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There are some, how to call, secondary effects which can avalanche real quick. For example, if gas stations begin to close (or just give up regular gasoline still selling diesel to trucks) that can become a self strengthening death spiral incredibly fast.
> Now it's basically useless.

There's also this thing that even if you don't have kids (I personally don't) you don't want to sit on a car chair which has had other people's bodily fluids on it. Public transport like buses or trams is for the moment safe-ish when it comes to that, at least where I live, because not a lot of people masturbate in public or have sex on the chairs of a bus because people will call them out, but I don't see what would stop 2 people having sex in a car which they don't own (they only share it) and where nobody can see them.

There's also the non-politically correct question of what we should do with homeless people riding these vehicles? This is a real problem when it comes to public transport in my city, as the trams and buses are used as a de-facto day shelter against cold when winter comes. You really do not want to sit close to many of these homeless people in those cases, as the smell is very hard on the senses (I mean, real hard), often times you can tell a homeless people has been riding that tram half an hour ago only by the smell alone (even though he's not still on the tram). If said homeless people were to use this car-sharing thingie I can guarantee you that nobody else will use said cars after them.

There's also the thing of how do you protect these vehicles against destruction and negligence by its users, a problem encountered by many who have shared their car in the existing car-sharing projects.
> Their market share will certainly be reduced for ground transportation

And that alone will be enough.

You're right that gas/diesel will never be completely replaced, but it seems that it doesn't need to be in order to suffer a serious decline in usage that radically transforms the energy landscape.

Looking at this graphic [1], ground transportation is the biggest single use case of oil in the United States.

67% of oil consumption in the U.S. goes to the transportation sector, and ~80% of the transportation industry's oil use is for ground travel. A serious decline in that could really hurt the industry and cause the kind of disruption the author was talking about. (Granted, the graphic's from 2004 but I don't have a reason to believe the proportions have fundamentally changed).

[1] http://afstrinity.com/images/data/oil-transportation.jpg
Its also a saturated market.
That could be wildcard as well.
onedrive, onedrive for business, onedrive app - Same name not the same product!

every one of them with different UI, different settings and never works without a failure. Try sharing a folder between team mates in office365. In dropbox it just appears to every team member. In office365 you need onedrive for busines (the regular onedrive that comes with Windows 10 won't show it) and then it appeas as a sharepoint folder the user.
So confusing, So not working.
Oh absolutely, I believe it, and I looked at @pedrocr's code. Very simple. But, a static box filter is even simpler.

Did you call it pixel mixing in the 80s? I've been doing image resizing for decades and never heard the term before tonight. I have implemented a couple of very similar algorithms to pixel mixing for CG films, once in a shader and once for antialiasing in a particle renderer.
Electric vehicles have not yet turned out to be more reliable or cheaper to repair. Tesla vehicles are lower than average on both of those measures.

I used to be very optimistic because of how simple electric cars are in theory, but in practice, a century of refinement of internal combustion engines has not yet been beaten.
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This seems to be how wordpress.com does it.
At quick glance, this work seems related to Information Maximization like is done in the papers for InfoGAN, VIME, and Intrinsic Motivation (for automatic goal-setting in RL).
EV price will mainly depend on how well Li-Ion batteries scale up in a mass market. I'd imagine at some point more and more of the price will go towards the part that cannot be made cheaper (and will actually increase in price with higher demand): Lithium. On the other hand, having efficient refurb/recycle processes for older batteries may solve that, assuming that there's enough Lithium to serve the global market once over in the first place. If not I guess it's either time for a new battery technology or time to mine asteroids or the moon.
> But since 2000 heavy trucks have accounted for 40% of the TOTAL growth in oil demand

I kept trying to parse this (and then got shocked and was like "no, that can't be true...") before going on and realizing I was reading a garden path sentence.
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>Redux is a power tool for experts that is disheartening beginners and sending them down the wrong path.

I've seen this expressed many, many times, and it is something that I've honestly never quite understood. I started with React less than a year ago, and it wasn't until I added Redux to my stack that I began to feel perfectly comfortable with,

To me, the fact that actions dispatched in whatever component would cause the global state to be recomputed which then got handed to react to render it just a no-brainer. This truly makes data in React flow just one direction. The tooling around it -- Redux DevTools -- also made seeing my app in action and debugging it so incredibly clear.

Without it, for me initially it was a struggle about where exactly to store certain state, and passing props and callbacks up and down all over the place. It wasn't clean or easy to reason about at all.

As someone who had very limited experience in the framework, Redux felt like a tool which made the pit of success for me pretty darn large. I do know that even Dan himself has suggested that people not learn them in conjunction, but to me, the coupling of them is so perfect that React only became a joy to use WHEN I introduced it.
Well, what is it about? "Health startup" is a little broad.
When I first came to React my understanding was that React/Flux were all but a package deal, and that I better use Redux because it seemed so popular. Redux quickly became a pain point in terms of boilerplate and added cognitive load. Now a top level stateful component works for 90% of my use cases.I feel the same way about React Router. Maybe if you're building something quite large or complex these prepackaged tools make sense, but I personally have gone the way of Golang and started to prefer a little copying over adding an extra dependency and I've found that React is wonderful by itself. I encourage anyone who will listen to try ditching Redux in favor of a single top level stateful component.
Using the default networking stack. Basic aws networking on k8s relies on route tables, which are quite limited - Only supports up to 100 routes. We had to use bigger nodes than I'd planned to stay under that limit.
Yeah, based on some vague stats, I'd guess that around 60% of React projects are also using Redux. (That's based on the "State of JS 2016" survey, a Twitter poll asking React devs what state management system they're using, and some NPM download stats I think I saw.) So yes, for better or for worse, there is both an assumption that they go together automatically, and a reason for that assumption.

Also worth noting that Redux can absolutely be used with any UI layer, _is_ being used with frameworks like Angular and Ember, and has also inspired variations like vuex and ngrx/store.
I'm pretty sure you still need to provide source to the version of LEDE you use, at least to your customers.
There must be subtext here that I don't understand.
But at this point that's all pretty much moot because competitors have caught up and there's hardly an advantage over Postgres' JSONB fields, which builds up on top of all the features Mongo will likely never have (transactions I'm looking at you).
SA's population might be relatively low but at the moment they seem to be having a manufacturing slump with the pullout of major car companies so from that perspective there should be enough labor to gather there.
AMA I've worked at SC and AWS (another service that gets criticized for its warts) so I'll help you understand.
I tried a VR demo a few months ago. It was fantastic!

This stuff has come a long way. It tracks every slightest movement of your head and controllers. The graphics and sound will immerse you in a world you will believe is real.

Very nice gaming is possible, as well as recreation. People could visit fantastic virtual worlds just to be somewhere else and feel good; a kind of therapy, if you will.

I don't understand what these insipid nay-saying wankers are blabbing about.
What are those problems exactly?
Part of the story does have to do with the protagonist's passivity and lack of initiative, but also with his deference to authority. Kafka has the gatkeeper speak in ambiguous ways, hinting at something that's never made clear. Is he on the supplicant's side, or is he against him? Does he wield vast power, or is it all a bluff?

Kafka does not give us any answers to these questions, but really challenges us to reflect on them ourselves, and to perhaps see some parallels to this in our own lives. The whole story could be seen as a miniature version of all too many desperate, futile lives that people live today -- they yearn for something, but meekly, perhaps out of some defect in their characters (a defect but perhaps also a virtue -- that of trust and obedience or deference to authority) fail to attain what they yearn for.

We could probably go on analyzing this tale for some time. I find the it to be quite deep and rich in meaning, and that's why I love it.
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Because his day job is probably more stable.
I worked at a hardware startup, working on software for said hardware. Much smaller company than Jawbone, but a more unique and niche product.

The logistics of manufacturing and selling hardware as a small company are truly a nightmare.
But the beauty of adopting electric cars now is that when a better battery technology is developed it can be replaced in cars on an individual basis, whereas a reason we don't drive hydrogen cars today is because fuelling stations would need to stock that in addition to traditional fuels. Supposing nanowire batteries come out for cars: they can still use the same EV chargers.
I also experienced big buffers with my JAMBOX. When I try to play something that requires low latency (like a talk), it is perceivable that there is a latency between the video and the speaker.
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> I think the hype about pure electric and self driving are largely just that, hype

I also fear misinvestments from the car companies that could cause major unforeseen health and ecological risks 20 to 30 years from now. The same has happened with diesel here in Europe, which 20 to 30 years ago was seen as superior to gasoline for the average daily commuter and which now, when more than 50% of the cars in in major European countries run on diesel, has proven itself really bad for the health of people living in big cities.
Ask HN: Donate shares of startup to charity for carryable tax deduction?
Throwaway account for ovious reasons.

I'm a co-founder at an ~3 year old startup that has closed two rounds of funding and raising a 3rd, giving my founder shares a rather large paper valuation in the 10's of millions. However things have changed, and I lost faith in our leadership and product, and I lack power to do anything about it. So I already parted ways and am working on my next startup.

But those shares remain, and even heavily discounted as common stock my shares are still a life changing amount of money. However I'm personally certain that I have a snowball's chance in hell of actually seeing a liquidity event that pays me out. Nevertheless the investment market has spoken, and investors with the same or better access to information than I have now have decided to make further investments at an even higher valuation.

So.. can I cash out on this? My shares are illiquid, subject to all the usual restrictions. But I would have no trouble convincing the company to allow me to donate a large percentage to a charity of my choice, or even a self-directed charitable fund. I should then be able to claim a tax deduction equal to the paper value of the shares today. While my bank account will still remain empty, it would allow me to pay approximately zero federal taxes from now until I stop working, giving me effectively a 35% salary boost. And this wouldn't be tax fraud -- the new investments coming in demonstrate that sophisticated investors who know what they are doing and should be trusted more than me, do in fact think the company is worth this amount or more.

Did I miss something? Some googling hasn't shown any examples of this. I've read examples of successful entrepreneurs transferring shares into charitable organizations, but not any early-stage companies as far as I can see. Surely somebody has done this before?
Good point - I'd imagine that quickly becomes something you can request that the vehicle have. Maybe it'll take an extra 5 minutes to get to you as there are fewer but that might just be a bonus if you have a kid to get ready :D
I think it usually refers to accuracy out of a range of 1. typically 3 decimal places means 1000ppm and 4dp means 100ppm.

The typical problems with analog computers are many...
precision of components (e.g. gain or attenuation) is limited to ~0.1% for resistors and ~1% for capacitors (inductors aren't typically used). You can try to tune things (ratiometrically) to get higher accuracy, but at the cost of increased noise and temperature sensitivity. The more complex the system, the more things can go wrong... so you end up needing simple systems or simple tools (digital).

The typical problem is that if you build a filter (e.g. a transfer function with a summer or differencer) then you will tend to clip the dynamic range or either with a maximum voltage (integrators) or a minimum noise level (differentiators) pretty quickly. You can play some games with log converters, but accuracy really still matters and drift or gain error with time is rarely an option.

The best way to use analog computers is with negative feedback to null the input. They do that amazingly well... so you can build a temperature controller, missile tracker, or actuator that only minimizes an error so that high gain corrects for any inaccuracy or offset.
Pilot Wave is to Many Worlds, as Many Worlds is to Copenhagen.

Pilot wave is the most "concrete". If you're moving away from abstraction, then why stop at Many Worlds?
Actually, that was only the case temporarily. For ...reasons... (I think it was the SkyDrive legal complaint?) the product rename happened before the client was technically consolidated.

Since January, OneDrive and OneDrive for Business use the same client and (on o365/SP16FP1) the same infrastructure & API. If you're using the old ODFB client that was bundled with old versions of Office, you should upgrade. The old ODFB was terrible, and MS has been trying to get rid of it for years. (If you're using an old version of SharePoint 2013/2016 to host OneDrive locally, you should probably patch that too.)

The new client is OK. But it's too late for me. MS have burnt me so many times with OneDrive/SkyDrive/Mesh/Windows Live/FolderSync at this point that I'm now an avowed Dropbox/Resilio user, and I won't be looking back for many years.

A similar consolidation will be happening with the new Skype/Skype for Business clients. They broke my TV's skype camera to make that happen, and it's still not happening. I've switched to Hangouts/FB Messenger. The main reason these transitions are taking so long is: (a) all the on-premises customers create backwards compatibility hell (b) complete confusion around authentication and (c) they doesn't seem to be very good at delivering good software.

The "OneDrive app" is a Windows 10 app store app, similar to the iOS and Android apps.
A reverse proxy can kind of act as a nice hack around this by multiplexing off of the the Host header (which is unencrypted even with HTTPS due to the way that the SSL handshake is done).
He's wildly optimistic on the timeline to the point of delusion, but it's probably true we'll transition to automated electric cars within a few decades.
Yeah I also think I have an easy life/career but I'm already an experienced dev. That we get paid handsomely to have a comfortable career is, I think, a sign that the job is hard, not easy. Pro athletes live pretty comfortably too - it's getting there that's hard.
Not the OP, but I can explain why this decision makes sense to me:

Responsible disclosure involves weighing the competing needs of a company (usually reputation hits, increased support demand) with the needs of its users (if they're doing something insecure that they think is secure, would knowing about it allow them to stop being insecure? Will an attacker who reads the disclosure be able to exploit the vulnerability more before it's fixed?).

In this case, we have many users who are using a product specifically because they desire extreme security, but due to misconfiguration are getting very little. Worse, the passwords they have been using should be considered compromised, if they are affected by this bug.

Having your password compromised isn't something that can be made better for you by a product patch in a few days or weeks. You just need to abandon the compromised password everywhere it's been used as quickly as possible.

Since responsible disclosure doesn't help users have their passwords become uncompromised, and since the affected users don't yet know their passwords are compromised, I support avoiding responsible disclosure here. It doesn't help fix the compromise situation, and every hour that users aren't changing passwords actively hurts the situation.

The decision is made easier by the fact that there are many users but only one company. You would have to derive a huge positive benefit of responsible disclosure to the company to offset even a modest negative for each user, after multiplying that negative by the number of users likely affected. I think of it as a literal utilitarian calculation.

Does that make sense?
I guess this is more of a quick start but along the lines:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html
And yet combustion vehicles don't have 2000 miles range. Energy density is very important, but you can make up for it with better efficiency.
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It would be interesting to see if lithium mining and production could be scaled up fast enough to produce 15+ million cars per year (US only).

Something tells me that this could be an ecological disaster even greater than coal.

The article may be correct on the rationale, but the timing seems fast given everyone's concern about the planet.

Also consider that oil comes from a small hole in the ground, and already has refineries in place to turn it into gasoline, while last year the whole world only produced about 650,000 tons of lithium. Each Tesla uses about 65Kg of it.
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spot on. Do people need McDonald's ads to inform them about McDonald's products? Maybe in a few rare cases. It's not about information, it's about manipulation.
Kubeadm (https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-...) is great if you can install the base OS yourself (manually or through existing scripting you might have). The great thing is that you end up with a fully secured cluster, which (unfortunately) isn't the case with every tool or guide out there.
Probably, but tragedy of the commons etc.
My only contention with this is that those features don't really take influence from the real world in any more than a superficial sense. The biggest influence is geography of spawns. I don't mean the regional pokemon aspect, rather the feature that water-based ones spawn closer to water (ie: next to a river). I can agree that's AR.

On the other hand, gyms are just arbitrarily tied to landmarks purely by location. There's no actual interaction with the landmark. Excepting spawn variance, you could replace the entire pokemon map with a fake world and absolutely nothing would change from a gameplay point of view.

In that sense, I struggle to call that AR there's no actual augmentation to the reality. The pokemon, gyms, PoI, etc. do not influence or take influence from the landscape around them. You don't go to actual hospitals to heal your pokemon. Gyms don't change in any way whatsoever based on where they're placed - for example, battling in a gym in the middle of a park doesn't involve fighting in an open field with no obstacles, vs a gym in a CBD letting the buildings, cars, etc. play a role in the battle.

It really boils down to the subjective aspect of what AR/VR/etc. constitutes. For me, there needs to be some influence from the real world to the AR. With PoGo, there's really not beyond the most superficial listed above. In that sense, it's no more AR than an achievement/reward-based, social-network style step counter where you compete with your friends and the public for the amount you walk. It simply uses the GPS to measure distance - beyond that, the real world plays no role.
For general purpose operating systems formal verification of security mechanisms should not always be assumed.

I was not talking about ideal security but that certain pre-existing mechanisms do not have equivalent security postures, as the parent had mentioned. The point isn't that with enough work isolation can be achieved but that that work has not in fact been done and the various mechanisms are distinct and their security values should not be conflated.
> Never thought the SEO actually paid off

It not only pays off for the ad-fueled sites, it's also the only way up in rankings for a product site.

No matter how good your software is – unless it went viral you'll be annoying people with link building emails.
I'm worried. I've been following the Maersk outage. The world's biggest shipping line still hasn't fully recovered. Their less automated ports were down for several days. LA and NJ finally came back up about two days ago, but operations are still partially manual and they're running longer hours trying to cope.

Their most automated port, Maasvlakte II in Rotterdam, is still processing imports only; no exports. Some containers there are stuck in the stacks; they have a list of which containers can be reached. They're requiring paper customs forms and a paper commercial release, instead of their usual paperless system. Earlier, they were so down that the automated cranes could not unload ships. This is what Maasvlakte II looks like in normal operation. There are no people on the quay at all. All those cranes and AGVs are automated.[1]

Maersk's financial side is still down. They're not sending out invoices, which means zero revenue. They just announced a price cut, to keep shippers. Some of their phone and email systems are still down. The booking side is now up, so they can take new shipping orders.

This is the first time we've seen real-world outages of this magnitude. It may not be the last.

(Where's the Flexport guy who posts on here? He has to deal with all these problems. Flexport is a freight forwarder, which means that when something goes wrong with freight they are forwarding, it's their problem to fix it.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_rlLyelQo