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> I had to append my list of worst outcomes.

This sentence you just wrote should make it very clear why she ran away from you....
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Garages have internal buttons that trigger the door that are wired. If the child is so young that they can't use that, then they can't climb into the drivers seat and press the remote anyway.
I'm one of those unlucky types that have the hardest time waking up and getting going in the morning. Mentally I'm at 50% or less. Is there anyone else like this who's found techniques or other methods of overcoming the slow start?
That is a classic connection pooling/lifecycle bug, and usually one that gets caught in the first few days of having multiple people utilizing a product/service, worst case.

If someone's production site, thats been around for while, had a bug like this that can be caused by what you describe, I'd love to see how many real users they have. I'm sure its possible under certain circumstances, but its definitely bad engineering that would be caused by literally any traffic.
Wow, I've literally never heard of a PhD where you were only expected to work 20 hours/week. I'd say 50-60 is closer to the norm, especially once you're done with your coursework (usually a year or two into a 5-7 year long PhD).

If you don't mind, what field(s) are you two in?
> env.production.toml

Which production env? Which datacenter? Which database cluster? &c

The deployment should take care of generating configs, they shouldn't be hardcoded or stored anywhere imho.
It's not subjective: The operations allowed on a Go value or object are precisely those that are sanctioned by its type. The problem for Go programmers is that Go types don't mean what they think they mean.
A smaller battery would be limited to a lower output power (as max battery power is defined as a function of battery capacity), so reducing the battery size would make it slower. The fastest it could be would be for most of the mass of the car to be battery, at which point it could theoretically have 5000+ horsepower, although there are practical limitations of course of transmitting that to the road.
It was also 98°F that day in San Tan, for reference.
If they could find a way to blow glass underwater, from active volcanoes, they could create dry environments within glassware to do non-aquatic research within.
In the humanities, 75% of courses are taught by grad students and adjuncts. I think the split between them is about half and half.

An overwhelming percentage of the actual work of higher education is done by grad students and contingent faculty.
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Yes, everybody scrapes the prices of the others.
How about specialized Tesla racing battery packs using super-capacitors and equipped with a cooling system? (Using the whole aluminum underside of the battery pack as a radiator.)
I second raindrop.io.

I have been using it for three months now, and it works flawlessly. I was using Pocket, but sometimes after I would save links with their iPhone app, I would go into their web interface to view them at a later time, and those links would be gone.

But I have not had one single link disappear from raindrop.io since I have been using it.
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Well in the case of Amazon, $66,000 per MINUTE. If you want to make a case for money only being money sure. But as far as business is concerned, that is an emergency.
Not what I said. I said "realistically imaginable attack" ie ethics is the only thing hypothetically stopping them, not lack of fantasy technology. See if you can come up with a counterexample that actually meets that hurdle.

Mind control satellites and lizard men are both so far away from our current science and technology that even assuming the NSA could be a few years ahead, it's not worth considering. If there really were mind control sattelites or similar precursor technology available or in research today, and there were lizard men who had a history of being good at working with those and willing to sell their skills, then I would agree that it's plausible they're doing it.

Also, I'm more interested in the /practical/ applications of this knowledge of whether the intelligence community does a certain thing X, not the philosophical certainty of whether they do a thing X. You lock your doors because someone /might/ break in /maybe/, not because you're certain John Doe is planning on doing so at 4:30am tonight. Even if no one ever does, it's certainly technically possible, so if locks are cheap it's a reasonable tradeoff, even if you'll never be sure if they really helped.

You're probably right though that I'm moving the goalposts around! :-) I'm not trying to have a formal debate, just idly shooting the shit on the net, so I'm OK with that.
4.5 miles/kWh is hugely optimistic, and a 30kWh reserve is highly unrealistic. Tesla's range numbers are based on roughly 3.3 miles/kWh (which is reasonably realistic) and the floor is maybe 5kWh.

I can't explain the discrepancy, but it's definitely not just the floor. Either they've made some sort of efficiency improvement, or the difference between the two battery packs is more than 10kWh and they've just rounded off the figures.
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One of my favorite scenes from 'Blow':

Judge: George Jung, you stand accused of possession of six hundred and sixty pounds of marijuana with intent to distribute. How do you plead?
George: Your honor, I'd like to say a few words to the court if I may.
Judge: Well, you're gonna have to stop slouching and stand up to address this court, sir.
George: [stands] Alright. Well, in all honesty, I don't feel that what I've done is a crime. And I think it's illogical and irresponsible for you to sentence me to prison. Because, when you think about it, what did I really do? I crossed an imaginary line with a bunch of plants. I mean, you say I'm an outlaw, you say I'm a thief, but where's the Christmas dinner for the people on relief? Huh? You say you're looking for someone who's never weak but always strong, to gather flowers constantly whether you are right or wrong, someone to open each and every door, but it ain't me, babe, huh? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe. It ain't me you're looking for, babe. You follow?
Judge: Yeah... Gosh, you know, your concepts are really interesting, Mister Jung.
George: Thank you.
Judge: Unfortunately for you, the line you crossed was real and the plants you brought with you were illegal, so your bail is twenty thousand dollars.
Sounds like this could be screened for by asking multiple people about average vacation time taken and then asking the boss if they've ever denied a vacation request?
I know everyone's busy re-iterate the usual health care talking points, but I this part interesting: McArdle says that she went on to a British talk show to talk about NHS and Obamacare, and the host and opponent both refused to deny that NICE does what it actually does: a CBA on treatments and recommends for/against them to the NHS.

(Obama tried to set up IPAB to do the same thing.)
I wouldn't be surprised if they were but it takes some time to actually release a game feature.
Not universally true -- I know students on NDSEG fellowships (i.e. DoD) receive a 1099. I can't speak to the other fellowships though, and I don't get any deduction/withholding done for me, so I have to pay estimated quarterly.

And funds that come through my university do get a W-2 come tax time.
Yes, they do. Bizarrely, I know of two people with an NSF GRF at different institutions, one who receives a W-2 and one who does not. They both receive departmental "fellowships".

There is more to "tax status" than whether you must pay income tax. There are payroll taxes, Roth IRA-eligibility, etc.
That's a fairly good argument. I would like to see some actual statistics the frequency of CPS overreacting in an unreasonable fashion. I certainly read many news stories about it, but that is misleading in exactly the same way as the stories we hear about child abductions.

I do however have some level of knowledge here. I have spoken with people involved in child protection about questions like this. I have been told that if this person saw a parent allowing their 11-year-old child to cross the street to play on a playground unsupervised that they would have to write it up. They backed this up with citations of specific laws (Maryland - which does, indeed, have absurd laws on this subject). So while statistics might convince me that this is an anomaly, I do have personal experience that suggests the CPS risk is real.
Curious how many Tb someone like twitch does per day. AFAIK they are the biggest live streaming platform, since Netflix is all HTTP.

Seems like that could be a big moneymaker for them, for these big time events that need a "live" aspect.
Oh man other browsers kill the battery compared to Safari. It's not even a comparison.
Yes I agree with this, from what I understand about the study it wasn't just the parents willingness to leave a young child unsupervised, but also what the parents then went and did while leaving the child unsupervised. I.E. I bet the environmental risks to a child whose parents leave them alone so they can play pokemon go for a couple hours is higher than a child whose parents leave them so they can go to work.

I think in that instance our moral judgement of the parents is pointing us in the general right direction of the risk to the child. Though our moral judgement IMO massively overinflates that risk.
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I was confused so I had to check wikipedia.

> (Daniel) Kahneman told The New York Times in an interview soon after receiving the honor: "I feel it is a joint prize. We were twinned for more than a decade."
Iirc Zipy doesn't use a GIL.
How does it not scale? It's an automated service.
Obviously the newsworthiness depends on two sliding scales: (1) how big is the testing; and (2) how terrible is the feature. Here, the testing is public but not huge, and the feature is quite horrible (IMO). Seems worth sharing, since FB undoubtedly monitors public outcry to limited testing.
This is how people build very high power (5kW+) electric bikes, by using RC aircraft batteries as power sources. Very light and high power output.
May I hijack this thread and ask why moving to SF at all? Was it part of the deal? Would you have moved despite the acquisition? Is there any specific things Instapaper was missing out by not being in bay area?
Would it be worth it to use protocol buffers just for the serialization. To replace a current traditional variant. So not for small http communication but for larger persistent storage. Does it help for versioning purposes and preparing for the future when your product might go from traditional to web. Performance aside, it's a clear win there. It seems you have some overhead against in-code solutions (separate .proto files) but it may pay off in versioning and future of your product given all movements to Web etc.
Not to mention, a bunker in Paris. If it's not speed-critical, it should be off in some mountain or field not an urban center.
You'll achieve the official numbers at around 70MPH in mild weather. The top speed is a bit over 2x that speed, so you'd use something like 4x more energy per mile. You'd expect the range at top seed to be roughly 80 miles.
Does she say what the host and opponent claimed NICE do instead of cost benefit?
And the upcoming compact SUV will be the Y.
This has always made sense to me looking at it from a 1099 vs W2 point of view. (Those are the independent contractor vs employee tax forms in the US.

Grad students who teach can't determine their own schedule, they can't accept/reject individual tasks, they don't have multiple customers, and they are receiving training throughout.

Ref: https://www.learnvest.com/knowledge-center/the-difference-be...

My only surprise is how long it took this to happen.
A question for HN: Is investing in public VCs a good idea? From casual observation it seems the good ones are usually private.

(Yes, I know an ACWI index fund is better, but I'm not investing big money and I'm willing to lose out a bit monetarily in exchange for fun and supporting companies I like)
One of the original court cases covering this was eBay vs Bidders Edge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_v._Bidder%27s_Edge

The courts have generally disagreed with that interpretation.
In Computer Science grad students are often paid by the university to perform research e.g. research fellows (RF) or research assistants (RA). This research helps them complete their PhD but it helps the University in terms of grant funding and prestige/influence. It is often mutually beneficial but it is clearly work.
I now realize I did not understand your original comment. Thank you for the clarification. I don't agree with how you use "undefined behavior", but it's appropriate for the OP's context.
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The CPS should have a focus on parents that are unreasonable in their protection. Unfortunately, they have to be policy based. One child out of 500,000 that is snatched when alone creates much more attention than 50,000 children (out of 500,000) that never get the joy of developing into reasonable, competent and calm grown-ups...
In engineering, at least at the school I attended, very few classes were taught directly by TA/grad students. Again, just a difference in department/field.
looks like only 15% of american adults are awake at 4 am. ppl like to sleep in!

http://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-ameri...
Americans buy horsepower and drive torque.
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> The only way to get any legislative action on this is to get the electorate to care about it so that legislators get convinced that they need to act on this in order to keep their constituency returning to the polls and checking off their name.

> And in order to do that, you need to talk about how problematic and reprehensible these moves are, so people actually care about it.

It sounds like we're in agreement there. The only difference is, you've expressed an unrealistic expectation with regard to the effectiveness of social pressure directly aimed at the company involved. If history is any guide, we can only expect systemic improvement in this scenario through legislation and/or deregulation. Otherwise, you're merely treating symptoms of the problem, not the cause (and no, the cause isn't capitalism or profit-seeking companies as many may have you believe).

Now, if trying to fix problems in our country through the use of a system of rules and regulations (aka, laws) that has been established for that very purpose is nonsensical, then so be it. I suppose that view is indeed nonsensical in the context of today's prevailing social attitudes.
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Out of curiosity, do you use virtual consoles in Linux/BSD routinely? Switching just to kill a process or reboot doesn't count! If so, what is your motivation? Thanks!
It's utterly bizarre in that it varies from institution to institution. I am on a DOE CSGF and we receive /nothing/, just a letter stating what funding we received in a given year.

I received a NDSEG as well and my research showed up a lack of homogeneity in how each school handles things.
One of the main BLAS implementations (where lots of numerical computation spends 99% of its time) is OpenBLAs, hand-crafted assembly per CPU. Main competitor is Intel MKL, closed source.

Even if you could interpret that code, your JIT-ing is not going to create exactly the same assembly and will thus perform worse. You can very easily get a C implementation that you can interpret easily but at least as output by a C compiler, that performance is nowhere near where you want to be.

(I realize this is not a problem though, just have the JIT call the libraries, as long as the wrapper can be interpreted you are good.)
When people aren't satisfied with the "learning about the universe" justification for doing high energy physics, I remind them that particle physicists invented the world wide web.
Your napkin math is way off. 40MPH in 0.2 seconds is only 89m/s^2, or about 9g. You probably wouldn't even lose consciousness!
I really don't think the people who buy Teslas would otherwise be buying Cadillacs. The Tesla P90D and similar are competing against the top option package BMW 7-series, Audi A8 and similar.
This was maddening as well. I had to go through nbcsports app and dig deep to find "Michael Phelps wins gold after thrilling final!" Instead of "200m X stroke final"
It's totally reasonable to want to distance yourself from this sort of thing. However, NPR is an explicitly American news organization, and the second sentence of TFA is prefaced with, "In the United States today..."

Actually a lot of the crazy shit you might associate with "USA" is only relevant for certain communities.
These are not the most common archetypes I've seen. Many (most?) VCs come from the finance/m&a/vc world. They have not run companies nor been on succesful product teams before. It is rare that a VC is an ex-operator, though founders want to work with them the most making them highly sought after.

This explained to me the disconnect I found between how I viewed the world as a founder, and how certain VCs viewed the world as finance people.
This varies by school. In my school, from what I saw, 0% of humanities courses were taught by grad students. I only had an adjunct professor once and it was for a CS class. He wasn't a grad student either.
> Thus, if you take a photograph of a building built in 1991 and the year is not yet 2111, there is a chance that the architect can claim infringement.

The architect can claim infringement all they want, they don't have a case. From https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/120 :

The copyright in an architectural work that has been constructed does not include the right to prevent the making, distributing, or public display of pictures, paintings, photographs, or other pictorial representations of the work, if the building in which the work is embodied is located in or ordinarily visible from a public place.
>There is no reason to think that the elasticity of crime is enormous and in ranges like 10 or 100....

Yes, there is -- people are fickle like that. Society often leaves methaphorical unlocked doors for a long time, that no one thinks to enter through -- but then once it becomes "a thing", you're an easy target if you don't secure it.

Do you lock your (literal) doors? If so, then I guess you must have mistaken beliefs about crime rates and the elasticity of crime with respect to door-bypass-difficulty?

See also my reply to dragonwriter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12346586
This would be a killer feature. Currently the game is enhanced by turning the AR off in all instances, because even though it looks cool it makes battling and catching Pokemon more difficult
As a non-morning person, waking up before 8AM usually ensures that I am absolutely dog tired by mid afternoon (~2-3PM) and completely non-productive from 5PM onward.

Waking up at 4AM would mean that time-frame moves up another 3 hours and I would have to finish doing everything I need to during the day by 2-3PM and most jobs would generally look down upon that.

> YMMV of course, but getting up really early might not be as outlandish as it sounds.

Doing it once or twice isn't especially difficult or outlandish, but I haven't managed to keep it up longer than a week despite my best efforts. And it always resulted in absolutely miserable afternoons.
I can only make sense of what he meant assuming it is 20h/week on top of the "study time" purely for the purpose of the PhD.
But then that seems like a lot, I wonder what's in the 20h...
Except I don't feel sorry for myself, that's kinda the point!

It was a post about coming to terms with yourself, and getting on with life.
I find the range improvement more significant.

Anyone have info as to if the power density was increased, or they just crammed in more cells into the battery?

I'm hoping for a 400 mile range car in two years... for half the price.

Also, does this imply that the battery costs roughly 20,000? or that's with a "rebate" for recycling your old one?
There is a big difference between a Master's level grad student and a PhD level grad student.

I got a Master's in CS, and I mainly took classes and wrote a single thesis that received no funding. I did this at a smaller state (e.g., public) university and I paid for it myself. I was a student. (Side note: I paid for this myself by working the entire time that I pursued my bachelor's and master's degrees, and graduated without any student loans.)

I am in my 4th year now (after completing the Master's) working on my PhD in CS at an R1 research (private) university where I receive a stipend. I do not pay any tuition. I have not taken a class in 2 years, and I will not take a class this year, either. I teach classes. I grade homework and tests. I perform research funded by grants (for organizations who reap the benefits of my research). In my mind, I am not a student; I am an employee (making less than market value). In practice, how is what I am currently doing any different than an employee?

As someone who has been a grad student on both levels, I disagree with your blanket statement. Perhaps some grad students do nothing but take classes, but that is decidedly not the case in any PhD STEM field. I have too many friends in other PhD STEM programs that relate the same experience.
Or maybe a greenhouse. That way you get sellable product out of it, not just captured carbon.
The Telsa also is really only fast from 0-60 or maybe 0-100. I've ridden around my local race track in one with tires squealing the whole way and while it was ridiculous off the line (I say that as the owner of a 600+ hp car), it's acceleration dropped off greatly the faster you went.
How many JS-targeted VMs / container things run just one thread of this async-ness when more are available to that container / VM / context? I'd rather run mod_php under preform MPM and take advantage of all the cores. Is there something as easy and well-supported for running Node apps in things like Docker?
"Instead, the paradoxical key to true happiness seems to be accepting unhappiness - not forcing yourself to feel how you don't."

I don't know about that. The key to true happiness is accepting that happiness is the path not the destination. When you realize that life becomes a heck of a lot easier to live.
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There's an interesting graph on this article that could have put that article's observation about adoption rate into an interesting perspective. Alas, the El Capitan line is just getting started, so it doesn't show the part of the story that I was hoping to see.

But it shows graphs of the last several versions – the last four of which are interesting because they show what adoption has been like since Apple started the annual release cadence. Their profiles aren't remarkably different, to my eye. They all have similar peaks immediately prior to the release of its successor.

http://lowendmac.com/2015/the-rise-and-fall-of-mac-os-x-vers...
Threading in node is very easy, just use clusters. Alternatively, take any of the CPU intensive activity, like parsing the HTML and formatting as JSON, and just put that on an AWS lambda.

You can invoke as many lambdas from your application as you want in parallel and you're not going to be bottlenecked by your CPU :)
I haven't kept up with it (I'd assume someone has more recent data/times), but I know older version's of the S had trouble doing full laps of Laguna Seca and the Nürburgring due to heat. Is that still the case?
you need the larger pack size to deliver enough current to do 0-60 in 2.5 seconds.

Just don't ask how it would perform in a 10 mile race ;-)

spoiler alert: the software throttles the top speed down aggressively as the battery heats up, which it will do very quickly while accelerating rapidly.