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> I don't see how they could know in advance that I'm going to accelerate unless I tell them. Hence the sluggishness can not possibly be removed.

That's the thing... any trace of that sluggishness is gone in a Tesla (or other quality electric). From the moment your foot starts moving even the tiniest amount on the accelerator, you feel your back being pushed into the seat. There is zero delay.

A comparison I thought of... It's the difference between pressure-sensitive touch screens and capacitive.

> I haven't driven a fully electric car yet, and I'm sure their power output is impressive, but I have driven hybrids and they were crap in terms of fun-to-drive.

Yep, hybrids are nowhere close to a Tesla. Go take a test drive, you'll see in the first few seconds what I'm talking about.
> Shoehorning a charger network that is starting from zero into an existing, massive manufacturing and development organization that is perfectly tuned to the well trodden path would face a whole class of difficulties that simply don't exist in the all-new company.

But Mercedes would be ideal for that.

They own shares in most taxi companies in Europe, so they can start by electrifying them.

And the taxi companies HQ could each get a bunch of superchargers.

Which would immediately create the densest supercharger network in the world. And it would be profitable from day one.
Yann LeCun disagrees with NTSB chief on fully autonomous cars
The Barracuda filter at the hotel I'm staying at is blocking this site:

> The link you are accessing has been blocked by the Barracuda Web Filter because it contains spyware. The name of the spyware is: Spyware.Exploit.BRTS.sciencebulletin.org

A quick Google turned up nothing -- why is sciencebulletin.org considered dangerous?
In the 3rd paragraph of the article which refers to the 5th paragraph of the linked NYT article.
I feel like many HN readers may have a non-normal view of reasonable wages - given that boot camp graduates can get absurd money relative to their knowledge/experience/contribution level.

Those figures you quote (50-80k) are starting right at the median income (around 52[0]). Assuming they're decent with money and limit their debt, that's a pretty decent living for moderate stress (granted health tolls are a valid concern, but for all the bending/lifting they're probably not suffering some of those health issues associated with high stress and crazy hours - it's all a trade off). It's also only including salary income, do they get defined benefit retirement plans? 401k? I was a financial advisor at one point and worked for a lot of these skilled jobs - most of them had pension plans that were funded (e.g. Guaranteed income for life, a non-included figure in "income" typically)

That median is also taking into account all workers, so that's people early in there career just as it is those late. If starting is actually around 50, it's not a terrible deal.

Over time though the issue should be solved as a shortage tends to drive up prices and demand follows suit. Of course throwing money at people to take a job may help in the short term, but that's not really a maintainable way to handle these issues. That money comes from somewhere, so either prices need to increase or costs need to decrease (at the risk of it going to a consumer fewer may be able to afford other things, thereby possibly costing other markets - whether or not that is good is likely contingent on the market).

[edit]: It's also worth considering that, while they may be paid low during their training, they aren't paying for it. Alternative careers may demand paid for training (boot camp, college, masters, whatever). There's not only some opportunity cost but also debt likely in this consideration.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_Unit...
I would look at Flot, it's just 1 file (plugins are additional files) and very simple to use. http://www.flotcharts.org/
Holographic Processing Unit is capable of 1 trillion FLOPS
the same way all the high speed accidents happen to people that started driving at the «harmless» speed of 20km/h.

What I want to say is that demonizing marijuana can allow a bad comparison in the form "marijuana did nothing bad to me, all the thing they say about drugs are nonsense, so I can move to other drugs and be ok".

Truth is marijuana is harmless, compared to almost all the other drugs, including alcohol and tobacco.
Last time I've checked there is an intelligence oversight committee.

You can say that the process can be improved but it's not like there is a shadowy organization that does w/e it wants without any oversight.
> They're buying from Tesla because they don't have their own technology yet. Tesla only sells them 30-something kilowatt battery packs, though.

No, they’re buying from Tesla because they invested heavily in Tesla in return for being able to use that IP later on.
I have never seen a Europass in the wild and I wouldn't cite that as a German standard CV given its European nature.
> "How could the NSA not want to listen in on the person rated by Forbes as the second most powerful person in the world after President Obama?”

He can rest assured that the USA never saw France as no2 in anything, except maybe gastronomy.

When Europe was reshaped at the end of WW2, De Gaul was not present on the table. It was Roosevelt, Churchil and Stalin who got the spoils.

I believe the only reason France enjoyed a sort of leadership in Europe was because Germany historically was seen as too dangerous to cut loose and the UK never felt part of Europe.

The US via Marshall's plan and the global money recycling scheme (Bretton Woods) made of a broken Germany a surplus country and the European powerhouse we all know and love today. Of course German culture (protestantism) had a lot to do with it. So, indirectly the US put Germany on a the road to become the most powerful country in Europe in the long run anyway.
Or just buying Teslas gigafactory after Tesla goes broke.
From a technical point of view, i think all the big German manufacturers are perfectly capable of building full EV models. It's not technology that is stoping them. It's the stale, inflexible, slow moving corporate culture that comes along with a 100 year old company like Volkswagen or BMW. Add to that the deep goverment-ties and you have even more nonsense involved.

Just look at how many models VW is building. Right now, they have more than 30 different base models, each with 4-6 additional variations. With the their full and semi EV models, they are heading for the same chaos. For the last 30 years, they have been incapable of streamlining this, so i really doubt we are going to see a EV with a competitive price–performance ratio anytime soon.
Yes, the private/public system depends on your income level and I'm lucky that I have the choice. So far I'm fortunate that I don't need much dental work beyond the standard stuff.

I've heard stories from my home country about people going to Poland and other places for dental tourism like you mention, which has the advantage of being in the EU (visa-less travel, some level of trust, likely similar standards).

Whether you become a medical tourist or not likely depends if you are in a public health system or not, and if so, what is covered by the public system and how much you must pay out of pocket to make the travel cost-effective.
That is impressively convoluted. I have a feeling it ought to be possible to write a gstreamer plugin to do this, but it’s one of those minor projects that never got over the do-I-care-that-much hump.
I'm glad you like it. Any feedback is appreciated!
What about calculus etc? The main focus there seems to be to get a result. There are plenty of fields that use advanced math, but leave extending the math to academia.

> If you can't prove what you know

Does the Bayesian vs. Frequentist debate hold back working statisticians?

Or debate wrt constructivism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(mathematics) ) hold back math in general?

I admit I'm a bit out of my depth on this point though...
Adobe U-Turns, Decides to Support Flash for Linux
> I looked at the pictures and the human eye can barely see the lander. Considering that the chances of losing these landers is not that low, I don't understand why they don't make them visually more distinctive.

If it was hot pink it would have made no difference, it ended up in a bad spot with limited solar power.
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We tested and repaired the power supplies before powering up the circuit boards, to make sure we didn't fry anything.

Each of the four boards has 80 memory chips. These are 4116 DRAM chips, each holding 16 kilobits. Each board holds 128K 10-bit-wide "chunks". Data is stored as 32 bits + 8 bits (actually 7) of Hamming error correction and parity.
Because the template for corporate media narratives must feature heroes, zeroes, the pretense of objectivity, blah, blah, blah.
Understanding the power of data types (PostgreSQL)
Benz makes over 50 distinct models, BMW over 40. Tesla has 2 or 3 models and can focus all its attention and expenses on one big thing. It's a classic fast-moving competitor upsetting the dinosaur uber-brands with their huge legacy factories and market base.

[Source: https://roadster.com/Mercedes-Benz and https://roadster.com/BMW]
We use Plot.ly (https://plot.ly/javascript/), which is also built on top of D3.js

It has been around for a long while, has superb connectors to many different languages (we mostly interact with it from Python), and has been recently open-sourced. Free, but they also provide hosting for your charts for a very modest fee. Highly recommended.
> "It may be isolated incidents"

Yes, "it may". German agencies are famous for "isolated incidents". It's only a matter of definition what's to be called "isolated".

Those isolated incidents reach back even to the "Operation Gehlen"[0], the predecessor of the BND which was founded in 1946. One could say that the history of German agencies is the history of isolated incidents. While this may hold true for intelligence agencies all over the world, the historic ties leave a very bad taste regarding right-wing-terror in Germany. The "National Socialist Underground" (NSU)[1] was only the tip of the iceberg.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Underground
Probably because your devs didn't write them in stored procs like they should.
> This gives inordinate power to organizations that have greater spying capability--the United States with its NSA will have more influence in global affairs than France, even if we both have one vote in the UN security council.

The political term for this is Power Projection:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_projection
>If Tesla just sold the Model S, they would be profitable. Margins are pretty good for each Model S. But selling just the Model S is not the plan, hence the huge cash burn.

I'm curious where you draw this conclusion from. Tesla definitely burns a ton of cash, but it's primarily capex ($1.6bn in 2015), which doesn't directly affect their profitability.

2015 R&D was $718 million. Even if we assume none of that is related to the model S and add it back, they still would have lost $170 million (net profit). And this is the marginal profitability, ignoring all the R&D expense from prior years that went into the model S.

Telsa are loss leading, hoping to grow their brand and technology to the point and out compete their rivals by the time the vehicles are truly profitable. If the capital markets remain favorable to them for a long enough time, they might just do it. Or established brands may acquire their technology once they deem the market to be sufficiently mature for them. Or we may have a problem in the markets, and Tesla's continuing cash requirements might lead them into difficulty.
I've come to the conclusion that walking on eggshells is pointless. I know that I am not a bad person, that I have no ill intent, and that I do not seek to offend of exclude anyone regardless of our differences.

This incident reinforces my view - it appears that Mr. Crockford's keynote invitation was rescinded not because of any specific action on his part, but because "his presence would make some speakers uncomfortable to the point where they refused to attend or speak."[1]

That is completely subjective, and as such there is no rational means to judge whether your own words or actions will lead to such treatment or not.

[1] http://nodevember.org/statement.html
You market a product towards a market with PR, interviews, ads, design, features which is much more than

"Tesla dont pay for advertising"
I'm in Austria so I don't know every detail about the US educational system, but I can give you some examples of what is going on here.

To get a spot as a student in most universities you have to take a test first and only the best are selected.

What they found was that there were comparatively fewer women passing the test for medical schools. So they removed many questions that were about logic or knowledge and replaced them with pictures of faces where the student has to read the emotion. (for example: is the person angry or happy?)

The reasoning is that physicians need to be empathic towards their patients. It worked and now there are more female than male students passing this test.

If I was female I would be deeply insulted by this. They literally believe that women are too stupid for logic related tasks so lets have them answer questions where they have to read emotions from faces.
Care to share you hypothesis maybe?
I didn't actually intend a definitive statement on what he meant by that remark. The context is interesting: http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm

My point, if there as one, was just that I enjoy the balance. I like his mysticism because I know just how powerfully logical he could also be. I don't like to see him boxed-in, or presented as one thing or the other.
In general, BAs should not be writing the stories, but they should be able to read them together with the developers.

I find that it helps, but it doesn't solve the whole problem. The most useful bit is the stories with examples, as those are what are so often missing from specs.

The problem with edge cases is that they are infinite. If there's an edge case that's likely to happen (ideally based on evidence of past behaviour), then it can either be in the spec or just in functional tests.

I like to think that BDD is like writing the documentation first. Would you put the edge case in the documentation? If not, it probably isn't the BA's responsibility to decide what should happen, and it shouldn't have a Gherkin-style story.

But it's not a silver bullet. It's a tool that helps solve some problems on some projects in some teams. Usually, it helps in cases where the domain experts are not very technical and where the domain problem is a fairly simple set of business rules.
For a vaguely similar use case (repeat till host is up) I once wrote

until ssh ...; do sleep 5; done

which stops looping once a connection succeeds.
The new thing is that more people are starting to understand what governments really do. And governments are gonna feel weaker, less in control and would have to resort to more non-"democratic" ways of doing business.
Given how much these likely cost to make and that they're unmanned, makes me wonder how they plan to keep drone jackers from capturing them for ransom; especially given the NYT supplied that the hangar is in Alameda, Calif.
The same place I go for learning about anything: Wikipedia
In Silicon Valley, the Model S is one of the most common cars. It's taken this area by storm. If that's any indication of future trends, the other companies should be reacting about now.
RTFA. It was already known it had landed, just not exactly where.
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A lot of small providers offer truly "unmetered" bandwidth packages at low cost because for whatever reason they have contractually overprovisioned their bandwidth. They lose nothing by giving away unused bandwidth they have already paid for. Once they attract enough business to consume that bandwidth these deals go away.
Its easy to buy renewable energy to charge your Tesla if thats what you want to do.

http://apps3.eere.energy.gov/greenpower/buying/
The Readme[0] has links to a hosted version on a CDN, as well as a direct download

[0]: https://github.com/palantir/plottable#quick-start
> Use bigserial or uuid for your primary key... If your table is small, the extra size doesn't matter.

This is wrong! If a table is small it is probably used as a lookup reference (e.g. product_category, discount_group, etc...), in which case its PK is repeated over and over in child tables (e.g. product, order_item, etc...) and taking much more space than needed.

As always, the rule is: "Know your data". Use the right data type and think about the use of every single column!

Don't be lazy. Code is written once, but queries will run over and over and you'll be sorry.
Gatsby is a React.js static site generator. It transforms plaintext into dynamic blogs and websites using the latest web technologies. It makes building high-performance websites fun!

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There is the joke/anecdata about the affluent two car families with a porsche and a prius (apparently Lexus were appalled that 'their' customers were going downmarket to signal eco-credentials). One of the original founders of Tesla talks about spotting this target market in a video talk which most HN readers would enjoy (the relevant bit is around 10 minutes in, explaining how rich the people who bought the EV-1 were and why it's silly to target EVs at the people who want to save money on gas)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf15nMnayXk
So this is an interesting point - the distinctive flare of astronomical photos is caused by light diffracting around the mirror supports within the telescope. We know the proportions of these, and could apply a transform that approximately reverses the effect. So why is it never done?

I suppose the lens flare variant is prettier, and more star-like, but it would be interesting to see the plain variant occasionally.
What do you mean "how quickly"? Mass surveillance has been going on for decades. The only new thing is the amount of data the average person has travelling over networks that can be monitored, and the ease of increasing the volume captures.

My favourite example is that in the early 90's, while I was politically active for a period, I met a number of interesting characters, including the ex-editor of a tiny Norwegian communist newspaper. He told me about how he for many years had intelligence agents come up to him on the street to crack jokes about conversations he had with his wife in his own home. While that was outright bugging of his flat, it was part of a many decades long illegal surveillance operation covering pretty much everyone on the political left in Norway (well, to the left of the social democrats who started it) regardless of whether or not they were involved in anything at all.

It was finally rolled up in mid 90's, after the police and parliament had spent several decades ignoring reports from victims of it and insisting that kind of thing didn't happen.
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"planning"
Just to add: there's some assumptions here like: I live in a place with a community college.

This "works" if I'm in Albuquerque when I lose my job. If I live in Carrizozo or Tucumcari? I'm kinda fucked.
What happened Bubo is that Obama's go-to-move is race baiting.
'You are racist' button got hit so much: it no more has any meaning.
Trump was not in WH for the past 8 years.

Here are some of his supporters:
http://twitter.com/TrumpWorld00/status/767313253479448577
http://twitter.com/Don_Vito_08/status/772789053385240576
http://twitter.com/dt_ads/status/772242215271862272

More:

http://twitter.com/DiamondandSilk
http://twitter.com/sweetatertot2

And now you know. You can by self find out more about Clinton.
x.connectorsEnabled() on line 24 is a getter, returning the boolean.

x.connectorsEnabled(boolean) on line 31 is a setter, return `this` for the benefit of method chaining.

That then leaves the actual definition which goes through to the JavaScript: it has an optional argument to satisfy both plausible signatures and starts on line 32.

In short, the first two are basically hints for TypeScript (if the signature is such-and-such, its return type is actually more restricted than `any`), while the third has the actual implementation.

For something similar consider how the type of callback in `addEventListener(type, callback)` depends on `type`: it’s always going to be a function taking an Event, but for e.g. type 'mousedown' it’s actually more than that, it’s a MouseEvent. So the TypeScript definitions in dom.d.ts or whatever it is (I haven’t had opportunity to actively use TypeScript for a while) has a whole lot of definitions: `addEventListener('mousedown', (event: MouseEvent) => void)`, `addEventListener('focus', (event: FocusEvent) => void)`, &c. (And because it’s just definitions, not the implementation, there is no actual implementation of `addEventListener(string, (event: Event) => void)`. This connectorsEnabled case does have the actual implementation.) In type system terms, think of it as a very restricted form of dependent typing.
> Perhaps you mean "no speech is totally banned". Because it sure as hell it IS banned from being part of the conference.

That's the problem though, isn't it?

It's clear from Nodevember's statement[1] that the action was taken because some member of the community felt uncomfortable, and explicitly not because of any specific speech or action on the part of Mr. Crockford.

If this were a movement to censor certain specific speech, I would likely be opposed to it on philosophical grounds but would support and empathize with the motivation. That's not what this movement is about. I see this as an example of a movement based on an extreme political ideology usurping power within a community by shaming its members into submission.

[1] http://nodevember.org/statement.html
> the risk of dying over a two-decade period was 50 percent higher for lonely me

Cri de coeur or simple typo? Inquiring minds want to know!
How much mass would another leg have? Which scientific instrument with that mass would you suggest to eliminate for that extra leg?
Careful with cloud hosting which don't offer unlimited bandwidth. Although DO doesn't really charge for bandwidth (right now) it can at any moment it choses.
It baffles me how German manufacturers continue to put more and more models on the market each year. VW for example is actively offering more than 30 different base models right now, each with 4-6 additional variations. Plus new updates and revisions every year or so. How many choices does a consumer really need?

It seems impossible to hit a top price–performance ratio with so much overhead.
Off-topic, but why do they usually shoot black and white? Is it something to do with the file size?
Regarding NSU, to this day I've failed to figure out how they dubbed their pink panther video with what sounds like the original German dub voice and made it sound good. Searching on the internet is hard because it finds all kinds of irrelevant stuff. Would like to know more and if this is easily possible for extremists with laptops to accomplish in such seamless quality, if it's a stitch-work of existing audio tracks. It's the same level of quality as the Obama video+audio stitch-work in Mr Robot.
http://math.stackexchange.com/

http://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/2142/why-is-what-is-t...