skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, that's just silly. Five years from now there will be so many people driving electric cars that anyone looking back on this headline will just laugh.

Of course we are early in the EV era, so road trips are more difficult than they would be with a gas car, but this is a temporary condition. The electrical grid already goes everywhere, so it's just a matter of building the charging stations, and charging stations are cheap.

I personally know three people who have bought electric cars - a Tesla roadster, a Tesla Model S, and a Mitsubishi Mi-EV - and all three are happy with them and use them for regular city driving. The guy with the MiEV has taken his car on a couple of long road trips - once from Seattle down to California and back, and another time on a long loop east around the Cascades. The guy with the Model S says he actually thinks about his car's range less then he does with his gas-powered car, because he never has to take it to a station: he just plugs it in when he gets home every night, and it's always ready to go in the morning.

What's more, even if it is more difficult to take an electric car on a long road trip, the vast majority of driving happens within 25 miles of home. People wealthy enough to buy a Tesla generally have two cars anyway, so even if there's no Supercharger network between you and the next city, who cares? That's what your gas car is for. It's a hybrid fleet instead of a hybrid car.
Would you mind posting (potentially redacted) copies of those emails, just so that we can get an idea of what was involved in GoogleOS? It would be nice if some of the people you worked with piped up to tell us more about this too. I suppose that they will see what is happening and do so some time soon anyway as this is getting quite a bit of exposure.

For everyone else, here's confirmation of the patent - Jeff's name is indeed on it: http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...

> Inventors:	Nelson; Jeffrey (Mountain View, CA)

This seems legitimate to me and, frankly, the responses from Peter Kasting and other Google employees look to be immature and childish. Perhaps most Google employees are not as professional and high caliber as they appear on the surface.
> Yeah, there are really two major problems with the story. First, that he drove off with 32 miles left. Even if they did say it was okay, a rational consumer would be pretty skeptical.

And someone who had an axe to grind, or who might benefit from pictures of a Tesla being towed, might decide differently.
As the reporter noted, and Tesla itself has confirmed, the charging meter gets decalibrated in extremely cold weather (i.e., near or below freezing) and does not accurately state the charge level of the battery.

In a nutshell, the decais the root cause of the scandal.

Note that this problem is shared with all other EVs currently on the market (i.e., the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf). It's a basic problem of physics and chemistry.
That stuck out for me and I think he is being dishonest with his delicate wording. They didn't clear him to go, as he suggests. They told him that it would be ready in an hour.

He also explains that he drove past a station "because no one made him aware of it". That smells like wordplay too. He was probably aware of it, and any reasonable owner of the car would probably be aware of it, or be well equipped to look it up. The map of charging stations is quite easy to find. He surely had an internet capable phone for backup.

Instead, he made an extra support call, and when they gave him bad advice, he took the opportunity to maliciously comply. After 12 support calls, if you want to cherry pick bad advice that seems inconsistent with your expectations, you can probably find something.

I think Elon was wrong in some of his claims, but I think the review was still dishonest.
I live in Califonia, but since I do not live in SV (or anywhere with a noticeable tech scene), my answer must be because it is a nice place.

Anyone hiring in Santa Barbara? SB is my eventual goal.
Maybe do a poll by country then.
Ask HN: Which Saas apps have given your team an outsized return in productivity?
In our startup, we have tried TONS of apps and a few apps have really changed the quality of our work. For us, its been Github/Bitbucket, Trello, and Dropbox. What's yours?
If one MUST live in a city, I vote Chicago.
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ is better.
You have the notification goto the room for the relavent Team/Project. Then only people who are in those rooms (even when offline!) get those notifications.
There's still no way to contact you in your profile. The e-mail field is not visible to others, it's for password resets.
Just redo the drive test ! The easiest way to see who is speaking the truth.
This is great! Can't wait until they add steering, gas, and brake to the API.
Cocoonjs, ejecta and now gameclosure all implement html5 canvas with opengl. With them, I've found rendering performance to be almost as good as native games. The update loop becomes the bottleneck.
Curious.

Is this logical: cruise control ==> less (speed up / slow down) ?

So: no cruise control ==> more (speed up / slow down) ?

Do you believe the Tesla advice was to turn off cruise control to conserve battery? or do you think the times reporter is making that up?

Disclaimer: don't know much about Tesla implementation of cruise control.
Hipchat for 20 users is $40/month. If a single programmer on that team making $40/hr or more spends an hour setting up a "free" solution (an irc server, for example), that team loses money. Getting a free solution set up with all of hipchat's niceties across multiple platforms (and a web interface) will usually take longer than that.
From the NYT Company's "Guidelines on Integrity" [1]:

"... it is imperative that The Times and its staff maintain the highest possible standards to insure that we do nothing that might erode readers’ faith and confidence in our news columns. This means that staff members should be vigilant in avoiding any activity that might pose an actual or apparent conflict of interest and thus threaten the newspaper's ethical standing. And it also means that the journalism we practice daily must be beyond reproach."

[1]http://www.nytco.com/company/business_units/integrity.html
The whole thing hinges on whether you're stupid enough to leave Norwich without sufficiently charging.

Do the same run a hundred more times, and nobody will fail as long as they exercise that basic amount of care. In that sense, reproduction is pointless. We already know the result, within a margin of error.
"Broder told a complicated story and put a poetically negative spin on it."

I will never forget when my friend and I released an iPhone app, and two years later Apple comes out with a product of the same name. My friend got contacted by a reporter asking these innocuous questions, for instance "do you expect Apple to remove your app from the App Store?". He said he doesn't expect any problems, but that we're willing to talk about it with Apple.

The headline? "Indie developer braces for legal battle over app named ###"

Looking back on it, the questions the reporter asked were absolutely leading questions to suit his own (anti-Apple) agenda. This is why anyone talking to the press needs to be very careful what they say.
> As a group, journalists simply get a great number of things wrong and cannot be relied on for detail oriented work.

Something is very wrong here. If the way you conduct business has nearly equal probability of pissing off innocent people unjustly as it has of making wrongdoers hot under the collar, isn't it time to revisit how you do things?
Old news, but still, very cool technology. If I had the money, I would want to do a PhD on how this technology could be used to start actually understanding the scene - I.e. try to segment out items in the scene, estimate physical properties, then use physics models to try to explore affordances, etc... The goal being to go from a series of images of a scene to a set of annotated objects that could be used by a planning system. No so much "What can I see here" as "What can I do with what I see in front of me". An artificial MacGyver of a sort.
I know if I had my car say "32 miles" and I know I need to go 62 miles, I'd request explicit confirmation from the techs that it's OK. I've been with computers long enough to know supporting somebody remotely is very hard as the person on the other side assumes you can see what they see. Being on the user's side, then, requires you to explicitly state all relevant information, and ensure the supporter is aware of it, otherwise his mental picture of what's going on may be entirely wrong, and you may get very wrong advice.
As I said, I work on about 8 codebases concurrently (shared across just two or three projects). I can't have 8 chat rooms open, that's just silly. Every time I want to find a window I will have to cycle through them.
Use different rooms (with relavent people in each room), or make your bot smarter (we do both). You could easily make it so a given user could 'subscribe' to a project by sending a message to the bot. i.e. '@companybot subcribe xyz-service'. Then have the bot keep track of those and automatically at-message the interested people upon failures etc. IMO opinion, different rooms are still better, because it brings everyone together when there's an issue also, but it depends how large an organization you have.
Maybe you aren't so hot either. Tell me, what do 19-inch and 21-inch specify? The outer diameter of the tire or the DIAMETER OF THE RIM?
This may just be me sounding like a broken record here, but if anything this page makes me more upset than the last similar page being linked on the author's website.

This person is using the IP of other, living individuals, without their permission, explicitly in order to promote his own book and consulting services, for profit. He previously did it with Command and Conquer and now he is doing it with Prince of Persia. While in the case of C&C you could say 'it's EA, who cares', Jordan Mechner is a hard working, brilliant individual who has poured his life and soul into advancing the state of the art in game design, and arguably in storytelling as well. It offends me to see his work treated with this degree of disrespect.

To be clear, I don't think there's anything wrong with messing around and trying to recreate the look and feel of the old PoP. Even if it's technically illegal, the use of the original sprites doesn't bug me. What bugs me is the shameless use of the work for personal gain without even the slightest hint of respect for the original author.

In both cases you could also easily make the argument that these are active IPs that have been used in the recent past, and that the games ported could easily be a source of profit for the original creators (or the current license holders). A Prince of Persia game and movie were released as recently as 2010, and a Command and Conquer product was released in 2012.
Quite the spread. This is interesting as many HN submissions aren't locale specific.
This is probably as good a time as any to rehash Mike Montiero's talk 'Fuck You, Pay Me' http://vimeo.com/22053820

I've been instructed to do things like this by past employers and I've never been comfortable with it. There are other avenues to persuing payment for services than defacing someone's property (assumption on my part, admittedly) and creating a firestorm of hatred to be imposed upon them in other mediums and venues.

To me, this is childish and an attempt at trying the easy way out of a situation.

Always have contracts, always get paid in installments. If you cannot get those things from clients, then you do not want them as clients.
If it improves your productivity more than $2 a month, then its more than worth it. For us, it was a no-brainer after we started using it. Giving everyone access to everyone both asynchronously and real-time is so powerful. We used IRC and Campfire before, and neither gained as broad adoption internally.
>They blew us off and responded by filing the community trademark application claiming the exclusive right to use "Python" for software, servers, and web services - everywhere in Europe. //

I'm not a TM lawyer by a long shot but this looks like a knee-jerk response to an entirely frivolous claim.

Python lacks distinctiveness in the category covering software because it describes a long standing computer language and is moreover already associated with other companies, such as PSF. OHIM or whoever is assessing the application have to refuse the grant on this basis otherwise there would be a severe curtailment to the ability for practitioners in the field to describe basic and essential tools without confusion.

To grant such a term as a trademark, an indicator that goods and services carrying the mark "python" originate with Veber/Pobox, would be an absolute travesty akin to granting someone a mark for Jeans or Denim in the relevant categories for clothing.

It worries me slightly to see that this appeal has been made because it suggests a deficiency in legal counsel; unless the intention is to counter-sue.

Trademark primacy can be established by long term use but holding a domain name with a mark in [particularly one like Python that is established as a {non-registered?} trade mark already, eg of PSF] doesn't demonstrate use of a trade mark for trade. Moreover as I understand the TM law in the UK/EC it should [according to statute] be impossible for anyone to register a trade mark from under you, that is you would still be able to continue your prior usage of the term. In this respect a RTM is somewhat like a patent, you can't prevent someone from continuing in their prior [public] usage. As a quibble grant of a registered trademark doesn't necessarily give exclusive rights for this very reason.

On a side note, it seems they are also only applying for an image mark? That would make the claim that they're trying to prevent your use of the term Python wrong, they can only prevent you using their image or one confusingly like it as I understand it.

FWIW the earliest CTM relevant Vienna class 9 application I could find was from an individual in Germany from 2002 (002567972) and that the use was for something to do with automobile tuning (see eg http://www.offroad-forum.de/viewtopic.php?t=11763&start=...). PSF have an established use before that.
I hear this often. Is this really a good idea? I have thought of it, but I wonder, am I just going to move all the way out there, and then I still won't find anything? What then. I guess I could just sit here and do nothing too, I guess that would be similarly effective. I would like to think that what you suggest is true. I hope that it is. I don't know why I have so many doubts without even actually attempting it. Maybe a visit out there would be a good idea to break this way of thinking.
"small claims" generally only deals with issues under $5000
Taking someone to small claims court over state lines is exceedingly difficult, let alone in another country.

How is a "timebomb" not legal? I think Microsoft call its version of this "Genuine Advantage". And the shareware community calls this a Trial Period.
I have found mistakes in (other people's!) Excel spreadsheets that amounted to (real) 6 figure problems...
Then again a replacement system would probably cost about the same.
Ask HN: Is there any Python Dev Bootcamp?
Just got rejected by Ruby guys at Dev Bootcamp... I really want to go through a ten week intense training on Python/Django, but can't seem to find one.
"I've noticed a very high overlap between techies and hippies..."

Have you seen The Net?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doQAwLb-DEE
In other words, Quora is trapped in a local maxima.
We don't have a bot. Every service that does notification uses the native plugin to do so; Errbit has a Campfire plugin, Jenkins has one, etc.

While we could possibly write a custom bot that centralized everything and tied all the services together, that is going to be a fair amount of work for something that ought to exist already.
I don't think it's a problem, since the author already released the original source code on GitHub.

https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
The worst UX you can get on an iPhone
"To me, Musk comes across as an out-of-touch engineer who keeps trying to argue the technical case and insists it's the customer's fault--it couldn't possibly be a faulty design, confusing U.I., or marketing not realizing a common (mis)use case. "

Fully agree. This is a great case study for other startups on what not to do.
If you have a million dollars and have not done anything for 276 days, why wouldn't you just try it out?
Game= strategy, not XBox.
The tiles do not fit perfectly for me in Firefox 18.0.2 on Linux Mint 13: http://i50.tinypic.com/34ihh6a.png.
While I applaud your dedication such as taking time to travel to S Korea and N Korea, I think you are getting mixed up at which building the US soldier was calling as fake. Basically you are claiming to have discovered US to be lying when in fact you probably misunderstood what the US soldier at DMZ was explaining.

The N Korean's 'visitor' building within the JSA security area (aka Panmoonjum) is obviously not fake. But there is a FAKE village, visible from the south side. You can see it from south side. It's the village with the TALLEST flag pole in the world.

And let's assume that even the buildings in the village were real, it's still a fake village because NO ONE lives in the buildings.

And I should remind you your visiting N Korea tacitly supports the brutal regime that is oppressing the poor N Koreans. Every single dollar you spent when to the regime.
It seems like you're more offended because the project directly promotes his for profit work rather than how he's using someone elses IP without permission.

If he called it a PoP clone, and didn't re-use the sprites, I feel like you'd still be a little mad.

Just playing devil's advocate though, I otherwise agree with you.
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time [2011]
yes, you can do it from your options
http://www.google.com/reviews/t

and there's a Chrome extension
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-...
No, lbs don't inspect established streams. The lb will periodically send requests to a known uri as a health heck instead. The problem is when the health check uri isn't indicative of availabilty. (Hint: it never is)

Nope, don't do this either. Unless you like getting pages because things are working?
There's at least a 1995 European patent application and ~500 others [listed on Google patents for Europe] up to 2009 mentioning python programming language.

In 2009 there's EP2109040A2 which demonstrates a European usage of python by a skilled practitioner in the art specifically to designate the language stewarded by PSF .
"Please understand that this does NOT constitute a grant of rights of any kind in Prince of Persia, which is an ongoing Ubisoft game franchise. Ubisoft alone has the right to make and distribute Prince of Persia games."
It's not small claims unless this consultant did something wrong.
You could probably go either way on that strategy. If you had this capability, and you suspected your adversary may be malicious, it is probably better to keep quiet and then destroy their credibility afterwards. If they are malicious, and know that they are being monitored, they might be more inclined to keep you blind to them. If Tesla knows that the monitoring can be disabled (it obviously can - how easily is the question), or thinks a reporter might go so far as to switch cars, they probably would not want the monitoring known.

On the other hand, if I had very little monitoring ability, I would probably overstate these abilities so that the adversary doesn't test them.

Broder's implication that there is a privacy scandal there seems like a weak distraction. Elon said plainly that they do not monitor customers by default, but they turn this on for reviewers, citing the Top Gear review scandal. This is totally reasonable, and so is lying to a reviewer about whether or not it is enabled (even if they didn't lie). It's not comparable to lying to customers.
"If the support person gave different advice, he was setting himself and his company for the mess up, and the mess up ensued."

This is why we need the call logs. And I fully suspect Tesla records them, so the fact that it wasn't released may suggest that Broder's account was indeed correct
Cheesy Valentine API Story
“Bridge” Design Residencies Will Offer Plum Jobs At Path, Pinterest, And Airbnb
Please see the Editor's Note attached to this article: Arooj Ahmad plagiarized excessively.
This is a very popular tactic, easy to game. Enjoy it while it lasts, because it won't be much longer ...

https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-please%20include%20the%20wor...
That is correct. I grew up exposed to a lot of casual IP violation in the indie game making scene and RPG Maker community, so I'm willing to tolerate a lot. The huge ad on the right and the layout of the author's consulting page is what upsets me the most.

Game clones are a pretty sticky subject as well but I feel like they at least have a long, defensible history in the genre and sometimes clones help advance the state of the art (even if you have cases like Dream Heights or Ninja Fishing where a clone has inflicted real and obvious harm on an indie developer).
Man I want to hug you for this. I am so glad you were able to make it work. I'm just going to do it too, it can't hurt me at this point, and I felt very much the same as you. My doubts are what has kept me from actually doing it. Is there any reason you started C first before Python/Ruby? Probably a stupid question, but I don't even have a basic grasp of the differences or if it even matters. Thanks for posting this.
My dormant racism how? Vs black people?