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I wonder why there aren't more EV trailers on the road, a trucking company would be more willing to absorb the higher initial costs of an electric truck in order to save on fuel down the line. Is it because EV can't effectively compete in terms of fuel costs against to long range you get with diesel. Or is it just short sightedness among manufacturers

EDIT: actually looks like I spoke too soon:

https://nikolamotor.com/one

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2017/04/13/if-you-t...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2017/04/19/toyota-r...
My summary is oversimplified but if you look at the legend on the map it indicates that the prisoners at the camp were forced to build the Minidoka Irrigation Project which crosses the shadow path from the south where the Camp was located and extends north of it. So the Camp is tied into the shadow path which in the original vision would have been noted by a monument on the path. It was surprisingly easy (by going to many different sources of course) to get GIS layers with shapefiles for everything on the map
laptop CPUs usually don't have a heat spreader though, but I agree with your point.
Consumer Reports would be useful in a limited capacity, but they could only report on products and services after the fact. They would have no access to important pieces of information such as the conditions under which the products are being produced.

The meat industry is a great example of this. Battles are being fought currently between companies and the people who record their operations on video. The former obviously doesn't want consumers to find out the horrendous ways in which they treat animals. The latter have to rely on the legal system (i.e. the government) to ensure that information is available to consumers so that they can make informed decisions.
This article has a ton of filler in it. The first several pages have a tiny, tiny mention of a Yale journal posting titled "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" [1] with the rest of the first half being about the writer, various schools she's gone to, etc. Maybe I'm just too impatient but it doesn't get even close to discussing its premise until half way through the article at best.

The rest of it is discussing that, according to current anti trust laws, Amazon isn't too big but when it makes acquisitions it hugely affects stock market among other things. So there may need to be new laws or thinking about dealing with large, online companies like Amazon.

It's interesting but I feel like they could have gotten the same message across in just a few paragraphs and a link to the Yale journal but I digress. I've been wondering about this same topic though so it is interesting.

[1] http://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox
I would like point out quite opposite. Here in iran the summer has been so far one of the warmest summers anyone ever remembers. Last year was too. This year is so far hotter than last year.

I do live in very cold area in Iran. It is unbelievable how much weather has became warmer. Even i do remember when i was child , weather was noticeably colder. ( and I am in my 20's) . Let alone old peoples, who are literally ( all of them) in shock about how warm the weather became in last 5/10 years.
Why ?

Do you really think that Bezos doesn't know Betteridge's law of headlines ?
I smoked a lot for about 15 years. Every time I tried to quit it was cold-turkey and I don't remember ever feeling like I needed the nicotine, I just wanted to get away from whatever it was I was supposed to be doing, or what I was doing was so mindless I needed something to preoccupy myself (e.g. driving, walking, sitting around). I'm not sure nicotine is the problem for a lot of people. If it is, lowering it is just going to cause them to smoke more. I'm not sure what ultimately worked for me but I don't really think about it anymore and I can have a few while partying without getting sucked back in to the habit completely. NYS prices may have played a big role.
Yeah - technically. But this whole discussion is about the consumer space, not about those purchasing commercial equipment for hauling tonnage or whatnot.

Even so, though - there are plenty of consumer pickup models which are used commercially, and more than a few can handle some pretty big loads (especially towing)...
Wouldn't you prefer if your free (as in freedom) platform was also user-friendly enough to attract non-tech users though?

These don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Given that personal data is bought and sold every day by various parties, it should be possible to put a dollar value on a particular piece of information (e.g. address, gender, demographic info). I'm not surprised this hasn't happened yet though since it would make assessing damages in privacy breaches much easier for the victims/users and open the door to more lawsuits.

The challenge in this case is assessing the dollar value of a new piece of personal info (room geometry). Perhaps there should be a small floor value (priced in $/byte) for any personal data when assessing damages - it would greatly discourage collecting novel data about users "for future use" or "just because we can".

Edit: "anonymized" data can be discounted based on an expert assessment of how easy it is to de-anonymize.
It's not surreal, it's a good sign. Would you rather live in a world in which the owner of a media company will never allow negative content to be published about their other properties?
Ask HN: Return to college for networking and better job prospects?
I have industry experience in software (mostly web development) but my 4-year degree is not in CS. I have been a software engineer since 2007 but usually in small companies and usually very underpaid. I don't have stocks or retirement funds invested and my savings are just a few grand.

I'm thinking of returning to college in the fall for the following reasons:

* Fill the skills gaps I missed for not taking CS
* Build a network for better jobs
* Earn opportunities for major corp internships and/or co-ops

My current string of jobs that usually don't have good job leads, programming practices, or employees is hurting me. It is difficult to build a good network from small, struggling companies.

Also, one of my career end goals is to work in aerospace related software (not defense-related, but civilian). My lack of a network and CS degree will be really be a turn-off for those jobs.

Here are the cons to going back (as far as I know):

* Can't work 9-5 while in college. At worse I may have to take a "McJob" to help make ends meet
* I will accrue some debt from attending college
* Network quality might greatly depend on the college you attend (UIUC is the best school in my state but out of state there are better ones).

So would it be a good idea to get back into school if your network is dry and your career prospects are limited towards less stable, underpaid positions? Has it worked for anyone here?
> Pulseaudio is not a requirement, ring can choose ALSA if you prefer.

That's great to know :)

I'll keep an eye on Ring. Something like this in a working state would be great, But it should not take forever to connect and should be stable (more or less). According to this thread the project still has a lot to do, and it might be that the p2p approach is just not a good one for the problem at hand. Riot/Matrix looked more promising in that regard.
Apache Ivy has been effectively a dead project for years; I'm fine with letting someone else have a turn using the name.
Per the video, the CEO was questioned about how they can attract real estate agents to work with them even though they charge lower fees than the alternatives.

Part of his pitch to agents was that they're very a very tech forward company, so "[the real estate agents] are working for a brand that doesn't feel like the Radio Shack of real estate, but feels like the Apple of real estate -- It's a good customer covenant, it's a great technology platform, and it's a great career."

The pull-quote in the headline was never actually said or implied. He didn't claim to be the Apple of real estate, just that his company is more tech forward and employee-focused than the alternatives who feel like the 'Radio Shack' of real estate.
Upvoted because you're right. But honestly, I wasn't trying to engage with that poster: I was trying to engage with readers, by fighting this kind of nonsense simply by calling it out as such. I wish I could respond with a substance filled, evidence based response to such a claim, but where would I even begin with such a thing? His claim itself is so vague and unsupported that it's more of an emotional feeling than an opinion that can be criticized. Perhaps someone better than me should try.
A bit like BBC News, who regularly report on scandals at the BBC (most recently, the pay gap between male and female presenters).
I'm wondering if Microsoft is regretting it's decision to name it's overarching, pretty much bog standard REST API as "Graph API"
Or they want to get ahead of the messaging...
It's also cool that artists will jump on to elaborate on their own lyrics. Here's Eminem talking about his hook in 'Rap God'
https://genius.com/2566991
What a species. We elevate, or have been so conditioned to elevate, corporations that one of the scummiest of them, restricting arbitrarily the supply of a bit of paper and ink, is defended by our legal system. We're doomed.
> So it would appear that even Amazon thinks it's getting too big

Only guilty people hire lawyers? The intention of hiring counsel is to help you navigate the law and the procedure. It doesn't say anything about what Amazon "thinks."
How do any of these links demonstrate that Bezos is controlling the Washington Post's output?
Let's work from a definition here; I think this is the kind of "ageism" we're talking about (sourced from dictionary.com):

> a tendency to regard older persons as debilitated, unworthy of attention, or unsuitable for employment.

I think this clarifies things, doesn't it? Even if you somehow objectively prove that older workers are unsuitable, or less suitable, for employment, that doesn't make a philosophy against hiring older workers not-ageist. It just means that ageism is correct (to be clear: hypothetically. I am not endorsing that view).
I keep missing these ipos. Is there any way to get alerted a few weeks ahead of time?
Voilà. I think a big problem in software dev is that technical people struggle to think like non-technical people. They can't put themselves in the shoes of their grandma or "Joe Six Pack".

I mean, just look at the download page for Spotify on Linux. "repository signing keys", "keyserver", "sudo apt-get". I can see a non-technical person thinking: "WTF is that? Where's the installer? Where's the DMG file?"

I remember an argument with someone on IRC about Linux and the person actually said that everybody should learn commands and those who don't are simply lazy and dumb.

This mentality is problematic and toxic for the cause of FOSS.
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Bezos is on the record as talking about what motivates his philanthropy: “I’m thinking about a philanthropy strategy that is the opposite of how I mostly spend my time — working on the long term,” he wrote. “For philanthropy, I find I’m drawn to the other end of the spectrum: the right now.”

Whether you'd call the Post philanthropic probably depends on whether you think the small profit that the Post makes is what motivates Bezos. Given both Bezos immense wealth and his views on profit in general, I'd err on the side of calling it philanthropic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/business/media/jeff-bezos...
Therefore there is suspicion that spooks may have been using that for years and revealed it once they've had enough for some reason. I'm not familiar with any proven case of such situation, but people speculate.
(Disclaimer: I work for a real-estate tech company other than Redfin; my opinions are my own)

Brokerages also have network effects; they just end up being nullified by the MLS. If some real estate website somehow cornered the market on listings by dominating the seller side, they could have a significant network effect by either not publishing to the MLS or doing so after a delay.
Indeed was expecting to see Tox moving forward. Instead, we see yet another decentralized messenger that will end up repeating the same as the former. Rinse and repeat in a couple of years.. :(
Well - it's nice to finally see another potential player in this arena; we've seen this one I think:

http://workhorse.com/pickup/

But both of these are well outside of my price range. But it has to start somewhere.

The thing I've feared/worried about when it has come to the push for electric, and self-driving vehicles, and the recent rumblings by France and the UK to ban ICE vehicles in the near future - is that those who enjoy off-roading are being left out.
Or the GPS was part of the GSM baseband, and they didn't want to stuff something else on there to replace it.
Cool readme, let's check out the code!

Oh.
Me too. That iPod Nano was the first Apple product that I ever owned, and it was great. Actually a first product with a capacitive touch screen I had. It was so tiny and functional and worked so well, I remember those cool multi-touch rotations, distance tracking for running, awesome clip. It seemed to me like a miracle of engineering when it was released. Really magical experience for me to use it. I loved it so much that the next phone I bought had to be an iPhone.

These days I'm used to running with a phone because I like to use Spotify and GPS tracking. But it's so bulky and heavy. I miss the days of the Nano.
Also, stop thinking that the greenhouse effect doesn't apply on a planetary scale and stop thinking we don't produce more carbon than ever existed in human existence and thinking that it is some "mere coincidence" or just "natural"
Oh, OK, I apologize. I think it might just have been the phrasing of your original comment that confused me. I definitely think it's a good idea to drum up a bit of interest in history, historical sites, etc. I will say, however, that the look of the webpage you pointed to did induce a little bit of a "cranky" vibe just because of the look, big fonts, etc. If you control it, you might want to tone it down it a down, or if you don't... just avoid linking to it. What you just posted is much more interesting and informative than that page.
There's certainly a place for invoking each project's build tool and stringing together the resultant packages into a tarball, docker image, or nix package. CMake doesn't do this; it gives you a (shitty--for reasons mentioned in other posts) framework for building an ad-hoc build tool for your project, never mind that 99% of projects in any language could be built the same way (which would minimize maintenance work and learning curve).
> clear day

That is not enough though. Since the temperature drops during any eclipse the air can suddenly hold a lot less water and you have fog ruining your view. So a place with lower humidity is the second thing to consider after the cloud cover itself.
Paperspace (YC W15) is hiring a Head of Growth/Marketing to grow our GPU cloud
Ask HN: How to integrate billing *and accounting* in our service?
We're already using stripe and we like it. We're charging our customers and we're happy about it. My question is related to accounting and billing.

What we need is to generate an invoice every month for our customers, make it available for them in their profile (myservice.com/billing), receive their payments, send them a receipt AND integrate that in our own accounting service (that'd count as revenue).

The only accounting software I've seen that has an API is Quickbooks. Wave (the one we currently use) has a closed alpha API. We're doing everything by hand at the moment. It shouldn't be that complicated, right?

Thanks!
Isn't the SE $400/500 for the same storage of the iPod Touch at $200/300? If you don't need cellular $200 seems like a big price to pay for the upgrades.
I havent checked in a while, but have they given up on the pathetic attempt at an Access clone? It looked like someones weekend project accidentally got turned into a product.
The best part is how you can zoom out in your browser and you can see as much around you as you need.
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That law is only valid in the domain of slanderous, clickbaity or otherwise tabloid-style headlines.
As a teacher myself I know this firsthand and I agree with you.

Unfortunately, text is not a good medium to describe actions. A text-based environment setup tutorial ("double-click on this icon", "create this file in that folder", and so on) is tedious and ultimately inefficient. A screencast is certainly a better solution there. I might create one later.

Coding online with tools like CodePen and Glitch is another quicker and simpler solution for a complete beginner. This option is described in the book appendix.
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"Yes, the minority of people who built their own systems could avoid the Windows tax. "

Which almost exactly overlapped the number of people who wanted to run Linux, or had even heard of it.

As noted above, BeOS didn't even RUN on Intel during the time in question. Gassée bet his company on persuading Apple to adopt BeOS as the new Mac OS.

He lost.
Based on what I've seen in the off-media, I don't know that Mr. Mayweather understands much outside of boxing; I fear this article would fall on blind eyes if he would even read it.

Then again, thats partly the purpose of the SEC, right? To protect people from ignorance?
You could also have a look at her note, the abstract is pretty succinct.

http://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox
We are using Elixir and Phoenix. Its amazbalz. The properties of the erlang VM (100k processes, individually garbage collected etc) are going to make it a killer platform. (edited)
This is a great example of the fallacy that if you like games and can program a game, you can be a game developer and get any traction. Programming isn't really the hard part, and it gets easier every day. It is true if you can do something technically bleeding edge you will be sought after by game companies and other companies as well.

Imagine:
I have liked movies my whole life. I read that Paranormal Activity was made by a guy with a video camera and very little money. So I thought I would get a camera and become a film maker. Surprisingly, it didn't work.
Your link still points to a house outside of Brisbane proper... how transit efficient is San Francisco outside of downtown? BART doesn't reach most of SF, MUNI is abysmal and buses...well, Brisbane has buses too.

I think your assessment is a bit heavy handed considering how bad public transit is in the area in general.
Who is all this engineering effort for?

How many people live in fortresses of solitude where they need to automatically track the cars that come down the driveway?

How many Silicon Valley billionaires need a computer to tell them what to wear today? (t-shirt and jeans again?)

Why is it useful to have automated control of the lights in every room? Turning lights on and off, using a plain old mechanical switch, is about the easiest, most mindless task I perform on any given day.
It was an in-house compiler that they're not using anymore. https://blog.fogcreek.com/killing-off-wasabi-part-1/
So you can learn something about scientific findings. Their texts are quite thorough, and the data is there- it bewilders me why you're complaining about a figure for every 1000 words of text (normal ratio for a scientific paper). I don't think it's your opinion, or your observation- just some raw emotional feeling born out of a dislike for science and the people who do it.

I will try to engage with you. Here is a typical paper from Nature Climate Change this week. Can you explain exactly why you think the text has not enough substance and is overly reliant upon figures?

https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/n...
They weren't outrageously dangerous.

Russian Roulette is outrageously dangerous.

Old cars are just ever-so-slightly more dangerous than new cars.
Actually it turns out that she wrote an op-ed for the ny times: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-f...
The air quality excuse is _VERY_ dependent on where you live. On average (https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3) ~30% of the power in the US is derived from coal, another ~30% is natural gas. So basically for cars your just relocating where the exhaust happens. And in the case of coal the byproducts are massively more harmful and long lasting compared with the byproducts from gasoline (which is really quite clean at this point). So you then have to consider the efficiency of the generation/transmission/charging/driving which isn't so much better that electric cars are a mirracle cure for global warming/etc. Particularly in the case of tesla, which has been repeatedly shown that in most places in the US actually polite more than a modern econobox mostly due to being such a heavy car.

So, beyond that, I'm sort of irritated by tax subsidies, because they are really no different than paying someone cash because someone else has to makeup the shortfall, be it through worse education systems, or simply paying more taxes. (I'm also in the camp that believes toll roads are just a convenient way to raise taxes while simultaneously claiming to cut them).

But back to electricity generation, electric cars are _NOT_ an insignificant load, and further subsidizing them to the tun of tens of thousands of dollars in electric charges (assuming a ten year lifespan for the car) on the backs of the common ratepayers, is about as regressive a tax as is possible. The same is true of the loss in gas taxes. People who can afford $100k teslas (teslas are well over 50% of the electric car market in the US given rough estimates, the leaf being the other significant player with ~30k cars a year) don't need further subsidies on the backs of people who on average are earning less than $50k a year.

So, yes the discounted rates are the final tipping point, $7.5k a year in tax incentives + 1-3x that much again over the life of the car paid for generally by those that can least afford is is the worse kind of policy.
Isn't the answer to this question if you swap Amazon for any of the big 5 a sound 'yes'?

Amazon owns the commercial aspects of many people and continues to grow in that regard with the Whole Foods acquisition.

Facebook owns all social data and knows what you are sharing with your friends.

Google owns all search data and knows what you're looking for.

Ironically, Microsoft and Apple feel a little bit smaller in this scenario, but Microsoft still owns enterprise infrastructure and knows what your company wants. Apple controls all your devices and knows what you're doing with them.

Sometimes I think Uber could make this group a 'Big 6' and own all your commute data and infrastructure.
What's with his condescending hipsterantitrust hashtag?
> What a species. We elevate, or have been so conditioned to elevate, corporations that one of the scummiest of them, restricting arbitrarily the supply of a bit of paper and ink, is defended by our legal system. We're doomed.

This makes no sense to me as a criticism, because (a) the legal situation would be entirely identical if Magic: The Gathering were produced by a single individual, and (b) Wizards is refraining from printing more cards in response to pressure from the collectors.
I don't think there is an SV-style company outside of SV because the SV ecosystem is not really replicable.

That said, Chicago has quite a few non-finance tech companies:
- Vividseats
- Grubhub
- Spothero
- Sproutsocial
- Uptake
- Orbitz
- HERE technologies
- Trunk Club

There are a myriad of smaller startup companies you've never heard of, as well as traditional corporate types like IBM, etc.
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