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In the long term future of humanity, sure. I'm talking about the next few years for Tesla, since that's the topic of OP's article.

Production is increasing, but slowly, and even if Tesla were offering a price sufficient to motivate faster increases, it takes time to bring new projects online. Aside from building facilities, you eat a couple years just waiting for brine to evaporate: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/3abb52e4-ea59-4ed9-85...
> Another way to look at it was in working with Purdue, he was able to demonstrate his ability to define and walk around FDA approvals by understanding and guiding product language to get approval.

Isn't subverting the system like that almost as improper as doing it from the other side? Not as obviously, possibly not as strongly, but from having been in research myself, knowing the little details like that is often good enough to get things through all by itself, completely without regard for whether your research works.
I really don't like the way that objective c express everything, so i was looking forward to Swift.

This tells me that Swift is not ready for prime time 3 versions later:

"Swift 3.0 is a major release that is not source-compatible with Swift 2.2. It contains fundamental changes to the language and Swift Standard Library. A comprehensive list of implemented changes for Swift 3.0 can be found on the Swift evolution site."

Fundamental changes??? Let me know when is stable across versions.
No offense intended but you come off sounding like a True Believer here. There have been and continue to be severe limitations on electric cars:

- high cost of batteries

- limited range largely limits them to urban settings

- materials currently required for manufacturer are limited

- cold weather reduces battery effectiveness and thus range

- time to charge is a huge issue compared to simply refilling a tank

- charging stations require a massive and expensive infrastructure upgrade for widespread use

- cost

- unproven reliability. This is partly an issue of the technology being so new but even Tesla says the batteries need to be replaced after ~8 years.

Battery technology has come a long way in the last 20 years. It's already enabled a bunch of applications that are hugely significant (eg smartphones, drones) to the point where I think that a massive breakthrough in battery technology may well be the most important discovery of the 21st century as the consequences will be so staggeringly massive.

So I'm not saying the electric vehicles are the future or that they aren't. The future is hard to predict. Regardless, putting liquid fuels into vehicles is here for some time to come yet.
I really like the design and how easy it was to import all my bookmarks!
Of course not. It just a question of whether money for a startup competition is better off going to startups for their business development or charities. I was thinking the former. YC can do as much charity as they like. I'd just give them the thumbs up for their generosity.

Note that I'm critiquing Maciej here, not YC.
This is completely anecdotal, but when I was back in the Middle East, tests essentially were games/competitions. Everyone knew everyone else's scores and they were often announced out loud as the results are handed back. Students who consistently get high scores are looked up to and respected. Your academic performance contributed significantly to your social standing in the classroom.

Then I came to Canada and this notion was completely absent. It was one of the many culture shocks. Your grades don't seem to matter that much.

The fact that in the media, at least American disney shows, "nerd" is used a pejorative against people who do well academically, was completely puzzling to me (and actually it still is).
The trick? Be big. Be very big. Be rich. Hold your employees and whole economies as hostages. Remember to look sad at your congressional hearing...
The ground is warmer (and therefore drier) now in
May, and this is especially so in the Boreal Forest
of Canada where temps. have been rising much faster
than they have in the mid latitudes.

This year the fire season started very early, and
temperatures in the region have been at record levels
for days, with some areas reaching above 30 C.

From http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2016/05/05/roaring-infe...

I think this has a lot to do with climate change. If the average temperatures are warmer and the air/ground is drier, it can increase the likelihood, frequency, and severity of wildfires. Colorado and California have been/will be going through the same thing.
You said everything.
There's a notable trend of US companies getting off lightly in comparison with the punishment and fines meted out to their foreign peers by the US authorities.
Upwork changed its ToS so that freelancers are turned into financial slaves
Which is exactly what I was talking about.
Agreed, but just a correction, if not 2018, then you don't get a launch window for another couple of years.
The bubble really wasn't everywhere. The areas with a lot of genuine demand because of job growth and other factors (Bay area, prime areas of Northeast, prime areas of NYC) didn't decline to nearly the same degree that locales like Las Vegas did. Presumably, absent the sub-prime crunch, prices would have started rising more and sooner in the popular areas.
> WTF::Lock and WTF::Condition only require one byte of storage each. WTF::Lock only needs two bits in that byte.

Packing several unrelated, highly contended mutexes into the same 32 bit word is probably not a good idea, though. :)

This reminds me of early Unix and its "wait channels", which were just addresses, not even objects. A process could wait, specifying the address of any object whatsoever as a "channel". A wakeup for that address would resume it. This required no storage in the addressed object itself; the extra paraphernalia required for it was associated by a hash or whatever. And of course that paraphernalia is transient; an object that nobody is waiting on doesn't need it.
I've put it on my list of things to learn - it looks great. Looks like a pleasure to write.
I think this is a natural outcome of a system where drugmakers can spend billions on advertising, marketing, and sales reps. Those are three activities with basically no ethical standards; their only job is to make the graph go up and to the right.

My solution: ban all of that. Let doctors learn about new drugs via means funded by the doctors themselves. Before the Internet, that would have been difficult. But now you can imagine specialist medical journals, or special AMA committees. Manufacturers would still try to manipulate that, but doctors wouldn't be grossly outgunned.
Tesla has CPOs and inventory cars you can get much faster. Of course you're limited in your choices then, just like buying inventory from a dealer.
So Tesla has two problems, according to the article:

- They can't ramp up production fast enough to keep up with the demand indicated by pre-orders.

- Pre-orders are likely to be overstating demand substantially, since they are refundable and therefore vulnerable to speculation.

...Either one of these problems by itself could be a threat, but both together seem somewhat less worrying.
It runs without most of the libraries. The Linux version of Swift doesn't have AppKit / UIKit either.
There's a lot on the website and none of it clearly explains what Origen is and why it might be used.
> special case for the first argument passed to a method

Are you talking about the weirdness where the first argument doesn't require a label? If so, that decision has been made explicit in the last few dev snapshots of 3.0. Basically, if you don't want to require a label when call a function/method then it must be made explicit.
From previous comments, it looks like you're in the UK? Ping me.
It is likely that he deleted his Facebook post because he mentions wearing a keffiyeh, or 'Yasser Arafat scarf' as he calls it. It is far more plausible that this is what drew suspicion than his scribbling algebraic symbols on a page.

http://web-facstaff.sas.upenn.edu/~gmenzio/index_files/self4...
>> Of course, the mom was the one tucking the girl to bed almost every night.

So why did the daughter, given fire trucks and dolls, tuck in the fire trucks instead of the dolls?
Huh, so what's a good and featureful GPIO firmware? I did some searching, but it's a little hard to search for.
Thank you for explaining this.
This is just Swift :) It does not include the UIKit or AppKit framework. Not yet at least. Let's hope that Apple open source them too.
1. I hate paying so much for a house, this is ridiculous, they need to build more supply.
2. I bought a house for some ridiculous price anyways.
3. I'm now fucked if more supply is added. Vote against any proposition that adds more units to the city.
4. Go to my job where I make the world a better place.
Ask HN: Affordable US cities to startup?
Looking to move out of Bay Area, the city doesn't necessarily have to be a tech hub but having small local like minded community is always awesome. I'm looking at this in terms of no extreme weather conditions, cost of living, walk-able, social and friendly neighborhoods. Want to get out of sweatshop. Want to continue working on my own prototype, which is already halfway through. Where do you live ? Any recommendations?
This comment is garbage.
It would certainly exonerate the "concerned citizen" from the accusation that they regarded writing mathematical symbols on a page as a terrorist act.
Given the number of sign-ups he received over the past week, I'm certain he made off very well with this deal, even after donating the "spoils".
I've built a few simple apps running on Linux that have worked great.

Check out Zewo[1]. They've been doing a lot of great work to make Swift 3.0 on the server work really well. Also, check out VeniceX[2] for concurrency and Open Swift[3] for cross project standards[3].

[1]: https://github.com/Zewo/Zewo/
[2]: https://github.com/VeniceX/Venice
[3]: https://github.com/open-swift/docs
"what incentive would there have been for other countries to grant him asylum?"

Depends on if Russia would still like to give him asylum for sole reason of pissing off America as they are right now. Anyway, you're changing the discussion from a heroic whistleblower to someone who will only blow the whistle if he has extra dirt specifically to get asylum. Much less honorable. Not even an option for most whistleblowers.

"So this is kind of an insurance for him (together with other documents that he did not reveal but could if they tried to catch him)."

No, it's not. He's guaranteed they'll throw everything they have at him by leaking everything. They were intercepting diplomatic planes for goodness sake. People tracking those torture flights indicated one showed up at a German airport he would've went through when they asked him to come in. They were possibly willing to black bag his ass. They don't usually do that even with likes of Manning.

No, he's in a really, really, bad situation. He has nothing further to leak as insurance per many interviews where he gave it all away so nobody could torture him for information. If he does, Russia almost certainly knows it already as a condition of his stay. He's literally choosing between being imprisoned in one police state or living in a police state that does 10x worse than what he leaked on the same topic.

His options would've been better if he leaked only domestic stuff, tried to play it stealthy, and maybe selectively leaked docs to the country he wants asylum in. Instead, he leaked it all out of conscience or whatever with global disruption & embarrassment for NSA. The rest is history.
That's my reading, too. If top schools have a great return on investment, then the total returns must be significantly higher because of the size of the investment.
Why 2 gpus? Isn't SLI annoying (e.g. you need to wait for support, if you get it at all) and almost not worth it?
I agree. Calling anyone "human garbage" deserves a ban from HN until a full apology is made. This sort of appalling attitude I think we can do without!
Show HN: Haskell and RPi powered web interface for controlling Philips Hue lights
I don't get this mentality at all. I would guess a majority of adults in the US have had Vicodin or similar and I don't know anyone personally who ever got addicted.

In some it causes nausea. You don't like it, fine. But I don't understand how people can be so pro marijuana on one hand, and so anti-opiates on the other. It's pain. It's not noble to suffer needlessly.

It's complete BS that it's harder for a dentist to prescribe a dozen Vicodin after a root canal these days. Or that many doctors will try to pass off 800mg of ibuprofen as a substitute for Vicodin for throwing you back out. That turns a couple of days of "be careful and taken it easy" into a couple of days of laying around on the couch in pain instead.

These drugs are inexpensive, very effective for short term pain management, and the vast majority of people have mild to no side effects, and almost no one has an addiction issue from using them.

It feels like the modern equivalent of Reefer Madness.
I attempted to address these concerns using an adaptive algorithm in glibc some 15 years ago:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19863734/what-is-pthread-...

The idea is to avoid spinning using hard-coded constants, but put a modicum of on-the-fly empirical science into it: measure the duration of the critical regions with a smoothed estimator, which is maintained in the mutex. If the actual wait exceeds this smoothed average by too much (say double) then conclude that the owner must be pre-empted and break the spin with rescheduling.

The smoothing is done very easily using a few bit operations that implement an IIR filter, similarly to the TCP RTO estimator.
Time to charge is not a huge issue, you can simply replace the battery for a full one. Tesla has an automated battery swap station that can replace one in 90 seconds.
Elon Musk Isn't Crazy
- Until you start shipping, you are burning money. Hit 0 and you die. Tesla is widely believed to need another round before it starts shipping Model 3, even if everything goes to plan. [1]

- US tax rebates for electric vehicles are phased out after a manufacturer has sold 200 000 of them. [2] The longer Tesla takes to start selling Model 3, the more it will have sold of the upmarket (hence less rebate-sensitive) S and X, the fewer price-sensitive Model 3s it will be able to sell at the rebated price.

- Competitors are not standing still. Who knows what else will be available in 2019 or 2020? And how long will those 400k preorders stand in the face of delays when there are alternatives?

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/tesla-to-raise-more-cash-2016-...

[2] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1085549_when-do-electric...
Check out VeniceX[1]. It provides Go-style concurrency. The same group[2] that is working on this is also working on a GCD based concurrency library but the name escapes me at this time.

[1]: https://github.com/VeniceX/Venice
[2]: https://github.com/Zewo/Zewo
AML/KYC is inevitable in a collectivist system. Centralization requires the state to attempt to know everything about everyone, which is impossible, and leads to collapse.
Do you feel the same way about all social sciences? Does "materialism" only mean valuing material things to you or do you respect the Philosophical definition? Honestly it's a lot of handwaving to excuse ignorance (what not knowing the difference between the two terms is)
I originally started with BASIC, created a 4GL with it for productivity, discovered LISP, and re-implemented BASIC in it for incremental compilation & macros. So, yes it's doable. :)
Future income is the primary reason people pursue higher education. We tell people from the time they hit middle school that they need to be preparing for college so they can get a good (i.e. high paying) job.
The AWS Linux GPU instances only have 4GB of memory which means processing can be slow (memory swaps) if your datasets is large.

Generally, it makes sense to have a local GPU to try out models, and move to the cloud for large scale computing, once you have a better idea of the model.
How We Create VR You Can Feel
Even though companies like Purdue deal in the realm of health and wellbeing, they have no interest in either, only in profit. Profit that may come at the expense of health and wellbeing, while appearing otherwise.
Scientific Journal of Tumblr.
Questions:

What language are they using for cleaning up the data for import?

Is there a market for a middleman (i.e., something as a service) that cleans up enterprise data, using customized solutions if necessary, for import into different databases?

If this type of company already exists who are some examples?

This is very unsexy work which I happen to enjoy. Its the phase that routinely comprises 80% or more of any so-called "Big Data" project.
I'm worried that a flight crew responsible for moving a million-lb plane safely through the air isn't allowed (or is unwilling) to perform basic triage on accusations made by terrified passengers.
The Circles of American Financial Hell
Wondering how I can get my money back from this, lost a few grand (legal money) that I deposited just before they got shut down. Saw a vague allusion to contact SDNY about it (only found a mailing address) and haven't seen anything else since.

Was a decent bit of collateral damage since they were fairly popular for offshore forex and bitcoin.
Yes, I also had a similar reaction. Incomes also seem way above what most people could reasonably achieve in Europe.
Version 3.0 is supposed to have a much stabler API going forward. They've been making a lot of changes even since 2.2 that really clean up the standard library.
That is precisely is why the Model 3 will be $35k, less than half your stated cost. Not everyone needs a Model S.
Is this mesos/dcos alternative? Hard to tell what this project is actually doing.
I want his job. I like having eagle, fusion 360 and pycharm open next to each other.

If you have a position open for that kind of people, send me a message, please.
The stupidity in America never ceases to amaze.
Can artificial intelligence create the next wonder material?
What's interesting is that despite that being the case, and they charge out their staff at huge rates (especially compared to what they pay them), they're still losing money.
The linked Washington Post story specifically says the concerned passenger notified staff because of the math she saw.
A human being should be able to do some running, and running a marathon is a specialization for a few dedicated ones... and then you have Bruce Dickinson who does fly a Boing 747 :)
and Vapor web framework include Venice.
Question:

What are the characteristics of NVIDIA GPUs that make them superior for deep learning applications?

Phrased another way, if you're designing a card specifically to be good for training deep neural nets, how does it come out differently from cards designed to be good at other typical applications of GPGPU?
This is inaccurate. There is no term in either Swift, or the Objective-C runtime named 'dispatcher', which makes it seem like you are unfamiliar with the platform.

There are dispatch queues, and the whole purpose of them is to abstract away threads and locks. Using them does not require you to use threads, mutexes or execution contexts.

Yes, it would be better if Swift incorporated language level concurrency, but it isn't a priority because the platform provides a good solution.
Edward Niedermeyer (the author of this particular opinion pieces) hates Telsa, loves Toyota. Pretty clear if you have followed any of his articles.
There's this trope about us choosing to not throw people in jail but its just a consequence of needing real evidence against a person.

Holder made some ckmment to the line of " if we had the evidence , people at the DOJ would be rushing to charge. Throwing a Wall St exec in jail is a career-making case" (edit: actual quote https://mobile.twitter.com/lauraolin/status/7279880874149847... )

The interests are totally aligned for the DOJ to crush any execs found of willful wrongdoing
Line of best fit is wrong and a terrible approximation here.

If they used a curve fit they'd have seen the line curves up as Admission rate decreases.
Agreed. You can easily see this in SV startups who simply won't consider anyone outside their choosen list of universities.
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From what I can tell from that first NASA image, the fire jumped across a >20m wide river (not sure of the scale)? Is that common?
I want to like this, but I can't figure out what it actually does. The intro just says it provides "an API" without saying what functionality it provides, and there seems to be zero usage documentation.

Maybe someone who's looked at the code could explain what this is for and what value it adds to the existing Kubernetes API?

(Protip: if you have six projects with six identical README files, the README probably isn't adding any value.)
Everyone Who Has Emigrated to the United States Since 1820
Bitcoin has a governance problem, no matter who created it
Does this include taxes (and in which country)?
Buying Tesla in UE (in country that doesn't do subsidies) taxes can be +30%, not taking into account the $->euro conversion rate (which is artificially increased by the sellers).
It's a lot more free than it was until late 1970's and China has got tremendously richer as a consequence.

Nor is South Korea a model of freedom; it was authoritarian, it was and still is protectionist. But it did integrate to world economy. Compare it to North Korea, which started off as equally poor, and which has real, concrete, deadly famines in recent memory.

Same applies to R.O.C. Taiwan; autocratic, even corrupt, but reached out to world market (and as a consequence forced the mainland China to follow).

Singapore and Hong Kong: very free trade all the time, and way ahead of others in the region.
It's interesting because the software development strategy of break things fast is based off of agile methodologies developed by Toyota. If any place is primed to be the birthplace of a car company that emulates Toyota, then SV is it. And there's no reason tesla can't be one of those companies.
Yes, it's also what stuck out to me. As he drives away, you can see the fire consume the entire bush (looked like a fallen down tree to me?) and develop into a five-meter long torch.
It seems to be very rare to prescribe opioids for self-administration in the UK. One friend of mine was given some sort of opioid (i forget which) after having surgery on his leg. But for everyone else, diclofenac seems to be the thing that GPs like to spray everywhere.
Not sure what you consider extreme weather conditions, but Madison/Milwaukee, WI has plenty of start-up events, etc. If you are used to the Bay area, Madison has a very similar feel being between two lakes, similar to Berkeley area, etc. Madison has a strong startup community and very good accelerator programs http://www.gener8tor.com/.
Troy Hunt is well know in InfoSec circles. step-2) people come to you. I guess in a nutshell this started it for him but now he receives lots of new media attention because of what he did with https://haveibeenpwned.com/ ...

Other than that you could get them on the darknet. That said any respected security researcher usually would never pay for stolen booty. (paradoxically the definition of respect here seems currently disputed, because sadly, we're living in an era where governments use tax revenues to buy exploits either directly or via proxy over the darkweb to infect and spy on their citizens system)
OpenCL is however a fairly nice target for compilers, which opens up different ways of using it.

Witness also PyOpenCL versus PyCUDA - both are essentially equally convenient to use, while raw OpenCL C is a nightmare compared to CUDA C.