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Well, Debian has been known to take their time with releases, as well. One might say the Devuan developers just uphold an honored tradition. ;-)

(Just to be clear, the resulting releases have - for me at least - usually been worth waiting for.)
Nobody filed a post-grant objection. It's easy to challenge a patent in the first 9 months, but 9,370,164 has been out for more than a year.
Bingo. Anyone who thinks the pile-on on Kalanick was the result of Fowler's expose is naive beyond belief. It was a coordinated punishment campaign, the bro culture story just served as a convenient starting point. Now high profile CEOs will think twice before they as much as talk to anyone not approved by the liberal establishment, let alone sit on any council.
Yes, what's funny about that is that is a Chinese designed processor which at first refused to pay royalties to MIPS. FYI for whoever: MIPS (the company) had major financial issues and was purchased by Imagination tech in 2013. But their patents ended up with a group of companies, including some which went to ARM. MIPS as at one point the fastest CPUs (from a millions instructions per seconds stand point) you could buy, and were in high-end SGI boxes.
April 01 is April Fools' Day.
“Literally” doesn't actually mean figuratively, even in use; it's used (figuratively itself) as an intensifier applied to some other figurative expression. This actually has the opposite effect to “figuratively”, which by explicitly stating that a use is figurative acts as a qualifier, rather than an intensifier, of the figurative expression it modifies.
How else am I going to show off that lovely Mercedes Benz logo to my visiting guests if it isn't in the dining room?
They sold the stake.

Toyota sold too.
I visited the Valve offices about two years ago, and almost 2/3rds of the company was working on VR. I think right now they're aware that the current iteration of hardware isn't good enough for the common consumer, and in addition there's no real AAA content out for it. VR really needs it's own Breath of the Wild kinda game to go along with the hardware if they want it to sell. I suspect what we'll see is a new version of the Vive released alongside a major AAA title by Valve at some point, but being Valve they want to ensure that they release it when it's done, not when the timing is right.
Or the inherent thinking of marketing departments in companies like MB, where every product is meant for upper-middle class and higher target audience.
These are very interesting considering how they show the xact opposite side of the OP's debate.

I find it very amusing when articles quote someone to support their arguments even though the person actually disagrees with their PoV
Don't be silly, that's just the garage entrée.

From 2018 all US Smarts are electric only.

Very excited about the coming years.
Haha they got me there. Maybe I should wake up properly before reading HN
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Nice analysis. Passed along to the folks working on the (internal) postmortem for this outage.
I just want any battery system to be installed for 7kWh for under $5000 in Australia.

I had hoped when the Powerwall 2 came out that you would be able to pick up the first version for that but alas.

I really do think that the above 7kWh for $5k installed is the sweet spot. At that point its a no brainer purchase for anyone with over 3kw of solar panels.

For me, with the stupidly high electricity prices in Australia (some of the highest in the world) at that point it would save me money in 3-5 years, and I am not the only one thinking like this. Among my friends and colleagues every single one has said at that price point they will pull the trigger and buy one. Even better if they are modular and can be upgraded again at a later date with additional storage.
Apple has been eliminating the popular apps in Iran
Only in so far as the moment a monarch decides to exert any unwelcome authority will be the moment they get deposed. Our monarch performs a ceremonial role as figure-head only.

You might call the independent board "Parliament".
The max power supply capability is 4.6 kW. To consume 18 kWh of energy, it will take about 4 hours.

So I guess the use is more or less for car battery charging, and backup power for homes.

However, I wish there was a pure DC lighting and Fan systems in homes, so that inverter costs can be reduced.
It's making peoples' lives better along the way.
My mind thought "Chase Sapphire Preferred".

Credit Card churning is a weird hobby.
There's nothing wrong with other companies getting involved, the comment merely highlights that it took a small company with lot of media attention to set the direction for a larger industry. It's no problem for Tesla, it was their plan all along to encourage competition.
I've read the guidelines. It is neither.
Tangentially related, but it really makes me sad that what.cd died. It was a haven for these types of obscure music collections, tens of thousands of albums worth that simply aren't available via streaming services. I hope some sort of service finds a way to operate legally while still rewarding rarity like what did, otherwise more things like this will just be lost to the sands of time.
Why this man dug a pond for 27 years all by himself
This cookies notice and agreement probably falls right into this category.

....The cookie notice is mandated by EU Law...
automobile manufacturers are basically a herd, one of the leaders Mercedes Benz now is following Tesla, expect others to follow soon.

atleast for next 2 decades there is no such thing as excess battery capacity. this will help improve electric cars and solar adoption across the globe.
Regular BASE jumpers perform worse on all these metrics but don't die as much. All these metrics apply the same to skydiving wingsuit jumpers but they don't die as much.

The real problem is that flying closer to things leads to more likes.
> It can be regarded as a pinnacle of human engineering

I would argue it is pinnacle of art and not of engineering.
Java is getting a REPL though. I believe it is part of Java 9 ;).
This is the ultimate in conspicuous consumption and virtue signalling. DIY powerwall makers make similar units using free cells because the ROI takes so long for anything other than free cells. You can be certain that the MB badge is going to cost you a lot on top of whatever the internals of the system cost.
Considering that they need to recycle used car batteries, each car manufacturer will have it's own "energy storage" solution.
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As you anticipated, the author's understanding of VR/AR is quite poor. I was surprised to see this on front page HN. I also think the thesis is wrong, but one could at least make an informed argument for it. But this wasn't that.
Smart Cars are disgusting to drive though, I wouldn't be too excited :P

(*I will edit that though, and say that I am pretty eager to see how the technology is going to evolve as more governments mandate a faster roll-out of consumer electric vehicles. Exciting times indeed.)
The brochure mentions that the batteries are built by ACCUMOTIVE GmbH, a subsidiary company of Mercedes Benz.

Apparently, it was founded in 2009, and they only recently began construction of their second plant dedicated to battery production [1].

From their presentation their website, it also looks as if they are vertically fully integrated -- from R&D, to production. That would one-up Tesla (Tesla owns the Gigafactory, but it is operated by Panasonic, using Panasonic technology).

[1] https://www.accumotive.de/de/aktuelles/daimler-legt-grundste...
Why did we use leaded petrol for so long?
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I used FDR4 extensively for a week. It's as much a simple IDE as anything.
There's not an open-source CRM I'm aware of that's a strong enough competitor to Salesforce, however there are much cheaper options available. Are you in the market for one?
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Don't you think the resolution needs to increase? Current machines are capable of 1080p at best, but it doesn't feel that great to be honest. I reckon with gen 2 hardware the recommended PC specs will be bumped up to the point where it costs about the same as it does today.
You talk like soviet-style socialism is the only alternative to capitalism, while even your parent comment talked about the concept of the free market by Adam Smith which is heavily based on the economic model that the Arab countries had successfully for centuries. In China you even have history of a pro-market anti-capital system for millennia.
You can think of "A => B" as stating "there is a way of transforming proofs of A into proofs of B". If "A" is false, then there are no proofs of "A", and thus there is trivially a way of transforming proofs of "A" of "B" (since you will never be confronted with a proof of "A"). So a false statement implies anything.

If "B" is true, then there is some proof p of "B". Now here is a way of transforming a proof of "A" into a proof of "B": given a proof q of "A", just return that one proof p. So anything implies a true statement.
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Everyone is focused on at home gaming, but the real market for VR is in attractions - mainly theme parks. Six Flags has been able to take really old and new rides and turn them into completely different experiences with essentially just a cell phone.

You also have a LOT of haunts popping up that are VR escape rooms. Universal Orlando used it in one of their upcharge experiences during Halloween Horror Nights last year.

There are also some fitness programs starting out that use vr as a way to help motivate people who would normally not want to work out.

So yes, at home vr never really took off. I don't think anyone honestly believed it would at the current price point/computer requirements.
I had to abandon Minecraft on a 2D screen after getting motion sickness from just a faux 3D-perspective

Does he get motion sickness watching F1 on TV?!

I'm inclined to take this article with a big pinch of salt, as regardless of how many truths it touches, there's an undercurrent of hatred. Also seems to pretty much disregard the vive.
I think this is the key. Ingress was a successful AR game, and the geolocation was the only AR, no shoddy camera overlay. I think you can draw a parallel to traditional video games, in that games with a general understanding of maps, and not much small-scale definition(MUDs, Civilisation, even 8-bit platforms with no sub-pixel movement) tended to achieve a greater level of achieved complexity by glossing over small details, in the same way that Ingress/Pokemon Go only placed the locations in a general geographic area.
Maaan, it's so XX century)
The accuracy is not the only reason I bought it, it's a very capable timepiece, but it surely helps. During the eclipse I used it to get 60 second warnings of the start and end of totality.
> What's popular isn't always correct and dictionaries by definition reflect usage.

What's popular is correct by definition, that's why dictionaries reflect usage, they don't prescribe it. Language is about communication, not syntax, people do use "literally" when they mean figuratively and you know it, I know it, so they are communicating, the word has obtained new meaning. Words are not static things.
To me this amount of tools seems like spending more time configuring and tinkering with tools than actually using them productively
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> the comment merely highlights that it took a small company with lot of media attention to set the direction for a larger industry.

Isn't that very often the case though? Think iPod/iPhone. Apple was a nobody in those spaces when those devices were released.
I don't think you can have all of traditional mathematical notation (which is often highly overloaded) in a programming language while only using syntax for disambiguation.

Mathematicians mostly depend on the semantics of an expression to disambiguate it. You could get something close by making use of a type system to filter all possible parses.

For example, sin cos x would parse as sin(cos(x)), (sin(cos))(x), (sin * cos)(x), ... and most of these would be discarded by the type checker. If you do it naively, the complexity will be exponential, but I think you could use dynamic programming to handle that. In my example, it would be more problematic that (sin * cos) might be interpreted as multiplication of functions, but this could be solved by having separate operators for numbers and other types, and only allowing some to be represented by juxtaposition.

Overall, I'm not convinced that such a highly ambiguous system would be beneficial in a general purpose programming language, but when you just want to type in a specific mathematical formula, disambiguate it once, and then work with the unambiguous representation (maybe using a pretty-printer), I think it would be useful.
>Yes, but I bet the first one's you've learned were already algol-like.

BZZZZT! Wrong answer!

I started with BASIC and transitioned from there to assembly language. Wrote several games and device drivers in assembly language (BASIC was too slow) and then learned Forth. Tried really hard to like Forth, and played with it for a while; loved some aspects of the language, but couldn't wrap my head around how to write a game with it, so I gave up and kept writing games in assembly language.

Pascal was my next language, and that wasn't until later. Much later than that I finally got to C.

You might think of BASIC as Algol-like, though I'd say it's more Fortran-like. Assembly language, though, is about un-Algol as a language can be, as is Forth.
You've clearly never booked a flight with Ryanair ;-)
Introducing ZeroMQ connector for Gatling
Searched around for it but there looks to be very little known info about the card right now (no rewards description etc).
I had something similar happen to me in a Datsun 180B once.

Driving home in the rain, and the tail light wires were submerged in water that was pooling in the trunk and shorting out. As I put my foot on the brakes - on the freeway in the pouring rain - the fusible link in the engine bay decided to just catch on fire instead of being a fusible link. The battery quickly boiled and I had a sudden and catastrophic engine bay fire on a crowded road.

A car battery has enough amps to literally use as a welder (two jumper leads, an arc welding rod and a 550CCA car battery is enough to stick most things together in an emergency :P ), and is more than enough to create a massive fire.
For the car: You mostly care about range -- after aggregating for things like battery capacity, efficiency, drag, etc.

That's not necessarily true for a storage system.
I use it sucessfully to test musl with my apps.
The Wire has more tracks from the same release. All good, but who'd believe that the last track by Waaberi Band is from Somalia of 1969!:
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/listen-to-tracks-from...
How to find differences between databases?
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Low tech : 3 colored buttons, that the driver has to press in a random order as showed in their dashboard at random intervals.

High tech: Face monitoring with computer vision to detect signs of sleep.
Alrighty, thanks.
Works! Just updated the FAQ on how to enable LaTeX rendering.

Basically you need to use the browser extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-preview-p... and open http://textnet.io/readme.md instead of http://textnet.io.
There is definitely demand for major business hub to major business hub routes, the first and business class sections at least will be full. I spent the last two years regularly making flights like this, any chance I'd get I'd take the longer nonstop route. Fwiw, it's what the Boeing 787 was created for - longest possible nonstop routes bypassing hubs.
Or a bit of both really.
I am impressed by the work put into it and the actual engineering, though it does feel like a piece of art as well.
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Media attention is usually required only when a consumer product is at stake.

Take, for example, current upstarts competing with Cisco in networking gear. Not much media exposure but a quite revolution.

In the history of business, its almost always the upstart that upends business.

Examples include Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft.
> Everyone is focused on at home gaming, but the real market for VR is in attractions - mainly theme parks.

That's a tiny market that doesn't come close to justifying the current levels of investment though. When billions of dollars are being injected then you need mass market adoption, either home or business.
I can confirm on the high demand for this stuff. In addition, gluten-free, low-lactose, lactose-free, "super berries", raw food, are all quite popular here in Sweden. But with these trends come unreasonably high prices, it is getting quite crazy. Berries that have been found in swedish forests since forever and nobody cared about are picked up, branded as "super berries", put in fancy packaging and sold for insane prices... and people buy it. With milk substitutes, 1 liter of oatmilk being 90% water and 10% oat can cost you around $2.. oat already being ridiculously cheap otherwise (you can find it at $0.8 per kilo). So I'm making my own (easy) at $0.2 per liter :)
Why should it be?

It's not like poeple don't understand the risk - especially by the time they get to the point where they can actually do it. What about all the other 'extreme' sports where death and/or serious injury is a possible outcome?
Ethereum mining is profitable, but not for long
Uber already has a points deal going with Starwood Hotels - SPG points are a fairly common currency among the "professional" points collectors, as they're super-exchangeable for just about any airline, but probably not the kind of deal that will work for average consumers (especially since they only start awarding points after you've actually stayed at a Starwood property).
To address your last concern, I use Solus on my Laptop, it's also a fully independent distro. It comes in 3 flavours targeting the desktop. It feels really well build. The community and maintainers are very responsive.
I keep forgetting that the Atari 2600, the NES, the Apple II and the C64 had the same processor. But... didn't the C64 have a modem? So it should be able to connect to the Internet, even if very slowly?
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Touché. ;-)

Yes, I did dismiss the article after that first paragraph, and as I mentioned probably unfairly on my part.

Sorry, it was just a real peeve of mine in the weeks leading up to this eclipse to see so much misinformation spread by the news media. It was the same thing that happened in the 1979 eclipse that I got to see in all its glory.

It was really sad to see so many people denied that experience because of unjustified fear, when it's possible to view a total eclipse in complete safety as I did. And the same thing happened again this year.

This astronomer's experience in 1979 was all too typical:

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/35055369/i-was-robbed-of-my-ecli...

OK, enough of my eclipse gripes. Just explaining why this put me off from the rest of the article.

By way of contrast, if that opening paragraph had mentioned that all the people who used eclipse glasses during totality missed the whole thing because of misinformation and fear, now that would have caught my attention and led me to believe that the author might have some good insights in other areas too.

Y'all can get back to VR now... :-)
>That's altering the syntax for function application by allowing f x to mean f(x), which is fine but changing the rules. If we do go with that, then "a b c" should be "Apply a (Apply b c)" because of the associativity of application --- traditional math tends not to have functions which return functions.

That's the standard way of writing function application in functional programming languages.

And in those languages,

f a b c
==
(((f a) b) c)

because they're curried: a function of 2 arguments (f: a -> b -> c) is a function f from type a to type (b -> c).

And mathematics definitely has functions that return functions. For example, any function where the codomain is a space of sequences is technically a function that returns functions, as a sequence in X is a function from the natural numbers to X.

>There is an ambiguity which comes up when you allow both f x and f(x) syntax, which is you cannot tell the difference between f(x,y) and f((x,y)) if your language has tuples. (One solution: make tuples be like Mathematica's Sequence, thus establishing the associativity of Cartesian products once and for all.)

You don't need to tell the difference. If you have a curried function, then you write 'f x y' which isn't the same as 'f (x y)' (which is like the C-style 'f(x(y))'. If you have a non-curried function, then 'multiple arguments' are just a tuple, at least that's how it works in ML.

A function that takes a tuple and a function with multiple arguments are equivalent. That's related to the fact that ((A AND B) IMPLIES C) is equivalent to (A IMPLIES (B IMPLIES C)).

>A gotcha is that you can't write f(x)(y) if your function does return a function, since this will parse as f(x y). You would need to write (f(x))(y) instead. (If you insist the associativity rule should be the other way, then 3f(x) would be (3f)x, which is possibly ok, and sin cos x would be (sin(cos))(x).)

sin cos x is okay notation in mathematics because sin can't take cos as an argument, so it obviously has to mean 'sin(cos x)' and not 'sin(cos)(x)'. But when dealing with computers, I would far rather just write sin (cos x) which is how people write it in Haskell/ML/Lisp.

Not sure if you mean existential quantification or just the number 3 in '3f(x)' but as I said, I don't think that it's a good idea to support 'x f' as meaning '(lambda (a) (* 3 (f a)))' or '(a => 3 * f(a))' or '\a -> 3 * (f a)' or whatever your preferred function notation is for that scaling operation.
So, are we going to erase the Prius and GM EV1 from the history books?

Also, I'm still not convinced that hybrids aren't a better solution than full EV.
Because it's not about cookies.

The law is explicitly about 3rd party cookies, something that is harder to classify.

The intent of the law was to get website owners to stop leaking data to 3rd parties.

The result was everyone slapping a poorly understood warning label on everything.
Wont kill them or blind them. Will get them High. Wont taste that good.bad weed is More acceptable than Bad alcohol
Of course I've known that a DR plan isn't valid until you've tested it against your production environment, but I'd never heard that Bell System story before. It's inspirational - run 24 hours in emergency mode each year, with the normal way turned off/disconnected, don't just do failover/failback.

Thanks for bringing it up!
The takeaway here is that the majority of useful data is implicit -- very different from the Netflix challenge ten years ago.
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>If you do it naively, the complexity will be exponential

Hindley-Milner type inference is doubly exponential already but is still widely used. If people never actually use extremely nested expressions in real code that require this sort of disambiguation then it will probably be completely fine.
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I work in systems and no, I went back to industrial research.
He also complained that 3D games on a 2D screen gave him motion sickness. I suppose FPSs are dead and we're going back to side scrollers.
It's a shame the disk images are not freely available.
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