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>and cost much less than that for them to produce when they get around to it over two years from now

And what do you base this prognostication on? Tesla has been building cars for a few years, and loses money on them.

And don't give me "R&D". You can back it out of their financials and it's still rough, and it will never go to zero; just look at the other majors.

All this stuff is cool, but will it ever make money?
This is the kind of thing that can rapidly escalate to a CTO asking his Microsoft sales VP why he's spending $18M/year on upgrade and support contracts when a report that's worked "forever" can start talking back like Clippy.

Microsoft doesn't preserve backward compatibility because they're stubborn; it's a key part of their value proposition to some of their biggest clients.
> Agreed, but they don't need to be. Remember, the magic number here is ~1.4G, for a 1.9s 0-60. The Pilot Sport Cup 2 – a track-friendly R-compound tire used in the webcast car and in the videos – can pull close to that on a skidpad (i.e. less than optimal conditions), meaning the grip is there.

That's lateral grip, which isn't the same at all. Longitudinal grip, which is what's important here, is very different. There's a lot of clever things you can do to increase lateral grip, such as wheel camber, that don't really apply to purely longitudinal grip, so I'm not sure this is valid.

> I also suspect that the Roadster has active damping – another technology disallowed in F1 – meaning that the duration of contact with the road can be maximized. This is important if the road surface isn't glassy-smooth.

But it has to have (comparatively) extremely soft road-going suspension. I really doubt that no matter how smart the active damping is that it will compare with race springs and dampers. Le Mans cars have all these active damping tricks, traction control, along with slick tires, low weight, very high power:weight ratios, skilled drivers, etc, etc, etc and they still don't get to 60 that quick.

That's an excellent example actually - the Porsche 919 Hybrid LMP1 car has a 0-60 of 2.2 seconds, despite electric power, FAR less weight, FAR better tires and drivetrain [0]. There is just no way you can make a road car that's faster than an LMP1 hybrid. If you can, maybe you can put a roll-cage in and take it to Le Mans.... but I doubt it.

> That doesn't help it at all in cornering, but in a straight line, the increased weight of the car will help it launch even better since it'll increase the traction on the drive wheels (equivalent to downforce at speed).

Weight increases the grip, but it also increases the amount of grip you need - you need more power to maintain the same acceleration, and this power needs to be transferred to the road. I'm not an expert, but AIUI, increased grip due to weight scales linearly, whereas the increase in power required (and thus the increase in grip required) scales geometrically, thus weight is counterproductive in getting you to 60mph faster. I could be wrong about this though - as always I'd be happy to be corrected by someone with more knowledge!

0: https://www.porsche.com/usa/eventsandracing/motorsport/works...
Title was shortened for some reason. Original quote from the doctor is "enormous number of parasites ".
How does this compare with Microsoft's https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools?
edit: Comment above has updated with more information, making this reply redundant. :)
No because how the hell would they know?

I author a module for my employer and describe it with their developers@ email and as UNLICENSED; how does NPM discover that I am legally authorized to use and modify this package?
When you say a thousand years ago presumably you mean the pre-French Norman language mixed with the Old English from 1066?

I'd go back to the Roman invasion, at least, and the mixing of Latin as the official language of Roman Britain with the Brytthonic language(s) [themselves already probably mixing with other earlier Celtic tongues].

Some of the Latin in English (and Cymraeg) was adopted via the Norman/French tongue but there's pretty clear evidence -- AFAICT, I'm not a linguist -- of Latin being retained and adopted from the occupation. That presumably gave us a Creole as a starting place to add in Germanic (Saxon, Frisian, Jutlandish), Celtic (Irish, Pictish?), and Nordic languages in the first millennium AD making the mixing of Norman French just more of the same??

So I'd say, "after two thousand years of this" ...
Plenty of people have done "communal" living before "co-living" was a thing. These sorts of arrangements were commonly associated with hippies or punks, but plenty of "normal" people do it, too.

You are correct, however, that the author is being deliberately uncharitable, which, I believe, Silicon Valley calls "snark."
Uber for buses anyone?

Back in early nineties in Russia, when the public transport system ceased to exist in almost all second tier cities and below. People were relying in people driving on mini-van taxis that were driving "approximate routes" where the driver was changing his route at will to get more passengers.

You was signalling to the driver by hand to be picked up, telling where you go, and he will tell if his current route passes by that place.
There is a narrative in the business world that TSLA doesn't know what its doing. They are taking a three month delay to its first mass market car as an opportunity to push that. Anyone who has done anything of significance knows that this would be considered wildly successful if they can keep to just a three month delay.
He might not control the media in the traditional sense, but we have to give him credit for how he manipulated it into giving him endless free coverage and exposure. He turned the lack of media control INTO the powerful position.
I dug up the study by Stone Temple to see what kind of questions were asked (eg: are the questions really trivial or not) and they provide a few exampled in their write up. I am actually seriously impressed by how well those "personal assistants" work compared to what I would expect. Kudos to the engineers who built those things!

(Disclosure: I never worked on any of those, nor do I work for any of the companies making them)
I can't imagine the Amish buy or make sugar-enriched foods, so a diet without those would also contribute to their health
Yet another HackerNews rethinking
The problem with such negotiation is that at the moment someone even describes the bug they have found, they eliminate the possibility of selling to anything other than the BB program. If you describe your bug to them, but then the BB negotiations go south and you walk away, you are a suspect in any future exploit of that bug. So the BB program knows that they have the researcher on the hook from the moment he makes contact.
What’s the use case for the CSS code? The `padding-top` value doesn’t account for the OS and browser’s chrome (status bar, URL bar, etc.), so the `.inner` element doesn’t fit into the viewport.
Not really. We have a system for this: clinical trials. I, as a lone doc, am not equipped to make heads or tails of un-randomized un-controlled piles of data. A clinical trial -is-.

That’s why we use them.
I can second that. I've been using that book since the 90s and it has served me well.
Pretty sure Wirth worked on/contributed to Modula-2+/Modula-3 at Digital and Mesa/Cedar at Xerox PARC between Modula-2 and Oberon. Modula-3 was certainly Modula-2 v2, and Mesa/Cedar was...something else. I don't really think the analogy follows. :-)
The biggest criticism from industry analyst is that they don't consider all the problems before hand, and they were proven right.

Your explanation is laughable when applying it to other companies.

"Oh sorry, your iPhone X is delayed till next year. We just gave you the best case timeline. You knew that right?"
I find lots of people miss Asimov with the Hari Seldon's Psychohistory. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, all manner of services now collect enough information to predict with relative accuracy what we like, want, and how we will behave in the imminent future or when presented with a certain situation. Google knows us better than we know ourselves.
What on Earth are you talking about? You don't seem to have any idea what the world is like outside the West. Taxes there go to whatever nepotistic dictator or warlord is "in office", and the people widely suffer for it. Violence is a part of everyday life for a lot of people on this planet. In these places, medical care of any kind besides the local witchdoctor is a luxury completely out of the means of most people. There are even places where the Red Cross/Crescent and Doctors Without Borders will not go. Those places exist! If nothing else, this comment is exactly why Watsi is doing good in the world: Some people are ignorant of how the rest of humanity lives.
That's why I brought up the analogy to the officers' mess, which is a very middle class and establishment thing, and shows that communal living is not just a hippy or punk thing.
Oh come on, there's no way you can tell the difference in latency between a mouse of that era and a USB mouse today. Surely there's enough demand in the e-sports scene to lower input latency as much as possible?
Could it be that the stuttering is part of Musk's brand? Why try to be someone else? The Apple inspired pauses for applause at many tech reveals are cringe-worthy, e.g.
I think not. They still have the same (biggest) ownership, but they are not the same company. FCA still owns Lamborghini, though.
I am generally not a Tesla fan, but I'm impressed by this truck. I think you're focusing on the wrong end of things here. In fact, your later objection answers your first!

The drivers and service managers can be as skeptical as they want to be. The company owners can replace those drivers or service managers.

The big dogs care about the bottom line, and their employees have felt the pinch all along. This will be no different.
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I could forgive the political bias, if the news would try to describe reality and only... you know, focus on certain aspects of reality more, and certain other aspects less. That is, if they would let politics influence their priorities, but not their facts. (Having such newspapers is still suboptimal, but as long as no one is lying, you could at least try to get a more nuanced vision of the world by buying multiple newspapers with competing points of view.) However, Guardian already goes beyond that.

> While food replacement beverages have been around for a while in the guise of things like Ensure or Slimfast, they’ve traditionally been targeted at older people and women, that is, people who are basically irrelevant to “tech bros”. Soylent, on the other hand, was made by and designed for young men in tech and had cool branding.

Did this scribbler even read the web pages of Slimfast and Soylent? I mean, in the age of internet and google, it should not be that hard to get the most basic information at least approximately right. Unless one is not even trying, and instead optimizes for outrage...

The essential difference between Slimfast and Soylent is not that the former is "old women's food" and the latter is "evil white cishet tech bro food". The difference is the former is advertised as something that makes you slim, fast. It's in the very name, how can you miss that, Guardian journalist? And if you look at the box, it says "lose weight, clinically proven". So, you just have to be slightly smarter than the average Guardian journalist to find out that Slimfast is supposed to make you lose weight.

Meanwhile Soylent tries to be "a complete blend of everything the body needs", a "complete nutrition" with "zero preparation". This is not a well-guarded secret, I am just reading information from their title web page I found using google. So, the point is that these two products try to achieve a completely different goal. It's not about tech bros refusing to eat food for women, as Guardian suggests.

If a newspaper cannot get even this basic information right, the only reason to read it is to get your daily dose of fresh outrage. No thanks.
If she didn't resist initially, what kind of woman would she have been? Not right sort for the leading man, surely.
>Elon Musk is an engineer.
If his production line isn't as efficient as it should be it will get fixed 'scientifically'. I'd agree with you if his background was different.

I forgot that Elon Musk is single handedly changing the way assembly line engineering is done...

How about a little respect to the thousands of capable engineers working for every other car company-- building stuff, innovating and making money.

Also, what is with calling people who aren't engineers "engineers"?
Interesting. Wasn't aware of that. VPN is good option.

This brings up a good point though. Bittorrent is not free. People who use Bittorrent do pay to use it (bandwidth, setup costs, etc), and pay more to get good quality stuff, but Bittorrent offers better quality and better selection than any licensed service.
“Production is scheduled for 2020”.

And delivery will be in 2025.

Knowing how bad Tesla is with keeping their schedule
for most, the powerpoint is as good as a car in hand

this guy is just collecting money on Kickstarter.
Nobody needs this car and nobody really wants to make it. Will they have to?
And so how many Gs can it sustain on a flat corner? The faster a reviewer talks, the less we should listen. Give it to the Stig and let us see exactly how it laps.
It's kinda why someone would buy a Harley Davidson...they have a distinctive sound associated with power.
I’ve been on a third-world minibus. In comparison to developed nation public transport, it was overcrowded by a factor of two, it only set off when it was full and not to any timetable, and (from what my partner told me after living there for years back when she was a teenager), most of the drivers constantly consume stimulants so they can work for 15-hour days.

(I would also describe the minibus as poorly maintained, but that’s by European standards — I was really surprised by the poor condition of American vehicles on each of my three visits, and it didn’t seem significantly worse than an American vehicle).
Solid State Drives.

In 2012 I did not expect that you could still buy $2000 laptops with spinning rust in 2017.
He kind of did. I asked him and he sent me a copy, I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to send it along however.
Ask HN: Why are all the code bloggers/presenters/bootcampers online so “cool”?
Obviously, this aesthetic appeals to a certain (majority?) set of people, but when I look at bootcamp websites, Udacity, presentations on Javascript, Swift, etc. (just about anything associated with "learn to code"), the people are always causally dressed and "cool" - often a sort of shabby stylish look. Is this really how it is? I don't work in software. Most offices I've been in are full of Khaki Dockers and slightly dated button down shirts. People in these images/videos also appear to be perpetually about 25 years old. I've often considered a career change, but am turned off by what's presented as the norm, mainly for fear of not fitting in. Are you all wearing headphones and hoodies in an open office with a fancy coffee machine right now?
How bad your police should be before you can be profitably scammed by a bus?
Me too. Just look at the legal battle between LinkedIn and hiQ.

I have scraped, but not on the level where it would draw attention. Use the APIs if you can - Trip Advisor do offer an API, as do Bing (for search results).

Unless you are scraping at huge scale I actually think the bigger problem is lack of semantics - people like diffbot[1] using AI/ML to try and solve this issue.

[1] - https://www.diffbot.com
And how much servicing do you think it needs?

New tires and rarely new brakes and you're good to go.

I'm sure any "servicing yard" will be able to handle that.
>I think what these co-living spaces are proposing is more similar to an officers' mess,

This is how a huge portion of Chinese youth lives.

Those places are called ant colonies in urban slang. Your experience there can range from good to horrid if you rent in such places.

Landlords of such places can be anybody from random uncle Liao, to proper property companies.

The company in the article "the Collective" has almost certainly copied the approach of bigger Chinese property companies.
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The other word might be "commune".
Scala ... now betting on Kotlin to replace Java.
It’s good enough for my professor :)
Not having a middle class that can afford lots of labor intensive services is in my opinion even more a sign of a income gap, since it means that either you're very rich, or too poor to afford such services.
I purchased voicecode.io for 300 bucks. A few years later and no Windows or Linux release, too bad!
Remember the startup mantra I've heard pg and others state: make stuff people want.

This is true locally, but globally and taken to the extreme it's a nightmare. People don't know what they want, and if you were to give them everything they wanted, you would destroy them. Take a look at anybody who's suddenly come into a lot of fame and fortune. The results are usually appalling.
> [...] technology is a tool for control and domination either by governments or evil capitalists [...]

> [...] technology will entertain us to stupidity, apathy and alienation [...]

Perhaps a combination of both. The whole concept is as old as the Roman empire, [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
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As usual, the Guardian has the news: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-low...

If you have waterborne disease like that it's always a sign of inadequate infrastructure.
It's keeping the adresses that requires the least effort, changing them would have implied to also change all calls and jumps in the rest of the code, which could mean a very large number of addresses to change.
Prototype it? That sounds crazy enough to test out.
Unfortunately usability was the least of its problems.
...These are all shitty ideas.
How words are spelt (!) in en-gb definitely owes a debt to the word origin, or sometimes the imagined origin ...

http://mentalfloss.com/article/59320/5-words-are-spelled-wei... has a couple of nice examples.
Part of my current project has a node_modules folder that is 400MB and contains 37853 files. Seeing as updating a dependency can cause a cascading effect that can touch a lot of different files, it's not a good idea to store them in git. It's akin to the reason you don't store binary files in git.

If installs are too slow, switch to a caching yarn/npm mirror. Cloudflare has one. Or run a local caching proxy for your team.
Re: 64 bit is that about Excel? I found the idea of a Word document needing >4GB RAM somewhat absurd
HI everyone, thanks for the traffic & comments on this post. I wrote it just at the start of my research hoping to get feedback & collaborative partners to push the idea forward. Since this post, I’ve been continuing research on the topic using better tools & approaches with the good folks of https://rescribe.xyz/. We’ve especially been pursuing tools with neural networks & machine learning (as some of you mention, this is related to Tesseract). We’ve had some positive results & good findings that show there are many more possibilities for using OCR to read medieval manuscripts. We’re currently writing up our results, so watch for that!
> AIUI, increased grip due to weight scales linearly, whereas the increase in power required (and thus the increase in grip required) scales geometrically

The high-school physics model of grip has them both linear, but more sophisticated models may show a difference.

(Interestingly, more mass on a vehicle does help when it is towing something heavy.)
I think your price estimate for the battery isn't too far off. If you scoll down on the page they estimate annual fuel savings to be $200,000. They then mention a two year payback period.
This seems to imply a sticker price of around $400K.
What I would really like to know is why Google didn't buy Sun. It seemed such an obvious match. Did they try and fail, or did they not try, and why???
"Google employees are contributing to another project" is not newsworthy, no. Neither is them creating a github fork unless you have evidence that they do not intend to use the fork for the main reason people create GitHub forks: contributing.
just dont give them money upfront and maybe the reality will take care of the rest.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704269
There’s usually a spot in every insurance company that considers itself the “innovation center.” Basically, if you incur no costs to them beyond getting you the data, and give them a free trial run on your product, you’ll get your data-sharing agreement.

The data for insurers is in the form of Billings (which come with Diagnosis codes!), which follows a federally-standardized format (check out the Medicare website) and you can get a sample of 5% of Medicare subscribers’ data off the Medicare site without any hoops to jump through.

I want to say, “if you actually know what to do with it, PM me and we can talk details,” but the fact that you don’t already know about this sort of low-hanging fruit suggests you’re from outside the hc sector looking in.
Right - I was going to ask if I took an American truck mechanic to Europe and stood him by a highway, he’d look at all the trucks and say ‘those will never work, the windshields are too big and the engine’s inaccessible and all those fairing panels look fragile.’
Well, it should also be noted that the responsible compiler in this case is at least 17 years old.
What about publicly announcing it so anyone can make the exploit?
Ask HN: Components to build CrossBrowserTesting/Litmus Clone?
I have a need to do screenshots on actual devices, not only for landing pages (CrossBrowserTesting) but for email clients (Litmus).

CrossBrowserTesting - $1,500 per month.

EmailOnAcid - $1.60 per screenshot.

These are really unsustainable to support a service that I am developing.

So I am looking at the possibility of building my own infrastructure/software to support my own screenshot service.

I just want to get this out of the way, my focus is not on ChromeDP and I don't wish to use it in terms of emulation via user agents. What I want to do is focus on real hardware, os and browser/email clients.

Now with that in mind, what do I need?

1) Real devices? Ios, Android, etc.

2) Server cluster? Array of VMs (Win/Mac/Lin)

3) Browsers - (C, IE/ED, FF, OP, SF)

4) Email Clients - Respective to their OS

5) Email Accounts (Hotmail/Outlook, Gmail, etc)

If there are any other components needed let me know.

But here is where I fall short. What provides the orchestration here? Lets say I have this cluster up and running, connected to 50 mobile devices. Also multiples of browsers running on each the OS's, with browsers and email clients running in foreground/background...

What is the mechanism that allows me to submit either a URL or waits for a specific email and then renders all the screenshots and returns them to a user?

Would love to hear if there are any opensource projects doing something similar here.

If you have actual experience in building something like this from the ground up. I would very much like to hear from you.

Finally, and I suppose this is the most important one. What are the gotchas in maintaining this type of service? Where are the pain-points or challenges to getting this up and running?

For example. Previewmyemail was doing unlimited screenshots for a range of email clients for $248 per month and then has gone offline. They stopped updating their Twitter in May and their Facebook no longer exists. I wonder why?
That's a good excuse for a product that fails to profit. But a team definitely isn't "great" if it can't release a coherent, useful prototype to the market.
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