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> Guess where we are now? I'll calculate this for you. Tesla announced that their replacement batteries cost $12000 for the 85kWh version. That is $140/kWh. Right now, in 2015, we are to the left of this entire diagram already.

Does the Tesla do 240 Wh/mile? I searched quickly and saw 480 from someone, is there an official figure for this?
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I am (sort of); but most packages don't have vignettes. Zoo and ggplot2 (and a few other major packages) have great documentation, but they are an exception.
> It makes you a tragic accident.

"We're not going to apologize for this, because you hung out with someone who was on our list, who we think was in this area, and so clearly you deserved being bombed by a drone. What? You borrowed your friend's phone? Oh well. Jackpot."

> And it's not like the Taliban aren't a real threat to Afghanistan. They just took over the 5th largest city in Afghanistan two weeks ago.

Why are we concerned with Afghanistan? There are literally dozens of other countries that are an actual threat to our National Interests (note: I did not say national security), so if we're going to go after countries, there are lots of other countries that should be ahead of a country half a world away.

One thing that sending in ground troops would do is hopefully reignite the debate as to whether we should be in that country at all.

A major problem with drones is that it allows us to make enemies without having to actually commit to a war. These Drone strikes are essentially a line-item on our defense department budget, and the CIA drone strikes are part of a black-budget we don't even know what it contains, let alone able to debate it.

If we're basing drone strikes on groups we're unfriendly with taking over countries, then we've got a lot of targets to go after.

The problem with not minding our own business and starting wars around the globe is that we continually get blowback, but we don't learn from it. It was "to keep the world safe for Democracy", then "safe from Nazis", then "Safe from communism", and now "safe from international terrorism", yet there is no debate in our congress about how our policies fuel any of these things.

When will there be a 'war' to keep the world safe from us?
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Comcast. No complaints about internet service. I get 50mbps, which I believe is advertised at $80/mo. With the basic cable plus HBO promotional rate, our bill is about $72/mo.
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I grew up in Oklahoma. I think the first problem is the gallons of Coke people drink every day. People forget that you can actually drink water when you're thirsty.
Aereo was the anti-competitive one, I'm sorry. They were a cable company, just not paying the same fees that the other cable companies were.
Could any of you please tell what's MSG?
Function docs are fine, but they are not really that helpful in figuring out how to use a new package.
> It's utterly ridiculous that you can lose your job and home and have life ruined over pissing off some random feminists on Twitter or Tumblr, and yet people responsible for drone attacks are all happy.

lol really impressed you managed to pull stuff about feminists in here
For other organizations that are split into a for-profit/non-profit, check out Planned Parenthood and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Genius move, really.
Seems to be pretty accurate - Is nltk being used on the backend?
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As a very heavy smoker, I just laugh at all the furor surrounding smoking. High taxes, warning labels, interventions. I know exactly how bad smoking is, the empirical evidence is unassailable, but my question is, and has always been:

If smoking is sooo bad, to me, to pregnant women, to children, to the planet: Why on earth is it still legal?

I know taxes play a part of this, but I really wonder how much is due to tobacco lobbying? I read an article recently (which is making me think long and hard about quitting smoking) about the American Chamber of Commerce, and how they are throwing around their weight in various central Asian countries to keep anti-tobacco laws from being passed. I mean, I hate but understand lobbyists. But the ACC I (naively?) thought was above political intrigues to promote American business interests.
can you comment on the relative complexity of using this kind of thing in Bitcoin vs just using ethereum...

Also the same question with respect to BIP65 and BIP112
Paying for TV can make perfect sense depending on someone's viewing habits and what they watch. If they're into live sports, for instance, an antenna might not meet their needs.
Are there any other modern companies with a fanbase that is so important to its image/marketing that an article like this would be written? Can't imagine one for Microsoft, Facebook, google, etc...
Me too. This works very well.
If you have an engineering mind and care about such things - you care about complexity. Even if you don't - user experience matters to everyone.

Have you ever seen something completely insane and everyone around doesn't seem to recognize how awful it really is. That is the web of today. 60-80 requests? 1MB+ single pages?

Your functionality, I don't care if its Facebook - does not need that much. It is not necessary. When broadband came on the scene, everyone started to ignore it, just like GBs of memory made people forget about conservation.

The fact that there isn't a daily drumbeat about how bloated, how needlessly complex, how ridicuous most of the world's web appliactions of today really are - baffles me.
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the price is not the measure of bitcoin's success. It suffered/benefitted from a highly speculative market.. but currencies are generally most effective when the price is relatively stable, which it has been lately.
There may be a terms of use clause forbidding splitting like this but it almost certainly isn't a demarcation issue, so there is no real 'bypass' that I am aware of.

The demarcation is generally clearly marked (plastic box often called a 'network interface device') and is almost never located at the modem itself.

Typically, the legal demarcation is on the exterior of houses. For a multiple dwelling unit (apartment complex) or commercial building, the demarcation is usually inside. ISPs try to choose a demarcation that is accessible from the outside, so as to not require being allowed into the building to test signal leading to the premise. This cuts down on cancelled repairs due to 'no access'. My point in all this is that for most coax and twisted pair services, the indoor wiring is usually the property owners and not the ISP's, especially at the point where it connects to the modem. For someone to add a splitter to wire that is their responsibility and property is almost certainly legal.

I worked for one of the bigger ISPs up until last year, so I speak only from my personal experience. For more details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_point
That sure ain't less the Internet service alone, I pay $25/month for 25mbit/s download
Ordered mine ;)

Ships July 2016 though :(

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I've seen a friend ask vague questions trying to determine what kind of population lived in an apartment complex she was interested in renting from, and quickly get blanket responses not wanting to answer such questions, with references to the Fair Housing Act.

I don't recall all of the exact details, but, to your general question, I think the answer is at least "yeah, sometimes".
If low population density is the reason the USA overall doesn't have fast, cheap broadband and is behind in mobile technology, then why aren't very dense areas within the USA (or dense states like New Jersey) up to the standards of Europe and East Asia?
Well, that's just one sport. In New England at least (and I assume this situation exists in other places as well), a lot of the local sports are primarily just on cable--NESN in the case of New England.

I don't watch much in the way of sports in any case, but a lot of people buy cable and satellite sports packages.

I actually agree with the basic point up-thread though. I do think a lot of people probably pay for their monthly cable package without a whole lot of thought about how much value they're getting and what alternatives there might be.
I found serial interesting for a few episodes, then she started spending hours analyzing the memories and text messages of high school students and it quickly became exhausting to listen to. I hope the guy gets a fair trial but it was simply a slog to listen to.
They just don't use drones; instead, there will be a traffic accident or a suicide. Or a single-car traffic accident, where it's unclear if the driver wanted to commit suicide or not.

The main thing that "stops" people from committing acts of war is that you cannot really keep it a secret for too long, and then you will have started a war. Pakistan is different, because while we wage war against their citizens, the central government (a) is only nominally in control of those areas, and (b) is given a metric ton of money each year by NATO, and they don't hate money. If they didn't have nukes, the war against Pakistan would be much more brazen (cf. Ukraine).
Every high-trim Lexus since about 2006, for starters?
Probably a little (because it was more glib) but it's the subthread that went off the rails. I apologize for saying "this comment" when I meant "this subthread".
Tesla claims [1] that the 85kWh pack will get 270 miles of range on the 85D (265mi on the 85).

85kWh/270mi = 315Wh/mi.

[1] http://www.teslamotors.com/models
I've read this before. I wish I could work there, but I'm sure my resume and skills are not good enough.
That you can't always look at a single metric as a basis for success? This is rudimentary analytics here. Is there a single person who believes making client side code heavy is the way to go? Do people really think user experience should take a back seat to cool stuff on a site like YouTube?
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So the agency responsible for investigating claims regarding workplace health and safety matters, under the OSHA organizational umbrella, fired an employee for making claims regarding unethical work policies, which are now under investigation by a different agency, the Office of Special Counsel.

The umpire has reviewed the play: it is not irony. I repeat: it is not irony.
Yep, you never know, something like this could pay off for nano machinery, etc. You can't just benchmark against current top of the line robot arms. It is about exploring approaches, not selling to auto manufacturers within a year to replace what they are currently using.
Or someone who likes to freely express their political views, maybe even extremist opinions, but still would like to peacefully visit the US as a tourist some day.
Well to acquire a point you can use in voting would have to get one from a miner. That would be the same, no matter if you are a real person or an advertiser/spammer. Unless you gained points before with your own content.

Even if the price would be 4x the amount of the cost of other votes, it can't be a deterrent because 4x a little amount is still a little amount. If a vote costs 1 cent then the spammer would pay 4cent. Not a big deal.
Okay, not to be obtuse, but isn't water a green gas gas? (The wiki article is noted as controversial.)
I really try to be considerate to SJW movement, but let's be honest - it seems to have some incredible power of rallying up people towards a cause and scaring companies into doing its bidding. If we could redirect this power towards the drone strikes issue, we could maybe see some changes happening. And in the longer run, maybe the drone issue could have a chance of becoming something important to people, like racism or suffrage in the past.
And just about all of them (even Komen) do it more efficiently.
I know it's a tangent, but I'm actually blown away by the quality of the website itself. They've managed to use modern techniques like header background video and fading in of navigation elements in a way that is classy and reserved. It doesn't lag up my browser; it doesn't make jarring movements that cause UI elements or content to jump out of line of the eye.

The best part? It actually helps add to the point they're trying to make. It's... chilling, serious, international-stakes stuff here. Kudos on perfect execution of the full package.
That's pretty in-line with real-world usage. I think my lifetime usage is 311 Wh/mi over ~16k miles.
Nice to see this again - I've told this story to many of my web dev students. :-)
Everyone's sometimes on spotty WiFi or foreign expensive 3G. I'm more inclined to trust fast-loading sites and apps.

I wonder what would happen if for example iOS decided to visually indicate page weight, kind of like how you can see which apps use the most energy.
Certainly not easy! But, requiring periodic small group meetups, such that the groups have to have certain types of overlap, might kinda work?

Sort of forming a web of trust, but with negative incentives against signing for anyone trying to double vote?

Or maybe it is impossible.

It seems there would be a problem if the web of trust was fragmented, because for anyone not in a particular region of the wot, they would be unable to tell if it was a real wot, or only a fake one.

So any voting that occurred would have to only apply within a contiguous wot, and anyone in a different region would have to not have that vote count for them.

So, in a limited form like that, it could maybe be possible, but I don't know what it would be worth, because I don't know what sorts of things would be worth voting on, if the result of the vote can only apply to the identities used in the vote, because anyone could make another identity not part of the wot if they did not like the vote outcome. And a number of other similar problems.
What information do you think is missing? If you look at the poll, half of Americans are "very concerned" about civilian casualties from drone strikes, another 30% are "somewhat" concerned about them. Yet, 60% still support them. That doesn't strike me as ignorance, it strikes me as a broadly-shared value judgment.
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Yes, agile is basically waterfall when the people "practicing" it are using it in name only. No one promised Agile would be Engineer Driven Development - it should be team driven development. Anyone (business, product, marketing, engineer, or otherwise) should be advocating for them to lead the process, because thats how Waterfall starts, with one person in charge of decision making.

Agile works when the user is the decision maker, and everyone on the team is advocating for the user (although if its only product that is advocating for the user, that works too). Its a group effort, not something that should just magically work because "we're using agile now".
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Seriously? That is certainly not anything approaching the norm in the US.
For a second there I was worried about John Gruber.
Off-topic, but do you know any phones that can be easily hacked to change the IMEI? I know technically it's possible, and I know the hacks exist because I've seen shady sites offering the service, but I'd like to get a phone where I could rotate the IMEI myself when I change SIMs, so it would not be quite so easy to map the SIM to a person by watching for common IMEIs.

I guess the best bet would be something that runs OsmocomBB, but AFAIK that's not really a good choice for a day-to-day phone.
>would like to have a better antenna setup with DVR that does not require subscription

I have been looking at a Channel Master[0] for this exact purpose; the cost is $250+HDD. It has an ethernet port which allows one to get an EPG [1] from Rovi, but it isn't required. If I pull the trigger maybe I'll do a write up and submit it.

[0]http://www.channelmaster.com/Antenna_DVR_s/336.htm

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_program_guide
I agree. How the heck does Apple garner such fanatical followers? I mean that as a compliment btw...
I was asking myself the same question since some years, too. I just googled for some minutes and the only realistic reasons why they prefer hydrogen over elctric I found were: more range than electric and quicker refueling than electric. And both points are highly questionable in my opinion. So unfortunately I didn't found any rational explanation why they prefer hydrogen.
>Sexual assault on campus is a serious problem, but it is difficult to study accurately.

Except that it isn't (insofar as "serious problem" is a weasel-phrase that's used to imply high incidence).

It should go without saying that one rape is too many, but overwhelming evidence points towards a consequential and artificial inflation of numbers.

A good overview of the subject: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/12/colle...
The tech is great. I bought a "COLOR TV ANTENNA" from Radio Shack, when they were still open a few years back. Amazingly, it came in the same looking box I recall from the late 70's. (upgrading mom 'n pops old antenna as a kid to get UHF channels)

Took an hour to get a good orientation. Mostly problem free, and there are some 30 channels here in PDX, maybe 10 of them offer something I might watch.

And that's the only real problem area. Commercial AD loads are HIGH. Higher than I remember in the past. Quite frankly brutal, and there are very few things I'll watch, given that high load.

Mostly, I use a Chromcast to stream things to the nice smart tv and call it good.
If it had a trackpoint I would order it in a second...in fact, I would order two just to have a spare. I already have a "happy hacker" and a Filco Minila - so I know that the small form factor works (though I do sometimes miss the convenience of function keys.)
What about hydrogen fuel cells for planes? Planes need that extra energy density.
The more serious problem with these studies is that the definition of sexual assault is often unclear and constantly changing. What's classified as sexual assault by some definitions would be considered by others to be "boys being a bit too pushy because they don't know any better".
My experience is in biology/medical research not the social sciences, and I worked with a well known PI, so grain of salt and all that, but I have rarely found the operational specifics of the grant application to matter because the people at the NSF/NIH are rarely qualified to evaluate experiments and their scientific calidity on that level. Assuming we're not talking absurd cost differences (like a $200 thousand exploratory experiment vs a $10 million pre-clinical trial), then being able to hype the potential benefits of your research, having good political standing in your university/field, and having a well known name involved is far more important.

Grants are sort of like college admissions at Harvard or Yale. There are about five to ten times too many qualified applicants than there are available opportunities and as a result the "best of the best" group, whose members are practically indistinguishable from each other, essentially becomes a random lottery pool for the available spots.
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Yes, you're right. I've edited my original comment. I think the issue is more that some people deny that it's even possible for them to do anything about their depression.
I was thinking more about NSLs and threats to companies to force them to hand over their encryption keys.
Really? I would prefer 'code-sharing service' even if the point is to emphasise the sharing over the version control - makes it clear that we're talking about the program code, not about distributing binaries.

The lay audience understands the "code"/"program" distinction; to me, saying "program-sharing service" suggests somewhere the layman can download a program from (e.g. cnet) - Github sort of offers this now with releases, but that's certainly not an intended or good mechanism to use for the lay downloader.
You're putting words into my mouth. Nowhere did I say that people are to blame for depression, or that it is a moral failing. I'm simply saying that some people don't believe that they can do anything about depression themselves, even though it isn't really in any doubt that psychological treatments help depression.

Given your angry ranting in response to my arguments, it sounds like you disbelieve the science, so you are in fact proving my point.
Thought certainly an interesting anecdote, I don't understand how a video streaming site like YouTube would be useful in a market where a 100K download takes 2+ minutes. You'd have to open a page, walk away for an hour, and hope everything was OK when you got back.
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Not exactly easy or cheap, but a data point for you:

My OTA DVR for the last 8 years setup has been a PC with Windows Media Center. Apart from the setup, there is no monthly cost for the guide data, as with Tivo etc. Right now this runs on a NUC, with a SiliconDust HD Homerun (HDTC-2US) living in my attic, which transcodes the OTA MPEG-2 to H.264, saving tons of disk space. A nice side effect is that I can archive shows (e.g. NOVA episodes).

P.S. One interesting tidbit I remember from a Tivo ad (but can't dredge up right now), based on their users TV consumption stats, apparently ~ 87% of what people watch is available OTA.

Edit: Windows Media Center was dropped from Windows 10. The replacement will be Xbox One DVR functionality, coming 2016.
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No, Bitcoin is the solution to all financial transaction woes, totally decentralised and the way for a better world!
Honestly, I think "a daily drumbeat about how bloated, how needlessly complex, how ridiculous most of the world's web applications really are" pretty much describes every HN conversation on any article with even a remote connection to web technologies.
One immediate question is whether this might be a result of overfitting -- when enough hypotheses are tested, some will surely be confirmed at any given significance level. Still quite interesting of course; now what is needed is a follow-up study on other datasets (preferrably human), or an experiment to confirm.
A better (but less exciting) title would be "A computer program suggests a promising avenue of research".
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Somehow simple note taking is something that really hasn't been done right by anyone. This seems like it could be nice, but I'd like it a lot more if I could host it myself.
I don't know about that last point. I live about 45 miles from Philly and 55 miles from NYC. I get pretty much all of the stations from both with minimal drop and I have a $35 antenna inside in my attic.
Uhh, they'll withdraw the tax money you owe from your bank account, or take some out of your paycheck. There's no gun involved, it's entirely non-violent.
PDX is the airport code for the Portland airport just in case you don't keep up with the airport code for the 19th largest US metro area.
Agreed. I will always use our OTA signal rather than the cable package for overlapping channels. A handful of college games I want to be able to watch are on ESPN and Monday Night Football, as well. Plus nice to be able to turn on SportsCenter every now and then. A good lineup of other channels on Sling, too, which I just wanted to try out. Will likely quit Sling at the end of the year.
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Hmm, yes, this raises an ethical issue too (kinda like "insider trading" but being "insider" for the whole world...)
Just like the ecosystem and the economy and any other system, it's all about feedback loops.

Unfortunately the web today is dominated by a very sick feedback loop driven by perverse incentives. You were being paid to write garbage. You and whoever paid you profited by that. Clearly the incentives are wrong and the invisible hand of the free market is no where to be seen. Why? Because the free market works when consumers are the customers. Not when we are the product.