skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems unlikely that Panasonic, LG Chem, Sony, Samsung, etc will cede all their current market share in EV battery production -- that is, 100% of the market -- to a company that currently has none whatsoever. Tesla doesn't make batteries right now... they make battery packs composed of batteries produced by Panasonic and LG Chem.

The Gigafactory is basically space sharing: Panasonic's contracted to produce some billions of batteries there, while Tesla has space for assembly lines to package Panasonic's output into packs for cars and homes.

Fast forward two years into the future: why would BMW definitely opt to buy Tesla packs of Panasonic batteries, instead of producing their own packs of Panasonic batteries, or Samsung batteries, or an integrated product from LG?

LG has the US's largest battery factory in Michigan, which opened in 2013. They have production lines going for the Chevy Volt, Spark EV, Cadillac CT6, and several unnamed customers... and expect to grow production capacity at least 5x in the next 2-3 years. Like the Gigafactory, their output will be measured in gigawatt-hours per year.

They also offer more than just batteries to EV makers. LG is providing the battery cells, battery packs, charging systems, motors, control software and infotainment system software for the Chevy Bolt for example. Tesla's unlikely to offer such a suite of components to other auto makers since they're competing in that space. That may make Tesla a less appealing potential partner, meaning they don't get revenue streams from everyone else's EVs as you imply.
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Surely if it's a bug that affects everyone then file an issue?

If there's a bug in a library then that doesn't invalidate the entire concept of 'simple charting libraries'. How many have you tried?

d3 is robust because it's great code that's widely used - not because of it's other design choices.
It's unfortunate and also a terrible business model. In those cases it's clear the business isn't mature or ready enough to actually hire human beings, in my opinion. Not that I'd agree with their conclusion about who they need to hire anyway. There isn't an experienced developer out there who can't pick up the frameworks and languages (exceptions exist of course, e.g. for quirky languages like brainfuck or paradigm shifts like procedural to functional) these CRUD-by-other-names shops use within a week, and if their business is that close to failure without developer help they can't afford to be picky.
I'm basing it on what Elon Musk said at the 2015 North American International Auto Show. And the often mentioned 20% margin on the Model S.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/heres-everything-elon-musk-sai...
> Hardcoding the optimal resource reclamation strategy into your program will always be more efficient at runtime than not doing so.

That depends on what you mean by efficient. Since this thread is about real-time stuff, you may be right (though I wouldn't be on it). However, often a GC will give better throughput.

It depends on the style of memory management on both sides, of course. But for example, in a situation where you call `free` (or, `delete`, etc.) to free each allocation, you might end up doing more work than a copying GC, where you only have to track live references.
For what it's worth, I've seen no one claiming conferences doesn't have the right to exclude whomever they want.

> Now others may disagree with you, or even shun you for doing so.

I believe that is what is happening here. A portion of the tech community (of which I am a part) have begun to see this movement[1] as toxic, and are speaking out against it. The desired result is to either come to an equitable compromise, or eject the members of the movement from the community.

[1]: "this movement", meaning what others here have referred to as "SJW". I'm unaware of a term for it that is not implicitly biased, and while I oppose the movement as a whole I recognize that there are underlying issues that must be addressed and am loath to group everyone who would describe themselves as passionate about "social justice" into a single group. It's far more nuanced than that.
Some online courses make it easy to enable cheating with weak authentication. For instance, rather than course specific login, if it were authenticated by your real one and true prized Google account, would these students be so eager to give up credentials? Of course merely changing to Google authenticated accounts isn't enough, just get a throw away Google account for the cheater to use. But there should be some chain of trust that enables authentic authentication. What's going on here, aside from the cheating, is inauthentication.
why do we permit their assault on our democracies?

when was the last time a citizen benefitted from the surveillance of people not suspected of any crime?

if we know abuses are inevitable and will be hidden from us, why not slash their funding/imprison them/restructure their activities to be too compartmentalizad to hurt the public in this fashion?
Enigma fallacy. Tracing that back to a single owner is hard for humans, but trivial to do for computers.
As a public figure a president is very vulnerable unless he has absolutely nothing to hide from the public, IMHO, but he is only vulnerable as soon as he knows he is spied on. Which happened here.
What term would you propose to describe the group/movement we're discussing?
> They orbit a common centre of gravity once every 80 years, with a minimum distance of about
11 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

A.K.A an Astronomical Unit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit
The Supercharger network isn't the only recharging option for EV users.

Plugshare.com exposes just how many access points are available for recharging on trip - public/govt options, for-pay high-power stations, etc...

Using the trip planner shows dozens of charging options between Graz and Budapest, for your particular case.

It's certainly helped me address some range anxiety as I consider an EV.

http://www.plugshare.com
Almost nobody has been indicted from a Senate hearing, whether they were high level bureaucrats like Clapper or ordinary private citizens, and there have been lies and half-truths in almost all of them. In this case, Clapper admitted his mistake answering this question which he likened to many similar questions about whether the NSA was intercepting Americans' communications and creating dossiers on them, which it was not.
They probably shot it in several spectra and this is their highest resolution one. It might not even be visible light.
The Model S has the S Class beat in acceleration if you drop the extra $10k for ludicrous mode, but the S Class interior is worlds better. Not even in the same league.
FWIW, when the pill began causing me migraines and I advised my husband that I would be going off of them once my current prescription was gone, thus we had x months to find another solution, he volunteered to get a vasectomy. We already had two kids and he was done. He wanted no more.

He observed this choice seemed more common in the military.

From what I have read, it is generally easier for a man to get a vasectomy than for a woman to get a sterlization procedure. They are less picky about age and parental status. Women under age 25 and/or with fewer than two kids tend to run up against barriers. I did a college paper some years ago in one of my law classes. I don't know if the laws have changed, but, at one time, this was not just due to sexism or societal bias. It was encoded into law that women under age 25 or with fewer than two kids needed a compelling medical reason to get sterilized. I have known women with serious medical conditions who had trouble getting the procedure approved. It is galling.
SSL MITM still won't work unless you want it to be very noticeable or you have very substantial resources.

Port mirroring is enough to capture SSL traffic and to break weak SSL keys or if you have compromised the key of the destination services (w/ some caveats like no forward secrecy etc.)

And it doesn't prevents you from executing MITM attacks from upstream or just doing specific MITM attacks from within the TOR exit node later on.

But overall there is nothing you can do to ensure that your TOR exit node, your VPN gateway or even your ISP isn't reading your traffic other than to use encrypted tunnels everywhere and even then you are for the most part only moving the problem upstream.
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Finding the lander made a difference. Now they can put the the data into context (“[...] we now have the missing ‘ground-truth’ information needed to put Philae’s three days of science into proper context [...].”).

ESA is lucky it had a high-resolution camera to distinguish the lander from the terrain. If you only have low-res cameras, it might be useful to have a visually distinguished lander so you find it despite of poor resolution (1 bright pixel).

A naive solution might be to make future landers reflect a certain wavelength and use a tiny camera that is tuned to capture that wavelength. Finding the lander should be much easier then.
No, they do not all do that, and not even most of them do it, or yes the sky would fall. We wouldn't, in fact, have the civilization we have. The choice is to have strong anti-fraud funding to find, catch, and prosecute most of these sorts of things; or to go back to feudalism/law of the jungle/might makes right.
I couldn't agree more. While there are certainly people out there who make inflammatory statements in order to offend and marginalize others, they are in the extreme minority. I've got an essay cooking in my head right now that's tentatively titled "Gaining useful insight from aggressive comments".
This is an opportunity to exercise some social nuance. To them, "MySQL" and "database" are equivalent, and to point out the difference is to make the social faux-pas of overspecification (somewhat of a trope for nerds like us).

By the time you're having this conversation with a BA, the DB is not going to be changed because they made some offhand reference to a different DB. They said something technically wrong, but in a way that doesn't have any meaningful effect on what they were trying to say: as such, to nitpick a detail like that may give the impression of trying to reinforce your superiority by pointing out tiny technical mistakes in their speech. So just let it go :)
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Neustar is one of those providers and they obviously don't want to talk to anyone.

I'm not sure who Amazon Video uses, but they also block relays, not just exit nodes.
so... why do we need them in a democracy? for everyone else who won't follow the rules, we have prison.... and dont try to tell me that a few terrorist attacks are sufficient cause to allow them to run wild over the public.
It takes more than a medical diagnosis. A person must be involuntarily committed or adjudicated incompetent. Both of these are legal processes, not medical ones.

This is appropriate. Individuals should not be deprived of their basic human rights without due process.
It's a well known problem with some journalists, they simply can't finish their
One problem is understanding the notation, as sometimes steps are omitted. I remember one time spending 10 minutes trying to figure out what an author meant, only to learn later he was using something called a 'total derivative'. this means that variables like x,y are actually functions of time . Having a professional simply explain it instead of having to infer the meaning from the author would save a lot of time
Not sure how accurate it is, but an article found via cursory Googling[0] makes it seem like a true-color photo doesn't have as much scientific value as other spectrum recording photography - different filters over the monochrome camera can make it easier to see heat, minerals, radiation, etc.

Goes on to mention producing a true-color photo is kind of a pain in the ass for these probes.

0. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3088/why-are-images...
Looks like another cycle of "X killers". Too little, too late.
Yeah, that is what my response above points to.
Also the picture may not be "black" and "white", it's just captured at a single frequency [or a small spectrum], and readings are for that particular frequency.

Combine multiple spectrum and you get a color image.(Though comets don't have too much change across the spectrum.)
I would have hoped that we would last longer, given how many people here (including Angela Merkel) had suffered from the Stasi, but I guess not.
it's not worth it scientifically to use a bayer filter. if there's a color shot, it's usually false color or three successive shots with a R/G/B filter separately. this spacecraft may not have such filters available as the comet is expected to be about as colorful as a lump of coal.
I wonder the same thing about autonomous trucks.

There's likely to be a significant period between the first driver-less trucks transporting goods across unpopulated areas and the vehicles being competent enough to detect the fact that someone is unloading the vehicle and that that car sitting in front of you is not traffic, but is just there to make you stop while you are pilfered.

The move from a crime involving people to one only involving property may well lower the bar to would be criminals.
Nice. Wasn't aware of that resource. Thanks.
It depends what you mean by "safe".

Various organisations will deny their services to you just for running a relay, despite the fact that no proxied traffic will exit your network and connect to them. I hope that it is incompetence, it's often unsurprisingly difficult to contact anyone who's able to deal with the issue.

Amazon Video is a high profile example.
"The Model S has the S Class beat in acceleration if you drop the extra $10k for ludicrous mode, but the S Class interior is worlds better. Not even in the same league."

You could have just as easily said:

"... the C class interior (or the 3series or A4) is worlds better. Not even in the same league."

It's stupefying how poor and sparse the Model S interior is. Setting aside issues of taste (that is, adjusting for the fact that it is a minimalist design) it's just completely out of place in a 100k+ car.
I highly doubt that Tesla will go broke but sure that's another option.
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In practice it's obvious that they're hard! Look at the bugs people make and look at the effort required for seL4/CompCert (both are fairly simple systems).
Thanks that was incredible.
I was thinking the same, but then I thought about how extremely huge the ocean is and how hard it would be to find such drone. They could also adapt counter measures like painting it darker and make a smaller frame.
But then you probably have a camera that has exactly one use – finding the lander – which doesn't necessarily yield the same quality of scientific results than having a camera that is more useful to the actual goals of the mission. Yes, finding Philae is nice, but not finding it wouldn't have been that bad, and the camera surely generated worthwhile data even without finding Philae.
I hate to say it (I've enjoyed the benefits of using webpack on a few projects now) but I feel like it's all a bit too late for webpack (2).

Rollup or Brunch seem to offer a preferable alternative with speed, ease of use, and optimisation.
> A naive solution might be to make future landers reflect a certain wavelength and use a tiny camera that is tuned to capture that wavelength. Finding the lander should be much easier then.

That's a complicated way of saying "paint it like barricade tape", isn't it?
the 'persist' feature is in -current (will be 6.1)
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In almost 100% of the cases, the answer is "yes".

However, depending on the license of the books, you will probably need to indicate the original author of the book, link to the original book location, and add a note that it was released under the XX license (this is true for every CC-licensed book).

The biggest resource of open source books is, I would say, GitBook: https://www.gitbook.com/explore

Now, since this is a startup, I would be careful about non-commercial CC-licensed books (they have NC in the name of the license). If that's the case, you are kind of making money out of distributing them, so I would be careful about including them and discuss about including them with a lawyer. If they don't have NC in the name of the license, you're good to go.
This is exactly what American intelligence shoukd do: gather intelligence from other countries. It's when they spy on their own citizens that I get a little upset.
I'm typically inclined to look at the financials rather than what executives have to say ;)

I presume he's talking gross margin, which excludes prior R&D (except capitalized), marketing, distribution & sales costs, office/admin expenses, financing costs etc.
How an insurance company thinks a man burned his house down from 400km away
"I wish we had put that car on the road and not Tesla,"

We have seen the exact same (lame) process from BMW/audi/porsche for 12 years now.

First they announce an "e/i/tron/whatever" initiative, then they roll out some concept cars, then they test market a half-assed hybrid with a lanwmower engine hidden somewhere inside ... and then wait four years.

Then repeat.

We've seen at least three cycles like this from all of those high end manufacturers. All they have to show for it is million dollar cars from mercedes and porsche and a half-assed hybrid i8 from BMW. Oh, and I guess audi now has a small sized hybrid.

Who cares.
Pretty appropriate timing, I was just thinking of stuff to do in my Pomodoro breaks to make them most effective.

I'd just added 'washing out my eyes with pure water' to the list of things to do in breaks, reading this article made me add 'going outside, or at least to the street-facing balcony' too. One more thing I'd add is deep breathing - use the Vim Hoff method or Buddhist techniques or whatever - but one of the things I feel the modern world heavily underestimates is the level of effectiveness that simple, conscious, deep breathing can have on your mental and physical state.
If they didn't have a high res camera and could only identify the lander as a brightly colored speck it would not provide any "context" for their data other than it did not vanish into space.
What is Rollup vs Brunch? Coming from someone who just understood why we have Webpack vs Browserify.
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You won't do a calculus class for mathematicians without also heaps of real analysis and/or measure theory. It's a different story for a field like engineering, but that's not what the blog post is about. If you haven't studied the proofs, you haven't studied advanced mathematics.

As for Bayesian vs. Frequentist, it's another vim vs. emacs style debate most of the time - which is most appropriate to use, as opposed to which is right and which is wrong. Quite a lot of the time, it just doesn't matter.
I wouldn't. While it still works (and I use it in a project of mine), the last commit is two years old and there are more and more open issues. It's a dead project.
Or perhaps lucky, since without the outcropping it may have bounced off completely...
You provided a link to the article about CBT and depression. But meditation is a gym for the brain, not a cure for every serious issue like depression.

Fads usually aren't visible on fMRI results.

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

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2095053-people-who-medi...
One have to defy gravity and the other one need not !
You can't silently mitm SSL unless you are trusted by the client.
Sometimes it's because there's only a black and white camera. Different colored filters are used to build up a color picture.

I imagine it's easier to properly calibrate a monochrome camera, and makes it easier to image stuff outside of the visible wavelengths.
No one seems to give a shit about how much information their PC is sending to Apple or Microsoft or the NSA. Generally its only tech savvy people that know about open source.
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Anyone in that position who doesn't assume they're being spied on at all times, or who would let that realization intimidate them, doesn't deserve the job.
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I'd expect them to have a lot of surveillance cameras on for this reason. Also as dashcams for collision liability, especially for the first truck vs. cyclist death incident.
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Citation needed, that Merkel had suffered from Stasi, too.
Afaik, she was doing well, within the system.
Isn't it pretty much a US population density map (if it's not, I can't quite see the difference)? If there are differences, it would have been interesting to display the number of accidents in an area as a proportion of the population.
Which is why providing the hanger location seems dangerous to me; meaning why go to the trouble of snatching them anywhere in the world when you know their likely point of origin.

Also, would not be suprised if the security on these are relaxed for bandwidth reasons, or if the command and control center might be easily compromised.
Awww, hell. This is my life.
How long until I can eat a delicious panda steak?
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Displaying up to 1000 datapoints at once seems like a reasonable limit.

But if the library supports zooming, I highly appreciate it if I can just put my 10,000 to 100,000 datapoints into the library, specify a simple filter function (avg, sum, min, max) and let the library pick the points it wants to display at each zoom level.

Beyond ~100,000 datapoints any filtering is likely better done in the database than on the client. For values below that, Javascript is more than capable.
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How has no one mentioned https://www.examine.com ?
What's that rather straight `rod`-like protrusion to the lower-left? Looks like some kind of antenna.
We use http://metricsgraphicsjs.org/, built on top of D3, by engineers working at Mozilla.
> Few 'bugs' in implementation and you have a nice backdoor.

This holds regardless of whether WhatsApp is a blackbox or not. Now, that doesn't make the claim of end-to-end encryption verifiable, but if you take Facebook's word for it, the bug bounty should be about as good a stalwart as there is against implementation bugs.
For me it is. Where I live there are multiple EV car-sharing services so I got to try them all: between the i3, the leaf and the renault zoe the i3 is by far the nicest to drive and most fun to be in, in my experience. Zoe is also nicer than the leaf, though underpowered.

I'm really into the i3's interior though: the steering wheel and the screen just look like they're floating and the dashboard looks so sleek.
No it isn't. It says that good programmers are doing mini rewrites all the time negating the need for a big bang rewrite whereas bad programmers are probably just piling the debt up while asking for permission to rewrite and will do once again when they rewrite.

There's some truth to this I think. Big bang rewrites are best avoided where possible and there's plenty of ways you can incrementalize refactoring that don't occur to most people.