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Wow, The period of 2009 to 2012 was not kind for the ice at all. What caused such a large decrease?
Capitalism.

One of the Marxist critiques of capitalism is that if an employer wants to do certain good things (like treat his workers well, pay more salaries than the bare minimum, take care of the environment and so on) he can't do that because that will raise the price of whatever he is selling and he would be outcompeted by his less altruistic rivals and go bankrupt. So every business owner has to be a bit of a psychopath to survive.
A nitpick: you are of course free to make any costly mistake if it only affects you and no one else.

Various safety laws protect innocent bystanders from mistakes other people make, e.g. losing control of a car due to excessive speed or alcohol intake, or spreading a virus.

The fact that tax money is spent on various social protection things, like health care, allows to legally limit one's apparently personal choices, like smoking, that increase the tax money spending due to those choices. Such is the nature of most, if not any, tax-funded welfare features.
I really like that feature in the web app. Do you use a mobile app that supports multi-tag filtering too?
No matter how careful I am, it's hard for me to get lower than 130% of the fuel consumption reported by the manufacturer. Perhaps I can do 120% of the reported consumption at 90 km/h, but I can hardly get lower than 140% on the highway (130 km/h) and in city traffic.
Yesterday I was wondering why encryption is not the default. Government shmovernment, but I remember looking up how to password-protect directories in Windows 95 (sorry to everyone else on HN who got started on an Apple II). It wasn't until college that I figured out that you can easily navigate the directory structure in another machine by just plugging in hard drives to a machine running a different OS. I look at people's nude pics of themselves by PC/phone repair people, and I'm convinced that there is no good reason why data should be stored in plain text. But now search comes into the picture, and it's expected and we're probably stuck with it for my lifetime
There's no easily locateable method to wake the BB8 via the SDK.
The real veterans know to open the windows as soon as you get a whiff.
Not a device though, just software to vary the engine regulation when the test is detected.

(Or more likely a mode that kicks in when non test driving is detected)
The 'bioweapon defense mode' is great naming. Gets fantastic PR and consumers know that Tesla's air is market leader.

When was the last time that a car's air filtering for so much good PR and became a unique selling point?
The doors actuate on two hinges and have sonar to detect both horizontal and vertical clearance during all movements. They will adapt to both low ceilings and low side clearances, and need only about a foot of space on either side of your car to open. In the video, Musk talks about garages with small ceilings and then shows a video of the doors opening in one. If there's enough space for you to pull in and get out of your car now, there's almost surely enough space to open the doors in this one too.
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It's more difficult to make an argument against Puerto Rican statehood, but DC is expressly not a state, and should either remain a federal district with no voting representation or be part of Maryland (as stated elsewhere).
Australia has a phenomenon called 'removal homes', where you'll buy a house on one plot of land and ship it, intact, somewhere else.

Example:

http://www.atlashouseremovers.com.au/
Can anyone explain me why Tesla as a silicon valley company is lagging behind in autonomus driving?
BMW, Daimler and many more have already working things in much cheaper cars.

Edit: can't understand the down voting. Criticizing Tesla isn't endorsed here?
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Accelerate gradually, stay off the brakes.
Isn't that what this article is about? We are pretty certain that this was an act of espionage by another nation state. Criminal investigations are not how you respond in those cases (unless we found the agent on our soil, which AFAIK we did not).

What is curious is that we aren't sure what the norms are for how to respond to cyber espionage, unlike with in person espionage which had a whole set of responses we could fall back on.
I'm not so sure. Especially for high-end cars, lifetime fuel costs are dwarfed by the car cost. Even in low-end high-mileage cars, both numbers are smaller but the car cost is still probably double the lifetime fuel cost. So maybe across the board we can expect fuel not to be a driving variable in the cost proposition?
It sounds like you are confusing "everyone gets a vote" with "everyone gets a result." If you're the only red person in a room of blues, there's no way it's going to be fair unless you can convince others to turn, or you run away. A voting system is not meant to make everything possible, but to make it so that the one red in the room has an out: get more votes. (Because without something, you've got a very volatile situation.) You have a voice, it's just not codified in your vote unless you're a near majority.

The point of voting isn't to get fair representation. You can't have fair representation in this sense due to the Pigeon-Hole principle. You can have it in a long term, systemic sense.

every time an individual result is unfair... it's still unfair

Fairness is not a property of individual results. It's a property of a statistical system incorporating many data points.
I see what you did there ;)
My original comment was probably too abrasive - it wasn't so much that it was just a tiny detail or that tiny details don't matter (they obviously do). I guess I just find UX more subjective - seems easy to argue that any decision is bad or good based on whatever criteria you're choosing to argue about.
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The video shows it opening when parked so closely to two vehicles that a person can barely squeeze through, and when parked in a garage with a low ceiling. One of the cars they parked it next to is a minivan with sliding doors, which you couldn't get into when open, while you could get into the X. As Elon puts it, paraphrasing, "this is the best aperture possible".
Great science writing, explaining concepts in an accessible way without homeopathic dilutions of the substance.
His son didn't want a big-boy bed, so this dad built him the coolest bed ever
The whole point of flash-based clipboard libraries are to support legacy browsers. This attempt at removing those falls flat and does not support ie8, sigh...
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Presumably any amendment that would abolish or sufficiently alter the Senate would simply remove that article as well.

The phrase "the Constitution prohibits this amendment" doesn't make any sense because an amendment to the Constitution cannot by definition be unconstitutional.
It might, since I think moving heavy objects is pure drag on a ICE vehicle, but if you have regenerative braking, you get some of the extra effort you put in, back out.

That's an advantage many subways have by using electrical power.
The V2 used pendular integrating gyroscopic accelerometers (PIGAs) and gyroscopes for guidance. As far as I know, the V2 was the first use of the PIGA. Descendants of the V2 guidance systems were used by the Apollo moon missions and several US intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The PIGA is actually a pretty cool piece of machinery. You have a free-swinging balance arm that has a mass and a gyroscope on it. The gyroscope's axis of rotation is aligned with the balance arm. An electric motor spins the whole balance arm in a direction perpendicular to both the gyroscope's axis of rotation and the axis about which the balance is free to rotate. So if you remember from Freshman physics, you have a rotational momentum and an applied torque, the resultant torque is the cross product of the two (in other words, a torque in the direction the balance moves freely). An analog controller keeps the electric motor spinning at a rate that keeps the balance beam level. So, the rate the electric motor is turning is proportional to acceleration in the direction of the electric motor's axis. Thus, the integral of the acceleration is proportional to the integral of the rotational velocity of the electric motor. In other words, the number of revolutions of the electric motor is proportional to the velocity of the rocket (relative to free-fall). A simple revolution counter is sufficient to cut off the engine's fuel flow once the rocket has reached a given velocity.

(Source: I interned at Draper Lab, which made the Apollo guidance systems and several ICBM guidance systems. I walked by an Apollo PIGA in a display case every morning.)
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I think they have direct mechanical linkages because the law says they must. Otherwise many manufacturers would gladly forego all safety issues for profit. A clear public win via govt regulation.
Not quite. A more recent chart comparing them is here: http://anandtech.com/show/9662/iphone-6s-and-iphone-6s-plus-...

Note that everything tested is below the 90 MB/s sequential write speed of a high-end microSD except the iPhone 6s Plus.

From a review, here's the numbers on the 64Gb Sandisk Extreme Pro microSD using CrystalDiskMark:

Sequential Read : 95.325 MB/s

Sequential Write : 90.660 MB/s

Random Read 512KB : 89.314 MB/s

Random Write 512KB : 75.971 MB/s

Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 7.492 MB/s [ 1829.0 IOPS]

Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 2.441 MB/s [ 595.9 IOPS]

Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 7.472 MB/s [ 1824.3 IOPS]

Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 2.380 MB/s [ 581.0 IOPS]

Note that Ars Technica is using Sequential Read/Write values on 256K which is flawed. It should be larger to be accurate.
I never pay attention to fuel consumption figures as they have never represented reality in my case. My current Mercedes has an official rating of 40mpg, but I never get that out of it unless I literally sit at 55mph on a flat motorway and never change speed (impossible in the UK). Some journeys I go as low as 19mpg when it's driven as it's meant to be. All the Vauxhalls I had before were the same.
Or leave the Teheran ambassy in 1975 even under tear gas.
There are lots of things I would add to this (and your suggestion is one of them) but I wanted it to run on mobile too - therefore I had to 'feature-cut' where I thought it would have the least visual impact.
The point is that 'more features' isn't necessarily better[1], so no list of html5 feature support is going to tell you much about how 'good' a browser is.

[1] case in point: the misfeature we are discussing in this thread, which is just another addition to the big list of browser features that I have to go out of my way to disable to get a sane experience that minimises my exposure to the incompetence of web developers
Interesting. I tried googling this before I started making this app but could not find any. I guess my google-fu is not good enough.
Not being pushy is not the same as seeming disinterested. Compare with Apple stores sales staff - also not on commission.
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Perhaps that was meant to say, it would make the Constitution internally contradict itself?
Well, there is one clear benefit to a notebook: studies indicate it results in better long-term retention in memory. For example:

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/22/095679761452...

Now, personally, I actually use a mix. I'm in a managerial position, so my work tends to be divided between longer-term goals and interrupt-driven activities. For the former, I keep a list in Vim (https://github.com/aaronbieber/vim-quicktask).

For the latter, I write them down on physical paper.

I won't claim there's any merit to this system, it just happens to work for me.

Incidentally, I wouldn't dismiss things like "mindfulness" so easily. "Mindfulness" is more easily understood as concentrating and focusing on the task at hand, doing it with care and deliberation. There's something to be said for the slower, more methodical process of physical writing (and may be linked to those memory retention results I mentioned previously).

For example, it's one of the reasons I tend to do focused reading on paper, away from the computer. That is, if I'm reading a technical paper, analyzing a report, etc, even if I have a digital copy, I tend to print it out, leave my computer behind, and read it in a quiet place where I can be "mindful" of the process of reading without distraction.
I always set up two things on all the servers that I am in charge of: fail2ban and disabling ssh password logins. There are still people who insist on having passwords and using them to access remote hosts, but thankfully there are fewer every year.

I also used to run http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/slow-down-internet-... on some of my hosts. It was fun for a while but caused me to have one too many lockouts.
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Inside? I watched the presentation, and it didn't seem like the seats folded forward. Do they?

Now that I think about it, I haven't even seen the back open. Why can't I find pictures from the back, with the gate open?
I agree. I've been in a Model S and it had a considerably worse interior than my 10-year-old 3 series. But I imagine they'll improve.
One problem with the report is that real-world driving styles might be linked to the type of car. So, small cars might perhaps be more likely used for short commutes, whereas larger cars could tend to have longer motorway journeys. One driving style is likely to be closer to the standard tests than the other. So, even if one car seems to perform worse, it could just be because of the average driving of that car.
Explain how they're lagging? They have v7 of the software in beta testers hands and the auto pilot features are a step above all other manufacturers.
It's strange. Europe should be a better market for electric and hybrid cars, given the higher petrol costs, but I guess the high purchase costs are putting people off.

I'd buy one if I did enough miles. It's not worth it for a few thousand a year. Even having a petrol car sitting on my drive is an expense of marginal justifiability.
I look at all the little motors in those doors, and other robotic gadgets, and just see reliability issues. Their 8-year warranty on the drivetrain is great, but you are still stuck if the rest of the car doesn't work. I guess it's a fact of life now that cars, especially high-end cars, are not really built for more than two lease-lengths now. So how much embodied energy does that represent? Has anyone seen a full-lifecycle analysis of Tesla cars? Probably no worse than other luxury cars, but still.
> go ahead and believe these studies conducted by people you don't know

By that logic, the majority of people would hardly be able to believe a single scientific fact. According to my own physical experience and reasoning independent of what I've gathered from others, I have come to the conclusion that the sun revolves around the Earth.
"The kind of speech that should be protected is the kind that consists of words, viewpoints, arguments."

I understand where you're coming from, but you have to understand that it's still an arbitrary line. Remember that old "First they came for[...]", well, substitute in there "First they came for those shouting non-arguments."
Any belief you have that the present system works any differently is a fiction.
That's exactly the same problem you have with every other Haskell name. Have you got much trouble with those on function names?
In model of social networks, group boundaries promote the spread of ideas, study finds. Has the model been tested well?
At the same time (well, within a couple of years) antarctic sea ice is at record high levels

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp...
Wow. I thought about shorting GM, after the VW thing broke. I figured they would have the highest incentive to cheat and everyone is about to get caught.
> 802.11n can be and commonly is 5GHz as well.

It only is 5Ghz when there is a 5GHz radio in the device. I gather that world-wide 5Ghz operation not-infrequently requires the ability to do DFS. [0] This is an added engineering and testing burden that -I guess- many companies just don't want to undergo. [1]

I've spent an absurd amount of time looking for and at WiFi network adaptors. Devices that advertise just b/g(/n) support contain only a 2.4Ghz radio 99.9% of the time.

Look at the first-gen Chromecast, the 3G Nexus S, or the 2012 Nexus 7. They all advertised b/g/n support, and all operated only in the 2.4GHz band.

[0] There are regulatory domains in which the majority of 5Ghz channels require DFS and/or transmit power control.

[1] You'd think that all the engineering work would be done already, and only the testing would be left, but who knows?
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I assure you that not every Model X owner will have 5 children.

Also (a) the Model X will ship as standard with 6 seats and (b) the X5 has a 7 seat option.
One does not simply tap fiber. Especially at the composite level of transport links. The systems don't work that way.
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Bioweapon defense mode in luxury vehicles is the first step towards bioweapon defense mode in commodity vehicles.

Also, it's really for polluted cities, skunks, and driving past freshly fertilized farms. I don't think anyone expects to active bwdm for an actual bioweapon threat.
US regulatory bodies have no teeth and we've already propped up GM once. The only reckoning that's coming is going to be another round of market jiggling, or maybe an unrecoverable failure.
On pens: don't balk at spending money on a good one. Like you, I have traditionally had a history of losing pens. Like, all the time.

But after writing with my boss' fountain pen, I was so enamoured with the thing I went and bought a Lamy Al-Star. As far as fountain pens go it's cheap, but it's still a $60 pen.

And guess what happened? I started being a hell of a lot more thoughtful about where I put the thing. After all, it's a $60 pen. You're a lot more careful with a $60 pen. :)
I don't disagree with your thesis here.

I'd like to observe that a course of training such as you describe seems outside the scope of the article. Perhaps it does some small good, anyway, by suggesting that acquiring such training oneself, from whatever source, is a good thing to do.
Roughly estimated carbon production of manufacturing (I got these numbers from a german discussion, one source for battery carbon production is:
http://www.focus.de/auto/experten/duennes/oekobilanz-von-ele...
):

------------------------------------------

VW Polo GTI: 2 tons

BMW M5: 2,5 tons

BMW I3: 4 tons

Tesla Modell X 13 tons

Manufacturing + 100.000km:

--------------------------

BMW I3 -> 9,6 tons

VW Polo GTI -> 18,6 tons

Tesla Modell X -> 25,3 tons

BMW M5 -> 26,3 tons

Tesla isn't as green as many think. Building heavy cars isn't the solution.

Also the new infrastructure for superchargers does raise carbon production.
Well.....Hitler should have been and in fact was forcibly stopped from practicing his beliefs. In my mind, people who walk in front of Auschwitz with swastikas on their flags and shout how X minority should be exterminated also should be stopped. Those people should be forcibly supplied other beliefs, just like rapists are forcibly put into prison and forced to accept a different set of rules from their own.
I've just started reading it for the first time. Combined with some of the recent Blitzkrieg-related links that have been posted to HN, it's really affecting me.
Also because US cities are much more sprawled, and are often organized in neat, efficient grids instead of having formed organically over the course of ~2300 years. Compare maps of Paris with any US city.
Don't feel too silly; I regularly lose my sunglasses when I'm wearing them. It's even worse when they're perched on top of my head. ;)
My sister in Oklahoma got her 2nd house this way. Freeway ramp going in; house was free to anyone interested in hauling it away.

Was so tall, they chainsawed 6 feed out of the 2nd storey. Once on site, they propped it back up, rebuilt the studs and drywall so you couldn't tell it'd ever happened!
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The anti-capitalist ones.
And how.

My old '89 Chevy S-10 weighed just over 1700 pounds (770 kg) empty. At 55 MPH (90 kph) on the freeway (back when that was still the limit), it got about 30 MPG (13 km/l / 7.7l/100km). OK, not great mileage, but what do you want for 80s US car tech :-)

For safety reasons, or whatever, they don't make mini trucks in the US any more. I did a double take on a new Dodge "Dakota" in the store parking lot the other day. It looked just like a full size pickup as far as I could see.
The ethical case for democracy rests not on whether democracy leads to optimal policies and outcomes (which is ridiculous), but on the degree to which it includes individuals in the politics of the state exercise of power over them. The state necessarily has power over individuals, and the ethical basis for the use of that power declines to the extent that the state excludes people from participation in political decisions. It erodes the consent of the governed. The core injustice of things like poll taxes and grandfather clauses is not that they led directly to suboptimal policies, but that they disenfranchised black voters, which is what led to policies that the white supremacists considered optimal.
The order/position may stay the same in your scheme, but the values do not retain their proportions relative to each other.

Presumably not everyone cheated the same, as well.
It definitely does in 2015 when you are comparing against cars that don't have an MPG.
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As i mentioned there are many car makers which have these things since years. And they are much cheaper. Just look at the websites what you can buy from BMW, Daimler etc.
I'm the same way. Even when I drive as conservatively as is safely possible I still can't get it lower than ~120%.
So, suppose we deploy sel4. It needs some device drivers, and crucially its proof of security depends on not exploiting DMA. The user-mode drivers then become the attack surface: if you can persuade the target graphics card to DMA over the secure kernel space, you win. (ARM TrustZone actually prevents this)

I wonder how feasible a modern, graphics-capable POSIX OS built on a core of sel4 is?
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That's a problem with a test, not a problem with the report.
Link to paper: http://www.smatthewliao.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/HEand...
...which, as the article notes, is not necessarily good news: the southern ocean is warming.
The irony is that a van will often handle better than a SUV with a car based platform and a lower center of gravity.

My wife has a BMW X5 and it drives like a piece of industrial farm equipment. We also own a Honda Odyssey which IMO handles significantly better - it's basically an Accord with a taller roof.
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I have a completely different understanding of this. Buying a house, the carpets, the drapes, all have to be replaced. Because of a taboo against using things soiled by other people. No amount of cleaning can get them clean enough to overcome a taboo.

Same with cars. There is apparently little/no used car market in Japan. Lots of our (USA) spare parts for economy cars come over on ships from Japan. Because, no market there.
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Hmm, what about the batteries though. The Tesla will have to expend energy to keep them warm right?
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