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> Whether Elon Musk wants to admit it, the Model S does require considerations that we're not used to making with gasoline powered cars.

Admit it? Have they ever denied it? It is an electric car, you need to charge it. Charging it takes longer than filling it with gas. Everybody who thinks they are being profound or daring for pointing this out is frankly just being obnoxious.
I showed Tesla's post to a non-tech (but very smart) colleague and he said "wow, he crushed the New York Times."

That was further than I would have gone with it, FWIW, so I don't think I was leading him to the conclusion.
Nah. Heroku is really nice for rapid development. Some ppl think Heroku suck's for production but imho more outages back in the day... and I assumed it was 'common knowledge' scaling up to 99 dynos as a big no no... that's a lot of VC cheddar...
Yeah, but for those casuals just peaking in, I think there's also an immediate divide between the media and the tech community. The invective here was very much pro-Elon right off the bat, and hasn't favored Border since. But all the other coverage I see in the journalism community is entirely pro NYT.
Especially when driving in the DC - Boston corridor, where there's high speed (by U.S. standards anyway) rail.
The web audio API has sample-accurate scheduling which, in our games and this modern age of procedural audio, is critical.
their tech

Isn't this just a fancy way of embedding footnotes in text inline rather than at the bottom of the page? I don't see this catching on as some sort of new blogging platform.
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Have you ever seen a website fully written in OCaml?
I'm not saying 'burn the heretic'.

I'm saying let's put up a sign at the entrance to the playground saying “play nicely or leave”.
What makes you say that? Hell, why would you even be so obtuse as to bring up this other irrelevant point?
I don't think there's necessarily an implication of the validity of "gateway drugs" there. The same idea crossed my mind, but only if this sort of treatment is not accompanied by anything else.

It's generally agreed that people abuse alcohol because of some sort of underlying problem. If you take the option of alcohol away and do nothing to address the problem, then it's reasonable to assume that they will look elsewhere.
Classless and pointless.

At this point I think rapgenius is just using this as a way to get attention/traffic.
Sure. We can just stipulate though that by "startup" I mean "US technology company".
While I happen to agree with you, I'm trying to make the point that even people emotionally invested in their hatred of pornography should see that this law is faulty. Even if we happened to disagree on the specifics of obscenity, this law is wrong.
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It can make you more sad. Sometimes, I'll see something that's just, "Damn...wow!" and that can make me happy. I still tire of it in about a few weeks, though. Mostly, it just helps make me not-horny for a little while.
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Isn't puppet overkill for this? Seems like a bunch of ruby to build command line arguments. Bash would have been easier. We have a workstation dotfiles which we clone and execute an install script with plugins for oh-my-zsh.
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> It's generally agreed that people abuse alcohol because of some sort of underlying problem.

Is it?
Exactly -- no one wants to start from scratch. Puppet maintains something called, Puppet Forge [1] where anyone can uploads and share their puppet recipes. This goes beyond Puppet Forge, since it is a bundle of scripts that work together, so there is much added value to something like boxen.

[1] http://forge.puppetlabs.com/
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Well, I have one: www.elmalabarista.com
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> Top Gear's first review of the Tesla was "faked"

Didn't they (Top Gear) win the libel suit?

Edit: http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2012/02/23/tesla-libel... seems to indicate they did.
Mozilla had procedural audio generation through <audio> with a simple, documented API back when Chrome couldn't even play non-procedural audio through <audio> properly.

http://phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audio

Procedural audio is also effectively a corner case compared to the vast majority case, which is playing static sounds.
FDR and how he spread electricty and how this applies to the internet
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Ahh, "Soviet Union", the answer to every question about the evils of government. I take it that means you don't really want to discuss that point, as "Soviet Union" is hardly and answer, and as I pointed out nearly every other first world country has a "larger" government that the USA, and they are almost all in better financial shape too.

But we have come full circle, and as I mentioned in my first response free markets are not meant to create a solution for problems whose success is not defined by finding the "fair price" for something. In my books, solution that prevents people from being able to obtain/afford healthcare (and lets be clear, no matter how many "inefficiencies" you might eliminate through deregulation, there will always be a segment of the population that cannot afford to pay for healthcare, just like they cannot afford to pay for housing or food) will never be a success.

But this is all a moot discussion. The likelihood of the United States moving further to the left on healthcare is exponentially higher than the likelihood of the industry being deregulated to the point where you scenario starts to be able to realize real benefits. As-such, if a true "free market" healthcare system is not politically palatable for the country, then I think both of us, and the facts, are all in agreement that a single payer or public system would do a much better job than our current "bastardized part-government part-private" system.
You can't experience death because by definition it is when you cannot experience anything.
Not meant to be entirely serious, but I do think that seeing lots of sociopathic behavior in society does affect interpersonal behaviors.
While RapGenius it right to point out that Heroku was incorrect in describing how their load balancing works. It seems off to blame this exclusively for their performance problems. Plenty of high traffic sites not on Heroku operate just fine using nginx's upstream load balancing, which is simple round robin load balancing, paying no attention to how many requests are being handled currently by a backend.

What seems particularly odd is that rap genius appears to be using their Heroku dynos to serve their css, javascript and certain images. So loading the homepage appears to make about 12 requests that hit their dynos, rather than 1.

If you were looking for low hanging fruit to reduce load on the dinos for a high traffic site, this seems like an obvious place to start, rather than jumping straight to a 'smart' load balancing solution.
I did not say that it would be simple, it would be pretty hard actually. The question is, whether it is worthwhile for people to be investing so much time to make something do something it was not intended to do (I'm not talking just about asm.js but about all the other languages and tools that target JS as well. I feel like these don't really add anything new to the table). And the question is also not whether it is hard or not but whether it is hard compared to similar projects. For example, I'm not convinced that it would be any harder than building a new browser (again I realize that this is super hard, but I'm speaking comparatively).

As to arguing, I prefer the word 'debating'. Also I was under the impression that that is what comments were for. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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The article questioned the honour and motivations of men who stand up for women's rights, calling them: ‘dickless wonders’, posers, ‘bland, craven hacks’, ‘docile, cringing cowards’, ‘buffoons’, ‘spineless’, ‘ostentatiously beta’, either ‘weak and stupid’ or ‘horny’, and ‘lazy, spineless weasel[s]’.
Make a web app that has HN Item list on the left column. Right column displays the story/link but also allow quickly switching between that and the HN comments section.

I'd throw money at you.

I don't need/want a mac app for reading stuff that's available on the web. That just makes me bounce between 1 extra app/window if I want to read/learn more about a certain subject.
You can use Boxen to install Homebrew and then (with puppet modules which you may have to install yourself) you can use Boxen to manage/install Homebrew packages.
with performAcceptanceRoutine(), that cooresponds to an actual global javascript function that must exist, and specifies how (imperative) not what (declarative).

With a class "acceptButton" you are specifying what it is, semantically and declaratively, without reference to some specific procedure that will be carried out, if anything will be done at all. This frees up to a great degree the range of code that you can write to "activate" This html, and also, makes it so that the HTML is not bound to some specific code base, and it can be parsed in situations that explicitly ban javascript.
Where "nicely" is defined, in illegible fine print, to mean "in a manner that does not challenge the views espoused by Zach".
Substantiation:

http://www.dv.is/frettir/2013/1/22/vill-loka-klamid/ (Icelandic source, pre-dates Daily Mail tabloid by weeks)

http://ogmundur.is/annad/nr/6578/ (Interior Minister's viewpoint)

Porn is already banned in Iceland (punishable by prison!), so they're past the free speech arguments. The current discussion is about stronger enforcement. And if I understand correctly, extending criminal punishment to possessing porn, in addition to distributing or publishing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region#Iceland

Iceland and its free-speech friends:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pornography_laws.svg
You actually said "standardized VM," which I took to mean "one VM upon which everybody standardizes."

But even now, it's unclear to me what you mean to be standardized about this VM if not its input and output (as we already have that with JavaScript VMs) and not the implementation. What are you asking for?
This sounds awesome!

That being said, there's not a chance in hell I'd install so much stuff onto my mac.

IMO, Vagrant and VM's in general are what you should use to develop your web applications. (I happen to be opinionated about this :D )

Mainly this is because I believe in matching your production environment for development.

It's also because I'm anal about installing memory-using apps into my little MBA.

However, for things like Minecraft, onepassword, wget, sublime text 2 - this is really awesome.
I think UX success is not measured in how many people you've already inflicted a bad design on, but instead by how many you avoid hurting in the first place.

Why not make the rap explanations look different than a style lots of sites use for regular links? (perhaps a big square around the section or something similar)
I believe the file system key is stored in a special area of storage nearly inside the system-on-chip, making this even more difficult than you'd even have assumed.
JavaScript is essentially a high level VM on the web. That's how Dart uses it.
A funny artifact of Tesla's reaction to the NYT piece is that people are reviewing the Top Gear claims (this time with much more credibility lent to Top Gear).
Guess I can count you out then.

Thanks for the feedback.
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One of my sites is on a Linode VPS. I'm getting this error message when I check to see what is indexable. Any ideas as to what is going on? Main directory files are on /var/www/html/.

Apache 2 Test Page
powered by CentOS

This page is used to test the proper operation of the Apache HTTP server after it has been installed. If you can read this page it means that the Apache HTTP server installed at this site is working properly.
Downtime on Codecademy
Amazon RedShift vs. local PostgreSQL
Ideally you don't have to actually fire the gun for it to be effective.
don't sell anything to rapgenius if you won't be able to make them whole in 7 days or less.
I don't understand why you treat the CNN ride as if it refuted what the NYT did, since it was not the same experiment:

There were some differences with my ride and the one from the New York Times. The weather for mine was about 10 degrees warmer. And I did mine in one day; the reviewer from the Times split it into two.

And the CNN author has some of the same concerns in the end, although not the same output:

On Thursday, I took the same drive -- and I made it to Boston, though not without some anxiety that I would run out of juice.

..

Looking back on the trip, it would be even easier if Tesla would install one of their fast-charging Superchargers along the New Jersey Turnpike.
Sad to see this.
> It seems off to blame this exclusively for their performance problems

There are definitely ways to improve the performance, but you can't measure them since Heroku gives you no way of determining how much time requests spend in the in-Dyno queue. Tho you can modify your app to get New Relic to display this info: http://rapgenius.com/1506509

> What seems particularly odd is that rap genius appears to be using their Heroku dynos to serve their css, javascript and certain images. So loading the homepage appears to make about 12 requests that hit their dynos, rather than 1.

These assets are Cached in Varnish. We serve them without hitting dynos at all
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This is awesome and a long-time coming. If you're setting up a developer box, the last step should deploy to production :)
Whether or not it was a good idea for Musk to respond to the review is almost aside the point. It seems as though that is just a part of his nature. If he wasn't the type of CEO who would respond like that, he likely would also not be the type of CEO who could run SpaceX and Tesla.
I thought exactly the same thing.

But then you find that apparently some very smart people to put (other people's) money into the business - and you're left scratching your head "what am I missing?"
I think people are pretty much utterly confused at this point. Perhaps this was by design, and Elon thought to heed the adage "if you can't convince them, confuse them".

People who like the NYT/dislike Musk side against Tesla, and vice versa.

Elon Musk definitely did not close the case, and to that point he did not handle it well. But there are facts, and there is PR, and it's still unclear to which degree the facts are on Musk's side.
I cannot believe this worked.

This is not a Nash equilibrium if you consider that the students are competing for class rank. Getting 100 percent with everyone else is worse than getting 100 percent and everyone else getting 0.
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You have to define what you mean by "intent" for that to make any sense. Here is Dave Herman, one of the authors of javascript, telling you here is asm.js. you can use compilers to compile to it. Is that not intendy enough for you?
Puppet not only allows you to deploy changes but makes sure they stay. There is something called Puppet Dashboard, that allows you to see all the installed clients, who has a valid config, who is outside that config. This allows you to quickly see machines that need attention. There are some better screenshots here [2].

[1] https://puppetlabs.com/puppet/related-projects/dashboard/

[2] http://bitcube.co.uk/content/puppet-dashboard-six-months
Sadly, not having a relationship can be a cause or… a symptom. Not speculating about this commenter cuz who the hell knows, but… most of the people I've known who were truly alone were people who drove everyone away.
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In fact, if you want to do the icons/design and find an acceptable HN API, I could get it working with the Reddit Notifier source pretty easily. Shoot me an email if interested.
Drift after installation and incremental updates were more of a problem for us than initial installs.
Not necessarily, there are too many variables. The person in question may not own a radio. He may have spent a number of months in hospital because his wife got sick. An older person may have learned one of the facts over twenty years ago, and has since forgotten it. By random chance, one of the facts may have been heard by the candidate 10 minutes beforehand.

In short: it's a good indicator of so many random variables as to be simply an indicator of chaos itself. Don't use anything like this in any kind of test in which the results count - you will invariably get the short end of the stick with one or more candidates. Stick to measures that directly affect the job at hand, and culture fit.
"Oren Teich – Bamboo Routing Performance"

What does that mean? Look, I love Rapgenius for the lyrics and I am as much a fan of eat your dog food as anyone else. But hopefully they are going to go full circle with the philosophy and also listen to user feedback. This user is very confused.
I disagree with the article because Tesla is a famous brand, and the New York Times has enormous readership. This story was going to have legs no matter what Musk did.

By responding so fast, Musk essentially changed the story from "Tesla car on flatbed" to "Tesla car on flatbed might have been faked." Obviously the latter is better for Tesla.

This can work because interest in stories tails off over time. Far fewer people are going to bother to read Broder's rebuttal, than heard about the controversy through a third-party news source (most of whom will not bother to write detailed follow up stories).

In addition, Tesla has a lot of fans, and there is value in taking a bold stand to fire up the troops. Look at how vociferously people have defended Tesla here on HN. And we are definitely the target audience for Tesla.
Wrong, the original article had a "journalist" that has a history of not liking EV. There is plenty of examples of Journalists that was able to actually drive the car without problems. There is plenty of owners that can attest to the car actually working as intended.

It's really really simple, if you don't charge your mobile phone don't expect it to last. Same goes for you car. And since everyone knows how it works with a mobile phone they should be able to see that a Journalist that doesn't charge the car isn't telling the whole story but he has an agenda.
To set up initially, possibly. But this is for maintenance too. Need to install a security patch? Puppet. Need to upgrade versions? Puppet. Want to tweak some setting somewhere? Puppet. Using Puppet makes it stupid easy for us to keep our setups (a) in sync, (b) up to date and secure, and (c) do it without a bunch of hacky scripts that will probably break or not work right in 3 months.
I appreciate Heroku's apology, but it:

1) Understates the problem – It affects not only Bamboo, but all thin (and other non-concurrent web servers) on Cedar. And since thin is the default on Cedar, the problem affects all apps on Cedar by default

2) Understates how long they knew about it – I notified Heroku about the problem INCLUDING the simulation results 3 days before the blog post came out and yet the apology claims they didn't know about the problem until seeing the blog post.
Can you explain the use case where you need need function pointers but closure pointers won't do?
> I've never heard of people in the US carrying around weapons purely in case of road rage, for example.

I've had a friend of mine in Texas give me specific (un-solicted) advice on how to have a gun for protection in case of road rage. (Involving what features not to get, because you don't really need them and they make juries think you're a gun nut itching to shoot someone.)

Also in Texas, once I got out of the car at an intersection so I could let the people in the car ahead know they didn't have their headlights on. I told my friends this had happened, and they all told me, "That's a good way to get shot!"

I've also been advised to have a steel pipe in the car, since it's useful as a "cheater bar" to get more leverage on the lug nut wrench as well as for self defense.
Would be really nice to have some feedback =)
Are the accounts reasonable because they say it's a very nice car or is it a very nice car because reasonable accounts say so?
"Russian guy suffers the most"

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RussianGuySuffers...

Universe agrees with it: Tunguska and "УФО" are both in Russia.

I suppose that all other world can relax: something bad or REALLY BAD will go on head of "russkie"

(It was a joke)
Are sysadmins really the target audience? At first glance it seems the intent of Boxen is to get your developer tools installed and configured.

I guess how useful it is for a sysadmin would depend on whether changes are pushed automatically to the macs.
I'd think that the iPhone made smartphones mainstream.
Musk says Broder was deliberately driving in a place where there was no easy access to a charging station. Yet Broder focuses on the fact that during their phone call Musk did apologize and offer to do a second test. But he's not addressing the fact that Musk clearly writes out that Broder did purposefully pick a spot where he couldn't easily charge the car.

When you say "deliberately driving in a place where there was no easy access to a charging station", are you referring to Broder choosing to use the Milford CT Supercharger station, or the choice of an East Coast route?

Because if you are referring to the former, the Milford station is the only choice along the route if your ride is restricted to Supercharger networks (as was the entire basis of the article): http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger

If you are referring to the idea to test drive the car along the Northeast Corridor relying on only Supercharger stations, the idea was proposed by Tesla to the New York Times.
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"Your Recommended Daily Allowance of Drama."
So, original article's thesis seems to be: "It is a colossal waste of time to tweet about demographics during a presentation where something else is being discussed."

The article then goes on to substantiate this thesis, using claims and rhetoric that aren't, in my opinion, worth the packets they're printed on.

However, the thesis--valid or not--is a decent point for discussion.

Zack did not raise to the occasion, and instead rallied about tarring and feathering the author (and other people in the community with similar views. He suggested that the companies purge themselves of any affiliation with the article's original author, and without even specifying why this was valid.

Simply put, this is crude demagoguery. I'll confront it head on: Why in the world would you categorically cut ties with anyone whose opinions on an unrelated matter you don't agree with?

By your logic, Haber should be stricken from the history books.
> These assets are Cached in Varnish. We serve them without hitting dynos at all

Ahh gotchya, was under the mistaken impression that rapgenius.com pointed directly at Heroku. Didn't realize there was a varnish layer in between.
Overexposing yourself online is the default
Repeating someone's experiment but changing several of the variables (temperature, overnight stop versus all-in-one-day) does not refute the experiment.
But how about if that fiction was itself based on life?

Ibogaine, a hallucinogen from Africa, has been a folk remedy (with some medical evidence) for addiction for over a hundred years, and (appropriate for a Tintin reference) 1st came to European attention via French and Belgian explorers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine#History