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I find changed titles to better whenever I happen to notice them. I also think its a great check on the kind of mob mentality a social site can develop. Having said that, I think it would be an unequivocal win for the site to show titles had been edited by mods.

I have worked in the field before and I know 3D reconstructions get used for serious work - albeit rarely for the purposes of redisplay. Besides an overworked applications section of a paper? I'm shocked and horrified :)

The work you're describing sounds impressive though.

Wow tough crowd, this is actually extremely impressive if you're interested in the subject. The fineness and complexity of the reconstructed depth field is unparalleled.

Yes, but if you prefix the title with 'Show HN:' it's considered better form when its your own work.

I don't think that Rockefeller Education board quote supports your position. Education had previously only been necessary for the professions and callings listed - and its not like simply having more schools meant the economy was suddenly going to be composed of 100% professionals. They just want to give to the children what their parents want to give them but can't.

I suspect that factory owners and other bosses would have been scared of a new class of worker that could read and write. In fact I tend to think more education means less docile and easily manipulated people - then and now.

Interesting suggestion - I was surprised to see such a direct competitor to cocos2d, and despite the development budget of Apple I'm a little skeptical of their commitment to building a game engine. Maybe it'll form the basis of a better set of game engines. I'm definitely skeptical of their physics engine over Box2D.

There are is support for physics effects in the UI now, I'm not really sure what navigational changes he could be talking about though.

The idea that would be just as subject to surveillance using Australian hosted servers is pure speculation and not supported by the so far leaked information on PRISM.

In the same way that Americans are in a stronger position vs NSA snooping Australians are in a stronger position vs our own snooping.

But as an Australian citizen we have our courts and public opinion to try and fight for us. Not to mention the people doing the snooping have far less incentive to pass commercial information along to a competitor.

Thanks, I'll check that out.

Have you guys seen syncpoint? Although having said that, syncpoint seems to have been removed from github.

I came here to make nearly that exact comment - but about the article rather than the comments. A friend who is a psychologist recommended these resources on the topic: http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/infopax.cfm?Info_I...

I would have thought the big contribution to this kind of dynamic balancing would be the eventual ease of piloting it would give. It still might not make sense efficiency wise though.

I agree, I think the fuzzy feeling sums it up. Celebrity AMA's are some of the most unenlightening things I've ever read. You get some obvious questions about obvious subjects and the answer is usually some variation of 'yeah that was great'. It should be no surprise either - its a conversation started with no premise. If someone consequential to an issue decides to comment on that issue it can be very very interesting. Hackernews still has that to some degree. Even if its gone, can we not resurrect it as this zombie?

And I'd rather they didn't think about going on HN as doing some media. Maybe we've reached that point anyway, but that would be a shame.

>Well, that should be obvious: the car stops.

Yeah but does it stop on zero? Does it brick the car?

As it turns out Tesla knows what they are doing, and there is a reserve, probably that's pretty disappointing as a car journalist. But hey, when did we think car journalists were on the side of car manufacturers?

It hasn't. Hackernews is usually pretty good like that.

If I was a car reviewer and rocked up at a charging station with 0 miles range showing, I'd want to know what happens if you push it for a little bit more. It would definitely be an exaggeration for the story but we're talking about half a mile out of 200. He might have even been completely honest deliberately going the extra half mile if there had been some catastrophic result - a review isn't just a real drive, it has to be part simulation.

As for driving that final stretch with 30 miles range showing - his story is that Tesla told him it would be fine because it would be regained through the battery conditioning. Tesla says that they told him not to stop charging. Well there is a lot of wiggle room for both those statements to be true.

I don't know that this is quite the refutation that everyone is saying it is. I'm not sure what a reviewer driving in circles at a charging station proves? I imagine he wanted to find out what would happen - after all he was at the station anyway. Also he clearly does start to turn down the climate change about 20 miles or so after he claims - not sure why Tesla is really fighting on that one.

There is no denial of the Tesla losing 60 miles range overnight. There isn't a denial of Tesla telling him that the battery would regain its charge and range when it warmed up in the final leg. *Edit: Although it does certainly say they told him not to stop charging on that final charge.

In fact for a while you could only have adhoc views, but my knowledge is 6 months out of date.

Yes definitely do that. I bundle the sqlite in the app store updates and then mount that as an external db and pull from itself - its a bit awkward but it worked. I had to write the external db stuff, but it was pretty easy.

I think each document is a row and it parses it to native structures on load. I think I saw something on the dev list about that being improved - but its something to check if it matters.

I love couchdb for its replication, not only did I use it for a previous company I worked for and still contract with, I'm using it for my 'big idea' project. Once you have data replication you do need some kind of different approach to user/document security - after all they can take the data they have and do anything with it - so you need to treat replication as data input and validate there, like couchDB does.

I think the real downsides are scaling and performance but there are options at least. Given that TouchDB is essentially couchdb mapped onto sqlite I do wonder if there are going to be good options to map couchdb replication onto postgres in future.

Yes I have a framework that splits itself into 3 databases and has quite a lot of attachments. There isn't a big overhead as far as I can see. Does couchDB do what you need with per-document access permissions? It seems to be the biggest downside to couchdb is having to do so many workarounds for per-document access permissions.

Hey yeah I've used TouchDB on iOS quite a bit. It syncs reliably to Couchdb - I actually haven't tried couchbase. Conflicts are handled in the default couchdb way I think - I haven't really touched on this much. TouchDB syncs to native structures that are derived from CouchModel.

That is interesting. Personally I didn't find framing the original problem as monoid enlightening at all, but that's what I thought the author was getting at.

I don't think the point is the implementation itself, just what the author finds interesting in a problem. After all the 'plus' operator just does a series of ordered comparisons like the minBy solution does.

I agree. My point is that from Apple's perspective they have no interest in an apps internal age restrictions system. If it says 4+ it has to be 4+ for the life of the app.

Ok, but what you're really saying is its an app rated 4+ that has a mature images option. Yes its a little awkward that the settings to turn it on are only available via a website - but so what?

Came by to say some of the same. I like side menu, its on a button and are options that need to up all the time. The comments 'mini nav bar' functionality could all be on the actual nav bar. 44 + x is too much real estate to constantly waste... you could have it disappear on scrolldown like safari does.