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Apt. Microsoft actually seems to care about support, compatibility, and security, but it took years (a decade?) of Windows getting hacked for them to finally get serious about security. After another decade or so they're still a ways from fixing the problem, and part of that "fix" is telling people perfectly happy with their current Windows 7/8 systems to go to hell.

The IDIoT means appliance and car makers get to repeat this same slow learning curve, but on both client and server. In a decade or so, buyers will force them care about fixing their buggy, unsupported, insecure software (both client- and server-side this time). In another decade, they will be at around Windows 10 levels of support and security.

Oh, yeah, and a hacked car or HVAC system can kill you much deader than a hacked PC.
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It can help to avoid re-downloading a timeline that didn’t change but you’ll still have to re-download the whole file for each new status.
I'm not sure about the Desktop app, but the web app should work in any modern browser today. Features are generally prioritized using user feedback, and this is one of the top suggestions on the ideas site:

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/sugge...
I'm a tech recruiter and I partnered early on with a small company and placed their entire development team. They desperately needed sales guy and eventually found a recruiter that has placed their entire sales team. Most small companies (who can afford it) partner with a good recruiter.

I could you refer you his way if you are interested.
Well there's an argument to be made that a mistaken analysis as to your "threat level" curtails your personal freedom and has a detrimental impact on your ability to accomplish your goals. Just as the existence of your credit score doesn't impinge upon your fundamental rights as a human, its existence means it can be used to discriminate and that by bringing it into existence you've created opportunities for abuse.

Once it exists and you assume it exists you have to change your behavior in a way that maximizes outcomes for yourself. Its subtle psychological coercion.

At the very least decisions made by non-elected officials in the name of national security need oversight. So even if you yourself are not political, just by surveilling you they have forced you to become political in the sense that now you MUST participate in an issue and debate regarding the value of national security vs. your personal security.
I learned to code with these books. It reminds me of how good is to learn to code by copying code.
This is great and long over due.

For those of use who grew up having conversations in simpsons dialog, this will help provide those in my wife who don't have such habits develop them :)
The salary range I can pay friends on a lot of factors, not just the position. Oftentimes I can adjust the salary and title (up or down) to be appropriate for the candidate. But if a candidate asks what range of salary the position would pay, I'll give an estimate.
Anyone who intends subversive action can be targeted.

Yeah but if I don't intend subversive action then I'm fine, so
I used to pass the phone to my daughter and told her to mimic his accent, ask silly questions like "where's my pizza" etc. It's the little things that make life worthwhile, isn't it?
The Cayenne looks like it is about to surface with a mouthful of krill.
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or plotly ... or shiny ...

https://plot.ly/javascript/
http://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/
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That won't be from Tesla, but rather from Uber. They poached Carnegie Mellon's entire robotics department, among others to focus on this goal.
It's probably progressive improvement over previous chatbots rather than revolutionary.

But one thing strikes me as really cool in the article is someone sent a picture of bruised ankle, and Xiaoice recognized that is an injury and inquired if it hurts. That's really impressive!
If you think ostentatious is a problem in the luxury market you don't know the luxury market.

Also why do you imagine bay area is X or Tesla's biggest market?
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"Despite the problems, our data show that Tesla owner satisfaction is still very high: Ninety-seven percent of owners said they would definitely buy their car again. It appears that Tesla has been responsive to replacing faulty motors, differentials, brakes, and infotainment systems, all with a minimum of fuss to owners."
I share if the candidate asks. In the end the candidates requirements come out though. If I say X, they'll often say, oh I really need Y. I can work with that. If they just walk away when I say X, that's fine too -- it wasn't a good fit.
Actually yes, we're cashflow positive. But we don't really call ourselves mechanics, we prefer the word "pharaohs".
Would love to hear your feedback once you try the product that the pharaohs have built!
Also: https://quitter.se/ (StatusNet/GNU social)
Why not buy and existing Franchise?
I give candidates a range if they ask.
I'm enjoying playing with this. The only bit so far that I don't like is that to trigger a switch, the mouse needs to cross the halfway point of the element you want to swap positions with: in my application, it would be much more intuitive for an element being dragged to "claim" a drop-target as soon as the mouse moves over the target. I haven't yet found a way to accomplish this with Dragula.
GM will be rolling out with Bolt EV, primarily that would be any GM dealership. I really do not know about the count, but it is interesting place to start. The way forward would be to rope in utilities like NRG(which already has lot of charging stations) to provide the backbone for the system. As days go by it looks like the major car companies are in agreement with their plug standards. The other aspect is free charging is not promised by Tesla on Model 3. So cannot take into consideration for Bolt EV infrastructure.
While I did not have the chance yet to compare an X to the BMW offerings, it is a notable fact, that Tesla in the meanwhile for both the X and the S is working with the same German companies which supply BMW and Audi. The interior of the X is made by a company usually doing Audis, and the suspension is made by Continental. They also have Bosch components, Harman audio etc. That should put them quite close in quality to the German brands.
Hydro is cheaper, but requires permits, construction, multi-year timeframes, contractors, etc. Battery packs require NONE of these.

Look, this is just like the PC revolution vs mainframes. Mainframes were cheaper and better on ANY axis relative to PC's in the 1980's.

However, a PC didn't require a multi-year allocation in the capital budget. A PC didn't require buy-in from multiple players. A PC was locally controlled.

So, PCs won. And the money expended on PCs eventually made them better than the mainframes they were displacing.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic - I'll assume you are. I don't imagine you actually believe perpetual use of pain killers is ever better than solving the root cause (and how tenuous a solution it is at that, ready to flare up worse than ever, with the patient now addicted to pain killers to boot).
Neat! As a note: looks like it's converting the key to lower case for encrypting but not decrypting (or vice versa), so using a key with any capital letters in it won't decrypt to the original encrypted input.
I've been getting so many calls lately, I've been playing music for them lately, trying to waste their time, hoping that they will take my number off whatever list it's on... I really wish there was a way to waste more of their time. Thus far, all I've determined is that they don't like Ace of Base.
https://github.com/imjacobclark/github-notifier/issues/2#iss... outlines what may be causing your issue.
Except Tesla licenses their battery tech from Panasonic. Says so in the 10-K. Anyone else is free to make a deal with Panasonic
Right. No existing infrastructure, just cobbled together dealership charging stations. No autopilot in the Bolt. No OTA software updates (in the US, at least), as it violates the franchise agreement with dealerships. No high-voltage DC charging such that a Supercharger can offer (just the designed-by-committee CHAdeMO junk).

That's why Tesla is 5 years ahead.
> I'm a senior writer with Wired (www.wired.com). Am putting together a small story on this. Would love to chat

You must not have a full grasp of how HN operates.

If all it takes to get into a Wired article is to regurgitate information already plentifully available online, I'm pretty worried about Wired's future.

While the comment was substantive and linked to sources, this is normal for HN and nothing special.

How about you contact the guy who posted the article? He's the CRO from F-Secure, one of the research companies that was linked to as a source.

I really hope Wired doesn't start using random comments as "experts" in articles.
> Anyone who intends subversive action can be targetted. They can be approached and manipulated by an agent who knows everything about them. The would-be-subversive can be nudged, sabotaged or flat out blackmailed.

You've just highlighted why the average American is scared of terrorists but not the NSA: 3000 people did die on 9/11. There is no evidence of the NSA targeting Americans, or nudging/sabotaging/blackmailing them.

The military could easily storm Washington DC, topple the government, execute every Congressman, impose martial law and announce the start of a new regime under the sole authority of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. You'd have to be pretty nuts to worry that's actually going to happen.

Also, referring to people who disagree with you as ignorant isn't generally the best way to change their minds.
http://www.uetechnologies.com/product.htm

Okay. So why are PowerWalls going to beat the current state-of-the-art in battery technology?

Look, for areas with resources, Pumped Hydro / Compressed Air is straight up superior. For areas without resources, getting a shipping container for a Redox Flow battery is more efficient.
Wasn't clear in the CA and the non-compete parts of that comment were connected.

However, in any case, the reality is that for small companies, for all but the most senior and/or desired employees (and even then), a potential non-compete issue just isn't worth dealing with. Doesn't matter whether it would ultimately lose in court, you're just not prepared to go there. That's the real issue with non-competes.

I've worked for a small firm and a candidate with even the most peripheral non-compete was just a non-starter.
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Is it bad when I'm thinking of selling some bitcoin in order to take advantage of a volatile stock?
I'm author of Meshbird. Big different between Tinc and Meshbird. When you start Tinc you have to specify other node addresses. When you start Meshbird you have to specify network secret key only. Meshbird's node will find each others automaticly.
A company can make good products and still be overvalued.
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>Do we understand, completely, at a molecular level, the physical and control systems of bird and insect flight? Or how fish swim? Probably not.

That's an excellent point. But at the same time, we do have some level of understanding of the mechanics of swimming and flying. The same really can't be said of intelligence.
I'll take his MacBook for him so it isn't such a major inconvenience!
I'm on the Do Not Call list, so they are actually criminals. They're offering debt services (which I don't need) which I assume are a scam. Any moment I'm wasting of their time is a moment they're not scamming someone else.
Both energy and China are the big risks. It'll be interesting to see how much of their foreign reserves were used up in January.

To some extent, it is easier for the Chinese to defend the on-shore yuan market (CNY) through capital controls. It is harder to defend in the off-shore yuan market (CNH). Great discussion from a few days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11008872

I personally have tremendous admiration and respect for managers of the Chinese economy and I think betting against the Chinese government is just a money-losing, dumb idea.

IMHO, the big threat continues to be oil. Cheap dollar funding has pumped up global supply to well past demand. This is crushing the economies of oil-exporting nations through currency devaluation. Ruble, CAD$, Nigerian Naira, Krone, Bolivar, etc. have gotten crushed.

Developed Market banks and investors have poured a lot of money in emerging markets in the past decade. Some of that investment is going to be lost.

It is an open question whether we are working up to an event that is similar to the 1997 Asian financial crisis, 1998 Russian default, the 2012 European debt crisis, the 2008 Global financial crisis, or something milder, or something much worse.
The UI of Blender is excellent. The learning curve is a little steep, but it's also very sort. Once I'm over the initial hump of the non-standard UI, it felt extremely fast and smooth. It's like VIM (if vim had tooltips) for 3D modelling.
How does HR "ride on the back of an accomplishment?" For example, if a sales team hits their sales goals how is it that HR would get credit for this? Are you grouping "management" under the umbrella of HR?
Thanks for inserting some logic here. This is all public information
Eh, I wouldn't look at it that way. Avoiding complacency and building bridges is just as important for those with healthy egos as it is for those with weak ones.
This is going to be the most interesting question. China worked pretty hard to get the Yuan in the reserve currency basket, and they worked even harder to reassure the world after they pulled the devaluing stunt in August. From the WP article: "But the Chinese central bank argued on Tuesday that its goals were more mundane than spurring exports and growth. Rather, the bank said that the change was a one-time event to allow it to set exchange rates in line with free market practices. And in their initial responses, many analysts agreed."

If they do it again then they lose all credibility with the rest of the world. And how the world responded would change China's trajectory.

So its interesting to see what they do.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/11/china...
I'm in Madison, approaching my 40s and making well into the six figures. I was just very persistent in looking and found a niche opportunity. Although I do worry about the central premise of the story being true--future raises becoming more difficult especially in the face of a layoff or recession.
Well, my thought was the HN crowd would simply ignore this, acknowledge it or vote me down and be done with it.

Seems like religion is a heated topic, even here.

Next time I know better :)
If I was developing a spreadsheet in the browser I would use the lowest level abstraction possible for performance (which is what they're doing since the jQuery is just a wrapper). When you're potentially managing tens of thousands of rows of cells no matter what you use its going to start to chug and solutions using abstraction on top of abstraction on top of abstraction will start to chug a whole lot quicker than vanilla JS.
That doesn't scale. Tesla doesn't have dealerships across the country to deal with these problems.

TSLA has a reliability issue, and they need to get it fixed before they can deploy the Model 3 at scale.
Yes, but I don't care about them in any way because of the way in which they've chosen to get their bills paid.

A quick "no thanks" gets them on the way to harassing the next person. And we don't want that, do we?

I don't actually believe you really give a shit about telemarketers pay at all; i've read other people say the same thing as you and it just doesn't sound convincing at all.

It's like when people say "well, you have to respect other people's beliefs". No...no, you don't. There's no persuasive argument for that assertion whatsoever. I accept that they hold those beliefs - like I accept the reality that some people can "offer" other members of society nothing other than the ability to make phone calls on other people's behalf. for profit, to people who don't want to receive them but who have no technical or legal way of preventing them - but I'd rather they didn't. There should be an opt-in list you have to sign up to to receive random phone calls at home from people hawking tat and services you don't need, and anyone doing this when you're not on the list should end up with a fine/jail sentence, but until that happens I'm going to waste as much of their time as possible.
Here's some stuff on zerocash:

Zerocash: Decentralized anonymous payments from Bitcoin: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/Zerocash:%20Decentra...

Zerocoin: anonymous, distributed e-cash from bitcoin: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/Zerocoin:%20anonymou...

How to explain zero knowledge protocols to other people's children: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/snarks/How%20to%20ex...

GGPR paper, NIZKs without PCPs: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/snarks/Quadratic%20s...

Snarks for C: Verifying program execution succinctly and in zero knowledge: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/snarks/SNARKs%20for%...

Secure sampling of public parameters for succinct zero knowledge proofs: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/snarks/Secure%20samp...

https://github.com/scipr-lab/libsnark

FWIW I think that confidential transactions and even SNARKs will eventually make their way into Bitcoin.
At my previous job I had a meeting with a senior salesperson at GitHub trying to see if we could come up with some ways to help better serve some of our joint customers and you could feel this kind of animosity bubbling up then.
Both of us had a strong programming background and were commiserating about how hard it was to make time to write code with all of the other things we had to due.

They told me that most of their new salespeople didn't have a practical real world background using VS technologies and were more of a traditional IBM/Oracle style salesperson. You could see that "coffee's for closers" mentality was at odds with their hacker roots.

I hope they work it out seemed like an amazing place to work
Autopilot hardware costs under $1K. Of course its getting the required cameras and ultrasound sensors. Even if you don't pay for the autopilot feature, it contributes to the 40 million/miles/month of Autopilot data Tesla is collecting.
"We can now claim that Xiaoice has entered a self-learning and self-growing loop."

That's comforting.
It already does work.

https://www.dom.com/corporate/what-we-do/electricity/generat...

This worked in 1970. Why wouldn't it work today? Energy storage solutions are deployed around the nation, and world, for this very reason.

The main advantage is that energy storage today is more efficient, with new technologies coming out.
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Can someone send this to Pando Daily, please? Love their content, dislike their style.
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I had an issue leaving a hosting company called Arvixe last year. It was a horrible experience and took a week to leave. No upsell but much 'its not our problem' bs.

In theory, they were within allowed timeframes. In comparison to other switches I've made that took minutes to a few hours, it was pathetic and confirmed my belief that moving was the right choice.
What kind of performance? Consumer Reports rated so highly they had to redo their test (it got over 100%). It's acceleration is near supercar territory or just "really fucking fast" with out ludicris. 98% of owners said they'd buy again. Compared to super cars and high end sports cars it's corning sucks. But, 1)remember S is a 4 door sedan not a sports car 2) like to see any electric car with more than 40mi range do better. And I think it's range is one of the top for production electric vehicles. S has met or beat sales and all Tesla models have large pre and back orders.

So, really, what performance are you referring to?
So, I am not on the server team specifically. A lot of these issues that are mentioned may already be in the pipeline/on our radar. However, I think it is beneficial to make sure that we continually follow up to ensure the squeaky wheel gets the grease, so to speak.

All of these issues mentioned here will be sent to the server product owners and managers. :)

I am, however, on the maps team. I am curious about [1] above. I'll see what I can find internally on this. I am rather curious since this isn't something I have seen.
You keep making excuses while Tesla is executing, delays or no delays. Do you not see the problem with complaining about a company that's actually succeeding step by step?
So how does this compare to Sone and Twister?

I know both of those services are P2P but beyond that not much.
The idea is nice but the crypto has some gaps.
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I actually am happy to reveal the salary, mainly because I find myself on the higher end of the compensation scale for my experience. When you're on the higher end, it can help on the candidate side to avoid wasting time with prospective employers who want to lowball.

It also doesn't stop me from negotiating hard, since I have turned down drastically higher numbers than most companies are willing to pay, so they know I easily have options. I'm more than willing to walk away from recruiters (and employers) who want to coerce me into accepting bad deals. Setting number expectations upfront with knowledge of the market saves me time, and tends to be enough to weed out the crap.
interesting take, while i agree with @erokar's sentiment of not being unnecessarily malicious towards the telemarketer, in your scenario I'd probably call the cops after politely tell your employee to bug off :)
That depends what you mean by intelligence.

We understand enough to build computers that win at chess, to build computers that run financial trading algorithms, to build Google.

I agree that intelligence is in some ways harder to fully define than flight, but that doesn't mean that we don't have any understanding of any parts of it.
thats fuked up can some one do something ? should it be stopped or should it be fueled ?
Tell me in 3 years if it was a mistake. Until then you're guessing out your ass, hoping to drive traffic to your blog.
Not to mention Porsche is coming out with their own electric vehicle. And Porsche always delivers. The Macan is ridiculously good looking. I'd say the Tesla is going to find a ton of stiff competition
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This is a great idea to be exploring even though, as a developer, I think this just some fancy tech that has almost no use. Like already noted in a another comment, if you are on the go the phone can't replace a laptop.

However, it becomes more exciting to experiment different things with a versatile phone running Maru or something similar.

What would really like to see are tablets running non-Android linux, and iPads with OSX instead of iOS.
Under circumstances, possibly, if they're not sued out of business first.
They can't actually charge you unless they have payment information. Which you obviously wouldn't give to the bot.
Tesla hasn't made a profit yet.

So no. They aren't executing. They're a 13-year old company with negative profits across their entire life, and the hopes and dreams of a Gigafactory.

$230 Million lost last quarter. When will TSLA stop burning cash? It has NEVER, in its entire history, made a single profit. This is a 13-year old company, I expect better profits by now.

Instead, TSLA pivots into a space it wasn't designed for, to hope to increase demand to make its gigafactory investment worthwhile. Well, lets see. Lets see if enough people buy powerwalls and Model 3 cars to make it work.

But at a price of "Worth more than FCAU", the stock is horribly overpriced. I expect $20 billion companies to... make a profit. Just saying.