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I get what you mean, but making names up is torture in most communication channels. The best example I can think of is Hadoop. Even though it's mostly spelled like it sounds, I've never seen anyone remember it right off the bat. Python, as an english word, sticks in your mind with the correct spelling. Unless you see if spelled out, Hadoop is kind of a fuzzy, nonsense word.

I don't have any studies to cite, but that's my experience with technical and nontechnical people. Java is a easy to remember and usually not misheard, Hadoop is hard to remember initially. Don't even get me started on Sqoop.
Good god when was the last time you tried this and had to write an X.org conf file?

I have to write one when I switch from novareau to nvidia-proprietary but it's for a very specific reason - my monitor outputs invalid EDID information. Otherwise, you should never have to write a config file in almost all cases.
Well done, congrats man! You're the hero.
Graham's critique is remarkably like the one Karl Marx had of "metaphysical" philosophy, in favor of praxis-oriented philosophy. ;-)

From the end of his Theses on Feuerbach: "Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it".
it speaks of multiple continents, can Indian farmers use it too? maybe I can have some people try it out.
Or did you miss the 6 months of campaigning this year in which the candidates spent almost the entirety of their time and money in a handful of districts?

The electoral college coerces candidates into appealing only to a small number of strategic areas.

If anything, a popular vote liberates candidates because they can make gains anywhere, and appeal to minority (the minority political party, that is) populations in areas where they wouldn't have bothered to go otherwise because the winner-take-all system makes it fruitless.

When every vote counts, candidates have an incentive to appeal to everyone.
hi-- Haight St shop owner and resident (Buyer's Best Friend Wholesale & Mercantile, Haight @ Cole, bbfdirect.com), member of the Haight St Merchants Association, own two other shops around town, happy to answer any questions. Some FAQs:
- no, the street kids don't steal or bother us much, but also not especially helpful. They and the shopowners largely keep to themselves.
- yeah, the filth is unpleasant and bad for business.
- SIT/LIE hasn't been abused much AFAICT-- it's gone into the cops' "tools" for dealing with people who cross the line. Plenty of people sit on the sidewalks still, but now you can get them to move if being polite doesn't work. As with any enforcement tool, I'm sure there's some abuse and I won't defend it. The cops I've met are thoughtful.
- we've had to call the cops only a handful of times - not bad for a big city.
- cyclical/seasonal business and cost of living are bigger annoyances than the kids.
- the Haight Ashbury merchants are as crazy as anybody-- half of them want to kick out the bums, the other half feed them, half want to legalize pot, the other half get more cops. The issues are complex.

I second Dewitt's comments btw -- we know each other both from the 'hood and from work.
Sorry to the maker of this - but it just makes me want to be sick having an app like this. [2]

I just keep thinking that people are so overwhelmed with this "there's an app for this" thing that they're forgetting to solve real problems.
The debs work fine under debian/sid and most deb packages work fine between debian and ubuntu and the places where they don't are by some evil design. yeesh
I am in Arizona, and voted appropriately. However, I am actively in the process of relocating to Washington state. I have lived half of my life here, but I am just tired of Arizona. The tech sector here is poor. Local education is bad (reference Intel CFO Gregg Barrett). I love Arizona's geography and weather, but I can't take the toxic politics, anti-education, and pro-white-elderly social climate. It's the social atmosphere amongst the other tech people I know here that I'm really running away from. All the people I know from Ebay/Paypal, TGen, GoDaddy, ASU, etc just seem miserable and I don't blame them, but I won't be amongst them any longer.
All I can say is there's no such thing as bad publicity
All cars will soon require blackboxes [1]. I agree it's a big deal and it will be interesting to see how good security / how accessible these are.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/black-boxes-privacy...
Chicago is pretty silly but, check out Lamar Smith's district. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/TX/21

If you look at the TX map and zoom in on Austin you will see how silly it is.
>a lot of casual IP violation in the indie game making scene and RPG Maker community

The RPG Maker community in the West pretty much started with an unofficial (i.e., illegal) translation of RPG Maker 95 and 2000 into English by a Russian hacker. It's a interesting ethical conundrum to consider: we likely owe most of the great (and not so great) games made with those tools to the wide, illegal, availability of the tools themselves and their default art assets that provided a foundation one could built upon [1].

Perhaps this could be solved by either having a broad enough library of liberally licensed assets (the problem with those would be games that use them looking unoriginal are their use spreads) or a Ted Nelson-style system of transclusion [2] where you could reuse other people's content that would automatically give part of your profit from page views to them. The latter only covers compensation for copyright, obviously. When you get to trademarks it gets a lot more murky.

[1] One of the most well-known RPG Maker games is A Blurred Line (http://rpgmaker.net/games/92/). It offers a example of just what a solo developer can do with premade art assets and great storytelling (as evidenced by the fact that years later people are still asking for the final episode to be made).

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion#History_and_imple...

Edit: rephrasing.
Great story. Great writing. Thank for you sharing man. Best wishes!
For a handful of users you can proxy basically the entire site and reduce your code to a userscript and maybe some database callbacks.
"Thousands of newspaper are going to write an article everything that happens."

Thousands of newspapers writing about this is exactly what Musk shouldn't want! Thanks for making my argument for me. :)
Ask HN: What type of business are you?
Is your business/startup a sole proprietorship? partnereship? LLC? etc, and why?
Regarding CUDA programming: If you want to do this seriously do yourself a favor and get a test machine with a Fermi and/or Kepler card running a CLI-only linux and ssh in for testing. CUDA drivers run just fine on linux, it's one of the most common environments for HPC programming right now.

What I mean is you usually don't want to do this on your laptop. First, a high end laptop like a macbook can hold up for 4 years while GPUs need to be replaced regularly in order to develop for the latest newest capabilities. At some point you will also want to try Intel MIC, AMD cards and so on. Secondly, it's just much nicer if the system you're working on doesn't get hot.

Note: If it's for graphical tools with user frontend I can understand if you don't want to do this. Even then it could be interesting to have offsite computing capabilities baked in however, since this is also preferred in many graphics/video designer houses.
That's a very good point.

Things like those should be Illegal.

Not the 'time bomb'/"genuine advantage' but the fact that people lie to you during the sale.

a Trial Period is explicit. Renting is explicity. time bomb and genuine advantage or how microsoft is selling Office at staples nowadays is not! it's criminal and devised to take money out of the likes who still pay AOL on top of Cable for Internet.
I've had some problems with the drivers, which is what I was referring to. Sometimes the computer will get into an unusable state and I don't know why.

There are also some odd issues with the tools. Did you know that CUDA-GDB will give an internal driver error if it can't write to /tmp? No description of what's wrong, just "internal driver error". That one took a while to figure out (and I wasn't the one who figured it out in the end).

I've never really programmed under Windows, so I don't know about the tool support, but I'm very happy with Linux development tools. I have actually used the Nvidia profiler under Linux, but I haven't figured out how to make it give me useful information.
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The key issue here is, why did this reporter attempt a drive that was twice as long as the range which he himself admits was displayed by the car?

His defense is laughable: because someone on the phone the night before told me it would take an hour of charging.

Obviously, no one driving their own car would act this way, because then they would run a big risk of getting stuck on the road.
I chose LASEK instead of LASIK because all my research years ago recommended those doing sports or very physical activity have higher risks with LASIK, mainly due to the the flap.

I gained further confidence when I discovered that many flight schools and special ops military schools accepted (or used to accept) PRK/LASEK, but not LASIK.

Even though the recovery time is longer for LASEK and you need to take more care for longer than with LASIK during that recovery, I felt it was worth it.

I have had 20/10 vision for six years now and I consider it one of the best decisions I ever made. I cannot recommend it enough for those whose vision has stabilized.
I will now get Reddit gold.

Protip for hopeful startups: there's a really, really good chance I'll pay you money (whatever your thing is), if you accept bitcoin payments. I personally want to see bitcoin be successful, and I'll go quite a ways to realize that wish in whatever small ways I can.
If anything, it would have no effect because cities tend overwhelmingly democratic, and there are few undecided voters.

It's no use appealing to the area with the highest population density if their mind is already made up.
For me, TF2 runs but is unfortunately too laggy to be playable. It didn't run at all until AMD released an update for Catalyst.
If anything, it would have no effect because cities tend overwhelmingly democratic, and there are few undecided voters.

It's no use appealing to the area with the highest population density if their minds are already made up.
Newspapers are financed by ads and subscriptions. Both categories drive up ad impressions, links, referrals, newspaper profile, etc. and even if somebody would drop out of subscription based on that the chance is very low. So as long as journalists can keep on this side of a complete fabrication (that could drive subscribers away in serious numbers and make advertisers think twice) they're fine with sloppy work. A good controversy only helps the bottom line, and they can always say "we might have been wrong in small details but we illuminated serious concerns of public importance".
Exactly. If the client was warned, removing the time bomb from the code wouldn't be hard.
A few tips about includes and joins in Rails 3
This car sounds like a huge pain overall and sounds like it has a few things to work out. That, coupled with the price, makes me not want to consider any electric car until they have some of these kinks worked out.
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Just to be clear, there is a very reasonable case to be made about the miles that did not "magically" disappear. Unless the battery was giving off heat all night, where else did the energy go?

The "conditioning" sounds like a explanatory shortcut to explaining that ambient temperature affects measurements, and therefore also estimated range.

Without really understanding the details, I think two things: The NYT should have more sophisticated reviews, Tesla should have better QA over its support services to make sure fewer people are given unreasonably optimistic assessments about their range.
I am pleased to hear that Lenna is personally OK with the situation, however I am more concerned with the thousands of young women attempting to enter the boys club of computer science. These women are being coerced to deal with pornography as a theme or abandon computer vision.
Easy for these sites to say, they're in the universe(s) where the Earth survived (so far).
I built my first website using joomla to store university work, upload photos for friends to see and mess about on. It took me a few months, its the ugliest website you'll ever see but I felt proud to have proven to myself that I could do it.
That's actually touched upon in the article (I'm the author). In short, it's possible - but not given:

1) The culture of knowledge- and-design sharing has been prevalent in the DIY community for decades, but hasn't produced anything comparably grand. This is despite the fact that we can already easily source or make custom parts of all sorts. Will this suddenly change? Who knows.

2) There is extremely little emphasis on materials science and mechanical engineering in the 3D printing community at this point - which makes it difficult to reach a "critical mass" of good, practical CAD models to reuse (there's plenty of Yoda figurines to choose from, though). The success of the open source community owes a lot to the broad availability of high-quality reference materials and the self-documenting nature of most of the existing code.

3) The dominant FDM approach produces inherently crappy parts, which makes it poorly suited for direct manufacturing. There is no clear path to fixing it. The alternative technologies work better, but aren't as simple to operate. Of course, better approaches will eventually arrive at some point - but would require major breakthroughs, not incremental tweaks.

4) There is very little "portability" of designs not only across printing technologies, but even between individual printers - which again, is an interesting handicap.
OpenXC had a really easy to way to get odometer readings, otherwise according to [1] "For a Ford vehicle, the odometer can be read via a mode $22 PID of $6180 for km clusters, and $6182 for mph clusters.". [2] Also talks a bit about reading Odometer. Shame there isn't a standard for reading it.

[1] http://www.mp3car.com/engine-management-obd-ii-engine-diagno...

[2] http://www.canbushack.com/blog/index.php?title=oh-no-odomete...
Earth-buzzing asteroid could be worth big bucks: $195B if we could catch it
If both contradictory pieces of advice came from Tesla than surely the blame at least in this instance falls on their shoulders.
Santa Clara engineer & former Woz employee held in bomb plot
I convinced my wife to marry me.
One person from South Dakota responded, and you've used that to determine a score to 9 decimal places?

You really need to only show scores with at least a certain number of respondents. You should also round to the nearest integer.
Bad faith won't help here. Let's call a cat a cat and advertisement advertisement.
? It's a demo with only one room.
A 3D printing of the Eiffel tower isn't a "shameless use" of the work of Mr. Eiffel, but a demostration of the technology.

In the same way, the "product" here is not PoP but how to make games with JavaScript.
> Good god when was the last time you tried this and had to write an X.org conf file?

It was early last year. The GT 240 is a really finicky card in Linux, apparently.

>I have to write one when I switch from novareau to nvidia-proprietary but it's for a very specific reason - my monitor outputs invalid EDID information. Otherwise, you should never have to write a config file in almost all cases.

I can't remember the exact options I had to put in xorg.conf for the GT 240 but them being there did matter.

I confronted a similar problem with EDID setting up an extra 1366x768 monitor connected to a legacy Radeon 9200 PC at work. This resolution is always a pain (since the value of 1366 is not divisible 8 and hence can't be specified in the EDID block), but it much more so when you have a legacy graphics card.
Works in Chrome Canary ;)
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I always like to know how free services like this plan to make money.

Their careers page (http://www.gameclosure.com/careers.html) says they're hiring and have "top-tier funding," so obviously they're going to need to monetize somehow. Yet I couldn't find a single mention of a paid service or premium offering.

Perhaps I didn't look hard enough, but it's unsettling nonetheless.
> If speed is really that important to you, sure scala is faster today, but groovy will catch up very soon.

I didn't mention anything about speed. I talked about being _free of bugs_. Scala is more stable than Groovy' static compilation, having been battle-tested for much longer. I doubt Groovy's static mode will ever be more reliable than Scala.
I've gone that route in the past, and truth is it's painful to run rails on windows (albeit not impossible). The main issue I ran into was that some gems (libraries) rely on native extensions that are not available on Windows.

HOWEVER, there's still a way which works pretty well, which involves running rails from a Virtual Machine (e.g. Ubuntu) to which to ssh into, while coding from windows. Take a look at http://tinyurl.com/b8w4exm (using vagrant might be easier than this tutorial).
Precisely. How many Model S owners are going to call Tesla for regular recharging advice vs. taking 20 seconds to pull up a smart phone app that shows them nearby charging stations?
Take a week off to learn programming? Are you serious?
Also would he have to file it in Germany where he is located or in SF where the client is? If its in Germany how does he enforce a judgement?
Five US House Members who could look up their own IP address
Proof that you don't need 100 pages of license terms to make your library unusable for commercial software.
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You can enable WebGL in Safari. Go to Preferences -> Advanced and click "Show Develop menu in menubar". "Enable WebGL" is the last item in the Develop menu.
It's brilliant.

1. onetime investment of a few minutes while you install the app and sync

2. secretly uninstall or turn off the app

3. your SO gets to feel like you're being sickeningly cute together constantly, and you don't have to do anything!
I want computer vision's culture to not be a subset of cultures that are sexually open. I'm not personally offended, but I don't think we should risk turning away the contributions to computer vision from people who are slighted by the use of pornography in a scientific context.
Dan Dennett - Responding to Pastor Rick Warren (subtitles)
>The GT 240 is a really finicky card in Linux, apparently.

Weird, Novareau played fine with my GT 240 in my old desktop, but I was using it with 12.10 and novareau has come a long way recently. And installing the prop driver took nothing more than installing it (and maybe running nvidia-xconfig and letting it ensure 'nvidia' is loaded instead of 'novareau'.

Legacy monitors can be weird. I had someone in Ubuntu IRC with some very ancient super high res 13" monitor. I don't think we ever got them helped out.
Correction: For the NYT's business, their reputation for integrity is what's important, not the actual integrity of their work. For example, it could be better (or just safer) for that reputation to make up a story that agrees with the conventional wisdom than to tell an unexpected truth that does not.
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Hi Jacques, completely support. I see a handle of people trying to destabilize you and you defend your position so well that I didn't find anything to add, except that I fully support your point, and I am sure many more do.

This should be called disqusgate and I'd really expect to hear Fred Wilson on it, if not done yet.
Surely then, this would be the province of the local law enforcement, not something worth summoning in the Feds for.
The purpose was that I just wanted to know how many people are in my state that were on HN. But I decided to ask about all the states.
I vividly recall walking west on Haight to The Alembic in the summer of '07...it felt like something out of Mad Max or a post-apocalyptic zombie movie.
You know because of standardized testing. My point is made.
That's true to some extent, although it's useful to keep two things in mind:

1) The improvements in the output of FDM printers is in good part due to switching to lower-strength materials (e.g., ABS -> PLA). It's great news if you want to make casting molds - but not so great if you want to directly fabricate durable parts.

2) There is no gradual progression from the familiar FDM extruders to SLS, SLA, and similar technologies that produce high-accuracy parts or can work in metals. These technologies are inherently messy and have other surprising trade-offs, and are suited chiefly for very dedicated hobbyists and for quasi-industrial applications.
"To the oncologist who told me I couldn't survive: fuck you."

Although maybe he did you a favor by externalizing the thing you had to fight. Sometimes life is funny like that.
I'll +1 this.

The startup scene is definitely growing in AZ. There are plenty of interesting people doing interesting things. The low cost of living, increasing number of awesome meetups, and growing co-working community is a pretty good sign of things to come. I've met passionate entrepreneurs at almost every corner of the state. Just off the top of my head--Flagstaff has NACET; Tucson is leading the open data movement; Chandler has Gangplank; Phoenix has CO+HOOT & SeedSpot; Mesa has a wonderful Hackerspace; and Marana was recently elected a top digital city in 2012.

That said, there's room for improvement. There aren't a lot of people with experience investing in hi-tech (lots hi-tech military stuff, but not the hi-tech that HN normally discusses); as a community, we don't have really good marketing muscle; there are few veterans willing to recycle capital; and not a lot of foreign direct investment because people have this impression that folks from AZ are crazy.

I love that place though. You can live in a goddamn mansion for the prices you pay in SF.
Take a look at snap (http://snapframework.com/) as well. I'm working on a small project with it, and I'm really enjoying the type system after getting over the initial hump. Also, it has great concurrency performance characteristics (http://snapframework.com/blog/2010/11/17/snap-0.3-benchmarks), though that wasn't much of a factor in me deciding to try it.
> It is a recursive bacronymic abbreviation for "npm is not an acronym"

That's gotta be the laziest instance of this sort of thing I've ever seen. They could have called it "foo" and claimed it's short for "foo is not an acronym" without having to change a thing.

Compare this to clever ones like GNU, or "GNU's Not UNIX". The name of the thing is intrinsically tied to the phrase it represents. Coming up with a good phrase that also results in a decent initialism requires some cleverness, which is wholly absent with npm.
> Unless website impounding is explicitly authorized and regulated in law, then you can't accurately say it is no different than a mechanic's lien.

Morally I can.