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People complaining about Elon's charisma are missing a lot of Tesla's history and brand. It has a very significant customer base that almost consider themselves part of the company (e.g. throwing parties for employees at a Tesla store). Part of the reason is because Elon Musk treats these events not as a marketing presentation but basically like someone showing off their latest creation to their family (a lot of customers are invited to the events).

Also, Tesla is seeing awesome success right now, but there was a time (pre Model S) when Elon Musk was basically begging customers to trust him and keep their preorders because they were close to going bankrupt (eventually a govt loan combined with the faith those customers placed in Elon Musk is what saved them). He had enough charisma to convince a significant chunk of people to give him a significant amount of money when it was looking like the company would not even be there a few months from then. Tesla's brand is that they genuinely care for their customers (and I have not seen any reason to disbelieve that so far), and Elon Musk's presentations while not spiffy help reinforce that.
I think parent comment was being ironic.
This is the (ultimately fruitless) approach I used:

1. Find the people who were within SLJ's first few hundred followers (the API gives an account's followers in the reverse order they followed the account).

2. Assuming some of the early followers knew SLJ's real life identity, find which accounts many of them were following prior to following SLJ.

3. Accounts which are followed by relatively many of SLJ's early followers, but relatively few of SLJ's later followers, are candidates for SLJ's real identity.

Ultimately I couldn't make it work, although my guess is that SLJ has some connection to Pivotal (either is a former employee or has worked with them on projects).
Seeing that their L4/Alpha implementation was written in PAL and C, it seems that they made L4 run as the Alpha firmware.

For those not familiar with the DEC Alpha, it always ran what was basically a hypervisor/microkernel in firmware (called PAL code). The OS kernel would actually run in normal user mode and make upcalls to the PAL code, and the PAL code could emulate an arbitrary number of protection rings (two for Ultrix, several for VMS). VMS and Ultrix required different versions of the PAL code to be loaded, and Linux on Alpha used the Ultrix version of the firmware.

It seems to me a shame that the DEC Alpha PAL code isn't the standard way firmware is done... ship a nanokernel/hypervisor and some basic drivers in ROM, and have some upcalls to replace drivers (or even the nanokernel/hypervisor). The DEC Alpha was a powerhouse in its day, and seems to have suffered very little from the PAL code abstraction.
I agree. I enjoyed using it when I worked at Northrop (formally TRW).
Ask HN: What books motivate you? (Coding/business/other)
In a bit of slump or burnout and need motivation. In the past, books like Coders at Work have given me a desire to really get coding. Or reading the Kalzumeus blog (patio11) make me feel like writing business copy and doing SEO work. What other books or other materials are out there that can help get one going again?
The first paragraph ends with "...where the Model S achieved a new combined record of 5.4 stars."
Regular banning, of course. You tell the user that they've been banned and why. Optionally, offer tempbans (with a stated duration), and/or have an appeal mechanism; but even with neither of those, it's less sadistic than a hellban.
Unfortunately, Google Ireland (yes, that is who sells it) has priced the Nexus 6P at $899 AUD. That's a 25% mark up for absolutely no reason (Google isn't paying sales tax in Australia because they are selling from Ireland and charging under $1000 AUD). What a joke, why can't we just all pay the same price?
Ummm, if I lose my phone, I'm just going to remotely disable it so there's no way the person who stole my phone can reach my data.
What do you do when you are an engineer and there is a war in your country?
"Also invested in Tesla" is a bit short... He's on the board at both Tesla and SpaceX (DFJ gave both tens of millions of dollars).. According to his Twitter / Flickr feed, he's probably the world's biggest Musk fan, and probably not just because his investments with Elon made him hundreds of millions in personal wealth.
He's not terrible, just a bit rough. I find his presentations far more appealing than any "perfect" presentation companies like Google, Apple or Facebook make.

He also doesn't fluff anything up or over sell anything. He tells the facts in a way people can understand and that's it.
I would like to think that is the most likely reason behind why the assets weren't re-rendered. The alternatives are just laziness or budget issues, which I wouldn't put past Capcom either.
3 rows of seats. 5000lb towing capacity. taller styling. yup.
Given that "vouch" still goes through the manual process (it doesn't auto-revive hellbanned accounts, but instead flags them for the moderators to review) I think the most likely outcome is that a few more of Terry's comments will be made visible, but his account as a whole will still be restricted. After all, the moderators are well aware of who Terry is and his general patterns of behavior on his various accounts, but they might not always notice when he makes a comment that deserves to be revived.
The other thing about the US is that occasionally you'll find a police department that's willing to bend the law. They can make you touch the fingerprint sensor and then claim that they never did and they found your phone unlocked, and it'll be your word against theirs. If the court believes the police, which they are culturally inclined to do, the Fifth Amendment question doesn't even come up.

One of the neat things about encryption, historically, is that the government couldn't force decryption even if it were willing to break the law in doing so. That's why there were export controls and demands for backdoors in the '90s, and that's why there are demands for backdoors today. Fingerprint locks may mathematically involve encryption, but they don't have this property.
Unbelievable.

Too much VC money sloshing around.

I know that there's a lot of groupthink in the VC community, and so CEOs aren't always selected strictly on merit. But even I, with no executive experience whatsoever, would know not to OK something like that.

As Saint Steven once put it:

I'm actually as proud of the things
we haven't done as the things I have done.
Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Why didn't this dialog take place in a board meeting?

CEO: thanks for the hundreds of millions of
dollars you've invested in us. Here's something
new we've done. We're putting your money
to good use.

WE HAVE SOCKS FOR SALE!!!

non-spineless Board of Directors:
That's great.
Let's all just go back to your office and help you
clean out your desk. Then we'll escort you out of
the building and the rest of us will reconvene to
discuss finding a better steward for the hundreds
of millions of dollars we've given you.

Edit: just to emphasize, the quote above was from Jobs discussing focus: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/629613-people-think-focus-me...

IMO startups that aren't making money and that keep having to do rounds of financing need to, most of all, FOCUS. Evernote board should be chanting: FOCUS! FOCUS! FOCUS!
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> right now, I can't imagine moving my 10GB+ of data to another platform.

Any Dropbox killer will let you port over your Dropbox folder to its servers.
*steal your password
I would be a bit skeptical of their load time results without additional info. The numbers are all ambiguous without any details on how they produced them. Another Java 6 alternative on Android is always welcomed, but I'd just like to see them be a bit more verbose on their results. It would also be interesting to see some numbers on the things that really matter in the long run, such as app performance after it loads.

1) What version of Android was tested?

2) Dalvik or ART enabled?

3) Device used and how much memory it had?

4) Reproducible script/steps to how they came up with launch time numbers.

I've heard previously that Clojure had some performance issues compared to other JVM languages like Scala on Android, but I didn't think it could be that much slower to load in comparison. Perhaps Clojure has to load more libraries and thus more overhead.
all insurance of all types are a scam. worse, they are tax subsidized.

gambling is also a scam. gambling is a version of 'insurance' for the activity of 'entertainment' that is called 'gambling'. there is NO gain to be had for the gambler in the long run.

similarly, the insured will lose MORE money in the long run paying for insurance as he would , statistically, in the short run. the idea that insurance would prevent you from sudden ruin in case of an accident is also a lie. plenty of insurance companies don't pay out entirely or resist paying enough to prevent ruin.

by paying for insurance, society is guaranteed higher overhead in the long run , higher litigation costs, and higher moral hazard as well as the rise of scammers of insurance companies.

all this activity is a total waste and only works because of the tax subsidy of the insruance industry scam.

if working people simply didn't have to pay ANY tax on labor including the scam of payroll ss. and healthcare tax on labor than you would see how rich the working classes would become how quickly. insurance companies have stolen the right not to pay tax on a scam, which guarantees that their scam's attract even more investors.

it's called the FIRE economy. READ ABOUT IT.
All the apps that I use give me the option to not use fingerprint login.
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802.11n can be and commonly is 5GHz as well. If I saw a device advertising 802.11b/g/n I would not assume 2.4GHz only.
Some of the best content on Hacker News are the links to up-and coming projects on GitHub. Get a list of these awesome projects without the distraction of the rest of Hacker News.
If you missed the live stream they just posted it here:

http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx

The gull-wing-in-a-tight-space starts at ~18 mins in
So splitline-partition the country.
25% mark up compared to what?
About this:

"Very little economic activity can be bottled up and saved for years."

That might have been true for hunter-gatherer societies, 10,000 years ago, but since the advent of agriculture, and especially irrigation, human societies have been increasingly dependent on the build up of capital to support an ever more sophisticated civilization. 2,000 years ago, that capital took the form of roads, canals, breakwaters for ports, dykes, walls, structures and, especially, large scale irrigation projects. Modern societies rely on the build up of capital to a much greater extent -- certainly more than I can list in a comment. The capital has been accrued over many decades -- I once read an article in Scientific American that the housing stock of modern Western societies runs on a cycle of about 80 years. The modern build up of capital, on which we depend, would include every form of infrastructure that you could think of, including space-age items such as communication satellites, plus many types that may not be immediately obvious.

Somewhere in the world, each generation must suppress some of its consumption so as to contribute to the accumulation of long-term capital. It used to be that savings were mostly confined to the nation in which they were originated, but of course, over the last 50 years we've seen the globalization of savings, and we've seen vast distortions to the global system, thanks to some countries, such as China, whose government engaged in the systematic suppression of consumption, leading to what Ben Bernanke described as a "global savings glut".

Contrary to what you said, a great deal of economic activity can be bottled up and saved for years. Just because we live in an era in which there was too much saving and too little consumption does not mean that, in the long term, saving is unimportant.

If by "economic activity" you mean activity that supports current consumption, then this is exactly backwards:

"First-world countries are seeing massive demographic shifts towards old age, which means vastly more economic activity must go towards sustaining the retired"

The opposite is true: First-world countries are seeing massive demographic shifts towards old age, therefore the need to raise productivity is more urgent than ever. In the USA, 70 years ago, there were 10 workers for every 1 retired person. In 20 years, there will be 2 workers for every 1 retired person. There we need to see a 500% increase in productivity, over 90 years (measured from 70 years ago), to ensure that everyone can continue to enjoy the same quality of life.

In the past, the accumulation of capital played a large role in raising productivity, and therefore in the future capital might again play a large role in raising productivity. A vast campaign of investment is necessary, to raise productivity. Such a campaign is made easy in the current era thanks to the the low interest rates that were made possible via the global savings glut.
No line drawing method on single member districts does that, and the best way to get laws which represents e people effectively is by assuring better proportionality. This had, in fact, been studied quite a bit, see, e.g., Arend Lijphart's Patterns of Democracy. Mucking around with variations on how our by whom lines are drawn for single-member, plurality or majority runoff districts and thinking that that had some how of meaningful improvement is self-delusion. It doesn't work, it can't work, we know why it can't work, and we know what does work, all from actual experience in real representative democracies.

Playing around with how district lives are drawn isn't democratic reform, it's democracy theater, a means of diverting attention without changing anything meaningful.
Strange the author didn't mention anything about the impressive safety ratings
gerry mandering is a symptom of democracy not the problem.

democracy is the problem, or rather it is a form of self governance which presents many dillemas.

historically , we know the bigger and more mature a democracy gets , the more it ages into socially defunct patterns of corruption , lowest common denominator, the decay of ethics, and embedded social passivity.

the solution to 'gerrymandering' is the end of our current democratic system, not some 2 bit claim that an algorithm is a solution to a symptom of a bigger problem .
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There was also a very amusing British comedy on the subject, with Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore, among others.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wrong_box/
Any claims for discovery efficiency is a lie. Shitty UX's "convert better" due in part to the way that they hurt their users.

Netflix cannot let you discover there is nothing you want to watch in their entire catalogue because you will unsubscribe. They have to make you believe there is more that you have not found.

Similar to Amazon, they cannot make search so efficient that you have the time and energy to search other sites or price compare. The strategy is to make sure they are the first place you visit and then exhaust you to the point you settle with what they have to offer.
What about "Have you built a business or a product?"
And replace it with what?
On downloading a pdf from nsa.gov - what could possibly go wrong?
That's why I said half the memory.. The other half would be for apps and stuff.

It'd be very interesting to see how much music people store on their phone when they use services like Spotify. I use it on a Nexus 4 and I've never had a problem with running out of space, but I don't have lots of games or anything on there. I honestly doubt it's much more than 2 or 3GB.
And the only problem is because they technically used 5.4 and stars together. If they called 5.4 with some other magical unit they invented, or simply called it theoretical/hypothetical rating, there would be no problem.

They also make it pretty clear: NHTSA does not publish a star rating above 5

You would have to be either a lawyer or pretty dense to see that as deceptive.
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The comparison was to the 5.
The problem is more complicated than that. Many banned accounts' comments aren't all bad. Unbanning them wholesale isn't an option if they're still going to break the HN guidelines. But killing all their comments wholesale isn't great either, if sometimes they post valuable things. So what we want is a mechanism that works at comment granularity rather than account granularity: let the good comments, and only the good comments, through. That's what this is intended to be.
The link also gives unsatisfying reasons for why it says they don't work, e.g. incumbents keep winning elections.

I haven't studied the matter really closely, but from what little I do know of the issue, it makes me wonder--are Arizona, Washington, and NJ examples of the hyper-gerrymandered states that citizen redistricting is supposed to prevent?

Could it be that, in those states, they're already starting out from a pretty equitable district layout, such that when the citizenry gets to redraw the layout, it doesn't actually matter much?

Or, put another way, how would a citizen redistricting panel work in Florida or North Carolina or Texas?
"Among modern, established democracies, proportionality of representation is pretty closely linked to public satisfaction with government"

When one of these "modern, established democracies" manages to maintain a stable government (or even survive) for as long as the United States has, perhaps that statement could be made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation#Li...

Other than perhaps the Scandinavian countries, that's not exactly a list that makes one optimistic about stability.

Edit: "Constitutional provisions for Presidential rule-by-decree had a lot to do with that, PR -- or even the particular form of PR used by the Weimar Republic -- well, if you want to argue that that was responsible for something, then go ahead and make that argument."

See my response to the other poster below. The PR system (and the myriad of squabbling parties produced by it) led to there being no effective government for two subsequent parliamentary elections.
The problem with monolithic kernels is their tendency to grow without bound. The Linux kernel passed 15 million lines a few years back. Linus's arguments for a monolithic kernel were stronger when it wasn't such a monolith. Anything with an attack surface that big is hopeless from a security standpoint.

There are now a few secure microkernels. It really is possible to fix the Mess at the Bottom. If the kernel isn't secure, nothing else can be. Patch-and-release security just doesn't work any more. The serious attacks today are from organized crime and governments, not script kiddies, and they develop their own zero-day exploits.
> I'm really not buying your C++ is niche argument. C++ is one of the top 3-5 languages in the world in every metric.

If you see how Bjarne Stroustrup[1] describes C++ today, you'll probably agree that it's a niche language (he sees it that way today).

> That argument is far too simplistic and ignores far too many things for me to give it much credence.

Of course. But ignore it at your peril. If you want to use a language that is similar to C++ in many respects (many of the same respects that the industry complained about), you should at least acknowledge the risk and try to be damn sure that this is what you want or be sure that this wasn't a contributing factor to C++'s fall from dominance.

[1]: https://youtu.be/2egL4y_VpYg?t=12m9s
Broadly speaking for 2015 ...

San Jose is just a sprawling city with a pathetic downtown.

Palo Alto and Mountain View are near Stanford U., govt. money and investors.

San Francisco is where young dudes go to get laid.

Beyond 2015, the price of real estate is so high that I don't know what the future holds. Any house from SF to MV is now over $1 million, and in PA and Los Altos above $2 million.
> Dependently types languages for programming (as opposed to proving) are very much cutting edge research. Is it so surprising that they are not used in the wild ?

How long will this be the case? Seems like they've been "cutting edge research" for a few decades, and the Curry-Howard correspondence itself is like 80 years old. Surely if there were a real demand for these kinds of programming languages, we would have seen some industry penetration at some point, right?
It's pretty impressive overall, but for an SUV (people very often take them for longer camping/ski/road trips) to have a maximal range of only 260 miles (super charger stations won't be very common on the way to Yosemite), and base price of $35k MORE than a BMW X5M (while being slower and has way less range), this is truly a niche product for a very niche demographic.

I think the technology involved is fantastic, but it feels more like a product where they built it simply because they can.

EDIT/Disclosure: I own shares of TSLA. I was hoping of a X5/Q7/Caynne competitor that starts at $50-$70k, not a X5M/Caynne Turbo competitor which in themselves are very, very ridiculous and niche cars.
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This is interesting. Do you have an example or perhaps a library i can look more into? Would this work with phoenix channels?
I had no idea how much money was getting pushed through Patreon until now, wow.
Funny enough, I ordered my Tesla specifically because I didn't have to go into a showroom or order through a person. To each their own I guess.
For the original discussion, subsidizing is addressing the root issue (distribution of wealth problem), there is also the solution proposed a hundred years ago by some guys name Marx and Engels ...

The example you brought up with women being paid 80 cent on the dollar is a whole can of worm that I'm not willing to open right now. Let's just put it simply that I think that specific issue is more complicated and one of the biggest difference is that it has more than just straight up economic consideration.
Thanks! Had no idea you can switch it off Silverlight.
You don't: that's the other alternative. But if you allow the hash table to resize as you increase the hash function (that is, adapt the function to one that has a larger output), then that's still not constant with respect to the table size. Computing a larger output requires logarithmically more operations to compute the hash, assuming you use one with the same well-mixedness properties.

A hash function with 5 bits of output needs more operations than one with 2 bits of output.
> The closest to this are checked exceptions, which turned out to be a bad idea

But that's because lots of people actually used them and came to the conclusion that they didn't want to manually handle every exceptional case at the call-site. People realized that if an operation has two outcomes, but one of them would cause the entire computation to fail and that outcome happened only 1/1000 of cases, they'd rather just ignore it, and catch any exception up the stack. If many people used Either/Maybe they might come to the same conclusion. So we don't know today if Either/Maybe work well just as we didn't know in 1995 if checked exceptions work well -- simply because the pattern hasn't seen enough use yet (and I have no reason to believe that the conclusion would be any different, namely that a possible though unlikely outcome might want to be handled collectively not near the call-site).
Until some idiot soccer dad/mom kills someone by not being able to handle such accelaration.

Killed Paul Walker (gas engine).
>> super charger stations won't be very common on the way to Yosemite

With the current demographic of Tesla buyers? Give this three months.