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> last year’s figures reported just 750,000 sales worldwide

Hacker, you chew on that while you struggle to sell some half-decent and useful app to twenty people. :)
Why is residential solar important to the plan? Aren't large solar installations a more cost effective way of switching houses already on the grid to solar energy.
I can tell you how.

A shitty Belkin KVM in certain configurations can allow this to happen.

There's a bug which keeps generating chr(32) characters when you activate the keyboard shortcut (scroll lock twice), and try to switch to another machine.

It will keep pumping out those spaces on whatever fields was selected at the time, so if you take your time before you switch back, you are going to be in for a lot of fun.

Haven't read the link yet, but wanted to share this sooner than later.
For dense cities, it could dramatically improve the quality of life.

Which is why I'd like to see cities or housing developers taking a more open minded approach towards integrating something like car2go into their projects.

But for municipalities car2go's "commercial-ness" is some sort of stigma (which is wierd because it's not really being a high profit raking venture).

To "dramatically improve quality of life" the many low hanging fruits would have to be tackled by local government. (smaller) cities should consider franchising it somehow (ie paying Daimler for being part of the car2go network).
Not 20 million in VT. 20,000 people in each city. 1,000 cities around the world.
How do you know that you are not now, a simulation? In fact, once we have the technology to produce such a simulation, logically speaking, then, it is an overwhelming probability that we are a simulation, given that, you have at most one 'original' creature, and each subsequent creature can (eventually) create an artificial universe with artificial beings, for some definition of artificial. Thus you have (n-1)/n chances of being a simulation, which over time, as n-> infinity, means a certainty.

Even our reasons for thinking we are 'real' are flimsy. We say we have our senses! We open our eyes and see a blue sky and green grass. We reach down and touch each individual blade of grass, surely not a simulation.

But even that is bogus. There is no such thing as a blue sky, or green grass. That's all in your head. It's (at most) just different frequencies of energy. Same goes for this 'touching' bit. You don't touch anything, you just (again at most) have energy interactions.

So get used to it, you likely are a simulation.
The clickbait 'title' makes some claim to vulnerability, except that's the wrong word entirely. The described "vulnerability" is logically equivalent to briefly removing one's face from the frame, because that's what this is. The article actually suggests that as the usual alternative!

There's nothing else going on here beyond "think about Windows Hello, please". Is this really what we want HN to be about?
The bigger issue is that they let it get this bad. In order to get this this point, they would have had to systematically fail triage bugs when they come it, fail to track them as they're fixed, and fail to rectify the problem for over two years.

This is an admission that they probably never gave a damn about your bug reports. But hey: if you'd like to help this multibillion dollar company to triage their bugs and re-file an updated issue they would appreciate it.
> My point is, the statistics may be painting a different picture when viewed in the whole. Even if this specific case is true, we may just be trading one cause of death for another. There's no guarantee overall injury or "suffering" will be reduced.

The same is true when you prevent death by any means at all. Everyone dies eventually by some cause. This does not mean we shouldn't try to prolong life where we can by avoiding early, needless death! (Otherwise why would we even have airbags or seatbelts, etc?)
Buyers of premium cars expect details that are expensive to manufacture. That doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be difficult to manufacture them or that the productivity has to be low.
I went to novatek before he sold it, and was given a presentation on this project. It didn't seem complete, and there were many things that just didn't make sense. When other people I talked to explained that it was an effort to build a religeous utopia some of the stranger things made a little more sense, but still many of the choices he is making seem arbitrary and odd.

There was the main meeting building with movable floors and walls that were justified by the ability to use it as a chapel, and a gym, and that it could also be sectioned off into individual meeting rooms. The underground monorail system with individual autonomous cars is supposed to be the main transportation... No cars allowed. The size of the living quarters is very small. It's supposed to be all mixed use, with one main boulevard that all the shops are on. Living space would all be on level 2, and gardens on the top floor. Lots of farm area right out back, but communal.

It's odd, but if he's got the money to try it, more power to him.
The writing has been on the wall for over half a decade, though.
This man is my uncle. FYI, I have NO affiliation with the project, but I have watched it with rapt attention since I have connections to both the Mormon community and “Uncle David,” as well as very close Vermont friends, so I definitely see both sides of the coin. Again, ZERO affiliation other than relation, but happy to answer any questions from an unofficial role. ;)
Did he bring back the IBM 5100 that he promised?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
Thanks for this math, which really demonstrates how... er, pipe-dreamy Musk is on this.

The truck logistics industry has been struggling with this problem for years. How do we increase fuel efficiency from the days of 90s Caterpillar engines dragging 80K lbs at 4.3 mpg while simultaneously decreasing emissions while simultaneously figuring out how to make the truck itself lighter and able to move more cargo in a single load?

Autonomous electric trucks would improve "fuel" economy and minimize downtime caused by the limits of human endurance, but at what cost? How many miles of range would the batteries have to have to compensate for the slower cruising speed and additional stops needed to recharge them? How much DOT downtime has to be eliminated to make up for being able to pull a few thousand pounds less on each trip, owing to the massive number of LiOn batteries scattered around the truck and trailer?

When I worked at Penske Truck Leasing in the late aughts, I'd have fascinating conversations with truck drivers on the math they were doing to optimize for fuel economy and load capacity. The switch one of Penske's clients made in changing their fleet to DEF Volvos with 240 gallons of diesel capacity compared to the classic Detroit Diesel Freightliner Centuries with dual 150-gallon tanks caused many an angry tirade.

Many of the drivers were constantly juggling juuuuuust enough fuel to make it to the destination and back; the trailer they were headed to pick up was so heavy they couldn't have more than ~200 gallons of fuel or they'd be over 80K and fined accordingly at the scales. Good luck making that 1200 mile round trip on your 200 gallons, driver.

I'm not sure trucks are the answer. We'd need too much overhauling of the current system to make it worthwhile. Without increasing weight loads, which destroys our infrastructure even faster, as well as rethinking how trailers are loaded and unloaded to maximize the 24/7 automated nature of autonomous fleets... We're a long way off.

And, anyways, aren't cargo ships and trains basically already electric and their massive diesel engines are just powering the electric motors? No weight limits or problems caused by slow cruising speeds in those applications, that I'm aware of.
As a Mormon myself, I've never heard of this guy or his plans. I've heard of lots of "niche" Mormons with crazy ideas though, so I read on for entertainment purposes.

I was pretty surprised by the quality of thought going into the project. This guy probably has a lot in common with the HN crowd so I can see why the article was submitted. He's a type of visionary/intuitive/big-picture thinker, someone who is concerned about the quality of systems, sustainability, things like that.

The end of the article outlines the problem nicely though; there's a real conundrum--do we trust the guy who seems to know what he's doing and addresses the exact problems we complain about, or do we trust our fears that something always seems to go wrong?
As someone who lives not to far from here can I say, this is nuts. Mega-city and Vermont are opposites. It just seems crazy that someone with tons of money and nothing to spend it on can just walk in and try to build a city in the middle of nowhere and where everybody there besides him wants it that way.
Agree. The first plan laid out the chronological steps to reach the goal. This second plan is more scattered.
> Image files are an excellent vector for attacks since they can be easily distributed over web ...

Reminds me of how easy it was to jailbreak the first iPhone (in 2007) with a malicious image. No computer required.

- Use a quick hack to enable WiFi on a brand new unactivated phone (for which you just paid full price).

- Visit a website with a malicious tiff file, Voila !

The best part : The above jailbreak also claimed that they patched the vulnerability after exploiting it.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2539680/security0/new-i...
But it discusses potential for being appealing in the future when things settle down and new features are added.

Also apparently stackoverflow julia questions have clear exponential growth.
The F series is their big profit center, but they do still make money on their other vehicles.
How can there be no connection. The guy is mormon, the inspiration is directly from Smith's writings, etc. I don't know anything about the writings, but from the article, it seems Smith was fairly clear in wanting to do something like this.

Of course, yes this is an entrepreneur wanting to do a grandiose thing, but to say there's no connection is silly.

(I'm not a Mormon, and have no horse in this race.)
Arguing that someone may be biased on the basis of their race is not racism. It's at worst generalizing or ad hominem. This had nothing to do with Curiel being Mexican specifically other than the nature of the circumstances (Trump might have advanced a similar argument about a Muslim judge, for instance).

Progressives going after this specifically was misguided overreach. There's a reasonable basis to assume someone may be biased by their racial heritage. There's so much else Trump has done that is totally egregious that I find it mind-boggling to call him on this specifically. If anything, it gives ammunition to the anti-PC crowd.
This seems like an insane thing to do in that part of Vermont. TFA doesn't have a map anywhere in it, but this is on the eastern edge of Vermont, near Hanover, NH, and Queechee, VT, except slightly north and farther away from those islands of quasi-civilization. I went to school near there, and spent almost a month building trail on the AT right around this area one summer. It's a backwards, old-timey redneck New England farming community, that reminds me far too much of my home in the Sandy River valley of Maine (aka I would love to live there and be a subsistence farmer...)
Sure it does, they have unique distinguishing features; they only look identical if you don't look too hard. Computers are good at seeing all the details.
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nitpick: nice graph on the "information superhighway" but a label about exactly what is being measured (0.000055%, of what) would be great. Is this a word count? Or its rate of change? There's a reason our (stuffy) professors/sub-editors always insist on sources and accurate labeling. I'm only interested because the most recent data points, despite large decline, still suggest a non-negligible use of a term which I haven't heard in years other than in a small amount of anecdotes/jokes.
Could you provide specific details?
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While it's true people are going to die on autopilot, what you need to compare it with is the number of people who would otherwise have caused collisions the autopilot avoided. Statistically if it isn't already safer than the average driver it's very close.

There are 1.5 million heart attacks and strokes in the US every year. Self driving cars might end up being safer even if we were all perfect drivers.
> I still don't understand the SolarCity part.

People who buy electric cars are far more likely to buy solar panels. And storage batteries. And wiring they would need for the electric car. It's all directly related.

So when I buy a Tesla ... I have to hire a 3rd party to install the wiring to charge it. I can buy the storage battery from Tesla, but again, need to hire someone else to install it. And if I want solar panels for that storage battery, again 3rd party.

SolarCity has a fleet of professionals ready to do all of that. They also have a plant to manufacture their own panels, which hopefully they'll be able to differentiate on. Combining the two companies will enable Tesla to service that whole loop with the equipment and installation.

Now, you can argue that Tesla may have been better off starting their own division from scratch or buying someone else ... but from what I heard, they're getting a hell of a bargain for SolarCity.
That's really cool. Do you know of any sources for his inspiration other than JS? And any standout memories of your uncle you can share? He seems like a really intelligent guy. It'd be neat if some scaled-down version of this could be tested without creating so many waves.
Actually, everything is DRM encumbered on iTunes except music that is purchased. All other content has Fairplay DRM on it.
Weeellll, except for that $30B loss from 2006-2008 [1] leading to them taking a $5.9B government "loan" in 2009. (It should also be noted that while not directly dipping into the $80B bailout pot, Ford told Congress that not bailing out other companies threatened Ford's continued existence. [2]) Plus they were second only to Toyota in the amount of money they drew from cash-for-clunkers - not exactly standing on their own two feet.

The ship has been righted for now, but it was pretty good in 2000 as well.

[1] http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70R0S420110128

[2] http://www.factcheck.org/2011/09/ford-motor-co-does-u-turn-o...
> This is 100% against everything the crypto world is all about

That statement came out of nowhere :D care to expand?
This wasn't clear to me either. The best I could understand was from this statement

"The purpose of these predictions is to simulate the recommended actions from the PUE model, to ensure that we do not go beyond any operating constraints."

Seems that the action was to deliver the perfect amount of cooling needed for the current/predicted load. I'm guessing the old model was sloppy with the cooling and used more power to keep the servers cooler than they needed to be.
That's a gross distortion.

The state is very far from being a utopia, and new development does get routinely approved (though it can be controversial). We do tend to oppose giant chains or people trying to push systems onto the state.
It reminds me a bit of the Daybreak[1] privately built master planned community in Utah build by a mining company. Not sure how well it's coming along, but seems like they wanted everything to be walkable and pleasant.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreak_(community)
A long, long time ago:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
You can not be serious.
While the articles that I've been seeing on HN lately aren't specifically uplifting, I /am/ glad to be (seemingly) seeing more related to the black experience.
Buy it from someone else then ;)
I wonder why Hardware Description Languages don't make the cut here?
That would be news to me. More likely, they're just going with a conspiracy argument (and indeed he is charged with conspiracy): he didn't actually commit copyright infringement himself, but aided others in doing so. Even then, conspiracy laws have very specific requirements for conviction, and this may not check all the boxes. It will be interesting to see.
I would counter the fear. Data center engineering requires expert knowledge (network, civil engineering, material science, etc), and expert knowledge is a testimony of experience, and experience is only proven to be good with data (track of records!)! While computers are very good at making prediction and decisions with enough data, humans are still integral in the decision such as actually building the blueprint and architecting the right system. That computer cannot do. Only human is capable of doing that today. Not to be too negative because I don't know how complicated the model is, but since they already have senors all the years (they use these senors to determine how much cool air need to be come in, how much of hot air need to be released and reused, etc), I am not sure how the learning model is different from a classical supervised ML algorithm. I can only think of simulation wasn't in the original equation and here they do some simulation?
You will never be as funny as Groucho.
The enterprise world I lived in was all SOA 10 years ago. WSDL services everywhere.
Very cool. I wonder how many more sensors do they installed to collect necessary data.
"Given enough time, though, I think the paradigms that Julia is exploring will make it a killer general-purpose language."

I think its already a Killer general-purpose language (except for the module system).

I'm just not sure if it is good enough to unseat incumbents when there are things like rust with its deterministic memory management or python with all its momentum and compiler technology coming along.

Not sure whether to bet on it at this point.
I was referring to the search performed when you open the start menu and start typing. It doesn't seem like a Cortana "question".
All that sophomoric doubletalk about 'lethal force' thrown in there for effect I guess
Google has Waze data. Which I would think serves as a GREAT set of labels for the data that the self driving cars collect.
No because you have to account for peak usage and have the capacity for it. There will be car savings, but the math wont be as simple as you say it is.
I live in the neighborhood that is profiled in the article. I am not surprised that blacks are leaving. I want to leave myself.
Always fascinating how it turns out many ideas in research were already tested in the past (of course DeepMind is most likely aware of and has improved on prior work).

From NIPS in 2008: "Managing Power Consumption and Performance of Computing Systems Using Reinforcement Learning" (http://papers.nips.cc/paper/3251-managing-power-consumption-...)
But that's a weird character to put in a comment line! I don't get how this would happen accidentally.
What makes you want to leave?
From the article.

> After crunching the numbers, “we think that around 3,000 studies could be affected,” says Dr Eklund. But without revisiting each and every study, it is impossible to know which those 3,000 are.

This is why every single scientific study should include raw data and complete analysis methods. If these two items are not provided and the results of putting raw data through the analysis is not repeatable the work should not pass peer review.

If Elsevier etc are going to be rent seeking and charging ridiculous sums for a single article they should be providing the data analysis confirmation and storage as well.
That's pretty cool, didn't know about it. Thanks. I thought it was interesting that their sales went up in a down housing market. That seems like a pretty clear mark of quality.
He's definitely bright. My Dad and he worked together for many years, though not on this project. When I asked my Dad about it he said, “no comment.” Ha.

I confess I don't know other sources of inspiration, though I'm certain he's very familiar with other engineering efforts of similar kind. The reporting in this article is pretty sound; he's drawing much of his inspiration from an abstract document.
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Clojure (and ClojureScript via Reagent[1]) is what got me into functional programming in the first place. However, as a developer working in a .NET shop I found more opportunities (e.g. .NET interop) to do "functional programming" in F#, which has also been well support cross-platform for some time.

At the time, Leiningen was still in its infancy and I hit a lot of issues getting things running but when I finally did the language had a profound impact on me as a developer.

[1]: https://reagent-project.github.io
A certain amount of optimism is a necessary prerequisite of being an entrepreneur. Nobody would ever do it if they knew from the start how hard it would be.
I'd like to hear one. Server side rendering if/where needed, don't overload on NPM modules, drop jQuery entirely, react lib served by a CDN. SPAs fail in the hands of amatuers. They excel as a way of instituting rigor in dynamic site development when wielded by people who know what they're doing.
I still have a Funai VCR I use to record a few programs. Works with 720 scan lines and savescthe cable DVR fee.
We have some really smart gals too!
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I'm really disappointed this is not a new video game
So that's why KAT's been down all day.

Two things: If you're going to build a torrent indexer, don't profit from it. Keep it alive yourself, with NO ads, just plain HTML and JS and images.

Second: This is why I vastly prefer usenet.
There's no real point to it, either, unless you don't have enough boosters to satisfy demand. It would be cheaper to build an extra booster (and possibly extra ADSs) and keep returning them by sea.
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Refusal to do such cold calculation, though it may feel nice, is also paid for in lives. The prices are usually worse, too.
Use solar on the roof for reefer trailers (similar to 3rd Gen Prius option)?
Last year I pitched Playa (http://getplaya.com/) at Launch conference and was laughed off stage by Jason Calacanis. My example use of the technology was that your autonomous vehicle would be able to contract itself out as an 'uber', earning you money while you slept. Today Tesla announced that this is part of its plans for the future and everyone is going wild.

We're now going a step further and building a next-gen interface for that autonomous future. ‪#‎Asteria‬.

http://getasteria.com/
Tesla should buy Uber to manager all booking, locating taxis and other stuff. Then it would be badass combination!
This turned out to be a lot more serious and interesting than I expected. From the headline, Hall sounded like a Mormon nutcase. But his plans are actually a lot more realistic than you'd expect: a planned development of 20,000 people is not crazy. He's also putting real effort into the engineering required to fulfill the density of his vision. It also sounds like he's trying to make the venture sustainable and appears to have found some success in revenue through licensing or more traditional development projects.

He's probably crazy to be trying it in Vermont though. He'll have to import voters before he can get anything approved.

Maybe he just needs to listen to his PR people more. Downplay the Mormon angle, talk more about environmental efficiency, and pitch the communistic aspects—he might just get more sympathy.
Government in general a profitable venture for those in government. You have to produce nothing, please no one and you get to decide how much money is your fair share of what others have worked hard to earn.
I think it is quite social, although we do use an open office layout.
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