skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article has confirmed crucial aspects of Broder's version with third parties, such as the truck driver who picked up the inert car (it doesn't matter if the battery still has 28% power if the parking brake won't turn off, iirc Priuses also refuse to discharge their batteries below a critical threshold), and used Google Maps to verify other issues (finding the Milford supercharger).

I haven't seen anyone attempt to verify actual speeds based on computing the area under the speed graph, but I suspect that this won't help Musk's case. 19/22 (ratio of the wheel size of the car driven and the wheel size specification) is actually the perfect ratio to explain the variation between recorded speeds and reported speeds. Perhaps one is based on GPS and another on wheel rotation.

The correct response to this story was: we need to improve our customer service, software, reporting of range (especially w.r.t. temperature) and messaging; customers need to better understand the tradeoffs of gas vs. electric cars, and not claiming a senior NY Times reporter will lie to generate some extra hits on a pretty minor story.
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Curious, not to be rude, why wouldn't you do that?

The tablet, as we see it today, really wasn't even a thing back when this article was written. Certainly not in the way that it is today. It's been a while since I've been in a 2004 mindset; but, if we consider a tablet as a 'large (as in not phone), mobile computer', then tablets certainly fit the bill. If we're thinking of a laptop as mostly a consumption device, then it still fits the bill. Even now, with the Tablet PCs that are now coming out; as well as all the productivity software that exists on the various tablets (including ssh clients), tablets are continuing to fill the place that laptops used to.
Newman's group has demonstrated cross-country SLAM using a single cheap camera and a laptop. He is very well known in robotics for his elegant, cheap approaches that really work. You should take what Paul says very seriously. In a few years it is very likely that the raw hardware cost will be $150.

The software is very valuable, no doubt. Their business will be either licensing the software, the IP behind it, or renting access to maps that the software needs to work. This last one is Google's model, I am sure. Historically, Newman's stuff does not rely so much on carefully-tweaked maps.

Notice a further lack of crap at http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/
I have a Quadro Plex and Crysis 2 wouldn't recognize it, then crashed when I tried to start the game.
That whole debate is becoming utterly ridiculous. Either it works as Tesla Motors says, or it doesn't.

If it's so hard to get cold temperatures in the States, just send one unit up here a few miles North to Canada, we'll be back in the -20C during the week.
How old are you, gambit?
Rackspace Cloud has been good for me. Rackspace Cloud Sites not so much. Seemingly random errors coming from the infrastructure level, not much fun to debug.
> The funny thing about asm.js is that it's an admission of the failings of standard JavaScript for this purpose, so much so that you have to define a strict subset

I'm surprised you find that approach controversial. Have you not seen the awesomesauce that Re2 and PyPy bring to the table by defining strict subsets of PCRE and Python, respectively?
>And I've yet to see a package tracking card, but it will be cool if they make improvements and stuff like that starts actually working.

Odd. It usually pulls in tracking data within a few minutes of a ship confirmation hitting my inbox in Gmail. The only time I've seen it have trouble is with some USPS tracking numbers or if I place multiple orders from the same vendor in short succession (e.g., I place two Amazon orders a few minutes apart and Gmail thinks they're part of the same email thread).

Shipment tracking has actually been one of the most reliable (and convenient) features of Google Now for me.
I would be interested in hearing how that works out for you. So far their offering has looked to be the most tempting for me.
Where's the rest of the content? All I see is this: http://i.imgur.com/7iqA15C.png

Also, the author has committed the grave sin of not including a date on their post.
Actually, Excel does add up normal numbers strangely, in that like (that many computer programs) it takes user input in decimal format but stores and operates on it in binary floating point.

Its hardly as if systems that do arithmetic on exact arbitrary-precision decimal (or rational) values and only resort to approximating with binary floating point when an operation requires it haven't been around for decades.
They keep saying explosion, I was under the impression that the sound was the sonic boom?
"on top of which implementors will have to invest even more time and complex effort in providing quality implementations."

It is actually quite easy to implement asm.js; you just carve a "native mode" out of the VM infrastructure that already exists. Much easier than inventing a full-stack VM from scratch.
The overnight stop is really a red herring: The battery only lost about 5-7% of capacity overnight, which is much less than the difference between a standard charge (90% of capacity) and how much the Times charged the battery (72%). Actually, it's too bad CNN didn't stop someplace for the night just to prove this.
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I'll just throw in front end libraries too. We weren't able to leverage HTML5 due to our market segment.

Internal: Git, GitHub, Basecamp

Client: HTML-not-quite-5, jQuery, Lodash, Fine Uploader, Select2, Redactor, Fancybox 2, Sass/Compass

Server: Apache 2.2, MySQL 5.1, PHP 5.3, Laravel 3, PHPMailer

Hosting: MediaTemple DV 4.0 (CentOS 5.8)
Unfortunately, since it's not my own personal hardware and I really don't need any graphics past an X terminal and Visual Studio to do my job, I'm not really willing to muck with the drivers.
"If what you care about is compatibility with Apple/MS browsers, then generate JavaScript from your intermediate bitcode/bytecode"

Which is precisely what the Mozilla Emscripten project does.
Great comment. But you don't have an ethical obligation to be heroic in your startup. You are obligated to be honest when the investor makes their decision to back you, you're obliged not to be negligent in your execution, and you're obliged not to misuse their funds. But your kids, as it were, come first.
Learn HTML 4. Build some applications with it and then learn HTML5. It isnt a big learning curve but the most important part is to actually play around and TRULY understand how HTML4 works. Then when you get to HTML5 you will learn what changed and you will understand why. HTML 5 is still unofficial. If I recall correctly, it is officially out in 2014. But you can still use the HTML5 doctype and other features in your projects, they just wont be compatible across different browsers.
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So Fat Man and Little Boy were approx 15-20 kT. Is that apples to apples? If so, holy crap.
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>How Musk can act incredulous over assertions that the Model S is impractical for US intercity travel while acknowleding one hour fuelings every three hours is beyond me.

Bingo.
I don't see why a candidates willingness to stand up for themselves would be a negative trait, per se. If anything, it reflects poorly on the interviewer.
The best way to avoid the snake oil is to stay away from learning on forums, especially black hat forums. Most often the OP have some 'amazing trick' they discovered that will make lightning come from the sky and shoot your site up to the top of Google, you just to buy a tool that they so happen to make. Most often than not they don't work or only work a lil bit but may come back to bite you on the end.

SEOmoz has a great beginners course, Distilled has Distilled University http://www.distilled.net/u/ and following reputable blogs and sites will help Search Engine Journal http://www.searchenginejournal.com, Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com ... to name a few. If you do come across some material that you're not sure of check their research which they should provide. If they can only give personal, anecdotal results with no data to back it up you should stay away from it.
I can't speak directly to Ruby or Python, because I haven't used them.

But, you can't go wrong with PHP for web programming. Look at the number of people using it.
Fortuitous for this, yes, but the reason why is somewhat unfortunate for Russia.

http://jalopnik.com/why-russians-are-obsessed-with-dash-cams...

EDIT: Just realized this was posted as a HN news item, probably from the original source.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227182
Nhashem didn't say "through someone else's employer".
I'd have to imagine that's something in the works. It likes to give me transit information heading to work or home, and seems to be fairly smart about it since I don't work a normal 9-5 schedule.
Considering in the 1920s the US was in the middle of converting horse drawn street cars into electric, and this is an application for EDISON, I certainly hope you would know that answer.

Kerosene was the most important fuel used up until the 1920s, so I'd imagine most people would have seen kerosene barrels personally. A few would have derived the type of wood via curiosity.
I think this over-estimates the number of people who are OK with opening their lives to Google to this degree. Amazing - possibly, invasive - you bet your porn collection.
Maybe Steam could send these CD's in the mail and offer like ten free hours of use.
So, it's now the original iteration of Color that had warranted the $41M investment?
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Link is to a pdf... (Don't we normally indicate this in the title?)
I would not consider GNU/Linux users the target market either. I would consider the target market to be Windows users that don't want to use Windows for whatever reason. These people don't care what they use as long as it isn't Windows, they aren't loyal to any one system for any particular reason.

Personally I do not derive pleasure from just playing games, I need to be able to study their source code and modify them. So I see no advantages in having proprietary games on my system. I hope that other GNU/Linux users acknowledge this as well. The one true value of the system is that it is GPL-ed.
If I'm going to write a custom app in some external programming language to consume and do type-aware processing on the CSV file, I might as well do whatever I analysis I need to do in that app, rather than just using it to reprocess CSV into CSV and then go back to working in Excel.

Its not like any of the languages I would use to do this (Python, Ruby, etc.) don't have easy-to-use libraries to treat the CSV as a data structure and perform analytic operations once I've spent the (minimal) effort to load it and do any basic transformations that I need to do based on the intended semantics of the data in each column.
> I haven't seen anyone attempt to verify actual speeds based on computing the area under the speed graph ...

Area under the curve -- then that would be to establish average speeds, yes? I think the recorded road distances and travel times would be a simpler way to establish that.

> The correct response to this story was: we need to improve our customer service, software, reporting of range (especially w.r.t. temperature) and messaging ...

Yes, that would have been a nice alternative to what actually happened. My pet gripe about Tesla in this affair was their advice to Broder to engage in stop-and-go driving as though that would help the car's range (it can't do that, it can only hurt compared to driving at a steady speed).
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An average American, at most, since about half of them are USA-centric.
> What would a standardized bytecode bring to the table over asm.js?

A better technical solution and lower development friction throughout the entire stack. The hackiness of the web already introduces an enormous amount of cumulative friction, and asm.js just adds more.

People have been asking for a solution -- and working on them -- for 5+ years, and Eich has consistently replied that such a thing is unnecessary. In many respects asm.js is an admission of defeat, in that it's not standard JavaScript (it's a strictly designed subset), and they are attempting to tune it to the purpose of providing a standard bytecode format, while still being able to claim that it is JavaScript.

In the same period of time, entirely new and proprietary mobile platforms have emerged and eaten a huge portion of the application market's mindshare and marketshare.

Perhaps it's time to stop listening to someone who can't think outside his own box, and instead choose a technology that is actually well-suited to the problemspace.

> To me the choice is between more convenient encoding format for the bytecode and backwards compatibility with all browsers ...

That could be achieved by generating JS from the bytecode, which would turn the problem into a temporary one that disappears as browsers are updated, instead of yet another time and resource draining wart on the web platform.

Human readable JavaScript "byte code"? Seriously? This is the kind of backwards thinking that left the door wide open for native mobile apps to own the market.

I would love to be able to target the web instead of proprietary platforms, but the technology stack isn't there and won't be as long as people like Eich are running the show, and remain fixated on what worked for web documents as the solution for what will work the future of web apps.
Because no man wants to think about the man! And porn is marketed to men. There's a reason he's called the "stunt cock." Quite a few men get off on the idea of HER wanting it. SHE wants the huge cock, she is insatiable. The idea is that the woman/women is a sexual beast who wants you so badly ... which is what the man behind his computer/TV wants because most porn watchers are not indulging with another viewer. The man always must orgasm, but no male viewer wants to see him any more than possible. See also, POV porn.
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Common knowledge now with the Internet? Yes. At the time? No.

Those were difficult and discriminating questions at the time.

This is a time when poor girls who couldn't afford stockings wouldn't be allowed to go to school and the majority of people didn't have indoor plumbing let alone the luxury of books. Heck, 6% of possible candidates of the country were immediately eliminated because they would have not been able to read or write in any language, let alone know the arithmetic, physics, etc, required.
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This is the worst kind of UI element of all. It's both overthought and not standard.

It's different. I don't understand how it's fun or useful.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Hi! Founder here. I think we indeed are indebted to our investors. Often financially, when the investment comes in the form of a convertible note. But more importantly, there's a social debt. These are people who bet on us when few others would. They provide advice, support, and connections.

Sure, there's a financial aspect to this, and it's not like founders personally guarantee the company's books. But Silicon Valley doesn't run on money; it runs on people. And on their relationships.
Thought I needed to mention the Tunguska event in 1908. It turned out it was already mentioned in the Nature article.

Anyway, here is the wiki link to that event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

When I was a kid who was fascinated by UFO stuffs, that one was always speculated to be an explosion of an Alien spaceship.
Ground Zero allows you to pick a place and a bomb and nuke an area.

Unfortunately it hops from 21 kT to 400 kT, but still.

(http://www.carloslabs.com/projects/200712B/GroundZero.html)
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Did you read the article? That's what it says - A meteor that exploded over Russia this morning was the largest recorded object to strike the Earth
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http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/14/3989936/amazon-will-nvesti...
Your argument amounts to "I know Python better than Lisp." And it may be true that because most languages and especially most popular languages are like Python that you have a head start. But it doesn't mean that Lisp is insensible or harder to read. It just means you have less experience reading it.

I say this as a decent Haskell programmer, and a very poor Lisper. There was a time I found Haskell code so unbelievably befuddling I thought it was a prank. Now I know it, so I know what to expect and I can read it as easily as Java. Lisp remains harder for me, like you, but it's a matter of practice.
Incidentally, I just stumbled upon [0]. I'm also newbie in seo.

[0]: The Advance SEO Guide (by Neil Patel and Sujan Patel)
http://www.quicksprout.com/the-advanced-guide-to-seo/
Now.we.know why we need meteor defense. If this rock ( that is.actually small ) ended hitting a 10 millions people city filled with glassy skyscrapers, what would happen? How many people.dead or in hospitals?
Link to source article: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428504/computer-scienti...
I wonder what Nikola Tesla asked prospective assistants?
Still, before there was no google/wikipedia so common knowledge and general interest was much more important.
My first response was indignation. A lot of those questions are seemingly irrelevant. However, I think we need to put them in perspective of the business and time. Once you do that, A lot of them become something I would expect people to know.
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Thomas Edison invented the cylindrical Phonograph, and movies were beginning to just show up in 1921. I'd imagine knowing the speed of sound - especially how it relates to syncing with video - was of major importance to him, much more than it was to Einstein.

Context is everything.
That's far outside my realm of research. I work mostly on competing risk survival models and bone-marrow sparing IMRT. My layman's opinion though is to be extremely skeptical of anything that purports to cure cancer. If it lacks efficacy then it's dangerous to pick over a more conventional therapy. If it does work that means its cytotoxic and needs to be evaluated for safety.

Either way you're in dangerous territory.
"I don't want to get a $100 dedicated server, because in the first month, I might have...zero income."

What is the cost of your time for 2-3 months of development? Is it over $100?

"Zero income" is your big risk, not whether you can code the product. Go find your customers. Get commitments from them that they would pay your price for your app so you know you'll be making money on day 1. Rob Walling's book "Start Small, Stay Small" is a nice guide to this process.
I take highway 5. If you take the 1 then there's all sorts of cool stuff along the way.

Not to say that farms aren't cool. I actually look in amazement at how good farmers have gotten at growing crops the entire drive down.
My only problem with AppFog is the "50GB Bandwidth". They don't let you know how much you've used - they just say "we will start slowing down your app when you hit the limit."

Obviously they need to get paid for their service, but I prefer to know when the cost is going to happen.
And of course, with servo being written in Rust, that makes it doubly interesting.

"To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan
I apologize ahead of time for my childish humor but...I appreciate the time the screenshot was taken for the Google Now widget on the phone
If you're using Python/Java, Google App Engine has a free tier. During development when your traffic is low, you'll almost pay nothing. Minimal setup as well.
this. I often will fire off a quick search for a restaurant I'm going to go to or am interested in going to, before I leave. Then the directions are on the google now card for me for the next hour or so, so if I feel like checking the restaurant out I click the card and I get directions.

It's amazing.
None of that debt will be from your investors, and, once you have investors, the norm is that you'll be taking a salary as well. "Funded startup founder" is an immensely privileged position from which to operate and not remotely comparable to that of a 30 year old who chose the wrong major and faces six figures of non-dischargeable debt.
Gruber once mentioned that he'd like to have Thurott on The Talk Show. I'd love to hear that.
m-m-manual?! :P
no, I admit it, I'm a young. Printers jam a lot, they have ink problems, drivers are always a pain.
They are probably a lot better than a typewriter though.
Direct. Experience.
I think RaphiePS's comment is fair.

"tools to understand and improve the performance of your apps" only commits them to updating their docs and tools to reflect how their system really works. It doesn't indicate any intention to fix the actual problem (the fact that requests can be routed to busy dynos), nor that they will make any kind of reimbursement to people who made business decisions based on incorrect docs.

"develop long-term solutions" doesn't really mean anything.
Why isn't Microsoft 'cool'?
Isn't it quite a coincidence that the largest meteor impact since 1908 occurs just hours before the closest fly-by of a large asteroid in 100 years? Yet, NASA claims these two are unrelated.
Ask HN: How are app sales on the Windows 8 App Store?
Compared to the iOS App Store there are fewer customers, but there are also fewer apps to compete for attention with. I'm wondering how revenue might compare for: a single-price paid application and for a free with in-app-purchase application.
Not to mention the infrastructure damage(not that i am belittling human damage). It would take years and billions of dollars to repair. Imagine every window in New York blowing out?

The secondary damage would be much worse then primary.
Would he appreciate an intelligent guess?

If I didn't know how much a square foot of air weighed, could I represent it with x and then give a formula?

If he asked me who discovered the south pole and I asked him to clarify whether he meant who first reached the south pole, who first postulated that the earth, being spheroid, must have a southernmost extremity, or who first realized that the earth produces a magnetic field, would he be impressed or merely annoyed?

I'd be more interested to know how he reacted to the answers than the fact that he asked the questions.
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It's nice to hear these case studies, especially this one, since Zawinski's law was one of the quotes we put on our whiteboard in the early days of Mailgun. It's also one of the reasons we focused so much on effectively parsing inbound email early on vs. just SMTP relay and deliverability stuff.
Right, but you can always just walk away from it all. It's not the same as a student loan.