skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit disingeious of Musk to propose that journalists repeat this trip, knowing full well that the problems reported in the original article stem from cold weather. The weather on the East Coast is getting warmer by the day. It is almost spring. Even if Tesla can tell each journalist to stop charging at Norwich at the same point they did originally (assuming they can determine that reliably), the battery state at that point, and going forward, will be different because of the weather.

The sensationalist part of this review is the bricking of the car. This happens shortly after the reporter claims that "after an hour they (Tesla) cleared me to resume the trip to Milford." So, any detour is only meaningful to the outcome of this review if it occurs after this clearance, because at that point Tesla HQ knows what the range of the car should be, and whether or not he will make it, and when to tell him to stop charging. Milford is a straight shot from Norwich. If a detour did occur in this critical period, it would reflect very badly on the author.
And the list goes on!

But from an engineering point of view, I just don't find ICEs elegant. Too many moving pieces, and all that for about 30% efficiency (the remaining 70% is lost as waste heat). Good thing gasoline is so energy-dense, because when you're wasting 70% of your energy, you need that.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22open+source+speech+recogn...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/research/

http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+AND+speech+recognition/0/1/...

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/search?q=speech+recognition&...

I'd start by playing with Sphinx. It's a pre-made library that will let you get started with speech reco at an application level. If you just want to build apps that use speech recognition, it might be all you need. If you want to do research into cutting edge speech recognition technologies, dig into the papers and stuff on arxiv and citeseer, and follow that "research" link from the Sphinx wiki.
Road salt, etc.

I'm rooting for Tesla, but it would be a hilarious testament to Californian hubris if the Model S was undone by failure to consider the fact that other places have weather.
I've been using Rover on iPhone for a few months and it's great. Prior to Rover the best option was using both Google Maps (great routing, but no real-time schedules for SF transit) and Routesy/Nextmuni (real-time schedules, but no routing)-- two apps for every bus trip. Muni buses are more often late than not, so Rover is solving a real problem with just the walking+transit piece.

It also has InstantCab/Uber/Sidecar integration now so you can compare $ and time across options.

Combine that with driving+parking, bicycling, and personal calendar data, and it'd be the killer one-click transit app I've always wanted. Can't wait to see you all build this out!
Thanks for giving Rover a shot! Let me know if you have any feedback.
If you really where those people, it would be too much of a burden and hassle to have to deal with it as an investment property. They just don't want to deal with booking hotel rooms, the hassles. They can store whatever and know that it will remain untouched, they can fly into town and have an affair and leave, and best of all, it's prime real estate that figure will stay in high demand for the foreseeable future.
> 1) gasoline-fueled cars have a significantly higher range than their electric battery-fueled peers,

The Tesla's 300 mile range is pretty close to most of the gas-powered cars I've owned here in the US.

> 2) heat is "free" in a gas-fueled car where it's an added cost in electric battery-fueled cars, and

Yes, but idling an electric car is free, where it's an added cost in gasoline-fueled cars. If I slide into a ditch in winter and get stuck, I'm going to be depleting my fuel either way.
Why don't they rent (instead of selling) the batteries, and have stations to swap your battery for a full one before recharging the empty one at their leisure? That could take the "refuel" time down to a minute!
> the only reason html/css/js exist is because it is entrenched

It wasn't entrenched in the mid 1990s, heck, it arguably wasn't entrenched into the early 2000s when some people were trying to move apps to *ML, or another VM besides the one that failed in the 90s. None of the alternatives won out.

I'm not going to argue that making in-browser apps is a walk in the park, but I do think that a lot of people making arguments about how app development was a solved problem for native OS are both (a) overstating their case (b) seemingly blind to the advantages that html/css/js have along with the liabilities.
You can try an in-browser demo at roversf.com - let us know what you think! Would also love to hear about your NextMuni prediction hacking!
This is what happens when you treat houses as an asset class...
If I remember correctly, Top Gear did not say the roadster ran out of batteries and had to be pushed. Rather, they said if it ran out of batteries, you may have to push it, and demonstrated with the car turned off. This looks bad, but isn't technically libel.
Glad you like it, we're always working on improving the UI.
As I mentioned, this was added in an edit - but even the A/C doesn't affect range as much as you might think. It is roughly ~8% in your typical ICE, which is less than rolling your windows down at highway speeds. No idea what the effect of running AC on a Tesla's range is though.

www.sae.org/events/aars/presentations/2004-hill.pdf
Maybe it's just because I don't use Twitter frequently, but an instance like this seems to highlight how ridiculous restricting yourself to 140 characters can be.

You have something important to say, and you're forced to drop pronouns and abbreviate words and break your message into several pieces. Your response to the world reads like a rushed text I'd get from my little sister.

To me, it just makes the whole thing feel somewhat petty.

But that's probably just me, getting older.
Didn't we read an article recently about how the nordic countries want to be more like western countries?
This is a really nice interface to encourage people to follow "best practice" by creating unique messages for each social account. Great job guys.
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Sony Vegas Tutorial - Removing black bars from your video (filling the screen)
Sony vegas tutorial on how to make the video or pictures in your edit fill the screen. This looks much more professional and is more enjoyable to watch. Follow the instructions in the video and please leave a like and a comment!
True, but you may not want to leave your vehicle plugged in by itself for 30 ~ 60 minutes. I guess you could get food and eat it in/around the car while it charged...
Thanks Kalvin, we're as excited as you are to build this out!
Machines lie constantly. Get some filter oil on your mass airflow sensor, and watch your ECUs nose grow. Hell, we almost nuked the russians, and them us, due to a lying machine :)
Are we going backwards using a library like Backbone.js
MIT isn't just a business, it's a quasi-corporate entity that is a key piece of the military industrial complex. It's a piece of the establishment that's open right up to the point where it's not. There is nothing wrong with that, and it's a true treasure to the U.S., but there is no need to pretend it is anything other than what it is.

People are demonizing JSTOR and making excuses for MIT in this situation, but their perception of who is the big faceless establishment entity here is wholly mistaken.
Everybody else for that matter, this seems to be a very cavalier use of what should be private data. Not at all what I would like to see as somebody who cares about privacy. Is it possible to turn off the logging?
> It would be an extraordinary claim to suggest that's not the case.

Actually, the extraordinary claim is yours, since it is an outlier.

> Journalists are basically people who would rather be writing fiction

Do you have any non-anecdotal evidence to support this claim?
From a triage point of view, Ruby/RoR is excellent. I'm not trying to hate on Ruby people - the community is amazing and the inherent openness and transparency is to be lauded.

That's not my issue though. The project's reputation is fiercely protected by it's community - and I wonder at what point this could be damaging. To borrow some terminology, they're not `user-space` bugs like the majority of PHP security flaws (for example). They're bugs in the firmament.

Talking to penetration testers, you often hear this story: if it's .NET, you're going to have a hard time; If it's PHP, you can count on the developer leaving an injection flaw of varying exploitability; If it's RoR, you can count on an out of date package with a critical flaw that bypasses the app entirely. (btw: I'm primarily a python/django person - I won't comment on that!).
I wish some of the "real" black hatters could come on here and speak. These guys are the ones putting together massive strategies/campaigns to rank across a wide variety of thousands of key terms. And there not writing about it. The techniques many people are talking about now were done maybe 2-3 years before this whole mess. They are so far ahead of what the "industry" is focused on it's not even funny.
An apartment in a condo in NYC will be about $100k+ per year in fees and taxes. Dozens of people will be employed in the management and maintenance of the building.

I've also got the impression that consumption of various luxury goods and services in NY is highly coupled to bonus season in the financial sector. Millionaires from Kansas etc are likely to consume such services like Broadway, Bergdorfs etc year around because there are a lack of equivalent services back home.
Available for Mac. Windows coming soon.

Hmm.
Was just what I was thinking. Running out of gas, or having your engine crash in -40 degree Celcius weather is a life-threatening situation if you've been stupid and not packed any clothes.
How do you guys who are freelancers or perhaps you work for a company and are the only guy working on a particular app handle security stuff like this?

A lot of what I hear is "drop what you are doing and patch this right now!". But of course there are many reasons why this might not be possible. For example you might be on a 15 hour flight with no internet, you might be dealing with some family crisis, you might be in the middle of a coke and sex binge with identical twins who look like Scarlett Johansen or whatever.

Do you live glued to your smartphone in constant fear of 0 days? Do you make sure there is some third party available to deal with this stuff? do you design with the possibility of having your app/site owned as a likely event?

And how do you make your client/employer aware of the implications of stuff like this?
I'm not quite so cynical as to think these petitions couldn't possibly matter -- though I admit, evidence that they do is rather hard to come by -- but I think that if the Administration responds to one at all, they'll ask themselves "what is this petition actually trying to accomplish, and what can we do to further its goal?" I.e. even if they do feel prompted to do something, they won't feel bound at all by the specific policy proposal. This is Government 101; I don't think we need to worry about it.

The point of the petition, then, is simply to establish how many people care about the issue in the first place, at least enough to click on a web page.

(Helpful analysis, though; thanks.)
Doesn't this happen to many professionals in NYC or elsewhere?
hmmm lets see: a journalist of media behemoth that major stake is in hands of the same people that have stakes in gasoline car manufacturers drafted a negative review for a company with a product that may forever shift the way we drive cars and how much we spend for this privilege...

> Tesla Model S was completely factual [...] Any suggestion that the account was ‘fake’ is, of course, flatly untrue.”

Yes of course, CNBC never lied in the entire history of a written word! [1].

Also, my memory ma not serve well, but weren't the CNBC journalist send to take photos from camps in Afganistan and when it turned out that there were no camps, they found some fence and faked the story of a reporter being inside the "camp" by taking photos through said fence?

[1] http://www.imediaethics.org/News/3061/Cnbc_corrects__apologi...
Just so that you do realize you have not proven that a bug nor a vulnerability exists - just the behavior of the current system.
I think it's a lot presumptious to say that people who do keep posessions are not part of producer culture, and that's not what I meant.

I meant the startup world as a fashion or a fad which seems to attract people who are into all sorts of funny ideas. I don't associate startups with productivity, certainly not often useful productivity most of the time.
The batteries are huge and, in the case of the Model S, are built into the chassis of the car.

an image: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AnwyDQUET2I/T6dyawydsqI/AAAAAAAAAG...
In case you don't know of it: http://www.uzbl.org:

"uzbl-core: main component meant for integration with other tools and scripts

- Uses WebkitGtk+ for rendering, network interaction (libsoup). Css, javascript,
plugin support etc come for free
- Provides interfaces to get data in (commands/configuration) and out (events):
stdin/stdout/fifo/unix sockets
- You see a webkit view and (optionally) a statusbar which gets populated
externally
- No built-in means for url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving
history, keybinds, downloads..."*
Nice endeavor, but finished up as the most endeavors - unfinished. :)

That was the first book in NLP (and the only for now) that I read. I've been interested both in NLP and Haskell. In that respect it fitted, thanks!

A few points to criticize. For the frequency list one should use multisets, not dictionaries. There are a few multiset packages at Hackage. Suffix arrays are badly explained. Monads - very badly. With tagging there was an impression that it could be explained simpler.

Many things are announced but not touched. The book is not a book in fact, it's more like an article. Perhaps reconsider it in that way? But oke, hopefully you will find time to continue it as a book.

Perhaps meanwhile you can recommend some other book to continue reading on NLP?
It depends on the journey, but you may also have an extra 2-3 year delay while you wait for the construction of an inland super charger network.
Actually, one of the ironies of living in a big city like New York is that even with all of the options, loneliness is more prevalent[1].

[1]: http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/olivia-laing-me-lone...
Was it... The Beatles?
The batteries weigh about half a ton. It's not like swapping the AA's in your Wiimote.
I was unaware of a a hypervisor sitting on the ARM Cortex. Do you have any links to additional information? (I've been using the RPi to prototype a product for the service industry (Cheap linux box with exposed gpio), and while I don't intend to use them in prod, I'm curious of the potential implications for my beta users.
We launched our first iOS app today in France and got lots of positive feedbacks. Anyway, we know the app is not perfect and we are looking for more comments from demanding iPhone users. Please let us know. Thanks.
Not exactly... the alternator provides "up to" a certain amount of electricity, but as more of that electricity is actually used for things it gets harder for the engine to spin the alternator and so you end up using (slightly) more gas.

The alternator (or really any electric generator) has a magnetic field, and a lot of coiled up wire. Moving the wire thru the field generates electricity, the faster the wire moves the higher the voltage is. But the more current is moving thru the wire (more load, more things using the electricity), the more it pushes back against the magnetic field (because that current in the wire generates its own field) and so the harder it is to make it move.
Horrible reporting by TNW!
Musk claims, "NYTimes article about Tesla range in cold is fake. Vehicle logs tell true story that he didn't actually charge to max & took a long detour"

If you read the NYT, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the...

The reporter doesn't claim he had charged the battery fully in all occasions. He states how long he charged the car for and what the milage indicator provided.

I can argue Musk is trying to get ahead of the story and create doubt among potential buyers about the veracity of the story. That's all he needs to do.

Basically, Tesla will probably come out with data that shows the battery was not fully charged and hence why lower milage. However, the reporter says he only charged the car for the distance he thought he needed. Therefore, Tesla will be a head of the story and the headlines his PR will create is that the car was not fully charged. And most people, including readers of this site, will not do further investigation. Rest assure those who are still considering buying a Tesla will buy it not knowing if the battery might have a temperature range issue.
Not only crosses the line, this guy should be prosecuted immediately!
Thanks for sharing. When you decide to expound upon the "natural bootstrappers" theory I'd like to read that.
This is a terrible title. What actually happened was "Gamers deemed too fast for real-life Professional/Gentleman class"
I should hope so. I didn't flag this (as robber baron parasites go, Gates is pretty interesting and topical) but #1 on the Reddit front page isn't exactly obscure.
Was a pleasure!

With love :-)
Thomas
I'm looking at this from a different angle. Based on what I read from this article [1], Tesla is able to send data from a car back to the factory and on at least one occasion has done so without the permission and knowledge of the owner.

"In at least one case, Tesla went even further. The Tesla service manager admitted that, unable to contact an owner by phone, Tesla remotely activated a dying vehicle’s GPS to determine its location and then dispatched Tesla staff to go there. It is not clear if Tesla had obtained this owner’s consent to allow this tracking5, or if the owner is even aware that his vehicle had been tracked. Further, the service manager acknowledged that this use of tracking was not something they generally tell customers about."

"There appears to be no reference to Tesla having the ability to track a vehicle’s location at its discretion in either the data recording section of the Roadster Owners Manual [Page 1-2, Column 2: PDF] or the addendum that covers the GSM connection [Page 9: PDF] "

AFAIK, Tesla has never addressed this publicly.

[1] http://theunderstatement.com/post/18030062041/its-a-brick-te...
That combined with the charging time is the only difference.

I thought it strange in the Top Gear review of the Roadster that they even mentioned it only got 55 miles on a full charge on their track (and faked it running out of charge). Most gasoline cars won't do much better when driving so flat-out. That is nothing unique to electrics whatsoever.

Using that as a basis to say "It simply doesn't work" was why Musk (rightly) is trying to cover himself when the press reviews. They seem to have some motive to defame Tesla. Nobody could say for sure if oil is behind it but it certainly smells fishy.
No. The greater the electrical load placed on the alternator, the greater the parasitic load on the accessory belt.

That being said the amount of electricity, and thus the load on the belt, to run the fan is very very tiny compared to the energy required to heat the air. In an ICE, the heat energy is literally free. You were going to dump it anyway, might as well be into the cabin.
Why wouldn't you want to do that? I leave my car parked in places that I'm not all the time.
Put simply: they are too fast for the beginner series and too inexperienced for the pro series.
Your math is all wrong because you assume you're some sort of anaerobic being that doesn't consume food or produce waste :)

All those Supercharging stations are going to be located right next to places to eat. With about 4-5 hours between stops, that's right around when my stomach is going to start rumbling and I'll want to take a longer stop anyways.
>An apartment in a condo in NYC will be about $100k+ per year in fees and taxes.

[citation needed] Property tax in NYC is pretty low; this $3.35m condo in Tribeca is just over $20k/year in taxes and maintenance: http://streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/809162-condo-22-warren-street...
> False positives from SHA-1 hash collisions are detected after object retrieval from the disk by comparison with the requested key

Is that check really necessary?

To have 1 in a trillion chance of having accidental SHA-1 collision they'd have to store 1.7*10^18 keys, and mere key index of that would require 54000 petabytes of RAM.
I think that is partially the idea with supercharger stations--that there will be amenities nearby within eyeshot of the cars.

I think it'd be cool to have coffee shops or a lounge setting where you can use your computer in a relaxed environment while you make sure nobody messes with your car.

But honestly, when on a road trip with family, I am lucky to have a stop as short as 1 hour if we are eating a meal.
Or people just decided to downvote it because they felt it didn't add anything. shrug
Really that's the point I'm trying to make. The default path in MVC isn't exactly secure. There is work to be done. I'd consider this particular rails update in line with a patch Tuesday update. Though I will say, I wish they had a better way of communicating when updates were available.
Yeah, I guess you win this one.
Reverse-engineering iOS App
My friend wrote this amazing article. First hand experience.
OK. I wish you luck. HipChat uses XMPP, by the way. http://help.hipchat.com/knowledgebase/articles/64377-xmpp-ja...
Age discrimination is a major issue in the valley but no one wants to admit to it since everyone is violating it.

For example, why does YC application asks for Age?
Also there is this answer in quora which goes further in both approaches http://qr.ae/1zV1S :)
Near the top of the article: Tesla data logging is only turned on with explicit written permission from customers, but after Top Gear BS, we always keep it on for media.
The will to win...
There's a company based in Israel that's taking that exact approach:

http://www.betterplace.com/How-it-Works
Tame A Testy Teenager
More like a lunch time meal and dinner, considering I've got 17 hours of driving in front of me at that point. That's about 3 meals, so most of my stops will be for longer periods of time anyways.
What're you talking about? The examples are: Columbus Circle, 157 W. 57th street, 65th and lex. The last one is in the heart of the UES old money residential area, and the former two are right where the fancy central park view housing happens to be. You know those rich kids whose parents are paying for their apartment in Williamsburg? Those are the places where those parents live.
Why Ayn Rand hated Libertarians
What's the reason for keeping them though? Is it to make vaccines if they potentially come back or more sinister pre-emptive military reasons?
Men And Women On Risk And Failure
Facebook is composed of around 10 million lines of code [1] - the public facing web is big.

I've no doubt Google looks at that and thinks it's almost trivially small (Chromium alone is 6.5 million lines [2]).

There's big apps in private, but very few companies are at that scale.

1 - http://www.quora.com/How-large-is-Facebooks-codebase

2 - http://www.ohloh.net/p/chrome
I would guess that when Tesla allow you to borrow one of their cars for the purpose of writing a review one of the lines on the contract says they are allowed to record your journey. The original article mentions it is normally turned off for customers.