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I was one of those kids. And I can tell you that the article is pretty accurate. I am female, small and skinny. At the time, I was 19 years old and I had given up a one-way ticket to Hawaii, where I was going to transfer to another Dave and Buster's. I decided that even in paradise, I didn't want to work for those assholes anymore. So I packed up about 1/10 of my belongings (what I considered valuable: my violin, some clothes and a ton of beads). When I got to SF, I instantly made friends. I was drawn to the ones who didn't like begging- the buskers and merchants. I slept in the park every night for months. I wandered Haight & Ashbury- at night. Yes, I got robbed by the Fillmore Kids once, but I deserved it for selling on their turf. I never got in any fights, nor did any of the kids I was hanging with. I never even had anything stolen (not that I had anything to steal). The whole point is to be totally detached from society. Looking back, I think it should have been scary, but it wasn't. It was fun. I got to play my violin all day and sing Janice Joplin to the gypsies at night by campfire on Ocean Beach. I met some fascinating characters. One kid had joined a cult. When they refused to let him play jazz piano, he decided that working in a vegan-bakery-sweat-shop run by jesus freaks wasn't for him. He collected rocks and must have been really fucking strong because he had the heaviest pack I have ever held. At least he could be sure that no one would steal that thing! There were a lot of kids with psychosis there, too. One kid wrote poetry all day and occasionally sang to himself. When I asked him what he was saying, he'd say, "a song I wrote for you." Though the sentiment was sweet, he didn't write it. It was 'Tangled Up in Blue' by Bob Dylan. It was ALWAYS 'Tangled Up in Blue'. I thought the comment about "respecting the spot," was interesting, too. We really do that. No one is greedy. If we feel we've made enough cash for beer or cigarettes, we leave. I've even had other kids tell me about a good busking stop they had just left vacant. "Warmed it up for ya." It's easy to see why this lifestyle is so appealing. However, the same cannot be said of why it's a lot less dangerous than most would think. But I lived it and I can tell you, I never felt unsafe in the HAIGHT (I emphasize Haight because I did venture to a soup kitchen near Polk and Geary and that was fucking terrifying). Despite any negative feelings some of the gypsies might have toward the cops, the police generally go easy on the stray kids because they know they keep the real crime out of the tourist area.
In the end, I got bored of that life and moved to Austin to pursue music. I'm still a gypsy at heart, but I also care a lot about the real world. These kids don't have any opinions on real events and feel no sense of loyalty to society. They're not dangerous, they're just just freeloaders. Plain and simple.
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Apple definitively sold iPhones in Brazil before building them here, as they did with the iPad. VAT varies slightly from state to state, mostly in the 20-22% range.
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$3.49 for Bastion is borderline criminal! If anyone is on the fence, pick it up, that is a great deal.
Any suggestions/criticisms/remarks are highly appreciated. I'm just getting started with graphic design.
I haven't used this app, but in every other app I use Cmd+W closes a tab, while Cmd+Shift+W closes a window.
Sometimes you win against cancer but you lose from something else. A co-worker of mine, Nick, in his 20s had Hodgkin's disease was doing well but then suddenly died of pneumonia.

The bathroom urinals will never be the same without hearing Nick say "So this is where the dicks hang out!"
Since we're recommending things, spacechem is on that list and well worth a purchase. It does a good job of pulling out that feeling when you hack together a clever solution to something.
Radiation oncology researcher here--I'm glad treatment was effective! I'm very busy tonight(ASTRO's abstract deadline is tomorrow) so I'll get straight to it.

Generally speaking, your oncologist is not your enemy. Managing expectations with patients is very tough. Even if you tell a patient that radiation is palliative and is not meant to cure a significant fraction of them will believe it is curative. Cancer patients are unwilling to understand their prognosis and "drilling it in" so that patients can make accurate treatment decisions is important.

See: https://www.astro.org/News-and-Media/News-Releases/2012/Many...

"The study investigated patient beliefs about the effectiveness of palliative RT and analyzed survey data from 384 patients over the age of 21 who were diagnosed with stage IIIB (wet) or IV lung cancer from 2003 to 2005. Patients in the study received or were scheduled to receive RT and completed a survey approximately four months after diagnosis. Results from the survey indicated that most patients believed that palliative RT could help them: 78 percent of patients believed that RT was “very” or “somewhat likely” to help them live longer, and 67 percent believed that RT was “very” or “somewhat likely” to help them with problems or symptoms resulting from their cancer. Of concern, however, 64 percent did not understand that RT was not at all likely to cure their disease."
Oliver, is that you?
Also HP and Dell.
Cellphones? There is little scientific data to back up your fear of cellphones. Cellphones emit electromagnetic radiation that pass through our bodies like light passes through a window. It is the exact same phenomena. Visible light is nothing but electromagnetic radiation that may pass through silica (glass) and our atmosphere.
As a non-EU citizen (USA), is there anything that I can do to help?
Actually Linksys had an iPhone.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/18/cisco-not-apple-announces...
What is the most expensive virtual good you'd purchase with bitcoin? Would you pay 100 bitcoins for a year of .com domain registration? :)
Yeah, me too. =)

There are other 'unfinished' games that are nevertheless lots of fun to play.

It's amazing: lots of people will insist that modern games need lots of polish and awesome graphics in order to be any fun, but it's certainly not always true - at least not for certain audiences and certain games. Evidently, sufficiently engaging mechanics and 'overall experience' (which is a very broad category, of course) can be enough to give players what they want.
CNN live tweets while driving the same route as Broder (NYT)
What I've heard on this angle is that the Tesla maintains the batteries at a safe operating level overnight to enable the owner to drive at any time. They could implement a storage mode that allows the batteries to drop below operating temperature while staying above damage temperature, but their software does not yet do that.

Tesla has a bit of the Apple approach to software, where they intentionally limit the number of software options to not overwhelm the user. This may change as they continue development, but it's where they are now.
"reads like Broder was trying to stack the deck"

I disagree. I think Broder is doing what a lot of journalists do and has accentuated the overall negative experience to create a better narrative.

In spite of the poor communication and slight exaggeration, I don't feel like there was malice or a great deal of intent on Broder's behalf. He generally had a poor experience. The errors in his story do not negate that, and I don't get the impression that he had intentionally stacked the deck against the car.

Musk on the other hand has intentionally implied that Broder lied and was possibly motivated by a hatred of the Tesla concept. That is a ridiculous assertion to make by someone in his position. The data does not back that up.

Musk should have just presented the facts and let us interpret them.
This would be a more significant concern if he was driving his own car, but since it's a Tesla owned review model, I'm sure they have legal rights to it. In addition, given their past troubles with Top Gear I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla wrote it into a review agreement.
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Without a degree in Biochemistry, this appears to be a proof of concept. A demonstration that it's possible and the challenge is adapting it to humans, instead if starting from scratch. Seems to be pretty huge news for people with diabetes.
You're right. I was equating that quote and the calling-the-Volt-a-"lawnmower" quote (http://articles.businessinsider.com/2009-05-11/green_sheet/2...) together. I was reading about them yesterday. My mistake.
but the real owner isn't me, it's the United States government - Locke1689, 5 hours ago

I am not an American, but I've been online for nearly 20 years now, and I've seen a lot of US politics pass under the bridge. I've never seen anything that goes contrary to the notion that 'the United States government' is 'the federal government [of the US]'. The two terms are used interchangably in online discourse in my experience.

If I am wrong in this, can you please provide me with some links to explain how 'the federal government' of the US is a different entity to the 'the United States government'. I'd be very interested to read them, because it would be a very curious oddity in the way politics are described over there. Does 'the federal government' operate at a higher or lower level than 'the United States government', or do they operate in parallel? It's an intriguing concept.
This seems to be the killer argument from Elon Musk.

What's interesting is that Rebecca Greenfield doesn't see it as convincing argument at all. Here's her explanation for siding with Broder:

"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"

What?? In what 'real world' would someone needing to travel 61 miles leave a charging station with an estimated range of 32 miles?

I get the feeling that Rebecca Greenfield realised that an article titled "Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims" would generate more interest than "Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up Most Of His Claims, But For One Of His Claims the Data Is Compelling"
I just don't think that's fair. If Tesla Engineers tell you "an hour's charge will bring the battery back" then I think many people would just take that at face value.
I trust Tesla a lot more than I trust Google, Facebook, ISP's, or the banks, and they know everything there is to know about me.

I do understand what you are saying (perhaps more than most people), I guess we just differ in opinion about how much it matters.
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Very interesting. Am I understanding this correctly: it's an insulin replacement? Those treated would have effectively no insulin in their blood stream?

If so, wouldn't those treated by this gene therapy still suffer a persistent hormone imbalance? Hormones are complicated. Insulin (and the lack thereof) is tied in up-down regulation of lots of other hormones. Glucagon, for one, would always be higher in your body meaning you'd be prone to break down your body's fat stores. While that might actually be a positive side effect, I wouldn't be surprised if there were many negative side effects too.

Still, the side effects from this hypothetical hormone imbalance is very likely a huge improvement over constantly having advanced glycation end-products slowly destroying your body (which is what slowly happens to us type 1 diabetics).
How about this one, whenever I have to buy anything in USD (which is a lot, I only have AUD), I have the privilege of paying 4% more than the listed price due to currency exchange spread. Bitcoin would give me a 4% discount on everything, even still considering merchant gateways take another 1-2% from the merchant, for a 6% total.

The merchant gateway might not get to keep that 4%, it might even be eaten up by hedging against currency fluctuations, but either way unifying everyone onto one currency would remove those risks and costs. Merchants would only need to convert back once a year at tax time to pay their government.
Do any devs here use hubot with hipchat? if so what are your experiences?
It'll be far cheaper for them to make a pricing page than to be answering all of the inquiries.
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"As a group, journalists simply get a great number of things wrong and cannot be relied on for detail oriented work."

This is quite a general statement, which in itself cannot be defended. Furthermore, I think that NYT's standards are higher than the average journalist taken "as a group". Their fact checking is rigorous (although, of course, is not infallible, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair)
I agree that the term "promoted discovery" isn't established and hides the true nature of the feature. I can the logic for choosing it, thought it's not very solid:

- "promotional material" = advertising material (that promotes a product)

- "discovery" = discovery through recommendations from the page owner

- hence, "promot-" + "discovery" communicates "advertising through recommendations"

However, "promoted" isn't quite the same thing as "promotional". What's actually happening is that promotional material is being presented as "recommendations from the page owner". The "discovery" itself isn't "promoted" (what does that even mean?). Most importantly, "promoted" doesn't contain the implication of advertising/sponsoring that "promotional" does.

It would have been more accurate to call this Sponsored Discovery or, to be even more real, Sponsored Recommendations. "Sponsored", however, is a bit of a dirty word too, and they probably made the call to euphemize around it, resulting in the confusing term Promoted Discovery.
I'm probably misunderstanding something, but how does this contradict seanmcdirmid? Why wouldn't Apple want to avoid 60% import taxes?
Really?

The 60% rate applies only to individuals; companies generally pays much less and in the case of cellphones it currently stands at 18.1%.

In which state sales tax (ICMS) is 7%? Or even 15%? All the big states have ICMS rates north of 20%.

Industrial tax (IPI) for electronics is 8%.
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that video is truly a catch.
> But that alternative usually requires driving at higher speed, which more than cancels out any gains from avoiding stop and go because of the increased loss from drag and friction.

No, this is a false choice. The choice should not be between stop-and-go driving, versus speeding along. For a proper evaluation, the tested alternatives should be (a) stop-and-go driving with an average velocity of V, versus (b) driving at a constant velocity of V. In that comparison, a constant velocity is much more efficient. The reason is that regenerative braking cannot recover more than a fraction of the energy lost to braking.

The above is in keeping with the best scientific practice, in which an experiment changes just one thing and keeps everything else the same. So we should choose an average velocity, then compare steady speed and stop-and-go driving at that velocity. In that experiment, steady speed wins.

> Metcalf's description does say that he accelerated and decelerated very gently ...

Doesn't matter. Adding a given amount of energy E to a moving object requires the same expenditure of energy regardless of how quickly or slowly it's done (although in practical examples, fast acceleration is wasteful for reasons outside the simplest explanation of the physics). It's the same with removing energy from a moving object, and it is here that the unavoidable losses in regenerative braking prevent the two cases from being equal.

> So he was trying to approach the ideal of driving at a steady 25 mph as close as he could.

That ideal is only achieved by maintaining a steady speed of 25 MPH, not by stop-and-go driving. It's not clear at this point whether Broder was actually told by someone at Tesla that stop-and-go driving was more efficient or not, but if so, that person needs an education.

> If the car's regen system had had lower losses, regen would have saved him some energy on those unavoidable decel/accel cycles.

Yes, but regenerative braking can only minimize losses, it can't recover all the energy lost to braking. Therefore a steady speed is more efficient.
I'm not entirely certain how this got dropped by the atlantic, but if you click through to the Guardian, it mentions that the car was "adapted for disabled drivers".

Assuming they mean some form of hand controls for gas & brakes, that's a pretty damn important detail they left out.
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The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorite scifi books...I've been meaning to read The Dispossessed but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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Mr. Broder's reply in the other thread was "I cannot account for the discrepancy, nor for a later stretch in Connecticut where I recall driving about 45 m.p.h., but it may be the result of the car being delivered with 19-inch wheels and all-season tires, not the specified 21-inch wheels and summer tires."

I dont know how it measures speed whether GPS or wheel rotation or both and if that would make a difference. Anyone care to fact check?
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They are claiming the image mark, but the image is the word "Python" with only minimal embellishment. Further, they have added broader rights in private conversation.
The bottom line is that if there's no good reason to leave a gas station with 32 more miles to go in the tank if you intend to go another 65 miles.

I find the notion that people like standing around looking at charging stations for hours on end extremely odd. The test was supposed to simulate a normal driver, and a normal driver will absolutely do the minimum necessary. With gasoline -- a ridiculous energy rich substance that we can fill in just a few short minutes -- most of us still find the five minute fill up once a week or less a nuisance.

Tesla is actually contradicting themselves a bit: They berate him for not heeding the in-car predicted range, and then pat themselves on the back that it actually went 51 miles, and supposedly still had juice (apparently an accessory battery was dead). In other words, that what their engineers supposedly told him (that it would recover the incredible loss of power overnight, from 90 miles left to 20 miles left, once the batteries warmed up) was actually largely right.

Musk also makes a big show about him not turning down the temperature, when his own graph shows that not much further in the journey he turned it to the minimum for an extended period of time.

Reading both sides, I find Musk's heavy handed attack response incredibly unpalatable. He was so hasty in attacking, he ignored that his own data and his own claims in many ways supported the reporter.
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Really. Those are nominal values which exclude taxes being paid upfront, which leads to extensive reduction. The legislation is more than 600 pages long don't you think that a simple google search will get any useful answer.
The worst thing you could do is start while working at $DAYJOB and find out after the fact that your employment contract stipulates that they own all associated IP.

That's why you negotiate that stuff before you start on the startup. And if you $DAYJOB won't accept a reasonable agreement, then you find a new $DAYJOB.

You raise a valid point, but in the grand scheme of things, it's just a detail, not a complete blocker to the idea of funding your startup through your own salary.
Tesla customer care appears ignorant/poorly trained. This debate over things as trivial as a .6 mile discrepancy actually underscores the most damaging assertion that can be made against Tesla: that driving its vehicles in normal winter conditions requires some sort of finesse or special knowledge that most customers won't have. Niether end customers nor reporters should be expected to have deeper knowledge of the product they are buying/testing than the customer care agents who are assisting them. Tesla needs to clean its house of bad customer care and accept responsibility for its role in Broder's bad experience.
As a Model S owner I found that taking the position that an electric vehicle (EV) should behave exactly the same as an internal combustion engine (ICE) car, especially in sub-zero temperatures was a big mistake on his part. Before we set out to test the limits of our Model S in cold weather we spent time learning about how it behaves. Call me crazy, but when using a different fuel source that seems like a reasonable step to me?

http://www.colinbowern.com/posts/drive-smart-in-the-cold-wit...
I've posted an update on our blog, with another to follow tomorrow:

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/2/15/bamboo_routing_pe...
> So that means Facebook as an application is not technology?

Facebook isn't an application, it's a company that makes money by creating and maintaining a social forum. Facebook may use computer software "applications" to further this end, but one mustn't confuse the method with the goal, especially when one considers that the same goal could be achieved using different methods.

> I just don't see how your argument makes any sense.

Yes, I can see that. You also think Facebook is an application, like Excel. It isn't, it's a company.
Works great! Went ahead and bought it for some MUDding I've been into lately. Turns out I already play AU on the list, too. How 'bout that! : )
But one VM can host multiple Rails instances, each on different port. That's what Passenger or Unicorn do, acting as proxy of group of locally spawn Rails instances.
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It's not too surprising to discover that the original engineer behind a product is not known to later generations who build upon, sustain, or otherwise refactor the original invention. Indeed, unless the previous engineer sticks around, it's almost never the case that future generations even know their names, unless they happen to have their fingerprints on the current SCM (which may or may not be related to the original project).
Ask HN: How many tech conferences a year do you go to?
Does your company pay for them?

Does your company have a limit of conference days you can take?

Do you feel that your company is good/bad when it comes to letting their employees attend conferences?

How important of a factor is it to you?

Thanks for the input :)
If you are going to buy bitcoins, don't use BitInstant (at least not until they get their operation together).

Read the nightmare thread here were some people are filing police reports to get their money back, while others just give up -

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128314.980

It's the same story over and over every day without any change and the same effects.