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>Tesla was able to start out [...] by building their first car on the Lotus platform.

Well, Tesla Roadster used the Lotus body (shape) but not the engine and drivetrain.
> But digilantes are not operating in small communities, where they might have accountability to their neighbors. They are usually policing strangers, sometimes a world away, and because they are acting on a global scale, their punishments can go viral, moving far beyond the borders of the community in which the wrongdoing occurred.

> “If I out the wrong person, I destroy his life.”

Humans haven't evolved in an environment where the things they say and do are remembered forever, and are visible to every other human. However unworkable the "right to be forgotten" may be, it points to a very real problem.
It's strange to read this story immediately after this other one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367253

I'd be afraid to see the correlation between who uses those kinds of methods and who is at the frontier of productivity. I hope that other article isn't the future :(
Why is this a negotiation? We don't have to have passive ads to get rid of active ads, we can get rid of both.

Advertisers never asked before barging obnoxiously into our collective consciousness. We don't need to pre-emptively make concessions.
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Analog circuitry is the most complex in chip design. It's part art part science. At the end of the day radio waves are traveling through the air and a lot of things can go wrong.
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Who says your smart phone is going to work in an area that just had a big earthquake? The power might be out, the cell towers could have fallen down, or everyone could be trying to use the system simultaneously to tell their families that they're still alive. (In some parts of the world, they may never have had cellular service at all! Or they may not be able to afford phones that can run this app.)

For example, it was nearly impossible to use a cellphone in downtown NYC in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack.

The backup plan would be to have a local copy of the database cached on everyone's phone, but that would take up a lot of space.

Also, who is going to translate the database into every language used in the world? Three English words would be as hard for a Chinese speaker to remember as a pair of geographical coordinates.
This is a nuance to Japanese I did not know. Thank you for educating me. :)
This is why the mobile web is dying
Guide to viewing news on mobile:

1. Open site
2. Deny request to download app
3. Do not allow for geo request
4. Close pop up ad
5. Throw phone

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I would think anybody from the fifties would be absolutely shocked if you gave them a tablet with an internet connection and showed them how to use it.
They could access any newspapers, books, songs, movies from any time, all the information they ever needed, all their friends whereabouts and actions, and could contact them instantly with text, voice or audio. Learn new things or just play fun games. Look at the map of the earth with street views from all around the globe. Even pictures from the surface of mars. And on the more disturbing side they could look up any sick violence or sex stuff to their hearts desire...

Yes it's "kind of incremental" but my god, all this in a device the size of a clipboard pulling stuff out of thin air. Now that's magic, no other word for it.

And this is just a tablet. Plenty more amazing "incremental" improvements.
Put this time traveller in a tesla and push the pedal down. No sound and instant acceleration...
Teaching computers to understand illusions might make them less dumb
Why is the location secret? Would the world's nuclear powers really waste an extra warhead on destroying a bunch of spoiled psychopathic morons?
My explanation for the lack of technical (rather than political) articles examining systemd is that it's very difficult to wrap your mind around because it carries so many ideas. A quote from an article linked within the linked article:

> All of the above definitions are technically correct. None of them are complete.

> It is thus that debates are doomed to go nowhere, as no one can agree on a single definition of systemd, and the developers have been largely unhelpful in that matter. Vagueness can be a strength, in that it allows for people to divide and conquer, but it is also unproductive and leads to unnecessary bloodshed.

Slowly, surely, people will begin to understand what systemd is. Only then will people be able to figure out whether they want it or not.
It makes sense. Advertising is inefficient, wasting people's time and attention for the gain of the advertiser.

Advertisements have long been used as a form of micropayment, to fund first TV shows and now websites, where a monetary payment would be infeasible.

There is no such reason to allow advertising in public property (private property is more complicated, but generally the outward appearance of buildings is considered a public good, and highly regulated). The person viewing the building or billboard is not a party to a transaction, so there is no reason to charge that person a hidden fee for viewing that space. In a way it is the ultimate hidden tax.
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> Of course, there's no reason Apple couldn't suddenly pick up one of Delphi's smaller competitors next week.

With the fallout from VW's shenanigans and its expected effect on Tier 1s in Germany, there should be plenty of suppliers to buy out.
Is no one going to address the objective evidence? If there are emails flaunting exploits... You're not crazy. If the emails don't exist, there's probably a bigger issue.
If the emails did exist and then got deleted... That's tough.
> It's not even been developed, yet the author is convinced it will be 'the most expensive way to create electricity ever devised'.

Counting R&D costs, plus the fact that it still doesn't work, implies an ROI that would make anyone agree.

I think "breakthroughs" (e.g. discontinuous breaks in research where research is leapfrogged) are slowing down. This doesn't imply scientific or technological advancements are slowing down, which I think you misread. All the author is arguing is that maybe we should reconsider investing our money in hugely expensive projects whose success is completely unbounded EXPECTING breakthroughs. This just seems rational.
Billboards are illegal in four states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont. I would love to form a SuperPAC to work on outlawing them in the other 46 states.
How can I evaluate my mental condition objectively?

You can never be entirely objective about your mental condition. But you can try to find objective verification about what was going on, whether that validates or refutes your ideas about the events.

Hemingway thought the government was tapping his phones, etc. Everyone thought he was crazy. It came out after his death that he was right.

Just because it seems improbable to other people does not mean you are imagining it. But, also, the fact that you fell ill means you could have been misinterpreting things due to fever or other temporary mental impairment.

Whether you were coming up with unfounded ideas or were right, the best answer is to seek some kind of objective evidence concerning what actually happened. If you get objective evidence that refutes your interpretation, then you can feel okay about the possibility that it was machinations of a fevered mind. If you get evidence that something wonky was going on, you can deal with it.

Since you were sick, please consider the possibility that it is a little of column A and a little of column B. Perhaps someone did something, but you blew it out of proportion. The truth may lay somewhere between the extremes of "I was 100% right" and "I was 100% crazy and imagining things."

Best of luck.
assumingly so thay dont have to fend of other people that also want to live when it comes down to it.
There's no excuse for styling scrollbars.
That's completely irrelevant to efficiency. It's objectively a terribly inefficient technology as it stands now for watt generated per dollar spent.
Female technology journalists report abuse is still the name of the game
Why would custom chips be particularly useful for tomorrow's cars? Commodity chips seem to be good, so far.

Looks like the author stretches the usefullness of Apple' vertical integration too far.
>> This illustrates how the drug laws in practice work.

When you're a middle-class white male
http://runvnc.github.io/tinyvillage
Read it through but hard to grasp all the details. One thing I'm sure is that for non-systemd "legacy" init systems I know what I'm doing, for systemd I most of the time don't know what's going on there, it's still like a blind art after using it for a while, overly abstracted might be one reason for that.
> "Counting R&D costs, plus the fact that it still doesn't work, implies an ROI that would make anyone agree."

The work on nuclear fusion is broader than the tokamak approach you're alluding to. All other forms of fusion have had far lower levels of investment.
Not so much a comment about this particular article but its funny how companies are realizing the advantages of being fully vertical again, and we the consumers get to witness the the pros and cons of this trend.

It goes back to the days where DEC, NCR, IBM etc... came with entire portfolios of competing implementations, none of which interoperated with each other. IBM for example also had the "Insurmountable Platform Advantage", it had the full stack ... literally, from sillion, chip design, operating-systems all the way up to software-services, but the industry lost out due to big blue's big-iron prices and the pc clone-wars began.

I don't see what the pc clone-wars are in this case, android doesn't seem to make much of dent in apple's profits here.
Thank you for posting that, I was not aware of Mr X
I am seriously confused by all the good news recently.

First U.S. decides to let nearly 6,000 drug offenders out of federal prison early. [1]

Then I hear CNN (!) was apparently talking about the rise of city-states. [2]

And now this about cities considering or already actively banning billboard ads??

So much sanity and good news in a short time period makes me almost suspicious.

[1] https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-is-going-to-let-nearly-...

[2] https://twitter.com/digitsu/status/653221388249993216
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Billboards are already banned in my state. I'm always struck by how ugly the roads and highways are when I travel to other states.
Probably just being pragmatic. The passive ones have been around so long that they will be harder to remove.
I share this view and even use this idea in some of my projects (for example at http://testsheet.biz the test tree is edited in a plain text form. This allows to edit several tree nodes at once, including the whole tree; and also to quickly move groups of tests around by copy/paste; to introduce new nodes quickly. So, much quicker and easier that in any tree widget).

Together with intelligent completion (similar to programming environments) text UI could in many cases be significantly more convenient than widgets for mouse. And it can be much cheaper develop.
> Sure, but if you're going to holistically include the cost of the science in the comparison price per KWh you should also balance it against the cost of dealing with the consequences of sustained carbon emissions from other types of power generation.

Guess what? They all still beat fusion hands down. Think of all the cows that farted and then died to feed the researchers. Think of all the carbon emissions generated by the actual research. Think about the real, actual return we have today.

You seem to be banking on the fact that we actually CAN produce an efficient fusion reactor in the near future. Total efficiency of our investment is very, very, very dependent on how fast it can crank out.

Now compare it to military investments and you might get somewhere....

EDIT: if you disagree, I'd obviously love feedback. It just seems silly to think that fusion is at all something we can depend on being able to pull out of our ass. The manhattan project was never a sure thing.
That is one nice thing about living around DC, there are no billboards around the highways around here. You don't notice it until you go to other states. Then it becomes obvious and it looks jarring -- "Hey, what is this crap everywhere? How can people tolerate this!?"

Kind of the same effect if you are used to watching Netflix and then at a relative's house and you see cable TV with commercials every 15 minutes. They probably don't even notice it, but to me it feels strange and annoying to have to put up with it.
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It takes a lot of courage to write something like this. Lindsay, if you're reading this, I tip my hat off to you for sitting down and delving deep into some of these challenges. Only when we make ourselves truly vulnerable do we grow and I hope both the actual act of writing this piece and the subsequent commentary you get makes you a better human being.

As a "traditionally educated" person who went to a public school and an ivy, university is very much optimized for people who can be programmed easily. And I don't mean that in a nefarious / brainwashy type of way. School is a game with rules and objectives. Follow the rules, modestly achieve the objectives, and you're validated with a degree. This validation is sanctioned by society and in some places (law, medicine), mandated by law.

Go off path? Deviate and carve your own path? Refuse to go on a path? You're off reservation and labelled a "dropout." You're not in the box everyone is used to conceptualizing you in. They don't understand you which leads to one of two reactions: 1) they fear you or 2) they dismiss you as a non-threat.
I did a lot of research on offshore corporation structures when I was planning to freelance whilst travelling.

The Seychelles consistently came up as the cheapest location to incorporate and their reporting requirements are basically non-existent.

> "The identities and personal details of the beneficial owners, directors and shareholders are NOT part of public record for a Seychelles IBC. At registration of a new IBC, the Registrar of Companies does not require any data whatsoever on who is the actual beneficial owner of the new company. This information is only known to the licensed Registered Agent of the company and is kept on internal file by the company."

Combined with nominees makes you virtually anonymous to authorities around the world.

>The Republic of Seychelles is an independent country. As such, it is not sharing or reporting information to any overseas "principal", or organization. Seychelles is not subject to the EU Savings Tax Directive, unlike some other offshore financial centres, which are related to the EU member states (primarily, to the UK and its overseas territories). The offshore financial services sector contributes significantly to the country`s GDP. There is an inherent interest with the government and with the general public to maintain and develop the country`s status as a competitive offshore financial centre.

They also, at the time, allowed bearer shares which are very useful tool for money laundering. It looks like they don't allow this anymore.
Hey qwertyFish, thanks for reaching out. It's brave and commendable to ask this question from your position.

I don't know if this is your case, you should to talk a psychotherapist and/or a psychiatrist, but some of the details of your story (like picking up on details like the pace of talking from a wireless company representative) remind me of my mother. She thought there was a worldwide conspiracy against her, with the CIA involved, and so on. One example: she was active in a Blogger community, and someone connected to her network wrote this mundane blog post about visiting the zoo with his family, written in a witty style and with pictures of animals. My mother thought this was a concealed attack to her well being. ("I am obviously the giraffe in this story", etc). There was no way to make her see how absurd that was, that was her perception of reality, and she wouldn't budge from it.

Unfortunately, even after having seen doctors and having spent time in a mental hospital, she continues to deny that she is unwell. She is too proud and too stubborn to be open to the idea that her perception is mistaken, or that she has an illness, or that she is not at the center of the world. Her illness along with her pride and stubbornness has caused our family a lot of pain. Imagine your mother or your sister or your wife, not just becoming mentally unwell (that is tough but fixable), but denying at all costs that she is unwell, and so letting that illness define her character going forward.

So for me, whether or not you have a health issue, you taking into consideration what your family is worried about, is commendable. Please stay open to what the people who are close to you and who care about you have to say.

I wish you the best of luck friend.
Reminds me of Endless Legend vs Civilization Beyond Earth. When the main series of a genre stagnates, its great to see smaller studios do it different and better.
From the article: "The technology is not disruptive, but supplementary. Cargo drone routes will never replace road or railway, but they can add choice for the rapid sharing of precious cargo over mountain ranges, across lakes, and up rivers."

FedEx and UPS use planes for long distances and trucks for the last few miles because the airports they need are large and expensive and we have good road networks. This article is talking about reaching places that don't have decent roads.
> Complaining that research is becoming more expensive in _dollar terms_ is stacking the deck against pretty much any society that has _economic growth_ (read: every society).

Sure, but try quantifying a return on medical research investment. It makes much more sense in energy production.
Testing (effective testing I should perhaps say) is linked to the domain that it operates in. Understanding the nature of "what" the software does is often more important than "how" to test.

"How" you test will be impacted by other things as well. Some environments (companies) have a need to formally record testing. Others use 'non IT people' to run the testing. Some have expert users who know the app inside out as 'testers'. etc etc The need for how much detail is in the test scripts, and in fact if you document manual test scripts will depend on nature of your company.

You will find a couple of schools of thought on "how" to test. ISTQB is formal and has a good bag of technique, the other school of though has some good ideas (like session based testing) but IMHO tends to throw the baby out with the bath water. The ISTQB technique can be applied in an agile environment what you would not use the documents they describe.

What I have personally found is that a good tester picks up ideas, techniques (BVA, EP etc), and applies these where the will return the best value.

I see the arguments in the testing world a bit a kin to dev's fighting over strongly typed vs. loosely typed.

Automation is good BUT if you don't know what you need/want to test then really it is a means to get is a mess really quick.
And then you have German, where VSO/VOS is a question, and SVO/SOV/OSV/OVS are normal sentences.
"computing" was a secretaries job. It was a position typically filled by a woman who worked with numerical data (working with spreadsheets, calculating an insurance premium, etc...mission critical back end stuff). During WW2 pretty much all these jobs were filled by women.

Computing and IT started to come of age during the post WW2 boom so there would have been a lot of women with the math background to make programming and working with computers somewhat of a logical next step in ones career.

Coincidentally, these woman who had math backgrounds were also some of the fist to have their jobs automated out of existence (the woman who calculates someone's insurance premium is replaced with a box of punch cards).

Just speculating but it wouldn't be a stretch to see how when choosing between going home or switching careers the woman who didn't become the stereotypical 50s-60s housewives as their jobs were automated found new jobs writing punch cards (programming) and operating computers.

(i'm in a hurry, probably lots of grammar mistakes in that)
I'm not aware of any fusion reactor that has "broken even" with just collecting the energy investment. Until that happens, total efficiency for "nuclear fusion" is going to continue to plummet.
Consider what it would actually mean to ban billboards. If they were on government-owned land near a highway, placed at the pleasure of the city or state, then sure, they can (and should) decide to retract that permission; no issue there. On the other hand, if they're on private land, then this suggests that a local government can ban you from posting a sign on your own property that's visible to others. Where does that stop, and on what basis could it occur at all?

Within cities, I've seen signs posted on the sides of buildings, presumably with the full permission of the building owner, because the building happened to provide a convenient space visible to a fair bit of roadway. In residential areas, I've seen people post large signs on the sides or roofs of their houses, easily visible to the road. And that leaves aside the numerous small picket or A-frame signs placed in non-highway areas, again on private property: houses for sale, garage sales, lost pets, etc.

As much as I hate advertising, how exactly would you reconcile such a ban with the first amendment in the US?
"The droneport is intended to save lives and build local economies through enabling the rapid repetition of flight of super-fast and super-cheap flying robots carrying precious cargo over mountains, across lakes, and up unnavigable rivers."
Autonomous vehicles with inductive charging will solve this problem. Tell your car to charge then park itself, and have it come pick you up when you're ready. It's going to be awesome.
The major problem right now if one decides to use a systemd alternative is that most packages are shipping with systemd unit files, but will obviously lack support for other init implementations.

I like dmd, implemented in Scheme, which is part of the GuixSD distribution.
The future of Slack is that they'll do what every other chat application has done in the past 2 decades: they keep "innovating" on a solved problem, add "features" that get in people's way to the point that it becomes unusable and people switch to the new "disrupting chat technology". It happened to HipChat before Slack and I doubt Slack will break the cycle.

Given that I don't think I'll be looking to Slack as "the future of UI".
I had to return that game because it was totally unplayable on a 2009 iMac with Radeon 5850. That should be plenty of computer but there's this obnoxious cloud simulation over the top of everything that pegs the GPU. Pretty sad.
“But for Apple, the car is the next logical thing to finally offer a significant innovation. A new pencil or a bigger iPad alone were not relevant enough."

We can only hope.
There's never been a lot to gain in making things better for the people who need help (the goal of left wing ideology)

If you help them and they become middle class they might not vote for you anymore. That's why left-wing politics fails, because of this paradox it can never deliver. Whereas right-wing parties prosper when their supporters prosper - the interests are aligned.
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With the long-standing understanding that commercial speech is not protected to the same degree as non-commercial speech.