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Traditionally with adjustable pneumatic 'springs' (rubber air bags) that inflate or deflate to change ride height, often in response to increased vehicle weight. Not sure if that is approach Tesla takes.

EDIT: Looks like Tesla does indeed use air suspension: http://www.teslamotors.com/de_AT/forum/forums/air-suspension...
The suspension in the Model S is computer controlled, so they just push an update to control it differently!
Show HN: I found a way to 'cheat'/solve 2048 (With live demo)
After a loong long time trying to beat my girlfriends' 11.000+ highscore on the original 2048, I found myself working according to a standard method: move right, move down, repeat, until you're locked.

Then move left, move down and start from moving down and right again.

To test this theory to the max i've injected a little button into 2048 and it executes this method until you pause it.

http://schizoduckie.github.io/2048/

It works surprisingly well if I say so myself :)
Digitally controlled suspension
take a look at Linux Mint, too, ubuntu without unity, and a lot more polished :)
One of the coolest things I learned from the original blog post [1] on Ejecta was a trick that the library uses for drawing polygons on the GPU in OpenGL without triangulating them first [2]. It's one of the coolest graphics programming tricks I've ever seen and when I understood how it worked my mind was blown.

[1]: http://phoboslab.org/log/2012/09/ejecta

[2]: http://www.glprogramming.com/red/chapter14.html#name13
I'm guessing the actual titanium shield is relatively small, but either way I hope it's welded to the car well, as that stuff is valuable.
They fix exactly what problem? The single problem of the sizing of components on the screen? Great!

I did not mention one problem—I alluded to many. What about the problem of people not clicking links? What about the problem of users not understanding how to navigate to events? How about lack of awareness of which of your friends are online? Etc. etc.

Media queries fix exactly one problem. The size and position of elements on different sized screens.

There are thousands of other things to evaluate in a design that have nothing to do with that. I realize you're focused on this specific issue, but Facebook has to worry about all of them at once.

Media queries don't fix everything.
I think Ray uses "upload" as shorthand for something more complex.

Say over the course of 10 years you replaced 1 of the millions of cortical columns in your neocortex every minute or so with a functionally equivalent computer chip. You would never stop being you. Your consciousness would never be interrupted. You would simply become something greater.

This is already happening in a very limited way with the various brain implants used to treat Parkinson's, hearing impairment, blindness, strokes, head injuries, etc.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_implant
Cause and effect: A statistically insignificant number of fires in Teslas caused a disproportionate amount of news coverage (there was much less news coverage about Tesla's best-ever safety rating). This perception needs to be overcome, even if it means informed consumers having to pay for titanium underneath otherwise safe cars. Tesla is doing their part, but it's a shame to see so many outside factors driving up the cost.
It's probably a plastic rivet holding the plastic aeroshield Elon mentions as the first line of impact absorption.
I'm upvoting you not because I agree with you, but because this is the most hilarious comment I've read on HN and I want more people to see it. :)
IF there weren't App Stores or anything, it would be possible to download applications from websites.

So basically you would distribute the same way as in PC. You buy the install files in physical/digital form and install it. Then enter cd-key or something.

And of course somebody would come and make some kind of store to make the purchasing easier just like on PC. (for example Steam)

And yeah. Its ridiculous when Apple/Google take shares of the profits, comparing to what UE4 for example takes.
True dat. If unity does not appeal, there are *buntu options. IMO, Xubuntu is the way forward.
What?

I don't comprehend what you mean by "manual override", nor how saving can have any ethical implications whatsoever.
Just applied to Y Combinator, here's our 1min intro video
Y Combinator asks for a 1 minute video introducing the founders. We took a little different approach! Hope they dig it.
I don't care for Unity either, but I believe that Ubuntu believes (and I agree with) that Unity is what will help them close Bug #1. If the dream of a phone that is also a computer comes true, and that dream forces me to use Unity, I'll learn to cope with it, just like I learned to cope with Gnome once.
Exactly the same way you distributed applications on PC/Mac before the advent of appstores.
http://ov3y.github.io/2048-AI/
I mean for someone like me it was pretty obvious. At some point you don't drink for a day and you get the shakes, or you realize that you're getting blackout drunk every weekend, or friends make comments about how much you drink, or a whole host of other things. I spent a few years living in denial, but I knew years before I stopped that I had a problem.

I don't know of a great way to answer the question "am I an addict?" that doesn't require some serious introspection. That being said, one thing I often tell people is that if they're honestly, seriously concerned that they're drinking too much and if they're asking me whether they're an alcoholic, it's something worth looking in to.

Before I abused alcohol, I abused prescription stimulants. Sometimes I'd take them and then spend hours browsing wikipedia reading about their addictive potential, or reading about how abuse of stimulants was spreading across America. It was a pretty obvious warning sign.

The reason I know I'm an addict is because once I start drinking/popping pills, I really can't stop myself. I keep drinking until I pass out, or keep binging on pills until I'm out and I haven't slept in days. AA has the saying "one [drink] is too many, and a thousand is never enough", and it certainly applies to me. Most addicts I've talked to feel the same way.
Expressing Value in Software Testing
Sony Digital Paper e-ink PDF tablet for notes and forms
It formats nicely on Mobile Safari but ...

1. "Welcome to our new site" wastes space.
2. The logo and menu bar wastes space.
3. "Tube, DLR and London Overground" wastes space.

Then I click on "Special service" for London Overground (the black text on dark orange is hard to read btw) and ... I get an entirely wasted page that tells me nothing about the Overground because the crap at the top has pushed the actual information I'm after under the fold.

cf http://bit.ly/1gJ64ri

Also, the "add any further feedback" text box has issues under Mobile Safari once you try and go back to edit text - I can't add any more text once I've deleted anything. If I close and open the feedback pane, I can type again. It's a bit confusing!

Minor quibbles really but I'd say it was only half responsive, not fully there.
Your statements are in conflict with each other and are glued together with an ad hominem argument. You should focus on why you think increasing safety of a car beyond anything we've known thus far is a 'waste' instead of trying to use a simple bias to devalue the work they've put into it.
I assumed that was part of the trailer hitch that was being run over.
I am incredibly unimpressed with Kris Hammond's hype machine (although i think that what Narrative Science does is cool).

But this isn't the first bot that the LA Times has operated either. Folks like Ben Welsh (who works at the LA Times, and did this awesome lightning talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP-On8PzEy8 ) and Matt Waite (who won a Pulitzer Prize for Politifact & now teaches at University of Nebraska Lincoln) have also been writing bots to help with the reporting process (and yes in some case actually generate copy) for years.

Narrative Science certainly was not the first or only group to do this.
My feelings too. However, as much as I like steel, I find it incredible that most cars use very heavy materials, e.g. steel, instead of aluminium, plastic, carbon fibre and titanium. Such materials are common on bicycles and planes.

Moving a tonne or two of steel around is a real waste, particularly when it rusts. At least with this wondercar the bottom is flat and aerodynamically sound, unlike all of those legacy vehicles out there.
Just a small correction, the CryEngine doesn't have the 5% gross revenue share. It's 9.90 a month and that's it.
That's actually trying to be intelligent.
Mine just uses the simple down -> right -> repeat until locked rule.
same here, i like to drink scotch
Toshiba Portege R830-13C, Intel HD Graphics 3000. Minecraft, running in Xubuntu 14.04 on openjdk 7.51, is having graphics problems that it didn't in 13.10. (No, I haven't filed a bug yet, yes I should ...)

Anyone else running Minecraft on Intel HD Graphics 3000? In 14.04 or otherwise.
I believe the point is that 2048 has less gameplay longevity. Threes is designed to be a puzzle game that will last you the rest of your life, and no one has come close to beating it yet. 2048 can be beaten with relatively simple algorithms, so even though it is easier to pick up because its initial learning curve is shallower, people will max it out sooner.
In your analogy, sending is not free. Both Netflix has already paid postage to deliver all of the letters (their CDN/bandwidth costs) and each recipient has already paid for their mailbox (cable modem service). In this case the ISP wants Netflix to pay extra money to to deliver their letters even though everyone has already been paid and they weigh about the same as all the grocery flyers and other junk mail already cluttering your mailbox (think youtube).
Looks like a dream. Here's the product page for DPTS1:
http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-digitalpaper/cat-digitalpap...

I imagine it's terribly expensive. "Pricing available upon request".

EDIT: That's right. $1000. http://www.golem.de/news/dpts1-sonys-digital-paper-kostet-me...
Or use http://www.ecofont.com/
Using stencil buffer to draw polygons without tesselation seems to be one of those folklores that is not widely known. I learned about it some years ago here:

http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2006/07/hardware-accelerated-poly...
Kudos for an engineering led solution. I have no idea what "ballistics grade aluminum" is (since nobody uses ALU for ballistics armour##), but Ti has more inherent toughness# and seems a better fit as a skid-plate.

# elongation and tensile strength.

## The ballistic standard for armour (RHA) is a 1/4 steel plate. Ballistic Alu is roughly 1/2 inch or double the thickness used here, in most applications.
Or you would slowly, imperceptibly become 'not' you.
Meanwhile, any combination of intel / AMD discrete / integrated parts I find works (usually) flawlessly, if you use PRIME (and are using the foss drivers). I've been working on a plasma widget for a while to just drop applications on a launcher area to run them on your second gpu if PRIME is enabled.
I don't honestly think this is all that surprising. All the information on food seems to be on caloric content and the makeup of the food. These studies never seem to account for the fact that genetics, lifestyle, mental health, and emotional well being all play a role in a person's condition. Given the complex nature of the human body, I seriously think we need to take a more holistic approach to these studies; meaning, we need to look at the complete picture in order to understand all the factors that contribute to a person's well being.
>> Just because the lowest layer is not reversible, does not mean reversibility cannot be built on top.

But it might mean it's not a great consumer payments product on its own, which is what the BTC crowd are cheerleading for, incessantly.
> To you and others - i didn't know it's not a drug. It was my opinion, apparently wrong. Thanks for clarifications! Will do beers only on fridays then!

But it's not an opinion, it was a factually incorrect statement. There is a distinction.

The only reasons people categorize the two as different are societal, cultural, and legal. Not by any empirical, scientific standard.

In the end it is a chemical that has an intoxicating, mind altering effect on the body. Which is, by definition, a drug.

Acting as though alcohol is somehow "not a drug" or that alcohol addiction is somehow distinct from "drug addiction" is unproductive at best, lethal at worst.
I used the DMT solo after doing thorough research.
Bye, Bye Business Cards. The Loopd app does it all and more. Great for mixers, conferences and trade shows.
Maybe Medium's new business plan is to compete with PR Newswire.

Seriously. Its a nice little niche.
What was your second reaction? After you gave them a benfit of doubt and remembered how light titanium is.
Nouveau has absolutely no Optimus support.

You are actually saying that Intel 4000 is working well in Fedora 20 :D
That it sounds like it was written in Slashdot passive aggressive style: rather than just directly saying it was an extreme scenario, they used list of somewhat-hyperbolic-but-way-more-so-if-you-know-the-jargon descriptors of each element of the crash.
Techcrunch say it will be $1100.

The hardware is lustworthy, though the resolution could be higher, it's just a shame there's no SDK. The buttons on the front look very old school Androidish.
Maybe you could also contribute to the discussion by explaining what is so hilarious about my comment. I'm sure you have a reasonable and relevant argument to make.
Very informative, thanks for sharing.
I have 16GB. And I have managed to use all of that, with a combination of calligra + blender + around 5 vms in virtualbox + 3 containers + background compiler update operations + 3 web browsers open all with a total of around 100 tabs at the same time.

I find it is just quality of life. If I use 4gigs, I can only have 2 real memory intensive applications open at the same time. If I had 8+, I could easily have anything I want open in normal usage and not break a sweat.
I don't care about the first amendment, as it doesn't cover me.

Please don't assume that I am speaking about that.
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The good news is that it's not a hopeless cause, even though it might seem that way. I used to think that mine was.. totally genetic and thus incurable; that I was doomed to the same death-by-alcohol fate as many in my biological family, so why bother?

The only people who can understand are those who've been through it and found a way to put the brakes on. It's worth testing out.. my test found the world a whole lot better with the brakes fully engaged at a complete stop, so that's where I've been for a while now.

There are people out there -- young and old, men and women, wealthy and poor, god freaks and atheists alike who've done it. Find them, listen with an open mind and among them there will surely be someone you can relate to who can help you learn about what worked for them.
Is Amazon's bandwidth more delicious than Hetzner's bandwidth for the same price? Are the servers more nutritious?
v8 also doesn't have an interpreter mode, just a compiler. On iOS you can't allocate writable+executable memory, so you can't use v8.

As I mentioned in another thread, I currently have a toy project that implements most of the Canvas2D API in plain C. Maybe this will amount to something some day.
I made a Starbound Crafting Guide for iOS
Greetings, Space Dudes!

I have very much fallen head over heels in love with Starbound and as of such, I have spent the last three months creating a companion iOS crafting guide which is available on the App Store.

Starbound Crafting Guide is now available on the App Store for the princely sum of $0.99/£0.99.

The Starbound Crafting Guide is a functional electronic guide which serves as the standard repository for all knowledge and wisdom relating to the Starbound universe.

Delve into a compendium of items, materials, weapons, armour and consumables each with a complete breakdown of the components required to craft any item as well as a comprehensive list of status effects and properties for each object.

Every individual item has been categorised to assist in locating items of varying rarities. View drop rates and crafting quantities or search for a specific item or recipe to find items that can be upgraded, crafted or purchased.

If anyone has downloaded this already, or just wants to weigh in, i'd really appreciate some feedback.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/starbound-crafting-guide/id821050456?mt=8
I've been using KDE for years, but have been testing out the various 14.04 desktops to see how they are doing, and I don't know if love bloat or something but if my windows don't have animated resizing, minimizing, and maximizing the jerky behavior just seems so 90s to me.
I think the tipping point was that 2048 was open-source, on github, and had some low-hanging fruit in terms of improvements or variations. Once the simple changes had been exhausted, the momentum was there to sustain attention for more elaborate but mostly still incremental changes. If everyone had to code it from scratch, we would have seen far fewer versions.

I think it's an interesting study in the possibility space of a design, a breadth-first search by the masses vs. the depth-first search by the Threes developers.
It depends on what you are doing. There are tools in the Xilinx tool set enabling you to design filters or other things in MATLAB Simulink, which are very convenient. But if you want to write a processor, however small, you cannot really do that well. Because the hard part is getting a good design with proper timing and synchronization between different parts. I think it's harder to get such a good design using MATLAB/C to HDL tools than it is designing directly in HDL.
I concur.

While I actually like Unity and after during 13.x series Unity stopped working for me I ended up on KDE.

Thus far I have been able to costomize it to a level where it beats any other desktop environment I have used so far.

Only beef I have with it is inability to set windows key as launcher shortcut. But alt+r works reasonably well.
Steam, or something like it?
Well, a lot of us Linux neckbeards advocate free software, and Nvidia's blob is anything but...

I'm having a lot of good results from AMD and Intel on Mesa. The modern AMD GPU lineup is finally almost up to snuff and performing really well, Intels stuff has always been rock solid, so I could never recommend Nvidia to anyone using Linux again, unless you need OGL 4+ functionality.
Julie has been posting on Medium for a while though- this is I believe Elons first post on Medium.
Great UIs are done by experts too, young padawan.

Yes, they are, but that doesn't preclude building the underlying data model and functionality as a common platform with shared tools. It also doesn't mean that building that platform and implementing a comprehensive range of functionality isn't a much more demanding task than building a UI on top if you've already got a good foundation.

No doubt there is plenty of hard work to go around, but I think the idea of building more software with this kind of strategy has a lot of potential. It could save on the donkey work for everyone, leaving different developers to focus on the interesting/useful/distinctive aspects for different projects, while retaining some degree of compatibility and robust basic functionality.
Oddly I get the opposite impression, most of the crappy games on app stores I have a hard time believing that even the developers themselves would ever sit down and play for fun.

I get the feeling that they targeted some arbitrary demographic and worked through a checklist of features and finished when that was completed rather than iterating on an idea until it was good and working out from there.
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AWS OpsWorks Now Supports Chef 11.10
Having suffered from very mild depression from time to time, my view on people suggesting that depression not be seen as an illness is that it's something of a red herring, at least in terms of practical solutions.

If in some strange world someone decided that a broken leg wasn't a medical condition, it wouldn't change the impact if had on the person suffering from it. Someone still couldn't run it off just because it's not deemed a medical condition.

Similarly people may view depression as an illness or not but that shouldn't make the believe that reclassifying it suddenly means that someone can just pull them self together.

Speaking personally in the situation I was in you could certainly tell me that but the very best that would have happened is that I could have pretended to be OK for a bit, before relapsing worse than before (which happened several times, not because people told me to pull themselves together but because life just didn't give me the bandwidth to do anything else).

Similarly telling an alcoholic that they're wrong about the nature of their problem does next to nothing to actually address it - it's just meta discussion.
Because, despite my complaints above, it has the best hardware support, the best knowledge base, the largest community of users and it's pretty trivial to switch to another desktop.
One of the benefits of Linux is it's easy to customize. I like to install Ubuntu and the first thing I do is get rid of Unity. I prefer i3. I still benefit from the vast amount of repositories and the large community Ubuntu has. Unity is not necessary to benefit from Ubuntu, in fact, I think it holds Ubuntu back.
Xubuntu doesn't have the flashy mass market appeal. For power users its great due to its low footprint, but if I was trying to sell Linux I'd show them Cinnamon or Zorin or KDE, and maybe Gnome, because they all have eye candy and the first three work a lot like Windows (albeit KDE is a lot more powerful than the rest in that regard and would probably scare newbies off).
Of course, the ink-sellers would just promptly raise their prices. But, it's still a very creative way to approach the budget issue.
Is MS Paint Still a Valid Screenshot Tool?
In Windows:

Edit -> Preferences -> Toolbox -> Tools Configuration

Order the icons as you like. Hide the ones you don't need.

And also learn key shortcuts.
No, the point is that credit cards give people a line of credit, which increases overall liquidity. People buy things on credit cards they wouldn't otherwise be able to. When they buy that thing on a credit card, the company selling that thing gets the money earlier, and can thus take it and buy more from their suppliers and so on and so forth.

Bitcoin removes overall liquidity, by behaving like cash. The merchant may save 3% on bitcoin transactions, but they will have fewer transactions.
Just checking... did you read that article? It says the car's "new car smell" caused the driver to suddenly fall asleep and kill a cyclist.

Not sure if the car was actually at fault there...
Do they support anything other than chef? puppet for example...
Arguably a large part of the interest in Servo is whether the specs are good enough that developing a new browser from scratch is now feasible — certainly, yes, there is a lot of institutional knowledge around Mozilla, but a from-scratch implementation isn't going to exactly match Gecko everywhere.
My main use case is checking what time the last tube home is, which I can't yet find.

On the old site, I could find the last tube out from Location to Middle Stop, but then get to Middle Stop and realise that the line from Middle Stop to Home is now shut. Hope they fix that now.
I'm currently considering graduate school, and have unfortunately read too many stories quite like this.

Do you have an idea of how prevalent this kind of micromanagement is for peers in your cohort? Do you just have a particularly unreasonable PI?
Guess what? Steam takes a 30% cut too!
On my ASUS UX32VD (i7 Ivy Bridge HD4000) on 12.04 transparencies and transitions would lag too much for my taste.

Edit: 10GB RAM and SSD!