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Just to be precise, the windows open when holding the unlock button, and close when holding the lock button.
The difference between theory and practice is ... Nah, forget it, theory is always wrong.

Anyone who drives in the cold knows this is wrong. You turn the set point to 90 at the start of the trip, because the built-in logic is going to drive the fans harder when the delta between ambient and set point is higher, and the car will warm up faster. Yes, in theory the software should recognize that. But, in practice.... Nah, forget it. Theory is always wrong.
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Because people are self-interested to the extreme, and powerful, domineering sociopaths can easily manipulate them by setting up incentive structures that play to that self-interest. Individuals and small groups of North Koreans have certainly tried to subvert the leadership--but they simply ended up in the prison camps that the article describes, because everyone else would rather stab them in the back for a reward than assist them and face certain death or imprisonment. This isn't to say that the North Korean populace is stupid or immoral. They are merely powerless. The rules of the game are so perverse, that the players don't even matter. Put any humans in that society and they will behave the same, because there is no other choice--you either play by the rules or you die.

This incentive structure is so firmly entrenched that the death of Kim Jong-Il did precisely nothing. The hydra simply sprouted a new head. (And I'd argue that a Hitler assassination would likely have had the same outcome.)

There is not going to be a North Korean revolution to overthrow the Kim regime. Even if the younger Kim trips up politically and is backstabbed and supplanted by another ambitious psychopath from among the political elite, he will also find the current structure beneficial. But if that person cannot cement their power and the elite descends into infighting and schism, there could be a reform as the factions compete for power (this is what happened in the USSR and PRC).

The only other way the Kims will ever be deposed is through outside military action, and they know it--that's why they are armed to the teeth.
Maybe you're underestimating the pressure society can put on individuals. And overestimating the "freedom of choice" individuals really have.

If you look at it from the outside it's easy to fall in the conclusion that very few people people benefit from the regime (let's say ~0.1%). But that's only looking from a very global perspective. From each individual's perspective, some people have more privileges than others. In that sense, the people on DPRK are really not that different from you and i. We also try to live better in the the way we know and we believe that we can live better. For example, maybe if i lived in a society where the people are used to raise against corrupt governors then i'd believe that that would be the way to live better, and i'd act accordingly; but i don't, so i look for other ways to live better... ways that might not be the best for society as a whole (e.g. try to raise enough money to pay for privileged private education; even though it would be better for the whole t have a good public education system). The circumstances around us and the people at DPRK can vary a lot, but that essence, i think, still holds. We can't choose to do what we don't believe in.

To put things into perspective, imagine what a non-imprisoned person at DPRK knows and what could she believe in. She knows that she is not as bad as the people in the concentration camps, that's for sure. She probably also knows that outside NK people live better, but how could she believe that she could escape, or change the society she lives in? She knows that the government would put her in those concentration camps if she tried to do anything suspicious. Not revealing attempts of escape/treason is considered enough to put you in those concentration camps, and she knows that. So she will act according to her knowledge and what she believes she can do. If she sees someone trying to escape, the best thing to do, for her life, is to tell the authorities about it. And let's go a bit higher in order of thought: she knows that the people around her will probably think the same way, so she knows she has little chances of escaping/changing something without getting caught.

That is, i think, in a very simplified way, the thought process behind those dysfunctional societies. And, sadly, it's, in essence, the same thought process that prevents other (maybe less dysfunctional) societies from doing something to really help.
Ogallala is the name of the Aquifer under the area and it is a horribly misspelled version of a Lakota tribe.
We don't have any dirty secrets
> My problem is that it was opt-out, not opt-in, from the start, and they tried to deceive bloggers further by making sure we don't see the ads when we look at our own pages.

If true that is a lot nastier than it seemed so far.
There are many other ways for a free service to make changes like this. Grandfathering existing users, to name one example which probably would have made jacques a lot happier.
There was an NPR Radio Lab (?) about this recently I believe.
x86 is a total store order memory model so any ASM MOV instruction that writes to a memory address will eventually be seen when the store buffer drains. In code we must ensure the write is not register allocated. This is achieved by the use of lazySet() as described in the article.
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Alerting every single one of their users of an upcoming change before it occurs is sneaky?
Sorry, no. The original NYTimes map makes it very clear the Groton overnight stop (point ⑤) is at the 399 mile mark (114+133+73+79):

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2013/02/10/automobiles/10t...

And, the points on Musk's graph at ~399 and ~401 very closely match the reported night-before (90 mile) and morning (25 mile) range readouts.

The big drop, almost like a charging straightline in reverse -- is at mile 400. Some have suggested it's the battery's own self-heater which prevents it from getting too cold; that makes sense, but I'd love to see an official Tesla reference to that effect, if it's sufficient to explain the charge drop.
Yes. Broder's failure to plug the car in overnight already gave his story a fishy smell, even before Tesla's response.
Agreed, I seriously wouldn't recommend sending that information online at all, but the unfortunate thing is that some people send it through email anyway. A more appropriate use case would be to send a secret that isn't damning, but that you'd just prefer wouldn't stick around in someone's inbox.
'Lead Score'?
Let's just say that I find an opt-out change of a comment engine to an advertising tag that states that I recommend certain products and services using stealthy advertising a non negotiable move, no matter what your terms of service say.
I've had good luck testing sites with LoadImpact. Give the free one a try.
Well, you put it in a much more succinct and clearer way than i did. Thanks for the clear explanation.
London will always be the exception, but given the number of user groups already held in Bristol that manage to get around 50-100+ people in a month with ease I think that Bristol would be the natural choice outside of London.

Whether a HN meetup would be successful or not is another story. It'd be entirely down to who would choose to organise it and what they could offer to local HN members.
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I have no idea how your comment relates to anything I wrote. Oil employees a lot of people. The reporter's comment was factual. If we are talking subsidies then "green" isn't exactly dieting at the federal trough.
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Almost every (large) country is practically empty.

Japan - 4/5 of territory is inhabitable.
China - the same.
Russia - Siberia is almost inhabited.
Thanks! Asana has certainly helped my productivity since I started to use it.
I believe at least in Android and iOS the browsers do share the same components.
> 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?

If everyone shares the same underlying implementation, then standards are meaningless: The standards body can say whatever they want, but in practice all that will matter is what actually runs on the single implementation.

If there is a bug in that implementation, everyone will code around that bug. If there is more than one way to implement a feature in the standard, people will code for the way in the single implementation. And if there are extra non-standardized features in the single implementation, people will use those.

So the standard will be meaningless. Does that matter? In the short term perhaps not. But the only reason WebKit could achieve what it achieved was that there was a strong standard. IE's dominance was broken and multiple browsers existed, and WebKit could render the same pages by supporting the same standard.

It was hard to break IE's dominance, and if WebKit becomes the new single implementation, it will be similarly hard to make it possible for a new browser to show up.

Does that matter? Well, when there is a standard, you can write a better codebase that renders the same content. WebKit, like all other current browsers, is written in C++. That language is less secure and parallel processing friendly than other languages. If someone wants a better browser than WebKit by using another language, that will only be possible if there are standards for web content - otherwise, it will be a chase after WebKit specific bugs and features. Bug parity/bug-for-bug compatibility is extremely difficult to achieve, and becomes harder as the web includes more and more content. So it will be harder to break a WebKit dominance than an IE one.
See, here's the thing: this kind of stuff happens in journalism all the time. The journalist decides on what to write before they even begin their investigation (i.e. test drive), and their decision affects the way they conduct said investigation. They become majorly affected by confirmation bias and leave out or distort important details (i.e. driving around in circles in the parking lot).

The only reason Broder got called out in this specific case is because he made the mistake of going against one of the most intelligent, ambitious and accomplished figures in the tech industry - who expected the kind of shenanigans Broder would try to pull and therefore logged the test-drive data. He poked the wrong bee hive.
Here is the interesting thing about the US (I almost typed America, but we all know America also includes places like Canada and Mexico and Chile, etc.): everyone believes that s/he is in an counter-culture. By that I meant every single person seems to hold to a belief that s/he belongs to a special clique, or holds on to unique ideology.

Reading the article, the things should jump out to you:
1. all of the points are no secret!
2. All of those points are the mainstream. Frankly. Facebook was cool, I don't know, 5, 6 years ago? The crusade against Facebook started 2 years ago already, and the anti industrial food started at least a decade ago. All of these believes are now, surprised!, mainstream.
3. all of the listed end notes are common sense that every single fucking person will agree to.

So, what's so "coming" about those things? what's so "counter"-culture about those things?

Ah, the US-ian mind. What a wonderfully ignorant thing.
I don't think that even faster JS engines would improve overall performance of web apps significantly. DOM performance seems to be the bottleneck currently and another arms race in this area would be beneficial for the web.
I flagged this article because I think Disqus is providing a great service free of charge. They give you the possibility to turn the ads off and if you turn them on, you actually get a cut! Sounds like a good deal to me.

The negativity and sense of entitlement in this post is very strong and frankly unbearable to me, I hope it won't ruin the Disqus guys day. Making it opt-in would have been a ridiculously bad financial decision as they would have lost revenue from millions of sites already. I hope this change will help the company be profitable and improve their product.
Lousy education, lousy average pay vs other places, lousy level of social services.

Sure, we've got a lower cost of living than most places, but I'd argue that we've also got a lower quality of life.

When the oilfield is hot, we have lots of high paying jobs for people. Fortunately for us, it's hot right now. What they'll all do when the current boom dries up, I haven't any idea.
Though I would expect that from "militiaman21" ;-)

However, the local food movement needs to talk more about yield. It doesn't appear that humanity can sustain itself this way - small communities perhaps, but it's a first world luxury.

Also, "food miles" is a BS metric, the biggest energy sink is fertilizer (by far!). Ammonium Nitrate is made by fossil fuel + air - you are mostly eating energy from natural gas, not the sun, it would seem.
Re: the section on Wikipedia, I found the author's disagreement with Wiki's definition of NoSQL non-nonsensical and trolling. 1st off, the definition itself has a reference to nosql-database.org, which is a list of NoSQL dbs. On that site, there is an acknowledgement of the controversy around the "not only SQL" definition of NoSQL.

Second off, what is the author talking about with the caption of Jimmy Wales "Jimmy Wales would like you to donate to Wikipedia, so we can have a clearer description of the most exciting thing to happen to data in 40 years"

That is not what happens when you donate to Wikipedia. Donating to Wikipedia will not make the articles better or the definitions clearer. Only YOU can do that, since Wikipedia is the encyclopedia everyone can edit, and YOU can edit it to make it better.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm kind of tired of people writing blog posts that are "hurr durr Wikipedia got this one thing wrong and instead of pressing the edit button and correcting it, I'm going to write a blog article about how Wikipedia sucks"
We did have a business model. Jason didn't talk about it much, but if you look at my original post and Brandon's more in depth post it's there.

Was it a billion dollar business? Probably not, unless we owned most of the space if not all the space. This was inconceivable when you looked at the players.
IBM has been in the process of leaving Vermont for a decade. The writing isn't just on the wall, they've been actively shedding everything other than the line. If I remember correctly it was blamed on the state of VT not giving them favorable enough treatment. It was so long ago I don't remember exactly what happened with the state, but they were going to axe one of the plants at either Essex VT or Fishkill NY no matter what VT/NY did.

More generically speaking, IBM has been getting worse at seeing past the next quarter. I know people that got the boot in the first big round of VT layoffs that make much more money to keep doing their same old job, for the same plant, just this time as sub-sub-sub-contractors.
This is mind-boggling, it's like every comment starts a new, out-of-context discussion. The context here is someone purposedfully continuing to drive the car after it's empty and the "car bricking under normal use" comment. In your example it wouldn't be bricked.
You accused me of trolling, misconstrued my argument, then ranted about environmental issues out of the blue.

I calls 'em like I sees 'em.
This happened last year to one of the sites I manage which uses Disqus. I did not receive notice either, it just happened. And after I turned it off, it got turned on again in December.

Like Jacques I found this incredibly annoying. But unlike Jacques, I decided that the annoyance was outweighed by the convenience that Disqus gives me. We went with Disqus because it was a good UI and easy to implement--that has not changed. I just have placeholder now to check that setting every month or so.
If you're going to make such an accusation you should be much more careful with your wording.
90 is not a "comfortable" setting, though.

I agree completely that's what you do in cold weather. I do that every morning with my car. But after 3+ hours in the car, it's pretty unlikely that you'd lower the temperature at that point.

EDIT: Downvotes? Really? If the car's climate control is controlled entirely by a thermostat, then setting the temperature up to 90 will warm it faster when it's cold, but once it's warmed up the cabin, you set the temperature to something comfortable(say, 70). You don't turn it off, because the climate control system is supposed to be doing that automatically.
Thank you for reminding me to check if I could finally delete my account - I can and I did. It was impossible to delete accounts due to an "issue" in their system for the last 3 or 4 months and was only fixed within the couple few weeks. I only realized it because I found posts that I'd made anonymously years prior were showing up when I Googled my name. I was horrified. These posts were just one-off comments that served no benefit to being associated with my primary account, but the idea that this was happening to people hoping to stay anonymous in more serious situations was still eye-opening.

I assume that comments left without being logged into a Disqus account (but while passively logged into a Gmail account) were automatically associated with your email and indexed by Google under your real name without any verification on your end. Disqus thinks that this is some sort of beneficial feature rather than a potential breach of privacy, and has you go through and remove these posts after-the-fact. There was no way to disassociate the comments from my account than to delete them, so while I didn't actually want to remove the comments from the contexts they were in, I had no choice.

Today it tells you that there are "guest comments" that are associated with your email address, and asks if you'd like to merge them, but doesn't show you what they are nor is there an option to delete them before merging. I don't want to merge comments into my account that I can't even see first, and I'd much rather delete my account entirely than risk having them continue to be associated with my namesake.

These things, in addition to these suggested ads which are disguised as posts also written or endorsed by the author and in my experience totally unrelated if not straight-up offensive (saw a recommended link on a serious blog promoting an article on some famous floozy's nip slip) have completely put me off to using Disqus and commenting on sites that utilize it. Whether or not they are deliberately trying to be shady or if their UX just sucks, it isn't worth it to me.
They could just release an unusable copy without the third-party components, and leave the replacement to the community.
Again...to call it a "ridiculous" path is begging the question. It only matters if it is a feasible path. Given the one-way flow-of-traffic as marked by Google, and the lack of information that we have on signage, no, it does not seem comically stupid.

What is comically stupid is that this NYT reporter, in an attempt to bring down Tesla, didn't realize that a far less detectable way to drain a car's battery (electric or gas) is just to leave the car on without moving and go watch a movie...even with non-GPS-enabled cars, it's possible to record the mileage of a vehicle by looking at its odometer. You'd think someone in the pocket of Big Oil would've driven enough gas-cars to realize that, right?
I don't get it. I'm reading all the comments and most seems to be defending what are clearly some blatant lies. Of course there are things in there where we can argue if it is overly nitty that Elon says the guy is driving 61 when the guy says he was driving 55, but maybe we should focus on the stuff that was clearly a lie?

The reviewer was instructed to fully charge the car at a station, he did not, and was then surprised how low his range got. If I stopped at a gas station and put 5 gallons in, when I knew I needed 6 and faulted the manufacturer in a NYT review I shouldn't be allowed to be a journalist anymore.

The reviewer goes on to write about how cold it was after turning the heat down at 182 miles, when he actually turned the heat up, I mean, how does one even begin to explain? Oops, I thought to turn the heat down you turn the dial clockwise?

He then goes on to talk about how he set the cruise control to 55, when he went under 60 for about 15 total seconds in the first half of the trip. It looks like the cruise control MAY have been set to like 60-62mph, but why not use those numbers? Oh hey, because the ones he made up made tesla look worse, see the theme here? He later goes on to say he drove 45 while the graph clearly shows he never went below ~52.

How do you guys defend something like this? Are we just that okay with lying as a society now? I can pick out 5-6 blatant lies in this story, but apparently the fact that some of these are debatable makes it okay to lie in a bunch of other situations? How does that work?
"When hyperthreading is enabled these registers are shared between the co-located hyperthreads."

How does that work? I thought each HT had its own registers - otherwise, wouldn't that add a lot of complication and overhead? And does that mean if I disable HT, a program can double the available registers? Wouldn't that need different machine code?
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The charging stations take one hour to fully charge the 85 Kwh Model S that was test-driven. A 30-minute charge would give the vehicle enough juice for 150 miles of travel.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77299.html
Rather vapid/no content article I thought. "Like a CEO" with no reference to why CEO's must, or do (based on the recommendations) use Google Tasks and Asana.

One would think an article based on a CEOs level of function would focus primarily on prioritization and delegation.

This article is sort-of focusing on Sales oriented roles, which barely makes reference to delegation at all.

Edit: the only organizational tips is: Google Tasks for personal, Asana for work (two work-flow task programs to stay organized?). Use Asana for projects.
>Yes you do, you have a vote. Each party standing for election presents a set of policies some of which include spending policy. The elected party then has a mandate to spend as per the policies outlined. That's how democracy works (well, how it's supposed to work).

The latter part of your statement is what I agree with. We all know the theory, but we live the practice of democracy. And some of us have gradually quit buying into it.

>And let's think about this a little further. Let's say the government doesn't take any money off you and everyone has to fend for themselves. Now, some people with more money are in a position to manipulate those with less money, and we are suddenly ruled by unelected corporations etc. Some argue it's like that already.

I'd agree that it is essentially how things are already. The state-corporate partnership is quite a beast. Political influence is bought and sold as easily as stocks are.

>This is all pretty standard left vs. right stuff.

The left/right thing breaks down pretty quickly if you find that you loathe all of the major political parties our time. If you're a classical libertarian (or anarchist, depending on the term one prefers), for instance, there isn't a major party for you almost by definition.