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It is going to be difficult to make money with hydrogen filling stations; both liquid and compressed hydrogen come with huge challenges in terms of transportation and storage.

Petrol stations will not make much money on electricity if they install chargers, but they will sell a lot of food to customers waiting to charge, even "supercharging" is quite slow..
Elon is a capitalist, through and through. Treating workers well isn't even on his list of priorities, similar to Amazon.
I worked as a grocery checker for a year or so. My dad did it for half his career. It used to be a solid, union job in most places in the us.

It's really not even that bad, if you like talking to people. The checking groceries part can be sort of meditative and relaxing.
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Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13600704

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598505
Posting from wifi on a plane over the UK: this is apparently not slow internet, I can read the usual bloated news and blog pages.
That's only 5 hours of driving at 80 mph. I sometimes drive that distance on a Friday night. Get off work, eat a quick dinner, and hit the road. I stop to gas up once and go to the bathroom at the same time. In and out in less than 10 minutes. I'm often going camping, so the fact that my vehicle is full is also important. My understanding is that a Tesla isn't fully recharged after 30 minutes. I realize this is far from average, but the OP's case isn't crazy.
It is interesting to contrast this with esr's recent announcement "In which, alas, I must rattle a tin cup" [1].

[1] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7348#more-7348
Indeed. First feed them; a dead husk has no use for fishing skills.
The people that they are selling to are not the people that are affected by power cuts.
Is there a negative counterpart for that ?

I remember turning an algorithm upside down, making it so fast, it went from "number crunching wonder" to "users saw nothing, this software is meh".
Yeah, when I checked groceries and had the produce codes memorized, I could blast through a grocery cart full of food in the time it takes me to check out a dozen items in the self checkout. I always go to a person for anything other than the express line.
I wonder which straw will be the last. Google has been treating YouTubers like garbage. There's no end to the (completely justified) complaints. It's not frivolous stuff.

Example: sometimes people get seemingly randomly unsubscribed from channels. No explanation from YouTube for this.
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It doesn't help though, because the form will ask for all online social media accounts, so if you fail to mention your real one it will either get you in trouble straight away, or at some undefined point in the future. Say you go to US for work, give them a fake account, then 10 years later you want to apply for citizenship and you can't, because 10 years earlier you lied on your entry form.
Here's the map in case you don't want to watch the entire 11 min video:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/95869671@N08/32264483720/in/da...

I wonder if there are a set of features and distance metric that could describe each field well enough to do hierarchical cluster analysis -- maybe through scraping keywords from enough mathematics journals, etc?
Back then there were no plans to ask for passwords, just the names/URLs of the accounts.
I've been considering deleting my facebook account for exactly this reason.
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The right wing sentiments have been on the rise long before the recent terrorist attacks. Anyone not living in an echo chamber could see it, you don't really need that survey.

> To me it seems the idea of democracy and asking people to choose their own government and policy is starting to fall apart by the stupidity and ignorance of people...

I would argue that this kind of reasoning is precisely why many people are turning to the right. Instead of allowing them to voice their concerns and trying to understand them even if you end up disagreeing with them, they are shunned and labeled as stupid, ignorant, racist, sexist, islamophobic, homophobic, etc. Just put anyone you disagree with in the basket of deplorables and call it a day. Job done, right? Well it isn't. And if Brexit and Trump are not strong enough signals, there will be more and stronger.

This picture captures the sentiment quite well: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2Bx5bUcAAV2Of.jpg

The longer the high-horsing continues the more the pendulum swings to the right and society becomes more divided and on a path to catastrophic collision. Unfortunately, no lessons have been learned so far. The arrogance continues, and so will the response to it.
It's normalizing the invasion of privacy. If you subject everyone to it, then it becomes the new normal.

My parents grew up in a communist republic, and every phone call would begin with "this conversation is being monitored" said by the operator(and yes, the operator would listen in and report you to the secret police if you said something suspicious). Initially people were upset and then they didn't care, because you couldn't call anyone in any other way, so you had to accept that every conversation was being listened to.
Who cares what the membership fee was without considering how that fee is redistributed?

The UK is one of very few net contributors. They haven't leached, quite the opposite.
Yes.

My prediction is that 80% of developers will lose their jobs by 2025.
Judging by the current Israeli governments recent laws (passing a law to legalise the grabbing of private Palestinian land that even the Supreme Court said was a bad idea), it's likely there is going to be a lot of political problems in the next few years for companies making big investments in Israel. The boycott movement is really heating up. Israeli tech talent and industry is excellent but so far it has managed to avoid political effects, that probably isn't going to last forever.
Maybe, then, if you are a real terrorist you hold on from publishing your photos/videos of beheading people on social media accounts with your name?
Microsoft UX research found that with row adding in Excel. It was instant, so users weren't quite sure if it happened or if it happened correctly. Now it animates for that reason.
Consider putting together and PRACTICING a terrific 3-4 minute pitch for tech meetups that focuses mostly on (1) the problem or unmet need to address and why it matters to people; (2) how you have TRULY validated (no BS - they'll see right through it) that a SPECIFIC group of customers deeply wants to solve the problem; and (3) how large that market opportunity is. At the end, ask the audience for help finding a great tech lead/cofounder that is interested in this problem/customer. Good luck!
I read it when it first came out; I was 18, and it was formative in my early career in CS. For someone in their teens it was a wonderful introduction to things that my high school education never really touched.

I don't know if I'd have the patience to read it today.
> Why exactly did so many people magically become dead-set against all these government abuses on Jan 20, 2017, specifically?

maybe because in the very first press conference, the press secretary lied, blatantly, and acted like it was no big deal.

> Can you really trust their judgement in the Fight Against Tyranny?

"Fight Against Tyranny" just out of interest - what tyranny is that?
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Writing it off as "whataboutism" is a way to avoid uncomfortable lines of questioning

No it's not, it's to point out a clear logical fallacy in OP's post.

Why exactly did so many people magically become dead-set against all these government abuses on Jan 20, 2017, specifically?

They didn't; this is false. The same people who are angry at specific abuses after Jan 20 were also angry before. See the thousands of articles posted on HN about these issues over the past eight years. This is also true from major news sources - even the liberal ones haven't failed to criticize Obama over these issues.

That having been said, it should be expected that a president who is more severe in abusing his power would provoke more anger. It's not black and white.

Are they really here to help the fight for $CAUSE, or are they exploiting the cause for petty power games?

For the rest of your post, can you explain what you mean by "they", by "the fight for $CAUSE" and the "Fight Against Tyranny"? Also, can you give specific examples? This is too ambiguous to respond to.
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>start loading heavy things if the page loaded quickly

...and not loaded from cache. You need a way to determine this reliably. AFAIK there's no way to determine this for the main page itself.
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No intimate knowledge of this, but as with anything it's the economics that will decide if this is the next big thing or not. James Hamilton did a writeup on the economics of running a datacenter a few years back[1], and concluded that approximately 1/3 of the montly expenses are for power, distribution and cooling.

If immersive cooling doesn't significantly reduce the lifetime of components and doesn't add costs (additional mops?) enough to offset the reduction, there is no reason why it shouldn't be useful for most datacenters. Intel was working on this a few years back [2], and as far as I can tell the Cray 2 used immersive cooling for some components in the mid-80s.

[1] - http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/09/overall-data-center...
[2] - https://www.technologyreview.com/s/429179/intel-servers-take...
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Well, the UK has massively benefited from its EU membership. I don't think we'll have that much money around after we leave, our trade will take a hit, our companies will have less access to EU talent (which is massively needed in IT at least), so we will be less competitive.

I do think all that extra money we paid in the EU was easily recovered.

It's going to be ironic when we have less money around than before paying into the EU :(
Even lane detection ? I don't see how signs and paintings could be detected with radars
The difference is that generally the supercar is an investment on account of status and strictly limited availability. For example Veyron production ended after 450 cars and if you want one now it's a seller's market.

Mass-market cars on the other hand depreciate as soon as the key is turned. So not only dp depositors lose interest on that $1000 but they also lose in depreciation.
So why was the human able to fix the problem and the machine not? Perhaps the machine has an arbitrary deadline whereas the human measures the progress of the actual boarding process, in which case the fix is to build that into the machine. Perhaps they use differential "deadlines" as a way to subtly discriminate against undesirables customers, in which case the clear light of automation probably improves matters overall.
That message is short and consists of just a link to something, and one of the addresses may be tainted by recent SPF failures. At a guess, some heuristics may have decided to wait a little and see if that URL goes away due to abuse complaints.
> There is no situation where better tooling isn't better!

This is trivially a tautology. The non-trivial part is that what is better or worse depends a lot on the circumstances.
The PyQt experience is that dual-licensing restricts adoption.

On the other hand, it ensures the developer makes enough to keep working on it quite steadily.
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Yes, most of the criticisms of Atom are fair on speed, but:

out of the box markdown support is second to none

and if you do Clojure, and like GUIs, proto-repl is amazing.
> they won't expose conflicts to the user layer.

They will, you'll see them as separate rows of the same partition, and then you can merge them as you wish in the application.
The authors haven't read this, have they? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13456706

In other words, it's not enough to capture the keydown event. They have broken native browser functionality and made it less secure - for negligible gain. (That's not to speak of the free, simple and secure HTTPS solution available, ahem LetsEncrypt ahem)
You might sell one or two of those a month, in the typical areas many of these RadioShack stores are located. If you were lucky...
We always called the black and white spinner the beach ball and the colored one from OSX the pinwheel. May be a terminology thing, but I was talking about the old black and white spinner in MacOS. If one did any kind of video, image or 3d editing, it was not far behind and pretty much locked the computer up until whatever processing was done.
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I am 29 and I had a BIG crisis when I turned 27. Things are settling down in my head now.
I don't know if this should be done by a for profit startup or should be done by foundations like the FSF.
And mean! Finite-state machine!
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'Most news is mostly fake'? What?
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I'm 36 and feel absolutely no sympathy for you.
I have a 1920x1200 monitor, so yeah I don't think so lol.
What about street signs, road markings, and even signals? That must be visual, and they certainly look different at night

Can you create a "normalized" image (hardware- or software-wise) that is independent of the time of day? Is that what you mean by "night-vision" and "modifier"?

I would still imagine that certain light conditions (i.e. just around sunset) could make things difficult.

Would be interesting if anyone knows how they handle this.
geopolitical advantage: when their internal labor becomes too expensive they'll have a place to outsource to.
Ok then:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165416/Chinas-hi-te...
> Is a piece of software not art? Are its creator/creators not artists, expressing their vision?

Indeed this can happen (though not always - I, for example would not describe, say, some business applications as "art"). But nevertheless the markets for art and software are IMHO rather different, so I would be cautious when lumping these two markets together.
But how do you scale cheaply to more GPUs?
It tends to happen with really poorly written niche industry-specific software that Microsoft don't realise exists, so can't test.
Shameless plug: Before the Keybase [GUI] Chat was invented I hacked together this simple text-based client that uses twtxt formatted files to store private chats between two keybase users:

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PS: It doesn't use the Keybase chat API, and it never will.
You're throwing out technical solutions – one law-technical, one crypto-technical – for what's essentially a social problem.

You don't need the draconian measure of dividing the OSS community, turning the idea of Free-as-Speech software into what's essentially shareware with source code access.

Large corporations have (obviously) vast financial resources. And – more importantly – they are (usually) staffed by humans. Have you ever felt the wish to be generous to someone whose software you used extensively? That feeling doesn't go away when you step into an office that requires a name tag to pass security.

Even mid-level managers or programmers usually can spend 4-figures easily without much oversight. And even if: I have witnessed a few cases where such requests went up the chain and came back with an added zero, despite HN third-favourite cliché being "companies have a duty only to shareholders and anything that deviates from 'greed is good' is a criminal offence'".

Sometimes it helps to offer a some sort of service contract, sponsoring or a workshop. They're bought as tokens to cover all eventualities.

So what's missing? Probably something like the FSF is doing here, handling paperwork and making it tax-deductible. I think it should be tied into some sort of coherent marketing strategy, kinda like the Apache foundation but more accessible to smaller projects, and possibly even a brand identity (/website) that doesn't trigger nostalgia for teletext. Mozilla is doing the best job in OSS marketing I can think of, but doesn't have a model for such projects. Maybe a Github foundation could also find success with a Wikimedia-style campaign. Although I'll hate myself for suggesting it if it ever happens.

Plus, unfortunately, a tiny bit of effort by developers. If you're just coding away at home and loving it, I can understand that it seems unfair, useless, out-of-personal-scope etc. that you should be doing fundraising. But it's also a bit too easy to expect good things to happen just because there's good code. (I have no knowledge of the octave situation specifically, and they may have done an excellent job and I'm wrong – this is just my general impression of some of these lone-coder projects).

Let's also not forget that OSS as a whole is probably doing better today than ever before. For every case such as this, there are dozens of cases where people are hired by large companies and largely left to work on their projects, or OSS created and released from within corporations, or successful startups with an OSS strategy etc.

Yeah, and "blockchain" isn't actually a magic spell that solves random problems...
"leaving out important chunks of history because they don't support the view he's trying to push."

I think that's a fair criticism of Adam Curtis - but then again it is pretty much a fair criticism of pretty much every analysis of historical events - everyone has an agenda.

Having said that, I absolutely love Bitter Lake more for sheer experience than anything else.
Not so noble after all?
> I do find it ironic that many of the dev crowd seem to love government taxes

Can you provide evidence for that?
Mac OS X has an hypervisor framework, which is also used by Docker

https://github.com/docker/hyperkit

https://developer.apple.com/reference/hypervisor

Also there is App Sandbox for writing safer applications, but it requires programming explicitly against it.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Se...
I think you're spot on, it's so dangerous to think this can't happen anywhere else. Stupid laws get ratified in every country. For the US, one difference is the media coverage is good, and the debate is widely publicised. Whereas in e.g. the UK, everybody just shrugs [0]. Apathy is far more dangerous than outrage.

[0] e.g. being compelled to hand over passwords in "terror" or "national security" matters, or be jailed otherwise
I think that the UK is going to be in for a rude awakening with Brexit. Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland all have somewhat different agreements with the EU, but at the end of the day, they've had to accept a lot that they don't necessarily like in order to get the benefits they do like.
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It's only over the horizon if the plane was flying below 200m or so (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon#Distance_to_the_horizo...)

I can't find conclusive evidence, but I think that's unlikely, given that the planned cruising height was 4300m (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655#Shootdown_...), and it was shot down about halfway through its flight.

I'm not sure whether using binoculars at 20km distance makes sense, though. There's quite a size difference, but even if it would be easy to spot the difference from that far away having half a minute or so to find the plane using your binoculars would be challenging (it's about a minute of flight for a passenger plane, but if it were military, you would want to hit it before it had a chance to fire a missile, and according to Wikipedia, the Maverick that they feared an Iranian F14 might carry has a range of over 12 nautical miles)
It is a bit sad that someone is often (jokingly) referred to as crazy because of consistent application application of a defensible moral position.

I think people get stuck on the idea that it is difficult for users to get as good an experience with free-only software, or that it is difficult to make money creating that software. That's a different problem and not an argument he engages with his zeal. Choosing to defend freedom and not support tyranny is a moral decision not a purely economic calculation.

Edit: I just R'd the FA and speaking as a non-US citizen, I will not visit that country for the foreseeable future.
How are you distinguishing between Giffen and Veblen goods? If you define Veblen in such a way that all Giffen goods are Veblen and then say that disqualifies them then of course you'll find there are no Giffen goods.
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Food/waiting thing is a good point but I imagine the bulk of people, if electric, will charge overnight and rarely need out-of-home power.

According to wiki the cost to put in Hydrogen fueling infrastructure would be about 20% of electric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_station
I use T-Mobile as my ISP because the only landline choice in my apartment building is AT&T and I absolutely refuse to do business with them. I regularly hit the monthly bandwidth cap on my plan and get booted down to 2G.

I live in California -- this is not just something people internationally are dealing with.

Annoyingly, T-Mobile's own website doesn't work properly when you're throttled to 2G speed. Found that out the hard way when I ran out of minutes on Thanksgiving and couldn't talk to my family, and couldn't load their website to add more minutes.
There are a few, none of them optimal for DOM manipulation yet because they all involve calling javascript. There is plans to add wasm dom hooks eventually. https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/conne...
"Just put a heatsink on the CPU."

Ever had any problems without it?
I don't keep track of it.

It is however a possibility.
I agree, but how do you argue for that?

I work with a customer where every application has to have a dedicated environment, running on VMs in a seperate VPC on a private cloud. The default DB is a galera cluster with 3 nodes, even for the most simple application.

The argument for it is that cloud VMs are expected to fail, so everything has to be setup to tolerate instance failure without downtime.

All I have to counter it is the supposedly higher risk of data loss in a complicated split brain, the unspecific "more complicated" etc. While the risk of instance failure is very real, that feels a bit theoretical and vague.
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> I have a hard time understanding why this issue is not paid more attention. Ethiopia alone has some 99 million inhabitants, with smart phone usage growing by the hour. Some sources say "the country could have some 103 million mobile subscribers by 2020, as well as 56 million internet subscribers" [1].

How much disposable income will they have though? Most web products like those you describe are produced by businesses looking to make money.
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You misunderstood me, I didn't imply that you need a VAT number as a seller company (as a US company you can't even have it), but just that you should be able to produce a simple invoice PDF with your address, buyer address, buyer VAT (if needed) and a sequential number to provide a paper we need to properly add payment into the accounting books.

And yes, I know that VAT isn't required piece of information on all invoices, but it WILL make the payment go smoother through the accounting departments which is what you want ;)
Some just hang up on you when they give up. Quite awful
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