skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the fact that we are talking about "innovation" so much is a sign of an excessive degree of self-awareness. People used to be at peace with having a specific interest and true expertise and were not thinking "okay, I'm smart so let me 'disrupt' a market and shake things up." Many were okay with simply being a useful, necessary and perhaps not-so-widely celebrated part of a larger whole. Larger wholes like NASA, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, IBM, Bell, Digital Equipment and others that gave rise to this much lauded period of innovation (the mechanics of which the author doesn't entirely seem to understand). It also goes without saying that the larger players in academia were expanding in to engineering in a much more serious way due to Cold War competition.

Sure, there were exceptions to the theory of leviathan organizations of specialists. Intel is an exception, in that it was a start up. But it was a start up founded by people with the understanding of how a larger research entity would work (two of the main founders were established engineers at Fairchild). Talking about this sort of thing in the context of modern start-up culture, to be honest, is flippant and cheeky. Maybe "idea guys", business journalists, and a lot of modern hackers in general just need to stop thinking innovation as some substance you can bottle and beating us over the heads with said bottle until the word loses all meaning. The innovators who created the sophistication of the modern transportation and energy infrastructure we now enjoy, not to mention the fundamentals of computing, were a lot humbler than the baby boomer titans of technology and probably a lot of us out there, too.
Whats Naspers plan?
With series of investment and acquisition in asia . Seems Nasper want to affect online travel. How will makemytrip and other bigs player will be affected?
Neglect might not be the right term.

Usually older devices are on older OS because they can't update. If they can update and haven't then it will probably be because they don't know how or because they don't want to.

If your app needs features in iOS 6 to run, then so be it. If not then make it runnable on iOS 5 and 4.

If your app used to work on iOS 4, but some new features require iOS 5, then your old customers won't get any more updates but should still be able to use the app. Those stuck on iOS 4 wanting to buy your app won't be able to.
There is a Google Maps app for iPhone and iPad. It's better than the old one, but isn't as integrated as before (i.e. it isn't the default map app).
Depends on what you mean by "integration." Google Maps is now a standalone app available (from Google) in the App Store, but it does have quite a different interface from Maps on iOS 5.
This crazy line of reasoning is the perfect analog to the notion, associated with liberals, that services provided by the government are "free." You are basically thinking that if a service isn't provided by the goverment, you can consider it free. Well, guess what, we are still going to have those trillions needing to be spent on healthcare, and it's got to come from somewhere. If it's impossible to fund collectively, the alternative (funding it out of all of our pockets individually) is impossible too.
These batteries weigh a ton (probably literally), and it looks like all the mechanics are underground. It seems trivial to put a tamper alarm on it and due to the weight there would be a lot of time for security to arrive.

This could be just as secure as an ATM.
Yeah, but you can just use a standard Apple account, you don't need to be a developer.
> Mixpanel's are the most up-to-date and their numbers mirror Apple's.

I just noticed this at the bottom of Mixpanel's graph:

THIS REPORT WAS GENERATED FROM 79,977,999,480 RECORDS.

That's quite the large dataset – 80B records!
Having money is a valuable service to offer. It's why we have interest rates.
Actually, to my surprise, it appears that batteries must be worth stealing.

I was disappointed recently when cycling east out of Edinburgh to see that pretty much all of the solar powered lights along the path between Newcraighall and the Queen Margaret University campus have been systematically robbed. Initially I thought it was vandalism but after looking at a few it was clear that each one had been broken into for the batteries - nothing else was damaged. There must be 50+ lights - pretty much all robbed.

The battery packs looked fairly large and as this is a cycle/foot path they presumably had to use some kind of transport (hand trolley?).

:-(
What are the chances of getting a standard battery size in these things? I'd be a shame for stations to need a hundred different batteries for every make and model.
This analogy breaks down because Twitter (when they started out) wanted everyone to use their API, they want people to associate their app with their platform (e.g. TweetDeck and TweetBot)

ZenDesk on the other hand cannot be said to do the same.
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Case in point - iTunes is Apple's only OS X app which still officially supports OS X 10.6. If there's money to be made, Apple suddenly doesn't mind the maintenance :)
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So you think a company that designs electric vehicles can't secure the batteries? The damn things come from underground. Not to mention the service station connects to the car somehow before doing so, because well as Tesla said, the battery is tied to your account.

I wonder how long before people start thinking before posting their opinions on the internet...

Can't we all just use some common sense before we start jumping to conclusions?
There's so much fake/forced enthusiasm around many startups that after a while the it's pretty easy to spot. (Example: The person exclaiming "What the...?" at the beginning, when everyone knew what was going to be shown. C'mon.) The really sad thing is people trying to will things to be more exciting than they really are.
Google announced of it's plans to roll out it's Maps app for iPad during summer 2013

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/05/15/google-shows-off-upcomin...
I think (not an expert) that with elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (which e.g. Google uses), even with the private key and the whole session, you still can't decrypt the session (Diffie-Hellman provides a secure channel, public/private proves the server is who it says it is).
> new things comes out so often

New names for old things come out often. New things are pretty rare.
I used to be a heavy stackoverflow user in the early days, and I have enough karma to put me in the moderator tier now. However, I don't use the site much anymore, except for getting questions answered.

In a way I suppose that's a testament to the fact that the site still works, and works well. They solved most of the problem they set out to solve originally, which is a major achievement. Nevertheless, I still have a nagging feeling that some further iterative improvements could turn stackoverflow into something that would be even more useful, and would be more inviting for people to continue to participate in actively even without having expert knowledge in some tiny sub-category or a desire to constantly tidy everything up day-in day-out.

Edit: to clarify I mean that it's hard to visit stackoverflow on a regular basis instead of just using it as an answer generating machine. Which I think is something not unique to myself and probably hurts the overall quality of the site considerably, notwithstanding the many experts who use the site heavily. Specifically I find it hard to peruse interesting topics to comment on, since the site is now very aggressively tightly focused. Even worse I find it difficult to use the site as a learning tool. Often times when I want to learn something new I'll get it in my head to go to stackoverflow first, but that's never worked very well for me. It's just too difficult to sort or filter all the data into something that is actually useful.

Overall I think the biggest problem is that the people behind the site(s) have decided they've done their jobs, that what they've presented is good enough and at most needs only minor tweaking. I think that's a huge mistake personally and I think the result is going to be that the stackexchange sites end up as a footnote in history after having been rapidly eclipsed by "the next big thing" in a similar vein.
New MacBook Airs may suffer from Wi-Fi connectivity issues
Of course it's alive. Check the whois data for that IP, hosted by "ANTIK Telecom". :-)
I'm sure you have nothing to worry about. The batteries will most likely be securely stored underground, not be visible to everyone. I'm sure they'll have at least 1 person at the station or at least security cameras.

It's not like you can just steal these batteries and sell them on the black market. Considering how much they weigh, it's probably near impossible to replace/install a new battery yourself.
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If you have an active open source presence then you're already using github a lot of the time, personally I don't like switching tools a lot and I guess a lot of people feel similar. Personal preference aside.
>A legitimate worry is that you'll end up with someone else's lemon battery.

I was under the impression that these battery packs had so much monitoring and control technology built in, that would be very unlikely. Most batteries become lemons because on of the cells dies a death, becoming a short, which in turn drags down the other cells.

Tesla have a battery technology which is ment to be very advanced at managing each cell to prevent them catching fire, I would imagine they have very accurate wear level information on them too.
The world largest coffee shop, Starbucks, grinds a lot of data
I'm not worried about it at all - just that, from what I have seen, there must be some black market for industrial sized batteries (maybe for their metal component?). Whether this impacts on Tesla or not I have no idea - I suspect not.
Put on high vis jacket, people would assume you were servicing them rather than being naughty.

I don't know much about the lighting on this path, but I wouldn't have thought they were using expensive batteries? Then again people die stealing copper worth a few hundred quid.
You need to edit at least a certain number of characters (might be 6). So if you want to correct a = into a ==
you can't. Well, you can... you have to make a few other bogus changes. This bugs me.
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You can get a library subscription for next to nothing.
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All of the videos are terrible. That music has got to go.
If I send a letter with my email address and proof of citizenship to the NSA, that gives them specific information that my email address belongs to a US person.

Will they not then be required to delete all communications collected under FAA702 between my email address and any other email address for which they have received similar proof of US person-ness?

Can we organize a mass campaign for everyone to send letters to the NSA doing something like this?
Stack Overflow belongs to a very small elite group of sites (Wikipedia obviously being another) who's existance is what creates the quality of Google search results. Nough said :)
"Faster or Free". Nice!
Nice idea. I'd genuinely like to see this open sourced. I could see it slotting into some of our efforts.
There are people who steal manhole covers for the scrap metal. (Yes, submitting others to hazard). It's not necessarily much profitable.
AT&T iPhone/iPad Carrier Updates for Emergency Alerts = no tracking worries
They've had ample opportunity to do so. They turned down one just a few months ago, in fact. There is no reason to believe they will ever revisit it.
Lost me at NFS.
That's always what I have though about using tor and other encryption, if you try to hide clumsily it might have the adverse effect. If you know how to use all the tools and don't make the error of login to social network, then it can be useful, but in general I doubt it can protect us. Sending letter might become the most secure way of communication after all, or book with hidden glued pages!
New concepts yeah, you're right. But we are endlessly barraged with new tools, frameworks, libraries, etc., all of which have their own details to learn which is the "new" I had in mind.
> as a provider of rationalist technology, almost by definition completely at odds with the school of Buddhism by that name.

Why would you say this? Gautama Buddha was a very pragmatic leader (not allowing sick and handicapped to seek refuge in his temples because this would drive away wealthy supporters), and Buddhism is still very much rooted in the present and in the actual reality when contrasted against religions that rely on some concept of "afterlife".
Elon thinks most cars in production will be all-electric by 2030. I think that's achievable.
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> Its as if the new iPhone came with a swappable battery but Apple kept it quiet till six months after launch.

Since the phone is entirely taken apart by specialized sites within hours of its availability, there's no way they would manage to hide a swappable battery.
I'll speak for myself here...my trust in my government must be broken, since the main thing in this article that I notice is the last sentence.

>"WEA is not designed to – and does not – track the location of anyone receiving a WEA alert," reads the FCC's FAQ.
I do re-read books, but only some. I've set myself a target of reducing the library in size by a factor of two over the next year, simply through space constraints.

The decision making is forcing valuable reflections!
The problem is that this biases the statistics due to the 14-day window: everyone who buys a new iPhone goes to the App Store in order to download some "staple apps", but after the unitial setup a lot of users might only go to the App Store every three weeks (for example), meaning that newly purchased devices will be over-represented in the statics, and they all have iOS 6.

Honestly, though: even correcting for this new-device bias, this still isn't what you care about... normal users don't sit around browsing the App Store or the Android Market... they open the app when they are interested in a specific download because of some external sale having occurred. Your market as a developer are "people with a device", not "people weird enough to try searching on their device".

Regardless, though, yeah: the reason Apple is showing this statistic is because it is the identical metric reported by Google, and they were making a big deal about these numbers during the WWDC keynote, even to the extent of pointing out that Google had changed the metric in this way (to Market visits) was cheating... comparing, though, the like metrics isn't that bad.
given their size there is more than enough room to put any amount of tracking gear you want into these packs. In fact I would be surprised if they haven't done that.

Why shouldn't the pack phone home? Why wait for drop off or exchange to report how it operates? If anything a black box system in one of these packs could provide a wealth of immediate information about operating characteristics that would benefit Tesla and battery manufacturers. It could all be done fully protecting the drivers privacy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Soviets_of_the_Sovi...
>not just a "next-generation" one like VP9 and HEVC.

VP9 is not the same generation as HEVC. It's more comparable with H.264.

>VP9 managed to catch-up with HEVC after only 2 years of work

Do you mean in terms of how far along with standardisation/development they are? VP9 is ~6 months behind, although that's not really that significant in video standard timescales. If you mean quality then VP9 encoders have not caught up with x264, and that in itself may take years, if they ever do.

We were promised that VP8 would get a lot better over time, but it didn't because they basically gave up and concentrated on VP9. If they do the same again and start looking to VP10 then VP9 will flounder. Video codecs can't gain adoption with such short churn times. The reason there was so little time between VP8 and VP9 is that VP8 was technically so far behind it never had any chance of adoption.

MPEG-LA are not going to release a new codec in 2 years time. HEVC will probably only just be seeing mature implementations and widespread adoption by then. There is still a hell of a lot of MPEG-2 tech out there and H.264 has been out for a decade.
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It appears they jack up the car, drop the floor out from under it, unbolt and drop the battery, bring another battery up under and re-bolt it. A very simple procedure that is likely rather difficult to implement; interesting to think about what sort of machinery they have down in the pit to move the batteries around...
Hopefully they dont stop at being only 50% of C Speed.

So asm.js, will be what Java was originally, write once run ( nearly ) everywhere. asm.js being the bytecode of JVM.

Would that also means asm.js essentially open source your code? Are there anyway to protect it like JVM bytecode or are Mozilla not interested in this.

Would IonMonkey, the whole JS Engine be available as a standalone product like JVM was?
In general I already assumed that all my data was being captured, either by my country's spying or USA. PRISM is hardly surprising, in terms of the data that is (probably) collected.

What I may consider is switching from Dropbox to some other solution, as I prefer my actual files to be more private. Email has never been secure so no change there really (using Google Apps at the moment).

On actual social networks I am reasonably careful with what I share already, not so much concerned about NSA & friends but rather sharing stupid things may get you in trouble with future employers etc. Things that could get you fired are better left off public/Semi-public networks (complaining about bosses etc).

On a side note: I am happy the potentially dangerous individuals are using FB etc. It enables effective monitoring of such individuals. One example is Swedish citizens going to fight in Syria, for the rebels and for Islam (jihad). Some of these have a Facebook group where they post photos, status updates and friends of theirs(?)/supporters comment. That is pretty much free surveillance, and a good thing.
That one as well. But there was also "The 1994 Internet White Pages" published by Wiley Press which is credited with Seth Godin as a co-author [1][2].

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/HxDWs9c.jpg
[2]: http://amzn.com/1568843003
No, just no. Please make it stop.
I have no immediate use for this but goddamnit, it's cool.
Indeed, it strikes me as a self selecting sample I have an First gen iPod Touch that I still use quite a lot, which can only run ioS 3.x - oddly enough, I don;t buy anything from the Appstore for it because there are hardly any new apps that will run on it.
We use SaltStack for both the development environment under Vagrant/VirtualBox (https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant), and in production; and are pretty happy with this setup.

I tried looking at Chef and Puppet, and was scared away by the complexity thrown at me upfront. I find Salt way easier to pick up. I like its being declarative, concise, and unsurprising. Also, it has received a seal of approval from our admins. That doesn't happen here with software often :)

Thanks! And congratulations!
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> In a little more, I'll show a prototype

Say what you will about HN, but comment threads about seemingly impossible technical challenges that end in this make me immensely happy to be here :D
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One of the authors listed, Thorsten Altenkirch, teaches quite a few second year Computer Science modules at Nottingham. He's absolutely mad. Here is a selection of some of his best moments: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/thorsten.html.

Note that this hasn't been updated in 13 years. The gold that has been lost since then truly saddens me.
How would they power the tracking equipm... oh wait.
Web Rings were amazing though; found a great site about X-Files plot theories? -- no problem, chances are you'd find more that were like that by following the web ring. We lost something back then that, even today, we never really got back...
Xkcd: Prometheus — Fire wants to be free
Internal XMPP. Poor ejabberd isn't handling our growth in traffic very well and gets oomkilled and/or swaps itself to death with depressing regularity, so we're trying prosody (over the protests of the internal-IRC faction).
I'm using one of the new MacBook Airs and I've yet to experience this (although of course, I'm just one data point).
I like Tesla a lot, but I also like honest marketing. 23 gallons (83 litres) tanked during demo gives much longer range than a full battery. Accumulated time spend at stations won't be shorter with Tesla's technology.

I think the swap is a great feature and there is no need to use questionable marketing tricks to sell it.
> Implying we should 'fix' Eternal September is pretty close to implying we should keep important technology out of the hands of those the current users deem unworthy. That prevents both spam and the Arab Spring, both 4chan and Wikileaks.

Not necessarily. The holy grail is growth where culture is preserved, i.e. the rate of acquisition of new users is below the point where they overwhelm the culture.

New users acculturate over time and exposure, so you can roughly model it as "at any time, no more than x% of the users should be 'new'".

That's still exponential growth, so it needn't be elitest. In time, you'll still get to everyone who wants in.

Making it work tho, that's the rub :-)
LinkedIn would be another excellent choice.
And battery life :) I know I cannot expect top battery life in this case, but I would like something more than the abismal stuff they sell now. I guess the game dev niche is too small to cater too for laptop makers. And probably too hard as well; you need to do everything even better (not just different) than normal dev laptops.
Nice demo. Can someone more knowledgeable compare the range of that Audi with two Teslas there combined at full juice?
I think the station will only house the newest version of the battery. You will not get your old battery back on the way back, as some explain, but you will get a new random battery every time. That is why the service is not free.

When battery technology is upgraded they will switch the entire stock for a new one. So there will be no anxiety for getting an old one.
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The D-notice system is a "request" to not publish — they are completely non-binding. They still are unable to publish anything covered by the Official Secrets Acts, but any leak from a foreign intelligence agency is not covered by that.
I use an iPhone 4 and Macbook Air as my main devices.

One of the first comments on the Ars Technica page is "you're holding it wrong". It's a predictable joke, but I'll begrudgingly admit that I laughed.
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We are talking about a VPN here aren't we? Won't anything the browser "leaks" go down the same pipe and get spat out your end? Assuming your using In Cognito and connecting to TLS websites...I can't imagine how there could still be a significant privacy risk.
Oh it was happening underneath. I couldn't even tell that! I thought the guy behind the car was doing something.
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I would like to know is there a capacity for the number of battery replacements they system can do ? I guess they recharge your battery and pass it on to the next person when it's fully charged. How do they insure battery quality for the replacements.
Still a F'ing awesome demo.