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Short-range EV only works in cities however especially in central Europe there is such a good public (and green) transportation system in place, that there is no benefit in (co-)owning an expensive EV that also needs special charging ports installed on at least "one end". Even the number of <30 year olds without having a driver's license is growing. You don't need a car here anymore!

Given that you need invest a couple of 1000$ to install a charger (per parking slot) and also limit yourself to one type of EV (there are competing standards) and also your Employer ("Destination") needs to do the same…

So we're down to a irregular usage of vehicles, like car rental, car sharing or uber, all of which need to be flexible. EVs are not the right thing.

The only useful EV usage I can come up with is for commercial usages in pre-defined distances/routes. E.g. last mile delivery operated in a pool that justify setting up a central maintenance location, battery chargers/or swapping systems and more or less fixed usage time (=> loading batteries/servicing cars during the night or via spare cars)
There is a 500 m long street in front of my house where it is customary that people cross it everywhere and cars are just expected to stop for the people. There are no traffic lights or pedestrian crossing or any special rules, its just that people started doing this decades ago and now it is just tradition to do this.

So now you have a long street where tons of people are crossing every 10 meters during the day because it's a quite busy shopping district.

Although cars are driving slow, it must be very hard for autonomous cars because there are people everywhere running in every direction.
I learned this leak through HN not TR media. Forget about front page, it is NOT even mentioned.

It is only mentioned by social media website @DikenComTr who are heavy-opposition to AKP regime -related with a NL journalist Frederike Geerdink, just because you are NL I wanted to mention-. Diken journalists love to spend some time in custody time to time and website gets shut down every once in a while.
1 isn't a problem; it's awesome. Most people are going to plug in their cars at about 5:30-7, but most people don't actually care when, overnight, their car charges, so some smart software can stage charging, and we can use this to smooth out the peaks and valleys in demand. The electric company here in Ontario already tries to do this by charging less for electricity off-peak.

2 is a problem, but not an insurmountable one. Replacing batteries is something Tesla played with for a while but ultimately abandoned. Super Chargers charge a car in far less than an hour. There are probably other interesting solutions out there. These are all fixes for problem 4 as well.

Problem 3 and 5 seem like the same problem - we need to build more infrastructure as we build more cars.

6 is a non-issue for many people. I drive 15km to work every day, and then 15km home. I'd be happy with a car with a 100 mile range, to be honest.

7 is an interesting one, because most gas cars actually don't allow you to tow a trailer. My Honda Fit stated in the manual that towing a trailer would void all warranties. My Hyundai Sonata says "Towing with this vehicle is not recommended." Lots of larger cars that you think would be able to tow something can't, usually due to undersized cooling for the automatic transmission. Also, adding a trailer to an EV will hurt the range, but adding a trailer to a gas powered car hurts the range too; you just don't care because it's easy to refuel more frequently. See problems 2 and 4.

Problem 8: Service. Yeah. Xerox said they had nothing to worry about when it came to Japanese companies producing cheaper photocopiers, because none of them could match Xerox's humongous service infrastructure. You couldn't get a Canon tech down to your company to fix your Canon photocopier. Who makes your photocopier?

And problem 9 seems like a non-issue to me.
The UK is not a two party system. Right now the dominant parties in the UK Parliament are the Conservatives, Labour and the SNP. The previous government was a coalition with the Lib Dems.

The banks do not control democracy. Governments control banks. I know this may be painful to hear, but just go talk to people who work in banking about how many of their banks staff work in "compliance" i.e. implementing the wishes of all the various government agencies. You will be amazed at how many thousands of people (in some big banks, tens of thousands) do nothing all day but implement various regulations.

I'm happy for every single one of these parasites to leave and never come back.

You say that now, but you wouldn't be. The UK has a very narrow tax base. That means most tax is paid by a tiny number of people.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21618784-taxes-are-bes...

In the UK the top 1% of earners pay about 30% of all income tax. In the USA the statistic is even worse, 1% of all earners pay 50% of the income tax. These figures have been going up over time.

In short, the government is paid for by ever fewer people, who pay ever more tax. This makes countries very vulnerable to them just leaving. That's the underlying reason why the British government fights so hard to defend the city, and why Osborne was willing to take the political hit of reducing corporation tax in his last budget. If the big earners leave, then any chance of ending austerity within the next 20 years is gone for good. The UK would need to start doing actual, serious austerity - like shutting down large parts of the NHS.

If we need to issue more currency to facilitate this then fine, it's fiat.

All that does is tax people through inflation instead of direct payments. The UK has been there before, in the 1970's. It resulted in the country going to the IMF for a bailout, Greece style. If you think people buying houses just to protect their wealth is a big problem now, a few years of trying to fund a massive deficit through money printing would show you what's truly possible when people get desperate.

These guys are guilty, we all know it.

That's right. Burn the witches. Worry about the consequences later.
Neither number is intended to be all that precise. In a sunny spot, the $5000 would probably be quite a bit more than 1 kilowatt of output. It should anyway probably be 250+ days, so I accidentally controlled for that error.

I would certainly factor the different cost structures in if I was doing the calculation for real (gas could be $4 in a couple years, who knows).
Setting up Arch is a simple as partitioning your hard drive, mounting it, pacstrapping it, and setting up the bootloader.

That's it, really. There's a bunch of stuff you probably want for a functional system, like user accounts and graphics drivers and stuff. And yes, Arch is still a pain with laptops. But with practice you can get it up "from scratch" in 20 minutes tops.

Hopefully you'll note that I didn't actually say anything about proving yourself. I even gave a list of other distros. But my point was that you don't need an Arch-based distro when there are plenty of distros that are better at giving you an easy way to set them up.

If one's ego is so seriously fragile that they depend on an operating system to feel adequate... well, it's kind of sad. It wasn't my intent to imply anything about people using distros I like less, if that's what you got. But this distro in particular is probably not as useful, because there are many more "user-friendly" distributions.
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He said 6 seconds at the presentation. I think 4 is a typo.
This is actually incorrect.

It's using Phpass by Solar Designer, which is not the same thing as merely "using MD5". Typically, I reserve that choice of words for constructions like this:

$hash = md5($password);
$hash = md5($password . $salt);
// etc

This MD5 code is still bad. They really should migrate to just using password_hash() and password_verify(), but they won't. They're committed to supporting PHP 5.2.x forever (or at least until every shared host in existence stops supporting 5.2, which is effectively forever).

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/6edbcc88ff5ba0ac...

Note that, on newer versions of PHP, bcrypt will be used instead of the method linked by this HN submission.
Your experience could be fact, but in about 10 years of using MacBooks for work, it has effected me about 2 times, yet I had way more issues with sound/graphics/sleep/projection/skype/internationalization on the Linux distros I have tried. I don't mean to start a flame war, but there is probably a reason you see MacBooks at linux conferences, and FS bugs are not a huge factor.
Fascinating! You're right. I was misremembering the quote. Furthermore, it's from 1929, well before Atlas was written. Still, it sounds quite a lot like something John Galt would say. Who knew Ayn Rand was so eclectic?
It's a simple function of the total power required to get the current levels of transportation converted to electrical use. Whether that's 1 trip of 200 miles or 10 trips of 20 does not matter, in the end it is the total number of miles driven by everybody multiplied by the energy consumption per mile. That's a substantial amount of power, and I did what I could given the data that I could find to put a figure out that has some basis in fact. If you can improve on the number with hard data I'll be more than happy to update the post but comparing air conditioning and electric dryers to extra load on generating capacity and infrastructure is not helpful.
Per Musk, the fast torque response and quality of the computers mean even the RWD version will have better traction than you might expect.
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That's far from accurate. Many and possibly most countries tax overseas investment income. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_treaty

The normal way this works in you can deduct foreign taxes from foreign income to avoid double taxation and that's about it.

Tax havens are the exception not the rule.
Yes, I meant model 3.
I like my diesel car, sorry Tesla
Because in a lot of situations you are not alone on the road and you have to negotiate with other cars or people and decide what to do. There are a lot of single lane streets which can be passed in both directions and the car has sonehow have to deal with the incoming var on who should drive first or who drives backwards.
Typical HN bullshit downmodding. If I'm wrong, write a post telling me how I'm wrong.
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The major concern from my perspective is how ecologically damaging battery production is. That said I'd still choose it over fossil fuels. Fossil fuels pollution is uncontainable, spewing out into our atmosphere, while the pollution from rare earth extraction is largely localised.
It may be, but as I referenced in my original post, he was much more polished and looked way more comfortable when he was comparing the battery swap to refueling an Audi. I just would expect that launching the "car that will save Tesla from bankruptcy" should have had a bit more polish.
> Is that (gate check bag) for free?

Yes. They make an announcement asking for anyone willing to check their bag at the gate rather than carrying it on, and anyone who does so gets priority boarding (at the same time as the "families with small children and anyone who needs more time to board")
What are the true problems?

I find Jacques' concerns to be well thought out, showing that he has actually dug into the numbers. However, I'm interested to know what you see are even more significant problems.
That's only part of it. The other reason is that on a front wheel drive car, torque is applied in the direction you want to go. On a rear wheel drive car, torque is applied in the direction you are currently going.
The first PR was merged ~3 months ago, I'm not surprised that they don't have more info in the README.
A CLA doesn’t have six seconds acceleration. The CLA 200 which in Europe is priced around €30k does 1-100 (or 0-60 miles) at 8,4 seconds. Unless you’re referring to the AMG version which does it at 4,6 seconds but costs north of €50k.
I only meant that even among people who know how to build crazy well, accidents still happen. But that doesn't negate the need for standards of construction.
Until you handle the first level concerns, you don't get to the second...
I'm shocked! WordPress, the security pioneer under all the PHP based apps, uses MD5 ...
The Chevy Volt and BMW i3 are identical in the regard of the function of their petrol engine. The Volt is using Chevy's Voltec drivetrain, so there's no way for the engine to put power to the wheels except through charging the battery - the same as the i3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Voltec_powertrain
It's pretty simple. The great content is created because the site can afford to pay for it. The "something else" I'm forcing you to look at is keeping the servers on. They HAVE figured out how to make it profitable, and you've figured out how to avoid paying for it. Just because you feel that the moral obligation is manufactured doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Paywalls are not the answer in all cases, and I do think there are moral as well as technical questions here.

I call it entitlement because you want, and are getting, a free lunch. I call it cognitive dissonance because as an adult with bills to pay you must understand that you are hurting a business by consuming content that costs them money to create and host without paying for it, be it with your time or your money.
I saw another post elsewhere saying that that's planned for the future, this was just the first round initial release
This doesn't seem very unexpected. Companies who haven't been expected to make revenue/profit are being forced to rethink their business strategies with that in mind. It is a tough process and a lot of people don't like it. I think in the long term it will become beneficial for alphabet as they will funnel money into the successful businesses.

Having said that, this might make the funding of true moon shots less likely. The self driving car business isn't close to profitability, but clearly has a successful business model ahead of it. Obviously it won't just be a direct measure of revenue, but it should be interesting to see how this affects how much time Google gives the rest of the Alphabet companies
No, it was created by George Soros with the help of some US institutions.
Not sure why you are downvoted, but 77% of light vehicles does not equate to 77% of total consumption. 77% of the light vehicles are likely exactly that 77% that is used rarely, it's just the Pareto principle at work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle , the bulk of the consumption will be done by a relatively small number of consumers. And so a very large number of those consumers could be converted to electricity without much impact on the grid or generating capacity but that would not be a huge impact on total consumption of fossil fuels.
This is a bunch of fallacies that have been brought up again and again and have been addressed.

The biggest canard is "If everybody switched to EVs tomorrow our power grid couldn't handle!"

Yes and if everyone went outside right now and pooped in the street we'd all drown in shit. Neither scenario is actually going to happen.

The reality is that EVs are far, far more efficient than ICE vehicles. Not only that, they don't create all the secondary waste products like used engine oil, coolant, etc. LiOn batteries are highly recyclable.

Adoption of EVs has been and will continue to be gradual, and our power grid will continue to expand to handle the load.

Just as a personal anecdote, I currently have a Nissan LEAF and when we got it we expected our power usage to jump dramatically. It did not. But our savings on fuel (not to mention maintenance) did jump. Even with current cheap gas prices, it's still way cheaper to drive the LEAF than our 30mpg CR-V.
I follow the airline industry, and this offer is $600 million more than the most recent rumors ($2 billion even). I'd assume this accounts for a lot of the bump (and simple "the deal is further along than it was last week" progression accounts for the rest).
Isn't this basically fraud? Did you not report it?
"When the engine is running it may be periodically mechanically linked (by a clutch) to a planetary gear set, and hence the output drive axle, to improve energy efficiency."
Most states keep all data in a state-wide database and all registers are electronically connected. This is the reason why you don't need to deregister anymore when moving within Germany, a new registration will suffice.

What there isn't is a single central database and if you want to query data you will need to ask different authorities to get it all.
He's free to invest. He's not free to control. As an investor, he's making out very well with a ~50% premium.

Surely you can recognize the merit in keeping domestic control of transportation, which is the reason these regulations exist.
The data isn't available because it's only for specific media outlets to report on. They would hate to incriminate anyone who isn't Putin by accident.
There's also the huge discussion about the Oculus "malware" that pings and listens to Facebook servers every X seconds and has full admin rights on the users machine: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4da3r5/oculus_home_...
That's not actually totally true. Amazon is profitable, just with very small margins for the size of revenue they generate. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-results-idUSKCN0V62...

Also, Amazon doesn't focus on quarterly profits, which frustrates the wall street types. That is different then not ever being profitable though. If there were never profitable Amazon would have to be raising more money constantly or slashing costs just to stay in business. Instead, they just run super thin margins and invest pretty heavily in new areas constantly keeping their margins super thin (sometimes negative).
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You're a bit wrong in the beginning. Most countries tax activity that happens outside, but almost all only do it for their residents (UK is an exception, it doesn't even tax it's residents, if they're foreign born). Only the US (and another two or so third world countries) attempts to tax its citizens for all activity even if neither the citizen nor the activity is in the US.
What about people who park curbside? Will their cars be spending 2 hours/night at the charging station?
DoD won't appreciate the competition :-)
I think everyone could benefit from extracting that raft implementation to a crate. I'll see if I can get started on that.
Main HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11418742
Not unheard of in Europe. I had a connection with <10ms pings to Quake3 Servers in Frankfurt Germany (~300km) 7 years ago.
Lol, yeah. Asking for a self driving car programmed to follow traffic laws that can handle Saigon or Bangkok is like asking for a smart drone that can fly safely thru a tornado.
I would like to use this at some point. No need to download movies now . Though I still need music
All this shit we've been working on and actively can improve? Shiiiiiet, I guess we might as well not do it and use gas until it runs out, right?
Wuala is using it, too.
Cars are an antiquate mode of transportation that are dangerous and inefficient. Something truly disruptive would be transportation systems where cars and trucks don't exist.
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Why on earth Putin & Co will try to evade taxes and hide his money?

Why would the anti-russia media focus on one powerful rich person as being bad?

Gee, I wonder...
I think its probably a hit job to smear Putin once again, especially because of rising conflicts in Azeribaijan and Armenia.

"Big Leak of Data" but doesnt actually make the data public. I mean, seriously???
As far as I know, Virgin is pretty much a franchised brand. Their trains are run by other transport companies, their cable TV is run by another telecoms operator, their banks are run by another institution etc.
From what I understand, the central pillar supporting many of those temples is reaching end of life, after 5-900 years depending on conditions. So you have to disassemble it to rebuild due to the heavy but rational reliance on the strength of the old growth timbers.
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I'm as incredulous as the next person that a mostly self-driving car will be available by 2017-8 and that this will be it.

That said, on the way to full autonomy I can foresee a car that can handle 99% of the driving itself but calls on the driver to help out during the other 1%. In such a scenario the car may know where it is and isn't safe to drive, but not exactly where, or when.

Examples include the 1-lane, 2-directions-of-traffic rural roads. Unmapped car parks and private premises. Navigating around roadworks. Basically all the 'edge-case' scenarios people often cite.

The car could guess the route and you use a joystick to control the forward speed. You can use the joystick to change the proposed route as you drive. And if you wanted to leave the detected 'safe area' ("no, I really do want to drive into that car - it's a tow truck and I need to get on it!") you acknowledge a bunch of ominous warnings and control the car directly, albeit at a very low speed.
Their core point is not absurd. Where I come from, rich people are the only ones buying new cars at all. Forget $35,000 new cars. Everyone else buys used cars - hopefully one that won't die next month.
Sometimes people are just against things. I don't find any of his arguments particularly compelling.
I'd like to make a meta-point here, not to osweiller (who thinks I'm making garbage, absurd, incomprehensible, bad-faith arguments, anyway), but just in general. There's this weird thing people do sometimes where you make a point, they respond to a different point, and then you explain that that wasn't your point at all and attempt to clarify what your point actually was.

And then this is where it gets weird: they then tell you, nope, you're wrong, your point was whatever they first interpreted it to be, no matter that you just clarified that that wasn't your point and tried to clear up the confusion.

Please don't do this. It's a really uncharitable and unnecessary way to conduct a discussion. I just told you what I intended my point to be. What do you gain by claiming that I'm hiding some other actual point? What would I gain by hiding some other point? In this particular case, I didn't even put any blame on the reader. I blamed myself and apologized for being unclear. If that's goal-post moving, then what hope do any of us have?
I'm not sure I understand your point.

I'm not saying anything in conflict with that statement. The MIT License does not require reciprocal licensing nor does the Oculus terms of service. You can only ever license your own work (the "I grant" from my original post) and sub-license the work of others according to the terms you've agreed to with them.

Only do certain open source licenses require re-licensing and re-distribution of derivative products back to the public. That's why I did not mention restrictive open source licenses like the GPL and picked a permissive license in my example.
"Just wait for what happens next"

https://twitter.com/georgikantchev/status/716771770636898304...
Upvoted to combat the lack of caring about honesty. Even if you don't have the money, stealing isn't justified.
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