skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I shudder to think what my employer (a University as part of an EU funded project) paid for what was pretty much a fully loaded Sun 4/330 for me to use around 1990 - when the RAM upgrade arrived a guy actually flew from London to Edinburgh with the RAM and installed it for us!

I'm pretty sure that machine cost the best part of £50K and that was without the hardware accelerated 3D option that some partners in the project used.
If it bundles in advertising then is it really free? Consider how much money is spent on ads - they clearly have an effect, and given the obscene amounts of money spent, probably not a small one.

So what is the impact of advertising? We buy more things because someone has convinced us that we need them, become more likely to get into debt and save less as a result. I cannot consider this to be free in good conscience. I'm not the only one who sees it this way either -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/14/ban-advertising-...
exactly. Top Gear isn't a news program, it's an entertainment program.

People don't watch Top Gear to get actual car reviews, they watch to drool over the car porn and laugh at Jezza in a Robin Reliant.

I will say I don't agree with what they did with the Tesla, but it's a separate issue from the NYTimes article.
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I would (also) agree.

A quick look at the handy product page that iFixit linked to (http://www.atmel.com/devices/atuc256l3u.aspx) shows that the controller has "25 touch channels", as well as supporting Atmel's "QTouch Acquisition" in hardware.

As microcontrollers go, it's pretty beefy and would have made a decent computer all by itself not too many years ago. It's a 32-bit CPU running at 50 MHz, sporting 256 KB of flash memory and 32 KB of SRAM. Granted, it's a bit low on memory for a general-purpose computer. Maybe 20 years ago, then. :)

It sure has a lot of I/O and other nice peripherals, though.
Take the patent yourself and don't charge anyone using your idea. Simple, isn't it.
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That's up to the process you have running on the dyno
It doesn't generate any income by itself, though. Dota2 and TF2 seem more like tools to drag people into Steam and then sell them other publishers' games.
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Feature bloat is still bloat. jQuery is a DOM library, an XHR library, an animations library, a functional library, a promises library... as far as I know 2.0 doesn't do anything about that issue.
I'd like to see a graph of the charge against time (instead of charge against distance). Did he left the heat/light on at night?
Yes, vehicle theft and hijacking rates are a lot higher in South Africa than in the US and the recovery rate for a vehicle with a tracker system is massively better than for those without.

One of the biggest risks with tracker systems is that if you're hijacked the criminals may force you to give up the unit's location if you know it, so it's been made public knowledge that when the tracking companies install one of the units (which is small enough to be hidden in many different places in a car's body) the owner is forbidden from watching it being done. So I have absolutely no idea where the tracker unit in my car is.

Most of those tracking companies then have their own helicopter fleets and armed response teams to initiate the search and recovery of the car and either back up the police when they reach the scene or perform the arrest themselves.

As an aside, the US equivalent is LoJack which operates in pretty much the same way, with the exception that LoJack signals are sent to the police, not to the tracking company's response units.
If this was the only discrepancy, I'd be more skeptical. However, there are a large number of problems with the reporting. Large enough that said reporter has an obligation to respond.

> let's assume a long-term New York Times veteran lied in the paper

What you are asking us to believe than is that Musk faked all this data. Because if he didn't fake the data, then the NYTimes story still doesn't add up, regardless of speculation on his activities.

Furthermore, you are asking us to believe that numerous other reviews by respectable, veteran reports, were wrong.

Maybe this report is the one man speaking out against a large conspiracy of a company and numerous reporters. But it's on him to prove now.
DOM, DOB and DOI are not tryptamines, but rather psychedelic amphetamines. This is an important distinction, as it means that the most common test kit (Ehrlich reagent), will not confuse them for LSD, contrary to what you said.

It is however true that there are substances which both fit on a blotter, and are indole psychedelics - e.g. 5-MeO-AMT, or other (other than LSD, that is) ergolines, such as LSB, ALD-52 (though these are extremely rare and (likely) share the safety profile of LSD). The Ehrlich test is not capable of distinguishing between different indoles, so you may get a case of mistaken identity in this scenario.
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This isn't just one of "ten people"; it's a nytimes columnist whose very profession is to report facts, accurately. He got caught embellishing facts for a pre-determined narrative, simple as that. I can't believe people are actually trying to defend this sloppy journalism.
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Perhaps there's a niche for software that alerts the children and not the parents when they're triggering certain flags.

"Do you really know this person AFK?"

"How would you feel if this photograph was sent to all of your teachers, and everyone you know in school?"

And before people mention MS Office's Clippy - yes, it was was awful, but part of the reason for that was kludged implementation.

(http://robotzeitgeist.com/tag/bayesian-inference-engine)

This new implementation could have a "spy on your children" feature, but allow that to be turned off for the parents that find such things troublesome, allowing the warnings to go direct to the children.
I don't think that matters. It is well established that just asking people to recount an event is extremely unreliable. However, the difference between "ask ten people" and "have a journalist write an article for a major newspaper" makes this question a lot less fascinating.

Things maybe relative or fuzzy, but journalism is supposed to be one of these areas where the two are explicitly ruled out.
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Recently, I went on a bit of a North Korea-related reading binge. One thing I read really stuck with me:

The first time I took the DMZ tour from the South, and on some tours since, the US soldier leading the tour would tell everyone we weren't looking at a real building. Instead the North's building was "a facade designed to look large and impressive, but is in reality only a frame a few feet (one meter) thick."[1]

...followed by a photo of the author sitting inside the very real, functional building during his trip to the North Korean side of the border.

It woke me up to the reality that North Korea is so opaque, that there is really no way of knowing the truth of what you read or hear about the country; the official line from both "our" and "their" sides is not much other than a steady stream of propaganda.

That being said, I believe Shin's experience (I originally wrote story, but felt that it was disrespectful) is authentic, and the continuing existence of concentration camps in this 21st century is yet another black mark on Humanity's record.

[1] Highly recommended: http://1stopkorea.com/index.htm?nk-trip6-dmz.htm~mainframe
It would be interesting to see the NYT double down on this... only to have Tesla reveal that they did in fact record this conversation and it matches their version of the story.
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Wow, this is amazing. That PyPy was more than a fast Python implementation (closer to "a toolkit for building fast implementations of, well, pretty much anything") wasn't a big secret, but to see someone pick it up and go with it is fantastic :)

For people attending PyCon, Alex Gaynor of the PyPy team will be doing a presentation on how to write interpreters that will use PyPy tools, that ends with ways of adding a JIT, so if you're interested be sure to come take a look :) (for people who don't have tickets yet: I'm sorry, we're sold out).
How is that odd? Energy issues are his beat.
This kind of routing wouldn't be a problem if they didn't charge $35 a dyno. It's such a high cost for a dyno.
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Yes, this is nothing new. Surprised people never saw it before in fact.

Also surprised people didn't expect this. Like any company, Google ties its products together and promotes one on the other. As another example, some google websites will recommend using chrome.
False. It's possible to misread anything at any time in any condition. It is impossible to prevent all misreading, human error will always occur.
with so many startups and hackers in the room-

Setting aside 10 slots of 30 seconds (or min) each to pitch to the room on what they are working on may help people connect and find like minded people? kind of like show and tell..
> Note that no peer-to-peer data goes through the server; The server acts only to broker connections.

Q1. Does this support connecting to a peer behind a NAT device?

Q2. Does this support connecting two peers each behind its own NAT?

Because a vast majority of real world cases will fall into either of these two categories.
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See also his snarky reference to "electric-car acolytes" in the same paragraph. He seems to be a bit too careless in revealing his biases.
I wrote a small blog post covering the basics. Starts with explaining opcaches, talks about APC and Optimizer+ and has as how to install. Perfect for starters http://www.intracto.com/blog/testdriving-zend-optimizer
You just need to publish it publicly to establish prior art.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art
I've superimposed the 'charge' and 'range' graphs. The gap indicates the reserve.

http://i.imgur.com/mfB1IJ6.png

I guess Tesla needs to figure out how to prevent wonky gaps like the one at 400 miles. Seems the algorithm jumped too quickly to the conclusion that range was going to be severely impacted.
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The comments are all posted today.

I think he must move in a social circle where everyone uses iphone/ipad.
Early screenshot: http://imgur.com/TCG3itK
Is it totally possible to do both with the same library.Problem is: You need that?

I mean, video rendering kills the performance of your browser I guess is better just to show the possibility of data transferring and then you build it by using the desired specs. Many ongoing video demos are avaliable too :)

http://webp2p.org/

Those guys are also in the same ship with the browser P2P using WebRTC.
I just use the "empty new tab page" extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...
In the USA you can't even do any medical research on some substances, like Cannabis, because they're classified as schedule 1. Apparently psilocybin is also a schedule 1 substance [1]. I don't have any words to articulate this mind-boggling stupidity.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act#Sched...
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I'm sorry to hear that you've had so much trouble with this very simple exercise.

Let me help set you on the right path. Google for "javascript semicolon insertion". After reading about it, it should be very apparent to you how it's a very large flaw with the language, and how it can be extremely harmful.

Do some research into JavaScript's equality operators. Any good programmer will be sick to his or her stomach after reading about how broken such basic, yet essential, functionality like that is.

And that's just the start, my friend. I encourage you to do further research on your own. You'll find no shortage of serious issues to learn more about.
ReST and Markdown are not at odds. The former can be seen as a (vast) expansion of the latter. It's not an actual extension, of course, because the syntax is somewhat different, but it is conceptually.
I feel that the United States hasn't given up on fax machines either, with doctors offices and businesses still using them daily...
This article even has a "discuss on HN" link at the bottom, and that link takes you to the original article.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314672)
I'm unconvinced that Bristol (or any other region of the UK, especially those commutable to London) has the critical mass necessary to support one. Perhaps a worthwhile experiment though.
They are apps he has installed. You don't call the Internet Explorer icon on Windows an "advertisement" do you?
It's funny because (on Chrome at least) you can select the "request desktop version" option from the menu and this goes away completely (although you do still have to login).
This is terrible advice, that must not be heeded.

The times when you could be reasonably sure you are getting LSD if you are getting the drug on blotter, are long gone. There are many drugs that can be/are being distributed on blotter paper. Some of these have a very steep dose-response curve, and can be very dangerous in relatively minuscule amounts.

While it's perfectly safe (if a bit reckless) to consume, say, upwards of three hits of LSD on blotter, doing the same with blotters containing 25I-NBOMe or Bromo-Dragonfly could land you in hospital or even the mortuary.

Taking psychedelic drugs originating on the black market has, unfortunately, become an intricate game, and you really need to learn the rules before you can play it at least somewhat safely. There is no easy answer, other than doing your research, preferably lots of it.
You're right -- it's not impossible but it might have been difficult. I hadn't checked out the interior and so I was not sure what sort of display one looks at to see the remaining range; there is one which suggests that you can see it right under the odometer:

http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/2012-tesla-model-s-di...

...in which case there is not much of an excuse for that type of thing. On the other hand there is a screen which gives the same information but would be very easy to misread, especially if there were glare:

http://elonmusktesla.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/tesla-model-s-...

But yeah, it's not like I was thinking, some display with LCD/LED style digits where a 5 is just one line away from being a 9. You are very correct in that regard.
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Simply publishing it on your blog describing how it works will stop it being patented as it will be the Prior Art. If you develop any code for you demo you can than choose to license that code under an open source license, BSD if you don't mind people selling something built with your code and GPL if you want anything people make with your code to remain free.

It is worth reading up about all the different licenses to get an idea of which one most closely matches your ideals.
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I don't understand what this does and I can't play around with it without giving my email address. Is there a publicly available example online?
Nice try, Broder.
I searched for variance and apparently nobody mentioned this before:
They talk of
Mean request time: 306ms
Median request time: 46ms
Which indicates a very high variance, so don't take for granted that an x50 increase of performance would result from intelligent routing. The problem is that the fast tasks suffer from being queued after the slow tasks, so each such fast task takes an extra latency. If the variance is lower, the random routing will be favorable at some point as the delay of getting the task from the router queue to the dyno is not zero neither. In the case of no variance, "intelligent routing" would always add that delay as soon as all dynos are at their limit. Before that, the router would simply keep a list of idle dynos and send work there without delay.

Sure if you never hit 100% load, intelligent routing is cheap and comes at no delay. Imagine 40ms jobs getting all dynos to 100% load. Now the dynos would be idle for the duration of the ping that it takes to report being idle. let that be 4ms. That is 10% less throughput than with items queuing up on the dyno.

The router being the bottleneck would therefore justify to make it stateless and give the dynos a chance to use these last 10% of processing power as well, ultimately increasing the throughput by 10%. Sure, a serious project would not run its servers at 120% load hoping to eventually get back to 100% within time, so all this being said I would always favor intelligent routing to get responsive servers, add dynos in rush hours and only opt for dyno-queuing for stuff that may come with a delay (scientific number crunching, …)
An excellent point. It's also probably worth mentioning that for this kind of review, a single data point/drive is more of an anecdote than a test. At the very least they should do a "round trip" there and back test.
AFAIK Puma should have a lower memory footprint on MRI than Thin but I haven't done benchmarks myself.
Thanks, I suspected Scandinavians will like Tesla cars, it is great they are already available and selling well.
Patent it and never charge anyone for it :).
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It's not out yet, but here is an early screenshot. The beta will be soon… http://imgur.com/TCG3itK
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It is NAT reversal, even there are still many issues to be solved with the ICE. WebRTC team is working fast in this aspect...

BTW, consider that they are shipping first final version in march so NAT reversal is important. YEY!
How does this differ from cities that already have 3D building data in Google Maps/Earth?
We've had someone travel from France in the past! You should have told us in advance and we could have reserved a prime seat right up at the front for you.
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I agree. Age of Mythology, for instance, is a great game which combines Greek, Egyptian, and Norse mythology as three separate groups and stages into one story.
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To be fair, HN London started off with 15-20 people in the living room of one guys apartment and now we've got over 4,000 members.
Yeah, absolutely. I'm just saying we can't expect a to manager to immediately respond to a highly-technical issue questioning subtle changes in internal behaviour which might have been introduced years ago.
3D building data is only part of this, arguably the least interesting part. It'll be interactive and 'living', not much unlike city-strategy games. It'll also act as a real-time data view of cities in ways that aren't available on the Web yet.
Thanks, you made mine too - it's rare that I can find a library which I can create something with within an hour of coming across it, and this is also my first contribution to the world of memes, so chuffed that I got to do it using such a great utility. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.
Quora is just another set of URLs in my google blacklist.
Could the OP explain a little more about what it is they are doing?

A holding page and vague image of a block city doesn't tell us anything!

There isn't enough here to up-vote yet.
Coffee; many conference-room style (i.e., long) tables; many chairs; power strips; fast, high-capacity, TESTED, wireless network and Internet access; snacks; plenty of good food; the fewer interruptions, the better; mentors who walk around asking the hackers if they need anything; clear rules (if it's a contest). What else?
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Specifications here
StatCounter's global mobile vs. desktop usage is probably one of the best measures we've got available to us.

Their February 2013 results are at:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-2013...

It gives a good sense of the current situation. Mobile browser usage is under 15%. It's nothing compared to the usage of desktop browsers. The growth from 2011 and 2012 isn't even that impressive, given the all of the hype and attention surrounding mobile.
It certainly feels somewhat disingenuous to mention nothing, of what arguably should be, the central discussion point: The Model S (more specifically the car's Li-Ion battery pack) performs unusually poorly in frigid conditions.

When reading the article I found it interesting that for the data points relating to the NYT test drive he speaks in precise and specific numbers. When discussing the vehicles in cold climates (Norway and Sweden) he speaks in "per capita" and "half", but never mentions exact numbers.

The cold weather battery issue is certainly something not worth glassing over. It doesn't have to be a deal-killer for the car, but is probably something that they shouldn't try to politic around. It's not like a firmware upgrade is going to suddenly circumvent a chemical/physics issue with the battery, so just be up front about the current state of the battery technology.
I can attack Musk easily:

a) Lincoln tunnel isn't in NYC's downtown. Even Holland isn't. NYC downtown generally defined as below Canal St. So how NYT reporter drove through it, I have no idea.

b) .5 mile is too short for driving back and forth. I can easily walk .5 mile in under 10 minutes.

c) As the _average_ temp setting was 72F... So the next statement is funny, the NYT reported turned the temperature up to 74F? From what? The average temperature? That doesn't make any sense at all.
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You should throw this up on github, bitbucket or codeplex. DVCS always seems to work best for this type of development.
Here's a longshot: PG, when are you going to grace us with your presence and come give a talk? (we have pizza & booze)
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Can you please add an about section with some more screenshots and a "mission statement" ?
Is Tesla's data independently verifiable?

How is the reader to know the logs haven't been tampered with, if only Tesla has them?
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You know what would be a killer feature? If the Model-S had an up-to-date map of the locations of all of the chargers in the network, and it monitored how close you were to the closest one and compared it to the remaining range you had. It would be able to warn you if your range started getting dangerously far from a charger "lifeline" and even give you emergency GPS directions to the nearest charger as soon as the range got within say...5% of that minimum.
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being picked on by sanderson is not what i would have wanted...
But that will cost me money ;-)
It uses SDP to exchange ICE candidates. At the moment the SDP tries to multiplex video/audio and SCTP (data channel).
48T of attached storage for your current computer? Why so much?