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Kodak could have owned this market, Xerox could have owned personal computing, etc, there are stories like this all over where a big dominant company invents the next generation of technology, but because of internal company forces cant (or wont) actually bring it in a meaningful way.

Kodak couldn't deal with cannibalizing their existing business (for film, and less extent, printing supplies) and Xerox sales couldn't wean itself off the 'click' (per imprint commission) enough to figure out how to sell the PC.
Orbits are not intuitive. To head "downwards", you have to slow down your orbital velocity, which reduces the radius of the orbit. In other words you have to decelerate. When you do the maths, you actually have to decelerate more from Earth orbit to get to the sun than you do to accelerate up to solar escape velocity.
The discussion over there

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/3gr44w/r...
It's hard for me to say exactly how many times you can start it before having to wait for the caps to charge back up, since we've measured a surprisingly high variation of required starting current over a bunch of different cars. One of our testers drives a Datsun 240z (it's really sweet) and sometimes needs a few cranks to get it going. He hasn't had to change his behavior from his old battery, so he's getting at least a few attempts over a short period without needing to wait for recharging. One other cool trick we can do is charge the capacitors slightly higher to deliver more current on a second starting attempt, which will hopefully reduce the number of cranking attempts you need.
No one said anything about webpack. If you have another async module loading syntax you'd prefer I'm sure we'd be happy to look at it.
> and has very little toxicity when burned

When burned with a wick, no. But if just heated till is smokes? Just as toxic as any oil.

> even if oil is toxic, it seems to be something that is a required part of cooking - we assume the risk. Teflon, not so much.

Oil does not have to be toxic. Just don't exceed the smoke point. And like oil, in normal cooking Teflon is not toxic either. It's completely inert.

> Teflon does get that hot in the course of regular cooking. And it releases toxic fumes under those conditions.

No it does not. No one cooks at over 660f. (OK, maybe some specialized stuff, but not with regular cooking where you would use a pan.)

> Especially when there are choices for pans/cookware that do NOT release fluorocarbons at high temperatures.

Like Teflon? Which does not release them either?
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Well Apple thought it would kill the market so I guess we can all decide who to believe.
This is pretty neat! However, Apple can bypass this by simply rejecting apps that bundle the AppHub framework, with the claim that apps whose feature updates bypasses app store approval present a security vulnerability.

A more useful approach would be to open-source the AppHub framework so users can implement auto-updating themselves, and it would be harder for Apple to catch this.
Gavin relies on the transactions miners are working on being close to the same, but not exactly.

An easy way to understand the proposal is to think about it in terms of forward error correction.

The design is an improvement over the existing relay network to compactly encode transactions which are not yet fully relayed.

In practice the improvement is very small.

Information on the existing relay network is available here http://bitcoinrelaynetwork.org/
Thanks. Should have known not to trust a battery vendor's page touting its superior cold cranking amps for a hybrid. Though for the hybrid battery pack, you'd want to stick with more traditional batteries. Supercapacitors are better when you need to provide a lot of current at once, but they don't have nearly the energy density of lithium, or even lead, batteries.

It is possible, though, that a supercapacitor bank could be useful in the frontend to serve much like this battery does. I could see it being potentially useful to have the supercapacitor get the motors turning to provide torque as fast as possible, with the regular batteries providing the lower current to keep things going.
Oh, sorry.
Hey Jason, good question. It turns out to be a non-issue. Lead-acid batteries have terrible lifetimes at high temperatures, so cars are already designed with enough distance between the engine and battery and enough circulation to ensure the battery is never more than a few degrees above ambient. The batteries in our design also aren't generally active while the engine is running. Let me know if that addresses your concerns.
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I guess I could try to post a better description of it on the website. The text basically assumes the reader is familiar with the supported supervisors, and that's probably not the best assumption.
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Been using Dinghy† for my OS X Docker needs, as it sets up a relatively painless NFS share for mounting my user directory into the Docker VM. Has file sharing on Mac been improved with Docker Toolbox? VirtualBox's native file sharing is quite slow.

† https://github.com/codekitchen/dinghy
>> But the biggest difference is that the US government doesn't throw people in jail who disagree with their policies... yet

You sure about that? Tell that to all the people in jail for non-violent drug offenses. Tell that to Aaron Schwarz. Tell that to Chelsey Manning. Tell that to Edward Snowden (if they ever catch him).
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I'm excited to see it, just waiting for some public code.
I like Bartlett's Programming from the Ground Up, though it might be too simple for some. It's available online in a few places:

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Are they going to add end-to-end encryption back in, though?

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/19/5523656/twitter-gives-up-o...
Thank you very much for responding. And thanks for sharing these awesome cases.

If you are willing to share - how did you get your first 3 B2B customers?
This is partly because modern societies are struggling to figure out how to enjoy prosperity without growth[1] (some would depressingly argue that prosperity is the growth of consumption).

[1] A big topic for sustainable development: https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=prosperity+without+gr...
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Which is fine, because the global banking system basically depends on double spending through loans (fractional reserve). If you double spend (spend more than you have), you accumulate a collectable debt and face legal consequences if you don't pay.

There's no way around this under Brands system, someone has to hold the keys to mint new currency, although it can be federated in the sense than every bank, store, or even person, could have their own issue.
How does your approach for factoring out compiler components compares with the PyPy meta-tracing approach?
Since when did Spark invent tree allreduces (which have been standard practice within MPI for decades)?
Congratulations, you don't suffer from the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect [1].

[1] http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godandthemachine/2014/03/the-ge...
I don't have the figures to hand but there is no way inflation has been 2% over the period.
> This is the opposite of how useful research and/or data science works. Data should be taken as is and then learned from. It certainly should not be gathered in an effort to directly prove a conclusion that you are already "convinced" of.

Get down off the pulpit. If the data said the opposite, I would instantly change my worldview.

But you are correct, in that my wording or attitude was incorrect. I should have said "I suspect" instead of "I am convinced" and instead of "might support this conclusion" I should have said "might support or refute this hypothesis".

Which is to say, don't scientists at least have a hypothesis in mind before they collect data related to it? Otherwise, why would you be testing at all, and for what exactly? You can't just take millions of data points, put them into a blender and get proven theories out of it!

Anyway, that's what I'd have at this point, a hypothesis. I should have used that wording, my bad.
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Interesting comparison. So far one of the best applications is to use Convox to spin up a lot of resources for data science. Not dissimilar to what a black hat would do with a botnet for cracking passwords.
I'm Tim, a dev at Atlassian. I just thought I'd chime in to let you know we are absolutely taking up the reins on SourceTree again! In fact, we're in the process of growing out our team. You can read a little more about it on the ST blog from earlier this year: http://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2015/02/25/were-just-getting-s.... We are aware of the performance issues affecting Windows users with certain repository shapes and have our backlog prioritized accordingly.

I haven't had much of a chance to play with GitHub Desktop yet, but it can only be a good thing for the users of all Git clients - nothing like a bit of healthy competition :) However, SourceTree's focus will remain on providing the best possible experience for professional teams using Git (and Mercurial).
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Studying Shakespeare is not "finding out, oh, its themes are X, Y, and Z (because duhhh) making up some completely nonsensical psychoanalysis."

That's like saying studying math is "finding out, oh, number can be manipulated, and making up some completely nonsensical rules for manipulating them."

It largely constitutes a controlled dataset. Like shooting at bull's eye's rather than random shit.

> Is it better to study Shakespeare, or to watch reality TV?

You have to do both to know that, don't you?
Some thoughts:

The price point is impressive if you can sell at only ~$50 more than a standard lead-acid battery. If pressed to find a flaw, I think the biggest is one you've already identified:

There’s one: you can’t run your lights and/or stereo as
long with your engine turned off. Ohm’s battery reserve
comes in at 10 amp hours; most lead-acid car batteries
come in at about 45 amp hours. If you can run your
stereo with your engine off for three hours on your
current battery, you’d be able to run it on Ohm for less
than an hour.

Nobody with a modern car or SUV is going to get three hours' runtime for their accessory equipment. With the original equipment (AGM lead acid, 70 AH/450 CCA) battery in my two-seat passenger car, I'm lucky to get 15 minutes' worth of stereo/nav/etc. operation with the ignition off. There's no conceivable way that 10 AH is enough for this application. The more "luxurious" the car, and the newer it is, the worse this problem will be. Meanwhile, LiFePO4 battery cost will probably go in the opposite direction, leaving room for competitors to offer more power for less money.

So I'd reconsider the size of the LiFePO4 battery, even if it makes the product cost a bit more. You need those high-end buyers. You're not going to sell these to Joe Sixpack for installation in his '98 F-150 pickup.

And yes, your marketing materials are grossly exaggerating both the environmental problems with lead-acid batteries and their typical service life. There is clearly a global regulatory jihad against lead in all of its forms and uses, though, so you do have that going for you.

Edit: Don't forget that auto stop/start is growing in popularity as well. I think it's actually mandatory in some (European?) markets. OEMs are moving toward "smarter" (read: DRM-locked) batteries to handle these additional requirements. I wonder if a better business model might be to offer recycling/rebuilding services that swap out lead plates for LiFePO4/supercap hardware in existing batteries?
Yeah, safety is obviously the most important thing. Right now we're basing the safety claims on the those of the component manufacturers. But it's also going to be a function of the enclosure and component locations, etc. Once all of that is finalized, we'll have a 3rd party lab do abuse testing, crush testing, etc to make sure there aren't any bad failure modes. There's lots of good processes and test procedures already out there for doing that kind of testing on batteries.
Recently I've been in various threads on HN complaining about how frustrating the Nix story is for development.

I do not read this and go "This is a great idea and process!" I read this and say, "I can see how this might be better than the existing haskell toolchain. Cabal-dev has always been a bit of a compromise." (Edit: showing how long it's been since I have used Haskell in anger, cabal-dev got deprecated in favor of native sandboxing about 2 years ago, my bad.) Haskell seems to be the common thread for nearly all users of Nix I've encountered in the wild.

Honestly, do other people read this and go, "This seems better than my current development toolchain?" ESPECIALLY if you're producing static binaries? As much as I criticize Maven, I'm not sure what this process buys you over maven except... well... what DOES it buy you over Maven dependency management? Unification with OS packages?

It's not immutable, reproducible deploys. The deploy side is easy to render immutable and reproducible with layerd, controlled, tagged containers. It seems to be a story that's more about the build and dev side of things. Heck, I showed this to a co-worker and he said, "Wow, cabal must be really bad if someone was so frustrated by it that their solution was to change their OS."

I don't mean to throw shade on the work that the Nix and NixOS people have been doing. I understand it has value to some people. It just seems very oversold as a solution to the problem of reproducible dev environments. And by adopting Nix, you MUST deploy your executable to something that can play nice with Nix's expectations, even if you are making a static executable. This seems like a heavy price to pay.
> It's likely they felt it's not worth the time

This seems strange. Did they not use Electron or Atom Shell or whatever it's called to build Github Desktop? If so, then is it not relatively trivial to create a GNU/Linux (or at least non-OSX-centric Unix) tarball of all the Javascript or whatever? If not so, then why not?
Yes, it will be available in a smaller form factor. The core of the device will be a single modular design that will be inserted in the shell shown to give it the Group 35 size. Thanks for the kind words!
>Twitter has popularized spelling abortions (u, r, 4, etc), dumbed-down vocabulary and hashtags over substance.

I don't see how abbreviations or vocabulary change the substance in any way. The only thing it changes is your mindset, and there is something to be said for adopting one's writing to this effect, but in essence: if you are swayed by someone's tone or style instead of substance then that speaks ill of you, not the speaker.

edit: if you are going to be pedantic about other people's writing: `etc' should be followed by a full stop. ;)

>Even worse is when this extreme brevity leads to entirely avoidable misunderstandings.

This is a serious problem for discourse on twitter though, and people have already taken to working around the 140 character limit such as writing (1/4) and tweeting 4 times, or using twitlonger.
But it might do wonders for intelligent discourse

It'll be like Facebook, where I turn for all my intelligent discourse.
Those types of things will definitely help, but it is a constant concern which is why I considered it difficult. A summer camp or community program which attracts all kinds of kids would be ideal, but it is a relatively short period of time compared with the 9 months of daily melting pot sessions in a typical public school. Additionally, if "summer camp" means a highly specific camp (like art camp, or theater camp, or Southern Baptist Christian camp), the benefits will be lesser. So, the difficulty is not in finding some amount of diversity, it is matching the level many public schools offer.
Windows has an order of magnitude more users, and probably comparatively even more money than that.

The first step to getting commercially-focused software on your desktop OS of choice is being a desirable market to cater to.
Glad to see you are on top of the voltage/fire thing. But I still see these things as non-recyclable in comparison to industry-standard lead-acid batteries. I can drop my current battery off at any number of garages without issue. Once this new device inevitably breaks down (anything under a hood will eventually) it seems like just more e-waste.
The New Yorker has a sterling reputation what it comes to copy editing, not sure if they have the same reputation regarding fact checking. The New Yorker isn't a destination for me though whereas the Economist most certainly is one of the few sites I will directly type into the URL bar in a browser, I buy their end-of-year year in review religiously, I am neither politically nor economically aligned with them but they cover the shit that matters most in a timely fashion with their ideology in plain sight.

The New York Times has great writers but it is incredibly biased even though it pretends to be impartial -- really it is only a notch up from Pravda and whatever that mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party is called. There have been numerous scandals over the past decades involving journalistic integrity. It is telling that Snowden's revelation broke in the Grauniad (as Private Eye nicknamed it) and the WashPo (dunno). Journalism is in an _amusing_ place right now what with Al Jazeera (in English!), Russia Today, The Intercept, and others. Don't know where I'd class the BBC News.
This is awesome (and was seemingly inevitable now that React Native is in play), and it will be really interesting to see what Apple eventually does about this.

If they change the terms of service to prevent hot loading app updates via JavaScriptCore they're going to isolate a lot of developers, since so much cool stuff is being developed around JavaScriptCore right now. The rnplay playground app that's currently in the App Store dynamically loads entire apps onto your phone to play around with -- it's so cool, why block things like that from existing?

If they do nothing, it's clear a rogue app store distribution ecosystem is going to evolve (case in point ^) which seems like a sub-optimal outcome for everyone.

Isn't the only eventuality for Apple to change their app store approval process to allow dynamic updates? I mean it's obviously better for developers, and probably ultimately better for end users as well. I just don't see any way around it with the momentum writing iOS apps in Javascript has right now.
I don't think you know what a platitude is.

> what measurement can you make to determine which human/group of humans "integrated" and "generalized" shakespeare and which didn't?

What measurement can you make to determine if someone is intelligent or not?

You solve that, and I'll get back to you.
On a completely different note, kudos for the idea of charging a small amount that gets contributed to charity for trial accounts (on https://put.io/).

Not sure if you guys came up with that, but it's the first instance I've come across. Great idea -- filters out freeloaders from potential true customers.
Screw it, I just subscribed. I often read articles from the Economist and often quite enjoy them, I think I will quite enjoy a physical copy delivered every week.
Interesting! I had not thought of that, but it makes a lot of sense. What's the average electric bike battery capacity?
It's crazy how applicable the Presumption of Stupidity article that was posted a couple of days ago has been. Your comment is basically a re-hashing of that post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034883
My interview for the job I have now actually had me do some hands-on shell activities and had very little algorithms, but that was partly because they were wanting me to work with code deployment and other tasks where it would come in handy.
Are there any other fields where employers specifically seek out game engine programmers?

This sounds ideal for me, but I like low-level C/C++/assembly programming and wouldn't want to give that up for the web.
http://googler700.blogspot.com/2015/08/android-applications-...
Well, the Economist is a newspaper with an officially non-neutral stance. I can hardly view it "the worst form of manipulation" when it's not different from every blog and personal column ever in this sense.

As to the Iraq war, it might have been the case that they supported the invasion right at the beginning (someone could point me to links), but since the casus belli turned out to be bogus I can't remember reading anything but denunciation of the war from the Economist.
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I am a "little bit" sad this trivial thing is wasting our neurons and general attention. I would love to see the commit that made this possible.

It reminds me when Apple revolutionized the world adding copy&paste to iOS.
The 140 character limit is a fun design choice, but it's worth noting that it appeals to a very specific kind of demographic. The kind that loves forming an opinion without spending more than 2-3 seconds on the material.

That's... absolutely not true? It appeals to people who are able to communicate an idea succinctly. I'll agree that composing can be a pain, but I very much enjoy being able to read a feed of short posts. If that limit was removed I can't imagine what a mess the timeline would look like.
I remember watching youtube videos of a guy starting his car with just a capacitor a year ago (was it one of you guys?) and thought this idea had a lot of potential. Good on you for bringing it to market.

Please be careful to not make it too 'smart'. I don't think a car battery needs to be connected to the internet of things that can be remotely hacked into :-).
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'Most' may have been an exaggeration, but even without, you still have social isolation in public schools, and no guarantee of it outside of them. The children in your neighborhood aren't going to be significantly different from the ones at your school.
My assets are diversified, so not only index but also real estate, and I'm not based in the US. 2013 was actually a good year but I only did around 7% once we account for inflation.
Yeah, we're still figuring out the best way to handle collecting the units at the end of life, but there's already places like this that we can send them to and keep it from turning into e-waste: http://www.kinsbursky.com/
It's definitely driver error and not the car's fault. I try not to rev too hard and slip too long, and it occasionally results in a stall.

I'm spoiled from having driven a number of very powerful manuals. Big engines mean a lot of rotating mass which means that no revving is needed, just pop the clutch and go. That extra rotating mass also means that the ECU has more time to notice the drop in RPM and give it a little extra gas to bring idle back up.

Not so in the Subaru. It's a very light engine and seemingly a pretty light flywheel too.
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