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Hyundai turned their quality around pretty massively in 10 to 20 years after entering the US market. So is our new bar for Tesla "do they run out of money before they can replicate what Hyundai did"? Doesn't seem like shooting for the stars.

Seems like blind replication isn't the answer alone ( http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207540701223493... ), which is unsurprising, but Tesla's sales targets and their current production line process as-reported seem at odds.

This stuff is very well-studied and making basic errors seems like a problem of hubris coming from a software industry that's in a much less mature state.
Wow. Great list!
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Would you be interested in co-founding a startup with me? I currently work in fashion and feel the same disgust/dissatisfaction with my current business as you've described with yours.
I want to build an industry-wide platform which will help clothing companies reduce waste as well as promoting (smaller) companies who are already working to do this.
(This will be live in about 7 hours.)
He fell in an ocean. I wonder, if you happen by some extraordinary feat of skill or luck to fall feet-down in a perfectly straight body formation, would the impact be too small to have any injury?
Compliance costs can be low without being ineffective. You can buy a bag of spinach for $2 and yet so few of them are infected with salmonella that when it does happen it's a huge scandal.
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So, it's technically not possible to not automatically delete addresses from a subscriber list?
Haven't done serious research, just reading some reviews online and going to the car show. I think I read that the Odyssey rides more quietly.

I also like the 2018 Odyssey's visual refresh. Sienna hasn't changed in eons it feels like. Inside, I wasn't a fan of the second row seat tracks on the Sienna.
Refactoring my C++ application into a Golang library made it better in every way
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Well, the first demo is now returning a NXDOMAIN error.. they likely just changed their DNS after this blew up. The second domain just returns a WordPress error.

So, I never got to experience the data myself but I'm sure it's there.

Does anyone have a new working demo URL for either service?
The improvement here is this:

a secure reader tablet-like device. It has encrypted hardware which can be temporarily permissioned to have access to encrypted data

This part is how it works today and it has been like this for years:

Data is accessed in chunks, therefore the owner of the data can see whether data is being accessed in the way a human might use it, or if it is being downloaded en masse. The organisation with data access devices gets audited on an annual basis to see where all their access devices are and to ensure none of them are being tampered with.

No blockchain is needed to achieve this.
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Why should he? There's nothing suggesting his pupils are involved, and a teacher isn't at fault for their students transgressions.
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I did not. I don't foresee these two with a car in the $25k (after incentives) price range with semi-autonomous driving. And unlike the top level comment, I really want something fully electric (for the planet).
If you've got money you might also buy a Rolls Royce, Aston Martin, Lambo, BMW, Jaguar, etc, instead of a Toyota too, because who cares about things like quality control at that point, and you want something different, but you'd be laughed out of the room if you said "I know Alfa Romeos are better made than Toyotas because they're fancier and cost more."
> That there was a mechanical failure, + 2 failures on the ejection, and a parachute failure - is not a fluke. This is an extreme dereliction of duty by design and/or maintenance teams.

Re: Ejector seat, it could also have been pilot error, if he had forgotten to take the safety pins out of the ejector system during his pre flight check. They are there specifically to prevent the ejection rocket from firing while maintenance crew are working on the aircraft on ground, and should be removed (by either pilot or crew chief) before flight. I know that in Naval aircraft, the pilot has to replace these pins as one of the last things he does before leaving the aircraft after landing.
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Yeah that's because your bankruptcy laws are broken AFAICT - it's too easy to hold insufficient funds for post operational clean-up, then transfer assets elsewhere and declare bankruptcy.

That is, private owners in this case are able to socialise the cost of their operation, which is no more private ownership than when the profits are socialised.
>Being sans-state is not the same thing as anarchy.

This, I do not understand at all. I mean, sure, it might not be an ideological anarchy, but when you don't have a state, you have anarchy. I guess you could also call it "a hobbesian state of nature" - but to me, and to most people who don't think that humans work the way the ideological anarchists think they do, the two are the same thing.

(That said, I do believe that there were states during the dark ages. They were less stable and well defined than what came before and after, but I don't know of anyone who argues that there was not a layer of government over the lowest level of organization, as you put it. )
No, you did say that money solves production issues.
I thought yours was like the one on my Volt and many other cars from various manufacturers in that you can't enage under 20-15mph, but you can resume from a stop, if you already engaged it previously.

But it looks like Honda is the odd man out, as some of their cars have ACC, but don't have what they call "Low Speed Follow" which is the ability to slow down to a stop, then resume with the push of a button or the accelerator
So even that interpretation leaves me wondering "why didn't they take that into account earlier"? Do the fancy computer-control-all-the-things people have too much influence compared to the boring practicalities of things like "how will we build this?"

Fundamentally my question on Tesla is now: if you're priced as a "we have a fundamentally better way of doing things that will disrupt the industry" company, but the core process in your business is still fundamentally inferior, will you have a long enough runway?

I used to be a bear on Tesla for grumpy "I don't like the decisions and design choices they make" reasons, but now the business itself seems a bit underdeveloped.
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Caution: be prepared to write a "motivational letter", then solve 3 trivial, 1 combinatorial and 1 NP-Complete problem in 2 hours on their HackerRank clone, then prepare a "5 -10 min" self-introduction with slides, then do two 1-hour Skype interviews where you don't solve any problems and instead they ask you random questions about you and your experience. Oh, and they don't do onsite interviews "considering the cost and time".
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"The deorbit of Mir was the controlled atmospheric re-entry"[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deorbit_of_Mir
> still being banged out by hand, away from the automated production line, according to people familiar with the matter.”

The press is up and running:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BaInXGBg9G7/

Based on a 3.7 second cycle time, they can bang out 5,837,837 body panels per year (assuming some math an automotive engineer on /r/teslamotors provided that takes into account downtime and typical automotive labor scheduling: 50 weeks/year * 5 days/week * 24 hours/day * 3600 seconds/hour)/3.7 second panel cycle

EDIT: csours: Thanks! I removed my grossly inaccurate prediction of per-vehicle pressed components.

in_cahoots: Original response was to comment that Tesla is still banging out components by hand; this is possible, my rebuttal is that they do have parts of the line that are fully operational.
Manufacturing ramp-up is exactly this sort of thing. Building by-hand as you work out the process and employ more automation. I'm not sure this is unexpected?

As an investor I know full well Tesla has a ticking clock. They must achieve scale before the giants can catch up. People underestimate how god-awful slow the big car makers are. They haven't even come to terms with what Tesla is really doing yet. None have anything like the software experience. My guess is Tesla has 5 more years before the big makers can truly become competitive (assuming they all fire their software engineers and hire new ones today).

Time will tell. If they're still fumbling a year from now then I'll start to get concerned. If they can't churn out at least 250,000 vehicles per year within two years I'll be very concerned.
> major portions of the Model 3 were still being banged out by hand

Reminds me of some other automotive companies when a new car is launched..
What makes you think Tesla has the best system? The managers in charge of autopilot keep quitting. The media says they are quitting because Elon is making deceptive claims about autopilot. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
Common Lisp has standard ways to define that code must run on particular implementations that support a certain feature. There is nothing wrong with developing libraries supported by just a few compilers.
>I wonder what will be the point when people realise that...

...Bitcoin is a true tech revolution bigger than Internet. You can transfer unlimited wealth in a matter of seconds to anyone anywhere without knowing who he is or need to trust some usurers or beg for permission from some govt. But I guess you will be one of the last to understand it. You already gave a lot of bad advice to your friends and caused them to lose money, keep doing that
What about designing software for prosthetics? Seems like that could make a huge difference in people's quality of life.
I still believe that Legislative Duty should be compulsory, like Jury Duty. 538 citizens, selected randomly per state in the same ratios as today's house and Senate. Tele-commute, and make/update laws for the good of all with minimal direct outside influence.

I'm not sure how long a session would last, but it sure would be interesting.
Speaking of hardware, we're entering an era where custom ASICs are becoming popular (e.g. Apple's A11 chip, Google's TPU).

If we know the software libraries won't change (blas, lapack) then what chips can we build to make them run even faster?
Nice, thanks for sharing! I also like Bill Weaver's story of ejecting from an SR-71:
http://www.chuckyeager.org/news/sr-71-disintegrated-pilot-fr...

and this one of a paraglider surviving a thunderstorm uplift:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/dead-luck-ewas-flight-of...
Good to see "do things that don't scale" being applied to the very definition of things that need to scale.
Judging by his injuries (smashed ankles and broken hip), I guess that is exactly how he fell.
That's why i don't even get the Uber/Lyft hype living in europe. In Berlin we only have Ubers that are essentially cabs and for me going to work would be around 15 EUR for a 25minute ride, while mass transit is 2.80 EUR when I don't have a monthly pass and have to pay the full price.
That's the difference between a hobbyist and an engineer. A hobbyist enjoys not having to pay attention to cost, and buys as much hobby as he can afford (in this case, where framework choices are cash-free, in terms of hours spent). An engineer weighs cost vs benefit and project budget.

Many people who turn their hobbies into a profession have difficulty with that. Suddenly, "cost overruns" is something people actually care about.
you are talking about yourself - you don't get new tech, you keep doing what others do. If some group of people is doing something weird like `mine virtual currency` you say wtf is that? If I can't touch it, it aint there. Keep it on buddy
> You need to walk thru the table,
> extract each record,
> transform it inside your application’s code
> and insert to another place.

The writer said his database died in the middle of the query when he selected the 100,000,000 rows without first breaking them into pages.

It looks like he's using MySQL. I've used PostgreSQL for over a decade, and I just don't see this happening, though I've tested only on a table with a few million rows. But anyway I doubt PostgreSQL loads the whole table into memory when you select it. It seems to load just parts at a time, as needed. And for what it's worth, an offset of a few million rows still took just a few seconds.

Actually what I would first try to is dump the table to a file, transform it if possible with Linux command-line tools like sed and awk, and then load the file into the new table.

Can anyone confirm if Postgres would die like MySQL did on too big a dataset --- selecting everything without paginating but fetching just one row at a time in the application?
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There is already a lisp-based infix DSL for math: it is called maxima CAS.
China already prevents a western power from some kind of coup, that's why it hasn't happened already. A nuke is necessary to prevent more Chinese supported coups.
Pretty sure relativity limits the usefulness of this. http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....
baking is pretty cool. so is dance instructor.
That's true, but monitoring the stream of change events in a single machine (be it server or client) makes this machine your bottleneck for overall system throughput.
Alas, there's no auto-enable-upon-connection VPN, of which I'm aware. And if your device connects to an open SSID while in your pocket, you're not even aware of it.
Great point, I did assume it was me and not someone. Maybe he's not as agitated as it seemed. But the article's point was to avoid personal attacks, not about pronoun confusion, right? If you're right, then I made the mistake. Yours is the better more generous benefit of the doubt assumption anyway, so in retrospect I prefer it.

That said, I don't think it's fair to claim that avoiding personal attacks, and using language that helps people to be more optimistic is equivalent to manipulation that looks bad and fails. It's very, very hard to read @raganwald's blog post and take it as manipulative - did you check it out? You should!

I still don't understand "I don’t think a guide [on communication] can help you if you feel like you need one." Did I mis-interpret that one too, is there also a better assumption here than the one I made?
Yes, yes I do. Not to mention I'm older than the most recent State. So, yeah, I think distant past is quite an exaggeration. You're not required to agree, of course.
> plus there's all the existing non-free substitute servers around

Where?

> The community won't help anybody if they ask for help with non-free software though.

This, specifically, is where Nix has the advantage.
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/PR20170912.as... -- interesting comments by NTSB on a Tesla crash that involved the autopilot. Seems like their autopilot is similar to autopilot's in other cars, but with different (my read was it was more "relaxed") settings. Tesla seems to have since adjusted their settings though.
> People underestimate how god-awful slow the big car makers are

I think it’s exactly the opposite. People enamoured with Tesla and Musk tend to over-estimate how slow the old car makers are, because they’re so used to the “Silicon Valley story” that we will inevitably come in and take over everything.

Look: it’s 2017. Everybody has read the Innovator’s Dilemma, everybody knows how fast e.g. Palm, Nokia, etc. went out of business. The old companies aren’t stupid, and they aren’t sitting around waiting for Tesla to eat their lunch.

> None have anything like the software experience.

GM is arguably in the lead right now as far as autonomous driving capability. They’re at least tied with Google and certainly ahead of Tesla.

I’m going to be blunt: you don’t sound like a very good investor. You sound like someone who makes decisions based on hype and wishful thinking instead of real evidence. My recommendation would be to get out now before you lose your shirt.
"2. [...] right now they make cars and that's all you can grade them on right now. If you want to make a bet about the future, go for it, but realize that it is a bet."

This. But the potential is huge compared to other vendors for being more biased to research than production. Other vendors are forced to keep time, people and money allocated to maintain their 19th century gas engines production while Tesla can use all its resources for new things. Having a lot of brain power devoted to new ideas will inevitably bring achievements in other fields, which won't necessary become Tesla products. A serendipitous discovery could lead to a patent for something they cannot produce or aren't interested in producing (say a new medical machine) but could license to others.
Have you seen this, https://youtu.be/PwOnsT2UW5o?

You might be able to DIY.
anything that comes out is not personal anymore.
I worked with Visual Smalltalk for years and early on I created my own tool which found all methods whose source-code contained a given string or string with wild-cards. It was surprisingly effective because it easily integrated into the Smalltalk browser-windows in general so rather than printing out the set of methods found it opened a list-browser with all the found methods in it, so I could then easily browse for their senders or methods called in them and so on.

So how did you know what to search for? A simple case was to look up the ready-built application's GUI which usually always contains some strings. So if you wanted to change something in the system which would result in a change to its GUI just search for source-code with some of the words you saw in the GUI.
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6 is much too few. You have floorpan, roof (even if the roof is glass you still have to hold it), hood, liftgate/trunk, each door inner, each door outer. Thats 12 big ones, then all of the little ones that stiffen the big ones, and the other little ones that make things like the door pillars. There's probably like 70 stamped metal parts in all.

There are probably a number of press lines and the press lines would be changing dies periodically to make different parts.
It is clear that the future of virtual reality (VR) is bright. But while Facebook’s Oculus Rift, Sony’s PlayStation VR, Samsung’s Gear and HTC’s Vive have led an overwhelming introduction to the market, it’s looking like it will be 2017 or even 2018 when the technology really gathers traction.

People will want to explore and enjoy immersive films, casinos, shopping and games with their devices. First though, it will need to establish itself as a truly mainstream device, which didn’t happen in 2016 as planned.

Video games consoles are also staking a case for the future of VR, with Sony already announcing PlayStation VR headsets to be launched in October 2016. These sets are cheaper in cost than the Oculus and work in a normal PS4, but this machine will be updated into PS5 by the time VR is expected to peak in six years’ time, so time will tell on the price and success of both.

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Impersonation of an airline employee [In Bulgarian]
A crook created an online persona, pretending to be working in the airline industry. He used public photos from an Air France employee on a LinkedIn profile.

The crook had created the persona from 2012. It was a scam to obtain credit card numbers by selling airline tickets.
The dev kit looks ridiculously overpriced, but this seems to be the norm even with other electronics --- the "evaluation board", which is often not much more than the device itself mounted on a PCB with some other cheap passives, costs more than 10-100x the actual part.

In this case, however, I couldn't find anywhere selling the actual clock module from a quick search, but there are mentions that it's $1500.
A CSAC is a c(a)esium standard, but it's not a primary cesium standard. A primary standard is required to deliver its rated accuracy without calibration, but the CSAC is more like a rubidium gas cell than a traditional cesium-beam standard. It's very stable relative to most clocks, but it still drifts under the influence of temperature, aging, barometric pressure, and who knows what else.

When you ask "what time is it?", the answer ultimately comes down to an ensemble of cesium-beam clocks, mostly but not exclusively HP/Agilent/Symmetricom/Microsemi 5071As. A 5071A will be about 10x as stable as a CSAC over intervals from seconds to days.
Nope, that story is probably a fabrication. Plane was likely shot down during emergency landing. Huge fuckup by communist forces that was covered up.
Sorry to update you, but Microsoft has dropped that frontend.

They now advise to use clang directly, since its Windows support has been improved.
> In short, there’s no benefit in using busses anymore.

There's several benefits I find that lead me to favor buses more often than not:

1. Bus is far cheaper than what you listed as you can use pre-tax money. Many companies offer a transit subsidy, making it free.

2. Buses can be faster depending on wait time, going out of the way overhead, and dedicated bus lanes.

3. Legal to transport a toddler on a bus without bringing a car seat.
storing the max id returned from the batch for use as an offset for the next batch is something I've done ever since I even started programming - is it supposed to be revolutionary advice?
I think LuaJIT is generally faster, not only because Python is harder to optimize.
While not nearly as dramatic, this story reminds me a serious accident I had in my early childhood. For a long time I thought that perhaps I did die and that I had continued life in a near identical parallel dimension while leaving friends and relatives mourning in the one I had been born in.

I wonder if this thought ever occurred to the pilot.

A fantastic read.
> Sometimes in startup-hair-on-fire-mode that all goes out the window

If that's how you use it, then you also don't grasp it. The point of a process is that it supports you in hard times. (In easy times, any process will do.) In my view, the essence of Lean is patient incremental gain. Giving in to panic is throwing all its benefits away, and creating both immediate and long-term problems for yourself.

A good counterexample to your theory is Toyota itself. They created the hybrid category from scratch. They are still the market leader. They started by building one. They moved on to a small annual production volume. As they worked out the kinks, they sold more and more, eventually starting to sell in the US. As far as I can tell, at no point did they enter "hair-on-fire mode".