skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rules and laws around this are interesting:

"The United States (U.S.) airline industry is unique among industries in being governed by
federal statutes requiring air carriers seeking to be certified in the U.S. to be “owned or
controlled” by a “citizen” of the U.S.1 This requirement is enforced by the Department of
Transportation (DOT) performing “fitness reviews” on applicant airlines to ensure they meet the
“citizenship” definition.2 Historically, the U.S. has limited ownership and control to U.S. citizens
for four primary reasons: the protection of a fledgling U.S. airline industry, the regulation of
international air service through bilateral agreements, concern about allowing foreign aircraft
access to U.S. airspace, and military reliance on civilian airlines to supplement airlift capacity.3"

Of Particular interest to this Virgin America deal:

Voting equity up to 25 percent and nonvoting equity up to 49 percent by a foreign entity is allowed, and any equity
above these levels must be held in trust or converted to debt. Foreign holdings will be counted
cumulatively towards these totals. (page 24)

Source: http://dailyairlinefilings.com/public/furlan.pdf
Check out the "Intel AVX Instructions Optimization" slide on
http://anandtech.com/show/10158/the-intel-xeon-e5-v4-review/....

Quote:

On Haswell, one AVX instruction on one core forced all cores on the same socket to slow down their clockspeed by around 2 to 4 speed bins (-200,-400 MHz) for at least 1 ms, as AVX has a higher power requirement that reduces how much a CPU can turbo. On Broadwell, only the cores that run AVX code will be reducing their clockspeed, allowing the other cores to run at higher speeds.
Scroll to the bottom: https://www.occrp.org/en/panamapapers/

Look at "Who supports our work"

It has Soros' fingerprints all over it. He's at it again: attacking nationalism (Russia, far-right parties) and promoting globalism.

The whole operation isn't exposing anything we don't know: rich people are rich and use whatever means at their disposal to keep rich. In fact, this is a media operation more than anything to villainize Putin and anyone associated with him. The truth is, pretty much every nation and its leaders are guilty of this.
The arguments pointed out is rather week. Most can be solved given time and effort. With regards with the environment concerns, I think it's easier to solve the dependency of fosil fuel when all consumers is located in power stations compared to in individual transport unit.
Misses numerous the historical examples and present day analogies.

Prob 1 is solved by the death of 9-5 full time work. Its just not relevant to most of the population anymore. The problems of deploying EVs in Levvitown in 1949 are not relevant to 2016+. Also "smart" grid connected battery chargers are more advanced than the typical 1949 "battery rectifier".

Prob 2 insists that what he calls fast charging would in the industry be called medium-slow charging. Also it strawdogs that a significant fraction of people will every require it and be willing to pay the likely "just under the cost of a SUV's tank of gas" they'll charge as a convenience fee. Finally he misses how rest stops along interstates actually work in recreational states like where I live... its just not a practical issue.

Prob 4 overestimates the popularity of sharing. Its kind of like wife sharing, many talk and think about it, only a tiny fraction do it, but its not unusually popular, nor growing, and not a significant population issue. Among certain extremely small subcultures its popular, but much like rurals who commute over 100 miles per trip, they're just going to be ignored and frozen out of the EV market. They can buy hybrids and the remaining 95% of the market will buy EVs. For a gas analogy, the fact that my micro-sub-compact can't tow a 37 foot sailboat turns out not to have eliminated its sales from the market, no matter how important that ability is for owners of 37 foot sailboats, or at least those who aspire.

Prob 5 carefully ignores historical infrastructure growth examples, population shifts in the USA, suburban sprawl, and ignores the slow rate of ramping up EV production. Basically, we have decades of experience building new infrastructure faster than we can possibly build new EV assembly lines. NIMBY areas will suffer, nothing new there, but I couldn't care less about them, and a little suffering might improve their views a bit.

Prob 7 is the great towing conspiracy (google it) where existing gas mfgrs try to protect suv and truck sales by pretending that magically only trucks can tow in the USA. Its pretty crazy, my (gas) car is rated to tow 2000 pounds in Canada and of course 0 in the USA, because they have to protect truck / suv sales. It is true, if you need to tow in the USA you already must buy a truck to do it legally while insured. So not being able to tow with a commuter EV isn't a downgrade from commuter gas cars that already are legally rated as zero (in the USA). Further when I do need to tow, its usually 3 miles to home depot or 5 miles to the lake, not crossing the Rockies in a blizzard.

Prob 8 is absolutely comical, like an anti-hybrid troll from over a decade ago or an anti-import troll from when I was a kid. When that tired argument is the best they can roll out...

Overall its mostly problems that exist primarily in the mind of opponents where 99% of the population won't care no matter how many times the talking points are repeated, much like the tired saw that no EV range is acceptable other than (max_currently_available) + 50 miles for all available ranges from 10 miles (homemade lead acid conversions) on up.
If you commute, I assume your car isn't at home during the daytime on weekdays and so can't actually use most of the energy you generate for charging. How much of the 6-8kW of charging you do actually comes from your solar panels, and how much comes from the grid and is simply subsidized by your power provider being forced to buy your power at retail prices?
Good article. Only when we first had a visually impaired end-user asking for accessibility is that we understood what was wrong.

As result, the next generation of our tooling runs from the command line without a mouse. Solved two problems, 100% accessibility (no mouse involved nor graphs, just log files or console output) and automation (make things easier to deploy without user input).

Accessibility doesn't need to be an after-thought. When planned ahead can actually make tooling simpler.
You find this guy to be "brilliant"? I only skimmed the article, but it's just the same old, tired, ignorant anti-EV talking points I see from Luddites and oil industry shills every time I come across some kind of anti-EV rant. This article is just better written, but it's the same crap. If I were being extremely generous, I would just say that it's obviously not written by an engineer or anyone who really understands both cars and electric power generation and transmission.
Yes, sorry, I was talking about corporate taxation. Yes if you live in a country then all of your activity is assumed to have 'happened' in that country even if the money was raised abroad. But that's easy to enforce, as you are physically in their jurisdiction.
Key points

- RISC-V implementation

"The PULP quad-core IC was subject of a tape-out in 28nm from Globalfoundries in November 2015 while the first PULPino implementation (called Imperio) taped out in January 2016 in 65nm CMOS from UMC. The PULPino platform is available for RTL simulation, for FPGA and SoC . It has full debug support on all targets and includes a port of FreeRTOS. Operating at a clock frequency of 400MHz and 1.2V the chip consumes 32.8mW."

License is this:

"SOLDERPAD HARDWARE LICENSE version 0.51

This license is based closely on the Apache License Version 2.0, but is not
approved or endorsed by the Apache Foundation."

See https://github.com/pulp-platform/pulpino

Apparently it has enough features to run FreeRTOS, but I don't think it comes with an MMU to run anything beefier. It's a microcontroller. However, there's nothing stopping someone trying to build a better SoC around it..
To all the people replying "curb chargers", how much do you think it would cost to equip tens of thousands of street parking spaces (per town) with them?

I don't see that happening any time soon, and if it does the huge capital expenditure will have to be passed down to the consumers, reducing the economic attractiveness of electrical.
Even legit sites serve malware. It's beyond their control. Ghostery makes money by telling sites what shit they're serving. Because they don't know. It's too many layers of dependency.

There I block all ads all the time. No exceptions. Not even for "good" sites.

The sooner everyone blocks ads the better. If sites go out of business then so be it. They'll evolve once forced; but not a moment sooner.

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3044588/security/malvertisi...
I live in an apartment there is no way to plug in a car or build a solar panel. Basically without a means of owning an outlet no plugin hybrid is possible.
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Most of the problems listed in this article are, in my opinion, only temporary and would be solved if the technology becomes widespread. As in many technological shifts, what is required is either 1) evolved technology or 2) demand (which would trigger more technological improvements). I remember a similar discussion about SSDs some time ago: they were slow and expensive and a few commentators were quite skeptical about their widespread adoption.

Problem 1: Transportation will load the grid and generating capacity in rather nasty ways

But not in specific times of the day, as A/C does. Granted, we're talking about much more power.

Problem 2: Rapid charging is actually not so rapid [...]

Yet.

Problem 4: Re-charging will not work nearly as well when vehicle utilization goes up due to sharing

If sharing makes usage of a vehicle go up to ~100%, it will only be a matter of having a few more vehicles. If a vehicle spends even 10% of its time recharging, we'll just need ~10% more shared vehicles. This only drives up production by 10%.

Problem 5: We don’t actually have all this infrastructure yet

Yet. The technology won't be too convenient for the next few years.

Problem 6: Range

That would make adoption easier in more densely populated regions.

Problem 7: Trailers

That's a problem for a small percentage of the population (at least here in Europe).
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Note that the model 3 isn't a hatchback. Due to the 'entire roof is glass' design, the hinge can't be at the top of the car like it is in a hatchback. On the model 3, the trunk hinges at end of the glass.
I'm surprised there is no American figures on the list. If some don't appear as more info is released, I'll seriously question the motivations behind this leak.
2010 Toyota Prius limits what you can do on the touchscreen while in motion. For example, you can't use the navigation
As mentioned by another poster (who's comment is now dead?)

How is this different than when Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, HP and Google "hide" their money offshore in places like Ireland and the Cayman Islands, which helps them avoid repatriating their profits overseas and paying taxes on them?

It isn't. The point of this is that Putin is doing it.
I think you need better tax advice.

An LLC only pays taxes if it has elected to be treated as a C corp by the IRS, otherwise income & losses pass through to the members.

An C or S corp only makes sense as a sole-proprietor if you have substantial other assets to protect, or expect to accept investments from non–individuals.

You need far better tax advice than you're getting, wherever you're getting it from.

If your goal is to pay absolutely no taxes, then that's not going to happen if you want to rely on the systems those taxes pay for in the US.

If your goal is to legitimately reduce taxes and spread income over multiple years, there's legal ways to do so which a proper tax advisor can guide you through.
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I think you missed an Office Space reference.
Is this the Russian answer to Sukhoi plane incident?
Yes, this was the explanation I saw when my Girlfriend purchased a used volt last summer. We explain it to most people that the gas engine is there to act as a generator and charge the battery and act as a generator. Not to directly power the car. She loves her car.
Also, adding new emission controls at the power plant automatically upgrades the entire electric vehicle fleet.

EVs will be very good for places with wind power as they can easily tailor the load to what is being produced so you don't have any more cases where the price of electricity goes negative.
I think it's going to prove far, far harder to replace trucks than buses and cars with EVs

The economics don't stack up today for long-distance EV trucking, but it's quite possible that they will in a decade or so, with ongoing incremental improvements in battery costs and energy density.

The limitations now are cost and infrastructure, not technology. If we imagine, say, an HGV with a 500kWh battery pack then it should be able to haul a typical load for hundreds of miles between charges. Fast chargers can be installed at existing truck stops.

HGV drivers in Europe are legally required to take rest periods every 4.5 hours (and can drive for a maximum of 9 hours per day), so stopping for charging on a similar schedule would not have much impact on existing work practices.

350kWh packs are already being used today for double-decker busses in London, which can run all day without recharging. So 500kWh (or more?) packs in HGVs are not unrealistic.

The only exceptional case I can think of is extreme long-haul trucking in remote, off-grid locations (think Australian Outback, or Ice Road Truckers). Those may be the last hold-outs for fossil fuelled vehicles.
It depends on whether or not they bioaccumulate^W -- checking wikipedia apparently the word I want is biomagnification.

The basic idea is that as you move up the food chain the concentration of toxins gets higher. So a plant might have a relatively low level of toxin absorbed even if it was directly applied, but a shellfish that consumed algae that were exposed to the toxin downstream from the farm might have a considerably higher level.

I don't know a whole lot about the details in this specific case, but that's my concern.
both but more the former
> You're comparing a Mazda 3, which is an economy car, against an entry-level luxury sedan. This is a bad comparison.

Indeed, that was my point. The claim that "'economy' cars like the Honda Civic, Mazda 3, Toyota Camry, etc. can easily push up against $30k with a few options" is trying to assert that people buying those kinds of cars are in the Model 3 market. But they really aren't. People buying small luxury sedans like the ones you've mentioned probably are, though.
If they were the exception I'd agree with that, but near every post I see on HN about IoT devices is either a way they're easily hacked, phoning home to God-knows-where servers with no documentation as to why they're doing it and no way to stop it, or how the default configuration broadcasts information to the internet in a way they can be easily found if you know what to look for.

Right now it's blatantly obvious that to the vast majority (if not the entirety) of IoT companies, subscriber counts and ease of use are prioritized way, way higher than anything you could even call security.
I want to quickly point out that these appear to be short-term problems, and have been addressed by Elon Musk many times. The manufacturing of EVs is, right now, not a clean process, but this is planned to be remedied by self-sustaining factories with solar and storage.
I think the real issue is that the 1 charge range is not yet all that attractive, especially given the cost of the vehicles. As range goes up and price comes down, demand for chargers will increase (that demand can be coming from people who'd like to buy an electric, it doesn't have to be owners).
I do think this is mostly a UI problem. As someone else suggested in this thread sites like GitHub which show only a linear list of commits should probably default to something more like `git log --first-parent`.

There also sounds like a need for `git bisect` to be smarter about DAG traversal, in that it seems to treat the branch as if it were a flattened linear list rather than taking advantage of the merge structure of a branch. This also sounds like something that should be relatively easy to make smarter.
Now, fend off the numerous attempts to have goods moved to a different category. We have enough trouble with "prepared food is taxed but raw food isn't".
EV batteries are treated much better than the batteries in your laptop.

First, EV batteries typically have active thermal management. Heat kills lithium ion batteries. When you charge your laptop, the battery gets hot, and this accelerates degradation. When you charge your car, the cooling system engages and keeps the battery at the optimal temperature. (The LEAF doesn't have an active cooling system for its battery. It also suffers much worse battery degradation than other EVs. Coincidence?)

Second, EV batteries are somewhat de-rated from their full capacity. Lithium ion batteries don't like spending time at the ends of their capacity. They want to live in the middle, not be fully charged or fully discharged. Laptop and phone makers tend to view their products as short-lived, disposable items, so they'll optimize for maximum running time on the battery by charging to 100% and draining to 0%, at the cost of battery longevity. A car will wall off some of the capacity so that when you're at 100%, you're really at, say, 90%, and when you're at 0% you're really at, say, 10%. At least some of these cars take it further and let you limit the maximum charge so you only use what you need. For example, I normally charge my Tesla to 90%, which is all I need for 99% of my driving. When I need that last little bit, I can charge it all the way to 100%.

Third, a large portion of degradation comes from the number of actual cycles you use, and deeper cycles are worse. A typical battery might last 300 100%-0% cycles before it degrades beyond usability. If you only use 50% of the capacity each time, then it might last 800 cycles. (Very rough number, totally pulled out of my nether regions, but you get the idea.) Long-range EVs are typically not driven to the limits of their range every day, so the batteries are treated well. Most days, my car might go from 90% to 80%, then get charged back to 90%. My phone, by comparison, goes from 100% to around 20% and back to 100% each day, which degrades the battery far more.
Not specifically the Apple deal but the general attitude:

>“Why even consider allowing import of used phones when import of other used goods such as cars are precluded by 300 percent duty levies?”

is what creates much of the poverty. Why not just let people buy and sell phones and cars and set up businesses without the government blocking it?
I agree with __john ; reading about this stuff is cool. Source please?
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A lot of impact avoidance with other vehicles and pedestrians is done by communicating with looking at each other though. The easiest solution, car always yields, would just mean it will take forever to move because people will lose all respect and just treat it like a solid obstacle. Also, sometimes cars can and do pass within a few cms to humans (ok if everyone is aware of the maneuver and it's slow), would an automated system do that?
As I've been told by the person looking at resumes where I work, even decent looking resumes are not a clear sign that they're particularly good.
The author forgot well to tank efficiency when looking at ICE efficiency. You don't get gasoline out of the ground, you get crude oil. In the middle of Nigeria or Venezuela. Which then has to be transported, refined, and transported again. Gasoline well to tank efficiency is somewhere around 80%, which means ICE well to wheels efficiency is somewhere around 14-16%.

So EVs at 30% are about 2X as efficient as ICE.
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IP based tracking still works most of the time. Dynamic IPs change very infrequently, and NAT combines IPs in physically (and often socially) close groups. It isn't perfect, but a lot of those requests can probably be mapped back to those cookies.

Google's entire business is based on building large database of tracking (and other) information; obviously their DNS is just another data source.

Just skip the recursive resolvers and run a local caching DNS server that starts from the root zones.
The issue is that I'm forced to speculate in the stock or bond markets rather than the property market. The companies providing investment IRAs are practically non existent. I've tried to find them. All I actually find was rumors if their existence.
This is a strawman argument. Cash is not required to be re-invested to maintain current profitability.
I think hoverbear has a raft crate: https://github.com/Hoverbear/raft-rs
Is it? Can an experienced airplane pilot even fly safely through a tornado?
One of the things I find fascinating, and that Tesla has to grapple with at some point with real ramifications, is: are they a self driving car company that just happens to be an electric car company? Or the other way around?

I would argue that electric car companies are appealing to a much smaller subset of potential customers than are self driving cars. But the mission behind each is very different and that flows into all the key design and marketing decisions you have to make.

Tesla can easily pivot from one to the other. But Musk is so passionate about the first, and therefore so are so many of their key people, that you wonder what happens if they pivot to being first to market with the best self driving cars that just happen to be electric.
Laws are supposed to be somewhat stable though, so having to update tax systems based on evolving patterns of what rich people are doing kind of breaks that.
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Do you have an estimate of the efficiency of the DC -> AC -> DC charging system?
Let's say it is biased, does it make it any less true these people used shell companies to obfuscate their holdings? Or, are you saying this behavior is okay and in which case it would not matter?

If you look more carefully it does list some less known Americans.
But there are other sources: hydro, solar, wind, nuclear.
It exist at the very least for intell reasons.
> but it's just the same old, tired, ignorant anti-EV talking points I see from Luddites and oil industry shills every time I come across some kind of anti-EV rant

God, how I love HN and the endless stream of negativity that it can produce. Just for you, from this 'Luddite and oil industry shill':

http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill

Now, do fuck off.

Apologies for breaking HN etiquette but I've really had it, blame my lack of sleep or whatever is convenient but comments like yours really make my blood boil.
I don't know if you're familiar with Riot Games' infrastructure investments, but I figure it might interest you.

They're essentially building their own low-latency network across the US. It's really impressive.

https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/fixing-internet-real-...
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