exists for Linux users.
BOXEN - a framework for managing almost every aspect of your Mac
That's just a neat visual summary that everyone can quickly scan. Kinda like that post about another thief of ideas - Zynga.
ahhh maybe cause the CNN article doesn't prove that Musk was right. They were driving under different conditions (the weather is much warmer now). Didn't stay over night, and didn't follow the same instructions that the NYT report received when he called Tesla.
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I wouldn't use an alternative HN story reader on OS X. I like the cramped web interface too much.

However I do like (and make![1]) passive alert menubar apps. Make one of those for HN and I would use it (and submit pull requests). Alert for new thread replies, karma, etc.

[1] Shameless plug for Reddit Notifier, on the Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier-mac-os-x-men...
"the CNN ride yesterday which contradicts Broder and certainly wouldn't have happened without the controversy"

The CNN ride comes off as a cheap PR stunt now.

The "long game" was already lost when Musk proved himself incapable of handling a non-glowing review. There was a way for Tesla to spin this favorably and talk about their technological advancements (talk about the weather and how you should charge it in the cold, how technology in the car ensures that it will start after being in the cold overnight) but instead Tesla decided to go for the sensationalist angle.

As many have discussed at length in other threads, the Broder account wasn't "sensationalist". It in fact is corroborated to a great extent by Musk's data.

If Musk gave a civil reply acknowledging what happened without making it sound like a fake, we wouldn't have this conversation days later.
The conclusion that most languages "convey the same amount of information in exactly the same amount of time" is interesting. I wonder if the information density per syllable or syllables per second are important factors for determining which languages are easier to learn.
> Normally, the liver breaks down alcohol into an enzyme that’s transformed into the compound acetaldehyde (responsible for that nasty hangover feeling), which in turn is degraded into another enzyme.

Replace 1st and 3rd "into" with "by", please: reading this makes my mind hurt and I'm sure it's the same for anyone with basic biochem knowledge...
Looks very similar to Vagrant: http://www.vagrantup.com/
> Have you ever considered why Firefox for Desktop appears to evolve in a slower pace than Chrome or Safari? Its because of standards.

and here's me thinking it was because Firefox and Gecko consist of 20M lines completely unmaintainable, crufty C++!
Yes, HN became ever-present unless I closed the program. And if I did, why have it? When it's in the browser, it's much more optional and I can work all day if I like without seeing any reminders of it.
WSGI and Truncated Chunked Response Bodies
I believe number 6 accurately describes Facebook, which in November of 2004 may not have been on his radar as fulfilling this role.
I hope the people in Chelyabinsk have the presence of mind to get a GPS position on the hole before it freezes over and/or before the lake thaws later this year, in advance of any recovery effort. Either eventuality would erase the only present physical evidence of the meteor's underwater position.
Not sure if this is called for. Heroku has a performance issue and their documentation had a mistake. They accepted everything, apologized and are working to resolve it. What am I missing here?
Yes.

He would have been way better off by simply saying there were inaccuracies or inconsistencies in the review than going nuclear by screaming out "FAKE!"
But now you know how Rap Genius works so their plan was successful.
The Open Source Digital Voting Foundation
Very true. It really doesn't matter whether Border lied or screwed up or anything. Musk gave him more free PR than Tesla would have gotten from a good review. It's ooooh so tempting to get into a fight when someone slanders your company, but it's almost always the worst decision you can make. If you're going to sit down and pick apart someone else's writing, data point and word by data point and word, you're going to be under the exact same scrutiny. And, now, everyone who reviews the Tesla will want to test it out in cold weather, just to be sure.
Nice one. I'll definitely look into that. Thanks for the tip.
This bit of information really needs to be in bold at the top of the post.
http://guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/15/hundreds-injured-met...
"So, humans, how's that space program coming along?" - a large rock
"Degrading" is one of those words that seems to mean something but when you get down to brass tacks it's so subjective it really doesn't. If the performer is willing to do something for the money the producer is offering and have the act shown to the world clearly she doesn't share your value system.

If her decision offends you then don't watch porn.
I usual use http://colorschemedesigner.com/ with its color circle and matching color sugestions
Russia Meteor sound shockwave (30 seconds in)
Touch Developer Preview of Ubuntu to be published on 21 February
...and then the alcoholics will turn to harder drugs for which they don't have intolerance. Great news! ...if you're a drug dealer.
what lesson do you believe they learnt, and why do you think it was the wrong one? they clearly noted that (a) the gecko component was hard and fiddly to embed and (b) fixing it would draw away scarce resources from more critical areas, so they decided to not waste both their and their users' time, and remove embedding support. i think it was the right way to go; as kibwen noted, servo can be designed around embedding support right from the beginning.
> I want to pin versions of dependencies (and dependencies-of-dependencies) so my builds are repeatable

That's by default in maven - you have to do something really stupid to get non-repeatable builds (usually involves specifying open version ranges or some weird plugin magic)

>everyone who's forked my git repo can still build the code if the Maven URL's for the deps have gone out of business

One of the main advantages of maven is just the opposite of that - you don't have to bundle your dependencies and get them to other people - they can just ask maven to fetch them. And maven is not going away.
> as a developer I can tell you there's a huge number of differences in the way that FF and Chrome handle networking and interface standards

could you explain what these changes are and how they're noticeable to the general public?

I'm a developer who's written a Comet webapp you've likely used or at least seen, and I have yet to notice...
If you want to be pedantic about it, understand me as just evaluating your proposition.

But yes, I suppose that on some level you're right: 80% of the population has probably never been simultaneously employed.
Dude Tries to Get Funding to Destroy his Car on Kickstarter
1. The Java EE 6 Tutorial is a good place to start for these things.

2. You may not like Maven--I hate it too--but it's how things are done. In practice the only people complaining about installing libraries and managing jar dependencies are people using ant without ivy. 90% of folks just use Maven and get on with it.

3. You're turning your complaint from "Java's XML support is weak" to "Java's XML support isn't Pythonic like Python's." This is a weak argument. You're saying you want to live the Python dream in Javaland. Well, it isn't going to happen, no matter what the Play guys tell you. But if you have to use Java--and sometimes you do--adding four lines to your maven config--which you will have--so you can use EE 6 or JAXB is not a big deal, and neither is putting a few annotations on a class.

I don't love Java. In fact I dislike it. I would rather be using Haskell, Python, or Ruby. Or any number of other things. But you can't be mad at Java for being Java and not Python.
So the "civil" thing to do is to make sure anyone who's expressed a particular opinion can never be employed in the industry?
>men then get depressed because they expect life to be like a porno.

Romantic comedies make us 'unrealistic about relationships', claim scientists

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3776923/Romantic-com...

Next ban?
Come on Rap Genius, please stop treating your blog posts like song lyrics.
There are bitcoin payment processors that allow customers to pay in BTC, and deposit the money in the merchant's account as USD immediately, thereby solving this problem (with a price).

I don't know what the state of the art is here, but presumably, that price is going to approach zero, since this is a competitive space, which is not the case with traditional payment processing.
"brutalize a key with your favorite finger"
The essence of the argument is the emotional appeal of self-defense, which makes these considerations less important. Someone facing a violent intruder in their house is not likely to think about their neighbors. They are going to do whatever they can in that moment to defend themselves.
Relax, it's unrelated.

http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/html/Years/2013/February/i...

Coincidences do happen once in a while.
http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100
>> I want a one-click bookmark button where I don't have to tag anything.

Pinboard has several different bookmarklets you can use. One of them is a single-click one that tags the page as "read later".
Except Vagrant is used to spin up small virtual development environments whereas it looks like this is used to actually spin up a physical machine.
Car journalists are liars but the CEO of a car company isn't?

In various forums with Tesla owners in similar climate conditions, people agree with Broder's observations. He didn't "lie" about what happened. It's something they noticed as well.

Now you can carp on petty points like him using common sense, but when a car company lets you test drive a car and they give advice, you should follow said advice. I understand crying foul if he did something ill-advised, but Musk did not refute the fact that they gave him what seems to be poor advice. And I don't blame Broder for following what Tesla said, even if it ended up with a picture of a Tesla being towed away.

I'm very surprised Tesla hasn't released the call logs, to be honest. And I suspect, if you saw them, you would agree that Broder's actions are in line with what Tesla told him while he was in the car

"And your log data makes me want to buy one of your cars. Thanks for that marvel of engeenering."

P.S: I recommend you read some of the comments here. The data is in-line with Broder's account.
A little bit offtopic, but I really don't get why anyone should care about "how to make successfull company" tips from VCs? VCs are probably better then you at detecting possible winner whey they see one. They also should know a thing or two about traits of successful companies.

But if they really know how to make one, they would do just that. Last time I checked, making a successful company is way more profitable then investing other people's money in one.
This reminds me of radmind: http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/

Lots of good ideas in there (some of which inspired early work on dotCloud, including https://github.com/dotcloud/cloudlets )
It works terribly for responses to blog posts, so as someone who doesn't use it already and whose first exposure to it is this Heroku issue, now I think "Rap Genius works terribly".

... success?
Burden of iOS
It works far better in print media, in my opinion... you don't leaf through the pages of a blog.
Tokenization and the collapse of the credit card payment model
In this area, no good deed goes unpunished. It sounds silly, but you have to be careful.
There are a lot of videos labeled with some variety of "slut loves cock". The problem is there must be millions of these videos and they all have substantially the same content - two people engaging in sex.

Producers have to have some way of making their product grab your attention, and "two people fucking" isn't going to do it.
Not sure how this works but...
Is the actual response in the green hightlights?
Are all the green highlights from the same person? I think they are.
But then, who made the yellow highlights?
If we know it affects animals, why do we wait until it starts affecting people to change our actions?
>then coldtea's access to the internet through throwaway accounts is contributing to the intellectual decline of the Western world.

The Western world was never that intellectual to begin with. Western civilisation? Now, that would be a good idea, as Ghandi said.

Plus, the thinkers from the West (and the non-yet-West, Ancient Greece and Rome) that mattered to the so-called "Westend Civilisation" once, weren't hell bent on "evidence" at all.

Modern western civilisation is merely pop culture with some engineering thrown in.

That said, I surely agree that my access to the internet is "contributing to an intellectual decline", if not the internet's then surely mine.

Speaking of "intellectual decline", noticed how your example, e.g about how "mice are born from a peculiar mix of sawdust and wet hay" is NOT an example of a societal standard, whereas I only argued for those?

I'm sure you sidestepped it, as easily as you sidestepped the very part of my comment where I say that "easy access to online porn increases the frequency and severity of sexual violence against women" _could_ be objectively quantified.
I'm confused. The author seems to advocate for civil, rational, open-minded discussion, and follows it by advocating that the industry effectively exile someone whose views he disagrees with.

The included quote is not a personal attack on any individual. Yes, its strongly worded - more than I would personally like. But its not a wild rant saying women are an inferior race. The quote doesn't even suggest women shouldn't be in tech - it simply suggests an explanation for the gender imbalance (however accurate that explanation may be).

Why not attack that explanation instead? Leave no doubt in anyone's mind that he is painfully wrong - not by public shaming and ostracizing, but through the rational argument the author seems to so eagerly want.
the 48 hour week is an average over a 17 week period.

Even if you do opt-out, the next thing an employer comes up against is the minimum wage. You can't be working so many hours that your effective hourly wage is below the legal minimum.

http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/working-time-limits-the-48-hour-w...
How Michael-Jordan still earns 80 million a year
"Burn the heretic! Buuuuuurn him!" is not a productive contribution to discussion.
But that's exactly what their product is trying to do! They are saying you can use their tech to comment and explain anything, not just song lyrics. I like that their eating their own dog food. (I can't say the same for their color choices).
YC invests widely enough that this isn't surprising in the slightest.

Hell, they've funded competing products at least a couple of times.
That is a very good point. I feel badly for the developer. Losing 6 months of work must be a shocking ordeal. I recently had a client not pay me for half of month of work, and that was a bit of shock to my finances. I do think the developer is right close the site till they are paid. For the most part, lawsuits don't work in these situations -- the expense of mounting the lawsuit, and the risk that it might drag on for months or years, means that is often better to simply move on focus on new things. But it is still a sad experience. I wrote about my own experiences here: http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/a-sad-time-at-kaching...
For me, because I am in New York and they are in San Francisco, and the amount of money is fairly small, it doesn't make sense for me to waste any time pursuing it.
The business of government contracting shows these conflicts of interest are real and lead to Billions of $ of waste annually.

There is plenty of competition for government work, but there are many ways to game the system even in the rare truly open/fair competitive bids.
That's what I'm doing with my open-source Bitbeam project. I design the Lego Technic-compatible parts in OpenSCAD. Then the parts are lasercut, milled, or 3d printed. I've shipped several Bitbeam-based robots via Tindie already, and I'm looking to expand my part and kit catalog. Want to help? :-) (Bitbeam.org)
The Google proposal was more full featured than the Mozilla Audio Data API. It provided more functionality baked in vs having to implement it in JS. This was considered important for mobile devices.

Mozilla countered with another proposal, the Stream Processing API (https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/raw-file/tip/streams/StreamProc...) but this was a bit too late.

Another advantage of the Google proposal was they had a spec and implementation from the start. The Mozilla proposal had a wiki page write up and an implementation and I don't think there was as much effort put into promoting it as Google did into theirs.
Ah, I see. Looks like it's the personal position of one minister, there's nothing about widespread support for it in the populace or legislature. Nothing to see here, I guess.
We've opened up #boxen on freenode for questions and discussion. We'll idle there whenever we can.
Facebook received $429 million tax rebate after $1.1B profit
>A society's standards, including moral standards, are not something that has to pass "evidence".

What are you talking about? He is making specific, factual claims, which I quoted. He is not saying "we should do this for moral reasons", he is saying "we need to do this because porn causes violence". There is no evidence that the claim he is using for justification is accurate. Yes, factual claims 'have to pass "evidence"', you don't get to just make shit up to push your personal beliefs on people.

Please take a little more time and care when reading people's posts before you respond to them. When your response is a long tangent based on ignoring the fundamental point of the post you respond to, it doesn't lead to constructive discussion.
Well, if there is no interest in it, and you could be working on something else. You need to weight these decisions.
You fanboys' response to this is so laughable and such a good example that there truly is less and less a difference between this community and reddit with each passing day. So Musk makes rockets that go into outer space, is it so unfathomable that he might also make a shitty car?
The GoPro 3 Black low light performance is quite good (much better than earlier versions).
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Do you have any reason to believe people are actually looking to porn as some sort of instruction manual? Rates of rape (at least in the US) have fallen dramatically over the last two decades, which isn't something you'd expect if men see porn as an information resource.