skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that being quantitatively lacking is a bad thing--but certainly you need to have those folks in contact with more implementation-capable minds to help!

I saw something similar at my local Occupy protests--once we'd put in a somewhat more concrete intellectual framework for discussing grievances, things became a lot more productive.

Hit me up on email if you'd like to chat more about these things.
Disclaimer: I'm not from the US.

Question: Can somebody explain to me why on Earth can't they just calculate every single vote and whoever gets the most of those win the election? Why do you need this over-complicated system of states, electoral votes, blue vs. red states, etc? Why is it NOT fair if the majority elects their president?
Neat! Couple of nits, though, if anyone from Tesla is reading:

- Wish it used OAuth or some other revocable token mechanism. What if I lose my device? Sell the car? Get a divorce? etc..

- GET for things that change state? Looks like these are all idempotent, so they should be PUT.

- Versioning might be nice. :)

Still, progress! Clean API over HTTP that returns easy-to-parse JSON for a car = win.
Perl: "There is more than one way to do it."

Some ways Excel lets you organize data: (1) chaotically on one worksheet, (2) with different data sets in different worksheets, (3) in tables (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/overview-of-exc...).

Python: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

Perhaps Excel/Perl*Python wouldn't have any of Excel's organization tools exactly but would instead have only independent tables that could be made larger and smaller as needed.

Edit after reading some comment about databases:

Perhaps this program would be a front-end of sorts for databases or could act as one. That might be unrelated to the Perl/Python difference, but it could be a useful feature.
"Convincing? No. His other chart shows the mile range dipped below zero, which would indicate the car could not move. "

Wow, I wish I could be as sloppy and awful at my job as these journalists are. Had he actually bothered to truly read the response he is commenting on, he would see that Musk states that, when the car's range dips below zero, it is running on reserve power. It takes some miles after "zero" for the car to actually stop moving.

What a hack. There is truly nothing worse than reading something by someone who has no education in comprehending quantitative data try to critique it.

However, I do agree with his statement on the climate control. That was something I noticed when I read Musk's response. Clearly, the Broder turned the heat down, just not as early as he thought/claimed.
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Sounds like Farmeron.
Right, my mistake, but you can effectively borg it.
You might find http://www.scratchbeginnings.com an interesting read.
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Er, would you like to rephrase that? A fast reading would seem to suggest that you are referring to the natives as swine.
If regenative braking adds X charge to batteries, then afterwards speeding back to original speed will take more than X energy.

Regenerative energy is much more efficient than normal braking; but in any case it's far more efficient to simply stay at the same speed. Stop & go is extremely inefficient with normal brakes, and just inefficient with regenerative brakes.
Interesting that it looks like the majority of them are related to getting ready in the morning/self hygiene.

Apparently not many morning-people on reddit.
This "defense" basically amounts to: See, Broder didn't lie, he exaggerated. That, and the things Broder did to try and get stranded were fair game.

In that, they are making valid points, supported by facts. That it's the best they can do is telling.

I look forward to replication attempts.
Can you put your email in your profile? Those are exactly the kinds of events/culture I'd like to get more involved with.
Note that locking primitives include memory fences, that's why you are not confronted with re-ordering problems unless you do lockfree multicore programming.

From my experience, the fence is much costlier than the actual locking (at least on Linux, thanks to Futexes [1]). So unless you're going to put your hands in the dirt and remove the fence, it is useless and error prone to remove the locking, just because you believe it is not necessary.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex
Let me stress that I am not talking about web sites in general but rather am talking specifically about sites that depend on quality unpaid contributions from a large numbers of people.

>building a big successful company at scale is rarely done without taking on external investment.

Wikipedia is a counterexample. According to Alexa, Wikipedia is the sixth most visited web site in the world. But more to the point, no VC-funded or stock-market-funded company I know of is foolish enough to try to compete with Wikipedia. I think that fifteen years from now, we will see a similar situation among Q-and-A sites -- at least those where the answers are contributed by unpaid users. In other words, I predict that Quora -- as well as Stack Exchange, which has also taken VC funding -- will be eclipsed within 15 years by sites not funded by VC or other profit-motivated investment.

Any competition for Google Search is likely to come from companies like Apple or Microsoft that already have plenty of money to pay engineers or from investor-funded for-profit companies. That is because the "non-profit sector" is unlikely to be able to summon up enough skilled labor or funding to compete with Google Search.

In contrast, setting up a competitor to Quora or Stack Exchange is relatively easy (especially since these new entrants can learn from Experts Exchange, Stack Exchange and Quora), and going the non-profit route (or the for-profit "lifestyle business" route without external funding) does not alienate a large fraction of potential unpaid contributors.
I don't normally buy TF2 hats, but if they offer a penguin hat for linux users I'll totally buy one to say "Thank you" for porting this to Steam.
It has to be asked, given the tone and rapidity with which this article went up: what relationship does Rebecca Greenfield (or maybe the editors at The Atlantic) have to Broder? This really feels like a "got your back" kind of thing. Media figures don't, as a general rule, write stories with the sole purpose of knocking down criticism of other media figures.
Better than a simple majority election or instant runoff would be approval voting. Suppose 40% of people strongly favor the Republican, and 39% the Democrat. However, suppose 62% would accept the leading independent candidate as a second choice. More people would be more happy if the voting system allowed the independent to win in this case.
Article makes a few good points. There has been a lot of "Hurry for data! Boo journalists! Off with the oil shill
Broder's head" talk here and elsewhere, but Tesla's data seems too far from an ironclad refutation of the article. The supposed circling would have lasted less than five minutes at 10-15 mph. It is a strictly subjective "he said, she said" situation about whether Tesla did tell Broder that he was good to go in Norwich. And unless the towing company is lying, the car did shut down, contrary to Tesla's claims.

There is no clear winner or loser here.
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> my current kia rio ... nearly 50mpg

I have to ask about this. The highest EPA estimates (which are notoriously generous) for the 2013 Rio are 37 MPG [1].

[1] http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2013_Kia_Rio.shtml
There is Pay Pad by Billy Coover (https://www.pay-pad.com/alerts), which offers an iOS dashboard and push notifications.
The headline should be updated to begin with "The Atlantic Wire claims..."
Assuming you can afford a lawyer. In this case, the developer's apparently in Europe, making that even more difficult.
EDS had a 20 Megabyte Email quota in 2002/2003 in order to "conserve resources" - basically meant there was a 30-45 day window before you had to start deleting email.
Edit: grammar

Some cars are really good at this. Some are not. It depends on so many factors, including the egghead quality.

I'm one of those firmware eggheads, btw.

As another example, when I fuel my car from emtpy to full, as soon as I turn the key, the fuel gauge ramps rapidly up to Full. In my wife's car, it finds its way to Full after a minute or so. I don't know, but I'm pretty sure the difference is the filtering algorithm employed. One egghead knew about Kalman filters or similar, and the other didn't.

It's the same with all the other software features in the car. Some had good eggheads on the time, and some didn't. I think it's impossible to buy a car that does every single thing "right", by any single person's definition.
They posted some screenshots (along with some ranting) at http://talent.adweek.com/gallery/Fitness-SF-Website/7075381
I think there are good arguments for abolishing the Senate and returning the House to proportionality, but at least everyone gets a vote for their Senator that counts. You can't use the disproportionality of the legislature to defend disenfranchisement of Americans on a national scale.
I was written by a woman actually. :)

Can I add on argument 6.:
>>No. That wasn't the point of the article. Broder wanted to see how the car would do on a long range road trip relying on Tesla's two official Supercharger stations. <<

Ok, he wanted to rely on only official stations, but did he really have to completely discharge the car? Why couldn't he just stop and charge when he was super low at any normal charge station, and explain in the article that the two supercharge stations, failed? Well that's because then he couldn't post a nice article titled >>Stalled Out on Tesla’s Electric Highway<<
Anyone doing this has generally already resigned themselves to not getting paid for the job.
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Let me tell you a story: just over 10 years ago, I worked on a project to create a foreign exchange trading tool for small and medium sized businesses in Europe. My company (well the company that employed me, you know what I mean) had been commissioned to write a custom version of our existing trading software for it, and some other company (a big consultancy) was doing the, err, consulting bit of it, systems integration, branding, whatever you want to call it. The technology was great, worked perfectly, easy to use, got the best quotes from major banks, yadda yadda.

The project was a complete, utter, dismal failure. Why? Because when these companies wanted to do a deal, old Uncle Otto from the back office at company A would go and have a nice long lunch with cousin Beppe from company B, then they would shake hands, and that was that. They weren't interested, and they were getting great rates anyway, because these were long-term business relationships, some had been going on for generations!

So I am a bit leery of young hip geeks with soft hands telling honest sons of toil how to improve their businesses...
Design is a global market to a large extent, there is no reason why they should choose a local one.
In an old job I had to slice and dice lots and lots and lots of spreadsheets and csv dumps -- almost all one offs, or in ways that were one offs.

Sure I could hack up some scripts to do that work, but almost everytime it was quicker and easier to just use Excel as a handy-dandy swiss army knife to do all kinds of bulk data processing.

It's a stupid good tool that gets you almost dangerously far with a modicum of effort and no additional cost.

Doing the same work any other way would have meant keeping 3 or 4 engineers on staff full-time banging out code and managing databases. I or another guy on my team were able to do everything we needed in less than an hour a day, then load the results into an appropriate analysis tool.

Quite often the appropriate analysis tool was also Excel.
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It's possible that the estimation is accurate/generous when there is plenty of charge left, and conservative when there is little charge left. This would explain why the car didn't actually die when the range estimate hit zero.

They may make the estimate conservative when there is little charge left so people are more apt to charge up.
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You can trade mark any word provided it is not descriptive of the goods and services you want to apply it to, and that it is also distinctive.

I could get the trade mark for python for software, but would be unlikely to get the mark for snake-keeping services, to give a rough example.
Again, the system on which I work is used by the VA. I cannot imagine that any of these regulations are any more onerous than standard best practices in the industry.
Maybe, but that's completely tangential to the question of whether a vote for President should count the same across state lines.
With a more conservative driving style, it's quite doable to get much better range than those estimates.

It's quite fun, actually!
The reason for this is that the range estimator can't predict things the driver might do to spoil the forecast, like run the heater, or drive faster than the speed the estimator uses for its assumptions, or engage in urban stop-and-go driving -- all of which Broder did. This is not to suggest wrongdoing, only that the assumptions were overly optimistic.

> Estimation theory is an established field, and this is the most basic type of problem.

All estimations in this class must make assumptions about future behavior. Changes in behavior change the estimate.
Thank you; Google agrees with you. I've changed the wording.
And 'legal' protection means waiting years in courts, then potentially years more to collect on that judgement (assuming you actually win). I don't know the story behind this, but they may have already waited months before taking this sort of action.

And as someone else said - really? An SF-based company contracted with someone in Germany to do their website? Seems to be they were doing this on purpose, to avoid paying. I had a similar situation with someone in NYC who didn't pay - found out later his company had a habit of doing this to small contractors out of state - you're telling me you can't find a web developer in NYC?

In my case, yes, I sued - drove to NYC and filed a suit. It's been 4.5 years, and I still don't have a court date.
You and your weird wishes for replication. Not gonna help.

Plus, your framing is completely out of whack. You charge in there with your preconceived notions.

As far as I can see, the only thing weird or unusual in the data is the speed. It’s not at 54 mph, it’s higher. That’s pretty inexcusable in itself.

The rest seem like total non-issues to me. He never said he turned the temperature down at exactly mile so–and–so. The drop in estimated mileage from 90 to 45 actually happened (plus he is not contradicted by Tesla in his claim that customer support told him just driving even if the estimated range is so low would be ok). He did slow down to 45 mph. The explanation of being unable to find the charging stations and circling around is completely coherent and makes lots of sense. (Have you seen photos of those charging stations? They are pretty small.)

So, the speed is the only issue here. We can ignore all the rest as FUD from Musk. Sad, really.
I'd go with a date range like http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=python&hl=en&sa=X&#...
This is a really important development -- games have been one of the big things missing on the Linux front (excluding android).

Excited to see where this leads!
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Looks slick! Also see the blog post: http://www.gameclosure.com/blog/?p=177
What is the replacement for Excel on iOS?

Applying the "death of the PC" mantra to all things gets old. Things like multi-tasking, having access to a filesystem, embedding different types of documents is a "feature" that is really useful to people doing actual work.

One of my duties a couple of years ago was doing budgeting and rate-setting for a $50M IT business. A rich spreadsheet like Excel was an essential part of the that process, and there is no replacement platform out there that is going to replace that category of app. (You may be able substitute LibreOffice or something.)
Yes, I noticed this too. It really hard to invest time with such a restrictive license. Do you know by any chance if Odometer value is a real odometer or distance since MIL or something else. Odometer is not a standard PID and I was curious to see if Ford opened that up.
There was an extensive, and on the whole rather favorable, review of the Model S from The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/12/3969260/going-the-distance...

submitted to HN while most participants were discussing the John Broder New York Times review. (Most participants missed the discussion on the article from The Verge.)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5208154

The author of the report in The Verge takes care to mention, "Tesla hopes for its first quarter of black ink this year after a decade of operation, but make no mistake, it’s still in the throes of startupdom. Much of its working capital has come from nearly half a billion dollars in low-interest rate government loans. It has just a few dozen dealers around the world."
Seconded. We can't use public services for internal messaging, but we do have JIRA + Stash inside the firewall. Hipchat server would be good, or is it XMPP compatible?
I really want to buy an electric car, but range anxiety keeps me from doing so. Unfortunately, this article doesn't help.

The particular facts may be "peculiar," even fabricated, but the overall experience rings true. There are going to be trips that you can do easily today on petrol that would be difficult to do with the state of the art electric car from Tesla.

It's time for Tesla and Better Place (betterplace.com) to join forces.
"A common myth regarding science crowdfunding is that only charismatic projects are funded. The topic of the research, however, is less important to the project’s success than the crowd a project engages. Almost any topic in science can be made interesting to audiences. For example, as part of the #SciFund Challenge (a science-specific crowdfunding initiative) many esoteric projects have been successfully funded. From a project researching the dormant stages of Daphnia to another investigating pure ecological statistics, projects that appear to have limited public appeal have been successful, due to the tremendous outreach campaigns by the scientists behind them."

-- Wheat et al. 2013. Raising money for scientific research through crowdfunding:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534712...
The wording "invented the Chromebook" is aggressive, especially for collaborative projects that collect many contributions and work on shared themes. But, journalistic accounts and promotional bioblurbs typically dumb things down, in exactly this way.

And, if at any point Google asserts that Nelson's '662 patent covers the Chromebook/ChromeOS or similar products from other companies, then it's a defensible statement, at the level of fuzzyness that's used in these contexts. It should be interpreted as, "invented [key enabling technology for] the Chromebook"... like when people talk about who "invented the iPod" or "invented AdSense".
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I considered that and I'll admit that I was being a bit lazy with my comment but I think it could be written in a reasonable way. Perhaps a license fee attached to any failed legal action. Or even limit to certain types of legal action.
I find that does not always seem to work. We get CSVs with telephone numbers, and depending on the length, they end up being shown using E notation, even after selecting text formatting.
80 rooms? Ouch. I work on about 8 projects I need notifications for while I'm at work. I can't have 8 rooms open. That's just too much.
I feel something like subtextual.org may fit this bill. There's some interesting stuff going on there incorporating the text/cell nature of Excel, but with some more intuition.
As a Saas provider within the recruitment business we have plenty of examples of where Python is used to categorize candidates proficient in Python. There is not a bit of ambiguity there.
Actually, if you planned for this well, I would not be surprised if you ended up with much more mental stimulation than your day job. Have an ereader, download ebooks on everything under the sun. You don't have shit or taxes or property beyond what you carry on you to worry about. Heck, if you saved up $100k or $200k beforehand, you'd probably end up saving/making more money per year than the average American.

Mental stimulation wouldn't be the issue. Risk of violence or disease, however...
Media figures try to write timely articles in an effort to get as many pageviews as possible. This is a perfect example of that phenomenon- I would bet that this will be The Atlantic's most popular article of the week.

Sometimes the reality is simpler than the conspiracy.
>Which is a very good reason for the smart kids to stick to California for their professional lives.

Georgia recently amended our constitution to make non-competes much more likely.

I and much of the tech scene hugely lobbied against this effort, oh well. We didn't need to work for in state companies anyhow.
I feel sick reading the copy on that site. FOREVER ALONE.
"Magic" code is code that gives little or no indication that it's being executed in the contexts that are affected. Think of this as the "locality" of code. Do the names and operations being referenced in the current context completely describe the functionality that is being executed? Then the code has high locality. Magic code is code with low locality.
The sushis they made look disgusting. Way too much rice.
No one makes an argument for fairness that's worth taking seriously. But the reality is that the people that would lose power under direct majority vote don't want to change and the 90%+ overlap with majority vote for the winner means there's rarely sustained outrage about "unfair" results (and those are in very close contests anyway).
> You and your weird wishes for replication.

The fact that you find replication weird, is weird. It would give me pause if I were in any empirically based project.
Radical punk rock literally saved my life. As someone who's been a part of both of these worlds off and on for 16 years, I couldn't disagree with you more.

I see the aesthetics of the hacker and punk scenes as being extremely similar, where as the underlying motives are currently lightyears apart.

For instance, "hacker houses" and "collective houses" have a similar aesthetic. Both are about people living together, and sometimes the actual form even looks the same. But "hacker houses" fundamentally seem to be about "networking" and "making connections" to other entrepreneurs. Collective houses, on the other hand, are about building relationships -- precisely because it's so difficult to find meaningful connection in a world based on exchange. These two things look similar, but (having experienced both) I believe are radically different.

Another clear example is "hacker spaces" vs "social spaces." Again, the aesthetic is similar -- both are supposed to be "creative" spaces that have a similar logistical form. But what actually happens in both places is radically different. Anarchist "social spaces" are built on a social narrative for what people do there, where as "hacker space" activity (in the US, at least) is largely absent any kind of narrative. "Maker culture" in the US is based mostly on doing things that are "neat," and that's really the end of it. There are obvious exceptions, and the EU hacker culture has more of a narrative to it, but this is has been my experience on the whole.