skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Broder: "I limped along at about 45 miles per hour"

Data: very strange readout at 400 miles (looks like stop and go), followed by period averaging 52 mph

Counterreply: "but it may be the result of the car being delivered with 19-inch wheels and all-season tires, not the specified 21-inch wheels and summer tires. That just might have affected the recorded speed, range, rate of battery depletion or any number of other parameters. "

Verdict: There are three possibilities:

1) Broder thought he was going at 45 mph but in fact was going faster

2) Broder intentionally sped up

3) The instrumentation was off

The car data doesn't reflect what the instrumentation showed, so (3) can't be determined. I personally find (1) much more plausible than (2), especially since I do this as well when test-driving cars I'm not used to driving.

Broder: "planted myself in the far right lane with the cruise control set at 54 miles per hour"

Data: Averaging 60 mph

Counterreply: "I do recall setting the cruise control to about 54 m.p.h., as I wrote. "

Verdict: Tesla should be recording these actions as well. In absence of cruise control data, it's a he-said-she-said.

I can appreciate the argument that Broder was lying if there was a very large discrepancy between the claims and the data. But honestly, I couldn't tell the difference between 40 and 50 mph in my 911, and that's a car I've had for more than a year, so I wouldn't be surprised if he saw the speedometer, thought he was going at a certain speed, and watched the road most of the time. I know I don't spend my driving time with my eyes glued to the speedometer -- I think watching the road is far more important.

Given that even the data corroborates the claim that he was under the speed limit during those times (e.g. averaging 60 in a 65 mph zone is under speed limit), protesting over 5-10 mph comes off as niggling moreso than malice
As an American, my perspective is that Americans seem to be more "throat jumpy" when it comes to corporate responses and lawsuits, though Europeans (well, the British) seem to be more throat jumpy with social outrage.

In other words: while getting sued for a bad revue strikes me as distinctly American, I can't picture Clarkson getting flak in America for saying many of the more "offensive" things he seems to get flak for in the UK. I think Americans would be more understanding of the fact that Clarkson's public persona is basically a satire of itself and that comments like "I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families" clearly should not be taken seriously.

Then again Gilbert Gottfried did get fired from his duck commercial gig over some silly joke... Maybe I'm giving Americans too much credit.
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Yup obstacle did forget his footnote which I was also interested in.

Making a guess that it is going to be a link to Amazon, let me steal that chance: http://www.amazon.com/Just-My-Type-About-Fonts/dp/1592407463...
Because it doesn't perform terribly if you're not incompetent in how you use it, but that's not the picture that the NY Times article put into everyone's minds, and that's a very large problem for Tesla. It requires that you plug it in at night, and that you charge it to have a longer range than your total trip distance, and add a little range to that if you know you're going to use power for things like the cabin heater. Every Tesla owner is well aware of this before they start driving it, and it's pretty much in line with other battery powered devices, and so should be intuitive to anyone who's very familiar with a laptop. There are a good number of owners in much colder climates who are using theirs quite happily, and don't feel it performs terribly in cold weather. The NY Times has a responsibility to portray things accurately, because they have a huge amount of power. It's not acceptable to have a casual attitude towards factual accuracy in that line of work.
I know when its appropriate for me to use Comic Sans but not sure when its appropriate for me to listen to Justin Bieber's music.
and just about anything else.
"People who work in CS are known to work with scientific methods. "What if" is simply not enough."

That's hilarious. Try to remember this next time you put a print statement in the code or adjust some constant until it's right.

The problem here is that we have no way of either experimenting meaningfully or testing most of the things we'd like to know. We can describe tiny parts of reality and assume that some correlation is in fact causation, but without actually doing something it's impossible to conclusively prove what effect will any one action have.

That's nothing new - and it's not that unseen in programming, either. I think that "waiting for a proof" in this case is just an excuse; we need to get the best approximations, of course, but in the end we just need to find the courage to go and implement a solution without a certainty that it will be the best or even good.

In other words, when your service is on fire because thousands of users want to access it simultaneously (good for you) the first thing to do is to bring it back by any means necessary, including tools like intuition and wild guesses, and formalize the process afterwards.
die younger, less socially connected, more likely to go bankrupt, more likely to be the victim of a violent crime, more likely to commit suicide, less likely to finish all levels of education, more likely to be incarcerated.

And there's the problem.
Incredible. You can almost feel the mind thinking freely in that workflow. Pen and paper in the right hands...
This question is important but apparently quite challenging. For an answer, we can pick from three -- yes, no, and maybe. After too much contact with that question, I fervently urge nearly everyone for now to settle on the third answer, maybe.

Why? Apparently what we are dealing with is not simple. And, I can assure you with no doubt at all, if we try solutions that are wrong, then we can do some harm. We should keep in mind the rule, "First, do no harm.".

Why not simple? Boys and girls, men and women, via nature and/or nurture "deserve equal respect as persons but are not the same" (E. Fromm, 'The Art of Loving'). My experience is that he was correct and made if anything an understatement. I fervently urge nearly everyone to keep in front of their mind the point "not the same" and add to that that we don't know nearly enough to be clear on the differences or even if they are due to nature, nurture, socialization, discrimination, stereotypes, ingrained traditions, or what. We just do not know.

For a short, interim answer, may I suggest that we work hard to ensure the same opportunities but not to count on the same outcomes.

Did I mention, boys and girls, men and women, are different and we don't how different or the causes. We just don't know. Moreover, finding the causes and being clear on the differences takes us into fields of social science. Gotta tell you, those fields are super tough places to do solid science. There's no Newton's second law, Newton's law of gravity, conservation of energy, Maxwell's equations, E = mc^2, quantum mechanics, standard model, etc. There's nothing like engineering, etc. Some bright people have worked hard in social science, and we are still waiting for Newton like results.

Did I mention, "First do no harm"? Maybe I should also mention, "It's not nice to try to fool Mother Nature.".

Now, don't let any young girls read this because it might cause them to give up trying to be a small version of Daddy and send them back to trying to be a small version of Mommy and sugar and spice and everything nice good at eliciting protective emotions from Daddy with fantastic verbal and social skills, with unbelievable ability to perceive and manipulate the emotions of others.

I will flip this over: How many of you male nerds believe it was just socialization or tradition that kept you from being as good as the little goody goody girls in the fourth grade at spelling, languages, clerical accuracy in arithmetic, neatness in your handwriting, playground gymnastics, reading comprehension, especially of fiction, drawing and painting, rote memorization, social skills in groups, understanding what the teacher wanted and pleasing the teacher, etc.?
...the next step would be to be able to share contacts (WoT) securely, like:

http://www.mightbeevil.com/contacts/

using something like

http://www.mightbeevil.com/framework/download.html
Elon Musk is one of those bona fide type A geniuses that I would HATE to see go the way of Rise and McAffee.
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I've read hundreds of essays about this, and India's "brain drain" and written several myself. What is common to all of them is that they forget to take into account the background of most IIT grads - middle class and lower middle class. So, it's way more important for them to get high-paying jobs and to help their families out, than to stay in India and help improve it. That will happen, with time, as the standard of living keeps increasing and the same financial pressure doesn't apply to new IIT grads.
Seen this one a couple days ago and I honestly can't understand what the hype is all about. I've been playing the piano for 11 years now and I can't see myself or any classical pianist using this product. I'm aware that this is most likely not intended for classical musicians but still, I fail to see the reason to change the design of an instrument that's been around for a very long time in one form or another. Change for the sake of change is pointless.
100% agree. Unfortunately I am fairly certain that Elon is the kind of type-A, Narcissist genius that once he enters combat will not let go.
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Reading this immediately made me think of what Facebook did right with their IPO. Uninformed observers criticized them for overpricing their IPO, while in reality (unlike LinkedIn, eToys) they succeeded in raising as much cash as they could (for more: http://blogmaverick.com/2012/09/04/facebook-handled-their-ip...)
> It is all very stirring, of course; but I confess that if I were playing cards I would rather have some decent little book which told me the rules of the game. Beyond the rules of the game it is all a question either of talent or dishonesty; and I will undertake to provide either one or the other—which, it is not for me to say.

This false dichotomy between "talent and dishonesty" is an example of what rubs me the wrong way, and it's no small thing. It still shows up today when people get frustrated that the "best" things or people don't always succeed. If you have a band, for example, is thinking about how to promote yourselves on the side of greed rather than just being talented? What about an engineer who could use some networking advice to find a better job? The athlete who lacks discipline, or who needs to connect more fully with his dreams and motivations to burst forth and excel?

You could say these are still specific skills, just enlarged ones, but I believe there is such a thing as skill at every level of generality.

The 20th century saw new awareness of the imperfect correspondence between quality and success, for example in the form of marketing -- think cigarettes, or Bush Jr. There's also some new understanding of talent vs. success. It used to be you just called a talented but unsuccessful person "lazy." Or, I suppose, insufficiently greedy.
C is not perfect. It has its problems (strings, ++, horrible type syntax, no memory allocation, architecture idiosyncrasies like type width). However, it's reliable, fast, and you can basically memorize the language and compile it by hand if necessary. No other language will reliably run on many systems that fast with that much existing code.

anyway, if you think you can prevent bad code by using restrictive languages, you're gonna have a bad time. Any language can be abused. Just don't abuse it, treat your code with respect.

Also I'm pretty sure j+++++k has undefined behavior so you should be shot if you write it.

> in my startup I don't want us using a language that permits code like that.

Well I hope you don't run unix or windows, python or ruby, Firefox, chrome, ie, safari, or opera, or use a smartphone.
How about a synthesizer? I can immediately think of many useful ways to use a synthesizer with this controller. For example, touch pressure to filter cut-off or LFO amount. Finger vibrato to OSC pitch, OSC detune, filter, and so on.

I think the video does a reasonable job showing how it can be used creatively. I get the point you're trying to make about harmony between the input device and sound source. However, I would argue in modern days with really incredible software synthesizers both software and hardware (I own one of these: http://www.studioelectronics.com/products/synths/omega8/) the inverse is more common.

Input devices do a poor job of exposing the features of the instruments.

This is the first device I've seen that seems to actually care about the performability and feel without making you look like a douchebag. That's what makes it interesting to me.
Daylight savings has to only exist today for political reasons right?

Because it makes little scientific reason.

So what is the political logic then? I'm a little mystified.

Will people rise up and say "omg stop changing things, we're had DST for 200 years, let it be?"

Because they keep messing with the start date and end date, so it's not like it's sacrilege.

I've always found it humorous that it always ended just before Halloween, just in time for little kids to be put in danger in the early dark, they recently moved it to early November though, so someone wised up.
That image at the bottom says it's Comic Sans, but it's Chalkboard.
One of the reasons the company is taking on these underwriters of the IPO is because they don't actually know how much the company is going to be valued at in the market? GS would be in a way better position with their experience to know this.

If they didn't play both sides of this market it would be in their interest to price is as accurately as possible.
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> When you pluck the string, you can feel it vibrate in your fretting hand.

When I depress the fingerboard of a Continuum I can feel it vibrate in my ears, which is quite enough feedback to manipulate a sound expressively. Sure, playing the guitar is a beautiful, unique, rich sensory experience (which I love), but it does not follow that the lack of the "guitar experience" leads to a lack of musicality. Each instrument has its own mode of interaction, from the guitar to the piano, and talented people seem to find ways to be expressive with all of them.

> These controllers nearly always buy into the separation of control from synthesis. It makes perfect technical sense. But most of the instruments we would consider to be "expressive" don't work that way!

So? Why does what already exists matter? There are plenty of people willing to experiment with a new input surface to find out what it's good for. You may not be one of them, but why do you need to be "suspicious?" These experimenters don't take away your ability to play a guitar.

> but what is it REALLY good for?

I can't imagine this being played on any other instrument:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW1KeRNaP-Q

> What is the instrument that wants to be controlled in this way?

You could also ask, "what is the music that wants to be made by a stringed instrument?" People have been exploring that question for thousands of years, and we're still finding out new answers. Electronic instruments are very, very new compared to that, and there's been comparatively very little time to learn about them. I say let's go wild and create myriad new instruments and find out what works.

Personally, I think the decoupling of input surfaces and sound generators is one of the all-time best developments in music. As a brass musician, it's nontrivial for me to produce the sound of a oboe. However, given a very expressive input surface I can produce an extraordinary range of timbres without dedicating another decade to practicing each individual instrument.
This is why we need something like namecoin to take off: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
Chesterton's one of the UK's most famous essayists and my dad grew up with his Father Brown stories. The age of the piece is precisely why I said it was anachronistic! It's possible that the obvious issue of its age could have been clearer, both in the posting, and in my comment, although its presence on gutenberg.org is a good enough clue for most HN readers.

This is clearly not his best work. I suspect he had a hangover, just as Beethoven clearly did during some of his more inane piano writing. Even the greats have off days!
It's improbable they would have the amount of users they have now if users had to pay a subscription. Do you think Facebook would?
What about requiring no DRM when using the term "buying"?

I think they got it backwards.
Only the last line is Comic Sans, that's the point.
For many people, getting a good job right out of college is not the dream, it's the absolute necessity. The reasons can be many ranging from repayment of the education loan to stabilizing the family financially.

I graduated from IIT-KGP around 8 years back. Many of the people I know are already running a start-up of their own in India (including me) and there are several who have at least tried once (mostly a year or two after leaving college). The interesting fact is that the most successful of these are the people who have started a non-technical venture.

One last point I want to make is that people who "flee" are not lured by fat salaries alone but are also driven away by frustration. With the improving infrastructure, I am hopeful that the frustration will stop being a reason.

So, don't be disheartened if the majority of people around you are driven by the desire of a good job immediately. The fire in their heart is not yet extinguished completely. It's only that the teenage adrenaline rush of admission years has been supplemented with a healthy dose of real-life pragmatism.
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Another day, another old twitter app shuts down.
In short, there are two algorithms for counting views on youtube videos. There is a simplistic algorithm which calculates views up to 300, then there is a more complex algorithm which kicks in that is more thorough. This has the consequence of temporarily freezing the view count for very popular videos at 300 + how ever many different worldwide regions (google-wise) got in that last view effectively simultaneously.
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Sigh.

I've been playing piano for... over two decades now, and additional ways of modulating synthesized sound are welcomed with open arms. There are songs I play where I wish so hard that I had polyphonic aftertouch on my keyboard, but alas, it has monophonic aftertouch only. I play a lot of classical, and I even want modulation there.

Your concerns... they are carbon copies of the same complaints people had about the introduction of the piano in the early 18th century!

Nowadays, the idea that you'd play "The Well-Tempered Clavier" on anything BUT a piano relegates you to a niche in classical (or rather baroque) music, despite the fact that the songs were written for the harpsichord. The assumption that the piano will be how we play Beethoven 50 years from now -- well, I'm sure the piano will still be alive and well in 2063...

Instruments come and go, it's the music that lives on.
Honestly, I don't give a rat's ass whether they call it buying or licensing. I want to be able to resell my digital goods. This is what needs to be legislated. If a company wants to enjoy legal protection agains someone breaking their DRM, they must provide a way to transfer licenses. This should be the law.
"Buy a license for SimCity now!" is correct usage, which might be shortened to "License SimCity now!". These two phrases definitely don't have the same meaning as "Buy SimCity now!"

If you conflated the two terms then it would be ok to be selling photos of apples and just calling them apples. This is clearly absurd.
Kurt Cobain sure did. By cross-dressing he made Nirvana have a lot less appeal for the heavy metal fans.
I don't think he considered the actual idea a joke. The "tongue in cheek" tone comes from the absurdity of suggesting something so simple as using actual free daylight to do your work, whilst the rest of Paris seems to be stuck solving optimal candle efficiency.
Not watching Disney movies is cultural/social death. Don't do that to your kid.

I'm all for good role models. But bad models are useful to, so the kid knows it's bad behavior, especially when they are likely to run into that culture anyway (as is the case with role models). All the kid will see is that you won't allow them to see what the rest of America has. Any moral message will be secondary. So you might as well ensure that they learn the lessons correctly the first time.

And no, they don't need to see Rambo, but Rambo isn't likely to be relevant to their lives if we're discussing Disney movies. I strongly believe things like Disney are crucial for kids.

-I'm barely recovering from a childhood of only PBS allowed and I feel entirely disconnected from my generation whenever we talk about culture before 2003. All I remember is from watching The News Hour about Bill Clinton having sex and bombing places and reading about nsync on the back of juice boxes. Don't do that, it's not healthy.
I think they will have in-game purchases, like coins etc.
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Wouldn't the limited supply on the first day alter the value of those shares and skew everything?