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Didn't know it'd been lost, so learning it was found taught me two things. ^_^
The producers of content that I view not being financially secure is a problem. I've read a lot of useful stuff over the years, and I really want the people who made that possible to thrive.

I don't particularly care about whether they can buy flash cars, but I do care about them being able to live without stress and continue to do the things they love and are best at.

As far as I'm concerned, the problem looks like this:

1. Society isn't providing them with a way to live, so it's down to me (and others like me) to help out.

Which leads to:

2. I'm not wealthy enough to feel like I can give back to them, or there's no reasonable interface to do so

Which leads to:

3. Out of desperation, they try to force my hand by employing advertising (so that indirectly there's a cashflow).

I'd rather work on #1 and #2 directly than look at #3. I'm not that interested in short term solutions, and advertising is a particularly ugly one.
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Leipzig, like several other eastern cities, is the "hot new place" because it's still relatively affordable. The American equivalent might be Pittsburgh.

In Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, etc prices are much higher.
Though as another another article today mentioned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11419281 much of the SPX is driven by companies buying back their own shares out of profits. It may be chillier for loss making unicorns that can't do that - see Box etc.
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It's also subjective to the point of being a useless descriptor. One person's "beautiful" is another person's "terrible waste of precious screen real estate". It's fine if "beautiful" is a shorthand design goal among a group of people on a project team, where everyone shares the same design philosophy and assumptions, but it's not a great way to describe a project to the public.

It's up there with "nice" and "interesting" in terms of non-value words, IMO.

Much more useful would be to describe some of the goals that you, if you're the developer, consider beautiful. What, specifically, are you going for? If I'm looking at a project that's what I want to know. Most people don't set out to make ugly projects (well, mostly [1]) so that's the key differentiator: what subjective definition of "beautiful" is operative in the project's design, and what tradeoffs are being made to pursue it?

[1]: Maybe not if you're really into "New Jersey Style" / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Does it really matter? I don't see the value gained in spending my CPU power on their dark pattern BS, OR is downloading malware via exploit code.

The threat is there and I'm not interested in taking the risk.
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That sounds like entitlement according to the OP's definition.
Not too surprised, generally, by time things hit the New York Times, it's old news. They'll be all over this by this afternoon and tomorrow.
Let's not lose track of what started the conversation.
It was somebody saying "the median family spends nowhere near that on a car".

That's what we're discussing. That the amount people pay for a car, is less than what people pay for a new car. That's the only point I leapt in to defend, and if you're arguing with me against other points, then you're talking to the wrong guy.

Look- the average number of arms for a tennis player is less than 2. Similarly, some (perhaps most) people spend their car-acquiring dollars on used cars. So, the average amount people spend on a car is less than the average sale price of a new car. QED, end of discussion.

Now, you want to argue that among people who buy a new car, $35k is acceptably average? Okay, fine, whatever, I don't care, and neither does anybody else in this thread.
DNT was never going to work and the failure of the Do Not Call list should have made it obvious. No one ever thought people would willingly accept being tracked in the first place. I'm sure everyone who ever worked on an ad network felt a little yucky with what they were doing at some point and got over it real quick or quit, leaving an industry full of people who already rationalized that what they were doing was OK. Seeing the DNT options in browsers bugs me almost as much as seeing those cookie warnings. Government is making this stuff even more annoying, just let the people figure it out.

Side note, I'd love to see ad blockers add something to block those cookie warnings. Since literally no one on either side wants them, I'm sure website authors would be willing to agree on a de facto standard css class or something that would make them real easy to hide. Maybe it should be opt-in in case someone tries to go after the ad blockers for interfering with the cookie law.
They probably didn't want to make it too clear that they were just showing off a completely unfinished prototype.
> you can board early

I'd pay good money for the ability to exit the plane early after the flight is over. I really don't care about boarding early, especially if I'm not looking for bin space.
> I wonder, when Tesla unveils something that doesn't fit within the parameters that those people think of as a 'car', how many will drop their reservation?

Tbh, I don't think Tesla cares. They have a ~$276 million dollar interest free loan with which to build the first wave of Model 3s. They just need to make enough on those sales to finance the next round until they get through everyone who wants one.

The goal is primarily to pay for the initial production run so they don't have to get outside financing.

http://bgr.com/2016/04/03/model-3-reservations-elon-musk-276...

> Earlier on Saturday, Musk indicated that Model 3 reservations checked in at about 232,000. That being the case, if the pace of reservations keeps up, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise to see Tesla report 300,000 reservations sometime later this week. And while the $1,000 deposits for the Model 3 are completely refundable, Tesla has effectively secured a $276 million interest free loan from eager buyers.
Have his relationships with the majority shareholders deteriorated that much? It sounds like there was more going on than we know, and the non voting ability was a convenient scapegoat. That or they all wanted to cash out and bank a nice payday.
easy on the koolaid there kid.

and btw, bmw already sell a EV for under 35k for over a year.
That is the height of shit that is not my problem. The "moral" argument against ad blocking goes away when you consider:

- The security implications of the large ad networks (how many malware scares were the result of exploit-laden ads being served on large, popular sites?)

- The privacy implications of same (tracking all the things)

- The large ad networks attitude towards said problems. ("Meh.")

The moment the sites that show these unvetted ads take some responsibility and agree to reimburse me and my company for my time spent dealing with a security breach caused by their shitty practices is the moment I begin considering not blocking ads at the firewall, and not a second before.

They want all the benefit with none of the responsibility. And that responsibility goes well beyond "paste some javascript we gave you in your header".

As long as the transaction is that one-sided, people will continue blocking, and no amount of moralizing is going to change it. Get used to it.
>Tesla is in a race against the clock

You can check my comment history: I'm as annoyed by the Tesla hype-machine as anybody. The games they play when reporting (or not reporting) financial metrics is astounding, and I don't understand why the SV crowd finds it acceptable for a public company.

However, I want to see Tesla and the whole EV industry thrive. People just need to curb their expectations.
Good point, although 18 MB of text is a lot of text.

If I might digress a bit… most text editors will choke on an 18 MB text file as well (and if it’s an 18 MB text file with just one line (like a base64 string with no line breaks)… good luck getting anything other than a hex editor to open that with any speed). The only text editor I’ve found that doesn’t bog down too much when opening huge text files (even some of the ones with no line breaks!) is the one that comes with OS X: TextEdit¹.

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¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextEdit
The problem I have with these arguments is they compare all electric vehicles to all internal combustion engines. I don't think that's realistic. Everyone is not going to convert to electric vehicles.

I think it's terrific that there is diversity in the energy base for transportation. This is very healthy for the economy and for the country in general.

While it's true, that these new technologies may require adjustments, sometimes these adjustments can be overstated.

The actual energy usage for many appliances and industry is going down. LED light bulbs and other technologies are lowering the load to the grid. It's not a simple equation. It's a very complex equation and I don't think anyone has spent the time to factor that. At least I have not seen any studies on that.

This electric vehicle movement is not just about electric cars. People are rethinking their transportation. That's very healthy. It would be great if we continue to improve mass transit in America, so that less vehicles of all types are needed. I think many Americans would like to see that.

We're still also in the very early stages of electric vehicle's engineering. It's not a good idea to extrapolate out into the future based upon the technology of today. It's likely these electric vehicles become even more efficient in the future. As we see more volume in the industry, third-party players will also come in with unique ideas and improvements.

This mix of electric and internal combustion is really exciting. I think it's terrific that people are being lured from internal combustion to electric vehicles. The whole system seems to be going in a good direction. I don't agree with the naysayers. The outlook looks very promising.

These electric vehicles continued to sell even though the price of fuel for internal combustion's has fallen. The price of electricity is much more stable than the price of gasoline. This may also help people in making their decisions.

I suspect in the future we will see families with both electric cars and internal combustion. It will not be either or.
Hmm. I just calculated that it'd take me over 2 hours to cycle 30km, based on my commute (mind you, we have hills here). Nae chance!
Only on HN.
My Model X drives itself on the freeway extremely well well. I don't have to do a thing from San Francisco to Sacramento, for example.

But the self parking barely works, and can't handle anything complicated.
lets not be naive. A head of state can't have $2 billion in offshore saving without illegally sourcing some of that money. So for corporations, even though they are too evading tax, their sources of income is known. For many powerful individuals sources of income ins't known (and probably illegal)
Most F-150 sales are fleet purchases by utilities, construction companies, highway departments, etc. That's why the numbers are so high. If you looked at private party purchases they would be much lower.
I don't even want a video's worth of bandwidth going across the wire.

Send me a picture of what you're selling, or don't sell me anything.
Read my comment. Niche OS
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I'm confused by the assertion.

Do you mean that a lot of people that reserved are not serious? They had to pay $1,000 for the reservation, so that looks unlikely to me.

Or do you mean the company has inflated the number of actual reservations?
Agreed. The idea that it is a strength smells a lot like trickle-down economics.
I know I shouldn't immediately dismiss the entirety of an article just because it uses Rob Enderle for a quote, but I choose to do so anyway.
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Excellent writeup. Also worth noting is that there are many different types of battery chemistry used by different lithium-ion cells: laptops may have cells with chemistries optimized for a certain lifetime/capacity/power tradeoff, whereas EVs may use a completely different chemistry with very different properties.
On what grounds exactly? Sony can't forbid anyone installing other OSes on their hardware.
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> And, in spite of our "mid 5 figures" price for the iOS+Android apps for a fairly simple app - the whole program of work the government department included this in, and hence the media reporting of "what the app cost" came to 1.3million dollars.

You're absolutely right. They didn't buy an app; they bought a solution (of which the app was a small part).

Because it's not just the iPads; it's setting up the management structure for the iPads. How to procure them, locking them down so agents can't install Candy Crush, modifying existing IT processes to be able to manage device breakage/reloads/provisioning, etc...

None of this stuff is all that difficult, but nothing in business is free. So while any moron could write the app itself in half an hour, designing an end-to-end system that serves the needs of the customer (can be operated by someone with a GED; doesn't break down often; has simple workarounds for confusing scenarios; etc.) can cost a lot more than that. The software is just a piece of it.
wow that is super interesting!
Not my problem.
Actually, no. Speeds are low enough that almost-zero reaction time is a huge advantage, and the rules are basic swarm-like behavior (plus bigger cars have priority).
PS3 did—I believe PS4 is not nearly as heavily modified[1]. It is certainly locked down though, at least after the early PS3s where you could, say, install Linux and build a HPC cluster[2].

1. Mostly from people who've hacked it; https://cturt.github.io/ps4.html seems to suggest it's a relatively stock FreeBSD kernel with some added system calls and a possibly heavily modified NetBSD userland.

2. http://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercompute...
So 5 years in and you are still not at/near market rates, are they solely bootstrapped?

To answer your question, profitability plays in regardless of whether they raised money or not, but it weighs far heavier when a company is bootstrapped. Even then though, smart founders will work to take care of their staff so their staff take care of the clients. If they are backed and raised a Series A or further then there is no excuse for not, at least, being very close to market.

Just my 2 cents on profitability too, a company cannot claim to be profitable until the staff is paid competitively and founders are taking a reasonable salary for their role and size of firm. Otherwise the company is not really profitable.

As for staying or leaving, my bet is they will keep making promises but unless you see behavior differences or a light at the end of the tunnel, then it may be time to move on regardless.

One other point, if the company has been taking care of you in other ways like vacations, small bonuses when possible, full health care, and other perks/benefits, then I'd likely feel better for a longer period of time, especially if they were open and recognize that they are underpaying, but it wouldn't last forever.
It seems unlikely that the price of gas will be able to go much higher than the US fracking break-even point, which seems to be around $25/bbl. [1]

But yes who knows...coming regulations may change that number significantly.

www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/12/crude-oil-price-still-crashing-toward-25-breakeven/
We used to hand around a small basket into which the government people would drop their $10 for lunch... Gave an absurd mental image of an offering basket being passed around a church. The image was probably not helped by the fact that my company was non-profit.
This was a great read. Thanks for posting this.
You're always welcome to build an opensource transactional bigtable clone!
Actually I meant Github, but I'd love to see it in Gitlab as well - being able to explore open source projects with ctags using either would be absolutely awesome.
But this still doesn't justify violating copyright. Think about how you feel when someone violates GPL. How is this any different?
I agree, this article was disappointing and is attracting the reaction I expected once I finished reading it. Ultimately the author pointed out the minor infrastructure development requirements of EVs, a bizarre point about hauling trailers and the (eventual?) decline in tax incentives for EVs across the globe, which may or may not be the case given the economical and environmental savings governments accrue in the future. Then the author provides the simple solutions which many commentators are providing in the conclusion.

Maybe more interesting angles could have been supplying the gigantic increase in demand for metals required to produce EV batteries, or the regulatory/industrial battle the EV industry faces with the traditional auto and oil industries (notably the Koch brothers).
"The GPL removes my freedom to sell something that I've created."

No it does not. You can still sell the first copy, technically and practically. You can still technically sell licenses - it is just practically made difficult because those you sell the work to can share it.
> That or they all wanted to cash out and bank a nice payday.

Hence, the problem with the equities market, and why you should never go public if you can afford it.
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Most raft implementation don't implement dynamic reconfiguration or snapshots/compaction. AFAICT hoverbear implements neither, and Tikv implements at least snapshots.
You don't need the polyfills on Chrome.
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If you are German and have a passport then you are in a centralized database.
I am editing this to a sarcasm tag and of course I agree, if he doesn't resign tomorrow then parliament is a poor joke.

Which is of course is probably also a joke, lols & nervously resumes studying UK libel laws
Anecdata: I (almost) bought a used Nissan Leaf (~ $10K) a while back. For taking my daughter to work (about 20 miles round trip), it was great. Just put it back on the charger, which was only a 15 amp 110 V charger, and it was ready to go again in a few hours. (edit: it still had 2/3 the battery left, but was fully recharged in just a few hours)

Unfortunately, my commute is a bit further (almost 50 miles), which left almost nothing in the slightly aged battery, and caused a "non linear" increase in charge time (without getting a 220 V upgrade charger)

The car (Leaf) was plenty peppy, but the range dropped considerably when going 65 to 70 MPH on the freeway, vs 30 to 50 MPH through town. The maintenance schedule was something like "check the break system every 6 months; get new tires every 3 years; replace the battery every 8 years" (or something along that line).

Still, if you have a short commute, or, as a "mom-mobile", getting a used EV is a no brainer (especially if you have cheap electricity like under Sac's SMUD utility). Just rent the vacation car twice a year. When we fly, that's what we do, anyway.
Isn't that what they sued George Hotz (aka GeoHot) for, and won an injunction preventing him from touching Sony hardware ever again?
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All of these problems strike me as temporary. The only barriers here are current technology getting cheaper and more efficient, which always happens over time - especially the timescale needed for EVs to go mainstream.

The tone of this article seems to think we will be stuck with current levels of technology.

Some future possibilities with in 20-30 years:

* Battery capacity doubling, tripling, or more.

* Widespread solar panel use for recharging at home (maybe they even come with solar panels as an upgrade?)

* Solar panels integrated into the car itself for continuous trickle charging (on the rooftop, for instance)

* Companies offering free charging while patronizing their retail locations (ala free Wifi)

* Parking lot charging via installed solar panels

Those are just the first few I could think of off the top of my head. I know there will be others as time goes by.
Not sure I'm seeing a difference..
I wonder if this could be used to decrypt/unpack/dump/whatever the contents of games?

I know the Dark Souls community are gasping to see the cut content which may or may not live inside the Bloodborne game files.
An artist/writer/musician isn't entitled to make a living at their passion. The ones that do make a living with their work are the ones that produce things that many people find valuable; society has deemed their work good enough that it wants to support them doing it full time.

Of course, there are rare cases of great artists/etc who can't make a living because they haven't been "discovered" yet, or because their work runs against the current trends (despite being brilliant). I would argue these are the minority, and for the most part the system is functioning properly.
2 hours is too much, that's way too much overhead on a day. Hills don't help and besides costing you a lot of time they will (depending on the grade) also make you sweat quite badly, which is not the best way to arrive at work.

One of my family members does 30 km to work and back again in the evening, it takes him about an hour but he's in top shape and there are no hills.
Anyone else getting a vaporware vibe from this car?
It's also likely that government accounting departments only report costs at the project level and not at the line-item level -- it is common practice to just report on CapEx vs. OpEx because there are so many variations as to how things can be bought and sold, especially on technology projects (no idea if CapEx and OpEx make sense in the context of government work since they're primarily for tax purposes, but you know what I mean).

I doubt any company in America can tell you exactly what an app cost them to build. They can tell you what the product cost to develop, but the app itself is kind of beside the point: you don't get an app without the up-front work of determining the requirements, so why bother to separate the costs? Some projects have complex requirements and simple implementations, others have simple requirements and very complex implementations. The project cost is what everyone is concerned with anyway; and while the project manager should have the line-item information for the project, it's often not rolled up higher than that because the reconciliation would be nearly impossible.
I've always thought there's also a tongue-in-cheek "Real Americans only use ASCII!!" connotation lurking in there as well.
80% of the country lives in urban areas and this number is increasing.
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Reading stories about the life of a 102 year old man really evokes feelings of inconsequentiality. I used to get the same feelings listening to my grandfather talk about World War II (which he didn't do often, but enough that I have memories of it), but not to this extent because I was younger and didn't know what my life would hold. As more years pass, I realize how little I've done... seen... and the smallness of impact my life has had.

This could make me sad, but instead I feel somewhat inspired by the character and life course of a person like this.
I run it as a desktop OS on a Lenovo G700 and those all work fine.

Hardware support isn't as complete as Linux but it isn't bad at all either. Chances are anything that's older than 2-3 years will work out of the box, anything newer may or may not require a little tinkering.
Google is deliberately deactivating some of its customers' old smarthome devices
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