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HAWTHORNE, Calif. — Tesla Motors didn't announce the self-driving car that some had expected but did roll out an exotic suite of driver-aid and safety features Thursday night.

And it said it'll have a hopped-up version of its Model S that has all-wheel drive and blasts to 60 mph in little more than 3 seconds.

Tesla's moves are closely watched by its shareholders, who seem to bid up stock prices wildly, then sell, so the Tesla shares rocket, then tumble, somewhat like technology stocks. And the electric-carmaker's moves are considered a foretaste of what mainstream automakers might need to emulate to stay abreast of the latest technology.

Tesla announced Thursday that the all-wheel-drive versions of its Model S electric car will manage a slight increase in range of about 10 miles on a charge vs. the rear-drive models — for a maximum of 275 miles — because of efficiencies designed into the new system.

The AWD cars have a second electric motor to drive the front wheels. AWD hybrids, such as the Lexus RX, likewise use separate electric motors front and rear to accomplish all-wheel drive. That eliminates the need for a front-to-rear driveshaft and other cumbersome hardware.

CEO Elon Musk called his system "a huge improvement" that he claims is "taking the technology to the next level."

The AWD cars will carry the designation D, and the new top version of the Model S, the AWD P85D, will be among the fastest-accelerating sedans ever: 0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds, according to Tesla. Five or six seconds is considered very quick.

The 85D models start being delivered to buyers in December. The other AWD models, 60D and 85D, arrive in buyers hands in February.

The addition of all-wheel drive will allow Tesla to compete more vigorously in the snowy East and Midwest, broadening is buyer base beyond the Sunbelt.

Jaguar made a similar move to AWD in 2013, figuring it was competing in a shrinking minority of the luxury market without AWD.

Tesla's suite of safety features and driver aids is partly catch-up, partly leapfrog.

Brands from Mercedes-Benz and Infiniti to more mainstream nameplates such as Hyundai have features that will keep a car in its lane, steer it back if it begins to wander, stop without driver help if it's racing too fast toward the car ahead.

But Tesla CEO Elon Musk says Tesla is adding innovations to those.

Two highlights:

•The new system will move the car over a lane when the driver uses the turn signal.

•The car reads speed-limit signs and adjusts the car to the speed on the sign.

Other features match the lane-departure warnings and other safety and driver-help features that are getting common.

Tesla says the cars it's building now have 12 sensors each able to "see" 16 feet to enable the safety tech. Those can't be retrofitted to older models, Tesla says.
I'm happy having found Gerolsteiner Mineralwasser here in the US.
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fwiw in many markets (a) is prohibited activity. I would hope that exchanges have some kind of test network that members could use.
Refreshing to see Satya clearly state "I answered that question completely wrong."

No weasel words there...as opposed to so many other non-apology apologies.
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For further reading, this is Booth's book on nonsense generally: http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft538nb...
I don't know whether 20% projects are supposed to launch publicly. Officially Google launches are serious business.

But, you can start a 20% project, impress people with your prototype, and get a real team started on that.
It looks really nice. Can you talk about the technologies you used to build it?
I see signs of a great CEO here. Owning up for mistakes is not easy!
One more thing: Pulseaudio allows me to record audio from all applications, not just the ones that were built specifically with dumping audio to a file in mind. Maybe this is possible in JACK, I don't know, I don't care: It worked for me in Pulseaudio and not in JACK, which means Pulseaudio is more practically useful.

Now insult my knowledge of Unix again, O person who didn't know what Busybox was until a few hours ago.
But that's a pretty low bar. Using just 'pure', can you mutate an argument in a function called in a conditional expression (making it unsafe to check again)? Can it matter what order a list gets processed in a call to `map` or `filter`? Preventing mutation of global variables narrows the scope of the damage, but having just that still means that if you're maintaining someone else's code, you need to double check everything for side effects, even if they'd be limited to the inputs.
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imagine that, as human beings, the people reading these comments can make the adjustments in their own heads, saving the need for tortuous linguistic circumlocutions.
When has Mark Suster said that?
That's a crazy scheme on a computer.

Just store, say, a byte per value, and concat them into your 128 bit number.
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What is your definition of imaging? Our use of imaging is in reference to imaging in technology. "The production of graphic images from digitally generated data." Our service processes images on our servers and produces new image data with each request when necessary (if not cached already.) The Javascript library is just a way to interface with our infrastructure and generate these requests.
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>Tesla's moves are closely watched by its shareholders, who seem to bid up stock prices wildly, then sell

So embargos are probably quite important to them
This is true, but the evidence so far with AI is that as soon as we have sufficient computational power the tasks that were thought to require human intelligence were then solved by computers.

I don’t think anyone serious thinks that sufficient computational power alone will result in AGI, but we know that we aren’t going to have it until we get to the human level computational.

The interesting question is once we have human level computational power is how long will it take to develop AGI. The evidence from problems that require more limited intelligence (say chess) is that the problem is solved soon after the required computational resources are available.
Thanks moberemk. I'm trying to take what lodash/underscore started to the next logical step with FKit.
The question remains: did he merely misspeak, or is he actually that disconnected from what it's like to have a job?

It's good to see a clear and quick retraction, but jeez -- did the words really reflect a thought he had in his head?
Sure. The front-end is just plain old html/js/css. The back-end is Node.js, there's only two endpoints, one is searching for stocks, the other is for serving the index file. I also use the yahoo finance API to get stock prices.
I think he means http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never-hire-job....
Find out if you're underpaid and learn how to ask for a raise
Not really. When you say something that stupid, you have no option but to backtrack. Imagine if he answered one of the questions with the assertion that "black people must die". Do you think we would have had much of an option there?
The flip side is that English speakers get to enjoy a treasure trove of 500 years of stories that are basically riffs on his works and a vast collection of day to day sayings and words which color our everyday language.

We actually get to live intimately with his works even if we can barely understand the originals.
In fairness, this technique is very normal, just perhaps not in recent years. http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Shiga-SFBay.htm
Switched off, in a tin can, in the freezer. Tin can to block radio signals, freezer to block audio signals. And switched off so the "normal" operation of the phone doesn't drain the battery (i.e.: continually trying stronger signals to reconnect with the GSM/3G/4G infrastructure).
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>The new system will move the car over a lane when the driver uses the turn signal.

...what if you're just turning right?
Hey guys, I didn't mean it from a _male_ perspective, I meant it from a _management_ perspective! It's okay that way!

Yes, it's nice that he's admitting he said the wrong thing (thanks to the Twitstorm), but let's not forgive him so quickly for showing us how management really thinks.
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Exactly. "I answered that question wrong" to me read like "I should have been more politically correct with my wording", it doesn't change the fact that in his head he actually thinks employees should shut up and work hard hoping that good things will happen to them.
You obviously have not seen many press releases before. PR teams excel at putting a positive spin on even the worst blunders.
>Maria asked me what advice I would offer women who are not comfortable asking for pay raises

>If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask.

Great Advice. A+. His original answer probably answered the question better. The answer he gave for the question he was asked was very appropriate. The "Do it anyways" response that was given by Maria doesn't answer the question, it avoids the topic all together and doesn't help the person for whom its an actual problem.
as someone who just picked up my model S last week, it'd be kind of crappy if I missed the cut for these new sensors. the car is so nice though it's hard to complain.
I would agree that the economic effects are much more likely to affect most of us in the west directly than the chance of coming down with Ebola. The world economy is not really in a good state to handle an external shock like massive trade disruption right now.
What a rude and callous example you have invented and pushed onto this page.
isn't there a massive waiting list?
I've got one. I'm dying to take it apart, but I don't dare. Amazing device.
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According to their "Team" page [1], ind.ie has three designers, one person for operations and a single developer.

With that team, they want to create free versions of Dropbox (Indie Pulse), Android/iOS (Indie Phone), Facebook (Heartbeat)?

Love the idea and intentions, so I hope they get good support on their open-source projects.

[1] https://ind.ie/team/
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I think that's the point. Apologizing sincerely seems to be a forgotten art.
My guess is, then you probably won't be doing 60mph and in cruise control mode.
December for new orders, not too bad.
I know the question was posed at a conference about women in technology, but I think a good answer to the question of how to ask for a raise goes beyond narrowing the pay gap between women and men. There are plenty of men, myself included, that also feel like we're not getting what we're worth and what our colleagues are getting, but don't have the knowledge how or courage to confront our manager and ask for a raise. Perhaps women are more predominately or more severely affected by this issue, but there's more to it than the men/women pay gap.

I liked Maria Klawe's answer a lot more, it provides some really useful advice beyond "if you think you're being payed less than your male peers, ask for a raise".
Do the prices change? This looks cool.

Also, are you going to open source it?
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The way I understood it, Lenovo bought the IP (and some staff) for product lines they were already building on IBMs behalf- this is hardly the same as the current situation.
This comment is a perfect example of "given them an inch and they'll take a mile."
Not really surprising especally when you consider how much food people leave out on a regular basis. However, this ignores the support infrastructure needed to enable these suburban spaces. Food, water, energy, raw materials, manufactoring, and shipping are all out of site and out of mind, but sill impact birds who cover large areas.
Woooooooohooo!
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Tell me something I didn't already know ;)
Agreed. The article exhibited it's own bit of genius.

As I was reading I kept waiting for the big "..BUT.." that would talk about how Shakespeare wasn't a genius. It wasn't until I got to the section on garden path sentences that the purpose of the title clicked. The author of the article was employing one of the very "tricks" he talks about in the article!
Nope, it's your job to close the sale. I just indicate I'm open to being sold.
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There are at least couple open source projects that handle dynamic image generation on the backend quite nicely. It seems photon is dead, but I found it works quite well and is easy to extend. Thumbor seems quite active although I've never used it myself.

https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor

https://github.com/1000Memories/photon-core
This goes a bit in a different direction, but it should help.

"SQL and NoSQL are two sides of the same coin, mathematically"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313234
Definition of gaffe -- saying what you really think.
As a person who can't currently view videos where I am, what was the controversial statement that Satya made?
And ignores that -- if you believe minimsft, and there's little reason not too -- microsoft is an extremely political company.
Bitcoin is just a part of the solution, a single arrow in the war against the disgusting institutionalized theft being perpetrated by the Venezuelan government.

Other "arrows" include the existence of a thriving black market, competition from other currencies (ie the US dollar), the $300 stipend, the barter system, etc. All these give the citizens a choice to not use VEF for transactions, and as demand for something goes to zero (especially in the face of ever-increasing supply), so goes it's value.

Regarding crypto-currencies specifically, if it is proven that there is a market for "Bitcoin plus alpha" (eg guaranteed convertibility for USD - probably not gonna happen but for example) tailored for the Venezuelan market then you can bet someone is working to make that "V-coin" a reality.

So don't look at Bitcoin as the silver bullet solution to solve Venezuela's woes, but rather as a significant step in the war against oppressive government.
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Shell accounts are like short wave radios, wrist watches, cameras and landline telephones. Not many people have them anymore but they are oh so useful.
I wonder how feasible converting the 48 FPGAs into ASICs would be, hopefully to sell them.
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Did he really rise to being CEO of Microsoft by believing the bs he said? If he did, he has to be one of the most fortunate people on the planet. Male or not.
The prices should update as they change in the real markets - it uses Yahoo Finance API for this. It's also already open source: https://github.com/mashlol/trade
>The car reads speed-limit signs and adjusts the car to the speed on the sign.

This is not something I want in a vehicle. I realize why it's a good thing, but there are reasons I don't want to drive exactly the speed limit e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_curve
If I may put a bit of a cultural spin on this, his comment sort of reflects the culture in India, where a vast majority of people do not feel comfortable simply asking for a raise. Most people (men and women) essentially follow the strategy that Nadella suggested, to work harder and believe that you will be rewarded for it eventually. I'm not in any way suggesting that this is an effective strategy (especially for women), but it might explain his comment somewhat. Great apology, though.
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Mine was delivered in early September and doesn't have the sensors. Check for the parking sensors more on the side of your bumpers and for a camera underneath the rear view mirror. I believe many cars built mid September have the sensors built in, and yours should too.
but he didn't. he said he answered the question wrong, not that the answer was wrong. You could argue about semantics, but it's clear at a very superficial level to everyone that he answered the question wrong - wrong forum, wrong wording - but that says nothing about how correct the answer is.

Like for a personal parallel, it would probably be wrong to announce to a friend that you thought they were ugly, no matter how correct you were.

The sincere apology would have been to announce that his answer was incorrect - otherwise he is just trying to pacify the mob, if that makes sense. Perhaps I'm being a little pedantic, but this email has clearly been proofread by a number of people, and the key statement is definitely not as clear-cut as this HN thread seems to be deciding (it's a very clear-cut non-statement).

Edit: Criticism definitely fair, I jumped to conclusions.
It is almost as though people tell a social scientist what they think the social scientist wants to hear. It is a good thing this is not true or else social science would just be pseudo-science pushing a political agenda.
He says he gave the "wrong" answer to the question, not that the answer he gave was wrong. It was very revealing about what he thinks about paying his employees, especially about not trusting those that ask for raises.
I got into web design around when it first became a thing. Browsers allowed images, tables permitted layout, etc.

I can remember when you'd be working for a client who had a tilde account (ISPname.com/~client), but then get particularly enthused when working on a job that had its own domain! Those looked so much better in a portfolio!

All pretty tragic to consider now when it's so cheap and fast to set up any old domain and a lot of the charm and wonder is gone.
I would argue that recursion is very important. Could you elaborate on what makes it bad practice? Sure, in languages without tail-call optimization, using it instead of a loop will incur more overhead, but certain problems (like traversing directories in a filesystem, nodes in an XML document, or any tree structure) are impossible to implement otherwise. Do you have a specific scenario in mind where recursion was a poor solution to your problem?
You wouldn't use a reference generally, if you're thinking of creating a new independent object you'd just return that. This is for cases when your return object is a reference into your argument, for example
In short: Satya indicated that women shouldn't ask for raises and let it all work out in the long term.

A mashable article on the topic: http://mashable.com/2014/10/09/microsoft-ceo-women-karma-rai...
This needs to be better understood/accepted by startups, but it's a bitter pill to swallow for many entrepreneurs.

I wrote a book on growth hacking and now often get requests (sometimes casual, sometimes formal) on how a startup can "growth hack" or accelerate their growth. Then when I ask about the basics like target market, retention metrics, customer feedback etc - I get a bunch of blank stares.

It's no good driving more traffic or "virality" when people aren't interested in your startup in the first place. I'd say in 9 out of 10 cases, there's still a ton of PM fit work to be done by startups who think they are in the "growth hacking" stage.

The problem is, I'd say most first-time entrepreneurs just think the only obstacle they need to overcome is getting more people seeing their website, or downloading their app. It's hard to accept that your startup is not ready for growth because it's not providing any clear value yet.
I know people who worked at symantec before, during, and after the merger, abd apparently the merger really ruined the symantec corporate culture. I heard veritas promoted a ton of people to VP level right before the merger so they could "have more voice" or something.
Is this using the official HN API? http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api
Its probably like many luxury sedans (and pretty much every recent Benz) if you tap the turn signal stick it flashes the blinker three times to signal a lane change so you don't need to put it back into position once you have made the change.
The Microsoft CEO should not make his political opinions public. It only shows the urgency he feels, or maybe someone else, to appear as the new messiah with deep thoughts at the helm of a corporation that cares for technology and people. I would be probably better to show that Microsoft is not trying to steal Javascript as TypeScript, or ML as F#, or Ruby on Rails as NetMVC, or Android sucking the life out of Samsung. Sorry, this advertisement as a comment just made me cring. There are so many things that Microsoft should not do.
37, leaving previous startup (sold 2 years ago) on Friday, starting next on on Monday. This'll be #6. I code.
> what was the controversial statement that Satya made

"It's not really about asking for the raise, but knowing, and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises, as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional super powers, that quite frankly, women who don't ask for a raise have. Because that's good karma, it'll come back! Because somebody's going to know, 'That's the kind of person, that I want trust.'"

He's assigning good karma to a lack of assertiveness in women.
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I'm surprised that people are surprised. I'm male and I've heard variations of "you shouldn't ask for a raise/bigger salary" many times from my managers or hiring managers (when looking for a job).

For example: "you shouldn't be focusing on money, just do great work and the financial rewards will come [someday]". Or "we are looking for people who have passion for $whatever_our_company_does, not people who are primarily interested in higher compensation".
There's a bootleg stream of the event at: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/10419610/events/3475766
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microwave ovens without the cage? :-)
The 502 error "Invalid response" that the server returns right now is ironically spot on.
A kind person is more attractive than an unkind person the way a living person is more attractive than a corpse.

Ya, I can say that. It's definitely like a next level of aliveness, or awareness or consciousness or something like that.

The whole crass cold cerebral thing may be cute on tv but in real life is is not attractive
In any case, how does that show misogyny? Even if we assume he really thinks that way, what's the evidence that he doesn't think like that for men?
>Even Toronto Mayor Rob Ford confessed to the media that his family was too frightened to take out their trash.

imagine the racoons after consuming remnants of crack in the Ford's thrash or the racoons on withdrawal looking for the next hit
Well sure. My point is that it basically devolves into checking that if you treat it poorly, and can be more useful if you don't. If you make a habit of initializing variables with the wrong value, it's less useful.
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~rich reminds me of my NWO Wolfpac page on Angelfire. Also, I'm pretty sure this is what PCP feels like.
He has been in the US since college, for longer than some of his employees have been alive. I don't think that's a good excuse.
Agreed. It's on the b&m stores to keep a product mix that will sell the most efficiently, and the ones who are surviving are the ones figuring that out. I'm lucky enough (or unlucky, depending on perspective) to live in a city with a Fry's - there aren't a lot of products NewEgg can win on if I'm feeling impatient, for example.
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I don't think that's a luxury feature anymore, my base model ford does it.
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Thanks list! I don't know RubyCritic it seems useful.
Who's got 64 bit ARM in a handset other than Apple? x86 is the way to get to 64 bit hardware fastest.
Chris Morgan is working on teepee[0] though, so it's coming.

[0] https://github.com/teepee/teepee