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In the case of GT, roadtripping is the lifestyle that they are showing nearly every single episode. I road trip 5-6 times a year myself over 1000 miles, and for that reason I wouldn't personally want to go a full electric car. Nice about the rental car though!

The GT people have standards which don't really apply to most people. Most of their shows involve cars that most people will never afford.
Actually a woman!
> Wouldn't it be better if we could make the path of least resistance also the best choice?

Maybe, but that's a far different question than whether we should ban questionable choices. I'm all for labeling nutrition info. I might be onboard with "sin taxes" on junk food. I'd probably be onboard with restricting advertising on junk food. But I'm in no way in favor of banning marshmallows.
> and I'm certain they're being lied to or paid to go on the streets

You realize both sides use this argument? It's not that either side is being lied to or paid; some people simply have different viewpoints on issues, as hard as that is to believe.
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True, it could be theft of trade secrets or something else. But that would depend on what you did with the information. Just breaking the NDA by blabbing to someone isn't a crime in of itself, but it is a breach of contract, which is what I was trying to get at.
Why would anyone use MongoDB when RethinkDB is available?
Max Barry's "Jennifer government" comes close.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government?wprov=sf...
Yah, my thoughts exactly. Such a big loss for humanity. :( At least we have his son to carry on - there's still a lot of work to be done.
Before they installed some additional armor to the bottom of the Model S to increase crash safety in the event the car goes over something dangerous sticking up in the road, the Model S actually possessed the ability to do a quick battery swap by dropping the battery. There's a video out there with Elon Musk demonstrating the functionality.

It never took off, I guess because the infrastructure never existed, and because of the aforementioned armor issues. It's too bad. I always thought battery swaps would be an ideal way to deal with the aging of these batteries. Depreciate the value of the battery based on some formula and allow people to get a newer one once their battery passes some usage threshold, seamlessly, and bill them for the upgrade.
A physical fiber strand is mostly agnostic to the technology used (yes I know there are differences).

The government should lay fiber to every home and business, then sell access to that fiber at cost. Let ISPs setup equipment racks at a local POP and do the termination & CPE.

Now you can innovate by replacing the equipment at either end without digging a single trench.
0-60 is just one index of a car. The hypercars usually focus more on the laptime on a track. As the article says, the Tesla is only quicker up to 60-70mph. On a track those cars will rarely go below 60mph. Also, weight is the most important factor to go around a corner fast and I'm guessing battery packs with a decent range is still too heavy for track purpose.
Thanks.

I'm also evaluating using VSCode (it's perfect markdown preview) and this plugin for easy image pasting https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mushan.v... .

And I was also looking into using mkdocs for serving a bunch of Markdown files in a directory to a structured webpage including search (which works great it seems).

But I'm not 100% happy... does not eliminate all of my bucket list but is a pretty independent flat file format.
Those people(Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris) are hardly atheists. In many ways they believe and practice every single aspect of religious life dominant in the western hemisphere minus belief in God.
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I wonder a little about anyone who reads about a car that will do the quarter mile in 10.5 seconds at 125 mph and thinks "that thing is all hype, it's not fast enough for me."

If your plans for the day somehow involve a crash helmet and the Mulsanne Straight, yeah, you're going to find it a little limiting and it's the wrong tool for the job. But seriously, it's a 4-door sedan...
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Actually. I have a legacy unlimited plan with Verizon (costs $170/mo). When I need to upload or download something large fast, I tether my laptop, since I get 7-9Mbps upload via my phone, versus 768Kbps via my phone DSL. I actually thought of getting rid of my $100/mo slow DSL. I wonder if permanent LTE tethering will be viable in the future.
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So there was some press this morning on the democratic filibuster... It is not clear to me why it didn't last longer. Can anyone shed some light?
"Oracle sent Rimini a cease and desist letter demanding that it stop using automated scripts. It did not, however, rescind Rimini’s authorization to access the files outright. Rimini continued to use automated scripts, and Oracle sued. The jury found Rimini guilty under both the California and Nevada computer crime statues, and the judge upheld that verdict—concluding that, under both statutes, violating a website’s terms of service counts as using a computer without authorization or permission."

I'm a little confused here. I'm with the EFF that violating the TOS shouldn't be criminal. But if you're given a C&D that says "stop using automated scripts" and you continue using automated scripts, why is the TOS relevant at all? Isn't Rimini clearly exceeding their authorized access (left available for manual downloads) based on the C&D?
If you add it all up though? I'd say I've probably spent as many as several person-days dealing with dynamic linking nonsense over my career, let's round that up to a week. Fifty weeks a year, 80 years in a life, if there's just 4000 people like me in the world that's a human lifetime right there.

(No pedants please, if you don't like "fifty weeks a year" then change "80 years" to "76.9 years")
I've seen news about both. That said, American domestic media is understandably more focused on Washington at the moment.
Bankers would have less incentive to make highly risky bets as it would no longer be a risk-free endeavor. As it is now, they win regardless of whether they are correct.
Yeh if I recall, Companies House in the UK used to do this for some stupid reason.
Massachusetts is definitely still working on this... haha
Combustion technology has also been favoring power over efficiency for at least the last 20 years. It turns out that once you get the car up to about 35 MPG, above that nobody really cares, statistically speaking. Specific power meanwhile has skyrocketed. You can now buy a 1000cc normally-aspirated engine that makes 200 horsepower.
Just seeing his presentation here, the most I can take away for my career is presentation.

The way data is presented means if the audience understands it and is interested versus simply saying good job and moving on.
devOS?
No, I would not be perfectly fine, it would be very unfortunate.
> removing personally identifiable information

no such thing.
To me, running evil-mode feels like an extra layer of complexity that makes it harder to debug problems. Vim has a good support ecosystem. Emacs has a good support ecosystem. But the intersection where evil-mode lives is not a particularly robust ecosystem...debugging problems means dealing with three things: Vim, emacs in general, and evil-mode and then trying to sort out where the problem sits.
I don't disagreewith the overall point, but I'm not sure it's grammatically possible to be "calculated[ly] reckless"
I think you might be missing the issue around rationality, as it causes actors to do things that are predictable within a certain probability...and cost. An irrational actor does things for irrational reasons and as such does not consider cost or results an intent.
Active noise cancelling headphones. Also, very important, train attention span, just by doing that ancient 'trataka' exercise, when you look at small flame as long as you can with no blinking, tears will fall, but its ok. Do it at least once a day. In a month you will gain some terrific skill of controlled attention span.
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I don't know.

But we know that Intel and AMD design their CPUs to go as fast as possible on the operating systems people actually use (Windows, Macos, Linux) all of which use dynamic linking. Plan 9 is the only OS I know of that does not support dynamic linking (and Plan 9 simply does not have large libraries -- they have what they call services instead, which are similar to souped-up Unix daemons).

Linux and Windows in turn are designed to run as fast as possible on Intel and AMD hardware.

After a few iterations of this sort of mutual evolution, it starts to become very unlikely that a change as big as switching a bunch of big libraries from being dynamically linked to being statically linked would actually improve performance because lots of optimizations have been made to squeeze a few percentage points of performance out of the existing system (which includes the practice of shipping most large libraries as shared libraries), and typically those optimizations stop working if there are large changes in the system.
You may think of yourself as a slave, but that doesn't mean you can't strive to be a better person and a productive member of society.
I feel that the inclusion of NSLs is almost outside the scope of the bill. Furthermore, inclusion of prohibitions of NSLs would likely doom the bill. In this case, perfect would be the enemy of good.

NSLs are a worthy topic for a bill in its own right or as an amendment to the next FISA reauthorization.
> What has been most frustrating or has prevented you from using clojurescript more than you do now?
The top answer here was "Using JavaЅcript libs with ClojureScript / Google Closure", which was a new choice we added this year.

Which the clojurescript compiler devs have addressed in recently released alpha features including extern inference:
https://clojurescript.org/guides/externs

Is there a well maintained and high quality repository of third party externs, as there is in the form of DefinitelyTyped for typescript type definitions?
Would such a thing subsume https://cljsjs.github.io/ ?
This is just an anecdotal experience but according to a former hedge fund manager, insider trading is an open secret in the industry. You really can't expect to gamble away billions of investor's money without an edge. Information is the only possible edge that is closely guarded in the markets.

I don't know how true that is, he's a washed up piece of shit that wall street chewed out but has the eyes and ears of gordon gekko wanna be finance grads.

but I'm writing this because this is like the 3rd time I've heard this. Just throwing it up there if "soft insider" information is what they were referring to.
This is confusing: Why is the distance in km, but the speed in miles per hour?
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I don't think the reason of shutdown is anything technical. They're not shutting it down because of perl and they wouldn't be keeping it alive because of PHP.
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"Back in 2013, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid changed the Senate’s filibuster rules so presidential Cabinet nominees only required 51 votes, rather than 60, to be confirmed."

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/17/14251600/tr...
Not sure why you are being downvoted. The Tesla S handles like a pig and you can't track the car because the battery can't handle it. These are valid criticisms. Though, the towing part of that episode I think was played up for the show.

That said, for 90+% of people, the Tesla S, and almost assuredly the Model 3, will be more than sufficient vehicles for people. The focus on acceleration is an amazing selling point and most people will never track their car. The ranges on these cars are pretty excellent and charging stations are becoming more and more common.

These cars aren't for me though, I'll gladly keep driving my BMW. The Tesla feels soulless while driving it and the skinny tires and the extreme weight shifts prevent you from hammering through corners which is were I believe driving is the most exhilarating.
As a huge fan of both Top Gear and Grand Tour, I absolutely understand. My comment was less about their assessment and more about how the concept of the road trip comes up every time electric cars are discussed. Maybe I'm wrong in this assumption as it's based on purely anecdotal observation from my own interactions with people, your 5-6 times a year is an outlier.
It wasn't a filibuster. The Senate got rid of that for everything except Supreme Court nominations.
Harry Reed reduced the threshold for confirming non-Supreme Court nominees to a simple majority, preventing a filibuster.

The Senate was locked 50-50, in which case the Vice President becomes the deciding vote.
There's no longer a filibuster for cabinet nominees:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/4/donald-trumps...
RethinkDB https://aphyr.com/posts/329-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-1-5
Looks nice enough, but I won't ever again lock my notes data into a file format that is either private or too complex to in practice do much with outside of the app. I have lost too many 1000s of notes that way in the past. Exports are rarely useful -- losing metadata & structure, or not being cleanly importable into the next note system.

For now I use Quiver (http://happenapps.com/#quiver) which uses a documented json format simple enough for me to do anything I want with if/when I move on. It's mac-only, and development seems to have stalled, but I threw together a crude Android client for my own use.
> parens are optional for function application

I think you've gotten confused somehow... Rust++ is a pure concatenative programming language, function application is wholly unnecessary.
Do you happen to know which podcast in particular? A quick Google search revealed several. Was there a specific one featuring Rosling?
Or more realistic outside USA: You will rarely found the customer that pay top money.

You can bet we charge less not because we want, but because that is the local rate. Sometimes we can score a outsider, but for much we talk about the magical properties of remote-worldwide work, even more if is consulting/freelancing, is very much about local + native language.
I might consider that they're just not buying it from your company, or you aren't privy to the transactions to those gov't customers. How much storage does 1.5 billion buy? (Ok it's not all just storage...).

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

The explosion of data you mention is a real problem; though thinking about it, one might manage with a mix of light filtering, leaning on organizations that already store the relevant data, etc.
The Democrats removed the 60 vote requirement to break all filibusters for all appointments excluding SCOTUS appointments. It is turning around to bite them in the butt.
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If you own two cars, isn't it actually you who have arranged your lifestyle in order to accommodate the electric one? And I feel kinda sad for anyone who feels that going more than 60 miles from home happens only once a year.
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Exactly, which makes ...

>The team at MongoDB really cares a lot about making the best database product possible.

... some what ironic.
> Claus Iohannis

The most ridiculous adaptation I've seen so far.

The guy's name is German and it was originally spelled "Klaus Johannis". During the presidential election, he changed his last name's spelling to "Iohannis" to make it seem more Romanian, even though the German minority in Romania has always been held in high regard (yes, positive ethnic stereotypes do exist).

I guess the next step would be "Claudiu Ionescu" :-)
> Can you give an example of another option you are referring to?

That depends on the data.

What type of data you have and what you want to do with it.

MongoDB isn't data specific and it claim to fame is flexible data structure.

If you want fast write and look up with very little relation Cassandra is good.

If you want searchable text document then anything that is base on Lucene is good (ES, Solr, Raven).

If you want time series there are few out there but it's a niche.

Likewise if you want graph data then there are NodeJS, Titan, etc..

MongoDB at most company I worked with was use because they don't think about what type of data it is and what performance they want. They want to store unstructure data cause it's easy.

I personally think it's a cop out, especially as a statistician/programmer.
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Protections can help soften the secondary impacts of technology.
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>paid Kyle to help solve the problem.

Any more information on this? How did he "solve" the problem?

Edit: straight from the horse's mouth [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aphyr
Here in NY recording people without their consent is definitely against the law and is likely to piss off important people. As fun as this CT is it seems extraordinarily unlikely that FB employees would risk going to jail for this feature.
My alma mater had one like that. Worse, it had operating hours in general: it was closed at night, too.

It was the Student Information System that we used to register for classes, pay tuition, update our contact information, etc. So it was a pretty important system.

One day, I asked someone who would know. I was told that it was because SIS ran on an old mainframe that couldn't read and write the disk at the same time. So it made all changes in memory during the operating hours, and then it shut down and wrote out the disk at night.

(also, our username for SIS was our full SSN... and the password they assigned to us was the last four digits of our SSN)
> JavaScript on the other hand is full of quirks, but you get something to work quickly, even if it's buggy.

In my experience JS is the worst at NOT working. Because when one part of the application fails, the entire PAGE stops working. Buttons don't work anymore, dropdowns don't work, nothing works.

And all of this is just one buggy line of code away.
> that would help consultants with their magical game-theory software make money off gullible companies / governments

Yep. Game theory is also a great complex for generating academic papers, think tank analyses, etc.

In reality the field seems barely predictive under the best of circumstances.
Thanks - will certainly have another go at it.
That is just one opinion against another. With little fact to support any side.

In your comment, for example, you seem to suppose that those agencies do not buy storage on secondary markets. Can you confirm that? Because if they do, then your sales statistics are almost meaningless in this regard.

Also, it seems like you assume that everything the agencies collect is stored "as it was transferred" (i.e. if the same YouTube video was viewed millions of times, they would store it in millions of copies). I think it is safe to assume that these agencies are a little bit smarter than that and if they store everything, they have some kind of compression in place to minimize redundant storage of the same chunks of data.

In any way, I think that until someone like Snowden speaks up again and brings evidence from inside of these agencies, we are only left with speculation.
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Sums it up - Clojure is ace, just needs better error messages, and Spec will sort that one out

Oh and Spec is a godsend.
> Is there a comparison to Jenkins available?

Not exactly, but we published a blog post about why we took the time to write a new CI system, and that post does touch upon why we didn't use Jenkins + plugins.

https://engineering.mongodb.com/post/evergreen-continuous-in...
Precisely why I use actual vi.. (well.. the nvi rewrite)

Unfortunately many current 'vi' users have never actually
seen the real thing, since most linuces simply alias vi to vim.. I realias it back to nvi because every new vim distro package has a new layer of auto indenting shiny garbage I have to unfiddle before approaching actual vi..

If I want fast text hacking, I use vi. If I want fancy stuff in the sweet spot between basic editor and ide,
I use emacs, and if I want vi key bindings in that sweet
spot, I turn on viper/evil. Done.
> Right now a Tesla will overheat if you run it at top speed consistently. Electric is unmatched for instant torque, but the current battery technology makes electric unsuitable for sustained high speed.

It'd be interesting and fun to see how far you could push the current model with just some software changes and some improved cooling. People have modified air-cooled Porsches to do hill climbs, and so on, so there's certainly some existing expertise in this area. Everything that comes to mind, given the Model S's design, is pretty elaborate however.
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It's not as ergonomic to use unwrap() instead of expect("error code here") because of which line shows as failing at runtime.
Not the OP, but RethinkDB is superior in many ways including stability, integrity and the feature set for pretty much every use case you would consider using MongoDB.

But with Jespen tests MongoDB can finally be considered a contender. Its not like competent teams were using it in production. Right?
They have an anti-electric car agenda ? Feels like it
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Some year(s ?) ago I look at it. Seem nice. Don't clear if is good (enough) for mobile/UI. Need to recheck...
Very sad. We need more like him to help us understand the true state of the world we live in today. And if you look at the data, like he did, the world is trending upward very well:

A quick article: https://singularityhub.com/2016/06/27/why-the-world-is-bette...

Hans Rosling's Gapminder website: https://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-end-poverty/

The Website 'Our World In Data': https://ourworldindata.org/

Some books that go into the world facts in detail: https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/814855168793554944.
Or smaller startups who need to support both platforms at launch. We're going through that right now and we definitely can't afford to pay for a java dev and a swift dev and a js engineer (me). We also can't afford the Dev Shop costs of both iOS and Android. and our customer base is split 65-35. React-Native is literally a gift sent from God to save us
Yeh it's a joke seeing as they are based here. And so many of us have to use Parcel Motel service to send things to Northern Ireland and have it driven down. Surely Amazon can make a little extra margin by doing that itself.