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Tesla might well be in the wrong, but the article is frankly written in a biased way.

> Rather than going back to the drawing board to improve the Model S's design

What is Tesla is right, and the test is inadequate? Ultimately the only thing that matters is for the car to be safe on the road, and passing IYI-designed tests may or may not approximate that well enough.

> Tesla then continued on saying the most accurate crash test is done by the

Why not quote the full Tesla statement? We're left thinking that Tesla has reasons for disagreeing with this test, but the reasons are conveniently omitted. The whole article literally only quotes seven words written by Tesla themselves.

>Tesla quickly responded saying IIHS has "motivation that suits their own subjective purposes." [...] Still, IIHS wasn't bashing Tesla in the least as they rated the Model S as "Good" in the moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint & seats test.

This last sentence is blatantly dishonest. A test result being good has no bearing on whether the test is fair.

I feel like this bias could only be conscious and deliberate, with the author hoping that people won't be critical/skeptical enough readers for it to work. This is disgraceful "journalism".
Yep, Aliexpress rullz. They have an affiliate campaign of their own. As of today, they have no restrictions on getting affiliate cut on your own products
A true capitalist would make them pay rent!
My boss at my previous job at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare in New Zealand is using analogue computing today.

He developed Pertecs, which is a rudimentary analog computer paradigm written in C.

http://tcode.auckland.ac.nz/~mark/Signal%20Processing%3A%20P...

He got me to write some code to compile schematic diagrams into the XML config files. He's also done something similar now to compile from LaTeX, and he ported the controller from a Mac Mini to a Raspberry Pi.

Pertecs is being used to control an artificial lung, which is used for research into obstructive sleep apnoea (snoring).

The problem is, he's retiring, and I'm probably the only other person in the world who knows how to use his program. I would move back there, but the immigration policy got more difficult (minimum salary of $75k), so I'm seriously wondering whether I should stay in Taiwan longer and try to naturalise here.
Travis also tried to partner with Tesla on this by using Tesla as a source for the vehicles (not sure who was responsible in this case for the software -- prolly uber), and Musk declined. Soon thereafter, Musk published his grand plan part 2 for Tesla, which included a home grown ride-sharing network where in grand Musk style they are going to do everything themselves.
Hadn't heard about Hello. Their product sucked but I assumed PT was in for more than one hand to prove his point.
Roomba came out in 2002 so it predates the current round of VC hardware companies by quite a number of years. I feel like Roomba has been around long enough that they have strong brand recognition, even if their product is cloned and commodified.
>health (mental or otherwise) is very much on the "not allowed" list

This is a gross oversimplification to the point of being untrue.

In addition to what the sibling comment said about asking itself not being illegal, you're allowed to discriminate based on health/disability status all you want if the disability prevents an employee from doing a bona fide job requirement and there isn't any "reasonable accommodation" you can provide for that employee.

For example - if you're a interviewing/hiring for a job that requires the employee to, say, move heavy boxes all day you're going to need to ask that employee "can you lift and move boxes up to 60 pounds?" and you're going to have to reject candidates that can't due to health conditions. Likewise you may have to reject a candidate who is a bad coder even if he has a learning disability.
Tesla Powerpack to Enable Large Scale Sustainable Energy to South Australia
What decisions do you regret?
Completely agree with you. I play the piano and can attest from watching others more skilled than me that practicing well in sections and many of the other things mentioned here are part of a professional pianists flow.

That being said, perhaps the point that is trying to be made is that we should routinely examine our flow patterns and optimize for maximum efficiency
Re-soldering a chip is pretty easy. Being able to buy that chip in one-off quantities is sometimes next to impossible.
As a hobby gardener and wannabe roboticist I've thought a lot about this problem. Before I continue I love this thing and am seriously thinking about getting one.

However, a concern that I'm sure they've thought a lot about is in it's technique. I really only care about making sure there are no weeds within, say, 8 inches of my plants (or put another way, my level of concern about a weed is proportional to it's distance from my vegetable or flower plant). This looks like it will weed everything except the 8 inches around the plant. Never mind things like cucumbers that spread out on the ground and have important bits that are short and can't be contained by the wire protectors. Still, an exciting place to start.
Bandcamp is where most of the bands I care about seem to release their music.

But, like you said, most of my discovery occurs on YouTube and a small forum thread.
Open Sources
Yeah -- pixels are little squares, since a pixel appears as a little square on your display. If displays did the "correct" thing and interpolated the pixels using a band-limited signal, it wouldn't look good at all. The low sample rate compared to the resolution of human vision means you'd see ringing artifacts on every sharp edge.

If you want to do the correct thing from a signal processing perspective, you should upsample your images with a square-pixel filter until the Nyquist frequency is below the limit of human vision first. Then you can do your operations on the pixels as point samples before downsampling again with a square-pixel filter.
Only Musk's reality distortion field seems to be actually distorting reality.
No, baby, we're talking about collecting rent.
No reason to get a lawyer involved. If Amazon owes you less than $5k then file a small claims case against them.
The casualties will, and should, stun people. The Korean War, 1950-1953, total civilians killed/wounded: 2.5 million (wikipedia), and cost $341 billion in 2011 dollars (Congressional Research Service).

And then there will be a massive refugee problem on both sides.
Well done Italy
It doesn't appear like the Model X has gone through an IIHS test. I can't find any references to one and the link in the article actually goes to the Model S IIHS page...
Id certainly believe that it's possible to do so. However, in the same way that anyone could be president, not everyone can be. Lots of colleges don't even have enough jobs in the area to support every student working, and the number of hours you'd have to work can prevent anyone with a difficulty major from doing so

Edit:I did say _anyone_ in the past 20 years so that is some unfortunate hyperbole on my part
It's not just ports, resource contention in general is largely the pain of multi-user systems.

If you've ever managed a host with thousands of users, you'd remember. Sure many of these have work-arounds now, but I've seen users (or have personally) run a machine out of:

- /tmp space

- processes

- open file handles

- inodes

- shared memory segments

- ephemeral ports

- etc., etc.

You ever have a root shell on a box that's out of processes. Luckily modern shells have built-ins, so you can at least `ls` and stuff. But when you can't run, say, `lsof`, what do you do? That used to be a classic interview question.

And then there's the traditional resource contention folks think of like saturating links, i/o channels, disk space, cpu, memory, and so on.

But nowadays it's virtual machines all the way down. My favorite is to think of something like Puppet server (I like to pick on it) running in Docker. Count the abstractions in the chain:

- JRuby interpreter

- JVM

- Process

- Container

- OS

- Virtual Machine

- Hypervisor process

- Hypervisor OS

- even UEFI to an extent

- Hardware

You could say things like the process and OS are redundant, and you could probably add more if you consider some of the subcomponents of some of these. But each one is there to segment and/or simplify and then we add all kinds of holes for each to directly access one of its parental chain.

It is an evolved system where we are doomed to "reinvent Unix badly". But I'll be curious to see where we end up in 10-15 years...
I had my amazon affiliate account disabled because someone posted my site on Reddit. That's the reason they gave me, and they pretty much confirmed "yup, it's that easy" in email correspondence when I asked "so anybody can shut down an affiliate account by posting the website to Reddit?"

Super bizarre. You'd think there's more to the story, but I have nothing more. Maybe my site was competing with my account manager's or something? I'll never know.
Very experienced people have told me to sell my VPN routers[0] on amazon, and I never, ever will. I own the distribution, I own the content, I own the marketing. I'm probably leaving a good chunk of revenue on the table, but overall I think it's the better longterm solution.

[0] https://easyvpnrouter.com/
I've read the comment you're replying to a few times, and I'm curious why it matters if they are or not. For the purpose of contributing to this discussion, have they stated anything false or misrepresented anything? If so, you should present that as a retort instead, instead of questioning their identity.

Furthermore, for authors of comments critical of Uber, do you also go out of your way to ask if they work for a competing company like Waymo, Google, Tesla or Lyft?

Let's ask you that same question. Are you a Waymo, Google, Tesla or Lyft employee or shareholder?
This made me wonder if articles purposely place more meaning words closer to the front to get attention of viewers sooner.

I'm no expert in journalism by any means, and I guess this comment has nothing to do with the article itself, but it did spark some curiosity.
There are some crude versions out there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBRZUtIDqbU
I don't think any of them employ deep learning for visually recognizing weeds. This one from Bosch comes close I guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Aq6qVQOkw
That's not really fair to Musk. The man has created a string of extraordinary companies. He has done objectively impressive things on a scale and with a frequency that is objectively highly unusual. He is a showman, and to some extent a bullshit artist. But to say he's "just another balding engineer", or even to say he's "just like Jobs" is to unfairly discredit him, imo.
nuclear fallout. there is an excellent book called death on mars.
You do realize that calendar picker is the stock jQuery UI picker
One tip for not getting into trouble is to not use SSL on the site you are sending traffic from (or use a referrer policy meta tag so that the browser is authorized to pass the referrer from your SSL page). SSL results in blank referrers by default. A friend had his Amazon account banned and earnings confiscated because his traffic had blank referrers.
This doesn't answer your question, but I just wanted to make clear that the posts below certainly do not show, trivially or otherwise, how to use "no string literals" and "pure data" in Postgres.
At this point, bring me hints of supersymmetry or bring me pillows.

What's the difference between sleeping forever and being dead? The history of science is rife with examples of people waiting for ages for evidence of their incorrect pet theories...
Surprisingly interesting comment.
There isn't even a single source link in the entire article (except to the IIHS page for the safety rating)

Further, they talk about how Tesla bragged about the Model X's IIHS rating, but the Model X has never undergone an IIHS crash test. Totally agree, pitiful journalism.
Ah yes, but the more arbitrage exists, the higher the incentive for another entity to learn and exploit it. The first guy cuts it in half, the next by a quarter, and so on, until normal profits emerge. Being ahead of the curve has a bonus, but it can't last forever in usual circumstances.

I think the real core tenet of capitalism is specialization - it is impossible for everyone to know everything. Mix multiple services into one, package it in a way that is ideal for a certain consumer, and the "arbitrage" is really just another word for convenience.
Perf Results on Scaling Git on VSTS with GVFS
I went to a very good school for my computing science degree and they spent a good amount of time on software engineering.

But one of my coworkers is going to a terrible school and I'm literally appalled at their degree program. Without going into too much detail, it's just awful. Anyone taking that program would be better off taking their time and money and learning on their own.

My coworker is very talented developer; she gets A's without going to class and she is specifically going to this school to get an easy computing science degree while working full time.

A good school should teach the foundations of software engineering; what I learned in school was a good foundation for everything I've done since. We learned about agile. We did an entire semester long waterfall project (teaching by explicit example why the waterfall method is terrible). I suspect it's even better and more modern now.

I don't know if there is a good convergence of information. I don't think there is no one-true-way to do software engineering yet everyone proposes their own singular method. The best way to go is often to pick a little bit of experience from everywhere.
Sooner or later the readers will find out the truth. But in the mean time before the market re-adjusts itself, he's raking in 10k per month.
Yes, but if you actually just write to add value to the web, good luck monetizing it AT ALL.

I am increasingly inclined to go do something like this and see if it pays. Because trying to add value doesn't. It just makes me a chump.
> The term "weed" feels pretty outdated at this point.

As they say in botany class, a wildflower is just a weed with a better PR department.
I love my combustion engine car and don't plan to go electric next time... but this article made me think. And while perhaps a little too optimistic on timeline, I have to concede that his premise regarding moving parts has merit.
Because my conversion rates go up when we use it, and down when we don't. Sure, you can add social proof, but like any platform you take your chances and plan for when they lose their mind.
Full statement from Tesla given to cnbc[0]

> Tesla's Model S received the highest rating in IIHS's crash testing in every category except for one, the small overlap front crash test, where it received the second highest rating available. While IIHS and dozens of other private industry groups around the world have methods and motivations that suit their own subjective purposes, the most objective and accurate independent testing of vehicle safety is currently done by the U.S. government, which found Model S and Model X to be the two cars with the lowest probability of injury of any cars that it has ever tested, making them the safest cars in history.

[0] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/06/insurance-institute-for-highw... (Autoplay video)
That is literally the point of it
initiate arbitration.
Come on, it's not literally the same. It at least requires an active attacker to read your data, whereas HTTP can be read passively.
I interpreted flow as something that happens, and that you can make a good environment for it to happen , but can't force. However, recently I've found as you've found that I can force it to occur in certain circumstances. Maybe that's what the OP is getting at
Heck even large towns like Merrimack you haul it your self.
Ask HN: Should all corporations be public benefit corporations?
Context stolen from wikipedia:

The General Corporation Law (Title 8, Chapter 1 of the Delaware Code) was recently amended by Senate Bill No. 47, effective August 1, 2013, adding a new subchapter XV, which authorizes the creation of Public Benefits Corporations. As defined in the GCL, a PBC is a for-profit corporation intended to produce a public benefit and operate in a responsible and sustainable manner. The PBC is to be managed in a manner that balances stockholders' pecuniary interests, the best interests of those materially affected by the corporation's conduct and the public benefit for which the PBC is formed.

Personally, I believe the world would be a better place if corporate citizens tried to be _good_ citizens. I would almost go as far to say that the default corporation should be a PBC-like entity and you should have to file extra paperwork to ignore your civic duty and only be beholden to the traditional corporate goal of maximizing profit for shareholders.

Thoughts? I'm looking for thoughts from both a moral and economic perspective, though I am less sure what those would look like.
GraphicsMagick (GM) is definitely loads faster than ImageMagick (IM) for some resize operations, but I doubt it's in the same league as Pillow-SIMD, just guessing though. I've had to do some large image (gigapixel) resizing, and IM keeps the entire image in memory, which causes it to hit swap. GM streams the image resize instead, so it doesn't have to swap, and it can finish in a few minutes instead of many hours.
Non-safety-critical components in the steam plant are likely to have networked PLC control. While nuclear probabilistic safety assessments support that licensed reactors can safely endure casualties involving such components, the safety system is subject to failures and crippling the plant and causing a reactor transient is likely a good enough result.
While the author makes a lot of interesting points that even I hadn't considered before as an enthusiastic reader of EV news, there are a few glaring holes I need to point out:

- Pretty much every point the author makes about the rapid takeover of EVs, from being cheaper to hail one instead of owning a gasoline powered car, to the ones relating to owning cars at all, could (and should) be prefixed by "In a city..." because speaking as someone who lives far from an urban sprawl, a lot of this stuff just would not work. Sure EV's work ok out here, though the self driving tech might need more help than most often, but who is buying all of these self driving EV cabs and operating them, and why? The volume just isn't here, you'd get tons of passengers clamoring for a ride between 7am and 9am, then again at 3pm to 5pm, and then it would be near dead the rest of the time.

- There are no EV technologies (to my knowledge) ready to replace anything beyond a city runabout vehicle. The act of, for example, plowing snow would be insanely taxing on an EV truck (running an electric motor under strain is the best way to wear down the battery), and sure, the mechanical element is definitely true but you'd need some sort of fast-charge system to make it viable, otherwise your trucks are spending hours charging for every hour plowing. And then that's a fairly easy one, electric combines, construction equipment, cranes, tow trucks, I haven't heard of any of these and I look for this sort of thing.

- Societal inertia is going to be a big factor here, around here we have people driving vehicles from the 70's, not as collector's items or anything like that but as their daily driver. Come on out here and propose to our average Joe the idea of buying a Tesla Model 3 for $37,000, a guy who barely makes $30,000 a year, who buys and drives the cheapest thing on the lot until the wheels fall off and goes and gets something else.

I could go on but it's bed time. Maybe ICE vehicles will be dearth from cities within 10 years, maybe. But even then I kind of doubt it.
... or it's the eve of the first Trump/Putin meeting at the G20.
Crooked IIHS wants to improve highway safety by making cars safer. How dare they?

If I'm buying a $30,000 electric car, I demand my car be at least as dangerous as the least safe ICE cars. What good is a car if you can't get some hospital time, am I right?
One nuisance with cu when used in conjunction with ssh: they both use the same escape character, so I've accidentally terminated my ssh session when I'd meant to disconnect from the serial port many times. But that's what tmux's for. :-)
> Instead of spraying crops with herbicide, mechanically remove weeds

For large surfaces would that financially make any sense though?
I think a better analogy would be

modern languages : software development (applications)

linguistics : theoretical computer science (theory)

Latin : Turing machines (classic models)

If all you are interested in is applications, you can mostly ignore the theory, but sometimes theoretical considerations help you think more abstractly about your application to gain more insights.

The classic models are mostly only relevant to theorists who can use them as objects of study, if they so choose.
I am curious if you might share your thoughts are on Kops vs Kubeadm for standing up a Kubernetes cluster.
I think your main experience is with European vehicles made for Europe. These simply have better interiors. Model S has a luxury interior in the U.S. sense. I driven a U.S. Porsche Cayenne - definitely a luxury car - and while it's cool it's interior plainly sucks, i was surprised - that is what a medium-cheap family car in Europe have.
At last, we will have a truly random number generator! Not the simulated fake rand() using timestamps as seed.
I just used this official guide from CoreOS to set it up on Vagrant/virtualbox: https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/kubernetes-on-vagr.... It was pretty straightforward.
> showmanship

Have you seen Elon Musk give a keynote? The man is no Steve Jobs. He should actually spend a little more time working on his showmanship.
My partner works at Olark. It truly is a human-focused business.

Perhaps that explains the lack of openings on their jobs page?
Why building web-apps in Haskell is harder than it ought to be
If you are organic certified, and you could build something as fast and big as a combine harvester to remove weeds... why not?
SpaceX is landing rockets (14 story first stages of Falcon 9 rockets to be specific), on massive Automated Drone Ships roughly the size of football fields, but sure, little boats works too :)
Do you have any VR gear? How often would you honestly say you use it?
Correct. And when the Roadster was released, it was the price of just the battery.
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 15.2.26430.14/2017 15.3.26621.2 ProductKey
Yeah but what is this other than brilliant self-marketing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh45igK4Esw

He's a really really good marketer. No disrespect in recognizing that.
Video of the test in question.

https://youtu.be/fMcuiFmIQTo

Edit: If you go to the IIHS website and click on the pictures for the small overlap crash, it explains their reasoning for the rating.

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/vehicle/v/tesla/model-s-4-d...

Double edit: Or I guess you can just go to the actual report for the test from the left side bar...
If the work culture is infuriating, why do you love working there?
There is no such thing as a "host-name resolution request". A DNS query specifies a domain name and a record type, and gets as the result a list of all records of that type under that name. Record types would be A (IPv4 address), AAAA (IPv6 address), MX (mail exchanger name), SRV (server name and port for a particular service), TXT (free-form text), and many others, most of them nowadays unused.
My solution was to only put one HTTP server on a machine. I agree that a reverse proxy is the solution for those really wanting HTTP multi-tenancy on individual machines. But is this a really in-demand use case?
How React Renders (with animated fractals)