skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct, and I appreciate you bringing that up. I should have mentioned that I'm averaging around 45mpg and peaking at 50mpg. I don't expect everyone to drive this efficiently, I just happen to enjoy it. But even if I'm a bit more aggressive behind the wheel and loose 10 mpg, I believe my argument is still valid.
Not sure if this would work but have you tried quoting the values in the generated CSV ?
Nobody's claiming 100% accurate estimation is the standard. But a consistent 20% error is REALLY bad, if the engineers are trying to design an accurate estimator.
" if nothing other than for your own reputation and professionalism"...

And the professionalism of fitnesssf - of not paying their vendors - gets swept under the rug for dozens of other vendors to have to discover on their own, individually, in silence. Great.

"Professionalism" really has to work both ways. If you want me to treat you professionally, treat me professionally. What lines does someone have to cross before they lose that professionalism from you? Financial abuse? Emotional abuse? Verbal abuse? Physical abuse?

"Other clients could see this without fully understanding the situation, potentially losing business."

There's not that much to understand. What's easy to understand is that if you don't pay your bills with developer X, they will take public action against you. If you're the type of person who plans on skipping out on bills, you may avoid developer X. I think developer X would be thrilled to have potential 'business' like that self-select out of his customer base. I know I would be.
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This day did come
No panic, just if you use IE read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Support

Real browsers like Opera, Chrome, firefox.... all good

my bad and edited my panic away.

Thanks dchest for being more awake than I.
So should the Tesla one, right?
Thanks - this is a great thought. Our UK lawyers are going to be receiving a pretty decent Python library. :)

Are there similar books in German, Italian, French, and Spanish?
What problem? What browser and OS do you use?
I certainly hope the engineers their are staying on top of the recent deluge of Rails patches. Tesla's database has a huge amount of private data; mostly containing information about rich and influential people. A black hat could undoubtedly profit by tracking people and correlating their location to affairs/secret business meetings/etc.
Since anyfoo suggested contacting Google, it may be worthwhile contacting GCHQ [1] (they are the UK intelligence / code breaking agency). It is a very possible that they use Python internally. Since they are public sector rather than private sector it may not be of much help, but it is just an idea. Hope it helps!

[1]: http://www.gchq.gov.uk/
The problem I have with "he made it up": unless you have a computer keeping track of miles, speed and temperature, you are going to be "lying" about it. For example, I could easily say that I was riding at 67 mph but the computer point out that I actually went as high as 72, as low as 52 a lot of the time. Was I lying? Who the hell is going to remember or write about every speed change on a 500 mile trip? Was it a scientific study or a review for the average user to understand? But let's look at the big picture: I, personally, would NOT want a car that is so specific about the speed, cabin temperature and so on, or call a tow truck because the battery died out on you. 45 mph or 52mph, it's the same crap to me.

Tesla, thanks to the tracking, may have every tiny detail, but their users generally agreed with the reviewer--at a Tesla site forum no less.

Restaurant reviewer: Service was great but the food took an hour to arrive!

Restaurant owner: He is a liar, food was on the table with 50 minutes and I have order slips to prove him wrong.

Me: underwhelmed at the "evidence," 50min and an hour is essentially the same to me when waiting for food to arrive and I didn't expect the reviewer to hold a chronowatch.
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Wow, thank you for that. I am honestly fascinated by this.
"No worries, Excel will change that to a standard date and completely forget the original format."

I hate this particular one so much.
"npm" is not in fact an abbreviation for "Node Package Manager"
Facebook doesn't have big data, it has ginormous data. Here's why that matters.
Yep, unacceptable dude! How dare you exhibit common sense? :)
You have to install special software to enable that mode, and it's far too small for most even slightly older adults (farsightedness).
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nice :) I made something similar https://gist.github.com/chinchang/4666645
I've run into those type conversion problems before. The data is usually still there, it's normally that Excel has decided to use a certain display format for the cell (such as a date). Simply set the formatting back to "General" and all is fine. Usually.
Rather than open it directly in Excel, open a blank workbook and use the data import functionality. This lets you specify the type of each column.

Its not a perfect solution, but its a passable work-around.
I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. Broder might not have wanted to "be evil". He might be like the guy who doesn't actually want to hurt the company he is working for but still spends all his day playing games at work.

Given that his job was to write an accurate review, the fact that he didn't really want to wait until the car is fully charged and was bored driving the car at normal speed and so on, we can say he did a poor job with the review.
I find disallowing modifications to the SDK (under the GCFL) to be a really bizarre choice. Is this allowed with a paid license of some sort? If not, why not? It's basically standard operating procedure in games that if the SDK you're using doesn't cut it, you work around the issues in order to ship. Is this specifically aimed at preventing people from using bizarre derivative forks of your toolset?
Agreed. My wife's hybrid is rated at 35mpg, but it regularly gets more than 40mpg, sometimes as much as 48mpg.

Of course, if you get really creative... https://secure.drivers.lexus.com/lexusdrivers/magazine/artic...
I guess it's time to muddy the waters. The truth is in the middle!

Of course, the entire debacle can be summed up with the following exchange:

Q: "How many miles did you have left to drive on the final leg?"

Broder: "61"

Q: "And how many miles did your car tell you that you could travel before recharging?"

Broder: "32"

Of course, Broder claims that Tesla told him it was OK to leave. I think this is bullshit, but will never know. The fact is he basically was stupid enough to essentially leave a gas station with half a tank when he had a full tanks worth of distance to travel. The only way you would do this is if you want to get stuck. I don't care how scientific you are trying to be, you wouldn't risk being stuck out in the cold with a dead car unless you really wanted that to happen. Why we should take anything this man writes about cars seriously is beyond me.
> Musk accuses Broder of thinking "the facts shouldn’t get in the way of a salacious story" (which is an odd choice of adjective for a car review)

The story was "Electric cars suck". Broder is well known for having anti-electric car opinions, so it's not surprising that he would want to write a negative review.

Argument 1: The length of the detour is not as important as the type of driving during that detour.

Argument 2: "But Broder never claims he turned down his heat at the 182 mile mark." - well, he does claim he turned it down and doesn't mention he had turned it up. People can lie by omission.

Argument 3: "But the section before he broke down it does look like he chugged along at a pretty low speed.", perhaps. But not at the 45 mph claimed in the article.

Argument 5: "No. His other chart shows the mile range dipped below zero, which would indicate the car could not move." The car has a small reserve. 0 charge would mean "charge the car right now".

Argument 5: "Broder also explains that he did not charge fully because of the time it took to charge. He wanted to show the real world experience of a real driver, who might not want to endure the hour and a half it takes to charge up, when only needing a certain amount of energy to get to point B." I hope any real driver would know that a distance of 60 miles would need enough charge for a 60 mile journey, and that giving 30 miles of charge would be a stupid thing to do. Just as if you needed to drive a distance needing 20 gallons you'd be stupid if you only filled with 10 gallons.

This article is, frankly, idiotic.

All it takes is one person to drive the same journey, but with proper charging, and to release the logs to disprove Broder's points.
I disagree here: It is cheaper, but you can't sell it 2-3 years later for anything other than a couple hundred bucks.

You can CL a used MBP for a considerable portion of it's purchase price 2-4 years later.

If you're unwilling to sell your old MBP, the Dell may very well be a better deal.
Do people really think that Broder lied about the car dying?
The "Norwich Charge" data point is all you need to understand what happened here. Notice how vague Broder is in his original account:

"After making arrangements to recharge at the Norwich station, I located the proper adapter in the trunk, plugged in and walked to the only warm place nearby, Butch’s Luncheonette and Breakfast Club, an establishment (smoking allowed) where only members can buy a cup of coffee or a plate of eggs. But the owners let me wait there while the Model S drank its juice. Tesla’s experts said that pumping in a little energy would help restore the power lost overnight as a result of the cold weather, and after an hour they cleared me to resume the trip to Milford."

At every previous charge, he noted the exact mileage remaining when he headed out. Why not this time? Because the estimated range when he left that charging station was less than he needed to reach his destination and he knew damn well that that was the case.

http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/r...

(How he convinced the Tesla people to "clear" him at that point is a mystery that hasn't been followed up on by either party.)

Later he hand-waves past this by saying he was testing the superchargers, not normal chargers. But the fact is he knew he would run out of charge midway to his destination if he didn't charge the car longer. Instead, he decided to intentionally set up a situation where the car would be stranded.

Elon might have been better off concentrating on this point more, rather than some of the smaller inaccuracies. But the data is clear: the reporter was in full control of the situation and manufactured the failure himself.
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Anyone with a tl;dr about what they are doing and it differs from Unruly?
Personally, I find Google+ to be a much more interactive and enjoyable experience, especially for tech oriented people. On Twitter I follow Tech Crunch and PandoDaily.
"You can distribute your application commercially, but you must also provide the source code."

This little gem in the license information is pretty off-putting (http://doc.gameclosure.com/guide/license.html).
I'm curious to know why you see them as a guest in your home, rather than the other way around?
I've always been a bit perplexed that there isn't a spreadsheet as good as 123 (ie, 1980s technology) as a standard part of Linux distributions. There is a massive blind spot in the open source world around spreadsheets. As far as I can tell it's down to the geeks writing open source tools not being interested in solving business problems and focusing on tools for working with code and manipulating data in text format, not cells. Which is understandable, you write tools for free for your own needs and you get paid to write tools for others. So businesses pay Microsoft for Excel.
Exactly! Musk is trying to get ahead if this story and he is using some well established tactics here, http://photojournalist.quora.com/Ironically-Musk-Tapped-The-...
The certificate looks good to my browser. shrug

It's a StartCom intermediate certificate, good from 2/5/13 to 2/7/14, and the connection is encrypted with RC4_128. So says Chrome...
...with water.
There is nothing wrong with replication, it’s just that it’s wholly unable to clear anything up in this case.

The main important points of contention aren’t even disagreed over here. Those you could figure out by replication.

It’s the interpretation of those results that’s the sticking point here.

Some details that cannot be replicated are also disagreed on (heat, circling in parking lot, …), but replication won’t help you find out which is the correct interpretation.
You can't use the disproportionality of the legislature to defend disenfranchisement of Americans on a national scale.

What's the difference really? Take Civil Rights for example. The Senate held this up against popular will for at least a decade, and arguably much longer, but we did thankfully finally get the Voting Rights Act and the Civils Right Act, and I would argue that Slavery and Civil Rights were a special case of growing pains that the country had to go through, and not a reason to change the whole structure of government.

I think it's obvious that the authors of the constitution purposely created our government with with built-in dampers against simple majority rule, and I would be very hesitant to remove them.
When you say you are limping along at 45 mph you shouldn't be driving at over 50 mph.

> 45 mph or 52mph, it's the same crap to me.

Would that work with traffic police?
I eventually intend to ask him to fully release and “open source” the driving logs

Wow... how 'open source' has become so mainstream. We can now all look forward to the term getting fully diluted and loose its meaning. Already in this article the term is being abused to, IMO, shift the tone from a "challenge by NYTimes" to a plea to Tesla's values.
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Nodejitsu actually does have a free plan if your project is Open Source.

http://blog.nodejitsu.com/opensource-dot-jitsu
This is a big win for Ubuntu+Nvidia; the other distros received a well placed "go fuck yourselves".
This is like gaming on Macos being a win for BSDs. :-)
Wow,the price is really steep, but I also could not find info on the hardware they use to interface with OBDII for Dashcommand. I think there is most likely additional cost for a wifi enable d device that plugs in to OBDII and forwards this data to the mobile app.

Another nerdier but cheaper route is to use Arduino with ELM interpreter:
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/millerrv/Ryan_Miller/Projects...
I really don't mind people sending me stuff in a spreadsheet, if it's something that warrants such use.

Things like "I’ve had screenshots pasted into Excel and attached to an email. Excel is an ubiquitous file format" mentioned in the article is frustrating as well, as particularly in Japan, there's this weird practice of using it as graphing paper, by making each cell into tiny squares, and use it as free-form word processor alternative. (I'd say, PowerPoint would work better for this -- here's the thing, lowest tier of MS Office in Japan doesn't ship with PowerPoint, ugh.) Some of these misuses are actually harmful -- "graphing paper" usage of Excel causes a lot of trouble when it comes to printing, and long-term maintaining, and there's no document structures in such use.
Interesting. I was wondering what is going on with the flagging of this article, it is much lower in the ranking than you'd expect looking at the age and the accrued points. It took me a while to find that disqus is a YC company, so that's why there are so many flags.
Seems like wishful thinking. It's more likely that, if they were to release early at all, it would be on a platform most likely to make them money, such as one of the consoles. However, I think it's most likely that they'll release on all the platforms at the same time because of SteamPlay. Holding back Windows and Mac versions for a week for political reasons would just piss people off for a week.
I'm definitely keen.
I'm going to guess most of these are coming from teenagers in high school.
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Here's the two big problems with the National Popular Vote:

(1) "it's already half-way to completion". Yes with all blue states. Basically changing the system will favor one party. The other party will not favor it meaning you lose 1/4 to 1/3 of the states. And you lose another 1/4 to 1/3 of states because swing states will also not favor it (they would stand to lose billions in advertising). So this sort of coalition will tend to always be stuck around 1/2 to 2/3 of where it needs to get to.

(2) "without any need for a Constitutional amendment" Technically yes you don't but then you're depending on the goodwill of other states. If some state doesn't like the way the election is going to turn out they can bust the coalition by changing their participation at the last moment. That's a recipe for disaster, the rules for the election should be as clear and open as possible as far in advance as possible.
On my other computer - and sadly had IE (latest and patched IE 9) running.

Now checked with Opera, firefox and Chrome and they get issued a different certificate - most odd and probably a anti IE thing.

IE seems to get a certificate for www.131002.net, others get certificate for that site. Different expiry dates and details so again probably a anti IE script of some form.
Yes of course, go to amazon.de for example and search for "python".
Earlier in the article, Broder claims that Tesla blamed the mileage inaccuracies on a computer glitch, and that some battery reconditioning would restore the range lost overnight. So it's not impossible that either he, or Tesla, (or both) believed the mileage readout to be inaccurately low, caused by a bug triggered by low temperature readings. I think the author implies that this was the situation, but it is indeed vague. Unless a transcript of the phone calls is released, this will probably remain a contentious point forever.
How much of this happening do you think can be attributed to how young the Ruby user base tends to skew? How often does it occur on the Python or Perl IRC channels?
If you don't remember exact details, you shouldn't give exact details in your report.

He could easily have given round estimates, but he made the choice to appear more precise.

His choice, his error.
Especially if they planned from the beginning not to pay.
Does this quote have an origin?
I'd actually be really interested in reading about some of those scenarios if you have any links/blogs available.

Perhaps I was a little more aware of my online surroundings, but as children and pedophiles become increasingly technical and able to overcome these barriers I still think something like that has the potential to do more harm than good. Like you said, I had all the time in the world to figure out how to get around the rules and would have gone out of my way to find ways to bypass your software, potentially finding myself using avenues that were even shadier than the already-risky chat methods we all use and opening up my system to attacks or more in-depth tracking of my/my parents' online activities.

Although the likelihood for abuse/noise is high, the ability to report questionable conversations to support avenues rather than parents and law enforcement (who may try to take things into their own hands too soon without the appropriate amount of proof) seems like it would be the most effective at this point. Maybe something like this already exists?

Anyhow, many thanks for the response and for trying to find a solution! It will definitely be interesting to see what the future holds for online safety.
The last time I've done this I just have a link that sets the content type header to something like text/excel (that's not it exactly i don't think, google for it) and on Windows at least it always worked to open the page in Excel. And if you use an HTML table, excel will just open it as a spreadsheet, including any CSS text formatting you use.

Is that what you meant, or did I answer a different question?
Developers look up extortion in the dictionary ... We're new to it, though. If we had more experience...
Sorry to the maker of this - but it just makes me want to be sick having an app like this..

I guess there are others that may enjoy this!
Sorry, I didn't realize anybody had responded when I deleted my post.

> The reason for this is that the range estimator can't predict things the driver might do to spoil the forecast

Notice that all of the lines are extremely linear, meaning that Broder's behavior (or a miscalibration) caused a consistent bias in the estimate -- for 500 miles! It's very possible to design an estimator that can take this into consideration and make more accurate predictions.

> All estimations in this class must make assumptions about future behavior. Changes in behavior change the estimate.

Obviously. So what assumptions is it making? "My estimate has been consistently off for the last 250 miles, but it's going to be correct in the next 250 miles.... I can just feel it!"

> Changes in behavior change the estimate.

They should, but apparently they don't in this case.
fair enough. who would you recommend on g+?
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I suspect he has given up on collecting.
We've dual licensed the DevKit - you can choose either the GPL or our free commercial license:
http://www.gameclosure.com/license.html

That page is about the GPL licensed version.

It's basically saying you're free to develop and release a game with the GPL version but (as per the GPL) you need to release the source.

The other option is to use the commercial license. Then you do not have to release the source of your game.

I'll look into clarifying the copy on the page you linked - hopefully this clears things up.
This is a huge PR win for Tesla, what started out as one NYT review has blossomed into 4 or 5 articles and a he said she said drama.
> Given that his job was to write an accurate review

Why do you assume that?

His job was to attract readership and hits for the NYT. Nothing does that better than controversy.
Broder turned the heat up before turning the heat down. But he didn't mention turning the heat up; he only mentions having to suffer with a cold cabin.
Your anti-intellectualism is quite obnoxious. It doesn't help your case that you are actually wrong on top.

The poster above you has it correct. Climate control cars will not turn up the fans until the engine block heats up. Turning up the temperature does nothing to change this.

Please stop with the attitude and name calling.
Are you genuinely curious, or trolling?

I'll answer sincerely if you don't understand.
This is really actively used in fleet management domain today. Mostly for utilization analytics, fuel usage, idling detection, driver behavior etc. It is amazing how many efficiencies can be found in the data...
It's a biblical reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearls_before_swine